Little Bill

Supers!

Color me interested.

I do enjoy a good superhero rp. I just hope I can keep up, if things end up moving quickly for some reason.

A question, since I glanced at your vault version of this before coming here, but in regards to the "tolkienesque" factor, would that include entities such as "monsters" of the fantasy variety? Like Rocs, Krakens, Dragons, and the like? Additionally, since the same societal shifts exist, what does that mean of major comic book franchises such as DC and Marvel, do they exist in this timeline?

Also, would animal experimentation to create animal superheroes have possibly occurred? I ask all of these questions to see what character ideas I can play with. Hope this is fine-

@DocRock

No krakens, dragons, grumpkins, or snarks. There are demons and otherworldly creatures, but the DHR and VILE only allow high-ranking magicians to legally try to contact these guys. A level 3 magician trying to talk to Cthulu would be like a high school chemistry teacher trying to buy plutonium. It doesn't work and you end up on a watch list. There are also monsters, but more of the hammer horror and cryptozoology variety than the pointy-eared elf variety. The sasquatch exists, for instance, but he's the byproduct of incestuous gorilla people created by the Russian government in the 50s. I'm not making that ish up, we sat down and discussed this nonsense at one point.

Animal and human experimentation are commonplace, but animals cannot be Supers. The only exception to this is Gorilla Warfare, who is technically a gorilla with a man's brain and sentience, making him a weird kind of cyborg, but not a trained monkey all the same.

DC and Marvel exist in this world, but I am trying to bring them up rarely. Their canon can be used as conversational references (Batman had the coolest villains), but I am trying to avoid characters bringing up the similarities between their own world and the world of comics. It'd be like a Naruto character pointing out that they speak English but their names have clear Japanese meanings despite Japan not existing, or a Game of Thrones character pointing out that the worldbuilding involves an unprecedented thousand years of no technological innovations, or -- you get the point. Regardless, comics and comic movies about fictional superheroes exist as well as comics and movies about real supers.

Supers!

So are the heroes and villains going to have seperate plot threads, or will they directly oppose one another?

@Menhir

In theory, villains and heroes with congruent mantles will arch one another, but I don't expect to get a lot of the perfect matches that you see in arching. Otherwise, there are two separate plot threads.

Soooo uh, what are people's character ideas while we wait for updates?

For a hero I'm thinking of a secret agent type that specializes in countering anything that can be construed as a martial arts menace, be it ninja clans, crazy kung fu cults, revived ancient warriors and the like. He'll technically be head of his own official division except he's the only one there, and because it's such a specific field and he's the guy you call when your Iron Fists and Bronze Tigers are busy he has a load of spare time he doesn't know what to do with on his hands.

Not sure what I'd do for a villain but leaning towards a crusty old master with a very Lady Shiva like personality and reputation, who could and indeed has retired ages ago but keeps on coming back because his incredibly long life is otherwise way too boring and he knows nothing else but getting into life or death fistfights.

@Zero Hex

Neat! That sounds like a member of the DHR's G.I.JOE knockoff. I think their acronym is ERASERS, but I'll have to check the discord notes. There is an extensive canon of NPC Supers, but the current PC characters are

- A shy middle-aged man going through a divorce, reclaiming his former mantle of _Arithmetick_, the math guy of a Board of Education sponsored team called the Studybugs, who saw little success during their career in the 90's because what a lame gimmick. Story is about a guy with a passion for Supering that outweighs the hunger for success or popularity seen in many contemporary Supers.

- An elderly chinese villain who came to America in the 50's to become a Superhero, instead only finding work as a villain called Yellow Menace, arching a Hulk-Hogan expy called American Muscle. After a popular boy hero called Jungle Jim's arch was caught with an underage hooker, Yellow Menace is transferred to arch Jungle Jim and was renamed Beastmaster. Anyway, in the 90's the Asian American Anti Defamation League said he and many others upheld stereotypes, so said elderly kung fu master was retired by VILE and had to move in with his daughter. Story is about how innocent individuals can be swept up by societal shifts which seem to be for the better, when they are for the worse.

