Edit for anyone looking at this; the OOC thread is posted and can be viewed here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/186904-ris…

I want to write again and I thought of this little idea. You can read it below:

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You have super powers! Whether it’s the ability to fly, run really fast, or shoot lasers out of your eyes, you have an ability that sets you apart from the rest of humanity. You aren’t a big name hero, though, and you aren’t even some obscure expert with your powers. In fact, you’ve only had your powers for a week at the most.

This is a good thing.

If you had your powers any longer than that, you’d probably be dead.

You see, before you got your abilities, a deadly virus infected everyone with powers. The aptly named Supervirus caused heroes to die like flies while ordinary people were just fine. Some disappeared before their demise, but the result was the same; people with super powers were extinct! That is, until a week ago.

That was when the meteor struck. Despite nobody being injured, the news covered it extensively, happening in a local park in your hometown. And maybe it was just a coincidence, but soon after this happened, you gained your powers. And for some reason, you haven’t come down with the virus like the others. You’ve decided that you should do something positive with this new ability you have, but you’re not sure what yet.

Now it is an ordinary Friday night in your city. You hear the news; the Precious Metal Vault is being robbed! People have tried this before, but this was far from ordinary for a few reasons:

One: this is the first time it happened since all the people with powers died, and
Two: the group responsible is led by a well-known supervillain who should be dead from the virus.

Wherever you are right now, this is when you decide you’ll help the city and stop the people responsible for this.

What you don’t know at the time is that this is just the beginning of a greater journey for you, one that will undoubtedly test your resolve and ability to work with other heroes to help stop a villainous plot.

Do you have what it takes to be a hero?

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So to summarize the synopsis above, this roleplay is about a group of rookie super heroes who end up teaming up to stop an evil scheme. I don’t want to give away too much of the plot, but I do plan on this being more involved than just “stop the villain of the week.” If this interests you, let me know, and if we have enough interest I can make an OOC thread. Also, let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to writing with you!

Color me interested. Though I'm wondering if I can use the magical superhero I've posted about before. I've had him for years, and am really eager to play him.
Reference: roleplayerguild.com/topics/186852-i-h…

I’m interested. I’m still fiddling with concepts. How would you feel about a superhero whose power was possession? She would be able to take an intangible form and enter objects or defeated bad guys. She can enhance and animate the thing she is possessing to make it capable of more impressive feats (such as possessing a sword and making it extremely sharp/strong, or becoming a walking suit of armor that can take a severe beating.)

While possessing bad guys would give her different options. Like using their body/power for a limited time, or interrogating their minds while possessing their body. Just as a rule I wouldn’t attempt to possess any currently active bad guys unless they were insignificant. Significant bad guys would need to be defeated first to give her enough time to wear away their resistance.

This is a bit morally grey in the best case, so the character will have to deal with the ethical issues arising from her new power.

If you don’t like that idea, I might go for something else. Like control of plants or super-powered eyes. I like super-powered eyes. :D

I'm interested in this. I have a character in mind. Kind of like the Wasp from Marvel, but with slightly different powers.

It's nice to see your responses, I'm excited about the interest in this! I'll try to address all of your questions and comments. In any case, I'll probably work on a CS template tomorrow or Monday for your use.

Color me interested. Though I'm wondering if I can use the magical superhero I've posted about before. I've had him for years, and am really eager to play him.
Reference: roleplayerguild.com/topics/186852-i-h…

I'd have to see which creatures he could summon, but I'm not opposed to a summoner. Maybe he tries summoning a powerful minion and ends up with a harmless cat :P

I’m interested. I’m still fiddling with concepts. How would you feel about a superhero whose power was possession? She would be able to take an intangible form and enter objects or defeated bad guys. She can enhance and animate the thing she is possessing to make it capable of more impressive feats (such as possessing a sword and making it extremely sharp/strong, or becoming a walking suit of armor that can take a severe beating.)

