Monsters and Men: A One Universe Comics Presentation

[AndyC]

Making Gojira part of the canonical timeline? Just when I thought there wasn't a way to tempt me into playing......

[HenryJonesJr]

Making Gojira part of the canonical timeline? Just when I thought there wasn't a way to tempt me into playing......

@AndyC

Yes. I have...plans for later.

[Byrd Man]

I got my app ready. Decided to pass up Marlowe for a bad guy.

[HenryJonesJr]

I got my app ready. Decided to pass up Marlowe for a bad guy.

@Byrd Man

Okay. I want to write up some more timeline stuff just to get stuff set.

Thinking I'll have the full thread up sometime this weekend. I've seen enough interest to at least give it a shot.

I also may or may not have 4-5 posts already written

[Byrd Man]

When I say bad guy, I don't mean a Cobra Commander type of bad guy. I mean... more along the lines of my type of bad guy.

[HenryJonesJr]

When I say bad guy, I don't mean a Cobra Commander type of bad guy. I mean... more along the lines of my type of bad guy.

@Byrd Man

I expect nothing else.

[mickilennial]

The possible idea:

My Hider

_{“Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night. The oldest of gods are invoked here. Great work of magic is sought. In this night and in this hour, I call upon the ancient power. Bring your powers to we sisters three. We want the power. Give us the power.”}

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Origin

The Charmed comics were published by Zenescope between 2010 and 2016. They were based upon the television show of the same name.

[HenryJonesJr]

Not that anyone is surprised...

Monsters and Men: A One Universe Comics Presenation

Leonardo/Raphael/Donatello/Michelangelo

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Powers And Abilities: The four brothers are mutated turtles, giving them anthropomorphic features and the size of humans. Their mutations has also given them enhanced strength, speed, agility, dexterity, endurance, and durability. Being turtles, they can spend significant time underwater without breathing and have incredibly hard shells.

Thanks to over a decade of training with Splinter, the four are masters of ninjutsu. They are exceptional hand-to-hand combatants, weapons experts, stealth masters, and tactically skilled.

Origin And Backstory (In A Maximum Of Four Paragraphs):

Supporting Characters:

• Hamato Clan
  
  • Splinter
  • April O'Neil
  • Casey Jones
  • Keno Cruz
• The Foot Clan
  
  • Oroku Saki, The Shredder
  • Oroku Pimiko
  • Oroku Karai
• The Purple Dragons
  
  • Arnold "Attila" Jones
  • Angel Bridge
  • Max Steranko
  • Geanaldo Anton
• Mighty Mutanimals
  
  • Old Hob
  • Alopex
  • Herman the Hermit Crab
  • Pigeon Pete
• TCRI
  
  • Doctor Jordan Perry
  • Doctor Baxter Stockman
• Null Cartel
  
  • Boss Null

Sample Post:

[Byrd Man]

App

Monsters and Men Application

Character You're Applying For: "Quarry "

Powers And Abilities:

No powers. Quarry is a trained assassin and army sniper who is an expert in shooting, hunting and tracking, and even investigation.

Origin And Backstory (In A Maximum Of Four Paragraphs):

A successful high school baseball athlete without the grades for college, or the skill for the pros, Quarry enlisted in the Marines after school and married his high school sweetheart, Jennie. Quarry soon signed on with special forces. He became a member of the Marine Corps Forces Recon unit just as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were heating up. He worked countless black operation across the two countries in the mid 2000's.

After waging war for so long, Quarry finally returned home for peace and could not find it. He was still haunted by the things he'd done in the Middle East and he longed for a return to that violent lifestyle. His disillusionment led to angst and his wife began to seek comfort elsewhere. When Quarry found out that his wife was cheating on him Quarry went to confront the man and killed him.

Quarry was in the process of disposing of the body when a man approached him. He simply called himself Broker and he was the the head of an organization that provided many black services for those in need. Broker said that he had been watching Quarry for a while and liked what he saw. He would make the body disappear if Quarry would come to work for him as an "independent contractor." Although she could never prove it, Quarry's wife suspected he had killed her lover and left.

Now, Quarry works as a hitman and muscle for hire in Broker's mysterious organization and, after years of work, is chaffing under the older man's strict rule.