- An australian who has moved to America, being shoehorned by the DHR into having a mantle based around the novelty of his being Australian. I think he's named Bombat.

- A latin-american hero whose father worked at a superscience factory and got his testes irradiated, causing his son to be born without limbs. To recoup some PR, said superscience company outfits him with robotic arms and legs and sponsors his steep DHR fees. Story is about how companies can uplift and manipulate minorities for their commercial appeal, provided they are willing to fit the trendiest image and remain in the spotlight.

Supers!

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Supers!

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Ever since man has been capable of hitting other man with a rock, the world has been divided with power, between those who have it and those who do not. On this world, perhaps even more than ours, this division is more important than any other. Some secure power with the right mechanical gadgets and the years of study necessary to build them. Others seek out power at the bottom of a chemical vat, with the handshake of some otherworldly evil, or in the bite of a genetically unstable exotic pet. A few with enough money or federal funding simply strap six tons of bulletproof power over their chest and call it a day. All of these people, designated by their power, are known as Supers. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Universally, they're all pretty dramatic.
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The powers that be reigning in these powerful persons are known as the United States Department of Hero Regulation and the Villain's International League of Evildoing -- they are the respective equivalents of a high-ranking government agency and an international labor union working in tandem to ensure the other side follows roughly the same rules. The fleshbound VILE Codex of Cruelty, for instance, shares no less than 500 identical pages to the official DHR Federal Mandates & Regulations Handbook, and this is no strange coincidence. Both sides have inscrutable teams of lawyers and investigative sub-agencies, and both sides are just about as scary as the IRS when you're on their bad side. Every ten years, they hold a summit to review and revise the rules, and the 2020 summit is to be held only seven days from our story's inception.
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Supers!, which I am already regretting stylizing with an exclamation point, is to be a semi-sandbox story -- that means I am giving you a fair amount of freedom with your individual stories and themes -- with two overarching subplots going on for Heroes and Villains. I expect probably two people to apply to this, so accordingly, there are a bunch of rules (not in the annoying "i'm the GM i reserve the right to shit down your chimney" way) in order to ensure that these two people have sheets that demonstrate an understanding of this difficult-to-understand world. With that, I'll drop my GM voice and get down to it.

Organizations

DHR

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The Department of Hero Regulation is a government agency for the management of heroes, founded in 1944 after the infamous Mighty Man Incident, wherein Sam J. Reynolds, the aforementioned Mighty Man, was found guilty of Destruction of Property in the form of a damaged barn when Mighty Man collided into it during an altercation with Brainfreeze. After breaking the handcuffs he was placed in, Mighty Man incinerated the courthouse with his heat-vision and flew to Nicaragua, where he remains in hiding to this day. The proceeding national outcry lead to the DHR's establishment, and federal funding for devices and training to handle Supers.
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Due to the passive role heroes take defending themselves from villains, the DHR has significantly fewer rules than their counterpart organization, though this is not to say that the rules are not as strictly enforced as the League's. Most of the DHR’S rules focus on acceptable levels of force and permitted scenarios for the escalation of conflict -- As an organization, the DHR is more focused on capturing unregistered heroes and villains and threats to global safety. They typically only involve themselves in the affairs of higher level villains, such as those capable of purchasing nuclear weapons or summoning world-devouring creatures. They are also in charge of assigning appropriate “Units”, which are essentially sets of pre-approved dynamics such as “Lone Hero”, “Hero Family” or “Hero/Sidekick”. When a single man in a cave applies for a young, spandex-wrapped male sidekick, it is the DHR's screenings they have to pass. When Super families routinely risk their child's safety crawling into tombs to press secret buttons, it is the DHR who investigates. When a hero breaks the rules, it is the DHR who hunts them down.
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VILE

