Here are the rules, as of current. Split into two sections for both sides of the conflict. More may be added before the official thread goes up.
WORLD PATRIOTS
All World Patriots are normal humans. No exceptions.
There are no human survivors left on Earth. Plenty of malicious nonhumans were very thorough in their pursuit to kill every remainder of them. If you're human, you're a World Patriot, and you're on their ship.
World Patriots donโt have one specific uniform style, but they are keen on the colors maroon, gray, black, and white.
All World Patriots live aboard the same vessel, the Horizon of Reclamation. They do not leave the ship under any circumstances, not even to board the unmanned foundry ships that hold all the proxy forces. Everything in the foundries is either automated or controlled from the main vessel.
Customs come in countless shapes, sizes, and forms. Humanoid, quadrupedal, flight-based, etcetera. They can be built from older or newer bases of technology; rough and segmented or sleek and shiny. The size limit is pretty substantial, but I am not allowing anything along the lines of this or this.
NONHUMANS
No reality benders. Period.
Understand that there is a difference between super powers and straight up magic. The ability to, say, make portals? That's fine, it's a mental projection thing. Very utilitarian. But spells and sigils and hexes and curses, whatever, simply don't belong here.
"Shadow powers" come in many iterations. The general consensus among myself and my co-GMs are that they are usually very unsavory, being that they have little to do with actual shadows. If a nonhuman can generate orbs of dark purple energy or radiate an aura of fear, that's not a shadow-based power. So, if you wanted to veer that way, heed these words.
Time control is just too meta. Heightened reflexes are one thing, but temporal manipulation is just asking to be shot down.
"Death manipulation" is right out.
"Blood manipulation" and mind control are both just really, really difficult powers to justify. Even if a character with such an ability is meant to be evil, they have a habit of causing problems for other characters and their players in the long run. So both are no-nos.
WIP(you can judge his power, I am unsurprisingly done with that first >.>)
NAME: Andrew Wright
AGE: 48
GENDER: Male
PERSONALITY: -
POWER(S)/CUSTOM(S): Codename: The Observer (Danger Rating: Medium Low - Very High)
From testing Andrew's set of superhuman powers are unique as they all begin with his enhanced eyesight allowing him to see farther than most people and allowing him to see basically in the dark as well. His eyes now able to see things better also can notice movement the moment it happens due to the fine detail that his eyes takes in but if caught off guard he only knows the general direction it was from. With his own eyes it shows that he now has photographic memory of almost anything he sees now as well, making it valuable for him to observe everything to a fine detail. Preliminary testing from an Ophthalmologist confirms finding of Andrew's vision acuity better than 20/20. In our situation this isn't good as Andrew's eye will be needed to be protect at all times to prevent damage. The sensitivity that his eyes hold is extremely fragile and wouldn't be hard to abuse if his opponents know about it, extra precautions will be issued.
Up next, his ability to see is so fascinating our field test shows that he can observe even the smallest amount of muscle movement that his opponents makes to calculate what their next moves are. Under extended concentration it seems that, he can fall into a trance where his mind can make prediction based on on variables what his opponents are doing and basically 'seeing' the future. These predictions are only calculated 'guesses' of what might happen and so if he faced a person with enough physical prowess they can evade this ability. This was as shown with our next field test by preventing one of our other mutants from getting past him but failed due to that mutant having enhanced agility and speed. Our hypothesis along with his ability is it being more effective on a single target, as it seems he has more time to observe their moves while in a large group he has to observe them all, meaning the more targets he have the less accurate his readings are. Let field test #3 commence-
Our testing after this shows Andrew's set of powers after this one gets less scientific explanation as his powers at his point has 'evolved' into another stage where his ability to make predictions have turned into something else entirely from scientific standpoint. His ability to see is to believed so good, that he can will himself to peer into time itself and see into the past or future to receive a vision of what is going to happen or has already been done. Our limit for his ability shows that he can also view into the past or future as long as he like up to 5 minutes in total, but with the price of ongoing pain that grows until it becomes excruciating enough that his eyes will begin to bleed and render his previous abilities useless with obvious signs. These visions, however are unrefined and can be from different time-lines that might have no meaning for Ours and Andrew's purposes as well meaning that he has to fish for the right one in 5 minutes out of the near infinite amounts of these options. With practice we can refine his ability but he might be unwilling however, in the end if he does so, he will be able to view his current timeline with accurate results and we also hypothesized that he will be able to do so without the drawbacks of pain and bleeding.
