Justice League: AMONG US

[Omega Man]

AMONG US

The Justice League had seen better days. After Coast City had been infected with a techno virus by Brainiac, the United States had no other option than to blow it off the map to keep the virus from spreading like wildfire. With most of his family now gone, Green Lantern decided that Earth had enough heroes and cut ties to better protect the rest of sector 2814. Superman was now a father and spending less time with the League as well and Batman was only ever a part-time member at best. Wonder Woman and the Flash kept the dream alive and saw over the expansion of the team, now called the Justice League Unlimited. Several heroes young and old were accepted into their ranks to better protect the planet. Their mettle would be tested however, when the crashed spaceship of [insert alien hero from cast] would also come with a warning: White Martians are planning to invade Earth. And there is already at least one traitor among the new League.

After my kid read the opener he immediately drew comparisons to ‘Among Us’ and I can’t say that I’ve played the game, but I see the similarities. Also worked it into the title to grab y’all’s attention LOL. What I’m looking for is a cast of about 7 or 8 players, with an equal number of originals with reworked cannon characters. I’ll add a couple NPC’s other than Flash and WW, and if nobody wants to be the crashed alien hero I can be that guy or make it one of the NPC’s. The core 5 Leaguers are off the table but if the game moves forward beyond the initial arc or two we can do secondary characters to up the number of heroes on the team if anybody would be up for that sort of thing.

For anybody unfamiliar with White Martians… just imagine an alabaster psycho version of Martian Manhunter. All the powers of Superman with the addition of telepathy, shapeshifting, and sometimes even telekinesis… the White Martians can be super OP. However like J’onn their weakness is fire. We’ll also be facing a few familiar enemies out of the gate including Giganta, Major Force, Deadshot, and Solomon Grundy. If anybody wants to be the traitor let me know in a PM before filling out a Character Sheet, that way we can work on smaller details so there isn’t too much foreshadowing. The imposter will be the main subplot and span across the first couple of missions in-game and lead to an eventual confrontation with a larger group of Martians. We could even have more than one traitor…

If you want to explore character evolution then let us know in the Character Sheet, or if you just want to write a consistent character throughout that’s cool too. If another player is someone who’s writing compliments your own or you’ve RP’ed with before then collaborate! Some of the best duos, rivalries, and relationships in comics came from the Justice League like Hawkman and the Atom, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, Green Arrow and Black Canary….

Here's what I've got for the Character Sheet template.

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CS Template

Player Name:
Basically this is at the top so I can @ tag you faster…

Primary Character:
Who will your primary hero in this be?

Secret Identity:
Who are you under the mask? If your ID is public it should be noted!

Age:
How old are ya, or if you’re an alien or something odd what relative age are you?

Usual Base of Operations:
What city do you call home and protect when not with the JLU?

Day Job:
If you’re not a full time hero working with the League [they’re paid by sponsors as well as the government] then what do you do outside of costume? You work at S-Mart or go to school full time?

Powers:
Cannons, originals, doesn’t matter… DON’T GO OVERBOARD.

Weaknesses:
Tell us how to beat your character. Not how to defeat them short term but what attacks can hurt them and affect them like everyone else and possibly kill them.

Skills:
Outside of your powers what can your character do? Good with computers? Know waaaay too much about tv and movies? Good at sneaking around? Know how to fix a car?

Appearance:
What does your hero look like [I’ll try and make micros for anybody who wants them]

BRIEF Bio:
DON’T get long winded.

Supporting Characters:
This is where you’d list anybody of note from your character's more personal supporting cast. For somebody like Superman this would include Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and his boss Perry White.

Secondary Character:
This is simply where you put down who you might want as your secondary character be it original, cannon inspired, or reimagined cannon. If somebody applies with this character as their Primary it will likely need to be changed!

Additional Notes:
Anything else you think we should know?

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So… it’s been a minute. Who wants to RP up in here?!?

-Ω

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I thought this was a Justice League x Among Us crossover arrpee and was disappointed.

[Divine Darkness]

Interested.
Was thinking maybe Power Girl or Arrowette.

[Omega Man]

Interested.
Was thinking maybe Power Girl or Arrowette.

@Divine Darkness

Either one of those would be dope af. Also... I love the sig. Maiden is my shiz.

