Omega Man

Justice League Unlimited vol. 2 iCheck

@rocketrobie2 IDK what happened in my previous post and @ tags but yours got messed up LOL. We gonna see something for Scarlet Scarab soonish?

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Justice League Unlimited vol. 2 iCheck

@Sir Lurksalot @rocketrobie2 @Unknown100 You three working on sheets or...?

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@ineffableI like Lexi and it doesn't seem like we got to see her enough. It's up to you though.

I've got my projected line-up and I'm thinking the number may go up from 10 players total to 12. Just waiting for some other people to finish/turn in sheets...

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@rocketrobie2
Parasites and diseases would not be able to be healed by Lexi. And regrowing an arm would probably require so much energy that she'd be dead by the time it was done xD

@ineffable

So you're saying regular superhero therapy for a couple weeks could regrow a brother an arm? Cause that's still pretty convenient!

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@The Angry Goat@baraquiel@ineffable

I already PM'ed one of you here and the other on Discord, however I can't stress this enough. The sample post has to meet the theme to an extent, even if it's just teleporting to a mostly empty Watchtower at the end and bumping into somebody. One player completely f'ing killed his sample post with a nice twist. I got goosebumps reading subtle hints about what's going on currently in the RP carrying over to this new volume in another past player's sample post.

THE SAMPLE POSTS, AND THE EFFORT AND CREATIVITY PUT INTO THEM, WILL BE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF EVERYONE'S CHARACTER SHEET. HOW YOU TIE IT INTO THE THEME... WHAT YOU DO BEFORE AND AFTER THE METRO TOWER COMES INTO PLAY... AS WELL AS OTHER HEROES/BACKGROUND HEROES COMING INTO SCENES... THIS WILL DETERMINE IF YOU MAKE THE CUT.

Some of you (and this is directed @ everybody) have okay sample posts. Some of you have great sample posts that just don't tie into the theme. The sample post is the most important part of the CS. More important than codenames, powers, heroic legacies... its 50% of the grade.

On a more positive note, and this is directed at the past players who've submitted CS's... I really like a lot of the Background Leaguer suggestions.

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@FiroIV I'm only about halfway into my CS LOL. Until there's 10 players total there's no set deadline. I haven't begun to accept people into the cast just yet...

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@Omega Man
Is there any chance we could abandon the whole episode format? I very much feel us as players can't create or introduce much, only react to what you introduce.

@Unknown100

A good many of the episodes were born from conversations with players. And I'm all for more character-centric episodes, I just don't wanna put another one out there and then that particular player/character not really do anything with it. As far as the other episodes go, at times I'm vague and try to give you guys room to create.... but then again sometimes that doesn't play out either.

It's why I mentioned in the OP of this iCheck what type of GM I try to be. I'll give you guys an idea of what to do... but it's up to you guys to actually make something happen. Players flesh out the RP, not the other way around. It's also why the Sample Post has a theme. I gave you guys and girls an idea and mentioned a couple different things you could toy with in a sample post. If your character teleports to HQ then doesn't do anything or try to find anybody [this includes background Leaguers there SPECIFICALLY for situations like these] then that's on you. If your character wasn't doing anything interesting before teleporting to HQ.... again that's on you.

The quality of the Sample Post will be a big determining factor in whether or not characters/players are accepted in vol. 2. Essentially it helps me figure out who's creative and who isn't. I'm just looking for more effort out of the cast this time around.

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Justice League Unlimited vol. 2 iCheck

I guess we're posting characters here then

The Warden

Name: [unknown]
Alias: The Warden
Age: [unknown, probably early 20’s]
Personality: Defender, Patient, Quiet, Watchful, Stubborn
Archetype: Alien

Powers: The Warden’s symbiotic relationship with the alien plant form growing in his back gives him a number of remarkable abilities.
-Heightened humanity: The Warden is capable of lifting over a ton, does not need to sleep, can breath either as a plant or human (intaking either CO2 or O2 – can also go without any respiration for a day), and can photosynthesize in absence of food. His skin is somewhat bark-like and highly resistant to piercing (sustained gunfire should be avoided), and he regenerates from major injuries within a day or so, assuming he doesn’t die first. He has much smaller resistance to cold, explosions, falling, etc. (though he is overall still tougher than a normal human). Seems to age rather slowly, as well.
-Plant Body: The warden has 3 prehensile vines coiled on his back with an effective range of about 30 feet; one of them is covered in brambles, looking like a blackberry bush, while the other two look like, well, vines. He also flowers and grows apple-sized fruits that taste roughly like wet sand; they offer no benefit (other than being useful food), but he is convinced that they accelerate healing and may offer them up to others. He’s taken to canning them, and has quite a few stored at this point, so the fact that he’s not in bloom won’t stop him! Poisons that would usually affect humans do not affect him, but may make his next batch of fruits actually toxic.
-Plant Control: Can speak any plant-based language, is almost always able to identify useful aspects of plants (including toxicity of fruit and other factors of edibility). As the Warden's powers have grown, he has found that he is capable of controlling surrounding plant matter, as well as accelerating its growth. This allows him to manipulate surrounding vines, hit people with tree branches, have trees suddenly sprout from acorns, etc. This power takes energy, but he trains it often and has rather impressive endurance at this point.

