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Another option, as I talked with Shard who wanted to so do something similar, was Gene Co who have a Serum upon the streets and I can adapt to create a wide range of effects. Not just animal base as proven with Bozo, an early model. This might also allow you to be connected to Cowl's organization. In Season 2, Gene Co will be taking homeless people off the street and place them into experiments to develop another enhanced soldier through various serums.

That could be interesting. I'll work on an origin from Gene Co's human experiments, post the WIP in the OOC and see what you guys think. I actually just now came up with an idea that'll let me introduce my character earlier than Season 2, if that's okay.

Hey-o guys. Just checking in to see whats the status looking like for Season two. Still a few months out?

@Blue Demon Closer to weeks than months, I think. The Pax Arc is starting to wrap up. I think. Natural Selection is on its way toward a major battle.

That's good to hear. :D

Speaking of Natural Selection, what's the word on that huge collab?

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That could be interesting. I'll work on an origin from Gene Co's human experiments, post the WIP in the OOC and see what you guys think. I actually just now came up with an idea that'll let me introduce my character earlier than Season 2, if that's okay.

Alright and if you need any help, let me know and I'll give you as much information as possible.

Speaking of Natural Selection, what's the word on that huge collab?

Waiting for Hero who is likely busy with school. I think when we do the massive collab, I'll put a set time period per reply, as in waiting 2-3 days per reply before someone else can and no strict order for replies. This way everyone can get things done and move the scene, so we're not waiting for too long and dragging out the season 2 opening.

Let me know what you guys think. I figure Lisa's escape damaged a portion of the facility she was in, which could explain a need for Gene Co to gather new subjects and test the formula further, to make up for the findings that were lost.

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Alright and if you need any help, let me know and I'll give you as much information as possible.

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That would be fantastic actually! Please criticize my backstory as much as you like, I really don't want to make a character that won't work well with the current lore.

WIP

Character you have created: Lisa Hernandez

Alias: Experiment 44, EX-44

Speech Color: #44bbff

Character Alignment: Walking the Line

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Lisa doesn’t remember anything before her transformation into EX-44. She is wary of everyone, and will lash out if she feels threatened or startled, with often disastrous results. She doesn’t have much of a moral compass, and makes little distinction between right and wrong, having forgotten important lessons about justice and equality from her old life. She has no concept of personal space once she recognizes someone as nonthreatening, though hates being touched if she hasn’t initiated the contact first. She is very gullible once she thinks she can trust someone, though only remains loyal for as long as her new ally can keep her attention.





Hero Type: Brick/Psychic

Power Level: World Level

Powers: Beyond super-toughness, supersonic flight, and super speed and strength, EX-44 can “extend” her consciousness into the minds of others, networking brains into a kind of hivemind, with her at the center. She can see through each one of her thrall’s eyes, as well as control their actions and the actions of all others simultaneously, as if they were independent. She can only try to read the mind of one person at a time, and doing so will drop anyone else she is controlling.



Weaknesses: In her current state, she can barely control her psychic powers without her suppressor helmet, and the feeling of unwillingly overtaking strangers’ minds causes her great distress. She also doesn’t know her own strength or speed, and can bash into buildings or break things if she isn’t extremely careful. The only thing she can’t break is her suppressor helmet, which delivers an agonizing shock if tampered with.

hmmm, not a bad start

Let me know what you guys think. I figure Lisa's escape damaged a portion of the facility she was in, which could explain a need for Gene Co to gather new subjects and test the formula further, to make up for the findings that were lost.

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That would be fantastic actually! Please criticize my backstory as much as you like, I really don't want to make a character that won't work well with the current lore.

WIP

Character you have created: Lisa Hernandez

Alias: Experiment 44, EX-44

All Gene Co experiments are classed as this: Serum number-Subject number. Currently the total number is about 36, which the latest one is 036-014. I haven’t established these individuals fully but I aimed for them to be more unified in their mutations than previous serums mainly as they are more limited due to not having the virus. With the virus’ disappearance, turning on various meta genes and creating your own custom soldier has become rather difficult without killing the individual.

