Robot Wars RPG - "The Mentorn Conspiracy 2005"

WHERES THE WEDGE? INFAMOUS SCOTBOT VANISHES!
Report by Ivor Thritis

Yesterday, MI5 began an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of well-known vapourbot Wedge Devolution which took place on Valentines Day this week. Eet eez vital that we locate Monsiour Devolution as soon as possibl¨ before anozzer bot theft epidemeec starts up again Chief Inspector Clouseau told reporters. In ze meantime, ozzer roboteeeers must remain vigilant in case of a reoccurance.
Many of the roboteering community have been on-edge since February 14th, when Mr Devolution was abducted from the toolshed of his owner Steven McGregors Glasgow estate in the middle of the night. With only a little spilt oil and a hole in the shed roof being the only clues as to the disappearance, Scotland Yard remains baffled as to what fate could have befallen the vapourbot, now near the end of its first year of active service.
Mr McGregor was unavailable for comment, but his butlerbot told us that if we didnt leave, hed crush us like a Featherweight in a printing press...so, thats just about all we have...

(Extract from the Daily Scum, February 18th 2005)

*points above*

Yes, youve read right - the Mentorn Conspiracy is back, baby! :proud: In order to revive my spirits after just having my prelims and to make up for the cancellation of my SHW tournament, Ive decided to start another RW RPG to help brighten things up around here :)

Full rules in a sec, courtesy of Mr J

1. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
I am looking for six people to enter one vapourbot apiece - and themselves - to aid in tracking down Mr Devo. :) HOWEVER, theres a certain twist as to how this twisted tale works out. When your human selves enter a combat situation, you will automatically transform into your selected vapour, so choose who represents you wisely. Consider this Transformers for a new generation. :proud:

2. STATS LAYOUT
HUMAN:
NAME: yer real one, if you please :lame:
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: eyes, size, hair colour/do, accent etc
ATTIRE: essentially, your chosen clothing. No nudity option available.
PERSONALITY: your psychological nature, which will affect how you respond to different situations

ROBOT FORM:
NAME: the name of yer vapour
BODY SHAPE: appearance of bot. Paintjob and ground clearance can be included here also
MOVEMENT: your method of locomotion. Wheels, tracks, shafts, legs etc and how many
ARMOURING: material only. No need for thickness here
WEAPONRY: your WMD. Normal FRA rules apply here
SRIMECH: your method of self-righting (if any)
STATISTICS: please rate the following out of 10 stars. You have a total of 25 points to spend overall (minimum of one per stat):
- Weapon Power
- Speed
- Manoueverability
- Defense (the toughness of your armouring)
- Traction
- Driving Skill (how well your aim is in mechanical form)

Also, no passive bots, no flyers, no clusterbots unless you fancy slicing yourself in two, but pretty much anything else goes :). Id like all the entries to be as varied as possible - oh, and DO try to keep your robots in the realms of reality, please :proud:

And thats really it. All entries are accepted as of now, so good luck to all :) and do give it your all. Im really missing Wedgey ATM... *sniff* :sad:

ENTRIES SO FAR:
1) Matty Fowler (reserved at special request - stats up later on)
2) -
3) -
4) -
5) -
6) -

All the best :wink:

Save me a place please Mr Steve-o!

Consider a spot reserved please

Alex Holt
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: 6ft 1, lacks any form of muscle and very ltitle fat, brush like dark brown hair, grey eyes, youve see nthe pics
ATTIRE: a old plain gree nt shirt, a pair of slightly tatty beige combat trousers, a thin grey fleece jacket and a pair of very old, very tattered trainers that were formerly blue
PERSONALITY: sarcastic, over imaginative, cynical, loyal, trusting of those who have earnt trust, suspicious of everyone otherwise

ROBOT FORM:
NAME: Archangel of the abyss
BODY SHAPE: you know where it is, thats how it looks not how it is
MOVEMENT: cheeky boy legs
ARMOURING: titanium
WEAPONRY: see normal archangel
SRIMECH: a big bar (see normal archangel)
STATISTICS:
- Weapon Power 11
- Speed 2
- Manoueverability 2
- Defense 4
- Traction 1
- Driving Skill 5

Im posting for everyone today...

Human

Name- Matt €œBryan€ Fowler
Distinguishing Features- VERY dark eyes, strange hair, short and stocky. Normal accent is well spoken Essex boy, but due to ability to impersonate, this changes regularly.
Attire- Hawaiian or other such lairy shirts, with tight jeans and trainers, plus the all powerful rainbow hat with side flaps and tassels.
Personality- Tends to go into things a bit gung-ho and slightly short tempered. Brutally honest also, but essentially kind and caring towards those in need.

