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[Shmuser Name]

Accepted applicants:

• Oleander (Villain) Dr. Volante Vivianne Venturi
• Rise (Neutral) Mathias Jude
• Dynamo (Hero) Edgar Renfield
• #29 (Neutral) Henchman #29
• Acrux (Neutral) Raulin Crucis
• Lillith (Villain) Layla Boden
• Roger (Neutral) Joshua White

Timeline

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2019 - Coexisting realities somehow mesh and created a single, blended universe. This comes at a price though. The dimensions were shattered and destroyed, their fragments and unique influences accumulating into a singular standard universe. The single surviving universe is mostly unaware of the tragic collapse of the other realms, yet is still firmly tethered to each different dimensions. The different energies from the separate realms begin to affect the Earth, which absorbs the brunt of the explainable science and magic that radiated from the Earths of the other universes. Externally, all seems nominal, but mankind is changed forever.

 

This is just the bullshit that explains why you can have a character who has an element of magical realism to them.

 

2025 - Mutations and oddities in the human genome arise. Powers and abilities have been imbued to all ages of human beings. The world tries to make sense of this sudden change, and slowly things begin to spiral into political, scientific, occult, and humanitarian topics of debate...as well as military. Not much technological progress is made in the next handful of years, things remain as they were in the past decade.

 

Let's keep this 2015 hype, but sci-fi is still a great device if used reasonably.

2029 - Roughly one third of world population is deleted by the mentally deranged supervillain known as God. Remaining population recovers from the recent, tense few years. God vanishes, and a new world order is established.

 

This dude was wacked out psycho, he just showed up and BAM, time to make more babies everyone. Actually, this was my ass-pull that made it simpler to deal with global events and treat things as if they were all from the starting line.

2033 - Superheroes rise up to combat supervillains, and society teeters on the balance of military avarice, the control of government over superhumans, and forces unknown.

 

2034 - Current year

 

Setting

 

Alpha City, located somewhere on the eastern seaboard of the United States of America. It is the largest civilized location in the country. Alpha City is extremely modern, and is a hub for international tourism due to its polished, modern urban environment and status as the USA's new center of command. Alpha City is a massive location that connects to many rivers and the Atlantic Ocean. It possesses truly magnificent architecture, such as towering skyscrapers and bitchin' capital buildings. It has many separate districts, which behave like slices of the USA of old. For example: one district is a nexus for fashion and technology, while another behaves more like Hollywood, along with a separate district that performs heavy agricultural production. The local government of the area includes a mayor, governor, and finally a small senatorial committee that is superior to both figure-head political leaders of the state and township.

As expressed in the timeline, technology hasn't evolved much from current times. The relations between different nations remains the same as they always were, albeit slackened a slight bit due to the mass erasing of a massive chunk of the world's population. However, due to the blending of alternate realities humanity now possesses a plethora of superhumans ranging from all age groups. Discrimination is low, at least in the USA, but there are political and military complications with the arrival of these strange new human beings. For now, things are relatively stable and balanced. Legions and alliances have been cemented, and all good people desire for a peaceful existence. However, the flaws of humanity still provoke certain individuals or groups of people to commit violent acts for personal gain. Supervillains now add to the ranks of burglar, murderer, terrorist, and more.

 

The Roleplay

Create a character who fits into this universe, who shall be on the side of good, evil, or behave a neutral player. With the supervillain known as God having vanished, there are still powerful and evil superhumans who plot and enact harmful deeds upon society. Alpha City is home to more than its fair share of gangs and criminals, as well as supervillains. Mayor Hughemeyer has established a central command tower within a skyscraper that handles all superhumans related crimes. It is run by a special superhuman police division, that is well funded and ever ready to carry out justice, protecting and serving the people of the city. This division is headed by a man named Commissioner Arden, a very competent and well-aged man who handles the complicated matters of superhuman and normal citizen issues rather well.

Your character is new to the whole hero/villain business, but that does not mean they are naive or completely lacking of knowledge in their field. Express their backstories well, take care to touch upon contemporary events or issues in order to add that flavor of realism to your already inhuman personality. A strong supervillain is plotting from the shadows, behaving as an anonymous threat to a vast majority of the city.

