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Maverick Quest (MMX)

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Aquarium said:
Yep. I talked a bit with CL as well.
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I would suggest you check the Reploid quest at SB. Neverwhere's style is different but has shorter updates so you should catch up fast. Funnily enough that both quests ended up with the mercenary path.

Aquarium said:
In Sting Chameleon's stage, at one point you face these variant metools.
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A bit racist heh.

Aquarium said:
They are canonically reploids, fully sapient beings with their own hopes, dreams, and emotions.
You see that worm that crawls out of its head to attack you? That, too, is a reploid, with its own loves, opinions, and plans for the (incredibly brief) future.
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Weren't they mechaniloids, aka robots' robots and thus non-sapient?

Hunter Command said:
complicated path Sigma's going to take us down.
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More like maddening. The Maverick virus has only one way out.

Ekans Ekans Ekans said:
He's fucked us over from the start.
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Technically he warned us, but the MC is letting his bitterness color his perception.

Aquarium said:
The last is relatively new masspro model, blue with gold trim. A single red eye stares from the faceplate, but more distracting than that is the hunter emblem on his shoulder. "Jaff. One of Cycl's OP3 test units, which didn't quite meet approval from Cain Labs. Came in tied on performance, then lost the tiebreaker for lacking 'personality'. The disappointment of being a second-rate design must have been crushing, but with my help, he managed to overcome the mistakes of his creators, and achieved his dream of joining the hunters. It has been six months since then, and he has reached B-rank, but that loan still remains unpaid. Perhaps he thinks his new allies can protect him?"
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Yeah, not going there. Good thing that even a random scrapper here follows the megaman boss stage gimmick.

[X] Asbestos Joe
+Not glass joe, but close enough.
[X] Name: Boreas
X] Appearance: Silver fox with a blue gem in the forehead, wearing a white and grey parka with black faux-fur trim. Opening the parka reveals ramshackle armor and small welds to cover where parts had been taken out..spoilerShow {color:#FF0000!important;} .spoilerHide {border: 1px dotted grey!important;} .spoilerHide:hover{color: #FF0000!important;}
 
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[x] Asbestos Joe

I don't suppose we want to try for an animal-type model over a humanoid? Not that I have any ideas. I'm trying to workshop a decent cold name, but Boreas is a safe fallback.

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Screw it, gonna go in with a suggestion based around the former training model background. My love for punny Reploid names knows no bounds.

[x] Coldboot Minerva
[x] Appearance: White and grey armor motif Owl-type body, with a gold circlet describing the head. Taller, relatively thinner build. Yellow eyes, long light featherplates tipped in grey, striated chainmail like alternating white/grey armor motif.
 
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[X] Asbestos Joe
Time to bring down the Boxer Rebellion!

[X] Name: Boreas
[X] Appearance: Silver fox with a blue gem in the forehead, wearing a white and grey parka with black faux-fur trim. Opening the parka reveals ramshackle armor and small welds to cover where parts had been taken out.
Making illusions and hiding in the snow veils while being able to use its agility to hop/slide around? That sounds pretty like a fox to me!
And I liked the name, considering it was meant to be a brand new design, so I can imagine the creator wanting to buck the normal naming traditions. Or maybe it had a first/second name, and simply kept the one it liked. And the parka is a clever idea, so I wanna run with it!
 
Will you use dice @Aquarium for combat and stuff, or will it be narrative only? One thing I didn't like too much of the M. Hunter quest is the excessive technobabble, which is a bit too much at times, as well as Reploids acting too human IMO.
Meanwhile, Reploid Quest from SB uses dice, which can lead to interesting results while at the same time making things more deadly (which should be something in mind for a Maverick-focused quest). This also can evolve to have hilarious, unintended consequences though.

Such as acciendetally stumbling upon Vile and tag-team him to death with Zero's help early at the start of the first Maverick War

Hunter Command said:
I don't suppose we want to try for an animal-type model over a humanoid? Not that I have any ideas. I'm trying to workshop a decent cold name, but Boreas is a safe fallback.
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Speak of the devil and it shall appear! Complete with a potential maverick boss done!

