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The Gifted: Insurgency

@TheDarkTemplar A few things to answer here, so lemme just go down the list :D

"Oooooh a villian character eh?"

Yup! Or hero, depending on who you ask. Granted the people who respond as such are few and far between these days :P.

"Kyle controls a squad so I'd like a short description of the team, nothing extensive I just want to get an idea of what the protagonists will be up against."

While I'd certainly be down for fleshing them out some more, there are a few things. Firstly, I'd really only do that for the original Storm Hound members, of which there's about 12 now. Or less, if you'd like. Six would work. I actually had a bit of text talking about how they're well reduced from their original 50 or so, but it's not there anymore for some reason. Basically, a lot either burned out and went into hiding under false identities, or have been killed in the skirmishes with the authorities that are few and far between. Secondly, I did intend on having some ordinary recruits drawn from extremists in the civilian population, although they were basically just going to be dying fodder, really. Fleshing the newer recruits out would be a bit inconvenient for this reason. Just disposable mooks for the good guys (/bad guys) to mop the floor with every now and then. I'd be fine to just reducing them to a background thing or removing them, if that's what you want as well.

"As for Kyle himself he is accepted"

Sweet! Thank you.

"but for the power armor what kind are we talking about because I'm not sure if you mean a massive death juggernaut armor or something like UNSC Marine armor."

I actually have an answer for this from my old character sheet. I'll pop it into a hider for you.

M62A2

- Power armor operation: Like all soldiers in his unit, Kyle Kruger is outfitted with an M62A2 "Petraeus" armored exoskeleton. The suit encases the soldier in a layer of armor, and is outfitted with actuators that utilize artificial muscle tissue to amplify the soldier's capabilities. While derided before the emergence of the metahumans as being prohibitively expensive and unsuited to the nature of America's latest wars, these suits are now looked upon favorably as a way to increase the survivability of ordinary humans when going toe to toe with the likes of these super beings. However, numbers are still required to deal with metahumans reliably, even with this advantage. The M62A2 "Petraeus" system provides superior mobility, protection, and weight carrying capacity to its user. One particular modification to the system for its service in the Storm Hounds, as per Kyle Kruger's personal request, is a rebreather piece that is used to administer various combat stimulants in a vapor form to the user.

EDIT: It occurs to me that by fleshing out, you probably mean equipment, capabilities etc. That I'd readily do for the Storm Hounds -and- their cannon fodder comrades. Although I'd still be up for characterizing each squad member, even if this was exclusively what you meant, but I don't promise it'll be anything but kinda bare bones.

EDIT 2:

Equipment and General Overview

Original Storm Hound Special Forces:
- Special forces veterans, just like Kyle Kruger.
- Tend to be equipped with LMGs, which can basically be wielded as reliably as assault rifles due to their power armor, which brings me to...
- Also have the M62A2 Petraeus suits.
- Some also have those grenade launchers shown in the picture. Given that Callahan and Kyle himself never abided by those silly things called rules of war ("Human rights are for humans"), the grenade types they have in stock are various kinds of generally agreed to be not okay things. The rebreather masks, protective hoods and goggles (not shown, but assumed to be kept in a pouch among other equipment) also serve as protection from the chemical weapons they sometimes employ, although a bulk are incendiary or fragmentation type.

"Storm Hound" Insurgents:
- Provided some modicum of training, but nothing too scary. Basically, well-organized militia level.
- Equipped with rather common firearms, with some heavier firepower such as rocket launchers or machine guns sometimes found.
- Lucky to have armor of any kind. Usually just plain clothes, balaclavas and an armband depicting crude emulations of the original Storm Hound unit patch or variations upon it. Usually even these basic elements of uniform are not worn. Being insurgents, it's probably for the best that they look like anybody else. But they've been known to wear the supposedly distinctive armbands and balaclavas on attacks intended to receive coverage and send a message.

The Gifted: Insurgency

Howdy! This looks hella neat, and I'd like to join. My character is a bit of a port/alternate universe version of a character from a slightly older RP similar to this ("Forest of Secrets"), if that's okay. I've rewritten things to try and make it more fitting to this particular setting, of course. Bear in mind this is a bit of a draft, until some things are cleared up/problems are pointed out, etc.

