[b]Galactus is here. Hovering over New York City in his enormous spacecraft, his herald Terrax sees over the completion of his feeding device and deals with any potential threats to the devourer. This universe will be something like the Ultimate Universe mixed in with a little cinematic Marvel U where anything goes. The only characters off limits will be the core Avengers team from the films and the Avengers Assemble cartoon including Capt. America, Ironman, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Falcon. You can recreate an X-Man, take one of the F4 for a spin, skies the limit. Depending on how far fetched the concept is, don't expect everything to be accepted. We're working off of a 2 year timeline similar to the current New52 DC Comics 5 year timeline. Basically the Avengers and heroes in general have come to the attention of media outlets and the world within the last 2 years and this is the first time Galactus has made contact with Earth. Spiderman can be young again, hell he can even be Miles Morales or somebody else entirely. Depending on what characters are accepted into the game, our enemies and goal as a group could vary but to get things going we'll just have the two big enemies and maybe some mechanical drones or something. While I'd be open to accepting new takes on Spiderman and the Punisher [1st or 2nd string heroes], I'd be much more willing to accept changes in the 3rd and 4th stringers that everybody is less familiar with. Black Panther for example could be an 18 year old foreign exchange student from Wakanda, Wolverine could be a 25 year old dishonorably discharged soldier/new student at the Xavier Institute, or Hank Pym could even be stuck in Giant Man mode and unable to shrink back down...[/b]

[hider= STAT Breakdown]
[b][i]The stats for this game will include: 

I.Q. - (how strong your characters are mentally, for example Brainiac would have a pretty high I.Q. where a rookie's would be less. Average human/alien would be 2.) 

Strength - (1-5 has -1 damage, 6-10 has -2 damage) Average human strength would be set at 2, only characters with heightened or super strength should increase higher! EDIT: However, one could view your strength as the strength of your attacks! 

Speed - (1-3 has 3 attacks per post, 4-7 has 4 attacks available, 8-10 has 5 attacks) 

Attack - (number of attacks) Each player will have melee attacks that are not included on your attack stat including basic punches and kicks and alien tail swipes or bites. Attack is for things like heat vision, throw, generic super speed attack, etc... 

Defense - (number of defense moves, each can be used twice per battle. If your defense is 2 and the battle lasts 4 posts you can use 4 defense moves. If the battle rages on for 7 posts you are still limited to only 4 defensive moves total in that case. Defense can't block a signature attack!) 

Health - (IQ+strength+speed+defense) 

*Signature moves awarded at Level 3 do double damage. The attack itself should include your powers/abilities. The only defense against a signature attack is a signature defense that can also be a move based on your powers/abilities. Signature Defense is also the only defense you can use to help another player directly in-game from an enemy attack be it a regular attack or signature attack! At the moment you can only have one or the other, Signature Attack or Signature Defense. 

Now... that's not a lot of info at all really. As far as stats go, I know once you have 6 points on strength some of you might ask "what's the point of having strength or speed any higher?" and the simple answer is writing limitations. If a character like Superman has 6 strength and a God like Zeus walks by with a strength of 8, in the context of the story Zeus would of course be viewed as stronger. Same thing applies for speed. 

Power Class - you earn a stat point/level for every 5 posts in-character. 

Level 1 - 16 points - 1-5 posts 
Level 2 - 17 points - 6-10 posts 
Level 3 - 18 points (plus signature attack or defense!) - 11-15 posts 
Level 4 - 19 points - 16-20 posts 
Level 5 - 20 points - 21-25 posts 
Level 6 - 21 points - 26-30 posts 
Level 7 - 22 points - 31-35 posts 
Level 8 - 23 points - 36-40 posts 
Level 9 - 24 points - 41-45 posts 
Level 10 - 25 points 46-50 posts 

If the game lasts long enough, and it might, we'll go beyond Level 10 and probably continue on to Level 15. Boss stats will be Level 15 to Level 20 with stats between 30-35 points making a team effort to defeat the enemy a must.[/i][/b][/hider] 

[b]Rules:[/b]

1.) No back-to-back posting. 

2.) [u]PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL, SET-UPS, AND [B]HEALTH STATS[/B]!![/u]

3.) [i]Make sense[/i]. If we can't make heads or tails of your posts they're likely to get skipped over.

4.) Get permission before using another player's character in your posts if it involves changing the scene or making actions. Everybody will take beatings in this game in battle however, so don't get pissed if you get punched or blasted into a wall by the bad guys!

5.) Problems with the game or players should be sent directly to me through PM's. I don't want a bunch of bickering in the OOC.

6.) Abandoned characters will be used as NPC's or killed off within the context of the story.

7.) “I was waiting for [insert player/character] to make a move” is not an excuse to not post. 

8.) There is no rule #8.

9.) [b]My word is law.[/b]

10.) Obey the law.

11.) In the event that I'm offline for any period of time, the deputy GM [b][u](Fearless)[/u][/b] will take control and [b][i]HIS[/i][/b] word will then be law.

---

[b]9:15 am, New York City...[/b]

It was a day unlike any other. Large chunks of rock and meteors flew through the sky, lead by a large humanoid at the head of the line of meteors. Just in front of Stark Tower, Terrax made himself known to the Avengers. Without breaking a sweat he took the best shots they had to offer. Now, after many heroes have tried and failed to bring the tyrant down, a large ship half the size of the city came down through the meteors. A large device was built around Stark Tower, seemingly to prepair the planet for the Devourer of Worlds. As Terrax hovered in place on a meteor some halfway up the tallest skyscrapers, he failed to notice several lesser known heroes trying to make a stand. The herald simply felt they were beneath him, until the mystical energies of one would be hero caught the alien off guard. Jack o' Lantern hit the scene at roughly 10:45 am after the Avengers were taken down and imprisoned on Galactus' ship by the herald. 

"To get red boots that size you HAVE to be from another world..." Jack banters as he attacks the behemoth with his mystical energy blast.

[b]Jack - 14
Terrax - 24 [Jack's attack is - 2 health points, he's in the second strength class in terms of power][/b]

The large gray humanoid wielding an axe fell from his floating meteor to the streets of NYC. Jack o' Lantern flew down on his hover disc and pressed on, charging at the herald with his hover disc aimed at the alien. The pumpkin headed hero's attack fell short when Terrax used his axe to block the hero and swat him away like a fly.

[b]Jack - 12 [Terrax is also in the 2nd strength class and his attacks are - 2]
Terrax - 24[/b]

"I am Terrax, human. You cannot win this fight. The devourer MUST feed..." the herald began to say before Jack attacked once more throwing a piece of debris with his mystic energy as it appeared other lesser known heroes were coming to the scene of the battle.

[b]Jack - 12
Terrax - 22[/b]

"We don't live on Pizza Planet, your master can go elsewhere for a bite to eat!" Jack continued to taunt blasting the herald again with his mystical energy.

[b]Jack - 12
Terrax - 20[/b]

Jack o' Lantern knew that he couldn't win this fight alone, and hoped the heroes he saw in the corner of his eye would also stand against the alien herald. It appeared Jack had got to the big man, as his eyes lit up and crackled with cosmic energy as he gripped his axe tighter in his hands. Meteor rocks began flying around aimlessly almost as if to distract the orange faced hero, when suddenly Jack was caught off guard himself with one of the meteors flying into him and knocking him back into the side of a building roughly a block away from Stark Tower and the large alien device built around it. 

[b]Jack - 10 [hit with a meteor attack, not a meteor shower!]
Terrax - 20[/b]

~KL~