Queen Raidne

A Superpowered War

Well, we need a place without saying a place. Have we written ourselves into a corner?

What Causes Roleplays to Die?

Certainly a lack of posting can be claimed to kill all RP's. But why don't people post? What can you do in creating and running a roleplay to avoid these things?

If you read this thread, post in it

I read mbl's thread.

OPTEVFOR JDF-1 [Naval][Ship-Based][Modern]

Alfhedil said
Got an idea for this, though I would like to ask what kind of missions the fleet would be seeing in this RP. The OP says it's strictly modern, but the Int.Check was tossing around the idea of giant monsters and aliens?Assuming the aliens and kaiju are not a thing, I have an idea for a sort of battleship brought into the modern age. =D

Haha, whoops! I never answered this. Here's what I'll be going with. To quote the interest check:

Interest Check said My favorite, though, is a business-as-usual scenario, with anti-piracy missions, maybe an encounter with some rogue Chinese forces (or something), military exercises against more conventional fleets to prove the worth of the program (and therefore your jobs), disaster relief first response, being deployed to assist an actual "professional" carrier battle group, "cooperation" with USSOCOM's mysterious orders (and being turned into glorified transport ships for said special forces, under strict orders not to interfere as things seem to go increasingly wrong with their mission [as best you can tell what their mission actually is]), and blatant communication snafu's. I think a fun angle would be the contrast between JDF-1 and the conventional Navy and armed forces, with hilarity ensueing.

And an over-arcing plot involving rising tensions between the US, Russia, and China. It'll be episodic, like episodes of Stargate SG-1 (for example). Some missions will be straight-up anti-piracy or military exercises with no greater meaning, some will reveal a source of rising tensions, and others will be actual conflict (maybe).

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Silverwind Blade: I'm consulting with Gunther; be back to you shortly.

OPTEVFOR JDF-1 [Naval][Ship-Based][Modern]

Announcement: Gunther is now Co-GM. Being more knowledgable about military affairs than I am, he'll serve as "military advisor" (note all the useful fleet-composition things that he's already pointed out), and will take over this RP in the event of my sudden absence. Any questions about this can be PM'ed to me.

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And while these are all good arguments against having a nuke-powered aircraft, I'll reiterate that I'm fine with someone having a nuke powered hybrid airship (it's got to be some variant of airship, though, for reasons I've previously stated). You'll just have to be creative with your arguments for how something came to be, answering all (or most) previously-stated arguments. Why am I okay with that? Because it's awesome and I want one (just personally, not specifically for this RP). It would also fit with one of the themes of JDF-1 - ships and captains that shouldn't really be in the Navy but are for various extenuating circumstances. I could see a nuke-powered AWACS airship getting through because of some consortium of congressmen that need to increase the jobs in their state, or something equally political.

If anyone would like to continue this discussion, please take it to PM. While we're not arguing horribly and killing each other (yet), I've seen lesser issues explode. Let's not do that in the OOC, please.

As for the tone, I'm aiming for a more realistic tone than a wacky comedic tone. Yes, we may have railguns and a massive submarine, but that's just because this fleet is for the designs and ships that fell through the cracks of the Naval bureaucracy (and for legitimate experimental designs that need "additional testing").

And as for an IC post, some of you still need to finish your ship sheets - specifically the character bios for the ones that I recall. I'll update the first post with a list of accepted ships and pending ships. I'm also going to close the RP to new ships: if you haven't posted (even if it's just to say you're potentially interested) in the OOC or Interest Check before this post, then this RP is closed to you.

However, if you are feeling particularly impatient, then I can start up the IC, and people can join as they finish their sheets.

TheEvanCat & Slypheed: Feel free to make a second ship. We may start the IC without them (once everyone's first ships are ready), depending on how impatient everyone is.

Men vs Women Race to 1000

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Godmoding: Never Appropriate or Necessary to Forward the Story?

Back at the old site I RP'd in, it was generally accepted that simple actions were okay. That is, you could make another character catch a ball that you threw, say hello back to you, etc. That was, however, an unofficial practice. The official practice was that you couldn't RP another character in any way. However, you could end your post with " *baton pass* ", indicating that it was alright for other RP'ers to control your character.

Men vs Women Race to 1000

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Patchwork: A Multiversal Factions NRP

KabenSaal:
1. Yes, basically.
2. Also yes.
3. Also also yes. Though only in your hex and the far side of the planet.

Stargate - H.M.S Tempest

Is Tempest Actual/The Captain still around? Shall I have Cmdr Thomas step in, saying that the Captain's busy at the moment?>