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deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:04 am

Well I inquired about roleplaying a while ago but ended up not participating. Yet I find myself inexplicably drawn to this SRP and it's funny because I've never watched star trek, or even know what FTL is. Maybe it's because I find it exciting to witness the conception of a new RP and I am personally quite fond of space.

So my question is, is it required that players have sufficient knowledge of the Star Trek and FTL universes in able to fully participate in Steelhaven?
If the answer is yes, then that's perfectly okay. After all, to have fun is the main purpose of an RP, and I wouldn't like it either if someone were to ruin the experience for others.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:16 am

Half the players in Redwall have never even heard of the books. I'm sure you'll do fine in SteelHaven even if you're not familiar with Star Trek. That's something for Lego to confirm though.

MrNeonShot · Post by **MrNeonShot** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:14 pm

Welsh Halfwit wrote:
MrNeonShot wrote:
MrNeonShot wrote: Edited: Doctor Rain is a Cheif Petty Officer. Supposed to be a role model, Cheif petty officer Rain is in his own little world until it comes to exosuits.

Blitz is a Secondary Petty Officer. I thought it was an appropriate rank for him.
Both still work for Golem Incorporated, but they have the benefits of being soldiers.
Point of order here. If Rain is a Doctor he WON'T be a Chief Petty Officer. Doctors are Command Officers and get the Medical equivalent of the Command ranks. The Chief Petty Officer is an elisted ma. Even an Ensign is classed as being above them. For TV examples, O'Brien in Startrek TNG and Star Trek DS9 is an enlisted man and, even though he's responsible for maintaining the entire station on DS9, Nog ends up outranking him after going to Starfleet Acadamy.

A second example is M.A.S.H. if you've seen it. Both 'Hawkeye' Pierce and 'B.J.' Hunnicut hold the rank of 'Captain' after they're drafted in to serve.

Scietists will also hold Officer rank although it won't usually be above Lieutenant-Commader.

As for Corp's height? I could consider 4ft. (48inches)

Doctor Rain has no experience as a medical doctor. He holds the title because of his work in exosuit designing, building, and control programming. Anything else doesn't interest him.

What Lego wants in this rp (from my understanding) is to keep animals at their normal (hp) height. But maybe a mouse turned biological experiment (like a bowman's wolf mouse. A rocket raccoon mouse equivalent would be too painful.) at the height of the average dog would work!

deepskycyan wrote:...So my question is, is it required that players have sufficient knowledge of the Star Trek and FTL universes in able to fully participate in Steelhaven?

Only star trek ranks. Just keep re-submitting your character sheet until you hit the right rank.

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:23 pm

Fair but, as I say, it goes for sciences as well. It keeps a 'chain of command' structure in place even if treated as a Brevet rank or temporary commission. A Doctor without rank, for example, would have trouble ordering around assistants who are in the command line. They'd always need to have a trailing officer to work with. Taking a brevet Lieutenant rank would eliminate that. The chain of command protects the ensigns and enlisted as much as the captain.

The experiment idea (the 'Bowman's Mouse') might work - or there's a planet of them out there...

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:21 am

You don't need to know anything about Star Trek or FTL to play STEELHAVEN. I just used those to give people a rough example of what it would be like.

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:16 am

Legotron123 wrote:You don't need to know anything about Star Trek or FTL to play STEELHAVEN. I just used those to give people a rough example of what it would be like.

Works for me but I'm biased *cough*Loper*cough*

hypernovatic · Post by **hypernovatic** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:38 am

Hey guys. My internet was cut at my house so I won't be on that much. I'll try to post as much as I can, but it won't be that often.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:40 am

awww , well , hope your internet will be restore soon

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:21 am

Oh and hey, next week from the 2nd of september to about the 7th I will be offline due to a surgery. Posting on the computer will be a bit challenging while I heal. My phone might be able to make posts but I don't know yet.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:26 am

Legotron123 wrote:You don't need to know anything about Star Trek or FTL to play STEELHAVEN. I just used those to give people a rough example of what it would be like.

Fab. Count me in!

brb gonna go write up me first ever character sheet. Will post soon!

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:38 am

deepskycyan wrote:
Legotron123 wrote:You don't need to know anything about Star Trek or FTL to play STEELHAVEN. I just used those to give people a rough example of what it would be like.
Fab. Count me in!

brb gonna go write up me first ever character sheet. Will post soon!

Welcome to steelhaven.

MrNeonShot · Post by **MrNeonShot** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:32 pm

Okay... Let me try and rephrase this. Doctor Rain and Blitz are temporary soldiers on the refueling shuttle. Doctor Rain is in charge of Blitz as the head of exosuit testing. Besides Blitz, there is another animal exosuit tester and 2 human testers.

Lego... What is the appropriate rank for Dr. Rain and his soldiers?

