Horsepower Haven, Grind the gears here Options

[Tarantula]

Oh? Well I know people genetically descended from PIRATES! So I can hunt you down safe in the knowledge that my pirate descendants will occupy (and DESTROY) your ninja descendants!

[Sandoval Smith]

They're not _my_ descendants, and your pirates are going to have a big problem, since I'm hundreds of kilometers from the ocean. Pirates do not get a home field advantage in the Ninja forest.

Unless I am lured out of the forest with the promise of surf & turf. I would kill many people for a good steak right about now.

[Thomas]

I wasn’t trying to hurry anyone up – heck, look at how long it takes me to post. I told Kiedo that I would post at least twice a week, work, school and family life must come first and might limit me to just that – but I’ll try to post more often.

Name: haven’t given it much thought – I’ll assume that it has already been chosen before Knobby Bob gets picked up by the team. If it turns out to be ESS, please lie to K-Bob, or you’ll just end up having to explain it to him and he wouldn’t get it – or when he did, wouldn’t think it was funny.

Leader: I had to give this some thought – looking at Charisma and Will it looks like Maeva, but K-Bob would have a grudging respect for Luis. (And Maeva kinda gives him the creeps)
Thomas

[Aes]

What's wrong with sexy, dark-blue/purple elven women with glowing eyes, strange accents and shiny hair and tattoos? ;)

I imagine Maeva will have loitered around in her buddys garage when someone from ESS were shopping for spare parts. Seeing a chance to get cheap access to spare parts and mechanics for doing the heavy maintenence work, she would've signed on in an instant and brought her own car.

[Nikoli]

Being ex-military, even if Luis didn't like you at all, he'd never show it and he'd fight to save your arse. Though to be fair, he doesn't mind metas in the slightest. Awakened critters and plants give him the willies, but not people. Ask him and he'll say, "On the inside we're all the same; red and kinda squishy."

[Kiedo]

So that makes sebastian the leader, since thomas didn't vote for jet(who did he vote for Maeva or Luis). So I'm going to put up the IC thread as soon as I get back from running some errands.

[Fresno Bob]

You may have ninjas as your allies, but I have Vikings and Highland Clansmen on my side! There is not way you could defeat us!

Anyway, I don't need to fight you to the death anymore, as the voting was decided. You're free to go...for now.

I suppose this would make Sebastian the founding member of the team. I guess Jet could have joined when he heard Sebastian was taking racers.

[Kiedo]

The way I had invisioned it was you all were the founding members, which is why your all lieutenants. But again it's your team, I'm just a fly on the wall.

[Fresno Bob]

Well that works.

[Sandoval Smith]

Well shoot, I'd better get to work on finishing my ninja fortress deep within the bowels of Mt. Fuji to prepare for a combined pirate/viking/Scotsman attack.

As for how Sebstian met everyone... hmm... He'd built a reputation for himself as a competent, if not quite successful, street racer. He also had a sort of air of mystery about him, because he was very touchy about anyone actually seeing him in person. He had a deep voice over radio communications, but it wasn't too hard to tell that he was using a voice filter.

One day, some of you recieved a job offer from 'Ace Freely, Freelance Security Consultant.' Sebastian's side identity had a security job he was recruiting help on. A newly built race track was having problems with saboteurs, and given the size of the premises, he needed extra people who knew how to handle a vehicle to help out (plus, getting to break in the brand new race track was a bonus for doing the job successfully). The way that the team almost immediately gelled together made him realize that it'd be fun to work with you all more often, and given everyone's fondness for vehicles and speed, putting together a real team would be a big step up from back street racing.

Word filtered through the team that was already assembled that they were looking for racers, and that brought in the rest of you. The name came up one day during lunch, when, in the middle of a heated discussion about what the name should be, someone who's attention had drifted took a bite of their food and declared, "Mmm-mmm! Nothing beats egg salad sandwich."

Meeting Sebstian in person was a little bit strange. It was easy to understand why he used the voice filter over the radio: it was a little bit hard to take a guy who looked like a 12 year old kid seriously, but with the tactical and racing expertise he'd demonstrated on the race course, you all knew that it'd be a mistake to judge him on looks alone.

