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Xanadu | Xan | That asshole | etc
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21 12/13/1997
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University Student: History & Philosophy
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Forum Based RPing for 8+ Years
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Who Art Tho?

The man known as Xan
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Hello there! You can call me Xanadu through originally on Old Guild I was known as Fa11ing Phoenix. I'm a University student that lives on the East Coast of North America studying History and Philosophy with aspirations of either becoming a History Professor or working in the Digital Humanities. I used to be really into forum based roleplaying when I was younger starting out on Neopets before moving to Max-Dan-Wiz and finally ending up on the Old Guild.

As I entered college though, I found it hard to find time to allocate time to writing posts when I have to write essays for grades and the like. Recently though, I've decided that for the sake of my own mental health that I have hobbies beyond work in an attempt to help keep myself sane. And thus I have returned with the expressed intent of continuing to do this weird collaborative writing experience that I love so much!

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  • Fantasy: [High | Low | Urban]
  • Sci-Fi: [Mechs | Science-Fantasy | Space Operas]
  • Historical [Westerns | Wuxai | Chanbara]
  • Punk [Steam punk | Diesel Punk | Post-Cyberpunk]
  • Fandom [DC & Marvel | Dragon Age | Mass Effect]

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▶ I play the Kantele, Tenor Sax, and Clarinet
▶ My favorite color is Orange

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A P P E R A N C E
A detailed description of your character. How they look, what they normally dress in, and how they usually present themselves. Do they walk tall and wear nice suits? Or do they slouch and look like they have been sleeping in trash for the last week? You get the general idea. Along with this, you can optionally put a picture up at the top to help supplement this description.


B A C K G R O U N D
A detailed and accurate history and upbringing of your character from childhood to now. This is the most important part of your sheet; helping me determine your writing ability and dedication to wanting to be in this RP. In short if you give a two paragraph summation of John or Linda's entire life then don't expect to get very far here. This also helps you, because the more you write a nice detailed history for your character, the better you get to understand them as a person. This also helps, because it is the first true step of how our collaborative world building process works. As I've already mentioned there is a vague outline of the world right now. By telling your characters backgrounds, by adding in organizations and events that have happened across the world you all help flesh out and create a history for this world.


P E R S O N A L I T Y
For stuff that doesn't fit in the background field, such as hobbies, aspirations, quirks, interests, and so on. This is important, because it helps give me a feel for your character and give them a few more personal touches. Personalties though in general kind of shape and warp over time as you as writers find the voice of your character so don't pull too much hair out over this section.


S K I L L S
Generally why your character was hired by Loingsech. What are they good at? What do they specialize in? Specific jobs, skills, experience and stuff like that. Think of it almost like making a tiny cover letter for your character.


E Q U I P M E N T
Weapons, armour, and other important bits. They say you can tell a lot about a lady by what she has in her purse. This goes by the same principle. Don't feel like you only have to add the important fancy stuff, feel free to add things important to the character as well. Picture of somebody, lucky fuzzy dice, and things like that.


A U G M E N T A T I O N S
The fun part. What cool robot parts do they as characters, if any at all. Feel free to describe them in detail with appearance, their use, and general fluff. See the example below for what I'm looking for. Also to keep things simple and clean, I'm going to limit everybody at least at the start to at a max five augmentations.



To use code properly just copy and past it. Remember though to erase the # from the [#hr] lines so that it actually makes a line. Please post CSs to the OOC or PM to me for approval before you post them here.

the story so far.

C H A P T E R 1: A R A I N S O A K E D E V E N I N G

The Year is 2047, the place is the Guangdong Free Economic Zone (GFEZ) within the city of Hong Kong. Here on the island of Ap Lei Chau, in a skyscraper, on the 35th floor, lay a lab run by Loingsech Solutions. Within the confines of this space gray and sterile white interior there is a girl. Once, she may of had a name; today she is only referred to as 0826-9. For as long as she can remember all she has known is the lab. Today, as a spring swell draws in and the rains with it, that will change.

