Batman has had it pretty rough. Nightwing is now Agent Grayson and working for Spyral, Batgirl is separating herself from the rest of the Bat-family, Red Hood is an international gunman running with the Outlaws, and Red Robin is among the roster of the Teen Titans. The last Robin, Damian [biological son/clone of Batman] was thought to be murdered by another clone of himself, an aged anti-Batman called the Heretic... but it was all just a ruse. Damian, 13 year old former assassin and former Robin, has now taken his place at the head of the League of Assassins with his mother Talia Al Ghul. Their mission is to bring Batman down, and to take down the man you have to strike him in the heart... Gotham. With Batman's team scattered, and the Batmen Inc. disassembled, Bruce Wayne was tasked with finding new heroes to fill the gap and protect Gotham from the criminal element as well as the oncoming war with the LoA. Some with powers, others without, heroes one and all. How will this new team defend Gotham, and what lengths will they go to save the man that gave them a second chance?

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Accepted Players/Characters

The Kid Lantern - Skeleton Jack
Sheikarah - Blink
Lord Wraith - the Fool
Hillan - Shaman
thatguy - the Vulture
BlackSam - Paladin
Pathfinder - Forest
riurik - Wraith
Rumiko - Cypher

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Everyone go ahead and repost your accepted CS's for your first post. Any new players will need to send Character Sheets to me via PM for approval before reposting them here in the OOC. The OOC is for accepted sheets only. Try and keep any small talk in the titanpad linked below so we can get all the CS's on the first page so I don't have to link them all in this opening post.

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GM Notes: 9/8/14 - With no word from BlackSam in a bit I think this thing is dead guys. An update Player/Character List shows we don't have enough people to continue with so many dropouts early on.

The Kid Lantern - Skeleton Jack
Sheikarah - Blink
Lord Wraith - the Fool
Hillan - Shaman Never posted once...
thatguy - the Vulture
BlackSam - Paladin Has anybody heard from the Scotsman?
Pathfinder - ForestNo word in weeks
riurik - Wraith
Rumiko - Cypher

Sorry this thing went downhill so fast. It had some interesting characters and developments I wish we could have seen through further. The short list for the identity of my character Skeleton Jack was either Deathstroke or Ra's Al Ghul even younger from his Lazarus Pits.

~KL~

Name - Elliot Sinclair
Alias - Cypher
Age - 24
Powers -
Skills - Judo, Parkor, Make-up Artist, Research, Lock Picking, Offensive Driving and Escape an Evasion
Equipment - Her equipment may vary due to mission needs and what she can buy online or locally
Personality - Friendly, Generous an Odd
Appearance -

