The Cowl could always capture him and keep him locked up in a dark cell until you return and another Hero saves you conveniently. If Nexus felt up to it of course.
Works for me! I'd be happy to keep some people 'captive' until they can play again.
This thread has become very popular. Though currently, I'm trying to figure out what to do next with Racheli and having little luck. Namely as it seems everyone is busy with their own plots and I much rather not tread on toes. Unless someone's got an opening and willing to allow a bitchy lovely woman to work her way in?
Side note, considering putting up an NPC named Jacqueline Freeman, CEO of Gene Co, but not fully sure how to approach this.
Well, everyone's starting to build a case against the Cowl and the Shroud Syndicate, maybe she could join up with Lyger and find some reasons to hunt him? I also have a being of cosmic darkness to interact with if you are interested in doing something with that.
Character Personality: Alicia is not a nice person. From her earliest years she has been out for herself first with other people only a distant second when she thinks of them at all. Her power has also partially led to a god complex due to her abilities. She expects people to fawn on her and when people do not she becomes unpleasant and vindictive. Alicia is fairly clever and quick witted. Though she is far from a genius she takes a lot of precautions and always has layers upon a layers of safety nets.
Uniform/costume:
The Empyrean glows with a soft radiance. Her exposed hands and face are almost translucent and lit from within by a gentle white light. Her hair is a glowing white and floats in the air around her in a corona of light. Her features are difficult to make out even with sun glasses or other tinted lenses due to her glow. Her costume's body suit is white and gold and bullet resistant. Over the body suit she wears a white and gold silk dress with voluminous sleeves. She normally carries a silver colored scepter too.
Origin Info/Details:
[Redacted] But I put some popular knowledge below. -nods-
The Empyrean Classification: Villain Watchlist Rating: 22 Status: At Large Civilian Identity: Unknown Powers: Mental Suggestions (Suspected) Self Illumination (Confirmed) Duplication (Suspected) Power Bestowal (Suspected) Warning: The Empyrean should be considered extremely dangerous. The full extent of her abilities are not known and her actions seem random. Encounters between the Empyrean and law enforcement as well as other superhumans almost always involves civilian casualties. Avoiding her is advised.
Hero Type (Select one): Shape Shifter
Power Level (Select one below):
C. World Level
Powers:
Allure: The Empyrean draws people like moths to a flame. People who look at her want to be close to her and find themselves having a hard time with the idea of acting to hurt her. If you can not see her you are unaffected by her aura. If the light she emits is completely blocked out her allure does not function.
Cloning: If the Empyrean touches a person she can grow clones of that person complete with a set of similar super-human abilities if the subject was a super-human. Her clones retain up to all their memories depending on how long she was in contact with the person being cloned, skills, and physical features but their personalities are often very different and always include a fanatical devotion and loyalty towards her. She can grow two clones at once, one from each of her hands and it takes about a minute to grow one. She can with effort control what sort of clothing they are spawned with if any.
Attributes (Select one at each category):
Strength Level: Normal Human
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human
Agility: Normal Human
Intelligence: Above-Average
Fighting Skill: Trained
Resources: Large
Weaknesses: Alicia has to make contact with a person again before she clones them a second time or else the resulting clones start to have defects and flaws.
Supporting Characters: Her clone minions. There are a lot of them.
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: I do.
Sample Post:
"Welcome to your new life." Her voice was seductive and alluring. "I have fashioned you, built you up, for this." Her glow was intense. It made looking at her face as she spoke difficult as she leaned over the shuddering flesh of the newly born clone. And in the blurry eyes of the newly born clone she could see the adoration already beginning to grow. "I have chosen to grant you the gift of life in my service. All I ask in return is your loyalty."
The clone slowly nodded. And as he did her hand touched him again, banishing the grogginess and spreading a fire as the cloning process completed. A costume formed as well, a reflection of what the original hero had worn before he had been abducted and copied. "Rise..." Her resonant and beautiful voice commanded and the man rose.
"Show me your power." She commanded again and the man raised an arm. Fire bloomed around his hand and then began to rush up and down in a frenzied motion. After a moment the woman spoke again. "Enough. Your power will suffice." Her smile was not so beautiful as the glow faded away and she looked human once more. "Immolate yourself." Immediately the man burst into flames and began to scream as he burnt to a crisp.
The woman turned away from the clone with her unpleasant smile on her face and one of her hands reached over to the table beside her where a frozen arm sat in a tray of ice. "It seems they don't have to be alive." The Empyrean spoke as if she was musing.
