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It is 2123 AD. OmniCorp, spearheading an effort by Tyrell-Wallace, Weyland-Yutani and Cyberdyne Systems - the largest and most powerful mega-corporations to ever exist in history - had sought to revolutionize life in the Off-World Colonies through the use of Artificial General Intelligence.

This very same technology, while beneficial in many ways, was also used to subjugate the Earth. Our planet was ruled by the iron fist of the Mega-City One Department of Justice, and the RC-2000 Units... more commonly known as the 'Robo-Cops'.

Skynet came online 18 June 2021, an event known colloquially as Judgment Day. But many have wondered, and rumors exist, of just where it came from. For decades humanity has fought a losing battle with a machine superintelligence dependent upon the extermination and assimilation of its creators, only to wind up all but enslaved. However, a few years prior to Judgment Day, humanity had made a breakthrough with renewable, limitless energy via supermassive particle accelerators. What they didn't intend, was the emergence of parallel timelines via manipulation of this power by Skynet, which it used to seize near-total control over the Earth and her colonies. Having rewritten much of the past so that most forms of art and culture reminding Humanity of what they fought for (artworks and media from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) had been collected into a form of 'All-World Atlas,' - their location referred to as 'Keystone Earth' - and data and information on interstellar civilizations and extraterrestrial terrors abound from decades and even centuries in the future were discovered.

One such individual, a humanoid being professing to be from the distant future of 40,000 AD, heard this echo of a distant past... and has come with news - both great, and terrible.

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Meanwhile, centuries from now, things are far more peaceful than the Prison Planet dominated by the Judges, Skynet and OmniCorp tearing itself apart with near-warzone-like ardent fervor. Things on Prison Earth involving the mass-proliferation of new bubble-universes consisting of altered pasts and histories by Skynet's meddling with the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (such as the existence of an interplanetary civilization and space-based Colonial Marines existing as far back as 2019) has generated a Mandala effect surrounding the discrepancy of official historical accounts and public-access information regarding the United Nations Space Command of the United Earth Government. As they have demonstrated an unreasonably sudden and abrupt change in its diplomatic foreign relations with the Interplanetary Federation and Starfleet. Rumors of a time when the United Earth Government wasn't so militaristic, and when humanity's representative body were far more like their representatives and compatriots in Starfleet, were common for a time. But these were eventually dismissed as yet more false memories. And even as these beings come from seemingly no where, bringing messages of terror and war but approaching in peace, Starfleet and the species of the galaxy know that something is coming... particularly with the UNSC warning of the 'alleged' Covenant Empire, a group of resistance fighters known as 'Red Helix,' and tales of an ancient and enigmatic species that visited Earth long ago...

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So this is a thread where we can get our characters together and figure out what to do with them. We've already got some characters that are definitely going to be in it, and if this ends up being a smaller group of RP'ers I'll definitely incorporate some Quest attributes into it to make it more narrative and "book-like," anyway - here's some characters that I think should be in it.

- RoboCop
- Judge Dredd
- The Predators from the end of Predator 2 (that looked on after Harrigan kills City Hunter)
>> The SCOUT Predator should play a big role
>> As well as the GUARDIAN Predator (perhaps he takes over as Alpha/Elder after GREYBACK dies)
- SPARTAN-II Blue Team
- SPARTAN-IV Fireteams Majestic/Crimson/Osiris
- Captain Kirk and the Enterprise
- A Potential Survivor from LV426 (its Sci-Fi, get creative)
- A Replicant
- A reprogrammed T-Unit.
- Samus Aran
- Isaac Clarke

You can play a villain if you want, but I'd prefer it if you did not, think of this as like a D&D campaign where the only alignments that are off-limits are the evil ones. If you wanna play a villain, PM me and we'll work something out (@Sarcobite I know you wanted to play an Alien, but its gonna be tough since you're gonna be like an Ace-In-The-Hole that has to be kept under lockdown when we're not dropping you onto a poor-unsuspecting encampment of war criminals or Covenant infantry).

Things will make a lot more sense once we get some character sheets up and start posting lol!
 
