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"Vorcha bring boss salarian"?

I'm not sure what the datapad is inferring with that message. :P
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If I'm understanding it right, then it's a little confusing because Vol was after Declan, and had no idea Zik was going to crash his party -- even though that hated ZIK always does! But seriously, I'll roll with whatever punches come my way, we don't want to lose flow.

I did have the amusing thought that it might even have been a message from a completely different 'boss' talking about a completely different Salarian -- such as the one Vol was watching on his monitor hacking into an Eclipse terminal. I had this hilarious vision of a Vorcha hit squad being deployed, only to be intercepted by Vol's Turian underling and persuaded to go on the Declan job instead, whereupon they forgot all about the first one, because they're dumb space goblins. Somewhere, an Eclipse bigwig is banging on an engineering table shouting "VOOOOLLLL!!" while this one Salarian Hacker can't believe how easy today's job was.
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Alrighty! Post is up. There is so much more to the conversation between Declan and Aria that I was itching to reveal, but I can't just yet. Hanging cliff-hangers must hang and all that. :P
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If you have the Discord app for your computer/smartphone, then you're welcome to use the channel and server I have set up for discussions related to this RP. You can also use the website if you don't wish to download anything.

Discord Chat for Participants: discord.gg/014kue5y10T3Tibam

All important OOC updates will be relayed in this thread, so you don't have to join a chat. This is just a tool to help everyone stay in touch better and communicate ideas quickly.
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So, who's next?
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I recommend that we skip the travelling to Vol's office and arrive at the precise moment in Culleket's last post where the guards become uneasy as they look down the corridor. The Dashers can dispatch them quickly and one of the members can find a way to bypass his supposedly awesome security system and just walk on in... because why not? :P
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Hmmmm ... trying to decide if I want make a wholly new character or rework a character I made for the MassEffectUniverse site though never actually made use of as the people there were so ... rigid.
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Hmmmm ... trying to decide if I want make a wholly new character or rework a character I made for the MassEffectUniverse site though never actually made use of as the people there were so ... rigid.


Well, how rigid we are depends on how out-there your character is. We're not talking a "male" asari or something, are we? lol
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For the record!

I will be gone from today, 6/19 through 6/27 on vacation. While I might have some time to post here and there, overall my activity will be significantly diminished and I can't promise anything with regularity. If it becomes necessary for my character to be moved in order to facilitate overall plot or activity, please by all means do so.

I'll work on having at least one more post up for this ASAP so that I'm not wholesale incommunicado and things can keep moving, but if it's not up by tomorrow by all means move us along. Sorry for not being able to get anything up more recently, it's been a hell of a week getting things ready to go.

Thanks and have a great week and a half or so, guys!
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A'ight, I was able to squeeze one in real fast!

So basically, the idea is that Zik was going to set up Omus Vol, discovered that his personal assistant had learned of his involvement on her own due to being unusually competent and redirected the vorcha after him in the hope for a serious promotion, and now is being made to look like she's the one in charge of Omus' little empire.

I figure that Aria realizes what's up, sends her jackboots over to Vol's place for Short and the rest of the crew, Omus manages to get out of it by conveniently "already having plans" to run off with the Dashers, who are currently in Aria's good graces for Declan's offer, and away we go.

Or you can spin things some other way and do it as you like! I just figured I'd be transparent about it, since I can't quite baby the scheme along as I might otherwise. Anyway, cheers!
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Well, how rigid we are depends on how out-there your character is. We're not talking a "male" asari or something, are we? lol


NO! fucking hell no. The character I would be bringing for MEU is a Female human Sentinel, the only reason I never wound up using her over there was I could never find a reason for why she'd been exposed to Eezo enough to developed biotics that would satisfy both me and the people moderating character creation.
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@Howler All good and well, but you need to know that I cannot, on principle, allow anyone to kill off a character named Emily Short.
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I'll have an exotic tale of her escape and subsequent declaration of vengeance ready upon my return.
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I was going to say, I look forward to having her onboard as a recurring antagonist. It can't hurt our prose, at any rate.
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NO! fucking hell no. The character I would be bringing for MEU is a Female human Sentinel, the only reason I never wound up using her over there was I could never find a reason for why she'd been exposed to Eezo enough to developed biotics that would satisfy both me and the people moderating character creation.


The (I suppose we could say) "limitations" of biotic abilities in humans is going to be a blend of those touched on in the games and the novels. So I'll allow repeated freight-train biotic charges and the like, but not without some kind of immense migraines that can make you feel like you're going to collapse mid-fight, if you're not careful. I also expect some reference to high metabolisms and insane appetites. @DirtyDingo is on the right track with Rosa as a vanguard.

How strict were these previous GMs of yours? In the last ME roleplay I GM'd, I even had a child with respectable biotic fighting abilities with L5n implants. I'm very liberal with creative liberty in RPs. If you can convince the reader that it makes sense and you don't yank them from the immersion, then I'm fine with it.

Go ahead and send your character to me in a PM if you'd like my full opinion. :)

A'ight, I was able to squeeze one in real fast!

So basically, the idea is that Zik was going to set up Omus Vol, discovered that his personal assistant had learned of his involvement on her own due to being unusually competent and redirected the vorcha after him in the hope for a serious promotion, and now is being made to look like she's the one in charge of Omus' little empire.

I figure that Aria realizes what's up, sends her jackboots over to Vol's place for Short and the rest of the crew, Omus manages to get out of it by conveniently "already having plans" to run off with the Dashers, who are currently in Aria's good graces for Declan's offer, and away we go.

Or you can spin things some other way and do it as you like! I just figured I'd be transparent about it, since I can't quite baby the scheme along as I might otherwise. Anyway, cheers!