We think that after Andrew does reach the pinnacle of his abilities, his final power is the ability to see the events of both the past, present and future basically he will view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously with perfect accuracy. At that point of time, this is the lowest yet highest form of Time Manipulation that Andrew will ever preform as his cellular growth will stop and he will live indefinitely. At this point of his abilities it is near impossible to control his abilities at first as he will be sucked into his power and be able to travel through time by visioning himself there. However, once he travels through time he instantly loses bearing of which timeline that he is originally from meaning that he leaves his previous life for one of traveling through time.
All in all, in our new training program Andrew's powers tend to specialize in single-target isolation and our field test shows high probability of him being able to kill important targets from a distant with the help of a long-range firearm or at close range without being harmed. While not as great, he shows proficiency in dealing with larger groups of opponents of 6 being able to out-maneuver his opponents only failing to do so 4 times and being grazed by their attacks. I suggest training Andrew with a hand-to-hand combat specialist thanks to his skill for fine-detail meaning his punches will definitely be more lethal if he aims correctly and with some skill as a long-range assassin who can remove targets from a distant. However, if his weakness are discovered he should be forced to recall immediately to try and reorganize himself for another chance, he show great skill doing so but be careful not to make our enemies know his weakness and abuse it.
His ability to see into the past and future are unreliable and should be refined to ensure that Andrew knows what he is doing with them. Until then the use of that ability shouldn't be used on missions. He will shown signs of resistance and displeasure but he'll understand the rewards for doing so in our care. Any further testing have been minuscule and provided no further detail on Andrew's powers that we know about already from previous tests. Training will commence in 2 day after this report is sent immediately.
HISTORY: (Also optional, if you want to keep it a secret or gradually reveal it.)
OTHER: (Once again, optional.)
[edit: Is seeing through time consider Time manipulation >.> ???] [edit #2: I kinda spent an hour or two working and not refreshing the guild so missed that rule thingy >.>] [edit #3: Seeing through time is a form of time manipulation I agree, but would that be allowed or not is what I am saying]
@GummyCat It's not really time manipulation as it is observation. Allen already made a character with something pretty much summarized as clairvoyance and I was okay with it, but it's not so potent enough that his character already knows the outcome of the entire conflict. And that in itself is what I would be very not okay with. Plus there was just straight up mention of time travel by envisioning for Andrew. So he won't work as he is right now.
Also, the wording implicates it as a file documented by some kind of training program. Am I correct in assuming it's all pre-Exodus?
@SepticGentleman Hmm dratz then- I understand your reasoning for the powers of Precognition to be banned but the idea of my new revamped Precognition matches the predictive power of Andrew's ability to see muscle movement and see his opponent's actions. Instead of muscle movements, he basically receives visions as if it was a forgotten thought being remembered but that would just be repetitive. If you want you can just make the power GM-controlled and just shoot me random Private Messages that might affect the roleplay through these visions and since the power is not fairly trained you and wreck havoc by sending misleading clues that will cause drama but if not I'll change it into something else. Basically its all up to you, but I don't mind if its being changed
And yes, the the file does take place during pre-Exodus as Andrew probably can't live with himself after being ditched by the Government and being with the Mutants that was his job to kill. So after the Exodus event, Andrew probably kept to himself and laying low not doing much of anything interesting. So I'll just put my effort into making his story before then interesting if I am up to the deal
@SepticGentleman Hmm dratz then- I understand your reasoning for the powers of Precognition to be banned but the idea of my new revamped Precognition matches the predictive power of Andrew's ability to see muscle movement and see his opponent's actions. Instead of muscle movements, he basically receives visions as if it was a forgotten thought being remembered but that would just be repetitive. If you want you can just make the power GM-controlled and just shoot me random Private Messages that might affect the roleplay through these visions and since the power is not fairly trained you and wreck havoc by sending misleading clues that will cause drama but if not I'll change it into something else. Basically its all up to you, but I don't mind if its being changed
And yes, the the file does take place during pre-Exodus as Andrew probably can't live with himself after being ditched by the Government and being with the Mutants that was his job to kill. So after the Exodus event, Andrew probably kept to himself and laying low not doing much of anything interesting. So I'll just put my effort into making his story before then interesting if I am up to the deal
I dunno. There being two folks with this kind of precognitive ability just seems pretty redundant to me. If I were you I'd start considering other powers, but I'm going to talk to the think tank about possible workarounds.
For now though, I slumber. Later on, the official thread will go up. Take care folks.
Here is my first character. Founder and leader of the World Patriots. More are definitely coming after him, once the thread is up.
