[OOC] A L T E R E D M I R R O R (High-Casual)

[Savato]

A L T E R E D M I R R O R

Overview

You are a test subject, and all you know when you awake is your code name. You wake up in a sort of amnesia state, as you can speak English fine and are knowledgeable of things that most humans would be, but knowledge of certain things may be dormant inside you. The reason being, you were made, not born. You are a genetically engineered human capable of doing extraordinary things with a wide variety of powers. The first person you will meet is Subject 001, and although you don't know much about him, it seems as though he is the one in charge of guiding you for the moment. Right now you have power-locking collars that can lessen and completely negate your powers at will, the people who made you controlling these collars, and these people are known as the ZAUD (Zion Augmented Unlimited Development). You were made as weapons, but for what purpose? As you explore the world you were created in, all will be revealed, and you will soon learn why you were created and what you must do as a scientifically-engineered super human.

Setting

You will be living in a secret underground facility, which will be your home and where you were made. So far you only know of this place, as the outside world is but a mystery to you.

The facility itself is inside a mountain, located on an island. It's about the size of Texas, although there is only one exit and entrance point into the mountain. Located on the south of the island, a single building stands, with transit tracks going in and out of it. Inside the building is the only way to get outside to the open world that is known. There is one train tunnel that leads to the loading bay, and one leading out, before snaking out into the small hut village on the water and other places hidden on the island.

Located under the entrance building is a small number of huts, which from the outside look abandoned, but hold the devices that cloak the entire island. These were put in place for assurance that the island would never be discovered, beyond the fact it's completely isolated. ZAUD personally flies in supplies to help sustain life on the island and delivers updated software for the machines located inside and outside of the building.

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Security Room

Leaving the loading dock, you enter the security room. It's the most heavily guarded obviously, but it also is the place that you have to enter to gain entrance into the mountain and out of the mountain. Located here, is the communications generator, responsible for allowing communication to the home land. It also holds the entire facilities power generator, well it's main one, the others are located outside, deep in the dangerous jungles of the island. The Security room is going to be the room needed to leave the escape the facility, if that were a thought.

Iron Maiden

Leading from the three doors of the security room, this room is practically directly after the door, seperated from a small corridor full of multiple rooms of the same kind, this is were the test subjects are made, healed, monitored, and also "disabled". The room itself is known by the test subjects as "The Iron Maiden" and it's the second most famous room of all of the facility.

Lockdown

The biggest area of the entire facility, it's known as Lockdown, and is what the Test Subjects see the most of all the area's in the facility. It not only has their living quarters (borderline cells, they hold rooms of two), but they also have their library and study hall (However there is no classes, test subjects are allowed time to research their own powers, the outside world and simple reading books) fitted with artificial outside environment lighting. It also has their training rooms and the lunch hall.

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CS Skeleton

[b]Name:[/b] (Subject ### and a nickname, can be a real name or not, just something that your character responds to and identifies as)

[b]Appearance:[/b] (A picture in the anime style and a description is optional)

[b]Age:[/b]

[b]Height/Weight:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]Powers/Weaknesses:[/b]

[b]Other:[/b] (PUT YA THEME SONG HERE!)

Uniform

Control collar

Roster

332 - Parkinson
123 - Boomi
143 - Reina
313 - GHOST
626 - Hal
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Rules

■ 1: The GM's have the final say in this roleplay, and we will work together to solve problems and create solutions that accommodate to all. If you do not agree with us or have any issues contact one of us, and if problems continue to arise, we may ask you to leave.

■ 2: Romance is allowed and a great part of many Roleplays, but we ask that you keep it PG-13 and take it to PM if you must.

■ 3: As far as swearing goes, profane language is allowed, just nothing extremely grotesque or creepy.

■ 4: For your character to be shown on the roster you must post your character in the OOC or PM it to one of the GM's and we will either accept or deny your character. Upon accepting, you may put your character into the characters section and we will put your character on the official roster.

■ 5: Please no metagaming or powerplay, your characters will only be accepted if they are made fairly and you must continue to play them fairly in order to keep a friendly and happy roleplaying experience. Your characters can be powerful but please be creative and courteous.

