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Titans of Earth

Still here, just waiting for it to start.

Titans of Earth

Sounds like a good plan to me

Titans of Earth

Here's a CS for you guys to mull over. Hope it's ok

Alias: Highlander

Secret ID: Alfred Howle

Nickname(s): Alfie

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Nationality: Scottish

Physical Description:
Alfie is a handsome Caucasian male around 6’1 in height with a lean, athletic build. He has short, messy chocolate coloured hair often with his fringe spiked up slightly for that just out of bed look. He often keeps a degree of slight facial scruff. His eyes are a dark shade of brown which are often made to stand out by the dark bags underneath them and the black framed glasses he generally wears (which he only does out of habit). His body is toned but not overly so with a single unique scar in the centre of his left pectoral from the bullet that killed him. Alfie’s dress sense is pretty generic, he prefers long sleeve t shirts, dark jeans and boots. He often wears a dark hiking vest. He always has a set of headphones around his neck as he lives life to a classic rock and indie soundtrack (it also helps dull his abilities but more on that later)

General Personality:
Alfie is a unique individual. He appears to be of sound mind and strong spirit. Like most who lose parents in their youth, Alfie has abandonment issues. He rarely makes long-lasting relationships with anyone. He maintains no friendships from before his parents’ death and only the most irregular contact with friends from his late teens. Alfie is not nostalgic, but lives firmly in the present. He has only vague notions or thoughts about old age, which he does not seem to think he will live to see. On the flip side of this, he lives life to its fullest, trying new things and experiencing everything with clear eyes and an open mind. Having experienced death once before, he realised that there is too much of the world that is taken for granted by the living.

He is goal-oriented, but he often seeks these goals in an indirect and secretive way. He has kept many areas of his life meticulously compartmentalized, never allowing the emotional issues from the loss of his family or from relationships to intrude onto his visible life. Alfie seems to have an emotional and mental need for multiple layers of reality. He thrives when not revealing all of himself, carefully organizing the aspects of his personality he reveals to others. A keen observer of the human condition, despite his own inadequacies in emotional openness, Alfie is cerebral and empathetic when dealing with others.

Extremely solitary, he does not console himself by surrounding himself with others. His athletic pursuits tend to be solitary: running, skiing, hiking, swimming, diving, and climbing. He has developed a very detached persona. Although he is open and friendly with the people is surrounded by, he is extremely disconnected, barely having any sort of emotional connection with any of them. He is a man of few words but when he does speak, people tend to listen. Not all doom and gloom, Alfie does possess a dry and somewhat biting sense of humour and an undying loyalty to the few he lets see behind the wall.

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Powers/Abilities:
“Touched by Death itself” as he describes it, Alfie was brought back to life with his Titan gene activated which has essentially made him physically the perfect hunter. All of his physical attributes have been augmented to the peak human capability without becoming supernatural.
Tracking: He has the ability to sense meta-humans within a distance of 100 miles and track them via psychometric visions of their previous actions. Essentially he can follow their trail using little more than his hand and his mind’s eye.
Sedation: An ability he rarely uses because it’s pretty useless, Alfie can cause a target to fall into a groggy or sleepy state of being but this power usually only works on weak minds so he chooses to use it sparingly.

Weaknesses:
Hunter Instinct - When awakened from death, Alfie became filled with a supernatural urge to hunt meta-humans. The more he hunts, the stronger the urge becomes. This urge is purely instinctual, and forces Alfie to use all of his will power to not hunt those that have become his friends. He isolates himself a lot using distance, music whatever really to prevent the urge from becoming too great.
Mortality - Despite his enhanced strength, durability and stamina, Alfie is still human and can be injured and killed in the same ways.

Weapon(s):
Alfie carries a handgun and sniper rifle with him with both lethal and non-lethal rounds depending on his prey. A hidden blade his mounted in his boot and wrist guard and a small set of flashbangs and smoke bombs all sit by on his belt.

Fighting Style:
Alfie is not trained in any specific style of hand to hand combat. However he can more than hold his own with his no holds barred, no nonsense brutal brawling style.

Theme Song:
Can you feel my Heart? – Bring me That Horizon

Shadow Network Comics

Still waiting on CS's....

Shadow Network Comics

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/70683/posts/ooc?page=1

OOC is up guys

Shadow Network Comics

Shadow Network Comics

The Story So Far

Millennia ago, a creature from another reality somehow crossed over into our own. It’s mere presence shifted the balance of nature and created situations where men and women gained extra-ordinary abilities; today we know them as heroes and villains. A cadre of these people bound themselves together as one unit and cast the creature, whom they had simply named The Destroyer, into a world of forever and nothingness. Over the many centuries, The Destroyer has appeared once again into the world, intent on ending all life on our planet. With the minions he creates through Earth’s human’s. the Destroyer constantly tries to end all things and always his mere presence forces the people of Earth to rise from the ordinary and become the extraordinary.

