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[King Feraligatr]

This is an archive of the old Signup Thread (link: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14433342990A41975200&page=1#1 ). Please put each old post in it's on own post and give the poster, the date, the last date it was edited, and the text in quotes. Like this (the first post on the thread):

King Feraligatr, first posted on 26th Sep 2015 11:27:28 PM, last edited on 19th Dec '15 11:32:51 AM (post 1):

"Any people who are interested in my Mass Effect Rewrite RP (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14432354360A43358500&page=1#1 ), please ask to signup here. Post basic OC info here in my template below. Also, if you want dibs on a major canon character, apply here. I do not want to play Shepard in this RP as I want to see another person's Shep perspective. Instead, I want a member of Team Dextro to play as. I'll let someone call dibs on one before I take the other.

Parts of Shep will be decided by collaboration me and the person playing them (like gender, name, background, romance history, some choices, the VS), but I'm going ahead saying some of the things Shep did in ME 1 right now barring the required stuff:

The Council was saved
Wrex and Garrus were recruited
Wrex survived Virmire
Captain Kirrahe survived Virmire
The Rachni were spared
Shepard was nice to all their crew members, formed good relationships with them and talked to the max, and did all their personal quests
Others as I think of them if I want

All other things that Shep did will be collaboratively decided with me having the final say.

Kaidan is the VS
Anderson is the Human Councilor

Major canon characters up for grabs ATM: Garrus, Tali, Liara, Kaidan (the VS), Samuel Shepard, and more.

Taken major canon characters: None

Possible upcoming major canon characters up for grabs: Joker, Wrex, etc.

Players:

King Feraligatr (GM):
Characters being played:
Pending Team Dextro member assignment
Zytex Gyrandros
Fa'ana (Fana) Seleya
Odis
Garrus, Tali, Liara, and Kaidan until they're taken by others
Pending OCs
The Citadel Council
Some other NP Cs as they come
watdakstomp:
Characters played:
Chevec
Kahlief Sargin
Baconep "Blood-Letter" Paitqu (Not a member of the task force)
Paradoxial Stratagem
Characters played:
Juun'Reyan
Renewal
Characters played:
Rait Vek

Interested players:

alioth:
Potential characters:
Naa'Miyaa vas Nedas
Heroic Sociopath:

Here's the signup sheet template for OCs (some things are optional):

Name: Your character's name. Can be simple, a nickname, a codename, something. Required field.
Race: must be a valid race for the RP, which is practically all races. To list, valid races are: Turians, Humans, Asari, Salarians, Krogan, Quarians, Vorcha, Batarians, Yahg, Drell, Volus, Hanar, Elcor, and AIs (the AIs will need some discussing, but I'm allowing them). Geth will not open up until later. Required field.
Gender: if applicable. Some races like the Asari are all female and stuff like AIs technically have no gender. If you are an AI though, please give me a leaning of which gender you are if you think it's applicable. Transgender OCs are allowed. Required field.
Age: Optional field, but it's best if you give me an age range. If you want, birth date goes here. If you do give me an age, you need to give it to me in at least Earth years.
Physical description: A brief description of what your character looks like . Height and weight go here as well if you want. Optional field.
Skillset: What can your character do? Are you great at combat? Are you a biotic? Are you good with tech? Are you great at diplomacy or politics? Etc. Required field.
Occupation: What does your character do for a living? Optional field.
Personality: What is your character's personality? Required field, but doesn't need much if you don't want it to.
Homeworld/space station/ship: Where you born? Optional field.
Biography: A short or medium sized description of your character's history. Can be edited later, but you have to get my permission first and it can't contradict previous, current, or upcoming events. Please play nice with the rest of the task force and the group. Required field.
Your plans for your character: What are your basic plans for this character in this RP? Required field and I want something here, but it doesn't have to be much. Also, you don't have have to follow everything you put here.

For major canon characters except maybe Shepard, I will be the one who makes a character sheet for them, not the person playing them. Wait until I make the sheet before playing them, but signing up for them before I make one for them is fine.

