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[RoseHeart]

All natural. No digital preservatives. Support your local roll farmers.

https://i.imgur.com/zqY0wwR.png

[Supernerd]

I suppose its fine for you to take more time setting up the game. I'd prefer that over compromising over the update frequency.

[RoseHeart]

Hello all, and welcome to Hero Saga Noir! You will have 24 hours to reply to turns, with that extended to 4 days if I have not posted an update in over 2 weeks. Sorry I took so long to start, setup was harder than I thought!

For this thread, you can think of this as an anonymous forum for Supes. It serves as the OCC (Out-Of-Character) thread too, and roleplay is optional.

For your actions, you can do anything you want for a month. The only items I will be tracking are uninstalled cybernetics, and the only skill progression I will be tracking are your powers themselves.

The thread and game rules will be in the OP.

Enjoy the Hero Saga!

[RoseHeart]

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2094-9-17, Daily Planet
Category: Civic
Image: AI rendition compiled from thousands of eyewitness testimonies, provided by perchance.org
Title: Defenses Fortified
By Lois Lane
Repairs on the west wall have finished today. It was just 3 months ago that Godzilla was pushed back by Superman and the Power Rangers. No one knows what provoked this once thought benevolent kaiju.

Spoiler: Obituaries (1) (click to show/hide)

DECEASED

SPIDER-MAN
HERO CLASS B
NO TEAM AFFILIATION
Tracking# RoseHeart#1
MUTATE
SEX M
HGT 5-6
WGT 135
EYES ?
REGISTERED HERO
ISS 2090-12

Appearance: Human
Hero Class: 3.0 (B)
Notoriety: 3.0 (Notable)
Vice: Guilt

Lv.3 (Amazing) Cyber Wrist Webshooters: Able to launch webs from wrists and swing on them. Can incapacitate foes and secure objects.
Lv.3 (Amazing) Spider Physique A: Sense vibrations, climb on walls, and enhanced eyesight.
Lv.3 (Amazing) Superhuman A: Generally more durable, heal faster, are stronger, can run faster, and leap higher and further than base-level human.

COD: Spider-Man was last seen patrolling District X, presumably overseeing final repairs to the wall. The body was discovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, who is conducting the investigation.

Spoiler: Archive 1.0.0 (1) (click to show/hide)

Patch Notes:

• The frequency of origin types has changed since I rolled your characters. They are now 1/6 for all 6, but there were previously 8 and there was a 7/20 chance for mutant or mutate(each), so dice will do what they want, but you might expect more of the initial players to be mutants or mutates, than those that come after.

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Sandbox Multiplayer • Action • [url=https://www.youtube.com/live/RrkrdYm3HPQ?si=xoVcRnIMdOybp0h9]Mystery[/url][/center]



As with the previous Hero Saga I hosted some time ago, this is a blatant fanfiction mashup of super hero worlds.

Some of the big examples

- Superpowered criminals are kept in the Raft. This could be you, regardless of your moral alignment if laws are broken. (Marvel)
- Inmates can get out early by doing government black ops. (Suicide Squad, Thunderbolts)
- Popular Heroes can get sponsorships for money. We'll do real world companies so you could be sponsored by Coke or Atari if you want. (Tiger and Bunny, Mystery Men)
- There is a threat ranking system: Wolf, Tiger, Demon, Dragon, God; and a hero ranking system: C, B, A, S (One Punch Man)
- The walled city, called Atlas, is surrounded on all sides (except the sea) by an uninhabited wastland where OP Kaiju roam. (2000AD, Attack on Titan)

You will get random powers, this will be told to you in private. There will be a greater focus on private actions, and the only ones announced here will be ones news crews witness.

If you don't like your powers or just want more, you can submit to genetic experiments, with chaotic results.

You are totally free to be good, evil, or fluctuate depending on your mood. Rent is expensive, especially if you don't want to live in a dive.

Everyone has a vice, join by picking yours.

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Turns will cover 1 month of game time.

NPCs wont be distinguished from player characters. Your actions will be a secret, which player controlled which character will be revealed upon death.

You will receive suggestions of heroic actions you could take, any criminal activities you perform will be entirely self driven.

Your vice will influence your turn result.

