[OOC] Supers!

[Little Bill]

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Ever since man has been capable of hitting other man with a rock, the world has been divided with power, between those who have it and those who do not. On this world, perhaps even more than ours, this division is more important than any other. Some secure power with the right mechanical gadgets and the years of study necessary to build them. Others seek out power at the bottom of a chemical vat, with the handshake of some otherworldly evil, or in the bite of a genetically unstable exotic pet. A few with enough money or federal funding simply strap six tons of bulletproof power over their chest and call it a day. All of these people, designated by their power, are known as Supers. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Universally, they're all pretty dramatic.
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The powers that be reigning in these powerful persons are known as the United States Department of Hero Regulation and the Villain's International League of Evildoing -- they are the respective equivalents of a high-ranking government agency and an international labor union working in tandem to ensure the other side follows roughly the same rules. The fleshbound VILE Codex of Cruelty, for instance, shares no less than 500 identical pages to the official DHR Federal Mandates & Regulations Handbook, and this is no strange coincidence. Both sides have inscrutable teams of lawyers and investigative sub-agencies, and both sides are just about as scary as the IRS when you're on their bad side. Every ten years, they hold a summit to review and revise the rules, and the 2020 summit is to be held only seven days from our story's inception.
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Supers!, which I am already regretting stylizing with an exclamation point, is to be a semi-sandbox story -- that means I am giving you a fair amount of freedom with your individual stories and themes -- with two overarching subplots going on for Heroes and Villains. I expect probably two people to apply to this, so accordingly, there are a bunch of rules (not in the annoying "i'm the GM i reserve the right to shit down your chimney" way) in order to ensure that these two people have sheets that demonstrate an understanding of this difficult-to-understand world. With that, I'll drop my GM voice and get down to it.

Organizations

DHR

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The Department of Hero Regulation is a government agency for the management of heroes, founded in 1944 after the infamous Mighty Man Incident, wherein Sam J. Reynolds, the aforementioned Mighty Man, was found guilty of Destruction of Property in the form of a damaged barn when Mighty Man collided into it during an altercation with Brainfreeze. After breaking the handcuffs he was placed in, Mighty Man incinerated the courthouse with his heat-vision and flew to Nicaragua, where he remains in hiding to this day. The proceeding national outcry lead to the DHR's establishment, and federal funding for devices and training to handle Supers.
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Due to the passive role heroes take defending themselves from villains, the DHR has significantly fewer rules than their counterpart organization, though this is not to say that the rules are not as strictly enforced as the League's. Most of the DHR’S rules focus on acceptable levels of force and permitted scenarios for the escalation of conflict -- As an organization, the DHR is more focused on capturing unregistered heroes and villains and threats to global safety. They typically only involve themselves in the affairs of higher level villains, such as those capable of purchasing nuclear weapons or summoning world-devouring creatures. They are also in charge of assigning appropriate “Units”, which are essentially sets of pre-approved dynamics such as “Lone Hero”, “Hero Family” or “Hero/Sidekick”. When a single man in a cave applies for a young, spandex-wrapped male sidekick, it is the DHR's screenings they have to pass. When Super families routinely risk their child's safety crawling into tombs to press secret buttons, it is the DHR who investigates. When a hero breaks the rules, it is the DHR who hunts them down.
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VILE

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	The Villain's International League of Evildoing The Villain's International League of Evildoing, more commonly abbreviated to VILE, was founded in 1953 as The Brotherhood of Evildoing, though this was changed to "The League of Evildoing" in 1967 in the infamous "Electricia v. Brotherhood of Evildoing" case, and once more to the current name in 1981 as part of a rebranding effort. It is essentially a global union for villains, serving as the authority over every facet of supervillainy, be it dealing with a villain’s legal recourse, supplying henchmen, screening offensive alter-egos and gimmicks, creating suitable nemesis pairings for heroes, and so on. VILE’s rulebook is bound in human flesh, and is extensive, strict, and notoriously bulletproof -- There are no loopholes to be exploited, or any matter it does not cover in great detail. VILE’s legal team is one of the best in the world, and when matters can no longer be settled in courtrooms, they rely on their equally-skilled assassins. VILE is lead by its aging founder, one Frederick Verhullen, the villain known as Black Mask. He has been bedbound for the last four years, and is hanging on to his mortal coil by the grace of God and a skilled team of doctors who provide him round-the-clock care. With elections for the new chairman to proceed almost immediately after Black Mask's eventual death, would-be leaders of villainy are prematurely beginning to throw their hats in the ring.	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Magician's Order

Finding its start in Salem, Massachusetts in 1933 as the Society for Paranormal Inquiry, the Magicians' Order (formally renamed in 1948) is the single largest collective of arcane academics and their ilk in the world. Overseen by the current Archmagician, Dr. Abra Cadaver, the Order is something of an enigma to all those outside of it -- both heroes and villains fill the Order's membership, and they maintain working relations, if cool, with both the VILE and the DHR. Ostensibly, the Order serves as a neutral ground where Magicians can come together to share and discuss their supernatural findings amongst their peers, though only those within their hallowed halls know just how the Order goes about its business.

