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Approved Character Robert "Rags" Raggleton

Nevaraon

Inactive Member
====== Robert "Rags" Raggleton ======

^ Robert "Rags" Raggleton ^^

^ Species: | Nepleslian |
^ Gender: | Male |
^ Age: | 27 |
^ Zodiac Sign: | Virgo |
^ Family (or Creators): | His father is in jail, and his mother is dead |
^ Height: | 5 ft |
^ Weight: | 160 |
^ Bra Size: | |
^ Organization: | ISC PHOENIX |
^ Occupation: | Knife/Pistol combantant |
^ Rank: | |
^ Current Placement: | |



===== Robert "Rags" Raggleton in Roleplay =====
Robert "Rags" Raggleton is played by [[Nevaraon]] and is currently involved in the plot [].



===== Physical Characteristics =====
**Height:** 5 ft\\
**Weight:** 160\\
**Measurements:** \\
**Bra Size:**

**Build and Skin Colour:** Robert is a short, wiry(he prefers the word lean), and tough. He has a very tan complexion which turns very light on his back from the scar tissues

**Facial Features and Eye Colour:** His face is not much different from the rest of his body. thin, but has a peculiar, rougish charm save for the scar over his right cybernetic blue-grey eye. The other one is a contrastingly green eye.

**Hair Colour and Style:** He has long hair which is naturally brown, but he dyes it a silvery color, He keeps it in a ponytail which runs down to the middle of his back.

**Distinguishing Features:** He has scars all over his chest, back, and over his right eye. He also has a blue-grey cybernetic eye and a cybernetic right arm.



===== Psychological Characteristics =====
**Personality:** Robert loves nothing more than to drink, tell jokes, and throw knives. All of which he excels at. And if a good old-fashioned bar brawl comes his way, then he's just hit the jackpot. Despite his obvious love for fighting, especially knife-fighting, he rarely starts a fight, but he'll always finish one quickly and effeciantly. He likes to think he's friendly, and considers most anyone he likes a friend, but he can never quite tell when his wise-cracking side goes too far with someone. One thing that will drive Robert past his self-control is his last name which he hates jokes being made about. He always lets people that he jokes around with know that his last name is off limits once. And doesn't bother a second time.

**Likes:** Drinking, Joking, Knife-throwing, and Money.\\
**Dislikes:** Boasters, Gangsters, Drug-Dealers, Jokes about his last name, and Big Corporations\\
**Goals:** To live his life to the fullest and be able to look back and be proud.



===== History =====
==== Pre-RP ====
Robert was born into a poor family. His dad, Jonathan Raggleton, was a low ranking gangster/drug-dealer. They didn't have much to live on, and things only got worse for Robert. \\
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When Robert was 15, his dad was scapegoated by a major league gang boss, the Funky City cops threw him in jail for pretty much the rest of his life. Robert's mom, Mary Raggleton, worked various jobs to provide for the both of them. Then, one day, as she walked to work, she got caught in the cross-fire of a gang fight. She didn't survive. \\
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Robert took to the streets and joined up with a small gang called "The White Scorpions" where he did minor crimes; breaking and entering, petty theft, and mugging. He kept this up till he was 25 when he was caught mugging someone on another gang's turf. He was beaten, whipped, tortured, and left for dead on the edge of his gang's turf with his right eye cut out and his right arm cut off. As soon as he healed, he straightened up and left his gang. He tried to get by as a solo mercenary, but nobody would hire him. He was drinking his sorrows away with the last of his savings when he noticed an ad which held the potential to change his life. \\
Openings on a Mercenary Ship called the ISC Phoenix. He packed up his trade-mark rag-mask, his knife, and his pistol and headed to the listed address.

===== Skills =====
==== Fighting ====
Robert has practiced knife-fighting since he took to the streets and is adept at throwing knives, and fights with a mixture of stabbing attacks and grappling skills in a free-style form, not unlike an armed version of judo, but he has had no real training in any sort of martial arts. He just simply picked it up throughout the many gang fights he has fought. He also knows how to use pistols, bats, chains, and other blunt objects, but not to the degree of his knife or fist fighting skills

==== Physical ====
Having lived a life on the edge, he knows how to run correctly, thus quickly. He can hold a sprint for 3 minutes and can run almost forever but not both at the same time. \\
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He also can do some minor acrobatic tricks such as tumbling, back-flipping, pole-vaulting, and somersaulting \\
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He knows how to swim, but is only good enough to keep himself or someone else afloat.

==== Rouge ====
He can pick most locks, move quickly and quietly, and lie at the drop of a dime.



