[OOC] Teen Titans: Ouroboros

[Master Crim]

Teen Titans: Ouroboros

Years of playing cat and mouse with Slade had finally come to a breaking point for the Titans when a series of leads got them into a position to head off and confront the criminal master mind. The resulting fight caught Slade on a back step, seeing that the team had the advantage he chose to turn and burn, leaving much of his assets unprotected. Taking advantage of what they were able to gather from Slade's hideout before it was destroyed by the fight, the Titans began to systematically track down and apprehend Slade's known associates. This would have a domino effect of finding more and more evidence linking to some higher level crime rings. For the next few years the Titans carefully used this fortuitous line of information to aid authorities around the country to set up and execute several searches and arrests on long standing criminal heads, and raids on properties used as safehouses. Things had finally come around in a big way for the team and this put into perspective how much the team was lacking in terms of reach and aid.

Though some leads came up cold, they made sure as many loose ends were tied up as they could, and got with the JLA to turn over some leads that were a little beyond their scope. After the cleanup was through the Titans decided to expanding their team to help handle covert and ground level operations so the JLA would have more time to look at the bigger picture. This was an exciting time for the Titans where they found that the spotlight put on them helped other meta humans to be comfortable coming forward with their powers and even form teams of their own. Some years of trying to aid these teams from Jump City showed the Titans that while being together was nice, they were going to have to split up to give proper aid and training with the meta humans that were cropping up. This gave rise to many new teams that, paired with the recent destabilization of the criminal underworld, saw a significant drop in active crimes.

For several years there was a sort of peace, not a lot was going on that warranted full teams to mobilize, but Robin could tell something was brewing. While it was a huge win to clean up a large set of criminals like they did, it created a power vacuum that lesser groups or other branches will be looking to take advantage of to get a leg up on their competition. Slowly he could see the darkness creeping back in around Jump City, old names being whispered, properties being renovated and reopened. They were signs of the beginning that showed they were coming full circle once more.

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Hey everyone! This is a rebooting of the previous Teen Titans roleplay that I had a while back. I plan to have a story that unfolds around the players' actions, but their inaction will also have consequences should they choose to not act on events happening around Jump City. As time goes on the city changes and more leads and stories will pop up. With how the story is designed there are a few cannon characters unavailable for players as they are for main or side story hooks. Once we get the story started the progression through it will be paced with how the characters interact with each other and the hooks that are out. I plan to allow for a good amount of downtime between major events to let characters explore the city independent of the story. During this time investigations can be followed up on, independent stories can be explored, and many other things and later on new places to be found. Aside from telling this story with you all, I most of all look forward to the stories you all will write with your characters.

Guidelines
-General Role Playing Rules Apply
-OC with ties to greater characters must be explained and approved
-No Energy Absorption
-No Time Manipulation
-No Physics Manipulation

CS Outline

This is by no means a hard line sheet. If there is something you want to add, just put it in and let me know. You can also style it how you want. What this story is looking for is new start villains or heros. People who have either recently discovered their powers/made their way into the underground, or that have recently come out from under their mentor to start their own adventures and path.

PLEASE PM ME YOUR CHARACTER BEFORE POSTING THEM
Name:
Alias:
Image/Description:
Age:
Gender:
Race:(Human, Atlantian, Newgod, Martian, ect...)
Alignment:(Hero, Neutral, Villain)
Mentor:(If they had one)
Skills/Meta Abilities:
Weaknesses:
Personality:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Backstory:(I love a good character as much as the next, but please keep in mind that a good character comes from the stories not yet told.)

Character Creation Note

HERO
You are a role model to the people around you, and are expected to do good and help when in costume. While you are not obligated to always help out, not doing so will effect your image in the eyes of the public.

NEUTRAL
Your character is seen as more of a loose cannon to heros, and they may not always be happy to see you in the area. You may be reckless and and carefree in your attempts to help/or hinder, but the public may still look up to you. The police or heros will likely try to confront you when the chance arises.