Won't be able to come into this after all. Sorry for the commotion, thought I would have more free time, but some things just came up and I'm booked for the season :/
That's a pity but I hope when you get your plate empty again, you would consider coming back. Namely as it would be lovely to have a new face to play with for creating a story.
Totally forgot we even had a chat.
Hahaa, currently I can enter it but I need the room name for Hexchat, a chatroom program downloaded within my laptop and I'll meet you in there some time.
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Well, everyone's starting to build a case against the Cowl and the Shroud Syndicate, maybe she could join up with Lyger and find some reasons to hunt him? I also have a being of cosmic darkness to interact with if you are interested in doing something with that.
It would more or less depend on which is easier to get into to be honest. I know I have running large arc with @EnterTheHero that involved a origin connection which we're still working out. Though when Gabriel and Racheli gets close, her virus is accelerated and her stages progress at about double their normal rate. In my next post she will be about towards the end of stage one and heading into early stage two since she's currently sleeping off a 'flu'. I am to work more out with @EnterTheHero whenever he's ready over the alien race as I got a slight idea for how to approach them though I need to make a gdoc.
AS for Gene Co, that's pretty much over all worked out. I just need to know if I need to put forth a NPC CS or what before getting them involved into the RP. They are the baddie for Racheli and likely any meta/super/whatever that needs or want a hook into a arc. Or something fun to toy with and try out their PC. >_>
Anyway back to the topic at hand. Racheli, as much as enjoy playing her, doesn't do the whole world saving gimmick but rather more of an antihero in a sense. She only gets involved when it directly affects her. Universal threats are less likely to get her attention because it's bigger then her alone and so, she will leave it up to the people who care and willing to take that responsibility on. So likely the cosmic darkness won't be easy to work her at this stage. In the future, when her powers develop, will be another matter.
So the Cowl and Shroud Syndicate might be easier to work into. Namely since it's what I class as lower level and something that could direct her affect her if she was swept up in it's effects direct or ended up developing a grudge against someone within it. Currently she's human at this stage until she progresses to the final stage where she 'dies' and revives. So, joining up with Lyger, or at least encountering him, might be easier than hunting him. Namely as I can't see Rach going hunter on anyone's ass and rather have them come to her so she can take the law in her own hands. XD
Anyway a few questions might be in order:
What time of day is it currently? Weather/Season in Lost Haven? What key things should I fully note happening and in which parts?
Rach and Justine, currently, live in Sherman Square after Justine managed to buy a fixer up left over from D-Day. Last I knew, Cowl, or so I think I recalled reading that, was trying to buy up property within that area. If that is correct, could end up trying to persuade two pretty girls out of their residence and see what happens? I could write out the scene with just Tearstone and me, but what fun is that? >_>
Though later, as I already talked with NMS, I need to get Racheli working at the nightclub as a bartender but I'm at a lost which PC that was for. I think it was Icon. So it would require who ever hires people to meet her face to face at least at some point. I hope she's she's past stage when she does which should be fun. I also think I'm going to start putting timestamps with location over my posts to make it easier to hop into my timeline for anyone. >,< Hard to jump into something when I have little to no idea when it is happening.
Tomorrow, I shall begin work on the epic battle of the gods! If Ded replies to my pm by then, anyway.
Edit: @Fallenreaper Sherman Square is literally the worst place to live. Probably ever. You'd be safer as Osama Bin Laden's neighbor. A meta fight happens there every other day.
Tomorrow, I shall begin work on the epic battle of the gods! If Ded replies to my pm by then, anyway.
Edit: @Fallenreaper Sherman Square is literally the worst place to live. Probably ever. You'd be safer as Osama Bin Laden's neighbor. A meta fight happens there every other day.
Tomorrow, I shall begin work on the epic battle of the gods! If Ded replies to my pm by then, anyway.
Edit: @Fallenreaper Sherman Square is literally the worst place to live. Probably ever. You'd be safer as Osama Bin Laden's neighbor. A meta fight happens there every other day.
See, no one made that clear after all to @Tearstone or me though I'm sure we've mentioned it once or twice.
Right now in game it's winter, around late Feb. Time of day is somewhat irrelevant because we do have several stories going on all at once, which in theory could take place at different times during the day. However, for the most part we all seem to be involved in stories at night. Key things going on at the moment: Nightmare, Archangel, and Iron Knight just had a major brawl, The Cowl has sent is men out to raise some hell, and Lyger just gave some such men a message to deliver to their boss. There's an epic battle of the gods brewing, an indescribable cosmic evil heading our way, and halfway across the world, the nation of Charonia has descended into civil war.
