mattmanganon

The Dawn of Marvels

@Dedonus Can you look over the Judas sheet i've put up so far and tell me what you think? I think i've ironed out the stuff that directly contradicts with your stuff, except for the part where I need to add in that Jackle helped him/he helped Jackle with the experiments.

The Dawn of Marvels

Judas Traveller

Player Name: Mattmanganon
Alias: Judas Traveller
Real Name: N/A
Moral Alignment: Walking The Line.
Affiliation: Formerly US Army. Formerly Sgt Fury's Howling Commando's. Currently leading an army of Superhero clones.
Character Origin & Backstory: Very little is known about Traveller's past, the first time he officially showed up was in 1919, as a medical scientist, trying to cure the German Measles epidemic. He was successful in curing his patients, although he was doing so using magic, unable to effectively come up with a medical cure. It was soon after that he was drafted by the US government and in 1923 when he was drafted to become personal Physician/Bodyguard of President Coolidge, proceeding to serve at the same post under Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt. After the success of the Captain America project, but the unfortunate assassination of Dr Erskine, Traveller was put in charge or replicating the success. When he was unsuccessful and D-Day approached, he was drafted to the front, joining the super-powered individuals under Sgt Fury, a squad that would become known as the "Howling Commando's"

During the war, the Commando's performed tasks that no other member of the armed forces could hope to achieve without massive losses, Sgt Fury leading the crack team of Captain America, James Howlette (Later becoming known as the Wolverine), a genetically augmented Soviet Supersoldier by the name of Omega Red, a sentient robot that could manipulate fire, by the name of "Human Torch", an Atlantean called "Namor" and Britain's Electrokinetic Super-Man, Union Jack. After the War, Traveller had been rather disturbed by what he had found in the German Concentration Camps. He disappeared from public view.

Over the years, Traveller made fleeting appearances, the first was in 1968 when he appeared in the My Lai region of Vietnam and slaughtered the entire US 23rd Infantry Division as they attempted to carry out a mass slaughter of civilians. According to the witnesses, he was not alone, he was aided by several beings, one of which was wearing red stripes. Coroner's reported that a number of the bodies were killed in a multitude of ways including shot, stabbed, electrocuted and several had no clear signs of death, as though they had had their lives stripped from them. Another appearance that caused quite a stir was on November 9th 1989, when he was in a video shot of the Berlin Wall being torn down.

Traveller didn't make a grand re-appearance until a year ago, when he created Kaine, a clone of Spider-Man in order to join him in his quest to protect the people of the world from mass murder. Unfortunately, Traveller was unable to control him, Kaine almost killed Traveller in his escape from his lab. Traveller then went to his old Sgt and told Fury about his plan and the rogue Kaine. Fury immediately wanted to incarcerate Traveller, but remembered from their old days that doing so would prove almost impossible and so decided to keep Traveller close to him until he could find a way to do so. Although, Traveller was playing Fury as well. Fury believed that Traveller was aboard the Helicarrier, when he was, in fact back at his lab, creating another clone by mixing Spider-Man's DNA with that of his old squad-mate, Omega Red. The resulting creation became known as Spidercide. Traveller released Spidercide onto the city to retrieve Kaine, but the creature was unsuccessful. Traveller's situation went from bad to worse, when it turned out that S.H.I.E.L.D. had tracked Spidercide back to him. His lab was invaded and he was forced to escape. One of his older experiments fell into S.H.I.E.L.D. hands ((NOTE: Contents of experiment to be decided at a later date.))

Traveller then dropped off the map again, presumably going underground, but he and Kaine are now at the top of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most wanted.

Powers and Abilities:

Vast amount of Magic power (Be it throwing fire-balls, Telekinesis, teleporting or casting illusions, Traveller's magic potential rival's, but by no means surpasses, Doctor Strange)
Kestrel Transformation (Traveller is able to transform into the form of a Kestrel)
Mind Reading (Has the ability to read minds, however, this power can be fooled by those who have mental training in resisting such techniques, like Nick Fury)

Sample Story Arcs:

Clone Saga (The one that commissioned as well as performed the cloning experiments.)
The Ongoing Redback Epidemic (Kingpin has created a new drug by the name of "Redback" that grants the user 10 minutes of Spider-Senses. The drug is becoming an epidemic, causing mental breakdowns in people that use it for long enough, whilst granting criminals the ability to anticipate every danger to them)

Rules: There are no rules as of yet.

