Great. I'll amend my sample post a little then get it up as my opening before introducing Caine to Lost Haven.

Alright, I went back to page one and edited my first two posts and wiped my third and fourth one. I'm think I'll write something to explain Marcus disappearing from there to the current date. It'll be fun, he'll all be like "DEMONS? I MISSED DEMONS? THANK GOD." and some other nonsense. I'll continue his "origin comic" by fitting in the lore I missed but keeping Marcus inexperienced and doing his thing.

So I have two posts to write between now and not next year, so I'll be working on those. In the meantime, feel free to re-read my page one posts and let me know how the narrative keeps up or something.

Gowi, check your PM's, I left you a little something.

Sorry for my inactivity over the last few days, I've been reallysick but I'm starting to feel better, so posts should be forthcoming. I'll also be adding The Mage back to the main roster.

Hey guys, I'm currently writing up Caine's intro to Lost Haven and I'm looking for a suitable part of the city for him to 'set up shop'. I'm looking for like a Superman's 'suicide slums' or Daredevil's 'Hell's Kitchen', an area nearly lost to gang violence. Whereabouts would be the best place for that?

Since Mercy's "urban renewal" of Little Ulster, Little Sicily is your best bet

is this open for new people to join?

Yog Sothoth said
is this open for new people to join?

Yes.

Would a Jonah Hex style character fit more as a hero or a walk the line character?

Yog Sothoth said
Would a Jonah Hex style character fit more as a hero or a walk the line character?

I guess it would depend on how you intend to use him.

nitemare shape said
I guess it would depend on how you intend to use him.

He would be a cursed bounty hunter with supernatural powers from demons. He also has a cursed horse and a hellhound as companions.

Hey, posting from work, but I am almost done with a villain cs, something the city level heroes should enjoy, which I will be posting from home tonight.

Create a Hero RPG Application

Character you have created: Theodore Roosevelt

Alias: None

Speech Color: Normal speech.

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: His identity is known, the fact that he's still alive is secret.

Character Personality: Roosevelt is very gung-ho (bully!) and considers himself a man of action. He will not hesitate to do whatever he needs to do to accomplish his goals. His willingness for combat is a front at this point. He needs to fight to feel alive. Long stretches without missions throw him into a state of melancholy. With no family and no friends, he needs something to do to give him purpose and strength. His is a man who needs a mission and without a mission he falls apart.

Uniform/costume: Picture

Origin Info/Details:

Executive Branch Backstory

In 1776, the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and went to war with Great Britain. In early 1777 General George Washington met with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia. With Jefferson was a man from France. Young Gilbert du Motier, known as the Marquis de Lafayette, was a prominent French military office even at his young age. With Washington was Prussian Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Both men spoke to the three revolutionaries about an old and powerful society known as the Timekeepers. Made up of the elite thinkers, nobles, and politicians, the Timekeepers acted as metronome for the entire world responsible for maintaining the rhythm and natural order of things. It was the Timekeepers that declared that the time of British hegemony would begin to end. The colonies would win the war, Lafayette and von Steuben would help them.

In a ceremony in Philadelphia Washington, Adams, and Jefferson were inducted into the Timekeepers order and shown their secrets. The ancient society possessed powerful artifacts of supernatural nature and had access to magic. Using the Timekeepers' tools, the Colonies defeated England and declared their independence. In 1787 Washington was elected president of the United States, Adams his vice president, and Jefferson appointed secretary of state. As part of the Timekeepers, all three men had been made immortal and given a serum that gave them special abilities. All three faked their deaths at appropriate times and went into hiding in Europe in the early 1800's.

In 1830 the three men discovered the Timekeepers' long and winding plot that would see the United States expand all the way to the Pacific ocean, and then shatter into two separate nations after a long and bloody civil war. The three founding fathers could not bear to see the country they founded destroyed. Defying their society, the men fled Europe and returned to US. They used whatever means they could to stop and delay civil war. In 1860 they used their hidden influence to elect a man who would keep the union together: Abraham Lincoln. They revealed themselves to him and worked with Lincoln throughout the war. The Timekeepers discovered the founding father's treachery and turned on them. Unable to stop the Union from winning the war, they had Lincoln assassinated in revenge. They didn't stop the Founders.They used their magic to bring Lincoln back from the grave days after he was killed.

