Delta Squadron

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Idea

Ttrpg where each player is a piece of cyberware with a rudimentary AI. All cyberwares are installed in the body of a now sorta-corpse of a girl. Waking up in a bathroom or alleyway, with only scant clues to her old life and who wanted her dead, and her mind harvested. And together they must pilot the body to survive in the cyberpunk hellscape and collect her sold off memories to bring her back to life.

Yes, it’s plural coded as fuck.

Yes you all move around like a meat puppet on sparking adderall.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Each cyberware picks out the body part they are installed in and can control, their manufacturer, an AI type, and a quirk (From being broken).

Each cyberware has a pool of Spark they can spend to do certain actions. And passively regenerates slowly or by recollecting memories.

As well as a communal pool of Blood refreshed by eating food, and especially cannibalism. Blood can boost certain abilities, heal the body from harm, pretend to be alive, and stave off/reverse the “Status” of the body. Which goes from Fresh, to Cold, to Rotten, to Putrid, before decaying to a point of falling apart. And is a constant downfall, a timer.

The stats for the cyberwares are Neon, Plastic, Silica, and Iron.

[valkayrieactual]

[apuffofpink]

why is it so hard to come up with a callsign for myselfffffff my brain hurttttsssss

[vimmie-vexes-1212]

in the military imo callsigns are assigned by fellow soldiers after embarrassing events. so consider. we all bully eachother for a few hours until we come up with good names. or until we rip each other to shreds, I'm down for both.

[apuffofpink]

I wholeheartedly agree with this because I too am down for both. :3

[puppygirl-sage]

When we play Girlframe we have a house rule that when you gain a tag (usually these are insults) anyone can nominate it to become your callsign and it does if the rest of the cadre agrees

This is how I got the callsigns "Ashtray" and "Barbie". Some other good ones in my cadres have been "Brute", "Addict", "Big Pharma", "Goblin", "Cringe Lord", "Martyr", "Boomer", and "Bait"

[plural-puppygirl-polycule]

Accidentally used the handler voice™ when talking to some friends, and the one i think is an egg later said "you should do that again"

[soylent-robot]

it took me and a team of discord transfems all day to come up with this and youre gonna see it by god

[soylent-robot]

haha holy shit

[mtkft]

@tgirl-tamag0tchi so Chimera Girls! go where? EA row surely

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Situation Purist with Equipment Moderate. They have kinky handlers and brainwashing, but instead of mechs their bodies have just been modified with military grade cyberware and wetware.

[mulched-cockpit]

Sometimes I let the rockets hit me just to know I’m alive. I feel my entire body recoil and flinch at the impact. I feel the shockwave echo through my body like a word of divinity.

After so long of being the only thing as powerful as I, I yearn to lose. I have grown tired of being the monarch I am. And yet, I know what loss means. I know it means eternity. Forever barred from once again being me. From ever feeling Her grace again. From ever knowing the approval of my handiwork, and from ever hearing Her tell me she loves me. But for a second. Only a glimpse of a moment. I yearn to know how it feels to no longer sit atop the world, where I and only I can know victory.

[whispy-gardens]

Someone (me) infected me with the mechsploitation brainworm so now I've got a houndsona! Her name is Marie! It pilots it's mech The Reverie and I love her very much!

[windowsloth]

Safety Bulletin // IMPERFECT SCIENCE

[greatwyrmgold]

A good review for a tabletop RPG that sounds good.

Like AroWrites, I think the Handler sounds like the most interesting part of the system. Most of the rest is well-flavored PBTA crunch with well-written fluff, but the gamemaster playing a second game within the game is fascinating. It doesn't sound like a GM/players setup so much as a "one player is playing a different game" thing, and I think more TRPGs should try asymmetry.

Judging by the review, Girl Frame also puts a lot of focus on relationships, which is less uncommon but still worth complimenting. I'm sure the words "mecha" and "lesbian" put a specific image in your mind, only enhanced when I mentioned the "Handler." And yeah, this is a mechsploitation game, sex comes up. But the developer is clear that sex is supposed to be just one option, not the primary focus of the game, and according to this review, that works pretty well in practice. Which makes the game more appealing to asexual people like me.

