Fair enough, I suppose if they were in some sort of city environment and they needed him to use his power one of the stronger characters could like rip up the ground or something haha. I'll edit his abilities, other than that is the app fine?
Everything else looked good man!
Though I think under Equipment his necklace was supposed to grant him the ability to swim through soil, not water LOL. He shouldn't need a trinket for that if he's from under the sea!
Though I think under Equipment his necklace was supposed to grant him the ability to swim through soil, not water LOL. He shouldn't need a trinket for that if he's from under the sea!
~KL~
Oh damn, didn't even notice that I'll edit it. I'm currently reading the IC, so hopefully I should get a post up tonight.
Archetype: Alien/Plant Name: Imbricata Opuntia Alias: Grand Surveyor Opuntia (Venus) Age: Millions of years Powers: Dryad Physiology - Imbricata's appearance morphs to better match the environment, local flora blooms on her. Floraportation - Can teleport via plants Spontaneous Growth - Plant life grows faster in her wake. Photosynthetic Regeneration - Heals quickly in the presence of fertile soil, water and strong sunlight Poison/Disease Resistance - Can purge plant life from her to cure ailments Plant Manipulation - Imbricata can persuade plants into performing biological functions including floration. Plant Assimilation - Flora becomes a part of Imbricata's own biology Alien Plant Archive - Impregnated with seedlings of other worldly plants
Weaknesses: Typical Plant Weaknesses Intense Heat / Fire Intense Cold Lack of Sunlight Lack of Water Herbivores
Alignment: True Neutral, plants must be found to repopulate her home planet Personality: Proud, somewhat aloof but always observant, nurturing and honest Appearance:
Imbricata is a towering 6' 0'' plant woman, her impressive height and graceful movements giving the impression of both absolute sovereignty and immense beauty. The flower petals, leaves and fronds that adorn her head emulate that a short bob. Despite being a distant traveller, all the plant life that makes up her is distinctly earthly. Her piercing ruby eyes do not look, or gaze, but survey the surroundings, judging intently. Narrow shoulders but wide hips suggest a level of fertility far beyond that of Earthlings. Instead of looking gangly or weak, Imbricata's long slender arms appear elegant. Naturally, her legs too are elegant, but also toned and shapely. Her posture is stellar, giving her perfect regal poise.
Imbricata dresses in a long dark green sleeveless gown, adorned with local flora. Primarily red flowers grow in it, accented with yellow and orange, which blend the shifting colour down the dress. Finally, Imbricata wears no shoes, and feet are cushioned by the growth that follows in her wake.
BRIEF Bio: A cutting of the amorphous plant god Eith'Og-Darhg, Imbricata Opuntia crash landed on Earth roughly 3 years ago. The event that was far more traumatic that she'd envisioned, losing more than 99.9% of her biomass on entry and what did make it to the ground was hardly fit for immediate use. All was not lost though, the dense woodland she found herself in suggested the soil was rich enough to begin healing. Her roots sunk in, analysing and absorbing the nutrients while building new synergies with the primitive life forms that shared this space. It would not be enough to mend what was lost, a feeler needed sent off to find more fertile land and to integrate with new life. It was scary to leave so much of herself behind to continue growing but it was a necessary act, the charred growth would only slow her down. Imbricata shook herself free, equipped with only with what was truly necessary and her precious cargo. She took off a writhing tentacular horror, whipping wildly through the trees as she scouted the terrian.
Unbeknownst to her, her flight path had not gone unseen. Scientists had been watching for months as her impact trajectory became more and more certain.Military had been dispatched immediately to the location once the landing had been confirmed by locals and the attention of the media was drawn, who were already speculating whether the outsider was friend or foe. It wasn't long until they found her whisking round the perimeter, attempting to get a feel for her surroundings.
Imbricata froze mid squirm. They were terrifying. Mobile Non-plants with inorganic limb extensions, they emitted light and noise too. Aggressively stimulated by even small movements. Intelligence. Maybe they can help me.
Storylines:
Learning to be truly human Coming to terms with never being able to return home Coming to terms with the possibility of home planet not existing anymore Actually hideous plant monster hellbent on conquering Earth and making it her new space vessel kingdom. Using alien plant/plant knowledge to assist human endeavours
She needs a snappy Alias however its not like her to make one, she'd want her full title used, so if anyone wants to suggest something for her that might be fun, otherwise I'll have an NPC suggest Venus, like the goddess and flytrap.