Kyle Kruger

Kyle Kruger

Appearance

Age: Appears to be in his late 40s.

Eye Colors: Bright green.

Personality: Unusually exuberant and slightly eccentric. It is truly difficult to find the man in anything but high spirits, earning him the nickname "Smiles." Beyond this demeanour is a man that is absolutely devoid of empathy when it comes to his enemies, a mentality born, in contrast, from his unbreakable love and loyalty towards the things he has devoted himself to the protection of.

Type: Pure human

Skills: Kyle is a capable leader of his men, among whom he has instilled respect through his consistent ability to get results. His expertise has been sharpened by decades of service on foreign battlefields and back home against metahuman resistance groups during the Callahan government. Now finding himself and his men on the opposite side of asymmetrical warfare, he has proven more than adept at learning from and applying the techniques of his old adversaries.

Bio: An aged special forces veteran turned Hunter and counter-insurgency tactician of the Callahan presidency. With his absolute hatred for Metahuman kind, he was not much of a fan of the new world ushered in after the fall of the human supremacist government. Equal scorn was directed towards the government itself who, as it turned out, had caused the mess and the creation of these monsters he so despises in the first place. Kyle and his old unit, the "Storm Hounds", successfully evaded justice, and went underground for many decades, remaining in contact through a covert network. This network managed to find its influence surreptitiously seeping into various human purity groups, from there drawing new recruits. The Storm Hounds gradually evolved from a special forces unit on the run into a small terrorist cell in its own right.

Although Kyle and his assembled force hold nothing but contempt for metahuman kind, they have become unwitting defenders of the system through taking their fight to the Scions of Divinity, who they see as a greater threat to pure humanity.

Post Example

Bottles emptied of their contents were scattered all through the office, joining other debris that had been torn apart and thrown to the ground. A figure slouched over his desk, head in one hand, pen held between quivering fingers in the other. His chest heaved heavily. Outstretched before him was a journal. The page header read "June 12th 2030." The prior entry, June 11th, after many furiously scribbled out lines, simply stated "Today Callahan is impeached. The war against the metahumans is over." Kyle brought his baleful, red stained eyes up to a framed photograph. It depicted Kyle Kruger himself and his men in formation during a visit to the base by President Callahan. He counted up the faces in that picture that belonged to comrades now buried. Swallowing down his rage, he returned to penning the newest entry: "June 12th: The Storm Hounds declare war on metahuman kind." Kyle's mouth twitched into a tired grin at this. He snapped the journal shut and slipped it into his pocket as he rose to his feet.

Later that day he gave the order to his men to suit up. The first shots of Kyle's personal war were fired by the Storm Hounds against their former brethren in the military that had come to apprehend them. From there, they scattered into the wilderness, vanishing from sight and, months after that, from memory. There were rumors, of course, of a mysterious force spotted in the depths of American woods, of hidden training grounds and outposts. While traces of these things could be found when investigations were launched, they proved excellent at covering their tracks, remaining forever elusive.

Other:
- "Storm Hound" originated as a military task force formed from 50 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to perform counter-insurgency warfare, ultimately aiming to "Outguerrilla the guerrillas." They were later responsible for many atrocities under Callahan's orders. Usage of the name has spread to Kyle Kruger's human supremacist organization as a whole.
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Theme Song: "Running Gun Blues" - David Bowie

In the other RP, he and his original team of buddies had power armor + combat stims to better the odds of surviving encounters with metahumans. I wasn't sure if that'd fit into your idea of technology in this particular setting, so I figured it'd be better to just ask if it's okay to throw that in. Of course that'd just be Kyle and the original Storm Hounds with power armor, not newer recruits to his anti-metahuman organization. Without proper maintenance crews, the power armor would be of dodgy condition and with a lot of improvised maintenance by this time, given they've been on the run for so long.

Welcome to the beginning!- A post-apocalyptic NRP

EDIT: lol wrong thread sorry

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I apologize for my brief absence after promising I'd return. I have been wrangling with a few things, such as crippling addiction to PCP dumb stuff.