Not far from the lab, at the extravagant Kinmokusei Hotel are a group hired by Loingsech. An email having appeared in their inbox; a secure communication from a server in Dublin. That's how the big companies worked these days, you don't contact them, they find you. The contract promised a lucrative payout, half at acceptance, half at satisfactory completion. The job itself was simple - transport a girl from Hong Kong to Dublin, the only stipulation was to avoid air travel at all costs.

For those in the "biz", such an offer would've triggered half-a-dozen red flags. The old hands always warned that you never took a job with one of the big ones. You're too expendable, they keep too many secrets, things aren't ever what they seem. Sometimes though it doesn't matter: maybe your desperate for cash, maybe you want to test yourself, and maybe you have a death wish. Sometimes you just have to go along for the ride.


loingsech database.
Pertinent lore information will go here.








rules and regulations.

Follow all pre-established Guild rules.

For the love of all things holy don't be That Assholetm.

If you have any questions please ask them.

Don't be arguing with everybody and causing problems. And before you get up in arms, don't worry there is a difference between friendly discourse and discussion and being That Assholetm. I know the difference and so do you.

Your characters are people not superheros. Any blatant Mary & Gary Sues, cases of god-modding, et cetera, and I will have to drag you out back and tell you to think of the rabbits.

In the same idea, PC death is not out of the question per say, but highly unlikely. That being said, if you go into a firefight where there is one of you and fifty five of the other guys and you think your going to come out without a scratch please think again. Injuries are a thing cause they present interesting story choices.

To put expectations of posting frequency into the simplest terms possible. Post at least once week in the OOC to be like, "Hey Gurl I'm still alive." I can also set up a Discord for such purposes and the sharing of dank memes if that is something you would prefer. In terms of IC production, I would prefer if you were able to post the IC at least once a week, but to keep things realistic I'm going set the hard cap at once every two weeks. If you can't meet such demands for whatever reason illness, hard work week, or whatever please just tell me. Cause if you tell me and I know what's up, then I won't have to worry that you are going to vanish on us.

In terms of posting length and content. This RP is going to be following Advance standards. Though if you can't hit that level with every post don't sweat it, as long as I see your trying we gucci fam. I'm basically giving you enough rope to hang yourself with here, there is a difference between I tried my best and I wrote a single paragraph that adds nothing to the greater context of the story of the whole. I know the difference and you know the difference. Don't make me proud, make yourself proud.

Romance is not one of the core pillars of identity for this RP. That having been said it is still allowed, giant big old trip across thousands of miles feelings might flair and stuff. That's fine. But for you horn dogs out there please keep what I would call scenes not safe for the children to the PMs. Alright? Cool.

Cyberpunk as a genre is steeped in the veneer of Dystopia. Rectifier is no different and as a result has what some might describe as darker themes within its blood. I'm not aiming for grimdark here and there is still light in the world, but every light has to cast a shadow as they say. But what I'm asking is that y'll have the maturity to treat these themes with the respect that they deserve. And that is all I'm gonna say about that.

Last but not least. By submitting a character sheet to this RP, you are in a way, signing a strange mythological contract that states that you agree to follow these rules.


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Hello folks!

A little update for you all. So most of the word part of the OOC has been finished, save for some final touches on the CS section. Most of that is on a google doc. I'm in the process of going through the final formatting phases, adding pictures, color coding, links, and stuff like that. But I have to do all that stuff Guild-side. Problem being as all of you know, is that the guild is well moving rather slowly at the moment. This has unavoidably and regrettably slowed me down a bit. So I regretfully have to change the time schedule slightly on you, to give you the best OOC I can. So expect the OOC to go live tomorrow 1/29/2018 sometime in the later hours EST, or if something else out of my control occurs the day after 1/30/2018 at the latest. In either case I'll tag you all with a post here when it's up and running anyway.

@Techne


@Scrub Mage


@Plank Sinatra
Wait somebody thinks my ideas are cool?! I mean yes only cool stuff here!

@Mara
I know right! Personal experience tells me there is a 1 in 10 chance that by smashing two seemingly disjointed genres together you end up with something awesome. Hopefully you have enough time ^-^

@Flagg


@Krayzikk
Don't you worry plenty of room for all the dorks! Well maybe not all the dorks, but enough dorks. A satisfactory number of dorks.

