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Halo: Acceptable Losses

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Sofia Vargas

Sofia Vargas

Name: Sofia M. Vargas

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Homeworld: Madrigal

Rank: Sergeant

Experience: Sofia joined the UNSC when she was 19. Since then, she was deployed extensively in anti-Insurrection efforts, serving through the entirety of Operation: TREBUCHET. However, Vargas was faced with a common problem among soldiers in the UNSC at the time. There wasn’t much to fight. The Insurrectionists weren’t fans of open ground conflict. She could count on one hand the number of firefights she was involved in. More than anything, she visited abandoned Insurrectionist camps, escorted ONI Investigators, and babysat CMA anti-riot operations. She did, however, serve in a few combat operations against the covenant. One of which earned her a promotion and a Purple Heart. Now, she’s been retasked as the leader of Whiskey Squad.

Bio: Sofia was born on Madrigal in 2493. Her father was a teacher, and her mother worked in a shipyard. Her’s was a comfortable life, but not one of privilege. Her marks in school were hardly noteworthy, and rather than enter the workforce right out of school, she chose to join the military.

There, she excelled. She was a good shot and a better leader. Of course, rank meant more than skill, and for her first few years out of basic, she was a less-than-humble rifleman. She met her first boyfriend, later her fiance, during Operation: TREBUCHET. She would serve for the entirety of Operation: TREBUCHET, moving to the Epsilon Eridani system when the fighting spread there. When the 9th Marine Expeditionary Force was reinforced and reassigned to the Harvest Campaign, she came along.

Personality: Something of a hardass, Sofia has a reputation for being tough. Very much a proponent of “tough love,” Vargas cares for the men and women fighting alongside her, though she’d be loath to admit it. On-mission, she’s noticeably serious. Off-mission she’s hardly approachable, but she’s more likely to joke around. She may not smile much, but she’s far from unhappy.
Gear:

• MA5B ICAWS
• M6C Magnum Sidearm
• Combat Knife
• Marine BDU

Relationships:

• Connor Webley: Cpl. Webley (who was, at the time, a CMA Sergeant) was involved in more than a few operations alongside Vargas during TREBUCHET. The two, at first, exhibited a degree of animosity. This culminated in a massive barfight while the two were on leave on Tribute that broke Webley’s nose and cost Vargas one of her teeth. After that, some begrudging respect came about, and the two ended up friends. Webley introduced her to Ensign Karim, who became her fiance. Though they're friends, they're openly antagonistic toward each other.
  
  ”Webley is the best the CMA has to offer. That makes him an average marine. He's a fuckin' asshole, too. I ever tell you the reason I'm missing two teeth? Yeah, it was his fucking boot.”

Conn Webley

Connor M. Webley

Name: Connor “Conn” M. Webley

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Role: Corpsman

Experience: Conn served for almost nine years in the CMA, and ranked as a Sergeant when the CMA was reorganized. He was then drafted into the UNSC, where his rank meant nothing. He’s completed both CMA and UNSC Basic Training. He’s been trained as a Corpsman. He served for six years of Operation: TREBUCHET, and has been involved in two skirmishes with the covenant.

Bio: Connor Mitchell Webley was born in 2498 to Audrey and Mitchell Webley, in Luxor on Eridanus II. He had two siblings, both younger, though, only barely. Conn got good marks in school, but hated every second of it. He had a proclivity for fighting, and generally making a nuisance of himself. After he finished high school, a lot of his friends joined the CMA. With no aspirations, and no desire to further his education, he joined up alongside them.

He hated every second of basic training, but upon finishing basic training he was made the leader of his squad. Of course, being a squad leader in the CMA just meant that you were a little better at shooting and crawling than your buddies, but Conn got to tell people what to do and he liked it.

As was the case with most CMA soldiers of the time, Conn was immediately assigned to Operation: TREBUCHET. This was three years into the fighting, and by then, the UNSC has almost completely taken over. Conn’s squad was almost exclusively relegated to dirty work. Cleaning up Insurrectionist bombsites, keeping the peace during the many riots. During this time, he met Ensign Karim and Sgt. Vargas. After the CMA was reorganized, he was drafted into the UNSC Marine Corps. He was later transferred to Whiskey Squad, under the command of his old friend Sofia Vargas.