Robot

Name- The Queer with the Gear
Shape- Blendo Kinda Shape, but with a flat wedge front
Movement- 4 inner wheels
Armouring- Carbon fibre and Kevlar
Weaponry- In the front wedge bit, there is a pussycat style blade, used to represent my cutting tongue. My hands are my other key weapons, and they take the form of 2 low pressure pneumatic scissors at the sides.
Srimech- May roll Over, may not.

Stats

Weapon Power- 3
Speed- 3
Manouvreability- 4
Defense- 5
Traction- 2
Driving Skill- 8

Ill join the fray!

HUMAN:
NAME: Aaron Knight
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: 6ft tall moderately tanned male with hazel eyes. Blonde hair with dark roots that is always geld in a spiked fashion.
ATTIRE: Wears a QANTM University shirt with We Play Seriously on the front and QANTM College, Gammes Programming on the back. Wears Beige/Bone coloured trousers with a Black Italian Leather Belt. Always has a pair of white rimmed, reflective Servo Sunnies on to negate his retina disorder. Wears a pair of light brown leather Colorado shoes with urathane treads.
PERSONALITY: Persuasive, Cool and Calm (After that, its like a bomb), Choatic, cynical and doesnt take kindly to new people.

ROBOT FORM:
NAME: Knightrous Oxide
BODY SHAPE: A partial pentagon with angled sides Painted white with black flames and silver outlines.
MOVEMENT: 2 Wheels
ARMOURING: Titanium
WEAPONRY: A 15kg Flywheel rotating at 8000rpm, powered by a CR125 Honda Motorcycle Engine. Uses all 6 gears to speed the weapon up as fast as possible.
SRIMECH: Invertible
STATISTICS:
10- Weapon Power
5- Speed
2- Manoueverability
2- Defense
1- Traction
5- Driving Skill

phear teh cute ones! :proud:

Reserve a spot for me! :proud:

Team Gore
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ENTRIES SO FAR:
1) Matty Fowler (The Queer with the Gear)
2) Andy Jackson (*awaiting robot*)
3) Alex Holt (Archangel of the Abyss)
4) Aaron Knight (Knightrous Oxide)
5) -
6) -

Nearly there, lads! :)

Small note to Alex, though - would like a slight change to the Archangels stats. Nothing big, its just that you put 11 for Weapon Power and since 11 is bigger than 10... :proud:

oh i almost forgot;

voice; slightly less deep than average and relativly quiet, pretty much accent free, but this makes it sounda little posh, can do almost perfect mr burns and arnold swarcheneggar impressions

it is divided across two weapons you understand, but if you must put it on speed

Human
Name: Kody Kunz
Distinguishing Features: Neck-length light brown hair. Eyes are light blue, but turn red when angry. 57 as well!
Attire: A golden t-shirt with Judgement Day on the front. Dark blue trousers. Wears a pair of black sneakrers outlined with silver writing Aerosmith. Wears reverse trapezoid-shaped shades.
Personality: Likes to take it easy. Friendly to gewt along with, band slow to anger. Once angered, never looks back.

Robot Form
Name: Super Gore GTI
Body Shape: A low box with skirts all over that flop over when inverted.
Movement: 4 Biohazard-like wheels.
Armouring: Titanium-hardox all around, the claws are pure hardox.
Weaponry: Two grabbing claws that lift upwards 90 degrees, powered by a hydraulics system and linear actuators. They can lift 1000kg easily.
Srimech: SGGTI is invertible this time around.

Statistics

WP: 6
Speed: 4
Manuverability: 3
Defense: 5
Traction: 4
Driving Skill: 3

Ready to rumble, Mr. McG! :)

Team Gore
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ENTRIES SO FAR:
1) Matty Fowler (The Queer with the Gear)
2) Andy Jackson (*awaiting robot*)
3) Alex Holt (Archangel of the Abyss)
4) Aaron Knight (Knightrous Oxide)
5) Kody Kunz (Super Gore GTI)
6) -

One remaineth! :proud:

Ill get it! :proud:

EDIT - Im cut off, forget this...:sad:

Ill nab that last spot

Stop the presses! Our band is full! :proud: (soz to hear that BTW, Sam)

FINAL ENTRIES:
1) Matty Fowler (The Queer with the Gear)
2) Andy Jackson (*awaiting robot*)
3) Alex Holt (Archangel of the Abyss)
4) Aaron Knight (Knightrous Oxide)
5) Kody Kunz (Super Gore GTI)
6) Chris Cooper (*awaiting robot*)