Also, I highly recommend you play Mass Effect 1 before signing up so you know what's going on. Not playing ME 2 or 3 is fine as they never happened in this RP, they're just pools for ideas.

To more "immersively" get your character into the RP, we will do a conversation between your character (mostly OCs) and either Fana, Zytex, or the Citadel Council recruiting them. Who does the recruiting depends on your character's status and the current circumstances. Zytex or Fana are more likely to be the character you talk to. This isn't exactly required if you request not to, but unless you tell me you don't want to do it, you cannot post in the RP until you do our recruiting conversation in the signup thread. It doesn't have to be long, I just want it to be more "immersive". And I reserve the right to refuse to recruit your character during certain times or anytime really. Hopefully the later never happens though.

Anything that happens in the recruitment convos in the Signup Thread is "gray canon". This means it happens unless otherwise noted, but can be easily retconned at will.

Recruiting new characters: Closed for now

Expressing interest with new characters: Open

Main RP Thread Link: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14480731110A55107100&page=1#1 . "

Like this. Ask me any questions you might have. I will more heavily moderating the archives.

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Watdakstomp, first posted on 29th October 2015 02:55:47 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 8:48:54 AM (post #8):

"Name: Chevec

Race: Batarian

Gender: Male

Age: 28 Earth years

Physical description: Tall, Thin, and a black and yellow striped pigmentation at the temples with light green facial ridges (like Balak )

Skillset: Over-average Tech-user

Occupation: Professional Hacker/Batarian Engineer.

Homeworld/space station/ship: Khar'shan

Biography: Chevec is an ex-Batarian slaver originally employed as a hacker, but he hates slavery, and only accepted the position so he could practice his hacking, he later left the group of pirates he was working for after he faced a morality problem and almost executed, because he went and revealed his groups bases to the alliance so they could free the slaves, and he also gave the alliance a list of the pirates clients. The remaining pirates and slavers that did not get caught swore vengeance on Chevec, and managed to join the Blue suns to be able to have their revenge, but since Chavec still had contacts in the Batarian piracy ring, the alliance are currently helping him hide.

Your plans for your character: Chevec wants to stop Batarian slaver organizations and to free every slave in the universe.

Edit: Also on the Shep background and stuff you should add, didn't punch that one guy (can't remember his name currently) in the face (because he gives you war assets in mass effect 3) so he could be considered a important character, if you decide to include him in the RP."

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 29th October 2015 05:10:31 PM, last edited on 16th Nov '15 8:34:35 PM (post #9):

"I'll be creating my first OC now (he's rather important):

Name: Zytex Gyrandros
Race: Turian
Gender: Male
Age: 50s in Earth years
Physical description: To be decided.
Skillset: A biotic. Excellent leader, tactician, strategist, etc. Also has experience in politics and diplomacy. Has some technical skills as well. Lacking in direct combat, but is great when fighting tactical and supporting.
Occupation: De facto task force leader/supervisor. Special forces and a general in the Turian Hierarchy.
Personality: Excellent, fair leader who's good with his troops and others. Has an interest to know the current events in the galaxy and sometimes goes off and does his own thing. Fairly formal, but is friendly. Relaxed view on races and is barely racist at all (not sexist either).
Birthplace: To be decided.
Biography: Zytex Gyrandros was born in Turian territory to a high ranking Turian father and a rather high ranking and highly skilled eezo technician/specialist mother. Due to his mother's high amount of contact with eezo, Zytex developed the mutations necessary to generate biotics. Unfortunately, this caused him no shortage of grief due to Turian's usual dislike and distrust of biotics. Fortunately, his family and friends remained very supportive of him and he was able to get a good education, good support, and some help controlling his biotic abilities.

