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This is the team 2 OOC thread. Please re-post/link your character sheets in your first post for easy reference. I'll add more to this post as time goes on. Listing NPCs locations, and all kinda fun stuff. 
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Lady Mavragariti "Supernova" The Outsider Greetings Earthling! I am the Lady Mavragariti, or as you might know me, the young hero, Supernova! Do you think the name is a good fit? The regard your people seem to have for such routine events is a bit odd to me, but the other members of the team assured me it was an impressive sounding name, and would make people think "WOW, she is from space, and very important!" Personally, after a deal of research of my own, I had determined the most appropriate heroic name for a woman commonly associated with aliens would be Ripley, but again the team seemed to disagree? I suppose I have to take them at their word for these things, just like they do when I try to explain the Itarian culture and scientific advances to them. But that is why we're a team, after all! Where do I come from? Haven't you heard any of the interviews that I did, they were all over the duo-dimensional viewers-that is, the TV. And in several of those weird glossy tree byproduct information rags. Well, I can grace you with another rendition I suppose, I've done it enough times already. I hail from the distant Itarian Intergalactic Empire! As the first daughter, and therefore heir, of the reigning Empress, I was born on the planet Itari (in the Itari Galaxy, Itari Galaxtic Cluster), and once I reached the appropriate age, I was sent off on the traditional mission of pioneering through uncharted galaxies -actually we'd scouted about half of what you call the Milky Way when I was sent here- looking for other forms of sentient life to observe. Now here's the part no one else has heard. Technically, once I found you, I was supposed to observe your planet briefly, then return home and let professional Xenopologists take over studying, and potentially setting up an uplifting program. But, I canceled that plan for two reasons. First, when I arrived in the system, I found the corpse of a space whale in decaying orbit around your sun. When I scanned it, I found the genetic traces of Dramara Infestation! There were none on the body, but an infested space whale usually can contain enough Dramara Parasites to infect an entire city, and from there quickly overrun any planet they've established a foothold on. A bioscan of the planet revealed far fewer than that, but at best I could pinpoint them all to being located in Halcyon City. The Dramara Swarm is the only real threat the the Itarian Empire -aside from pirates- as well as a threat to every form of life in the galaxy. The parasite burrows into the spinal column of its victim and works its way up to the brain, taking control of its host, while still retaining all its memories, so it can act like the perfect replica. Once they've taken over a planet, they turn it into a planetary factory to produce more ships to spread across the galaxy. We have them hemmed in in a distant Galaxy currently, but it seems like this one space whale escaped from a fight. It was badly damaged, which is probably why so few Dramar are here, but if I left, they'd be free to take over the planet, so I have to stay to fight. My family, especially my mother - the Empress - would rather I leave, to make sure I stay safe, but depending on how long our ships take to get here - it could be years if the solar wind is bad and the cosmic web between galaxies causes problems -which it usually does- your entire species could be dead. But I know I can stop them, together with the help of the heroes here! ...Unfortunately, a lot of the heroes here don't believe me for some reason! It's disgraceful, why would I even have a reason to lie? Just because I implicated several important public figures in Halcyon City is no reason to doubt me! I'm the crown princess of the Itarian Intergalactic Empire, I wouldn't like about this! A couple of them think I'm lying, most don't really believe me but aren't sure, and only a few actually are taking me seriously. The main one is The Horned Lady. A fellow lady, though she isn't an alien, as much as she looks like it. Apparently she was a human who was transformed by 'magic' and developed the gift of occasionally being able to see the future, and she once foresaw a "being of strange beauty and otherworldly splendor, coming to earth at the crest of a dark tide, coming to drown the world" it's obviously me, and she agrees! So she's been backing me up with the other heroes. I suppose that, and the good publicity that'd come from it are the reasons why they put me on this team. That and it's my rightful place as royalty. The second reason I'm staying is, well... frankly... Even if you are primitive and generally uncivilized, I like it here. There's something here that the people have we don't back home. I think it's uncertainty. In the Empire, we've discovered basically everything there is to possibly know, but from my brief look of your history you just keep finding new ways to be even more wrong about bigger and bigger things. Fascinating. The third reason, which is the most important one is I couldn't dream of letting anything happen to the intergalactic wonder you have hidden away on earth... Tom's Ice Cream Bowl. It's.... I don't understand why this man Tom isn't a national hero! This 'ice cream' is the most delicious thing I've tasted across several galaxies, it's hard to picture that a race so backwards as yours managed to invent something amazing. Once I'm the Empress, it's going to be the offical Royal Meal, and if I can, I'll be taking Tom and his place back with me to be the Imperial Caterer. The Outsider posted:Hero Name: Supernova What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage? Lady Mavragariti stands in an impossibly futuristic hall in front of an older and even more regal version of herself, obviously her mother. The two smile, hug, and Mavragariti turns to go. As she steps through the doors of the throne room, she steps into a small ship, and up to a window. The window looks out on a planet glowing with neon lights, surrounded by a swarm of massive ships. The view through the window zooms out slowly, slowly, gone. She stands with her back to the camera, looking out the window still, and the view zooms in again, but the fleet is gone, the planet different... Earth. In zooms in further, through the window, onto