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@MrDidact I edited the biography in my original post to include the origin of her powers, as well as where she got her cloak.
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Here's me throwing my hat into the ring.

Birth Name: Jackson Barnes
Alter Ego: The Jack
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Place of Origin: Sydney, Australia
Archetype: Metahuman
Allegiance: Champions

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Powers/Skills: Jackson is able to grant one being the ability to use the supernatural abilities of another for a period of one hour. For this to occur, he must be touching both the donor and the recipient, and aware of the abilities being bestowed.

The ability can work in two modes during the time the change is in effect, either the original donor may continue to use their powers as normal, or, if Jackson chooses, they may be drained of them to fuel the transfer. Only one power set may be bestowed on any being at a time, and any attempts to grant a second will result in thei first being wiped. If the recipient had their own supernatural abilities before the transfer, they may continue to use them as normal. Jackson can choose to bestow powers on himself.

Equipment/Resources: The Jack keeps a number of useful items on the belt of his suit. These include a grappling hook, long-range taser, smoke bomb and syringes filled with anaesthetic to keep villains under control. A pair of goggles lets him see in bright or low light, as well as in infrared, and he uses a staff to defend himself in a meelee.

Biography: Jackson Barnes was born into a family of metahumans, with parents, uncles, aunties and cousins all being renowned heroes acting across much of Oceanaia. Jackson, however, showed no signs of supernatural abilities at all throughout most of his childhood and adolesence.

Being surrounded by supers while being ordinary himself was difficut for Jackson, especially seeing the accolades and glory that were heaped on his relatives. Sure, he got to stand near them at some of the medal ceremonies, but it was frustrating to be constantly shown that he was unlikely to ever achieve anything to match the glory of his lineage.

After finishing school, Jackson was training to pursue a career as an auto machanic when his latent abilities finally showed through (or perhaps he finally discovered how to use them. Truly, he isn’t sure). Jackson was overjoyed at this discovery, and threw himself into super life, eager to prove himself and win glory. When the idea for the Champions was floated, he decided almost immediately to join. A role with the team would both suit his abilities and bring him the recognition he had wanted for so long.

Joining the team wasn’t all that he had hoped it would be. He found it difficult working with many of the members, and then Nagoya happened. That day, he was ill-preapred going into the battle, and was knocked unconscious almost as soon as the fighting broke out, by a cunk of debris thrown up by The Tortoise, no less. He only learned about what had happened after being dragged away and brought around after the fighting was done.

Having been thoroughly humiliated by the experience, The Jack resolved to make a fresh start for himself and the team. Their honour as a group had been tarnished, and they needed to restore that. The first step to accomplishing this goal, in his eyes at least, is to end the Splinter situation, either by bringing back those that turned away from the team and their goals, or by disbanding the other, less principled group. As for Jackson himself, he wants to take a more proactive role in chasing his dreams and seeing justice done. Things may have gone poorly at first, but being a Champion is still an opportunity he dreamed of but never thought he’d actually see.

Personally, Jackson is certainly eager to make his mark, which makes him less cautious than some of the other heroes, at times reaching into headstrong or outright brash behaviour. He’s a snarker, occasionally critical and agrumentative, but only because his heart is in the right place and he wants to see the right thing done.

Special Notes: That’s all for now.
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@arca9 Looks good, accepted.

@DFTBA The only problem with your sheet is that metahumans, and by extension costumed superheroes, have only been a thing for a couple years at this point. This a world that is just discovering super powers, magic, and sci fi tech. To make your character work you could always make his family be decorated police officers or military members. And you can just say super powers instead of just supernatural powers when describing your character's ability, otherwise it implies he can only work with magic powers. Just my two cents.
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How are those sheets coming along, guys?
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Hey @Polyphemus, @MrDidact, I took a short break from writing up my Legacy post to edit an older CS I had lying around that I never got to use. Hope it fits in alright with this RP. I know there's already another 'mythical hero returned from the beyond to save the modern man' accepted, but I'm hoping Oddie's different enough from Lance for that not to matter. If not let me know, and I'll see what else I got floating up in the old noodle.

