Clanty

Marvel universe: Earth Alpha-34

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1) Welcome

2) That was more like how I meant, Tony had 30+ armors for every occasion.

3)Good to know and have some set tools/weapons that you do and do not have so its not like Adam West bat-whatever made out of pure unobtanium.

4) Follow up though if you recognize bill & ted, there was an old cartoon series called the centurions who was in part designed by jack kirby. In it, a centurion has a single suit that has set accessories swapped out with others based on each mission needs and can be swapped on the fly or mixed and matched. (LOTS of toy options) Between the engineering and the fashion I could see her making specific interchangeable 'accessories' rather than whole suits for each need except where a whole suit would be needed.

@knighthawk

1) Thanks!

2) I more like the idea of her having the original suite and maybe a backup in case it gets damaged but not a fleet of suits. She'd have to upgrade eventually but she doesn't see any reason to be wasteful.

3) Definitely! No need to god-mode it. I also like the idea that there are features that she wants but can't quite figure out yet.

4) I could definitely see her doing that. Maybe not with her first suit, but definitely when she builds a mark2 it would have interchangeable parts. Especially if she's creating them herself and machining the parts herself it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to all fit.

Marvel universe: Earth Alpha-34

@Clanty
few things:

1) I lOVE your quotes. :P

2) whilst easy to assume, is she going to go all fashionista and have dozens of suits made?

3) what are some of the plans for armaments for the iron maiden? can we assume palm blasters/minirockets/chest blast?

4) Iron maiden? EXCELLENT! *guitar riff*

@knighthawk

Answers in order :)

1) Thanks!

2) Not really. I envision her mother as a fashion designer so she's got a little fashion sense and is somewhat comfortable in that world. That said, she's way more of an engineer than she is a fashion plate. IF she makes multiple suits, it will be to change functionality, not to look pretty.

3) Yes to all of those things, but I'm also thinking about blinding lights from the eyes on the mask, sort of a non-injury flashbang option. Not entirely sure though.

4) Hell yes!

Marvel universe: Earth Alpha-34

@ClantyLooks like an interesting bio but you may want to get ready to tally the number of 'Winter is coming' jokes that will be made. Does the Iron Maiden suit look like the Ironman suit or is it different?

@Roosan

It's going to look basically the same, only obviously made for a woman. I picture it kind of like this: http://orig09.deviantart.net/a261/f/2014/328/7/3/24w97y1_by_naterivers91-d87jv3a.jpg

Or this: http://orig15.deviantart.net/9269/f/2012/118/0/5/iron_maiden_by_sgthk-d4xtcak.jpg

Marvel universe: Earth Alpha-34

Introducing: Kathryn Stark aka Iron Maiden

Ryn Stark

Marvel Character: Iron Man

Name: Kathryn (Ryn) Stark

Identity: Public

Gender: Female

Age: 31

Team: Avengers eventually (none yet.)

Physical Description: Image: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29000000/Anna-Silk-bo-and-lauren-29029966-800-1127.jpg

Ryn is 5’10 with long dark brown hair that falls just past her shoulders. She has deep brown eyes that are usually filled with mirth and she’s quick to smile. She has a circular arc reactor centered on her chest. This arc reactor is smaller than the traditional Iron Man arc reactor but just as powerful. She prefers casual clothes when working in her lab and tends to have her long hair pulled back into a messy bun. Ryn does have a bit of her mother’s signature style and can quite easily go from mechanic's coveralls to a high fashion show.

Items/Weapons: Iron Maid suit.

Skills: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering experience. Dabbles in programming and technology. Krav Maga experience (mostly for exercise but can definitely defend herself)

Powers: Ryn has no superpowers, other than being extremely intelligent. All her powers come from what she’s built into the suit.