Supporting Characters:

Broker -- Quarry's handler and head of a nationwide organization of assassins, drug dealers, and thieves.

Abby -- Broker's wife and currently Quarry's lover.

Boyd -- Quarry's assassin partner. Transgender woman.

Parker -- Thief and Quarry's associate.

Character Picture:



Sample Post:

Chicago
3:23 AM

Quarry cracked his knuckles and settled back into the seat of his car. Six hours into the stakeout and he began to settle in for a long haul. The house he was sitting on was a dump, a scorched husk of a building that someone torched years ago. It was the perfect place for squatters and people trying to lay low. Joe Sampson had led him here. Sampson, a mid-level drug dealer with the Chicago Outfit, had engaged Quarry for his services. A quartet of stick-up boys had been harassing Sampson’s men for almost a month, bootjacking drugs and cash and becoming a serious thorn in his side. It took Sampson a hot minute to figure out there was an inside man.

The inside man, Little Roy Lewis, was using the robberies to fund his own drug habit. When Joe found out, he’d called up Quarry and agreed to pay him to close out four accounts. A lot of guys who hired Quarry talked like that. They used vague words like ‘closing an account’ or ‘settling a debt.’ Quarry imagined it was because they didn’t want to use the word kill. It made it real if they said it, and guys like Sampson and all the others thought of themselves as being above it. And, Quarry figured, they kind of were. After all, they were hiring him weren’t they? He’d gotten on Little Roy’s trail that night and followed him across the Southside until he disappeared into the building. That had been a little after nine. And so he waited.

He waited until nearly forty thirty in the morning before he made his move. KGB time, they called it. The old Soviet secret police always committed their arrests and assassinations between four and five in the morning. It was the sweet spot where night was beginning to fade away, but morning was still not quite there yet. Even most night owls were soundly asleep by four AM.

Quarry slipped on a pair of surgical gloves and carried a Beretta with a suppressor attached to the end under his coat. He looped around the back of the building and came through a broken window, slow and quietly. Quarry pulled the gun out along with a flashlight covered in tape, emitting only a pin-sized light to use as a guide. He held his nose when he passed by three buckets that had been used as latrine. It took him ten minutes to find their stash tucked away in a baseboard near the fireplace. It was all inside a gym bag. At least two pounds of heroin wrapped in cellophane. Recovery was very rarely part of his job, but Sampson was willing to pay for it. Alongside the stash, Quarry found nearly twenty thousand in tens, twenties, and hundred dollar bills, and four machine pistols. Quarry tucked the money, dope, and guns into the satchel and slung it over his shoulder.

He slowly glided up the rickety stairs like a ghost. Muscle memory kicked in when he reached the landing where the crew was sleeping. Check the corners, clear the rooms, plan your escape, kill as soon as you have eyes on the target. Flashbacks went through his mind, killing a Bosnian national in the 90's with a sniper rifle, garroting an Al-Qaeda cutout in Iraq. Quarry didn’t believe in the stereotype of born killers, but he was a killer now thanks to Uncle Sam. Like a chunk of coal, the government had applied pressure and polished him up to turn him into a sparkly diamond of murderous potential.

The four guys were passed out on piss-stained mattresses. He kept the flashlight beam low and aimed. Recoil shot up his elbow as he fired off four quick shots. The rounds hissed through the room, four bullets exploding the four men's heads. He fired off four more to each man's heart to be sure he was dead before calmly walking out into the early morning air. Quarry tucked the gun into his coat and climbed into the car. He drove six blocks away before burying the gun in a trashcan, and six more blocks before he dumped his gloves in another trashcan.

[Enarr]

Do contemporary cave paintings count as indie comics?

[HenryJonesJr]

So here's some stuff I've been working on. Feel free to comment/add/critique...I could also post the alien races I already have planned out...but I don't want to get too ahead of myself.

Timeline of Monsters and Men

Thurian Age (Somewhere between 40,000 and 18,000BC): The time of Kull the Conqueror and Atlantis. At the end of this age, an unknown cataclysm nearly wipes out the human race. The force and violence of this event causes Atlantis and other nations to sink below the seas. Civilization is destroyed, and set back thousands of years.