■ 6: There is no posting order, and we encourage being active, but please don't post severely often and get way far ahead of everyone. If you must, do a collab or take it to PM so we don't have to read for days. Also, if you are not so active we will try to accommodate and control your character if need be, but if your absence becomes an issue we will talk to you and we may ask you to leave.

■ 7: Have fun, enjoy yourselves, and don't be a dick. We all do this because we enjoy it and we want to have fun. IC, be an asshole if you wish. But in OOC please be respectful to your fellow role players and GM's.

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Subject 001 - The Leader

Codename: Subject 001 "Hercules"

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Personality: Subject 001 is a natural-made leader, and as the first subject made it has been his job to guide other subjects to use their powers and train them. He is a kind a caring person, always offering help and guidance, but he's not a total pushover. He can be strict at times, command with authority, but he is certainly not a dictator. 001 follows the rules for the most part, keeping the organization happy, but he always puts his team first. Always wanting to show off and the best, for some reason he spends most of his time working out at the gym facility (Although reading on, he hardly needs to). Overall he's a true perfectionist. _{secret dark side tho}

Powers/Weaknesses: Superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, senses, and a healing factor. Hercules got his name for a reason. Now he may not be as strong as Superman, as fast as the Flash, the reflexes of Spider-Man, or the healing factor of Deadpool... But he certainly tries to get close. He's literally a super human, he does basically the feats of any normal human being... but 1000x better. Stronger, faster, more durable, can run a marathon and not break a sweat, catch an arrow shot at him and has excptional sight and hearing. A bullet may give him a slight bruise, and he can heal a cut off arm in less than a day. And for these abilities, he is given the name of the Demi-God Hercules of Greek mythology, who would perform feats of strength and heroism unmatched. He's not a god, just god-like.

Hercules

[Savato]

@Keksalot@Kimchi@Superman@Rune_Alchemist@silvermist1116@WanderingSpirit@karamonnom

Welcome guys!

[Rune_Alchemist]

Subject 636; 'Audiophile'

Appearance:


"Call me Audio. Awesome, ain't it? Came up with it myself."

Name:
Subject 636
Prefers the name 'Audio' or a less shortened version of it, 'Audiophile'

"Hot stuff, ain't I? Now quit drooling and make yourself useful, fuckface."

Appearance:
The Subject known as 'Echo' weighs approximately 124lbs, and stands at roughly five foot six. She has short cut black hair, with bright blue colored eyes. She has a fairly pale complexion, and a slender frame though it has obvious muscle on it. It's fairly evident she at least takes some care of her body.

"Nineteen, I guess. What does it matter? I can kick your ass regardless."

Age:
19

"Meh, last time I checked I was five six and hundred twenty four. Like I give a shit about how much I weigh."
Height/Weight:
5'6"(170cm)/124lbs(56kg)

"People tell me I'm an ass. I say, my ass is 100% fine and they're just jealous."

Personality:
To say the one known as Audio has personality issues is an understatement. Easily angered, annoyed, and a fairly short tempered should someone mess with her. She'd really rather just not deal with people and the constant scowl she gives most people tends to accentuate that fact. She really doesn't like people, especially the chucklefucks that are overly friendly and try to 'befriend' her. Needless to say, the rest of her behavoir is basically her being a sarcastic, cynical, ass.

That said, she's not an entirely terrible person. You leave her alone, she'll leave you alone. She doesn't actively seek trouble, but she's not going to back down from a challenge of some sort, and if someone annoys her they will know. She takes great enjoyment in fighting, explosions, and other similar things. Because of this, she'll often forgo any sort of diplomatic or peaceful solution and unleash her special brand of asskickery on people.

Despite her hotheadedness and jump in before thinking about the consequences type behavoir, she's surprisingly logical. At least, she doesn't always jump in without a plan of some sort, even if the plan is somewhat half-baked and she wings half of it. Fairly observant, thanks to her enhanced hearing and can easily hear and see things other people can't. She also works surprisingly well in a team, as long as said team members don't fuck up with whatever they're told to do, and leave her alone when she's working on her thing.

