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Thread: Revenge of the Mandalorians(Quest)

Everitt_Cage
Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:20 am
#1







As you look downupon the body lying at your feet you breath a sigh relief. Mere seconds ago it was a living, breathing, lightsaber-wielding furry; hell-bent onmaking surethat youdidnt live to see tomorrow. But as furious as he had fought, and as close as it had been, the skilled hunter always prevails. As had happened exactly 49 times before, you tip you hat to the body of your fallen opponent for the fight he put up, even though it was of course a futile gesture.


As you turn to mount your bike and resume the never-ending quest to exterminate the force wielders from the galaxy, you hear a rustle behind you. You spin around, weapon drawn, ready to send another being to meet his maker; and then you freeze in supprise. What you see before you isnt some petty assassine hired by one of your former enemies in a hopless attempt at revenge. What you see is a man, armored from head to toe in the same rare, ancientgarb that the infamous Boba Fett himself wears: Mandalorian armor.


"Can I help you?", you ask in your most fearsome tone, though you suspect at this very instant you dont sound the most convincing you ever have. Then the figure calls you by your name. Obviously he knows you, though you have no idea who he is or why he's here. "Who are you? How do you know my name", you ask. "Neither who I am, nor how I know you, Bounty Hunter, matters. All that matters is what I once was, and how you can help make strong again what the Jedi destroyed."


Still not trusting this mysterious stranger, you keep your weapons raised, half expecting him to attack you at any moment. "What are you talking about?", you ask. "What I'm talking about, Bounty Hunter, is the legendary Mandalorians. I assume you've heard of them." "Of course I've heard of them", you say. "Every Bounty Hunter has heard the tales of the Mandalorians. But I thought Boba Fett was all that was left of them". The figure shakes his head. "Boba Fett is the son of the man who was once the leader of the Mandalorians, a man named Jango Fett. Many years ago, though, the Jedi all but exterminated them, scattering the few that remained."


"What does this have to do with me?", you ask. "What this has to do with you, Bounty Hunter, is I have observed you have a particular skill for making sure Jedi become one with the force pre-maturely." You laugh, "I cant deny that. With today's kill I've sent 50 Jedi to meet their maker, and hope to send 10 times that many more before I finaly buy it." "That is just what I wanted to hear", he says. "Let me finaly tell you why I'm here: I want to resurrect the Mandalorians, and in the process I want to take revenge on the ones that destroyed them. I'm not a fool though, and I realize I cant do it alone. I need people who have the skills it takes to exterminate the Jedi. People who are worthy to be Mandalorians."


You finaly lower your weapon. "You want ME to be a Mandalorian?", you ask in shock. "Perhaps", he says. "I cant deny the effectiveness of your skills against the Jedi thusfar, and its someone with just those type of skills I need to help me bring them back. But beforeI could ever teach you what it takes to be a true Mandalorian you'll have to prove yourself worthy."


"How??", you ask. "Your certainly on the path, Bounty Hunter. Killing 50 Jedi has shown me you are unique, and perhaps skilled enough to one day be a Mandalorian. But as skilled as you think you have become after killing 50 Jedi, your skills are weak compared to what they will have to be to be a true Mandalorian. Destroy 50 more Jedi, and I will contact you again. And from this moment on, when you fight a Jedi, do not fight him for the money you will get if you win. Fight him for what his kind did to the Mandalorians."


"You can count on me, stranger", you tell him. "50 more Jedi are as good as dead already. But how will I find you when I've killed them?". "You wont", he says, "Nor could you if you even tried. I will find you. Now be on your way, Bounty Hunter, and take revenge on the Jedi for what they did. But before you go, I have something you might find useful in your hunt. This datapad contains the blueprints of how to craft a piece of Mandalorian armor. Dont think I'm foolish enough to let the secret to crafting the legendary armor become common knowledge, though. This programmed information is on a timer and will delete itself soon, but if your quick you will be able to get it to someone you trust and have just enough time to makea singlepiece."


"I cant believe this", you studder. "Believe it", he says. "And after 50 more Jedi are dead perhaps I will help show you the secret of another piece. But now is not the time for talk. Go. Go and see to it that the Jedirecieve the same fate they afforded my kind."