VILLAIN
If you make your character a villain it will make normal play rather difficult without a hidden identity as you will be wanted and the titans will come after you when you show up. You have to be careful with who you are seen with and by whom you are seen in daylight, and take care not to be found out.

If you are familiar with alignments, this won't be anything new to you, but for those who aren't let me give you a basic run down. Choosing your character alignment is choosing where your character's drives and views of the world come from.
- A hero character will always want to make the world a better place and have a drive to do so. They will uphold law and order in a manner that is best for everyone around them, and try to always do the right thing.
- A neutral character may have a more lax attitude towards doing good, maybe only is certain situations, maybe only if not doing something effects them directly, maybe only if it benefits them, and maybe only if they are around and feel like doing something.
- A villain is a character that has a nefarious goal to their actions and plans, they want to make the world see things a curtain way, harm a person or persons, control some aspect of territory or black-market trade for their own gain.

History leading to the start of the story.

Formation of the team through Robin identifying, finding, and helping Cyborg, Beastboy, and Raven.

Introduction of Starfire, and the defense of Jump City from the attacking fleet that pursued her, leading to the creation of Titans’ Tower from a crashed frigate.

Intro Hive Five encounter where they showed the Titan’s there is more than just street crime they have to be ready for, and that there are high powers looking their way.

The Titan’s become comfortable with their position as they successfully put away many heavy hitting street villains and mob bosses throughout Jump City.

Slade makes his first move against the Titan’s showing them that they have become lax in their comfort. Slade was able to easily divide and conquer the Titan’s after Robin broke the trust of his team and made a false persona to work for Slade to try and get close to him.

After a long game of cat and mouse with Slade a final confrontation with the team showed that he was more than capable of taking on the Titan’s alone, but an unforeseen hitch in Slade’s plan lead to him having to withdraw from the fight subsequently destroying his base of operations, and sparking large scale conflict from groups he was allied with for assets he had left behind.

To combat these conflicts the Titans enlisted heros they had met along their travels and missions to help quell the unrest from other cities.

[Bright_Ops]

Pandor

Name: Bartolomeo Peckish

Alias: Pandor

Image/Description:


Due to the nature of Pandor's signature power, no one actually knows what his original face, form or even gender is for certain. Whatever it might have been, he seems to prefer being male since that will generally be the gender he falls back to and generally uses the most. While the flesh and body might change, what remains consistent is the red hood and the white mask that he wears when he isn't pretending to be someone or something else.

Age:
Impossible to tell from appearance alone, but he's actually in his early to mid twenties age wise.

Gender:
Complicated, but seems to identify as male.

Race:
Mutant Human.

Alignment:
Villain

Mentors:
Numerous, through they were generally unaware of his true identity at the time. Check Backstory for details.

Skills/Meta Abilities:

Shape Shifter: Pandor is naturally gifted as a shape shifter, being able to alter his body to take on the appearance of anyone or just about anything mundane that he wants provided that it is a living creature. While he is taking a non-human form, he gains access to the abilities that it has access to... provided that they are a result of a physical characteristic of the body in question. His shape shifting does not allow for the use of any magical abilities that the creature may possess.

For example: If he was to take the form of a spider, he would be able to climb most surfaces easily because that is a physical trait. If he was the take the form of a venomous snake, he would have venom because the venom sacks are a physical part of the snake. If he took the form of a cockatrice however, he would not have its death stare since that is a magical ability and not a physical one.

He has experimented with partial transformations (IE, shifting a limb into that of a different species while keeping the rest something else), but the results of this have been... difficult to maintain to say the least. He also needs to understand the biology of what he is transforming into in order to get the benefits (and weaknesses) of it; He could look exactly like Aqua Man if he wanted to, but without understanding the biology behind being an Atlantian and what makes them so powerful it would just be appearances alone.

Mixed Martial Arts: While he earned them individual under teachers that any civilian can have access to, Pandor is a brown belt at Taekwondo, skilled at American Kick Boxing and practiced at Muay Thai. While individually not that impressive, combined with Pandor's innate shape shifting makes him a very dangerous person to fight in close combat.

