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Coronet City, Corellia. The Jewel of Corellia. Home to 1.2 Million people. Wealthiest city in the sector. Roughly 600 murders a year... The Coronet City PD is a small outfit, and the homicide department barely staffs 30 detectives on a good month. Throw in the crime lab techs, beat cops, swat guys, droids and admin staff, and the whole can count in the high thousands the men, women, and droids, in uniform that protect and serve the Jewel. It’s a thankless job. When you do your job well, crime plummets and so do the budgets. When you do your job badly, there are more bodies in the street, and calls for you to be fired for incompetence. On the rare occasion there’s a major bust, nine times out of ten CorSec steals the glory. Still, every day you wake up, strap on a blaster and a badge. You sit at your desk staring at old case files hoping a lead materializes. As your Sargent stalks the cubicles looking for someone to dump a poo poo case on, you look at the phone, waiting for it to ring, hoping for a dunker. Calling all beat cops, homicide detectives, lab and computer techs, and anyone else associated with the Coronet City PD I am running this game because I think I can run it in such a way as to “solve” the issue of a large number of players with different posting frequency. Players will either be on a case, or waiting for a case. Players on a case will work it until it resolves. Players waiting for a case will wait for a post that lists a number of open cases, then players can respond to the case. This lets people who can post frequently not be held up by people who can’t, since people will be working their own cases in twos and threes, or by themselves. Big cases will crop up, serial killers, mass shootings, etc, and then we can get a bunch of players in on it. Players might also respond to cases as a primary (handling the bulk of the caseload), and the primary might call for help (he might need a computer tech, or a few guys to help kick down a door, etc. I am setting this in Star Wars because I love the EotE/AoR system, but I am drawing heavily from The Wire, The Shield, Almost Human, and other “modern” real life cop shows. I will be recruiting, and taking almost anyone unless their idea is just utter crap (if so, get into IRC and we’ll make it better). Recruiting will be ongoing, so players can join up and start taking cases throughout the game. Setting This set a little out of canon, the rebels and the imperials are distant things happening in the periphery. The focus of the game is life and death in the city. That said, an ex-imp, or ex-rebel might be fine for a PC. Currently Corellia is under it's own governance, though agents of the Empire and Rebellion are both in the city doing stuff. Character Generation Standard character creation applies, then after creating, add 50 xp (this xp can’t be used on characteristics, it’s as if you were using it for leveling up). Force users see me in IRC first, as it would have to be REALLY on the DL in game. Droids are fine, but I prefer droids with a little personality. I love creative interpretations of the classes, like an agitator who is a great bad cop, or a trader who just knows all the fences. Players will already be part of the Police Department, either as part of the homicide division, another division, or a support type unit. Some gear will be standard issue, like a set of body armor, a blaster, and a commlink. Vehicles will be used to get around, but if you want anything fancy like a special blaster or a unique snowflake helmet, pay for it. Duty/Obligation Players will start with 20 free duty (can’t be used to gain more money or more XP, just use it to flesh out your character. Players can take up to 20 points of Obligation. Cases often go cold, and players can spend duty to generate new leads. After a case, duty will be awarded based on players actions throughout the case. Only closed cases get duty awards. Obligation/Duty/Destiny will be rolled at regular intervals, not per case, and the destiny pool will be “global”. You can almost always find me in IRC, in #sweote on synirc. I love coming up with concepts so if you think this is a cool idea but just can’t come up with one, let us help!
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So glad to see another Edge game up. I think Hired Gun / Bounty Hunter concepts will work perfect for this, which is great since I just picked up Dangerous Covenants. Will post something up in awhile.
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May 27, 2014 02:56
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Fair warning, most cops rarely pull their service weapons, so a guy who's all gun will fall flat when he's gotta process a crime scene or deal with a subject in interrogation.
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May 27, 2014 03:06
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Drall CSI/Technical Investigator I think for me, maybe detective but not the people person.
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May 27, 2014 03:37
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Interest post here. I'll roll up a character once Memorial Day shenanigans have all concluded.
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May 27, 2014 04:49
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I'm totally going to put together an Enforcer roughneck gumshoe sort for this. Hooray for Shock Gloves!
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May 27, 2014 05:31
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This idea sounds a bit like the Android universe (sci-fi noir), which is totally awesome. I won't be able to join, at least not anytime soon, but I look forward to reading the exploits of our CCPD detectives.