Europe and the powers that controlled it could no longer be trusted. The old world could never govern or control the new. The four presidents founded the Executive Branch. A clandestine organization that would protect and fight for the United States, her interest, and freedom any place and anywhere. Their ranks are made up of former American presidents and other historical figures, each of them turned immortal in the same way the three founders were. Their long war with the Timekeepers ended after the First World War, when the last remnants of the old and rotten society were swept away in the fiery cataclysm of the war.

Now in 2014, they wage clandestine wars against a variety of threats that include the Secret Soviet Union, the Fourth Reich, and the Roman Republic of Zombies. But something dark and unknown lurks on the outer reaches of the world. A darkness is setting in, and an old power is returning to take control.

Roosevelt Backstory

Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858 to a prominent New York family. The young "Teddy" had several adventures, from becoming a boxing champion at Harvard to a historian and politician, to cowboy and sheriff's deputy in Montana, before he ventured into public service. He served as the first Commissioner of the New York Police Department and helped the expanding city's police develop into a true metropolitan police force. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War caused him to resign his office and recruit his own cavalry regiment to the fight the war.

As Colonel Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders, Teddy accomplish military victories in Cuba that launched his political career further. He ran and was elected as Governor of New York and began a crusade for public reform. The powers that be in New York became scared of Roosevelt and out-maneuvered him by having him nominated as Vice-President under incumbent William McKinley, tossing Roosevelt out of the governor's mansion and in a meaningless post for four years. An assassin's bullet changed everything.

When McKinley died, Roosevelt became President and pushed forward with the rapid expansion of American military and industrial might, as well as reform in industry, government, and business. He finished McKinley's term and was reelected in a landslide. He decided not to seek a third term and handed the ball to his good friend William Howard Taft. Roosevelt in retirement watched Taft's presidency with a critical eye. He judged that his friend has mismanaged the cause of the Progressives and decided to run for president again in 1912 as a third party candidate in the "Bull Moose Party" the bitter election between Roosevelt and Taft caused the two men to split the Republican and Progressive vote, allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected.

Roosevelt watched powerlessly while Wilson guided America into the First World War, a role he believed he should have done. His failing health only worsened when he learned the devastating news that his youngest son Quentin's plane had been shot down over France. The man who had always loved the thrill of combat had the brutal truths of war brought home to him. He died less than a year later at the age of sixty.

Shortly after the war the Executive Branch exhumed his body and brought him back to life. Immortal and reinvigorated, Roosevelt tried to work his way out of the loss of his son. As an operative he participated in OPERATION: SCAR in Chicago to root out occultist bootleggers in 1924 and OPERATION: DAGGER STEADY in 1936 involving the growing mystic powers of the Nazi Thule Society. During the outbreak of the Second World War Roosevelt was active in all theaters, from stealing the German Enigma Code with Abraham Lincoln to battling a Japanese sorceress with his old rival Taft. After the collapse of the Third Reich and the retreat of the Fourth Reich, the Executive Branch dug in to support freedom during the long Cold War with the Soviet Union and their counterpart to the EB, the Heroes of Lenin.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of terrorism as the main concern of the day means that Roosevelt and his colleagues have had to change up their way of doing things to protect the world from threats.

Hero Type: Normal

Power Level: Street Level

Powers: None

Attributes: Roosevelt is an expert marksman with his fabled elephant gun as well as a skilled combatant in a variety of hand to hand fighting styles. Executive Branch training has also given him proficient espionage and spycraft abilities.

Strength Level: Normal Human.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human

Agility: Normal Human

Intelligence: Genius

Fighting Skill: Mastered

Resources: Extreme

Weaknesses: Roosevelt is immortal and cannot die of old age or disease, but he can be killed.

Supporting Characters:

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Theodore's cousin, director of operations for the Executive Branch
Abraham Lincoln - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
John F. Kennedy - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
Andrew Jackson - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
Fredrick II "Fredrick the Great" - Former Timekeeper grandmaster, Roosevelt nemesis
Lyudmila Pavlichenko - Soviet Sniper, Secret Soviet Union agent, Roosevelt love interest
Richard Nixon - Executive Branch's resident mage and mystic expert

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes.

Sample Post (Minimum Four paragraphs containing dialogue. As this is an Advanced Level game, Sample must also meet the RPG forum's minimum requirement of 12 lines):

Chamery, France
July 14th, 1936

The lone figure trudged across the open field, his hands in his pockets. He kept his head down as he climbed up the small, muddy slope. Distant thunder rumbled across the overcast sky from far away. At the center of the hill was a tiny shrine, a cross made from airplane propellers. A plaque attached to the cross explained who was buried there in French.