Preventer Squall said:
Making illusions and hiding in the snow veils while being able to use its agility to hop/slide around? That sounds pretty like a fox to me!
And I liked the name, considering it w
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I like foxes so I'll vote for this one.
 
HeavyBane said:
If you're looking for names, I suggest this generator: MegaMan name generator

It has some awesome choices, like Alarm Snake, Prof. Fox, Anger Weasel, Rabid Eagle, Smug Hound, General Crocodile, etc.
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I'm probably a little high on my own brand, but I like either aggressively on-the-nose or round-the-world obscure names. I'm still proud of the French-Canadian/English railgun archer lepidoptera.

 
[X] Hermes Ingram
I figure we're less likely to kill the human if we deal with him first, before we upgrade all weapons and/or fall in with the real "all humans must die" group.

[X] Icecore Boreas
It's less that you're named after the company, rather that you share a namesake: that set of overly advanced subsystems your builders bankrupted themselves creating.

[X] I'm fine with the OVER-1 fox
 
Hunter Command said:
[x] Asbestos Joe
[x] Coldboot Minerva
[x] Appearance: White and grey armor motif Owl-type body, with a gold circlet describing the head. Taller, relatively thinner build. Yellow eyes, long light featherplates tipped in grey, striated chainmail like alternating white/grey armor motif.
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Ooo, I like the Owl idea. I'm fine if the vote swings for the fox instead though.
 
I'll throw a couple of other design ideas I just came up with.
Yuki-onna: Another being associated with deception and freezing of victims
Capybara or Macaque: In the winter, these animals like to bathe in hot springs for warmth. Maybe the Lattice Fog could pass for an analogue to steam from a hot spring, I guess?
 
Vee Ess said:
I'll throw a couple of other design ideas I just came up with.
Yuki-onna: Another being associated with deception and freezing of victims
Capybara or Macaque: In the winter, these animals like to bathe in hot springs for warmth. Maybe the Lattice Fog could pass for an analogue to steam from a hot spring, I guess?
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Afraid I can't possibly agree with the Capybara. That's just easy mode!

Why? Because the Capybara is friends with everybody! Seriously, have you seen those things? I can't see any fight with them ending any other way then everyone chilling with iced drinks and deciding that being a Maverick is seriously overrated.

Except for Sigma, who plain gets shanked because he dared to harm a single fake hair on its adorable mechanical head.
 
HeavyBane said:
Weren't they mechaniloids, aka robots' robots and thus non-sapient?
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You'd expect that, but the data book labels them explicitly as reploids. I checked the original Japanese and everything.

HeavyBane said:
Will you use dice @Aquarium for combat and stuff, or will it be narrative only? One thing I didn't like too much of the M. Hunter quest is the excessive technobabble, which is a bit too much at times, as well as Reploids acting too human IMO.
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Dice when I have multiple ideas for how things are gonna go, have trouble deciding, and it doesn't make sense as a vote.

Anyway, I'm gonna lock Asbestos Joe as the next target, but I'm not gonna get an update in tonight, so feel free to keep discussing appearance. As with Anode I'm going to be more broad strokes in text description so people have flexibility in how they want to imagine/depict, plus having your characters look in a mirror and lovingly describe their appearances in minute detail is for chumps.
 
Fair enough. Hopefully our Reploid doesn't also end up wounded after every engagement, to the point of being reduced enough to fit in a bucket. Every. Time. :V

As a Maverick, we won't have the luxury of having healers always nearby. In fact, chances are Megaman will tear us open to get our special weapon.
 
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HeavyBane said:
As a Maverick, we won't have the luxury of having healers always nearby. In fact, chances are Megaman will tear us open to get our special weapon.
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Clearly we need to be that fan-favorite reoccurring boss with more dialog and personality, and run from the fight when things get bad to come back later.

...also, getting our better shielding back is also a good move.
 
Nox said:
Clearly we need to be that fan-favorite reoccurring boss with more dialog and personality, and run from the fight when things get bad to come back later.
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Is that a thing in MMX? The closest example I can think about is Dynamo from MMX5 and 6. In the former he's a mercenary paid for Sigma to waste your time, one who explicitedly says so upon confronting him, and who runs away like a coward upon being defeated*. In the latter, he shows up because... The devs had the sprite work done and didn't want to waste it, I guess.