Biology Minded: While likely a side effect of his powers, Pandor has taken the time to learn about biology. He is not one of those professors who understands seemingly everything about what the field has to offer, but his education has given him a solid foundation and the ability to figure things out as he pushes ahead.

Personality:
Pandor is one of nature's actors and thus it is really difficult to pin down a personalty... at least, pinning down what his actual personalty might be. Some suspect even he doesn't fully know what kind of person he is at heart, since when someone asked him what it was like to be a shape shifter he answered "You have to be careful. You spend too long pretending to be other people and sooner or later you'll forget who you're meant to be when you're not wearing the mask."

While he would never admit it, the reason he wears his trademark mask when he isn't required to pretend to be something else is because he no longer remembers what he originally looked like and the mask... comforts him. It gives him a sense of identity that when the mask is on, he is himself. As such, he will come down on anyone who tries to steal or damage his mask with anger and furious vengeance that will be swift and brutal. Even allowing someone to touch his mask is an act of trust that goes beyond words for him.

When Pandor is wearing his mask and is being himself, he is rather civil and generally aloof to the problems of people he doesn't know. His views on some of the work he does (stealing, spying and assassination) is that it is just a job to him; The universe is cold, uncaring and the capitalist system of America punishes those who can't make ends meet in a largely stacked game. Interestingly, he doesn't wear the costume while working: The mask comes on when Pandor is off the clock.

Pandor is not the kind of villain who blows open a bank vault, grabs as much as can be carried and leaves; Quiet and subtle are his watch words. A good job is one where no one knows anything happened until sometime after the fact.

That being said... while Pandor isn't generally social those few people who he considers friends he treasures highly. Loyalty is hard earned but once he offers it, Pandor will always be willing to help a friend out.

As far as he is concerned, Pandor is Pandor. Whatever his name or identity was before, it's dead now.

Likes: Professionalism, Video Games, Table Top Role Playing Games, Fan Forums.

Dislikes: Unprofessionalism, Hackers (in a Video Game context), Power Gamers, Internet Trolls.

Backstory:
Pandor has told numerous tales of his origins. He has claimed to have originated as one of many children born to a farmstead up near the frozen north of the world whom joined his father one day on a business trip down south and simply never returned north having been born with the ability to change form at will, the son of a doctor who lived in the far east who uncovered the secrets of how to change his form in ancient occult texts before before forced to flee his homeland due to a war... and one interesting tale about being a noble born from a distant land whom had come across the occult when normal experiences and sensations grew boring. Which, if any, of these tales are actually true he keeps completely to himself.

The sad truth is that Bartolomeo was just a normal kid born and raised in a strict religious household who did well at school, played basket ball on the weekends and went to church on Sunday. That life changed as he started puberty and his mutant power to shape shift developed. His family rejected him, with his father driving him to the nearest city, giving him a tent and five dollars before abandoning him on the streets to fend for himself.

Bartolomeo disappeared, like many other children abandoned or forced to flee from their homes and live on the streets. Pandor appeared shortly afterwards and the rest, as they say, is history. Using the funds he started to build up from his life of crime, Pandor invested it into further his education; False identities were created for those activities (such as schooling) that required such things, but for the most part all he needed was the money to pay for the class and an eager face to learn and he would be accepted just about anywhere.

Bob

Appearance:
'Bob' as he has come to be known stands at an intimidating nine feet tall with wide shoulders and whose body mass suggests that he is more solid then most walls. While clearly human in origin, the unnatural size of his body when compared to the average human combined with the fact that he seems to lack the health issues that commonly plagued those with gigantism suggests unnatural origins; A theory that gains ground quickly when one looks closely enough to see the old, faint but visible surgical scars in strategic locations.

It's clear he's been punched in the face rather hard a number of times and those have left their mark, but his face still maintains a degree of chubbiness and his blue eyes seems to hold something of an innocence to them. His hair, such as it is, is kept either very short or outright shaved off, but his eyebrows reveal that he has blond-brown colored hair.