The virus vanished months ago, around the 32 series, I believe, which forced the corporation to halt its progression and instead repeat a past pattern with gene therapy. Most survivors have had little issue adapting but all are pretty much carbon copies of each other’s powers. So I might suggest she was an experiment before then, and been in hiding for a few months unless you want to alter your powers. IF that’s the case, I can give you a rundown of the powers if you like?

Speech Color: #44bbff

Character Alignment: Walking the Line

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Lisa doesn’t remember anything before her transformation into EX-44. She is wary of everyone, and will lash out if she feels threatened or startled, with often disastrous results. She doesn’t have much of a moral compass, and makes little distinction between right and wrong, having forgotten important lessons about justice and equality from her old life. She has no concept of personal space once she recognizes someone as nonthreatening, though hates being touched if she hasn’t initiated the contact first. She is very gullible once she thinks she can trust someone, though only remains loyal for as long as her new ally can keep her attention.

Uniform/costume [+]

Origin Info

Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa Hernandez had a perfectly normal childhood: her parents were loving, and had money to spend considering she was their only child. Lisa fostered a deep love for painting from an early age, and, after receiving a Hispanic scholarship from Lost Haven University, was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a professional illustrator. She worked hard in college, enough to catch the eye of one of the younger biology professors. Dr. Gregory Toothman was the talk of the science department, and soon swept Lisa off her feet. She graduated, and not long after, married Dr. Toothman. His connections opened up opportunities Lisa couldn’t have dreamed of, and while she was working happily in her dream career, he was making a name for himself in the scientific community of Lost Haven.

Depending on how old he was, and when this happened, Gregory could’ve worked for the Black Project branch before or after he met Lisa. He could’ve been approached by Gene Co personally, namely an individual named Victor Black. Creepy, unsettling individual who determines if someone’s fitting to work with the less moral place of the company. Through during this time Gregory would be slowly cut off from his family as he edged deeper, and deeper into the sector.

With the help of a new, better-paying job working for a private company, Dr. Toothman bought his wife a large home in the suburbs outside Lost Haven. Lisa was pregnant, and after giving birth to their son Thomas, was happy to work from home and take care of the baby. Soon her baby became an energetic little boy, who was always happy to greet his father after his long days at work. Lisa had stopped trying to glean any information from her husband about what he did at his job, and was content to live her life without ever knowing. She became pregnant again, and this time she had a daughter named Maria.

There were complications with the birth however, and Dr. Toothman rushed to the hospital to stay with his wife while she recovered. When they returned home, Lisa decided to tidy up the house, as her messy husband hadn’t cleaned in days. She went into his office, and found files on his desk that detailed strange things--lists of symptoms, disturbing photographs of shaved animals covered in mutations, diagrams naming chemicals she’d never heard of--it was enough to make her worry.

I have two suggestions for making this work, namely if you want connected to Gene Co. The first one is pretty simple, Gregory could’ve went against department rules and brought his work research home. By this time, Gene Co is now using humans as lab rats rather than animals. Through the results are pretty gross, varying similar effects as Racheli’s on her CS. I suggest taking a look at that.

She left his office quickly, and said nothing to her husband for days. But those photos and files gnawed at her with a question she’d been asking herself for years--what does he do? She planted a simple tracker into Dr. Toothman’s car, and traced it to the countryside beyond Lost Haven’s city limits. The tracker went dead just minutes before she could meet its location, and before she could turn back and go home, her car was ambushed and gassed.

It’s more likely she was set upon by a SES (Serum Enhance Soldier). Gene Co would then make arrangements within the day/night to make her vanish suddenly. This would also have consequences for Gregory since she is his wife and it was his sloppiness that brought her there. The consequences could result in him being framed for illegal experiments, then mysteriously dying in prison, becoming a subject himself (less likely), or merely having him get into a fatal wreck unless he showed his complete loyalty to the company by never contacting the outside world again.