BRIEF Bio - Born on the Isle of Wright Elli was your basic Chalk Girl till she went on holiday with her parents to London at the age of 12 years old. They toured all the accepted historical sights and were on the Tower of London tour when the group guide told the story of a Duke who had been held there before his execution and how he'd somehow escaped the Tower which to that day was a mystery.
Elli who'd been acting dazed since her group began the tour walked past the barrier ropes and opened a secret door which no one had ever discovered before then, when asked by her parents why she'd done it she replied "The ghosts showed her how the man escaped"
Her parents laughed it off as one of those strange incidents of youth and continued on with their holiday.
When Elli was 14 she had attended a movie in Cowes Isle of Wright where her family now lived.
Then while she was walking home she heard an old woman in distress. Hurrying to see if she could help she came upon a distinguished couple one of which was the old woman and the other her unconscious husband. A constable was trying to help but couldn't understand the woman's language.
Elli found the officers statement strange when he said he couldn't because to her the woman is perfectly understandable. She told the constable that the woman was saying that her husband suffered from a rare heart condition and that he forgot his emergency medication at their hotel.
The constable retained Elli as a translator when they rushed the old man to hospital where they found out he is the father of the Visiting Spanish ambassador and he suffered from the condition Elli had said he had was true.
The ambassador said his mother when excited speaks in a mixture of Spanish an Silbo Gomero a language which came from La Gomera isle on the coast of Spain. The Ambassador was stunned that Elli could even understand the language much less communicate in it as it was such a rare language spoken by less than a thousand people at best. So grateful was he that he insisted that Elli and her parents join him on his official yacht were he awarded her for her aid with a medal for good citizenship an heroism.
At 15 Elli graduated from school with a perfect score in all her tests and was awarded a scholarship to Cambridge where she continued to shine.
She aced all her entry tests and quickly rose to the top of her class. This lead to exposure in the spot light which she found she didn't enjoy at all because of the types of people that wanted to use her talents which she learned to tone down.
She began to use the pseudonym Cypher when she wrote papers to various journals to hide her identity and avoid notice.
Cypher quickly became responsible for translating many obscure archaeological languages that had bedeviled the discipline for over two centuries or more. She felt happy as her splash became a mere ripple on the waters and she was all but forgotten by all but her peers by the time she turned 18.
She was offered a Generous position to Harvard as a graduate student and accepted thinking it would help to distance herself from her own reputation. She quickly made friends among the others in her class and believed her life had turned around becoming somewhat normal.
Then trouble began that year when one of her new friends while visiting Boston was kidnapped by a serial killer and murdered. Asked by her deceased friend's mother if she'd help clear out her effects Elli volunteered and headed to Boston and entered the hotel room where her friend had disappeared.
Try as she might Elli can't help but peek into the room's past using a power she repressed most of the time and what she saw shocked her as she watches the whole thing happen before her eyes and sees the Killer.
Knowing that simply saying she saw the Killer using Psychometry won't bring him to justice Elli set her intellect to work on a solution. She soon formulated a plan of attack that would cause the killer to confess or get sloppy.
She wrote using her left hand and making sure not to leave any clues to her identity an sent him a letter detailing her friends an two other girl's murders saying she has evidence on him along with film. She then called his cell phone using a burner bought for the purpose of catching him and using a faked accent told him that she wrote the letter and now he will do as she commands. She told him she wants a certain girl murdered an once it's done she'll turn over the evidence, that girl is she.
She then wrote to herself a letter taking careful pains to forge the killer's hand writing which she's gathered samples of.
She called the Boston police one night telling them she'd received threats from a man claiming to be her friend's killer and shows them the letter.
The police and the Feds are happy when Elli volunteers to risk her life to catch the man.
Her friend's killer is captured three days later and evidence is found in his van linking him to two more murders.
Feeling good after helping bring the bad guy to justice Elli began applying her talents to other crimes and developing the persona of Cypher as a crime fighter.
For three years she tracked criminals across America till one day she came to Gotham where she now resides.
She shed her previous life as had many in Gotham an reinvented herself.
In her new persona she is still Elliot Sinclair but she is no scholar of artifacts but instead she is a very successful Pet Detective who's reputation of closing cases is nearly 100%.
Her guise as a pet finder allows Elli to wander many places without suspicion by merely displaying to police or individuals her business card an license.
She still sends in papers on historical mysteries which she solves under the nom de guerre "Cypher"

Notes - Cypher's Costume would be either a good disguise or an all black SAS style full body suit complete with Tactical mask

Name: Victor "Vulture" Rodriguez

Alias: The Vulture

Age: 25

Powers:
Enhanced Self- When Victor is in the proximity of others, specifically people that project an air about themselves that screams "creeper", every aspect of his mind and body becomes enhanced. For every 2 people he is around, his boost increases by 1%

Skills:
Electricial knowledge- nothing on par of the affluent or dedicated, but he can bypass electronically locked doors and crack open a moderately protected safe
Driving skill- Victor is a well practiced getaway driver, and can hotwire most street cars

Equipment-
Whatever his limited funds can afford him on the hard, gritty streets of Gotham
Stolen 2015 Harley Davidson Street 750
Alumimum baseball bat wrapped in razor wire (emergency use, or for against super strong foes)
Brass knuckles
Self made effective jock strap (good for several kicks)
Stolen GCPD Body armor

Personality-
Hard, Calculative, Desperate

Victor is a hard young man because he has come to surround himself with criminals nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and they are starting to grow on him. He is calculative because deep down he is a good man and his end goal is the annihilation of all organized crime, which he is doing from the inside. He is also desperate because he knows the lifespan of an average Gotham mobster. If the cops don't arrest you, you're sure to end up on an autopsy table.