Thanks, @Howler! Enjoy your time off. We'll try not to muck things up too much without our trusty, eccentric, and slightly-psycho salarian.
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Should I actually do the next post to move things up? Zorogami still seems to be out of a computer and Dingo posted quite recently. Unless @Gowi wants to whack a couple of paranoid guards in a dark corridor and kick in the button that makes the door open (it's the future, that's how they do it) while bitching about Declan, Vorcha and anything else that's pissing him off at that moment, I can just narrate that having happened and begin Vol's Ah Mister Bond Welcome To Amsterdam speech.
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Name: Alexia "Dragon" Stone
Race: Human
Physical Description: She stands 5'6" tall. She is slender but very fit from her time in the SA Marines. He face is cute and soft. A scar runs from above the middle of her left brow down the side of her face just in front of her ear and then down the side of her neck. She keeps her fiery red hair somewhat short with a section of her bangs partially obscuring her right eye. Her body is slim, lithe and strong. She wears a 34B bra and her hips and butt are rather boyish.
Age: 26
Powers: Telekinetics, Tech Armor, Warp, Overload, Cryoblast, Stasis
Equipment: M-97 Viper, M-8 Avenger, older M-3 Predator(doesn't use thermal clips), L3 Implants, Standard Omni-tool, armor
Biography: Early on in her development as a fetus a ship carrying element zero crashed not far from her family's farm in Central Ohio, United States. The Systems Alliance and the company responsible cleaned up the crash site and gave reparations to the affected farmers for the damaged and/or destroyed crops. Several months later Alexia was born healthy and seemingly normal. Alexia had a normal but hectic childhood growing up with 7 other brother and sisters. Her love of technology both old and modern became very clear when she started being able to help out her father with maintaining the farm equipment.

Her biotic potential was discovered during a routine checkup shortly after her eighth birthday. A month later after much talk between her and her parents, though mostly her parents, an officer from the Systems Alliance came to take her to Grissom Academy for the Ascension Project. Alexia's parents and siblings gave her a rowdy send off, ending with her dad telling her to write weekly, before the SA officer arrived.

Alexia was fitted with an L3 amp and put into classes at Grisom Academy. She learned to control her biotics while also learning more about technology. She passed all of her classes but was mostly average for the students at Grisom Academy academically. Alexia excelled when using technology and slightly above average with biotics. However shortly before she graduated the Citadel was attacked by Sovereign, Saren and the Geth. She graduated at 18 and went home for a visit before leaving to join the Systems Alliance. During her stay her father gave her an old M-3 Predator that doesn't use thermal clips and she has since added a few upgrades to make it better in combat.

During her time as an Alliance Marine she served mostly on a few garrisons on Human colonies but has also served aboard a couple cruisers and frigates. Her service was mostly uneventful raising her to the rank of Staff Lieutenant. Alexia was back home on Earth visiting her family when the Reapers hit. She and her family survived the initial attack thanks to being away from the major population centers. She and her family fled eventually meeting up with a surviving SA marine division. Alexia got ready to fight as her family was evacuated to a mostly civilian group. Alexia was good at setting up ambushes for Reaper patrols and helped take out several keeping her fellow marines and sometimes even civilians alive. She participated in the Battle of Vancouver in a mostly support role as a diversion to draw at least some of the reaper forces away from the main battle.

Alexia earned a Purple Heart and Arcturus Ribbon from her service on earth during the Reaper War. Although she survived the war she did not do so unscathed. One ambush earned her a nasty scar that trails from just above her left brow, down the side of her face and down her neck before ending at the base of her neck. After the Reaper's were destroyed by the valiant sacrifice of Commander Shepard, Alexia mustered out of the Systems Alliance Millitary and spent some time on earth with her family before beginning a career as a merc.

That was five years ago though. For her first year of Merc work she bounced between worth while ports which typically ended up being either Omega or Illium. She'd had some saved up money but over time that drained between jobs, mainly going towards her heightened dietary needs. At one particular stop on Omega she was approached by a man with a name strait out of a Fitzgerald novel. Yeah she's read some pretty old books, nothing like a good classic on real paper. Calaway offered her a position as an engineer on his ship and a support on the ground team. Alexia always did enjoy working with machines and in fact her skill with them was part of what got her free trips around the Terminus systems. While she never got terribly open with any of the Dashers crew she wasn't a recluse and enjoyed the times of revelry and such.

After two years with the Dashers she'd gotten used to the life of a merc and pirate, knowing that life wasn't as idealic as she might have at one point thought. Though she did do the right thing whenever possible and urged the captain and crew to do the same whenever possible even if she didn't have much effect. After the Dashers disbanded she went back to her previous occupation of bouncing between countless different merc jobs, her savings again dwindling even though she had made quite a bit from working with the Dashers and usually managed to make a pretty good sum for every job she did. When Calaway returned from his time in jail Alexia was in the middle of a mechanic job for Aria and was unable to rejoin her old crew until she finished.
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Alexia Dragonstone sounds more like a Dragon Age character by name alone, lol. Though realzies, being stuck on Earth isn't going to get you involved with the group who operates out of the Terminus Systems very quickly imo.
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Indeed but I'm still working on it. As for the name yeah, slightly tempted to make Dragonstone a nickname though I do quite enjoy it as a last name. Hell I'm missing about 5 years between the end of the reaper war and where this rp comes into play.
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Alrighty, well, there's a setup post. Whoever wants to respond, we can keep it as brief as you like, and whatever happens, my next post will be Vol getting checkmated by Zik's plan and throwing in with the Dashers. Then we can leave this scene behind and start the ADVENTURES.

@DirtyDingo, I retroactively godmoted Rosa laughing at Vol's painting request because.. well, who wouldn't? If it bugs you I'll take it out, I just couldn't resist.
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