earth, closer and closer until it's inside the top floor of a skyscraper, where a Dramara Parasite crawls out of a man in an impeccable suit's ear, writhes for a second, and then darts back in again. The camera pans to a large window, which suddenly cracks, shattering into a million pieces as Supernova flies in on her Solar Sailboard, the board ramming into the man's chest as she leaps off, brandishing her sword! Head's turn like crazy as Supernova walks down a crowded city street, a look of aloof superiority on her face - until she spots an Ice Cream stand and her eyes widen - she might be starting to drool. She rushes forward into the mass of people, and when the camera get's out the other side of the crowd, she's sitting on a stool in front of it, eating hungrily out of a bowl stacked a foot high with scoops of ice cream. Arashiofordo3 posted:Supernova It isn't entirely a bad thing, a few of the aliens I've seen here are from the Itraian Empire, and still actively part of it, just very far out of the way on their business. Those are generally willing to help if I need it, because they know when I return and am crowned I won't forgot their aid. But for the most part, all the aliens here are bad news, for both me and earth. With how far out of the center of all civilization your galaxy is, and how far out from the center of the galaxy your planet is, it's become, for some reason, an ideal refugee for criminals and outcasts. The planet has become a den of smugglers and kidnappers. Just in my time here I've seen countless Kruts, Thranls, Electroneons, Wraiths and Biomorphs, though the latter are harder to pick out since they're so much better at disguising themselves as humans. Because of the morphing. They're all species with bad reputations that haven't assimilated into the Empire yet, though they aren't evil. More troubling, I've seen at least one Vreil - the Dramara's favorite host for fighting. Here, I'll show you a picture of one, you'll understand why.  A Vreil ..Yeah. The really bad part about this is that the Space Whale couldn't have gotten it here - aside from Dramara parasiting themselves inside of it, only a few species can survive an intergalactic trip inside the mouth of a Space Whale, and Vreil aren't one of them. So they must have managed to put together a cloning device somewhere in Halcyon City to grow their own Vreil shocktroops. It'd explain why I've only seen one so far, it takes a lot of time and energy to do that. Still. Bad news. The worst species here -besides the Dramara obviously- that I've seen though are the... Well I won't tell you their real name, it won't mean anything. In English, they're called "Greys" apparently. Which, if you ask me is a pretty racist way to name them, based on the color of their flesh? And, you use it like its a negative, but let me tell you, just because some aliens have grey skin and are disgusting murderers doesn't mean it's because of the grey skin. I'm grey, and the only messing with your head I'll be doing is removing any Dramara from it! Bigots. When I saw one I almost attacked it on sight, they have a horrible, evil reputation. But it slipped away, and later when I went back over my research on your history and news, I found over a century of abductions and experimentation done on your race! It's disgusting! Everyone knows -everyone intelligent knows- that the easiest way to make scientific discoveries and find new beneficial genetic mutations is to capture members of a race with similar genetic structure to you but far lower developmentally, and experiment on your captives. The planet the species is on is helpless to stop you, so you don't have to fear any backlash from the inevitable over 99% mortality rate those experiments are going to have. Naturally, we outlawed the practice generations ago, despite the setback it would cause to our scientific knowledge and species development, because it's too barbaric to allow- just like you wouldn't allow dissecting a person alive to find out how their body works, we don't allow 'dissecting' a mind to find out how to unlock its potential. The "Greys" refused to stop, along with countless other violations and their habit of constantly declaring war and then surrendering when we crushed them resulted in, I thought, them being wiped out. But apparently enough escaped to make it to earth to continue their research. Disgusting. Arashiofordo3 posted:- It’s got to be pretty tricky to adjust to living in some place that doesn’t immediately recognise your royalty. What steps are you taking to correct that oversight? Yeah it's terrible. I've never been to a planet this backwater before. And so many primitive habits, I didn't think I'd ever meet a place that actually uses money. I mean really! Money?! It's ridiculous. Back home everyone just gives each other anything they need, because we all know that if we need something someone else will give it to us. It's much more civilized. Anyway. How I've been dealing with Earth being too backwards to understand and respect my royalty. Well, it's not difficult. Whenever someone 'important' on earth is having some event, I just show up even if they were too rude or stupid to invite me! An example! Not long ago, the 'Queen' of your 'United Kingdoms' turned 90 not long ago. Naturally, as the daughter of the Galactic Empress, I was in attendance! The camera's rightly focused nearly as much on me as they did on her. But I'm not rude, so I made sure to give her a gift worth of her apparent status here on Earth, a simple electrum bracelet that projects a faint aurora of light across her to enhance her beauty as well as provided general protection from all sorts of standard laser weapons and radiation. I also gave her a collar to put on one of those weird small feral animals she likes to keep that'll allow it to speak human, but I'm not sure that one was actually a very good gift, they don't have anything intelligent to say. Still, she seemed to appreciate it. More broadly, I tend to keep my royal Tiara on whenever I go out, just to help drive the point in. Arashiofordo3 posted:- That prophecy/vision sounds pretty vague, tell me about the other person it applies to. In what way do then fit the prophecy closer then you do? You're pretty perspective! For a human. I don't think anyone else has noticed, but the prophecy doesn't actually say the person arriving is going to .... save earth. Just that they're going to show up with the 'tide' that'll drown the world. But since I'm undeniably a being of otherworldly splendor -though my beauty isn't exactly