Humankind has begun to mutate. While still a minority, mutants display a wide range of strange, bizarre, and sometimes terrifying abilities. Some are physically changed – scales, wings, claws, or strange colored skin – others look just like you or me. Some mutants struggle to be accepted by the rest of humanity, while others rage against the discrimination of the so-called mundane humans. A Brotherhood has formed, a series of underground cells of mutant freedom fighters who will stop at nothing to right the wrongs against their fellow mutants. To the Brotherhood mutants are the next step of human evolution, a step toward perfection or perhaps even perfection itself, while mundanes are the Neanderthals, doomed for extinction. Many call the Brotherhood a terror organization, but they insist that mutants have nothing to fear from them. In California there are politicians who are fighting for registration of mutants. You can’t background check a mutant before giving them the ability to murder people with a thought, so the best thing we can do, they say, is to form a registry of known mutants, and their abilities. There is opposition, but the idea is gaining traction among the public. Federally, the government has killed similar bills, but they are watching California with interest to see if such a thing works on the state level. There are rumors of paramilitary organizations using mutants against other mutants, or of horrible experimentation done in the name of creating super soldiers. Secret societies bent on world domination for one side, or the other. These are just rumors. Right? You are Jane “Zombie” Meyers, the twenty-eight year old leader of the Los Angeles area chapter of the Brotherhood of Mutants, a quasi-terrorist organization with separate cells around the country - even the world. You can take any amount of damage and keep going as long as you keeps your heart rate and adrenaline up. You have enhanced strength when high on adrenaline, as well. After your heart rate slows (sometimes due to loss of blood) you will fall into a death-like coma and your body repairs itself. This can take hours, or days, depending on the damage. You do not believe that you can be killed (barring falling into an industrial shredder, or decapitation and even then…? You aren’t in a hurry to test that theory, however). [This is a setting that is basically Marvel’s X-Men, but without canon characters. There is no School for Gifted Children in New York. There may be a leader of ‘good’ mutants, but it is not Charles Xavier. There is no Magneto at the head of the Brotherhood. As a group it has no ‘head’, merely loosely connected cells each led regionally by different people. I have a loose plan, but ultimately we will craft this story together.] Original Character creation choice: quote:1. You are: Story Breaks - other POV chapters
hollylolly fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 20:41 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 07:24 |
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E sounds nicely unpredictable.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 20:45 |
D sounds interesting!
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:02 |
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D
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:09 |
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D
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:10 |
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D could be fun
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:11 |
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B Nobody looks up, crawling on ceilings could be valuable
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:12 |
I won't lie - D will be a lot of fun. But then again, maybe running a terrorist organization means doing a lot of behind the scenes paperwork. Edit: these characters are pretty fleshed out in my mind as far as backstory, so feel free to ask any questions you may have! hollylolly fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:15 |
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D I want to do paperwork.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:16 |
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What kind of wings does Angel have? Bat wings to go with the echolocation?
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:20 |
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D sounds fun. Let's get cracking on an MBA in our spare time so we can move up the organizational ladder. Who says we have to be defined by our mutation, maybe our real power is our managerial qualities and our can-do attitude. ElrondHubbard fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Aug 23, 2015 |
# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:22 |
Absum posted:What kind of wings does Angel have? Bat wings to go with the echolocation? Yes, she has bat-like wings with clawed tips, and they are flesh colored. She can conceal them (to a point) under a trenchcoat if need be. She is not quite nocturnal, but she is definitely a night person.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:27 |
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E: Mediocre Teela Brown. Cats and knitting! Cats and knitting sound great
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:30 |
C. Jane's pretty much guaranteed to get captured after a coma or two.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:37 |
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E. All of them are pretty neat but I wanna see how we deal with this power after all.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 21:46 |
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C & D seem like the most interesting to me, though I guess B may still develop additional powers since she's so young? Either way, don't really want to play a teenager (again!). So going to vote C, her powers are a cool, and hopefully her brothers are too!
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 22:01 |
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Do we decide how we effect luck? Or is it'Other people are luckier and I'm not, or vice versa' Edit: Changed to D below. Outrail fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 23, 2015 |
# ? Aug 23, 2015 22:03 |
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E
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 22:08 |
Outrail posted:E. We can be a colossal jackass and soak up the luck and pratfall our way through life while everyone around us falls through open sewer grates. Jo can cause a lucky event to happen for herself. She could, for example, make herself win the lottery! If she did that, however, an EQUALLY unlucky event will befall her. Like... getting rear ended onto a train crossing in front a train full of chemicals that only runs through the area once a year, while Harrison Ford's plane crashes on her at the same time. So, she keeps it to small things, or at least has until now! She can also choose to experience bad luck in exchange for random good luck later. Once she effects her luck she WILL have an opposite reaction at some, random point in the future. Additionally, she may be able to change the luck of others in the future. Maybe. If she doesn't get a life threatening infection from a paper cut or fall into a sewer grate before then.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 22:21 |
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C. Let's be the nice Ice Queen
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:04 |
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HBar posted:C. Jane's pretty much guaranteed to get captured after a coma or two. Haven't you seen Crank? Let's do that!