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	The Villain's International League of Evildoing The Villain's International League of Evildoing, more commonly abbreviated to VILE, was founded in 1953 as The Brotherhood of Evildoing, though this was changed to "The League of Evildoing" in 1967 in the infamous "Electricia v. Brotherhood of Evildoing" case, and once more to the current name in 1981 as part of a rebranding effort. It is essentially a global union for villains, serving as the authority over every facet of supervillainy, be it dealing with a villain’s legal recourse, supplying henchmen, screening offensive alter-egos and gimmicks, creating suitable nemesis pairings for heroes, and so on. VILE’s rulebook is bound in human flesh, and is extensive, strict, and notoriously bulletproof -- There are no loopholes to be exploited, or any matter it does not cover in great detail. VILE’s legal team is one of the best in the world, and when matters can no longer be settled in courtrooms, they rely on their equally-skilled assassins. VILE is lead by its aging founder, one Frederick Verhullen, the villain known as Black Mask. He has been bedbound for the last four years, and is hanging on to his mortal coil by the grace of God and a skilled team of doctors who provide him round-the-clock care. With elections for the new chairman to proceed almost immediately after Black Mask's eventual death, would-be leaders of villainy are prematurely beginning to throw their hats in the ring.	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Magician's Order

Finding its start in Salem, Massachusetts in 1933 as the Society for Paranormal Inquiry, the Magicians' Order (formally renamed in 1948) is the single largest collective of arcane academics and their ilk in the world. Overseen by the current Archmagician, Dr. Abra Cadaver, the Order is something of an enigma to all those outside of it -- both heroes and villains fill the Order's membership, and they maintain working relations, if cool, with both the VILE and the DHR. Ostensibly, the Order serves as a neutral ground where Magicians can come together to share and discuss their supernatural findings amongst their peers, though only those within their hallowed halls know just how the Order goes about its business.

The most notable experiment conducted by the Order was the Abraxus Ritual of 1947, a djinn-summoning ceremony combined with tomes of stolen Nazi research into the paranormal. This resulted in the discovery of the Veil, the very force returned to the world by Trent Hark nearly twenty years prior which connects the Earth to countless planes of existence. The two planes accessible by mankind are the Seelie Court, a realm of pure magical energy and the home of the faeries, and the Phantom Wastes, a grey and expansive world home to eldritch horrors who seek to end all life throughout the plans of existence -- There are hundreds, if not thousands of planes past the Phantom Wastes and Seelie Court, though they are outside of the material realm and inconceivable to the minds of men. These matters, and many even more complicated and Tolkienesque, are the Order's bread and butter.

Supers!

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Ever since man has been capable of hitting other man with a rock, the world has been divided with power, between those who have it and those who do not. On this world, perhaps even more than ours, this division is more important than any other. Some secure power with the right mechanical gadgets and the years of study necessary to build them. Others seek out power at the bottom of a chemical vat, with the handshake of some otherworldly evil, or in the bite of a genetically unstable exotic pet. A few with enough money or federal funding simply strap six tons of bulletproof power over their chest and call it a day. All of these people, designated by their power, are known as Supers. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Universally, they're all pretty dramatic.
​
The powers that be reigning in these powerful persons are known as the United States Department of Hero Regulation and the Villain's International League of Evildoing -- they are the respective equivalents of a high-ranking government agency and an international labor union working in tandem to ensure the other side follows roughly the same rules. The fleshbound VILE Codex of Cruelty, for instance, shares no less than 500 identical pages to the official DHR Federal Mandates & Regulations Handbook, and this is no strange coincidence. Both sides have inscrutable teams of lawyers and investigative sub-agencies, and both sides are just about as scary as the IRS when you're on their bad side. Every ten years, they hold a summit to review and revise the rules, and the 2020 summit is to be held only seven days from our story's inception.
​
Supers!, which I am already regretting stylizing with an exclamation point, is to be a semi-sandbox story -- that means I am giving you a fair amount of freedom with your individual stories and themes -- with two overarching subplots going on for Heroes and Villains. I expect probably two people to apply to this, so accordingly, there are a bunch of rules (not in the annoying "i'm the GM i reserve the right to shit down your chimney" way) in order to ensure that these two people have sheets that demonstrate an understanding of this difficult-to-understand world. With that, I'll drop my GM voice and get down to it.

