Omega Man

Justice League Unlimited - The only way is JUSTICE

Always love one of your rps if you'll have me. I don't play cannon characters often but playing a broken-back batman who's struggling to deal with the fact he can't directly save Gotham. Maybe playing Aquaman who's tired of being cramped up as a political figure too, wishing he could just go beat up Starro, etc.

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Most of the big guns are written out to make way for all of the newer heroes. Only the Flash and Wonder Woman are left from the founding group!

Justice League Unlimited - The only way is JUSTICE

_{”The only way is justice.” – Bruce Wayne}

The Justice League had been crippled. In the last several weeks the team had been wrecked between protecting their homes as well as the rest of the world. Batman was suffering back injuries after a battle with some organized Venom junkies in Gotham. Superman as well as several members of the expanded Justice League were killed or injured in the battle for Metropolis against the forces of Apokolips and Kalibak. While Aquaman was dealing with an uprising in Atlantis, the Green Lanterns (Hal & John) dealt with Durlan space pirates on the edge of the galaxy. The Flash and Wonder Woman were the only big guns left.

At the request of Batman, Mister Terrific was tasked with the Unlimited Protocol. After learning of the existence of an organized society of super villains, it was the only thing Batman knew to do if the League was ever taken down to three or less active founding members. Legacy heroes as well as elder statesman types tied to the Justice Society, former Titans, Outsiders, members of the Justice League International, time lost heroes from the Legion of Superheroes, as well as completely new heroes were all accepted into the Justice League Unlimited to form the largest group of superheroes ever known. The Martian Manhunter came out of semi-retirement to help with the recruiting and used the neural network to contact anyone the League had dealt with in the past as well as young metahumans looking to become new heroes. Even telepaths in the comics needed giant computer rooms for such a task, but the Martian was more powerful than anyone realized. Terrific had managed to get several dozen heroes in the loop, the Martian contacted nearly a hundred.

With the help of the Flash (Wally West), Terrific set up several teleporters around the United States as well as several spots associated with other teams of heroes. Just outside of Metropolis and Gotham, Titans T Tower, the Justice Society Brownstone, the Justice League International HQ in Europe, as well as other locations seemingly more random all had teleporters built to get heroes to the orbital HQ… the Watchtower. There were also around three dozen civilians stationed on the satellite to assist the League with maintaining the base that operated in shifts, some of them even lived on the satellite.

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And there’s the new set-up. The Justice League is down and out. Recruiting has hit a fever pitch. My most well received RP series to date has been the JLU stuff, so I figured if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Based on the JLU cartoon series [to an extent] this RP will follow an expanded Justice League roster like nothing before it. These team rosters are always unique and I hope to see a few interesting takes on existing heroes as well as a few originals. This RP takes bits and pieces from the various DC comics related media, including the previously mentioned animated series as well as the many eras of comics, and animated films. The old JLU included most of the different collections of heroes I’d already mentioned with members from the Seven Soldiers, Freedom Fighters, JSA, etc. all joining this unlimited League. For story purposes several of the big guns have been written off the table, and just so everyone is on the same page the expanded JL that fought the forces of Apokolips mentioned in the RP synopsis looked something like this….

Superman – Thought to be dead, actually in a coma
Batman – Broken back
Wonder Woman – Active
The Flash – Active
Green Lantern [John] – Traveling in deep space
Aquaman – Dealing with Atlantian politics
Blue Beetle [Dan] – Deceased
Zatara – Retiring
Red Tornado – Currently being rebuilt
Lady Luck – Deceased; her luck ran out

I hope to get between 8-10 players for this, with players also having the option of a background Leaguer to use sparingly in their posts or for me to use as cannon fodder when new threats emerge. The Flash, Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific, and the Martian Manhunter will be NPC’s and mentors to the rest of the group. CS requirements will be pretty standard with a bit towards the end for ‘Potential Storylines’. If I go with an episodic type of format like I did in the past JLU games I want to do a few episodes centered more on individual members. So if you’re assuming the Beetle or Zatara legacies, have an arch enemy who may come after you, ties to shady shadow organizations, make sure if you want it in the RP for the rest of us to deal with its mentioned!

If there’s enough interest I’ll post the CS requirements as early as tonight. Who’s game?

Titans of Gotham

An encrypted message was sent to Zen en route to the nearest hospital. It was Oracle. Even in the twilight of her career she was a mastermind behind a computer.

“Take Bolt back to HQ. Surgeon is waiting. Transport for the others as well as PK-01 en route.”