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:10 pm

Doctor rain would be chief petty officer and his crew would be crewsman. Though looking back, I probably should have used the star trek ranking from the late 23rd instead, but I think it's too late to change that. Also, you guys know the OOC for STEELHAVEN is up now right?

Deske · Post by **Deske** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:12 pm

I did. I was wondering why it was so quiet though.

MrNeonShot · Post by **MrNeonShot** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:43 pm

Legotron123 wrote:Doctor rain would be chief petty officer and his crew would be crewsman. Though looking back, I probably should have used the star trek ranking from the late 23rd instead, but I think it's too late to change that. Also, you guys know the OOC for STEELHAVEN is up now right?

Thanks, man!

Welshman · Post by **Welshman** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:38 am

However temporarily this is the Halfwit. Email troubles have hit my host so I set up a secondary. I'll get back to my primary asap. I hope.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:41 am

oh wow that's bad , hope it's just temporary , good luck welsh

Welshman · Post by **Welshman** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:44 am

Ta, Serence. I partly locked myself out. I realised I wasn't getting mail to my primary e-mail address so I changed my log in here to a back up address that forwards mail to my primary. Which it did. So I was able to activate the change. And then, thinking it was fixed, I changed it back. No confirmation e-mail arrived. And now the entire mail server has gone down.

MrNeonShot · Post by **MrNeonShot** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:31 am

Dang... hope it gets fixed, Welsh!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:33 am

Best of luck, Drake! I hope everything goes well and you heal quickly and painlessly!

Darn, Hyper. I hope that gets fixed for you soon!

Oops, Welshie. I had problems with my email today too. Fortunately I got it fixed. I'll talk to Diss and see if I can get him to reactivate your account for you.

He might be in bed now but hopefully you'll be back within the next 12-24 hours at most.

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:45 am

Hlaoroo wrote:Best of luck, Drake! I hope everything goes well and you heal quickly and painlessly!

Darn, Hyper. I hope that gets fixed for you soon!

Oops, Welshie. I had problems with my email today too. Fortunately I got it fixed. I'll talk to Diss and see if I can get him to reactivate your account for you. He might be in bed now but hopefully you'll be back within the next 12-24 hours at most.

It's now sorted. There was a problem sending and receiving from my ntlworld account (powered by gmail). Very few e-mails were getting through. Which is where things got silly.

When I didn't receive update e-mails from here (or anywhere) I came in and saw there were updates. So I thought it was a problem with ntlworld receiving all e-mails as happened a couple of years back. So I changed my log-in to my yahoo.co.uk account which forwards mails to ntlworld. Which it did. Successfully. I activated the account again and then thought... my ntlworld account is working because it received that forwarding. So I changed the account back. And got locked out as the activation e-mail never arrived.

Sorted now though.

(the really silly was gmail falling over. I made a purchase on the play store. Gmail automatically sends a mail to the main account - which it has as my gmail account. Some time after this mail failed to arrive I got a terminal failure message. Gmail was telling me that Gmail had failed to contact Gmail and the failure message alone got through!)

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:28 am

So here's my character for STEELHAVEN. I'll have it reposted in the RP OOC thread once this gets approved

Constructing a character for an RP is also a great way to force myself to practice drawing, I've found. (Yes, I know it's not compulsory, but still)

Name: Ashleigh Serge

Rank: Lieutenant junior grade

Color: #8000BF

Type: Main

Species, Breed: Cat, English Longhair

Gender: Female

Age: <6 Human years/19 Pet years

Neighborhood: STEELHAVEN

Appearance: Average height, slender/athletic build. Snowy white with patches of yellow fur on ears, face, chest and tail. Hair/fur cut short, despite being a longhaired cat. Has a large wardrobe but is often seen in command uniform; a navy overcoat she wears over a thin layer of plate armor. Standard dark trousers and boots.

Ashleigh Serge.png

Personality: Hard-headed, determined, ambitious. Somewhat stubborn but will conform to reason. Cautious around others, perhaps overly so. Paranoid and anxious, she is often hard to approach and it will take some time before she learns to trust someone other than herself. Prefers to be alone but does not mind the company of the people she is familiar with. Pensive and mindful, she usually keeps a calm demeanor and is rarely seen annoyed or angered. Also rather blunt and to-the-point, and likes to get the job done quick, but will often go out of the way for personal benefit. Though honorable, she will sometimes turn to deceit if she see no better option; although, she would never betray those who are close to her.

Backstory: Both Ashleigh's mother and father were experienced soldiers and expert pilots. Ash looked up to her parents and it was her dream to become just like them. Unfortunately, during the third war, her mother was killed in action and after the fighting was done, her father fell into deep depression and expressed his grief by becoming a combat medic, hoping to give others what he could not give to his beloved. Ash took this as a sign of weakness and enlisted for the military with duty and revenge in mind. Some few months later, she takes her father's place as the strength of the family, and looks forward to her possible promotion, and to the discovery of the identity her mother's murderer.

