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[The Fool]

This thread is a sequel to another freeform super powers game that fell apart due to a complicated world mythology. The second world event was about warring gods... yep. This is a freeform game where you have super powers that you can use for anything from salvation to destruction. Just jump in and play. jc6036 and I will post world events when an event is done to keep things rolling. Here are some basic rules.

1.   Powers are drawn from the Superpower Wiki, either through the random button or chosen by hand. Random powers from the random page button are suggested, but not necessary. Minor powers can be added by request if it’s reasonable. Link your powers page when you start.

2.   The only powers that aren’t allowed are any of the omni powers, creation, destruction, and death induction.

3.   God-modding without reason is frowned upon. Hordes of players and monsters shouldn’t die from hand waving. Try to be reasonable.

4.   Let us know if you don’t want to continue posting. Your character can be an honorary Red Shirt if you want; you just need to say so.

5.   Don’t be too serious. Freeform games are fairly flexible for character limitations, so have fun with it.

There is an OOC chat thread in case you want to discuss something.

Spoiler: Kaleno, the City of Lost Hope (click to show/hide)

Kaleno was once a place where supers gathered to live in peace, but after some turned to a life of chaos and destruction the military took action. A military group known as the Busters was formed to fight all supers and free the city from destruction. Their technology was the bane of all super powered people, leaving them weakened and dying while their mechanized soldiers dealt the final blow. More peaceful supers wanted to keep their freedom and fought back against the Busters. 10 years into the war the Busters main storage facility was destroyed along with nearly all of the superpower inhibitors. The Busters never recovered and the city started spiralling out of control. New factions emerged to fill the void.

The Circle was formed to save the human race at a cost. Similar to the mafia they made a profit by charging insurance and using the profits for whatever they wanted. They now operate out of the Land’s Edge pub. James Kine refused to allow humans to continue their domination over the supers and started a group known as The Truth. The two groups found themselves at odds with each other, but they lacked the fuel for an all out war.

As the dust cleared on the war only some remnants of the Busters remained to stand against the new emerging threats to the city. The Circle, The Truth, The Busters, and rogue supers were all at each other’s throats, and the resulting destruction started taking its toll on the city. A mysteriously calm newscaster started broadcasting predictions of destructive events throughout the city with startling accuracy. Can someone bring control to the city before it erupts in a ball of flames?

Spoiler: Plot Summary From Start to Now (click to show/hide)

Day 1: After an anti-super protest was attacked by two figures and the two were confronted by a multitude of supers, a chemical weapon mutated them beyond recognition. Wei saw this as an opportunity to cause havok and find out who they work for. After a heated battle Rick and Wei have since escaped, and have captured the twins behind the attack who they intend to interrogate.

[The Fool]

There is now no waiting list. Post a character and jump in.

Spoiler: Character List (click to show/hide)

# - Username - Character Name - Power(s)
1 - The Fool - Dave ‘Shade’ Daurmin - Shadow Teleportation
2 - Sinpwn - Rick - Nothingness Manipulation
3 - New Guy - Athaerion - Minor Matter Creation
4 - Theoboldi - Simon 'The Shifter' Truman - Biological Manipulation
5 - peglepengeuin - Ben Cretin - Mediumship/Mirage Inducing
6 - Riccto - Devin Roydon aka The Justicar - Peak Condition
7 - Edio - Geneva Hamako - Water Manipulation
8 - Zako - Wei Lung - Blood Manipulation
9 -Psuedo - Jacob 'The Unseen' - Precognition
10 - sayaks - Mark Johnson - Dimensional Awareness/Martial Arts (Fire)
11 - MonkeyHead - Karl Mason - Gun Arm
12 - aaron32 - Vetrous - Water Manipulation
13 - Shootandrun - William 'The Leader' - Persuasion
14 - Fniff - Sarah Calvera - Enhanced Agility
15 - antlion12 - Jack Striker - Fire Manipulation

Spoiler: Notable NPCs (click to show/hide)

Macentis Dubeo (Busters) - Power Negation
After being fired from the army by an overzealous government Macentis went to let the super who took his job know the pain he caused him. He found him and stabbed the normally invulnerable super. After being in jail for several years Macentis became bitter and callous towards all supers. When the Busters were put in charge of city defense Macentis was brought out jail and was put in a secret division of the Busters. While the Pariahs are all supers they all hate supers equally and will kill any supers on sight unless instructed otherwise.

