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jessfromonline
@jessfromonline

initial character vibes from the campaign discord:

basically, think of her as galo from promare, kamina from gurren lagann, and blossom from powerpuff girls thrown in a blender. she believes in the you that believes in her. you know that moment in 90s cartoons where it turns out the older sister who picks on the protagonist is actually very cool & believes in & supports them when the chips are down? that's PALADIN's every moment. my like, anchor image for her approaching a scared kid who she needs to calm down & take into her cockpit for transport—she kneels her mech in front of them, popping open the cockpit and reaching out her hand with a confident smile, before asking "So, you want help me punch some fascists? ✨"

full backstory & mech loadout below the break


jessfromonline
@jessfromonline
  • flew into the air and wrecked a mech and a half with a missile barrage on my first turn
  • captured a Harrison Armory-hired mercenary by shoving them in my Expanded Compartment after they surrendered
  • got into it with a PC from the Core Worlds about Sanjak & planetary autonomy
  • taught texas hold 'em—in character—to another character (whose player did not know how to play) then played 7 rounds of in character texas hold 'em against the other PCs (a Union Navy unit) and one DOJ-HR liberator. we took all of the liberator's money.

jessfromonline
@jessfromonline

an enemy SNIPER placed a SNIPER'S MARK on me (meaning any damage it deals immediately hits me for 1 structure) that i could ignore in cover or if i dropped prone. moving into cover would mean taking a reaction from the SNIPER, but i realized...

i'm a Monarch. i have range 15 missiles & ignore line-of-sight. i don't need to move.

PALADIN activates...BECOME STATIONARY MISSILE EMPLACEMENT.

i simply dropped to the ground & started firing from missiles from prone & i am going to continue doing so for the rest of this combat. i am basically just a ground crew with a Size 2 missile truck lmao.

also

i still got shot & lost a structure from HP & got a system destroyed for the second time this campaign & chose my Expanded Compartment again and a party member added that they like to imagine that:

i have what looks like a second cockpit which all our enemies keep mistaking for my primary cockpit and thinking they've sniped the pilot as they shoot through it lmao



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in reply to @jessfromonline's post:

got into it with a PC from the Core Worlds about Sanjak & planetary autonomy

Something I really enjoyed about playing Spire with characters with politics strongly developed in session zero was when we had to have the tough talk about our characters politics in character. All so we could figure out how to proceed vis a vis operating together in the cell. I eat that shit up.