Appearance- Micro cometh

Brief Bio-
Victor is a lifelong Gothamite, and was born into street gangs and the mob, but he knew he was destined for something more. His father was an enforcer for pay for many of Batman's Rogues, and his mother was a mafia mistress. When he was around 15 years of age, his father could pull through for a job so Two-Face sent several goons to their home and tortured the man and made his mother and him watch. It was during this nightmare that his metagene activated and he beat the shit out of the thugs. 

Harvey Dent took notice, and enslaved his mother to keep Victor on his side of the tracks, threatening her life in exchange for his services. Unknown to the crazed Boss, Victor began formulating a plan to take down his and all other Families. During a job of breaking into Wayne Enterprises, he was confronted by Batman and was provided a way out of his life of crime, by helping the caped crusader from within. So Victor adopted the codename "Vulture" because he fed off the energy of deseperate, dead souls of hitmen and other ner do wells.

Name - Unknown

Alias - Forest

Age - Unknown, Five years active.

Powers -
Durability: Stronger than normal wood, able to resist bullets but is just as susceptible to fire as normal wood.
Strength: At base strength, able to lift 10, 20 tons. But if fertile soil is involved his strength can be raised exponentially.
Regeneration: Able to regrow damage at a speed proportional to the fertility of the ground he rests in. E.X. complete regrowth in about a week at the most fertile.
Plant speak: Able to "Converse" with plants, knowing what it has gone through. Good for investigation.
Skills -
Gardening: Helps with being part plant, but is an exceptional gardener and knows much about plants. Doesn't think its much help though.
Fighting: Isn't all that great, clumsy swings and sloppy slams and uncoordinated punches. Isn't very graceful.

Equipment - None.

Personality - Simple, slow, and relaxed.

Appearance -

BRIEF Bio - Not much is known about Forest's past, one day he woke up in a swamp and found himself like he is. A giant mass of branches and stones. He wandered the swamps for awhile, with nothing but animal instincts to go by until he had a vision. It was nothing major, just a flash of blank faces and and vague actions, but it was enough to give him sentience and a purpose.

Leaving the swamp he has made his way around the country, gaining more flashbacks and more humanity along the way until he made his way to Gotham. For reasons unknown to him he felt pulled to the area and was found by Batman after a confrontation with some armed thugs. Since then Batman has kept tabs on him, making sure he isn't a menace to society and such. However with the hard times coming Batman needed some muscle and Forest still owed Batman a debt. Now he finds himself here.

Notes - Forest is tall, like 12 feet and almost a thousand pounds.
-He is almost like a child in a sense, little things fill him with wonder and awe.
-I want it to be a development point for Forest to gain more knowledge of his past as the RP goes along.

Name: Jenna Travers

Alias: Blink

Age: 19

Powers: She can teleport anywhere she has seen but the farther she goes or the more weight she is carrying (such as passengers), the more it drains her and can cause her to pass out if she exerts too much energy.

Skills: She is a very good street fighter and is good at gauging people and their responses.

Equipment: None (but if anybody on the team has any extra stuff she could use, she'd use it)

Personality: Strong, mistrustful, kind

Appearance: Her hair is brown with copper undertones, she has misty grey eyes, on the taller side (about 5'8" or 5'9"), thin but wiry, pale skin, and a burn scar on the right side of her body from the middle of her belly to the top of her right shoulder.

Brief Bio: When she was 8, her parents and little brother were killed when her house burned down, which was also when she got the scar and discovered her teleportation powers. She spent 4 years in foster homes but ran away and started living on the streets, using her powers to protect herself. She learned how to fight and live off the land early on and when she was 17 she started protecting people when she could (muggings, gang fights, that sort of thing).
She didn't go to a regular school but she went to the library a lot and read lots of books to try and make up for it. She often struggles with guilt about her little brother's death but tries her hardest to show no weaknesses as a means to protect herself. She isn't trustful of strangers but if someone manages to earn her trust she is fiercely loyal to them. She has hot headed impulses but manages to keep them under control most of the time, and if she gets really angry she has a hard time controlling herself.

