Back on the Rails - A Multiverse RP

[Tachi]

Everyone knows some stories of good versus evil. Whether they're costumed hero teams against monsters, elves versus orcs, superheroes and villains or even normal humans, one thing remains consistent through the majority of these tales: Good triumphs over evil in the end.

However, what if something happened differently to give the villains an advantage? What if the hero's Deus ex Machina power-up didn't arrive; or the villain's treacherous advisor was dealt with before he could backstab his boss; maybe someone slapped the engineer that suggested a big ol' self-destruct button back during the planning stages?

A mysterious group known as the Shadow Line has taken it upon themselves to answer this. Travelling the multiverse, they do what they can to change assorted worlds to help evil triumph. Their methods vary from world to world, though they aim to be at least somewhat subtle most of the time. After all, they've already got ONE bunch of "heroes" after them...better not to add to that.

During a chase between these two groups, the Shadow Line's Darkliner fumbled a "Line Change" in an attempt to lose its pursuer. This brought both of them to our Earth, over a small island resort, where a blast from the Darkliner damaged the pursuing Rainbow Line train, causing some of its cargo, an assortment of items from around the multiverse, to fall to the ground below. That is where you come in.

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Basically, this RP will follow a group of people from Earth (original characters and self-inserts/author avatars are both fine) travelling through the multiverse and repairing various worlds, which have been derailed by the main villains, the Shadow Line. Ideally, there will be a balance of both combat and downtime for characters to interact. While I'm not completely opposed to player controlled villains, I will say that I'm going to be fairly picky with them, to avoid clashes with the intended tone of the RP. Speaking of which, I'm going for a lighter tone with this. While villains should be threatening, try to avoid pointlessly bloody or dark backstories for them...Or for anyone else, really.

Finally, while I have some world ideas, I would like other people to suggest/run arcs too. I'm including a sheet for world ideas, as well as the character sheet. Ideally, the world should still be intact (sorry, 90% of DBZ villains), the main characters should still be alive (it's not like villains haven't decided prison/slavery/exile/needlessly complex death traps are valid ways to deal with their nemeses before) and whatever's changed to swing things in the villains' favour shouldn't seem TOO out of place with the world.

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Character Sheet:

Name:
Age:
Appearance: Written descriptions and pictures are both fine.
Powers/Equipment: Whatever power or gear your character picked up, as well as any relevant things they happened to be carrying. Powers/gear should at least be based on something from a fictional setting, though some things can be changed around.
Personality:
Brief Backstory:
Other:

Arc Sheet:

World: What show/book/movie/etc is the arc set in?
What Changed?: What changed that made the villains win/has the villains close to winning?
What's it like now?: What the world's like when the heroes arrive.
Other:

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm definitely joining!

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

I'm also into this.

[Revans Exile]

I'm getting a distinct Ressha Sentai ToQger feel. Bad guys in that were members of the Shadow Line and the good guys were aboard the Rainbow Line.

[Rin]

Whee~

• Name: Rin
• Age: Somewhere in her 20's.
• Appearance: Whee.
• Powers/Equipment: A mysterious briefcase containing a strange belt-buckle and six USB drives. It's the Double Driver and a set of Gaia Memories that can be used to transform into (a slightly modified) Kamen Rider Double! But without a partner, it's kind of useless. Hmmm.
• Personality: Hammy, hotblooded, silly and something of a perv, with a notable love of boyish girls and girlish boys. Refuses to act her age most of the time, but when she does it's usually a bad sign. She has a strong sense of justice, and is quick to jump to the defence of anyone she feels has been wronged, but other than that she's kinda lazy. Rin is kind of a nerd, especially towards anime, and especially towards magical girls, super robots and men in spandex fighting rubber monsters. She also enjoys cooking, reading and music, especially heavy metal. Unfortunately, she also suffers from an inferiority complex and tends to put everyone else before herself, and has a habit of apologising far too much when she believes she has done something wrong. Rin is a pretty good cook with a rather wide repertoire, as well as being somewhat skilled in unarmed martial arts (specifically, kung fu and tai chi); she's not exactly a world champion or anything but she can at least hold her own.
• Brief Backstory: There's... Honestly not much to say, really. An average life filled with boredom and nothing particularly interesting. Partially because of this, Rin has always wanted to get out there and go on some grand, fantastical adventure even though she knows it's not likely to happen. It's not like she's just going to have something like that suddenly thrust on her after all, right?
• Other: Already discussed stuff with the person who'll be the "Phillip" of this version of Double, so I hope no-one offers to take that position as it is already filled.

