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Oh boy, ill make a species app first before making a char app, if thats ok


If you'd like to you can certainly submit both. I'll give them a look when they're completed.

@KaiserElectric How goes your own race & character you've been working on?
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Gorgas


Home Planet: Reijar

Brief Summary of their Home Planet: About the size of earth, though the environment is drasticly different. While it is in the Goldilocks zone, the atmosphere has asymmetrical yet stable layer of magnetism and ozone. The asymmetrical side is a small fraction of the south pole. This area is a volcanic epicenter of molten rock, high tectonic activity, and too hot for liquid water even on the solid rocky surface. The surrounding border is a much cooler rocky desert, and beyond that, being the rest of the planet, a vast tropical jungle of hot temperatures and high humidity. It is uncertain when or how the Gorgas were born, but their home is the molten area of the planet.

Member of the Galactic Federation?: Yes, though there communications with other aliens including humans is rare except for individuals seeking out of the planet.

Number of Colonies: 1

General Appearance: Their appearance varies with subraces, but they are all generally speaking reptilian and lizard-like. their eyes range in various colors and resemble either a snake's or a crocodiles, and tend to have a glow effect like dim candles, giving them great night-vision. Even amongst variants there may be variations of features such as spikes and horns among individuals. They possess a fork tongue that acts much like a monitor lizard's or snakes as a scent detector. They are cold blooded, and do not survive well under temperatures below 60 F.

Average Life Span: So far age by itself has not claimed the life of a Gorgas, no evidence of aging beyond maturity hinders them, however rarely do any exceed 400 years due to disease and their violent nature.

Galactic Rarity: Since they only inhabit there sole planet, and rarely do individuals leave, they are extremely rare to be anywhere outside of there homeland. Most cases individuals are exiles looking for mercenary or criminal work.

Primary Governmental Structure: Tribal, clans often fight each other as they value physical strength as the dominant sport for leadership rather then charisma, however they do also value wisdom and basic intelligence.

Brief Description of Culture: They are tribal and live off of the planet raw, forming small shelters of caves within the ground and rarely using any form of technology aside from primitive stone weapons and tools. They value strength as the dominant feature of social and survival fitness, and have a 'survival of the fittest' belief as well as a culture built around honor, especially in combat. They refuse advanced technology, though can tolerate space ships solely for their transportation methods.

Special Traits/Racial Abilities: Many give them the nickname 'Dragons' as they not only often share the appearance of such, but share many of their fictional traits. While they stay away from advanced weaponry, they make up for it in physical proweness. All sub-species can generally be considered brutish beasts on their own by raw strength, speed, and endurance. Their scales are usually hard, though the strength of the scales vary between sub-races. Typically they have strong layers of plated, keeled, or leathery scales aside from a softer underbelly or stomach. Some variations can breathe flames by use of exhaling flammable bio-gas mixed with a specialized tongue for igniting sparks against the lips. All variants however, show a distinct immunity to even the most extreme temperatures they are exposed too, burning them as thus proved impossible even by plasma-based measures (though they can still be damaged by the blunt effective of explosive plasma).

Race Age: 100,000

Brief History of the Race: It is uncertain where the race evolved from, though they themselves tell you that they were born from a mystical and ancient race of actual dragons, who they claim are mythical-like and worshiped as gods. Though there is no fossilized evidence of such claims.

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Expanded History: When their planet was discovered by the federation, their was surprisingly little conflict, if any at all, between the various war-bearing tribes and the ships that descended for reasons of diplomacy. However it took a decade for the federation to get the tribes to cease fire and honor a newly made treaty. While most of the Gorgas refused their technology or to take to the stars, they did agree to keep 'in touch' with the federation, and allow some ships available for transporting exiles or the rare individual that willingly wants to leave the planet. This treaty also creates 'safe zones' for the extraction points to prevent war and tribal politics from destroying or damaging these ships and the people that wish to leave. Since then there has been a handful of Gorgas that left for mercenary work, and a dozen more that have been ostracized by the clans. The Gorgas tribes have also agreed to treat other races within the federation with hospitality and non-violent care, though rarely have they had any non-political visits due to the planets harsh ecosystem and weather. Aside from this, they have very little influence upon the world and the rare sighting of a Gorgas, especially the larger hellkites and Drakes, spark much of terrifying rumors and even racist based fear of animal instinct and a lust for consuming flesh. Many mercenary Gorgas still retain some of the honor of their home world, and charge into battle unarmed with any weapon and rarely sport armor other then their primitive wear.
Despite being at a disadvantage their physical superiority, tough skin, and bio-weapons make them terrifying opponents nonetheless.