Organizations

DHR

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The Department of Hero Regulation is a government agency for the management of heroes, founded in 1944 after the infamous Mighty Man Incident, wherein Sam J. Reynolds, the aforementioned Mighty Man, was found guilty of Destruction of Property in the form of a damaged barn when Mighty Man collided into it during an altercation with Brainfreeze. After breaking the handcuffs he was placed in, Mighty Man incinerated the courthouse with his heat-vision and flew to Nicaragua, where he remains in hiding to this day. The proceeding national outcry lead to the DHR's establishment, and federal funding for devices and training to handle Supers.
​
Due to the passive role heroes take defending themselves from villains, the DHR has significantly fewer rules than their counterpart organization, though this is not to say that the rules are not as strictly enforced as the League's. Most of the DHR’S rules focus on acceptable levels of force and permitted scenarios for the escalation of conflict -- As an organization, the DHR is more focused on capturing unregistered heroes and villains and threats to global safety. They typically only involve themselves in the affairs of higher level villains, such as those capable of purchasing nuclear weapons or summoning world-devouring creatures. They are also in charge of assigning appropriate “Units”, which are essentially sets of pre-approved dynamics such as “Lone Hero”, “Hero Family” or “Hero/Sidekick”. When a single man in a cave applies for a young, spandex-wrapped male sidekick, it is the DHR's screenings they have to pass. When Super families routinely risk their child's safety crawling into tombs to press secret buttons, it is the DHR who investigates. When a hero breaks the rules, it is the DHR who hunts them down.
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VILE

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	The Villain's International League of Evildoing The Villain's International League of Evildoing, more commonly abbreviated to VILE, was founded in 1953 as The Brotherhood of Evildoing, though this was changed to "The League of Evildoing" in 1967 in the infamous "Electricia v. Brotherhood of Evildoing" case, and once more to the current name in 1981 as part of a rebranding effort. It is essentially a global union for villains, serving as the authority over every facet of supervillainy, be it dealing with a villain’s legal recourse, supplying henchmen, screening offensive alter-egos and gimmicks, creating suitable nemesis pairings for heroes, and so on. VILE’s rulebook is bound in human flesh, and is extensive, strict, and notoriously bulletproof -- There are no loopholes to be exploited, or any matter it does not cover in great detail. VILE’s legal team is one of the best in the world, and when matters can no longer be settled in courtrooms, they rely on their equally-skilled assassins. VILE is lead by its aging founder, one Frederick Verhullen, the villain known as Black Mask. He has been bedbound for the last four years, and is hanging on to his mortal coil by the grace of God and a skilled team of doctors who provide him round-the-clock care. With elections for the new chairman to proceed almost immediately after Black Mask's eventual death, would-be leaders of villainy are prematurely beginning to throw their hats in the ring.	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Magician's Order

Finding its start in Salem, Massachusetts in 1933 as the Society for Paranormal Inquiry, the Magicians' Order (formally renamed in 1948) is the single largest collective of arcane academics and their ilk in the world. Overseen by the current Archmagician, Dr. Abra Cadaver, the Order is something of an enigma to all those outside of it -- both heroes and villains fill the Order's membership, and they maintain working relations, if cool, with both the VILE and the DHR. Ostensibly, the Order serves as a neutral ground where Magicians can come together to share and discuss their supernatural findings amongst their peers, though only those within their hallowed halls know just how the Order goes about its business.

