[OOC] Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

[The Fair Lady]

It gave me a tummy ache when I ate some bad sea food as a kid when we were visiting the east coast. :(

[Dedonus]

The Fair Lady said
It gave me a tummy ache when I ate some bad sea food as a kid when we were visiting the east coast. :(

[sarcasm] That's a great reason to destroy a city and remake it in one's image. [/sarcasm]

[Gowi]

Been slacking on Marcus; am I missing something big? =o

[Dedonus]

Gowi said
Been slacking on Marcus; am I missing something big? =o

If you consider Little Ulster (Mini Detroit in Lost Haven) getting a make over and Newark, New Jersey about ready to get one... ;)

[Hound55]

Never really considered Little Ulster as mini-Detroit, myself. Sure there was crime there and it wasn't the best neighbourhood (in fact probably the worst of the 4 quadrants), but I viewed it as a once-fine sector which has seen better days because of that crime. Saw old Irish family crime gangs (kind of like in The Departed only a little grittier, in my head)

Not expecting to hold anyone to that view though.

Plus, in my mind as an outsider I virtually see Detroit as a war zone... heh.

[Gowi]

Getting a makeover? What what?

...and believe me BEING from the Detroit area, it is kind of a mess. But I viewed more as Little Ulster as a mini-Boston if anything with more immigrants from Wales, Ireland, and Scotland making up it's history.

[Hound55]

Little Ulster was part of Mercy's Instant Urban Renewal Makeover reality tv show. Only problem is, they forgot the cameras and there's no "Take 2".

[Gowi]

So the ghettos got shinier? You guys need to PM me when things effect my HOMEBASE.

=(

[Hound55]

Gowi said
But I viewed more as Little Ulster as a mini-Boston if anything with more immigrants from Wales, Ireland, and Scotland making up it's history.

Same. Only a bit more under the weather from crime, only not to Detroit levels.

[Hound55]

Anyway. I'm on the Chat now and working on posts. If anyone wants to talk through recent events.

[Dedonus]

Little Ulster = / = Little Detroit

I thought one post said that it was? I would have to check the IC.

Edit: Oh, I miss read the IC. It said "New Detroit", not "Little Detroit".

[nitemare shape]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that we're expecting a pretty big storm tomorrow and may lose power. Hopefully, the lucky trend that I've had continues, and we don't lose power. But I wanted to let you all know, just in case

[Dedonus]

Iron Knight post up. Also, I might try to write up a summary of my posts and place them in my character applications for future use by both me and others.

[nitemare shape]

Dedonus, sorry for the delay, lost service for a bit last night. I'll be getting that post up soon

[Dedonus]

nitemare shape said
Dedonus, sorry for the delay, lost service for a bit last night. I'll be getting that post up soon

No problem.

[Dedonus]

Raptor Summary

Raptor

(Note: Until noted again, these posts are 5 months prior to the start of the RP)

1 – Zac and Kelly plan on spending a portion of their summer break at Zac’s house in Timber Falls. Kelly meets Zac’s parents for the first time. Zac’s father, Robert, leaves to investigate some unusual activities at a neighbor’s farm.

2 – Zac’s dad discovers evidence that a small theropod had attacked his neighbor’s chickens. Meanwhile, Zac and Kelly relax near the local lake. While they were resting on an offshore island, they are both kidnapped.

3 – Zac’s dad discovers a Rafflesia flower and a small theropod in the woods near their neighbor’s property. He sends the neighbor back for help. Meanwhile, Zac wakes up back on the mainland, unaware of what had happened since Kelly and he swam to the island in the lake. He also discovers his powers (speed, claws, tail). Zac discovers his father, mortally wounded, but victorious over the theropod dinosaur. After discovering a hidden door below the Rafflesia flower, Zac retreats inside the door when he hears people coming in response to Zac’s dad’s request for help. Within the room he had just entered by means of the hidden door, Zac discovered that Kelly had been transformed into a human-wasp hybrid.

4 – Zac saved himself and Kelly from a booby-trapped explosion inside the hidden chamber. Zac gives Kelly the cold shoulder due to her appearance (note that wasps terrify Zac). After they return to Zac’s house, they change their clothes and head to bed, although Kelly forces him to sleep in the same room with her. Before they go to bed, Zac sees Kelly’s appearance for the first time while there was light and he was kind of freaked out. However, Kelly gives a small speech about how she’s the same girl he knew before this happened and that what’s on the inside counts. Once they fall to sleep, Zac has a dream in which Kelly stings him. When the dream causes him to wake up, he feels Kelly’s wasp abdomen strike his foot, making him believe that she stung him. After a short argument, Kelly storms out, breaking Zac’s bedroom door in the process. The next morning, Zac sees a note from his mother about his father’s critical health. When he answers the front door, Zac is hit with knockout gas and is carried away by the same people who made him into a meta-human.

