Nine months ago, the world was made aware that superhumans lived among them. But despite the rise of costumed heroism spawned by the arrival of the Metropolis Superman, this evolutionary leap forward attracted the attention of a powerful being: Darkseid, vanquisher of the New Gods. The Apokoliptian ruler sought to turn the superhumans into members of his own personal army in bringing the universe towards harmony.
Just three months ago, Darkseid's herald, The Silver Surfer, saw defeat at the combined hands of The Flash, The Spectacular Spider-Woman, The Blue Beetle, The Spirit Of Vengeance, interdimensional dopplegangers of The Fantastic Four, and most notably of all, The Mighty Thor. Revealed to have been a brainwashed Mr. Miracle, The Surfer was decommissioned and restored to his rightful self, signaling victory for the heroes of Earth.
But not all is as it seems. While Darkseid has seemingly cast his gaze away from Earth, a series of extreme threats look to destabilize it's already compromised state in the wake of percieved metahuman chaos.
Norman Osborn was the first to announce a superhuman deterrent in the form of a formidable robotic army, their designs fashioned off of the mythical Goblin.
Billionaire Lex Luthor followed suite with his latest discovery to the world in the form of the most advanced artificial intelligence on Earth, Brainiac, providing alien tech with direct access to the world's cellular networks under the guise of a harmless application.
In the highly corrupt Gotham City, the mob saw themselves upended by a devastating attack by Oswald Cobblepot, leading a superhuman group of his own and utilizing a mass extortion to render himself exempt from retaliation.
In reaction to The Flash's increased prescence as the protector of Central City, Leonard Snart and Mick Rory have began to formulate a team that whose sole purpose is to dispatch The Scarlet Speedstress and wreak havoc in their wake - The Rogues.
And most chillingly of all, in the remote mountains of Antartica, a powerful threat to all of humankind emerged from the cold - a twisted doppelganger of The Man of Steel from the home dimension of this earth's new Fantastic Four, wielding Kal-El's immense power with none of his moral constraints.
The heroes of Earth about about to be tested in unimaginable ways, as the rise of the superhero has now given way to the dawn of something that was only inevitable - the supervillain. Can Superman, Captain America's Avengers, The Batman, The Fantastic Four, The Flash, King Thor, and others bring order where the seeds of destruction are being sewn?
The answers lie with you. Welcome to Ultimate One Universe: Season Two.
Rules
This game takes place in a reality where the DC and Marvel superheroes exist simultaneously in a shared universe. The world as we know it has existed up until now, and nine months have gone by since the major heroes have been revealed. As a player, you can take up the role of any of these heroes in their beginning stages and work to build your own mythology, free of continuity constraints or legacies that have yet to be defined. Major multiplayer events will be handled sporadically by the GM at intervals, but participation is absolutely voluntary. A 'season' will conclude at the end of the specified MME, where you'll be allowed a time to wrap up your character's stories for the in-game period.
As such, given the vast amount of hero or anti-hero characters at your disposal, no original characters are to be permitted. And for the time being, pending the game's future, all outright villains are to be NPCs left to the discredition of the hero players. (The player playing Superman has control over his rogues gallery, Spider-Woman has the same, ect.) To use one of them, PMing the hero player for permission is required. In absence of one of those, say for a villain who has yet to receive a hero player (perhaps nobody applies for Green Lantern, but you want to use Sinestro), the game's GMs will decide. But be warned, the more central to a major character, the less likely the approval. Creativity is encouraged.
More importantly, be mindful of the setting. This is a 'Year One' style RP set in the year 2018. Characters like Superman, Spider-Woman, Batman, Captain America, and the like have only been around for a maximum of nine months and are still cutting their teeth. This is to build up a universe where it's possible to build friendships and rivalries between characters like Green Arrow and Iron Man from the beginning to make a thriving set of relationships from the start. So characters that you would logically associate in conjuction with a more experienced version of the character, such as Supergirl, Miles Morales' Spider-Man, Robin, and any of the Teen Titans are pretty much a guaranteed no-no for this season. In future seasons, that may be a different story. But just keep the fact that this is a universe where heroes still have to be established to inspire successors or legacy characters, even if continuity is fluid.
Other than that, pretty much only the standard Casual RP rules apply. You'll have to post once every two weeks to keep your character, otherwise it goes up for grabs. You can interact with anyone at your leisure or travel to anywhere within the multiverse (yes, multiverse), if it's within your character's means to do so. And most importantly, in this game, continuity bends to your will. Don't want to play a Blade who's half-vampire? Have your own story worked out for The Daywalker? That's acceptable. Just make it good, make it authentic as possible to the spirit of the initial creation, and put effort into how anyone in this world would become that character. And remember, the man or woman behind that mask or cape has to be a character from the comics - no workarounds.
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