When Zytex was around his 15s in Earth years, he joined the Turian military like most of his race. He performed well and was recognized as a top soldier, but the stigma against his biotics worked against him; preventing him from getting advancements, having people look down on him, etc. Fortunately, due to his skill, biotics, and his mother's and father's connections; he was recruited into the Turian special forces. There he was made more free of the stigma against his biotics and was finally able to make a name for himself mostly unhindered. He was able to score many victories against enemies to the Turian Hierarchy and the Council forces. Eventually his exploits made him a well respected general.

When Zytex heard that Saren's attack on Eden Prime was confirmed, he took an interest in investigating what happened there and also any future events related to a Human name Commander Shepard and Saren himself. Unfortunately, Zytex did not have easy access to the classified files that Shepard and the Council exchanged. By the time he was able to get more information on the various missions, the events he read about had been wrapped up by either Spectre. When Zytex learned about the Reapers (which horrified him about the possibility) and was forming a plan to help stop Saren and the Reaper named Sovereign, it was too late. Saren, Sovereign, their Geth, grown Krogan, and a army of husks attacked the Citadel. Zytex was quick to organize a defense (he was on the station itself) but was surprised when the invasion was over much quicker than he expected. Zytex's interest in Commander Shepard only grew after that and he worked to investigate the Human. He also grew quite interested in learning more about the Reapers and current Geth and if any way, stop them.

Fortunately he didn't have to wait long. The Council, impressed with his abilities and reputation of the past and his effective resistance during the Sovereign's invasion of the Citadel, asked him to be their acting leader for a new task force they had created in the wake of all the troubles the attack caused. He happily accepted the position. To him it was a way to help others, but also investigate many things that bothered him. And he was also excited when he heard Commander Shepard was called to work in this task group. He would have a chance to work with the famous Human themself. He currently is researching around the galaxy to build a successful task force of the best to combat the resurgent Geth, the new factions that have arose, and if necessary, the Reapers.

While some people are nervous about Zytex being a biotic, that quickly changes when they work with him. Many people have said they like working with him and say he is a good and fair leader. However, some dislike his tendency to do his own things and have his own agendas. They also notice that while he likes be in close contact with his troops, he does not go into the frontlines as much as some would like. Still, he brings effective, coordinated, well motivated, etc. results, which gives him his successful and decorated reputation.

I'll add more to the bio if I see fit.

Plans for the character: This OC is the effective leader of the task force during normal operations or if something happens to the Council. He's not a power schemer or the like, but he sometimes has his own agendas separate from that of the Council. He answers directly to the Council and only the highest ranking military officers, if that (he's definitely below the Council though). He's also the main recruiter, planner, etc. for the task force. Zytex is also insurance that we have a leader for the task force during most times. While I have plans for the Council to possibly under threat later, Zytex likely will never in any threat of death. He's also my main OC for the RP. But maybe he could eventually be just be made a high ranking member of the task force later. Who knows.... "

[Parastrat0023]

King Feraligatr, first posted on 29th October 2015 05:22:46 PM, last edited on 29th October 2015 05:26:31 PM (Post #10):

"Added a required personality field to character signup forms. Also, to more "immersively" get your character into the RP, we will do a conversation between your character (mostly OCs) and either Zytex or the Citadel Council recruiting them. Who does the recruiting depends on your character's status and the current circumstances. Zytex is more likely to be the character you talk to. This isn't exactly required if you request not to, but unless you tell me you don't want to do it, you cannot post in the RP until you do our recruiting conversation in the signup thread. It doesn't have to be long, I just want it to be more "immersive". And I refuse the right to recruit your character during certain times or anytime really. Hopefully the later never happens though. "

[Parastrat0023]

King Feraligatr (in response to Watdakstomp's Character Sheet), first posted on 29th October 2015 05:28:35 PM, no edits (post #11):

"Just be careful of adding things from ME 2 or 3 without my consent so we can avoid getting over out heads. I'll allow the Blue Suns to be a thing, but don't expect them to be how they are in BW ME 2 and 3."