@Girlie1Bomba


@Red Coil
Yeah. You can actually think Gibson by weird extension for this. I've read Idoru but never the rest of the books in the Bridge triology making it his only "trilogy" I hadn't finished. Anyway, my brother ended up getting me Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties for the holidays, which struck me with inspiration as they say.

@Jarl Coolgruuf
One might even call it... intriguing.


Any way that is more than enough people for me to start working on an OOC. It's like almost 10 PM.... so that being said I have classes at Uni tomorrow. Which means if all goes well, I should be able to get something up for you guys over the weekend. In the meantime though if you have any pressing comments, questions, concerns, or world-shattering secrets, feel free to either tag me here, or send me a PM, and I'll try and get a response to you as soon as possible.
Art by Eric Guez



Humanity has always defined itself by its ability to adapt; its ability to augment itself and its surroundings. From fire to the arrowhead, the light bulb to the atomic bomb. Exponential technological progress has come to define the structure of humanity's story. Yet there was a time, when even the brightest of minds believed the story was reaching its denouement.

In the early 1990s, the ГКЧП's Аugust Coup would succeeded in overthrowing Mikhail Gorbachev; Cold War tensions would flash white hot. In a few short minutes the world would turn upside down; analysts would later refer to the events as lucky as only a "limited exchange" had occurred. Despite such "luck", the various nation-states began to collapse beneath the newfound weight. Some, such as the United States, fell apart all together splintering along sectional divides. Others, such as France, saw a new reliance upon corporations that offered to privatize peace and security. It would be these corporations that would shape the decades to come.

Pulling back up from the edge; a new world order arose. Once the police force, the power grid, telecommunication network and legal systems were all privatized, it was only a matter of time till the corporations started running entire cities. The 20th century nation-state replaced with its slicker and more fashion-foward cousin: corporatocracy. People accepted it of course, anything to bring back normalcy to their lives after years of chaos. They wake up in their corporate run housing, take the corporate run mass transit, work at a corporate paid job, and go home to do it all again in the morning.

All the while, a golden age of innovation and advancements seems to have sparked. Without government restrictions to keep things in check, new technologies emerge fast. Only thing stopping somebody from making the new hot thing being somebody else doing it quicker and cheaper. The titular new hot thing currently is cybernetic augmentation technology. As robots became more lifelike and able to perform more complex tasks so did augs. But most people aren't hulking robocops. Today's cyborgs are stylish and sleek. Besides augs humanity has other toys in the toybox: self-driving cars, "better than life" virtual reality programs, gene-spliced babies, and even orbital collectives with a moon base on the way. Whatever you imagined chances are somebody is making it somewhere.

Behind close doors, in back alleyways, and the parking lot down the block; these corporations wage a quiet war amongst themselves. Some of its soldiers are on payroll, most are freelancers. Call them whatever you desire: freelancers, street samurai, console cowboys, thugs, or idiots. Marking a strange intersect of high and low culture - where the glitz of the movers and shakers meets the dark and turbulent undercurrent. This story focuses in upon one such group of individuals.

Our story begins in the Far East. Here in the southern reaches of China, where the Pearl River empties into the South China Sea, lies the bustling metropolis of Hong Kong. The city remains ever in prominence as a hub of trade and innovation, a prominence which has only increased in recent years. Many resting on the laurels of its largest benefactor Auyong Medical and its various subsidiaries. Folks from all over travel to Hong Kong, to use their state of the art medical clinics and do business, and as a result the city thrives.

Here in this melting pot of East and West, embraced by the sea, a handful of wandering destinies begin to be woven together. A job offering by Loingsech Solutions - a corporate giant whose best known for its continued advances in pursuing AI technology. The job is what those in the "biz" would call asset transportation, getting something from point A to point B, in one piece. Point A being a Loingsech lab in Hong Kong and Point B being their headquarters in Dublin. The asset in question, a rather unassuming fifteen year old girl with one hell of an attitude. One problem though, for some reasons or another the client has prohibited the use of air travel for "security reasons." So you're gonna be long hauling it.