Mary 'The Doctor' Herringbone (Circle) - Healing

 
Mysterious Newscaster (?) - No Currently Known Powers
Not much is known about the newscaster other than the fact that it is a guy, and that he is never entirely wrong. He broadcasts at just before 7 in the morning, but the broadcast location seems to change frequently. While most supers have caught on to the radio station most civilians either don't know or don't care.

Peter (Circle) - Reactive Memory


((More to come.))

Spoiler: Current Factions (click to show/hide)

Busters (NPC) - The first and currently last line of defense for all non-mutants. While they pale in comparison to who they use to be, they use their power suits to attack mutants in a desperate attempt to save their people.

Clades (NPC) - Claiming responsibility for several of the recent attacks throughout the city they seem to have no fear of backlash from the city. They looked to be more organized than the Demons and have an even lower value on human life, or any life for that matter. Their massive flying battleship is nothing short of intimidating and a direct assault would be nearly impossible.

The Truth - They stand against the Busters, but have no intention of living peacefully with humans. If supers are superior to humans why should they dominate us? The group wants to liberate supers from human domination. The Truth has been known to cause massive conflicts themselves and The Circle by attacking places under their control. They operate out of an abandoned, unused, and renovated section of the sewer for quick access to everywhere in the city.

The Circle - An organized crime group that wants to control the city and all its resources by any means necessary. While it isn’t hieratical they still function well as a group. Some members consider themselves freelance, but still help the group from time to time. Humans are respected, but mainly because that is where the income lies. No people, no food, and no money. Peace means profit so long as people are afraid. While The Circle is liked in general all other factions have a reason to attack them. They operate out of the Land’s Edge pub.

Demons - The city is going to hell, and this group of supers aims to speed it up. Their destruction can be for any number of reasons; whether it be anarchy or mythic belief they only want to destroy it all. No one in this group can trust each other and it is a group in name only. Alliances between members are few and far between but it has happened before.

There is also the option of creating a faction if anyone wants. You’d need at least two members and some kind of purpose. The original factions can be renamed once we start if needed.

If the factions become popular we’ll tag what faction people have in the character list. We’ll post an event after we get a few people. So who’s in?

To post a character just mention the name, what power they have and a short backstory if you want. Here's mine:

Dave ‘Shade’ Daurmin, Shadow Teleporter

After the fall of the Order and the death of Lex, Shade went rogue. He turned to the Truth for several years and became good friends with Kine, but he always felt as if their ideals never quite lined up. When the Truth turned their ideals towards human domination Shade and some of the other members of the Truth defected to form their own group, the Circle. Under the guise of a crime ring Shade wants to protect the humans without painting a target on his back. The disguise that his group has makes him weary of the other members who may not share his ideas, but he tries not to over think it.

He used to have quite the ego, but after 20 years of war against the Busters has made him a cold and calculated individual. His ego still surfaces from time to time, but more often in subtle movements rather than grand displays. He generally allows members of the Truth into the Land’s Edge pub at night, but at any sign of trouble he tackles them into the shadows and out of the building. If someone from the Truth tries something stupid in his pub twice he personally sees to their death. Death warrants are posted in the back for anyone crazy enough to catch the ones that got away.

Backgrounds can be only one sentence if you really want.

[Sinpwn]

Rick, Nothing manipulation

During an accident at a buster testing facility, Rick gained the power to remove matter (And other things to a lesser extent) from existence and was afflicted with partial amnesia. Since then, he has spent his time Stealing from the busters and trying to enjoy himself. He has forged loose ties with The Circle and The Truth, supplying them both with dangerous modified tech from many different sources, but he always keeps the best toys for himself. He doesn't have any true goals or motivation, he just sees the world as his own personal playground.

[Tidal]

Oooh. Sounds interesting. Let me look through the wiki.

[Trapezohedron]

I'd like to join this super hero gig you're having.