@Hillan Alright, I will actually try to get something up then first, and leave you a bit of an opening so you can jump right in! We could possibly do a collab next if you guys are interested. @Lord Wraith
Hey. This week is midterms. So I'll be spotty at best. If you want, feel free to set up your character for Ghoul to find him. I'll respond when and where I can.
So @The Kid Lantern mentioned me in a few previous spots. I've been taking the time to read through the OOC and IC, and I've finally caught up. Here is my character who is essentially a 'mutant' in the X-Men sense of the word in that she was simply born with her powers. She is essentially a Dr. Doom archetype, though with bits of Magneto (superhuman supremacist) and Iron Man (uses tech and works closely with the government).
Archetype: Advanced Techno/Evil Genius Name: Fang Ai Ling (Eileen Fang) Alias: Interference, or Dr. Fang Age: 35 Powers: Eileen was born with the ability to control phenomena that exhibit mathematical wave behavior starting with sound and light, possibly getting into gravitational waves in the future. She uses technology to augment her abilities relying on harmonics. The light and sound is emitted from her body. She is also blessed with a very high intelligence and her personality gives her a certain degree of charisma.
Sound Wave Emission/Reception: Eileen can emit as well as absorb/hear audible sound as well as sound outside the audible range, allowing her to mimic voices, make herself completely silent, send out shockwaves, fire disorienting beams of ultrasound, produce the brown note, have superhearing, tell when people are lying, etc.
EM Wave Emission/Reception: Eileen can emit and absorb/see visible light as well as light outside the visible spectrum allowing her to fire microwaves, create flashbangs, camouflage, have x-ray vision, night-vision, etc.
Gravitic Wave Emission/Reception: Not yet.
Equipment:
Power suit: Provides minor protection, mainly used to focus or augment her sound and light abilities, gives her control of her 'locusts'.
Surveillance Swarm: a swarm of microrobot drones in the form of beetles/locusts used mainly for spying and eavesdropping, though Eileen can also use them offensively by laying them around in intricate patterns that amplify the harmonics of an area, augmenting her powers.
Blast Bludgeon: a long, bat-like triangular rod that functions like a tuning fork. Eileen uses this to triangulate the harmonic frequencies of objects she strikes with it. After several strikes, she is able to determine the vibrational frequency that is most destructive to the particular material she is striking. She already knows what frequency works best for concrete and bone-through-flesh.
Weaknesses: Her power is purely offensive, her body has typical human frailty. Her armor protects her somewhat, but isn't that strong, and cannot withstand a direct punch from someone with 'peak physical condition'. Without her suit, her power is also extremely unfocused due to waves' natural behavior to dissipate in all directions and losing power as a function of distance. Her most powerful abilities also often requires specific conditions for maximum effect, namely the creation of acoustic/harmonic zones with the aid of her swarm. Alignment: Villain, STRIKE Chief of R&D, Agent of STRIKE Personality: Pleasant, bookworm, Machiavellian, curious, idealistic. Or: Sweetest. Supervillain. You. Ever. Met. Appearance:
Interference wears a caped, white enamel androgynous power suit that is easily mistaken for a robot. It looks something like the following image.
But the head has a single red camera in the center like the following image.
