VALOR TRIGGER INFO/INTEREST POST

The city of Vancouver, population 603,000. Four years ago, a gateway to another world opened here, and an unstoppable army came through from the other side. These invaders from another world, eventually dubbed "Neighbours", destroyed everything in the vicinity of the gate, and spread terror throughout the city.

Their technology was different from ours, and all of our weapons were useless against them. But just as hope seemed lost, a group of people appeared wielding stolen Neighbour technology against them, and drove the invaders off.

"Leave them to us," they said. "We've been preparing for this day for a long time."

Valor Trigger is an online tabletop campaign based on the weekly manga series World Trigger and run in Valor. Players will take on the role of agents of the Border Defense Agency, and defend the city of Vancouver from continuous invasions from other worlds, all the while dealing with school work and participating in mock battles with other BDA squads for rank.

Details

This game will be run in Valor, which is a super customizable system dedicated to modelling the most anime fights possible, plus a couple more house rules to tweak the system. No experience with this system - or any other tabletop roleplay system! - is required, nor is knowledge of World Trigger. I'll be providing a PDF copy of the game's rules to any players who don't already own it. Play will be done over text in Roll20.

I'm looking for 3-4 players, whose characters will be a new squad starting off at the very bottom of the BDA totem pole, and climbing up to the top over the course of the campaign.

Setting

If you're familiar with World Trigger, take pretty much everything about its setting and transplant it to west-coast Canada. If you're not familiar, and want the full deets about it, click here to read my in-depth setting post. If that's way too much reading for you, here's a compressed version:



Other universes orbit around ours in a weird black inter-dimensional void. When they come close enough to send a ship across, the people ("neighbours") from these worlds send soldiers to ours to abduct people who can power the weapons they use. Four years ago, they invaded en masse for the first time, and caused massive panic until a group of earthlings calling themselves the Border Defense Agency, who had already been studying and using Neighbour technology, showed up and fought the invaders off.

Today, a massive BDA base stands at the site where the Neighbours first emerged, in what used to be the city's West End district, and a special device within the base draws all Neighbour gates to open in the area around it, where BDA agents can easily dispatch them before they hurt anybody. This has made the area around the base uninhabitable, and an awful lot of people needed to be relocated, but has meant that the rest of the city can more or less carry out its business like nothing ever happened. Four years later, despite being technically an ongoing war zone, the city of Vancouver is oddly peaceful...for now.

You are a squad of fresh-faced young new recruits, most likely around 14-15 years old, new to the BDA and just finished with your training period. You will fight alien invaders, protect the people of the city, wrestle with the BDA's internal politics, and even compete with other squads for rank within the organization.

There's money and fame to be had for the top squads, but maybe that doesn't interest you. Maybe you lost a family member in the invasion, and want revenge. Maybe you're motivated by a genuine desire to protect people. Maybe you just like a fight, and this is the best place to find one. Or maybe, just maybe, you're secretly a Neighbour yourself. Whatever your reason, it's up to you to climb that ladder and keep the people of Vancouver safe.

If you have any interest in playing, let me know by filling in the following form and leaving it in a comment on this page:

<b>Name:</b> What do we call you? <b>Pronouns:</b> How do you prefer to be addressed? <b>Availability:</b> We will want to meet to play once a week for several hours, circumstances permitting. Which days and what times are you reliably free for? <b>Character Concept:</b> You don't need to commit to anything yet (and if you don't have an idea yet, don't let that stop you from signing up), but it's never too early to start thinking about it. You may want to consult <a href="https://pikabot.dreamwidth.org/132546.html">this page</a> for setting power information.