Name: Athaerion/Leon Alderic Lenoir

Power: Matter Creation (Smallscale, single weapon only, a fragment of his original reality warping powers that was totally erased by an uncertain incident.)

Bio: Athaerion has no recollection of his former self's existence, except his name, and the fact that he had reality warping powers. Perhaps due to his own incompetence, he rewrote his existence and removed his powers by accident? He isn't sure himself, but he knows that, currently, he can create any object, so as long as that object is intended to be used as a weapon, and he can only create one object at any given time, so as long as there aren't any created objects yet. The created object only lasts for five minutes before disappearing, and he can't unsummon them on a whim.

Aside from that, he seems to be adept at athletics, perhaps a side effect of his existential rewrite, but he doesn't have superhuman sensory skills.

New Bio: A former Circle member, he's the non-combatant half-brother of one Ethan Lenoir, who disappeared and was not seen again for two months. His inherent power was reality warping, but deciding that he shouldn't rule as a God, he tried to wish himself out of existence, thus the loss of power.

[Theoboldi]

Simon 'The Shifter' Truman, Biological Manipulation

Simon was created in an attempt to create artificial heroes through genetic engeneering. Through manipulation of his cells, he was given the ability to shape and change his body to his own wishes. The experiment was shut down when the first superheroes went rogue. Simon closely escaped getting killed by the busters and fought alongside other supers for his survival. Since then he has made connections with the circle and now tries to ensure peace between humans and supers to stop another war from happening.

[The Fool]

There is now an OOC thread, but you can ignore it until things get rolling. If jc doesn't PM about the first event I'll improvise one.

EDIT: With that said I'd start RPing as both Shade and Kine if jc doesn't show up. At least I know what the event was going to be.

[peglegpengeuin]

Uh, I guess I'll give it a try. Might have periods of unannounced temporary or permanent absences.

Ben Cretin, Astral Trapping

Ben is a 10 year old kid who can talk to and summon spirits, but all the spirits are jerks to him. The spirits have their own agenda, and use Ben to accomplish it. They control him by keeping him in a constant state of depression and sleep deprivation, and occasionally forcing him to cause mischief and then blaming him for it. He is technically in his own sub-faction of the "demon" faction, though he doesn't want to be. He lives in an apartment with Zozoro, a spirit possessing his older brother Rick. Zozoro manipulated Ben into putting him in there, and has since made Ben's life a living hell. It hurts for Ben to use his powers. Ben's parents were in the circle and died in a faction conflict.

[Elfeater]

Max "Yummy" Yeskly Matter indigestion http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Matter_Ingestion

Max could eat a lot. He ate and ate until he hit puberty. Then he ate more. And more. His mom was always buying him food. He didnt get fat cause he was in sports. Then his house was smashed by a meteor, which he picked up. It imbued him with great power. The power to eat any thing. He then discovered it because some one put rocks in his sandwich. He ate right through it.

[The Fool]

Ben Cretin, Astral Trapping

I think you mean Mediumship if you want to be possessed and summon ghosts. I'll also toss on Mirage Inducing, so your ghosts can appear real or you can summon something from your mind to intimidate or scare people. Not being able to fight in any way might prove to be a problem, so now you can.

Max "Yummy" Yeskly Matter indigestion http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Matter_Ingestion

Max could eat a lot. He ate and ate until he hit puberty. Then he ate more. And more. His mom was always buying him food. He didnt get fat cause he was in sports. Then his house was smashed by a meteor, which he picked up. It imbued him with great power. The power to eat any thing. He then discovered it because some one put rocks in his sandwich. He ate right through it.

*Facepalm* ...Alright...

[peglegpengeuin]

Ben Cretin, Astral Trapping

I think you mean Mediumship if you want to be possessed and summon ghosts. I'll also toss on Mirage Inducing, so your ghosts can appear real or you can summon something from your mind to intimidate or scare people. Not being able to fight in any way might prove to be a problem, so now you can.

