Well we're now up and running.

First now I'm still missing 3 finished character though I know that one is in the latter stages. So if I don't get these by the end of Wednesday GMT then I'll open the remaining slots to the public. The first final builds i get are in the game. People on the list in their current order then any others.

I hope to have an IC up before then but I'm still thinking on the best opening post on my part. BTW last minute thing life styles will be based in Dubai for now and that will be our Merc's starting base (theire will be other possible locations and expanding in to more than one could bean option). Transport to the first job will be covered by the client and there will be a nice big up front payment as well.

So may the war begin.

So has anybody given any thought to squad structure and tactics?

Is there any particular stuff we should be reading to prep for this game? Is the old Fields of Fire supplement worth skimming?

Holy crap. I guessed the right city.

Well, I'm transport. I took leadership for him also, I don't know how we want ranks to be yet though.

Its worth skimming that and SOTA '63 (im sure thats the one) for some fluff on mrecs in the 6th world.

As to structure IC would be fun same for tactics plus me having a PC with a high logic and some useful skills lets me help out if needed and have a ball with you all.
But really you'll need some one on AV as well as zone defense. Maybe rapid response and long range support. The rest can be thought up later. I'm getting under way for my IC post now just naming stuff that I haven't quite though about mainly small places and unimportant NPCs like news reporters.

The IC is up I recommend you post a day in the life of for the 30th and early 31th then when everything done we can get on to the mission. The warehouse is a shared lifestyle that atm is assumed prepaid for 4 months this warehouse acts as equipment storage and a meting place for the team as well as the HQ of the team. I'll post the full stats for it later on tomorrow but its large and and secure with a small office and space to expand into as well as work space a target range and other such amenity's. Split between 11 is only less than 20% of the cost each tish also taken into acount room for all of you to crash if needed. This place can be upgraded as well buy renting out the other close units and such.

Given the weapons that we're lugging around, I'm guessing our other range is someplace well outside town, and a long way from anything else.

Yep its in an abandoned, mainly because of you, industrial estate about 5-10 miles from Dubai limits and a legal op.

Have you seen this?

That would be a great place to have a penthouse/research lab. I'd like to keep my own lifestyle separate from the units. He'd contribute to both but he's just product leased to this Mercenary group and would prefer to maintain his own base of operations.

Nope not seen that.
As to not keeping your own base I can see a lot of the group doing that but the shared base will have benefits even more so if/when the group expands. The main one is supplying the group. The unit can odder things to the building and it will be legal ect. Plus its only going to get cheaper if the unit expands. It also acts as a good way for me to refelct the upkeep cost of a the unit. As I don't think may people would like to RP taxes and such.

Whose sheets are you missing. I wanted to make sure you had mine.

Germish's and cthulhudreams' now.

Set up a quick wiki

http://fieldsoffire.wikidot.com
password to join the site is fieldsoffire not much to it yet but will add to it with background info, plot, notes and maybe maps. To join you'll need a wikidot account.

Are you sure that's the right password. It keeps telling me it's wrong....

It should be it what I put in the box. I'll see it's likely space on one side.

Edit:
Ooops had a space in fount of the password in the password box.

Thanks. Works for me (without the leading space, now that you removed that.)
Joel / Tam

Im trying to get the charsheet page to show a bit more but as im still inept at using templates I had to borrow some ones for now it will stay as it is.

AD-80 is up there.

DC is up.

Will post IC and to the wiki soon, but work has gotten really busy, so I have no time tonight.

I should have Muspel up on the wiki later tonight. If not, sometime tomorrow.

Sorry I haven't posted yet, I was going to tonight after I finished my work for tomorrow, but its already 1am, and I just now finished - so it'll be tomorrow. (Shame how work piles up when you have to go out of town for a couple of days unexpectedly... BLEH).

Finally settled on a name, and uploaded him to the Wiki. Looking through Wikipedia's article on John Doe equivalents for a good pseudonym, I came across Brazil's Zé Ninguém, which is pretty charming. I've always liked the name Zé, so I turned him into a Brasilian, but otherwise he's what I wrote up before. Plus I can throw in some random Portuguese, assuming I remember any.

I've got the first IC in my head pretty well done, but it's time for sleep now, so I'll type it up tomorrow.

Alex

A day of ungodly pacts written in blood....

First Augment my Drain Stat's.



Summon the Spirit I intend to enter a Pact with.



Have that Spirit augment my Drain Stat's and Reflexes.


Binding it to my service.


Spend 9 Karma for long term service.

Nice.

Players current list:
0 Dumori - GM and sniper (finished and on wiki)
1 Scope_47 - Ex-Sargent uses heavy weapons. (finished put on wiki for you I still recommend getting a wikidot account to edit your char page.)
2 DWC - ex-tribal soldier troll fire support specialist (finished and on wiki)
3 Gremish - (still nothing)
4 crizh - Shapeshifting Megacorp owned combat mage (finished and on wiki)
5 Intro - Reworking with a human stealthy person (finished and on wiki)
6 Cthulhudreams - Ex-mill/ treasure hunter (still nothing)
7 JoelHalpern - gun adept (finished and on wiki)
8 Muspellsheimr - Nosferatu fire mage (finished put on wiki for you I still recommend getting a wikidot account to edit your char page.)
9 BlackHat - Air born rigger. (finished put on wiki for you I still recommend getting a wikidot account to edit your char page. Couldn't find background and appearance blank for now.)
10 Tarantula - Ground based rigger (finished and on wiki)
R1 Hype - on waiting list
R2 De Badd Ass - on waiting list
R3 rob - on waiting list
R4 Mickle5125 - on waiting list (has sent me a draft)

As you can see we are waiting on 2 players and I have one draft in. I'll PM both missing players then see whats happening extension till Sunday.