Rolls
The stat levels dictate the scope of what you are able to achieve each month. Your most relevant stat will be used. Outcome will be decided by 2d6. The action needs to reach the threshold for success.
[spoiler]trivial: it works
very easy: 3
easy: 5
medium: 7
hard: 9
very hard: 11
impossible: it fails[/spoiler]

Social Stats
Social climbing will require either patience, crime, or luck. You can have 1 to 5 per category.
[spoiler]Wealth
Your income from jobs, crime, and other sources determines your Wealth Level.
1: "[color=teal]Vagrant[/color]". Living in a slum; homeless if you just moved or are an ugly mutant or mutate. No admittance in Districts 1 to 9. No maintenance required to stay here.
2: "[color=limegreen]Struggling[/color]". Barely getting by. Need to be working or doing odd jobs.
3: "[color=orange]Comfortable[/color]". Need to be dedicated to an advanced career like a doctor or lawyer.
4: "[color=red]Rich[/color]". Need to run a company or enterprise to stay here.
5: "[color=brown]Elite[/color]". Need to be a huge figure like a politician or criminal kingpin to stay here.

Hero Rank
Your recognition as a heroic figure in Atlas.
1: "[color=teal]U[/color]". Unregistered. Your police scanner picks up local threats, but you probably won't learn about anything further until it is too late. You wont get sponsorship deals.
2: "[color=limegreen]C[/color]". Defenders invitation. Early warnings from Phil Coulson to District level threats near you.
3: "[color=orange]B[/color]". Watchmen invitation. Early warnings from Commissioner Gordon to District and City level threats.
4: "[color=red]A[/color]". Avengers invitation. Early warnings from Nick Fury to District, City, and Global threats.
5: "[color=brown]S[/color]". Justice League invitation. Early warnings from Amanda Waller to City, Global, and Galactic threats.

Notoriety:
1: "[color=teal]Ignored[/color]". Ignored.
2: "[color=limegreen]Recognized[/color]". 15 minutes of fame. Well known in one district.
3: "[color=orange]Notable[/color]". In fad right now. Multidistrict fame.
4: "[color=red]Big[/color]". Beloved or feared by everyone across Atlas.
5: "[color=brown]Icon[/color]". Practically worshiped, if not literally. When aliens think of Earth, they think of you.
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Power Stats
The strength of each of your powers. You can have up to 5 powers with a max of level 5 each. In addition to your starting ones, you can buy an additional power from the Power Broker once per month. Every month you use your powers, you gain 60 experience points. These points are divided evenly among the powers you used during the month. If I describe you using your powers in a way that wasn't part of your actions, such to protect yourself, that will not be counted. The requirement to level up a power is 240 experience points, which then doubles after each upgrade.
[spoiler]
1: 0000xp. "[color=teal]Daring[/color]". Threat to a crowd of civilians or less. (Wolf)
2: 0240xp. "[color=limegreen]Uncanny[/color]". Threat to a stadium of civilians. (Tiger)
3: 0480xp. "[color=orange]Amazing[/color]". Threat to an entire district. (Demon)
4: 0960xp."[color=red]Mighty[/color]". Threat to all of Atlas. (Dragon)
5: 1920xp. "[color=brown]Incredible[/color]". Threat to a planet or more. (God)[/spoiler]

Origin Extras
There are some special circumstances that will change your origin.
[spoiler]Shared Origins: If characters are created at the same time and have the same origin type, their origin story will be tied together. Powers may complimentary, opposite, or identical. You will know what player is playing the character(s).

Appearance: For Mutants and Mutates, receiving your powers may have altered your appearance drastically. Decided by a coin flip, head for Human-looking, Tails for Ugly.
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Human: You pass as a normal human. Human-looking characters start at Wealth Lv2 and receive team invites 1 Hero Rank sooner.
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Ugly: You don't look like a normal human. So called "Ugly" characters start with an extra origin power.
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Residence
Your home is where you rest up between fights, and where your enemies will try to ambush you... If you are homeless, you have max secrecy and minimum comfort and fortification. If you are in a typical private residence you have minimum secrecy and fortification, but it's more comfortable than most alternatives. Unless you have travel aiding powers or a special vehicle you will walk and use normal vehicles to get around, which are the slowest.
[spoiler]
Comfort Level: How difficult of recovery from frequent battles in one month you can sustain; how quickly you recover from your injuries.
Secrecy Level: How difficult you are to find to attack.
Fortification Level: How difficult you are to significantly harm in an attack.
Transportation Level: How difficult of travel far or frequently you can overcome.[/spoiler]