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and the hideous cyclops Polyphemus.


how dare you

In seriousness, though, Odysseus looks great! Consider him accepted. I'm very glad you're feeling better and happy to have you join our little RP.
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how dare you

In seriousness, though, Odysseus looks great! Consider him accepted. I'm very glad you're feeling better and happy to have you join our little RP.


I was going to go with 'vengeful cyclops Polyphemus', but then realized hideous just seemed to be so right.

Thanks, I'll fire him over to the CS page.
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@DFTBA The only problem with your sheet is that metahumans, and by extension costumed superheroes, have only been a thing for a couple years at this point. This a world that is just discovering super powers, magic, and sci fi tech. To make your character work you could always make his family be decorated police officers or military members. And you can just say super powers instead of just supernatural powers when describing your character's ability, otherwise it implies he can only work with magic powers. Just my two cents.


Fair point. Would this be acceptable as a replacement first paragraph in the biography section?


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@Polyphemus@MrDidact

Considering we are all over the world, do you have any idea how the characters will be interacting? And do we have a name yet for this splinter group, or are you leaving us to decide this?
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@DFTBA Oh yeah that should be fine. Add in that part and make one further thing clear. If his powers are based on magic do they affect all abilities or just magic powers? Can he also get the skills of Gifted NPCs and PCs? Clear that up and consider the character accepted.

@EkkoRhodes The PCs are all from different countries but this is almost immediately after the Nagoya incident. So everyone is in the vicinity of Japan at the moment. And it's up to the Splinter players to decide a name.
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@Polyphemus I've recently joined more RP's than I thought I would, including one of a good friend of mine. I no longer think that I can give this RP the attention it deserves if I did join, and will retract my interest for now.
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@DFTBA Oh yeah that should be fine. Add in that part and make one further thing clear. If his powers are based on magic do they affect all abilities or just magic powers? Can he also get the skills of Gifted NPCs and PCs? Clear that up and consider the character accepted.


I'll say it is limited to supernatural and metahuman type abilities only, simply because it would be messy trying to work out how augmentation and gifted abilities might be transferred.
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@MrDidact My character was not affiliated with the champions, could it be that she came in part of a response team?
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So we all start very near Nagoya right? I'll have mine drop in there with a jet or something.
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MrD is right. It's about a week after the Nagoya Incident. You guys stuck around to answer questions/ recover in the hospital/ help with the recovery effort. And plenty of time for a falling out, of course.
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@MrDidact@Polyphemus



Birth Name: Cypress Hecate Mara

Alter Ego: Friction

Gender: Female

Age: 22

Country of Operation: Canada / Alberta

Archetype: Metahuman

Allegiance: Champions

Appearance: Cy is a 6 foot tall platinum blonde with dangerous curves. Her eyes are a blueish green and her face freckled. Her skin is a creamy alabaster and she is usually dressed in a provocative manner her favorite clothing is leather.

Powers/Skills: Friction Manipulation- by imparting her power into any thing she chooses Cypress can manipulate, generate and otherwise control friction, the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other, ie. whether the contact causes the movement to stop (sticking the targets together) or continue.
By decreasing her skin and clothing's friction Cypress is so slippery that she is able to skid across a flat surface at great speeds her movements resembling more those of an Ice skater than a sprinter Her skin and clothing in this state can even deflect kinetic energy attacks such as bullets, swords, knives or even liquid attacks. If she is caught in a trap or stuck in a bind, Cypress can just slip away unless completely enclosed.

