The year was 2040. Sundown City was just as ravaged by natural disasters and criminal activity as the next major metropolitan area on the coast. Unlike most it came complete with a man who weaponized crocodiles in the flooded areas of the city, a cyberpunk street gang enhanced by techno-implants, electricity eating monsters, as well as a woman in the shadows controlling the chaos. In a corner of the eastside slums was an old run down martial arts dojo that two cousins took shelter in after a gang war broke out in the streets. After stumbling around in the dark for several minutes eventually the two young men came across some sort of glowing symbol on a wall that transformed them into a pair of dragon themed superheroes. Accidentally setting the building on fire the two cousins actually flew out of the ruble and flames as if they were baptized in the blaze.
After making a scene on local news and social media, the boys were contacted by a man claiming to have been a hero in Sundown City before the riots and civil unrest. After a hurricane swept through the area and flooded a quarter of the city, Centurion lost most of his tech to scavengers and could barely get around. He provided an HQ for the young heroes in what was left of his underground base moved to the roof of a building in the flooded side of the eastside slums.
Dubbed the Double Dragons by the press, the boys do what they can to aid police and take back the city.
This is one of those RPs that just comes together on its own. After another Power Rangers RP was attempted with a dragon theme I’ve had it in mind to do something similar to shows like PR and Kamen Rider. Like the cartoon in the 90’s, this RP has very little to do with the Double Dragon games themselves. It’s what I would have done if given the chance to lean more into the superhero side of things rather than what we got. Similar to the show, once @Double and I build the universe up a little we may take on a few more players as ‘Dragon Warriors’. There were a few in the cartoons that were unique and badass, though some others were pretty hokey. We’ve also discussed using the Battletoads somewhere since there was that epic crossover game back in the day.
Another big part of this RP is the near future setting. Originally I was just going to use Batman Beyond’s Neo Gotham as a template… but I wanted something a little grittier. In my mind I pictured something between Robocop and Judge Dredd. There’s flying cars, but not too many fancy skyscrapers. There’s future tech here and there, but the city itself has seen better days. The cartoon was pretty vague when it came to where society was at. There were police and there was crime and Mad Max type shit going on every now and again, but you couldn’t really tell if life was still the same for the other people in the city. Long story short, in this RP it is. There’s no gladiator type coliseum somewhere, there’s no supervillain monster truck drag races through the city, etc. Just trying to tone down the Saturday morning influence a bit LOL.
As far as the story and enemies, everything is still very much a WIP. I have a general idea where I wanna go, but since it’s gonna be stat based leveling up characters and building up our heroes will be key to take down the bigger enemies. We’ll have the aforementioned cyberpunk gang the Dead Heads as well as a more traditional street gang called the Wolfpack. A portion of Sundown City has also been flooded due to natural disasters, and a mercenary with an army of crocodiles at his command is said to be keeping away outsiders. It’s rumored he’s looking for something or someone. The Shadow Queen also manipulates the chaos in the city for her own goals, secretly backing the Dead Heads gang. Taking an interest in the Double Dragons she unleashes electricity eating monsters to take down the city’s power grid to throw sections of the city into darkness. Just in time for her champion, the Shadow Dragon, to take form.
Right now the plan is it's just @Double and myself, but if you're interested or watching this thread give us a yell! Like I mentioned, Dragon Warriors will eventually be a thing as well as the Battletoads if somebody would want to use one of those characters!
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