Which OCC would you be if it was YOU.

NoJack · Unread post by **NoJack** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:24 pm

If you yourself were instantly transplanted into Rifts Earth. Which OCC would you like to become, considering the inherant dangers and downsides (and upsides) of each class.

Mage?

Juicer?

Crazy?

Cyber-Knight?

CS grunt?

I didn't do a poll because there are simply too many options. Just remember that this time it is you not a character on a piece of paper.

RoadWarriorFWaNK · Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:41 pm

I would be dead as soon as i stepped out of a rift.

But assuming i lived long enough to train for an OCC, i'd be a gunslinger.

NoJack · Unread post by **NoJack** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:49 pm

But aren't sea titans a different race? Related to Humans to be sure.

Brian Manning · Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:23 pm

Well, I would like to be a Cyberknight, but if I went the route of the Man-at-arms class, I would probably just end up as a head hunter.

Realistically I would probably end up a rogue scholar, or City Rat.

Even more realistically I would end up a Vagabond (chances are I'd have some candy and breathmints, instead of soap, in my backpack when I get dumped).

Pox · Unread post by **Pox** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:23 pm

Since I am already in a good location for options...

Gimme a Silver Wolf Glitter Boy since I already live in PQ and relatively educated, but not enough to get me in trouble.

Gawd...just saying that I would want to have a GB just took a piece of my soul. :shock:

Brian Manning · Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:26 pm

Pox wrote:Gawd...just saying that I would want to have a GB just took a piece of my soul.

LOL!

Daniel Stoker · Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:02 pm

I'd love to become a Mind Melter or Psi-Warrior. Though knowing my luck I'd end up in the middle of Atlantis and get to be the 'food' O.C.C.

Daniel Stoker

Shin Kenshiro · Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:38 pm

Hehehehe....if given the chance, I know I'd leap to be an RPA "SAM" for the CS (I still can be edumacated and all...duh hyuk duh hyuk) or a robot pilot for Japan. Keep me away from magic, but gimme them beautiful flying power armors and those death spitting cannons. WOOOOOOO!!!!!

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:40 pm

If I had my choice of any OCC, I'd take a Psi-Tech.

I'd never have trouble finding work as a mechanic with all you thrill junkies prancing about in your glitter boys and your SAMAS suits and getting all shot up! :lol:

Killer Cyborg · Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:40 pm

I would be a vagabond, speaking realistically.
I would want to be a mage, but don't know if I could handle it; I have trouble following complex step-by-step instructions and am not so hot in the meditation department.
I don't have the mechanical aptitude to be an Operator, or the medical skills to be a Body Fixer or Cyberdoc, or the skills to be a Rogue Scholar or Rogue Scientist.
I'd pass on being a Crazy, because sanity is pretty important to me
I'd pass on Juicer Conversion because I don't like drugs and don't want to die.

If I lived long enough to get some decent cash, I suppose I might opt for partial Borg conversion...

Shin Kenshiro · Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:51 am

Hang on, perhaps I misread this title for the thread. I figured it was a "if you could be anything, what would you be?" concept. But if we're putting real life knowledge and stuff in, then I'd have to be an Operator (Or any other technician style OCC), Robot Pilot, Rogue Scholar, Storyteller (Hell, no one would know the stuff you tell them about before The Coming Of The Rifts was a lie or not, and truth is stranger than fiction...) or a Marine in the New Navy.

Kagashi · Unread post by **Kagashi** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:05 am

being a slave on Atlantis would be cool...

Seriously, assuming that I know what i know about Rifts already, I would prolly learn some magic and high tech skills so i can not only pilot power armor, but be able to survive in a MDC world with out power armor too. Seeing that I would have nothing of value except my pre Rifts underware and keyboard, I doubt i would be able to afford anything beyond some modern underware. So, i guess PA is out and Magic is in asap. Of course, i dont belive in magic in real life, so it would not work for me in Rifts, so basicly, i would just die...or go back to being a slave...

I would not subject myself to any cybernetic/bionic alterations, nor dabble in the Evil magic arts. I am not a psychic either. I have nothing of value to obtain MDC weapons and armor.

But the one thing that I have as an advantage is, I know more about Rifts than Plato does. I know exactly how to kill certian demons and exploit their weakneses and assess the strength of enemy forces by identification of their tech equipment. I know the history of Real earth, and Rifts Earth, so I MAY be able to sell/trade my info for security/valuables/spell knowledge.

I know martial arts, so I would not be completly defenseless. I MAY even have some "powers" that can translate into MD attacks and defenses, but I dont think im THAT good yet.

Assuming that I would remian in the same location, I would be in the territory of the 1st Cavalry and just a hop over the river to Chi-Town, so i would be in a pretty human friendly land, no worries there.