She awoke to a sterile table, doctors, scientists, and needles.

The years wore her down. She accepted her fate after a while, and hoped one of the many tests she was put through daily would eventually kill her. She forgot the faces of her children, her parents, and her husband. After a while, she forgot her own face. Then her name. She was only Experiment 44: stronger and hardier than the other 43, apparently. The scientists seemed pleased by her reactions to the chemicals they pumped into her weekly. Death seemed a disappointing outcome to them.

*points to the bit addressing the numbering system and the points made there* The recent experiments are more unified as they are re-hashing old serum formulas which is limiting their evolution options, as priorly mentioned.

After years, it seemed they’d gathered what they wanted, and strapped her into a machine for one final test. Experiment 44 was ready to die, and did not fight when several needles pumped more poison into her veins. For a few minutes, nothing happened. But then the restraints snapped, and the whole room went supernova.

Sadly, I can’t see Gene Co destroying her since she was success through they might dissect her alive as they will eventually do to Rach when they are done studying her. This could still cause what you’re looking for and only create minor changes, even have Jacquline aiming on either killing her or getting her back depending on situation.

In EX-44's earliest memory, she was running. Desperate, lost, running faster than the helicopters could keep up, faster than the missiles, nets and barriers could catch her. Her hands were bound with cuffs even her strength couldn't break, and something had been locked onto her head that blocked most of her vision and gave her a headache. She had no idea from where or to where she was running, only ran, faster and faster, until the loud noises stopped and the blurred city in the distance grew close enough to touch.

Hero Type: Brick/Psychic

Power Level: World Level

Powers: Beyond super-toughness, supersonic flight, and super speed and strength, EX-44 can “extend” her consciousness into the minds of others, networking brains into a kind of hivemind, with her at the center. She can see through each one of her thrall’s eyes, as well as control their actions and the actions of all others simultaneously, as if they were independent. She can only try to read the mind of one person at a time, and doing so will drop anyone else she is controlling.

Attributes

Strength Level: 100+ Tons

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Supersonic

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 2 hours

Agility: 15X

Intelligence: Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Average

Weaknesses: In her current state, she can barely control her psychic powers without her suppressor helmet, and the feeling of unwillingly overtaking strangers’ minds causes her great distress. She also doesn’t know her own strength or speed, and can bash into buildings or break things if she isn’t extremely careful. The only thing she can’t break is her suppressor helmet, which delivers an agonizing shock if tampered with.

Supporting Characters

Dr. Gregory Toothman
Lisa’s ex-husband. A scientist working for Gene Co. Whereabouts unknown.

Thomas Hernandez
Lisa’s son. Ten years old. In foster care with his little sister. Doesn’t realize his mother is alive.

Maria Hernandez
Lisa’s daughter. Five years old.

Look for the quoted segments as I found it earlier to point out directly what would be ideal to change and even offered solutions for the same result. Right now, I don't have a timeline so I would suggest having this happen a few months to a year ago for some leeway. You could start her IC post with her current whereabouts and work through budding memories, etc to a point. In addition, since she is from a serum likely from Rach then they do have a connection which we can discuss the details tomorrow or some time.

Thanks! That's really in-depth, I appreciate it and I'll make the changes now. Luckily, a lot of it can be adjusted easily.

Would a serial code of 04-04 work for her? Also, did I get the description of the testing right? I tried to keep it vague, but I have no idea how many doses of the serum are required to activate Meta powers.

I'll definitely make her first few posts separate from everyone else to sort of establish her in the world, no worries about that. I already have a nice series of events planned out over the course of a few IC months.

Thanks! That's really in-depth, I appreciate it and I'll make the changes now. Luckily, a lot of it can be adjusted easily.

Thank you. I have a very good idea of what I wanted to have happened, through even freedom people can add their own flavor and gradually add to the fleshing out process. And that’s great really though I tried not to force you to alter it too much as I rather adapt and compromise over some things as right now, few things about Gene Co is set in stone.

