ASM Cores
is a TinyMUX and deviantART based Roleplay group that involves anthropomorphized cores (corrupt or otherwise) from the Valve game Portal. These are more or less Ridiculously Human Robots. It started out in a Livestream by the artist forte-girl7 on deviantART. Since then it has approximately a dozen active members. The main storyline has diverted from the actual theme of portals and puzzle solving, with story arcs that weeks (and sometimes months) long involving action, drama and mystery.
The group dissolved in early 2013, and the actual MUSH server has since been taken offline.
ASM Cores contains examples of:
- Balance Between Good and Evil: This has been less true since the truce, but the basic theme still remains in most of the plot arcs.
- Killed Off for Real: Spy Core. The first and only permanent playable character death in the Mesa arc.
- Really 700 Years Old: All the children are only aesthetically minors but even so, they act and are treated as such.
- Reset Button: The reassembly machines are reset buttons in a physical sense.
- Robot Girl: The female robots could be considered this. The spirit of this trope's often poked fun at, especially with Band (much to her chagrin)
- Robot Kid: Timid and Nina were built to resemble children. MAC's Perkins-built body could be considered this too. Deci could also be considered this, though she is one of the 'older' children with an apparent age of 8.
