Frenzy
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Post by Frenzy on Jul 13, 2011 17:36:43 GMT -5
Hook is not technically a medic - he's a surgical engineer - and he'd probably thump someone if they called him a medic. ;-)
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Flame
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Post by Flame on Jul 13, 2011 17:49:28 GMT -5
Flame is, likewise, not actually a medic by nature, though that will probably be his role with the Decepticons. He was originally a scientist.
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Zippo
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Post by Zippo on Jul 13, 2011 17:54:39 GMT -5
Is a 100% bonafied dedicated Medic slash Doctor wanted for either side? someone who really wants to keep others fully operational and NOT experiment upon them
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Rattrap
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Post by Rattrap on Jul 13, 2011 18:06:14 GMT -5
Mad scientists seem to be an issue just with the 'Cons, guy. I'm pretty sure Perceptor, Long Haul, and even Swerve (crankshaft that he is) aren't too keen to experiment on anybody.
If they are, ol' Rattrap will just have to get shot and die. (I can already hear Dinobot celebrating with a haiku.)
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Jul 13, 2011 18:45:00 GMT -5
Dinobot would celebrate with a sonnet, not a haiku. Shakespeare didn't write haiku. Silly Rattrap!
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Jul 13, 2011 19:04:19 GMT -5
I don't know if there are any dedicated medic characters, but neither side is really all that hard up for medics. Long Haul is a constructionman and a logistics specialist, but he spends plenty of time medicing. Perceptor is a scientist and engineer, but he spends plenty of time medicing (and is apparently good enough that he was trusted to repair Optimus Prime in his home reality... not that it did much good ). Without even looking at our list, other Autobots who can repair people include Rodimus, Override, Swerve, Botanica, and there are a couple of people who have approved upgrades to get the repair skill. On the Decepticons side, there's Blackarachnia, Dark Skyfire, Screwdriver (despite her being crazy, she really is very competent), Needlenose, Tarantulus, for starters. Now, we don't always roleplay out full repair scenes, and if that's something that appeals to you, a dedicated medic is a grand idea. If you just like the personality type for a particular medic you've created and you feel they would be fun in assorted situations, that's a grand reason to app a dedicated medic, too (in that case, it's a good idea even if you don't intend to roleplay out all repairs). That said, it's not a good idea to just assume that your character is the only one doing repairs just because you're the only one roleplaying it out... a lot of repairs happen off-screen. The short version, though, is, "Play a dedicated medic if you want to. Don't do it in an attempt to fill a specific need. While a cleric would be welcome, we have enough multiclass cleric/others at quite high levels to do very nicely."
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Rattrap
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Post by Rattrap on Jul 13, 2011 19:09:32 GMT -5
Dinobot would celebrate with a sonnet, not a haiku. Shakespeare didn't write haiku. Silly Rattrap! Eh, all that poetry crap's the same.
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Zippo
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Post by Zippo on Jul 15, 2011 3:46:29 GMT -5
Is it possible that within the database is a relatively complete history for each reality, other than those explicitly posted? Or should I just play it safe and pretend if it’s not posted by a player, it’s not there at all?
Yes or no, can one do anything with the internal computer that Maximals and Predacons possess in the cartoon like download to it, patch or interact with it in anyway not explicitly canon?
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Jul 15, 2011 7:53:19 GMT -5
You can assume that there's a whole lot more to the database than is 'shown', because really, the players don't want to rewrite what has already been written somewhere else, better. (The IC database was started just a little before tfwiki became really big.) Every reality that is represented in a faction ought to have a database entry that is as good as its representatives are willing to make it. That said, some of the more secret/confusing things are still secret/confusing.
Big example: Pretty much no one knows Punch/Counterpunch's true nature. A few Autobot/Maximal officers do, and that's it. The average Autobot/Maximal knows nothing about Punch/Counterpunch's true nature. The average Decepti/Preda/Vehicon just thinks Counterpunch is a snarly if perfectly normal Decepticon.
Another example: the Cybertron reality profile was written by a pair of Velocitronians, so it is probably full of racing terms but doesn't have good info on the colony ships.
If you're unsure over whether something should be common knowledge ICly, I'd suggest OOCly contacting those who would be most affected.
I am not quite sure what you are asking with the second question.
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Jul 15, 2011 17:38:32 GMT -5
Actually, the Cybertron reality entry probably is pretty much just what's posted in the IC Database, but it's the exception rather than the rule, as far as that goes.
And I'm having trouble parsing the second question, too.
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Zippo
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Post by Zippo on Jul 15, 2011 19:05:48 GMT -5
I was thinking specifically, could Zippo download music and other files directly to his internal computer for easy access instead of relying on a datapad, and making some information such as who's who into IC knowledge without being obvious about - he doesnt have to act out looking up such information physically, he could just subvocalize instructions to his internal computer.
(english, my only language and yet my ability to communicate with it sometimes rolls low and even gets the occasional critical failure)
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Post by Rodimus Prime on Jul 15, 2011 21:30:35 GMT -5
Ah! Yeah, he can do those things. That level of computer interface is more or less assumed. A lot of the datapad use for routine stuff is just to either keep the boring stuff from 'crowding their heads,' or, for the more paranoid types, for security reasons. It's safer to check a new file on a stand-alone system before downloading them into your personal systems. If he is interfacing directly to the public Event Horizon computer, he'll want to make sure his firewalls are properly updated (which sounds like a sex joke, I know, but is also a serious security statement, especially given that they sometimes receive outside signals from other planets over the Event Horizon computers).
Also, for some reason a lot of us enjoy giving our characters an excuse to complain about paperwork. Possibly because of the way the real world machines that were supposed to cut down on paperwork seem to have somehow increased it exponentially. It's our form of revenge.
Anyway, for stuff he downloaded, there might be a 'pause' the first time he accesses some information, as he decompresses it and moves it into normal memory.
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Zippo
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Post by Zippo on Jul 22, 2011 15:19:29 GMT -5
Would characters from “Timelines #4” from the Wings of Honor portion of G1 be considered, Landshark specifically?
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Jul 22, 2011 15:36:40 GMT -5
The character might be okay as a toy-only character.
However, we don't take characters from the Club canon, because it's a bit of a pain for people to track down the source material.
So probably not.
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Zippo
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Post by Zippo on Jul 22, 2011 17:07:02 GMT -5
color me boggled but what exactly do you mean by Source material in this context? I downloaded Timelines #4 with no hassle at all
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