Author Topic: The Wolf Skinners [3024] (Read 69550 times)

Daryk · « **Reply #240 on:** 17 December 2022, 06:26:03 »

How about crew on the Recovery Vehicle? And a name?

DOC_Agren · « **Reply #241 on:** 17 December 2022, 09:37:37 »

Run it a TT WOB BOMBSHELL
;D

truetanker · « **Reply #242 on:** 18 December 2022, 02:26:34 »

Quote from: Daryk on 17 December 2022, 06:26:03

How about crew on the Recovery Vehicle? And a name?

Type of recovery, like Heavy or Regular. And as for Bio:

Luke Bubba Blu
39 yrs
Truck Driver

Quote from: DOC_Agren on 17 December 2022, 09:37:37

Run it a TT WOB BOMBSHELL
;D

NO! I said not a WoB chara...

TT

Daryk · « **Reply #243 on:** 18 December 2022, 06:01:15 »

It's a regular BMRV, which is still a ridiculously heavy truck. I'll work up his stats today. I expect you'll have some Guerilla Insurgent in your background, being that old (i.e., old enough to be one of the guys that got off New Delos back in the day)... 8)

Daryk · « **Reply #244 on:** 18 December 2022, 11:04:00 »

Basic outline of Sergeant Blu:
Stage 0: FWL Affiliation/Regulan Sub-Affiliation
Stage 1: Blue Collar
Stage 2: High School
Stage 3: Military Enlistment (Reserves)/Basic Training and Cavalry fields
Stage 4: Civilian Job x 2 (12 years)
Stage 4: Guerilla Insurgent (covers Anton's Revolt and escaping the Free Worlds League)
Stage 4: Tour of Duty (on Ghorepani with the rest of the unit)

Between High School and 2 Civilian Jobs, you'll have two Interests that are very high. Care to choose them?

Deathknight69 · « **Reply #245 on:** 19 December 2022, 02:09:19 »

Daryk: STOP, Don't let the abomination known as TT get involved with your unit !! They tend to die horrible deaths !!! I speak from personal experience !!

Daryk · « **Reply #246 on:** 19 December 2022, 07:13:11 »

I'm pretty sure Master Truck will be able to handle Sergeant Blu... 8)

truetanker · « **Reply #247 on:** 19 December 2022, 20:02:13 »

Quote from: Deathknight69 on 19 December 2022, 02:09:19

Daryk: STOP, Don't let the abomination known as TT get involved with your unit !! They tend to die horrible deaths !!! I speak from personal experience !!

He's just mad his unit survived, barely...

@Daryk

Quote from: Daryk on 18 December 2022, 11:04:00

Between High School and 2 Civilian Jobs, you'll have two Interests that are very high. Care to choose them?

Umm...

Monster Trucks and Moonshine? Unless you'll allow Muddin' ?

TT

Daryk · « **Reply #248 on:** 19 December 2022, 20:32:03 »

Monster Trucks (one of which he drives) and Moonshine it is! :D

DOC_Agren · « **Reply #249 on:** 19 December 2022, 20:47:19 »

Quote from: truetanker on 18 December 2022, 02:26:34

NO! I said not a WoB chara...

TT

You expect us to trust you. 8) I've seen some of your Wobbie Nightmares >:D

Thomas "Smoke" Jenson, Panther Pilot
any image idea
Carries 2 magnum revolvers on him at all time

tweaked the pc idea a tad

Daryk · « **Reply #250 on:** 20 December 2022, 08:40:02 »

All right... Sergeant Blu is built like a brick shithouse (7 STR, 7 BOD). All other stats are 4, except for an EDG of 1.

He has no bought XP, so if there's something specific you want to buy, let me know how you want to pay for it.

Traits
Rank: 5, Sergeant
Vehicle: 3, Medium Vehicle
Custom Vehicle: 2, BMRV (custom design technically, but I'll give it to you as "Stock Affiliation" since I designed it, not you)
Connections: 1
Bloodmark: -1, still wanted for those treason trials
Enemy: -1, the treason trial investigator trying to track you down on New Delos

Significant Skill:
Drive: 6 (base 2; Sergeant Laine is a better driver than you, but not the APC driver; you also wouldn't challenge Master Truck)

Other Skills

Code: [Select]

Level 4 Skills:
Protocol/FWL
Administration
Computers
Interest/Monster Trucks
Interest/Moonshine
Martial Arts
Small Arms
Perception
Gunnery/Ground (base 4; this is why you Drive)

Level 3 Skills:
Leadership
Career/Soldier
Language/English
Career/Truck Driver
Negotiation
Swimming
Technician/Mechanical
Artillery (base 5)
Navigation/Ground
Support Weapons (base 4)

Level 2 Skills:
Tactics/Infantry
Interrogation
Sensor Operations
MedTech
Escape Artist
Security Systems/Mechanical
Demolitions
Prestidigitation/Quickdraw
Melee Weapons
Streetwise/FWL

Level 1 Skills:
Language/Hindi
Acting
Climbing
Tactics/Land
Disguise
Survival/Desert

Level 0 Skill: Interest/Regulan History

Daryk · « **Reply #251 on:** 20 December 2022, 11:03:31 »

Having just built Master Truck, I can confidently say he will figure out how to move the Mark V Landing Craft to the crash site... ^-^

Tinyozora · « **Reply #252 on:** 21 December 2022, 21:01:57 »

With a name like Master Truck, he was born to drive.