Gear:

• BR55 Service Rifle
• M6C Magnum Sidearm
• Combat Knife
• Marine BDU
• Emergency Medical Kit (biofoam, a stitch kit, polypseudomorphine, self-adhering antiseptic battle dressings, and other useful field dressing component)

Relationships:

• Sofia Vargas: Though initially classifying her as an enemy, Conn later grew close with Vargas, though only after she broke his nose and her knocked out a few of her teeth. Much to his amusement, it was he who introduced her to her fiance, Ensign Farid Karim. Despite being friends, the two mock each other incessantly.
  
  “Hell is other people, but mostly it’s Sofia fucking Vargas. I ever tell you the reason my nose is crooked? Yeah, it was her forehead.”

Other:

• Conn’s younger brother, Oliver, was caught with bomb supplies and is currently serving a twenty-five year prison sentence for Conspiracy to Commit High Treason, Possession of Illegal Materials, and Possession of an Explosive Device with Intent to Harm.
• Conn recently quit smoking.

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Halo: Acceptable Losses

@CaptainBritton
@datadogie
@Driving Park
@GrimmReconz
@NarayanK
@Caliban22
@FrostedCaramel

Halo: Acceptable Losses

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Master Character List

Whiskey Squad

Fireteam 1 "Icepick"

• Squad Lead (Whiskey Actual)- Sgt. Sofia Vargas @Fisticuffs.
• Corpsman (Whiskey 1-2)- LCpl. Connor Webley @Fisticuffs
• Marksman (Whiskey 1-3)- PFC. Emily Fox @datadogie
• Rifleman (Whiskey 1-4)-
• Rifleman (Whiskey 1-5)-

Fireteam 2 "Sledgehammer"

• Second-In-Command/Fireteam 2 Lead (Whiskey 2-1)- Sgt. Victor Romanov @ReusableSword
• Anti-Armor (Whiskey 2-2)- Cpl. Edwin Tai @FrostedCaramel
• Rifleman (Whiskey 2-3)- PFC. Roland Kertesz @CaptainBritton
• Rifleman (Whiskey 2-4)- Pvt. Holly Romanov @datadogie
• Rifleman (Whiskey 2-5)-

Character Sheet

Format this however you'd like. I do like seeing pretty sheets, but substance over style and all that.

REQUIRED INFO

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Homeworld: (Where was your character born? Here's a list of the Inner Colonies. Here are some Outer Colonies. Keep in mind that there are so many colonies that haven't been mentioned. Feel free to make one up. If you do, provide some info, and keep it reasonable.)

Rank: (Ensure that rank fits the role. Squad leader aside, characters probably shouldn't rank higher than Corporal.)

Role: (I'm not reserving roles for people. Generally, first come first serve. If you really want a role, talk to people. Who knows, maybe everyone will let you have it.)

Experience: (How long has your character been in the UNSC? Were they in the CMA prior to the UNSC? Have they ever fought the Covenant before? What about insurrectionists? Make sure that experience fits rank, age, and role.)

Bio: (Give me some substance. At least one paragraph.)

Personality: (More than a sentence or two, please.)

Appearance: (You can use an image, if you'd like. I don't care what kind of image you use. I'd recommend realistic art, but what do I know? If you don't use an image, give me an apt description. I don't care how long it is, but I want to be able to get a mental image. Whether you use an image or not, I want to know height and weight.)

Gear: (Hold off on this, for now. I'm going to allow people to have a say in what weapons they get, but that will be restricted somewhat by role.)

Relationships: (At the start of the RP, most of our characters will have met only hours ago. However, if your character knows another character from before the Harvest Campaign, make note of it here. Maybe you want your characters to be bust buddies with another character. Maybe your character and another character got into a bar-fight ages ago. Go wild with it.)

Anything else you want to add. Whole new sections if you really want:

Halo: Acceptable Losses

Halo: Acceptable Losses

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The year is 2526 AD...

...and the UNSC is scrambling to figure out how one fights a losing war. Our enemies, The Covenant, are an alien conglomerate society hellbent on exterminiating Humanity in a holy war. First contact was made more than a year ago. Since then, the Covenant have been busy. They've compltely destroyed four planets; Harvest, Bliss, Circinius IV, and Biko. Humanity is outgunned, outnumbered, and still divided. Old wounds from the many Outer Colony insurrections, anger over the "reorganization" of the Colonial Military Administration, and the continued actions of the United Rebel Front keep tensions high, even as aliens reduce the surface of colonies to glass.