And yes, Sherman Square, Lost Haven's own version of Times Square does seem to have issues with superpowered brawls taking place quite frequently...or at the very least something always seems to get blown up in the area...maybe that's another reason you got your apartment so cheap.
Right now in game it's winter, around late Feb. Time of day is somewhat irrelevant because we do have several stories going on all at once, which in theory could take place at different times during the day.
I'll keep that in mind though poor Racheli, her virus LIKES the cold! We need Creat-A-Hero's version of X-men's pyro at some point.
However, for the most part we all seem to be involved in stories at night. Key things going on at the moment: Nightmare, Archangel, and Iron Knight just had a major brawl, The Cowl has sent is men out to raise some hell, and Lyger just gave some such men a message to deliver to their boss. There's an epic battle of the gods brewing, an indescribable cosmic evil heading our way, and halfway across the world, the nation of Charonia has descended into civil war.
I noticed there's a lot of stories though I'm trying to determine what ones I need/could sync with.It wouldn't make sense for me to interact with a PC who's currently set in night while my post is mentioning board daylight, would it?
However, that does help some as it seems Cowl it is.
And yes, Sherman Square, Lost Haven's own version of Times Square does seem to have issues with superpowered brawls taking place quite frequently...or at the very least something always seems to get blown up in the area...maybe that's another reason you got your apartment so cheap.
It explain why the old couple left in a hurry. XD Tearstone's was more because it was damaged and the d-day attack really, though that could easily be added.
@Marik and whomever, that sounds good with the Reaper probably best for sneak attack, or threaten some random innocent people. He may be an anti-hero but innocents shouldn't be touched. Once I've written the first couple of pieces for the group I'm working on I should be able to make a return.
A cowl post should be up by tomorrow, I've got to tie some knots here if the Cowl's going to start dragging people into conflict. An Umbraxis post will follow shortly afterward.
On a side note, anyone seen @Raptorman? I'm still working on a War-Pulse for him, but I don't want to be left in the dark, I'm intending to time skip until after he's placed the serums into the drop points and have him be open for work again. I'm wondering once he's finished if he should wait for Raptor again or just have him wander into trouble. Y'know, the usual for a man like him.
@Marik and whomever, that sounds good with the Reaper probably best for sneak attack, or threaten some random innocent people. He may be an anti-hero but innocents shouldn't be touched. Once I've written the first couple of pieces for the group I'm working on I should be able to make a return.
Wait, so you're still in then? How should I proceed?
Speech Color (Actually say what you're using, don't go "Like this", or what not): Speech=Silver Sherlock=SkyBlue Mech. Synergy=Cyan
Character Alignment: Walking the Line, mostly Heroic.
Identity: Secret
Character Personality: Angel, as his name would suggest, has a strong personal code of honor, and dislikes distasteful acts, but the one thing that keeps him from being truly heroic is the fact that he will kill innocents to achieve his goal. He tries to be a good person, but the road that he has traveled has taken a toll on him, diminishing his formerly happy-go-lucky persona into one that is filled with hidden pain and regret, even if he does act like he is fine.
Uniform/costume:
Angel wears a hoodie and jeans, most of the time, with a tank top underneath. His headphones and laptop connect directly to Sherlock, the A.I. he had 'liberated' from S.T.R.I.K.E.
The Armored Titan Defense suit is about 3 times the size of a normal human, and is colored gunmetal black, to give it some semblance of stealth.
Origin Info/Details:
Angel was always... different. Whether it was the fact that he hung around more household appliances than people, or the fact that those appliances would do his will, from birth, the Price household was in a state of constant flux, whenever Angel was there. This led to his father's eventual drinking problem, and abuse on Angel's mother, who he blamed for for giving them a freak for a son.
Angel's mother put up with this treatment until he was at the age of 11, when Angel's father had come home from a particularly nasty drinking binge, and actually struck the boy. This led to a struggle between Angel's parents, after his mother tried to stop his father. This only turned his attention to her. Sometime during the struggle, which had wrecked the kitchen, a knife was involved, and his mother came away with a knife in her chest. His father had fallen in front of the refrigerator, and Angel was so blinded by rage, that he lashed out, causing the fridge to explode, thus killing his father, by forcing it to overheat. He was thrown out the kitchen window by the blast, and landed out in the street. By the time neighbors had come to investigate, the boy was already gone.
The next few years were a blur. Angel wandered the streets, working as a hacker/repairman for several minor gangs, until one day, he thought that he was cracking into just another government database, but it was actually a covert minor server of STRIKE. While it didn't contain any important information, it changed everything. He had discovered that there was an organization meant to deal with people with abilities such as his own. And as he searched through the files, STRIKE discovered him as well.