The most notable experiment conducted by the Order was the Abraxus Ritual of 1947, a djinn-summoning ceremony combined with tomes of stolen Nazi research into the paranormal. This resulted in the discovery of the Veil, the very force returned to the world by Trent Hark nearly twenty years prior which connects the Earth to countless planes of existence. The two planes accessible by mankind are the Seelie Court, a realm of pure magical energy and the home of the faeries, and the Phantom Wastes, a grey and expansive world home to eldritch horrors who seek to end all life throughout the plans of existence -- There are hundreds, if not thousands of planes past the Phantom Wastes and Seelie Court, though they are outside of the material realm and inconceivable to the minds of men. These matters, and many even more complicated and Tolkienesque, are the Order's bread and butter.

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Ever since man has been capable of hitting other man with a rock, the world has been divided with power, between those who have it and those who do not. On this world, perhaps even more than ours, this division is more important than any other. Some secure power with the right mechanical gadgets and the years of study necessary to build them. Others seek out power at the bottom of a chemical vat, with the handshake of some otherworldly evil, or in the bite of a genetically unstable exotic pet. A few with enough money or federal funding simply strap six tons of bulletproof power over their chest and call it a day. All of these people, designated by their power, are known as Supers. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Universally, they're all pretty dramatic.
​
The powers that be reigning in these powerful persons are known as the United States Department of Hero Regulation and the Villain's International League of Evildoing -- they are the respective equivalents of a high-ranking government agency and an international labor union working in tandem to ensure the other side follows roughly the same rules. The fleshbound VILE Codex of Cruelty, for instance, shares no less than 500 identical pages to the official DHR Federal Mandates & Regulations Handbook, and this is no strange coincidence. Both sides have inscrutable teams of lawyers and investigative sub-agencies, and both sides are just about as scary as the IRS when you're on their bad side. Every ten years, they hold a summit to review and revise the rules, and the 2020 summit is to be held only seven days from our story's inception.
​
Supers!, which I am already regretting stylizing with an exclamation point, is to be a semi-sandbox story -- that means I am giving you a fair amount of freedom with your individual stories and themes -- with two overarching subplots going on for Heroes and Villains. I expect probably two people to apply to this, so accordingly, there are a bunch of rules (not in the annoying "i'm the GM i reserve the right to shit down your chimney" way) in order to ensure that these two people have sheets that demonstrate an understanding of this difficult-to-understand world. With that, I'll drop my GM voice and get down to it.

Organizations

DHR

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The Department of Hero Regulation is a government agency for the management of heroes, founded in 1944 after the infamous Mighty Man Incident, wherein Sam J. Reynolds, the aforementioned Mighty Man, was found guilty of Destruction of Property in the form of a damaged barn when Mighty Man collided into it during an altercation with Brainfreeze. After breaking the handcuffs he was placed in, Mighty Man incinerated the courthouse with his heat-vision and flew to Nicaragua, where he remains in hiding to this day. The proceeding national outcry lead to the DHR's establishment, and federal funding for devices and training to handle Supers.
​
Due to the passive role heroes take defending themselves from villains, the DHR has significantly fewer rules than their counterpart organization, though this is not to say that the rules are not as strictly enforced as the League's. Most of the DHR’S rules focus on acceptable levels of force and permitted scenarios for the escalation of conflict -- As an organization, the DHR is more focused on capturing unregistered heroes and villains and threats to global safety. They typically only involve themselves in the affairs of higher level villains, such as those capable of purchasing nuclear weapons or summoning world-devouring creatures. They are also in charge of assigning appropriate “Units”, which are essentially sets of pre-approved dynamics such as “Lone Hero”, “Hero Family” or “Hero/Sidekick”. When a single man in a cave applies for a young, spandex-wrapped male sidekick, it is the DHR's screenings they have to pass. When Super families routinely risk their child's safety crawling into tombs to press secret buttons, it is the DHR who investigates. When a hero breaks the rules, it is the DHR who hunts them down.
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VILE

