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Post by cassusaevum on Aug 9, 2019 11:25:29 GMT -5
A place to post your characters, goals, etc...
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juliek
A Coconut Horse
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Post by juliek on Aug 9, 2019 14:04:57 GMT -5
WildcatResistancesComposure 2D Fortitude 3D Reaction 3D Will 3D Total Spent: 7 Dice AptitudesAthleticism 2D (More Agile than Strong 1/3) Awareness 2D Fighting 2D Streetwise 2D Total Spent: 4 Dice Powers3 Super Leap (Drawback Only in Hero ID) 3 Super Senses Hearing, Sight, Smell (Drawback Only in Hero ID, Additional Senses +2) 4 Super Weaponry - Claws (Drawback Only in Hero ID, Drawback Touch Attack, Boost Extra Effect vs. Armor) Total Spent: 9 points Advantages & DisadvantagesDependent (Hunter Fairchild, -1D) Accidental Transformation (-1D) Instant Change (1D) Total Spent: -1D Competency Pool: 1DWildcat: OriginFelicia Fairchild has not had the easiest life. Her father walked out when she was ten, leaving her, her mother, and her younger brother Hunter to fend for themselves. Her mom inevitably fell into the ‘single mother’ life, working long hours and multiple jobs to keep them afloat. Since she was rarely home, Felicia was left to care for Hunter, and the siblings grew to depend on each other and no one else. Despite this, Felicia had a fairly normal childhood; her family wasn’t rich, and some nights she wished she could hang out with friends instead of taking care of her brother, but family was important, and it was all she had known. All this changed when she was sixteen. Her mom had a rare day off, and the three of them were spending the afternoon downtown, when a black car came flying down the road toward them. Felicia saw a man lean out the passenger side window, saw the gun in his hand pointed at them, just before her mom grabbed her and Hunter, shielding them with her body. Felicia heard the bark of gunfire, watched the car screech around a corner, and her mother crumpled to the ground. She discovered later that the man wasn’t even aiming at them, but at a group behind them. “Gang war,” they told her. “Hit and run.” “Wrong place at the wrong time.” Empty, meaningless words. All she knew was her mother was gone, and that she and Hunter were alone. The Fairchilds were separated and went into foster care for two years, until the day Felicia turned eighteen and went back for her brother, vowing to never abandon him again. Now the sole provider of her family, Felicia’s life has become a balancing act of work, school and caring for Hunter while also pursuing her own dreams. She wants to become a doctor because she wants to help people, but she also is determined to give her brother the best life she can, a shot at a real future. To this end, she found herself working at the Freedom City University biology lab, feeding the animals and cleaning cages. What she didn’t know was the nature of the experiments being studied there, nor could she have foreseen what would happen when one of the machines exploded in a flare of green light, catching her and several of the lab’s housecats in the blast. Panicked, one of the felines lashed out at Felicia, clawing her across the face, and the pain, shock, fear and adrenaline combined with whatever was in the green light caused a sudden and violent reaction in Felicia, turning her into a humanoid cat. She fled the laboratory, seeking solace in the city’s dark back alleys, and after awhile was able to calm down and return to a human form. But she could feel the change in her now, rising up whenever she became fearful or stressed. Knowing she had to get a handle on this crazy new power, for both her and her brother’s safety, Felicia practiced in secret until she was able to switch forms at will. But she fears she still isn’t in complete control. Whenever her emotions are running high, and the fight or flight instinct is strong, she can feel the cat within, ready to burst out. She isn’t certain what she can do with this power yet, or if she even likes what she becomes when she switches forms, but she knows that, eventually, she will have to do something. And when that time does come, and this new persona springs into the light, she already has a name ready to go. Wildcat.
