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Peace, Justice, Unity [UNIFIED DISCUSSION]
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Well if he was in Chernobyl in 1986, it'd put him at around 55-60 (thus the "I'm getting too old for this" weakness) And not all of the heroes died in Anathema, just most of them. Isn't Heavyweight's character a hero who survived Anathema? I didn't write his bio past the incident, I just gave an explanation of his powers.
wait... radiation powers and electric manipulation
your character is me
we are venom etc.
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Langly I think you need a review of what kind of setting this game is placed in. As far as I can tell you have no idea what's going on, or you didn't read everything carefully enough.
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2019: Exactly nineteen years after an extra-dimensional invasion. This invasion wrecked the world as we know it, millions of people died, countries were broken. After the chaos, the heroes who saved the world took it over. Their leader is Ultimatum. Now, 15 (since 2004) years after the invasion, there are factions of superheroes. Those who support the super powered government, those who actively try to supplant it, and vigilantes who just try to help people without government support.
I set up my character to be an aging super powered being, who acquired his powers through radiation. He can't control radiation, it's just the catalyst. He can control Electricity and to a small extent, sound. Somehow he survived the invasion and either began to work for vanguard, or went vigilante, I haven't decided yet. Now, what have I got wrong about this game, why is that bio not working?
Fair enough, just wanted to know if it got through.
<3's for workin on it eventually though!
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
I like to pick nits.
Argh you had me so worried! Jesus. I was all "Man I must have really missed something huge and my character sucks
I mean it can still suck but now i'm not so worried.
I'm a worrier.
Edit: Also Commie your powers are way cooler than mine. I can't break down things at a sub-atomic level. I can just, you know, zap shit.
Sorry guys I'm suffering from a severe ego boost at the moment.
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She'll never fall for that
Get some catnip first
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Just wondering, got some ideas a-brewing.
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My second idea was for a sort of supersoldier who has a cybernetic arm; he was selected for enhancement because he lost a limb during the war, thus cutting his military career short. He would be physically enhanced to a limited degree (faster reaction times, increased endurance), and the arm would be fitted with a wide array of gadgetry and weapons. (Not sure how viable this idea is, due to the increased level of technology that would be involved.)
Well, now that you've got the initial concept...there's a biography...a name to give him...so on, so forth.
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the tech is more than advanced enough for cybernetic implants and Robot arms (my character has one)
as for you first character It shouldn't be against the rules since anything higher level than the armor it produces goes through it anyways.
though you'll have to double check with pony on tuesday, for now i'd create the second one and put the first one on hold
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Sort of a Green Lantern, but with shadows
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I fell in love with the idea
it because one of the powers I wish I had
Like having the ability to talk in any language, or having the ability to throw your voice into another person.
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See you guys May 30th.
PSN: BlakeMaxwell3 Steam: meganekun
Code Name: None
Age:22
Height 5'10"
Weight 125lbs
Eye color Green
Skin Tone Slightly tanned
Hair Dark brown, short.
Abilities: Hyper responsive senses.
Usage: Through the use of his sense of sight and sound, he is able to draw an almost 360 degree observation of his surrounding area, using sound to compensate for blind spots similar to a dolphin's sonar. In a closed area such as inside a building this even allows him to see around corners and behind objects.
His sight allows him to notice slight muscle movements in his opponents allowing him a quicker reaction, and allowing him to essentially predict movement.
His sense of sound gives him limited empathy abilities, allowing him to tell if those around him are nervous, scared, relaxed, or angry etc.
Limitations: Aside from his hyper hightened senses, he is actually weak compared to most humans. A condition he suffers keeps him from maintaining weight and muscle, to compensate he studied martial arts through out his life specializing in Aikido and Judo.
His hightened senses include pain, while the main reason for taking up martial arts was to focus himself and control pain, he is extreamly vulnerable to a telepath using pain inducing attacks, often losing his focus and becoming completely crippled.
When focusing his abilities if an attack via sound of light is made he can be temporarily stunned, due to his hightened sense of pain.