Incidentally, this ability also lets him grow vines from his own seeds, and his room is now covered in them. they produce the non-spiky vines, fortunately. The Warden also usually carries about 3 Oak Acorns, just in case.

Weaknesses:
-Not impervious: still rather weak to fire, explosions, potent weed killers, etc.; anything dangerous to a human or plant to which he has no resistances can still harm him. Additionally, separating the host human from the plant would certainly kill both, though he’s so interconnected that it’s probably more trouble than just killing him normally.
-different priorities: The Warden sees it as his job to protect all animal and plant life; threatening a forest is just as effective against him as threatening a city.
-Open mind: already a shared mind, The Warden is especially vulnerable to mind-based attacks.

Appearance:
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 255lbs
A hulking and intimidating man, The Warden is a relatively light-skinned black man, in prime physical shape. He has long cornrows, rather small brown eyes, small ears, and a wide nose. His beard is also long, and his eyebrows are bushy. Scars are visible all over his back, and some wrap around onto his arms.
The warden is permanently bonded with an alien plant form, and as such has some rather unique features. The plant growth is mostly green, and vaguely dome shaped; a large coil of spikey brambles, with the flowers hanging off the end. The majority of the mass of coils start at his neck and end just above his rear end, though a single thick bramble on each side moves around to the front and extends down to cover his kneecap, forcing him to wear only baggy clothing over his entire body (since he hasn’t the funds for specialized gear). The brambles also extend to the middle of his upper arm, especially thick and spikey at the shoulders and around the back of his neck, protecting it, though not restricting his head movement.

He really hates shirts, and they’re next to impossible to wear, so usually doesn’t even bother. If he’s not trying to do hero work he might wear one just to avoid catching too much attention. He wears jeans outside of combat, with a very high quality pair of work boots on his feet (the only gift from someone he’s rescued that he’s agreed to keep, and man have they been useful).

Character Evolution: The Warden has established himself as a quite and powerful supporting force, but it would be fun to see him take point more often. mostly to see if he can actually handle leading people or not. Otherwise, maybe relationships?

Altered History: x (since most of it's unknown it doesn't technically matter if I've changed it :P ... I will say that the Green will be involved now though...)

BRIEF Bio: The Warden knows nothing of his life before he became what he is. The first thing he remembers is lying dying in the woods, his back scraped, scratched, and torn, his spine broken in multiple locations, his innards eviscerated. His second memory is of pain. His brain, screeching. His legs, convulsing. His torso… healing? There’s more spurts and flashes as he regained consciousness and the plant symbiont bonded with him, forming a new spinal column, replacing the internal damage, and linking itself with him. The now bonded being began to wander the forest until he ran into civilization, where the police promptly tried to take him in, partially to figure out what or who he was, partially because they wanted to arrest him for public indecency (he had taken off all of his clothing at some point). He decided to join them (how the hell else was he going to figure out what to do?). Once he had explained what he knew, and they explained to him what public indecency was, they both decided it was probably fair to drop the charge.

He apparently had no family, and didn’t register on their databases, so they just sent him on his way after giving him some pants and a very large jacket, directing him to the library. They took to calling him Warden while holding him, for the way he would just sit and watch everything, constantly interested. He liked it, and started calling himself that. What followed was a few years of learning how society worked again. He attempted to find some jobs, though none really panned out, and he decided to re-abandon society to go live in the woods. He found a cave, started growing plants (he likes them!), and was able to become self-sufficient, but felt a pull to use his abilities for good – something towards which both parts of him felt. So he started superheroing pretty much 24/7, with some breaks for solitude, and has been doing that for a few years. He eventually joined the Justice League, and has since devoted his life to their cause. He expects loyalty to the Justice League from fellow members and the cause of the Justice League, protecting as many people as they can at all costs.

While the warden dislikes wanton murder, he does not see himself as above killing someone who is a threat after he tries to pacify them, which does put him at odds with law enforcement on occasion. He’s still done enough good to have caught the eye of Green Lantern, who extended the invitation to him.

Notes: Warden's room is well equipped to independently monitor police spotters, news, and the sorts of websites bad guys frequent. it is also completely full of vines sprouted from his own fruit - they act as a door too, one that only he can move, which is nice.

Background Leaguer: Matter Eater Lad

Sample Post: just use my most recent post on the current JLU lolc

@The Angry Goat

New character sheets yeah LOL. I've gotta get mine typed up but I'm still tossing around ideas for which one I should use....

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C'mon peeps let's see those sheets!

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@Shellshock Some reimagined characters differ more than others. So long as the core concept is still in tact everything should be cool.

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