I'm sharing this mostly because it's a good review of an interesting game, which I want to buy and see if I can run it. (...probably for online trans friends and not anyone I know IRL.) Obviously I want to purchase and read the PDF before committing to anything, but. It sounds fun.

And also, the reviewer promised to run Girl Frame if she hit 100k subscribers by the end of the year, and immediately said "The goal is not meant to be possible". And I can't resist the urge to punish someone for tempting fate like that. (Especially since AroWrites is doing this review because she made a similar promise last year. Doesn't that hubris make you want to go Olympian?)

[sapphireh3arts]

today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the life they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.

[apuffofpink]

(Voice Log #3 start.)

I miss Her. I miss Handler. It feels like it’s been so long since She got promoted and had to leave base. I listened to some archived comms from an old sortie just to hear Her voice again - to hear Her praise for me. She perfected me, sculpted me into the Best possible Vixen. I was like her shadow anytime I was outside of my frame. Hell, I was practically an extension of Her - She even let me have some of Her authority. And now I haven’t heard from Her since She left for Capital.

Do you think that She remembers that I even exist?

I hope so.

Even if She doesn’t, I think of Her a lot. I have a picture of Her and me hanging on the wall of my room. That picture is the oldest thing I remember getting, alongside my muzzle, because it was from my first day officially in service after my augmentations were done. I also have a pair of Her gloves on my desk, and even my sidearm used to be Her revolver before She gave it to me as a present.

After She left, they tried to give me a new handler. But none of them on this base really are cut out for Vixens. they are all only used to the standard Hounds, the ones with no sense of self pride or autonomy. they never click with me properly, because they’re blunt objects attempting to command the single Perfect blade on this station, which is why orders for me only come from the reg command staff.

It is fun to practically be special forces, but still. I do miss having a Handler, occasionally.

Apologies for the rambling, dear listener. Just had some things to get off my chest. Till we meet again - Foxglove out.

(Voice Log ends.)

[mulched-cockpit]

Being a handler is really funny but there isn’t a second where I don’t look at my cadre and wish I could be one of them.

Nothing makes me feel more alive than being pure in a body of metal, the most powerful animal alive, running with my companions, just as animal as me, and more loved than any partner I could hope to have. I live to fight without thinking, I love to destroy and I make magic with my own metal hands.

Fucking mutts.

[butch-pilot]

I really love the idea of sentient mechs because of all the unique relationships they have with their pilots. You can have mechs that refuse to let their pilot go because they love them so much, mechs that sacrifice themselves to make sure their pilot lives, or even mechs that hate the atrocities their pilot is forcing them to commit and will happily turn on them if given the chance. My favourite is a mech who remembers all their past pilots and has vowed not to make the same mistakes with the new one.

[second-coming-of-da-journalist]

Damn mood!

[loveridden1999]

women on women action 😍😍😍 (←they are trying to kill each other)

[ashenmind]

“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot

[ashenmind]

[boxofboops]

Girl Frame is a powered by the apocalypse game about lesbian mech pilots navigating social interactions with each other, under the watchful gaze of a "Handler" tasked with using them as tools to defeat an eldritch threat. It focuses on identity, fascism, transfemininity, and extremely toxic social dynamics.

Tools Crave Beauty: An Interview with Isabelle, creator of Girl Frame

"...in 2026 gender, fascism, and dehumanization are pretty universal experiences."

[reachartwork]

"‘mech pilots are horny because they get sweaty and fuck after the fights’ you pedestrian, mech pilots are horny because the neural feedback loop from striking an acquired target w/ +90% accuracy on a full flight of LRMs makes most pilots leak in their seat. It’s not about two pilots, separated by mountains of metal, learning to mutually respect the others skill it’s about how these industrial war machines have direct lines into their nervous systems and an oxytocin & dopamine tap directly linking destruction to pleasure."

-twitter user nyetalia

[reachartwork]

yeah sure i'll permanently attach that addition to this image