Uses:
    * Control over Astral energy.
    * Summon demons, ghosts, or spirits, to do the user's bidding.
    * 'Borrow' the powers of ghosts and spirits.
    * Summon souls into another living body or 'Induced Possession'

I'm not sure if I'll give Ben control over astral energy, but borrowing powers and accidentally summoning demons should work. Also, Astral Trapping does give possession inducement. And Ben isn't possessed, just emotionally manipulated.

[Dsarker]

Hmmm. Tempting. Got two possible characters, so just tell me what you think works best.


Macentis Dubeo

Power - Pariah

From his earliest days, Macentis was not liked by many people. No matter what he did, people seemed to really detest him. Whether he did the athletic stuff at school, or studied hard, people hated him.

He joined the military, and dropped out three years later. He was on the streets for less than a week when one of those damned superheroes that had made the military unneccessary came to him. He was obviously one of those superstrength bastards. Macentis got ready to endure a beating from the drunken bastard. But when the first punch hit, it was nothing. The drunkard was surprised at this, and so was Macentis. But he took his chance and drew his knife, his one companion, and stabbed the bastard. Again and again and again. He left him with more than fifty five knife wounds.

He didn't know what had happened, but he knows that somehow, somehow, the superheroes now had a weakness, and he was going to exploit it. He joined the Busters, and now it's time for revenge.



Character two.


Tzwentcliszta'goeklw

Power - Pyrokinesis/Regeneration/Strength. Less than a single power alone. Power depends on binding level, going from 3 (power is weakest) to unbound (Power is strongest). Binding cannot be changed by him, and power must go at maximum strength possible (for example, if he had the capacity to destroy a building with pyrokinesis, he could not then decide to just use a smaller, safer, amount). At 3 level binding, lying, tricking, or other forms of deception are unavailable. When bound, he is in the control of another being.

Johnny was a normal guy, except for one tiny thing. He felt something...bad... Inside his head. He ignored it, though, and lived a merry life.

Except for one night, Johnny was kidnapped. Taken by an unknown group, he was brought to a dungeon. He was bound to a table and chained down. The thirteen people present were saying prayers of some kind, but not of a type he recognised. They lay chains across his body and marked runes into his flesh as well as chaining written copies to his body. He tried to escape, but was unable to. Slowly he dropped into unconsciousness, and never awoke.

Now a daemon wears his flesh, and yearns to be free to wreak chaos upon the city... Only its masters can stop it, and they control it with an iron fist....but will it be enough?

[Riccto]

Devin Roydon AKA The Justicar

Peak Human (Captain America Level)

Roydon was a combantant in Kaleno since the begining of the conflict and the pre-conflict itself, He personally fought for the city and the people, Disregarding the various factions but still playing careful attention to the politics of the city. He was origionally a cop, blessed with excellent genetics and a baptism of strange chemicals at a young age lead to him reaching the peak of human potential in his twenties. He was one of the prime members of the SED, enforcing a balance between the Super Community and the City, but as the conflict wore on the Busters found him ineffiecent and erased the SED. Roydon left the force with some of his lieutenants and He went under the alias of Justicar, Fighting both Truth and Busters in attempts to protect the Civilians as the conflict occasionally spiraled out of control.

[The Fool]

Macentis Dubeo

Power - Power Negation

From his earliest days, Macentis was not liked by many people. No matter what he did, people seemed to really detest him. Whether he did the athletic stuff at school, or studied hard, people hated him.

He joined the military, and dropped out three years later. He was on the streets for less than a week when one of those damned superheroes that had made the military unneccessary came to him. He was obviously one of those superstrength bastards. Macentis got ready to endure a beating from the drunken bastard. But when the first punch hit, it was nothing. The drunkard was surprised at this, and so was Macentis. But he took his chance and drew his knife, his one companion, and stabbed the bastard. Again and again and again. He left him with more than fifty five knife wounds.

He didn't know what had happened, but he knows that somehow, somehow, the superheroes now had a weakness, and he was going to exploit it. He joined the Busters, and now it's time for revenge.

I'd suggest the first one and I changed the power name to one with a page. It's the same thing as what you described.

The second one had multiple strong powers and an unpronounceable name.

[Tidal]

Could I reserve a spot? I probably won't have my character decided upon until some time tomorrow, and I would like to join.