Would a serial code of 04-04 work for her? Also, did I get the description of the testing right? I tried to keep it vague, but I have no idea how many doses of the serum are required to activate Meta powers.

Yes, it would. Through that would bump her up to be among the first experimented with the virus which was discovered years ago and that’s what kicked off the Black Project Branch which is about 12 years, the virus was discovered about 2 years after it started and help start off the SES series. Each series timeline I left vague so players could work with the vagueness.

Tests are correct, though honestly it’s reasonable she might’ve blocked it off or had someone else chemically wipe away her memories of it. It’s also likely a bit different since she’s a spur of the moment and a bit more sloppy decision. She has chemical markers that trace her back to Gene Co, through not everyone will be able to note them or identify them.

As for the serum, that depends on the series and age. Early serums require several doses, given over a span of a year, and monitored heavily. Then they go through training/conditioning/physical therapy to adapt or discover their abilities. More recent ones require a few months then followed by the next step, with the addition of memory wipe or changes mentally to make them more subservient naturally without altering their personality. Early experiments survival rates were about 1 out of every 75 subjects until series 10 and improved it drastically after altering the source’s make up.

I'll definitely make her first few posts separate from everyone else to sort of establish her in the world, no worries about that. I already have a nice series of events planned out over the course of a few IC months.

Alright and that’s good. She’ll likely be drawn or sense a connection with Rach and other related sources like Justine (Myth), Gabriel (Icarus) and others affected by Gene Co.

Speaking of Gene, I need everyone that is associated with it to list off the number or relation to the company so I can get the timeline sorted out.

@Robeatics: Correction, it's PX. I just found a few notes over it.

Second Frogs post should be up tomorrow

Second Frogs post should be up tomorrow

NICE. Going to read the shit out of it.

Alright! I think I'm done. I'm still a hundred percent open to criticism though, please feel free.

Character you have created: Lisa Hernandez

Alias: Subject GE-04

Speech Color: Blue

Character Alignment: Walking the Line

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Lisa doesn’t remember anything before her Meta transformation. She is wary of everyone, and will lash out if she feels threatened or startled, with often disastrous results. She doesn’t have much of a moral compass, and makes little distinction between right and wrong, having forgotten important lessons about justice and equality from her old life. She has no concept of personal space once she recognizes someone as nonthreatening, though hates being touched if she hasn’t initiated the contact first. She is very gullible once she thinks she can trust someone, though only remains loyal for as long as her new ally can keep her interested. In calmer moments, she likes to stare at the sky and nature.







Hero Type: Brick/Psychic

Power Level: World Level

Powers: Beyond super-toughness, supersonic flight, and super speed and strength, Subject GE-04 can tap into the minds of others and read their thoughts. Often, a “surface reading” of emotions can be done from a distance, while deep, subconscious probing must be done close enough for her to touch the target’s forehead for an extended period of time.



Weaknesses: In her current state, she can barely control her psychic powers, and the feeling of unwillingly probing strangers’ minds causes her great distress. She has difficulty reading the minds of other Metas. She also doesn’t know her own strength or speed, and can bash into buildings or break things if she isn’t extremely careful. The only thing she can’t break are her wrist and ankle cuffs, which deliver an agonizing shock if tampered with.

@Robeatics

Yes, it would. Through that would bump her up to be among the first experimented with the virus which was discovered years ago and that’s what kicked off the Black Project Branch which is about 12 years, the virus was discovered about 2 years after it started and help start off the SES series. Each series timeline I left vague so players could work with the vagueness.

I read that and realized I had a stupid moment since it was so late, so to correct myself: Gene Co uses a letter and number system as previously mentioned, right now it's on the 40th or something serum. First two sets (single letters are victims of the virus and none of those survived else Rach wouldn't have been made.) are the serum identification and second set is the subject number. I do recall mentioning to Shard that they did fund earlier projects, that's not directly connected to their serum, and many of those were failures or success. However, after the Black Project Branch was created they stopped doing that. As I stated, the current stuff is PX. I would estimate a good serial number might be GE-04 or somewhere around the G range.

