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super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

B6
Name: Soup
Frö
Background: Middle son of a Töan father and Fröman mother, Soup got his mother's complexion and an Aptitude similar to his notoriously uncreative father's. Soup doesn't care much about his family's history, though apparently his aunt went crazy in the war and ran off into the wilderness.
Aptitude: Apathy
Focus: Defense

Soup stands around on the field looking at the ground: 1d100 7

super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Oct 25, 2020

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super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Purple/Silver

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Nov 18, 2009



Cards:


Soup's solution to the lack of water, or it would have been if he'd even noticed, was to just not care about it.

Apathy towards dehydration: 1d100 10

"We could always tape up the walls. We could tape them up all at once before they break to save time."



e: Voting plan Yelda

super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Oct 27, 2020

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 3->4

Cards:


Soup fortified a barricade to keep the enemy out of a strategic point of ingress. At least that's what he'd describe it as if he was ever questioned. A perfectly valid description of leaning against the door and texting on his Phön.

Playing Engineering
A

"fortify" the door: 1d100+9 70

The added mass seemed to be helping, but the shockwaves from them pounding on the other side of the door were annoying. Soup Nearly dropped his Phön several times.

super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Nov 3, 2020

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


4->5

"Oh, we were talking about how we should decorate the base? I say we just leave it empty, but if you insist, the Fröman baths sound cool.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 5->6



Soup was getting tired of playing and wanted to grab a snack. Wait, didn't the players each get an unspecified number of time-out calls for just such an occasion? He called it and went over to the vending machine.

A: Rules lawyer a timeout vs the enemy attack: 1d100+9 66

By the time he got back, the other team was looking a little tired from having to hold the formation in place for so long.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 6->8



Soup decided it was time for a well deserved break after all that fighting. It was time to chill out in a nice warm sauna. He relaxed and thought about his brother's failed attempt at siegeball. Porth the Uninspired had been trying and failing to rouse the team's spirits with a speech in the opening game of the 4th Oatsie, this had the unfortunate side effect of causing one of his teammates to lean on the half-finished siege engine in boredom, sending the whole thing collapsing and injuring Porth. Their father, Porth the Unimaginative, decided that sending yet another kid to the Academy would reverse the family fortunes after a certain member had disgraced them.

Playing Flashback
B Relax in the baths and think about how you got here: 1d100+5 69

Siege engine:
The 4th Oatsie! Soup suddenly had an idea that could save them a ton of wasted effort building the Siege Engine.
"Why should we spend all our time building a weapon when there are probably some left over from the 4th Oatsie that still work?" Just steal some old siege engine from the academy storage and use that instead

If not, Let's do Snood's idea

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 8->9



Soup started pushing on the back of the siege engine, which probably wouldn't help the plodders but would look like he'd actually done something. More than he wanted to do but it beat listening to Hardsy yell about his lack of participation. It took quite some athletic skill to appear like he was struggling to help while actually exerting as little energy as possible.

Athletics vs A
Working hard at hardly working: 1d100+5 25

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 9->10



Blinded by annoying dust, Soup was demoralized. Well, when the going got tough, there was only one thing to do, as drastic as it was.

"I quit!"

Soup sat down in the middle of the base trying to get the powder out of his eyes, oblivious to the rest of the match.

A) Extreme apathy in the face of adversity: 1d100+38 83

One of the Flights overheard his declaration. "Hey, they're giving up? Good match, let's go home."


Soup had been at ground zero when the powder hit, enough that his armor had amassed a collection that, if he'd actually cared, he could put to his own use later.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 10 -> 20 Team Credit" 0 -> 1

Soup could just ignore his brother but something was bothering him. He'd normally go to great lengths to avoid the interaction and extra work but after seeing how good the Siegeball armor protected the players, he wanted to know how it failed Porth in a simple siege engine collapse; more importantly, would it fail Soup as well?

Time to get it over with,

C



"I'll help but you answer one question first, how the hell did you get injured? That armor's supposed to be enchanted against serious damage on the field."

"That's an easy one, the mindlink overloaded."

"What?"

"The armor shut down. Overload the mindlink connection, all the systems lock up. No penalty trackers, no medicals or nothing, it's nothing more than high quality padding. Kept me live but still hurt like hell. Can't even remember why I'd wanted to give a speech to the team, just that I'd suddenly had the urge to open as many links as I could at once."

Soup didn't care about Porth's irrationality, only the ramifications. "So wait, if we chat too much, they go down and leave us vulnerable?"

"Nah, the new model has a backup, worst that'd happen now is a comms shutdown, but old man Skett assured me that team broadcasts are normal use. He said it crashed because some junk data got pumped into the network and routed through my armor. I bet it was some kind of mindhack like in the mövies dad rips off for his books, like-"

Soup had tuned him out by that point. All that mattered was the armor would keep on working unless something unexpectable happened.

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Having spent the evening dealing with Porth meant Soup in no mood to care about the team name. Well, in even less of a mood than usual. He wrote "placeholder" on the ballot, unwittingly adding a +1 to the Place Holders vote.

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super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009


Accolade: 20 -> 21 Team Credit 1

Soup wandered past an Öan recruitment center one day. Not having to care about the politics of Tö and Frö sounded good to him, so did not having to worry about being a pawn of the OGs should they ever come back. Soup had no strong feelings against taking emotional suppressing drugs to stop his aptitude from developing into a skill either. Unfortunately, when he came back to the recruitment center for scrubbing, it turned out the pills had put him more in tune with his aptitude than before. The assessment of the Doctör was he'd need to come back after gaining a skillcore and try a different procedure.

Rumor: Porth is still playing on one of the teams despite the lasting effects of his injury the previous year. He excels at directing uninspired offenses like a straight charge down the center of the battlefield but drags his team down the rest of the time.

Mascot: A Törtle

C - Become an Öan A - New levels of not caring through drugs

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