[OOC] Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

[Hound55]

What would I be without broken image links?

[Lord Wraith]

What would I be without broken image links?

@Hound55

H O N O R A B L E

[mickilennial]

...this is not the way to keep me writing Blue Beetle.

@Hound55

Well, I'm also liking these corporate board room-type rp posts, if that helps any.

[Admiral Moskau]

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Well, no pressure.

@The Bork Lazer

I've already implemented a review system for any of your future posts, so yeah, no pressure.

The latest post gets:

Latest Review

5/5 Party Parrots

Well with that issue sorted, Vixen is accepted.

@Lord Wraith

Thanks! I'll get to posting then.

[Lord Wraith]

@Moskau Spieluhr Looking forward to it!

[webboysurf]

But back to my discussion topic, where are you guys intending to land your characters?

@Lord Wraith

My plans for the end of Season 1

But in all seriousness, things are going to sort of end up turned on its head by the end of the season. Without giving away too much, there's going to be a changing of the guard at SHIELD that will put Cap in a position to do things the way he thinks they should be done, rather than just following the orders passed down to him from his superiors. He's also going to have some big questions to answer by the end of the season.

[mattmanganon]

Prince T'Challa of Wakanda

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

The Black Panther

^{_{T'Challa ♦ Crowned Prince of Wakanda ♦ On the Road ♦ Wakanda}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

^{"You call me stupid for wearing this suit. I'm not the one looking to fight the man chosen to weild unimaginable power by a god."}

T'Challa is young, arrogant and full of self-confidence. A fighter who has been groomed from birth to become the new king of the most advanced civilization on earth. In this continuity, Hunter is not his adoptive brother, but Step-brother, being Ramonda's son from her first marriage and is (Currently) on good terms with him. His Powers come from the goddess Bast, who grants him the powers of the Black Panther. Bast has also given him the duty of protecting not only her children, the children of Wakanda, but the rest of the planet as well. King T'Chaka, however, has forbidden T'Challa from assembling outsiders to be his knights. As such, T'Challa has gone off by himself, without permission. Not only is he now trying to track down the most powerful beings in the world, but he's also on the run from Wakanda's police who have been charged with bringing him home. The leader of the re-capture squad is his childhood best friend, M'Baku. He has had an obsession with the outside world for as long as he can remember, his first introduction to it being an Aretha Franklin album that Wakandan comm-systems managed to pick up and download.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

T'Challa is smart and he is wise, but he is also naive. He doesn't believe in the isolationism that the past kings and queens have instigated. One of his main goals is to end the isolation. This is for several reasons, but one of the main reasons is because he wants to be recognized as a great leader of the world, and for Wakanda to be recognized as the greatest nation in the world. His first step on this road is to bring outsiders into his court. He wants to create a group of knights that will protect not only Wakanda, but the world at large.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

This version of T'Challa is going to be highly arrogant and full of himself. He will always know best, he will always assume that everyone who disagree's with him is simply wrong, he will never back down, never surrender and never admit a mistake... Until that mistake costs him something he couldn't bare to part with. Some of the supporting cast:

Family

King T'Chaka

Father of T'Challa, T'Chaka was the previous Black Panther. In his youth, he was wild and untamed, he is noted as one of the greatest of all of the Black Panthers, defeating several attempted incursions into Wakanda. What many do not know is that, after his first wife died giving birth to T'Challa, he left Wakanda in grief. This was covered up by the family. On his travels, he drank, partied and slept with many women. He returned to Wakanda after 2 months, with his new wife, Ramonda and a new son, Hunter. It was then that he held his son true son for the first time.

T'Chaka is now old, he is wise, but he is also ashamed of his time in the outside, which is why he will keep the isolation up at any cost.

Hunter

Hunter is the Adoptive son of T'Chaka. When T'Chaka was travelling, he stopped in South-Africa. During his time there, he was mugged by Hunter, who took T'Chaka's wallet and managed to, almost, get away from him. Impressed by the boy, he offered the boy a job travelling with him. Hunter had been orphaned and was living on the streets of Cape Town at the age of 8. When they returned to Wakanda, he told everyone that he had found the boy in a crashed plane on the outskirts of Wakanda and officially adopted the boy as his son.

As Hunter grew, he found that he was judged for being the only white man in Wakanda. Hunter didn't resent his younger brother, but he did relish the opportunity to show him up. Hunter proved himself to be one of the cleverest and skilled warriors Wakanda has ever known. When he came of age, he asked T'Chaka to become the Black Panther. T'Chaka initially agreed and Hunter was brought before the priests. When they prayed to Bast to bless Hunter with the power, there was no answer. Hunter doesn't resent his brother, but he does resent Bast a little. Hunter now serves as the head of the royal guard.