[Tachi]

Vita and Vaultboy: I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with! ^_^

Revan: Pretty much. Although honestly, the members and goals aren't necessarily going to be the same as they were in ToQGer, so it's not like people are going to need to be familiar with that show to get what's going on here.

Rin: Looks good to me, she's accepted!

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Name: Rachel Kay
Age: 24
Appearance: Similar to this, except she generally wears jeans and an Iron Maiden or Kamen Rider-based T-shirt rather than a tracksuit. She's roughly 5'6" tall.
Powers/Equipment: Rachel acquires a modified Pokegear and a small case containing a set of cards bearing images of assorted Pokemon. By scanning one of the cards in the slot on the bottom of the Pokegear, she is able to change into one of the following forms:

• Farfetch'd: Rachel gains the Wild Duck Pokemon's leek-based combat skills, as well as the razor sharp vegetable required to use them. While she isn't capable of flying, she can jump far higher than should be humanly possible and is capable of gliding short distances. In addition, due to the Keen Eye ability, her eyesight is enhanced in this form, enabling her to pick up on smaller details and spot things from long distances. Her outfit in this form is basically this, albeit with a leek instead of a sword.
• Litwick: With the Candle Pokemon's power, Rachel becomes immune to fire-based attacks, which just cause the flame on her head to increase in size and power up her own fire attacks, in addition she is able to conjure blasts of fire of varying intensities, as well as beams, balls and rings of dark energy, she also gains the ability to shrink herself down, becoming harder to hit. In this form, Rachel wears a white dress, which hangs past her ankles, her hair hangs in front of her face, covering one eye and a purple flame burns on top of her head.
• Sylveon: The Intertwining Pokemon's Pixilate ability infuses Rachel's attacks with, for lack of a better term, fairy magic, boosting the strength of those not already based around this power. In this form, Rachel gains the power to channel the power of the moon to create a destructive beam, conjure star-shaped projectiles that home in on their target, release a flash of light to blind opponents for a short time and focus all of her strength into a single physical strike, which causes insane amounts of damage if it connects, but leaves her completely exhausted afterwards, making it a last resort. This form's appearance changes are...a bit more severe than the others.
• Cosplay Pikachu: Using the Mouse Pokemon's card, Rachel gains the power to manipulate electricity in a variety of ways, while becoming immune to it herself. In addition, depending on what "costume" she's wearing, she gains the ability to make her fists harder than steel, summon icicles to rain down, create an electrical current in the surrounding area to power up electrical attacks, drain energy by kissing or perform wrestling moves. In this form, Rachel gains Pikachu's ears and tail, as well as a costume similar to one of its different forms. The costume can be changed through the use of a card depicting all 5 variations of Cosplay Pikachu.
• Heracross: While using the Single Horn Pokemon's card, Rachel gains improved fighting skills, as well as the ability to fire bullet or needle-like projectiles by punching at the air. This form gives Rachel a suit of armour similar to this.
• Froakie: Rachel gains several ninja-esque abilities while using the Bubble Frog Pokemon's card, allowing her to substitute herself for a decoy or pull smoke bombs from her jacket's pockets. In addition, she can project blasts of water and has her swimming abilities enhanced. While using this form, Rachel's glasses turn into pince-nez and she wears a dark blue skirt and lighter blue jacket with a fluffy collar resembling Froakie's bubbles.

Personality: Rachel is shy around people she doesn't know. However once she feels comfortable around someone, she becomes more cheerful and energetic, if a bit snarky at times. She is a fan of assorted manga and anime, mostly slice of life or action series, as well as assorted tokusatsu series. She also enjoys music, mostly metal (generally more of the heavy or power varieties) and rock, as well as cooking.
Brief Backstory: There isn't really much to say. Rachel has had a boring, ordinary life for the most part. She coasted through school without any real effort, getting decent grades in the process. She spent some time in university, studying to become a teacher, but is currently taking a break to see more of the world.
Other:

[McFazzer]

I'll place my interest.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll have my character up soon.