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@dragonmancer Holy wall of text- Seems you're missing a bit under brief history of the race.

@Firecracker_ I would be happy to do a recolor for your reference image. I can add or change most features too, like tattoos. (As long as it's a stock photo and not on an arm)
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@Heat Quite well, I actually finished my race, I'm just retooling my character because she feels too similar to Morose's character and I wanted to balance what we had.

Here's my race and the pic I'm using for my character, if you're curious. c:



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@dragonmancer It looks good, a lot of detail. You need to the race history, also wouldn't hurt to turn that wall in the expanded cultural overview into a couple paragraphs.

@KaiserElectric Thanks for the update, keep working on it!
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Ok got his history done, and will work on skills and flaws tonight.
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@Heat Gotcha Ill fix that soon.
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@dragonmancer Another thing, in the brief Cultural Overview, you kinda get off topic talking about their appearance, I would move it to the appropriate section.

@Esotericoh sweet baby, i'll pm you with the details and questions

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@Firecracker_ Sounds good. Also, feel free to create a sub-race and I'll just patch it in. =)
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I added three TitanPad links to the front page under the Rules. They are great for collabs and available to all players of the RP. Make sure to say on the OOC if you're using a pad, and which one.
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Jackal Westari



Aliases: Ventmaw (nickname his old crew gave him, comes from how his mouth appears like a burning forge or vent when breathing flames.)

Prisoner ID Number: 1607

Species: Gorgas, Hellkite Variant

Gender: Male

Age: 127

Former Faction: N/A

Physical Description:



Bionic Limbs/Synthetic Organs/Robotic Augmentations: N/A

Weapons of Choice: N/A

Charges/Sentences:

-Confirmed to have committed at least 10 murders, 7 of the murder victims were either partially or almost completely consumed by him.

-Upon confrontation, he had not only resisted arrest but had attacked officers in retaliation, killing two before he was subdued and arrested.

-Affiliation with a criminal organization.

Skills:

-Physical superiority, Strength speed and endurance being well expected from his race.

-He is able to breathe mid-range jets of flames, and is practically a monster at close range combat.

-He can fly should he have enough space to do so, and the gravity isn't much stronger then that of earth's.

-Unable to burn.

Flaws:
-He prefers to use his biological weaponry if at all possible, though he won't shy away from a rifle or ranged weapon of sorts if needed. However while he has four hands he has difficulty wielding non-melee weapons due to lack of proper training and oddly formed hands.

-Despite seemingly lacking morale and having a brutal method of fighting he has a strict sense of honor which can lead for him to go out of his way at put himself at a disadvantage or disengage from a fight or slaughter.

-Cold-blooded, he does not fare well under cold conditions, should be kept away from air conditioning.

-If enraged he often goes into things blindly or charging straight into battle without someone to hold him back.

Personality: At first glance one could easily assume Jackal is a savage beast, but beneath his warrior-persona and brutish nature, he has a very simple and almost respectful way of talking to allies, a bit more intelligent then one would assume. While he despises his home world for exiling him, he still abides their code of chivalry. However he has a very short temper, and can enter an enraged, berserker state where he abandons thought and reason for nothing more then bloodshed. While enraged, it is difficult to reason with or calm him down, and he has very little control over it other then he can attempt to redirect his anger to inanimate objects or the desired enemies instead of harming allies. He tends to have a craving for the flesh of most races, including other Gorgas and Humans, however he is self conscience of this and typically hides this craving. Though if given the chance he will happily consume a corpse in secret from those watching. He dreams of settling down in a nice hot environment filled with wildlife, and exploring other planets so long as they aren't too cold. He loves nature and has a respect towards vicious and monstrous creatures. He also however, enjoys the idea of teamwork and values his allies more then himself, despite the criminal or unmoral acts they may be committing. To him family and friendship comes before morality, law, and politics.

