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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

TGM, you're going to love Doom Eternal.

It just feels good. Explore a lot. IIRC you can use codes (which you find in the environment) freely so long as you don't care about achievements.

Soundtrack is sick.
Violence is sick.
Guns are sick.
Metal Album backgrounds are sick.

Fully sick.

Crucible - If David Cronenberg directed Star Wars

Given the Star Wars reference in the title, are you doing a setting with humanoid aliens?

If so is it to the level of Star Wars where people are mostly familiar with several species and unsurprised to see a variety of them or is it mostly human with a few standout humanoids? Are there species like Hutts, big slug things, or mostly just humans and humanoids of various statures?

This is purely a flavor question but...Is Crucible a small smuggler spaceport that is largely filled to capacity between long termers and folks coming in for short stays or is it capable of housing many more than are currently there but there just aren't enough folks left to fill the vacancies?

Either way is pretty cool. A small port now stuffed to the brim as there are fewer options for weary travelers or the husk of a once thriving piratey spaceport now with dozens of unoccupied rooms and no one to occupy them.

Blades of the Blood Coast

A man of refined tastes.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

In combat mostly just the same old Wolverine except less rage and animalistic stuff. Like the difference between someone trained in Krav Maga killing or incapacitating someone swiftly and ruthlessly and one of the typical Wolverine chop everyone up and scream a lot. Less skewering someone and picking them up over his head, more cutting the legs from under someone and finishing them.

John Wick rather than Rambo.

In regard to leadership he's less the on the ground lead by example type he usually is. I picture him as having earned the loyalty of his men in that way long long ago but after establishing himself in Madripoor he now had middlemen there that would be that sort of leader. He's more the scary face and promise of retribution behind the organization than the actual boots on the ground sort.

For the previous questions,

Hex is basically using Hellboys big ass pistol yeah, The Good Samaritan. If you meant the Red Right Hand I don't want him to have the actual kinda squared off giant hand I don't want that. I thought about having him have a burned up right hand or maybe a red glove, but the scarred up face and resurrection are probably enough.

For Old Patch, yes basically and absolutely yes. Going off the old like bushido shit Wolverine often had ties to there are crimes he will neither participate in nor allow anyone to participate in in Madripoor, but he's not a super hero anymore. Maybe a hero to many in Madripoor but not actually a hero. Sort of an anti-hero, means to an end for the law abiding in Madripoor. Some love him and some accept him and are maybe even like grudgingly glad he's around in the same way folks might become accustomed to and fond of a dictator.

MFP#5 - Sleep (Voting and Feedback)

Gotta vote for the "I always loved to watch you sleep" one. Solid.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

Jonah Hex / Weapon Hex

| Character Identity |

Jonah Hex, Weapon Hex

| Age |

Older Than Dirt

| Character Differences |

Jonah Hex lived once long ago during the Civil War of the United States. Raised in the South he may well have ended up fighting for the Confederacy were it not for the positive influence of his father, Woodson Hex. Fleeing the war (and potential charges regarding the sudden disappearance of his wife) himself Woodson took his son with him and exchanged him in New Mexico for safe passage through tribal lands.

Raised there among the tribe until as a young man he got into a violent confrontation with the natural born son of his adoptive father, the Chieftain of the tribe. Exiled from the tribe he went on to live a long rough life in the Wild West as a bounty hunter and all around rough customer. His story departs here from his traditional treatment in D.C. Comics.

After a hard brutal life he found a swift violent end and his body became a curiosity for some time before being acquired by a government run private museum of just such curiosities as well as any usable biological material. As the world developed and the United States government became aware of and involved in superhumans, mutants, and in time the supernatural several government operations opened up. Some operating officially and openly but many operating under more than one level of cover. One such program, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development, came into possession of Hex's body and one of their number with a particular affinity for speaking with the deceased talked him back from the abyss.

Classified as a Weapon for some time, perhaps correctly, Jonah Hex walks again. Now officially designated as Weapon Hex he came to become a major part of the B.P.R.D. in this reality. Largely filling in the large mean bastard with a big gun role that Hellboy plays in most realities. He is dispatched to help solve mysteries and put down threats of a supernatural and particularly dangerous nature.

As part of B.P.R.D.'s weaponizing Hex now has a substantial healing factor and as a consequence of his long visit in the lands of the dead he now has a connection to the underworld. A sixth sense essentially. Beyond that he is simply a large, mean, sharp shooting, dirty fighting, hard drinking son of a bitch.

| Brief World Background |

The world Jonah Hex/Weapon Hex comes from is a more violent and more magical iteration of the DC and Marvel Worlds. One without the big hitters that could likely solve many of the problems quickly. Without a Superman or his rogue's gallery the government had to, or chose to, get more involved in matters. Some agencies monitor the superheroes of the world, others monitor the more mundane but still perfectly sinister machinations of the unpowered criminals that litter the world, the B.P.R.D. keeps an eye out for the magical, spiritual and just generally freaky happenings.

At times the B.P.R.D. comes in to conflict with the spheres of other existing heroes. Daredevil and The Hand, The X-Men and their stranger foes, and often with many of the more street level heroes when B.P.R.D. is called in and collateral damage occurs.

| Brief Character Background |

Dispatched on just another mission Hex found himself inside a decades old parking structure which had been torn down and bulldozed twelve years ago investigating an anomaly. Strange happenings but that was par for the course. Hackles raised, massive revolver loaded up and ready for bear, he moved slowly up the levels of the parking structure. Winds blowing up small dirt devils despite the parking structures immaculate keeping. Top to bottom, parking spots, security booth, all four stairwells, nothing supernatural. Nothing amiss. Except a moment later the sky changed colors and he was all at once in an entirely new world. Some powerful mojo at work.