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@Martian@Crimson Flame@King Kindred@baraquiel

Finally got this iCheck up! Hope to see at least a couple of you peeps return!

-Ω

[rocketrobie2]

I'm in if you'll have me! Not sure who I'd join with at the moment though.

[Crimson Flame]

I’m thinking about returning. Not sure if I’ll do a canon character or an OC.

[baraquiel]

I would love to join y'all again! ^o^

[WXer]

It's been a while since we last RP'd but I'm definitely down for another KL JLU game. I'm thinking of playing Captain Atom or S.T.R.I.P.E. if they're available.

[Simple Unicycle]

Rocketrobie2, WXer, and Simple Unicycle walk up to a KL iCheck. Just like old times.

You can probably guess who I'm interested in playing.

[Divine Darkness]

You can probably guess who I'm interested in playing.

@Simple Unicycle

Guesses....

[Simple Unicycle]

Well, since I've been outed...

Hot Dog Man

Player Name:

@Simple Unicycle

Primary Character:

The Question

Secret Identity:

Charles Victor Szasz, AKA Vic Sage

Age:

31

Usual Base of Operations:

Hub City, Illinois

Day Job:

News Anchor and Correspondent for KBEL

Powers:

N/A

Weaknesses:

Only Human, After All - The Question is among the weakest Leaguers when it comes to raw strength and durability. He needs to eat, drink, and sleep and cannot shrug off blades, bullets, or blunt force. Every hit will hurt and taking on a metahuman or even more than three or four human opponents in a head on fight will likely end with his maiming, crippling, or death.

My Reputation Precedes Me - The Question is a well known crackpot and conspiracy theorist, often leading to a tainted opinion for people coming into meeting him with prior knowledge of his exploits. Few would ally with him outside of a League environment, even fewer trust him in one, and only a small amount of people like him.

Skills/Gadgets:

Pragmatic Fighter - Being a normal human, Question isn't going to go into a confrontation without some sort of advantage. He is prone to using stealth and his environment to give him an extra edge in confrontations.

Investigation Extraordinaire - Noted as one of the world's finest detectives, the Question has sharpened his investigative skills like a knife, able to spot vital clues and make informed deductions off of them. His unorthodox mindset also allows him to come to conclusions others would have failed to. On top of this, he is skilled with hacking, able to crack the toughest of systems if given enough time.

Grappling Hook - A grappling hook designed by a close associate which allows the Question to scale large distances and tall buildings with the pull of a trigger.

Appearance:

Vic Sage has ginger hair, blue eyes, and freckles on fair skin. A tattered suit and tie conceals his well-built form, with a height of 6'2 and weight of 189 pounds. As the Question, his appearance evokes that of a 1940s private investigator or detective: suit, trenchcoat, fedora, with a faceless visage to conceal his identity. His normally red hair is dyed black using the same gaseous compound that binds the mask to his face.

BRIEF Bio:

Charles Victor Szasz was born in Hub City to a destitute mother who worked as a prostitute to support herself and her son. At age 7, Charlie's mother was murdered and he was placed into a home for destitute children, which he was promptly kicked out of at the age of 18. After a short while on the streets, he was taken in by Aristotle "Tot" Rodor, a chemistry professor at the local university. Pulling some strings, Tot managed to get Charlie into college, where the young man changed his name to Vic Sage and majored in communications.

Fresh out of college, he got a job at KBEL, Hub City's premiere news station. For a while, Vic was comfortable in his position, but was troubled the Hub City's crime and corruption. He needed a way to do something about it beyond his job; that came in his mentor Tot, who needed help with a former colleague, Arby Twain, who was looking to illegally sell one of their inventions, Pseudoderm, an artificial skin that was meant to be used as a bandage. Vic agreed to help Tot out and take down Twain's operation, with Tot designing him a mask using Pseudoderm. Needless to say, Vic succeeded, and ever since he has operated as the Question in Hub City.

He was inducted into the Justice League Unlimited not too long ago alongside his contemporaries. With the looming crisis of the White Martians approaching and the fact that one has already infiltrated the League, the Question has found himself more paranoid than ever.

Supporting Characters:

Aristotle "Tot" Rodor - Vic's father figure, mentor, and best friend. Inventor of the bonding gas for Pseudoderm, which allows it to be bonded to the body, and the man who converted it into a mask for use by Vic.