I've now added every one to the wiki who I have the sheets for. Need to edits Intros so it fits in the box but not a big deal.

Oops, sorry about that. It was just a straight copy and paste from a spreadsheet. I'll fix it.

Its nothing I hadn't asked for any to do that then any how. It just makes reading the sheet much easier. Thanks saves me a job I've done it for everyone's but yours, you see but yours is a bit of a mess.

Don't know how wikidot works, but if you could enable the creation of tables in the charsheet section of the template, that would be great (for an example, here is Ze's sheet: http://fieldsoffire.wikidot.com/chars:ze-ninguem
Note how it looks like a mess in the charsheet section, but when I put the exact same code into the Notes/Conditions section, it draws a nice little table)

Yeah I know but I would have to edit your sheet to be diffrent to every onelses and tus it wouldn't apear in the list or have a template. I'm off for now see you all tomorrow

I just looked at the character sheet Dumori posted for Kiara on the wiki - it is an earlier draft rather than my final one - I'll fix it as soon as I have a spare moment to sign up for an account.

- Scope

I thought you were missing a Quality or two.

Sorry about that but it can be hard tracking down what you've all posted. I can't find any background for overkill yet. And feel free to edit parts that may be wrong if i upload your sheet. I'm just posting the latest version I could find.

More unholy deals for power and wealth....

Summon a Machine Spirit


Bend it to my will.


Assign it's duties


Spend 9 Karma for long term service.

Crizh: I would change the last duty to when instructed.

Also I got this message from Gremish today.



I have wished him well but I will follow his request. With means I will give him 12 and a half hours to post this means there will have been 24 hours from his message to opening the slot.

Done. Reminds me of making Wishes in 1st Ed AD&D...

Yeah its kind of the same thing. Plus if it speed up every thing you would have a hard time getting some where going 9 times faster all the time.

I do seem to be turning into Paul Atreides. Although the idea of going everywhere at 9 times speed reminds of of Leto Jr...

This is my first Play-by-Post game, so I have a few questions.

First, I know how the formatting works well enough to participate, but would greatly appreciate if someone could post a Guideline for reference.

Second, how do conversations with other Player Characters or Non-Player Characters work? Standard posting, or something different, such as Private Messaging to be posted later?

Third, how do you speak with Contacts? Standard method for contacting NPC's, or something else?


On a final note, I might be unable to post this weekend, & I will be making one or two minor changes to my character on the Wiki before I continue.

Good questions.

1 I'll have that up ASAP

2 how ever do you want it public or not but I as GM would like to see all (chats) standee posting in spoiler tag with the players name above like for privet (include how speaking if not obvious) and for public standed posting PM if you want but one should tell me whats been said.
@ Dust


3 just liek speaking to a NPC or player public in the IC privately PM me

if you need more help PM me with what you want to do and I'll help you

PS the STA should be the TSTA I'm going to bed after posting the colour code so ill edit my posts ASAP.

the colour code is

• "Speech" (Cyan) - normally everyday talking, or whispering if described as such.
• (yellow) - Matrix-based talking - like comm calls, text messaging, etc
• (violet) - Subvocal speech
• (darkkhaki italics) - Thoughts, what the character is thinking in his/her head (please use this one - it makes for more entertaining reads, helps with people getting into character, and lets me have NPCs assense and 'read thoughts' PCs without having to ask the players and tip them off OOC)
• (lightgrey italics) Memories - this is mainly an RP thing, but sometimes something happening in the present can evoke a memory - it makes for a more entertaining read and helps characterization
• (orange bold) Place, Time, other setting information - usually at the top of the post. I'll be using this in most of my posts for clarity's sake. If your post is in a different location/time than my last post, use this to make sure people don't get confused.

as this is pretty much this forums standed and what im used to here.

FINALLY caught up on everything at work. I'll catch up IC and post something soon. I apologies for lagging behind. Its critical at the start of a game.

so, since gremish dropped... am I in?

Yes I was just going to PM you about that.

Cool! that means I need a callsign. my character is a free spirit... slightly psychotic... the phrase "hellspawn" would probably be a good description of him... also, if any of you have seen the anime Hellsing, he's modeled after Alucard.

Right then should I fill the last place or just leave it open? Also next plot post asoon as every ones made at leat one IC so just Mickle so far.

Hey, I added some images to the character sheet. Let me know what you think.

The exo-skeleton isn't quite right, but darn close...

I'd say leave it open, and let's get rollin', rollin', roll...err...sorry. Had a Limp Bizkit moment there. Hate when that happens.

Ah... my first IC post is up... *shrugs* not the best I've done, but... *shrugs* it'll do, I suppose.