For the past year, Humanity has been on the defensive, suffering constant losses. Now, Admiral Preston J. Cole leads humanity's first offensive. He intends to retake Harvest. Though a ruined planet, unsuitable for sustained human life, taking it would be a massive morale boost. ONI specialists figure that Harvest will be back in human hands within the year but the good Admiral isn't so sure.

But the Battle for Harvest is far from the only battle on Humanity's plate. We've got a whole host of UEG Colonies just ripe for Covenant Cleansing. This is like no war we've ever fought. We need good leaders, good ships, and good soldiers if we're going to survive. If we want to win? Well, we'll need a miracle, and a few heroes. In 20 years, Humanity will probably remember those freak-shows in the power armor better than they'll remember us, but if Humanity even exists in 20 years, that'll be all the legacy we'll need.

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Halo: Acceptable Losses is an RP in which players will control UNSC Marines, instead of Spartans. Acceptable Losses takes place early in the Human-Covenant War, A full five years prior to the earliest game (Halo Wars). We're going to be focusing on the camaraderie that one finds on the battlefield and the thought of soldiers in a hopeless war. Player Character death will be a major part of this RP, and not in a "you made a mistake and now I'm killing off your character" sort of way. Instead, I'll be encouraging you to occasionally kill off characters. I intend for the RP to span the whole war, so there'll be 20+ years for that to happen. Characters will die, be promoted, desert, maybe even defect to the Rebels. The point is, I want to to have a changing cast. By the end, we may even be facing a Theseus's Ship sort of situation, with none of the OG characters remaining.

As of now, our characters are in the 17th Marine Regimental Combat Team, 53rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 9th Marine Expeditionary Force. We'll be only very loosely sticking to Halo canon. The Harvest Campaign that starts the RP is a real event in the Halo timeline, but moving forward future battles may be completely fictitious. We see but a fraction of the Halo Universe in-game, and it would be cool to expand on that. Knowledge of the Universe is not required. I'll be doing a bit of research to form a sort of "codex" in the OOC of the actual thread, and even then, strict adherence to canon and the rules of the universe if by no means required.

I'm looking for 8 people at the most. Marine Squads have 10-13 soldiers, but I want room for NPC's and extra player characters.

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Rules

• GM's word is law, as is the word of my Co-GM's. That being said, I'm pretty laid back. You may disagree with me, and I will take your concerns into consideration, but I will be making the final decision.
• Typical RP rules. Don't godmod, metagame, etc.
• Due to the very nature of this RP, there will be blood. Aliens will be blasted apart, humans will get run through with energy swords or stomped by Brutes, and characters will very likely use coarse language. That being said, do be over 18 if you intend to join.
• Both men and women, of all manner of sexualities, serve in the UNSC. This RP will be spanning over the course of at least 26 years. I expect, at some point, that love and sex will come up. Keep it tasteful and abide by Guild Rules and we should be fine.
• Contribute to the story. You should be interacting with your fellow RP members, and your character(s) should be interacting with other characters. Throw ideas out there! Plot!
• We will have a posting order. The posting order is not to be broken unless I or a Co-GM allow it. If you need some time, let us know, and we'll let someone else go ahead. If someone is taking awhile, we'll go ahead and skip them, anyway. If someone is taking a while and is holding up proceedings, I will warn them, and if the warning is not heeded, I will kill their character. Character death, even in this case, is not the end of one's involvement in the RP, unless they want it to be.
• Finally and most importantly; Wheaton's Law. Don't be a dick. Of all the rules you might break, this is the one I will come down most harshly on. Respect your peers.

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Codex

Special thanks to @CaptainBritton for this!

WIP

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The Story So Far

The date is March 3rd, 2526. Whiskey Squad is aboard the UNSC Eternity Abroad, a Pheonix-class Colony Ship repurposed into a Battle Carrier. In a few short hours, they will board a Pelican Dropship and take part in one of the first ground battles of The Harvest Campaign.

The Harvest Campaign Arc

Information will be added here as events occur IC.

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Also, we have a Discord!

Halo: Acceptable Losses

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@NarayanK

Roger that, wilco.

ALSO, EVERYONE, WE HAVE A DISCORD NOW

discord.gg/MHdey4J

Halo: Acceptable Losses

Halo: Acceptable Losses

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The year is 2526 AD...