Rex · Unread post by **Rex** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:29 am

[quote="Zerebus
(More generally to the other posters of this thread) Bah. All you youngins and your open horizons. Us older folk have to be more realistic with our career choices!

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Gonna have to agree. The Body Fixer has a few skills that I haven't learned yet, but thats what I'm working on being. Besides, I have plumbing knowledge and combat skills. I'd like to think I can go far in Rifts earth.

Shin Kenshiro · Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:38 am

Snippersly wrote:APOK.

The coolest bad ass and most misunderstood guy in the megaverse...IMHO

Snippersly

To bad you'd have to go through the worst hell imanginable to become one. Well....maybe the 2nd worse hell. New Jersey still claims the top.

Temporalmage · Unread post by **Temporalmage** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:03 pm

I'd love to be a Temporal Mage...duh! :lol:

But realisticly I'd probably end up some kind of man at arms type for the CS. Probably a Military Specialist. Though I am getting a bit long in the tooth for all that running around and stuff :erm:

Banedir · Unread post by **Banedir** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:40 pm

I'm pretty intense, so I think I'd make a good Mind Melter.

I'd also be drawn to Temporal Wizard or Warlock.

I'd really be blown away by millenium trees! I'm not really a druid type of a guy but I could go for living in a millenium tree in a heartbeat. I wouldn't mind having a go at developing the Elixir of Immortality, either! Ok, that's Mystic China, but internal alchemy's internal alchemy, right?!

Fat_Ninja · Unread post by **Fat_Ninja** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:57 pm

Realistically, the CS would probably consider me a sort of Rogue Scholar. Or since I basically live where Psyscape supposedly is, hopefully I'd be some sort of combat enabled psionic. Which means I'd most likely still be bereft of psi ability and be basically living off the good graces of Psyscape. :lol:

What I'd want to be is something completely different: Gimme some power armor, durnit!! Not a Glitter Boy just because I don't want to be a target, but more than likely I'd join up with Free Quebec. I already speak French, somewhat. Or the NGR if I could get there. Yah! NGR 'Borg. Blasting away at them filthy D Bees while shouting German profanity.

Okay fine. Give me an SDC pop gun and leave me in the shadow of Psyscape and I'll still be blasting away and screaming profanity in German..... while the hordes of chaos ignore me until they need a snack.

Prince Cherico · Sun Apr 18, 2004 8:49 pm

mind melter all the friggen way

Slag · Unread post by **Slag** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:59 am

I had an answer myself, but how in the hell can I follow DL's post? :lol:

*Wants a maited pair of Draken...and Pleasurers...himself!

*

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:07 pm

el magico -- darklorddc wrote:I'd like to be trained as a shifter.......AND OPEN A RIFT BACK TO MY EARTH!!!!!!!
Seriously, what idiot who could shift out of this heck-hole would hang around waiting to be a tasty meat snack for a demon or a target for a CS plasma missile????
I'm up and out!
Cya, wouldn't wanna be ya!
Now, where to is the question?
I'd get a job in Phaseworld summoning exotic, safe, pets for extremely rich people who, let's face it, aren't mostly gonna go shopping at a splugorth market...I'd charge millions for crap they've never seen before....

"Behold the silvery coat of the Altairian Giant Bunny! Weighs in at 500 lbs. and constantly emits psychic empathic transmissions of peace and happiness! Immortal and feeds on happy thoughts! Only 150 million credits!"

"Buy your own drakin luck bird today! Well-trained, excellent for falconeering megadamage critters! Comes with megadamage dinosaur-leather arm mount. 30 million credits...buy a mated pair for only 50 million!"

Then, it's early retirement on a utopia world with my two pleasurer's Olivia and Kitten and wouldn't cast much beyond globe of daylight and manipulate objects for the rest of my life.

*ponders for a moment*

Okay, forget my earlier post... I'd still become a Psi-Tech, but I'd like to be the one who builds cages and other accessories for these exotic pets DLDC is whistling up in his 'interdimensional pet store' (hey, he's gonna need someone to build that drakin luck bird's megadamage dinosaur-leather arm mount) and hopefully gain enough wealth to follow his lead in retirement options.

Sorry y'all, but the thought of living in a utopia with a pair of personal Pleasurers is just TOO good to resist. :ok:

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:14 pm

Hmmm...

I know too-much to be a Vagabond...

I don't know enough (technically) to be a Rogue Scholar or Scientist... :-(

I'd have to go with City Rat with tech leanings and an appreciation of nature thrown in. :lol:

On the flip side...what would I LIKE to be?
A PFRPG Sage!

If I can't take that...I have a Scrupulous A.I. I wrote-up that likes "normals" and feels protective to "lesser" creatures! :shock:

Or, a Godling. :oops:

Hystrix · Unread post by **Hystrix** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:01 am

I'd be a Rouge Scholar, and a crappy one at that. With low skills and no weapons. I'd probably be captured by a CS patrol and shot when they found out that I could read!