Inertia Manipulation- This ability allows Cypress to manipulate inertia, basically the amount of resistance matter has to a change in motion or stay at rest by increasing, decreasing and/or maintaining it. She can increase object’s inertia causing an immobile object to be even more immovable, or to make a mobile object unstoppable. She can also reduce an object’s inertia, so a normally powerful object, such as a train, could have its course of motion interrupted with the same effort as would be required to stop a bicycle.
Also by manipulating inertia Cypress is able to simulate super strength but only in a horizontal plane.
Example: She could theoretically once she plants her feet push a stranded Super tanker back out to sea but she can only lift 250 pounds over her head.

(Limitations- to exercise her inertia control on objects other than her own person requires that Cypress herself come to a stop and make herself a stationary target.)

Skills: Hockey, Parkor, Computer programing, Hacking, Kenjutsu an Akido

Equipment/Resources: Weapons: 6 Throwing knives 2 Tanto

Gear: Tech ruggedized Cell phone

Biography: Born to a dead mother in the aftermath of a gulf coast hurricane. That flooded her entire town Cypress was barely alive and would have died except that her father a Swedish merchant sailor like any parent refused to allow it. Then as the storm raged around them he named her Cypress after the tree they found refuge in.

While the storm raged for about six hours the tidal surge pulled father and daughter out to sea where they drifted without hope. They were finally rescued three days after she was born by the Coast Guard. The men aboard the Coast Guard Cutter thought her survival a miracle and lavished her with attention.

Her father clung to life five days after the rescue but then like her mother and 78 members of the community she was from died of chemical poisoning.

An orphan Cypress was remanded over to her mother's family in Alberta where she went to live. What should have been the beginning of a beautiful story was anything but as her family neglected her and only kept her around as a way to collect on her father's pension. Eventually due to their neglect Cypress fell ill and had to be taken to the hospital where the authorities took her from them.

She was then raised in a children's group home where at the age of 11 she began demonstrating powers and was taken to Project Orchid Canada's Meta program with the eventual purpose that she become a Champion.

Her training was intense but focused more athletics at an early age than combat it being thought of as unethical to subject a minor to such. Akido and Kenjutsu were also more competitive sport style than full fledged combat and her training in Hockey to hone her movement. Later when she was 16 the project focused on the more aggressive styles of her martial arts and the power moves of Hockey.

While they trained her to use her body the project also saw to her schooling knowing that a well rounded schooling benefited their ends as well. She excelled in classroom studies especially in the field of computers developing the ability to make an excellent hacker and or computer programmer.

It was because she was finishing a project at the project that Friction avoided attend the meeting at Nagoya and thus escaped the direct guilt of those that had attended. Cy could use her location during the incident as and excuse but chose not to by appearing on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and offering her country's sympathy to the people of Japan but her own apology as well.

Special Notes: Because of the Nagoya Incident Cypress has vowed to atone for all the damage done by becoming the most skilled at power use ever known so that no civilian shall ever suffer for her mistakes. To accomplish her goal she trains constantly honing her power use to a razor sharp edge.

She appears on children's shows, does interviews and service announcements.

She has no secret identity living on Canadian military or Mounted Police bases.
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@EkkoRhodes Your character might have decided to show up to help out, or they have a relationship with another character, any reason you think would be appropriate should be fine.

@vietmyke Don't worry about it, the doors always open, and I hope your other games go great!

@GreenGoat Same thing with Ekko, there's a ton of options. It's not unrealistic for so many supers to converge on such a huge event.

@RumikoOhara Awesome! Accepted, go ahead and put her in the CS tab. I'm guessing she came to Japan to support the team?

Also Poly already put me in the tab, but you guys can check out my CS if you missed it. Splinter team, behold your guide and mentor

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MrD is right. It's about a week after the Nagoya Incident. You guys stuck around to answer questions/ recover in the hospital/ help with the recovery effort. And plenty of time for a falling out, of course.


Oddie didn't. He pretty much sat in a bar and muttered to everyone that passed, "I told them this would happen, but does anyone ever listen to me. . . "
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Hey guys! Got room for one more?
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