5 – By using an old man named Tiresias, Zac’s captors send Zac into the dream of Tiresias’ child-guide (since Tiresias is blind). The purpose of this is to find something that will stabilize the formula that they created to allow people become meta-humans. Zac wakes up on an operating table, freaks out, and runs out of the room. Due to his speed, Zac accidentally crashes through a window, falling to the ground and acquiring a few cuts and bruises. He meets his “Dreamverse” self, who clears up that a shard of glass wounded his foot (in post three, he stepped on some glass), not Kelly’s barb. Also, Zac learned that the formula in his bloodstream had been stabilized with a correct version from the “Dreamverse”. Zac feels bad that he blamed Kelly for the wound and is determined to get back to her, but first his “Dreamverse” self takes him to the infirmary to be healed.

6 – “Dreamverse” Zac shows our Zac around the facilities that belongs to the super-hero league of which “Dreamverse” Zac is a member. They watch Aubrey, a meta-human who has a drider-like appearance and spider powers, practice in their version of the “Danger Room”. After her session was completed, “Dreamverse” Zac asks Aubrey to help our Zac learn a few tips in “Super-Heroes 101. Aubrey doesn’t think it is a good idea because of the “Time-Space Continuum” thing. However, Tiresias (post 5) pulls our Zac back into our world, which also causes Aubrey to come too. Before Zac could return to our reality, he had to undergo a test similar to the cup test in The Last Crusade. He picks the Gate of Thorns over the Gate of Ivory, selecting the correct gate, which allows him to return to our reality. When they return to our reality, Aubrey owns all the men who had captured Zac (and Tiresias), gives Zac a power-nullifying band, and changes into her civilian clothes.

7 – Zac and Aubrey makes some small talk while they walk to Zac’s house. Aubrey is unable to provide Zac any advice on how to get over Kelly’s “mutation” since in the “Dreamverse”, their Kelly switched powers with a super-villainess. Therefore, the “Dreamverse” Zac never needed to overcome his fears of wasps. When they both get to Zac’s house, Zac’s mother starts to yell at Zac for being missing; however, Aubrey defuses the situation, saying that Zac was just trying to find someone who could help Kelly’s condition (although Zac’s parents don’t know what’s wrong with Kelly because she won’t let anyone in her room). Aubrey uses the Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax to explain her “disease”, which perfectly satisfies Zac’s mother. When Aubrey and Zac enter Kelly’s room, they find that her health has already started to deteriorate. Also, Kelly is offended that Zac had left her alone in her parents’ house in her condition and brought another girl along with him (although Aubrey claims to be happily married and loyal to her husband). After Zac tries to prove he still cares about her by kissing her and after they decide the only solution to Kelly’s condition was a blood transfusion from Aubrey, Zac and Aubrey carry Kelly, who is wrapped up in sheets, out of the house and they start their journey to Albany where they can privately perform a blood transfusion.

8 – As Aubrey, Kelly, and Zac drove down towards Albany, massive tension grew between Aubrey and Kelly (although it was mainly caused by Kelly). During the car ride, Kelly accuses Aubrey of working in the “adult” oriented modeling because of Aubrey’s comic book physique. Furthermore, Kelly freaks out when Aubrey reveals that she knows that Kelly desires to become a nurse (Aubrey knows because their universes are similar enough that they would have made similar career choices). Kelly even gets sassy with Zac when she remembers that he still has not revealed where he was and how did he regain his human form, which prompted Zac throwing back the wristband. While Kelly is amazed at how well the band worked, she still does not believe the alternate universe explanation. Kelly’s confrontational mood placed her in the doghouse (metaphorically speaking), making it feel like she should not talk anymore lest she get on Zac’s nerves even more. When they stopped at a rest stop, Kelly confronts Aubrey, asking her to stay away from her boyfriend because she really needs him now so that she can come to terms with her appearance. However, Aubrey continues to tell Kelly that she has no intentions of “stealing” her boyfriend.