strange- and I have come to save Earth from the Dramara 'tide' it's obviously about me, and I'm here to save Earth. The Horned Lady agrees, but there are other interpretations... A female Narlon named Theralyn showed up almost right after I did - showed up publically I mean - or rather she appeared to show up right after I did. I wasn't fooled - the Narlon live several galaxies over and don't have the technology to go traveling this far - so I did a scan and sure enough she's got one of the Dramara in her head. But some people think she fits the prophecy better, a few have even been stupid enough to say she's more of a strange beauty than I am - which, fair, she is a lot stranger, but definitely less beautiful. And she does fit it better if you take the other reading, that she's here to lead the tide in drowning earth and taking it over. Even the tide bit works rather literally, Narlon's head tendril things have extra brains in them that give them a limited psychic control over water, so she could actually drown parts of the earth. Dramara tend to increase the power of species natural traits, so she'd be more dangerous than a regular one would be. If regular Narlon weren't generally peaceful.  "Theralyn" Anyway, the worst bit is she's pretending to be a friendly alien like me, so I can't outright deal with her. Stupid Dramara are too smart for their own good, they realized that once I went public they couldn't take me on publicly, so they used the same trick. Arashiofordo3 posted:[If you're at school during your off time, what do you study? If you're not in school, what do you do to pass the time? Sometimes I visit schools! It is an interesting experience, and they seem remarkably effective in their function as educational facilities, every time I go to one everyone always tries to learn as much as possible about me! It's very flattering, though I sometimes wonder if they shouldn't be learning about earth things. That was my original intention for going to them, but that's never happened. So I generally have better things to do with my time than to be fussed over by crowds of adoring humans, as enjoyable as it is. I usually spend my time researching earth customs by watching the countless two dimensional versions of holovids you use. They seem much more educational than anything that happened in school. Other than that, I travel around your planet quite frequently, I am making it one of my goals here to taste delicacies from every 'nation' on your planet, and there are many varied and interesting places to visit, such as the large monuments and structures of reasonably impressive size considering how advanced your civilizations are. The natural land formations tend to be the more impressive, but your so called theme parks and tourist attractions are the most interesting thing of all! Though none quite live up to the thrill of riding solar flares across a system, roller coasters and the like are quite entertaining! Arashiofordo3 posted:Round 2 questions, part 1 One? Please. There's an entire forum on your internet devoted to figuring out what the government is using me to distract them for, or what weird experiments they used to create me, or which new world order's aims I'm advancing. Most of this doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I suppose when you live with a government of elected people its only natural for the citizens to be suspicious of their leaders. Just another reason why a Monarchy is so much better. You always know exactly who is in charge. But, there is one in particular who is a big problem! Two actually. Because they're both local. One of them claims to have been kidnapped by aliens, and is out for revenge, and apparently is too stupid to realize that there are more than one kind of 'alien' out there? But as the most visible one, he's taking out his grudge on me! The other one is the bigger problem, named Mike Richardson. He runs a... Radio broadcast out of his house, where he goes on about various plots all the time. But since that's his only job, he had lots of time free and has been trying to track me down. My ship is well shielded, so the Dramara can detect it, they won't be able to locate it, even with modified technology available to them on earth. But if Mike is able to locate where it is based on constantly trailing me and recording sightings and all that sort of thing, they might be able to find out where it's located, which would be pretty bad news! I can't guard it all the time, and if people start showing up it's not like I can start blasting them because most of them will probably just be humans and not Dramara. Also it doesn't do my reputation any good to have some jerk broadcasting himself shouting about how I'm a government plot to mind control everyone into becoming mindless 'sheeple' whatever those are. Arashiofordo3 posted:- You got a very garbled message from home, it was difficult to understand, but what's your best guess about what it said? I'm not sure why this message was so badly received, maybe a nebula galaxy was getting in the way of the communications? Usually communications back and forth are crisp, clear and almost instant. I might have to reroute further conversations through someone in a galaxy off on a tangent from us to get clear messages through. In any case, the message... it seemed to either be telling me or warning me that something was incoming, probably to earth, but maybe something happening back home? Probably earth though. It could be Itarian ships or more Dramara if I had to guess, thought it seems awfully fast for either of them. Anyway, it doesn't really matter in this case, the message is obvious enough! Here's the log, any ---- is an indication that some of the message got swallowed there, but I can't tell how much. I've left off the first part which is just Mother (the Empress) being all soppy and talking about how much she loves me. Here we go, "~- Solar Winds are - average for this time, and the cosmic web is unsu-traversable. I've dispat- General Da-ir to Earth with - fast- ship to -s-t- you -om- and -ect ----mara. -ving within -xt- -ew Earth -s" The general is obviously General Dadamasiquir, he's one of my uncles. As for the rest of it, she's saying the Solar Winds are below average and the cosmic web is unusually easy to navigate, so she's sending General Dadamsiquir with his fastest ships to arrive and help me drive off the Dramara. And then she said he should be here in a few... weeks, probably. The journey isn't short enough to make in days with the current gating system so sparse in this