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[Newb]

I want to start and run a side-game which takes place in the same universe as the main-RP and which may overlap some.

The players will all be robots who live under the sea in a commune from which they control the world's supply of potato chips in a bid for political power.

The RP will follow their relationship issues as they come to terms with their lot in life and reminisce on their past in another dimension where they were circus performers.

The story is simple. When the AMPs went off, the shockwaves were not limited to just one dimension. Several waves struck a perfectly ordinary spaceship full of sentients which I suppose humans might call aliens. This caused them and their robots to be turned into circus performers, and their spaceship into a flying circus. All was well for a time, but the robots were reacting badly to the change imposed on them by the aftereffects of the AMP. In order to save their lives, the aliens built a farm, encased it in a bubble, put all the robots into the bubble, and teleported the suddenly created commune deep under the ocean on the planet where the waves of change had originated from, the common consensus being "that dimension created the problem, they can deal with it."

Still distorted by the shockwaves, the robots decided that they would make potato chips, and use these to somehow take over the world, although they were a bit fuzzy on the details of how this would work, exactly.

I'm going to need a few things from each player.

Designation: the code of numbers and letters which is printed on your skull. You can follow a theme or not, I don't care.
Name: The thing you actually go by
Primary purpose: What you were built to do
Main act: what you did when you were in the circus
Capabilities: what neat stuff can you do?

This post has been edited by Newb on Dec 21 2007, 04:02 AM

[ShadowWarriorLuke]

Just a placeholder post to say I'll join.

Designation: COMM-5.4321
Name: Crabby Old Man Man
Primary Purpose: Unicycling
Main act: Complaining about today's youth whilst riding a unicycle
Capabilities: Has a good sense of balance and a retractable unicycle wheel for getting across narrow areas.

He likes to search for people and then complain to them about the good old days and how the circus was once all fields.

This post has been edited by ShadowWarriorLuke on Dec 25 2007, 08:57 AM

[demener]

(This character is a double referance.)

Designation: Sweet Tooth 5.0009966
Name: Sweet Tooth
Primary Purpose: Distribute candy.
Main Act: Clown that passed out sweets to children.
Capabilities: Create candy from raw materials*, dual weild chainsaws, drive vehicle (any).

*Sweet Tooth has a food processor, and although it is only designed to handle turning raw materials into candy if materials that cannot be processed into candy are handed over then other types of food can be created. Inserting potatoes vinegar and salt will produce potato chips, but they will be almost like home frys and will be a lot saltier and greasier than normal.

Background: Sweet Tooth was originally a vending machine for candy. It's simple AI did not adjust well to becoming sentient. It had a food processor installed so that it could still fufill its primary function of giving sweets out, but after someone tried to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich come out (they tossed a loaf of bread and jars of PB&J) it short circuited and its (few) etheical subroutines were fried.

After losing its ethical subroutines it realized it had to escape from its current existance. It attempted to learn how to operate any type of transportation device for its eventual escape. It decided it would need to defend itself from others as well so it also snuck into the construction sector of the circus and stole two small chainsaws for defence, and taught itself how to use them.

[Dan 9410]

Designation: MGI-MCH 0.1
Name: MagiMechTech MechaMagiMech
Primary purpose: To combine magic and technology into one super-robot. However, someone reminded the aliens behind this project that magic didn't exist. So he was re-programmed to do magic tricks and earn money performing in space-bars.
Main act: Magic tricks. Obviously.
Capabilities: Teleportation device for disappearing acts, Saw installed in arm, super-human slight of hand cababilities.

[Shadow776]

Hehe, borrowed this idea from a friend, and am putting it into robot form. Let's see how it goes...

Designation: RFM-001
Name: Rockefeller Man
Primary purpose: Maintenance of finances.
Main act: An act in which he can transmute any object into something of nigh equivalent value. Equivalent exchange, not in terms of chemical composition, but in terms of price.

Capabilities: He can do just as his main act says. It is yields results at a very slightly lower value than what is put in, though. Someone has to make a profit somewhere... ah, the power of Capitalism.

He's a skilled investor, and has done so electronically, already making a fortune in the outside world. He keeps a stash of precious gems on him at any time, as they can be exchanged, in whole or in part, for something big.

[Newb]

Now that I have four interested parties, I'm going to post my own character.

Designation: MGC~5607
Name: The Bus (also, Bus)
Primary purpose: Automated Surface to Spacecraft Transport Vessel
Main act: Shapechanging
Capabilities: Capable of shifting configuration in a variety of ways to facilitate travel through diverse environments

What's been submitted so far looks fairly good, although I'm going to want more information on Crabby Old Man Man before I can properly accept him.

This post has been edited by Newb on Dec 24 2007, 06:30 PM

[Blackdeathdraco]

May as well join, I'll see if I can keep this guy's personality. Hope he isn't too awkward.

Designation: D12-4C0
Name: Draco
Primary purpose: Pyrotechnics
Main act: Fireworks and Pyro tricks
Capabilities: Ability to tell when to set off anything at any given time, also knows how to set anything on fire. Flight (jet pack), mouth flamethrower (rusted from a water incident), and finger blowtorch.

Come on, you know a fire guy would be involved somehow.

Bit of a reclusive since he loves his fireworks and fire, he still likes to try to help despite his secondary function had been undefined and his personality.

[Iyestorm]

This looks fun and not too serious. I think I may be interested.

Designation: WIGT-09

Name: Widget

Primary Purpose: Software and Hardware upgrades, maintenance, and construction; jack-of-all-trades.

Main Act: Clown that created little robot toys for children, and more expensive toys/tools for the gift shop.

Capabilities: Can create helpers for specific tasks that cannot be completed by himself alone. This requires the proper materials, however, and robots made for an extremely specific one-time-only purpose may waste materials, although they can be upgraded or reprogrammed to do other things as well or recycled, making them not completely worthless.

The little robots have sentience as well, but lower intelligence and worship Widget as their creator.

[Newb]

Okay, if that's everybody, I'll be starting this soon.

The floorplan of the commune has what is generally referred to as a negative continuity, but everybody who has spent a week or more there automatically knows the entire current layout and can influence the map. This would be all of us right now.

We're in what is presently a meeting hall. Whenever a meeting hall crops up, everybody is probably going to head there, because there's only ever a meeting hall when somebody wants to call a meeting.

Robo-Drama locations will be tagged with RD: followed by the location name.

I'm putting the meeting hall under general potato commune because these things should be seen by everybody who is in the potato commune.

This post has been edited by Newb on Jan 5 2008, 03:44 PM