Barbara Gordon had friends in the right places when stuff hit the fan. She wouldn’t have tried this Titans of Gotham experiment without having contingency plans for contingency plans. The former Doctor Mid-Night of the Justice Society was a blind surgeon named Pieter Cross. If you needed to know anybody in the superhero circles, it was this guy. Even in his 70’s he uses old League teleporter tech to travel to a dozen or so heroes a week in need across the globe. When Zen and Bolt got back to base, the man went to work.

Several blocks away Captain Renee Montoya was also aiding Gordon. She drove an old police transport vehicle rather than one of the newer flying models. This was for transporting the team back to base. A second flying unit wasn’t far behind her for what was left of Peacekeeper. He had multiple concussions, missing teeth, a broken nose… thank God that his arm and leg were made of lightweight materials. After he was released from Wireframe’s grasp he tried to say something. It was a mess of words what with the missing teeth, busted lips and gums, and the swelling of his face and head. It almost sounded like he was trying to say “I’ll get you...”

Later…

While the transport vehicle was old, it was also durable. Thankfully it was built for the weight of over a dozen criminals; otherwise Monolith would have been a bigger issue. Montoya had asked about what happened and had a separate EMS crew there for Shade Walker. As they arrived at their destination, a hidden exit tunnel another block away from the bunker under a nearby bridge, the police captain gave the young heroes some advice.

“Maybe with some training… you kids won’t almost kill somebody next time. Good luck.” she said with a smirk as they opened the tunnel hatch and descended down.

When they arrived back at the bunker Cross was finishing up with Bolt. He was sedated, but he was going to live. No major organs were hit. That’s when a green figure stepped out of the kitchen area towards the heroes. It was an older Beast Boy from the Titans’ past. Nowadays, he goes by Animal Man.

“Oracle told you to stay put because you needed real training. I’m getting too old to keep mentoring Titans… I should be in the JLU by now!” Animal Man/Gar said with some years behind him now.

Titans of Gotham

“Who are you, any one of you, without your super friends?” PK01 asked as he pumped the gun for a final shot.

That’s when the mines at the far entrance as well as every other trap were set off. They sent the tank in first. That wasn’t a dumb move, but Peacekeeper came prepared. The young tough hero came at him with everything he had in one blow after busting through a wall and screaming PK-01’s name. PK-01 pulled his blade, enchanted by the evil sorceress Tala, who was a member of some supervillain team led by Gorilla Grodd.

“I killed Poison Ivy to get this blade enchanted.” he taunted as he dodged the young hero’s attack and slashed him multiple times across the arm and back. Monolith continued to attack despite being outclassed in hand to hand. The two were probably several dozen feet away from the injured Bolt when the other Titans began moving on the robotic super soldier.

The robotic hero Zen had taken to the air and began to blast at the legs of the adversary. One of the blasts caught meat, or rather the robotic limb that was Peacekeeper-01’s right leg. Now at more of a disadvantage he could see some mist powered metahuman exiting the vents, and a young girl that looked like she had an extension cord wrapped around her hands. PK-01 only took his eyes off of Monolith for a few seconds after taking the critical shot to his leg.

The slashes across Monolith’s arms hurt. More than he realized they would. Tank shells could do little more than leave his skin sore, and PK-01’s sword cut bloody gashes through it. This was a type of pain Monolith hadn’t experienced in a long time, and it just drove his adrenaline further. He was seeing red, and it was more than just the red running down his arm.

He screamed bloody murder, and lunges for PK-01. Monolith clenched his grip around the bastard’s wrist. He pulled, hard and snapped the cybernetic arm off like a dead twig.

The magic sword clattered to the ground. As though the arm were just a metal club, Monolith whirled it over his head and brought it down on PK-01’s armored head over, and over again. He was fully intent on beating the man to death.

Titans of Gotham

After Bolt went back to the rest of the group, everyone spoke their mind. Monolith was like the big brother everyone didn’t know they needed. Tia had let go of JD a few minutes ago, however when Zen began disclosing the information he’d gathered Bolt was out like he was Batman. One minute he was there, and then he wasn’t. He was familiar enough with Old Gotham he knew the quickest way to the Gotham Airship Station, less than a ten minute flight at his top speed from the midtown bunker HQ of the Titans.

“That bastard is gonna pay for what he did to Gemini…” he thought speeding through the skies above normal traffic.

Bolt was almost in sight of the Airship Station and began absorbing all of the electricity in the area causing a blackout for several blocks. Not only did he damage the power grid, it was getting dark out and the Station was in a very poorly lit area of Old Gotham. It was barely even in city limits. It didn’t matter that the Station had its own backup generator; Bolt fried everything as soon as he got to the building.