...and the UNSC is scrambling to figure out how one fights a losing war. Our enemies, The Covenant, are an alien conglomerate society hellbent on exterminiating Humanity in a holy war. First contact was made more than a year ago. Since then, the Covenant have been busy. They've compltely destroyed four planets; Harvest, Bliss, Circinius IV, and Biko. Humanity is outgunned, outnumbered, and still divided. Old wounds from the many Outer Colony insurrections, anger over the "reorganization" of the Colonial Military Administration, and the continued actions of the United Rebel Front keep tensions high, even as aliens reduce the surface of colonies to glass.

For the past year, Humanity has been on the defensive, suffering constant losses. Now, Admiral Preston J. Cole leads humanity's first offensive. He intends to retake Harvest. Though a ruined planet, unsuitable for sustained human life, taking it would be a massive morale boost. ONI specialists figure that Harvest will be back in human hands within the year but the good Admiral isn't so sure.

But the Battle for Harvest is far from the only battle on Humanity's plate. We've got a whole host of UEG Colonies just ripe for Covenant Cleansing. This is like no war we've ever fought. We need good leaders, good ships, and good soldiers if we're going to survive. If we want to win? Well, we'll need a miracle, and a few heroes. In 20 years, Humanity will probably remember those freak-shows in the power armor better than they'll remember us, but if Humanity even exists in 20 years, that'll be all the legacy we'll need.

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by this Interest Check. Halo: Acceptable Losses is an RP in which players will control UNSC Marines, instead of Spartans. Acceptable Losses takes place early in the Human-Covenant War, A full five years prior to the earliest game (Halo Wars). We're going to be focusing on the camaraderie that one finds on the battlefield and the thought of soldiers in a hopeless war. Player Character death will be a major part of this RP, and not in a "you made a mistake and now I'm killing off your character" sort of way. Instead, I'll be encouraging you to occasionally kill off characters. I intend for the RP to span the whole war, so there'll be 20+ years for that to happen. Characters will die, be promoted, desert, maybe even defect to the Rebels. The point is, I want to to have a changing cast. By the end, we may even be facing a Theseus's Ship sort of situation, with none of the OG characters remaining.

As of now, our characters are in the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, 9th Division, 503rd Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Baker Company, 1st Platoon, Combat Team Romeo, Whiskey Squad. We'll be only very loosely sticking to Halo canon. The Harvest Campaign that starts the RP is a real event in the Halo timeline, but moving forward future battles may be completely fictitious. We see but a fraction of the Halo Universe in-game, and it would be cool to expand on that. Knowledge of the Universe is not required. I'll be doing a bit of research to form a sort of "codex" in the OOC of the actual thread, and even then, strict adherence to canon and the rules of the universe if by no means required.

I'm looking for 8 people at the most. Marine Squads have 10-13 soldiers, but I want room for NPC's and extra player characters.

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Made it this far? Interested? Let me know!

EDIT: Like every other RP, we now have a Discord. Welcome to the future: discord.gg/MHdey4J

Farrow's Gift

Thomas McClellan

Thomas M. McClellan

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Name: Thomas Mitchell McClellan

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Occupation: Manager and Bartender of MacCready’s Irish Pub

Relationships:

• Jude Marshall: Jude is a coworker at MacCready's. Thomas and Jude humorously look somewhat alike, but have differing personalities. To Thomas, Jude is just about the best drinking buddy in Darkwell, and Thomas considers him a friend.
• Garrett Fischermann: Garrett is a regular at MacCready's. The two talk shit back and forth, and Thomas notices his absences on the rare nights that he doesn't come in.

Abilities: Thomas has a vague understanding of his full abilities. At current, he has the ability to generate a vast amount of electricity, but has difficulty controlling it. Alchemy has proved easier to grasp, and he’s gotten somewhat proficient at hardening blunt objects and sharpening blades, and is just beginning to experiment with adding additional effects to objects.

Appearance:

(5' 11", 142 lbs.)

Personality: Thomas, depending on who you ask, is either impulsive or decisive. He does not hesitate, for better or worse. He speaks his mind, and he acts according to what he thinks is right, in the moment. He curses like a sailor and can come off as a tad aggressive. However, he likes to help people and adopts a strong ‘what’re friends for’ attitude towards favors. Thomas is amiable and has a pretty good sense of humor. He’s a bit of an open book, quick to trust people, though he can become frustrated if that trust is not mutual.

Short Biography: Thomas was born in Iowa, in a town smaller than Darkwell, just off the Mississippi. He was smart, but got average marks in high school, with a proclivity for fighting and trouble, until he dropped out when he was 17. His parents kicked him out, and he and some friends caught a ride to California and started a punk band, “Alleyway Edict”. Laughably pretentious and angry to the point of novelty, Alleyway got minimal play on a few College Radio stations, but their debut album failed to recoup recording costs. The group disbanded within the year.