Hyborian Age (circa 10,000BC): The time of Conan the Barbarian.

15th Century: The Sengoku Period rips through Japan, causing major upheaval. From the chaos, the ninja emerge, and no clan is more deadly or feared than the Foot Clan. Led by the so-called "Shuredda", they tear a warpath across the country in order to dominate it. Their power was crushed by the Tokugawa Shogunate, and they retreated into the shadows.

Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen protect the British Empire from fantastic threats. The League falls apart after using a biological weapon to stop a small alien invasion of Earth. The weapon also kills thousands of innocent people, killing all witnesses and causing members of the League to quit in disgust. The Crown then disbands the program.

World War II: Rasputin, the mad monk, attempts to bring the Ogdru Jahad into the world and spark off Armageddon. Instead, the demon now known as Hellboy is brought to Earth and adopted by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm. They go on to found the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, a clandestine group that protects the world from all manner of supernatural threats.

It is during this time that masked vigilantes and so-called superhumans are rumored to be operating in the United States. Some soldiers in the war claim to see men and women with amazing abilities fighting alongside them.

1954: A gigantic, radioactive creature wreaks havoc on Tokyo. The monster's strong radioactivity ensures no direct pictures are taken of the creature, but those taken from a distance show a great, monstrous shadow looming over the city. While the Japanese government and United Nations officials claim the destruction was caused by a weapons test gone wrong, survivors claim that it was the work of the legendary Gojira.

1970s: The United States government ceases covert use of vigilantes and metahumans in black ops missions and covert domestic operations. While vigilantism had always been considered illegal, the government was using its assets in order to complete missions they were not able to do. After one of the operatives went rogue, however, the government was forced to start punishing vigilantism more harshly.

1990s: Due to the rise in global terrorism, the United States and its allies create Global Initiative-Joint Operations Effort, or GI-JOE.

Organizations of Monsters and Men

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense: An organization founded after World War II in order to protect the world from supernatural threats. The Bureau answers to the United Nations Security Council, some of the few humans that know if its existence.

The Earth Protection Force: Also known as the "Men in Black", the EPF works in tandem with the BPRD in order to defend the planet from extraterrestrial threat. They are even more secretive than the Bureau, and fewer people know of their existence.

GI-JOE: A global strike team comprised of a select group of the most skilled soldiers on the planet.

The Foot Clan: A ninja clan that originally formed in the 15th century dedicated to their leader and conquest. After they were defeated by the Tokugawa Shogunate, they went back into the shadows. In the past 15 years there have been rumors of their reemergence.

[mattmanganon]

Would Ben 10 be allowed?

[HenryJonesJr]

Would Ben 10 be allowed?

@mattmanganon

As long as the CS is well thought out, I would be fine with it

[Mao Mao]

Well, if Ben 10's allowed. How about some Steven Universe??

[DocTachyon]

Goddamnit, this will turn into my Fusionfall game before Fusionfall gets off the ground.

[HenryJonesJr]

Sorry I’ve been MIA this weekend all. Way busier than I expected. Wanted to have the OOC up but idk if that’ll happen.

Well, if Ben 10's allowed. How about some Steven Universe??

@Star Lord

Here’s all I’ll say:

If you think you can make a property fit in a more realistic comic book universe setting, I’m not going to say you can’t try. I’m not saying I’ll approve anything. But I’m also not gonna say you can’t give it a shot

[mickilennial]

Goddamnit, this will turn into my Fusionfall game before Fusionfall gets off the ground.

@DocTachyon

I'll save my Utonium concept for your game, don't worry.

[Mao Mao]

You know what? I might save Steven Universe for FusionFall depending on what the GM says about my plans. In the case that my idea isn't approved, then I am planning for...

_{Or some other comic that gets my attention like Red Team or The Mercenary Sea.}

[mickilennial]

I'm going back and forth on three or four ideas. I feel like supernatural shenanigans will happen regardless.

[Red X]

Checking in.
My computer died last night. Hopefully I can get it fixed this weekend. Until then, I'm borrowing a roommate's computer here and there. Will post a CS when I can.