Sample Post

This is a post to use as an example for both Judas and Kaine.

Kaine stared at the warehouse, then at the letter he had received. "Come to Warehouse #8 at midnight if you want your answers." Kaine seethed silently. "Bastard..." he grunted. He then jumped down and web shot out, allowing him to swing into an open window, landing on a metal grating. He looked down into the center of the warehouse. Several large boxes moved around, a light shone down from the ceiling and that's where he was. Judas Traveller. The man that had symultaniously created and destroyed his life. "TRAVELLER!!!" Kaine roared, vaulting the catwalk and diving upon Traveller. Although, just as his foot was about to make contact, there was a puff of smoke and Kaine's Spider-Senses blared, as Kaine landed on all 4's, looking back at the smoke to see Traveller had barely moved, only now, he was stood looking back at him.

"My Child, I can understand your frustrations, but first, you must understand mine." he said, as he poofed into smoke again as Kaine sent webbing at him, before appearing on Kaine's opposite side. "I am trying to create a better world, a world that is free of massacre, where people need not live in fear that they are to be killed for no other reason than because they share the same skin colour as some criminal that they have never met before. Kaine lunged his hand out at Judas, trying to use his signature "Mark of Kaine" attack, but once again, Judas teleported. "Please, Kaine, let us talk like civilized beings." he said. Kaine stood and analysed the situation. There was no concievable way to hit Judas at the moment, as he was expecting these attacks.

"Alright, you old bastard, we'll play the game your way." Kaine said, standing at ease. Judas smiled and clapped his hands together.

"Excellent." he replied. He snapped his fingers and a table appeared in the middle of the room a hot, roast dinner on each side of the table. "Please, join me for dinner." he said, sitting down and tucking the napkin into his collar. Kaine didn't move. Judas sighed. "My dear boy, I think it's rather obvious that if this was a ploy to capture you, then I would do so and you would stand little chance to resist." Kaine moved towards the table and sat down across from him. "There we go." Kaine sat and stared at him. "You know, you can remove your mask. It's not as though you need to hide your identity." Kaine pulled the mask down, allowing his face to be free'd. Judas began to eat.

"What's your game, old man?" Kaine asked, prodding a carrot with his fork, before eating it.

"My game is freedom and security for man. Not one man, nor a group of men, but all men." he said, between mouthfuls of pea's. "You see..." he sat and chewed his food for a second to think of a way to put it to Kaine that wouldn't result in the Clone in going berserk and start attacking him. "I may be performing awful acts... But what would you have me do? I saw what happened in the Concentration camps, the 6 million that died in awful conditions, who deserved so much better, who deserved to grow old, to cradle their children or grand-children... Are you telling me that I am a monster for wanting to create a ruined life, such as yours, to help save those people."

"And did you ever stop for a second to think about the lives of your soldiers?" Asked Kaine. Judas didn't look up from his food.

"Of course, but as I said, it is one life, specifically yours, vs the life of those 6 million Jews... There was 1 choice. And unfortunately, you got the short end of the stick." Kaine slammed his fist on the table.

"OF COURSE, BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH DAMN EASIER WHEN YOU ARE THROWING AWAY SOMEONE ELSES LIFE!!!" Judas picked up the bottle of wine as it rattled and was about to fall. He then reached over and filled Kaine's glass, before filling his own.

"Don't get me wrong, I would say the same were it my life." he replied, before drinking from his glass, he dabbed up a little trickle of wine from his lips using his napkin. "And I do so, I assume that you have looked into my activities, you will know of my actions in Vietnam."

"400 dead soldiers." he said.

"In return for the lives of over 500 women and children. Oh yes, I do not regret my decision and would never choose to do otherwise, yet it was me who was branded traitor. Me who can never again return to my homeland to live and work, to have a family. Do not think that yours is the only life sacrificed in pursuit of my goals. People like to forget that with the mustache-twirling villains such as myself, our lives are the first to be sacrificed to our cause. I have loved ones, I still do, but I can never truly be with them" he said, staring at a carrot, before eating it as he finished.