And if one manages to go through the trouble of befriending her, well, she might as well be described as becoming a 'total bro' in that case. To her friends, or people she likes in her little circle, she'd pretty much do anything for. That's not saying she's not gonna be a cynical smart ass, but if you ask her to do something for ya, she'd probably say yes, and while she isn't really the best at verbal support, she'll listen to you all day if it'll make ya feel better. Of course, any advice she gives will be similar to 'kicking its ass until it's not a problem'. Her friends, are likely also the only people who could stop her from doing something incredibly stupid as well.

Powers/Weaknesses:
"PPfffft, did you see that? His body went 'pffffffblllt' when he slammed into that wall. I'ma do it again. That shit was funny."

Powers

Power/Weakness:
Audiokinesis

Description:
Simply put, manipulation of Soundwaves, or rather 'pressure waves', and the effect that humans hear as a result is called 'sound'. Obviously, this ability has the potential to be incredibly devastating and destructive if used in the right manner, and could be very deadly in any scenario. Thankfully, she's not very skilled at using the ability to its fullest at the moment, but she intends to change that.

As far as she goes, she's only able to use the pressure waves generated from her own body and power as a weapon.

Current Abilities:
Enhanced Hearing:
Simple as it sounds. She has incredibly good hearing, making whispering in her vicinity effectively useless. Its good enough to be able to tell how many people are in a room simply by how they breathe, movements, and things like that.

Silent Steps:
She is able to effectively make herself move silently by nullifying any sound that comes from her body. She has to consciously use the effect, though.

Boom Fist:
The most common use of her abilities at the moment, is simply using her arms, feet, and other appendages to send out powerful pressure waves towards a target. The closer the person is, the more damage they will take from it. It tends to be quite effective in knocking people over, if not killing them outright from blunt force trauma from getting thrown by the blast.

I can talk really loud:
As its name might suggest, is capable of a very, very, loud voice. Not really used in combat much, and more to intimidate or get peoples attention if she has too. In combat though, its basically a sonic scream attack.

Various other acrobatic applications, such as jumping higher, or using the sound waves to move fairly quickly.

Weaknesses/Limitations:
Come closer, coward:
All of her abilities, are directional. Meaning, they can easily be avoided simply by dodging to the side. Of course, they fan outwards from the source (her) but they become much less devastating the further one away is from her and lose their effectiveness. An Omnidirectional attack is of course, possible, but it is currently incredibly draining and probably isn't worth her time to try since it would likely be fairly weak.

Loud noises annoy me:
She is also very susceptible to loud, sudden, sounds. They will easily disorient/stun her should she be unprepared for something like it.

Range Fighting ain't my forte:
She can't just snap her fingers and make an explosion of sound at a distance. The pressure/sound waves have to come from her body.

Get yo crap noise out of here:
Likewise, she can't take sound/pressure waves from other sources and use them. Meaning, she can only use sound she generates.

Other:
-Is in fact, a total nerd for some reason.

Theme

General fight theme and stuffs

@Savato@Superman@karamonnom
Annnd there she is. Made a few changes, and explained her powers a bit more but more or less the same~

[silvermist1116]

@Savato Here's my character.

[Keksalot]

This is edgy as fuck i know don't kick please i'm fucking trash for enjoying that kind of chars sorry

Ψ

Appearance:(Might change)

Codename:Subject Ψ

Age:7(Drastically Accelerated Growth)

Gender:Male

Height:193

Weight:63

Personality:As cliched and boring as it sounds, Ψ actually is not a human - inside of an only slightly elongated skull, beneath the pale visage, in the depths of smiling green eyes hides something completely alien to the human mind. It was never exposed to any sort of society or really meaningful social interactions, yet it developed a complete semblance of sentience and conscious thought mere years after coming to life in a highly expensive test tube, all on it's own, and it quite unnerved the personell - an even greater mystery is how exactly did it manage to learn english. Ψ is by no means malevolent or evil - not anymore so than any run-of-the-mill high-functioning sociopath who does not feel any sort of obligation to follow the widely accepted norms and does it only out of convenience and to ensure his own safety. Ψ's main motivation at the moment is to make it so that his prolonged existence can't be stopped by anyone except himself - as such, escaping the facility is paramount, though between the attempts he attempts to remain at the best possible terms with his creators and researches, being friendly to the best of his abilities, and cooperating with the personell.