Your character starts off in a district of Alpha City, creating their origin story by improvising from the setting they inhabit. I will assign where a hero or neutral is placed, as villains are allowed to choose their own district. I will also catalog the characters of this RP to their owners. Heroes generally work for the good of the citizens. Villains desire to satisfy their personal desires, and do not care if harm must come to the rest of society - they might even find pleasure in it. Neutrals have lesser roles in the overall events of the Roleplay, but still contribute solid influence to the direction of the plot. 

Alpha City - Fashion + Tech District: Criminal hackers are blackmailing and extorting private information as well as vast amounts of money from the various establishments of the region. One major company called "Varrion", known for its banking and vast amount of subscriptions, has invested in enormous cyber-security defenses to combat these expert technophile criminals. Still, the drug-ridden gangs and dramatic struggle of law enforcement against the flashy supervillains of the region persists and festers in this seedy district.

 

Main Plot - Skyscraper Heist

 

Alpha City - Glam District: Known for its amazing penthouse industry, beaches, and celebrity hotspots, this district has its fair share of organized crime units and collective supervillain groups. The number of psychologically disturbed criminals is on the rise, which harms even the most innocent members of society. There is a rise of public shootings and grotesque homicides, and some whisper that the work of demonic, satanic, or occult influences have a firm grasp in this district of sin.

 

Main Plot - Vampire Fight Club
 

Character Sheet below
No limit to characters
Be UNIQUE

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Alias:
Power: (limited to three main super-abilities, must have a weakness on par with the strength of your ability)
Affiliation: Hero/Villain/Neutral
Physical Appearance:
"Super" Appearance: (costume/uniform)
Personality:
Backstory:

 

Example Application

Spoiler

Name: Evander Harrington

Alias: Nimbus

Gender: Male

Age: Late-20s

Alignment: Hero

Specializations: Flight, Emits Healing aura that works incredibly fast at regenerating damaged body matter

Physical Description: Caucasian skin pigmentation, Medium build, Taller than average, Chiseled muscle definition, Dark-brown irises, Short and wavy black hair, Handsome and groomed appearance for most of the time

Personality Description: A humanistic, logical young man. He is confident in his own abilities and strives to maintain an optimistic, positive outlook on life despite having such an dark childhood. He aspires to be able to help all people, as doctors were his idols when he was growing and developing. Evander loves humor and patterns, and enjoys identifying complex ideas with simpler concepts that are dumbed down for himself and for others. He is a natural instructor, and a loyal friend. Evander is faithful to bits and pieces of all religions, addressing psalms and lessons from a variety of theocratic sources like an avid believer. However, his alignment to a single faith is cloudy. He isn't very athletic, but he does enjoy staying in shape and eating right. He's responsible and well-mannered, and can also be outgoing. He has decent self-defense skills.

Backstory: Evander discovered he could heal people by being around them when he volunteered to assist with the elderly or the ill during his youth. Flight came as a surprise to him, as he had fallen from the roof of a community church and discovered that he could glide or hover in the air. The force of his weight on his body was soon rectified, as Evander learned to control his flight in secret from his close companions.

Other: His costume is a spandex suit decorated with soft leather body armor, with contoured kevlar padding and miniature reinforcements covering his body's joints and other areas. His gloves are finger-less, and there is a sizable, golden colored circle attached to his outfit's upper back. It lights up when he activates his healing aura. Evander wears a full helmet as well as a face-mask. His outfit is colored mostly dark-blue, with light gray compliments and highlights. Solid gold stripes asymmetrically cover the left portion of his chest and part of his shoulder. Additionally, Evander wears large amber goggles that are attached to his face-mask. His ears have small, thick white circles going around them. These both flash up with color corresponding to Evander's current psychological stress. Green is nominal, Yellow is strained, and Red signifies severe trauma or unconsciousness.

 

 

 

 

Rules (Standard Forum Rules apply)

1. Listen to me. You can dispute things with me, I have an open mind and encourage people to help enjoy the story as much as I enjoy making it. Just remember to listen, stay calm and be free to ask questions. If I put my foot down on something, then it is the end of discussion.
2. Do not have a bad attitude. Arguments or concerns are quite welcome to be discussed in the OOC thread. Still, trolling/flaming will result in a ban.
3. Do not abuse the leeway you have in creating super powers/abilities. Stay realistic and provide a decent explanation of the mechanics of your character's power(s). Provide weaknesses, and be self-conscious of the scope of abilities that allow people or objects to travel long distances.