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Post by Derek Raines on Aug 10, 2019 11:04:17 GMT -5
ResistancesComposure 3D Fortitude 3D Reaction 3D Will 2D Total Spent: 7 AptitudesAthleticism 2D Presence 3D Fighting 2D Total Spent: 4 PowersFlight 2D Energy Control 4D (Gravity Manipulation) Armor 4D (Force Field) Total Spent: 10 Advantages & DisadvantagesSecret: The Politician's Son -1D Phobia: Fear of Deep Water/Drowning -1D Charismatic 1D Total Spent -1D Competency Pool: 0 ZeroReal Name: William WilderWhat Will you Amount To?"Life is a numbers game, son, and people are either 1's or 0's. What will you amount to?" Funny how a single bit of cruel advice can change everything. For Will, the word's of his father were not a welcome insight. Jason Wilder built a business empire by quantifying every person he encountered and placing them in specific categories; 1's and 0's, winners and losers, people to value and people to exploit. He spent years surrounding himself with a vast network of powerful people, leaving behind a trail of those used along the way, and is now running to be Mayor of Freedom City. He is careful to keep up a positive image, never letting his true methods or ambitions make it to the public. William Wilder greatly admired his father growing up, never seeing the man's dark nature, and desired to have that admiration returned. In fact, Will shaped his entire existence in an effort to earn his father's respect and attention. He studied hard, was a star athlete at his high school and volunteered his time in the community. His natural charisma won over his fellow students, teachers and the business associates that often visited their home. Every action Will took was meant to impress his father, a man he thought was a pillar of Freedom City. No matter how hard Will tried, however, his father was never proud of him. Jason Wilder would always display his displeasure by drawing out a "0" in black marker and leaving it for his son to find. On a flier for a fundraiser that did not reach its goal, an exam that missed three questions or tickets to Will's basketball game where their team lost. All were branded with that black zero, a reminder that Will would never be a "1" in his eyes. The FireEverything changed when a fire nearly burned down the family estate. Jason Wilder was on a business trip, laying groundwork for his campaign, and Will took it upon himself to help clean the damage to their home. He boxed up shattered family photos, carried out blackened furniture and did a sweep of his father's office to see what could be salvaged. Within the charred desk that loomed in the center of the room was a secret cache of documents in a fireproof box. Will read through the documents and the heroic image of his father burned away. The man had risen to power on a path of crime, corruption and possibly murder. Each new document provided additional evidence, and Will's hands shook as he closed the folder not knowing what to do with this discovery. Should he turn his father in to the police? Should he pretend he never saw the folder? Should he lie? Then he saw it, the black magic marker resting on his father's desk, curiously untouched by the flames. Anger, frustration, fear and confusion roiled inside of him. If this is what it meant to be number 1 in his father's world, he would have nothing more to do with it. He uncapped the marker, and wrote boldly on the cover of the folder. ~I know what you are. Stay out of my Life.~ Will signed it with a zero. The IncidentWill left home and never looked back. He enrolled at Freedom City University, found a place with a couple of roommates and got a job as a bike messenger. It was much harder to pay the bills without his family's wealth, and he refused to let anyone know who his father was, but he did his best to have a normal college experience. In an effort to make some funds on the side, Will began a small paid internship assisting Dr. Hugo Vance. The internship mainly focused around hauling heavy equipment from one lab to the next, but Dr. Vance had taken a liking to Will's sharp wit and Will couldn't help but be impressed with the doctor's research. Dr. Vance had created a device that could create and contain a micro black hole. While Will couldn't understand the necessity of this research, Dr. Vance was certain the innovation could have far reaching applications for the betterment of humankind. One evening while the two were working, a group of masked gunmen broke into the lab. The thugs made demands in a language Will didn't know, and when Dr. Vance tried to calm them down, they shot him. Stray bullets pinged off of the equipment, disrupting the experiment at hand, and Will did his best to fight them off. The largest of the group, a towering man in a kevlar vest, easily apprehended him. He dragged Will to the containment chamber, whispered something to him in broken english and threw him in. Will felt like his entire being was being crushed, even as light bent at irregular angles around him. The machine was thrumming and pulsing with uncontrolled energy, and Will felt a pressure between his ribs, before everything went black. Will awoke to find himself sprawled upon the floor of the lab, alive and relatively unharmed. The MBH generator was destroyed, twisted metal blocking the exit, with the gunmen having fled before the explosion. Dr. Vance was also still alive, but bleeding badly, and Will frantically looked for a way out. In this moment of desperation, a ripple of invisible energy gathered in Will's palms, and an unseen force pushed the wreckage from the door. The two escaped, mere minutes before the lab's equipment exploded, destroying Dr. Vance's research in the process. Time passed. Dr. Vance made a full recovery and is back at the science game. And Will Wilder, yeah, he has some pretty incredible powers now. He also has some pretty big questions. Like what the heck happened to him? Just how stable are these new powers? Should he even be using them? Is there a black hole inside of him? And lastly, why did the big gunmen who threw him into the Containment Chamber whisper Will's full name just before throwing him in?