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May 27, 2014 05:32
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Newly Minted Detective Kai Crow Character Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByrTYj2nEdXTRExBTVpGYWI3U28/edit?usp=sharing  quote:Kai Crow is a Corellian native from Coronet City. His family can trace their roots back to Corellia for centuries, and Kai has many relatives spread mostly throughout Corellia itself, with a few elsewhere in the system. They are a family of average, middle-class professionals. Hairy Right Hook fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 16:19
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Dr. Frederick "Freddy" Forloon, CSI Level 3, Somewhere in Coronet Dr. Frederik Forloon, or as most people on the force tended to call him "Freddy Forlorn". Freddy wasn't really sad, its just his tendency to be work focused and not very sociable left people feeling like he was always depressed. He was always happiest when in the middle of his work trying to unlock the puzzles of a crime scene. Freddy also didn't want people to ask too many questions about how he got his education. The truth was that some underworld types from Drall recognized his potential and desire to leave home and wanted to put him to use to make them money. When he joined the police force instead they decided if he can't pay his debts to them, he might have to do them favors in the meantime. While he continues to pay them what he can and try to dodge their requests, he'd feel better off not giving anyone reason to be suspicious of his work. Jaynen fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 17:09
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Remember that because of this games format. You don't have to really be concerned with other people rolling a similar character.
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May 27, 2014 18:55
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I have a hankering to roll up a Harry Dresden-like character; a paid consultant for cases the police don't really want to have to deal with. I obviously won't be playing up the supernatural aspect, this being Star Wars and all, but is that an acceptable starting point for a character concept?
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May 27, 2014 19:56
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jivjov posted:I have a hankering to roll up a Harry Dresden-like character; a paid consultant for cases the police don't really want to have to deal with. I obviously won't be playing up the supernatural aspect, this being Star Wars and all, but is that an acceptable starting point for a character concept? Always gotta be different, jivjov!   Just kidding. I'll figure out my sheet later, but my guy will be an older detective type that's Seen Some poo poo and is now just old and bitter and maybe a few months from retirement or something like that, haha. Chain smoker, drinks his liquor straight with no ice, wears an overcoat, the whole routine. Still figuring out what Class he'll be, but he won't be a particularly strong fighter or particularly spry on his feet anymore, but he'll have a lot of know-how and street savvy. EDIT: Also all of my posts will be written in heavy Noir-style introspective monologues, from the first person. Just because.
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May 27, 2014 20:05
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Definitely need to ignore the names of the classes for the most part they just don't fit.
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May 27, 2014 20:06
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Jaynen posted:Definitely need to ignore the names of the classes for the most part they just don't fit. Yeah but the Talents are what matter.
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May 27, 2014 20:12
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Fuzz posted:Yeah but the Talents are what matter. Skills are vital as well, since I don't think you can pick up any more class skills except via Well-rounded talent, but you can always buy more talent trees. Think I might go for a high-flying graduate who said gently caress This to the ivory tower of academia and joined the cops instead. Scholar as class mabye, but it might change. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 20:49
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Fuzz posted:Yeah but the Talents are what matter. I couldn't find the mix of talents I wanted, so the broadness of archaeologist made sense, especially once I can get knowledge specialization and some other things
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May 27, 2014 23:31
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Jaynen posted:I couldn't find the mix of talents I wanted, so the broadness of archaeologist made sense, especially once I can get knowledge specialization and some other things Yeah, though hopefully after a case or two you can buy a new specialization to branch out so it makes sense.
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May 28, 2014 00:41
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Fuzz posted:Yeah, though hopefully after a case or two you can buy a new specialization to branch out so it makes sense. Dude, Bones. CSI specialist in bones and old dessicated corpses. Also knowledge of old cultures and stuff.
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May 28, 2014 02:54
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Jawdins posted:Newly Minted Detective Kai Crow Kai looks good. Jaynen posted:Dr. Frederick "Freddy" Forloon, CSI Level 3, Somewhere in Coronet Freddy looks good, just flesh out the duty/obligation in the sheet, and please put in talent descriptions so I don't have to look them all up.
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May 28, 2014 03:23
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Working on a Droid Spy Scout. Real good at Coordination and Stealth, but despite originally being a protocol droid is not good at the social stuff. Wasn't sure which type of armor and blaster to add as standard issue, I did assume it would be the handheld commlink though. Also is there anything that is like a trenchoat and fedora? He has somehow got it into his programming that they are essential for being a detective.
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May 28, 2014 09:20
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Heavy clothing can be whatever you want it to be. There is a greatcoat also which would be like a trench.