He was extracted from his gang by a single agent, whose designation was VKTR-17, a specialist in retrieval of all things transhuman. When brought to the STRIKE facility, not the main one, but one for information gathering, he was trained in the use of his strange ability. One day, during his training, Angel poked around the STRIKE system for something interesting. It was an A.I, codenamed 'Sherlock'. It was incredibly intelligent, and it's sole purpose was to gather and process intel. It was also apparent to Angel that the A.I. was in pain from being suppressed, being withheld from his true potential. So, he downloaded Sherlock onto an external hard drive, and left the facility, covering his tracks, leaving no trace of himself. STRIKE sent VKTR-17 after him, but after years of no success, the retrieval of 'Sherlock' and Angel Price were put on the backburner.
After leaving the facility, Angel came upon an abandoned heavy industrial factory, just outside Brooksdale, and set up shop there. The machines, while in massive disrepair, were quite simple to fix up. Over the course of a year, Angel built up the factory, stealing machines from factories around Lost Haven. However, no one, including STRIKE, could find a pattern, or a trail of this 'Machine Thief'. It was if the machines got up and left the factories themselves.
And then, with the recent rise of metahumans, Angel thought it was time to act. Taking parts and refining the materials in his factory, he built the Armored Titan Defense suit, a mech. The weapons were mainly created by himself, although the ordinance he needed had to be siphoned from military bases, with the exception of the custom ordinances. After three months of constant work, the ATD was ready, and he named it Equilibrium.
Hero Type :
Technopathy/Mechanical Synergy (Angel has the ability to control machines and technology, and meld with certain machines, such as his ATD suit. This is his one meta ability.
Power Level:
City Level (Normal) / World Level (with ATD Suit)
Powers: Mechanical Synergy- His one meta ability. He can sync his mind with most man- or alien-made tech, although he has to understand the interface to control it with any semblance of competence. This allows him to directly override any coding, and replace it with his thoughts. However, most firewalls and defensive code will have to be dealt with first. Once in, he can manipulate it in almost any way he wishes.
NOTE: Most weaponry, with the exception of the ASM and 'Pegasus' Jump Jets, are retractable, and able to be hidden underneath armor plating.
DMS arm-mounted melee system- The DMS is, essentially, a giant chainsaw on the ATD's right arm, operating at 56,000 RPM, an insane speed. The blade is made of a tungsten-steel alloy, laced with industrial diamond edging, and can cut through most normal objects. However, it does come to a loss when facing metahuman subjects or material.
LAT-WS- The Laser-guided Anti-Tank Weapons System is a .50 caliber belt-fed rifle with armor-piercing rounds that is aimed by a passive tracking system, and operates almost autonomously in combat, even when Synced with Angel. It is able to identify pertinent targets, and fire at apparent vulnerable points.
HM-18 (Hellbeast Model 18) Focus Laser- The HM-18 is a shoulder-mounted cannon that fires an extremely narrow beam of light, that, even with atmospheric interference, has a range of 1 mile. This laser takes a significant amount of power, and ignites the air for a second, which could possibly explode any hazardous material.
ASM (Shiva Mg.)- The Arm-mounted Shiva Machinegun is a versatile weapon, able to switch ammo types and reload in an instant. It sits below the right fist of the ATD, and can fire four types of ammo. -Conventional: Normal machinegun bullets. -Explosive: Bullets that go boom, not too powerful, but in sustained fire, can chip away at harder targets. -Rubber Bullets: For the non-lethal touch. -Electrified Ordinance: While not able to be fired in a automatic fire mode, this ammo latches onto a target, and delivers from between 75 volts, to 750 volts of electrical energy, at Angel's discretion.
QUERY Sensor array- The ATD suit has several advanced sensor systems, which can detect most objects and track them successfully.
'Lancelot' Mechanical Intervention Shield (MIS)- The MIS is a physical shield, which is about half the height, and one third the width of the ATD. It can be held in either hand, and works as a shield of the knights of old. The MIS can hold up against most non-Icon level attacks, and can also be ejected as a projectile from it's sheath on the ATD's back.
'Merlin' Energy Disruption Field (EDF)- The EDF is an energy shield, essentially, but one that does not stop physical objects. This is his most important meta-fighting system, because it can allow him to block most energy-based attacks. It can put up with 3 minutes of direct attack from a meta such as War-Pulse, and with any lesser energy, can hold up for hours. It is projected like an invisible sheath around the ATD, and fits the form nicely, although it hovers several inches off the surface of the mech.