Name:
Robert

Nickname:
Bob
Honest Bob.

Alias:
Bob

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Species/Race:
Human (Genetically enhanced/experiment)

Powers/Abilities:
Bob possesses superhuman strength, durability and endurance. During tests at the Justice League after being recovered in order to test the extent of his abilities, in a purely physical contest it was found that he could engage in a spar with core members of the Justice League (Wonder Woman, Superman, ect). He couldn't win these spars due to a combination of the experience gap and lacking the super speed and agility required to keep up, but he could tank their hits and those blows of his that landed could cause pretty solid damage in return.

Brawler: Bob is not a martial artist. He hasn't learned any recognized form of martial arts or self defense. He does however know how to punch and kick things and he's got the raw supernatural might to make them count regardless of where they hit with the ability to tank blows in return.

Supernaturally Strong Willed: Bob possesses an insanely strong will. This is utterly surprising to many due to his lack of basic education and low intelligence making them believe he is weak minded, but the truth is that if he decides on a course of action or that something needs to be done, it's going to happen no matter what. Making him do something he doesn't want to do is a nightmare to attempt.

Alignment: Hero!

Mentor: Bob has learned from and interacted with various members of the Justice League, all of whom he looks up to and has nothing but the upmost respect for. The closest one to him personally through is Captain Marvel. Of all the Justice League members, Captain Marvel had the easiest time being able to connect with Bob and his kin. The second closest, to the surprise of many, was Batman.

Backstory:
Memories of his life before the abduction when he was seven are hazy at best. He knows that he is American, but he can't remember the state or city he grew up near. He remembers memories of his mother and sister, but he cannot remember their names or even what they actually looked like. He cannot even remember his last name, only remembering that his name is Robert because his mother called him that, but everyone else called him Bob for short.

What is known for certainty is that when he was seven years old, he was one of many children across the Americas (North and South) that were taken by a criminal organization that were performing human experiments to try and create superhuman dumb muscle able to stand up to and combat the various super humans/aliens that were on Earth to be sold to whomever wanted to buy the results.

Children were collected and submitted to these experiments due to cold, unethical progress; It was found that pre-teens between the ages of 4 to 8 took to the treatments best in both stability and results. It also allowed them to better 'mold' their uneducated minds to put the 'dumb' in dumb muscle. It took eight years in order to perform all the treatments to let the results settle and the time between surgeries was generally used to condition the 'product' to be loyal, obedient and prone to violence.

This would have been Bob's fate... had the Justice League not caught wind of what was going on very quickly after the first wave of these genetically modified brutes hit the black market and tracked them back down to the source and shut it down with a fury rarely seen.

In the aftermath, there was the major problem of what to do with the 'product' created by the now broken criminal group. Many children were able to go home with a variety of treatments done to reverse the tampering that had happened to them, but Bob was not so lucky. After a point, what was done couldn't be undone and since he was more or less finished and they had simply been waiting the last time period to let his genetics settle before selling him off, Bob was well beyond the line of no return.

Since there was no evidence of where he originally came from and letting Bob and those like him wander around free with their inhuman strength and conditioned to be criminal dumb muscle was an insanely bad idea, Bob and those like him became a ward of the Justice League so that they could have their conditioning broken and given the education they had been denied so that they could be apart of the world rather then just a thing to be used for dark intent.

After discussing with his mentors at the League about what kind of life awaited him and his kin, Bob made it clear that he personally wanted to be a hero... but he acknowledged that he didn't really have a lot of experience with the world in general and didn't trust himself to go it alone. Acknowledging both Bob's desires and short comings, Batman introduced Bob to Robin and the Teen Titans by extension.

Personality:
Bob is surprisingly kind and gentle for someone of his size, strength and background once the violent conditioning was broken. He is also possessed of a child like desire to help others and be a hero. Bob is neither smart nor educated, but he values both and actively strives to push himself to improve his mind, even if he is clearly very far behind those in his age group.

