Superheroes

[Agent Fisher]

Eh, if we're boned, we're boned.

[Charon]

Philedelphia Trask/Gravitas.

Point Of Origin: Earth, Aeon Universe.

Gender: Male
Age: 35(Physically 23)
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 130lbs
Race: British
Species: Homo Sapien Novus.

Source of powers: Small gland in the brain, present in all Nova's.

Powers: Control over gravity, up to and including warping local spacetime to produce gateways.

History: A college student when N-Day transformed his home Earth into a world where the God's Walked, Phil acheived his eruption almost instantly, and applied his vast knowledge of astrophysics to strengthening it. Capable of manipulating gravity on all scales, he pushed the boundaries instantly.

When the Teragen emerged, he joined the fringes as an intellectual who agreed with their basic premise.. Novas were not 'human', and were as close to gods as can be.. But disdained the violence and terrorist activites the faction caused. As time passed, he gathered like-minded Novas and created a splinter faction named the Olympians; Gods, to be sure, but benevolent ones.

As time ground inevitably to human-nova conflict, the Olympians clashed with all sides, over idealogy, misconceptions, and hotheadedness.

When the Aberrant War threatened to destroy human civilization, the Olympians scattered across multiverses, ignoring the other Novas going forth. Gravitas found a new Earth, and began wondering what to do with himself. But a new world means new beginnings.

Wouldn't the fact that your guy was not only a Teragen (whee Crysalis upgrades) but also survived throughout the inception of Novas to after the war and then created a portal to a new realm make him ridiculously powerful? I mean I can understand if he won't, or if he's an exception to the rule but for the most part Novas had gone mad and were ridiculously powerful. Especially the ones as long lasting as your guy.

[SirNitram]

Wouldn't the fact that your guy was not only a Teragen (whee Crysalis upgrades) but also survived throughout the inception of Novas to after the war make him ridiculously powerful? I mean I can understand if he won't, or if he's an exception to the rule but for the most part Novas had gone mad and were ridiculously powerful. Especially the ones as long lasting as your guy.

His Taint research showed him that, by pushing his abilities for raw power, he'd lose his most valued aspect of himself.. His mind.. He purposefully ratcheted back his increase in raw power, and encouraged his followers to do the same. As a result, his physical warping and mental degradation hold at near nil, but his powers have only expanded in that they can be used for more different tasks.

Godhood is, after all, too precious to lose to some still barely understood aberration. He's still pretty damn powerful, but he's not indulged in Chryssalis short of literally purchasing away his taint.

[Charon]

His Taint research showed him that, by pushing his abilities for raw power, he'd lose his most valued aspect of himself.. His mind.. He purposefully ratcheted back his increase in raw power, and encouraged his followers to do the same. As a result, his physical warping and mental degradation hold at near nil, but his powers have only expanded in that they can be used for more different tasks.

Godhood is, after all, too precious to lose to some still barely understood aberration. He's still pretty damn powerful, but he's not indulged in Chryssalis short of literally purchasing away his taint.

Ah ha. So basically he gives up gaining power to keep his sanity. Got it.

[B4UTRUST]

Meh, saving the world is a piece of cake.

Methinks someone is cocky early on

[Cynical Cat]

Most novas stayed sane. The ones that went off the deep end were either unlucky or pushed their powers too far too fast. That tends to make the Taint riddled psychos strong and noticeable. Even in the Trinity era, most novas are sane, not that the people of Earth really know what's going on. Little details like attempted nova genocide by involuntary sterilization as one of the triggers of the Aberrant War tends to get left out in what's left of the history of that era.

The Aberrants that are attacking earth are either Taint addled maniacs from the Aberrant war or ones they have created. There is a nasty trick of flooding a human with taint energy. It tends to create a mutant freak, but it can also trigger an eruption. Of course, the poor bastard is a newly erupted nova with a heavy taint dose and under the thumb of a taint consumed maniac. Thats where you get your mutie monsters.

[Narsil]

Okay: Redoing powers and origins for Adam Thorne

Current Name: Adam Thorne
Birth Name: Arthur Cunningham
Birth Date: July 7th 1258

Superhero Name: N/A
Costume: N/A

Powers, and Desciption:
((Vampire Traits))
Adam has superhuman strength, speed, and agility, yet not beyond any 'human world records' in any of the three categories.