As soon as AJ and Chris get their bots in, the quest can begin! :)

Can I be Refbot? :proud:

Hello, Devon he said our press is full! *yells it in his ear and watches it fly off in pleasure*

Team Gore
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http://tgrc.proboards44.comhttp://tgrc.proboards44.com

Human Form

Name: The Wootinator
Distinguishing Features: Brown eyes, brown hair, 5ft 10€, anything else? :P
Attire: €œI Love Coffee€ T-Shirt and some Chav trousers just to annoy Dave
Personality: Wooty
Habitat: In front of a computer, with a cup of tea

Robot Form

Name: GeForce
Shape: Wedge
Movement: Four wheels
Armour: Titanium
Weapons: Rear hinged nitrogen flipper
SRIMECH: The flipper

Weapon Power: 6
Speed: 4
Maneuverability: 4
Defense: 4
Traction: 3
Driving Skill: 4

HUMAN:
NAME: Chris Cooper
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Hazel eyes, about 5€™10-11, short black hair. My accent is either brummie or northerner, I can actually switch at will.
ATTIRE: Black shirt, dark blue denim jeans, black trainers.
PERSONALITY: I€™m pretty analytical, if it comes down to it, I can approach a problem from all sides.

ROBOT FORM:
NAME: Love Bite
BODY SHAPE: Basically a rammer with a beak on the back, skirts around the sides, ramp at both front and back. 3mm ground clearance, black paintjob with Love the Bite in red down the skirts
MOVEMENT: Four wheels
ARMOURING: Titanium
WEAPONRY: Can ram from the front, almost equally fast in reverse with a Razor-esque beak
SRIMECH: The beak
STATISTICS:
- Weapon Power 3 (but the front does damage thanks to the speed)
- Speed 7
- Manoueverability 4
- Defense (the toughness of your armouring) 2
- Traction 5
- Driving Skill (how well your aim is in mechanical form) 4

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the team! :proud:

1) Short fuse MATTY FOWLER (Mechanical form = The Queer with the Gear)
2) Caffine-crazed creator of chaos ANDY JACKSON, alias THE WOOTINATOR (Mechanical form = GeForce)
3) Creative cynic ALEX HOLT (Mechanical form = Archangel of the Abyss)
4) Level-headed loon AARON KNIGHT (Mechanical form = Knightrous Oxide)
5) Mr Chilled himself, KODY KUNZ (Mechanical form = Super Gore GTI)
6) Brains of the outfit CHRIS COOPER (Mechanical form = Love Bite)

Hopefully, I can post the introduction up later tonight. Thisll set up your mission and allow you to arm your human selves.

Best o luck, lads :wink:

I hope its not later than 8pm your time, Steve, because Im taking the weekend off. :sad:

Anyhoo, excellent stuff Steve-O :proud:

Team Gore
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http://tgrc.proboards44.comhttp://tgrc.proboards44.com

Oh, and should we make pictures of our personas? :proud:
Team Gore
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once again i miss it cause i aint on half term and once again i will be left to watch

Poor Martyn... :sad:

*reserves a seat next to Martyn* Cheer up, Martyn - you can share my popcorn if you want! But youd better take it quickly, because once I start eating this stuff, I cant stop...

Steve, could you e-mail me the posts you put here while the weekend goes? :)

Team Gore
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Dave Sez: Boo

STEVE SEZ:
Kody, you can get a pic of your personas done if you so wish. :) Same goes for all of ye, but for the moment, it will have to wait...as Team Braveheart brings to yall here at the FRA Forum a tale of daring, adventure and other extremely inappropriate words :proud: more commonly known as...

THE ROBOT WARS R.P.G. - THE MENTORN CONSPIRACY 2005



CHAPTER ONE: MISSION STATEMENT

*DATELINE: Steven McGregors estate, Glasgow, 4:42pm*

BANG! BANG! BANG!

All right! Im coming, Im coming! Storming his way down the long corridor, Steven marched up to the grand oak entrance to his mini mansion and peered through the doors spyglass. This had better be impor-. Steven started and for the first time in days, a smile came to his face.
Standing on the other side of the thick oak panel were his fellow roboteers: Matty amusing himself with the tassles on his unique rainbow hat; AJ twitching a little, his eyes surprisingly wide from a lifetime of sipping caffine; the brooding Alex observing the estate; Aaron applying a little more gel to his drooping spiked hair; Kody just generally looking relaxed and Chris fiddling around with a Rubix cube. All present and correct, just as hed asked. Grinning broadly, he flung open the door and allowed the six to glimpse him for the first time.