I've not looked over your CS, but will do so in a bit.

@Robeatics

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I read that and realized I had a stupid moment since it was so late, so to correct myself: Gene Co uses a letter and number system as previously mentioned, right now it's on the 40th or something serum. First two sets (single letters are victims of the virus and none of those survived else Rach wouldn't have been made.) are the serum identification and second set is the subject number. I do recall mentioning to Shard that they did fund earlier projects, that's not directly connected to their serum, and many of those were failures or success. However, after the Black Project Branch was created they stopped doing that. As I stated, the current stuff is PX. I would estimate a good serial number might be GE-04 or somewhere around the G range.

I've not looked over your CS, but will do so in a bit.

Ohhhh, that makes sense. Sorry, I didn't understand when you first said "it" was PX, I thought it was for something else. GE-04 sounds good, I'll edit now!

and I just realized that I didn't approve this yet...you're all set @Robeatics

@nitemare shape Awesome! Thanks.

Character you have created: Malcolm Laurence
Alias: Dominus Mortis. Normally Just Mortis.

Speech Color (Actually say what you're using): FFA07A

Character Alignment: Villian
Identity: Unknown
Character Personality: Malcolm has lived a long time and has experienced a variety of emotions during his long life and more in his unlife as a result he has all but left human emotions aside replacing them with cold logic. Malcolm has always been cynical and pessimistic never finding joy in anything he does this is mainly due to his little grasp on his humanity and ergo his disregard for all life.

Malcolm has a short temper that quickly shows itself when he is dealing with creatures he deems as lower life forms these being mostly human being who have not achieved what he views as enlightenment.

Uniform/costume:Malcolm wears a dusty molding robe that cling loosely to his skeletal body. It was a rich purple colour which has now become a duller kind of purple. The hem of his robe has a gold pattern sewn into it.The stitching on his robes comes undone in places showing off his rotting flesh and skeletal figure. His robes seem to have almost endless storage capacity this is simply a simple enchantment that makes the pockets of his robe deeper than they actually are.

Origin Info/Details:
Malcolm had always been interested in death. Born to a family that dealt in death. His father a coroner and his mother a Funeral Director Malcolm was to say the least, surrounded by death from birth. It was when he began to bloom as a man did his fixation with the occult and the undead truly started to go too far. He was shipped off to med school after finishing his study and was soon finished and pronounced doctor Malcolm Laurence.

After his studies he became fixated on cults and black magic to do with death. He used his family's wealth to purchase hundreds of occult paraphernalia which he used to further his knowledge and slow fall into darkness. When he turned 28 he joined a cult that worshiped one of many of the gods of death he had read about in his occult books.

His cult meetings and his dealings with them started to become a lot darker as he was egged on by cult members to start killing prostitutes on the streets of London. It wouldn’t be his first kill and the idea of fulfilling the wishes and pleasing the twisted god of Death he worshiped he would happily do whatever they asked of him.

Malcolm killed eleven people before the police really started to actively hunt for him. His killing spree had left a mark on the city of London and his strange obsession with the body parts he took from his victims worried the cult he belonged too and many of the members voiced their concerns as to the attention that Malcolm was bringing to the cult. Malcolm would have none of it ignoring them, he was planning something big and it was on the night after they voiced their concerns he set his plans into motion.Ambushing the cult members during a meeting they were having to expel him from their group, he worked magic through their minds forcing them to kill themselves. As his ritual reached its climax he looked at what he had achieved.

The leather bound book that lay in the middle of the ritual circle ebbed with dark magics and evil intent. It was his phylactery and he would hide it from anyone who would wish to destroy it. For it contained his soul and with it he would be closer to death and his god than any other person he knew of. He smiled as he felt his heart stop beating his body going cold as his bodily functions shut down. The culmination of his years of research and work had lead up to this point and he would relish every moment of it.