[Thomas]

So am I correct in assuming that we have met, haven’t killed each other, worked out any glaring personal differences, etc.?

We need to come up with some standard operating procedures. (and some fire extinguishers, I don’t recall seeing any listed)

Knobby Bob is a ganger, probably the lowest common denominator – not well educated but street-wise, and a survivor. (well, maybe not compared to Sebastian – jeez. I mean. Like Bug City, you know?) And speaking of people’s backstories, how much do the characters know about each other.

For example, if you asked Knobby Bob about his past, he’d respond with something like “Whah arh you, mah sochialh workerh?” (To get the accent, place a thumb and forefinger in mouth, at the corners of the lips – angle upwards to resemble tusks, and speak. Try in front of a mirror to see how silly you look trying to get in character.) Now, after a few rounds of synthahol, he might open up somewhat, but the whole background, no way.

Now I’ll assume that Knobby Bob has decided that falling in line with this ‘gang’ has advantages, and so has spent some effort/nuyen into cleaning up, buying some new clothes and a team jumpsuit, etc. – but I just wouldn’t be roleplaying well if he didn’t spew the first time he drank real coffee. Someone is obviously trying to poison him. He gets creeped by Maeva; she’s different than anything he’s dealt with before so it might take some time for him to trust her. He would most likely be creeped by Sebastian also, simply because when Sebastian is ‘in’ it reminds K-Bob of chipheads – and who, in K-Bob’s experience, would want to surrender themselves to a machine like that? These are all things that will factor into the character’s growth.

I look forward to playing, and hope it doesn’t make my grades slip.

[Nikoli]

Luis, like most former military personnel has a great number humorous stories about assinine officers and few if any stories of battle and killing.
Also, as we all know each other, he despises those that deal in BTL's, won't say why.
On the track, he's in his jumpsuit, set to the team colors.

Also, I hope everyone has radios, with some level of encryption on them. Too cheap and useful to pass up. and I'd imagine a Vehicle shop comes with extinguishers same with a gunsmith shop. Fire bad, tree pretty, piss foamy.

[Thomas]

[Kiedo]

No I would unless it served my agenda, but I like you guys so even if it did I still wouldn't.

I'm just here to direct the flow of action, and settle any rule discrepancies, aside from that this is more your game than mine.

besides one of the few times I did get to participate in a run as a runner the GM decided I dropped my motorcycle because I didn't announce I put my kickstand down. One of my pet peeves aside from power gamers are people who nit pick, so if we all can take a relaxed and fun minded approach to this run nothing unless your smoking next to an NO2 bottle should for no reason burst into flames. lol

[Fresno Bob]

I totally just realized that Jet doesn't have a cell phone. One should probably be added.

[Thomas]

[Thomas]

Just read the IC opener, you write well, Kiedo.

[Nikoli]

Very nice.

[Fresno Bob]

Indeed you do.

[Kiedo]

I love writting, so a compliment on my passion is the greatest to recieve, Thank you.

[Sandoval Smith]

Sebastian doesn't talk that much about his past (and no one can figure out why. I mean, the how could the Chicago CZ _not_ have been a rollicking good time?). He's also learned that competence trumps appearance every time. All he would ask of K-bob is that when he hangs out with the team, he remembers to wear pants.

And Kiedo, how are we supposed to follow up that first post? Do we know that Dek was going out racing, or is there going to be a followup where we learn that he's dead? I'm just a little at a loss about where we pick up.

[Thomas]

Your question's answered, IC...

[Fresno Bob]

Question answered

Jet doesn't talk much about his past, save for noting that it was rather uneventful. He's a likeable enough guy, but he has weird habits, like staying up all night watching Godzilla movies for the zillionth time, playing loud electric guitar at 4am, and calling people "Sparky"

[Kiedo]

I just posted the follow up where Sebastian in informed of his death. So I guess go from there. Again I'd like to say good luck/have fun.

[Sandoval Smith]

Yoinks, that was quick, I suppose it's time to get the ball rolling.

*to be edited, since I'm probably going to be making a couple rolls over in the IC*