Oh what would I WANT to be? Probably a travelling Preacher/Gunfighter/Cyber Knight type OCC. I like the idea of travelling through small towns and settlements and righting wrongs...

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:44 am

Hystrix wrote:Oh what would I WANT to be? Probably a travelling Preacher/Gunfighter/Cyber Knight type OCC. I like the idea of travelling through small towns and settlements and righting wrongs...

You know, there was a time I would have enjoyed that... but the thought of spending my days with a pair of lovelies is just flat-out kicking my altruistic side to the curb with rough abandon. :nh:

Not that I'm complaining, of course...

The Ruiner · Unread post by **The Ruiner** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:18 am

well, if the rift opened up and spit me out at the exact spot that i lived...i'd be very wet. Probably would drown in the atlantic or get eaten by a sea monster. But if i actually some how survived the ocean....more than likely I'd end up polishing my new masters eye of eyelor staff.

ExcuseMySarcasm · Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:07 pm

Same as here, Penulitmate Highlord Sarcasm, the mordant master of trenchant thoughts and barbed wit.

NoJack · Unread post by **NoJack** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:46 pm

I was thinking about whether or not I would really sacrifice my "humanity" to become a full conversion Borg if given the chance... that was the type of thing I was thinking about. Who in their right mind would go for a juicer conversion? I have played them lots, but unfortunately I'm not so attached to my Characters that I mind if they die. Really I'm only put out if I didn't take a few others with him. But with my body, and if it was really me would I be willing to put myself under the knife? I actually don't think so. Unless it was necessary.

As for a mage class, well I have the faith to back it but it's not really for me. Psi stuff, well as I'm not psychic now there is little chance that I would be there. On the other hand, Cyber-knight training would be a good thing. Don't know that I'd ever actually become one, but it's something to aspire to.

Zivilyn · Unread post by **Zivilyn** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:35 pm

Knowing myself I'd come through the rift accidently set something on fire, probably being a burster and all, only to have Quasi come through after.... "Hey honey I think I'm a burster!" "No you're not, you don't have powers, just me."

Going through a rift:Memorable
Finding out you're a Burster:Great
Finding out your husbands a PsiNull:Priceless

Vrykolas2k · Unread post by **Vrykolas2k** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:43 pm

Fallen cosmo-knight whose spells focus on the Blue Flame... I LOVE those blue Flame spells, yes... Ya I do follow a code of honour, was raised thusly, but the Forge would pobably get ticked off at my pragmatism and dump me lol... thus i'd be Aberrant after my fall.

Smith · Unread post by **Smith** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:13 pm

Magic User, as soon as I learned of the possibility. I'm a patient guy and I think I could make it through years of apprenticeship for whatever OCC I managed to get. I would go for one of the "schooled" mages rather than granted powers, if the option were available. I would lean towards Ley Line Walker, or Temporal Wizard if the option were presented. I'm not currently a practicing occultist or anything like that, but I enjoy having control over my own destiny. It seems to me that becoming anything other than a (schooled) mage would have a lower chance of survival if the world of rifts were to come to be.

NoJack · Unread post by **NoJack** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:02 am

The F-4. Nobody gives those things enough credit. Or a Russian Su27 or MiG 29. If wwe were to go for modern craft, Su35. It flies rings around the f-22.

The Artist Formerly · Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:56 am

Mind Melter. Or Emperor of the Coalition. Or both...

CyCo · Unread post by **CyCo** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:42 pm

Sin wrote:To be honest, I'd end up a Vagabond OCC and try to take the next dimensional portal to someplace better.

Ditto. I'ld probably have a high drive skill. Other than that, not much.

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:03 pm

Top five I would want to be
1. some kind of mage
2. rogue scholar
3. momano or assassin headhunter
4. demon queller
5. cyber-knight
Realistically I'd probably end up a dead vagabond.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:52 pm

Also, if one owned thier books and read often, you could have the personal knowledge of a scholar. Knowledge is power.

If in North America, i'd probably try to become a Battle Magus or Gunslinger. If In Russia, Reaver Assassin. If in China, i'd like to search out the Geofront and see what they have to offer (assuming I survive the initial journey) If in Japan, either Sohei Warrior Monk (for the body hardening) or Mystic Ninja (for the psionics and stealth abilities). With Chi-Gung Mega-Damage skin, you have a much better chance to survive if pitched into battle. Of course, i'd never turn down the offer of being a Cosmo-Knight.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:54 pm

Probably go with Shins idea, RPA Pilot.

Im a good driver, so getting into a machine that can whiz through the air sounds best.

or maybe a Gunslinger in Terrain Hopper power armor.

Really id probably be an Ordinary Person from BTS2e.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:10 pm

K20A2_S wrote:I like playing CS grunts b/c they are a challenge to keep alive.