[VitaVitaAR]

Name: Anno
Age: 21
Appearance: Usually in skirts though and that tiny jacket is really nice. But, um, kind of pale skin, blue eyes, brown hair, tends to wear reds and blues.
Powers/Equipment: Anno has become capable of accessing the Gaia Library, and of using the Cyclone Memory to become the right half of Kamen Rider Double. Naturally this means she has the other Double Driver and the Cyclone Memory.
Personality: Shy and somewhat reclusive, Anno spends most of her time reading or on the computer. While she is a bit more likely to be somewhat open among friends, her nerves get to her easily and she sometimes suffers from anxiety. She does her best to try and work through this, but it can sometimes be rather difficult to do so. She is a fan of action and slice of life works, as well as comedies. She is also a fan of yuri. She likes cute things a great deal and is very, very much against seeing children hurt for any reason. Anno is a massive fan of the Nasuverse, Touhou, and a lot of other things that would take an unnecessarily large amount of space to list. She is rather easy to embarrass and make feel rather awkward, however.
Brief Backstory: Anno's life is mostly uninteresting, she's mostly just a normal girl.
Other: The other half Rin was talking about so yeah. ^^;

[Flamelord]

I'm in. I'll get something up soon.

[Psyga315]

Name: Nicholas Santos
Age: 21
Appearance: You may call me "Nicholas The Renegade"! Or Grim Reaper... doesn't matter to me.
Powers/Equipment: Nicholas carries with him the Break Gunner, a device that allows him to transform into Mashin Chaser. As Mashin Chaser, Nicholas is able to fight, but due to damage induced by the Shadow Line, its Core Driviar is damaged, disabling the ability to slow down time. To counter this, however, Nicholas also obtained two Shift Cars and three Viral Cores.

• Amazing Circus: Allows Nicholas to fire out props and fireworks from his Break Gunner.
• Deko Traveler: Allows Nicholas to pull off a disorientating background change... though it only seems to disorientate himself.
• Chaser Cobra Viral Core: Gives Nicholas the Tail Whipper, a whip weapon.
• Chaser Spider Viral Core: Gives Nicholas the Fang Spidey, a gauntlet weapon with a pincer at the end.
• Chaser Bat Viral Core: Gives Nicholas the Wing Sniper, a crossbow weapon that can allow Nicholas to fly if put on his back.

Personality: Nicholas can get cocky. Especially when he has power in his hands. He is also easily excitable, though that excitability can make him incredibly obnoxious. In the face of grimness, he tends to crack jokes, though he's also prone to worrying if things are incredibly bad to a point where cracking jokes would only get people to give dirty looks at you. "There's a time and a place for jokes." he puts it.
Brief Backstory: Nicholas was a college graduate ready to go out into the working world. He soon found work at a shop that specializes in automobile repairs. Though his boss was... Well... Bossy, he grew fond of the young man. Day by day, he taught him all there is to know about fixing cars.
Other:

World: Dragon Ball Z
What Changed?: Goku's trip to Namek was delayed, so he didn't arrive during the Ginyu Force arc.
Other: It may be confusing as to how this would lead the villains into victory, but think about it: Goku arrived right as Recoome was kicking everyone's ass.

[clanjos]

Name: Richard "Dick" Wrole
Age: 25
Appearance: A blonde man with greenish, tired eyes and a red sweatshirt, he usually wears jeans. He's now got a rotary dial from a phone booth in his pocket.

Powers/Equipment: The H-Dial, a mystical device with the ability to transform its user into a range of strange and incredible heroes. These heroes tend toward the Cape aesthetic, but some of them can be downright strange- IE, Cock-A-Hoop, Boy Chimney, and Daffodil Host. The downside to the dial: Dick doesn't get to choose WHICH hero he turns into, and some of the powers are eccentric. Case in point, Flamewar, who can set things on fire by insulting them, or Pelican Army, who is a hivemind composed of pelicans and a telepathic redcoat soldier.

Personality: Had someone said "Take this magic rotary dial and go beat up evil things," he would have jumped at the call. Granted, he'd probably ask what the hell the person was on, talking about magic rotary dials and interdimensional superheroes, but it's a fair question when dealing with wackos. He's a man of moderate intelligence and has a patchwork knowledge of many subjects, mostly involving biology, computers, and physics, although nothing too specialized. He's torn between how awesome being a superhero is and how weird his various forms are.

Brief Backstory: An American with a love of all things superhero, he's visiting the island to take a break from college. His family's a little rough right now, but hopefully a vacation's just what he needs. Besides, ruins are awesome. And volcanoes, dormant or otherwise, are EXTREMELY awesome.

Other: PELICAN ARMY!

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Name: Joey Jocoby
Age: 17
Appearance: Tall, well built, deeply tanned boy with slicked back black hair.
Powers/Equipment: Joe has no equipment, having thrown away the strange arrowhead that feel from the sky and sliced open his right cheek before realizing that it had given him the ability to manifest a 「Stand」.

