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You've no doubt heard of One Universe RP's by now. The simple enough throughline is that they're each canon-based games that feature players taking on the roles of the DC and Marvel superheroes of their choosing in a shared reality. These have taken on many forms here on the Guild, be it the Absolute Comics games, One Universe: World Of Heroes, Ultimate One Universe, and other variations on the theme.

Well, despite our own best attempts to kill the concept for good, it's back in another form. But we're doing things a bit differently this time. Gone are the days when massive bits of player-crafted lore and cosmic-level events were the driving force. We aren't going to attempt to hide entire swaths of supervillains and rogues galleries behind certain player characters, either. Infact, we're not even going to set a rank and file of pre-established heroes. Because in this version of events, it's week one. An Emergence, if you will.

The Justice League. The Avengers. The Teen Titans. The X-Men. Doom Patrol. Thunderbolts.

Legends in our reality, but just barely legends-in-the-making in the game's.


The Premise

Following events that mirror world history from the dawn of time until the year 2023, the idea of active superhumans and costumed heroes was but fiction. While mutations began to manifest in the early 60s, their power levels were believed to be so minuscule and non-lethal that regulations were quickly implemented to legalize and protect their existence. The World Health Organization even developed mandatory inhibitors to limit mutants to that of a cosmetic fad that fell out of style in the early 90s. By the late 2010s, things had settled to the point that everyone widely accepted such things as metahuman powers and alien beings didn't exist.

Until, just barely a week ago, a group of onlookers in the city of Metropolis were forced to look up in the sky.

Until days after, when a group of would-be thieves in New York were found to be webbed to the side of a building.

Until just yesterday, when a woman in the Middle East appeared amid military conflict and deflected bullets off of metal bracelets.

Until hours ago, when violent criminals in Gotham City swore that they came into contact with an eight-foot creature of the night.

Until now, when the skies above Earth seem to be teeming with thunder and lightning so powerful that it could only be the work of a God.

There's an emergence coming. Humanity and the world will never be the same.

The question is, what happens next?


Rules are simple. Pick a hero from either one of the big two comic companies and only those two. Start them out on the first week of the job. Whatever happens next is your call, but in a world of brand new heroes - and, likely, villains waiting in the wings to oppose them - the winning strategy is to interact and team-up against threats that would range from the minor costumed creep to escalating levels of city-wide destruction.

But in a world that had previously thrived without the existence of powers and abilities such as yours, your character's not going to be hailed as a hero... not until they've earned it. And that will be a long process, no matter if you're a street tough like Night Thrasher or the newest recruit of The Green Lantern Corps. You're new to this, so don't get cocky and assume that people are going to worship you from the get-go. They're more likely to see you as a threat to the world at large.

You get dibs on your supporting cast and one archenemy. The rest will be free to roam and appear anywhere, in any player's stories, for at least a first-time encounter. So if you're playing Daredevil and thinking that the Parasite can only face off against Superman, you're playing the game wrong. And rather dangerously, given that he could probably absorb the radar senses right out of you.

Other than that? Just have fun with it. Get creative with your character's set-up and familiar trappings, with full permission to change long-running superheroes to fit your vision, as long as the core of that hero remains.

Though as a last thing worth mentioning, keep in mind of some logistics. Don't have The Reverse Flash or Venom show up without a Flash or Spider-Man to face off with them first, when their entire character leans on that pre-existence. Not unless you're prepared to do extensive alterations. And really try to avoid attempting sidekicks that rely on a primary hero. This is week one, for Odin's sake, we're not there yet...

Hang out, make love (keep it PG-13), fight, whatever. The name of the game is working together. Craft this world yourselves with as much help from your fellow players as needed.



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There'll be a 24-hour competitive application phase for each character until the IC starts, after-which it'll be a free-for-all. Each competing sheet will be GM voted. Myself and @Sep would be the GM's.

(I'll be applying for Kal-El, in the event that any prospective Batman player is worried about my presence.)
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Hang out, make love (keep it PG-13)
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@Lord Wraith need not apply
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Interested!
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Interested!