Shuri

The older sister of T'Challa, Shuri was the middle child, between Hunter and T'Challa. She may be T'Chaka's oldest child, but tradition will not allow her to take the throne unless accepted by Bast, only the Black Panther can. As such, she has dedicated her life to science. She has dedicated her life to the study of the application of Vibranium. She is a fierce warrior and Wakanda's foremost authority on Vibranium.

Allies

M'Baku

M'Baku is T'Challa's best friend since childhood. The two first met when T'Challa was undertaking training from M'Baku's father and the two quickly bonded in their combat training. They have always had a friendly rivalry, but have never let it come between them. They have earned themselves the nicknames of "The Bash Brothers" as they are always gatecrashing parties and seducing the women, before having to fight their way out, past the many angry relatives of said women. Since T'Challa's escape, he has been tasked with hunting down the lost prince. M'Baku comes from the Jabari tribe, and worships the great White Gorilla. Legend says that if you hunt and consume the flesh of the gorilla, then you will gain unimaginable power. He doesn't care for such old superstitions. Great power like that can only be granted by gods...

Waylon Jones

Born in Florida, Waylons mother died in childbirth and his father, not willing to raise such a deformed mess, put the boy up for adoption immediately. Croc was raised by nuns for the first portion of his life, but, at the age of 5, escaped and went feral. He spent a year living in the sewers of Tallahassee, until he was found by Jennifer. A woman who had lost her husband and son in a car accident the week previously. She found the boy searching through her garbage cans and invited him to stay with her. She managed to bring him back to his senses and began tutoring him in how to read, write and talk. Though, due to his slightly smaller brain, he was never able to achieve any academic success. He was shunned by the other kids at school at first, but was soon accepted when they found out that he was immensely strong, making him great for sports. Always the first picked for Football.

After barely getting through school with the bare minimum of grades, he managed to get a Football scholarship to Gotham University, but was forced to drop out when he couldn't keep his GPA up to their strict standards. However, he did get to play a few matches in the few months he was there and the Gotham Knights were there to snatch him straight up. It was the night after a match against the Los Angeles Rams that he bumped into a young girl that was living on the streets. He got to talking with her and he convinced her to come home with him.

Waylon played 1 season with the Gotham Knights, taking them to victory at the Superbowl Unfortunately, the NFL wasn't happy with a mutant being the star player, thinking that his always winning was an unfair advantage. So, a new drug test was instituted among the players, one which Waylon's mutated form would cause him to fail. Kicked out of the sport and with no other team willing to touch him through fear of them getting much the same kind of underhanded move from the commissions, Waylon needed to keep his money flowing in so he could pay to keep himself and Jubilee. He had little choice but to use his immense form for crime. He never actually committed any crimes himself, but his intimidating form allowed him to be very good muscle for several of the crime lords of America. He moved from city to city, starting in Gotham, he went to Central City, Metropolis, New York, Bludhaven, but soon got to a position where he was able to leave the life behind. The two of them moved out of the country to get away from it, moving over to Japan, before making his way to China and then across the middle-east, working in construction and warehouse work in order to pay his bills, as well as living off his savings as a football star.

His most prized possession is his "Waylon Jones American Football Rookie" Card.

Jubilation Lee

Jubilation Lee, known to her friends as Jubilee, she was the daughter of a pair of rich chinese moguls, living in America. The Head of the gymnastics team, a cheerleader for the football team and also a dab-hand at chess. Then the fateful weekend came. Her parents went on a trip to Hong-Kong and she threw a house party. She was just getting close to Brad the captain of the Football team, when she felt something welling inside of her... And the next thing she knew, the house was on fire. Escaping outside, she couldn't contain herself, the "fireworks" blasting everywhere. Her parents had lost everything in a stock market crash and when they found that she had destroyed the house, they threw her out.

She was living on the streets when she was found by Waylon and was taken in by him. Moving back to Gotham, she was able to pick up her life... For a few Months, before the football season finished and Waylon was fired. The pair of them were forced to move around the country as Waylon looked for work. Eventually, she travelled with him abroad and helps as the interpreter as they work their way across the world.

Jeb Stuart

James Ewell Brown Stuart, the legendary Confederate commander. Everyone knows the story. Born in Laurel Hill, Patrick County, Virginia on the 6th of February 1833 and was later enrolled at West Point military academy. Commissioned in 1854 second lieutenant of cavalry. He later married Flora Cooke the daughter of Colonel Philip St George Cooke. The couple had two children Jeb Stuart, Jr. and Virginia Stuart. The name Jeb would be carried down the generations of his decedents. At the outbreak of the Civil War, J.E.B fought in the Battle of Bull Run. He was put in command of the Confederate Cavalry under General Robert E. Lee but was fatally wounded in 1864 at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, during the Battle of Richmond.