Adam can regenerate quickly from a fight. But he needs to be at rest to employ this ability, and it thus cannot be realistically used in combat.

Adam can hypnotise someone with a stare. But only if they're weak minded.

Adam can become a wolf at will... as per his vampiric 'alternate form'.

Supersensitive hearing, eyesight and smell

Can take upon a mist form.

Weaknesses:
His senses can be overloaded by it being loud enough, bright enough etc.

Staking him through the heart will kill him, and shooting him in the head will permanently paralyse him.

He cannot use his supernatural-ish powers in direct sunlight, but retains his superhuman strength and superhuman senses.

If he is harmed enough by attacks, he can die.

[Stofsk]

Name: Miklos 'Michael' Kovacs, AKA Mickey, AKA 'Spectre'.

Citizenship: Born in Hungary, emigrated to Australia as a young child. Currently holds dual-citizenship.

Sex: Male

Age: 24

General body stats: Dark hair, dark eyes. 175cm tall, 75 kg.

Origin of Powers: The dark god of the void... or a dark god of the void, he's not too sure.

List of Powers: Combat skills from ninjutsu martial arts. Not a power, but falls under 'stuff he can do'. He is also trained in fencing.

1. Void meditation. Not only does this enhance his mental and physical acumen (though not in any superhuman way), but in this state he is more receptive to communication from his dimensional master. Though this isn't a 'two-way to god', he does get flashes of insight or clairvoyant abilities.
2. Shadow phantasms. Using his knowledge of ninjutsu, human psychology, and the powers from the void, he can conjure shadow illusions that serve to distract people or fight them.
3. Shadow teleportation. Mickey can merge with the shadows and emerge out of them in another location. This has limits, as he can only use shadows to do this - if he's in a bright room he can't exit. Obviously this power would be very hard to use during the day, depending on the intensity of the sunlight.

Michael's abilities are beginning to manifest themselves. He isn't a Grandmaster or anything, as he's quite young. He has the potential to do much more than he can do presently.

List of equipment: Typical martial arts gear: caltrops, knucledusters, etc. He uses two telescoping batons that can be screwed together and form a short jo staff.

His costume is dark coloured with silver trims. He wears a robe that is dark on the outside and silver on the inside. It is made of kevlar. He wears a mask. He wears a silver medallion around his neck; according to the acolyte priestess that gave it to him, it's an amulet of anubis. Michael wears it to remind himself of her, rather than of any intrinsic supernatural benefit.

Profile of character: Michael holds a Bachelors degree in Arts. He has worked as a security guard, a prison guard, then as a freelance security consultant. This involves testing the security measures of a given property for his clients, from many different angles of breaching. He has contacts in law enforcement, the legal profession, and even the criminal underworld.

Family: Father, deceased (cancer). Mother, and sister (older, by about a year). His sister was trained the same way as he was. He hasn't seen her since she disappeared a year ago. He is currently obsessed with finding his older sister and all other priorities are secondary to finding her whereabouts, or whether she is still alive.

[Rukia]

So thus far we have:


Alex Mack

I am NOT Alex Mack! I changed it! *razzzzzz*


Not like you wouldn't want to be boned anyway....

[Stofsk]

Nothing wrong with Alex Mack, she's cute. I used to watch that show.

[Rukia]

So did I... But I figured that being oriinal was better... sides I created the first character with littlethought besides... Well Alex... *shrugs*

[Stofsk]

It's cool. My original character idea became redundant when two other guys had remarkably similar ideas that it just became untenable. Now it's where it's at, with my Ninja Shadow walker guy.

PS Check your PMs.

[Stofsk]

So far only five people have voted in the poll concerning whether or not to make this a team-oriented game or an independents-with-frequent-run-ins game.

The poll leans towards the former, though the latter has 2/5's of the vote, which makes it close. Dare I suggest perhaps there should be a bit of both?

[Dark Silver]

My character is primarily a indie, seeing as he hunts your Metahuman arses and eliminates them....unless a greater threat shows itself.....

or you know...your not being a danger to humanity in general....

[Comrade Tortoise]

My character is primarily a indie, seeing as he hunts your Metahuman arses and eliminates them....unless a greater threat shows itself.....

or you know...your not being a danger to humanity in general....