"But... What of the loved ones of those soldiers?" Kaine asked. "Their mothers, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, you are destroying more lives." Judas let out an exhale as he sat up and looked Kaine in the eyes.

"Emotional distress. They will get over it." Judas said.

"Like I did." Kaine said, dropping the knife and fork on the plate and crossing his arms.

"Especially considering that the loved ones they mourn are murderers and rapists." Judas looked up at Kaine and smiled. "Do I give you the impression that I am one of their number?" Kaine merely stared daggers back. "Look. I don't expect you to accept or agree with what I have done, but I do expect you to appreciate that EVERYTHING I have done was done to assist Humanity."

"Humanity, yes, but not for the tools that you use to assist humanity." Kaine downed his drink before getting up, pulling his mask back up to cover his face and beginning to walk away.

"You barely touched your food." Judas said, staring at the still rather full plate.

"Not hungry... I think me and Pete have something to discuss." Kaine said, looking back. "And depending on how that goes, you may have to start watching your back more fervently." Judas raised his glass to Kaine.

"Just keep me in mind, please. As much as you hate me, I can't help but think of you as a sort of a son. You are always welcome at my door." he called, he waited for some kind of reply, but it didn't come. As soon as Kaine had dropped back out of the window, Kaine would hear the old man's voice shout "Until next we meet."

The Traveller has arrived.

The Dawn of Marvels

@Dedonus Alright. It's just that I am a man that believes that if you are going to do a remake, then don't do a remake of something that was great, because we already have a great version of is being remade. All you can do is make something equally as good, ever so slightly better, or just worse. High risk for low reward. However, if you remake something that had potential, but was ultimately terrible, then you make another great story and if it doesn't work, then nobody blames you saying "Well, you took a terrible story and made something equally as bad/ever so slightly better. But you were trying to adapt that terrible thing, so what did you expect?" Low risk for high reward.

The Civil War movie was a great example. The Civil War event was possibly one of the worst of the big Marvel Events. I mean, it was truly terrible in everything that it tried. Nobody was acting in character, the story tried to have a "Nobody is in the wrong, it's all about who the reader agree's with on a moral level" message, but then they made EVERYBODY in it a morally deplorable asshole, with Tony forming Super-Villain Death-Squads to kill anyone that didn't agree with him (Not just those who were Anti-Registration. Even those who had signed, if they so much as tried to tell Tony that he may have gone a little too far, like Spider-Man, then he tried to have them killed.) whilst Steve just did the killing of those he didn't agree with, himself. Then the Movie came along and actually made the argument a sound one. Tony said "The Avengers need to be accountable for the innocent lives that we ended in the crossfire" whilst Steve said "We need to be fully autonomous so we can help as many people as we can. If we are controlled by others, then we will have to cow to their agenda's, meaning that they could force us to go somewhere we shouldn't go, or keep us out of somewhere that we are needed." Both are excellent points, and although I freely admit that it was by no means a masterpiece, I think it's undeniable that it was far superior to the Comics.

I chose the Clone Saga because it was actually where I first started collecting Spider-Man comics and I do have a soft spot for it, so I wanted to see it done justice.

So, I made that timeline with 2 clear objectives.
1) Give Kaine a clear and decisive purpose. Rather than his constant flip-flopping between loving Peter and hating him and hating Ben and just all-round having no clear, decisive direction. My plan is for his direction to be to find a direction. To decide if he wants to become his own person, live as a clone of Peter, or just give in and become one of Traveller's Justice-Machine's.
2) Make Judas Traveller not a complete fucking waste of time and ink and give him an actually good fucking reason to be doing what he is doing, rather than just "Blahdy-Blah, i'm so cryptic, please analyse me." Mainly because I actually really like Judas' design.

If you don't mind, i'll probably apply for both of them. I mean, I can see someone else wanting to play Kaine, but I don't think there is anyone else wanting to play Judas, as he is a part of Spider-Man history that most people don't know of and those who do would rather just forget.