4. Do NOT rip things off or copy a majority of other concepts or ideas. Inspiration and originality love each other, remember that well.

5. I acknowledge that players might want to have personal plot events to add more life to the story. Be sure to clear it with me first through a PM, and educate the other players as you see fit. Just don't wrestle control of the plot away from me and create something that affects the story in a massive, irreversible way. Obviously I won't let that slide, so moderate your aspirations.
6. Extended leaves of absences, the limit being a week and a half of no activity with no prior warning will result in a ban. I'll handle how your character(s) plays into the Roleplay.

Submit your characters and have fun.

 

Final Words:

 

As a nice way to introduce characters to the OOC thread, I recommend:

• Using spoiler tags
• Having a nice little preface to the application itself possibly something that may reflect the current state of certain aspects of the RP, or perhaps some praise and and honor for a new character (as they do in the comic-book hero genre graphic novels and manga)
• Adding music or a soundtrack that represents your character!

Edited by Shmuser Name, 25 April 2015 - 03:53 PM.

[Seikah]

Feel like stretching my roleplaying legs. I'll make a character if this gets some more players.

[Diabolical Rhapsody]

This seems very interesting, but I have a question of how will you scale the powers that most would try to bring to the table? What can be considered god-modding and if there happens to be PvP in the story, will you be the judge?

 

Also, can we make a villain or are only heroes allowed?

[Shmuser Name]

Here's a knowledge drop! Thanks for the questions, I really appreciate the feedback.

 

In this RP, you can create a Hero, a Villain, or a Neutral character. The former two are both immerse conditions a person places themselves into for the sake of roleplaying. Neutrals are for the more casual players who want to have fun, not invest themselves too much into character creation.

 

I ask that people scale powers to more reasonable limits after checking over their application. I do not accept applications where the player has ignored my requests to tone down to beef up their abilities - I do not ask that they change their powers, just to alter the thresholds and limits of them. I enjoy suggesting things and assisting in creating plotlines as well.

 

I keep fair PvP in mind a lot, and therefore I keep these main categories in mind a lot:

 

• Hyper-extreme Strength of the Gods (I don't really like the concept of someone having the ability to kill another person with a light tap, but increased strength is still allowed)
• Speed-ability abuse (Increased reflexes are allowed based on circumstance of power origin)
• Portals and Pocket Dimensions (these can get annoying if people abuse them or don't balance their uses out)

 

PvP is based off of the receiving player's reaction to the conflict's exchanges. I expect players to be reasonable when they PvP, and to also be fair. As for when the GM (myself) brings forwards world-conflicts for the players, I expect them to not just KO all the NPCs in a single post or anything of that unsavory fashion, but to think realistically and not egocentrically.

 

I also do updates.

Edited by Shmuser Name, 30 March 2015 - 08:48 PM.

[Alcruid]

I will read this tomorrow, my brain can't handle many words in the same post

 

<lurk mode activated>

[Fatal Blood]

 I really like the setting for this one. I'm so gonna make a character for this, but a question. If somebody has a picture of a character that's in and out of costume, could they put those up instead of a description?

[Shmuser Name]

Alcruid, I hope you return and can get a handle on things, feel free to lurk to your heart's desire. It wouldn't hurt to join the fun as well.

 

Fatal Blood, pictures > text descriptions

Hell yeah you can use images.

[Diabolical Rhapsody]

Thanks and though I'm a bit late in this. But welcome to our little world. I, as my name suggests, am the Fiend that resides in this microcosm. Shall work on a CS soon.

 

Skeleton of CS underway. Will make major changes to adapt to the story. Bringing back an old favorite.

 

Spoiler

[Appearance]

 

Theme:  Smooth and Sassy.

Name:  Dr. Volante Vivianne Venturi.

Age: 34

Sex:  Femme

Alignment: Neutral Evil

 

Bio:  Growing up, Volante's childhood was painfully normal. Even though she discovered her ability to manipulate metal at a very young age. Her family treated it as a curiosity for a time to indulge her before carrying on with the daily grind. Having left their native homeland to come make a living in the land of opportunities, she was drilled from a very young age to become the best. Not in swindling, nor in thuggery like her cousins from the lands of Sicily. Her father had broken all ties from his criminal family to go earn a decent living. 