I wonder if he would consider me an ecoterrorist... hehehe

[Agent Fisher]

My character is primarily a indie, seeing as he hunts your Metahuman arses and eliminates them....unless a greater threat shows itself.....

or you know...your not being a danger to humanity in general....

Hmm, well, I dont know if you will be hunting me. I mean, I'm technically not a metahuman or even human. Of course, once you learn that I am a bit of a homicidal maniac with a mission, you might consider stopping me.

[Narsil]

Would Vampire count as metahuman? I wouldn't say it does. I'd say it's the same as a human with a disease. A beneficial, extremely powerful disease which radically alters your average life-expectency from about 80-100 to about ∞, but still.

[Elheru Aran]

Name Anderson (surname; first name unknown at moment), is addressed as 'Starlord' by members of [CENSORED] from Multonmah Valley, Tennessee.

Sex Male

General body stats About six-one, roughly between twenty to twenty-five years old, Caucausian, hair color unknown (presumed dark) and eye color unknown due to wearing mask at all times. Presumably has a scar or deformation that he wishes to hide. Overall body type large. Not overly muscular, but definitely strong. Can run at a fairly steady rate over a few hours with minimal loadout; this decreases in proportion to how much weight he is carrying.

History Born in the mountains of Tennessee. Is relatively obscure, as he doesn't have a fancy costume or anything; only distinctive feature is a black mask covering his head.

Origin of Powers Small genetic mutations stemming from an eugenics program enacted by a cult in the Appalachian mountains.

List of Powers (Limited to 2, please) Enhanced Reflexes, Enhanced Healing

Description of powers His reflexes allow him to fight faster and more lethally. Healing factor is useful with minor injuries; however, broken bones and the like take about two-thirds as long to heal as a normal human, so they can still be incapicitating. The factor can be slightly accelerated by injections of a special formula; however, this accelerates body processes at a dangerous rate, and is therefore only used in cases of grievous bodily harm, such as the time he fell six stories from the top of an apartment after getting shot at close range by a target. As a result, he is highly wary of such situations happening again.

Profile of character Excellent free-climber. Is familar to a unusual degree with woodcraft and tracking. Doesn't stay anywhere long; apparently lives out of a van that has had some rather... interesting modifications. Generally breaks up petty crime, but has gone after the occasional gang.

Apparently has some serious bad blood with his 'family', the cult that rose him. They were striving to create a genuine human with superpowers that could be passed on and improved through birth; many unethical (to say the least) means were adopted to bring this about. He ran away from them when young, and lived in the woods for several years before being brought back. A lengthy brainwashing procedure was apparently temporarily successful, and he received extensive weapons and combat training.

This training was promptly turned onto his captors; after looting the armoury, he destroyed their compound after making sure the inhabitants were out of their homes in order to avoid unnecessary loss of life. He drove to the nearest sheriff's office, dropped a large manilla envelope with a lengthy description of the cult's activities on his desk, and vanished.

He is currently the target of a Federal investigation; fortunately for him, said investigation is bogged down by lack of willpower.

He has on occasion worked with others, and seems to get along fairly well with a few; however, he is very much a loner.

[Charon]

Would Vampire count as metahuman? I wouldn't say it does. I'd say it's the same as a human with a disease. A beneficial, extremely powerful disease which radically alters your average life-expectency from about 80-100 to about ∞, but still.

Metahuman I think for game purposes is "Above human" Technically my guy doesn't have any powers, as he gets them from his suit. But he's still a metahuman as he is above humans in terms of ability.

[Agent Fisher]

Would Vampire count as metahuman? I wouldn't say it does. I'd say it's the same as a human with a disease. A beneficial, extremely powerful disease which radically alters your average life-expectency from about 80-100 to about ∞, but still.

Metahuman I think for game purposes is "Above human" Technically my guy doesn't have any powers, as he gets them from his suit. But he's still a metahuman as he is above humans in terms of ability.

Do I count as metahuman since I am not even human?

[Comrade Tortoise]

Would Vampire count as metahuman? I wouldn't say it does. I'd say it's the same as a human with a disease. A beneficial, extremely powerful disease which radically alters your average life-expectency from about 80-100 to about ∞, but still.

