Dead Cruiser

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@6slyboy6 Thanks for your interest, I like your character.

I think it's funny how many characters are some sort of completely inhuman psycho. I was worried about them not fitting in, but if that's the trend, then that works just as well. We'll lean into it, I suppose.

I will probably be rounding out our group with a handful of NPC archons, just based on archetypes that I feel the need to fulfill if a player doesn't have it covered. Things like a Barbarian Overlord or an evil AI, etc etc. They'll be mini-CS characters stashed in the Character tab when the OOC is up.

That said the full-OOC CS will have a section for these Mini-CS hider things too, so you can make a little depiction of your important lieutenants and companions. This will be part of a larger section regarding your Assets. You could use the mini-CS for things like weapons, etc, anything you feel like having art and a description for.

The other major addition would be a section about your character's addition to Gladius, the logic-defying dimension-breaching magic fortress which represents the growing physical influence of Chaos within Creation. You basically get a section of a fortress, built and furnished to your needs, about large enough to squeeze in a single large formation of soldiers, one legion's worth, + staff. This represents how much you can bring into the new Plane with you, until you find the Shard for that Plane, crown a new Archon, sew another wing onto the house and bring this Plane in sync with the rest.

Anyway, OOC forthcoming over the next couple days or so. Shoot questions and ideas at me.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@Archangel89 I guess if your character is an all-consuming plasm it makes sense for them to take up a plane. Though your fellow Archons may feel the need to keep you within bounds.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@King Cosmos I would say it varies. It depends on the theme of your character, and the scale of their story. I made the Hellen plane kind of small because that would better suit an assassin Archon. Really it's up to you and if something seems amiss we can work it out.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

Okay, I made a pretty quick-n-dirty sample character if anyone is interested in viewing it.

The Fool

Name: Lykos Daedalion

Epithets: Ulysses the Fool, Death's Jester, the Shadowprince, the Mouth of Chaos

Age: 36

Home-Plane: Hellen: A cold and windy archipelago, with storm-carved coasts that rise above a violent sea. For thousands of years these great islands have been embroiled in the bitter feuds between their kings and other noble lords. Great fleets and armies are launched from kingdom against kingdom, much innocent blood is spilled, and their grudges grow ever deeper and darker. Since becoming the Shadowprince, the various united city-states have been marshaling their armies and fleets to carry on the conquest of Chaos.

Description: To most the persona that Lykos projects is that of Ulysses the Fool, though this identity has changed since his days spent masquerading as a court jester. Ulysses comes across as a babbling madman, completely deranged, what little wits he ever had replaced with the mind-shattering presence of Chaos. While he can use illusions to transfigure his appearance, his usual motley garb is a mishmash of metal, leather, and flamboyant silk. This is all of course an elaborate mask, as his true nature is that of a ice-cold killer. The madness of Chaos keeps his cold and dark psyche company as he slowly plans and executes the Darklight's return.

Backstory: Lykos Daedalion was born as the fifth son to a great king of Hellen, but when he was still an infant, his parents and all of his brothers were slain by assassins. Lykos himself was spirited away to live with relatives, but they were bribed by the king's usurpers into giving the child up to them. In secret, they switched Lykos with a pauper's baby, and offered up the other child to be killed. Lykos grew up destitute, and had to steal-- and later, kill-- to survive.

Lykos eventually fell in with a band of outlaws and mercenaries who made their living raiding Hellenine cities and pirating their ships. This simple life of theft and murder came to an end when his gang were killed on contract by a cabal of secretive assassins. Lykos himself managed to fight off the assassin sent to kill him, and having slain his assassin, he was taken in by the others. There he trained in their hidden arts of magic and combat, and quickly proved to be one of the most powerful among their number. This was also where he assumed the persona of Ulysses, as he often favored disguising himself as a jester or entertainer when contacted to kill nobility.

As he reached the height of his power and prowess, Lykos went into business for himself. He put into an action a slow and methodical plan to murder his way through the noble family that had his own extinguished, and eventually slew the usurper king himself. This was when he found out that the king's scepter had been a Shard of Chaos, and the Anti-Creation chose Lykos as the first Archon of its return. Normally not one for armies or politics, Chaos convinced Lykos to begin the conquest of Hellen, which he utilized a series of illusions and puppet rulers to do so, eventually consolidating all of the island kingdoms under his shadowy rule.

Shard: The shard in his possession is the Darklight Scepter, formerly part of the regalia of his father, a Hellenine king. It resembles a golden staff with an orb of light on one end, and a matching orb of darkness on the other. Lykos claims that the Scepter is the first and most powerful of the Shards of Chaos, giving him a uniquely intimate relationship with Chaos, but this is unconfirmable and spurious at best. However, the Scepter verifiably gives Lykos a portion of the power of Chaos over what is real and unreal.