 

But you can't turn away your ancestry, your innate talent. She was born to be on the pinnacle of the criminal world not grind herself into dust with working hard to make someone else rich. Though she loved her father a lot she couldn't keep up with his expectations after last tour of the middle east. Her talents were going to waste as she was idling away her short life in the field treating open wounds and bleeding men. She felt no pride or fear of being in a literal hell for her talents kept her safe. Then she turned twenty five and something weird happened. She found that other than her uncanny intellect, she could manipulate metal. Initially, she thought that it was a hallucination. She had been in blasts and shrapnel for too long, treating grievously injured and nearly dead at the expense of herself. It was just her mind playing tricks on her, the toll of duty. She slept in but the visions didn't go for two weeks and after treating another hit convoy, she noticed that dreams were indeed real.

 

She survived an ambush. Not a bullet within her personal space. It was like the movies, like the Matrix!, she was indeed like Neo but still her fellow brother-in-arms were falling. Somehow she survived and then she grew distant. The hold of life loosening on her, she craved the rush she felt and for that she could no longer be in the Force.

 

She returned home, took retirement and started her practice and all went along as before. Normal, painfully normal. There was no high, no rush of adrenaline, no fear of death and none of being caught. So when the opportunity presented itself to go visit her ancestral land, she decided to turn a new leaf in her life.

 

She rekindled links with her uncle who was thrilled to learn of her powers and got involved in her first job. A bank heist, it was good fun for the first few times. The bars parted ways to allow easy entry, the vault opened to her will and her cousins enjoyed a safe outing but it quickly got stale. The family got too secured and content. So she moved back to her home.

 

Restarted practice to keep up appearance and then began slowly descending into sadistic pleasure. God had already gained notoreity, she had a target now, something to aim for. A new high unlike any other, to go past the mark of God. A billion!, no small number but her determination is strong.

 

 First it was simple kidnapping and torture which slowly deteriorated to highway murders, she went along the highways giving people free rides, getting to know them and then putting them to sleep.

 

Slowly, the adrenaline stopped from them so she took it to another level. She marked areas of interest and then began hunting in the area till the papers were filled with only her exploits before changing places. Though she did all this, yet she never achieved the infamy she desired. Yes, the local papers covered her extensively, the national papers were slowly taking note of a pattern and began publishing half findings but still internationally she was nothing but a blip. 

 

So she decided to make a name in the most infamous city of them all, Alpha City. Finding a vacancy in Kensington General Hospital in district 13, she decided to move shop for perhaps the last time. Her numbers are still low, the magical Billion is nothing more than a footnote. With just 2367 kills under her belt, she is a nobody but with each sunrise comes new opportunity and what better place than Alpha City. Let the reign of blood begin.

 

Normal Appearance: She likes to dress sharply when not in her usual labcoat. She has a big collection of fine Italian suits in Greys and Blues. She loves wearing big checks, corsets, top hats and flats.

 

"Super" Appearance: None. "Don't real demons hide in plain sight."

 

Aspiration:  To go in the annals of history as the vilest and the worst killers of all time. To Rival God.

 

Power/Talent:  Metalokinesis, ability to manipulate any metal as long it shares the basic characteristics of metals. Namely density and releasing protons.

Edited by RP Fiend, 03 April 2015 - 03:14 PM.

[Alcruid]

Just to avoid confusion it's probably best to put {OOC] in the title

 

I keep thinking it's the actual RP when I see this in [general]

 

 

I'll get to it tomorrow, atm I'm still procrastinating something orz

[Shmuser Name]

What a sadistic villain, good one! I see she's mostly likely from another RP that I skimmed over when first testing the waters for myself of this place. Thanks for the warm welcome, Fiend. Shawty u da bes...u da u da bes

 

Alcruid, this is the OOC thread and I do regret not putting [OOC] in the title...but I think my point speaks for itself. I'll get to it right away though.

Edited by Shmuser Name, 31 March 2015 - 07:49 PM.

[Diabolical Rhapsody]

What a sadistic villain, good one! I see she's mostly likely from another RP that I skimmed over when first testing the waters for myself of this place. Thanks for the warm welcome, Fiend. Shawty u da bes...u da u da bes

 

Alcruid, this is the OOC thread and I do regret not putting [OOC] in the title...but I think my point speaks for itself. I'll get to it right away though.