Daryk · « **Reply #253 on:** 21 December 2022, 21:07:46 »

That's just his title... 8)

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #254 on:** 21 December 2022, 22:55:15 »

With names like Katana Tormark, Ion Rush, and so on, I can totally see Master Truck being a real name in this universe.

Daryk · « **Reply #255 on:** 21 December 2022, 23:22:15 »

Master Sergeant Toby Johnson is better known as "Master Truck" in the unit, and he commands the BMRV.

(My wife was Transportation Corps in the Army, and her first non-training unit was a truck unit... her "Master Truck" ran the motorpool).

Tinyozora · « **Reply #256 on:** 22 December 2022, 02:48:25 »

Yeah, we figured it wasn't, but it could be. >:D

Daryk · « **Reply #257 on:** 22 December 2022, 06:24:55 »

Heh... too true, too true... :D

Karack Blackstone · « **Reply #258 on:** 30 December 2022, 22:33:08 »

Do you need a Fifth Column?

That unit name does sure rub the Wolf and Wolf-In-Exile in me the wrong way.

Daryk · « **Reply #259 on:** 31 December 2022, 02:05:22 »

I've 5th, 6th and 7th columns already in place... ::)

Karack Blackstone · « **Reply #260 on:** 31 December 2022, 09:14:51 »

8th, 9th, or 10th...?

Daryk · « **Reply #261 on:** 31 December 2022, 09:30:28 »

Oh sure... none of the existing factions are monolithic, and I haven't even mentioned the ComStar presence yet... ::)

Karack Blackstone · « **Reply #262 on:** 31 December 2022, 15:58:50 »

I'll abide.

So 11th is Comstar and 12th are the Merc Werks or Merc Works?

Daryk · « **Reply #263 on:** 31 December 2022, 16:16:34 »

In their immediate vicinity, the Wolf Skinners are facing:
Astrokaszy itself
Renzi's Renegades (friendly, so far)
Al Mazrea (100% hostile)
LCDR Fury and her remaining pilot (though he's an invalid for the time being)
Athena Fury (who's not 100% aligned with Mom)
Aliyah Ar-Rabigh (who escaped with Fury, but is completely on her own program)
Their former Liao liaison officer (even though he has NO reason to go back home, he's not 100% trusted yet)
The OLF's Betty... she's not sentient, honest! She's just programmed to get the OLF reconnected to the satellite net and the radars turned back on so the OLF can conduct pilot training... ::)

Further out:
Rabigh (all the unit knows is that they're hostile to Al Mazrea, and on the other side of them)

Even further out:
The Caliph of Astrokaszy (1,000 km on the other side of Rabigh)
ComStar
Pick a Great House testing weapons
Any number of other settlements who just might come this way if they got wind of a Star League facility

Karack Blackstone · « **Reply #264 on:** 31 December 2022, 16:23:25 »

What about:

LCDR - The rest?
LCAF
LCDF
FSDF
FSAF
FCAF

When does the Fed-Com begin? The Marriage is the open declaration.

Also:

Wolf's Dragoons
Wolfnet
Mercnet
Merc Werks
Merc Works
Comstar Merc Watch
Comstar Defensive Facilities - HPG's have Comstar forces for Self-Defense.

Daryk · « **Reply #265 on:** 31 December 2022, 16:46:31 »

LCDR = Lieutenant Commander in this context.

The FEDCOM is a twinkle in Hanse's eye in 3024.

The Dragoons are a long way from Astrokaszy at the moment, being gaslit by the Combine.

3024 is also before the ComGuard was revealed to the universe, so the guards at Astrokaszy's HPG station are "mercenaries" at the moment.

Daryk · « **Reply #266 on:** 01 January 2023, 17:28:52 »

I'm just hammering out a few last details of DOC's character and will post him when he's finished.

Daryk · « **Reply #267 on:** 02 January 2023, 16:21:25 »

We're still hammering out a few last details, but I think I can say at least this much about Staff Sergeant Thomas "Smoke" Jenson:

When the Wolf Skinners arrived on Galatea four years ago, they were a few 'mechs shy of a company, and set about trying to fill out the TO&E before fishing for contracts. Former MechWarrior Sergeant Jenson was on Galatea looking for work after his honorable discharge from the AFFS. Of course, he couldn't discuss specifics of his duties beyond "MechWarrior", and that had hampered his job search. While interviewing with the Wolf Skinners, the smattering of Hindi he'd learned while growing up in the Federated Suns Outback came in handy, as the Regulans were making comments to one another about him. When he revealed he could understand what they were saying, it was smiles all around and he had a job offer in hand before he got up from the table.

DOC_Agren · « **Reply #268 on:** 02 January 2023, 21:00:16 »

:thumbsup:
Nice. I like it..

Karack Blackstone · « **Reply #269 on:** 03 January 2023, 20:58:57 »

HPG Memory Cores were stolen from 2998 to 3026.

Marik was getting swiped from during 3015 to 3026.
The two active and one oldest at each HPG listening post for the House.

Expensive custom 60 Tonne LAM's, each worth plenty, went in with three having C ER PPC's, and three having empty carry pods to drop a waiting HPG Memory Core into for the mission.

Best part?

Just walk right on by when the House and Comstar defenders are asleep.
Can't watch when yer konked out and yer 'Mech's powered down, or even up.

Eyelids and sleep get in the way.