What many people don't know is that Lee may have died, but his soul didn't pass. He continued to fight for America, even after his body was destroyed. During the many wars since, American tank-crews have reported that, in times of dire need, they would hear the sounds of bugles, before a ghostly apparition took control of their tank and began to use it with super-human accuracy, the hull bouncing shells that should have penetrated, the gun piercing armour that it never should have and the vehicle moving at speeds it just isn't capable of. Most recently, a single M3-Lee has been reported on the boarder of Kasnia, hunting down attempted Kasnian incursions into the surrounding countries. Kasnian jets have hit the tank with everything they can and it hasn't made so much as a dent.

Villains

Killmonger

Killmonger was born in Wakanda and is one of the few to leave. Not much is known about him, other than, as a boy, he was a member of an attempted coup against T'Chaka. After the coup failed, he fled Wakanda with Malice and became a Mercenary. He is one of the best mercs and assassins in the business. His fee is $10,000,000 per hit and he has never failed to kill his target.

Klaw

Klaw is a scientist and one of the first people to discover Wakanda. Starting out working for the US Military R&D department, he was enamoured with Vibranium and the potential to use it as a weapon. After tracking several sources of the valuable metal, he found Wakanda. He snuck in and managed to steal a load of Vibranuim, making it out in one piece. He used the Vibranium to develop immensely powerful sound-based weapons. Going back into Wakanda for more, he was beset by King T'Chaka, who, after a long, grueling fight, cut the scientist's hand off and captured him.

Klaw rotted in a cell in Wakanda for 20 years, until the coup against T'Chaka. Killmonger broke Klaw out of jail on his way out. Klaw returned to America to find out that he had been declaired legally dead. When he started to rant and rave about Wakanda's immense technical superiority, they didn't believe him. Klaw went mad, stole the remaining vibranium and developed a powerful sonic-cannon for the end of his stump where his hand was. He is now back and is going to get his hands on the mountain of Vibranium under Wakanda.

Malice

Malice, was born T'Mancha on the same day as T'Challa and was arranged to be married to him shortly after they were born. They grew up as the best of friends, but, during the Coup, she drank a poison that was meant for T'Challa. The poison mutated her and drove her insane, giving her increased strength and speed. She has sworn Vengeance on T'Challa and his family for enslaving her. She has an on-again-off-again relationship with Killmonger.

S A M P L E P O S T:

M'Baku was just finishing up his rounds patrolling the royal palace. It was a dull job, but it allowed him to stay close to T'Challa. Also, the women of the Jabari were... Too savage for his liking, the palace women were much more amorous. As soon as he finished this shift, he would track down T'Challa and they would go get a date. After all, having the crowned prince as a wing-man had gotten him some action before. Walking into one of the Palace's hangars for their fleet of jet-fighters. He heard some clanging and a pained seeth. "Who goes there?" he called. "Come out with your hands up. Sabotaging the King's fleet is a VERY serious crime, but trying to fight one of his royal guards, gets you killed." He heard some quiet shuffling and readied his Vibranium spear. Seeing something move near one of the fighters, he approached it. Lunging out, ready to strike, he found the jet abandoned, but the cockpit was open. "Dammit..." He put his wrist to his lips.

"Wait, my friend." Came a voice from the shadows. "Please do not call the other guards." M'Baku looked around, before seeing a pair of glowing, purple eyes.

"T'Challa?" he asked. "What in the name of Bast are you doing here?" He then laughed "Is this one of those idea's for a joke, Because last time we did this, i was in the infirmary for a month."

"Look, M'Baku, how was i supposed to know you weren't going to catch that spear? But, we're not going over it again. I need to leave." T'Challa said, approaching from out of the shadows and allowing the mask to retreat from his face.

"Yes, you do." M'Baku laughed, putting his arm over T'Challa's shoulder. "There is a dance over with the Sakhme Tribe. Lots of very-" He guestured a shapely figure with his hands whilst winking "Girls. I say, we go over there, have some fun and try to escape before getting torn limb-from-limb by VERY angry fathers." He laughed. T'Challa put his finger on his chin and looked up for a moment.

"How shapely are we tal-No..." He shook his head and shook M'Baku's hands off of him. "M'Baku, when i said i needed to go... I meant..." M'Baku stopped and looked at him. His smile quickly fading.