About time, Alex grumbled aloud, but even he couldnt help being interested at seeing Steven. He wore a red smoking jacket over a school uniform, accompanied by a pair of tartan slippers and a maroon fez angled jauntily on his head.

Lads! he cheered, You made it, fantastic! Hope you had a pleasant trip up.

Not exactly, Aaron replied, just getting his spikes upright again, You try taking a 22 hour flight before spending another 3 trapped in a clapped-out old barbecue you Brits call a bus next to Jittery Joe here. He nodded over to AJ, who was currently buzzing around Matty like a hummingbird.

Well, the fact is youre here and thats good enough, Steve said briskly, rubbing his hands together. Right then, if youll just follow me, we can get down to business. Leading the group inside, the Scotsman ushered them down the long main corridor. Doors branched off in all directions as the six followed him down the red carpet, portraits of past McGregors hanging loftily from the walls.

Wow, AJ breathed, I wonder what the kitchens like in here. Think how big the Expresso machine must be!, but Alex grabbed him by the scruff of his neck before he could slip away and find out for himself.

Pretty fascinating place, Chris commented, gazing around the hallway, 18th century architecture with a hint of Rennie MacIntosh throughout. One wonders how a 16-year-old can afford all this. The building itself has to be worth at least £7.2,000,000. The others rolled their eyes. Chris was quite the quick analyser.

Christmas presents from mad relatives, Steve explained, but theyre only this good once in a blue moon. My Uncle John once gave me a banana skin stapled to an orange peel.

...no coffee beans, then? AJ asked gloomily. The others chose to ignore this statement, however, and finally found themselves led into a room on the left, a small study with various chairs and a projector screen set up in front of a large bookcase. The gang took a seat each (Alex needing to give Kody a sharp nudge to stop him drifting off) as Steven closed the door behind him and began his briefing...

Now then, gentlemen. You know why I have asked you here today. As you know, it has been four days now since Mr Devolutions disappearance and I am getting desperate. The police are proving ever more useless in their attempts to solve the case and that is why I have called upon your services. You are close friends of mine and I know how well you work as one. Yesterday, I caught two bobbies who were supposed to be investigating the garage fighting over a truncheon. At that moment, Matty let out a little snigger (Heh-heh...truncheon...heh-heh). He could see the rude side of almost anything.

Anyways, Steve continued, Ive managed to narrow down a list of the most likely suspects in this unusual crime. Let me give you a looksie. The Scotsman made his way over to the projector and was about to introduce suspect number one when...

Why bother? Aaron asked, Ill bet you anything it was Vengeance behind it. This sounds just like his cup of tea.

Tea?! AJ piped up hopefully.

Unfortunately, Mr Knight, thats not very likely, Steven replied, the Professor hasnt been seen anywhere for weeks. Either hes gone into hiding to plot another scheme or hes simply vanished from the face of the earth.

Uh...yeah...heh-heh...whod have thought it, eh? Alex grimaced, hoping the Oddestsey hadnt picked up too many hits from any CIA computers.

*click*

The first slide appeared and AJ, Chris and Matty gasped when they saw the familiar logo flash up on the screen.

Mentorn, Steve explained. The company who put Robot Wars on the tube. A few years back, they went bankrupt after it was revealed they were testing out mind-control microchips on some of the competitors. Its possible they could be trying to revive this business with Mr Devolution as their first test dummy

*click*

The second slide showed an unusual individual. He had large, blond Vanilla Ice-style hair and wore a black band over his eyes like a classic criminal. He wore a top and trousers of deep blue and little white boots, a matching cape sweeping behind him as he held a red cutlas up on high.

Ellis. The Legenday King of Thieves.

Wha? Aaron snorted.

He came up with the title himself, Steven explained with a little roll of his eyes, Hes a tad thick, but hes also a close ally of Professor Vengeance and one of the most famous burglars of modern times. Hes taken some of the worlds finest artefacts from the Popes hat to Jennifer Lopezs underthings and I have a feeling Mr Devolution may be his latest trophy.

*click*

Up came slide three, revealing a large, round bald man with an enormous orange moustache. He wore a long-sleeved red top with black jodpers and was grinning maniacally through a pair of tinted glasses.

Dr Ivo Robotnik, the Scotsman announced grimly, one of the most powerful computer game villains ever to be put to binary. Hes always been resentful of my technological prowess and my persistant rejections to form a merger with his Eggman Empire. It is possible Mr Devolution is being held captive in order to make me negotiate terms with him.