Notes: She always tries to do the right thing, even if it means putting herself in danger.

Name -
Michael "Mike" Smith

Alias -

Shaman

Age -

24

Powers -
Shaman:
Mike is gifted with the ability of the Shaman, something that only happens once every two hundred fifty years. What it entrails is that he holds a super-strong bond to the spirits of the world, spirits of both the dead and the living. He's able to telepathically communicate with animals and plants and as such keep in tune with the world in a way that the average person could never achieve. With great concentration, he's able to manifest physical forms of the spirits he's communicating with, human spirits are almost impossible for him to communicate with.
His connection with spirits allows him to manipulate nature and nature's elements to some degree, allowing him to use energy in a similar manner to magic, generate or extinguish fire, shoot lightning bolts and so forth are all in his arsenal.

His shamantic abilities also increases his dexterity, perception and other senses.

Skills -
Meditation: Mike spends a lot of time meditating, as it calms him down and allows him to focus and as such get more in tune with the spirits he's communicating with.
Martial Training: A five year long tour in the U.S army's earned him quite some skills. He's an excellent hand-to-hand combatant able to beat most other soldiers in a fist-fight. It prepared him with knowledge in melee weaponry as well as ranged weaponry. It also granted him the ability to be a great tactician, spy, and free runner.
Marksmanship: While skilled with handguns and Assault Rifles, Mike's primarily trained to be a sniper, to take people out before they can figure out where he is. However, tapping into his heritage, he finds that bows are just as useful for him as a sniper is. He's one of the best archers in the world, being able to challenge the Arrow-Family in Star City.
Multilingual: Mike spent a fair bit of his time running black-ops in several countries, making him able to speak Russian, Arabic and Chinese, while he's only fluent in Russian and English.

Equipment -

Composite Bow and Titanium Arrows.
Magnum .44 Caliber loaded with non-lethal bullets.
Sunglasses that allows him to see gases in the air.
Sniper Rifle - Rarely with him.
Kukri - Always hanging on his hip in it's holster.

Personality -

Kind, Calm, Disciplined.

Appearance -



BRIEF Bio -
Born in the state of Florida, close to Miami, Michael came from a home with an abuse father, but a caring mother. His father blaming all of his problems on Michael and his little brother, James. Michael's home was poor, as his father, Richard, had quite the gambling and drinking problem. Leading Michael into a life of crime, it started with him stealing groceries, and then, as he grew into a teenager, he started stealing more valuable things, like watches, and even cars. It all made his father furious. And when Mike was 17 years old, he moved away, knowing that if he stayed, he'd go down a dark path.

He joined the army, finishing his training as a U.S Ranger at the age of 18, and then being shipped off to Iraq. Where he started to show his abilities, when he was trapped in a burning house and he somehow made the fires part for him and his injured teammate. He soon proved to be a top tier marksman, earned him a spot on a classified military unit, where he ran black-ops all over the globe for three years, before he was honorary discharged after a incident he's not inclined to talk about.

Back in the states, he started to dwell further into his connection to the spirits, he started to realize it was more than just being able to see, smell and hear better than anyone else, that he was more special yet. It all crashed down on him when a dog started talking to him.

Coming to Gotham, after a year of learning what his powers really meant, he met the Batman, whom took the young man in under his at the time, kind of crowded wing. Shipping him up to Star City to train with the arrows, which he did for some time, before coming back to Gotham, more ready than ever to do good. His military lifestyle still very obvious in the way he acts.

Notes -

He keeps a spirit around known as Shareith, that manifests as either a bear or as a wolf when necessary.