Yeah sadly, she never got a chance to shine in that one.

 

I'll be tailoring it to this storyline to fit better. When the changes are finished, I'll put for your final acceptance.

[Seikah]

Neutrals are for the more casual players who want to have fun, not invest themselves too much into character creation.

 

Heeeey. Don't write off neutral characters like that, they're a lot more believable than straight-forward heroes and villains. Unquestioning do-gooders feel either naive or outright divorced from reality, and the only characters that would self-identify as villains are one-dimensional caricatures and psychopaths in it for the evulz.

 

Is this is intended as a standard good versus evil combat story, or is there room for moral complexity?

Edited by Seikah, 31 March 2015 - 08:56 PM.

[Fatal Blood]

Spoiler

Name:Carson Edgar Renfield
Age:22
Gender:Male
Alias:Dynamo

Power: Electrical Generation-He can make electricity with his body, but it burns a lot of calories so he gets tired quickly. Electrical Storage-He can hold an electric charge in his body, but he can't hold a very large amount and he can't hold it for very long. Electrical Channeling- He has the ability to move currents of electricity through his body, but he can't handle a large amount of it, or for very long.
Affiliation: Hero

Theme: Bloodrocuted

Physical Appearance:

Spoiler

He's a pretty average looking guy that is a little on the thin side, since he burns calories with his power. He tends to dress in a T-shirt and a pair of comfortable jeans, unless the weather is rough out, then he'll put on a jacket or something.
"Super" Appearance: He puts on a hoodie and ties a scarf around his face. He's working on a better one.
Personality:A quiet and serious guy, that hates to see needless suffering. While he may hate to see suffering, he doesn't really care all that much for people, nor is he an animal person. The only kind a people he tends to like are those that are innocent and happy, thus he tries the help children and young animals before anyone else. He likes to relax by listening to metal.
Back-story:Carson was 13 when his powers manifested themselves. One might think that Carson had been serious since he was young, but they would be wrong. The way in which Carson discovered his powers is a secret that he hopes will never be known to anyone.

 

He was at home alone, which was a common happening in the Renfield house, and Carson had just seen a comedy where a man was thrown across the room by putting a fork in a power socket. He thought it was funny, but also stupid, because there was no way that would happen if you put a fork in an outlet, right? Carson decided that the best way to prove this was to do exactly what he had just seen on T.V., though he knew his parents would call him an idiot, like they usually do.

 

As you may have imagined, the test didn't go as he had thought it would, which in hindsight is a good thing. Carson felt the electricity race up his arm and fill him with the odd sensation of raw energy dancing through his body. As he sat there holding the fork, he couldn't help but to laugh at the movie he had been watching. Not only had they gotten the part about him being thrown across the room wrong, but they made it seem like putting a fork in a socket could actually hurt you. Well they did get the weird flickering lights right, so at least they weren't completely ignorant.

 

His amusement would have gone on longer if his parents hadn't come home then. He quickly pulled out the fork and made his way back to the couch to watch the movie. He put the fork between the cushions and tried to be really quiet. He hoped that his parents wouldn't come into the living room and yell at him for know reason. Not only did being yelled at scare and anger him, but for some reason he was starting to feel pretty bad. He felt like he had just eaten something really spice then gone for a mile long run on a hot summer afternoon. As he was wondering what was wrong with him, his parents walked in, and they looked angry about something.

 

He was trying to listen to the nonsense thing they were angry about this time, but he was have a hard enough time not throwing up. Carson hoped that they sent him to his room soon, otherwise he was going to puke in the living room. If he puked right now, not only would he lose it all over the couch and on the rug, but his parents were so close to him, that they would probably get it on them too. He knew that as mad as they already are (he didn't know over what), that if threw up too, then they would beat him again, and he really didn't want that.  As his parents kept yelling at him, he struggled to keep it down, but he felt himself losing control and then threw up.

 

Unfortunately for his parents, though maybe not for Carson, it wasn't vomit that they were hit with. They were hit with electricity, a lot of it, so much in fact, that they didn't just get some minor or severe injures. Hmm, what's a good way to describe this, have you ever microwaved a hotdog too long? It was kind of like that, except with more blistering, and their eyes sort of exploded. They also proved Carson wrong, as they were thrown across the room by the shock.