『Diamonds Are Forever』
Destructive Power: E
Speed: A
Range: A
Durability: C
Precision: A
Development Potential: B

Diamonds Are Forever manifests as a pair of clockwork, beetle like insects about the size of a human fist. Each one has a large, diamond like jewel implanted on its back which opens up to allow its wings to come out for flight. When one of the beetles lands on something a buries its legs in it the thing looses its ability to 「change」. It can not be moved, damaged, or take in any new information. In effect, anything under Diamonds Are Forever's effects becomes constant, frozen in an unchanging moment until the Stand moves on to something else.

Personality: Outwardly outgoing and confident, Joe is deeply insecure about the future and has taken the view that perhaps if he doesn't acknowledge it the future will pass him and his life by and leave everything the same. As such, he lives almost exclusively in the now and doesn't consider the consequences of his actions very far into the future. As he's started to notice that the future is coming whether he wants it or not he's begun looking for an escape.

Brief Backstory: Joe is in his last year of high school, and was looking forward to college from a baseball scholarship before a car accident crippled his pitching arm. He's on the island for his very last school trip before graduation and being here kind of brings it home to him that everything is going to be changing soon.

Other: Joe's right arm is noticeably weaker than his left.

Arc Sheet:

World: Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech.
What Changed?: Someone sabotages the three Zentradi spies ship, stranding them on the Macross. They never make it back and expose their comrades to Lynn Minmay. Without that, there is no dissent among the Zentradi ranks and the human race is going to get pasted when they start fighting for real.

World: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run universe.
What Changed?: Another contestant, who wasn't there before, shoots Johnny Joestar's horse out from under him during the first segment of the Steel Ball Run and is disqualified. Without Johnny Gyro is going to get killed by the Boom-Boom family, Dio remains a mindless dinosaur, and President Valentines plot to collect the Holy Corpse parts will proceed without a hitch.
Alternative: Someone collects Dio's head from the train tracks before Lucy Steel gets the chance, she doesn't use it to kill Alternate Universe Dio, he takes possession of the Holy Corpse.

[Flamelord]

World: Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech.
What Changed?: Someone sabotages the three Zentradi spies ship, stranding them on the Macross. They never make it back and expose their comrades to Lynn Minmay. Without that, there is no dissent among the Zentradi ranks and the human race is going to get pasted when they start fighting for real.

@Gentlemanvaultboy

Note that humanity is going to go down HARD here. Like, multiple Alaska Cannons. It was the cultural infection of the Zentraedi that motivated bringing in the main fleet that toasted Earth in the show, and if that takes longer, then Earth as more time to prepare and build up defenses. Maybe not enough to win, but they're going to be able to do quite a bit of damage.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

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Note that humanity is going to go down HARD here. Like, multiple Alaska Cannons. It was the cultural infection of the Zentraedi that motivated bringing in the main fleet that toasted Earth in the show, and if that takes longer, then Earth as more time to prepare and build up defenses. Maybe not enough to win, but they're going to be able to do quite a bit of damage.

@Flamelord

Probably enough to kill most of the sympathetic Zentradi we meet in the show off before the main fleet shows up and buries the human race. Win/Win for the Shadow Line.

[Rin]

The worst part about this whole scenario, though?

It means Fire Bomber will never exist. D:

[Flamelord]

The worst part about this whole scenario, though?

It means Fire Bomber will never exist. D:

@Rin

Not necessarily man. Space Jesus is not foiled so easily

[Rin]

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Not necessarily man. Space Jesus is not foiled so easily

@Flamelord

I would hope not. Especially since without the glorious magnificence that is Rock 'n' Roll Space Jesus, the Protodeviln would be unstoppable once they woke up. XD

[Mtntopview]

I will take interest in observing this idea

[Tachi]

Vita: Accepted!

Psyga: Looks good for the most part. My only issue is that people shouldn't just have found their powers/gear in their backstories.

And the arc idea itself looks good (DBZ seems like the kind of thing where main characters dying isn't as big of an issue), although I have to wonder how much the PCs could do in post-Saiyan saga DBZ.

Clanjos: Accepted!

Vaultboy: He looks good for the most part, although I'm going to have to reject that power. If I'm reading it correctly, it's...kind of problematic. I get that he doesn't have any offensive ability on his own, but it kind of breaks the challenge of any "boss fight" or "protect x" scenario.

Also, speaking of Stands, one thing I forgot to mention is that, for the sake of fairness, any "can only be seen by people with x power" situations will include all forms of power.

I'm not really familiar with either of the series' those arcs are for, but from the sounds of it, the Macross one seems to fall on the irreparable side. Feel free to correct me if I'm misinterpreting things there. The other one seems interesting, although I suppose it'd depend on when the PCs are showing up.