While possessing bad guys would give her different options. Like using their body/power for a limited time, or interrogating their minds while possessing their body. Just as a rule I wouldn’t attempt to possess any currently active bad guys unless they were insignificant. Significant bad guys would need to be defeated first to give her enough time to wear away their resistance.

This is a bit morally grey in the best case, so the character will have to deal with the ethical issues arising from her new power.

If you don’t like that idea, I might go for something else. Like control of plants or super-powered eyes. I like super-powered eyes. :D

That seems fine, it doesn't seem OP for a rookie hero since there are defined weaknesses. Just don't give them mind control and super-powered eyes :P

I'm interested in this. I have a character in mind. Kind of like the Wasp from Marvel, but with slightly different powers.

That could be interesting, depending on how the idea is executed. I'm not really familiar with the Wasp, but based on reading a few sentences on Wikipedia, she seems pretty strong, so you'd just have to keep in mind that these heroes are meant to be rookies when you make the CS. The concept could certainly work, anyway.

Ooooh, this looks pretty lit.

I have two ideas;
Literally God, or a character with super speed. I'd really like your thoughts here.

@Zapdos I'm mostly just thinking the power to shrink and wings, and maybe some kind of venom but that's all.

@Zapdos - I’m glad you’re okay with the concept. I’ll make sure it’s just possession and not a bunch of other abilities on top of that. I don’t get much of a kick from being OP; it’s more fun to have limited powers and find creative ways to use them.

I’m starting to develop the idea more. Maybe she should be a sort of shut-in, only made worse by her powers. Probably her real body doesn’t leave home very often. She just hops from vessel to vessel to get around. Maybe she is a younger person (a teen), and her “base form” is one of her childhood toys that she possesses and enhances until it’s time to jump again.

Here are some of the drawbacks:

Can only possess one person or thing at a time (with a bucket of sand still counting as one and not thousands)

Can’t manipulate digital information. She can cause objects she possesses to move around mechanically, but it’s too complicated and beyond her skill set to possess a digital device and alter its data

Takes time to recollect her soul when her vessel has been destroyed. If the damage is bad enough, it might just end her power entirely, causing her to wake up in her bed (being removed from the encounter)

I don’t plan to make her a master of her ability to start with either, she’ll be figuring out how to use it effectively over time.

@zapdos

I went ahead and sent a PM. I wanted to hammer anything that might be an issue there before posting it here.

Ooooh, this looks pretty lit.

I have two ideas;
Literally God, or a character with super speed. I'd really like your thoughts here.

Superspeed sounds less OP; remember, these aren't going to be professional superheroes right off the bat.

@Zapdos I'm mostly just thinking the power to shrink and wings, and maybe some kind of venom but that's all.

That seems reasonable!

@zapdos

I went ahead and sent a PM. I wanted to hammer anything that might be an issue there before posting it here.

Cool, I saw it and will respond when I can.

@Zapdos - I’m glad you’re okay with the concept. I’ll make sure it’s just possession and not a bunch of other abilities on top of that. I don’t get much of a kick from being OP; it’s more fun to have limited powers and find creative ways to use them.

I’m starting to develop the idea more. Maybe she should be a sort of shut-in, only made worse by her powers. Probably her real body doesn’t leave home very often. She just hops from vessel to vessel to get around. Maybe she is a younger person (a teen), and her “base form” is one of her childhood toys that she possesses and enhances until it’s time to jump again.

Here are some of the drawbacks:

Can only possess one person or thing at a time (with a bucket of sand still counting as one and not thousands)

Can’t manipulate digital information. She can cause objects she possesses to move around mechanically, but it’s too complicated and beyond her skill set to possess a digital device and alter its data

Takes time to recollect her soul when her vessel has been destroyed. If the damage is bad enough, it might just end her power entirely, causing her to wake up in her bed (being removed from the encounter)

I don’t plan to make her a master of her ability to start with either, she’ll be figuring out how to use it effectively over time.