Other:
Despite appearances, Bob isn't stupid; He was conditioned to not think for himself and was denied education, but he is actually one of the fastest learners among his genetically enhanced kind. He can read at an elementary school level and understands basic mathematics. He can't actually write through... he lacks the fine motor control needed to do so properly.

Here's two for you to look into.

[Crimson Flame]

I have a few ideas for characters. I’ll get a character sheet in later.

[Restalaan]

So just to check, we're free to make our own stories exploring the cities/underground so long it within reason during the downtime (Which I suppose also builds into the main story)?

[Dragonfly 9]

Interested, but might not be able to be active. :') We'll just have to see.

[Mistress Dizzy]

HBIC Bartender is on the way

[Master Crim]

@Restalaan Yes, when characters that are within the Teen Titans are not on a mission or assignment, they are free to follow leads from previous encounters, look into different areas of the city to dig up whatever they might find, or even just hit the town.

@Dragonfly 9 That is completely okay, I don't plan on making this a fast moving RP I have an overnight work schedule and not always am I in the frame-of-mind to make a post when I get off work.\

[Restalaan]

@Master Crim

I see, cause I was thinking of makimg a neutral character, so I was wondering in between large collab events, I would be crafting my own story that would eitger build into the next main story or expand my own characters story?

Or would you occasionally guide or put an update for these sidestories?

[Master Crim]

@Restalaan Your story crafting would be largely of your own choices, and as you go though your crafting you may get the attention of other groups in the mix of things. I would be keeping in contact with neutral characters if they get close to things of importance or they would run into some other characters I am keeping track of behind the scenes. I will always keep you in the loop of what your character would logically know, or be told about with collaborations. There will be a number of underground contacts that can be reached for different means.

[Restalaan]

Editted, waiting for GM approval.

[Skwint]

How the hell do you slice someone in half with a knife? Did he take multiple swings until he got all the way through?

[Restalaan]

How the hell do you slice someone in half with a knife? Did he take multiple swings until he got all the way through?

@Skwint

He's both that strong and skilled to do that, it's not an exaggeration when lots of heroes (And sometimes villains) pulls their punches on normal people. Korbl in this case didn't and ended up outright just cutting a man in half.

[Eviledd1984]

@Master Crim

Interested in joining this RP. I'll have a character sheet ready hopefully by the start of the weekend.

[Master Crim]

@Restalaan Can you send me you CS in a PM please?

[Master Crim]

I have made a edit to the CS with some of the characters that have been submitted, I am willing to work with what you have presented, but please refer to this for future creations.

What this story is looking for is new start villains or heros. People who have either recently discovered their powers/made their way into the underground, or that have recently come out from under their mentor to start their own adventures and path.

Added section- Weaknesses

CS Outline

The type of characters this stroy would be looking for is people that would fit into the Teen Titans setting, not people who could be League contenders. Characters that could fill the role of the Titans alone wouldn't really fit into the "new team mentoring" frame work that this game will follow, like wise with characters not hero aligned being able to cause major shake up to criminal syndicates at play. I would like this to be a story that sees character grow into their potential as they find their way, instead of starting at the top of their game. Think of this like a lvl 2 adventure: you know that you can do, but you aren't sure how well you can do it all the time and don't have a perfect grasp on the extent of what you can accomplish.

[Bright_Ops]

@Master Crim

So is Bob good? Because he is very physically and tanky... but he has very little social awareness and can't really do anything for the team that isn't physical in some manner.

[Master Crim]

@Bright_Ops Pandor is good, I just need to go over a few things with Bob yet. Some technicalities with his back story you sent me.

[Master Crim]

Sorry all for the prolonged inactivity, I have been busy with life, and planning things for the story as characters get submitted. If anyone has questions please let me know, and I will get to you as soon as I have time for.

[Eviledd1984]

@Master Crim

Mind looking over my character boss?

[Restalaan]

So we looking to do this RP anytime within the month?