Metahuman I think for game purposes is "Above human" Technically my guy doesn't have any powers, as he gets them from his suit. But he's still a metahuman as he is above humans in terms of ability.

Do I count as metahuman since I am not even human?

yes

[Charon]

Elheru. This Anderson wouldn't happen to have built up an immunity to iocane powder over the past few years has he?

[Elheru Aran]

Elheru. This Anderson wouldn't happen to have built up an immunity to iocane powder over the past few years has he?

My avatar has nothing to do with the character, actually...

[Charon]

Elheru. This Anderson wouldn't happen to have built up an immunity to iocane powder over the past few years has he?

My avatar has nothing to do with the character, actually...

I just saw black mask, lives in his van, and advanced reflexes and healing and assumed the best.

[B4UTRUST]

Alright here's a bigger picture of what's happened in the world:

1920s: After the end of WWI many soldiers returning home from the front lines came home to another sort of war entirely. In the abscense of good people, the seedy underbody of the nation rose and spread its infection. This was the first occassion that seemed to truely give rise to those who became known as superheroes. Costumed vigilantes took to the streets to take them back. Police for the most part ignored this in the face of problems they themselves couldn't, or wouldn't, deal with.

1930s: The age of the costumed vigilante feel by the wayside, their job more or less done. The world went on as we know it. In the late 1930's a small comic corporation gave birth to a short-lived cultural icon that issued in, unknowingly, the new era of superhero.

1940s: World War II. The birth of some of the first 'known' superheroes. A few made themselves apparent on the battlefields of Europe while others first appeared in the United States itself. The foremost of these new breed of heroes was Captain Liberty. His appearance was a matter of much debate, was he a mutant, the product of some government experiment, what was he exactly? It would be decades before anyone found out the whole truth.

Superheroes began to pop up like mushrooms around the world, giving birth to a new era birthed in blood, midwifed by war and death. By the end of WWII various groups of likeminded "supers" had come together. In the united states the most recognized was the Order of Freedom. Over the years the roster for this team would change frequently. It would go through many changes and its limelight would fade drastically as other groups arose though it would remain till its final collapse over a half-century later.

During WWII and following with the aid of Operation Paperclip government research began to develop programs for augmenting the natural abilities of soldiers. This was headed under the title of Project: ASP, a joint venture by the DOD and DOJ. It was started in 1942 and continued under various project heads late into the 90's. It had various degrees of success, notably during the first few years with two groups: Strike Force Able and The Home Front.

On D-Day Captain Liberty took to the skies to defeat his german counterpart Ubermensch. Along with Strike Force Able the day was won.

1950s: Captain Liberty, along with others to include Lady Liberty and the Infinity Kid would defend America for the next decades to come. Project Asp was shut down in the early 50's after several enhanced agents went rogue.

1960s: During this decade the Order of Freedom underwent its first big roster change, jumping its numbers to nine with the inclusion of Dr. Killdare, Minuteman, Flux, Lightspeed, and a few others. The team concentrated on dealing with the increasing number of super-powered villians making their prescense known in the world.

Project ASP was revived for another set of experiments, the Defender series. It too was later aborted when the experiments managed to produce only three supersoldiers. Dr. Albrecht von Hausser convinced the DOD he could refine the serums used in the original experiments and produce a larger quantity of the soldiers. This stage was titled as Ares. It failed when sixteen of the eighteen soldiers died within a few months from an unknown form of cancer. Project ASP was shut down and all data and research transfered to the Department of Health under the Supers Study Program.

1970s: Several members of the OoF retired. Minuteman left after he failed to convince Captain Liberty to take the OoF into Vietnam. He went on to join Strikeforce and remained with them until the team was dissolved in '84

In '71 the Committee for Responsible Government announced the formation of the Supers Registration Movement. They believed that all supers, because of their abilities, were a threat to common people and should be registered to keep track of and regulate their activities.

Later this year a villian by the name of The Cardnial and his group the Dominators attempted to take over NORAD. Two teams of heroes, the Crusaders and the Sentinels were able to stop the Cardnial.

This event was used by Lucas Amberjohn, head of the SRM, to present evidence of a 'Supers' conspiricy, citing that the two super teams had covered up the truth that the Cardnial had in fact gained control of NORAD launch facilities prior to his removal. The government makes no official statement concerning Amberjohn's evidence, though an unnamed source was quoted as refering to Amberjohn as a crackpot and his evidence a complete fabrication.