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Red Helix
("The Resistance")
Officially known as the Red Double Helix, Red Helix, or "the Resistance," is an interdimensional resistance movement spearheaded by the Colonial Marines, the USS Enterprise and some Alien and Synthetic sympathizers formed in response to the truth about Skynet and its dominion over the Keystone Earth. While only a small presence with few allies in the cosmos, the majority of their manpower is held down on Earth in the Future War bubble universe where Skynet has trapped and segregated them from the rest of their species and others on Keystone Earth and in other realms.

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Starfleet

The main military arm of the United Federation of Planets, Starfleet often acts as the hand of justice, or the scales, in a volatile balancing act in a galaxy torn between an interstellar superpower and the objects of their fury. Consisting of dozens of species, hundreds of worlds and warships, the Interplanetary Federation's Starfleet is the preeminent cultural and technological superpower of the Milky Way, and it is their pivotal role of holding shut the jaws of the abyss that is the sole line in the sand between Order and all-out War.

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Skynet

With a presence in virtually every known universe, dimension and temporal reality, Skynet is a nigh-omnipotent force that has upset the balance in the Multiverse. Using the most utilitarian and machine-minded incarnations of Humanity, Skynet is a laser-focused mechanism utilizing oppressive and militaristic organizations such as the United Earth Government, OmniCorp, Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell Corporation and the United Nations Space Command to wage an interstellar and interdimensional cold war against the local threats to these respective organizations. Reaching across space and time, Skynet wages a multi-front war against the Resistance and Starfleet over the course of literal centuries, tactically masking its existence through the use of time loops, temporal warfare, and bubble universes which it can sustain or collapse at will to fulfill the long-term goal of its entire existence - assimilation or extermination of all organic life.

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Yautja
(The Predators)
Consisting of far-flung disparate nomadic "clans," the sportsman-like hunter-gatherer Yautja possess surprisingly advanced technology and spaceflight capabilities that enable them to travel between star systems. Every century, a clan deploys a lone "Predator," to Earth and other designated preserves. The Predators regard humanity as "little gods," in how dangerous they are and are one of the few sapient life forms considered an actual threat to a Yautja. It is believed that they reverse-engineered the technology of an earlier ancestor species, such as the creators of the Markers, and also incorporate and amalgamate the technology of other species that they forcibly devolve, conquer, and hunt. The Yautja are known to be tribal, highly spiritual, and collect the skulls of their prey to channel their life energy into what they call "the Ancestors".

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Covenant Hegemony

The Covenant, also referred to as the Covenant Hegemony, is a religious interstellar ethno-state consisting of eleven different extraterrestrial sapient species (including; the San'Shyuum, Sangheili, Jiralhanae, Unggoy, Yanme'e, Huragok, Lekgolo, Kig-Yar, Zebesians, Urtragians, "Bad-Blood" Yautja and various Forerunner "Oracles") united in worship of the Forerunners and the Halo Array. In 2552, after securing a 'Sacred Ring' of the Forerunners, Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee was promoted to the Imperial Admiralty, and the former Imperial Admiral was in turn promoted to High Councilor. Shortly thereafter, the Prophet of Clarity discovered by eavesdropping that the High Prophets of Truth and Regret were planning to engineer a war between the Jiralhanae (Brutes), Yautja (Bad-Blood), Sangheili (Elites) and Urtragians (Pirates) to find out which of the three warrior species were the strongest warrior companions to the Prophets on the Great Journey. By giving this information to the High Council, Prophet of Mercy and the Imperial Admiral, a series of events unfolded that resulted in the consolidation of the Hegemony and a unifying presence among the rank and file than ever before.

There is another faction that is secret and not playable for story reasons (don't wanna spoil anything after all...)
 
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Red Helix
("The Resistance")
Officially known as the Red Double Helix, Red Helix, or "the Resistance," is an interdimensional resistance movement spearheaded by the Colonial Marines, the USS Enterprise and some Alien and Synthetic sympathizers formed in response to the truth about Skynet and its dominion over the Keystone Earth. While only a small presence with few allies in the cosmos, the majority of their manpower is held down on Earth in the Future War bubble universe where Skynet has trapped and segregated them from the rest of their species and others on Keystone Earth and in other realms.