*Unfortunately for him he was being rather short-sighted, as stalling the guys that are protecting the Earth from a falling colony that will do terminal damage upon impact means that worst-case scenario he will be too busy being dead to use the money he was paid with. I guess SIgma is a very smooth negotiator when he wants to be so.
 
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Asbestos Joe in the Crosshairs
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    • [x] Asbestos Joe
    [x] Boreas
    [x] Fox model, wearing a parka with a faux-fur trim.

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    You consider your options. Probably not the best idea to face an armed killer in your first job. Even if you succeed you'll draw a lot of heat. The Hunter is out.

    "Joe knew what he was getting into," you say, flicking an ear. "I'll make sure he pays."

    "That sort of eagerness will make my friends quite happy," Weld says, flipping the screen to a schematic of Joe.

    Asbestos Joe "He Can Take The Heat" has a literal iron jaw, metal fists, and one hell of a knockout punch. Exactly like the other boxers in his league - it's supposed to be a competition of pure skill, after all.

    "As a stock model, he'd be about even with you physically - a little smaller, but a hair faster."

    He flips to a picture of Joe with his decorative skin peeled off, internals being examined by an official mechanic.

    "The officials know something's up, but they can't prove it. And no matter how many times they scan his internals, they won't. You see that beautiful pile of 'decorative' muscles? His are fully functional. Solar powered, too, for completely independent power supply. Under the searing arena lights he's twice as strong as his opponents."

    He brings up some gobbledygook as if that explains anything. "Catchphrase isn't entirely a metaphor, either. Those muscle fibers are pretty heat-resistant. Probably doesn't matter much in your case anyway, since cold will still bother him."

    Next, he brings up a glass-and-silver skyscraper, shedding a few flakes of gold leaf as he does. "Since his betrayal, Joe has picked up a couple of rent-a-cops as bodyguards. He only leaves his penthouse apartment every couple of days, and when he does it's in an armored limo. His next match is at Hayatom Stadium a week from now, and my friends would prefer if he gets his message before he has a chance to fight again."

    He hands you a printout. "Good luck, Boreas."

    You adjust your parka and head out. Weld may be paying you, but you don't like to spend too much time hanging around his place.



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    A deadline, and a target.
    [ ] You made some preparations (write in). Or just yell YOLO and run and gun your way through his apartment complex, I'm not the boss of you.

    You have the luxury of picking your battlefield.

    Joe knows he's made enemies. On the other hand, it's not likely he'll be able to escape if you try to attack him at
    [ ] His penthouse apartment

    If you have a good plan, you might be able to track him down when he leaves the building, and attack him
    [ ] In public

    On the other hand, you know exactly where and when he'll be a week from now. You could plan to fight him when he shows up
    [ ] At the arena.
     
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    • Aquarium said:
    [x] Asbestos Joe
    [x] Boreas
    [x] Fox model, wearing a parka with a faux-fur trim.
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    Missing the threadmark thing for the update, boss.

    Aquarium said:
    u see that beautiful pile of 'decorative' muscles? His are fully functional. Solar powered, too, for completely independent power supply. Under the searing arena lights he's twice as strong as his opponents."
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    So, don't get hit, agreed.

    Aquarium said:
    On the other hand, you know exactly where and when he'll be a week from now. You could plan to fight him when he shows up
    [ ] At the arena.
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    Suicidal choice. It's not like we can do like that Hitman game and pretend no-one will notice.

    Aquarium said:
    A deadline, and a target.
    [ ] You made some preparations (write in). Or just yell YOLO and run and gun your way through his apartment complex, I'm not the boss of you.
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    I think we need a bit more info about what to do if we want to make preparations. IMO we could strike at night in his home after having stealthed our way in somehow, drop some mines to dispatch of the bodyguards and freeze his limbs with our special buster thing to leave him unarmed but alive, but I'm not sure if that's a valid plan or too vague.
     