NAME: Eric Daniel Longford AGE: 56 GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: Eric is Caucasian. He stands at 5โ10 and weighs around two-hundred pounds. His body isnโt at its best, and while he does own some muscle, heโs still got a bit of a gut. Heโs a rough-looking man with defined facial features, accentuated by wrinkles caused by age and stress. His black hair and beard are both rather unkempt, with a good number of gray strands spread about. His eyes are a dull, pale blue and look rather sunken. He dresses himself in a combination of Martian colony workerโs gear and combat padding, all colored in a combination of black, gray, and lots of maroon. He wears the symbol of the World Patriots on a maroon band strung across his left shoulder, a simple white globe with the letters WP in the center.
PERSONALITY: At most times, Eric is a stoic man who simply exudes leadership and authority, commanding his forces with a gentle but stern voice. At other times, he is a loud, rallying force, unafraid of downplaying the enemy in his speeches. A good many of the World Patriots serving under him know the man as if he were a long-time friend, and the rest simply look up to him as the one ready to lead the effort to reclaim Earth, brave and unwavering in the face of the powers nonhumans possess.
POWER(S)/CUSTOM(S): Eric owns the first and one of the largest Customs ever designed, let alone built, among the World Patriotsโ combined forces. The Gradivus, named after the birthplace of the World Patriots, was designed by Eric himself and built from scratch during the early days of the factionโs formation.
Designed to act as both an unstoppable force and an immovable object, the Gradivus stands stationary at around ten meters tall, and is comprised of four main components; the left and right treads, the lower body, and the upper body. The treads are both large, extendable, all-terrain focused mobility systems able to navigate through rough terrain and push through debris easily with their dual battering shields. It should be no surprise that the Gradivus is far from the fastest Custom around, but stopping it when it is moving is no easy feat. Two auto-targeting, heavy caliber turrets rest on each tread. The lower body contains a large afterburner system able to propel the Gradivus forward at decent speed. Now, the upper body, which is where the weaponry really starts to show. The Gradivusโ upper body is a large, heavily armored platform outfitted with four swarming missile pods, two mortars, and two heavy shot-firing main guns. One last item is stored within the upper body; a heavy nuclear explosive package, meant for detonation upon the Gradivusโ defeat, in the hopes of taking its adversaries down with it.
The Gradivus has been crammed with all sorts of defensive tech. The outer layer is comprised of a combination plastic-hardened metal shell, able to resist metal manipulation powers effectively. PsychoFiber, as is common in the World Patriotsโ forces, covers the interior systems to defend against technopaths and, to a lesser extent, electrokinetics. The army can withstand very high temperatures and heavy impact, puncture, or slash-based attacks. A bulwark if ever one did exist.
Now, the downside. Unlike most other Customs, Eric poured resources into the Gradivus and, as a result, only ever built one. Once itโs gone, itโs not coming back. Thatโs why Eric has made it doubly clear that the Gradivus will not be sent out save for major assaults on heavily populated areas. He says, in truth, that he expects it to be destroyed at some point in the conflict. But heโs confident, in that case, that it will be responsible for the deaths of many nonhumans and will be remembered as a major contender in the battle for Earth.
HISTORY: Eric Longford is the founder and continuing leader of the World Patriots. Before Exodus, he was one of the lead unit designers for a robotics company known as Carlyle APS, Automated Pacification Services. His was one of the many companies hired across the globe to help construct suitable service drones to handle nonhumans, and in many situations, he succeeded. Every time he spearheaded a project that proved effective however, eventually someone would come around and trash the model like it was nothing. Always striving to improve the many models that were in play, Eric often overworked himself to a point where he could do nothing but sit and watch the world around him fall apart. As time went on and the problems grew worse, Carlyle APS was eventually brought to ruin when their headquarters was destroyed and their board members were killed, all by a single nonhuman, just months before Exodus was launched.
Upon humanityโs departure from their ruined cradle, Eric took up work as one of the construction heads for the newly formed System Governmentโs colonization effort on Mars. With the technology available, setting up was over and done with quickly, and life soon returned to a feeling of routine normality. But for Eric, there was always a lingering grudge, a feeling of being wronged by the entirety of the nonhuman species. It didnโt take long for his feelings and attitude to sound themselves out to his coworkers, who all rallied behind him. Eventually, construction efforts ceased entirely, and they were replaced with calls to arms. Upon the formation of the World Patriots and the birth of the plan for Operation Homecoming, SysGov lost a substantial number of its work force to the World Patriots. One or two cases of civil unrest may have broken out, but they all ended soon when the fleet was launched, with pools of resources in tow.
Eric and the World Patriots were, and still are, very determined to take back Earth. Every nonhuman is a target to them, histories aside, and they have the forces necessary to reclaim the birthplace of mankind.
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