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Hello! I am Captain Manbeard, or you can just call me Jeff. I am looking to set up a few long-running 1x1 MxF roleplays with literate partners who can write at an advanced level. I've been writing for most of my life, whether that be school projects, RPs, short stories, or novels. The first story I ever remember writing was back in middle school when I had to create my own Greek God in my Reading class, but I got creative and changed the entire canon to bring the Gods into modern day. Then I wrote a scene about Zeus playing basketball, he went for a godly slam dunk, and when the ball hit the ground, it burst open and inside was a newly born baby God (yes I did copy Athena's origin a little). He was Kazama, and became the God of Basketball, Video Games, and Rap Music. Kinda cringe now as an adult, but as a 13 year old in the 90s, I thought it was amazing XD.

Here are a few of my ideas:











While I'm not ready to resume this RP right now, I may be open to it in the future. But if we're ever at the point where everyone is interested and willing to continue, I think it would be best for us to have a few "session zeroes" in a group PM thread to find our synergy before we attempt to resume this RP publicly. We could have Martian Manhunter create a psychic virtual world for our characters to have practice missions, that would help us learn to write together better as a group. But I dunno, we'll see. I don't know if anyone would even still be interested after three months, lol.
@CaptainManbeard Thank you for posting and updating us. This was the first group RP I played in a long time when it first started. It helped me get back into the swing of things, so thank you for the opportunity to join. I hope everything goes well for you! :)


You as well XD
Sorry for the long absence, all. My old SSD crashed and all my auto-log-in info with it. I couldn't remember my password to get back into the site and had been waiting on the password reset email, but other stuff kept coming up and it got pushed to the back of my mind. I dawned on me that it had been like three months (felt a lot shorter), so I figured I'd regain my access to the site to at least check in with you guys and let you know I'm not dead, lol.

That being said, I'm not returning to resume this RP - with so much going on in my life I don't think I could handle managing a big group thread right now. I know earlier in this RP I was getting a little frustrated by how chaotic that first battle scene became, trying to reconcile in my head contradicting actions playing out between the different posts so that I could keep a clear narrative flow in the subsequent posts. It felt like overall we lacked synergy as a writing group and that made it difficult to meld our individual posts together into a cohesive story. I may reach out to people for one-on-one RPs, but at this point, I feel the time and energy it would take to continue managing a larger thread is just not there. But I still wanted to regain access to the site (finally) and at least give you guys some closure and let you know I'm not dead.
Looks good, everyone! I also had someone DM me with an interest in joining, so we may have an extra person. They're not sure what character they want to play yet. Oh, and Damo may be bringing in a third character, if anyone else is interested in bringing in extra characters as well, shoot me a DM. My post should be up shortly.

EDIT: Scratch that, something came up, post may not be up for a few days.
Just to clarify, Wayne Tower West in San Francisco, California is separate from Wayne Manor in Gotham City, New Jersey. More will be explained when they get the tour, but this is one of many Wayne Towers throughout the world. They usually act as regional headquarters for the various branches and subsidiaries of Wayne Enterprises.
Oh and another thing: their superhero gear obviously can't go through airport security, so all of that was brought ahead of time through covert means. It's already up in their Mission Room in storage lockers. Oh, and one more thing: Feel free to have your characters arrive in time to see Wally get owned XD. We could say the other flights had connections in the same area or arrived at around the same time and so the rest of them just took an Uber van or something to the Tower.
Also, just to clarify, Wally's flight from Central City arrived in San Francisco first, and then since Gotham and Metropolis are both about equal distance to SF, I figured the planes from those two cities would arrive around the same time and that the four mentioned in the post (Dick, Rachel, Conner, and Jon) would share an Uber to the Tower.

I will explain it more in my post next weekend, but the top floors of Wayne Tower West will serve as their "Titans Tower" for now. The top of the building is equipped with Martian cloaking tech so that it just appears like office space to outsiders, but in reality it will be a lavish multifloor penthouse with a pool and hot tubs and rooftop garden and plenty of space for them to eat, sleep, train, study, have superhero meetings etc.
After emergency services cleared everyone to leave, most headed home for the night, and by the next morning, the media was in a frenzy over the attack. The Justice League tried their best to calm the public hysteria, while at the same time attempting to covertly investigate H.I.V.E.’s connection to the Reach. Once they realized the villains were organizing in countries that didn’t sign the League’s U.N. charter, the need for an independent team became clear. It was decided that the sidekicks were best situated to fill such a role since they were not members and thus not bound by the charter. They began the process of gaining parental permission for them to attend a Wayne-sponsored tutorship program which would be a front for their superhero activities.

WAYNE TOWER WEST
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO, CA
TUESDAY (EARLY AFTERNOON)
SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2023


On the busy city streets, a white car pulled up outside an enormous building reaching several dozen stories into the sky, the unmistakable Wayne Enterprises logo adorning the tower. Out of the vehicle stepped Wally, holding his smartphone in his hand as he selected the amount to tip the driver through an app. He normally preferred not to travel by 'normal' means, but they had been instructed to do so to uphold their civilian identities for school records and such. Plane tickets had been paid for as part of the program, as well as Uber funds to cover transportation from the airport to Wayne Tower West. Wally's flight had arrived a bit earlier than the others so he had the driver take him on a scenic loop around the city before reaching their destination.

“Thanks dude!” he said as he slipped a backpack over his shoulders and grabbed a few suitcases from the trunk. The vehicle sped off and the teen walked through automatic glass doors into a spacious lobby with a high ceiling. A woman behind a reception desk beckoned him over. She was clad in a business suit.

“Good afternoon! Are you here for the tutorship program?” she asked in a friendly tone.

“Sure am!” he replied with a smile, setting his bags down and leaning on the desk with one elbow. “And might I add you are looking magnificent in that suit!”

“Ah, you must be Wally West,” she frowned and wrote a check mark next to his name on a clipboard. “They said you had a bad habit of flirting with every woman you see, even those who are clearly too old for you.”

“Not every woman,” he clarified, then grinned ear to ear. “Just the sexy ones like you… Ow! I didn’t realize you had powers! Hey! OW! Okay! Point taken!” the boy cried out as he dodged fireballs the now-angry woman was flinging rapidly at him.

“Why am I not surprised!” Dick laughed out loud as he walked into the lobby just in time to see the encounter play out. Rachel was right behind him.

“What’s going on here?” Conner asked with a smirk as he and Jon entered as well.

“Wally tried to hit on the receptionist and got a fiery rejection!” Dick explained, laughing.

“Duuuuude!” the speedster hung his head and sighed.

“Sit. Over there. NOW!” the woman demanded angrily as she pointed to rows of seats off to the side. The teens gathered their bags and headed over there. After a minute, she came by to ask for names and added check marks to her clipboard. “Miss Lance will be down shortly to retrieve you.”
@King Kindred@Crimson Flame

Since Rachel lives at Wayne Manor with Dick and Jon lives with Conner, I'm just assuming they would travel together to the meeting. Finishing up the post now. They all traveled by normal, non-super means so as to have travel records for their secret identities for legal reasons and educational records and such. Wayne Enterprises paid for all their plane tickets.
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