*needs work...*
Bio
When Larent was young he was diagnosed with a rare condition that limited his muscular growth and nutrient in take. As a result his height is average at best and his muscle mass is below average. While not being as frail as a 12 year old girl, he doesn't have the strength to bend prison bars, or really move anything that needs moving.
At a around age 13 Larent's powers started to manifest, slowly. The first one was to show it's ugly teeth was his sensitivity to pain. After months in hospitals with his parents trying to find a solution to ease the pain they turned to eastern medicine and meditation. After many failed acupuncture sessions a doctor suggested to try and learn to control his pain using meditation techniques and discipline taught in martial arts.
What followed was years of training in many forms that taught him to harness his feelings as well as compensate for his small size. He quickly rose through the ranks of Aikido when his sense of sight and hearing where developing. He later mastered Judo and is moving through the ranks of Tai Chi.
And my train of thought is drifting more toward wanting my character to be of neutral faction... chaotic good behavior etc etc.
I'm still going to be working on this.
If anyone wants to help me make my talent sheet, I'll love you long time.
You can get to it when you get to it.
Exactly one decade later, I had dreams of a different sort. They were again of Valor, but what made these dreams unique was not the content but the length. I dreamt continuously in real time of things to come surrounding the Anathema's assault on the Earth and Valor's rise to power. Three weeks, a month, two months at a time, my dreams were the waking hours of these events yet to come. And yet they were not all consistant. I saw men die that suddenly the next night were alive again only to die some weeks later, and return again after a month had passed. For a week, events unfolded in realtime, then it seemed somehow had rewound themselves to a previous time and continued forward. Occassionally I saw the same events happen from different perspectives: occassionally, I saw them unfold differently.
When people think of time, they usually think of it in terms of a straight line. Based on my own studies and experiences with the "timeline", I tell you that time only appears as a line if you look backwards from the present. "Time" as it unfolds for us is merely on side of a many sided figure. Time is much more like an unfolding nuclear reaction than any straight, unwavering line from past to future. Things that might be are a probability, much like trying to ascertain the location of an electron. And as Hawking postulated, I suspect that everything that can happen does happen. I have seen Walter Standish win his election through fair and honest means. I have seen him murder congress with an assemblage of super powered militia. I have seen him organize a new Confederate organization of States to oppose Washington. I have seen him succeed and fail many, many times--most especially during that seventeenth year. When I was seventeen, I had no other dreams other than those about Walter Standish. At the time, I was confused why my ability had chosen to show me just this man: Valor was not yet a public crusader, and even when he became one, he did not appear to be the sort of man who would later become Ultimatum: and I had very few visions regarding the aftermath of the Anathema invasion. I was as unprepared as anyone for the establishment of the SUN. I suppose you could call that destiny, or some sort of ridiculous irony; the man who dreams the future caught unawares by one of the most singularly important events in human history.
I don't know why it was only during my seventeenth year. The day I turned eighteen, my ability reverted to its original wont of coming and going as it pleased and showing me events that were usually more personal in nature. When the Anathema arrived, I cheered with the rest of humanity as Valor and his peers defended civilization. After the Second Great Depression, seeing America fighting for its survival again roused many a citizen to have pride in his nation once more. It was that national pride, I think, that assuaged or out right blinded many into supporting Ultimatum when he returned victorious.
Pride of any sort is a dangerous thing; Greek tragedy is practically built on the concept of hubris, and I would imagine most learned men would say that hubris is by far the most dangerous vice.
I for my part fear national pride far more than any single personal character flaw. I have seen the future and the past. I have seen wars that have never been and died in the trenches along side men or worth and cowardice. Nothing has ever terrified me more than listening to a voice amplified a hundred times it's natural size and hearing the roar of a crowd answer back.
It is that roar upon which SUN has been built. And that is why it must be dismantled.
--Edward Brode, "The Witching Hour" -24th May, 2019
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Now to Pirates 3!
the arm really isn't even close to my main feature.
