<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157975.msg7305558#msg7305558">Quote from: orderNchaos on 30-11-2012, 06:51:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">For the record, this being the plot thread to start the RP may have been a bit extreme.  We as players had very little time to establish any kind of cohesion in our characters or the way we interact.  We're essentially done one scene and all hell is breaking loose.<br/><br/>Also as a group of merc who just recently (within months) were hired on to a company only to watch the commander get killed with very little effort by a group of battle armored men our characters have never seen before is probably a bit extreme for the opening scene.  I know Wargtass wanted to open the scenario with the Clans, but I have to agree.  A bunch of mechwarriors watch their commander's mech get torn down in seconds this way does not instill a lot of gung ho run in and save the day type heroics.  Yes we've never seen Elementals before or know how to kill them, but that kind of power can even make seasoned warriors think twice about running into the frey.  <br/><br/>just my .02 <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, yes. That's exactly the point. As I said early in recruitment, I want us to be heroes, although not as appreciated or well known as those from the novels. Hero-hatchlings in our ways. We are all awesome enough dudes and dudettes to save the President, as it were. Now we are shattered and distraught by one Elemental Star, surprised by superior technology used in a fashion that we have no records of.<br/><br/>I put this as early as I did because I wanted us to be in an extreme situation, and extreme opening scene. War didn't slow down just because new recruits came to the trench-lines so that they could adapt before it was cranked up again. Shell shock, trench-madness and blood vision are all parts of war, even for a MechWarrior. I'm rather happy with how you have conveyed things so far, I was afraid you would rofl-stomp them, which is why I picked out Walter so early. You seemed to take the hint and I'm very enthusiastic about it.<br/><br/>Just mind your words, people, at least in the OOC. It's a game of fiction. Nothing worth getting upset over.