And here is my results for the twelve character meme. Caught this one by way of chaypeta and jeriendhal. I picked twelve current and past RP characters of mine.

1. Pithani Uro: Mars Academy's resident reformed juvenile delinquent


2. Kaleth 'LilFluff' Lilandren: Who lucked into roaming the multiverse at his government's request


3. Verdi: Rescued servant and Mars Academy student


4. Talyeth Riverbend: Remember, if the guy comes from a well-to-do family you call him accentric, not weird.


5. Simon 'Fifteen Griffon years old' Pepelu: Crazy underage pulp space pirate/mad scientist


6. Tomasso: Secret agent and cyborg wrangler. Slowly admitting to caring about the girl put in his care


7. Ricardo Nuncio: expat from the Southern Confederation's perfectly safe and pacifist city of Innsmouth


8. Takahashi Tomi: Catboy? Who? Me? Um, stay there while I remember the amnesia spell?


9. Veronica: The 'slightly' paranoid cyborg (slightly, like Trinity was a 'small' boom)


10. Monty: the innocent cyborg assassin boy


11. Liou Siete-Vosom: Genius by birth and genetic engineering, orphan by choice


12. Edward Françoise Li: Exo Engineer, Technician, and Tinkerer

( And now the answers )

It's the story of a group of Goblins who decide to take player classes so they can eventually defend their clan from adventurers. Or course gaining character levels will require doing some adventuring. Much like OotS there are jokes about D&D rules and oddities. Here we have two guards commenting on economic absurdities of the Players Handbook price lists. (As for the goblin hidden under the cart at the bottom of the page, he's sneaking into the city on a quest to do a good deed.)

Was about to post this before spotting the previous news...

Results from an In Nomine meme quiz:





What celestial choir do you resonate?

Aw hell no. Erick Wujcik blog

Keep in touch with your doctors people, and if you don't feel good have it checked out.

So I was double checking some old posts in the Gundam themed Jovian Chronicles game I have a character in. My character wasn't in this bit, but I still rather like it.

Setting: The characters have just fought off a flight of CEGA exo-armors. When the attack started the military characters got a recall order on their comms, an order that cut off mid sentence. The group's Lieutenant has just reached the bridge of the ship...


... terrible answer to the burning question of what happened is revealed. The room is dark, most of the high-definition video panels that make up the globe-shaped monitor enclosure around the bridge are dark, with only a few showing flickering static. A gaping hole in the upper left of the monitor-globe ceiling shows the hazy blue atmosphere of the Serena colony. A second hole in the lower right of the monitor-globe floor matches it, showing where a CEGA anti-ship torpedo punctured straight through the Pegasus' hull.

The four bridge bunnies and the captain lay dead in their acceleration chairs, scorched by the blast and impaled repeatedly by shrapnel from the missile's passage. At the captain's chair, the armrest-mounted flatpanel console beeps insistently, "SYSTEM RESET - OVERRIDE Y/N?"

...

"System reset complete. Checking command authority. Please wait, processing..." The Pegasus' central computer's soft female voice intoned.

"Captain Carlo Markins not on board.

"First Lieutenant Jeff Starking not on board.

"Second Lieutenant Watson Embleton not on board.

"Second Lieutenant Kaoru Tanizaki not on board.

"Chief Petty Officer Karen Marcus not on board.

"Cadet Lieutenant Gilliam Reilly located."

Another pause, then, "Command authorization complete, JCS Pegasus, Cadet Lieutenant Gilliam Reilly, ranking officer. Bridge stations currently unoccupied. Do you wish to consolidate command functions at captain's station, Captain Reilly?"


Yep, the couple of cadet officers in the group are the last command line officers left in the crew, the rest were killed in the sneak attack. Oh, and it turns out Earth and the outer colonies are now at war, and when they do finally manage text only contact with their command the reply is barely more than a sentence. Report to the Mars Fleet staging area. Hello, didn't we tell you the ship was structurally damaged and under-manned? Oh, then there's the fact that one of the exo pilots has had to be restricted to quarters due to the way she becomes a cold almost robotic killer in combat ("The Jovian Navy does not commit war crimes on camera!" "Would the other pilots please switch off their recorders or aim them elsewhere, I am about to execute the surviving CEGA pilots and I have been ordered not to do so on camera." "Angela! That's not what I meant! Return to the Pegasus, now!"), one pilot has been arrested because he's not military but a civilian who was trespassing in the research facility that was building the new exo-armor designs the ship is now carrying ("Aaaah! They're shooting at me! What do I do! What do I do!" "Move and shoot back." "They're trying to kill me, I don't wanna die!"), or there is the matter of the ship only getting underway and surviving combat on exiting the station because a cryo-capsule was discovered that had a young girl who seems to be an expert with the bridge computers (shades of Firefly and Outlaw Star).

Did I mention that my character the civilian engineer may possibly have the highest security clearance of any of the survivors, news that left him quite worried ("Tanj! I knew the ship got hit hard, but surely there weren't that many casualties! I'm just a contractor!"). Or that their communications and electronic warfare officer is a green, still wet behind the ears, pop-music idol who was only just assigned to the ship for her first post-training cruise. Who wasn't trained for the new just out of the lab equipment she now has to work with.

Ant Pogo: "Why do all my games seem to end up as fanfiction written by 13-year-old fangirls?"

Silent Wayfarer: "The Yaoi Fairy likes you. It possesses your players to show its appreciation. ;)"

This Gundam themed Jovian Chronicals game I think taking on hints of Gundam fanfic. "What if we had the pilots fall for each other. Oh, and Titus thinks Ed is a girl."

(RPG.net's Most Disturbing Game being the Gunslinger Girls game that Ant Pogo is running. Which so far has involved one of the Loves That Dare Not Be Named resulting in a threat of double suicide which might lead to a drug induced mind wipe, one of the girls cheerfully chopping up mafioso with a pair of hatchets, another responding to her handler's off hand complaint by putting her finger to his head and saying, "Bang. You're dead. Does that mean I'm in charge now?", a scene with strong innuendo that something more explicit was happening until the curtain was pulled back revealing it was just medicated lotion being put on a healing wound... As I said, RPG.net's Most Disturbing Game.)

(two typos in the source material corrected)

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