Lieutenant
Quentin Roosevelt
Escadrille 95
Tombé glorieusement
En combat aerien
Le 14 Juillet 1918
Pour le droit
Et la liberté

The figure gripped the cross hard and fought back the urge to cry as he remembered a previous lifetime.

"Quentin," Theodore Roosevelt said softly. "My little boy... Nearly twenty years... Not a day goes by that I do not miss you, or your brothers and sisters. I would give anything in the world to see them or you at least one more time, this immortality be damned."

"Monsieur!" A voice shouted from behind Roosevelt. A young French boy ran towards him, waving a piece of paper. "Un télégramme est arrivé pour vous."

"Merci," Roosevelt said as he took the message.

DEAR TR
COME HOME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. NEW EMERGENCY HAS CROPPED UP. WILL EXPLAIN AT RUSHMORE.

Q.

Roosevelt stuffed the telegram in his pocket and bent down at the grave. He kissed his hand before placing it on the cross, touching the plaque with his son's name engraved on it..

"I'm afraid I have to go, but I will see you soon."

He stood and ruffled the French boy's head before smiling.

"Thank you very much, lad. Now, would you be so kind as to show me where the nearest train station is?"

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

The beige '32 Packard sped down the winding dirt highway, contrails of dust flying in the air in the car's wake. To the left of the car, the looming mountain appeared in the early afternoon sun. So far half of George Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's faces had been carved into the rocky mountain face. The Packard pulled off onto a small side road and slowly moved down the bumpy surface. After thirty minutes on the road, the car came to an opening at the foot of the mountain. Two guards stood at attention beside a steel door leading into the mountain. They wore the olive drab fatigues and broad brim hats of the American Doughboys from the Great War, rifles slung over their shoulders. An old man with thick white sideburns and a bald head stood in front of the guards, puffing a cigar.

The Packard stopped and Roosevelt stepped out of the back. He eyed the bald man and grinned.

"Mr. Q."

"Mr. Roosevelt," John Quincy Adams said, expelling smoke. "Sorry to cut your vacation short, I know what this time of year does to you."

"Think nothing of it. In fact, a little bit of action will be sure to pull me out of my doldrums."

The two guard saluted as he and Adams passed. Teddy returned the salute and entered through the steel door behind Adams. They continued through a dim hallway, going down a soft slope into the heart of the mountain. The hallway reeked of fresh paint. Moving dollies and packed crates filled nearly every nook and cranny of the corridors and rooms they passed.

"How much longer until everything is set up?" Teddy asked.

"Not too much longer now. William Henry Harrison still needs to be exercised from the Smithsonian basement, you know how hard it is for ghosts to let go sometimes. He marks the last of our personnel still in Washington."

"I still never figured out why we had to move from Washington, the best place to operate."

"We have your cousin to thank for that," Quincy said as he puffed a large smoke ring out. "Young Franklin is increasing the power of the federal government, it's getting harder and harder to operate in the shadow of a Washington that continues to get brighter and brighter. A bit industrious, that one."

"Well we Roosevelts do have reputations as go-getters."

"While we Adamses are known for our stubbornness."

Adams led Teddy into a large, open space room. The room was covered in world maps on three sides, a fourth wall blanketed in pictures and files. A large wooden conference table spanned the stretch of the room. Someone sat at the table, waiting for them.

"Mr. Jackson," Adams said coolly. "Sorry to have kept you waiting, but Mr. Roosevelt has just arrived. Make yourself comfortable, Teddy, and I'll start the briefing."

"Bully."

Approved. Roosevelt has been approved.

Approved. The Bull moose has been approved.

I'm going to see if I can finish that post that i promised over the weekend...

Soo? Let me get this straight. Theodore Roosevelt is now in the RP? How awesome is that! Seriously cool.

I'm looking forward to the dynamic an immortal president will have in this world.

what in the holy fuck?! Byrd, I've missed you. Hoped you'd come at us with a certain other of your creations though.....Something tried, something true, something fast, something blue....

Sorry I've been MIA the last few days, that virus I thought I beat came back with a posse and kicked my ass.

NeutralNexus said
I'm looking forward to the dynamic immortal presidents will have in this world.

Fixed that for you.

Edit: Post up (hope it didn't offend anyone with the Latin word for six). I'll see what I can do tomorrow, but no promises! Time for some ->

Edit2: I was looking through the word documents that contain copies of my posts and I noticed that Raptor has 90 pages worth of posts...Arachne and Iron Knight both have around 30 (something like 29 and 31 respectively).

I am still working on this and will finish it sometime this weekend.