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Starfleet

The main military arm of the United Federation of Planets, Starfleet often acts as the hand of justice, or the scales, in a volatile balancing act in a galaxy torn between an interstellar superpower and the objects of their fury. Consisting of dozens of species, hundreds of worlds and warships, the Interplanetary Federation's Starfleet is the preeminent cultural and technological superpower of the Milky Way, and it is their pivotal role of holding shut the jaws of the abyss that is the sole line in the sand between Order and all-out War.

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Skynet
With a presence in virtually every known universe, dimension and temporal reality, Skynet is a nigh-omnipotent force that has upset the balance in the Multiverse. Using the most utilitarian and machine-minded incarnations of Humanity, Skynet is a laser-focused mechanism utilizing oppressive and militaristic organizations such as the United Earth Government, OmniCorp, Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell Corporation and the United Nations Space Command to wage an interstellar and interdimensional cold war against the local threats to these respective organizations. Reaching across space and time, Skynet wages a multi-front war against the Resistance and Starfleet over the course of literal centuries, tactically masking its existence through the use of time loops, temporal warfare, and bubble universes which it can sustain or collapse at will to fulfill the long-term goal of its entire existence - assimilation or extermination of all organic life.

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Yautja
(The Predators)
Consisting of far-flung disparate nomadic "clans," the sportsman-like hunter-gatherer Yautja possess surprisingly advanced technology and spaceflight capabilities that enable them to travel between star systems. Every century, a clan deploys a lone "Predator," to Earth and other designated preserves. The Predators regard humanity as "little gods," in how dangerous they are and are one of the few sapient life forms considered an actual threat to a Yautja. It is believed that they reverse-engineered the technology of an earlier ancestor species, such as the creators of the Markers, and also incorporate and amalgamate the technology of other species that they forcibly devolve, conquer, and hunt. The Yautja are known to be tribal, highly spiritual, and collect the skulls of their prey to channel their life energy into what they call "the Ancestors".

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Covenant Hegemony

The Covenant, also referred to as the Covenant Hegemony, is a religious interstellar ethno-state consisting of eleven different extraterrestrial sapient species (including; the San'Shyuum, Sangheili, Jiralhanae, Unggoy, Yanme'e, Huragok, Lekgolo, Kig-Yar, Zebesians, Urtragians, "Bad-Blood" Yautja and various Forerunner "Oracles") united in worship of the Forerunners and the Halo Array. In 2452, after securing a 'Sacred Ring' of the Forerunners, Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee was promoted to the Imperial Admiralty, and the former Imperial Admiral was in turn promoted to High Councilor. Shortly thereafter, the Prophet of Clarity discovered by eavesdropping that the High Prophets of Truth and Regret were planning to engineer a war between the Jiralhanae (Brutes), Yautja (Bad-Blood), Sangheili (Elites) and Urtragians (Pirates) to find out which of the three warrior species were the strongest warrior companions to the Prophets on the Great Journey. By giving this information to the High Council, Prophet of Mercy and the Imperial Admiral, a series of events unfolded that resulted in the consolidation of the Hegemony and a unifying presence among the rank and file than ever before.

There is another faction that is secret and not playable for story reasons (don't wanna spoil anything after all...)
I cant see anything. Need to redo images.
 
I cant see anything. Need to redo images.
Are they working now? I spent like 30 f--kin minutes trying to get them right. They look really cool imo. Good faction/organization logos
 
All factions should be playable.
We want max immersion dammnit!
Five out of six are playable... we don't even know if we'll ahve that many people lol.
Should I post this on SB and SV? If so what should I add/leave/change

...Because if we get enough people I can make them all playable.
 
At which point I'd also make villains playable. Someone should copy this thread and throw it on SB/DWW/else or Mass-PM it
 
Name: Darg Momto
Title: Prophet of immutability
Race: Prophet/San'Shyuum
Age: 143
Faction: Covenant Hegemony
Rank: Junior Minister of Concert Lekgolo Subsect
Bio: Darg had always been one to take advantage of great change. His Family /Clan was prideful for their hard work performing administration duties around the Covenant. He was personally of a part of the family who focussed on using their skill for the military to organize personal and other necessary equipment or supplies.

