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Dungeon crawler academy

This seems like fun. It reminds me of the Discworld novels from Terry Pratchett.

Avengers Academy

Appearance

Full name: Marc Ferring
Alias/Codename: Storage
Age: 18
Country of origin: South-Africa
Basic appearance: Marc is 1,85 meters tall and usually has an average build. He has a tanned Caucasian skin tone. His day-today clothes are simple jeans with a neat shirt. He wears several charm bracelets with metallic figurines of different animals that he uses to store attributes in. He keeps a similar styled necklace underneath his shirt. He inherited these pieces of jewellery from his grandfather, who had a strong connection to the tribal side of the family. He also wears a watch and can often been found wearing glasses.
Costume: Marc prefers to wear his usual clothes instead of a costume as he believes his powers are more useful if he retains the element of surprise.
Skills: Marc is decent at hand-to-hand combat, though he usually relies on increasing his strength, agility and speed during fights. He is smart and creative with an above average IQ. He prefers the more technical subjects, yet he is also fluent in English, Dutch and Afrikaans.
Powers: Marc is able to store physical and mental attributes of himself in metallic items he is touching. At a later time, Marc is able to tap into these stored attributes. He can't use more of an attribute than he has stored up, but he is able to tap into these stored attributes at an increased rate. For example, Marc can store half his strength for 10 minutes, thus being twice as weak. At a later time, he can be twice as strong for 10 minutes, or four times as strong for 5 minutes etc.

Brief bio: Marc was born and raised in Kaapstad, South Africa. He was born in a relativity wealthy family, descendants from Dutch settlers that had mingled with the native tribes. Marc's mother was a spiritual woman, and she liked to do old-tribal yoga-like exercises. 'Become weightless, store your strength', that kind of exercises. Little did they know that Marc, either thanks to the x-gene, some lingering tribal magic or a combination of both, he actually managed to store the attributes. When he was told to fill himself, he tapped into the weight he had stored over the years, causing him to be heavy enough to fall through the floors to the ground floor. It wasn't before long or he learned that he was able to store other attributes and with youthful enthousiasme he started as a vigilante.

He was rather successful against non-powered crime, yet the first time he faced a powered villain he was nearly killed. He had to use all of his stored health to turn a lethal wound into a non-lethal wound, yet had to recover for several months. After this experience he contacted Academy and moved to the U.S.

(For official use only)
Initial observation report: Marc seems to be a promising new recruit. He seems genuinely interested in helping people and has his heart in the right place. His teamwork could use some improvement, due to his former vigilante status, luckily, he does not oppose the idea of having to work in a team and he seems eager to improve himself. His technique could do with a lot of improvement, as he seems to rely a lot on his powers instead of skill. During his off-time he tries to store as many of his attributes at once, causing potentially dangerous situations to which he may not react in time.
Training regimen/expertise: His training focusses mainly on teaching him skills and improving his team-work.
Potential outlook: Due to the wide range of attributes Marc can store and tap into, he seems a very versatile addition to team, with a wide range of applications.
Best case scenario: Marc finishes his education and becomes a valued member of the Avengers.
Worst case scenario: Marc might return to being a vigilante. A much bigger threat seems to come from the mental range of his powers. It is unknown what affects this could have. Marc might store away all of his compassion and empathy or call forth all of his stored negative emotions, such as hatred, at once. It is as of yet unknown what these action could have on Marc's mental health.

Rogues Inc. (Accepting)

Appearance

Name: Marc Magnus

Alias: Catalyst

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Personality: Marc is a very motivated and rather arrogant person. He believes his hard work let him prevail against the odds, such as his unfair teachers. He very much believes everyone has to keep their own interests above other interests, especially powered individuals. He also believes that powered people are being discriminated against, because the other people fear them and know them to be better. If he deems you worthy however, he is very nice to you and as long as your interests don't collide with his own, very loyal.

History: Marc's life started out normally enough. A loving family, good friends etc. This all changed when his parents died due to collateral damage from an magic using government superhero. Having lost his family he started to resent the government. During his time in high school his powers started to develop and it wasn't before long or he was the best chemistry student in his class.

His powers did him no good during his college years, as he was constantly penalized or even kicked out as he used his powers, because his teachers thought it gave him an unfair advantage. Even though his grades did not reflect it, he was a chemical genius and after learning nearly everything chemistry had to offer he disappeared for a few years to learn from other places and was forgotten.