direction. GodFish fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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 quote:When our team first came together… The Halcyon's Daily Catch! They're a influential newspaper based out of the harbor area. Hence the wordplay. Anyway, we saved their office from being blown up, and they were really grateful for it. They've been writing good press about us ever since! Which is super important for a new team like ours, so yay! Relationships quote:Supernova might wind up being more of a star than me some day. I mean, that's pretty much a given. Looks really good, is an actual ALIEN, and is a hero. Basically no way she won't be more famous than me at some point. I'm a little bit jealous. She's like, an actual princess! Sort of? quote:Getterman Pink would be a great sidekick. She's like a cool big sis... but she doesn't really have much in the way of powers. But don't worry, Getterman Pink! I'll carry you to fame along with me~ quote:Giving Influence to Supernova, Getterman Pink and Megumi Sakamoto. They're confident, smart, and/or nice, and I hope they teach me a lot! quote:
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  Do we really gotta do this? You know what I'm capable of, right? We both know how this ends! Ugh, fine. Let's get this interview over with, I got places to be. I'm Feral, my powers are beating the poo poo out of things and being hella tough. I don't wear a costume because they keep getting wrecked and it's expensive. Some evil nerds made me in a lab to kill superheroes for them but that sounded lame so I left. Now I guess I go to school here and I'd really like to be on the new team that AI are setting up because I'll get in way less trouble with Dr Starling if I have 'insurance' and 'authorization to operate' or whatever when I get in fights. I like long walks on the beach and breaking stuff. I guess Lex Justice wants me to be on the team as well, and she's cool so I'll do it. Are we done here? quote:Hero Name: The raging Feral! Backstory - Who changed you?  The Irresponsible Science Cultists known as Maelstrom. Ugh, these loving nerds. They're some kind of hivemind of evil scientists? They've been around for ages, real Golden Age nonsense. I guess they got sick of heroes showing up to stop them from blowing up the moon or whatever, so they decided to make me? I dunno if I was a baby they stole or if they built me from the ground up. Doesn't matter. All you need to know is they are dangerously stupid and really, really clever at the same time. - How did you escape from them?  Their attempt to use me as a weapon against Lex Justice, Agent of BLUFF went awry. Haha oh man, this was awesome. First time they went to use me, there's all this fanfare about how 'at last our enemies will face their demise' and 'those honorable fools will never fight a child' and then Lex blasts in through the wall of the volcano lair in a rocket car, shoots me in the face with a laser gun, blows up all the tanks of chemicals I'm standing next to, bootlegger turns the car around and rams me out through the hole she made coming in. I fell like, a kilometer onto the rocks and poo poo. I guess they were expecting someone else to show up? By the time I got my poo poo together and climbed back up to the base, everyone was gone except a clean-up crew from AI, and I didn't have any orders so I just went with them. - Who, outside the team, looks out for you now?  Dr Vivian Starling, the Frontier Psychiatrist. Vivian was assigned to 'deprogram' me and be my counselor. He's stuffy, British as gently caress, and super irritating. But he's a good guy. AI couldn't find any family for me to live with, so I stay at his place and we try to drive each other nuts. If you ever catch me calling him 'Dad' I swear I will end you. - Why do you try to be a hero? Being a hero is rad as hell. I'm a one person wrecking ball, I can bench-press a car and survive anything. What the hell else am I going to do with my time? Be a security guard? Nah, the hero life is the bomb - you get to have awesome fights and everyone loves you for it. - Why do you care about the team? It's a shot at the big time for a weirdo like me I'm not...ug. Not popular with the authorities. But getting on a team like this would be a way to put a lot of my past behind me. The people on the team are going to be other kids and freaks and troublemakers, we're going to get on fine. It's going to be great! - Which current hero sponsored your entrance onto the team? What did you do that convinced them? Lex Justice, of course! We're basically BFFS ever since she shot me in the face and blew me up and knocked me off a cliff with a car that one time. I already told you how we met, right? Lex Justice is the best, she's supposed to have been around since the War, basically an immortal super-spy. As far as I can tell the agency she says she works for (B.L.U.F.F.) doesn't actually exist? Maybe they're just really good at keeping secrets? I haven't even managed to get her to tell me what it stands for yet. Anyway, she's been following my progress and she told Dr Starling that I needed to be somewhere I could be 'closely monitored' which I think means she wants to mentor me? So. Cool. - That awesome place in town you know about? Tell me about it! Cave Comedenti is THE high-stakes bistro, with food prepared by extreme chefs from otherworldly ingredients. Try the fried psi-worm! Also they have an underground fighting ring in the basement, which is cool. They won't let me compete because I'm a minor or some poo poo, which is lame. - Remind me, who's that interesting/important non-hero you know about?  