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Post by fenris on Aug 12, 2019 16:54:17 GMT -5
RedlineSuperhero Name: Redline Real Name: Stuart Sutherland Age: 18 Concept: Kinetic Energy Speedster Power Origin: Accident [TBD] Occupation: Freshman at Freedom City University Resistances Composure 2D Fortitude 3D Reaction 5D Will 2D Total Spent: 8 Aptitudes Athleticism 2D [More Acrobatic (3D) Than Strong (1D)] Awareness 2D Fighting 2D Presence 2D [Good at Taunting (3D), Bad at Seducing (1D)] Total Spent: 4D Powers
Super Speed 5D Wall Crawling 1D (Kinetically created friction while running) Total Spent: 6D Advantages & Disadvantages Instant Change 1D Reckless -1D Total Spent: 0D Competency Pool: 2D Redline: OriginPam, the lunch lady, just told me that my student meal card is out of money. I asked her to check again but she just gave me a motherly smile and told me that I had a zero balance left and let me know that the dining hall takes all major credit cards and of course cash. I could feel all of the other students’ eyes on me. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have had spent my fair share of afternoons locked in my school locker back home, been the target of verbal abuse by school bullies, had my underwear pulled over up over my head more than a few times, then there was that unfortunate day in biology when Mrs. Jones was going over the reproductive system …. This isn’t helping me. Why is everyone looking at me? I checked my pockets but no luck. I fumbled for my snazzy Snoopy Velcro wallet and dropped it on the cafeteria floor. As I bent down to pick it up, another person scooped it up. It was her. Jesus, she’s asking me something but I don’t hear anything. Nothing. Everything fades into a background buzz. Weird. Maybe I’m having a stroke. My Uncle Gus has had three strokes but he’s still kicking. Uncle Gus also taught me how to fish. Why am I thinking about fishing? My heart is pounding through my chest. Why is this girl holding onto my wallet? Why am I holding onto it at the same time? Why can’t I concentrate and why does my mind keep flipping channels like one of those meth users that my gym teacher warned us about during those anti-drug D.A.R.E. presentations? I can feel her hand touching mine. The cacophony of sound from the packed campus dining hall comes rushing back to me. Yep, she’s still staring at me. “You ok Stu,” asked the beautiful smiling girl before me. Holy. Freak’n. Crap. Amber knows my name. Amber is holding my Snoopy wallet. I pull my hand away as if I had been burned. “Sorry about that,” I stammer, “um … thanks.” She looks at me expectantly and I stammered a cool wide-eyed, “Bye.” I’m an idiot. A full on level 20 idiot. I had the chance of a lifetime to finally talk to her and what do I do? Bye? IDIOT. Lunch lady Pam shook her head and I could feel the waves of sympathy roll off of her onto me. I fished inside of my wallet and folded between my school library card and an almost fully punched Vito’s Pizza Valued Customer card, I found the $20 bill Uncle Gus gave me the last time we went fishing. Silently thanking my Uncle, I handed Pam the money, paid for my lunch, and quickly found a quiet corner to eat my food. Puzzled, I use my cell phone to check the purchase history on my student money card. Everything looked normal except for the last two days. At first I panic and think that someone, probably from the Eastern block of Europe, has hacked into my student account and made a crap load of purchases at the cafeteria, the school pantry, a very unhealthy number of vending machine purchases on campus, and ordered … 14 pizzas in two days? As I stuff the remaining food in my mouth I realize that my legs have been twitching non-stop. Then it all hits me in the face like a Mac truck. [STILL IN PROGRESS]
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Post by gamedave on Aug 13, 2019 9:50:16 GMT -5
Prime'
Resistances
Composure 3D Fortitude 3D Reaction 3D Will 3D Total Spent: 8 Dice
Aptitudes
Academia 2D Athleticism 2D Presence 2D Technology 2D Total Spent: 4 Dice
Powers
4 Armor (Drawback Only in Hero ID -1D) 4 Flight (Drawback Only in Hero ID -1D) 4 Super Strength (Drawback Only in Hero ID -1D) Total Spent: 9 points
Advantages & Disadvantages
Attractive 2 (Drawback Only in Hero ID -1D) Mental Hindrance, Major (Honor Bound - Paragon's Code -2D) Vulnerability, Major (Ionizing Radiation -2D)
Total Spent: -3D
Competency Pool: 2D
Prime': Origin
Samantha Challenger is a high achiever from a family of hyper-achievers. Her father, Dr. Jason Challenger, is an aerospace engineer and head of Aerospace Research and Development at ASTRO Labs. Her mother, Dr. Lisa Challenger, is neurosurgeon and Chief of Surgery at Freedom City Memorial Hospital. Yes, her parents are a literal rocket scientist and a brain surgeon. Her older sister, Emily, was an Olympic medalist in swimming, Air Force officer, fighter pilot, the youngest instructor ever at the USAF Weapons School, and is currently an astronaut and the youngest Mission Commander in NASA's history. Her younger twin brothers, Jacob and Joshua, are jointly the youngest recipients of the MacArthur "genius" grant for their work on 3D printing and robotics technology.
Samantha, meanwhile, was on the Honor Roll in every semester of high school, but graduated fifth in her class. She placed in the science fair every year of high school, but never finished higher than second. She lettered in soccer and basketball, and made the All-Regional Teams in both, but not All-State. She scored a 1500 on her SATs - but all of her siblings scored 1600 (yes, the 13-year old twins have already taken the SATs and outscored her). She's on the Dean's List at Freedom City University, but in the bottom half. She made the soccer and basketball teams as a walk-on, but she's never started a game for either.