The most recent of these events happened during the apex of WW2. The Destroyer and his army of altered humans became apparent in the midst of the Nazi war effort. It was up to a select few heroes from around the world to put an end to the horror and banish the monster back to where he came.

Now 100 years on, the Destroyer; now under the guise of business mogul Alan Morra, has been systematically releasing his new monsters (mostly created by modern technology) out into the world in his attempt to destroy mankind. Young government agent Diana Stahl, a descendant of one of the 20th century heroes, sees fit to use a secret government creation so called the Shadow Network to gather a handful of young meta-humans and recruit them to stop Morra and his evil. Each with their own unique origin, skill set and personality, the men and women of the Shadow Network aren’t exactly a team but when Earth is in peril, they will join together and save it from the horrific darkness…or at least they will try....

The Short of It
Maybe it was a science experiment gone wrong. Maybe you’re a god on Earth masquerading as a human? Or maybe your just some guy in a weird outfit looking to make a difference. Whatever the case, you’re either a meta or regular but talented human that has been recruited by the Shadow Network to fight the evil of Alan Morra aka The Destroyer.

Despite appearances this isn’t a superhero rp. Imagine if you will, Heroes, these are people with amazing abilities and responsibilities who are also trying to live a regular life. So you can take this rp as a slice of life more than a hero rp but there will be battles and the like.

Now the reason this is called Comics rather than team or whatever is because although all characters are part of the Shadow Network, they are not a team. We will each be telling our own individual stories whilst also interweaving them with the stories of the other characters. Relationships and friendships are encouraged but like I said, not everything is about punching or blowing stuff up. Characters will be based in and around the fictional Empire State University in New York.

Rules
1. General Guild Rules Apply
2. I am GM so my word is law
3. Of course, no over powered characters. Whatever your character is, they’re just starting out so they aren’t all complete badasses right now.
4. We're in the casual section, so no one-liners. At least one paragraph of detailed content per post.
5. Respect each other and treat each other as equals, any disagreements take to PM.
6. If there is a problem between players the GM's will help solve it so that we can do what we came to do - have fun and write something riveting.
6. Cussing, gore and romance is fine, but if you're getting into serious territory, please fade to black or move to pm.
7. If you don't post within a week we'll check in with you and if we don't get a response we'll remove your character from play in a fitting manner.
8. Two main characters is the limit
9. Have a good time

Character Sheet
(All CS's come to via PM first)
Appearance: (Image/Description if preferred)
Outfit: (Comic image/Description if preferred)
Name:
Codename:
Age:
Place of Birth:
Occupation:
Family: (Only include if family is important to characters story)
Relationship Status: (Can be discussed before rp begins)
Ability/Skills: (Details Please)
Equipment: (Only if his is important to the character i.e powered weapon or suit)
Personality and History:
Extra: (Anything you wish to include)

Shadow Network Comics

OOC will be coming tomorrow, in the mean time if you have a CS ready feel free to send it over

Shadow Network Comics

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Descartes said
Do you need pictures or can I just type out a description for my character's appearance?

I generally prefer pictures but if you'd rather just type it, I have no problems with that :)

Professor_Wyvern said
Yeah, good question. And, how is the " We will each be telling our own individual stories whilst also interweaving them with the stories of the other characters. " bit supposed to work out?

Think of it like this. The hero stuff is just a backdrop, this rp is more a character study. So the idea behind it is that we use our characters, the events and people in their lives to build our own little universe and I personally don't think you can do that if we all just smash, crash, blow shit up and repeat. It's like a comic, the Avengers aren't always the Avengers or the Justice League aren't always the Justice League, they all have their own stories outside the main one. Of course I want lots character interaction so the idea being that we combine stories without making it the main one.

Or for an even simple explanation, they all live in the same area but not everyone will be involved in the same storyline. Some might go one way, others might be doing another thing but its all connected.

Zero Hex said
I don't get why characters absolutely have to be 20 year olds or why we absolutely need to use real life pictures for comic book characters. Interested otherwise.

If you look further up the thread, this question was answered. 20's was just an average age I plucked out of the air because the setting is in and around a University. A character doesn't have to be that age. As for pictures, again I prefer pictures because it sometimes helps your minds eye picture a situation but if you would prefer to just write a description then by all means do so.

Shadow Network Comics

Not at all. I should've made that clear. 20's is more just an average age