    HeavyBane said:
    I think we need a bit more info about what to do if we want to make preparations. IMO we could strike at night in his home after having stealthed our way in somehow, drop some mines to dispatch of the bodyguards and freeze his limbs with our special buster thing to leave him unarmed but alive, but I'm not sure if that's a valid plan or too vague.
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    I'd like to know where he goes on those guarded excursions. It sounds like he has a semi-daily routine, and he's famous enough where some tabloid would vomit out as much information as we need assuming he's not caught up in even more horribly illegal stuff than we know of.
     
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    Generally minor things that come up in discussion are gonna be incorporated if they're good ideas, mutually exclusive broader strategies are gonna be the sorts of things that need a vote.

    For intel gathering, if it's cheap and easy just ask and I'll toss something at you.

    "Read the tabloids" is an excellent way to get intel on a slightly-shady celeb.

    >Just because reploids don't have to stay in shape, doesn't mean they don't have to train, and a real physical opponent keeps you sharp. Joe does his sparring at an east side gym not too far from his home, and will probably be there at least twice before the next match.

    >Joe likes to think he's more than just a sportsman, and that he's an actual member of the upper crust, so it's no surprise he's a regular attendee at wine tastings. Rooftop Rosés, a skyscraper winery that 'combines heirloom vines with cutting-edge agriculture', is holding their Grand Annual Tasting/Charity Fundraiser this week. He's shook, but he's not so shook he'd give up the tickets to that.

    >One of his bodyguards does the shopping. Apparently Joe is pretty particular about his fresh fruit, so getting the produce alone can take a couple of hours.



    As for the skyscraper he calls home, its base is in a poor neighborhood, but the 'proper' entrance on the elevated highways at the 60th story is a lot more upscale. He's on the 87th floor, at the top.

    There's a receptionist at each entrance, but it looks like you need a keycard or a passcode to get through the front doors (or for someone to buzz you in). They're made of glass, so they aren't a huge barrier if you don't mind making a racket.
     
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    Good thought on the tabloid. We also have a chance to do some casing while we're still a total unknown. We should lose our parka to do some scouting on one or more locations, get an eye on them, and see if we can find any valuable information or openings. Since we've got a week, we can probably burn a day on fact-finding.

    We might also check his fight records, they'll be recorded and we can watch how he fights to get an edge. Not that we want to be fistfighting him.
     
    I like ambushing the limo approach when he's on the way to his wine tasting. Trap an area with mines, freezing the limo and forcing him to turtle up while we dispatch the guards with a game of Freeze Tag and Shatter. As for him specifically, since those muscles are real and plugged into his body, keeping up the Lattice should possibly keep them cold and contracted to hinder his movements. And the Lattice will block out any external light sources, so he can't get a boost that way.

    But we still need to do some scouting. Finding out the route he'd take to the event is an obvious must, as well as check his fight records like Hunter pointed out for any useful info. And I'm curious if we can get to the garage or at least close enough to scan his limo for any hidden sunlights or guns or who knows what else.

    Out of curiosity, how accurate are the Bit Scanners? Are they, for sake of argument, able to tell where a person is inside of a vehicle? Would be nice to help us figure out how many guards we've gotta clear out, or maybe just drop in from above and nail him with an exploding sword of ice from our Lattice Blade.
     
    Preventer Squall said:
    As for him specifically, since those muscles are real and plugged into his body, keeping up the Lattice should possibly keep them cold and contracted to hinder his movements.
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    You know, that's another possibility, though it would limit our options--if there's an equivalent to the weigh-in where they inspect the fighters, it's possible we could jump him then, when his enhanced cosmetic skin is shed.
     
    Hunter Command said:
    You know, that's another possibility, though it would limit our options--if there's an equivalent to the weigh-in where they inspect the fighters, it's possible we could jump him then, when his enhanced cosmetic skin is shed.
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    But that would require us being able to getting the timing perfect, not to mention all the security I can only imagine would be swarming the place. If we had more stealth options, like camo akin to Sting Chameleon I'd be more willing, but we're built for shock and awe tactics. Get in, hit hard, and get the hell out. While we could get him, we risk getting swamped by security and letting him get away.

    Do you think there's a way we could get in to pose as the judge for said guessing, or sneaking in AS security? Those would make your idea alot more plausible.
     
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