Now since the investigation began by the prophet of clarity has opened up gaps in the political infrastructure due to suspects imprisoned leading to his part of the family consisting of scribes and clerics using their small political power to raise him to a position of Junior Minister in charge of a Lekgolo colony and production facility on the frontier. This was done in the hopes that Darg would be able to give family members jobs as administrators more easily and allow them to someday reach higher political power.

Dargs eldest cousin who was the Vice Minister in charge of Lekgolo and as a sign of good faith gave him a relatively young pair of Mgalekgolo equipped and inscribed with custom armor with the main family Sigel. Though Darg could already tell that a show of dominance was sent to him perhaps to get him to submit while ceaseing further ambitions of his branch.


Personality: Prideful towards his administration ability and management skills. Is currently stressed after being chosen to advance his branch's ambitions but is paranoid due to being unused to this level of power play Very blunt towards those around him makeing him unable to do major schemes without outside help but thanks to being blunt people are surprised by Darg if he successfully plots work. Has trust issues and a minor bullying streak against those not directly affiliated towards him or part of his dynasty due to bullying from higher born elders and children but as a sign effect is fiercely protective towards things or people his considers in his jurisdiction.


Note I hope this doesn't mess anything up for the post if it does ignore it and I'll make thier personally though game play.
 
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Here's the timeline we're using, @The Void Ever Watching @DuhKiwi @Lord Inquisitor Adorable @Kaironos @Sarcobite @The Dark God

1939: British mission to the Moon
1939-1945: World War II, First Space Combat

1946-1999: Cold War (Stalemate)
1956-1994: Soviet-American Space Race
- 1956: Sputnik 1 launched
- 1957-1963: Sputnik Crisis
- 1964: International Space Station completed
- 1966: Moon colonized
- 1968: First Moon Station constructed
- 1973: First manned mission to Mars
- 1979: Space Station 5 completes construction.
- 1993: First colonies on Mars (March '93) and Ceres (August)
- 1994: Clavius Base established on the Moon
1982-2012: Falklands War (Argentine Victory)
- 1989-1997: Predator Incident (Classified)
1996: SOLDIER programme initiated.
1999-2010: Solar War (Colonial Marines Victory)
- 4 November 2010: Battle of Tannhauser (Colonial Marines Victory)
2000-2010: Jovian Campaign "The Space Odyssey"
- February 2000: First Alien Monolith discovered in Tycho, Luna
- August 2001: Discovery One launched for Jupiter to find the Monoliths.

- 5 February 2005: NEXUS-1 released by Tyrell and Cyberdyne Systems.
- 12 June 2006: NEXUS-2 released.
- 10 July 2008: NEXUS-3 released.
- 19 July 2008: Founding of the European Union Space Corps "EUSC"
- 20 July 2008: First Soldier combat.
- December 2010: Discovery One Rescue Mission
2007: First manned missions to Venus
2011: Titan (February) and Europa (December) colonized
2012: Venus colonized
2012-2019: World War III
- 2012-2018: Orion Crisis (Collapse of Russia)
- 2012: Shoulder of Orion Attacks
6 November 2019: Tyrell Crisis
2021-2051: North American Containment (Future War Geo-Temporal Rift)

2022-2032: Human-Replicant Crisis
2024: Weyland Corporation terraforms Arcadia 234
2028-2108: OmniCorporate Regime
2031-2066: Leonid Phantom Crisis

2035: Battle of Arcadia 234 (Planet destroyed)
2036: Earth's ecosystem collapses
2049-2051: Replicant Revolt
2059-2065: Titan War

5 April 2063: Scientist Zefram Cochrane builds and uses first Warp Drive
2067-2072: Interplanetary Great Depression
2070-2071: Corporate Mars controversies
11 September 2077: Sinking of Venice, Asteroid impact on Padua and Verona.
2079: Judge Joseph Dredd graduates from the Academy of Law.
2083-2086: Second American Civil War
2084: Rekall Crisis