[Parastrat0023]

King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th October 2015 02:33:58 PM, last edited on 27th November 2015 10:06:41 PM (Post #16):

"Character Sheet for Garrus Vakarian:

Name: Garrus Vakarian
Race: Turian
Gender: Male
Age: early 20s in Earth Years
Physical description: Young looking Turian with light skin and blue facepaint. Tends to wear blue armor and has a distinctive visor over his left eye.
Skillset: Excellent sniper and rifleman. Also a good combat engineer. Good detective skills and is known as a competent leader.
Occupation: Former C-Sec officer. Last seen under the command of Commander Shepard as the team's combat engineer. Has separated from Commander Shepard and is now a loose agent.
Personality: Well meaning, but a loose cannon. Has a tendency to ignore the rules he disagrees with and do his own thing. Quite friendly to people he's friends with, but gets angry with criminals.
Homeworld: Palaven
Biography: <Fill in later>
Plans for this character: To be decided, but he lives through the entire RP. Has separated from Commander Shepard."

[Parastrat0023]

King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th October 2015 02:39:33 PM, no edits (Post #17):

"watdakstomp (Starting your recruiting convo):

watdakstomp's Chevec Recruiting

Interesting, this Chevec Batarian could be useful for our task force, Zytex thought to himself as he read Chevec's file. He was interested in recruiting him into the Council's task force. He attempted to contact Chevec via hologram. "

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th October 2015 02:54:19 PM, last edited on 7th Dec '15 11:05:35 AM by KingFeraligatr (Post #18):

"Character Sheet for Tali'Zorah

Name: Tali'Zorah vas Carva nar Rayya
Race: Quarian
Gender: Female
Age: Late teens to early 20s in Earth years
Physical Description: Wears a patchwork envirosuit at most times. Wears typical Quarian attire, albeit with the patterns of her clan. Under the mask, I'd go more for this: stevegoad.deviantart.com/art/Tali-Zorah-Vas-Normandy-164202743 . This picture is pretty good fanart and infinitely better than the ME 3 garbage we got.
Skillset: Excellent Quarian engineer and machinist. Has knowledge of the Geth. Is skilled with the workings of ships. Also quite skilled with shotguns and pistols.
Occupation: Former Quarian on Pilgrimage. Last known serving as an engineer under Commander Shepard. Has separated from Commander Shepard.
Personality: Well meaning, but somewhat naive. Is not afraid to be ruthless if pushed. Formerly did not express herself as much, but that has changed since her time fighting Saren. Is now a bit more cynical and world weary. Loathes synthetic life.
Homeship: Quarian vessel Rayya
Biography: <fill in later>
Plans for character: To be decided, but she lives through entire RP. Also, I assume from what she has saw has made her more cynical and world weary. Has separated from Commander Shepard."

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HeroicSociopath, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:14:17 PM, no edits (Post #19):

"So this RP will be set immediately after ME 1, then?"

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:17:18 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 3:23:24 PM by KingFeraligatr (Post #20):

"A couple of weeks after ME 1, yes. There needs to be some time for the Geth to make a resurgence and for some factions to spring up, hence why I need it to take a couple weeks after."

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HeroicSociopath, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:26:15 PM, no edits (Post #21):

"The main reason I ask is because I want to know if Sheppard (sic) will die and be resurrected as a cyborg. I think it might be kinda cool to make the cybernetic bits more...Extensive, might be the word I'm looking for. Like maybe give him a gun in his arm and hydraulics in his legs that let him kinda charge at enemies. Stuff like that? Just a thought, and if that's not okay I'm down for it."

[Parastrat0023]

King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:28:05 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 3:31:08 PM by KingFeraligatr (Post #22):

"This is a total rewrite of the events after ME 1. BW ME 2 and 3 are only pools for ideas, they never actually happen. So, you're free to more do as you wish and Shep does not die (as that was unnecessary in BW ME 2 and 3 and a gaping plothole).

However, if you want Shep to get cyborg augmentations, feel free to add them to the beta character sheet and I'll look it over. I assume that as a Spectre, Shep can do far more what they want."