Myra Fermin - Vic's ex and one of his closest friends as well as the mayor of Hub City. A reform-minded politician looking to restore glamour and crack down on crime and corruption in Hub City. Needless to say, she has Vic's backing.

Secondary Character:

N/A

Additional Notes:

N/A

[Omega Man]

Rocketrobie2, WXer, and Simple Unicycle walk up to a KL iCheck. Just like old times.

You can probably guess who I'm interested in playing.

@Simple Unicycle

I appreciate a familiar face or three! Have you read any of the Future State comics? SHAZAM introduces a new Question who's ID is unknown. Shazam mentions Vic is dead, he's definitely not Montoya, and mentions "Drake was killed..."

When I thought about it, Tim Drake would make a badass Q. I just can't tell how they're spinning certain characters because a bunch of it seems random af. Like Detective Chimp being the other half of Etrigan the Demon, Luke Fox's BROTHER being Batman, Nightwing basically becoming the new Deathstroke, Shazam having his own team of C-listers including Bunker, Q, Vixen, and others... not to mention each book is like it's own possible future and the majority of them are barely connected at all.

It's been a while since we last RP'd but I'm definitely down for another KL JLU game. I'm thinking of playing Captain Atom or S.T.R.I.P.E. if they're available.

@WXer

Make one of them your Primary and if you want to use the other sporadically make them your Secondary choice. Seeing so many of you guys using classics like Q, Captain Atom, and Shazam is always a plus. Many people don't realize how many comic companies DC has bought and barely done anything with their concepts. Seeing Charlton, Fawcett, Quality, and even Milestone and Wildstorm characters represented ANYWHERE makes me smile.

I just thought about bringing in Wildstorm's Union into this as the crashed alien hero/my Primary, since he got dicked out of his shot at becoming a member of the JL United during the New52. Other characters who were supposed to be part of the team included Metamorpho and B'Wana Beast so I might use one of them for my Secondary.

I'm so excited for this.

Oh! And before I forget my 11 year old took over my old Discord account and I've still yet to make a new one. I think the old JL channels helped with collaborating on posts and fleshing out ideas so if anybody is up for that kinda team building I'd welcome it again. Especially if there are heroes living/working in the HQ.

-Ω

[Simple Unicycle]

<Snipped quote by Simple Unicycle>

I appreciate a familiar face or three! Have you read any of the Future State comics? SHAZAM introduces a new Question who's ID is unknown. Shazam mentions Vic is dead, he's definitely not Montoya, and mentions "Drake was killed..."

When I thought about it, Tim Drake would make a badass Q. I just can't tell how they're spinning certain characters because a bunch of it seems random af. Like Detective Chimp being the other half of Etrigan the Demon, Luke Fox's BROTHER being Batman, Nightwing basically becoming the new Deathstroke, Shazam having his own team of C-listers including Bunker, Q, Vixen, and others... not to mention each book is like it's own possible future and the majority of them are barely connected at all.

<Snipped quote by WXer>

Make one of them your Primary and if you want to use the other sporadically make them your Secondary choice. Seeing so many of you guys using classics like Q, Captain Atom, and Shazam is always a plus. Many people don't realize how many comic companies DC has bought and barely done anything with their concepts. Seeing Charlton, Fawcett, Quality, and even Milestone and Wildstorm characters represented ANYWHERE makes me smile.

I just thought about bringing in Wildstorm's Union into this as the crashed alien hero/my Primary, since he got dicked out of his shot at becoming a member of the JL United during the New52. Other characters who were supposed to be part of the team included Metamorpho and B'Wana Beast so I might use one of them for my Secondary.

I'm so excited for this.

Oh! And before I forget my 11 year old took over my old Discord account and I've still yet to make a new one. I think the old JL channels helped with collaborating on posts and fleshing out ideas so if anybody is up for that kinda team building I'd welcome it again. Especially if there are heroes living/working in the HQ.

-Ω

@Omega Man

Haven't read any of the Future State comics because I've been slacking on reading comics lately, but I recently read The Deaths Of Vic Sage and it's given me the inspiration to play the Question in literally every comic game ever again. Drake as Q would be kind of oddball but honestly, I'd dig it. Anything's better than Red Robin lmao.

