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[helmacon]

Core Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169909.0

Welcome to the League of Heroes
Your choice of starting Hero is as follows.

Spoiler: John Maxwell (click to show/hide)

Name: John Maxwell, AKA The Shadow
Gender: Male
Appearance: The shadow wears a form fitting black suit made of ballistic mesh. He has the symbol of a dark cloud over his suit.
HP: 200/200

Powers:
No notable super powers
Stats:
Combat, Melee: Lv 3
Combat Ranged: Lv 3
Intellect: Lv 4
Traits:
Alter ego - This person leads a second life as a prominent business man, and passively provides a steady stream of money and influence. 
Remarkably Agile - This character is just plain slippery. Even skilled enemies will have a hard time landing a hit.
Relationships:
No current relationships
Specializations:
Entrapment - This character is at his best when on the offensive. If he has time to prepare, he can account for just about anything.

Equipment:
Ballistic mesh suit - Reduces damage from all ranged attacks by a lot. Reduced damage from melee attacks by a little

Spoiler: P-Man (click to show/hide)

Name: P-Man! AKA, Protector Man!
Gender: Male
Appearance: P-man dons the colors of his home nation with pride! He embodies the ideals of the Red Nation! He wears a cape and a body suit with a large "P" emblemized on it.
HP: 650/650

Powers:
Flight
Super strength
Eagle eyes
Steel skin (Greatly reduced damage taken)
Stats:
Combat, Melee: Lv 2
Combat Ranged: Lv 1
Intellect: Lv 2
Traits:
Iconic - This hero gains additional reputation on success
Magnetic Personality - People Like P-Man. He will get better recruits when using the recruitment action.
Relationships:
No current relationships
Specializations:

Equipment:

Remember that you can re-write the fluff to any of the characters I give you, but the core attributes can not be changed.

Spoiler: Map of the World (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: State of the Leauge (click to show/hide)

Current Funds: 10 million $
Current Influence: 10 favors

Reputation List:
Whichever character you pick will start with 100 reputation.

Your current headquarters can support 3 characters.

[Shadowclaw777]

Obviously John Maxwell

John Maxwell: (1) SC
P-Man:

[Chiefwaffles]

Clearly.

John Maxwell: (2) SC, Chiefwaffles
P-Man:

[NAV]

John Maxwell: (2) SC, Chiefwaffles
P-Man: (1): NAV

Our first hero should be a symbol of heroism! Not darkness and edginess.
And P-Man will help us recruit a better team in the early game.

[Dwarmin]

John Maxwell: (2) SC, Chiefwaffles
P-Man: (1): NAV, Dwarmin

I like superdoof over here. He can take a lot more damage-all in all, it's better for us to be defensive, right?

[helmacon]

Well, As soon as I get a tie-breaker ill start the game.

[TopHat]

I'll back P-man. Better recruits is always good.

John Maxwell: (2) SC, Chiefwaffles
P-Man: (3): NAV, Dwarmin, TopHat

I like superdoof over here. He can take a lot more damage-all in all, it's better for us to be defensive, right?

[helmacon]

You are P-MAN!^tm, protector of the world! You have taken an oath to uphold the values of the red nation, and fight crime and villainy wherever it may lurk. You boast fantastic powers and formidable skills. Evil-doers beware, for this world is under the protection of P-MAN!^tm

Your current headquarters is a building in the Red Nation city of Alfredonia, a buzzing center of culture and fine dining. Poverty is a problem in the east side of town, and with it an abundance of petty crime. Your Headquarters is the "Heroic Embassy" provided by the Red government, and can support up to three (3) heroes at once. P-Man is currently stationed in Alfredonia, and it will take one (1) turn to move him to another city, during which he will be unable to perform other actions.

It is currently the Project and Research phase.

You may describe one project or research project you would like to perform. You will receive a quote for the baseline cost of the action in money and influence. If it is a project you may receive some details about the end effects, but the full effect will be dependent on the project rolls upon completion. Example: Your new Headquarters will increase the total hero cap for the League. Rolling a (1) in effect might increase the cap by just 1. Rolling a (6) might increase the cap by (3).   The project will then become available for work during the deployment phase. *Do note that you do not have to assign anyone to work the project, and it will stay open indefinitely. There is no maximum number to the amount of projects or research you can have active at once.

State of the League:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Current Funds: 10 million $
Current Influence: 10 favors

Hero List:

Spoiler: P-MAN! (click to show/hide)

Name: P-Man! AKA, Protector Man!
Gender: Male
Appearance: P-man dons the colors of his home nation with pride! He embodies the ideals of the Red Nation! He wears a cape and a body suit with a large "P" emblemized on it.
HP: 650/650

Powers:
Flight
Super strength
Eagle eyes
Steel skin (Greatly reduced damage taken)
Stats:
Combat, Melee: Lv 2
Combat Ranged: Lv 1
Intellect: Lv 2
Traits:
Iconic - This hero gains additional reputation on success
Magnetic Personality - People Like P-Man. He will get better recruits when using the recruitment action.
Relationships:
No current relationships
Specializations:

Equipment:

Current Reputation - 100

Current Projects:

Spoiler: Projects List (click to show/hide)

No currently active projects.

[Shadowclaw777]

Yes everyone loves 2 Intellect heroes. There so useful...