Personality: Ryn is fairly easy going though she can definitely be driven when working on a project or toward a goal. Ryn easily gets lost in her work and relies on Pepper to keep her from losing herself in her work completely. Other than Pepper and JARVIS, Ryn doesn’t have many true friends, she has a hard time trusting people after a lifetime of people trying to use her for her family's connections. That said, she's quite comfortable in the spotlight and often uses humor to gain the goodwill of people.

Origin: After building the first super soldier suit, Ryn realized that technology like this in the hands of governments would be too dangerous. She modified the suit to work only when powered by her arc reactor to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

Background history: As the late in life daughter of Howard Stark, Ryn grew up hearing of her father’s exploits long after he had passed away. Ryn was primarily raised by her mother’s staff while her mother was traveling around the world promoting her fashion line. Left to her own devices, Ryn began playing in Howard’s workshop and developed a love of all things machine. She graduated high school early and set off for CalTech where she got dual doctorate degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, graduating in record time becoming one of the youngest graduates from CalTech in the university’s history.

Once Ryn graduated, she went to work for Stark Industries and happily started at the very bottom in the company, working her way up through the company until she’d earned her place in the upper echelon. Her work on the original, full sized arc reactor brought her to national attention that she’d managed to evade so far. During a press conference announcing Stark Industries new weapons program Ryn was hit in the crossfire of an assassination attempt on the CEO. Though she survived the initial assault and was released to her home she was given about a month to live due to bullet fragments working their way to her heart. Ryn immediately went to work, working day and night to create a device that could keep the fragments from piercing her heart. Thus, the mini arc reactor was born.

After installing the mini arc reactor with the help of JARVIS and Pepper, she began work on one of the government contracts that they had, for a soldier suit. Once she began work on it she realized that without a mini arc reactor that they wouldn’t work but since she had the item in question she could work up a prototype. Work on the suit has consumed her and it was only Pepper’s gentle influence and finally her outright demands and threats to quit that brought Ryn’s head out of her work.

Ryn has recently stepped up as one of the junior executives of Stark Industries and has been working on the suit on her own time after telling them that it wouldn’t work. She’s still working on the Iron Maiden suit and testing it, hasn’t quite started saving the world yet.

Marvel universe: Earth Alpha-34

Are you guys still accepting players? I'm thinking a female iron man character with a few tweaks to her background. Is that character still available?

Do YOU Want to Play? [GMing for Single or Small Groups]

@Storymangler- Got a PM off to you. Can't wait to get this going!

Do YOU Want to Play? [GMing for Single or Small Groups]

I'm CRAZY interested! This sounds amazing. Do you prefer players to have a character already created or would you want to create them together? I've always wanted to do a superhero story (have a character in mind) or a Fantasy story is always a good time :)

Destiny RPG

I'm looking for players who are interested in delving into their Guardian's lives a little more. There are some interesting character creation guides here: postmortemstudios.wordpress.com/2014/0.. and while I wouldn't want to do dice rolls I think having specific skills would be incredibly useful.

Story: Set after The Taken King unless players prefer a pre-TTK setting. A team of guardians has been selected by the Speaker and the representatives of the factions to travel out beyond the edge of the Sol system, looking for information, resources and any help they can find in order to fight the Darkness.

Basics: Each character would have a class (hunter/warlock/titan) and could switch between subclasses via the use of subclass specific artifacts. As the character unlocked more secrets about their artifacts, they could unlock more subclass features. (This way the characters aren't super OP, but we could decide as a group exactly how we want to do subclasses.) Each character would also have a job commonly found on the tower, so we'd have someone who studied under the gunsmith, the cryptarch, a shipwright who studied with Amanda Holliday etc. Characters could also be representatives of the factions if they so chose, wearing faction gear and communicating with their faction based on info they find. Each character would also have a Ghost with a customized ghost shell and a unique personality based on the chart at that link. I think it would be interesting to see how several ghosts would be able to work together, especially with how on their own this group would be.

Please let me know if you're interested in this, I'm excited at the thought of a Destiny RP that goes a bit beyond the basic story lines and strikes of the game.