The Assessor is a mysterious quasi-government figure who tracks collateral damage for insurance companies. Only operates through drones, never seen in person. I don't think they like me very much. - (optional) What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage? A large stasis tank full of mutagenic fluid shatters outwards, revealing Feral - expressionless, bald, and wearing a black-and-red Maelstrom uniform. Her eyes flash as she begins to sprint forward with lethal intent before an explosion launches her into the sky. When she falls back down she's dressed in her more usual outfit of tattered and burned casual clothing, and has her familiar eye patch and wild hair. She grins savagely as she lands on the head of a giant robot and begins to tear into it with her bare hands before flipping away as it collapses. She high-fives [TEAMMATE] as Lex Justice watches disapprovingly on security camera footage. - (optional) A thread name for the IC thread. Masks: Heroes Never Die! (Except the Doomed) Arashiofordo3 posted:Bonus question for everyone to answer! I dunno, school stuff. History, maths, languages. I guess a bunch of it is 'remedial' because my previous education came from psychopaths who would put needles in my brain to teach me kung fu and their idea of a rounded education was a 72 hour screed on the secret history of how oppressed they were and what they were going to do to President Roosevelt when they caught him. I didn't even know there was more than one President until six months ago! The classes I'm in have some cute people to hang out with so it's not a complete waste of time. Arashiofordo3 posted:Round 1 questions part 4 quote:- Oh man, Maelstrom! Those guys are super old! No one's seen them for ages! Then all of a sudden you get found and they come crawling out of the woodwork everywhere! What other plots are they putting into action? Ugh, I know, right? And it's not just the organization that's old, the youngest member of the...hive? The main brains, anyway. He's in his 70s. They're all pretty spry on account of drugs and surgery but they are terrified of death. That's why they've activated all these sleeper agents and old doomsday devices recently - they're trying to accomplish a bunch of things at once. They have an enemies list that they want put to clear - most of their enemies are already dead or retired, but that doesn't stop them from trying. A bunch of old heroes like Captain Flintlock have been placed under surveillance as a result, along with several major universities. The other thing they're doing is recruiting - they try to find smart guys with an axe to grind against the establishment and bring them in to the organization. If they're really smart/crazy they try to make them part of the 'network'. Oh, and they have the least sophisticated bank robbery operation on the planet - just have a robot kick in the door, shoot anyone who resists with a death-ray, steal cash and leave. Sorry if I'm short on details. I mean, I wasn't exactly in on a lot of the briefings, and their planning is mostly done inside their wrinkly little heads. quote:- "Deprogram" you? Sounds like they were brainwashing you! Do you think your new friends got rid of it all, or is there any lasting trigger words hidden in the depths of your mind? Brainwashing? I...guess it could look like that? I was pretty messed up when I got out, Doc Starling compared me (in notes he doesn't know I've read for a paper he's not going to publish) to kids who get raised by animals. Only with a tendency to try and break into Fort Knox instead of resource guarding food. We worked real hard to get me to a stage where I can have a conversation without denouncing the evils of the Federal Reserve and demanding a return to the plutonium standard. If there's anything left in there it's buried deeper than we could get with therapy, hypnosis, a big cocktail of experimental drugs and the assistance of Oct-oculus. You know, the hyper-intelligent psychic octopus? They've got a talk show and everything! Anyway, I'm like, 99% sure I'm clean now. Probably. quote:- You've managed to get into some pretty memorable fights since you were rescued. Which one was the most fun and the most destructive? OK, I wanna state first for the record that none of what follows counts as a confession or admission of liability. And to be clear, this is all off the record, right? Remember the Nakatomi Plaza expansion? Ten stories of high-tech and luxury goods shopping, cinemas, restaurants? The one that had to be demolished due to 'unforeseeable soil liquefaction' that made it untenable to continue work? That was me. Not the soil, that's just a cover-up. I had an awesome fight in there that just trashed the place, damage was so extensive the company ended up pulling it down. It started off pretty normal, some lizard guys came up out of the sewer and were menacing people. I was just having lunch nearby and I wasn't just going to stand around and let some poor sucker get their head bitten off, so I jumped in and started punching. Only one of them was a giant mutant lizard with lava powers (Halycon City Enquirer named her Gal Apagos, because there are lizards there and it's a volcano. Get it?) and she was also hella strong so the fight got a little out of control, strayed into the construction site (empty, luckily. Union was on strike.) and we just wrecked the joint. Foundations all torn up, structural columns shattered, cranes used as bludgeons...it was great. Eventually she got tired and I managed to get a good hit on her head that knocked her out, but the place was written off. Literally a billion dollars worth of property damage. Kind of why everyone wants me to be on the new team. AI came and took her away before she woke up. I'm not even sure if she was a person, but she knew how to enjoy a brawl. Is it bad to hope she breaks out of whatever facility she's in? Arashiofordo3 posted:Feral round 2 questions Well, the standard agreement for heroes in training is that our salary gets garnished to contribute to the insurance fund AI maintains to cover public liability, workers compensation, third-party property claims and other miscellaneous costs. If you are established as 'high risk' in any of those categories due to the nature of your powers or, uh, 'accident history' then you pay more. In my case I'm also losing control over my merchandising rights, media appearance fees, and I have to do unspecified public relations work for a minimum of 8 hours a week to cover...expenses. My solicitor David Hunter* assures me that it's a sweetheart deal, considering my...record. I don't really use the money for anything so it doesn't bother me - living in a Science Cult for most of your life really puts consumerism in perspective, you know? The PR work is kind of a mixed bag, doing construction work in low income neighborhoods or school visits (in the company of more photogenic and established heroes) mostly but once I get the team gig I think they'll want to squeeze higher profile stuff in. *Unbeknownst to Feral, David Hunter is secretly the masked vigilante known only as Nightfist, who uses his position as an attorney to help the public during the day and fights crime at night - with his fist! Arashiofordo3 posted:- That psychic Octopus did manage to get a fragment of something out of your mind. Some kind of keyword or project name or something. It got Lex really worried when you told it to her. What was it? And what did Lex tell you when she returned after disappearing for over a month without warning? Nautilus. Just one word. It's a kind of shellfish, right? I thought Ock was just hungry and projecting, but when I told Lex that and she threw a book at me. Literally, just chucked a paperback at my head. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne. I guess she was worried that Maelstrom had built a submarine, or an underwater base? I guess a sub would be pretty hard to catch, but I'm not sure why that would upset her so much - even on her own she managed to break into a volcano lair, with help from AI she should be able to sink a submarine pretty easy. I mean, unless that would violate the treaty with Sunken Mu. Which it would only do if the submarine was...nuclear powered. I think I get it now. Anyway, that was before she left. We don't exactly live together, but normally she'd check on me once a week. When she came back after the month she'd lost a lot of weight and was kind of sick for a while. Something about micro-gravity and exposure to cosmic radiation, so I guess she was in space? (Have I mentioned how cool she is?) 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When our team first came together… We defeated a dangerous enemy. Who or what was it? Supernova called it a Vreil, but she used more sounds when she said it. Hard to get it right. Anyway, big green thing with a bunch of claws and teeth and bad attitude. Ordinarily my kind of a party but the thing attacked before we were even officially a team and kind of ruined our big launch ceremony which was a total jerk move. I had a tuxedo on and everything! You don't know pain until you've tried to get a deposit back on a tux that got shredded by a hostile alien. Anyway, we were all lined up for a press conference, waiting for the sponsoring members to show up and this thing came up through the floor screaming like a drill press and biting the arm off a journalist. I probably could have taken it on my own, but I got to admit it was lot easier with help. Relationships Supernova is your love. You've opened up to them about the worst parts of your past. She's from space, she can fly and is tough and has a cool space surfboard and stuff. Her life has just been flying around the galaxy discovering stuff, and I really like talking to her about it. Shame all I've got talk about is boring Earth junk and how much it sucks being a kid when your every moment is being monitored and controlled by creepy old dudes. Nice of her to listen to me talking about it when it's not even her job. I guess I like her? Megumi Sakamoto is your rival. They tried to control you at a crucial moment. I have really, seriously had enough of 'geniuses' telling me what to do. I don't give two shits what your calculator brain says the 'optimal course of action' is, I don't want to know about the odds or acceptable risks. Going around like your poo poo doesn't stink and you never make mistakes. And then trying to call me off fighting those yakuza guys like I'm a dog you can get to heel? Feh! (spits). Who the hell were those guys, anyway? Serious hardware but no markings or uniform... Role:Defender: When you leap to defend your love or rival in battle, roll + Danger instead of + Savior to defend them. Influence You're focused. Give your love and rival influence over you, but that's it. thatbastardken fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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 When our team first came together... We didn’t trust each other at first, but that changed. How? Why? Despite my warnings, I don't think anyone on the team actually believed me about Aliens attacking the earth and trying to take things over. Your people are inherently suspicious of outsiders, and I'm very obviously not human! And between other people, there seemed to be a lot of conflicts, and excuses for why they didn't think someone else should have been there. En Garde doesn't have any powers, Getterman won't take her mask off, Feral destroys too many things, you get the idea! But once we had fought off the Vreil and everything under my expert instructions, I think it was obvious to the team that we'd all contributed and helped each other along! You’ve been learning about Earth by spending time with En Garde. Everyone on the team seems pretty willing to explain the things about earth that are harder to pick up, but I've learned a lot from En Garde! My analysis determined that having these abilities most of the humans on the team have is the exception, not the rule on earth, so En Garde, who doesn't have any, is the most normal, and thus the best choice for learning what life is like for 'normal' humans. She knows a lot of things, and is definitely better at using a sword than I am! I wonder if I have a spare nano-tech blade I can give her, it'd help her be more on my level. You have a crush on Megumi Sakamoto but you keep it under wraps. Empress help me, I've got a crush on Megumi! She's cool, collected, actually has dignity unlike most of the clowns on the team -which is fine, but Megumi's bearing is better- and she's quite pretty! To top it off, she's incredibly smart. I can actually talk to her about things from back home, and technology, and she gets it. Its so nice. Though I have to be careful not to let slip too much scientific knowledge before humans are cleared for uplifting! And even more importantly, I need to be careful about not having a crush on her! I'm the next Empress, getting involved with a human is out of the question! GodFish fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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  quote:Real Name: Megumi Sakamoto Frgrbrgr posted:
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can I be a wizard?
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Nooner posted:can I be a wizard? Sorry Nooner. This is not a recruitment thread. The thread recruitment for this thread is already done. This is just an OOC thread for one lot of my players.
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Arashiofordo3 posted:Sorry Nooner. This is not a recruitment thread. The thread recruitment for this thread is already done. This is just an OOC thread for one lot of my players. oh okay, i want to be a wizard next time though ):
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Nooner posted:oh okay, i want to be a wizard next time though ): http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3786557 This recruit is currently up! Try your luck there.
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I'm dropping out, sorry.