Power/Weakness: Ψ's murderous ability, responsible for seven containment breaches and innumerable casualties, is as crude as it is effective - the effect is dubbed "Explosive Teleportation". Cells of Ψ's body, especially his brain, constantly generate an unbelievable field of quantum instability that allow him to essentially be in many points of space at once - however, without at least a slight effort, subconscious or otherwise, Ψ is tethered to the place at which his existence is most probable, which is why he CAN be contained at all. Whenever it is needed, however, the field agitates the fabric of reality and, faster than in a blink of an eye, without any buildup, special effects or strange sounds, Ψ just ceases to exist in one point and at the same time appears in the another. What makes this already potent power a truly horrible force, however, is the fact that objects and materials at the destination point of the teleportation do not just change places with Ψ or cease to be - no, instead they are extremely, EXTREMELY violently displaced in the direction and vector of his choosing. Whenever he teleports into a wall or even free space, the volume of rock, air or metal equal to the volume of his body is pushed away from it's previous place of existence with extreme and violent force - and Ψ can effectively control the shape and direction in which all this material will be shot out. It is possible to concentrate all of the displaced material into an very thin 'ray' that will be utterly terrifying in it's penetrating power or force it to be expelled in an explosion all around him, take shape of a cone, etc-etc-etc - during his first containment breach, Ψ used this ability as a way to mine his way out ot he chamber, by progressively, bit-by-bit teleporting further into the wall and expelling the displaced material forwards to crush and chip it further. Of course, the ability can also be used on living targets, with obvious gruesome and almost hopelessly fatal effects - how would you like to have a fist-sized object to teleport inside your skull and force an equal volume of your brain matter outside of it?
Luckily, the power is not utterly undeniable and has it's weaknesses - first of all, the effect for some reason can't displace or teleport him through or into especially large volumes of dense materials. While he can, thank to his inhuman reaction times, manage to teleport into the bullets fired at him and then expel them back at the enemy, anymore lead than what a bullet contains is anathema to his power. Ψ's containment chamber is lined with a thick layer of lead and osmium, just like the protective gear of his guards - bulky, heavy, power-assisted carapaces of hyperdense armour that has lead chainmail on joints instead of cloth - Ψ was known to counter less heavily-armoured enemies by teleporting near them so that only his fingers or some other small part of his body will be teleported into the unprotected joint of the person or the glass or plastic visor of their helmet - so now these too, are only made using leaded glass.

Additionally, the power depends heavily on Ψ's perfect eyesight and understanding of perspective and distance - first, it was proposed to simply keep it in pitch blackness, but that plan resulted in a containment breach after Ψ developed darkvision. Now, he is always kept in a remote-operated and utterly untransparent blinding device when not participating in carefully controlled testing or not locked into his habitat. Basically, whenever he is not remaining in a completely sealed-off room with all walls and observation glasses being lead/osmium-lined, Ψ is rendered blind - the shutters of his containment helmet close at the push of a button a minute before the door into his habitat is going to open so that food or test subjects/objects can be brought inside and while on tests, the shutters of his helmet are manipulated so that he only has a specific angle of vision and is unable to teleport somewhere he is not wanted in. As a side effect which can also be used to get the upper hand over the test subject, such treatment made his eyes especially sensitive to light - bright flashes(not even flashbangs but something much less powerful)and lights daze and temporarily blind him.

Ah, and of course, the power works on Ψ's body and body only - so he spends most of his time naked, or, during the containment breaches, covered in warm vital fluids.

Other:(Looking for a theme.)

[Dion]

@Savato Let me know when a spot opens up for your favorite Dutch friend, or otherwise I'll be forced to remove you from my friends list. :(

[Savato]

@Rune_Alchemist Most of it is good. There aren't any actual WEAKNESSES cited though. The first one is formulated as if it's more of a strength or slight limitation than anything else. The sudden loud noises seems to be irrelevant in a fight as well, considering she'll be spamming sounds all the time. Seems only efficient as a one trick pony sucker punch.

As is, she doesn't seem to have much of a weakness. Well actually, wouldn't her powers be severely weakened in water, or even when exposed to violent wind currents? Would make more tangible weaknesses that make sense.

