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The Most Ambitious Crossover in Comic History

@JackDLemmy
1) There are so many damn characters out there to choose from, you can have OC supporting cast, but the main heroes HAVE to be based on some kind of continuity.
2) Characters have to be recognizable as at least one of their incarnations. So, with Batman, for example, you can apply for Golden Age detective Batman, 60's Adam West Batman, 80's dark and gritty Batman, Rebirth's sociopath Batman, Alternate-universe Vampire Batman, etc. Now, there can be some leeway with this, you can change him up in different ways, but he still has to be recognizable as Batman. So, if you are going to give him guns and a need to slaughter anyone that is guilty, at that point, you are playing The Punisher, with a Batman skin and will be rejected. Ultimately, this is a little too subjective to properly define, but my suggestion is, alter them however you want and if you alter a little too much, i'll happily discuss a compromise.
3) In this kind of an RP, Power Levels are kind of irrelevant. Since interaction isn't necessary, all characters are subject to the "rules of narrative" meaning that they are only as powerful as their story requires them to be. E.G. logistically speaking, there is no way in hell Batman should ever be able to defeat Superman in a straight up fight, however, in every Frank Miller narrative, Batman is always able to get the upper hand, due to the narrative not working unless Batman is able to defeat Superman.
4) Think of it like how the MCU did their world. Pretty much exactly the same as ours at base value, but with whatever aliens, technologies and mythical beings are required to make the characters work in the setting. You can transport a character through time to this setting, E.G. Conan the Barbarian is thrown forward in time to the modern world, or the Legion of Super-Heroes are thrown into the past and have to survive in the modern world.
5a) There will be a specific start date, to be determined, based on how many people are interested. Anyone can apply for any role, so if we have Multiple people wanting to be Batman, then i'll determine who's sheet i like the most and will give that person the go-ahead and ask the others to come up with new characters. After that, then it'll become first-come-first-served, but, again, your sheet will need to be up to snuff. I'm not just going to hand away spots in this to every tom, dick and harry.
5b) As soon as you have your character, you have complete control over that characters part of the mythos. So, their specific stories, their rogue's gallery, their supporting cast, etc. If other people want to play something that is part of your mythos, then they have to discuss it with you. E.G. You have successfully applied for Batman, but someone else comes along wanting to play Jason Todd. We will get together and discuss what parts of the mythos each player gets. I mean, if the Batman player isn't going to use Jason Todd and a bunch of the immense rogue's gallery anyway, i don't see why someone else shouldn't get the chance. Again, a little too subjective to set down hard rules on it, but we will play it by ear and try to engineer a situation that makes everyone happy.
6) Agencies are another one that is rather too subjective to lay down a blanket rule. Self contained agencies, like M.I.B. or B.P.R.D. that are pretty much contained to a small number of character, yes, one player can have entire control over. Larger organizations with multiple branches, like S.H.I.E.L.D. and CADMUS, you can play members of, and control your own self contained unit within that organization, but not the entire organization, as those will remain in the GM's control. E.G. You apply for Black Widow, you control her, you control the villains that she goes after, you control the immediate members S.H.I.E.L.D. around her, but you don't control S.H.I.E.L.D. in its entirety. Nick Fury is going to be one of those characters that will be off-limits for any one person to control, as he is sort of a universal force and can show up in anyone's stories, at which time, they will get temporary control of him.
7) This is a sandbox. Each player will have their one story to follow. Not everyone's story will necessarily effect each other. Again, think of this like me running a Comic Book company and you each being a writer on a different line of comics. What happens in the Batman comics, doesn't necessarily effect what happens in the Superman comics. Global events are different and i'm still working on how those will work. Again, this thread is a literal "Interest Check" to see how many people would be interested in this kind of an RP.

The Most Ambitious Crossover in Comic History

Uh, try again, sweety

So, there have been a few of these going around in the last year and i have been kinda wanting to run one with my own twist on it. So, here's the skinny on it:

*This is a primarily Superhero RP, so feel free to go nuts with the kinds of character you want to play. Feel free to use any comic characters from pretty much any fandom, so long as they fit into a modern setting. So, generally Marvel, DC, Image and Darkhorse stuff is probably going to be the most popular, but feel free to pitch most anything, including maybe Manga, so long as it fits into that modern setting.

*This is a brand new universe, so the past and future will be molded by what characters people want to play and where they want to go with those characters.

