ReedeThe23rd

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

Well, guess tomorrow will be spent cranking out an OOC thread for this thing given the amount of interest. So those interested can look forward to that.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Silverwind Blade As I said, I'm not intending on missions to be dumb stuff like "Go into this heavily populated area to just destroy buildings" or similar, won't even be a "We're rejecting this job because of the risk to civilians and non-combatants", those kinds of jobs just won't be mentioned. We'll be fighting combatants, and we won't be doing work for pirate organizations. I'm not intending on our role in missions to have any serious or dramatic consequences either beyond "And then the people we worked for put their flag over the planet." I want most of the focus to just be on a group of mercenaries plying their trade. The more morally dubious content of the setting beyond "We're playing people who get paid to fight in wars." isn't really stuff I have any interest in touching.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Letter Bee I understand, hopefully no hard feelings

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Letter BeeNot... particularly? Its a setting about war between a half dozen different nation states all varying shades of autocratic and the mercenaries caught up in the middle of it all. There's no guarantee a "morally right" mercenary job is actually that. Now I'm not going to be giving us missions about killing civilians or anything similar, but its a setting and game about war as a business, there's really no way to avoid everything morally questionable.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

The year is 3025, and the ramp up to the 4th Succession War is in full swing. Great houses are getting into increasingly long border skirmishes, pirate activity is on the rise, and its a profitable time to be a mercenary.

Enter one such mercenary band. A minor company operating out of the heart of the Inner Sphere named Marley's Misfits. Made up of whatever pilots, crew and tech could be scaped together, operating whatever BattleMechs and vehicles they can get their hands on, the rising tension is being seen by their commander, one Marley Swanson, as their time to make enough cash and a name for themselves to hit the big leagues.

So yeah, there's your pitch. I'm looking for anyone and everyone interested in driving a big stompy robot, a heavy metal tank, or a fast flying aircraft as we wheel and deal with the nations of the Inner Sphere and try to make a living.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

@MelodicElementI like it a lot. Every promotion needs the pompous rich boy heel, and bonus points for the bruiser bodyguard and a stable of jobbers. Feel free to throw his sheet over into the characters tab, and I'll add 'em to the roster.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

https://discord.gg/ZsuqGx4M8C

We have a discord, for those on board.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

@nodogs@Taka@Fabricant451@MelodicElement@Fiber@Hey Im Jordan@Sloth@Kiragan_Natsuki

The OOC is live!

Expect a discord link soonish somewhere in the OOC once I finish it up

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

Active Roster:
Dorian Valentine(Emmett Moseley) - Played by MelodicElement

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

December 1994, the Global Wrestling Association is number one in the world for professional wrestling. The most popular weekly shows, a roster of household names, a range of titles, and an annual end of year pay-per-view, the Brawl of Fame.

This year marked the 9th annual Brawl of Fame, with the main event being a title match for the Global Wrestling Championship. The challenger was the star face of the GWA, the fan favorite Eddie Winters. The champion was the vicious monster of a man Titus Stonewall.

The match was initially brought to a close with Eddie's victorious clean pin following a fierce suplex combination. Eddie's celebration was short-lived however as the owner of the GWA Vincent Manson, flanked by a cadre of security guards, came marching in from backstage.

Vincent declared that the match was invalid, claiming he had evidence of Eddie attempting to buy off the referee before the match. The crowd was stunned by this declaration, and an infuriated Winters grabbed a mic and demanded this so-called evidence be shown. Vincent refused, calling it confidential and that his decision was final. He declared Eddie Winters was being released from his contract immediately and being removed from the arena. As the security guards surrounded and dragged Eddie away, he proclaimed he'd get back at Vincent for this, and the night ended with a smug Vincent Manson being booed and escorted away under a hail of trash and debris.

Following this, a mass exodus of talent left the GWA, either in solidarity with the slighted Eddie Winters, or out of fear they'd be ejected by surprise next.

January 1995, and its the first GWA broadcast since this incident is made. Vincent Manson announces every title has been vacated and reset, the roster filled with new, fresh talent, and a new era of the GWA begins with the first weekly show of the year, Monday Night Rumble.

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Welcome to the GWA! A professional wrestling RP inspired by the often-claimed "peak" of American professional wrestling. If you're looking for high flying, powerbombing, suplex slamming action, this is your place.

I really hope I don't need to go down the usual "here's all the rules you see in every OOC" junk, just don't be a jerk, work with me and the others on issues, conflicts and such, and we'll be golden.

Big thing is I don't plan on running this like a traditional "Person A posts, Person B posts, Person C posts, Person A replies, etc." roleplay. I wanna present this like a proper professional wrestling promotion, with players and/or NPCs being booked in advance, title shots and storylines being set up behind the scenes, and everything like that. So while this will be a pretty collaboration post-heavy RP, I don't expect people to give every single post their all.

That being said, here's a template sheet. First half is for your real identity, second half is for your wrestling persona identity(feel free to denote anything staying the same between the two):

Real Identity

[b]Name:[/b]

[b]Age & DOB:[/b]

[b]Birthplace:[/b]

[b]Height:[/b]

[b]Weight:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]History:[/b]

Persona Identity

[b]Name/Nickname/Title:[/b]

[b]Age & DOB(If Any):[/b]

[b]Birthplace(If Any):[/b]

[b]Height:[/b]

[b]Weight:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]History:[/b]

And that's that. Expect a discord link at some point for planning purposes.