Someone has to be
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Specifically, a few other someones so that the game can launch.
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Currently thinking of going for a reimagined Iron Fist!
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I have a weird lil bit of a Batman concept in mind.

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Maybe. With a caveat that it will not be my priority and if I find it impacting PRCU I'll drop pretty fast. Do with that information what you will.
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Maybe. With a caveat that it will not be my priority and if I find it impacting PRCU I'll drop pretty fast. Do with that information what you will.


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C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L
S P I D E R – M A N


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"You got the hyphen, right?"
P E T E R P A R K E R P E N D I N G Q U E E N S , N E W Y O R K
O R I G I N S:


The gen-u-wine classic. Accept no imitations.

The perfect character for this setting, webs branching across the superhero community. To set a good anchor line for this RP, we’ll be getting a straight-down-the-line version (with a slight tweak to his affinty/relationship with his own webbing and its creation - see the sample) on the classic – albeit modernised for the technology of the day for the science-enthused teen of the 2020s.

He’s in the last term of his junior year of high school (looking forward to the following year being his final year of high school - the horizon beckons, and his responsibilities loom large). Uncle Ben has JUST died. So I won’t be playing through that beat-for-beat for the tragic stuff, but it’ll likely still pop up in flashbacks… he’s also coming to terms with the fact it’s just happened, and the lesson it beat into him like a drum.

S A M P L E P O S T:

Peter looked down at the bed. The suit lay crisp and pressed.

And as a stark, grim reminder to the lesson his kind Uncle had tried to instil in him earlier that week. The words he'd failed to take to heart when he was in his 'other' suit.

With a solitary heavy sniff, he wiped his steadily moistening eyes and set to task, donning the shirt.

"Not my problem, pal..."

Life had a way of making these kinds of things your problem. The ol' Parker luck was never exactly the best, high-quality, brandname luck... But when you don't want to go tempting fate or karma or what have you with things like that.

Life can change in an instant. And a lot of the time its the decisions you barely even acknowledge at the time as being a decision, which can sometimes make all the difference. To come back and bite you.

"Now come along class, as interesting as Oscorp's great leaps in gene therapy to create the next generation of bioengineered silkworms may be, there's even more to be seen in the Robotics and Cybernetics laboratories."

"But this one's missing..."

He kept looking over the glass case, the silkworm was indeed gone. His hands spread across the glass, as he scoured the case looking for where it could have possibly gone.

He didn't notice the reason it was gone as it slowly lowered itself on thin threads of gossamer.


He had no idea that the genetic elasticity from the bioengineered silkworm was altering the spider's own genetic structure, as the arachnid intermediary would in turn affect the oblivious teen with the plasticity of its own genetics.

It made him stronger, faster, able to cling and climb walls, and gave him this strange afinity with a strange substance he discovered after the incident.

He suspected that wasn't merely a coincedence. But in hindsight, he should probably be grateful he wasn't shooting webs out of his butt, or vomiting them up, like either of the two creatures before him in the predator/prey relationship which led to his newfound spider powers.

The webfluid he'd discovered, hardened rapidly on contact with air. He'd engineered himself some 'web-shooters' which allowed him to fire web-lines long distances, or disperse the web fluid in a few other useful ways. Most interesting of all, and the fact that led him to believe that none of this was a coincedence, was the fact that his affinity for this substance led him to extrasensory feelings around its use.

As a result, he would know where his weblines were without looking, and could even use highly concentrated globs of webfluid to create 'spider tracers' which he could sense where those concentrated globs were from far across town.

For a short while after, he had cursed his powers. But that was the emotion. The rage. The sadness.

They weren't the problem. The problem was that those powers weren't being properly respected. Just as his uncle had said, in a roundabout way. He just didn't know that the great power he'd been referring to... well it hapened to be super.

But that only called for even more responsibility. He could see that now. And he'd live up to it. For Uncle Ben. He deserved more than for it to be a lesson not learned from.

As he pulled his pants on he looked up at the webshooters he had resting on the shelf. Hiding in plain sight, by his homemade lightsaber and his attempt at a hoverboard. If he'd stowed them in his closet it would raise more questions from his Aunt than if they were left out, looking like something he'd made because he saw something in a movie.