@silvermist1116 There's nothing inherently wrong with your character. Though I don't think she'll be seeing demons in this universe. Seeing dead people though? Go for it.

Fix that pic.

Is she a girl though? As in does she have a vagina or is she completely absent of any genitals? If she pulls a 'I identify as x gender' though, she'll be in for a treat considering the rather grumpy/snarky cast.

@Keksalot Alright, let's fix the narrative real quick: There have been multiple 'versions' of this creepy rascal, and this one technically never escaped. It CAN have certain memories of such events, but the current specimen is barely a second old (the age second is generally for humans, to determine their biological age, they're all newborns however).

I think it's common sense that I say NO to an insta-SBOOOM on a living being. It essentially makes him unstoppable to those unprepared.

Anyway, I do like his ability, but it does need a little more work in the weakness department. First off, the Kyptonite weakness, while good to know, is not only too specific (and scarce given the characters aren't exactly loaded with resources) but also barely relevant considering how open ended and lethal this guy is. For this 'weakness' to work, all matter he could potentially employ as a weapon would have to be at least merged with lead or osmium. That's ... Never going to happen.

So now we have a teleporter, meaning he can essentially dodge anything, with Accelerator's power, which is widely regarded as absurdly OP. Now of course, everyone has the potential to be OP here, my character being a prime example. But I highly suggest you tone down the power levels here. Give a cooldown for teleports and quite prominent blacklashes.

Also yes he's edgy, so 'Wake me up inside' must be his theme.

Honestly, I don't want you to change his power, or his design, it's really cool even if it derives from what he initially expected. But as it is now, it's wayyyy too much. Even unlimited teleportation alone can prove to be too OP at times.

[Savato]

@Buddha u faglord, i'll give you a spot when it opens, trying to see how it goes with this size first, k? k

I'll probably let you in eventually. 'Cause I know you're consistent and good. But let's see how this goes first.

[Dion]

@Savato If anyone doesn't show up in the OOC, I could take a spot, but otherwise it's your call buddy pal.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Rune_Alchemist Most of it is good. There aren't any actual WEAKNESSES cited though. The first one is formulated as if it's more of a strength or slight limitation than anything else. The sudden loud noises seems to be irrelevant in a fight as well, considering she'll be spamming sounds all the time. Seems only efficient as a one trick pony sucker punch.

As is, she doesn't seem to have much of a weakness. Well actually, wouldn't her powers be severely weakened in water, or even when exposed to violent wind currents? Would make more tangible weaknesses that make sense.

@Savato

Well, yes, obviously anything that hinders sound/pressure waves would also make her abilities less than effective. Apologies for not putting that in there, I can be rather forgetful when it comes to putting weaknesses in a CS until they become relevant ICly, since it's hard to think about every scenario possible when making a character and their abilities.

As for the first thing - we'll have to disagree there. Perhaps I simply didn't explain it well enough in the CS. Her effective range at the start of the RP would likely be somewhere around....five yards or so? maybe a bit more, depending just how much energy she puts into the attack. This means that she's at a fairly bad disadvantage against someone who has ranged abilities. Plus, since they're more or less directional unless she makes them otherwise, all one would have to do is wait for her to attack, dodge it and get in close before she can get another one off - give her a decent slam on the noggin and she's probably gonna go down. Not that hard to do, since her attacks probably will have a bit of a charge up time equivalent to just how much power she's putting in them. (probably should add that too, now that I think about it)

She can't exactly take a whole lot of punishment herself either, considering she is more or less human, and since she's not exactly some martial artist, she can't defend herself at close range all that well without her abilities.

Secondly:
As for the loud noise thing - she's not omnipotent. She has good ears, but she can't be aware of everything around her 24/7 unless she focuses, like, a lot. It'd be something she used before a fight to get a bead on where people are. During a fight, its not something she can use on a whim that much. And when I say disorient her, I mean a severe case of vertigo. She's basically gonna not be able to do anything for around ten-fifteen seconds, maybe longer while she tries to reorient herself. She might just get knocked out right off the bat if its something bad enough.