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quote:When the team formed we fought a terrible evil and they lost something precious. Who was it and what did they lose? God, that Vreil thing... what the hell even was that? Supernova keeps saying it's an alien combat morphling, but I'm more inclined to believe it's the result of some genetic engineering and a hell of a lot of DNA experimentation. Anyways, when we (and I mostly mean Feral) brought it down, the drat thing melted. Only thing that was left was some strange computer chip. I've been studying it for a while now, I think it's some kind of tracker, possibly also something to do with keeping the monster's genetic makeup stable. But none of my contacts have come up with anything in regards to who built the drat thing. All my efforts to reverse engineer the thing have failed too - it's almost like it was made by aliens. Of course, that would mean Supernova is right about everything... I'm not quite ready to accept her wild theories - not yet. Relationships quote:I follow Supernova’s example of what a hero ought to be. There's something about Supernova that just... speaks to me. A good balance of justice, an air of superiority. And a smile, all the while. Some of these other heroes I mean, have you seen Feral and Eve? - they're emotional wrecks, bound to go off the handle or curl up into a ball and cry at a moment's notice. And Aurora, well she's too... public. Too happy to be in front of the cameras. Meanwhile Getterman Pink... I mean where do I even start? No, there's something right about the way Supernova goes around, holding her head high, making her thoughts known. If not for the crazy talk about aliens burrowing into your brain, well, she'd almost be a perfect role-model! quote:I did something terrible to Feral once. I hope they can forgive me one day. When I first saw Feral... well, it was a shock, to say the least. Her change, it's unknown to her as to why, but to me, well, I invented it. You see, back when I was working for the Sakamoto Group - remember the playbook? - yeah, one of them was a plan to take over the growth hormone industry. Specifically, the plan was to create a compound, GB-090, that allowed for metabolic changes on a sub-atomic level. Effectively, this sped up the rate at which cells grow, allowing increased strength and agility. Unfortunately, it was stolen before final completion by Maelstrom at the time - and as far as I know my parents retaliated, but clearly not before those freaks made Feral. I definitely feel responsible for how she is now - she can never find out that I'm the one responsible. Influence quote:Do you talk openly about your days as a villain? If so, give each team member Influence over you. If not, just give Influence to the one teammate whose example you most closely follow. Definitely don't want to talk about. Honestly, it's better if they never find out the horrible things I did. Influence to Supernova. Leadership vote Supernova Frgrbrgr fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Leader Vote We are not voting, this is ridiculous. Is anyone else here royalty? I didn't think so. A good second in command would be Megumi though.
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Leader Vote Uh...well, not me. Leaders have to be above the action, be able to give advice and support and direction to their team. And that doesn't leave as much time for punching fools as I like - plus I'm kind of the heavy hitter on the team (no offense) so it makes no sense to keep me off the front line. Not En Garde, I'm frankly not sure what she's doing on this team. Not Megumi, her head's already swollen enough. Pink never takes her mask off so not her. Um...Aurora is from a heroing family and everything so she's probably be good as a backup, but she's sort of...sheltered? Pretty much leaves Supernova. She's pretty cool. We talk about space stuff and laugh at weird Earth history together. thatbastardken fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Well, with Jenner dropping out. Please welcome your new team member...! En Guarde!
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  Hi nice to meet you. I'm Junko, yes I'm one of those Nishimura's. My family has made fortunes over the years out of construction and other things. But yeah construction is where it all started. My grandfather ran one of the best construction firms in Halycon back in the day and made a mint rebuilding the city whenever it got flattened. The alien invasion in '55 was the real moneyspinner from what he told me. My parents built on that of course. Although my father is more the financial shark than the honest builder and my mother... Well let's just say we don't exactly see eye to eye about a number of things and leave it at that. So then there's me I grew up wealthy I get more in a day than some people earn in a month. Do you have any idea what that's like? People sucking up to you because you have money people trying to use you, in the end I learnt to push them away because it was easier than the constant barrage of can you do this or can you buy me that. So I was a bit of a loner. Now though I have colleagues, perhaps even friends. People who respect me for what I can do and not for my money. And that's more priceless than anything I've ever owned. I hope I can prove myself worthy of their respect. quote:How did you gain your skills? Well ever since I was a kid I've always been more athletic than brainy. I think I kind of disappointed both of my parents in that respect. I was never any good at team sports. Too many people trying to suck up to me becaue I'm rich was always a problem. No where I excelled was the solo sports. I did a lot of gymnastics and it was purely by chance that I picked up a sport I'd never heard of before. Fencing. Turned out I was a natural with a sword. I could move the epee around like I'd been born with it in my hand. I even had ambitions of being an Olympic athlete at one point before I found my true calling. As for how I keep my skills sharp? hours and hours of practice I envy those heroes who have some sort of special enhancements but some of us have had to work and sweat for our skills. quote:When did you first put on your costume? I was coming home from fencing practice. I hadn't had time to change so I still had my gear on, I probably shouldn't have walked but I'd needed to clear my head a bit after being thrown round the salle by my trainer.It was then when I spotted a young woman not more than a couple of years older than me being attacked by three gangbangers with knives. I should have called out for help. I should have phoned the police but I didn't. I was so angry right there and then. I pulled my mask down to cover my face and drew my sword and charged. The thugs didn't stand a chance I've always known I was good with a sword but that was the first time I'd drawn a blade in anger. I left them bleeding but still alive and you know what happened then? She thanked me sincerely and gratefully. I wasn't some rich bitch with more money than sense. I wasn't the loner who no one liked at school. I was a hero in her eyes. When she asked me who I was I just stammered out the first thing that came into my head. "En-Garde" and that was that. quote:Who, outside of the team, thinks you shouldn’t be a superhero? My parents. No I didn't tell them but come on they're both pretty smart I should've counted on them figuring it out. It was my father who spotted it first. Unusual payments going out of my accounts, mysterious parcels arriving without labels. I think they assumed I was into drugs. When they found out what I was really spending the money on I think they would have preferred drugs. After all having