Old Patch

| Character Identity |

Old Patch, once Wolverine, once Logan, once just normal Patch, once James Howlett.

| Age |

Old As Dirt

| Character Differences |

This is a version of Wolverine that lost just a little too much of his give a fuck. Or at least lost it in regard to the people that he is generally most known as having it for. Having found out enough about his past prior to joining the X-Men and the manipulations of Professor Xavier, both in regard to himself and in regard to the other X-Men and students in the Xavier Institute, Wolverine left the United States and Canada behind and returned to one of the few places he believed he could find some manner of peace and be free of their continued attentions. Madripoor.

In time he rose in the ranks there, eventually becoming near to synonymous with the small island nation. A crime lord of a sort, but popular in both High Town and Low Town. Often more popular than the actual elected leadership. Old Patch leveraged his recognizability and reputation to elevate the island nation and avoid annexation or war. Warding off China, HYDRA, Magneto, and the United States alike.

As much good as he has done for Madripoor he has his thumb in near to every illicit practice, with some obvious exceptions. Madripoor is a loosely policed nation, but venturing into the wrong business or sticking to safe businesses but deciding you did not really need to cut a piece off for Old Patch would quickly result in a visit from a small familiar figure. He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is rule Madripoor with an iron fist. An iron fist with knives sticking out of it.

| Brief World Background |

This world is mostly the same as the 616 primary canon world of Marvel mixed with a little bit of DC. Captain America exists alongside Superman, one representing the interests of the United States and one representing the interests of the planet. Batman exists in Gotham while Xavier exists nearby in New York. The world is a bit darker, more reflective of 90s DC or Ultimate setting Marvel, but largely the same.

Wolverine's absence in the X-Men setting has led to Cyclops having to work harder to lead and Storm stepping in to serve as his counter. The youths of the setting have had to grow up quicker. Some have ventured to Madripoor to seek guidance from the old canuckle head but many are disillusioned to find how well he has come to fit the role he chose for himself there.

| Brief Character Background |

Logan has lived a long life and suffered a lot of loss as a result. Enough that his mind began to shield itself from the loss by erasing difficult memories. Fighting in war after war, seeing the more mundane every day violence any man might see in such a long life, Yukio, Silver Fox, Jean Grey, Xavier's betrayal.

He moved to get away from all of it as he so often did. This time instead of running away to lick his wounds before trudging back in once more he found a purpose and a home. Not a particularly nice one, but one where he fit in. A competent fighter, a keen mind. Knives in his hands, metal on his bones. Heals a lot, hard to kill. Alcoholic but can barely get drunk. The perfect politician, the perfect crime lord, but I'm repeating myself.

Less prone to rage and violence, but more discerning with it's use. Harder, meaner, more of a leader.

I like both of them.

I'd be happy to RP either depending on which seems to fit in better with the setting. Wolverine has a more easily written for personality. Hex is usually kinda just a hard fighting big man with a big gun, which kinda works.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

took too long

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

My bad. Been an interesting few months for me. Still have another post like 80% done in my head for that too. It's kinda more Rogers just kicking around though. Drawing on the docks, meeting a veteran. Figured it would be the last one until/unless there's a time skip.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

I would have proposed picking up the Captain America I'm doing still, kinda, in another RP but I quite like the idea Cybermaxx had.

roleplayerguild.com/posts/5228378

Later on in that thread I wrote for Nuke (The Captain America of Vietnam) and a little bit for Dum Dum Dugan.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

I've got an idea I am kind of playing around with. It's essentially "Jonah Hex, Agent of BPRD"

So Jonah Hex, bad ass die hard cowboy guy, but he's in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development.

Maybe bring it a little closer to Hellboy with two concepts. The Red Right Hand idea, only instead of being a stone demon hand key thing more like a blessing/curse he received by messing with powers beyond his knowing. Maybe that's how this Jonah gets into this setting. He became a bit too curious about one case or another while working with the BPRD. Took his investigations too far out. Perhaps his investigations led him into Mojo's World or perhaps his investigations just caught Mojo's interest so Mojo took him for his own.

Alternatively if you don't want Jonah Hex Agent of BPRD I could do something similar with Dum Dum Dugan, investigator of weird Nazi occult bullshit. Could go the same way where in fighting evil he's become a little infected by magic, or could go entirely the opposite way and have him be the relatively simple like Bolt Action Rifle/Double Action Revolver Mundane Brick Shithouse type.

Or if that idea doesn't really resonate with you either way I've got a rather more unique and likely comedic character.

Shaolin Cowboy
Dark Horse property, written by Geof Darrow
Chinese Cowboy Kung Fu Post Apocalyptic Comedy Violence (with a twist)
I'd have him as sort of a Kung Fu Ash from Evil Dead. Generally laconic, one liners, fights weird ass evil stuff, uses weird things as weapons, talks to animals, talks about previous outlandish adventures he's been on a lot. Most of these stories sound like BS but often are true.

My Hider

If that sounds weak too then just Wolverine. He has knives in his hands. He's hard to kill. He heals a lot. He's an alcoholic. He says Canadian things. Maybe he decided to stay in Madripoor and become a kingpin. Maybe between being exposed to all that violence and misery, potentially for decades as he doesnt age, he's become a lot harder and less concerned with protecting people.