[OOC] Independent Comics Universe RPG

[HenryJonesJr]

I just want to say everyone's doing a great job so far. Deathstroke, I'll get back to your PM later tonight.

Also, I'm working on my fourth CS...

[Sloth]

HenryJonesJr said I'm working on my fourth CS...

Here's hoping for a literal "G.I. Joe vs The Transformers"

[DeathstrokeSW]

Henry, I never got a response and It's fine, I didn't expect a response anytime soon. Secondly, If we can do transformers, I SO Call Megatron

[Taka]

He-Man. He was in his own comics before DC and Marvel took a swing at him. He-Man applies to the rules. I'm making He-Man.

[Gowi]

Next bundle of posts are on the drawing board.

[HenryJonesJr]

Kal-El said
He-Man. He was in his own comics before DC and Marvel took a swing at him. He-Man applies to the rules. I'm making He-Man.

Isn't He-Man set in a parallel universe?

[Gowi]

HenryJonesJr said
Isn't He-Man set in a parallel universe?

And Sonic is set on a future Earth in archie comics; depends how he crafts the re-imagined stuff.

[Sloth]

Kal-El said
He-Man. He was in his own comics before DC and Marvel took a swing at him. He-Man applies to the rules. I'm making He-Man.

[HenryJonesJr]

Posts and my fourth CS will be up tomorrow.

[Byrd Man]

Independent Comics Universe RPG Character Sheet

Player Name: Byrd Man

Character: Tracy Lawless (From Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Icon series Criminal

Power and Abilities: No powers, but Tracy is a former Army special forces operator and has all the skills and abilities that come with that job. In addition, Tracy is extremely street smart and is an expert criminal.

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Character Notes [Established Rogues, NPCs, etc]:

Sebastian Hyde: Tracy's boss and boss of Center City

Jake "Gnarly" Brown: A former boxer who now runs the Undertown bar. A former friend of Hyde's, Gnarly's bar is a meeting place for the criminals of Center City

Leo Patterson: A criminal prodigy and Tracy's boyhood friend. Leo is currently serving life in prison for six counts of murder.

Background and Story So Far:

Tracy Lawless' early life was rough. He and his brother Ricky were constantly abused by their drunken criminal father, Teeg Lawless. Teeg acted as chief enforcer for Sebastian Hyde, the kingpin of Center City. While Tracy took the abuse and quietly hated his father, Rick loved and admired Teeg to the point that it made Tracy sick and made him hate his little brother. Tracy and Rick were arrested for auto theft when Tracy was 18 and Rick was 15. Rick went to Juvie while Tracy got the choice to go to prison or join the army. Tracy took the army as his chance to escape Center City and his father.

Lawless excelled in the army, so much so that he became a candidate for special forces training. His covert work in Bosnia led to the slaughter of an entire village in Bosnia. In Iraq, Tracy was arrested after killing four US Army officers for their mistreatment of an Iraqi family. The army hushed up the crime and deemed Lawless too valuable to send to jail or kick out of the service. After a year in a military prison, Tracy was released to continue working for special forces. Shortly after he found out his brother Rick had been killed back home. Tracy escaped from the military base and went AWOL back home to Center City.

Once home, Tracy infiltrated Rick's crew and began to figure out who killed his brother while helping the crew on the score. Tracy stole cash from a Sebastian Hyde courier upon his arrival back home. Hyde's people watched from afar as Tracy killed Rick's old crew in revenge. After discovering the true nature of his brother's murder and the pointlessness of revenge, Hyde's people confronted Tracy and brought him to the man himself. There Hyde made him an offer: Tracy would work for him as an enforcer or Hyde would kill the few people left in the world Tracy cared about. With no other option, Tracy accepted and the role of the father became that of the son.

Sample Post (At least 3 well thought out paragraphs as well as some dialogue):

Tracy sat stock-still in the front seat of the car. He left the Charger at home for a generic looking sedan he saw on a side street downtown. Three seconds to get into the car with his slim jim, and another thirty to jam the screwdriver into the ignition just the right way to start the car. The Charger was the best getaway car out there in Tracy's opinion, but out here in the 'burbs he needed something that didn't stand out in the land of minivans and SUVs.