"Oh no... No. NO! You are NOT doing this AGAIN!" He roared. "King T'Chaka has forbade it. You will bring ruin to Wakanda. We have survived by keeping with the old traditions. By making sure we are out of sight and out of mind. How many times must we tell you this?" He yelled.

"But it's different this time." T'Challa said, in a hushed tone. "And please, yell louder, i think some people in Canada didn't quite hear you." They stared each other down for a second. "I have had a vision..." M'Baku rolled his eyes.

"Did this vision have some assistance of the Priests ceremonial wine?" He asked. T'Challa's hands flexed and his lip scrunched up for a second, clearly not willing to lie to his friend about the situation, whilst still realizing that he was going to sound crazy.

"Anyway, Bast appeared before me. She said that the time for isolation is over. That there are great threats to the world on the horizon and that we will need to rally and lead the world out of the coming darkness. That if we do not, first, the rest of the world falls, then we do so as well."

"No, first the rest of the world falls, then we stay out of everyone's way and don't fall too."

"But M'Baku-" T'Challa began, before M'Baku began to beat his fists on his chest, rearing up high. "I do not want to fight you, my friend... But i have a mission from the goddess herself. The short sightedness of the priests and Father will not be enough to stop me." M'Baku approached him.

"This is your last chance, T'Challa. Come with me to the dance and we forget this ever happened. Or..." He grabbed his own head and twisted a snap out of it, before twisting the other way.

"Or what?" T'Challa laughed. "We both know i'm way stronger than you."

"Only a little." M'Baku replied.

"Try, you can bench 300lbs and i can bench press this jet?" He replied.

"Irrelevant, i need to stop you." M'Baku stated, without missing a beat in the conversation.

"Alright, counter proposal?" T'Challa asked "I lay you out with a simple hip-toss and i take the jet. Either way, i'm going to lay your out before i take that jet and leave." M'Baku stared him dead in the eyes, for a minute there, they wrestled with just their stares.

"Oh, alright." M'Baku sighed. "Just make it quick, the others will be along soon." T'Challa nodded, before hugging his friend.

"I owe you another one, my brother." He said.

"I hope, for everyone's sake, that you are right about this." M'Baku laughed.

"One day, we will be sitting in the throne room, laughing about this." T'Challa sighed.

"I'd better not be your damn court jester." M'Baku replied.

"Oh, nothing so un-dignified. I hear that, in the old Europe, the most powerful man was the one who wiped the king's bottom for him." He then delivered a swift chop to M'Baku's neck and his friend went out-cold. He then grabbed the spear and began making gashes in the walls and the floors, as well as several crates. He then threw the spear off into another part of the hangar, before climbing up, into the jet. The engines roared to life. "Alright, please open, mr bay-doors." He said, pressing his clearance in to the computer. The doors opened and the jet blasted away.

P O S T C A T L O G:

A list linking to your IC posts as they're created. This can be used for a reference guide to your character or to summarize completed arcs and stories.

@mattmanganon

Alright, attempt 2. Is this good enough?

[Hillan]

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But back to my discussion topic, where are you guys intending to land your characters?

@Lord Wraith

Prison, probably.

[Lord Wraith]

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Prison, probably.

@Hillan

Thawne would be a hit in prison.

[Simple Unicycle]

Well, let's get some discussion going here shall we, without giving away too much of your season, where are you all hoping for your characters to end up by season's end?

@Lord Wraith

Might sound weird, but Blade's story here is a bit of a coming of age one where he finally has to come to terms with the fact that hunting the supernatural isn't a game and he has a pretty big job on his hands. Don't worry though, he's not gonna go all dark and serious, just gonna wisen up a bit and be a teensy bit more mature in how he acts. Finally, not to spoil anything major, but his feud with Deacon will wrap up quite a bit differently than the usual fare as well.

Oh and he's definitely giving his shop a name by the end of the season.

And maybe losing an arm so I can give him a roboarm.

[Supermaxx]

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Alright, attempt 2. Is this good enough?

@mattmanganon

That's fair. I have agreed to abandon the "Agents of Wakanda" idea for the moment, as well as the invasion. Right now, it's going to be T'Challa travelling around the world, making some friends and some enemies and discovering that, when his father left Wakanda for a few months after T'Challa's mother died, he made quite a few fuck-ups. Currently, i'm trying to decide on who is T'Challa's guide to the world. I put up an idea for a re-imagining of Killer Croc, i'd love your take on it.

