VIPER Nest 'Lancehead' (RP SG)

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VIPER Nest Lancehead

Established in the ruins of Detroit in 1994, the Lancehead VIPER nest is a minor nest composed of approximately two dozen operatives lead by Nest Leader Leon Rickard (Known to the masses as Gold Mamba), and second in command Black Krait (A low-ranking member of VIPER's Dragon Branch). Established in the chaotic aftermath of Dr. Destroyer's attack on Detroit, the Nest was covertly built under the City Center, and serves as a base from which VIPER can monitor Millennium City's town hall and MCPD HQ, providing critical intel to other local VIPER nests in order to better conduct operations. Heavily secure and well-concealed, the Lancehead Nest is crewed by highly-trained operatives and soldiers to ensure that the base remains operational.

As of late, a significant amount of staff members have been lost, either as casualties or being transferred to other VIPER nests. In light of this situation, Lancehead has opened it's doors to new VIPER transfers, including fresh new recruits from VIPER academy. Desperate to bolster it's ranks and resume it's full standard operations, the nest hopes to make use of this to introduce both fresh new recruits and veterans to VIPER's future, and ensure top-notch results in the name of the Council.




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We are a heavy VIPER-Themed role-playing supergroup that focuses heavily on lore and team-gameplay. We aim to serve as a prime example of VIPER role-players, we intend to remain true to the source material established by Hero Games and provide a positive and fun role-play experience for all our members. We intend to focus on common IC and OOC interaction between one another, hosting regular events ranging from IC Raids and Operations to OOC lair and instance grinding. We also focus on helping our members progress both ICly (Character Development, Story arcs and so on) and OOCly (Character leveling, costume part farming, lair runs and so on). We have access to several of the official Hero Games source-book for the Champions Roleplaying game as-well as a large chunk of the universe's lore (including the Coils of the Serpent source book, the Official VIPER's Source-book for the RPG) and will gladly help make people more familiar with the game's full lore.

If you are willing to join, we require you to follow the following guidelines:

[*]Respect your fellow guildmates. In-character arguments should not lead to Out of Character hostility. Help your fellow guild-mates progress both OOCly and ICly, and help them feel at home amongst us.

[*]All chat outside of our OOC channel should be kept In-Character. Please separate out of character comments with double brackets where appropriate.
[*]Both Guild Leaders and Higher Ranking Guild Members should be respected. Senior officers have EARNED their position. We do have an established rank system.
[*]If another guild member or a guild officer is giving you grief, then feel free to contact the SG-Leader or Black Krait and they will be dealt with accordingly. VIPER does not tolerate such things in it's ranks, and neither will we.
[*]All guild events are OPTIONAL, you are not going to be forced to join, but we are at liberty to question you if you refuse to attend too many events (Say, only attending 1 in every 20 events). We want active and dedicated players.
[*]This is not an ALT dump. If you intend to join us, please be sure you are willing to play the character regularly before joining.
[*]The SG bank's withdrawal privileges belong fully to the higher ranking members. Feel free to contact them if you require any item from the bank (provided it's for a practical reason).
[*]Have an idea for a SG Role-play? Want a short story arc hosted to flesh out your character? Have an idea for a potential nemesis or threat to our group? We're all ears and LOVE input from our members.
[*]While we do not enforce immensely strict role-play, we do not allow any sort of mixing of OOC and IC, meta-gaming, power-emoting, god-modding or generally killing other player's fun. While we are seeking medium - heavy role-players (able to construct decent-sized well-written posts and emote their characters well), we do not want any sort of role-playing habits that would otherwise kill the fun-factor for any of our more serious role-players. We are more then willing to teach you the ropes if you still are learning, and fully welcome any well-made characters that fit the criteria (below).

Want to join in? First off, your character has to meet the following criteria. If you do not have a character that fits this criteria, we would be happy to offer you tips on making one. To help with this, our site will eventually be updated to add guides on making proper VIPER uniforms amongst other things.

• Uniforms: We require a VIPER uniform, that means following the correct color-scheme as seen in-game on most NPCs.
• Names: If you are to join your name is to be appropriate for a member of VIPER, meaning that it will either consist of [Rank] followed by [Last Name] (rank is optional, we prefer Operative as it covers a wider spectrum) , an appropriate sounding VIPER codename as long as it does not violate Copyright Laws.
• Regarding Rank: We are only accepting any VIPER characters that are between the rank of Hired Thug (usually recruits fresh out of the VIPER academy) to Agent (basically a VIPER Grunt/Soldier). If you have a character whom is of a higher established rank such as Sergeant or Commander, we require an extensive interview as well as a good reason as to why they have been transferred to our Nest. Even then your character would still be serving under the Nest Leader and be in no position to usurp his command. (No characters of the rank Captain or Commandant are allowed. Those ranks are filled).
• Please make sure your character is outfitted with appropriate abilities for their class/rank. We do not want VIPER Brickbusters going around summoning zombies and wielding dimensional magic.
• We do not allowed over-powered , sueish or silly characters. This should go without saying. We do not allow super-dimensional ultra-bad-asses who are secretly dragon-slaying princes from another world which can turn people into chocolate. All members (with a few exceptions) are to be NORMAL humans. We allow cybernetically augmented characters, to a fair degree. Anything beyond that however will require express permission from the Nest Leader.

Need an idea as to what you should make? We are currently looking for a few specific VIPER archetypes to join our SuperGroup.

• 1 Heavy VIPER Power Armor User (Air Cavalry optional)
• 1 - 2 Adder Techs
• 1 - 2 Red Guards (VIPER soldiers used to keep other soldiers in line, usually very good sword/knife fighters.)
• Squad Leaders (Respectful individuals that will be leading the various squads of agents, help to keep a bit of order)
• 3 - 4 Infiltrators (VIPER Stealth Operatives/ Assassins)
• 6+ Viper Soldiers (Standard Gun-wielding Grunts)
• 1 - 2 Brickbusters (VIPER's anti-superpower soldiers)
• 1 - 2 Demolition / Munition Experts
• 1 Initiate-rank Serpent Mage

How to contact us

Both Gold Mamba@Mgoblin256 and Black Krait@Arkeyark may be contacted to arrange an In-Game interview, we accept both tells and In-Game Mail. Mail is a very viable option for requesting a meet In-Character, you get extra kudos for doing so! We are never hidden and are constantly keeping an eye open for requests!

We are currently in the process of constructing a Guild Portal website, it is currently under heavy construction but once finished it will serve as a major resource for the group.

vnlancehead.guildportal.com/