The most notable experiment conducted by the Order was the Abraxus Ritual of 1947, a djinn-summoning ceremony combined with tomes of stolen Nazi research into the paranormal. This resulted in the discovery of the Veil, the very force returned to the world by Trent Hark nearly twenty years prior which connects the Earth to countless planes of existence. The two planes accessible by mankind are the Seelie Court, a realm of pure magical energy and the home of the faeries, and the Phantom Wastes, a grey and expansive world home to eldritch horrors who seek to end all life throughout the plans of existence -- There are hundreds, if not thousands of planes past the Phantom Wastes and Seelie Court, though they are outside of the material realm and inconceivable to the minds of men. These matters, and many even more complicated and Tolkienesque, are the Order's bread and butter.

[Little Bill]

[Asura]

[DocRock]

I am here.

Back to Discord I go.

[sassy1085]

i'm here!

[Lasersquid112]

slurped.

[Architect]

oh, boy, i can't wait to be disappointed again

[CaliforniaState]

reporting for duty

[Little Bill]

It is complete. Since this is a weird roleplay, you get a weird sheet. The first section is for your character without relating to their Supering career, the second section is about your character's current life Supering, and the third third is to show me you get the idea. Those of you who have demonstrated you get it will have no problem with this section, so I feel like less of a choad for making you prove you have the bigbrain necessary to bring your shovel to play in my sandbox. Anyway, three-part character sheet. Can't say I never dropped a character sheet now. For real though, those of you who have been waiting the longest have been waiting about a year for this lackluster sheet, so there is really no way to hit the nail on the head for apology or thanks. The rest of you, I do not feel as bad about, but still want to apologize for the timing and thank you for your patience.

Oh, and, stylize them as much as you want, just don't attach an image meant to be a representation, picture, or illustration of your character. Fancy names and brackets are cool if that's how you swing. Party on.

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Name
Simple enough, right? First and last names, middle initial if you're a WASP or something, nicknames they exclusively go by that aren't mantles quoted in the middle. Don't put your mantle as your middle name. I swear to God, don't even do it as a joke. I will pull the plug on this whole goddamn thing. Also, any character named "Jack" is automatically rejected.

Age
Don't put a period after the number like this is a sentence and not a listing. Nothing gets my goat more. Also, no characters between the ages of 21 and 28. If you want a young character, you are either an unrespected greenhorn or are staring in the mirror and looking at thirty creeping up behind you.

Gender
Your character's gender. If your character's mantle is a different gender, don't explain it to me here, just tell me what their day-to-day deal is.

History
Your character's history contained to four paragraphs, summarizing their life from birth to the present day with their Supering mentioned briefly. For characters who are just starting or for whom Supering is their entire life, this should be a biography up to their beginning in Supering. For Supers who are not neck-deep into the Supering lifestyle, this should describe their Supering in terms of how it relates to the rest of their life. For Supers who are has-beens or retired, this should be a description of their life, their times Supering, and what came after. I don't know what it should be for alien Supers, but I did think on this question for a while. This isn't a rule, but, please don't play an alien. I would have to do way more worldbuilding.

Personality
A short summation of your character's personality. Explain to me why your character is both multi-dimensional and a relatable human being without serving me an essay. The less you need to justify their personality as a result of their history, the better. It should be easier to believe their personality after seeing a history of their life, which I just have.

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Mantle
The name of their current mantle, with any earlier names, previous mantles, etc in a bulleted list underneath.

Mantle Classification
Make up a federal classification for your character's mantle, with sub-themes separated by commas. A jazz-playing merman called Triton's Trumpet would be something like "Mythological, Music", because his being a merman is the first thing you notice irrespective of his brass chops.

Arch
Their current arch, with any past arches bulleted beneath. If this section is blank, make a fitting one up and don't use them outside of explaining your character's absence when your internet goes out for a week. Include a brief description if you want.

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Comedy
An explanation of your character's traits that situational humor can be derived from.

Tragedy
An explanation of your character's humanizing traits that tragedy can be derived from.

Password
The password hidden in the OOC. If you could not find it after reading it entirely, admit it here or find it on somebody else's submitted sheet, I guess.