Three in the morning and there was only one house that still had more than one light on. It was the same house Tracy had been watching for eighteen hours now. Two days ago he followed a guy from the projects all the way here. The same guy had been pointed out to Tracy by one of Leroy's many lookouts he had in that part of town. The kid said the guy had been strutting around the past few weeks, flashing a lot of cash. He wasn't affiliated with any of Leroy's stash crews of dealers, which was bad news. Nobody in that part of town had that kind of money without slinging, robbing, or getting some kind of settlement check.

A stick-up crew had been roaming around the projects for a month now, ripping off Leroy's stashes and dealers for cash and dope. The stick-up crew had made the worst mistake they would ever make in their lives because Leroy worked for Hyde, and when someone stole from Hyde he sent Tracy to make sure they could never steal anything again. Tracy found the man they were selling the drugs to, an independent slinger by the name of Marcus. Tracy broke both his hands as a warning to buy only from Leroy from now on. It was through the Leroy's lookouts and the fence that Tracy was able to work it back to this house. Almost an entire day watching the house and he saw three men coming and going. Eyewitnesses had said it was a three man crew robbing Leroy's people. That was all Tracy needed.

Twenty minutes later and the lights went out in the house. Tracy waited another two hours after that. If there was one thing the Army taught him, it was how to wait. He once waited in a wadi in Iraq for two straight days, looking through a rifle scope and waiting for some ISIL motherfucker to sit down and take a shit before he could pop him in the back of the head from a half mile away. Waiting in this car, pissing in a coffee thermos, and watching these morons who were too fucked up on dope to spot a stake out was too easy.

He pulled his piece out of the glove compartment box and checked it out of habit. Five in the morning on a Sunday, nobody on the block would be up and he would have cover of darkness for another forty minutes or so. Tracy slowly got out the car and tucked the gun into his waistband as he walked down the street towards the house.

Tracy

[HenryJonesJr]

Approved

Finishing up a Cobra post as well as my other CS.

[DeathstrokeSW]

Hey henry, mind responding to that Cobra Commander/Storm Shadow questions/answers PM I sent?

[Sloth]

HenryJonesJr said
Finishing up a Cobra post.

Lies! Clearly you love Buffy more than the almighty Cobra.

[DeathstrokeSW]

At least Storm Shadow attends CC's rallies. They may be seven hours long, but still.

[Sloth]

Clearly this isn't finished and won't be for some time, but I just hoped putting it here will motivate Kal not to be a lazy bastard who never actually makes sheets.


Player Name: Sloth

Character: Lion-O, Lord of the Thundercats, Prince of Thundera, King of Cat-Kind.

Power and Abilities:

Equipment:

The Eye of Thundera

Sword of Omens

Claw Shield

Alignment: Lawful Good

Character Notes:
The Thundercats

Jaga the Wise

Panthro

Cheetara

Tygra

WilyKit and WilyKat

Osbert the Snarf

The Forces of Mumm-Ra

Mumm-Ra

Slithe

Addicus the Monkian

Other Adversaries

Grune the Destroyer

History:

Sample:

[Gowi]

Gowi said
Next bundle of posts are on the drawing board.

Expect some fruit from this soon.

[HenryJonesJr]

DeathstrokeSW said
Hey henry, mind responding to that Cobra Commander/Storm Shadow questions/answers PM I sent?

Yea. I'm on travel for work tonight and tomorrow so I have time with nothing to do. I'll definitely get that to you tomorrow.