Peacekeeper 01 was using the toilet when the lights went out. Bolt hovered through the hangar around the flattened GCPD blimp and was almost glowing with electricity. He didn’t trip the mines hidden under the floor on the way in. PK01 snuck through his living space and grabbed his enchanted blade as well as a pump action assault blaster. He’d make too much noise if he finished getting dressed, so he grabbed his face mask and went outside into the open hangar bare chested wielding the blaster. His robotic arm and leg gave him the advantage over most adversaries. Bolt damned himself the minute he hampered his own vision. He wondered if the armored nutjob was even at home.

“I’ve been watching your team, you know?” PK01 stated before blasting Bolt three times in the chest and taking the teen down. He walked towards the teen and continued to taunt him. “At least your friend was decent at hand to hand and tried a sneak attack with his dupe…”

He stood over the wounded teen on the ground, who tried to use his power to grab the manhole cover he flew in on for one last attack. Peacekeeper 01 side-stepped away and it missed him completely.

“Who are you, any one of you, without your super friends?” PK01 asked as he pumped the blaster for a killshot.

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Back at the Bunker...

Zen’s words had given her a confidence that she had never known. These were all Tiara’s friends, something else she had never really known. And now one of them had ran off to avenge someone that he thought of as a brother. Could they be a family? Tia absorbed all of the shadows from the room, and her eyes changed from red to solid black. The room changed, it went dark… and cold. An instant later the group was outside of the condemned Blimp Station. The sun was setting, and they were in the large shadow of the hangar.

Only half of them were even prepared for a fight. What were they supposed to do? The rollercoaster of emotions and thoughts would begin to overtake the sixteen year old metahuman, not to mention the sudden power upgrade. And then three gunshots rang out. Her darkened eyes grew big, and she tried to let out a scream but there was nothing. Tia fell into the arms of Zen, her heart was still beating… but her body was pushed too hard.

The rest of the team went into action.

Titans of Gotham

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Power Punch Boys or the Ultra Bash Bros?! [arcade style action adventure]

Let's see if changing the title does this any favors. LOL

Titans of Gotham

Four weeks ago….

JD was playing with a stolen smart phone one of the Robins had acquired. They fought the Jokerz on the regular but that didn’t mean that they didn’t have to steal something once in a while. He’d had it for a couple days. Somebody had dropped it after a gang war or something, and the police gave it back to him after they released everyone from custody. He was playing with the camera on the roof of a building in Old Gotham when a strange 3D animated head appeared on the screen. He thought it was some kind of filter, but he couldn’t get it off the screen.

“My name is Oracle. I used to be a friend of the Batman..” the head spoke to JD and he dropped the phone momentarily.

“Is this some sort of joke, did I click on something?” JD asked out loud picking up the phone.

“I know about your metahuman power. I’m putting a team together to take back Gotham from the likes of Bane and the Jokerz, and anything else in between.” Oracle explained. “I can give you a permanent place to live, food, purpose.”

“You have to take my friend too. He’s got a power too, he…” JD began before Oracle stopped him.

“If you’re talking about the kid who can become two people it’s not really what I’m looking for. He’s too much of a hot-head…” Oracle stated.

“He’s survived living in the streets for years. I’ve only been on them for a few months. He’s the best hand to hand fighter I’ve ever seen, even on tv...” JD continued to press this Oracle person.

“He’s too much of a risk.” Oracle said sternly.

“You’re asking me a favor to join this team, I’m asking for one in return. It’s either both of us or nobody. And you can keep this hacked phone…” JD said as he tossed it below towards a dumpster. As he made his way down the fire escape, a small drone flew down next to him.

“You and your friend meet another drone of mine at this location…” the drone said with the same voice as Oracle on the smartphone. The drone handed a folded piece of paper with an address on it to the young man. “Come at midnight, and don’t tell anyone.”

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Five minutes ago Oracle came over the comms and said the police found Gemini’s body. People were crying, only a couple of them had even met Gemini as the team hadn’t been fully formed. JD put his hood on and passed Ghost in the hallway towards the personal living quarters of the heroes. Basically it was ten small one room apartments within the bunker.

“Bro… if they don’t get eight more people for this team I’m giving a dupe a room of his own and seeing how long he can stick around.” Gemini said, as Bolt thought back on their first reactions to the bunker.

The young hero didn’t make it into his personal quarters. The door slid up. And then it slid down after a few moments. It did this for around a minute or so before Bolt lost his cool and punched the door as hard as he could. He waved his hand and the manhole cover he’d recently acquired smashed through the part of the door that could no longer slide into the automated door device on its way out of his room. He stepped onto it and gritted his teeth. JD rolled up the sleeves on his super suit and hovered back towards the lounge area.