By almost any measure, Samantha Challenger is a bright, pretty, extremely accomplished young woman. By her family's standards, she's almost a disappointment. Her family is loving and supportive, and none of them actually think of her that way (well, maybe the twins...), but she always has a nagging, mostly unconscious, feeling that she doesn't quite measure up, that nothing she does is ever quite good enough.
Then, one night, Samantha was working late at night monitoring a high-energy physics experiment for extra credit when...something happened. The equipment wasn't even supposed to be active, she was just supposed to be keeping an eye on the expensive components, and monitoring computer simulations. But then, suddenly, the equipment surged to life, and overloaded. Sparks flew everywhere, there was a strange green glow, and Samantha was bombarded by cascading waves of exotic particles. Then everything went quiet, and Samantha realized that she had changed. She was a few inches taller, and more...robustly built. In several areas. She freaked out tried to flee the lab - crashing through a wall in flight! She finally calmed down, and reverted to her old self.
Samantha has spent the last few weeks trying to figure out what happened. She can, with intense concentration, transform herself into an enhanced version of herself, which she thinks of as Samantha' (Samantha Prime). In this form, she can fly, has super strength, and tremendous resistance to physical trauma, as well as...other enhanced assets. She's uncomfortable in this form, and she can't maintain it for more than a few hours before she reverts to her normal form, exhausted [this is a narrative aspect to justify the Only in Hero ID Drawbacks]. She's also found out that at almost the exact same moment the lab she was in exploded, there were similar strange explosions and green glows from several nearby labs and facilities, including another physics lab where research on gravity was being conducted and a biosciences lab where animal research was being conducted.
Prime': NPCs
Family: Samantha lives on campus and she's trying to establish her own life, and her parents a bit distant and expect their children to be independent and capable. Still, her parents and younger brothers live in Freedom City, and her older sister visits when she can, so she will have at least some contact and interaction with them on a fairly regular basis.
The Brain Trust: Samantha has two roommates: Divya Patel and Isabella Rojas. Divya is a third-generation Indian-American from Virginia (complete with Southern accent). Her family are all doctors, lawyers, and engineers; Divya is majoring in Art & Design. Isabella is a foreign student from Columbia. Her family are upper-crust (her father is a wealthy businessman and her mother is a socialite), with business and social connections throughout Latin America, the United States, and Western Europe. Isabella is an International Business and Finance Major who intends to eventually run her father's company and grow it into a true multinational business empire. They are the only two people Samantha has fully confided in about The Incident and about her new abilities. Divya and Isabella have appointed themselves as Samantha's Brain Trust; they've designed a costume for her, they help out with her investigation of The Incident (Isabella is the one who decided to call it that, with Capital Letters), and they give her general advice and support.
Ajay "AJ" Patel: AJ is a cute, funny, extremely bright Physics/Engineering graduate student. He is the TA in Samantha's physics class, and was the lead student researcher on the physics experiment that blew up in Samantha's face. Although she's not quite willing to admit it, Samantha has a crush on him, and signed up for the extra credit assignment she didn't really need partially just to spend more time with AJ. However, she's also starting to suspect that he may know more about The Incident than he's letting on. AJ is also Divya's older brother (see "The Brain Trust", above), which makes Samantha's relationship with him even more complicated. Samantha and AJ have flirted, but she's not sure if he's actually interested, or is just trying to aggravate his younger sister.
Prime': Goals
Figure Out What "The Incident" Actually Was: Samantha and the Brain Trust are investigating The Incident. They are trying to figure out what caused it, what relationship the various sites with green glows and exploding lab equipment have with each other, and who else, if anyone, was affected as Samantha was. So far, they haven't found out very much, but AJ Patel seems like he may know more than he's letting on, and they've found out several people reported seeing a group of strange men entering one of the physics buildings shortly before The Incident.
Figure Out Her Powers: Samantha has been experimenting with her powers, but it's a bit hard for a college student to safely test the limits of super strength and invulnerability. She is trying to figure out exactly what her powers are, how they work, and what their limits are. (She doesn't yet realize she has a Vulnerability to ionizing radiation). She knows she can lift a car, but she doesn't know how much more she can lift. She knows that crashing through a brick wall barely hurt her, and Divya hitting her with a baseball bat just shattered the bat, but she doesn't know how much more she can handle - and she's apprehensive about testing that limit. She knows she can fly, but she's hasn't really cut loose yet and tried to max out her speed - too much chance of being spotted, and too much chance of accidentally crashing into something again.
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