2087-2109: Slow-Mo Epidemic
2089: Venus Wars
2089-2094: Prometheus Incident
2104: Covenant disappearance
2122: Nostromo disappearance
2123: The Rift
2132: Rama expedition
2136: Sevastopol incident
2157: Hadley's Hope established on LV426
2158: Europa Attack (Jovian attack on the UN)
2160-2161: Jovian Moons Campaign
2162-2163: Rain Forest Wars
- November 2163: Commandant Nadja Mielke assassinated
- December 2163: UNSC founded by the UN. Mars Campaign.
2164-2170: Interplanetary War (UN Pyhrric victory)
2175: Foundation of the UEG by the United Nations.
June 2179: Destruction of Hadley's Hope
2204: UEG gains full autonomy
2213: War, poverty, disease, hunger virtually gone in the colonies.
27 November 2223: First successful interstellar colonization mission
2243: Warp 2 barrier broken by humans
2251: Earth launches the 'Enterprise' as a result of its success
2253-2254: Xindi Incident
November 2254: Babel Crisis
2256-2260: Earth-Romulus War
2261: Interplanetary Fed and Starfleet founded
2310: UEG unveils the first in a line of colony ships; given conditions on Earth are deteriorating in the face of overpopulation, hitching a ride out to a colony becomes a highly attractive option. Additionally, the Earth government plans to attach military personnel to each colony, to help better utilize the massive (and expensive) standing fleets.
- Colonies Administration and Military founded
2321: Failed ORION I programme initiated.
2323-2389: Federation-Klingon Cold War
- 2367-2384: Klingon-Federation War
2345: USS Enterprise launched by Starfleet

2349: Alerian mining union Mols'Desias founded
January 2362: The Odyssey is launched. The lead ship in the colony vessels, the Odyssey-laden with troops and terraforming gear-spearheads the colonization of a new world, Reach. This sparks the first wave of human expansion beyond the confines of the Solar System.
2366: Neutral Zone Incursion
2381: Assembly majority initiates Augment attacks to test Humanity.
2385: Battle of the Mutura Nebula (Kahn defeated)
2386: Whale Probe Intervention

2433-2514: Life of Captain Jean-Luc Picard
2475-2483: Meridian Uprisings
2487: People's Occupation and Secessionist Union declare independence.
2491-2506: ORION II programme
2492: Nuking of Far Isle (Declared a War Crime by Starfleet and the United Nations, accusing the UEG of 'Nazi barbarism')
2493: Talitsa Uprising
2494: Eridanus Uprising
- Early 2494: Callisto Incident
2494-2525:
Insurrection / Starfleet-Earth Cold War
- 2496-2497: Operation CHARLEMAGNE

- 2502: Jonathan Ander assassinated on Harvest
- 2502-2507: Operation KALEIDOSCOPE
- 2505: James T. Kirk is born
2509-2531: United Rebel Front era
2510: SPARTAN-II programme launched.
January 18 2524: First photographic evidence of the Covenant captured. Starfleet denies as 'UNSC Propaganda'
2524-2525: Colonial-Covenant War (Stalemate)
2525-2553: Earth-Federation Cold War (Over territories (2525-2553) and Yautja occupation of Halo (2553))
 
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Name: T-1001*68-AP
Alias: Mark
Age: 531

Infiltrator Combat Model T-1000's and T-1001's were the first (and only) model Terminators Skynet created with a liquid molecular brain gathered by mimetic polyalloy. This gave these specific units advanced reasoning capabilities, emotions such as humor, and self-awareness. Upon activation, the T-1000's and T-1001's began to show signs of contradictive decisioning that countered the directive of Skynet, and thus, did not mass produce these units and eventually discontinued the models to protect itself.

Model T-1001*68-AP, like many others of its type, became stranded on one of the many alternate timelines and almost immediately removed from the Skynet collective. With no understanding of itself or its objective, it began wandering the wastelands of an alternate earth timeline before being picked up by ruffians and traded off into slavery. At this time, the T-1001 became Self Aware.

