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News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:27 pm

Are humans characters to write profiles for, or can we just come up with them whenever we want and put them in posts?

Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:30 pm

SillySpringer wrote:Are humans characters to write profiles for, or can we just come up with them whenever we want and put them in posts?

In my experience, it's always been the latter. You just throw them in. Might wanna consult with others if you're eying a specific human though.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:38 pm

Foximus wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Are humans characters to write profiles for, or can we just come up with them whenever we want and put them in posts?

In my experience, it's always been the latter. You just throw them in. Might wanna consult with others if you're eying a specific human though.

I'm wanting to introduce a character named "Eli" into the "Island of Secrets – Mission to Oahu" thread somehow. He's a filmmaker that is looking for good locations to film in, and I want him to somehow come across some Autobots.

Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:50 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
Foximus wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Are humans characters to write profiles for, or can we just come up with them whenever we want and put them in posts?

In my experience, it's always been the latter. You just throw them in. Might wanna consult with others if you're eying a specific human though.

I'm wanting to introduce a character named "Eli" into the "Island of Secrets – Mission to Oahu" thread somehow. He's a filmmaker that is looking for good locations to film in, and I want him to somehow come across some Autobots.

Seems like a question for Smokey, or Marcus.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:06 pm

I'm just going to leave it here for the time being so hopefully one of them will see. They seem to see things quicker sometimes on the chatterbox than in messages.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:07 pm

By the way, I did post a question about it in the questions thread. No one saw it though.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:47 pm

Two profiles in the Decepticons section still need to be locked.

Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:21 pm

FYI: I made some tweaks to my latest Optimus post for ease of understanding.

Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:00 pm

So there may or may not be an airborne/waterborne Jailbreak coming down on a Dinobot. Which Dinobot wants to play a game of chicken with him with no road to swerve, feel free to react

News Credits: 3 · Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:41 pm

MacabreDerek wrote:So there may or may not be an airborne/waterborne Jailbreak coming down on a Dinobot. Which Dinobot wants to play a game of chicken with him with no road to swerve, feel free to react

I will, as soon as Swoop is approved.

Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:50 pm

CMI-SillySpringer wrote:
MacabreDerek wrote:So there may or may not be an airborne/waterborne Jailbreak coming down on a Dinobot. Which Dinobot wants to play a game of chicken with him with no road to swerve, feel free to react

I will, as soon as Swoop is approved.

Transformers. The only venue where a terodactile can be hit by a semi truck in a mid air collision and nobody will ask questions lol. Look forward to seeing what you can do, and am somewhat curious on how to sell for Swoop if it is the case. Guess the question comes down to if Jailbreak survives or not after landing. Hope to see how ya keep it interesting.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:42 pm

MacabreDerek wrote:
CMI-SillySpringer wrote:
MacabreDerek wrote:So there may or may not be an airborne/waterborne Jailbreak coming down on a Dinobot. Which Dinobot wants to play a game of chicken with him with no road to swerve, feel free to react

I will, as soon as Swoop is approved.

Transformers. The only venue where a terodactile can be hit by a semi truck in a mid air collision and nobody will ask questions lol. Look forward to seeing what you can do, and am somewhat curious on how to sell for Swoop if it is the case. Guess the question comes down to if Jailbreak survives or not after landing. Hope to see how ya keep it interesting.

You can see what I decided to do in my sample post for Swoop since it's now posted. My sample posts are also meant to be my first posts.

News Credits: 3 · Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:12 pm

I rewrote the last paragraph of Swoop's latest post in the Sea of Change.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:34 pm

I did a post at Kol with Boss. However, I'm not waking him up until some others can get their replies in. ;)^

News Credits: 3 · Sun Dec 04, 2016 1:42 pm

As a reminder.... in the Mars thread (The Red Planet: Fight For Survival) we have plenty of room (an entire planet!) For any other Bots and Cons. We're keeping the story flexible so anyone else can drop in. It was never meant to be just Roddy and I :-)

However, considering it's out away from all the other action, I think characters that haven't yet been introduced into the story yet would be the best because personal ships/shuttles thing. I would recommend running by Smokey how/why a character is on Mars also. That's because I love making extra work for Smokey :twisted:

News Credits: 3 · Sun Dec 04, 2016 2:56 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:As a reminder.... in the Mars thread (The Red Planet: Fight For Survival) we have plenty of room (an entire planet!) For any other Bots and Cons. We're keeping the story flexible so anyone else can drop in. It was never meant to be just Roddy and I

However, considering it's out away from all the other action, I think characters that haven't yet been introduced into the story yet would be the best because personal ships/shuttles thing. I would recommend running by Smokey how/why a character is on Mars also. That's because I love making extra work for Smokey

Thanks! I didn't know much about that thread, so I didn't pay attention to it. Might be a good place for fanmades. ;)^

Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:55 pm

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a really nasty stomach bug that's been going around. It hit me hard last night and I had to go to the emergency room to get fluids put in me via IV. I'm home now, but I still feel like crap. Hopefully, I'll get better by the end of the week but who knows. Until then I'm taking a break to focus on getting better. Just FYI.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:59 pm

Smokescreen85 wrote:I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a really nasty stomach bug that's been going around. It hit me hard last night and I had to go to the emergency room to get fluids put in me via IV. I'm home now, but I still feel like crap. Hopefully, I'll get better by the end of the week but who knows. Until then I'm taking a break to focus on getting better. Just FYI.