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There is no win condition. This is your sandbox until I get bored of hosting it, interest falls off, or the world explodes.
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Players do not know the character identity of each other.
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You may roll a new character. You must wait 3 turns from the creation of your last one.
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There are no roleplaying restrictions, anything you know as a player you may act on as a character.
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When you get your PM, explain everything you want to do for a whole month of game time.
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You have 24 hours after you receive a PM to send back your turn.
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If I have not updated the game for 2 weeks, you have 4 days after you receive a PM to send back your turn.
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PM copypaste/screenshot is strictly forbidden.
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You can share PM info in your own words. This includes exposing the character identity of other players or go public with your own.
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If your identity becomes public, it is strongly recommended you quickly move to a residence with more secrecy or fortification to hide from or prepare for attacks. Beware of player killers.
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Origins will be randomized. Do not post who you wish to get, as it will NOT be taken into consideration.
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Once you are dead, your identity is revealed to everyone.
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If you kill someone with cyber parts, you loot them.
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You can communicate with a character (not player) anonymously with the in-game voicemail system. Tell me the message you want to send, [url=https://wordcounter.net/character-count]400 characters[/url] max, with normal (unabbreviated) speech.
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You will not be kicked for inactivity, but your character might be killed off by other players or hostile NPCs if you have enemies. If the game is very full you may need to wait to be an active participant again.
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[nobbc][b]Guides:[/b]

[quote=Origins]
[spoiler]
Mutant: You get 2 'X Powers' that gain experience twice as fast. The X-Gene is robust thus you are unable to undergo Genetic Experiments.

Mutate: You get 2 'A Powers' and their power matches your Notoriety Level or Hero Level, which ever is higher. The Accident that empowered you has already done everything it will do thus your A Powers cannot be trained, but are enhances by strong emotions of pride or responsibility.

Mystic: You get 2 'Mystic Powers' that when you level up then your lowest level Mystic power with the least experience is replaced with a new one, if you upgrade the lowest you gain another Mystic power. The magical energy flowing through you disrupts cybernetic linkage thus you are unable to get Cybernetics.

Chosen: Only the the power you used the most gains experience, but twice as fast. Your Cybernetic powers are 1 level stronger if possible. You have a great destiny, but only you can discover it. No powers.

Super Soldier: Lab Superhuman. Your Lab powers from Genetic Experiments gain experience twice as fast.

Android: Cyber Superhuman. Your Cyber powers from Cybernetics gain experience. If you remove a part, it keeps the level it reached, but loses all experience after that. You are fully synthetic thus are unable to undergo Genetic Experiments.
[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Power Broker][spoiler]
Genetic Leap: If you look human, flip a coin for each point of Hero Level to keep your human appearance. If any are heads your appearance wont change, and you will get 1 new power. If you fail or are already not human looking you will lose 1 power and gain 2, and you get a new non human appearance.

Genetic Transfer: You can have a Lab Power transfer to or trade with a volunteer. Each person chooses what to trade. Flip a coin for each point of Hero Level for each volunteer. For each, if they flipped at least one heads, they will donate the power they chose. If not, their donation will be one of their other Lab Powers at random. Both powers will retain their current level and experience.

Cyber Implant: Replace a body part with machinery. Has a random power with a power level your Wealth Level minus 1 at the time of the operation, and does not gain experience.

Cyber Swap: Replace a cyber part with one of the same type. You must bring the part. Retains the power and power level it came with, and you keep your old part.

Cyber Retrofit: Can take a part and change it to another part, such as making a left arm into a right arm. Retains the power and power level it came with. Converting too dissimilar of parts wont work, like an eyeball into a leg.

Cyber Reversal: Take out a Cyber part and receive a transplant of the missing body part.
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[quote=Common Powers][spoiler]
Doppelganger: Can shift your appearance to look like someone else. The more powerful you are the more effectively you can imitate their behavior or even copy recent memories.

Elastic Body: Your limbs can extend and stretch, you can become nearly flat, and direct attacks may bounce off you or only leave a momentary dent.

Invisibility: You can become invisible on command, can share invisibility to make other living things or objects invisible while touching them. While invisible, harmful energy just passes through you.

Psychic: Can move things around with telekinesis, communicate with telepathy, and read what weaker minds are thinking and control them.