[Enarr]

[Independent _Comics Universe_RPG_Character_Sheet]

Player Name:

Nightrunner

Character:

Cole Macgrath

Power and Abilities:
General Physique

Agility - Practiced and far above average, regardless of absorption
Endurance - Superhuman, enhanced by absorption
Healing - Superhuman, electric absorption causes his cells to reproduce extremely fast
Strength - Slightly superhuman, enhanced by absorption

Electrokinesis

Lightning Bolts - Cole can send blasts of electricity that lurch off of his fingertips and surging down his forearms. He has a certain degree of control over their voltage, wattage, and amperes. They are about 18 inches long and, depending entirely upon his mood, range in color.
Arc Lightning - One continuous bolt runs off of Cole's body before jumping between selected targets and electrocuting them all in the process.
Tesla Missile - Standing at a transformer at an electric substation or another source of extremely high wattage, Cole can cause a humongous bolt of lightning to take flight before causing massive concussive and electric damage upon landing.
Electric Drain - Cole can suck the electricity out of any nearby source in order to fuel his other abilities.
Bio-Leech - Cole can willfully suck the life out of anyone he touches by absorbing the electrons from their brain and heart.
Lightning Storm - On occasion, Cole can summon bolts of lightning to come down from the sky. He can usually only maintain this for about five seconds or so, gathering a total of about twelve strikes before feeling entirely exhausted, but it is much easier during a storm and can enable him to not only summon them more easily, but more often as well.
Radar Pulse - By sending out a low level wave of static electricity, Cole can detect any notable source of energy with great ease.

Electromagnetism

Shockwave - By forcefully waving his arm, Cole can send a wave of electromagnetic force that can toss and raise nearby objects, including heavy metals or stationary items. With concentration, he can also cause items to hover above the ground before carrying them, launching them with another wave, or dropping them.
Grenades - Using a small field of magnetic energy, Cole can condense vast clusters of electrons before tossing them as a semi-solid object, and releasing them in a blast by negating the field.
Gigawatt Blades - Using the same basic technique as the grenades, Cole can wrap semi-solid 'blades' of condensed electrons around his arms and use them as swords, claws, or clubs.
Polarity Wall - Cole can erect an electromagnetic wall that repels any objects that attempt to pass through it.
Thunder Drop - When landing from great heights, Cole can release the kinetic energy as a shockwave of arcing lightning and a magnetic pulses.
Electro-Armor - A small field surrounds his skin that decelerates and slightly repels projectiles or objects that approach Cole, making it difficult to puncture his flesh with a bullet.
Grinding - To travel in urban environments, Cole can magnetize his feet to telephone or power cables before zipping across them, drug along by the energy being transferred within.
Levitation - Cole can slow his descents from great heights or he can give himself a slight boost by inverting the polarity of the air surrounding him, contrary to that of his own body.

Alignment:

Chaotic Neutral

Character Notes [Established Rogues, NPCs, etc]:

Trish Daily - Cole's girlfriend, who he lives with, with a job as a nurse.
Zeke Dunbar- Cole's best friend who is comedic and slightly dishonest, who he has known for years. He works as an electrician and is somewhat selfish, though fiercely loyal to Cole.
The First Sons - A secret society dedicated to making super-humans Earth's dominant species.
Alex Mercer - A morally calloused geneticist who works at Gentek labs, where he is developing a military bioweapon. He is cold, calculating, and largely indifferent to the well-being of others. He is reclusive and has a prominent case of paranoia.
Desmond Miles - A bartender, and heretical heir to a line of assassins, who is kidnapped by Abstergo Industries, the modern day face of The Knights Templar.
The Reapers - A savage gang of drug dealers, thugs, and criminals who have a powerful grip over much of Empire City.

Background and Story So Far:

Raised in New Marais, Louisiana by his parents, Cole Macgrath was a generally well-behaved youth, though he occasionally got into trouble with authority. Since his early youth, his best friend has been Zeke Dunbar, with whom he had learned the art of urban exploration and parkour. The pair had gotten into great mischief and occasionally had been arrested for foolish antics, though never had they actually caused another person significant harm.

Immediately upon graduating High School, Zeke and Cole left New Marais and moved to Empire City in New York, where they rented a home from an apartment complex. It was there that they'd built an entirely new life for themselves. Cole got a job as a bike courier, which allowed for flexibility in his schedule as well as requiring that he stay in excellent shape, while Zeke studied up and became an electrician. Between Cole's navigational expertise and Zeke's familiarity with the city's power lines and sewer systems, they were even more involved in urban exploration than they had been in New Marais.