the money to insert half of Colombia up your nose is highly prized amongst the great and the good of Halycon's financial world. But my parents were more concerned about the scandal it might cause if anyone found out that their daughter was how did my mother put it? "running around in tights and spandex and consorting with entirely the wrong type of people." They tried to get me to stop. But I'm not going to. This is important. It's not some childish whim whatever they say. quote:Why do you try to be a hero? Because that rush from looking into the eyes of someone you've saved and seeing their respect, their admiraton, their love is addictive. I've tried to convince myself that it's about doing the right thing about giving something back for all the money my family has taken from this city about defending something I care about. But that's ultimately it for me. Promise you won't tell anyone else? I think they'd be disappointed in me. quote:Why do you care about the team? Because on my own I'm just one girl with a sword. I can make a dent in street crime but that's just a symptom of the much larger disease. The bigger problems need bigger cures and I can't do that alone. I need help and this team might be the ones to provide it. I hope so anyway I really do. quote:Which current hero sponsored your entrance onto the team? What did you do that convinced them? That would be Samson yeah the big black guy with the super-strength and the long hair. I'd been doing the rounds of a city block where there'd been a number of kidnappings of young women. They were disappearing and no bodies were being found. I'd tracked the cult responsible to an old apartment building and made my way in. But it looked like someone had already beaten me to it. Place looked like a warzone injured and knocked out cultists all over the place, bullet holes in the walls the works. I snuck as best I could into the building and that's when I saw him. Tied to a table being interrogated. They wanted to know how he'd found out about "the summoning" whatever that was. That's when I did something that was either really brave or really stupid. I'd say brave but he called it stupid. I charged into the middle of them and began fighting. It should've been suicide they had guns they could have filled me full of lead but I didn't give them those crucial few moments to think to use them. About half way through the fight he ripped free of his bonds and joined in the fun. Wasn't much of a fight with the two of us working together. Afterwards we compared notes, he was a little angry with me at first because he'd gotten captured deliberately to get some more information out of them and I'd ruined that. But he said I had potential that my heart was in the right place even if I should have more sense that to take on a bunch of crazies with out of date weapons and that with the right training and seasoning I could make a real difference.... quote:That awesome place in town you know about? Tell me about it! Allen and Waynes is THE department store in Halycon if not the entire United States. They boast that if it's for sale you can find it there. Everything from the latest in technology to an old antique for your grandma. Rumour has it though that the management will go to extraordinary lengths to obtain what their customers want even going so far as to enage a number of the more morally gray shall we say heroes or villains to obtain the items they sell. You could spend days there and still not see everything they have for sale. Everyone who is anyone shops there. They've catered to presidents kings, princesses and on at least one memorable occasion alien despots it'd be easier to list who hasn't bought things from there. I shop there regularly of course. They're handy for some of the more esoteric tools of my new trade. quote:Remind me, who's that interesting/important non-hero you know about? Louis Barraclough I'm surprised you haven't seen him on TV. He's Halycon's most famous philanthropist and he's always raising money for the victims of this or that superpowered crisis. He's a really nice person as well if you ever get the chance to meet him in person. I even got to shake his hand when he came to hit up my parents for donations. He's built orphanages, schools hospitals and he does a lot of lobbying on behalf of the victims of villains. Halycon should be proud to have people like him living here. quote:(optional) What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage? quote:(optional) A thread name for the IC thread quote:Name: En Garde Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Relationships quote:Getterman Pink is awesome, and you take every chance you get to hang out with them. Getterman is such an interesting person she's like no one else I've ever met. I know she said she's from some sort of alternate dimension and when she said she's all alone here, I really felt sorry for her. I know what it's like to feel isolated. So I started spending more time with her. She's a very private person though so I don't know what goes on behind the mask. But I've been showing her round Halcyon helping her get to know the terrain so to speak. it's nice to have a friend quote:You’ve got to prove yourself to Aurora Angel before you feel like a real hero. Aurora is a hero from a long line of heroes. She's pretty much everything I wish I was. She's attractive popular downright heroic and everyone really seems to like her. Also she knows more about being a hero than I ever will. She was brought up in it. If I can show her I can keep up with whatever comes my way. I'll know I've definitely made it into the big time. Influence You are so excited to be here. Give Influence over you to three of your teammates. Getterman Pink Auora Angel Megumi Sakomoto quote:We found signs that this incident was just the start of something bigger. What were the signs? I can't believe I tried to kill an alien with a sword. It was awesome! especially with having the others to back me up and pull me out of danger when things went wrong which they did when you fight something that strong. I remember the thing had some sort of glowy crystal thing and Supernova immediately grabbed it. She did something to it I'm not sure what but it started showing some kind of hologram thing with weird alien writing. She looked at it and read it. If she'd been human I would have said the blood drained out of her face. But after a while she only said one word. "Invasion" I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means. I mean look at what one of these things had done to us. Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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Still waiting on the 'When we first came together' bit for En Garde, and Supernova.
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TEAM 2! GAME THREAD IS UP!
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Btw, I should clarify Tenshi's reputation. Publicly, he doesn't appear much, but general knowledge is that he's a for-hire mercenary that has done a lot of jobs, and is very violent in general. As a member of the family that runs Sakami International, he is pretty well-known, but doesn't appear at all when he's not on the job.
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For getting Influence on Megumi, who Supernova already has it on, will raise Mundane 1 and lower Superior, due to the way Supernova is treating her post kiss.
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GodFish posted:For getting Influence on Megumi, who Supernova already has it on, will raise Mundane 1 and lower Superior, due to the way Supernova is treating her post kiss. Cold!
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