Lacking job experience or a diploma, Thomas struggled to find a job, and harder to hold one. He was a taxi-driver in San Diego for a month, and a cashier at a 7-11 in Portland for a few weeks. His first stable job came when he wandered into Darkwell. Artyom, a kindly old Russian who (oddly enough) owned an Irish Pub, offered him a job as a bartender. Hurting for cash, he accepted, intending to stay only for a while. However, plans changed as Artyom managed to convince him to get his GED. He did. Three years, Thomas worked faithfully for Artyom. The old man rarely comes around anymore, leaving Thomas to essentially operate the bar on his own.

Other:

• The only other employee at MacCready’s (other than Jude Marshall) is the cook, a blonde-haired stoner named Justin.
• The only method of transportation Thomas owns is a skateboard, but he’s awful at skateboarding, so he walks almost everywhere.
• There's a cheap .38 revolver under the bar that's been there longer than Thomas has worked there. Thomas has never had to even touch it, but he likes to think that he'd be able to, if there was a serious threat in the bar.
• Thomas has gotten into a few scraps, enough experience to serve as MacCready's bouncer. Since Arytom forced him to learn how to properly de-escalate a situation, he hasn’t had to lift a finger.
• Thomas is a passable singer, and he’s able to play guitar.
• ”Of course. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’ and all that. Not sure why you chose to move out on the hottest fuckin’ day of the year, but I’ll help.”

Farrow's Gift

@Ambra Forgot to mention you with the sheet oops.

Farrow's Gift

Thomas

Name: Thomas McClellan

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Occupation: Manager and Bartender of MacCready’s Irish Pub

Relationships: (To be fully expanded upon after further conversations with other RPers. Bromantics with Jude and Garrett are likely.)

Abilities: Thomas has a vague understanding of his full abilities. At current, he has the ability to manipulate and generate ice cube-sized pieces of ice, as well as slightly lower the temperature of a room. Alchemy has proved easier to grasp, and he’s gotten somewhat proficient at hardening blunt objects and sharpening blades, and is just beginning to experiment with adding additional effects to objects.

Appearance:

(Subject to possible change. I’m not exactly 100% happy with the picture.)

Personality: Thomas, depending on who you ask, is either impulsive or decisive. He does not hesitate, for better or worse. He speaks his mind, and he acts according to what he thinks is right, in the moment. He curses like a sailor, and can come off as a tad aggressive. However, he like to help people, and adopts a strong ‘what’re friends for’ attitude towards favors. Thomas is amiable and has a pretty good sense of humor. He’s a bit of an open book, quick to trust people, though he can become frustrated if that trust is not mutual.

Short Biography: Thomas was born in Iowa, in a town smaller than Darkwell, just off the Mississippi. He was smart, but got average marks in high school, with a proclivity for fighting and trouble, until he dropped out when he was 17. His parents kicked him out, and he and some friends caught a ride to California and started a punk band, “Alleyway Edict”. Laughably pretentious and angry to the point of novelty, Alleyway got minimal play on a few College Radio stations, but their debut album failed to recoup recording costs. The group disbanded within the year.

Lacking job experience or a diploma, Thomas struggled to find a job, and harder to hold one. He was a taxi-driver in San Diego for a month, and a cashier at a 7-11 in Portland for a few weeks. His first stable job came when he wandered into Darkwell. Artyom, a kindly old Russian who (oddly enough) owned an Irish Pub, offered him a job as a bartender. Hurting for cash, he accepted, intending to stay only for a while. However, plans changed as Artyom managed to convince him to get his GED. He did. Three years, Thomas worked faithfully for Artyom. The old man rarely comes around anymore, leaving Thomas to essentially operate the bar on his own.

Other:

• The only other employee at MacCready’s is the cook, a blonde-haired stoner named Justin.
• The only method of transportation Thomas owns is a skateboard, but he’s awful at skateboarding, so he walks almost everywhere.
• Due to his experience with fighting, Thomas serves as MacCready’s bouncer, but since Arytom forced him to learn how to properly deescalate a situation, he hasn’t had to lift a finger.
• Thomas is a passable singer, and he’s able to play guitar.
• ”Of course. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’ and all that. Not sure why you chose to move out on the hottest fuckin’ day of the year, but I’ll help.”