Powers: Lykos is the ultimate assassin, trained since a young age in the arts of stealth, subterfuge, sabotage, and silent death. His skills extend to nearly any killing implement that has ever been invented, and some other, miscellaneous tools. He knows a variety of potent and forbidden magics, not only for taking lives, but also for tricking the eye and confusing the mind. As part of his jester disguise, he also knows a variety of jokes, puns, stories, limericks, offensive stereotypes, and can juggle.

Misc: More will be added to this CS with the OOC!

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@Waldganger Thanks for your interest, I'm excited to hear your ideas.

@Archangel89 Probably, assuming they had a humanoid level of intelligence.

Gods of the Multiverse

I have... concerns that this is unlikely to actually start.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@Zyx I know your plate is full, but there's room for you here if you're interested.

@Sniblet Yeah I think I may have had a slight knee-jerk reaction to seeing such an inflated number on the sheet. I think if you wanted to make them 4000 or thereabouts it would feel more in line with the others (assuming there will be others). Given what you're saying I think the character is functional as it stands. I only worry that this character's inhumanity might make them monotonous to play, but I leave it at your discretion.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

I would say we have enough people for an OOC if I can get four committed players.

I'm also working on a "sample" character; this will be the "first" Archon, who kicked off this whole scenario.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@Riffus Maximus Let me try and break down your questions as best as I can.

Is it known to the characters why this entity is named Chaos? For a being whose apparent purpose is to conquer all under one rule, it kinda feels like it would unify this whole mess of planes into a single banner. Would it be far-fetched for a character to believe Chaos' design is one of true order?

@Riffus Maximus

They probably don't know why Chaos identifies itself as such, though they could guess at it. The theming is more like a "prima materia" type of Chaos, if that's helpful. What I read about your character's motivations pretty much works, people can easily project their own intentions onto Chaos, it's not very... forthcoming, nor personable.

Is it possible for a plane to host more than a single shard of chaos? Does these shards bring some sort of knowledge about the master. Does Chaos have an actual physical form?

@Riffus Maximus

It's one Shard to one Plane. The Shard's presence on the Plane is what shattered it in the first place. Taking possession of the Shard brings you into communication with Chaos. It's like picking up the One Ring, but Sauron wants you to use it for him. The physical manifestation of Chaos is Gladius, which I mentioned briefly. It's like an evil, shapeshifting fortress that can manifest itself on new Planes. Every time a Shard is acquired and reintegrated with the Heart of Chaos, Gladius grows larger and more complex. This is also the process that reunites the Planes.

For the long-lived races, just how long ago was Creation shattered into pieces, just to not overlap a character's age with the creation of its homeworld.

@Riffus Maximus

As I said before, each Plane has a unique relationship for time. For some, the shattering was many thousands of years ago. For others, perhaps it was merely hundreds. What they all have in common is that the shattering has passed out of living memory, so however long it would take for your elder race to have forgotten it, that's how long ago it was.

Is it possible to play more than a single character? I've seen something about using the character's homeworld ressources to their disposal, so I guess it would be likely for the characters who are more of leader types to bring their generals and subordinates from their conquered homeworld into others, unless the Archons are only able to travel alone?

@Riffus Maximus

Only one Archon, but what you're describing is my intent for more leadership focused characters. I think I'll include a section for this on the updated CS. Until you acquire a Plane's Shard and reunite it with the others, you're limited to whatever resources you could fit into Gladius with you. Which could be considerable; I am thinking about adding a section about Gladius onto the CS, so you each get a "wing" to personalize.

Anyway, regarding your character: I think she is good, with the only nitpick being that nobody should even really know that there are other Planes out there until they get their hands on a Shard.

@Sniblet I was pretty much fine with your character until you pointed out that you ported it from a video game. For that, I would ask that you personalize them a bit more? Maybe introduce more of a personality to help them interact with their fellow Archons? Otherwise they may have difficulty cooperating with your 40-million-year-old "elder spirit." Have you considered maybe that they might have been human to start, until learning the "truth" within the Book of Light?

Interesting association: Chaos' symbology associates with with "darklight," a light and darkness that coexists. Kind of a Yin-Yang thing going on.

Legion of Chaos: A World-Conquering Multidimensional Supervillain RP

@The World Sorry to see you go, but if you wanted to try your hand at making an evil OC (or just filing the serial numbers off one of those canons) just gimme a hollar and I could sit down and workshop with you.