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HeroicSociopath, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:35:24 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 3:35:48 PM by HeroicSociopath (Post #23):

"I take it I have a lot of freedom in terms of Shep's personality? I really like the bits where he's...Shall we say, more human? Like when he buys fish, or goes dancing in the bar. I think I might like to explore that aspect of his character, and it might go nicely with him becoming a cyborg."

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:39:00 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 3:41:15 PM by KingFeraligatr (Post #24):

"I don't care really. Do what you want for your alpha signup sheet. But be careful. Any future players of Shep will have to follow the Shep you made. But seriously, go ahead. I'll tweak it after you make your signup. But Shep does not die and get revived. No coming back from the dead at this time or hopefully anytime. The augmentations would have to be from something like surgery or an injury."

[Deadspear]

Watdakstomp, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:41:59 PM, last edited on 30th Nov '15 8:59:56 AM by watdakstomp (Post #25):

"Chevec Recruiting

Chevec was sitting in his chair in his sleeping quarters, well it was more of cell than anything else, but still it was his personal room, in a alliance spec-ops facility. Why was a Batarian in a alliance spec-ops facility you might ask, well it was simple, Chevec had snitched on his old partners and help free their slaves. So now Chevec was suffering from his "change of heart" as most of the alliance personal he met had called it, in truth he just hated slavery and couldn't stand working with anymore slaves. Chevec growled at as he remembered the memory.

Chevec was interrupted from his wallowing in self-pity be a sound. "Must be someone messaging me again, maybe they must have decided what they want to do with me," Chevec said to himself "might as well answer it."

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:47:37 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 3:48:55 PM by KingFeraligatr (Post #26):

"watdakstomp's Chevec Recruiting

A hologram of a Batarian flashed to life in front of Zytex. "I am sorry to bother you Mr. Chevec. My name is Zytex Gyrandros. I am a general in the Turian Hierarchy. I am contacting you with a matter of great importance. You may decline my offer at any time, but I'd like you to hear me out," Zytex said confidently and formally. He awaited a response from Chevec."

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Watdakstomp, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 03:58:25 PM, no edits (Post #27):

"Chevec looked at Zytex and said " As long as it doesn't require me sitting in a room all by myself all day long, then I accept, so anyway whats the job Zytex."

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 04:19:15 PM, no edits (Post #28):

"watdakstomp's Chevec Recruiting

Zytex composed himself then spoke, "As you might have heard, after Saren's attack on the Citadel, things have gotten out of wack. The Geth barely seemed phased by their defeat at the Citadel. Instead, they seem more powerful than ever and are attacking both Council and non Council territories. Also, we have reports of several factions springing up after the attack. To counter this, the Citadel Council has made a new black ops task force to handle this with me as the de facto leader. We are accepting skilled people of all races and professions to help combat the Geth and these new factions. Your hacking and technical skills are of famous note, which. Knowing all this, do you still want to accept my offer? If you do, you will be provided access top of the line equipment and intel, some even extralegal. Also, we plan to compensate you well.". Zytex stood confidently, waiting for a response from the Batarian."

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Watdakstomp, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 04:44:23 PM, no edits (Post #29):

"As long as I can go on a few ground missions then I'm in " He replied."

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King Feraligatr, first posted on 30th Oct 2015 04:56:22 PM, last edited on 30th Oct '15 5:16:39 PM by KingFeraligatr (Post #30):

"watdakstomp's Chevec Recruiting

"Okay, we'll see about putting you into some ground fights when they come up. Welcome to the team Chevec. I expect to see you on the Citadel soon as the Council is holding an opening meeting for the task force. I am sending you a file that will act as authorization to get into the Council Chambers. If you any other questions, feel free to contact my people. I hope we meet again soon. Farewell.", Zytex said as he ended the transmission.

That went well. Well I should check to see if there's any other interesting individuals to recruit..., Zytex thought to himself as he searched for people to recruit.

(Acknowledge this and we're done)"