Pawns of the Inquisition

Alarand

The Reaver

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“Ah, but it is the perfect place to find some peace and quiet- Can’t you feel the solitude soaking into your soul?” Alarand felt his the muscles in his legs and arms relax when the red-haired woman lowered her bow, part of him wondering how much control he really had over himself. It was hard to separate instinct and the beast from eachother, and the two often acted in concert when danger was involved. This pleasant conversation was enough to sate the monster, for now. He twitched when she moved suddenly, turning sideways to make himself a smaller target, his hand twitching. The smile on the woman’s face at the death shriek of the animal made him slightly less sure of this working out.

“Would you care to join me for breakfast?”

A decent offer, if dangerous. She had already passed up a chance to plant an arrow in his back though. On the other hand, he was cutting the meeting date close. They were supposed to gather at the entrance tonight. Though, as far as he knew, not many had been sent. His orders were to explicitly avoid combat unless strictly necessary. For good reason, of course. He wouldn’t be doing much unless things went very wrong. It shouldn’t hurt to risk being a bit late to the party. They could leave early to get there directly after eating, with half a day to spare. “We’ll see if you think the same when I tell you where we are going.” Alarand shook his head at her smile. She was going to be stuck with them, at least until the mission was over. It wouldn’t be good for word of Inquisitors to hit the area, just before they went in.

Asha’ren

The Guide

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Asha shrugged. "As long as you have coin I don't much care where you're going." She put her bow over her shoulder and drew a dagger, crouching to quickly field dress their breakfast. "For now the Coast is my home, such as it is. So as long as you'll pay me for my help, I'm happy to get you wherever you need to go." She wiped the gore off her hunting knife onto the wet grass and buried the entrails in the mud before similarly cleaning off her hands and slipping her knife back into her boot. "But let's discuss this over a hot meal, that's how business is best discussed, in a warm room with a full belly. My cave will have to suffice."


"If you say so, then I have no qualms with that." Alarand shrugged, spraying a bit of water. "Lead the way." There were going to be consequences with getting her involved though. It wasn't something he quite wanted to decide in the moment though. Uprooting another's life wasn't a small matter, I of all people have to respect that. This wasn't exactly a safe mission either. A good part of him was turning towards the option of just getting some pointers and heading off. The clearing was near one of the larger entrances to the cave systems, so he should only have to follow the forest along the mountain one way or another to find it. "I am afraid you might have to wait a bit on the pay though, since my last trip I have avoided taking much more than a handful of coins in my purse at a time." He had thought she was a bandit at first, and it was still a possibility now, though she seemed genuine. Best to make it known before it was a problem, anyway. "But I can make sure you are compensated, if we rejoin my companions later on."


Asha frowned slightly then turned and led the way to the cave. "I can't say I like the idea of working on commission." The frankness of her words seemed not to match with the calm tone she used. She could see him tense slightly and shook her head. "I won't roll you for whatever coin you have and leave you dead. I won't even leave you out here to fend for yourself. I'll help you, but that doesn't mean I have to like it." She led the way through the tall grass, leading them on a circuitous route just in case he attacked and she had to flee. While she was willing to help someone in over their head, she certainly wasn't stupid enough to lead them to her cave without taking some precautions.


“Bring me to a fire, and I’ll cut off my pockets and give them to you.” Alarand brushed his wet hair out of his face. It was becoming long again. He eyed the trees around them, an intermixing of pine and spruce. Next time he set out on a journey, he was going to pack a spare set of clothing. His long clung to his arms, restricting movement, and his boots sloshed with each step. Occasional, he could even feel some suction. It feels like pulling a mace out of a corpse. In all honesty, even if he had arrived at the clearing, if no one had been there the rest of the group might have met around a grave at nightfall. Alarand jerked to a stop, blinking. He needed to avoid negative thoughts. It was slowly embracing his mind, insidiously. “Well, it could be worse.” He spoke a bit louder than was necessary. “At least it isn’t snowing!” ]Yet. Alarand quickly switched topics, weather was a bad one. “It’s good to see another free elf. There aren’t enough of us around.”