The basic premise is that after 50 Jedi kills, you are visited by a Mandalorian. He gives you a 1 use schem to craft a piece of Mandalorian armor, and tells you to kill 50 more Jedi. Every 50 you kill you recieve another schem until you have a full suit by the time you have reached 500 kills.


Admittedly there is a possibility of exploitation, and I dont have at this moment a solution to that problem. However, thats the purpose of this thread. To submit the basic idea and allow for discussion on how to keep problems such as exploitation from occuring, as well as any changes or improvements you think would enhance it.


I think it should be possible for someone to get Mando on their OWN through hard work. You shouldnt have to rely on other people to do it like you currently do, especialy since BHs are considered to be "loners" in general. But however they do it, it def shouldnt be easy, exploitable, or quickly obtainable. I think something like 1 piece for 50 Jedi kills would be fair.


Ofnote: What motivated this idea was the proposal by cf3d of killing 20 Jedi and recieving a visit by Boba Fett and being given a non-functional Jetpackand a full suit of Mando. As is obvious, I changed that somewhat for this thread, but still wanted to make note of his idea which inspired what I have written.

Message Edited by Everitt_Cage on 09-08-2005 02:28 PM

HeadRoll
Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:40 am
#2






Everitt_Cage wrote:







I think it should be possible for someone to get Mando on their OWN through hard work. You shouldnt have to rely on other people to do it like you currently do, especialy since BHs are considered to be "loners" in general. But however they do it, it def shouldnt be easy, exploitable, or quickly obtainable. I think something like 1 piece for 50 Jedi kills would be fair.





I would take what Everquest did. Put in uber rare special npc's that spawn once a week/month that drop components or give you hints on your next task. Rare npc's work better in largeworlds rather then mini zones like EQbecause it would benear impossible to camp them... it would have to bedumb luck to run into one since the planet areas are so huge. Would make players have a reason to roam the zones more, Rangers would become valuable altho their 200m track range is relatively small butstill can beeffective.


Static npc spawns will not work in this game.
bmill
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:00 pm
#3

Nice posting! This is logical and well thoughtout! /tiphat


It's a great premise and would not be open to exploitation at all. There is already a system in place that tracks your PvP kills. I'm not referring to the PvP Rating feature. About 2 months ago,a Lambda Shuttle landed in Theed, and 2 squads of Stormtroopers and Vader came strolling off it. Vader was handing out "mini" missions to anyone who wanted them. The mission choice was either PvE or PvP. I chose PvP: Kill 5 rebels. That's it. Just kill 5 rebels that were Special Forces. No time limit. Being an avid PvPer I figured it would be easy enough and accpeted the mission. That night I was PvP'ing with the guild and killed 4 unique Rebels. And you actually had to deathblow these guys, not just hit them once to register the kill... .found that out the hardway. Anyway, I killed one guy twice thinking it would register, but it didn't. I found out that it had to be 5 unique PvP deathblows. So I quickly killed another Rebel, got a mission complete, some faction (not sure about a badge though)


The point is... the system is already scripted to track unique PvP kills by player. That system could easily be adapted to be used to track the 50 Jedi then visit from the Mandolorian Series you described.


Whole thing is though 500 Jedi Kills.... unique Jedi Kills.... that's an aweful lot. Are there 500 Jedi on a server? I know there are alot of Jedi, but 500 or more? That is going to be a lot of double missions. Would PvP kills count? Or just Bounty Missions? Another thing to think about. As someone above said, some non-bounty hunter professions could wear Mandolorian Armor (unless it's MBH only certified), killing PvP Jedi would allow them to participate in the fun also.






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Everitt_Cage
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:03 pm
#4






ForceInstructor wrote:


sounds catchy right up until your last couple of words. You say that BH's are by nature loners. This I agree with, however we're talking about mandalorians and we know that they would stick together in squds like wolf packs.


I agree with that thought, but we're not talking about Mandalorians(who would be in packs)getting Mando armor, we're talking about BHs(who are loners)getting mando armor.