In his time in Empire City, Cole has become familiar with the behavior of the citizens. The fiercest gang of the city was undoubtedly The Reapers, who Cole learned to steer clear of. It become quite obvious that there was a certain degree of corruption with the ECPD, with about as many dirty cops as honest ones. The city is divided into three districts. The Neon District, which is reminiscent of any other bustling metropolis, such as Chicago. The Neon is marked with a large tower in it's center, owned and operated by Abstergo Industries. The second district is the Historical, which is where the oldest architecture is located and is the center of the city. The third district is the Warren, which is the southernmost and most impoverished region. Cole frequently travels across all three on bike, which can be quite grueling, yet profitable because of the speed created by sidestepping the issue of traffic.

Sample Post (At least 3 well thought out paragraphs as well as some dialogue):

The Neon District, Empire City
7:22 PM

The smell of ozone filled the nostrils of everyone standing in the vicinity of Cole Macgrath, The Lightning Man. With his arms spread apart, he shuffles several arcs of lightning between his two illuminated hands. As more electricity pours into the cycle, Cole raises his flattened palms in front of his torso, finally condensing the bolts into a single charge that he readily launches forward into a steel box. Everyone shudders and cries with amazement as suddenly a dark surface glows with life, revealing the image of a newscaster that had been hidden by a power outage for days.

"Yeah, buddy! Gotta love having a battery charger as a best friend. Wooh!" Zeke throws his arms up into the sky, holding a beer in one hand and a clenched, celebratory fist in the other.

The corners of Trish's lips spread into a gentle grin, enjoying the moment before loosely hanging her left arm around Cole's chest. Letting the last of the sparks dissipate, Cole reciprocates her motion with his right arm over her shoulder. He draws her close to him with a strong, one-armed hug before easing up a bit.

"Hey, Zeke. Would ya' turn it up a bit?" Cole rasps, referring to the TV.

Zeke nods his head before digging the TV remote out of the crevice between the couch cushions and tapping the volume button. The sound of the newscaster's voice is perfectly crisp and undisturbed in the openness of the rooftop loft. After a few days ago, when the power had gone out throughout much of the city, Zeke found a rooftop that was suitably high above the riff-raff on the streets, had some utilities intact, and plenty of space to live in before everything would get back to normal. In the meantime, Cole, Trish, Zeke himself, and whoever else they brought around would hang out on the rooftop lounge, unless they were out fighting 'the good fight.'

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Just as a disclaimer, I am aware that my background has no information on the blast or Cole getting is super powers. I want to write that in the IC because, unlike many other superhero type stories, Cole's origin is one of the funnest parts and I don't want to skip it. Plus, having a blast and a quarantine is a great opportunity for cooperation, I think. Finally, the most major deviations from the canon storyline are going to be caused by other characters from other universes.

[Sloth]

While I'm sure Infamous has had a couple comic books, I'm almost entirely sure that it is, in fact, a video game.

I now demand the right to make M. Bison the former commander of Cobra's crimson guard!

What do you mean I'm being a hypocrite because I made a cartoon character? Nonsense!

[DeathstrokeSW]

First, I am SO going to call this one, but Kessler.

Yup. Alternate Cole that comes back (somehow) to our world and is directly responsible for 90% of the stuff that happens to Cole. Plus, Sasha, that lady that ran the Reapers, is his GF. I always thought she was a hot girl, putting the obvious mental insanity aside, and with my newfound hearing courtesy of my cochlear implant, I am OBSESSED with the way people sound. Before, I could hear, but I had to turn the volume up, and focus. Now- natural!

Did the Commander always sound like someone placed the vocal cords of a snake in his throat?
Kessler has one heckuva voice.
Arrow's Slade almost sound like he's whispering sometimes
Hollow Ichigo sounds like a T-Rex when he roars
The above comments are an example of my newfound obsession with the way characters and people sound.