The Dawn of Marvels

I'd be curious to join in as Spider-Man. Specifically, I've been re-reading some of my old comics and i'm tempted to have a somewhat competant stab at the Clone Saga. Essentially, this is the rough idea that I have for it now:

* Judas Traveller is a magic wielder as well as scientist. During the war, he attempted on many occasions to try and provide the Allies with more successes like Captain America. By '43, he had had no luck at all, but due to his powers, had been drafted into the Howling Commandos, a squad of super-powered beings under Sgt Fury. After the war, Traveller began to blame himself for the 6 million dead Jews, stating that if he had just been more persistent, more determined, then he could have perfected the formula and those people may have lived. Traveller disappeared after the War.
* Cut forwards to 4 years before present day. Traveller, upon reading about the war-crimes in the middle-east begins to set up his Super-Soldier formula again, this time with the intention of creating an army of Super-Powered individuals under his command, designed to perform the duties that S.H.I.E.L.D. is too buried under Bureaucracy to do anything about. He sets about gathering DNA samples of multiple Super-powered beings, including his old Squad-mates that are still alive (Wolverine, Omega-Red, Captain America, ETC.)
* Traveller's earliest experiments were with Spider-Man, as the young man had proven interesting when he had helped bring down Sentry. Kidnapping Spider-Man, he held Spidey in his lab for the best part of a month whilst he ran experiments on him before wiping his mind and sending him back. Traveller uses the date and creates Kaine, but unfortunately, finds that Kaine is mentally unstable. Unable to control him, Kaine almost kills Traveller in his escape from his lab. Traveller goes to his old Sgt and tells Fury about his plan and the rogue Kaine. In the meantime, Kaine is on the streets, laying low and trying to figure out what he is. Hunted by S.H.I.E.L.D., Kaine runs into MJ, who mistakes him for Peter. This is when she finds out everything about Peter. She agree's to hide him if he agree's to calm down and tell her everything.
* Traveller works together with S.H.I.E.L.D., using his last favour from Fury to help put Kaine under wraps. Whilst Fury tries to track down Kaine, he forbids Traveller from creating any more clones. Traveller lies, managing to use an illusion spell on Fury to convince him that he never left the Helicarrier at any point, in the meantime, creating Spidercide using a combination of Peter and Omega-Red's body. Spidercide is a hulking monstrosity built to track-down his failed clones.
* As all of this is going on, Peter meets Kaine in MJ's basement and the 3 have a talk. Things seem to be going well until S.H.I.E.L.D. bust down the door. Kaine flips his shit and takes out most of the agents, damn-near killing one of them, but is stopped by Peter. The two have a short battle before Spidercide is dropped on the situation and the two are forced to work together to overcome the monster. Traveller attempts to aid Spidercide, but is killed (Seemingly) by Kaine. Peter disowns the clone, telling him that there is no way that a murderer like Kaine could ever be one of his clones. Kaine leaves quietly. Spidercide, in the meantime is found by Kingpin, who uses the beast to lead him to Traveller's laboratory.
* Cut to modern day, Spider-Man is one of the more respected of New York's Superheroes. Kaine is working as a hitman and is on top of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Most wanted. When Kingpin got his hands on Spider-Man's DNA, he used it to create an extraordinarily powerful drug that is known as "Redback" which gives the user Spider-senses for about 10 minutes, augmenting their reality. Spidercide is also working as Kingpin's bodyguard and top goon.

Essentially, I was hoping for some more Spider-Clones to pop up places and then have it turn out that Judas really had made his army, much to the dismay of Kaine, who is waging a 1-man war against his creator. I did very much like the "Who Is The Real Peter Parker" storyline, so i'm going to leave it ambiguous, with S.H.I.E.L.D. turning out to have Ben Reilly, whom they have had in their possession since the beginning of this debacle. The idea is that Judas' first forae into cloning is to use a spell to create and exact copy of Peter, but found that it was as uncontrolable as the original, so he wiped the clones mind and put it on ice until he could figure out a way to control it.

Also, if you don't mind, I'd like for, later down the road, I was hoping to bring Leopardon into this. Saying that Judas developed the magic robot as an "Anti-Giant Monster" defense weapon. Maybe with Kaine having it to begin with and later Peter capturing it. I imagine it'd get jobbed out to Thanos if we get that far XD.

Alien / Predator RP?

Always up for AVP

Justice League: Legacy

That's fine, it wasn't really directed at anyone in particular, just sort of everyone to sort of gain a sense of how well a character like that would be received.