During these years of absence he changed his name, continued to study chemistry and started to build up his wealth. Using his powers to create molecules no one thought possible, or by synthesizing components with 100% efficiency and no energy costs he started his own company, Magnus Chemicals. Thanks to his powers, though Marc contributed it to highly secret and efficient catalysts, this company quickly grew to the most influential chemical multinational and absorbed nearly all of it's competition. Some of his rival CEO's met unfortunate deaths by chemical accidents. One of the core activities of Magnus Chemicals is it's huge R&D division, that focusses on chemicals and materials for warfare. One of it's biggest clients is the government, but knowing all of his products, Marc also knows it's weaknesses, which he is more than willing to sell, or even give freely to the Rogue faction.

It should be no surprise that Marc quickly gained the attention of the Syndicate and started to work narrowly together with them, funding a lot of Rogue activities.

WGUF-What Got You Famous: Being the CEO and founder of one of the most successful companies, Marc was a well known figure in Lochwell city. His money made him a welcome guest at high society and was often forgiven his grey-area business. His cautious nature made him nearly impossible to bust, but eventually a non-powered employee outed him, revealing all Marc's dirty business and the reality of the fate of his rivals. This allowed the ARGO to finally catch him in one of the biggest corruption and extortion scandals in the history of Lochwell.

Equipment: Marc's suits are woven from a lightweight polymer blend that is highly chemical and bullet resistant. He also carries a small flexible mask that covers his mouth, nose and eyes that produces oxygen in his pocket.

Powers/Abilities/Skills/Talents: Marc is able to manipulate the activation energy of chemical reactions. This basically means he can speed up or slow down chemical reactions, allow them to take place at higher or lower temperatures or even reverse them.
He also has chemical awareness, allowing him to know the chemical make-up of the objects he's looking at.

Weakness: Despite his powers, Marc is still a regular human and is not immune to his own powers. If he'd synthesize hydrogen cyanide, he'd be just as dead as the people he's sharing the room with. He is only able to influence atoms that appear on the periodic table of Earth, and thus cannot manipulate alien or magical materials. If he tries to influence these materials he even loses his powers for a period of time. He also isn't able to use his powers on other living beings, such as humans, animals or plants.

Secret Hideout: Marc has several offices of himself scattered throughout his headquarters and chemical plants. Here he keeps some of his personal gadgets. These offices are locked in such a way that only Marc can access them by using his powers.

Relationships: Marc has an intense hate for magical-powered superheroes and is trying to hunt down the magic user that caused his parents to die. He also feels that non-powered people are inferior to superpowered individuals. A feeling that has only been increased after the employee that revealed his powers.

Rogues Inc. (Accepting)

Marc Magnus AKA Catalyst

Appearance

Name: Marc Magnus

Alias: Catalyst

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Personality: Marc is a very motivated and rather arrogant person. He believes his hard work let him prevail against the odds, such as his unfair teachers. He very much believes everyone has to keep their own interests above other interests, especially powered individuals. He also believes that powered people are being discriminated against, because the other people fear them and know them to be better. If he deems you worthy however, he is very nice to you and as long as your interests don't collide with his own, very loyal.

History: Marc's life started out normally enough. A loving family, good friends etc. This all changed when his parents died due to collateral damage from an magic using government superhero. Having lost his family he started to resent the government. During his time in high school his powers started to develop and it wasn't before long or he was the best chemistry student in his class.

His powers did him no good during his college years, as he was constantly penalized or even kicked out as he used his powers, because his teachers thought it gave him an unfair advantage. Even though his grades did not reflect it, he was a chemical genius and after learning nearly everything chemistry had to offer he disappeared for a few years to learn from other places and was forgotten.

During these years of absence he changed his name, continued to study chemistry and started to build up his wealth. Using his powers to create molecules no one thought possible, or by synthesizing components with 100% efficiency and no energy costs he started his own company, Magnus Chemicals. Thanks to his powers, though Marc contributed it to highly secret and efficient catalysts, this company quickly grew to the most influential chemical multinational and absorbed nearly all of it's competition. Some of his rival CEO's met unfortunate deaths by chemical accidents. One of the core activities of Magnus Chemicals is it's huge R&D division, that focusses on chemicals and materials for warfare. One of it's biggest clients is the government, but knowing all of his products, Marc also knows it's weaknesses, which he is more than willing to sell, or even give freely to the Rogue faction.

It should be no surprise that Marc quickly gained the attention of the Syndicate and started to work narrowly together with them, funding a lot of Rogue activities.

WGUF-What Got You Famous: Being the CEO and founder of one of the most successful companies, Marc was a well known figure in Lochwell city. His money made him a welcome guest at high society and was often forgiven his grey-area business. His cautious nature made him nearly impossible to bust, but eventually a non-powered employee outed him, revealing all Marc's dirty business and the reality of the fate of his rivals. This allowed the ARGO to finally catch him in one of the biggest corruption and extortion scandals in the history of Lochwell.