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The treads squealed in a shrill high pitch as the Schwarzkopfs continued on their path. By now they had gone off the road, and were beelining between the trees. When too clustered, they would merely drive over them, the trunks fortunately thin enough for them to not pose much of an obstacle. By this point the two troop transport Schwarzkopfs had fanned out ahead, and the "special" was in the rear. The special did not have turrets, but the lead two did. These turrets swiveled from position to position, their camera periscopes similarly restless. Crewed turrets were a thing of the past; they were now remotely controlled from the safety of the fighting compartment.

The soldiers inside the Schwarzkopf were in a similar state of readiness, all clinging to the ceiling rails with one hand, their weapons with the other. Not much farther now Kyle thought to himself. "An army marches on its stomach," Kyle had explained during an earlier briefing. "An insurgency isn't much different. Most of the targets are young, urbanized. It's highly doubtful they have much ability to live off the land, unless if one of them can some how summon steaks with their Hex powers." This got some laughs. He had no idea why. It was a bit of a shit joke. He just let it happen, then continued as soon as it died down. " Survival skills are similarly doubtful. Which is to say, they'll certainly have to scavenge. Break into places. Steal. No one with half a brain will let them into a Walmart or what have you. To be honest, we could probably just let them wander aimlessly and inevitably starve to death. But we wouldn't be doing our jobs, would we? They could harm or kill many if we just let them go free. Now, there's only so many places they could have reached in the hours since they broke out, and only so many destinations in the direction they're believed to have headed..." With a gesture, he had summoned a holographic map.

It had been hours since that briefing. A lot of the possible places had been crossed off of that map. No recent signs of people moving through, only those who had evacuated. But the hunt continued, with eyes wide and scanning, and an ear perked attentively for any news from the other search parties.

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I dunno lol

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I actually wasn't at all sure. I read all the posts relating to the town the rest of the RP is in for the name "Medburn". It didn't seem to ever appear. So I just figured the village was a new place. I imagine that, if I were to put the three places in relation to each other so far, you have the prison to the west, the village east of the prison, and then Medburn somewhere somewhat farther to the east from the serene village of No-Name-ia. Regardless, Kyle and the gang are combing westward from Medburn as of my last post. Which is to say, they're heading in the village's general direction. Kinda just snoozing inside their future-but-not-actually-modern-day-equipment-as-of-RP-but-still-fancy-compared-today Not-M2 Bradleys.

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Medburn was now, for the most part, silent. Debris, broken glass, shell casings, and bits of viscera still lined the streets, but the gunfire was gone. As the national guard moved in to secure the town and clean up what little remained of the resistance, they were puzzled to find that none of the corpses of the Hexes Storm Hound accounted for were able to be found. Their interaction with Storm Hound was brief. Members of the unit helped the national guard get the remaining scattered, hiding, despairing civilians to shelter and supplied. As Kyle came down from his combat stims, his heart was wrenched as he surveyed the destruction the Hexes had wrought against the helpless populace of Medburn. "Never again, not on my watch." He snapped.

Storm Hound were slumped in their seats as the three Schwarzkopf transports set off once again. Just as soon as they were done cleaning up in Medburn, they were immediately transmitted orders to assist the effort to bring down the escaped prisoners. But for now, they were fatigued. Whatever was pumped into their lungs by the rebreathers could only keep them on their feet for so long, and it led to great exhaustion once the dose wore off. The excited chatter that made up their dialogue in trip before their last battle and during it was replaced with tired yawns. It would be another half an hour before they were allowed their next hit of the stuff. Despite this, the unit kept their rebreather masks on. Though their primary purpose was to administer the drugs, they were still able to serve in the capacity of NBC protection, with extendable hoods and goggles built into their suits to provide full protection. The present issue that necessitated them wasn't quite that severe; it was the third Schwarzkopf. Only Kyle and its non-Storm Hound personnel that operated it were allowed near it. The mysterious men assigned to it were clad in full body protective gear. The secrecy of the vehicle and its operations only made the extreme stench emanating from it even more mysterious. It wasn't pleasant, whatever it was.

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History exam is history! Yay!

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After my exam tomorrow I'll be able to devote time to this thread again without a guilty conscience.