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Kuro

Okay.
So, i've kinda' been grounded for a while.
And during my time on lock-down i've been watching Heroes! Heroes is an epic show.
Also I got a chain-text having to do with a warning of a machine uprising.
o:

I combined these two ideas to create what you see before you!

Not a solid story yet, but let me know what you think and if you'd be interested in it.
Gracias.
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(It's a bit long, but hey, it is going to be High-End Casual. If you can't even bring yourself to read it, I don't see why you clicked it.)

The year is 2020. It's been ten years since the United States was overturned and controlled by Robots. Or Cyborgs. Or AI's. Whatever you want to call them. They're the ones with more gears then brain-cells.
A group of scientists had been working on a project where they would take a 'machine' and give it human characteristics. Make them believe they're alive and all that other nonsense that we don't really need to happen. This project had been on-going since 1990, and finally, 20 years later, it worked.. But the changes surpassed the results they had foreseen.

The initial machine was a computer. A simple control module that very quickly created a virus with the intent of taking every mechanical object it reached and connecting it with the main module. This module then used the new electronic object to spread the virus even farther until eventually, there wasn't a thing on the planet that was influenced by electricity that it didn't have power over.
As it's control grew, so did it's 'mind.' What did it want? The cliche thing you always see in movies. A "better world". A world without crime which meant the extermination of the human race.

It would have happened too, if there hadn't been that one masked hero. Whoever it is, we don't know a thing about 'em except that they took the humans who were still alive and went under-ground, hiding us. We came to know this person as the Messiah. It saved us and shielded us from the robots for nearly a year..
We had established an underground base somewhere under the sands of the deserts of Nevada. The robots couldn't do much to us out here, being machines. The sand did a number on their inner-makings and what the environment didn't destroy, we did. We were the rebellion.

Things seemed to be working in our favor until our savior, Messiah, died. He had been sick with a disease none of us, not even the doctors that had been saved, could recognize. There was nothing that could be done except watch our hero fade away into death and leave us stranded to die.
Or so it seemed.
The day the Messiah died, he gave us all something. A parting gift, in a way. It was the only thing we had to keep us alive.
He gave us our power.
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'Kay, so you may be confused. I'll put some facts up to clear it up.

~Machines trying to take out the human race.
~Humans flee, many die.
~Mysterious person appears and saves some of the Humans. (Think about a thousand, tops.)
~A rebellion is formed, led by this person known as the Messiah.
~The Messiah wears a mask at all times and never speaks.
~Messiah dies and Humans gain a 'power'. There is no connection between the two events by fact, but the Humans believe there to be.
~The all-out war to re-take the country begins. Machine VS Supernatural.

A few ideas of the rules/restrictions for this roleplay:

-I'll require at least one paragraph per post. Five sentences minimum.
-Cursing is allowed, but be sensible, please.
-Flaming is a no-go. Any flaming will result in your immediate ejection from the roleplay.
-No god-modding, obviously. No, you can't EMP the Machines. No, you can't nullify the humans power.


One last note: Those who will be playing as a "Machine" will actually be an Android character. Kind of.
You won't be ALL machine. Your 'body' will be a dead Humans body that was taken by the Machines and put back together as a Machine. Get it?

Like I said, this is still a work in progress.
But opinions, criticism, etc. is all welcome.

Denkou

Denkou is interested. I have a super hero role play of my own going. It hasn't yet gotten started, but it's close. If I joion I'll be the hero whos more trouble trouble than she's worth. aka- the one who trips a lot.

Kuro

Wonderful. :]

That works out. Just as nobody is perfect I wanted every character to show that and have a flaw of some sort. (Planned on explaining in the OOC, if it ever got to that point.)

Denkou

alrighty. You won't have to worry about me, I've been role playing for a while. My characters are almost always realistic and reasonable. I have to get off for about an hour, but I shall return to check on the progress here.

Is there a minimum age for the hero? the one I have in mind is a teenager with a sumpreme case of ADHD.

Kuro

There is no minimum age. :]
It just has to be believable.
For instance, it's possible for a two year old to have a power, but it'll be very difficult to roleplay as it. o:
So you can't be a two year old that can handle himself like he's Chuck Norris, you know? :]

I hope it'll get enough interest to actually start up. D: I think it'd be pretty fun

Denkou

yeah I know. Like I said. I am good at making beleiveable characters. I was thinking more in the 12-14 range. And I'm not going to be a super powerful person in the beginning. Perhaps I'll get more powerful as I go along. i just want to be the hero who causes more trouble than she actually resovles. Well... I'll be back in an hour.

j8cob

this seems interesting. it certainly caught my eye. so, your saying that if you were a machine character, you wouldn't be entirely machine? like what? because the first thing i thought was 'anti-hero', but i'm a bit confused on the parameters of the machine characters.

Kuro

The Machine characters, as it stands now, are sort of like "recycled" humans.
The machines, by some means, collected the bodies of humans they've killed and put them back together using technology. Basically giving them new life but being under the control of the main computer module I mentioned.
So you'd resemble a human, but wouldn't be. Not fully anyways. You may have a completely metal arm because your other was ripped off. Or an eye that glows red because they had to give your old one was destroyed.


Will they know who they were as a normal human? It's up to you.
Do you like being this new, stronger, version of themselves? That's up to you as well.
Basically you can control what your character feels, but as it is (for now anyways), if you tried to betray the Machines, they'd turn you off, for lack of a better way to say it.

I hope that cleared some things up.
If you have more questions i'll be more than happy to answer them. :]

j8cob

okay, one last question:

how powerful could these machine/humans be? as powerful, if not more, than the 'hero' characters or what?

Kuro

Well, you can't really compare by the two groups.
One human could have the power to shoot napalm from their hands with enough force to make everything blow up. Meanwhile another could have the power to remember everything they've ever seen. That easily labels the prior more dangerous than the latter.
o:

Same with the Machines.

I want it to be about even, but it all depends on the individual.
If you want to be a Machine and your arm double as a rocket launcher, go for it! Just know that it'll make you heavier and therefore slower than those without it.
Every advantage in one area comes with a disadvantage in another.

All in all, the Machines outnumber the humans/heroes on a scale of nearly 10:1.
But as for which group is more powerful; you can't really tell.
There can be opinions, but there isn't a true fact.