Justice League: Legacy

I actually have an idea for a character that I'd like to ask you guys about before I, potentially, spend ages making a character sheet that i'm not going to be able to use.

I am thing of making a new Allen, specifically a teenaged Allen who's Speed Force power actually manifests itself in access to unique magic spells. Essentially, she would be really proud of being a witch, but naturally, people find out that she's an Allen and are like "Oh, so you run fast, do you?" Which really annoys her. She is proud of the fact that she is the first Allen that can help people without just having the ability to run fast. The idea is that, over the course of the RP, her magic powers slowly start to fade her, being replaced with the Super-Speed that the Flash's are known for, with her character arc involving her learning to accept her power for what it is, less as "Just another link in one great chain of Flash's" but as someone that can make a hell of a difference and do so faster than any other living thing. "It's not what you can do that defines you, It's what you actually do with it that makes you a hero."

I like the idea of it leading up to some epic moment where some Supervillain is about to do something spectacular, when she shows up in A flash outfit and proceeds to kick his ass at supersonic speed.

I also like the idea of her desperately searching for ways to stop her powers transforming into the classic Flash powers, like trying to don the Helm of Fate or maybe accidentally backfiring a spell that unleashes a demon that her fading power lacks the means to stop.

40K: The Holy Ordos

Arichael

Name: Arichael Gorran

Age: ??? (RECORDS EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITION)

Gender: Male

Role: Chamber Militant

Ordos: Xenos

Appearance:

Approximately 8 foot tall with a stern face, full of the scars of war. His entire body is covered in passages from the Lectitio Divinitatus tattooed directly onto his skin, even down his face.

Personality:

Plasma Pulses flew overhead as the 3 Guard ducked and ran through the trenches. "Keep it together, lads. His Eminence is counting on us." one of them said to the others. He looked over the trench, but fell back immediately as his helmet flew away. The other two rushed to his aid, expecting to see their friend's skull with a hole burned in it. To their relief, they found that the force of the impact merely knocked his helmet off, carrying the plasma bolt with it. "See, he want's us alive for a reason." he laughed. The others began to laugh as well, before an explosion rang out near them. They grabbed their rifles and continued down the trench.

They were not 50 meters down the trench when they heard the familiar sound of the Xenos filth screaming their godless praise to the greater good. Before the maroon armoured beings, that followed Farsight, lunged over the trench. One of the fanatical Aliens was impaled on the bayonet of the Guardsman, before the Guardsman was felled by another of the xenos' hooves flying into his jaw, shattering it and sending him flying to the ground. The other two began to fall back along the trench, firing wildly. "GET BACK YOU XENOS SCUM!!!" One of them yelled, shortly before being killed in a hail of their plasma bolts. The last of them made his way along the trench, his breath heavy and daring not to look back. The Commissar would no doubt have him shot for falling back, but, at the very least, this way he would live longer.

Finally, getting towards where his platoon had been, he was horrified to see the sight of a Riptide Battlesuit now stood and firing its burst-cannon as the rest of his platoon fell to the mechanical monstrosity. He took a Frag grenade from his belt and took the pin out before throwing it behind him to deter his pursuers, then took a Krak Grenade and looked at it as the grenade went off behind him. He was about to charge it before he saw in the skyline behind it, black and white cylindars dropping from the skies. "The Steel Rain of his Holiness' Angels" he whispered before crossing his heart. Just behind him, a metal cylindar smashed into the ground, before a ramp dropped and a Dreadnought, wearing the heraldry of The Great Raven walked out of it, it's assault cannon firing wildly into the Alien horde, but it was soon in trouble as alien attack dogs began to swarm it. Several more looking at the lone guardsman as a quick, easy meal. It was then that a the air in front of him began to glow and flicker. Black, metal men appeared as if from no-where carrying weapons larger than the Guardsman could believe anyone could actually carry. One of them took up a book in his hand.

"THE EMPEROR IS OUR SHEPHARD, HE SHALL NOT FIND US WANTING!!!" the man bellowed.