Regeneration: You do not age, and potentially recover from lethal injuries. The stronger this power the more you can survive. Genetic experiments wear off and your body expels cybernetics, your are unable to receive modifications.

Superhuman: You are generally more durable, heal faster, are stronger, can run faster, and leap higher and further than base-level human.

Superspeed: Ability to run at incredible speeds.

Teleportation: You can teleport on command, can bring other living things or objects with you while touching them.
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[quote=Similar Powers][spoiler]
Animal Physique: A humanoid with many of the animal's prominent attributes such as physical abilities, physical attributes, and specialized senses.

Force Manipulation: Control over a force, such as an element. Able to move, shape, and in some cases create it.

Object Physique: A humanoid with many of the object's prominent attributes such as utilitarian abilities and material attributes.
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[hr][spoiler=v1.0.0 (1)]Patch Notes:
The frequency of origin types has changed since I rolled your characters. They are now 1/6 for all 6, but there were previously 8 and there was a 7/20 chance for mutant or mutate(each), so dice will do what they want, but you might expect more of the initial players to be mutants or mutates, than those that come after.

Planned:
(High Priority)
Introduce Locations

(Low Priority)
Mutant only teams like Morlocks, Brotherhood, X-Men, X-Force, and Hellfire Gala.

(Considered)
Random starting influence tokens.
Introduce Laws

[quote=Version number string meaning.]X.0.0 = Milestone update.
0.X.0 = Feature update.
0.0.X = Balance update.[/quote][/spoiler][/nobbc]

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[nobbc]Login: **********
Password: *****

Access granted. Loading Project Insight...


[center]Opening metahuman file: Bay12...

[table]
[tr][td][b]Tracking#[/b][/td][td][b]|[/b][/td][td][b]Vice[/b][/td][td][b]|[/b][/td][td][b]Empowered[/b][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Megam0nkey[/td][td]|[/td][td]Overconfidence[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]BlackPaladin99[/td][td]|[/td][td]Paranoia[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Crystalizedmire[/td][td]|[/td][td]Wrath[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Supernerd[/td][td]|[/td][td]Cowardice[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Shadowclaw777[/td][td]|[/td][td]Sociopathic[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Oakrose905[/td][td]|[/td][td]Greedy[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Strif3[/td][td]|[/td][td]Prejudism[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]a1s[/td][td]|[/td][td]Gambling[/td][td]|[/td][td]9-2094[/td][/tr][/table][/center][/nobbc]

Once you receive your PM, you will have 4 days to submit your actions.

[Supernerd]

I'm guessing that we have four days for the first turn because the game didn't update for over 2 weeks. Please correct me if I am wrong. Also, I did not get a PM yet.

[Wiiswitch]

Yozhila and rage

[a1s]

Also, I did not get a PM yet.

Neither did I, actually. Maybe RoseHeart wants to handle people in a staggered manner?

[RoseHeart]

Also, I did not get a PM yet.

Neither did I, actually. Maybe RoseHeart wants to handle people in a staggered manner?

Honestly I announced the start to put pressure on me to finish. I want to do them all at once though. Yes, four days after it arrives in your inbox.

Yozhila and rage

Cool, we need someone to replace Strif3, I'll move your vice onto their character. If they are allowed to return to the forums they can roll a new one.

[RoseHeart]

The current thing I am hung up on is DOB and character names, and if I should omit them from the IDs. I want death to kind of be a reveal all, but I also want this to be a world where the government protects Supes' identities.

Edit: Meh, it looks good when included, but I guess I'll just go with what I went with for Spider-Man.

[Supernerd]

Shouldn't you wait until players choose their name and gender before making the IDs so that you don't have to re-make them?

[Crystalizedmire]

A part of my brain laughs when 'power rangers' and 'godzilla' is written in the same paragraph.

[Supernerd]

So... When does this game start for realsies?

[RoseHeart]

So... When does this game start for realsies?

How about in the next hour?

[Supernerd]

I have been completely placated by your response, and will continue to be placated until the destined hour passes.

[RoseHeart]

Shouldn't you wait until players choose their name and gender before making the IDs so that you don't have to re-make them?

I'll be remaking them constantly, I'm not too worried about it.

A part of my brain laughs when 'power rangers' and 'godzilla' is written in the same paragraph.

Maybe we'll get to see the Dragonzord and Godzilla fight.