9 – Kelly performs the blood transfusion between herself and Aubrey. While she does this (although Aubrey is not aware of it), they talk a little bit about their powers. Kelly is at first surprised by Aubrey’s appearance, not realizing they were telling the truth. When Kelly asks about what is the purpose of their powers, Aubrey replies that they are God given gifts that have some purpose, whether they are obvious or obscure. Furthermore, Aubrey defends her crime-fighting career because the other two roles she could play (donating her miracle blood and her spider-silk) would demean her to the level of a cow being milked for her resources. After Kelly received the blood transfusion, her health miraculously improved.

Later, the three of them were watching TV in Zac and Kelly’s living room. After discovering her old Facebook password works, Aubrey browses through her alternate-self’s Facebook account and has a brief conversation with the alternate-self of her husband via IM. Afterwards, Aubrey leaves in order to get all of them something for dinner. While she is out, Kelly and Zac become determined that each of them can work harder at their relationship and work with one another to get over their new physiques. Then they see on the news that Aubrey had stopped a robbery at the grocery store where she was heading to get them dinner. However, during an interview, a reporter asked an awkward question about whether Aubrey has implants or not (Aubrey says no). When Aubrey returned (she got take-out Chinese instead), she defended the differences between herself and her alternate-self by saying that weird stuff happens in a comic book universe. Then Tiresias appears at their door, sends Aubrey back from whence she came, and told Kelly and Zac not to look for him again because his remaining time on this earth would be short.

(From this point on, these posts are concurrent with the rest of the roleplay posts)

10 – Over the last five months, nothing bad had happened to either Zac or Kelly. They have even became more accepting of their new physiques through “at-home” dinner dates where they would not wear the power nullifying wristbands. However, during mid-January, the Albany State College football program became under investigation by the NCAA for illegal participation by meta-humans. While Zac is not worried because he has not used his powers on the field, he wonders what prompted the investigation. When he gets back to his apartment, he finds Kelly sitting in their shower (dressed of course), depressed that some idiot posted a YouTube video of some of her fellow nursing students clipping off her wristband, revealing her true appearance to the world. Zac offers to watch a movie with her so that she could get her mind off her troubles. This appears to work, and Zac even tries to duct tape the wristband back together, which now only reverted some of her appearance back to normal. However, suddenly they are struck with a smoke grenade and knocked unconscious.

11 – Zac wakes up to a blast of cold water. He discovers that Kelly and he are in a warehouse that was on fire and they have four elemental-powered captors, dressed in black paramilitary attire (“men-in-black”). When Kelly wakes up, she complains about how it is sexist for her to be the only person wearing a leotard. While the four “men-in-black” argue over how they should finish Zac and Kelly, Zac and Kelly attempt to sneak away. Bruno (Earth-element) notices this and charges at them. He misses Zac (who dodges him), but bulldozered Kelly. The other “men-in-black” ridicule Zac for letting his girlfriend take the hit. However, Kelly emerges from the mess Bruno made since she had stung him with her wasp barb. In response to this, the Fire-elemental “man-in-black” shot a fire blast at Kelly, but by means of Zac’s speed, she avoids it.

12 – Icon crashes the party, descending through the roof. However, the “men-in-black” attempt to convince Icon that they are the victims and Zac and Kelly are the true monsters here. They point to Zac’s aggressiveness (he draws his raptor claws) and how Kelly knocked out Bruno (although they claim she killed her). Zac calls the “man-in-black” a liar, and Kelly is totally freaked out by the murder accusation since Icon could easily pulverize either Zac or Kelly.

Completed as of February 10th, 2014.

Trade Paper Backs
The Raptor: Metamorphosis - Issues 1-9 - Origin Story
The Raptor: Limelight - Issues 10-X, crossover with Icon - Adventure in Lost Haven
The Raptor: Misunderstandings - Issues X-Y, crossover with Iron Knight - Crossover Event
The Raptor: Bloodlines - Issues X-Y
The Raptor: Divine Fate - Issues X-Y
(Issues = posts)

[Hound55]

Good stuff. I'm loving what's going on so far, guys.

[nitemare shape]

I've started a post, but I had some personal drama come up tonight which ended up leaving me feeling less than creative. I'll finish it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay

[nitemare shape]

OK...sorry for the delay, I wasn't feeling all that well and ended up sleeping most of the day. Finishing up the post now, it should be up in just a few minutes

[nitemare shape]

Finally posted. Far from my best, and I apologize for that. Been a rough couple of days