*Reimaginings are not only allowed, but openly endorsed, as is combining the mythos' of different universes. Aquaman and Namor are brothers? Blade and Buffy are a buddy-Cop duo? Black Cat and Cat-Woman regularly have court battles over copyright? Skies the limit, i want to see active imaginations. That being said, if you just want to write Batman being the Worlds Greatest Detective, that's perfectly A-OK too.

*This will be a Sandbox RP. Interaction with other players is not mandatory. Think of it as me giving you your own comic book run and you get to write exactly how it goes. If you want to get together with other players and collaborate, that is perfectly fine, and again, openly endorsed.

*Now, here comes the spice. So, when people have a story idea in their head, they find trouble getting it out there, sometimes they grow bored with what they are writing and start to lose interest. To try and counteract this, i will be throwing Global Events, specifically designed to throw a wrench into your works and keep you on your toes. Now, these aren't going to be terribly intrusive, but it will force you to rethink some of your posts to work around the fact that there are a lot of assholes in this world that need a lot of fine, upstanding citizens in order to combat them. One day, your character might wake up to find that Weather Wizard has placed Weather control machines all over the world. Your character now has to deal with completely insane weather whilst continuing their story, until one of the heroes in the area has destroyed it. Iron Man might be the one to tackle the weather control machine for New York, but harsh weather is hardly going to stop Spider-Man and Daredevil from tracking down their villains, but the weather in New York will still be fucked up until Iron Man deals with it.

*When you choose the kind of story you want to tell, you choose the characters you need for this story, you get control over that part of the mythos. You want to play Spider-Man, you get control over Spidey's Rogue's Gallery as well, if you want to use supporting characters from other continuities (Like say, having Jimmy Olson interning with Spidey at the Bugle) Then bare in mind that other people might want to use that character for their continuity. Be courtious, is all i'm saying.

So, this is still in the planning stages, i don't have a CS or anything like that yet. This is just testing the waters to see if anyone out there is even interested in an RP like this?

Prototype CS code

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Hero Name:[/b]
[b]Known Alias':[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Powers:[/b]
[b]Equipment:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b] (Pictures allowed, but at least a paragraph of more in depth description)

[b]Known Affiliations:[/b] (Teams, associations, agencies, etc.)
[hider=List of Allies]Quick bio's[/hider]
[hider=List of Enemies]Quick bio's[/hider]
[b]Character Basis:[/b] Who is this character? Wiki link works just fine.
[b]List of Reimagined traits:[/b] If a reimagining, then a summary of all of the major changes to their character.
[b]Story Overview:[/b] A quick summary of who your character is, what they do and where their story is going. You don't have to go into great detail in public, but if you are going to be vague to keep everything a secret, at least PM me a more in depth version of this.
[b]Sample Post:[/b] Think of this as your pilot. I'm not looking at what you wrote, but how you write it. Gives me a good idea of what kind of poster you are.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

So, Egg Carrier is being stalked by an Egyptian God, i assume that he's from SG-1. All i know about that show is it's about McGuyver having to go stop Evil Space-Egypt and he has a side-kick with weird bling on his forehead.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

Egg Carrier

"Which planet is that?" Eggman asked, staring at the blue planet.

"Analysing now, milord." Thunderbolt answered "But it doesn't seem to register any kind of markers that the known planets we have visited. We are reading several large metallic objects in the sky, probably ships of some kind."

"Metallix?" He asked, warily.

"No, doesn't match any known Metallix design..." She pressed several buttons to bring up the picture of the Immense, grey warships "Reading 3 in total." She said. "Reading thousands of life-signs onboard, though. Definitely well armed..." She trailed off as her eyes widened. "b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-" She stammered. Eggman threw his head back in annoyance.

"Not another feedback loop?"

"Bo-b-b-boss..." She squeaked. "They're..." She swallowed hard. "OVERLANDERS!!!" She finally screamed. Eggman's face drained of all colour.

"OVERLANDERS?!" Jack jumped to his feet.

"Overlanders? Get everyone ready for battle, i'll be standing by in the Egg Wizard." He said, before running to the hallway. Bumping into K'Tari. "Sis, it's bad, Overlander Warfleet."

"I thought Eggman was the last Overlander?" K'Tari said. Jack had already ran off at this point. K'Tari walked onto the bridge. "You're sure it's Overlanders?" She asked.

"Without a doubt." Thunderbolt replied. "Please, boss, don't let them skin me alive, or shove me into a tiny cage with a wheel and a sand bath and A LITTLE BOTTLE THAT I HAVE TO PUSH A BALL IN FOR WATER!!! IT'S HELL!!!" She screamed. Eggman nervously sat contemplating the next move.

"We'll bluff our way out of this. They probably haven't seen us yet, reverse course and let's get out of here." He ordered.

****

Venator Fleet

****

The Captain of the lead ship, Conqueror, stood at the comm desk, watching the unknown ship trying to reverse course. "What the devil is that?" he asked.

"Unknown, but we are picking up ungodly amounts of droid activity aboard." The comm officer replied. "Probably some last ditch Seperatist weapon." He replied. The Captain sighed, this planet was being pacified of Seperatist already, someone must have gotten a distress call out and some remnants have come in for the save. "Signal Ajax and Libra, tell them to form into attack position and get ready for combat." He then walked over to another officer "All pilots to their fighters, prepare for sortie." He ordered. He then walked back over to the comm "Get me that ship, tell them to stand down and prepare to be boarded."

"Unidentified vessel, this is Imperial Battle Squadron Centauris. You are hereby ordered to heave to and prepare to be boarded." The signal was filled with static, before a reply came. Eggman appeared in his chair as a hologram at the comm desk.

"Well, hello there, young'ins." He laughed nervously. "Don't worry about me, just an old Overlander out on a pleasure cruise with my robots. No need to feel threatened by me, i'm harmless."

"Sir, identify yourself." The comm officer ordered.

"Oh yes, my name is Julian Kin... Kin... Kinbotnik." He laughed. ""I'm the captain of this here pleasure boat." He replied. "And there's no need to board, we definitely have NO Mobians aboard. Those nasty little rodents."

"By order of the Emperor, all suspected Seperatist vessels must stand down and be boarded for inspection." He replied. Eggman stopped laughing.

"Wait, Emperor? Seperatists? Wow, you guys went way downhill since you left Mobius." He mumbled, he then readopted his "Kindly old man" demeanor "Oh, that won't be necessary, i'm a member of one of the old noble houses. House of Kintobor, we were loyal to the Grand Council of old." The Comm officer was now very confused.

"Sir, you have your orders. Stand down or we will use deadly force." He said. The lead venator shot a single blast straight across the Egg Carrier's nose.

"Wow, there, friends, i'm sure that we can come to some kind of an agreement. I've got rings... Lots of rings, i'm sure that enough will convince this to go away." Eggman laughed.

"Attempting to bribe an Imperial Officer is a serious offense, Captain Kinbotnik. Prepare to be boarded." The communication shut down.

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Egg Carrier

****

Eggman put his hands together, fingers pointed up and across his lips. "Alright, looks like it's back to the great war." He grinned. He had betrayed his own people then and it looked, to him, like he was going to have to do that again now. "All hands, prepare for battle." He began pushing buttons. "Prepare the Egg Emperor for launch." He ordered, before pressing several more buttons. "Princess, if you'd be so kind as to man one of the Egg Bosses, i'd be greatful." He said with a surprisingly pleasent tone. "We don't know what those ships are armed with, we're going to keep the Egg Carrier as far from them as possible."

Down bellow, alarms were blaring. Oglivie ran past a swarm of Egg-Pawns that were running to their battle-stations. He rushed into armory and pressed several buttons on a panel, before standing on a pad between several robotic arms. The robotic arms began to attach the Metal Sonic armour plates to him, The weapons hardpoints equipped him with a Lance on his right arm and a Shield on his left, the other Metal Sonics jumped down from their holding bays. "Alright, we have no idea what these guys are armed with, we're going to assume laser weapons and combat robots. Move fast, hit hard. We're going to board the central one and take control." He said. The Metal Sonics nodded and they floated to their launch pads, before getting taken up to the top deck. He looked around to see the 3 vessels. A few seconds later, he saw bright blue flashes of energy heading towards the ship, most of them missing, due to the extreme range. The ones that did impact, smashed straight into the energy shield, creating ripples around the ship. He then saw immense amounds of smaller craft emerging from the ship. "Eggman, we've got fighters coming in."