BRIEF Bio: Eileen went through her life as a model citizen. Eileen was obedient and went through life without incident. In secret, Eileen practiced her abilities; the more she learned about the scientific and mathematical properties of light and sound, the more powerful she became, able to emit anything on the electromagnetic spectrum, and all frequencies of sound, especially the inaudible frequencies. Her intellect allowed her to achieve a high profile academic career doing research for the government. Her research is in optronics: using photons instead of electrons for data storage and transfer. To harness light in this way, Eileen relies on crystals, which she has an intuitive understanding of thanks to her powers; she uses light and sound to deduce the refractive and acoustic properties of crystals before she creates devices to harness them. Optronics will be significantly faster and more powerful than electronics, so Eileen plans to make artificial intelligence based on optronic hardware. Mostly her work is in weapons development, creating efficient laser weapons and sensor technology for the military. As a government researcher, she decided to risk letting her mutant side show little by little because she wanted more from life. Slowly she revealed herself, showing off her harmless abilities, and figuring out the best and safest way to be a mutant working in the government. It wasn't long before the 'proper authorities' in the form of STRIKE came to acquire her. She leveraged her research position and her overall compliant nature and then she started demonstrating the more 'dangerous' applications of her abilities in order to get noticed, pretending that she had 'only recently' figured out these abilities in order to become a government-sanctioned superpowered individual. She has weaseled her way into STRIKE, becoming the head of their R&D department. Her understanding of light and sound as well as her computer science understanding has become a vital part of STRIKE's surveillance of superpowered individuals, or as Eileen likes to say, "I AM the Police-State". She has setup her own private lab within STRIKE HQ that people call the 'Recording Room'. Early in her life, due to her intelligence, she saw the governments of the world as inherently broken, but she did not succumb to angst and rebellion. She sees super-powered individuals as the catalyst necessary to subjugate the old conflicting governments and create a new united utopia for Earth; an Earth that can stand toe-to-toe with the allies and enemies in the galaxy and the universe at large. Her final ambition is to establish a Star Trek-esque United Federation of Planets, with Earth at the center, securing a place for Earth in the universe. Her intentions are pure, but her methods may be a little extreme as she has no qualms with 'sterilizing', cleansing or purging the world of the 'old order' as she sees necessary. Storylines:
Cheating STRIKE and the government of resources
Creating the AI being, Mythos Biblios Omniac
Assembling a team of villains
Attempting world domination
Notes:
She wants to recruit both villains and heroes to her cause, since she sees 'villains' and 'heroes' as labels the world uses to divide supers from helping each other to greatness.
Eileen will slowly attempt to accumulate things that are useful to her. Her hunger for power and knowledge is insatiable: if there is easy-to-use magic, she will attempt to infuse it into her inventions; if there is alien tech, she will reverse engineer it and incorporate it into her designs. She will cannibalize her surroundings to become more powerful. If STRIKE has a 'secret' vault, that's what she will rob right before going rogue.
Themes:
Here's something happy~
And here's something a little more...contradictory and noisy~
@Hillan Alright, I will actually try to get something up then first, and leave you a bit of an opening so you can jump right in! We could possibly do a collab next if you guys are interested. @Lord Wraith
@Stern Algorithm Go ahead and post the CS in hider tags in the Character Tab. I still need to edit tags into my post as well LOL. Most everyone has used hider tags, just makes it less hassle scrolling down to find who you need...
I think Collabs are best avoided, people can get left behind. Its disheartening to have your character about to join a situation that ends almost immediately because 3-4 people jumped in a Titanpad at 2-4am your time and resolved the entire situation before anyone else could post about it.
I think Collabs are best avoided, people can get left behind. Its disheartening to have your character about to join a situation that ends almost immediately because 3-4 people jumped in a Titanpad at 2-4am your time and resolved the entire situation before anyone else could post about it.
Just sayin'.
Also posted.
You're welcome to your opinion but in a sandbox RP they're an excellent way to accomplish the numerous stories going on through the RP. Ms. Mellow, Hillan and I are the only ones involved in our story at the moment and unless someone was going to shoehorn them in I see no reason not to use a collab quite frankly.
I think Collabs are best avoided, people can get left behind. Its disheartening to have your character about to join a situation that ends almost immediately because 3-4 people jumped in a Titanpad at 2-4am your time and resolved the entire situation before anyone else could post about it.
Just sayin'.
Also posted.
If I wanted to just write a solo story, I wouldn't be here. I'd be writing a book. Surely, the entire purpose behind group roleplay is that people work together.
@ColouredCyan Kinda caught me off guard with the whole 'being a card carrying member of STRIKE' right out of the gate. Gotta warn somebody before you go and change a scene. One of the rules actually...
4.) Get permission before using another player's character in your posts if it involves changing the scene or making actions.
..when I mentioned kinda leaving you an opening, I'd meant the plant person in the woods people claimed seeing on the news was likely you. I was under the impression Venus fell to Earth rather recently. Making the creature on the news a separate character is fine in a city of 15,000 superhumans, but I was gonna continue building up STRIKE as well as their superteam that'll be tasked with taking down Liberty Son/Darkstar. Now it's like your alien has higher clearance than my boy who's been with STRIKE for a little while now.
Hey. This week is midterms. So I'll be spotty at best. If you want, feel free to set up your character for Ghoul to find him. I'll respond when and where I can.
I'll edit it. I'm currently reading the IC, so hopefully I should get a post up tonight.