Raising his hands he gathered the souls of the dead cult members along with the souls of the people he had killed and gestured to the book which sprang open the pages turning madly until it stopped on no particular page. The souls were sucked into the book which snapped shut the moment the last soul entered it. Smiling with satisfaction he left the church but was upset to find that the police had found him. Somehow they overpowered him imprisoning him for his crimes. It was not long before the people of london heard about his crimes. They were outraged and forced their way into the jails taking Malcolm from his cell and burning him at the stake. Something that hadn’t been done in a long time.

They then dumped his charred body in the river. His journal was sold at a police auction to an avid occult collector and has since then been called the murder journal and passed from hand to hand before finally falling into the hands of a collector in New Haven. His body reforming in the city he now looks for his phylactery under the guise of Dominus Mortis, Master of Death.

Hero Type (Select one): Mystic/Supernatural
Power Level (Select one below): City Level (Possibility for World Level)

Powers (Be Specific): Mortis is a Lich and has command over black magic called Necromancy. He can communicate and speak to the dead and see ghosts or the spirits of those departed. He can detect mass death from a mile away small amounts of the dead half a mile.The more saturated an area is with death the stronger his magic is.He can use this magic to cause a variety of effects listed below:

He can bring life to dead bodies creating thralls that he can control either as mindless zombies or as full fledged undead retaining all of their knowledge of their previous life and abilities as long as raising them from the dead was something they willingly agreed too. As well as create: Ghouls, Banshees, Revenants, animated skeletons, Wights and Wraiths.

Given enough time he can perform a mass resurrection covering a city wide area this spell brings all dead back to life as mindless zombies with a hunger for flesh.

Can manifest his dark intent or the deathly energy around him, into bolts of dark energy, sharp waves or as black flames.The waves of energy extremely sharp and will leave deep grooves in even thick steel. The bolts move as fast as bullets and have the same penetrating power as a 50. Caliber bullet.The fire is almost unquenchable and can reach extreme heats.

Has a passive aura of dread and the temperature around him to drop to -10 degrees celsius. Can focus this aura through his eyes affecting one person instead of diluting the effect over an area this also causes intense moments of fear or pain in the individual he targets.

Able to project his body on the an astral plane to communicate with people over long distances, he can uses bodies as a medium to communicate through. He can also move the body his Phylactery is connected to, as long as that body is dead or dying.

Able to create shields of bone on his body or summon pillars of bones or dead bodies from the ground to block damage or block off places. These pillars of bones or shields of bones can fire off splinters of bones that can cut through flesh like butter.

Can summon a swarm of insects that feast on flesh to attack his enemies or use them as a way to scout out an area.

Can summon an ethereal scythe that does no physical damage to what it hits but instead cuts at the foe's soul doing damage to a person's soul causes them intense pain and if enough damage is sustained their soul is destroyed and the person's body becomes a shell for a new soul.

Being a Lich Mortis cannot be killed as he is already dead the only way to truly destroy him is to destroy his phylactery, his body on it’s own is fairly durable able to receive a large amount of damage before he is unable to keep his consciousness bound to the body. His body does have basic regeneration and will repair itself after half a day's worth of meditation.

When his body is destroyed a new one will form in a 10 mile area around it coalescing out of glowing smoke. His phylactery is not easily destroyed and requires an immense amount of magic to destroy or know the secret to destroying it from Mortis himself.

Simply possessing the phylactery (a Journal) can cause a person to become paranoid and obsessed with the journal, wanting to keep it safe and write down all of their secrets that happens to them. The journal will write back to the person promising them whatever they want as long as they keep the journal safe and tell no one of it. They will recognise Mortis as a god when they see him, hailing him as a messiah. This has caused a couple of cults to spawn in his honor. Mortis suffers none of the penalties a living body and is immune to disease, poison, fatigue, pain and other effects that plague only the living.

Attributes (Select one at each category):

Resources: Low
Weaknesses: Holy Magic, Phylactery, Positive Vibes
Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?): None
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes