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Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

Collabing is fun. :) That post turned out longer than it seemed to write. I think if anyone is ever lacking inspiration, a good way to cure that is collaborating as it is a lot less tedious.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

I'm intending for Melissa to be flying out of Atlanta, Georgia; early afternoon, so I don't think I'll be doing a collab. unless someone thinks their character will be getting in around the same time. Otherwise, before I post again, I have two questions:

• To what extent am I allowed to determine the environment around me? I've written in RPs where I have more or less entire control - there was no D(/G)M: it was free-form collaborative fiction - and I've written in RPs where the environment was entirely determined by the D(/G)M: and the posts I wrote revolved around interacting with it. So that's something I'm quite curious about.
• Tangential, to what extent am I allowed to create and control NPCs to fit small roles in posts (/other)? Like the above, I've written within extreme freedom and zero freedom.

I've have a fair-enough idea in my head from just sitting back and reading but I decided I might confirm before jumping back in.

@Vlerchan

The environment is an airport in Port-au-Prince? I guess you can take from that whatever you want. You can make temporary NPCs as long as they aren't going to alter the storyline of the RP. If you wanted to make one that is on the island or whatever, I'd like you to speak to me first. But you can have conversations with NPCs at the airport and whatever, if that's what you are referring to.

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You had mentioned just having the before flight, during flight, and arrival before stopping. I think that's what the question was pertaining to because we've already arrived.

@t2wave

People can converse whilst waiting at arrivals in the airport. I plan to wrap up the whole 'Smith family' and time-jump to the island in one post so I would like people to just cover everything of relevance until that point.

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Out of curiosity, what are we specifically waiting for before jumping into things? Not impatient, just wanna know <3

@Write

I believe Nevermind wanted our characters to interact on the plane ride. With that said, Gwen took the San Francisco plane so anyone else leaving from their can interact with her. We could do a collab in Pm. (:

@Valhalla

I'm just giving people the opportunity to interact. Not a requirement. No need to rush this! :) Won't leave it too long though.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

Working on a collab with Phoebas. Hoping to see a few more collabs before we kick things off. Not everyone has to do it, though. We'll have plenty of time for interaction at the mansion.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

I probably can, but have limited access to my PC. So I would maybe have to use my phone to do it. But yes, I'm open to collabing.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

WV

Wesley Vaughn

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Personality: Wesley is a very good speaker. He has charisma, and he has confidence. Words are sometimes as good a weapon as any, and Wesley takes advantage of that. He can persuade, intimidate and charm as well as anyone. When speaking publicly, he may seem come across as quite arrogant.

He is quite a cold man. He is not evil or cruel, but if someone seeks sympathy from him, they are unlikely to find it. After losing his fiancée, Wesley has spent years drinking and sleeping around. Whenever he addresses his students he will be sober and show no signs of weakness, but in reality he is quite a broken man who drinks himself to sleep most nights.

Appearance: Wesley stands at a fairly average 5'11. His build is slim, but he is in an excellent state of fitness, perfectly balanced for martial arts. He has grey eyes, and brown hair. His skin is fair.

Biography: Wesley was the son of Randolph Vaughn, owner of Vaughn Corp., one of the largest conglomerate corporations in North America. Wesley was the second of ten children, all sons. While some of the Vaughn sons followed in their father's footsteps as a businessman, Wesley, and some of his other brothers, decided to take other paths. Wesley's divergence didn't bother his father, however, and he had millions of dollars at his fingertips regardless of his future profession. Art was always his passion, so he decided to pursue that, spending most of his days up in his room, drawing or painting.

Henry was the eldest of the Vaughn brothers, and one of Wesley's closest friend. Henry had been raised to be the 'heir' to the company, and thus was a man of business. When he eventually moved out in to his own apartment, he invited Wesley along to live with him. Wesley, at the time, was only 15 years old, but he accepted, as he enjoyed Henry's company much more than any of his other family members.

It was around the time that he relocated to Henry's apartment that Wesley discovered his powers. He didn't know what to do, so he told Henry. Henry dealt with it very well, and just told him to keep it a secret, reassuring him that it would be okay. Wesley took his brothers advice, and learned to live with his gift without overusing it. He did occasionally put it to use on himself so that he could have vivid lucid dreams, but never used it against others.

When Wesley was 18, however, he met a girl named Alice, who was 17. After they got to know eachother, Wesley found that Alice, too, was special, and had powers. She could heal terrible wounds in seconds. After several months of knowing her, Wesley realised he had fell for her. He confessed her love, and she reciprocated. Two years later he proposed, and she accepted. At this point he had long since moved out of Henry's apartment, and Henry had succeeded his father as owner of Vaughn Corp. after Randolph Vaughn fell very ill.

Things could not remain perfect, however. When Wesley was 25 the government raided their house and took Alice. Wesley tried to save her but could not. He quickly fled to Henry's house for help, but before long the government arrived there, exclaiming that they knew there was someone who had powers in their house. Henry lied, saying that it was him, and they shot him dead before leaving. Wesley, broken by the loss of his brother and fiancée, as well as the guilt that he felt for his brother's death, fled the country for several months.

When Wesley returned, he learned that he was now owner of Vaughn Corp. due to Henry declaring him as his successor in his will. Wesley accepted ownership of the company, but put his younger, business-minded brothers in control and spent most of his own time drinking, sleeping with women, and most importantly, training. He learned several martial arts, and over the years, mastered them.

Eventually he sold all of his houses, save one - a mansion on a private island off the coast of Haiti, which he used his powers to hide from anyone who he didn't want to find it. There, he would prepare for his revenge (though, to others, he says he just wants justice for superhumans. Of course his main priority is avenging his fiancée and brother.) He paid a government mole to give him files on various superhumans, which he proceeded to recruit to the cause.

Powers:

• Wesley's power is known as hallucination inducement. It means that he can effectively alter a person's perspective on the outside world, making them hallucinate. This can be used in several ways.
• Environmental illusions. Wesley can make things seem like they aren't there. For example, he makes it so nobody ever visits his island. If the government ever came looking for it, they would not find it.
• Wesley can trigger mental illusions, meaning that he will force a person to re-visit a memory of theirs or to just not see clearly. This can distract a person, or drive them to the verge of insanity.
• Shape-shifting is a sub-power of his ability. Although he is not physically changing in to another person, he can trick someone's mind to believe that he is, thus giving the same effect. He doesn't gain the fingerprint or any other physical quality of said person, and would not be able to use a person's voice on a voice-operated lock, as he is not actually becoming the person, only altering what he looks and sounds like to another person.

Skills:

• Martial arts: He has trained for years to master several martial arts so he is very advanced in hand-to-hand combat. This, combined with his power, means he is a lethal threat to his enemies.
• Charismatic: He is a good public speaker and finds it easier than most to motivate, intimidate or persuade.
• Filthy rich: He has billions in the bank. Vehicles, weapons and anything else that can be bought with money are attainable for him.

Weaknesses:

• One track minded: If ever given the opportunity to enact his revenge, he would risk everything to get it.
• Lacking in empathy: Wesley is a cold individual and is not the first person you would go to if you need to let your emotions out.

Warcraft, Recraft.

Perhaps interested.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

Alright. And there is Lydia and Fiona's arrival.

@t2wave

Great. Don't go any further, though. I'll let people do their plane stuff, and then I'll make another post about people arriving on the island.

Invincible - Chapter I : Origination

Given flight times and such the likelihood of everyone arriving at the same time is low and wouldn't be very practical for covertly moving people around.

@t2wave

They all arrive on the same day at various hours. Will get picked up separately. Will arrive on the island on the same day though.