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I have a coolio idea for an RP that I'd love to do on these forums but I'm too busy to run it, tbh. Would anyone be interested, doe?
I might be able to find some time for the next little bit but... I can't guarantee a lot of consistency after a week because school begins again. What's your idea?
It's set in the times of ME2. Basically, it centers around the idea that the Council was not just sitting pretty during the events of the second game. You know, with the threat of the Collectors, missing human colonies, etc. Led by a Spectre, similar to how Shepard's mission went in the first game, they work under the Council's orders to find out what's happening, put a stop to it, etc. Along the way, they'd meet companions and recruit them along and eventually, come to odds with Cerberus, possibly. But yeah, it's a rough idea based on something for a fic I had thought up a long while ago. (Ideas to help work out the lumps in this idea would be appreciated!)
But yeah, that's what I got.
Well you could set it so that the team being sent winds up 'catching up' when Shepard has left the Collector base to TIM, leaving the group to fight with Cerberus over the remains of the Collectors. That is one possible option and would give a valid reason for conflict between them.
So that means Shepard left the base intact? That would be hella interesting, that the Council's team was always a step behind Shepard near the end of both of their respective journeys and coming into conflict with Cerberus.
Alright... So would the RP begin right as the group finds the Collector base by going through the Omega relay to find a Cerberus survey ship already there, or would it begin with the tasking of people on the Citadel, from whence they travel to find the Collector base by following Shepards tracks.
I think it would start at the initial briefing when the Council gives the mission to a Spectre or someone of high ranking in a military belonging to a Council race. Then from there, recruit people along the way whilst following clues to finding the Collectors and their base. (First, we have to beat Cerberus to a colony, I think. But yeah, we shouldn't be following Shepard the entire RP. Only for some missions. Others, I'd rather they be original) A three-way battle between our group, Cerberus, and the Collectors (If that base didn't house all of the Collectors, which I don't think it did) could be the final battle.
Hmm...
For the sake of tension, lets say that a member of the Turian hierarchy is a Spectre and is called in by the Citadel to try and get to the bottom of the Collector issue. Using information gathered from the STG the Turian and co. decides to intercept a Cerberus cruiser for talks. Talks inevitably break down and the Cerberus ship tries to make and FTL jump into safety but is taken down by the Turian's vessel, killing all onboard.A Cerberus commander sees the from a recording device on the ship the Turian making mused comments relating the attempted escape of the ship to the Contact war in an amused way. The man, severely Xenophobic decides to start a quarrel with the Turian and the situation evolves from there. Could lead to the Turian finding out more about Shepards work and eventually allow him to lead a raid on a base that has been analyzing the Reaper FoF device. That culminating in the activation of the Omega-4 relay and the discovery of the Collector base that was foreshadowed to him and the crew by datapads in various Cerberus locations leading up to the incident.
How's that kind of base summary?
I actually really like that! Would you be taking on the role of the Turian Spectre? But yeah, that's much better than my original idea, haha. I'd love to RP in that kind of story, tbh. (Character ideas are just buzzing around in my head)
I could, if I were to take control of the story. I have a Turian that I have RP'd in the past that I could use or I could make a new one... I think I'm going to make a new one actually. I might Cameo that Turian another time but that's aside the point. I'm going to make an intro summary for it to make as a first post in that threat and PM it to you so you can give it the OK, then I'll post it. Sound good?
Sounds great. 
Thanks for helping out, haha. Anyways, I'm headed to bed. I'll respond in the morning. Good night.
I read your proposal and I like it. Lots of political intrigue involved and a misunderstanding snowball effect. I am a huge sucker for that kind of story.
If we could only somehow implicate Udina during this in order to make the Citadel itself also a place where the group isn't sure it is safe. I don't like Udina personally so who else wouldn't mind having Udina as chancellor and then catching with his pants down laterbeing connected to Cerb? I'd have fun personally.
Personally I never really liked the twist myself, but I wouldn't mind working the angle. But for god's sakes can we give him some level of dignity when we do this? A lot of rp's i've been involved in that have udina usually portray him as a bumbling idiot and not the politically minded crafty individual he can be.
If it were up to me I'd have us discover a cerberus mole working in the citadel, and have no actual ways of connecting it to udina. So like, it brings into question how high up the infiltration by cerberus is and who to actually trust. Would be even more trippy is if the mole we catch is a alien, like a asari or salarian, and so it brings even more questions into the mix of who we can actually trust.
I like your idea better than my own. If the fact there is a mole is found out later-on especially after some information has already been fed back to the Citadel that could lead to a very awkward situation for the crew where they can't reply to Council Summons for fear of an assassination attempt or the information being relayed back to Cerberus while at the same time now in an open conflict with that same group.
Could make the time before a foray into Omega-4 much more tense.
Ah! I guess this is somewhat self-answering but I thought it'd be better to ask:
We're going to get into conflict with Ceberus in Chasing Spectres, not too early on but relatively soon. Should we assume that Cerberus troops would be the same as ME3's? Less advanced?
If they're identical that's fine, if there are slight changes that is also fine.
I'm thinking Cerberus would employ more like ME1-style troops. Commandos, squads, snipers, biotics, all more normal and unique-looking but more dangerous as well.
I agree with Flare. ME3 Cerberus didn't come out that way until after the Collector Base.
Also, haven't had a chance to write up Recruit Mission stuff. Feel free to come back to me for now.
That works for me. It doesn't quite seem right to have the indoctrinated forces in Cerberus' arsenal just yet.
And 'come back' to you? Sorry, don't quite understand @.@
Sorry. I didn't know if there was an order you were doing the recruit missions in or if there were still people we were waiting for. I figured if we were going forward with it, you could do someone else's and I'd hopefully have mine done by the time theirs was finished.
Oooh... Well there doesn't need to be a particular order, but once one starts it will be followed through to the end before picking up another person's.
If you're not ready we don't need to do yours right now, whenever you think you've got a good idea of what you want to happen just let me know.
Do I or don't I? Naleena, do you want to go out on another spin, or do you need a vacation? This would be during your less enlightened phase. It could be fun. What do you think, my dear?
Rhetorical question is rhetorical, but assuming that you are introspectively referring to a character of yours you can either submit a character you have from the past or create a new OC. There aren't any rules around that in CC, though someone running an RP might ask for you to have an original character for their RP if they have already seen it before a few times and want to see something new.
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