"LET NONE FIND US WANTING!" The men shouted as their guns roared, shattering the attack dogs. It was at this point that the Riptide turned its attention to the Terminators. The one with the book charged towards it, his armour deflecting the few plasma bolts that managed to hit him. The guardsman could hear something from him... Singing... ((WRITERS NOTE: Sang to the tune of All Creatures Great And Small)) "BLESS YE MIGHTY EMPEROR, YOUR GLORY BE OUR SHIELD!" He took the giant mace with both hands and swung it into the knee of the Riptide, the first strike buckled the armour, before he delivered a second strike, to the back of its knee. "THROUGH OUR DEVOTION AND YOUR MIGHT, HUMANITY WILL BE HEALED!" It completely collapsed to it's other knee. It was at this point that the guardsman decided to assist.

"FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" He roared before firing at the main head of the Riptide. The Riptide's shoulder mounted Smart-missiles locked onto the Guardsman, however and fired. The Astartes at its feet watched as the Guardsman was blasted to peaces in front of him. He gave an almighty bellow of rage before he smashed his mace into it's chest and buckling the door to the cockpit. 3 more swings and the Riptide was busted open. He reached his arm in and his Stormbolter turned the blue-skinned pilot into a mass of gore. He then walked over to the guardsman and looked at the remains of his body.

"Go with his majesty." he said, taking a knee at his corpse and muttering a short prayer "He will welcome you in his presence." he then heard the unmistakable sound of plasma hitting thick Ceramite plates and turned to see that the battle was far from over. "PRESS THE ADVANCE, FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" he roared to his Deathwatch brothers. As he trudged across the battlefield, over the sound of gunfire and death, the sound of the Blackshield's singing could be heard.

History:

*RECORDS EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITION! LET HE WHO HAS SINNED SERVE AS A BLACK SHIELD TO THOSE OF WORTH, SO THEY MAY BE FORGIVEN THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BE REBORN IN THE EMPERORS HOLY LIGHT*

After being approved by the Watch Commander, he was forced to scrub the heraldry from his armour. Since then, he has served the Deathwatch with distinction. He served in the Damocles Gulf against the servants of the false good. He personally killed Tau Commander Jademoon in single combat. It was this that caught the eye of Inquisitor [TO BE DECIDED] who asked that he be transfered to his personal retinue.

Philosophy: Puritan. To turn from the Emperor's light, nae, to think of turning from the Emperor's light is unforgivable.

Skills & Abilities:

Astartes Physiology (Like all Astartes, he is able to lift a ton and survive wounds that would kill a normal human, 5 times over. He is also able to spit acid and gain short term memories from his fallen foes by consuming their flesh)
Terminator Honours (has been implanted with the necessary implants to wear and perfectly operate Terminator Armour)
Melee combatant (Has proven on many battlefields that he is an amazing melee combatant, able to go toe to toe with the champions of Chaos and the even the forces of Xenos Commander Farsight)
Excessive knowledge of prayers and songs about the Emperor.

Equipment:
Cataphractii-Pattern Terminator Armour
Wrist Mounted Stormbolter (With Special Issue Ammunition, as with all members of the Deathwatch)
Power Maul (Surrendered his Crozius to the Watch Commander, deeming himself unworthy of weilding such a relic)
Copy of the Lectitio Divinitatus.

Miscellaneous: He likes to sing. He will sing loud and proud as he slaughters the enemies of mankind. He knows songs of praise from most chapters, as, when serving with members of the Deathwatch, he will usually ask his squadmates to teach him a song from their culture. One of his favourites is one taught to him by a Space Wolves Iron Priest that he served under.

Relationships with Other Characters: (To be decided)

This is the rough build of the character. I will, of course, finish it as soon as I can find an Inquisitor to serve under. I hate leaving the History blank, but nobody is truly to know his backstory and I can't write anything about the feats and events in the time that he has served his Inquisitor until I find one XD. A Blackshields past transgressions are known only by the Watch Commander that he told and was approved by.

40K: The Holy Ordos

Are we allowed to play characters with Terminator Armour? And are we sticking strictly with canon stuff? Because, I found a picture of a Sisters of Battle Terminator suit and would love to play it?

Alternatively, would a Deathwatch Blackshield Chaplain be allowed?

And if not, then i'll probably stick with the Deathwatch and go with either a Mantis Warrior Librarian or a Space Wolves Iron Priest