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Doctor Thomas Right became famous for his development of the "Solid Light System" Technology. The system used solid holograms to perform the functions of various technology with a single device. Now, rather than requiring dozens or hundreds of tools, science could perform a near limitless number of functions with a single unit. The world changing technology became so popular that Thomas was nicknamed "Doctor Light" internationally.

He and his assistant, Doctor Albert Wily go on to apply this technology to the newest field of science. Artificial Intelligenct applied to Robotics. Tensions begin to develop after their first creation. Eager to apply the technology to military contracts, Wily pushes them to create a form of Super Soldier, while Right wants only to make robots for peaceful purposes, fearing that a robot designed to destroy would not know how to stop and would be a danger to mankind as well as other robots.

Even though the two work on the DRN00 together, neither of them are proven right or wrong in it's design. When activated, the autonomous unit leaves home and is not seen by either of it's "fathers" for years. Downhearted by the turn of events, Right continues to manufacture robots that he believes can only exist for peaceful and beneficial purposes.

When Wily leaves, he kidnaps 8 of Right's creations to prove that any robot can become evil. He reprograms them and turns them loose on mankind in an attempt to frame Doctor Right and blackmail the world into allowing him to design fighting robots capable of destroying the threat. Afraid that the world may allow him to unleash such horrible forces, Doctor Right decides to apply the previous fighting design of the DL00, along with a few enhancements, to his DRN01. A housecleaning and maintanence robot that Doctor Right named "Rock".

Even then, Right's greatest concern was that a robot created for combat would not be able to stop itself, and could never lead a peaceful life. Rock, under his guise as Mega Man, greatly astonishes the doctor with the growth of his AI programming. When the robot faces his "brothers", he defeats each of them without destroying them and returns them to Doctor Right so that he can restore their original programming. The blue warrior then continues to expose Doctor Wily's scheme...

From then on, Wily's plots became more grand. No longer attempting to just blackmail, but ultimately conquer the world. Each of his many attempts and plots is foiled by Rock, under the guise of Mega Man.

Wily would attempt to copy Mega Man's design many times over the years, but with only one truly successful attempt, a robot named Bass. Bass, however, would be so well copied that he would grow as much a hate of his creator as he had of the original who had inspired his design. Claiming that he was the greatest robot design of all time, he would state that it was his right, not Wily's, to rule the world. But, for all his talk and grandstanding the dark twin of Mega Man would help the blue bomber more often then stand against him...

Now, several years, and many attempts later, Doctor Wily is believed dead. Legions of his robot masters, however, remain free. Like Mega Man's, their AI has grown beyond the original programming... but for the better, or worse? Many of his robots gather in one of Wily's Skull Fortresses, in strange, almost religious observance and to meet with Four Robots they call "The Kings"...

The leader of these Four Robot Kings is the last, and perhaps most dangerous robot ever created by Wily. His legacy goes on...

Canon Character:
Anybody unfamiliar with Pandangel RPs... this is our basic "Who-Why-What-How" application. Who is it that you want to play? Why do you want to play them specifically? What do you know about the character? How will you intend on playing them?

Character Name: (If you don't know this... I'm afraid we can't approve the application.)

Why Them: (Tell us what about this character makes you want to play them with us? Why are you driven to this specific character? Why should we choose you to play them over other applications for the character?)

Background: (Tell us everything you know about the character. I don't want to see a copy of the Wikipedia article, either, I want your words telling me everything you know about them. Tell me everything you think is relevant to their character. Hopefully this shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 paragraphs... don't feel pressured to write me a novel about them. The challenge for this part is that for most characters, the player will have a lot of freedom to play around with the background of the character, but it should still keep a certain feel relevant to the source. If it helps, Mega Man and Bass on the GBA contains short bios of every Mega Man character... you could probably look those up to build from, but except for a few characters, I won't hold you to those bios.)

