Garfield High: Last year’s graduating class was about 1500, and this year’s looks to be bigger. A growing school on the North-Eastern end of Staten Island, the administration is only just now starting to realize that they might need to expand their facilities. Academic scores are average, though thanks to Stark Industries, they have a very impressive science lab(but what New York school doesn’t, now?).

The surrounding neighborhoods are more on the suburban end, and quite boring for most teenagers, so the most popular weekend or after school activity is to take the ferry to Manhattan, or the bridge to Brooklyn.

All in all, a pretty normal school in a pretty normal neighborhood. Nobody could predict that it would become the center of amazing events.

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The basic premise is that a plan to replicate Spider-Man's formidable power in a lab(run by, guess who, Ozcorp) goes awry, because of course it does. The result is a sort of virus that only works on some people, particularly younger folk.

The cast will be a handful of teens(or children, if anyone wants to go younger) who gain similar powers to Spidey.



Expectations:

I don't like to set hard and fast rules, but here is what is expected in this game.

1: Posting. I am no kind of stickler for post size, but I do always expect a reasonable standard of grammar and spelling. If a post is particularly lousy with errors, I'll shoot you a quick PM and just ask you to proof read it. If you don't(or can't) we'll have a discussion about the quality of your posts. I don't want to have to do that, but I will.

As far as frequency goes, if someone's waiting on you, I should hope for a post within a week. If your character is not currently involved in anything, just post when you're ready. If you know you're going to need a break, or will be gone for a bit, just find an excuse for your character to get sidelined.

2: Content. Just follow the site rules, I don't have any of my own in particular. If something comes up that makes me change my mind, I'll add it in here. I think we all know what does and does not fly.

3: Canon. I personally try to avoid using canon characters, but a large part of this is that there are very very few that I feel I can do justice to. Obviously none of us will be playing canon characters, but if there's one(particularly a villain) that you feel you can do really well, PM me and we might work them in.

This will otherwise take place in a pretty generalized version of the Marvel Universe. The MCU is a good base, though without certain recent events. That being said, no spoilers to anything major and recent. That includes the MCU of course, and also the comics.

That is everyone who has posted their character in the OOC or Char tabs. Not counting variants.

@Gisk Sorry for going a bit overboard with the character stuff. I'm really not sure what kind of character I want to do, but I may make a new idea, in favor of keeping the other character isolated for better labbing. Spider Sense Lore is weird, but in Spider Verse (which includes things that not every Spider Man author deals in and that have been effectively resolved in Spider Verse,) the Spider Sense is basically seeing along this, like, loom of time thing. If you're aware of the character Silk, she has a stronger Spider Sense compared to Spider Man, and sometimes gets visions of events rather than just the typical Spider Sense thing- if I'm remembering right at least.
But, we don't have to deal in that. And, honestly, what do you think the team needs more? Because, well, since we're directly linking the powers to Spider Man, I don't have to pointedly differentiate from Spider Man, which is what the no wall crawl was about. My most fleshed out idea is of sort of a team-relay guy. He'd be a varsity athlete at Garfield (maybe a wrestler or something,) who would contract the spiderflu, and only get Spider Sense. So he has to deal with the adjustment from being very active and forward at school, to doing a support role in hero stuff when that comes around. I think it'd be an interesting personal dynamic, and having a "command center" guy/communication relay would be interesting, complete with walkie-talkies.
The other idea is basically pure spider-based offense, claws/talons akin to Spiderman 2099, tarantula bristles, and maybe fangs.

The arachnoid sequences have proven to be the most efficacious, but no specimen has ever survived long enough for more than one trial. The longest we have kept a vector alive after the alteration is three hours. Human fatality rate, eighty three percent.

That to me anyway reads like 100% fatality rate not 83%.

Jockship=scholarship contingent on playing sports.

Also don't ask what mandatory psychiatric medication, I'm doing the research to find out and Tess will just shrug.

@Burning Kitty Do you mean because of the “no specimin surviving” bit? That is referring to the altered spiders, not the humans. The spiders always die, the humans usually die.

@tobiax I mean, play what you think would be fun. I didn’t know all of that about the spider sense, but that’s actually kind of how I was hoping it would work when someone has a stronger one. So it could definitely come out to be more like esp or prophecy or somethin, it depends on how you want to write it.

@Burning Kitty Do you mean because of the “no specimin surviving” bit? That is referring to the altered spiders, not the humans. The spiders always die, the humans usually die.

Then that means they were successful and they have their own Spider-Men.

If my character were to donate blood would those who receive it become a Spider-person? If so and she found out, there might be a plague of Spider-people. Spider-island anyone?

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Then that means they were successful and they have their own Spider-Men.

If my character were to donate blood would those who receive it become a Spider-person? If so and she found out, there might be a plague of Spider-people. Spider-island anyone?

Spider Park: Fallen Kingdom

@Burning Kitty I think it means that some humans don't die, but hey haven't had any powers show up yet

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Then that means they were successful and they have their own Spider-Men.

If my character were to donate blood would those who receive it become a Spider-person? If so and she found out, there might be a plague of Spider-people. Spider-island anyone?

No, it doesn’t.

So far no transformation.

0% of human subjects(so far) successfully gain powers, 83% die in the attempt. That leaves 17% who survived, but gained no powers.

That makes them have a natural immunity which means they can create a cure in case of Spider-Island.

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Spider Park: Fallen Kingdom

I see what you did there. You got it a little wrong, should be Spider-World: Fallen Kingdom

@Gisk@sorenI was looking at Oberon Price shouldn't the Artic Spider Genes have a number too?

@Gisk If you approved my character in the Interest Check, is it approved here? Regardless, below is the CS again.

Moved to the second post.

@Burning Kitty I totally forgot. I'll fix it thank you

Updated the best & worst with the updates to Jackson Hurley.

@Burning Kitty You mean like a different trial number? I’ma be straight with you, we’re just going to hand wave that there is a lot of different spider DNA in the virus vector, to account for the variety of powers presenting.

EDIT: I see what you mean now, actually, my bad. I’m leaving that answer despite not actually answering your question because I figure it might come up anyway.

And hey, thanks for that ranking, that’s really helpful to have.

@webboysurf Yeah, to you and everyone, if you’ve got the go ahead you still have it.

And what the fuck, are you guys giving me a new plot for our third arc?

@Burning Kitty You mean like a different trial number? I’ma be straight with you, we’re just going to hand wave that there is a lot of different spider DNA in the virus vector, to account for the variety of powers presenting.

EDIT: I see what you mean now, actually, my bad. I’m leaving that answer despite not actually answering your question because I figure it might come up anyway.

What?

And hey, thanks for that ranking, that’s really helpful to have.

I did it in Excel. Easily updatable.

And what the fuck, are you guys giving me a new plot for our third arc?

Just letting you know, I am doing one final edit to Hurley's Stats to make him fastest boi.

Just letting you know, I am doing one final edit to Hurley's Stats to make him fastest boi.

Updated the best/worst. Still waiting on @soren's update to his stats for the variant.

Not including @EldarionI's character in the best/worst because EldarionI has yet to put his character in either the OOC or Char tab. His like soren's doesn't put any points in the variant power.