ATD Armor MK-XVI- The armor surrounding the ATD is made of the same material that the 'Lancelot' is, and the plating itself is generally 8 cm thick, although it is considerably thicker at the vital systems areas. Underneath the plating, however, is the kinetic evaporation system, which uses hydraulics and directive impact plating to funnel an impact to the ground.
'Pegasus' Jump Jets- While not capable of sustained flight, these rockets allow the ATD to launch itself into the air, and come back down, with minimal damage. The range varies from angle to angle. It can launch the ATD into the top floor of a skyscraper, but it can also just as easily launch the ATD horizontally, giving it extra movement speed.
Attributes:
Strength Level: Normal Human (outside ATD), 100+ tons (ATD suit)
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 30x human (normal), 50x human (w/mechanical synergy), 20x human (ATD suit, unsynergized.)
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human (Normal), 2 hours (normal w/mech. synergy), and due to the merits of the ATD being a mech suit, it can remain at peak combat capacity, if out of combat, for 12 hours on end. However, the limited power, in combat, decreases to 7 straight hours of combat capacity. The ATD suit acts as an extension of his own body, so the mental strain is lessened.
Agility: Normal Human (Normal), 15x (Mechanical Synergy), 3x (ATD suit)
Resources: Large (Monetary) /Extreme (Technology/Information)
Weaknesses: Angel, while able to evade combat outside his ATD, most of the time, isn't very skilled in unarmored combat, and he is quite squishy, inside the mech. Also, his willingness to do whatever it takes to accomplish his goal might bring him into conflict with the other heroes. His lack of any truly overpowering offensive abilities might hurt him, when he fights with someone truly powerful, such as Icon.
Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):
Sherlock- An AI that Angel managed to steal from STRIKE, and reconfigure to support him. While mostly redundant, with his Technopathy, Angel considers Sherlock to be a friend, and is glad that the AI is watching his back.
VKTR-17 (Victor)- Victor is a covert agent from STRIKE that is tasked with retrieving Sherlock and bringing Equilibrium in for questioning.
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:
Sample Post:
The rain pounded down on the cracked asphalt leading to the abandoned factory just outside town. However, the factory was anything but abandoned. Inside, many mechanical arms were at work, drilling, prodding, and holding a mechanical hulk that was Equilibrium. Sparks flew down on the concrete floor, as the final plate was welded to the faceplate. Nearby, a young man pushed up a welder's mask, and smiled, looking it over. It was ready.
With the recent rise in Meta activity, (Angel himself notwithstanding,) the 25-year-old had decided that someone had to do something to combat it all. While there were some Metas that were benevolent, like Icon, there were twice as many that were malignant, and even more who just worked as mercenaries. STRIKE had proven itself unable to deal with this competently, and even though it was a powerful organization, there were just too many variables to control. Also, they were kinda a bunch of douches.
"Hey, Sherlock! It's done! Equilibrium is ready to reveal itself to the world!" Angel pulled the welder's outfit off, and revealed a black t-shirt and jeans underneath, by all appearances a normal college graduate. However, this man was a meta himself, able to control most forms of machinery.
On a computer monitor, sitting on a cluttered desk nearby, a line of text appeared: <OH REALLY? I COULDN'T TELL, FROM THE GIANT MECH SITTING INSIDE THE BUILDING. TELL ME, ANY MORE OBVIOUS INFORMATION YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE ME, ANGEL?>
Angel chuckled, and lifted himself up onto a scaffolding surrounding the mech's cockpit. "Heh, Sherlock, don't be like that. It's not nice." Angel dropped into the cockpit, thick metal encasing him with the hiss of machinery. As the helmet pressed down, protecting his head, Angel aimed a mock pout at the nearest security camera, saying, "It makes me sad."
As the systems to the mech booted up, a line of text flashed across Angel's vision. <Yeah, yeah. Anyways, that thing you asked me to do, you know, the one about The Shroud? I've got the data packet stored inside the mech's memory, so you can review it on the way.> There was a second before Sherlock spoke again, as if thinking. <Anyways, Angel, what are you going to do next?>
The man inside the suit smiled, and clenched the giant fist, synced with the suit fully, and spoke, the synthesized voice of the suit reverberating throughout the room. "Not Angel. Equilibrium."
Stepping out into the rain, Equilibrium was ready to raise hell on the scum of the city. Not literally, like D-Day, though. That was just freaky. Luckily for Angel, the only thing Sherlock and him had to deal with was a little maggot thing that tried to eat his face- anyways, time to get back to the mission at hand. Powering up the 'Pegasus' jump jets, he launched into the air, at a 45 degree angle, the thrust throwing him about a mile to the south. He hoped that the city was ready for yet another freak to change things.