Better get some rest, the ferry leaves in the morning.



Hello! This is the interest check for Rectifier. By now, you should have already gathered that this is a roleplay set in a dystopic cyberpunk future inspired by the works of William Gibson, Mamoru Oshii, and Katsuhiro Otomo among others. In the same vein of these stories, it's a story blending high technology with low living. Famously these stories whether novel, film, or comic all follow similar design beliefs: the aim to capture a certain style/feeling, than tell a story, and finally make characters that fit to that story. With this roleplay, I'm aiming to find a closer blend between style and substance with a more heavy focus on character development and moments. To that end, I aim this to be a more narratively structured RP than most cyberpunk RPs I've seen on the site, which seem to skew towards a more sandbox feel.

Beyond a cyberpunk story, its also something of a road trip story. For a contemporary idea think maybe Final Fanatasy XV or maybe The Muppet Movie. This idea, to combined cyberpunk and road trips together is something I shamelessly ripped from NeoScum: a Shadowrun actual play podcast by terrible people for terrible people, I highly recommend you give it a listen. Basically what I've found is that the road trip structure allows for a healthy balance of more action heavy scenes that can be interspersed with more quieter character driven scenes. Thus allowing people that like writing about action and doing cool stuff their time to shine, and those more interested in collabs and dialogue heavy posts some love as well. As well as allowing more player agency in the story, as there are about 9,832 km between Dublin and Hong Kong, allowing players to deiced how they want to exactly approach that journey. That and the road trip genre lends itself to themes of found family, which as a trope I'm a sucker for.

In the end though, I also want players to feel like they had a hand helping create a breathing world. I have a brief outline of the history of this alt-history Earth, but not much beyond vague snippets of detail here and there. As a result this allows players to make things up and express themselves as they desire. You want to be a Molly Millions style razor girl? Sure. A suave hacker down on their luck? A bright kid trying to pay off their college loans? A corporate samurai that lives and dies by their honor? A cyborg? A martial artists. All of that's possible, so long as you can come up with a reasonable reason for their existence in this world.

So if any of this has caught your eye, or if you have any questions why don't you pop in and say hi?

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Some art that fits the feel I'm aiming for: Josan Gonzalez, Nick Bray, Arsenyer, Nivanh Chanthara, Mikko Kautto

Some tunes as well: All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated, New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down, Chromakey Dreamcoat, Love Theme, Music Sounds Better With You


@Dervish@Mortarion@DearTrickster
I uh honestly don't even know what to say. (I'm notoriously bad at the whole accepting of compliments thing.) But thanks I'm honestly still kinda flabbergasted by the kind words. Though I'm glad you guys accept Anjor as the sad trash panda, sad space cat boy, space's #1 uncle but still somehow sad, dashing -and not at all sad- freedom fighter that he totally is!

And in regards to the Discord. Well, I'm going to have to perform the unenviable task of remembering the sign-in information for my account, but sure I'm game!

@Dervish
Thanks a bunch for the quick reply! And don't worry about it, that's why I figured I'd put the prompt up and ask! Evidently I ended up switching out the M-5 Phalanx for the Ushior and the Omni-Blade for a Firaan. Figured him brining his own gear would evidently in the end make more sense, probably, though honestly I could see it going either way. Would of switched out the Mattock as well, but from what I remeber and double checking on the wiki, we aren't introduced to an angara variant so the Mattock should do. (Could of just traded it out for an Isharay, but I don't really picture Anjor as a sniper rifle guy in my head for some reason...)

And yeah well the long and the short of it was that I sort of stumbled into a Jaal romance in my first play through without really intending to. Evidently, I ended up sort of falling for the angara after that primarily because of all the stupid adorable emails he sends you. That and from the admittedly little glimpse we get at their culture throughout the game, they are kinda fascinating. Biologically engineered by a race of mysterious precursors that peaced out and never returned, fighting a desperate war of survival. That and I mean their social hierarchies and dynamics actually reflect that of real life lions really well. So they aren't just giant talking space cats... they are giant talking space lions! And that I at least think is hella cool.
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