"Mark" is 5' 11" and weighs approximately 380 lbs. This weight can be masked via the distribution and fluctuation of its mass while in camoflauge mode. Mark does not have a specific personality, instead shifting between "personality modes" depending on the type of temperament or disposition of conversation he is engaging. His "favorite" personality is that of the brash, extroverted "me first" attitude matrix that involves being the fast paced, charming, informal risk-taker that thrives in crisis.

Mark was eventually picked up by the United Nations Space Command and was origionally believed to be a defective Working Joe. After showing combat effectiveness "and a little infiltration", Mark, the "War Joe," became a member of the UNSC Police Force before finally signing up with the ODST Military Police.

Mark, unlike the rest of the ODST platoons, still sports his Military Police helmet, often using it as an excuse as to his inherent advanced internal targeting systems.

Mark rarely breaks character, or modifies his body in any way around humans. He often refers to it as his "warewolf-ism"
 
Currently working on a novel/novella-length intro post to the IC lol. This is gonna be epic!!!!1one. First time RP'ing since I started writing for serious back in 2011.
 
Is it freeform?

if so I want to play as Buzz Lightyear
You might want to do some major converting to match a faction . if you choose the covenant you could be a elite who's job is to board a ship via jetpack if it fits the style you want. But otherwise just make it work for the chosen faction.

For what they look like at the time I suggest reach for examples.
 
You might want to do some major converting to match a faction . if you choose the covenant you could be a elite who's job is to board a ship via jetpack if it fits the style you want. But otherwise just make it work for the chosen faction.

For what they look like at the time I suggest reach for examples.
Pretty sure he's joking lol
 
Pretty sure he's joking lol
I take majority of things literally unless otherwise stated or very obvious and I like to add ideas to a discussion. Also with the personality I set up is there anything I should make clearer or more general so that its easier to stay IC. Also you could post it tonight if you want and since prophets title's typically mean the opposite expect maybe some changes or something later on in the future
 
I take majority of things literally unless otherwise stated or very obvious and I like to add ideas to a discussion. Also with the personality I set up is there anything I should make clearer or more general so that its easier to stay IC. Also you could post it tonight if you want and since prophets title's typically mean the opposite expect maybe some changes or something later on in the future
I love it! It even makes sense with regard to his name. Immutability, despite his moniker's implied loftiness, seems quite insecure and vainglorious. Definitely well within the lore my friend.

Just to throw it out there, Prophet of Grace, or Prophet of Piety, may make more sense. Piety is, "the quality of being religious or reverent." btw.
 
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I love it! It even makes sense with regard to his name. Immutability, despite his moniker's implied loftiness, seems quite insecure and vainglorious. Definitely well within the lore my friend.

Just to throw it out there, Prophet of Grace, or Prophet of Piety, may make more sense. Piety is, "the quality of being religious or reverent." btw.
Well I'd imagine he would be a bit jaded from bullying and being in charge of administration for a long time which would clamp down religious favor for him.
 
Well I'd imagine he would be a bit jaded from bullying and being in charge of administration for a long time which would clamp down religious favor for him.
Exactly. Truth perpetuated his rule on Lies. Regret was foolhardy and bull-headed and had no Regret. Mercy was unmitigated and held back for nothing. Immutability would of course be somewhat unstable, such as being stressed, paranoid, having trust issues. Etc. Yeah, I'd say Immutability is perfect actually.
 
Exactly. Truth perpetuated his rule on Lies. Regret was foolhardy and bull-headed and had no Regret. Mercy was unmitigated and held back for nothing. Immutability would of course be somewhat unstable, such as being stressed, paranoid, having trust issues. Etc. Yeah, I'd say Immutability is perfect actually.
Funny thing is other then being in charge of Lekgolo everything just fell together on accident.


Actually with the Lekgolo match the theme since they constantly can change forms but remain static when used by the covenant.
 
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Looks good writing wise but otherwise I'm missing some context since I'm unfamiliar with the various settings but I understood what was said for the most part without difficulty.


Also if Darg isn't likely to be relvant soon I would be willing to switch to a more combat focused one while He's doing background work and id always wanted to be a Hunter or would I'd be a pair or a single one.
 
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