Anyway if they implement this I think we should leave an alternative to our commando/squad leader/ranger society as let's not forget: they too are certed to wear mando and to narrow down the cert to the BH community would be highly unfair as most mandalorians were mercs. Most often associate mandalorians with bounty hunters cause of the fetts but that's not really the case. How do you suppose the commando alternative would work? Or any of the others for that matter.


What is your thought on the fact that BHs are the ONLY proffession that has access to BH schems, yet other proffessions that are certed for Assualt armor can wear BH armor? Do you thik Commandos, for instance, should be able to have missions that loot BH schems since they are certed to wear that type of armor as well?








Nullified
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:03 pm
#5

Sorry, by all means, as stated in the other thread as well, crap.

Sorry, just because they screwed the timeline and reasoning up when bringing in jedi doesn't mean that we have to do it again.



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Everitt_Cage
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:08 pm
#6






Aeschyl2 wrote:

great idea...but mandalorians werent BH's


they were Commandos and Rangers







No, they were mercs, and their ranks probably included many diff proffessions, not just the 2 you say they were. But I do understand the fact that they werent 1 specificaly, however, the story I created has to do w/ a Mandalorian trying to exterminate the Jedi for what they did to the Mandalorians, and it just so happens that BHs are the only proff that can hunt Jedi. I do agree that the other proffs that are certed for Mando should have a way to get it, but I'm going to leave it up to members of those proffs to invent the way. I only dealt w/ BHs because its my proff, but their more than free to come up w/ an equally challenging way for their own proffs.

Everitt_Cage
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:10 pm
#7






Nullified wrote:
Sorry, by all means, as stated in the other thread as well, crap.

Sorry, just because they screwed the timeline and reasoning up when bringing in jedi doesn't mean that we have to do it again.




Heh, I was waiting for somene to try that. They already screwed it up in this respect. I can give you the wp to a bunker on Endor where there are HUNDREDS of people wearing full suits of Mando. You think Mando shouldnt be around or should be rare right now? Thats fine. But why arent you petitioning to take out the DWB and all the hundreds of DW inside it wearing Mando armor too?

Everitt_Cage
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:12 pm
#8






Aeschyl2 wrote:

just because the "most famous" mandalorian (who wasnt even a mandalorian by birth, merely by adoption) - was a BH








Actualy, by the time Jango became a Manalorian, they were not a race at all, just a group of skilled mercs. While there may have been originaly, by the time he led them, there was no biology to being a Mandalorian.

Nullified
Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:13 pm
#9

Because they are the DEATH WATCH. The remains of the mandalorian SPECIES.



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ForceInstructor
Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:38 am
#10

sounds catchy right up until your last couple of words. You say that BH's are by nature loners. This I agree with, however we're talking about mandalorians and we know that they would stick together in squds like wolf packs. Anyway if they implement this I think we should leave an alternative to our commando/squad leader/ranger society as let's not forget: they too are certed to wear mando and to narrow down the cert to the BH community would be highly unfair as most mandalorians were mercs. Most often associate mandalorians with bounty hunters cause of the fetts but that's not really the case. How do you suppose the commando alternative would work? Or any of the others for that matter.
Aeschyl2
Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:40 am
#11

great idea...but mandalorians werent BH's


they were Commandos and Rangers


Aeschyl2
Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:41 am
#12

just because the "most famous" mandalorian (who wasnt even a mandalorian by birth, merely by adoption) - was a BH


dont think that everything they stand for and believe in hinges on just him


Everitt_Cage
Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:58 am
#13







Nullified wrote:
Because they are the DEATH WATCH. The remains of the mandalorian SPECIES.





Mandalorians are NOT a species. From what I've read about them,A freak accident caused the onboard computer of one of the first human colony ships to miscalculate a hyperjump, sending the ship and the passengers aboard off in a direction opposite of the one intended. The result left thousands stranded in a previously uncharted solar system with only one inhabitable planet, a world the colonists christened 'Mandalore' after the ship which had stranded them there. Anyway, the rest is a long story, but the point of the matter is they are HUMANS. That is the SPECIES. The same as Han Solo or Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Message Edited by Everitt_Cage on 09-09-2005 10:58 AM

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