*click*

Slide four showed three very peculiar men. All were dressed in red robes with a cross apiece, brown hair and a pantomime sneer on each face. The man on the left wore a large rimmed hat matching his outfit with a goatee, the man in the middle wore old-fashioned pilot headgear with a large moustache and the man on the right wore a red hood with a little beard and very sharp teeth.

The Spanish Inquisition, Steven told them, Cardinals Ximinez, Biggles and Fang respectively. Weapons include fear, surprise, ruthless efficiancy, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope and a nice red uniform. Since the early 70s, theyve been using rather pathetic means of torture to convert the populace to Christanity with 0% success. However, recently, they have moved away from that area and started a little crusade against the evils of technology. I fear that the kidnapping of Mr Devolution may be their first successful mission.

*click*

Up came the last slide, one which made everyone in the room gasp with terror. Kody and Aaron lifted their shades in amazement, Alex and Chris stared open-mouted, while AJ and Matty simply fell out of their seats. The man gazing back at them was chimpish in appearance with a slightly dopey grin and short grey hair, a revolver poking out from each of the pockets on his suit.

Yes, Steven said quietly, George W Bush. With the current uber-paranoia over the concept of terrorism across the world and with my firm stance against what the current Republican party is doing, the FBI may have taken Mr Devolution away on the grounds that hes nasty. He could be crammed away in a storage locker in Area 51 as we speak.
With one final click, the lights came back on again and AJ and Matty picked themselves off the ground, neither looking too embarrassed for their mishap.

Well, gents, you know our suspects. Now lets get you suited up.

Now all back in the corridor, the troop was being led by Steve back outside the house, towards the garage on the left hand side of the building.

Hey, Stevey, Kody inquired, I dont mean to sound like a drag, but why are you asking us to do this? Why arent you coming with us?

Yes, Steve, Alex added, a hint of Mr Burns starting to creep into his accent, why arent you coming?

Simple, Steven told them, his face starting to match the colour of his fez, Im - erm - Im sort of under house arrest. AJ spat out the coffee he was sipping from his flask.

House arrest?! he spluttered, whaddaya mean?!

Well, its technically house arrest, Steve went on, You see, Mum got rather peeved when she saw what happened to the garage roof during the robbery and seeing as how it was my bot they were after, Im the one being prosecuted for it. Im stuck in here for another week and by then, who knows where Wedgey will have ended up? He came to a stop at the garage door and hoisted it open for them. Everyone stood and stared, AJ nearly spilling a bit more of his latt¨.

The garage itself was almost the size of a ballroom, with a blue Mini Cooper tucked away in the corner. The rest of the space was filled by rows of benches, each littered with all sorts of technical paraphernalia. Leading the slightly awe-struck crowd to a particular desktop, Steve showed off the items on offer.

Unfortunately, he explained, most of the oddities in here are either broken, half-built or both. Completely useless for a mission like this. These are the only things in the lab that actually work to a certain extent. Take your pick of any of them to help you in your little expedition. The team examined the peculiarities on the bench:

- a mint-condition palmtop computer, complete with over 19.88 SegaHertz of data (think GigaHertz, but waaaay bigger)
- a Sirius Cybernetics Corporations Improbability Pistol
- a rechargable Power Ring (needs juicing up after each use)
- a Camoflague Ray Gun (twiddle the knob, zap yersel and one of hundreds of differents costumes awaits)
- a CD player with portable speakers and custom-built CD with nearly every piece of famous music ever noted
- a seance mobile phone, complete with address book of potential deceased allies (call em in a crisis ONLY and theyll be beamed to the scene from the afterlife)
- a Swiss Army Spoon, a gift from Great Uncle Archimedes
- a blue lightsabre that could use some new batteries
- one old wand, 121/4 inches, bonzai, contains one dragon heartstring; complete with a handbook to basic magic skills
- various assorted machinary and spare parts from Team Braveheart members

OK gents, Steve said briskly, Whatll it be?

DECISION TIME!

Righty-ho, heres how suiting-up works. You are each allowed to take ONE item to help you in your quest to save Mr Devo. However, this does not include the various bits of machinary. You can carry as much of that as you would like (within reason, of course :wink:) and they can be used for repairs of your robotic selves between fights, creating new items or upgrading existing ones.

So get picking, lads. We dont have much time! :proud:

Ill take the CD player. When I get cinfused, Ill have summat to listen to

Ill take the computer.

I would also suggest that someone takes the camoflague gun

the lightsabre is mine dammit *glares at anyone who thinks otherwise*

Ill take the the spoon to stir my drinks. :)

Stevo, does the computer have wireless connection? :p

Ill take the Phone, Power Ring and the various parts from the Braveheart Team :)

They should all fit inside my trouser pockets :proud: