Bugger me I can't figure out a safe and sane way to do this without tactically being a fool and being butchered. Blade can we work out a collab here or nah?

You could always, you know, work together rather than charging in separately. You do all have functional radio equipment, and have supposedly also all trained together as a unit as well to use tactics and the strengths and weaknesses of your GEARs and other combined arms elements to work on scenarios like this.
Everyone also has access to the character and GEAR sheets and all of the IC info they represent to devise tactical plans and use that information. It's what I use IC when I give orders...

Honestly, I don't see why everyone is having such trouble and getting cold feet about doing anything - it's like the first time you're presented with an enemy that's openly more of a challenge than GEARs of inferior quality and troops the same, it's like 'nope, no equals, no dice'. And that everyone's suddenly turned into being afraid of taking damage or getting hurt - which is weird, as it's not like we haven't taken damage, injuries, or casualties in any of the other combats to date either; in fact, we haven't actually had a qualified success in a single operation as a unit so far. And we've only had one operational mission anyway.

Honestly speaking, I don't really have the time to write any more collab posts, or spend that much more time on the game at the moment. This month is very busy for me as I have a heck of a lot going on, and in all honesty, I'm really finding doing other things much more enjoyable at the moment anyway. And that's with the limited free time I have. I honestly find myself putting off posting at the moment anyway, and delays in the game being kind of a relief for me.

As I've said before, I do have a long-term story arc planned out, but if this is where we're going to stumble, at the first real challenge before we get a glimpse of the bigger picture, then I don't see it going far in future. I kind of expected a lot more enthusiasm and taking the bull by the horns with excitement at what the new twist was, what could happen, and the thrill of facing something new and different. At least OOC anyway. Instead it's all a bit... tentative.

Sometimes it honestly seems like all people want from the plot is just a series of straight-forward missions in LDF territory with no bigger story behind it, despite all the hints of something bigger literally littered through the background info.

I actually don't really know what to do any more, as I'm kind of getting tired of having to rouse myself into coming up with what I think are exciting, detailed and involving posts, and then having to hand-hold things into going anywhere after I've made them, and seeing things slow down to a crawl each time after trying to make each of my posts straight-forward enough to get things moving and keep up some kind of action-oriented quick pace.

Do what you want guys, and let me know.

Well then if you want I'll take my scenario and develop a post... It might kinda take over your NPC just a bit but I don't know it's intentions or what the hell it exactly is. I'll wait to see if you pm anything but I will be on standby until I get either a green light or a response over PMs. I'm more than happy to stay in with this roleplay but if others slow it down then I have to match that pace.

Unless you want very small posts but then again once a week kinda sucks hard if it's a small one.

Looking at the collab sure makes me think of me flaws in repetition. I am an habitual offender Silver T.T

Id post more. But i dont want to just up and ditch blade. Interested in the new mechs

Well I edited the collab and made it a bit better since the guilt in my finally won me over XD

I really am starting to miss this

Sorry, been doing other stuff and trying to get that squared away as a priority. I'll get a post up this evening, albeit a short one; it'll be mainly replying to Shadowman, Ramzam and Incubus as Cart and Machine have their PM's going with scenes to include. I'll also pilot the fireteam again too, since Es seems to be AWOL still.

Hey look, the South have energy weapons! Wonder what else they have.

Have fun posting. I'm going to be away for a few days, as I'm off to my yearly airshow.

Whelp! A full week of silence.. Not even one OOC post.

Shit, I'm sorry. I'll get a post up in a few hours.

Whelp! A full week of silence.. Not even one OOC post.

Nothing I needed to say, everyone knows what the rules are by this point, and the post was pretty self-explanatory.
I'll be getting an IC post up tomorrow either way - and I'm about to reply to your PM, Cart

I'll have one up soon, I should've kept better track of my time frame.

Been busy eith volunteering and college. Ill get one up soon as well

What are you majoring in if you don't mind me askin?

EMS. I have my EMT. But im having trouble getting into a paramedic program.

Its a hard profession to get into anymore.

Given the fact that we've lost half of the original players we started the game with, and that the actual number of GEARs in the unit is now so small - out of five players (as we've had another drop out) we have three mecha - which seems a bit off-balance considering the damn game is SUPPOSED to be about mecha combat, I'm going to open us up for some recruitment, and post a new int-check.

Also I have no idea what's happened to Es, so I'll put her characters on the back-burner and NPC them in the next post, just to get us past this goddamn scene which has dragged out way, way, way longer than it was meant to.
Hopefully having a few more players will get the activity back up, because these dragging two weeks between posts is killing my enjoyment of the game at the moment. Especially since I originally had the rule of one post per week, which seems to have gone so far out the window I can't even see it anymore.

I'm sorry about that. I meant to do better, I really cannot explain how bad I feel for ruining the experience. I know I hate it when this happens, when you lose interest in something you really adore, but PC access is hard for me as of late and most of my lurking (including this ooc post) is on my phone.

This looks interesting.

This looks interesting

Glad you think so. Feel free to ask any questions you want or need to, and I or one of the others would be happy to answer.

I'm sorry about that. I meant to do better, I really cannot explain how bad I feel for ruining the experience. I know I hate it when this happens, when you lose interest in something you really adore, but PC access is hard for me as of late and most of my lurking (including this ooc post) is on my phone.

It's okay man, it's not just you, or anyone in particular. It gets frustrating when everyone says they're super-excited and they love the game and can't wait for more... and then there's two weeks of silence. Especially when I'm throwing out the new plot, and people are getting cold feet about it, instead of charging in with glee.
I know there's a lot of RL stuff on everyone's plate as well - mine included - so that can't help. But let's hope we can keep things moving after the next couple of posts.