@mattmanganon

This was part of our arrangement when we talked about adjusting your character sheet. However:

His first step on this road is to bring outsiders into his court. He wants to create a group of knights that will protect not only Wakanda, but the world at large.

@mattmanganon

You're still building your entire sheet around this idea of building the 'Knights of Wakanda.' We tried to explain to you that the problem wasn't the specific characters you were trying to take (though that was also problematic) but rather with the concept's foundation itself- you're putting together a team of disparate characters with little rhyme or reason outside of the fact that you want to mix DC and Marvel together. That in and of itself isn't a bad thing, obviously, or this game wouldn't be a thing.

However, I believe there's a fundamental misunderstanding here about the objective of these kind of games. The idea isn't just to haphazardly slap together different bits and pieces of DC and Marvel canon just for the sake of it. Rather, it's to reimagine a character as existing in a combined universe, and putting a 'spin' on their circumstances while staying true to the core of the character. We don't believe your sheet meets this ideal, and unfortunately we don't think you're going to be a good fit for this game.

[Mao Mao]

But back to my discussion topic, where are you guys intending to land your characters?

@Lord Wraith

Wonder Woman will have her life turned upside down while she deals with the committee and Aladdin's small group of terrorists. I want to tell a story of the World's First Superhero dealing with a completely different world. Besides working with a new generation of heroes, she will have to deal with people wanting to control her every action. I would tell more but I don't want to spoil things. However, I am planning on making the committee a big deal for Wonder Woman (and possibility the entire superhero community).

[Lord Wraith]

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Wonder Woman will her life turned upside down while she deals with the committee and Aladdin's small group of terrorists. I want to tell a story of the World's First Superhero dealing with a completely different world. Besides working with a new generation of heroes, she will have to deal with people wanting to control her every action. I would tell more but I don't want to spoil things. However, I am planning on making the committee a big deal for Wonder Woman (and possibility the entire superhero community).

@Star Lord

[Hillan]

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Thawne would be a hit in prison.

@Lord Wraith

Everyone would be his Prison-Wife.

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Prison, probably.

@Hillan

On a serious note, I imagine Thawne's heart will grow 3 sizes during season one. That's not to say that I think he'll be a hero, or even a good guy by the end. He's far too old and jaded to learn new tricks like that, but, I think he'll be far more sympathetic of Barry than ever before after literally walking in his shoes. (Or, light-speed sprinting, as it were.) He'll have completely absorbed Eddie's identity and made it his own and hopefully, ever since he first became Professor Zoom he'd actually have a life. With y'know, friends. Albeit, based on false premises and deceit, but, hey, we can't all be perfect.

[HenryJonesJr]

Basically my endgame (21 days) for Thor is to have him find not only a new family, but his place, his true place, in the universe. Not the warrior, but the hero. And the rest of the Guardians will come along to realizations of their own.

On the same note, I won’t have a Thor post up until Sunday unfortunately. Hoping to get 3 or so posts up next week though. Want to get through the next chapter quickly as there isn’t a ton to it

[Lord Wraith]

And with that, I have finished my prologue a month into the game.

Guess I better start making up some lost time!

[Hound55]

@Lord Wraith

And with that, I have finished my prologue a month into the game.

Guess I better start making up some lost time!

@Lord Wraith

That's some good lore-ing, Chief...

[Lord Wraith]

@Lord Wraith

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That's some good lore-ing, Chief...

@Hound55

Well thank you, it was a bit of an experiment to write and quite frankly exhausting at times. Probably was neither necessary nor the path most would have chose but I did enjoy fleshing it all out.

[Bounce]

Well, let's get some discussion going here shall we, without giving away too much of your season, where are you all hoping for your characters to end up by season's end?

For Namor, I'm aiming to have him in a position where he'll be straddling responsibilities both to the Surface and Atlantis in order to open him up to more collaboration in the next season. A lot of this season is going to be spent defining his world and introducing him to a new one.

That said, you should be able to expect a post from me later this evening if all goes according to plan. My post is currently sitting at 70% complete.

But back to my discussion topic, where are you guys intending to land your characters?

@Lord Wraith

Well, I don't want to spoil too much.

Hider

Billy punches things. But only on Mondays.

[Natty]

But back to my discussion topic, where are you guys intending to land your characters?

@Lord Wraith

The overall plan is to get Illyana back to limbo to quite literally face her demons. While this is happening, the plan is to form an impromptu team around her, Shadowpact. Each member was picked for a specific reason as they all kind of have something to teach Ilyana, preparing her for her journey. So I'm hoping it comes across like that, instead of just a hodgepodge team of somewhat-unrelated mystic DC/Marvel characters.

A post should be done by the end of the weekend