Equipment: Marc's suits are woven from a lightweight polymer blend that is highly chemical and bullet resistant. He also carries a small flexible mask that covers his mouth, nose and eyes that produces oxygen in his pocket.

Powers/Abilities/Skills/Talents: Marc is able to manipulate the activation energy of chemical reactions. This basically means he can speed up or slow down chemical reactions, allow them to take place at higher or lower temperatures or even reverse them.
He also has chemical awareness, allowing him to know the chemical make-up of the objects he's looking at.

Weakness: Despite his powers, Marc is still a regular human and is not immune to his own powers. If he'd synthesize hydrogen cyanide, he'd be just as dead as the people he's sharing the room with. He is only able to influence atoms that appear on the periodic table of Earth, and thus cannot manipulate alien or magical materials. If he tries to influence these materials he even loses his powers for a period of time. He also isn't able to use his powers on other living beings, such as humans, animals or plants.

Secret Hideout: Marc has several offices of himself scattered throughout his headquarters and chemical plants. Here he keeps some of his personal gadgets. These offices are locked in such a way that only Marc can access them by using his powers.

Relationships: Marc has an intense hate for magical-powered superheroes and is trying to hunt down the magic user that caused his parents to die. He also feels that non-powered people are inferior to superpowered individuals. A feeling that has only been increased after the employee that revealed his powers.

Avengers Academy

I'm interested

Rogues Inc. (Reboot)

Seems interesting. Count me in.

The Shadow Guardian Chronicles: Life as a Student Mage. (18+ ish) (Closed/dead)

Looking at all the weapons around him, Mark found himself wondering if this was really necessary. He did not have any combat experience, so he ruled out most of the weapons. Instead, he looked for items he could use to create runes with. After some searching he managed to find a tool belt with an assorted hammers and chisels. These would enable him to physically carve out runes, making them much more powerful. He also found a sturdy looking knife, which he could use to carve. He hoped he would have enough time to do so. To buy him some more time, he picked up a sturdy looking wooden shield and started to carve out several runes on it.

The Shadow Guardian Chronicles: Life as a Student Mage. (18+ ish) (Closed/dead)

This was about the last thing Mark suspected to be told. A secret group, fighting monster under the command of the government. If this was true, and he connected the dots with the test he just took, that meant there was a real possibility that they were about to get recruited. That still left one question though...

"Then why are you telling this to a group of freshman teens that have been at this school for not even a day?"
@Snarfulblast

The Shadow Guardian Chronicles: Life as a Student Mage. (18+ ish) (Closed/dead)

The vice-principal? Was that going to be their teacher? That would mean a lot of attention was focussed on them. He still wondered whether that was a good sign of a bad sign. Oh, why had the bus been late. He'd better just make a good impression and hope they would forget about him eventually...

Mark held out his hand to shake hands with the vice principal. "Nice to meet you sir, I'm Mark Futhark."

@Snarfulblast

Primas Learning Center - School for Ex-Heroes

Marc arrived on foot at the Primas Learning Centre. He had never bothered to get a driving licence and he couldn't stand public transport. The thought alone almost made his shudder. He could handle the shocking easily as his sense of balance was so good it was nearly impossible for him to fall over, he could handle most of the sound too, thanks to his headphones. The one thing he would not be able to handle was the hygiene of some of the travellers. Regular people often complained about it, but they never had tried travelling with his sense of smell... If you're able to smell the breakfast of every single person in there, just imagine how easy it was to point out someone who had skipped showering and the smell that brought with it. And there were usually quite a few of those on a bus or train...

Instead he tried to focus on enjoying the walk towards his new 'home'. It went rather well, the air was fresh, if you ignored the dog shitting on the other side of the street, he had avoided bumping into anyone and the sun was shining against his back so he wasn't blinded. He entered the common room and was pleased to smell that the PLC was being kept clean enough to avoid being smelly and that the people already in there knew enough about personal hygiene to not smell like hobo's...

He knew most of them probably were survivors from the war, just like him, and that unlike him they probably had bad experiences with the military and the government and were probably on edge. To look less threatening or suspicious, he took off his hoodie and scarf covering his mouth. He kept his sunglasses on, as the lights in here were bright enough to temporarily blind him if he took them off, and he sat down on one of the chairs. To be honest, he was looking forward to the start of this year. He was amongst people again and hopefully the staff would be able to help him control his powers.