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Name - unknown, people just call him Jack for short.
Alias - Skeleton Jack
Age - Presumably late 20's, early 30's
Powers - appears to have heightened physicals
Skills - say's he's good enough to give Batman a run for his money in hand to hand. He's a skilled marksman with projectiles and guns. Claims to have served in the military.
Equipment - his fists, lockpicks and blades stashed in his boots and gloves, his helmet... THAT HE NEVER REMOVES
Personality - Stoic, blunt, passive
Appearance -


BRIEF Bio - Skeleton Jack is a relatively new face in Gotham. He seems to be a little more on edge and has severely pummeled punks in the city for dealing drugs, robberies, as well as vadalism. After a few nights out he finally came to blows with Batman after the hero set up a robbery. Both were seen beating each other on Gotham rooftops, but it was unknown exactly what was said or done in the end. It's been made clear Batman doesn't approve of Skeleton Jack breaking a criminal's back after the punk pulled an automatic out of his backpack on the anti-hero. Jack was quoted as saying "He won't go to jail for the crimes he's committed that were never proven, but his prison will be that of his broken body. For the rest of his life..."

Batman himself kept tabs on all of the new recruits in Gotham. He tried to keep better tabs on Jack but he couldn't find any leads on him outside of his activities at night. With the League of Assassins threatening Gotham Batman will use all the help he can get and put all of his remaining time into a counter attack on the LoA. None of the new recruits have been to the 'Cave, however Jack has made mention of it to at least one of the heroes he's come into contact with. Skeleton Jack is viewed by most as a potential threat because of his near lethal force.

Notes - He won't reveal his secret ID to anyone. Later on when we're rescuing Batman from the LoA it will be a loose end that is tied up.

~KL~

It's cool, I hope everything's okay. I'm going to be kinda sporadic today and tomorrow because I'm singing at my brother's wedding but I'll be sure to get at least one post up this weekend and definitely more on Monday.

^^^Settled on a guy. Finally. Get ready to kick some ass...

~KL~

I've been waiting

The wait is OVER! lol

~KL~

I'm going to hopefully finish my guy and then get a post up sometime today.

(FISHING MAILED)

Edit that out and PM it to me for approval.

Any new players will need to send Character Sheets to me via PM for approval before reposting them here in the OOC. The OOC is for accepted sheets only.

~KL~

CS done, on to the IC!

Sorry for the delay, I was out of town. Here's my CS with some minor changes, mainly just listing a few more things in equipment that I mentioned in skills.

Name: Michael Rothe
Alias: Wraith
Age: 28
Powers: Hyper-spectral vision: After an accident, Michael can't see in the visible spectrum, but instead sees ultraviolet, infrared, and even chemical traces and smells.
Skills: Skilled in unarmed combat and and in use of nightstick/tonfa, although he is by no means on par with a martial artist. He makes up for this with dirty tricks, such as smoke bombs and pepper spray. Also skilled in shooting, although Batman has discouraged his use of guns.
Personality: Ornery, jaded, sardonic
Equipment: Tonfa, smoke bombs, wrist-mounted pepper spray, and body armor Batman gave to him. He also has a gun, but rarely carries it.


Brief Bio: Michael Rothe was a cop in the Gotham PD. He was tough as nails, if a bit rough with suspects. He didn't take crap from anyone, including the mob, and the mob didn't like that. He refused to be bought. While guarding the crime scene at a meth lab, Michael's fellow officers turned on him, under direction from the mob. Knowing that they wouldn't be disturbed within the shut-down lab, and hoping to intimidate Michael, they threatened blind Michael with the lab chemicals. In the ensuing struggle, the chemicals got into Michael's eye. He had an adverse reaction, and began seizing and foaming at the mouth. Thinking he was dead, the gang set the meth lab on fire, and began plotting the cover-up.

When the seizure stopped, Michael thought that he was on acid, due to the psychedelic colors swimming before his vision. However, he soon realized that these colors were real, albeit not visible to the human eye. Unbeknownst to the corrupt GPD officers, the meth lab was actually a cover for experimental human enhancements. After he escaped the fire, Michael waged an increasingly violent vendetta against the mob and the corrupted GPD as the Wraith. Batman and a few of his sidekicks stepped in before he killed anyone, channeling Wraith's vigilantism into less violent and more productive means.

Notes: Due to the cover-up, Michael Rothe is legally dead.

Decided to also change my character to an older one of mine, really wanna play an archer, hah.

Give me more of a heads up next time, at first I thought some noob posted an unaccepted sheet again.

~KL~