Haha, very true.

dark brandon · Unread post by **dark brandon** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:25 pm

Tough tough....Probably an Anti-Monster.

Next

Gunfighter/slinger
Juicer turn Full Conversion borg
Ludicrous mage
Nega-Pychic

Sentinel · Unread post by **Sentinel** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:09 pm

For all of the OCCs I like (Scholar, Gunslinger, Cyber-Knight), I think I'd rather be a HUII power catagory with an education bonus, and my choice of scholastic skill programs.

Vrykolas2k · Unread post by **Vrykolas2k** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:52 pm

Fallen Cosmo-Knight.
I have the code of honour and believe in justice, so the Forge would likely accept me... until I turned to torture of some rapist or other...
And I'm basically a good guy.
Basically...

Kalinda · Unread post by **Kalinda** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:20 am

Id try to reach the CS and most likely die along the way, if I survived id say 'hi, I have a high IQ, a good grasp of military tactics and am good with guns, but have birth defects and am out of shape. I'll sign up for lifetime service in return for a full borg conversion'

Then after they laughed me out of the office id probebly die in the burbs.
:-P

A mans got to know his limitations...

Capt. Meschievitz · Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:09 am

mmmmmm let me think about this......

Hell I'll just be an average run of the mill Super being like GOD OCC.....

Wilderness scout!

or

RPA Elite SAMAS....

Yendor · Unread post by **Yendor** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:06 pm

Psychic rogue scholar or mind mage (not mind melter, mind mage, as in PFRPG P.C.C.

) Although being a robot/PA pilot would be fun as well.

Kalinda · Unread post by **Kalinda** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:04 pm

K20A2_S wrote:
Res Sin Kai wrote:
K20A2_S wrote:I like playing CS grunts b/c they are a challenge to keep alive.

Haha, very true.

You can say that again.

"Here's your 100 m.d.c armor and your 6d6 gun, help us go fight this 50ft demon"

(Waves cane at young pups.)

HAH! you think you've got it bad! try keeping a dog boy alive before CWC and Lone star came out!

30 MDC non-enviromental armor, a vibrio blade and a 2d4 pistol. AND WE WERE HAPPY TO GET THAT!

grumble grumble... kids today.... :badbad:

Spectre · Unread post by **Spectre** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:58 pm

I like the technowizard. I have always liked gadgets and magic that would allow me to get the best of both worlds

Mech-Viper Prime · Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:23 pm

i'm lending towards dead occ or lunch occ, i'd join the coalition but they got no tanker occ, but then again i might go for a CS RPA occ

LDMcFear™ · Unread post by **LDMcFear™** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:20 pm

CS Ranger

SkyeFyre · Unread post by **SkyeFyre** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:22 pm

In order of preference

LeyLine Walker (Magic would be a huge help... and if you just stepped through a rift.. chances are you're on a leyline at least)
MindMelter (Awesome psionics make you a lethal weapon)
Coalition Soldier (There's safety in numbers, and with all that equipment at your disposal.. I'd feel safer)
Rogue Scholar (Well... I'd probably just try to become a citizen... but seeing as I know how to read and write and do quite a bit more... like programming and the such.... I'd probably be considered a rogue scholar)

Mech-Viper Prime · Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:35 pm

Beatleguise wrote:If everyone on the Planet today got Rifted to RIFTS Earth, we would all be the equivalent of uneducated / untrained / non experienced / no chance of living civilians.

90% of the "Earth" Population would die from Culture shock and as meals of unsavory creatures. The rest would be hunted down by the Coalition or whomever as unwanted Alien / D'Bees and exterminated.

Other than that, I would be a Wilderness Scout.

not me, i been in the W_T_F_ group until i saw my first power armor then i been in the OH HELL YEAH group, i be like yes, sir i was born in a little villa out on the east coast sir, ready to do my part for humanity, sir lock and load sir ready to kill some of them women stealing d-bees, sir then or run for my life

LDMcFear™ · Unread post by **LDMcFear™** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:37 pm

Mecha-Viper wrote:
Beatleguise wrote:If everyone on the Planet today got Rifted to RIFTS Earth, we would all be the equivalent of uneducated / untrained / non experienced / no chance of living civilians.

90% of the "Earth" Population would die from Culture shock and as meals of unsavory creatures. The rest would be hunted down by the Coalition or whomever as unwanted Alien / D'Bees and exterminated.

Other than that, I would be a Wilderness Scout.

not me, i been in the W_T_F_ group until i saw my first power armor then i been in the OH HELL YEAH group, i be like yes, sir i was born in a little villa out on the east coast sir, ready to do my part for humanity, sir lock and load sir ready to kill some of them women stealing d-bees, sir then or run for my life

Mech-Viper Prime · Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:02 pm

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