Numenera

[Merc]

I never really clarified, but PBP is a yes for me. Due to the the same unorganized schedule issues, that's perfect.

So in summary:
- Rez, Rat and I were a yes.
- Drac was a maybe, which might be a yes depending on game start date.
- Iddy was more of a 'No' than a 'Maybe' due to PBP format.

[Iron Dragoon]

Indeed, I am a No to PbP. I meant to say that if your PbP game succeeds and you move into a IRC/Chat game, at that point I'd be a yes (depending on time slot and such).

Sorry for any confusion.

[Rukatin]

The Party so far: Merc, Rezantis, and Carthrat. I am willing to take on one more person, maybe two, so I'm going to leave the offer open while I brew and adventure up.

[Carthrat]

Well, I'm gonna play some kind of cyborg/robot since that's a thing in this setting. Probably a fighterglaive. One woken up by another PC! Perhaps.

Some kind of cyborg that was originally designed for entertainment/aesthetic purposes/childcare, which has since gone far beyond her original mission statement, perhaps. Amnesia seems like a given, but I'll dwell on that for a bit.

[Rukatin]

Well, I'm gonna play some kind of cyborg/robot since that's a thing in this setting. Probably a fighterglaive. One woken up by another PC! Perhaps.

Some kind of cyborg that was originally designed for entertainment/aesthetic purposes/childcare, which has since gone far beyond her original mission statement, perhaps. Amnesia seems like a given, but I'll dwell on that for a bit.

That's actually a character descriptor. 'Fuses Flesh with Steel'. There are people in the ninth world who have replaced missing limbs and such with machinery. Or have experimented upon themselves to become that way. Not as rare as you'd think, but not quite common.

It's also typically a Nano descriptor. All Character Descriptors have a preferred class, then a secondary one, then the third. There are only a few descriptors that can't be paired with one of the classes.

Anyways, my point being, having that descriptor means you where organic to begin with. In my opinion, I'd modify your backstory or whatever and have that your character was kidnapped and experimented on, causing the amnesia. Now she searches for her captor in revenge while figuring out her new modified body.

I'd suggest downloading the player's guide and reading through it.

[Carthrat]

Already checked it out. (There's no full-on mecha setting. Sadly. But it's all good.)

[Merc]

My initial impression from Iddy/Rukatin was that it was going to be a setting similar to Battle Angel Alita/Gunnm. Then I got the book and found it wasn't.

Alas!

[Rukatin]

My initial impression from Iddy/Rukatin was that it was going to be a setting similar to Battle Angel Alita/Gunnm. Then I got the book and found it wasn't.

Alas!

No, it's a fantasy world where the 'Magic' is a big unknown in the form of mysterious technology

[Carthrat]

I was going to aim for something Alita-ish. I love the endless junkyard chic.

It is okay! Less Blade Runner, more Esper.

[Rukatin]

What's Battle Angel Alita?

[Carthrat]

"Battle Angel Alita" is the English title of a manga, GUNNM.

It's about this crazy mechanic/bounty hunter guy who finds the pieces of a cyborg left in a junk pile. He rebuilds her, and they team up to hunt down rogue cyborgs. She's a shy robot who's frighteningly strong.

I really haven't read it, though. But I like the idea.

[Iron Dragoon]

From what I can tell, think more Shadowrun/D&D hybrid. Or maybe Rifts.

[Rukatin]

Alright, What do you guys want to see in this game? What are you hopes and wishes? Because I must crush them completely and utterly :) 

[Carthrat]

I'd like to be heavily invested in a single city or town, so that we can get enmeshed in its social/political/criminal goings-on to a high degree. Maybe something like a giant, stratified hive city, with countless layers between the disease-ridden underclass that lives in the sewers and the highest tip of society where life is virtually unimaginable to those who aren't born there- and those who are may well not be anything we recognize as human anymore, communicating their edicts with the people below by proxies, holograms, and the occasional show of gratuitous oppression.

Also, I wish to find out what it means to have a heart, like every robot.

[Rukatin]

Sounds kinda like the Numenera RP i'm in right now. Uxphon, the city of pipes. Major center of slave trafficing in the Beyond. Or it was, until we staged a slave rebellion.