As for a Discord, I'm down for that so long as it doesn't result in the OOC getting left behind.

[Omega Man]

@Simple Unicycle At one point in a Birds of Prey comic where Tim was helping the team along with Blue Beetle, they basically said he was a huge fan of BB for being a self made hero without being dark and brooding like Batman. He was hinted at continuing a couple different legacies back then.

-Ω

[rocketrobie2]

@Omega Man Your son taking over your old account makes the Stan Bingus thing make sense now. I think I'm gonna go with a classic and write up a Ted Kord.

[WXer]

Captain, My Captain

Player Name:
WXer

Primary Character:
Captain Atom

Secret Identity:
Col. Cameron Scott, formerly Cpt. Nathaniel Adam

Age:
34 Years Old

Usual Base of Operations:
Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia

Day Job:
Air Force Intelligence Officer

Powers:
Quantum Field Manipulation - While the potential and nature of his power source is still largely unknown, Captain Atom has managed to currently utilize it to great effect in applications such as:

• Super Strength and Durability
• Quantum Decay Blasts
• Flight
• Molecular Aesthetic Manipulation (aka he can revert back to looking human)

Weaknesses:
Risk: Quantum Breakdown Edition - The good captain's DNA structure is unstable after his incident, causing any concentrated radiation exposure to potentially alter his powers or even turn them into a liability. The weight of such consequences are enough on their own to make him hesitant when faced against villains able to take advantage of that fact.

Humanity Trapped in Godhood - He can no longer eat. He no longer needs to sleep. He can no longer feel the tenderness of human contact. Push him over the edge, and he may not last any longer.

Skills:
Security clearances and army operational knowledge are the main benefits in being a colonel in the air force.

Appearance:
Both versions of his physical forms put the sculpting works of DaVinci to shame with his flowing blond/silver hair, chiselled abs, and well-defined jawline. His height and weight fluctuates due to his powers but he usually sticks to around the high 6 feet range. A red glow emanates off of him when he is in his superhero persona, indicating that his powers are primed and ready.

Brief Bio:
As the front runner candidate of an experimental air-to-spacecraft known as Project Horizon, Captain Nathaniel Adam was a man with a bright future ahead of him. Yet, the day that he would take this new innovation to the skies and beyond would coincide with Brainiac's siege on Earth. The techno virus would tear through the Horizon's internal systems with ease. As it caused the engine to stall and explode mid-flight, the charred remains of the ambitious aircraft would plummet to the Atlantic. However, the remnants of that explosion would soon prove to be greater than its whole.

As a recovery team attempted to procure the blackbox on board the Horizon, they were shocked to find Captain Adam in one piece and with a pulse. Upon closer inspection though, certain parts of the aircraft had embedded itself into his chest. Various theories were abound as to how this could possibly happen but nonetheless there was great interest from the top brass. At first they thought they had found some sort of cyborg soldier but it soon became apparent with the captain's quick recovery and displays of superpowers that he was much more than that.

On his first mission, he would debut on a military operation to secure the outskirts of Coast City before its detonation. His actions would quickly be publicized as a means to show that the army still had the capabilities to take on the modern world's problems. After much politicking and giving him a newly fabricated identity, the newly christened Captain Atom would be strongly recommended by the Pentagon to be part of the Justice League. With the blowback of what had just happened, how could the remaining Leaguers say no?

Supporting Characters:
Dr. Heinrich Megala - Lead scientist in charge of Captain Atom's maintenance team. He has an active communication link to the captain during operations, which is public knowledge to the rest of the League but the messages themselves are not.

Secondary Character:
None at the moment.

Additional Notes:
Theme Song - Welcome Back Kotter

This is largely based on the untapped Rebirth version of Captain Atom, which focuses more on the nature of space-time rather than nukes. That isn't to say I won't eventually cover that but for now instead of walking bomb Captain Atom, we have potentially dormant black hole Captain Atom.

[Omega Man]

@WXer Accepted! I loved that version from the Fall & Rise mini series. I also dug the look he had from Kingdom Come that showed up in the series where he was stuck in the Wildstorm universe. Captain Atom should be a member of the expanded League if nothing else in the comics, instead we get characters like Hippolyta, Black Adam, and teenagers like Naomi [who should have a codename by now]...