He got to his feet and picked up the tie, popping his collar to affix it. As he began the windsor, he saw the form letter from Oscorp. It was signed Norman Osborn CEO, and was a stronghanded attempt to remove all culpability for what happened in the school incident, and whilst it didn't specifically threaten, reading between the lines it suggested that any attempts to get renumeration for damages by civil suit would be met with a countersuit for the damages to Oscorp IP, a reminder of the permission slips for the trip that gave lattitude in absolving the company from liability and the fact that Oscorp has surveillance tapes of every minute every student was on Oscorp property.

He wondered if Norman Osborn was aware he went to school with his son. Or if he even knew what school and class was there that day. Or if he even had a part in writing this letter himself, or even if it had just been electronically signed.

So much for getting his medical bills covered, not that the doctors even did much. By the time they saw him he was already feeling better. So it looks like he'd have to find another way to bring in some money to cover expenditures. Uncle Ben was retired, but he'd do odds and ends in the community for a little extra, and social security covered most things with the house already paid for. But with his death, life insurance just gave the one big lump sum payout, a lot of which went into this funeral. For the most part things would be OK, but things were tight. And they didn't have much for a rainy day in the household.

And the old Parker Luck happened to find every raincloud there was in the sky at the best of times.

There was only one thing for it. He'd need a job. And something that pays off a little better than a newspaper route. But these were thoughts best left for another day.

Staightening his tie, he slung his suit jacket over his back.

"Peter! Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, Aunt May! Just finished now!" He called back.

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How do you know it's a UO game?

@Hound55 has a sheet ready before the OOC is up
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How do you know it's a UO game?

@Hound55 has a sheet ready before the OOC is up


Who knows..? You might get one with a good sample by then. :
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And the first Hound coding error... We truly are back!
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With apologies to the very kind @Half Pint, I figure I should say that I'm working on an Iron Fist and Power Man concept myself. Excited to see what everyone's cooking!
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Here by unpopular demand, I am interested.
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@Master Bruce only question I have about the "From Marvel & DC and ONLY from them" is: What about the properties that Marvel & DC that used to take part in their timeliness but have been lost due to copyright issues stand? I'm talking stuff like Transformers, Rom The Spaceknight and Micronauts. I realize this is a mostly Marvel thing, but the question still stands.

I mean, most of those were never decanonized. Micronauts keep popping up, Circuitbreaker and Deathshead origins as Transformers villains were never technically decanonized and Rom is now back at the company. And let's not forget the fact that James Gunn's last act as a director at Marvel was to Canonize the Go-Bots in the MCU.
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@Master Bruce only question I have about the "From Marvel & DC and ONLY from them" is: What about the properties that Marvel & DC that used to take part in their timeliness but have been lost due to copyright issues stand? I'm talking stuff like Transformers, Rom The Spaceknight and Micronauts. I realize this is a mostly Marvel thing, but the question still stands.

I mean, most of those were never decanonized. Micronauts keep popping up, Circuitbreaker and Deathshead origins as Transformers villains were never technically decanonized and Rom is now back at the company. And let's not forget the fact that James Gunn's last act as a director at Marvel was to Canonize the Go-Bots in the MCU.


I think for this type of game specifically, it would be too much to introduce and have going on alongside the superheroes and supervillains also showing up for the first time. I'm not familiar with Transformers' place in the larger Marvel canon, but my feeling is that their appearances would dictate entire dedicated stories and books in of themselves. It would kind of detract from the idea that the biggest thing to ever happen to this world was, say, a character like Wonder Woman showing up if you also had Optimus Prime and The Decepticons. It'd almost overshadow it. Any sort of bigger property that veers off the path of vigilantes versus costumed bad guys probably wouldn't fit, for that matter. Star Wars, for instance, is one thousand percent a no-go despite being published by Marvel. And with DC, they have the Looney Tunes... it just wouldn't mesh.

The same goes for Godzilla and King Kong (and their assorted monsters), who were just in a huge crossover title with the Justice League as of this year. It'd be too much.
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Doc dragged me out of my little hermit cave for this one.

It's a coin toss for me between Objectivist douchebag Question or revisiting Chow Yun Castle.
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