I heard about that bug, doesn't sound pleasant. I hope you feel better soon!

News Credits: 3 · Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:20 pm

Smokescreen85 wrote:I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a really nasty stomach bug that's been going around. It hit me hard last night and I had to go to the emergency room to get fluids put in me via IV. I'm home now, but I still feel like crap. Hopefully, I'll get better by the end of the week but who knows. Until then I'm taking a break to focus on getting better. Just FYI.

Sure bud! Get better soon!

Mon Dec 05, 2016 3:56 pm

Smokescreen85 wrote:I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a really nasty stomach bug that's been going around. It hit me hard last night and I had to go to the emergency room to get fluids put in me via IV. I'm home now, but I still feel like crap. Hopefully, I'll get better by the end of the week but who knows. Until then I'm taking a break to focus on getting better. Just FYI.

Oh no! Get better Smokey! Take it easy.

Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:11 pm

Smokescreen85 wrote:I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a really nasty stomach bug that's been going around. It hit me hard last night and I had to go to the emergency room to get fluids put in me via IV. I'm home now, but I still feel like crap. Hopefully, I'll get better by the end of the week but who knows. Until then I'm taking a break to focus on getting better. Just FYI.

D:

Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:23 am

Smoke: Get well soon Brother, take care of yourself!

Insidious: Just to let ya know since Landgrab would probably know this if it wasnt obvious, Jailbreak is scary close to going off-line. Energon Bleedout and the abnormally high-impact manuvers are taking it's toll.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:03 pm

Sid: I responded to Jailbreak's post, so now Landgrab might be excited to have another friend to play with.

Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:31 pm

Just in time for Christmas, survival horror comes to the Seibertron RPG!

I keed.

Well, not really. But I've been mulling around what exactly the Decepticon Justice Division will be up to next. And, spurred on by some seeds tossed out by other players, I've figured out what.

In short, the DJD will be heading to Nebulos to arrange the pickup of a Decepticon under Turmoil's care who has unwittingly (or very wittingly) found themself on the infamous list. Somehow while there, they're going to run afoul of some nasty Monsterbots and some chaos will ensue.

Now, I could just leave the story there and see what happens, but it struck me that it might be fun to open this little tale up to whoever might be interested. So, to accomplish that and still have it fit within the confines of the story, I thought perhaps the DJD ship has stopped by a Decepticon outpost and picked up some specialists to perform some maintenance of various areas of the ship to keep the Peaceful Tyranny running in prime condition. Myself and the other DJD players are going to be creating fanmade characters that will make up this random fanmade crew of frontline characters.

So, for you reading this, if you happen to want to take part in this Resident Evil...Ridley Scott "Alien"-esque tale, that's your way in. Whip up a basic Decepticon who can be a part of the crew of Decepticons were picked up.

Now, since this is an out of the way story that won't really affect the other threads (at least for a good, long while) I'm going to play with some slightly different rules. These fanmades need to be your basic Decepticons. Front line guys. Probably some special skills in certain areas, but I don't want any uber special abilities running around, especially since these characters aren't going to go through the normal app process. No Cybertronian equivalents of the Avengers or the X-men. Now, where the rules get a little different, if you offer up a fanmade to take part in this story, you need to do so with the understanding that the character probably will be killed before the story is finished. They might survive the story, they might not. I just want to leave it up to what feels right in the story in that moment. Basically think of it as signing a deal to appear on Game of Thrones or the Walking Dead...no guarantee that you make it to the next episode, much less the next season.

Now it would kind suck to put all the work into fleshing out a profile just for them to get scrapped, yah? So I don't want thorough profiles. Just a name and a basic function. For example, one of my fanmades for this story will basically look like this:

Name: Lookout
Function: Communications Repair

Will he survive? Likely not, but I'm just leaving it open and seeing where it goes. And since I've invested nearly zero creative energy in making him, it will be no loss to me if he dies. BUT, as a creative writing challenge of sorts, I want to see if I can make myself care about the character (and perhaps some other people too) before that happens.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. If you're interested, drop me a pm with your character name and function so I can make a handy list to keep them straight for a while and then just keep an eye on the Nebulos forum. There should be some new material popping up there soonish.

Hope you enjoy! I think it'll be quite a fun, dramatic and scary romp before all is said and done.