Chivalry Code:

Not attacking weak or defenseless people unless if they have dishonored him or have threatened him in a way that would warrant termination by his judgement.

-Never underestimate opponents, nor over estimate your own ability

-Never abandon an ally

-Do not disrespect the dead, even if they are enemies.

-Abandon a Gorgas's natural gifts for weaponry and technological advancements

-Show no mercy to whoever disrespects this code.

Personal Biography: At a young age Jackal was raised by a notoriously aggressive tribe. Starting at 36 years old, juvenile for a Gorgas, he was trained in the art of killing as did his relatives and peers performed. He was raised as a warrior cleric for the tribe, though was taught to enforce other tribes by war into worshiping Dalefar, The dragon God of Blood and Hunting. Dalefar was a taboo god to most of the other tribes, while the god is said to enforce much of the lawless and savagery of nature that many Gorgas ideally accepted, the God is also worshiped through meaningless violence and savage pillaging, which even other Gorgas found evil and dishonorable at times. This and there aggressive political wars had caused the very war-waging tribe to be counter-fought into extinction. The survivors, including Jackal, were sent off the planet as exiles.

Being sent off into the galaxy, Jackal worked shortly as a mercenary before being involved in a small-time criminal organization. During one of these organization's raids, he was sent along with some other workers to raid a merchant ship. Jackal killed much of the crew on board, but only fought those who were armed and ready to fight instead of the unarmed pilots, engineers, and civilians. Which the rest of his group dealt with. Jackal stayed behind so his other associates could escape when officers arrived to neutralize the group. He was unsuccessful as his group were caught as well. They were all executed one by one, but the executors didn't take into account the biology of a Gorgas after a rather embarrassing situation of the electric chair not killing Jackal.

With the thought of his failure to save his crew in his conscience he didn't retaliate despite the opportunity to escape when the execution failed. So he was brought back into his cell and his execution was postponed until the prison could receive drugs for lethal dosing. This saved his life, as he was selected an alternative for something other then his immediate death.

Personal Belongings: He has a trinket that serves as a tribute to Dalefar, which is a dragon made of obsidian connected by an iron chain that functions as a pendant. Though he doesn't wear it for fear of it breaking. This serves as his only memento to his original, now extinct, tribe.

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Hope he's good!

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@Heat @Firecracker_

Just a heads up, I cleaned up Taka's Sheet a little. (I was reading it last night and there was a bit of grammar mistakes that were bothering me.) Additionally I changed the setup time for Pow-Pow Charges to fifteen minutes, I felt that was more appropriate given their awesome destructive nature. I also clarified her "What's This Do?" Skill, IE: To make it clearer that she doesn't take a part toasters for fun, but actually can maintain weapons and vehicles. And just in case you missed them I added a couple extra small personal items.

Edit: This godamn song man.

Edit: Fuck now I'm on Elliot Smith
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@dragonmancer@POOHEAD189I'm not seeing much wrong with these, but we'll have to see what El Jefe says.
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@dragonmancer The race sheet is good, lots of detail. The character sheet is mostly good, one concern I have for your character is the lack of weapons or real armor. He shuns everything? Wouldn't even use a very basic shotgun or rifle? Many of the enemies the characters will face are going to use some very powerful weaponry.

One change you could make is to the last part of his backstory, none of the characters know about the team being formed, a word of it hasn't been spoken to them. The first mention will be at the start of the IC when they're all gathered together to form the team. Other than that it's good to go.

@POOHEAD189 It's also good, forgot to fill in the Bionic Limbs/Synthetic Organs/Robotic Augmentations section. Put N/A if he doesn't have any. He has conflict with the Stars which should be interesting considering some of the other characters in the cast who were a part of them.

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It's finally Thursda! Can I hype now?!
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It's finally Thursda! Can I hype now?!


Hype away! Am starting work on the IC shortly.
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Hype! With a bit of furious typing to finish my character but HYPE!
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@KaiserElectric YOU CAN DO IT. I BELIEVE IN YOU. *cheer*
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