It was added on since i lost my other arm
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
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You can consider me an ally
Also, all the talk of costumes and stuff makes me realize that Golem doesn't really have one. I mean, I feel like I'm missing out on something. D:
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Name: Vinko Turnin
Level 6 Sigma Ops Hero (30 points)
Age: 35
Height 1.8 M
Weight: 80 K
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Country of Origin: Kosovo
Ethnicity: Kosovar-Albanian/English
Code Name: Volje (Will)
Bio:
Has the power to form a solid darkness using willpower. Trained as a guerilla solider during the civil war/ethnic cleansing that took place in Kosovo during the 90s. Is now a low-mid ranking Sigma Recon Operative. One surviving parent. Limits to power seem to fluctuate based on mood and emotion, varying from eratic when unnerved to stable to unmeasurable when pissed. Moderate knowledge in self defense, firearms, and survival.
Powers:
Core attribute - Umbrakinesis (Points 14)
Type: Major
Rank: 7
Feats (14)
Shadow Shield (Defense)
Shadow Armor (Defense)
Shadow Blade (Offense)
Extended Shadow Blade (Alteration)
Multiple Shadow Blade (Alteration)
Flawless Shadow (Alteration) Shadows that cannot be penetrated by light
Create Shadow (General)
Silent Shadows (Alteration) Shadows that muffle sound
Dexterous Shadows (Alteration)
Shadow Image (Alteration) Creates an "illusory" image of himself using shadows # by rank/2
Shadow Partner (Alteration) Creates a physical shadow "demon" strength by rank/2
Shadow Ventriloquism (Sensory) Throw voice to other shadows
Shadow Hearing (Sensory) Hear from shadows
Lightless Sight (Sensory) Able to see in complete darkness
Traits:
Lifetime Soldeir (12 points)
Type: Major
Rank 5
Modifier: Major Increased Versatility(+2)
Feats (12)
Hand-to-hand unarmed (Combat)
Hand-to-hand Melee (Combat)
Pistol use (Offense)
Rifle use (Offense)
Explosives (Offense)
Survival Urban Terrain (General)
Basic First-Aid (General)
Physical Endurance (Alteration
Physical Fitness (Alteration)
Mental Fortitude (Alteration)
Hightened Senses (Sensory)
Tracking (Sensory)
Secondary Language (1 point)
Type: Minor
Rank 1
Feats (1)
English (General)
Guerrilla Soldier (1 points)
Type: Minor
Modifier: Minor Decreased Versatility (-1)
Rank 2
Feats (1)
Survival Mountainous Terrain (General)
Sigma Operative (5 Points) He's low ranking with no real desire to climb the "corporate ladder". Just high enough to be given some autonomy
Type: Major
Rank 3
Modifier: Minor Decreased Versatility (-1)
Feats (5)
Sigma Income (Financial)
Sigma Intelligence-minor (General)
Sigma Transportation (Movement)
Sigma Weaponry (Offense)
Sigma Facilities (General)
Flaws:
Racially Biased (-1 point)
Type: Minor
Rank 1
Feats (1)
Intollerant of Serbians (Alteration)
Idealist (-2 points)
Type: Minor
Rank 2
Feats (1)
Unwilling to hurt the innocent (General)
Challenges
Women and Children First
Type: Major
Rank 3
Feats 3
Willing go out of his way to save women and children in spite of the mission.
Unable to forgive those that would harm women and children.
Will not kill women or children but will defend himself in non-lethal ways.
Intollerant of Red Tape
Type: Minor
Rank2
Feats 1
Kissing ass is for the desk jockeys
Updated Bio (FYI it's looong):
This need to stand up for what she believed in resulted in her death in ’96. Vinko never got all of the details from his father, but it is believed she expressed her opinion too loudly in front of the wrong Serbian and was shot to death. Vinko’s father sank into a depressive funk of drinking and self doubt eventually costing him his job and what little savings his family had. Vinko’s world had shattered and his remaining family had effectively abandoned him to do as he pleased. In a country at odds with it self and looking for someone to believe in Vinko did what most children his age did. He joined a gang. Now bear in mind that gangs of this sort are more like teenage guerilla fighters than bangers. There is the occasional drug/ prostitution activity but it is mostly gun running and counterattacks against Serbian “Death Squadsâ€.