RP Challenge: (Somehow I described this poorly in the Naruto RP... so lemme try again. The first aspect is anything power or skill wise you wish to add to the character that is not part of the established canon. This may be refused or debated before allowing to be implimented as a part of the character, but for the most part I'm fairly open and lenient.

Secondly, and most importantly... you must respond to at least 2 of the RP challenge posts that will be listed in Post 6. This is because that we feel a response helps us guage better how you play than a solo-post or a sample of something you've posted previously. So if you're applying a character, you'll need to read this and post 6.)

RP Challenge::

To answer the questions about what the RP Challenge is for application, here you go. When you're applying for a character, most RPs ask for a sample of your RP ability, but we've found in the past that asking for a simple solo-post isn't always a fair way to judge one's ability during a roleplay. Often a person can post a wonderful solo-entry and then be completely unable to post fair and accurate responses to other players. Likewise, often some of the best players get utterly brainfrozen when trying to think of something to post as a solo. So we came up with this method instead.

The very first time you apply for a character, created or canon, you'll pick at least 2 of the following samples to post a reply to. After that you'll only have to select one per character, and if we get a feel that you're reliable and consistant you might be able to bypass this step entirely when applying for a character. After all, if the point is to judge your ability to play and you've already been playing with us for like 30 pages, it's a pretty moot step, right?

It doesn't matter which 2 you respond to your first time, if you find you typically RP better in romantic situations, feel free to respond to both of those and one action or social. If you feel you're abilities are well rounded and you want to show us every facet of your ability, take a crack at one of each. If you want to just show us that you're an Olympian God of RP, feel free to give us a response to all of them. Whatever combination you feel most comfortable with. Responses should be at least 1-2 paragraphs long, but you don't have to feel pressured to go for super-lengths like 5 or 6 paragraphs.



A good judge of a player is how they respond in a fight that they are clearly winning. Obviously this is going to also be different character to character, not just player to player. I don't have a lot of commentary on this, I guess... I don't want to just repeat everything I said in the Naruto layout.



Social interaction is always the core of any RP. Hopefully everybody knows what a Fishing Post is. That's a post a player puts up to try and illicit interaction with other characters. This post could be either a follow up (or bite) to a fishing post, or a fishing post itself, in hopes that another player will assume the role of the person sitting at the table before the player got there. Also just as a note in this RP all characters will have a "normal" and "robot" or "battle" mode. Meaning, like Mega Man and Roll, they can look human most of the time.



Again, I'm admitting my weakest area is in romance scenes. Heh. Also, yes, I'm encouraging romance in my RP that features sentient robots. Romance is just as essential as action and social situations for a good RP to become strong. If it works for Transformers, it works for Mega Man. Remember, I said we can change the genders of the robots, or you can play shonen or shojo ai relationships with the robots, too... have fun with it. *nod* Besides... are you denying that BassXRoll could be a cute couple?



Sometimes a situation looks hopeless. Sometimes it is hopeless. The challenge is up to the player to decide if there's something his or her character can do to get out of the situation, or if they're just going to have to take the loss for the fight. Keep in mind, again, that most of the characters are robots. Meaning severe damage is only temporary, and even if your character is "killed" it doesn't necessarily eliminate them from the RP.



This is a setting post. No actual character is posted to react to, but the player now has a situation from which to build a scene upon. Usually things like this are included by good crew to help give players an idea of what they could be doing when the RP is seeming to run towards a wall. It's something I like to do just to announce any actual plotlines that might be coming up when I have plans for them. From a post like this, it's up to the player how they want to react. They can use the information as bait with a fishing post, or they can simply make a comentary about it that they don't really intend on following up with. *shrugs* Up to the player, really...



Again, sorry, I suck at romance posts. Umm... it's a good measure of a player to see how they react to romance that isn't going exactly peachy keen. Romance and action posts have a lot in common. They both feed off of and help develop social situations. They're both some form of competition. Romance is just emotional and psychological instead of physical and mental.