"I see them." the mic replied. The mine-launchers began to deploy the floating explosives around the ship to prevent the fighters from getting close. Oglivie and the Metal Sonics took into space. Flying through the barrage of laser blasts, Oglivie flew with 8 Metal sonics formed up behind him. Several V-Wings flew towards them in the standard Attack Tunnel formation, 2 of the Metal Sonics, instinctively pulled away from the formation, straight into the V-Wings blaster fire, badly damaging the robots. The rest stayed in formation, their eyes blinking to indicate that they had learned from this. They continued on as the V-Wings now came into conflict with several of the drone fighters from the Egg Carrier. Oglivie looked back. "Broken through their front lines, bring the formation in tight and initiate evasive maneuvers." He ordered.

On the bridge of the Conqueror, pandemonium was setting in as these brand new models of droids were punching through their front lines and effortlessly avoiding both turbo-lasers and fighters. "Forget the enemy carrier, focus all fire on the incoming." The captain ordered.

Oglivie and the Metal Sonics were now ducking and weaving as much as they could from the now sheer downpour of intense fire. "Egg Carrier, require assistance!" He asked. "Anything to take the pressure off of us would be appreciated!!!"

"Standby..." Said the voice of Jack. At that point, a large blast of blue energy lanced out, leaving ice crystals forming along the hull of the Conqueror. At that point, the Egg Wizard came shooting across space, the fleets cannons now pointing at the huge mech, blasting it. As the blasts came in, the Egg Emperor intercepted, its shield deflecting the blasts.

"We've got your back, get to the lead ship." Eggman ordered from the cockpit of the Emperor. With the pressure now focussed on the larger machines, Oglivie's group managed to get into the Conqueror's main hangar. Touching down, the 7 remaining strike-team members fanned out, cutting down every crewman they could find, before they could go for their blasters. The lightning fast robots looked around.

"Hangar secured." Oglivie reported. "You two, find the magazine and get ready to detonate it, you two, sweep these lower decks, you two, follow me to the bridge." He ordered, before they began to go their separate ways.

****

On the bridge, the Captain was now organizing anti-boarding parties. "All Personnel, be advised, we have boarding parties." He called. "Blue droids, floating, very fast."

"Sir, we've lost contact with the Magazine. Cannons are running low on ammo."

"All units, converge on the Magazine." He ordered. If the Droids detonated it, they were all dead.

****

The Doors to the Magazine opened and the Clone Troopers slowly walked in. The commander guestured his men to fan out and search. They split and began walking down the vast corridors of Blaster-Shells. The Commander was backed up by the medic. Off in the distance, there was a clattering sound. The Commander and Medic began to silently run in the direction. Reaching where they heard the clattering, they found a blaster on the floor and a piece of the Duraplast armour and nothing else. The Clones looked at each other. At that point, there was a woosh and the Medic, who was at the back of the pack, was gone. The commander turned around, beginning to point his gun around. He raised his hand and signalled to fall back. The Clones began to head to the door, standard 2x2 cover formation. This time, it was the heavy weapon that was seemingly tackled by something moving almost as fast as the eye. The Clones got a few shots off. "Nuts to this, RUN!!!" The Commander yelled as they set off at a sprint for the door. The remaining 3 escaped. The Clones sealed the door. "Bridge, this is Cannock squad, we just lost over half the squad to hit and run, they're faster than we can see." He said into his wrist-mounted comm-link. "Please advise." He then turned around to see yet another member of the squad was gone. "CARABAST!!!" He yelled, raising the gun. "BRIDGE, THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!!" He finally saw the Blue machine stood at the end of the corridor. He immediately opened fire, blasting the Metal Sonic. As the bolt neared it, the Metal Sonic's exoskeleton turned pitch black as a crystal-like field appeared around it. The blaster bolts bounced harmlessly off of it. "Dammit, be advised, these things are equipped with shields." He then took out an EMP Grenade and rolled it along the ground towards the Metal Sonic. The Grenade went off and suddenly, the Metal Sonic wasn't there. The Clone turned to see the Metal Sonic behind him with his ammo-belt.

****

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Was the last message that the Bridge got from Cannock Squad. The Captain looked around.

"What the hell are we dealing with." He walked over to the Comm. "Distress signal, now. Inform high command." He ordered. "This is Battle Squadron Centauris, we are under attack from Separatist Aggressors, brand new models of ships, fighters and Battle Droids. Counting 2 larger battle droids. Mayday, Mayday, Mayday." He then turned to the Conn. "Send all the images we have gathered." He said, he then looked out of the bridge to the Ajax, to see the Egg Emperor land atop their bridge and stick its lance into the bridge, before slashing sideways, sending the broken remains of the bridge tower into space, the flailing bodies of crewmen could be seen among the wreckage. "By the force..." The captain gasped. He then looked to Libra to see the bridge engulfed in lightning as they blasted by the Egg Wizard. The Wizard then pressed its staff into the main hull and the whole hull began to glow red as it had fire magic channelled into it. Flakes of molten armour began peeling away and floating into space. It then swung the staff around, pressed it into the molten hull. The Ship crumpled almost instantly as it was flooded with ice magic. "Get us out of here." He ordered. "Ajax, Libra, if you can follow us, do so, prepare for emergency jump to lightspeed!" He ordered. Anything was better than staying here. At that point, the door to the bridge exploded and 3 Metal Sonics stood.

"Reach for the skies, Overlanders." Oglivie yelled, pointing his lance into the room. An officer went for his Gun, Oglivies shoulder-mounted laser blasted him automatically. "Come on, nobody else needs to die today." He said. The crew put their hands up. "Good..." He sighed. "Doctor, we have the lead ship. their captain has stood down."

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

@Sep That confused me too. Right, my next post will be out in a little bit, pretty much having them run into an Imperial ship and be mistaken for Seperatists (99% of the crew being droids and all)

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

So, the thought occurs to me that you lot are in the middle of deep space and my ship is orbiting a planet, is that correct? Because I'm fine making a few posts of the Egg Carrier by itself for a little bit.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

@Flamelord I understand, but at the same time, I've see loads of these kinds of RPs die before they can get started,n because of people waiting on others.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

Dude, my advice is to just post and let's try to keep the ball rolling, rather than waiting for others to maybe do so.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

Egg Carrier

Eggman looked out of the bridge window. "All systems, full power!" He ordered, the engines roared as they charged up the special-zone engines. The ship began to lurch forwards, breaking orbit.

"Doctor, we are getting a transmission." Thunderbolt said, looking at the computer. The old king's face appeared on the viewscreen.

"Eggman, I hate you... I've always hated you... But you'd better keep my daughter safe." He said.

"Heh, always nice to hear from you, rodent." He grinned. "But don't worry, we're on the same side this time. Been a while, but i had your back on the ARK, i've got it here too." He replied. "Manic is far more insane than i ever was, and he's got your powers to back it up."

"Yeah, but you've never beat me." Sonic grinned. Eggman's smile faded.

"You always hold that one over me..." He groaned. 10 seconds until Special Zone Penetration A voice said. "Well, see ya, rodent." He said, before shutting off the feed. A ring appeared in space as the Egg Carrier increased in speed. Jack had walked onto the bridge.

"So, this is how you go faster than light?" Jack gasped in awe. Eggman looked back at him.

"Yup and you'd better sit down, if you value your spine." He replied. Jack jumped into a seat and his ears crossed his eyes. The ring enveloped the ship as it finally jumped. The swirling colours of light on the outside of the ship were beautiful.

"It's... Mesmerizing..." Jack said as an ear raised to allow him vision again. "It's like the first time i touched the etherial..." Eggman blew it off.

"Eh, it's just diffraction of compressed light through the ships shields." He sighed. Jack still stood up, looking into the pretty colours. He then cocked his head.

"Something is... Wrong..." He said. Eggman pushed a few buttons.

"Nope, everything is operating well within normal parameters." He replied.

"No... Something is very wrong... The energies of the universe..." He waved his hands around, a pair of magical symbols appeared in front of him. "They're still here, but they are... Different."

"You're being ridiculous, there's nothing wrong." Eggman replied, getting noticeably annoyed now. "Magic is all well and good, but it's just science you don't understand." He slapped the console "This is science that I understand, and it says that there's nothing wrong." He then pushed a few buttons. "Alright, coming up on Bluto now, it's the closest planet with an atmosphere that can sustain mobian life." The ship dropped from the special zone and into regular space. "See, a big ol' planet right there for the searching." He said, staring at a big, blue planet. Eggman looked at it, then to his computer, seeing a picture of a brown planet, then back to the planet, then to his computer, then the planet, then the computer. "Wait..."

@Sep

Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

@Lord Wraith I went back and did some work on the post. Threw out the racism commentary, unless i missed something. The only bit i left in was "Lol, 25 cent was a lot of money in the 50's" and "Lol, they'll sell Tobacco to a 15 year old"

Again, i want to put out a sorry to anyone i offended, especially at @Stein. This is why i was asking people to tell me if i went too far. As you said before, i'm not holding anything against you and hope that we can maintain a good working relationship going forward.