Not necessarily the best environment for an 12 year old boy but he felt needed and he was actually very good at reconnaissance. Not once had he ever been seen or even heard during any “missionsâ€, nor had any one who had ever been tasked to go with him. Eventually some of those higher in the organization began to get wind of this kid who could sneak in any where and never get caught or even seen. This was someone who could get things done. He started to get more dangerous assignments ones that made him have to get closer to the target so that he could actually hear what was going on. Due to the increased danger of these missions Vinko was assigned a mentor to train him in close quarters recon, self-defense, and firearms. For the next 11 months Vinko was under the tutelage of Dina Mashijevic, a Russian Agent on loan to the people over seeing Vinko’s group. Under her watchful eye, seeing as how she only had one, he learned how to defend himself, fire a weapon with accuracy, and utilize his surroundings. During their time together, Vinko began to treat her as a surrogate (all be it bad-ass) mother. She even seemed to regard him as though he were her own son after a fashion. She taught him everything that a recon scout would ever need to know. After numerous missions and many months of successful information gathering and training it was time for Agent Mashijevic to move on. Vinko was 14 at the time and was sad to see his new “mother†leave but always felt that it was not necessarily "good bye" and Vinko had much more work to do if he was going to become the best “soldier†he could be. This next period of his life was not only enlightening but difficult for Vinko. He finally found out why he had always been so successful at never being seen.
During one solo mission to infiltrate a small encampment and determine their plans and numbers, Vinko found that he had a gift. While doing his usual thing of strolling through the shadows (having gotten over confident in his abilities of stealth) he happened to pass by a small building that was seemingly unoccupied but there were sounds of whimpering and sobbing coming from within. Wondering what sort of sissy Serbian might be inside crying to himself Vinko peered in through one of the many openings in the bombed out building. What he saw inside turned his stomach and set his blood boiling. Inside was woman huddled on the floor bruised, beaten, and bloodied. Her clothes had been torn from her and had obviously been abused in numerous ways. What happened next is not exactly certain as the only account is from the only survivor and if Vinko knows what happened he has never told any one. Oddly enough the only account is the one given by the beaten woman who turned up in a medical station a town over. “I thought it was the reaper coming for me at first. I couldn’t see him but I knew someone was there when I thought I heard a ghasp. At first I thought it was another soldier,†she spat out. “It was actually my guardian angel come to save me. There was this odd gathering of darkness near one of the holes in the building at which point I realized that it was indeed the reaper coming to take me to heaven. That is until it began moving out toward the soldier’s campfire. It looked like a mass of shadow writhing and forming odd shapes and angles all on its own. By the time the drunken soldiers saw what was coming it was too late for them to even run, not that you can run from an angel. The angel began to take a more solid shape despite being right next to the camp fire itself. The last thing I remember before waking up was the image of the dark angel lashing out with a piece of himself and seeing one of the soldiers crumple to the ground with his body slashed as though he had been cut down by the angel’s holy sword.â€
Despite the technical failure of Vinko’s mission his higher ups were wondering what had happened that could have possibly wiped out an entire squad of soldiers in one night in such a messy fashion. Either there was another player in the mix or 15 year old Vinko was a super. When Vinko had returned to report back what happened almost a week later. Those in charge had the information they needed. Vinko spent the next year either obtaining information or bloodying his hands further under the code name of Volje (the Serbian word for will). There were few who were better at striking fear into the enemy once word spread that there was a boogeyman working for the Kosovo peoples. Then there came the invasion.
What a fun movie.
That looks alright except for English(Communication)
No such thing. Make it a (General) if its to be USED or an (Alteration) if your knowledge of english somehow BOOSTs or COUNTERs something.
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