Other notes:
- Through her long months of intense training and hardship, Ash discovered that she has a natural talent for fighting. She graduated battle academy at the top of the class.
- Proficient in the martial arts and unquestionable skill as a marksman.
- Her preferred weapon is a longsword. She has yet to be defeated in a swordfight.
- Has basic knowledge of piloting aircraft.
- Will not touch alcohol
- Feels indignant towards those she perceives as weak-willed.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
S. 5
P. 7
E. 5
C1. 4
I. 5
A. 7
L. 7
R. 4
C2. 10

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:40 pm

Welcome aboard the STEELHAVEN. You can now repost your character in the OOC.

Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:44 pm

quick note, I'm getting into the swing of this semester's schedule so I may take a little while to respond to posts, but please poke me if I take a couple days. That means I've forgotten.

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:59 am

I don't like to be asking this but I suppose it was inevitable. What happens when a forum thread falls off the front page?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:09 am

Which thread are you referring to? If it's a RP or OOC thread that had died it might have been moved to the inactive threads forum. It could also have been moved there by mistake. Or it if was a duplicate thread or forum inappropriate thread then we may have deleted it and notified the poster. If it's one you want to reboot or you still need then feel free to PM one of us mods and we'll hopefully be able to find it for you again, or at least let you know what happened to it.

Legotron123 · Post by **Legotron123** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:13 am

STEELHAVEN has officially started! https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/v ... f=5&t=3055

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:55 am

Hlaoroo wrote:Which thread are you referring to? If it's a RP or OOC thread that had died it might have been moved to the inactive threads forum. It could also have been moved there by mistake. Or it if was a duplicate thread or forum inappropriate thread then we may have deleted it and notified the poster. If it's one you want to reboot or you still need then feel free to PM one of us mods and we'll hopefully be able to find it for you again, or at least let you know what happened to it.

Snow Tunnels. It's not off yet but it could be soon. So I was wondering.

EDIT: And if it does fall off, I don't feel inclined to keep it going.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:09 am

I see.
Well, I don't think they automatically fall off anyway. Snow Tunnels is only at the bottom at the moment because the others have all been commented on more recently. We won't move an RP to the inactive threads forum unless a) it's clearly dead and has been dead for some time, b) the GM instructs us to or c) it's in violation of forum or RP section rules. ST doesn't fit any of those categories as yet so it's safe for now. Ultimately it'll likely be up to you as GM what happens to it though.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:11 am

xhunterko wrote: Snow Tunnels. It's not off yet but it could be soon. So I was wondering.

EDIT: And if it does fall off, I don't feel inclined to keep it going.

um.....that's....rather pessimistic , a little bit , wouldn't you say ? I mean , the RP is going well in my opinion , a little bit slow , but still ^^"

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:46 am

Yeah, every RP has its slow periods. Perhaps if you are losing interest in it you could pass the reins to someone else and they might be able to keep it going.
It does look like at the moment you have a few players who are having difficulty accessing the internet but don't worry, that rarely lasts for long.

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:45 pm

Yeah, every RP has its slow periods. Perhaps if you are losing interest in it you could pass the reins to someone else and they might be able to keep it going.
It does look like at the moment you have a few players who are having difficulty accessing the internet but don't worry, that rarely lasts for long.

I'm hardly losing interest don't worry. I'm just worried that players are. I don't keep track of all the oocs and just this one occasionally. So if that's the reason I've pmed some people and hopefully it'll get back on track soon.

69eist · Post by **69eist** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:08 pm

Hey guys, have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a CatDog RP? Just wondering what you guys think.

Jacey · Post by **Jacey** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:33 pm

I hardly remember the show

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:50 am

Hmm... Would we ever get to find out just how they go to the toilet?

More seriously though, it could be a lot of fun but I don't think we could use any of the actual CatDog characters. We could certainly do something set in that world though. Feel free to write up a proposal and send it to one of the mods.

Roarin · Post by **Roarin** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 1:30 pm

Hey guys, my posting speed is gonna be slow for the next few weeks. Needa get used to college life >_<. I'll try to post 1-2 times a day...

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 1:33 pm

Roarin wrote:Hey guys, my posting speed is gonna be slow for the next few weeks. Needa get used to college life >_<. I'll try to post 1-2 times a day...

ok no prob.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:42 pm

No worries, Roarin. We know you do your best.

Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:06 pm

We've been made aware that Kurowolfe probably won't be back anytime soon, so any RPs he's in will need to write his characters out of the action, where he can pick them up at a later time if he chooses to do so.

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 1:53 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:We've been made aware that Kurowolfe probably won't be back anytime soon, so any RPs he's in will need to write his characters out of the action, where he can pick them up at a later time if he chooses to do so.

Aw.

No worries Roarin. If you can't post tomorrow I'll let the next person go and then get you in when you can get in if that's okay with you.