I think I talked myself out of adapting Union for my Primary but I'm still looking at some C and D listers. May still use him as the crashed alien hero since it's highly unlikely anybody would want him or even know who he is LOL. It's been a hot minute since I've used a character with duplication powers and I'd thought about Silent Majority earlier. It mainly depends on what sort of group we have once more people start submitting CS's. My current semi-short list is Silent Majority, Manhunter, B'Wana Beast, the Ray, Human Bomb, and Union. Cant wait to see what characters the rest of you have in mind!

-Ω

[rocketrobie2]

Blue, Beautiful and Bombastic

Player Name:
rocketrobie2

Primary Character:
Blue Beetle

Secret Identity:
Ted Kord

Age:
33

Usual Base of Operations:
Kord Industries is based out of Chicago but Kord runs most things remotely and get around.

Day Job:
Owner and CEO of Kord Industries

Powers:
Zilch

Weaknesses:
He’s all too human and not in amazing shape either. Lions and tigers and bears can all take Ted down a peg if he doesn’t have access to any of his tech.

Skills:
Ted is a novice in MMA and can hold his own well enough against fitter villains. His main ability tough is his mind. Ted hold multiple degrees and is considered an expert in a multitude of subjects, mostly scientific but with some other wildcards like Mesopotamian artwork. He’s built himself an arsenal of gadgets in order to be capable of contending with the powered villains he faces daily.

Appearance:
Ted’s a decently handsome guy, he’s no Bruce Wayne but he’s not ugly by any means. He’s a little chubby sitting at 181 lbs and standing at 5’6” but has a fair amount of muscle underneath. His costume is pretty tacky looking; primarily consisting of what looks like cheap spandex harkening back to the early days of super heroics. Underneath his goggles and cloth costume is enough tech to make Lex Luthor drool. The micro ceramics and energy dissipation grid helps to keep Ted in the fight where a normal man would fall.

BRIEF Bio:
Ted Kord was raised in luxury due to his parents owning the highly successful cooperation know as Kord Industries. Living in such an environment inevitably spoiled Ted and resulted in a child who believed they were a cut above the common rabble but this lifestyle also allowed Ted to put a great focus on his studies and become a child prodigy. This mentality didn’t help Ted make any real friends but the boy suffered a real shock when his parent’s company was bought out by Wayne Enterprises during a low period for the company. Ted’s ‘friends’ all left him and his family was forced to drastically change their lifestyle to fit their new money situation. Luckily Ted’s parents made peace with the situation quickly and managed to keep the family fed, warm and dry.

Ted wasn’t as easy to adapt.

The now eleven year old boy took the change horribly and blamed his parents for their new accommodations and fiscal situation. This mentality slowly eroded away as Ted grew older and came to realize just how much his parents needed to do just to keep their family living somewhat comfortably and put him through university.

After university, Ted made a name for himself in the business world via starting multiple companies and selling them off for huge pay outs which allowed him to once again live in luxury. Eventually he managed to buy back his parent’s company from Wayne Enterprises after a decent amount of haggling and paying more than the corporation was worth. The first major project headed by the company under Ted’s leadership was the development of the software to be used in the Justice League’s base of operation. The business owner hadn’t followed the career of the heroes very closely but he knew about the superhuman that inhabited his world but seeing them up close sparked something within Ted.

These heroes put their lives on the line so that people like him could continue their lives without needing to worry about some intergalactic starfish or something destroying the planet. Ted wanted the self fulfillment that came with such an occupation. He thought “I want to be one of those guys” and began using the resources of his company to cobble together gadgets and a suit so that he could become a protector of the planet.

Supporting Characters:
Dan Garret: The original Blue Beetle. Ted didn’t initially have a name for his alter ego but after unintentionally saving the retired hero in Ted’s early days, the two bonded and Dan passed on the mantle to an ear Ted. Now the two meet up for lunch every now and then

Secondary Character:
N/A

Additional Notes:
N/A

[Martian]

@Omega Man
Thanks for the invite to this. The character I'm thinking of playing is Frankenstein's Monster (the DC version). I know it is kind of out there so I wanted to run it by you before I made a character sheet.

[MST3K 4ever]

You have my attention.

I'm considering The Atom...but with a couple of variances from the classic character. Nothing major (Gender and Ethnicity Changes).