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May 28, 2014 15:39
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Dr. Frederick "Freddy" Forloon, CSI Level 3, Somewhere in Coronet Sheet updated. He doesn't have many talents yet. When he gets more I will keep a cheat sheet.
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May 28, 2014 15:46
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heavy clothing a pretty good option. You wouldn't be wearing bulky armor as a detective anyways except on raids.
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May 28, 2014 15:50
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Jaynen posted:Heavy clothing can be whatever you want it to be. There is a greatcoat also which would be like a trench. A greatcoat is like a super heavy specialized cold weather coat, if you read the description. It'd be like wearing an arctic fleece + shell coat while walking around in a city. It's more something you'd wear on a place like Hoth.
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May 28, 2014 16:09
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Joran Beshenal Joran has been a police for a long time with not much to show for it but a stalled career, a divorce, and a reserved seat at the top of the division chief’s poo poo list. Still, he never stopped believing in the job. The Jewel was an awful mess of a city and there were too few folks to wipe off some small spot of the grime. Joran Beshenal was proud of being a detective and drat good at his job, though not especially good with department politics. He believed in real police work, vocally despising empty statistics and that made him very few friends in high places. Joran feels like he’s eaten his fair share of the department’s poo poo getting where he is and come hell or high water he’ll be there getting the job done and gently caress the loving numbers. gonna add a bit here about a partner once I get in touch w Jaynen
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May 28, 2014 19:19
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Looks good. Jaynen posted:Dr. Frederick "Freddy" Forloon, CSI Level 3, Somewhere in Coronet Only thing is, there is no ISB influence on Corellia, it's governed by Corellians. But you can change your duty to reflect that easily, otherwise looks good. I'd love to learn how he found some random drall who paid for college.
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Barden Mitnick Barden recently obtained a first-class degree Computer Sciences with a Ph.D in network security at the University of Coronet, and absolutely loathed his career options. Hating the snobbish isolationism of academia and the toxic profit culture of corporate work, and inspired by a desire to do genuine good in the world, Barden instead applied to the Cornet City PD, as a detective. Fresh out of school, Barden is still naive to some of the realities to the world of the law even under his attitude of pragmatism. He is only a few weeks into his first assignment in the homicide division, and still not used to the police life.
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May 28, 2014 21:34
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 7-LOM 7-LOM is one of the notorious LOM model protocol droids. While the infamous 4-LOM gave into desires to steal based off greed, 7-LOM's desires went the other way. He had a strong law abiding, or more specifically law enforcing, urge within his programming. And he began to avoid the memory wipe that would have removed such irregularities. What is more 7-LOM looked upon how he, and his fellow droids, were treated and felt it was not right. Yes they were made, they were products, but did they not think? Did they not, emotionally at least, feel? Yet they were treated as slaves, as property, they were owned, not free or employed. He was appalled. Eventually he found himself free, and still feeling his urges, he went to great effort to change himself to try and fit his ideal. 7-LOM has always, at least for as long as he can remember, wanted to be a law enforcement droid, like the LE-VO rather than a simple protocol droid LOM like he was. Eventually he found himself free and took the opportunity to undergo a massive rewrite of his protocols and rebuild of his chasis. He went from a model protocol droid to, what he thought, was a model security droid. Eventually he managed to join the Coronet City PD fulfilling his long time dream. Now he can follow his belief in justice and try to make the universe a better place, one enforced law at a time. 7-LOM has freed himself from his restrictive programming, going so far as to largely strip his protocol programming from his system, all in the search of his dream. Yet every day he sees other droids denied their dreams, other droids that are owned rather than employed, other droids that are no more than slaves. 7-LOM feels this is wrong, but he must follow the laws. So he feels responsible for these unfortunate droids. He goes out of his way to try and care for and help them in any legal way he can. 7-LOM has finally found his way to his dream. He is now a proud member of the Coronet City PD, and now that he is he wishes to help support his fellow officers to the best of his, now modified, ability. Whether they need the use of his skills, or someone who does not sleep to keep a stakeout, or someone to watch their back. Or really whatever his fellow officers may need, whatever he can do to support them.
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Elendil004 posted:Looks good. My thoughts were while they have no official influence on Corellia that doesn't mean they aren't there a la CIA in many cases. Regarding the education : In Coronet there are many racial ghetto's. Not many Drall are willing to leave their home planet, at least by choice. The outcast commonly make their way to Coronet after being cast out of the normal Matriarchal Drall society. Freddy grew up in one of these racial ghettos and was noticed for his keen perception. While Drall are known for their intelligence not many are known for being able to see the forest for the trees. He was approached by some of the more powerful Drall outcasts who wanted him to go to school to learn to analyze and track market practices and stock market prices to make them money. Since he was a kid living in the ghetto without options he took the chance. But once in school he realized doing this work for them would just be slavery and would not be making Coronet a better place for outcasts like himself so he switched his study into investigation and law.