Project:
Echo-1-D
Echo is a massive quadcopter drone that is the size of a attack helicopter in appearance, that utilizes state-of-the-line technology of surface echolocation or an advanced form of sonar ground tracking that can detect the physical movements of humanoid targets. The drone has a suitable wireless receiver that can be activated by any operator, and once a operator does trigger this, the drone causes a massive vibration that feels similar to a microearthquake, and while the drones ruptures are causing a vibration that an enemy hero is feeling, the drone will track significant movements such as jumping, sprinting, to even walking of humanoids and tracking them in an red outline for about ten seconds under the drone’s tracking system for all friendly heroes to see and makes hiding of all varieties quite useless to the searching heroes. The only notable weakness of the helicopter-sized drone is that its echolocation can only detect significant physical movements of a humanoid, but can’t detect things like slight movements or respiration. As the entire design utilizes advanced battery-draining technology, the drone can activates its ability three times a match before the battery is drained and has to be recharged. If this design is successful, there would be an effective quadcopter drone that will allow the utilization of powerful surface echolocation to track moving ground hostiles, while they are also under the pressure of a vibration. Other factoids include that the drone flies thousand of feet in the air to cause its microquake vibration tracking and it is mostly made out of titanium metal for durability yet lightness, and plastic parts used sparingly for the advanced electronics 

Echo-1-D: (1) SC

[NAV]

He makes up for his average intellect with astounding heroic charisma!

[Shadowclaw777]

Than maybe the hero he recruits should be of the intellectual kind?...

[Blood_Librarian]

Honestly? I think we should be playing up to our strengths. P-Mans hould be able to rip things apart , FLY, and other things. I doubt the villains went anything other then sneaky beaky, so I think we should push towards doing things that we can actually fix.Like, you know.

THE ANTI-PEOPLE CAPITALIST AGENDA.

It is OBVIOUS, nay, SEEABLE, that the sad affairs of the world are EVERYWHERE! It doesn't take an evil genius to figure that out! It will be time for our HEROES, our GREATEST asset to push forth a GLOBAL (read; Alfredonian) CAMPAIGN to make EVERYONE a hero of some form!

Just doing SIMPLE ACTS, of love, KINDNESS, and ANTI-CAPITALIST VIRTUES, of helping your fellow MAN! This ideal will be pushed forth by our hero(s), who will be given a very simple set of INSTRUCTIONS to go around the SEEDIER parts of the land, and build a wholesome COMMUNITY, with discretion by the heroes THEMSELVES!

Echo-1-D: (1) SC
V&S: (1) Blood_Librarian

[Shadowclaw777]

If they went Evil Overlord, he’s going to be sneaky so that they can capitalize on his recruting synergy

If they went Lex Luther, they are going to utilize his advanced intellect and be sneaky and deploy very advanced designs.

All of these things are subterfuge and stealth tactics that the enemy is going to deploy, and we must show that the heroes are always vigilant!

Also the Echo drone is totally a Big Brother supporter like our heroic communist agenda!, no one can escape the greatness that is heroic communism!

[helmacon]

Well, the other guys already have a 6 man consensus on the voting. Whenever you guys get something reasonably in the lead I'll run the next phase.

On a side note, would anyone want a discord so you can exchange monologues/backstories/puns while you wait?

[Chiefwaffles]

Yes to the Discord.

And we should take advantage of P-Man's charisma to quickly expand outwards, while keeping an eye towards the villains' main advantage.
Project: League Agents
Right now the League of Heroes is limited to a single building with researchers and administrative staff, with its only method of outreach being P-Man. P-Man is great and charismatic, but he simply can't be everywhere at once. That's where League Agents come in.

Agents range in skill (and pay and secrecy) levels, and are used to manipulate and influence the outside world in ways too subtle or unimportant for our heroes. They have basic training in combat and occasionally subtle weapons, just enough to not be intimidated by thugs; agents cannot and should not face any Villain entity directly.

Agents are instructed to assist P-Man (and any other heroes) in whatever way they request, and will of course report any suspicious activity to HQ. But for now, their main role is recruitment and outreach. P-Man is great at inspiring people and convincing remarkable individuals to join, but we need to know where these remarkable individuals are and which ones would contribute the most to our cause before we sent P-Man to recruit them. That's where agents come in. They monitor anyone with potential "super-class" abilities, supernatural or otherwise. The League will keep track of all these individuals for threat assessment and potential recruitment, and P-Man can work off of this intelligence gathered.
In some cases, Agents can also be used as law enforcement for particularly bad crime issues that aren't directly being caused by the Council of Villains. But again, their current main goal is tracking and evaluating supers.

TL;DR: Employ a decent number of somewhat-secretive non-super agents to generally act as a more subtle hand of the League with the ability to collect intelligence and aid our supers in any way requested. For now, they should focus on locating, tracking, and evaluating all "super-class" individuals, mundane or supernatural.

Basically we make the League more than just a "collection of superheroes" and an actual entity that doesn't just rely on superheros to do so. Kind of like early-MCU SHIELD I guess? If we chose P-Man for his charisma, let's use it. And this also helps against the Villains' likely stealth as well.

Echo-1-D: (1) SC
V&S: (1) Blood_Librarian
League Agents (1): Chiefwaffles