==== Entertainment ====
He is good at telling jokes, loves to flirt, and really loves showing off his knife-throwing skills. He has a few routines he used while trying to survive on his own, which are a mixture of acrobatics and knife-tossing. He can also juggle.

==== Communications ====
He speaks the common language, and the gang's cant. He also knows how to "speak" in the most basic ASL. Usually his sign language either comes out in choppy sentences, or are just plain incoherant, but he can grasp the basic idea of a conversation if not the finer details.

==== Technology ====
He can operate most land-based vehicles available to civilians



===== Inventory =====
==== Clothing ====
Old cut-up shirt\\
Old worn out jeans\\
Trademark rag mask\\
==== Accessories ====
Double Diamond edged steel knife\\
Zen Armaments .45 Caliber Pistol\\
== Electronics ====
* Electronic Money Card




===== Finances =====
Robert "Rags" Raggleton is currently a beginner in the ISC PHOENIX.
| 3000 KS | | | Starting Funds |


===== OOC Discussion =====
ok, changed the weight, took the clothes out of the distinguishing features, and lookin over the skills now. edited the communications, Rogue, technology skills, removed leadership, and am now looking for replacement skill.
 
Do you have it on the wiki yet? Please post the link.
 
G'day, I shall be your penguin reviewer today to see if this has enough penguins for our batch of peeps. Even though you aren't a newbie.

Anywho, did the wiki template on the forum , so just control-c it and plaster it all over the wiki on a page.

First things first: Why the hell is he 200 pounds if he is only five feet tall? Neps are pretty much humans, remember.

You manage to describe the character physically while also not describing him at all, a very particular manner. However, it is fine. Could use more, naturally. Anyway, take out clothing. Tis for physical appearance and not clothing!

Personality is all g00d. Nothing really to say there, I could comment on the fact likes and dislikes doesn't really go into a over arching detail, but oh well, thats true about most charries.

History is passable. :D

Skills... Are meh. More details around the board for the most part.

Requires a lil work here and there, minor edits. Make a post sayin' when you did your shindig.
 
It looks good, but a quick note: Z-Virus is only the name of the arc that I've just finished, not the name of the plot.

All you really need to do now is get the Wiki template sorted out correctly, there are a few loose bits in there to tighten.
 
well, i pretty much copy and pasted it from here to there with a few minor edits to the format. Since i want to flatten this nail down good and clean, can you point out what's still wrong? anyone?
 
Alright, this will do. Any more ironing out will be fine so long as you don't do anything drastically different or something like that.

Penguin stamp of approval, yadda yadda ya, you know the drill with the green text. INFORMALITY AT ITS BEST!
 
I've something to add first.

My only problem is the skills. Way too overpowered.

He's a master knifefighter, but has no formal training. How is he a master? Could he beat a well-trained Nepleslian soldier or police officer? Could he beat a Ketsurui Samurai? Saying he's a master means nothing. Did he train under someone, or is he just a good streetfighter?

Physical is technically within the bounds of the description — way to use not only the two words listed in said description, but lift swimming out of the opening paragraph of the "Writing Your Skills" page of the CCG.

His Rogue (not Rouge) skill is also within the bounds of the description, and conveniently uses nearly every part of it to the hilt. Tone this skill down, please.

Right. There is no justification, whatsoever, that this character deserves the Leadership skill. No past history of leading, no suggestions in the personality that he could lead, nothing. Please remove this skill, and replace it with something else.

Communication is overpowered, but that's just lack of definition. How good is he at reading lips? Where did he learn? What sign language does he speak? How complicated is that language?

Please remove the second part of Vehicles, the part about military vehicles. Unless you define military vehicles as the most basic, practically civilian vehicles the Nepleslian military has at its disposal, you're reaching.
 
Fair enough Doshii, i shall fix that now.



****edit****

there are multiple types of sign language?

and also, i'm trying to figure out if you mean to revise physical too or not.
 
Yes there are. ASL (American sign language) Signed English, Japan has its own sign language, Europe has another, so does south America. signed languages are just as varied as spoken languages.
 
You don't have to revise Physical. I was pointing out that you could've actually explained his Physical, instead of just using the base description words.
 
ok then,

Question, do i have to have 7 skills? or would just those 6 be alright? i mean looking on his history he really wouldn't have much education to fall back on. Just random bits of information and maybe a general idea of Neplesia's current events. And most of that falls under the Rogue skill right?
 
Those things aren't really attached to Rogue, but you can have only six skills if you can't pick up another. That's OK.
 
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