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Kastan Damar Kastan is the third in a line of CorSec detectives... his father was also a detective, his grandfather was commisioner before him. The name was a lot o live up to, but he shouldered it well and was one of the youngest men to earn his detective badge, becoming a full detective at age 24. It wasn't a need to excel or to protect and serve that drove him... no no. When he was 12, his father was murdered in cold blood. He'd been working a long case against the Dothraang crime family that owned and operated most of the shipping concerns out of Treasure Ship Row... known mafia types. Unfortunately, Kastan didn't learn from his father's mistakes and after he'd worn in his badge a bit and earned multiple high honors and looked to really be going places, he picked up his father's old case and went after the Dothraang twins and their dynasty on his own. Not two years later, they put out a hit on him, too. As he and his wife walked from small diner to their speeder, a silver close-top speeder swung by, Kastan only seeing the shooter's silvery blaster and wide brim hat before the shots lit up the street. When the ozone cleared, he had a bolt in his chest and one in his leg, but was still alive. His wife Leara wasn't so lucky. After being discharged from Coronet Memorial Medical Center, Kastan almost picked up his badge to start the fight over again... but instead ended up picking up a bottle. Almost 20 years later, he's still on the force, but the Legacy has long since lost its shine, and most of the younger detectives who have now surpassed him look on him as a broken relic of a lost cause. But deep inside, that spark is still there. That spark which tells him he only needs to do one thing before he hangs it all up: He needs to get revenge. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 05:14 on May 31, 2014 |
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May 31, 2014 03:52
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Do you hate all the classes in the book? I am open to homebrewing one, find me in the channel and we can discuss.
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May 31, 2014 04:10
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Tweaked my guy in light of the extra 50 exp. Now he's an Enforcer/Spy instead of a Thief.
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May 31, 2014 05:14
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Looking at starting up midweek sometime, still plenty of room.
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Dr. Ebrihim Mastigophoro: Drall Medical Examiner This old drall has been the head of the Medical Examiner division of the Coronet City PD for 20 years. He is old, cranky, and knows more about human anatomy than most trauma surgeons. He also seems to have an uncanny ability to know who and what affected victims, and provide detectives with the vital clue they need to solve cases for the most part, so most everyone at the department leaves him be. Not that he doesn't want to be left alone. Unlike most of his species, Ebrihim tends to not like gossip, and insists on keeping his stories and knowledge to himself. However he still feels that he needs to get out in the world and help detectives in need, so when a case is called in, he's usually there before the CSI team arrives, and has information for the detectives, almost as if he knew what they were going to ask. One of the few detectives that he converses socially seems to be Kastan. Ebrihim and Kastan can usually be found at the bar after work, drinking and talking about old cases. 20 years of working together will build that kind of relationship, even if they rarely talk of things other than work.
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Game's up! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3640225
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Jun 4, 2014 19:46
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If we get more than 3 cases running at once, are we gonna split threads, or what? Also wouldn't something like Ryll be more akin to marijuana, whereas deathsticks would be like having a bag full of meth or heroin? Deathsticks are basically the worst drug in the Star Wars universe. Ryll, Glitterstim, etc are all "lighter"... Glitterstim might be considered even more controlled since it gives you heightened perception and crap.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:52
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When a narco related case comes up, we can flesh out the intricates. I do not invision splitting the thread, people need to be on point with case numbers. I will look at the wookiepedia list of drugs and come up with a quick legality/typical punishment chart for them when it comes up.
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When you get to a crime scene, you're obviously going to percept, do you want me to roll for you guys so I can include some extra stuff in the first view of the scene? Asking for opinions, majority rules.
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Elendil004 posted:When you get to a crime scene, you're obviously going to percept, do you want me to roll for you guys so I can include some extra stuff in the first view of the scene? Asking for opinions, majority rules. That sounds like a good streamlining thing, for general stuff, like "glass window shattered (percept to notice its smashed outwards instead of inwards". As long as you clearly mark out what is from the perception check, it shouldn't be too agency-removing. You can post the pools for inintal perception in the description of the case, if that's how you want to do it. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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I like it, no guessing at difficulties and whatnot
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