 

Luckily for Carson, he didn't see any of this, since he blacked out the second the electricity left his body. Unluckily for Carson, the electricity didn't just turn his parents into fried chicken(Yes I know that's not how you make fried chicken), but it had also set the house on fire, and if you remember what I just said, he's currently less than able to escape the house.

 

When he finally came to, he was in the hospital and he was sore, though not from burns as it turns out. You see when you release a large amount of electricity from your body and it kills your parents then sets the house on fire, people tend to hear it. Of the people in the neighborhood that heard it, the one that showed up first was actually a fireman, that just happened to be his neighbor. When he saw the smoke he immediately broke down the door and ran in to see if anybody needed help. When he got to the smoke filled living room he was hit with the smell of burn flesh, and he ran in to see if there was anyone alive. Running in he tripped over the corpses of Carson`s parents, and landed hard on the couch, which is why Carson was so sore, because as you remember, Carson was on the couch first. Not only did a big man land on him, but there just so happened to be a fork between the cushions that had been pulled ouch-y side up due to the electricity.

 

When the doctors found that he was awake, they called in Carson`s Uncle Howard, who was his only known relative. His Uncle had always been a little bit coarse when it came to other people, so gave it to Carson straight. His parents were dead and he was going to live with his Uncle from know on. These things were a surprise to Carson, but not unwelcome ones. He had hated his parents, and he loved his Uncle Howard, who was actually a nice, loving individual once you got to know him. Carson was pretty happy about what had happened, because not only was his Uncle Howard a great guy, but so was his Aunt Audrey, and his cousins were okay. He had to act like he was sad about his parents deaths, but he was really quite happy about it, though it would be years before he realized he was the one that had actually killed his parents.

 

One of the things that really caught Carson off guard, was when a lawyer came to see him about his inheritance. Carson found out that his parents had been low on money, not because they hadn't earned any, but because they had spent all of it on things, and one of those things just happened to be insurance. Life insurance and homeowners insurance, and he was the sole beneficiary to the pay-outs of these policies, though he wouldn't be able to access them until he turned eighteen. When he turned eighteen he left his Uncles house and moved to the city, though he had enjoyed staying there, he felt he should leave and find his own path in life. He could have gone to a small piece of land that his parents had bought out in the country and that he had inherited, but he wasn't that interested in the country life, he wanted the hustle and bustle of the city.

 

He lived somewhat lavishly for the first year in his penthouse, but felt that he was starting to be to much like his parents when it came to money. He moved out of his high-end penthouse and into a modest apartment. He spent the next two years working odd jobs and trying to find his calling in life. By now he had realized that he had superpowers and that the freak electrical surge that had killed his parents had been him, but he didn't really feel bad about it. Having rediscovered his powers(He touched a live wire while working one of his odd jobs), he practiced a little with the, but never really put that much time into them since he didn't think he could that much with them.

 

That all changed when he heard about the rise of people that called themselves superheroes. He knew that it was what he wanted to do, no, it what he was meant to do. Not only did he have powers, but the first time he ever used them was by accident and they had saved him from a terrible childhood. He decided that he was going to train for a year, then he was going to make his hero debut, but then he found out that heroes actually work for the government and that it was a job.

 

His hands got clammy, because he was not very good at job interviews, and this one was really important. Well if he trains really hard for the rest of the year and gets all kinds of strong, then they'll have to take him, right? Right?

 

Done, I think.

Edited by Fatal Blood, 11 April 2015 - 08:36 PM.

[Shmuser Name]

Seikah, I apologize for my poor word choice. However, you shouldn't write off Heroes and Villains as characters who are condemned to always possess a one-dimensional, stock profile.

 

I was saying that story-wise, Neutrals don't swing as hard as a Hero or a Villain when it comes down to establishing plotlines and character interaction (at least, from the two times I've done this RP in the past it didn't turn out that way). Neutrals are for people who don't want to play as a caricature, but at the same time a Hero or Villain doesn't need to be portrayed as a caricature either.

 

I believe that any character, no matter what alignment they are, can be written into a morally or psychologically complex character. Seikah, I don't force a "Good v. Evil" playground type of theme here, I love seeing what people think of when they have their character(s) develop through the story. I love reading believable characters, but I also understand the use and enjoyment in playing as an unbelievable caricature from time to time.

 

@Fatal Blood

 

Good-looking application so far. I'm eager for the completed product.

