A New Year, a new RP?

[Rattrap]

I look forward to seeing this get up and running. Count me in.

[Sideways]

I'm really digging Blackjack's idea of crash landing on a hostile planet and attempting to survive. Perhaps we can have something akin to the Ark and Nemesis, and we're fighting to survive.

What kind of hostile environment do we make? Do we make it like Beast Wars where we cannot survive extended periods outside of our shielded bases in robot mode because of interference of raw energon or something similar?

( On another note, do we attempt to get some old regulars like Galvatron and Bumbleebee back into our land?)

[Time Traveller]

I'm going to throw in an alternate character, as I'm not sure how Boss will fit in to an alternate RP style, without open war.

[Sideways]

Whether or not this continues, I think it's time for me to bring myself back to normal boundaries of my character. No more alt-mode changes. I'm going to stick with the classic motorcycle mode. I would still like my character to be a tinkerer, having his lab and using that to tinker with technology which may be dangerous. No overpowered stats. No supercomputer, no virtual reality holo stuff.

This is dependent on my using Sideways. If we had enough players to populate both sides, I would jump in with my new identity, Scrapper.

[Scramble]

I would like to join in as well, but I'd prefere to do so as a new oc if that's alright?
Otherwise I'll to think who I wanna play as

[Seph-Blade]

I'd love to do some TF rp! This is an old thread, but if your down I'd do some writting with you. We could start something fresh. I have some OC's I could dust off, or make some new stuff up.

[Scramble]

Cool I'd love that, working getting some artwork done of my OC currently, though it's expensive

[Seph-Blade]

Oh yeah I do not doubt that. I was very lucky many years. I got mine done on a trade. I was doing websites at the time and did some barter to get mine done. The one in my forum sig, and another. Ill post em up sometime.

Could start a new thread and just wing it with a scene. Could set it sometime in the past, such as the time period after Megs and Prime leave cybertron for earth. Or could be sometime in the far future.

[Scramble]

Cool, i have four other oc artworks made already.
I would prefer either after the Unicron movie or the far future.
Btw my oc is a Decepticon Cassette master.

[Seph-Blade]

I posted up a new rp Thread. I am using a setting my own TF community once used for our rp, tweaked and updated a little bit. And then also dropped a scene setup post. Feel free to reply when able and I will drop my own post.

[Sideways]

I feel foolish, I did not notice that we have had some activity here. I have come catching up to do and get myself back into the swing of things. I am rusty though, so bear with me. (I also want to distance myself from my previous experiences and how I was, lol)

Anyway, I have some changes to the forum I'd like to implement, but I don't have the ability to do. I would like to move the main Polyhex RP thread to a main RP category and leave this area as a background/prep area. (You didn't do anything wrong, I just like organization.)

[Time Traveller]

Thanks for bugging me, Sideways! I had to use admin powers to create the new forum, then mod powers to move the Polyhex in-character thread there. You guys should be able to create new IC threads to your heart's content now, PM me if you have any troubles!

[Rhymus]

No one's saying anything. Should i play some tapes?

Here's another idea. (Was actually working up to posting it/proposing it when Scramble and Seph-Blade showed up and started something, and i didn't want to derail their game, but since it seems to have stalled...)

i was thinking about my character (though it doesn't have to be Magna Guard at this point, could be Scramble or Seph-Blade or Boss or Drill Bit or even Drag Strip) finding some severed heads, and possibly recognize some of them as Sideways, Blackjack, Minerva, and Sideways (yes, i mentioned Sideways twice, to see which players and which characters are paying attention). When i glanced at Scramble's history i added Ripwing's head to the pile. i planned on my character not knowing about Fetch, Brakkas Garlon, etc., although other players' characters might know. If any of the associated players didn't want such characters involved, i figured we could easily say my character (or whoever) was mistaken, that was Nightbeat's head, or Minelba's, or Zipwing's. Or my character was right, but he meant a different Sideways, or someone else with the same name as Blackjack (i read someplace Beast Wars Optimus Primal's Italian name was Black Jack). Or, perhaps more intriguingly, maybe someone is making decoys/facsimiles/clones. Or maybe the heads really are Headmasters, and this is the way those players/characters get into the RP.

Could the heads be in another of the crates in warehouse Omega-19? (How big are those crates? Real world crates come in all different sizes, to contain a single bottle of wine or an animal bigger than a car. Maybe Omega-19 has crates of different sizes too.)

on setting. I'm not feeling it for "Dead Cybertron", as it's almost too open-ended for such a small group. I also agree with Rattrap's sentiment that "indigenous populations" (humans) are annoying. I think most TransFans can agree on that. However, if the "indigenous population" were unable to be really involved, that wouldn't be too bad. Otherwise, an abandoned planet would work fine, too. Perhaps some nice ruins, a sprinkling of artifacts or left-behind information, but not enough to be a perpetual plot point.

Seph-Blade started us off with a Fractured Cybertron: What if the in-game reason for such a small group is that most of the Transformers have already fled, and the rest of us are trying to scrape together the resources to build or repair a ship and refuel it so we can leave too? (We can decide later if we want to try to catch up with any TFs who evacuated earlier or go our own way.) But first our characters will each have to decide if they're willing to trust each other, perhaps willing to collaborate with current or former foes (or pretend to collaborate), or if they're going to try to hoard resources or try to take them from each other, either by fighting over them, trying to steal them by being stealthy, or trying to steal them by being fast. And even if someone gathers all the remaining resources in one place, will it be enough to escape a dying planet, or bring the planet back to life?

Another thought: If we want to try anything that doesn't seem to fit the current storyline, well, the current storyline says there's a whole other hemisphere that can't communicate with the one we started. We could do a "soft reboot" on the other side of the planet (or run parallel storylines) and then find a way to tie them together later. Maybe someone builds a ship without enough fuel for interplanetary travel, but enough to get past the magnetic disruption dividing the hemispheres. Maybe the hemispheres are just barely still connected, and someone goes searching for a path through the planet core to the other side.

...Does Fractured Cybertron look like Gobotron?

[Sideways]

We explored leaving Cybertron in the previous iteration of the RP. I would not be opposed to trying a similar thing here. Like it's been explored multiple times in different media, we have to leave Cyberton because the planet can no longer support us. And then bears the question, do we explore the galaxy trying to find a way to revive our planet, or try to find a new home?

Maybe we can explore something along the lines of Beast Machines - we're survivors on a Cybertron where some sort of event happened and the mass population are just sparks now with no bodies and we have to find out how to restore them, etc?

There's plenty of avenues to discover.

I'm also okay with you discovering alternate versions of my character, like from RiD or Cybertron or even Bayverse.