Obviously, in a fight that's basically gonna mean she's done for. All someone would have to do is then restrain her, and boom, she's basically done. Kaput.

Now, it's not gonna be something that works repeatedly in a single fight probably. If they miss their chance once in a fight, it means its probably gonna have a low chance of working again, since she'd be royally pissed by then and go after the chucklefuck who tried it xP

However, in subsequent scuffles I don't see how it wouldn't be effective. She can't predict the future/what people are going to do. She could expect them to do something like it, but unless its like, in the exact same manner as before then I don't see why it wouldn't work. In fact, they could use her expecting them to try it to their advantage and do something else completely.

[Savato]

@Rune_Alchemist The first part of said part isn't a weakness. Or a limitation. Saying 'simply dodge', even if it's easy, is something applicable to anything that doesn't have the characteristic of 'unavoidable'. I was referring more to that.

But yeah, that's a fair point. Abusing range can be a decent exploit indeed. She's close range, obviously long range will have certain advantages if they exploit that limit. Anyway the point concerned the first portion more than this one.

Human limits aren't a weakness or even a genuine limitation, just fyi for everyone. Unless your character's power it to specifically be superhuman/whatever, everyone is bound to the same limitations, more or less.

Second point -

Oh so it's 15 seconds of helplessness after a one trick pony ambush. I assume she can just talk louder than any sound they'd make if she were somewhat aware of it, though. Unless she's dumb.

Yeah the absurdly long stun time kind of makes this relevant. Love dem details. I assumed it was just her losing her shit a few seconds like that ugly version of Venom in that spiderman movie. The title of the weakness kind of downplayed it o; o; o;

[Keksalot]

@Savato
Okay, chief!
So,
1 - No teleporting into living matter, at least not yet (Manton limit gets to me even outside of Worm-verse, dang)
2 - After a dozen or so of successive teleportations guy gets really dizzy, bleeds from the pores and needs some time to regain his bearings and stop his teeth from escaping out of the head.
3 - Only SOMETIMES fast enough to aimdodge an already-fired bullet.
Plus something else of which I am yet to think.

[Keksalot]

Also here's the alpha-version of the theme. Both edgy and full of mostly unjustified self-gratification.

And they scatter, trying to get away
But they will meet the end today
Cuz ain't no way that they ever had
A chance to contend with me
Cuz see, I kill 'em all I K-K-Kill 'em all
It's either me or them
And my blood ain't bout to spill at all

[Savato]

Pfff, this is his one and only theme and amv, change his avatar to this guy too.

Oh yeah, Echo's difficulty at choosing a definite name is accepted btw.

I recommend also giving some cooldown after each teleport. If you go full Accelerator in one second on six different spots at once, it still makes him absurdly broken. Plus invulnerable until he reaches that limit.

And no, he'll never do that to living beings, otherwise he'll one shot every character effortlessly. That's no fun!

[Keksalot]

Never. The worst i will agree on is "crawling in my skin".
I'll rewrite the charsheet to include more thought-out weaknesses tomorrow, gonna go sleep soon.

>And no, he'll never do that to living beings
Aw-w-w, but then i can't do REALLY edgy and messy things. Can i later-on at least develop an ability to phase-teleport my hands into a living being that i touch at the moment through really arduous concentration and effort?

[silvermist1116]

The image doesn't want to stay, so I added the link instead.

[Kimchi]

Yass is finally up (/^▽^)/

[WanderingSpirit]

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[Superman]

I'm going to give one piece of advice for you all. Keep in mind, for your characters, that the first time they will ever be alive is at the beginning of the roleplay. There literally is nothing before that, so you cannot write about past experiences. They obviously have a set personality and powers, but besides that, they literally have little to no back story. Also, the power restraining device for every single character will be the collar shown in the OOC intro post. It has the capabilities to negate all powers when in effect, and has the ability to give more access to power or take it away by the controller. So there is no need for any special devices to negate powers as the collar is simplistic and 100% effective. There may be external weaknesses that may negate said powers, but the facility only needs to use the collar on you basically.

That should help when it comes to making and editing characters ^.^

[silvermist1116]

Since there were "issues" with my character I made changes. I'm not changing it again. What you see is what you get.