“I don’t care what the Wizard of Oz says. Gemini was my brother. I’m going after this armored nutjob. Who’s coming with me?” Bolt asked the group.

Power Punch Boys or the Ultra Bash Bros?! [arcade style action adventure]

I'm thinking about taking out the alien bits and making it more supernatural with vampires. I thought for sure somebody would be game after seeing how super serious we are with Kevin Bacon as our town mayor. Maybe you guys aren't ready for Footloose Fridays...

Power Punch Boys or the Ultra Bash Bros?! [arcade style action adventure]

In Retro City everything was just that, retro. It was like stepping back into the 80’s, this major metropolitan area was tucked away on the Eastern side of the ’States in some mountains. The 80’s wasn’t just a decade; it was a state of mind for this entire city. Limited technology, fashion, cars, video games… it was like traveling back in time. Basically a few millionaires and one billionaire decided to give all these people (around two million or so residents) clamoring for the old days a place to go. For some it was heaven, for those born outside of the city that moved in later on it was a challenge. It wasn’t the first of its kind, a city with a theme. There were others popping up everywhere; Neon City in Japan, New Cheyenne down in Texas, among several others.

GI Joe, Thundercats, He-Man, Voltron, and Jem and the Holograms, as well as Transformers were all still on television. David Bowie, Billy Idol, Madonna, Guns N’ Roses, and synthwave flooded the radio stations. Anything ‘new’ had to fit into the aesthetic. ‘New’ only made up 25-30% of the city itself. Industrial Park actually had manufacturing plants making 80’s themed merchandise for around the world to stay on brand. Slasher films and arcades had most teenagers’ attention. Nintendo embraced the culture and invested into continuing classics like Super Mario Bros and Megaman on the regular Nintendo. D&D was HUGE and Stranger Things was one of the only newer shows on tv in a licensing deal with Netflix. Kevin Bacon was just elected mayor like three months ago after Schwarzenegger stepped down due to a health scare.

On the eastern side of the city was a junkyard where a few teenagers discovered what appeared to be experimental weapons from outside of the city limits. Nothing that high tech was allowed in the city, but how did it get there? The boys discovered the mechanical gauntlets possessed different abilities and decided to use them to get back at members of a local biker gang that had tormented one of them in recent weeks. The boys kept the gauntlets secret and only trained with them at the junkyard. Months later after a newer younger biker gang of pale teenagers came to town, several vampire like creatures were seen abducting people in the woods and mountains surrounding Retro City. With no help from the outside world the boys knew what they had to do. With limited technology it wasn’t hard to keep their identities protected, not all of them even bothered to wear masks or face-paint.

One of the boys’ uncles was the owner of Winston’s Junkyard. Carl Winston was in his 60’s, ex-military, and had a replica of the A-Team van from the tv series the boys were allowed to get around in when not in the city running across rooftops. He was friends with the chief of police and listened to police radio in his garage. Carl taught the boys what he could about how to fight, how to shift their weight and make up for the large metal fists they wielded, and how to be respectful. After a wandering serial killer dubbed the Sandman came to town recently, the veteran almost lost his life if not for his military training. With limited resources the police department still hasn’t caught the man who targets victims in their sleep or figured out if he’s even still in the city.

Biker gangs, vampiric monsters, late night slashers, and 16-bit video games like Super Mario Bros. 6: Koopa’s Revenge… it’s gonna be one hell of a summer in Retro City.

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So I tried doing a new spin on Power Rangers. That led into reimagining the Double Dragon concept in another RP. Now after making two games based on existing franchises I think it’s time I just split the difference and make my own. This is a strange concept, and I’m not even sure how exactly it’s going to play out story-wise. The different influences include old fighting games, the 80’s, a dash of Power Rangers, a dash of Powerpuff Girls, and a hint of anime. The CS requirements are gonna be something a bit different than the norm for most of my RPs, and smaller plot points may change after an OOC/IC are nearer to completion. I’m not completely invested in the monsters from space, so that may change. Maybe something supernatural would work better.

I’m only looking for a few players for this RP, myself and three others for the main cast. Originally the boys and the RP were to be called the Power Punch Boys, and then I thought of the Ultra Bash Bros… in game we’ll have to decide on something to call ourselves. I’ll likely go with Retro City for the title of the RP, or something similar. I only mention all of that because in the event there was to be a player wishing to use the girl archetype in the game her alias would HAVE to be Power Punch Girl.

So… if there’s enough interest I’ll post the CS requirements. If you like anything from the 80’s, teen heart throbs, arcade games, or Saturday morning cartoons… this should be your jam.