Free Runners And Curb Stompers. [IntChk]

[Hillan]

A Coming of Age Tale About A Group of Urban Heroes

Setting:
Gulf Bay City, California, U.S.A.: A large city located on the western shores of the United States of America. Within the state of California, the city has a large university located within it that within the last few years has become one on the leading research schools into self sustaining power sources as well as protection field technology. The city is also home to numerous beaches which its many youthful inhabitants can be found frequenting throughout the year. The city has a large number of shopping centers which range from generic to down right obscure in and of itself. Restuarants are of international cusine though you can still find a McDonald's every two blocks. The is home to several sports teams with the official mascot being the Gulf Bay Swordfish and is also one of the largest areas which holds an annual surfing competition. The city is known for having the most year round sunshine in all of North America but is also victim to heavy rain and often tidal wave or flooding threats. Snow hasn't been seen in Gulf City in over a hundred years as the temperature hasn't dropped below 50 degrees since 1872.

Gulf Bay City is primarily thought of as a safe city. However since the 1950's, The Bay (As it's affectionately known,) has been home to several varied gangs of different nationalities all with their own MO's. Drug cartels, and sex trafficking has been known to happen especially in the South end of the city but more often than not the gangs are only known due to their violet wars in the streets. Police have tried for years to curb the gangs in the city but each time they create a void it's filled in again either by an existing gang or a new one. For that reason in order to balance the power the police just keep the people safe until they can find a way to end all the gangs once and for all.

Characters:
Our characters have two requirements.

Requirement 1)
They must be powerless at the start. No showing of anything superhuman, so they cannot be alien or born with powers, as no one else in history have shown to have any superpowers. However, you may call dibs on a power before the game starts, and I'll see to it that that's the power your character gets, that way ,you're free to change your power till the actual plot point begins.

Requirement 1.5) Their power will develop overtime. Immediately after gaining them, you would hardly pull off amazing feats. You're not gonna go from increasing your track time by a second to outspeeding bullets over night.

Requirement 2)
Your character must be written so that he or she is driven into heroism before the start of the RP. Imagine something akin to Kick-ass. Of course, I'm expecting some originality here, everyone can't be nerds tired of getting bullied, or orphans who watched their parents getting shot.

Requirement 2.25)
No Batmen. The person who makes a character even relatively similiar to Batman. (I.E, trained by Assassin's, rich, Genius) Will get a kick in the crotch.

Requirement 2.5)
Their morale limit is not some 'Hero-Code' But rather their own personal compass. They will be teens, mid - late teens, and I for one cannot imagine there being many Teenagers who are able to commit homicide.

Rules!
Don't be a dick.
GM word is law.
Remember the first two rules and have fun.

[Lord Wraith]

And I will be playing a Scottish transfer student who will eventually develop hyrdokinesis.

That is my dibs.

[violetember]

I want to join. Duh. <3

[PsychoMantis]

Do we have to be teens?

[Hillan]

Yes.

I do not however think I actually put it into the OP, but imagine that this is a Kickass-sort of feeling to it, we're meant to half suck at being heroes, hence why we decide to gang-up. It's very much gonna be a tale of character progression, more so than a tale of saving the world from untold evil. ( Though, there's gonna be plenty of heroism, too.)

[PsychoMantis]

What age group exactly? I dont want to be some awkward generic 16 year old.

[Hillan]

mid- Late teens is fine.

I was thinking 17 for my own character.

[Lord Wraith]

I was doing an 18 year old. An age that could either be highschool or early college.

[PsychoMantis]

Oh, then Im stepping out. Good luck with this though.

[Bluemoon277]

I'm in