[Seikah]

I didn't write off any character, though I do think the examples I provided aren't ever believable; the unquestioning do-gooder, and the evil-for-the-sake-of-evil-villain, both extremes of the good-evil spectrum. Maybe I'm just too quick to classify a character as 'neutral' by your definition - hence my shock when that group seemed to be delegated to the sidelines!

 

It's just that the typical superhero story doesn't really tackle morally ambiguous issues, which makes it twice as interesting to do in a roleplay. The particulars of your setting offer that exploration extra depth - it'd be a shame to just use it as a backdrop for a brawl.

 

 

Edit: I realized my message may look as if I'm telling you how to run your RP. This is not my intention; I'm just trying to avoid making a character that doesn't fit in with 1) the other characters and 2) the intent of the story. What use is an outspoken stance on morality if my character is going to have to talk via his fists? (And it's not like I don't see the appeal of a nice psychopath.)

Edited by Seikah, 31 March 2015 - 11:48 PM.

[Shmuser Name]

...You did write off the category of Heroes and Villains if you only used extreme examples as an argument without crediting how there's room for more than caricatures. I totally can see your concern about Neutrals, and about how a Good v. Evil plotline is dull if it's just utilizing pure caricatures and discourages room for development on the moral scale.

 

I title these classes Heroes, Villains, and Neutrals not because of their mental and moral standing - but their role in the plot. The best part is that it's up to the players of these three classes to develop their own roles in the plot!

 

Fucking cash money marijuana cigarettes right there. Lovely excitement, very happy big sex all around.

[Seikah]

But to clarify, it's mostly fighty fighty, yeah?

 

Or to put it in manga terms, is this supposed to be shonen or seinen?

Edited by Seikah, 01 April 2015 - 12:17 AM.

[Shmuser Name]

Manga terms, huh?

 

This is Shoujo.

 

LOL jk, it can be a synthesis of Shounen or Seinen depending on the players' decisions/actions. Not everything needs to be solved with fists, some characters have the possibility of not being offensive at all. I would welcome more intellectual things with open arms.

 

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For example, take the example application of Nimbus (my favorite original super-hero, although the alias of "Nimbus" was already used for some shmuck long ago in the DC comics universe, grrr).

 

Zero combat presence, not even a mental spec or supernatural spec. He'd just heal people as he'd hurt them, unless he harms them from afar. Then again he isn't that trained in ranged weapons anyways. I adore writing Nimbus as a hero who idolizes the idea of saving people, justice, and self-sacrifice while also making him a crash test dummy that can walk off absurdly ridiculous injuries I give him myself while also providing him with moments where he proves that he can be a bad-ass just as much as the next guy.

 

Now this Forum does specify the limits of healing...and since Nimbus is going to have to be nerfed to abide by this rule, I am going to have a great time writing a new version of the character. That's just me personally though.

 

What is this "trying to avoid making a character that doesn't fit in" nonsense? The beauty of RP'ing, at least to me, is crafting a way to make your character an organic piece of the realm you're in, no matter how out of place they seem to be.

 

The story of this RP is intent on making sure people have a good time and develop their own well-constructed and natural sub-plots while the main plot goes on in the background - I'll try to constantly link it to the foreground as time goes on. I also appreciate player PMs with concepts or ideas they'd like to try out, and most of the time I'm the one putting forwards the idea to the player because I just love what they thought up by themselves and I want a piece of that fucking cake, mister

Edited by Shmuser Name, 01 April 2015 - 03:10 AM.

[Alcruid]

Can we make non-super powered charas as well?

I'm thinking of making either a reporter or an info broker if that's alright

[Shmuser Name]

Characters who don't have powers are allowed, although I personally fail to see the appeal of them - I'd prefer if every playable character had an ability, but I also love creating NPCs and I endorse the creation of non-playable human beings or super-humans.

 

You're not the first to think of creating Information Brokers as characters, and let me tell you they can get so annoying if people abuse their ability to "know things". I'll allow it, I mean then there'd be two information brokers in this RP, just a heads up.

 

I plan on submitting four (five when you think about it) of my own characters as Plot-glue devices, and one of them is an Information Broker. To tie this to my first statement, I have a character who specializes in hacking and knowledge accumulation but also has a small telepathic spec.

Edited by Shmuser Name, 01 April 2015 - 09:33 PM.