That sounds interesting! It actually works really well for the RP, too, as they'll have a way to gather relevant plot information without me just feeding it to you all.

Anyway, I have made a little CS for everyone's use below if anyone wants to get started in advance of the OOC thread:



If there's anything I missed, let me know. I should note since this is casual, 2-3 paragraphs per post is fine, but if you want to write more feel free. Quality matters more than quantity. This probably shouldn't be anything unexpected, but I felt before anyone works on their CS they should know this just to be safe. Anyway, I'll make the OOC thread in a few days (in part because I have no idea what to call this :-P) - I hope you all look forward to it!

Basically registered just to join this because the premise seems really great. Can't wait for it to start. Time to start hammering away my CS.

Interested as well.

Pondering between a teleporter, a light manipulator, or a healer.

Basically registered just to join this because the premise seems really great. Can't wait for it to start. Time to start hammering away my CS.

That's kinda flattering, actually. I hope this RP lives up to your expectations!

Interested as well.

Pondering between a teleporter, a light manipulator, or a healer.

I'd say stay away from the healer because of plot reasons (which I don't want to spoil yet) and because there's less at stake if any injuries can be healed right away in the middle of combat. To be clear, I'm not saying this so I can kill off your characters; I just think that any victories the team has are more significant this way.

The teleporter (assuming it's not like Goku from DBZ-levels of teleporting) or light manipulator ideas are cool though!

@Zapdos I promise I was joking about wanting to play literal god xD

I was thinking of a recently graduated soccer player taking a gap year before moving out. She develops super speed and starts feeling like it's not fair to continue as an athlete when her abilities are so far outside of the scope of normal human potential, when suddenly the universe presents this biiiig opportunity for direction in her life ... even if it's kind of a reckless direction.

@Zapdos I promise I was joking about wanting to play literal god xD

I was thinking of a recently graduated soccer player taking a gap year before moving out. She develops super speed and starts feeling like it's not fair to continue as an athlete when her abilities are so far outside of the scope of normal human potential, when suddenly the universe presents this biiiig opportunity for direction in her life ... even if it's kind of a reckless direction.

Ah, I see, sometimes you can't tell based off of text.

That could work, just keep in mind that these people have had their powers for only a week at the most, so it'd have to be a pretty quick (pun not intended for once :-P) speed boost. I like the motivation, people having different reasons for why they show up makes this more interesting!

@Zapdoslol truth

If you mean that it would have to be a pretty fast emotional journey, I figure she would come to it right after discovering her powers, in the elated 'omg i'm special' phase. She'd like ... kick a ball in slow-mo and it would deflate/deform the goal/burn a hole in something/explode and she would get her first sense of like ... oh I'm special, but I'm also not normal anymore. I can't do normal things without it being unfair at best and dangerous to others at worst.

... OH! Maybe she accidentally hurts someone! Anyway, I think you git what I mean ... ye u git it, we got it, it's got UwU

@Zapdoslol truth

If you mean that it would have to be a pretty fast emotional journey, I figure she would come to it right after discovering her powers, in the elated 'omg i'm special' phase. She'd like ... kick a ball in slow-mo and it would deflate/deform the goal/burn a hole in something/explode and she would get her first sense of like ... oh I'm special, but I'm also not normal anymore. I can't do normal things without it being unfair at best and dangerous to others at worst.

... OH! Maybe she accidentally hurts someone! Anyway, I think you git what I mean ... ye u git it, we got it, it's got UwU

I was thinking like she notices she's going faster right away, but there's time to think about how you want to go about it. There's probably more than one good way to plan her back story, in any case.

@Zapdos Oooooh, yis I get it now. I will put my thinking toque on and try not to wiggle too excitedly while waiting for the CS!

@Guccicorn no problem! The CS is already posted, by the way, and is located here: roleplayerguild.com/posts/5306777

@Zapdos I'M SO OBSERVANT! Thank you Zap.