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:08 |
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E to keep us alive when goon decisionmaking inevitably gets us in a giant's fist.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:22 |
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hollylolly posted:Jo can cause a lucky event to happen for herself. She could, for example, make herself win the lottery! If she did that, however, an EQUALLY unlucky event will befall her. Like... getting rear ended onto a train crossing in front a train full of chemicals that only runs through the area once a year, while Harrison Ford's plane crashes on her at the same time. So, she keeps it to small things, or at least has until now! There is absolutely, positively no way that goons won't end up blowing a huge wad of luck on a stupid venture and then screwball it all up. Changing my vote to D, we need survivability and the opportunity to make mortal mistakes over , and over , and over . Just gotta keep that heart rate up . Outrail fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 23, 2015 |
# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:25 |
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Does Jane need to eat/breathe?
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:28 |
Votes so far: A - 0 B - 1 C - 3 D - 7 E - 5 It's a tie! Edit: wait, it isn't anymore! Jane does need to breathe. hollylolly fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:29 |
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hollylolly posted:Votes so far: I changed my vote to D a few posts back. vv: woop, I am kingmaker! Outrail fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 23, 2015 |
# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:30 |
Outrail posted:I changed my vote to D a few posts back. Yep, I saw it and just edited.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:31 |
Ralith posted:Does Jane need to eat/breathe? I answered this in part above, but yes. Jane eats and breathes and needs to do so in order to function. She could go without eating...but starving to If she held her breath she would pass out. If she drowns... well, that's an interesting one. She'd need to be fished out of the water to recuperate. Good thing she's the boss and has underlings to order around! Edit: voting is still open! I'll either update tonight (PST) or in the morning. hollylolly fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:39 |
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D. E sounds really fun, but I think it'd get annoying possibly damning and countering ourself every time we use our abilities. Seems like we'd end up going nowhere. Use a little luck to cause a guard to drop a key! Yay, you've escaped! Bad luck hits you and you run into that same guard who stopped to tie his randomly untied shoelace ten seconds later.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:55 |
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hollylolly posted:I answered this in part above, but yes. Jane eats and breathes and needs to do so in order to function. She could go without eating...but starving to Has jane experienced decapitation, industrial shredding or similar total body deconstruction?
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:57 |
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Does Jane's regeneration respect conservation of mass?
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 23:58 |
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Theglavwen posted:D. E sounds really fun, but I think it'd get annoying possibly damning and countering ourself every time we use our abilities. Seems like we'd end up going nowhere. Use a little luck to cause a guard to drop a key! Yay, you've escaped! Bad luck hits you and you run into that same guard who stopped to tie his randomly untied shoelace ten seconds later. You give yourself bad luck all the time instead and stop doing it when you need the good luck (and hope things maybe work out and when they don't suddenly cause tons of good luck for yourself and then get owned with massive bad luck seconds later). e: I have seen a character that could essentially store luck and she did the cause yourself constant bad luck thing, but our power would be a lot less reliable cause we can't actually store it really.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:10 |
Outrail posted:Has jane experienced decapitation, industrial shredding or similar total body deconstruction? That would probably kill her to death. Although, maybe her head would grow a new body? Probably not, that's pretty ridiculous. Ralith posted:Does Jane's regeneration respect conservation of mass? I'm not sure what you mean? She will eventually regrow a limb, like a lizard who lost its tail. She cannot grow a different limb in place of a missing one, nor a larger one than she had in the first place.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:11 |
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hollylolly posted:I'm not sure what you mean? She will eventually regrow a limb, like a lizard who lost its tail. She cannot grow a different limb in place of a missing one, nor a larger one than she had in the first place.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:15 |
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Absum posted:You give yourself bad luck all the time instead and stop doing it when you need the good luck (and hope things maybe work out and when they don't suddenly cause tons of good luck for yourself and then get owned with massive bad luck seconds later). Hah, neat. Living a life of constant bad luck, so that a) we're used to dealing with poo poo and so more competent at it and b) just by virtue of stopping the bad luck our situation should always immediately improve. It'd be like using good luck but without actually doing it, and then, if we do employ good luck, it's just an additional bonus.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:16 |
Ralith posted:If you cut off her limb and placed her in an air-tight cell, would the contents of the cell weigh more after the limb regrew? Her body wouldn't be able to initiate the regrowth with zero oxygen. For the sake of argument, it would weigh the same. Jane would awaken (once released from the air tight cell) ravenously hungry and would take an additional day or two to return to her full strength depending on how much she had to regenerate. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that she has above average strength when high on adrenaline! Whoops. I'll edit that into the OP.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:23 |
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Can we get Jane a big suit of armor, a dome shaped helmet, and a big ruby, then bulk up a bunch?
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:26 |
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At least breaking into the morgue will be easy enough.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:28 |
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hollylolly posted:Her body wouldn't be able to initiate the regrowth with zero oxygen. Can she heal brain damage? If so, how much? Would it affect her personality/memories/etc?
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:48 |
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Ralith posted:I said airtight, not evacuated. She can heal brain damage to a certain point. If her brains were, for a random example, splashed all over a door frame by a fifty foot giant, she would be dead. It doesn't affect her personality or memories. At least, not that she's noticed!
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 00:52 |