"I'm not an elf. Not fully anyway." Asha said. "My mother was human." She stopped speaking suddenly, not sure why she was sharing her life story with this elf she'd just met. "Don't ruin our luck. I've seen snow out here on the Coast, and if you think this is miserable, you really don't know the meaning of the word. Here we are." Asha pushed aside a few branches and revealed the entrance to a cave. She went in first, and immediately started tending the fire, feeding small pieces of dried wood that she'd set inside several days ago. Once she had the fire going again she turned to Alarand. "Make yourself comfortable and I'll be right back." Without waiting for him to respond she left the cave and disappeared into the surrounding trees.

Asha took a small hatchet from her pack and cut several branches of varying lengths before cleaning the bark off the smaller ones and splitting them halfway along their length. The larger four she sharpened one end of and then hurried back to the cave, hoping that he had been canny enough to keep the fire going.


Interesting. A mixed blood was rarer than an Elvish merchant. Alarand let conversation die off. Neither of them were much in the mood for it anyway, forced or not. The trees had thickened considerably since she had lead him away from the animal trails, but Asha’ren seemed confident enough, though the pine needles felt harsh whenever they had to brush past a pine, the needles felt especially cruel to numb skin. He had resigned himself to the idea that trudging after her was some sort of purgatory- punishment for unforgivable crimes committed that he would never remember. His mind barely registered the entrance to the cave. To him, it appeared as if the forest had suddenly gained a ceiling and walls. I would die out here. It hadn’t occurred to him on previous missions, but there was a true difference between a city elf and the elves of old. Nature wasn’t a friend.

The moment he was in the cave, he didn’t pause for her to finish speaking before dropping his pack and fumbling with his belt, stripping off the outermost layers of robes, leaving a plain white linen shirt and the black pants on. When she left, he immediately moved to the fire, careful to avoid dripping over it. He took three pieces from the stack she had gathered and used one to collapse the fire in on itself, raking it into a tighter pile and then sandwiching it between two of the logs on the sides, placing the third piece across the two logs and up against the side of the pile of embers. He was definitely not a woodsman, but he knew how to set a cookfire. Living in an alienage hadn’t been an easy life.

The heat was addicting, and he leaned in, the moderate heat from the fire feeling almost as intoxicating as blood lust. He eventually lay out his over-shirt and outer robe to dry, his pack had done far better than he had, the thick wax coating on the canvas had kept most of his sleeping roll dry. He had resisted the urge to wrap himself in it though, piling his meager gear away from the drips and wetness outside, leaving only his sword strapped to his waist. The clothing he still had one was still soaked though, and every moment away from the fire was agony. Alarand crouched next to it, trying to coax it larger without using too much of wood pile, rotating from time to time to warm his back.

Asha stepped back through the entrance of the cave and found Alarand huddled next to the fire. She quickly drove the stakes into the ground a foot or two away from the fire and then immediately pulled her boots off and put them over two of the stakes. “If you don’t dry your boots you’ll be miserable for the rest of the day.” She said, motioning to his boots. She pulled the canvass of the rock she’d laid it out on to dry and used it to block the bit of wind coming through the doorway and soon the cave had warmed. Seeing Alarand still shivering she put her blanket around him, the wool warm from the rocks around them. Once he looked a bit better, Asha put the smooth piece of slate over the fire and dropped the skinned rabbit onto it, smiling as she heard it hiss. “Shouldn’t be too much longer and we’ll be warm from the inside out.” Asha smiled, feeling her linen shirt begin to dry as she wiggled her toes in the warm sand that covered the floor of the cave. “Now, where are you going?” Asha asked, wanting to know just where she was taking the strange elf.

Supervillainy 101

Definitely interested in this RP!