Thanks to this evidence Amberjohn was able to announce that membership in the SRM had surpassed the million member mark by the end of the year. Amberjohn began to hold rallies to support pro-registration candidates for public offices and set up offices for the SRM in every major US city. He also began a weekly tv show broadcast in every city the SRM was in.

In '72 using his television show Amberjohn urged his followers to financially support law makers and politicans who supported stronger legislation in regard to supers. This resulted in several SRM backed candidates taking office at state and federal levels. Using his increased influence he pushed for federal legislation to back a agency to monitor supers.

The C.O. Radley Foundaion, named for deceased superhero Christopher Owen Radley, who had been known as The Crusader, took up the cause of defending law-abiding supers against the SRM.

In 1973 congress set up a committe to investigate the need to create a DoJ agency to monitor the activities of 'super' criminals and terrorists. The committe report suggested the creation of such a agency. In the same year President Nixon signed the Federal Security Service Act into law. Amberjohn appeared on tv proclaiming victory and praising the government for passing of the FFS law.

In '74 The Federal Security Service was created by the DoJ with Jonas Manfretti as director.

During this time, personel at the Supers Study Program convinced their superiors they could create the agents neccessary for the new agency. Project: Avenger rose from the ashes of Project: ASP. It was a huge success creating fifty supers, fourty of which were inducted into the FSS.

Amberjohn began a tour of the country, campaigning to put an end to Project: Avenger, stating that the government had betrayed the public's trust.

In '75 the Radley Foundation announced their official support of the FFS and both cautioned and urged the agency against abuse of its power. On the advice of some of his compatriots, Amberjohn softened his stance against Project Avenger.

'76: More candidates backed by the SPM gain power in various positions. However some candidates and politicians begin to distance themselves and refuse backing by the SPM. The Radley Foundation began lobbying for the formation of a coalition to block the SPM's influence in Congress. The biggest advocate of this was Senator Thomas Bolden who consistantly advocated for the rights of law-abiding supers.

By '77 a total of five groups of supers from Project: Avenger were put through FBI training in preperation for their service with the FSS. These groups were collectively under what became known as the Ultima Bureau. They fell under the names of Team Alpha through Team Echo. As of the mid-90's none of the original five teams are currently active and most are deceased. Team Bravo was seemingly misfated from the beginning where nearly half of their group died in the first mission.

Amberjohn began another tour of the country, this time calling for the creation of a prison for containing super criminals.

In '88 funding was diverted from Project: Avenger to Project: Panopticon. The FSS project, endorsed by both the Radley Foundation and the SRM was charged with the design and construction of a super-penitenitary. Two such facilities were created: Gramercy Island and Station Zero.

With the support of Senator Bolden strong headway is made within the FSS to make laws covering law-abiding supers. This marked the downslide of Amberjohn and the SRM. Very few SRM backed candidates succeeded in retaining office.

Early in '79, Elizabeth Radley-Gold, head of the Radley Foundation with the help of Senator Bolden put a bill through both the house and senate calling for rights and legalization of law-abiding supers. Amberjohn denounced the bill that would become known as the Radley-Gold Act.

The Radley-Gold Act mandated the establishment of databases for the credentialing of law-abiding supers and expanding the information stored in databases for cataloging, monitoring and tracking of criminal supers.

A special unit of the Department of Justice, the Office of Credentials, was setup to maintain both of the credentials databases. The office is answerable only to a special judicial panel appointed by the President with ultra secret security clearance. The Office of Credentials was the only federal office dealing with supers that did not get placed under the auspices of the Office of Supers Oversight in the aftermath of the Black Arion Arises incident.

The 80s: Project: Atlas, a illegal army-ran operation by a special projects group was started up. Using stolen research data from Project: Avenger the army created over a hundred supers before a GSA audit discovered its existance. The officers running the program were court-martialed and are serving sentances in Levinworth. The supers created 'disappeared' during the investigation. They would later turn out to be a military ran hero group under the name of Primus.

A group of teenagers calling themselves The Tomorrow Project appear in New York and begin their hero days by cleaning out the schools.

By the late 80's Project: Panopticon is announced complete and both remote facilities are operatoinal.