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	The Villain's International League of Evildoing The Villain's International League of Evildoing, more commonly abbreviated to VILE, was founded in 1953 as The Brotherhood of Evildoing, though this was changed to "The League of Evildoing" in 1967 in the infamous "Electricia v. Brotherhood of Evildoing" case, and once more to the current name in 1981 as part of a rebranding effort. It is essentially a global union for villains, serving as the authority over every facet of supervillainy, be it dealing with a villain’s legal recourse, supplying henchmen, screening offensive alter-egos and gimmicks, creating suitable nemesis pairings for heroes, and so on. VILE’s rulebook is bound in human flesh, and is extensive, strict, and notoriously bulletproof -- There are no loopholes to be exploited, or any matter it does not cover in great detail. VILE’s legal team is one of the best in the world, and when matters can no longer be settled in courtrooms, they rely on their equally-skilled assassins. VILE is lead by its aging founder, one Frederick Verhullen, the villain known as Black Mask. He has been bedbound for the last four years, and is hanging on to his mortal coil by the grace of God and a skilled team of doctors who provide him round-the-clock care. With elections for the new chairman to proceed almost immediately after Black Mask's eventual death, would-be leaders of villainy are prematurely beginning to throw their hats in the ring.	xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Magician's Order

Finding its start in Salem, Massachusetts in 1933 as the Society for Paranormal Inquiry, the Magicians' Order (formally renamed in 1948) is the single largest collective of arcane academics and their ilk in the world. Overseen by the current Archmagician, Dr. Abra Cadaver, the Order is something of an enigma to all those outside of it -- both heroes and villains fill the Order's membership, and they maintain working relations, if cool, with both the VILE and the DHR. Ostensibly, the Order serves as a neutral ground where Magicians can come together to share and discuss their supernatural findings amongst their peers, though only those within their hallowed halls know just how the Order goes about its business.

The most notable experiment conducted by the Order was the Abraxus Ritual of 1947, a djinn-summoning ceremony combined with tomes of stolen Nazi research into the paranormal. This resulted in the discovery of the Veil, the very force returned to the world by Trent Hark nearly twenty years prior which connects the Earth to countless planes of existence. The two planes accessible by mankind are the Seelie Court, a realm of pure magical energy and the home of the faeries, and the Phantom Wastes, a grey and expansive world home to eldritch horrors who seek to end all life throughout the plans of existence -- There are hundreds, if not thousands of planes past the Phantom Wastes and Seelie Court, though they are outside of the material realm and inconceivable to the minds of men. These matters, and many even more complicated and Tolkienesque, are the Order's bread and butter.

The World

The Super world is much like our own, but with superheroes. History is identical to ours up until 1932, the year Trent Harks discovers the Girdle of Ares and becomes Captain Titan. Since then, societal shifts have been the same as our universe, though they have also been reflected by Supers -- the Supers in the late 40's and 50's were largely tools of patriotic American propaganda, who donned golden age costumes and battled campy villains such as "Yellow Peril" and "Captain Catastrophe", growing even campier in the 60's. A year later, a criminal Super known as Black Mask founded the Brotherhood of Evildoing in order to similarly organize villainy, though theirs is at a unionized level. Since then, the two regulatory organizations have worked within an alliance of sort, right down to their similarly-organized rulebooks.
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As a result of the race to create nuclear-powered Supers in the 40s and 50s, many heroes of the golden age -- Comrade Red, Atomic Man, and the Nuclear Family, in particular -- died of radiation cancer in the early 60's. Along with the controversial use of Supers in Vietnam and society embracing pacifism as a whole, the role of Supers shifted to fighting (or abetting) low-scale crimes such as drug trafficking and extortion rather than aiding international conflicts. Heroes like Groovemaster and

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History of Supers

The first Supers predated the concept of Supering entirely, ranging from early masked vigilantes to well-known eccentrics of the time. The first heroes rose up during the turbulence of the Roaring Twenties, mostly private investigators, conscripted government agents, and travelling lawmen. This saturation of government-appointed heroes grandfathered into the DHR after its formation lead to an early-established culture of deference to the government and its law within the hero community. Similarly, the earliest villains were mostly German royalty driven to bankruptcy by World War I, fostering a culture of greed and self-serving within their own ranks.

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