The supers from Project: Avenger are promoted to active duty in the FSS. The supers are sent to various cities to deal with problems.

In the beginning of the 90's a world-wide trajedy struck as a villianous group simply called Genocide rocked the governments of the world to their very cores. Genocide's team list read like a who's who of evil. Their intention was not to destroy or conquer the world, but simply to wipe out the superheros of it. They succeeded. The end result was millions dead, injured or missing, billions in damage and the deaths of nearly every major hero group world wide.

In perhaps the most shocking revelation in the aftermath of this tragedy was not that evil had apparently triumphed, but rather that it had been lead by one of good's own. Captain Liberty himself lead Genocide against the world. It ended up that Liberty's origins were still mostly unanswered but an investigation into his life revealed that he had been working with or for a otherworldy force of unknown origin. Genocide was one of the last crucial steps in readying the world for whatever force Liberty served. Fortunatly enough heroes survived to ensure that this didn't happen.

The government that had sponsered and believed in Liberty was given a black eye. To prevent this from happening an undertaking began to create an anti-super, a being under government control capable of taking out renegade and rogue supers. This was known as Project: Guardsman and it was disbanded in 94 following its failure.

Several new groups formed to fill the void that this loss had created.
The Red Guard formed in Russia, The Asahi in Japan, The Sentinels in Canada, The New Round Table in England. The UN sponsered a worldwide group known as Earth Force One. The US resurected the Ultima Bureau and began to recruit.

2000-now:

Life more or less returned to what amounted to normal in the later part of the 90's. 2000 did not bring about the end of the world as had been predicted. Life went on.

Then in 2001 trajedy struck once more. On September 11th a terrorist supers group calling itself the Black Arion Movement attacked nine major US cities.

In New York their target was the World Trade Center buildings. Ultima forces moved immediatly to combat the terrorists but failed to stop the collapse of the twin towers. Over 3000 perished from the towers. The terrorists furthered their attack into New York, taking as many civilians with them as possible in their path of destruction. The death toll was over 100,000 when it was all over.

In Chicago the Sears tower was struck and suffered major damage after one of the terrorists detonated a high yield bomb, wiping out several of the upper stories. Independent superheros rushed to the rescue and were able to prevent further damage to the tower and stopped the terrorists. Over 200 people were killed.

In Atlanta the Black Arion struck at the Cable News Alliance Tower. A group calling themselves the Southern Front were able to stop the terrorists before any major damage was incured, though they were able to destroy the broadcast center where over 100 died who were then reporting on the attacks in New York.

In Texas both Houston and Dallas suffered attacks as the Black Arions went after the Lonestar building and the Parris building. Both buildings survived though damaged. Hundreds perished in the struggle.

In California the Colony Building in L.A. and the United Mutual Pyramid in San Fran were struck. The Colony building collapsed but was evacuated prior to that by independent heroes. The Pyramid suffered minor damage.

In Boston the Fleet Building was struck. Thanks to the New Americans and Warhawk catostrophe was averted. Only a few dozen were injured and only one death was reported. Warhawk at the last moment managed to get a hold of the the terrorist bomber and flew away with the the terrorist before he could blow the building. The result was the death of the terrorist and Warhawk.

In Washington, D.C., there were two intended targets, the White House and the Pentagon. A super carrying two massive tanks filled with what was later determined to be jet fuel flew into the Pentagon at high speed. More than 400 people were killed in the attack including the Black Arion terrorist. The attempted attack on the White House took place fifteen minutes after the attack on the Pentagon. Officials theorize that it was timed to take advantage of the chaos that had ensued after the Pentagon attack. A second super carrying two massive tanks filled with jet fuel tried to conduct an attack like the one on the Pentagon. However, he was intercepted by a hero by the name of Pulsar and died in a huge mid-air fireball while en route to the White House.

In the wake of the destruction of 9/11 sweeping changes were made. All projects and agencies involved with supers were transfered under the Office of Supers Oversight.

The total damage to New York was unimaginable. The destruction was nearly complete. On the ruins a new city was built in a matter of years. The city became named Millennium City, a high-tech glittering metropolis.

In the current year of 2010 life has once more returned to what amounts to normal. But evil is on the rise once again, supervillans are once more plotting their schemes of world domination. To combat this a new group of heroes must arise to combat this menace.