RainforestGiant

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@Mistress Dizzy

Nathan saw the young woman coming she seemed uncomfortable in the woods and snow but most hoqwats did, even the ones that weren't white.

"Hey," Nate said quietly. He didn't want to attract any attention and he did not want to scare the poor lady off. To make it worse he was usually quiet when he first met anyone much less some strange lady in the woods.

"Do you know where we are going? I'm mean other than a direction. I was 'post to go to someplace where there were other people like me but unless I know I don't think I"ll even be sure when I get there."

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

American Archer - Jason Queen

| Jason Queen friends call him 'Arch' |

| 68 looks in twenties |

| Character Differences |
Jason Queen is a half Nez Perce son of Robert Queen and Jennifer Strongbow. He was working in a dimensional laboratory when a burst of cosmic radiation altered him and sent him to a parallel dimension. While there he learned to use the powers that the alteration granted him and he survived to find a way to return. Jason is an Amalgam of Jason Strongbow and Oliver Queen. Jason's life was very different from either other men. He was raised on the reservation by his mother and grandfather. His father did nothing other than provide child support.

Jason graduated at the top of his class in physics and was working on cutting edge efforts to prove string theory as well as find pocket dimensions. He succeeded rather too well. He found a place that while similar to our own had some significant differences. Jason has the ability to create his own gear but it is limited to what he could find on the other side. Sheep horn bow, primitive arrows, knife, warclub etc. He is a master archer and good at tracking and hunting. Jason has since been seeking a way to return to that pocket dimension where he has a wife and children.

He has hyper strength, agility, and senses and can empower his arrows or weapons with unknown energies. Unlike Green Arrow he uses no trick arrows. Either sharp or 'blunt' no boxing glove or handcuff arrows.
| Brief World Background |
It is an Amalgam of Marvel and DC. The world has superheroes and villains, a weird mix of aliens and geniuses and odd dimensional events. Germany lost WWII but the Bolsheviks never took over Russia. The US and Allies won Korea but wound up stuck in Southeast Asia until the eighties in various Indochina wars.

| Brief Character Background |
Robert Queen met Jennifer Strongbow at a ski resort in Idaho. She was working as a ski guide after injuring herself training for the Olympics. Their brief affair yielded a son who never really knew his father or that side of his family. Jason was a standout athlete like his mother in track and field and football and an Olympic level archer. For relaxation, his grandfather taught him to make his tools and weapons the old way, hunting, trapping and fishing as his family had for thousands of years. While working on a high energy dimensional device he was flung into a Pellucidar like inner world. Either the cross over or the world itself changed him. He was living a happy existence when Mojo kidnapped him from his new world.
personal Jason is a quiet man. Determined and stoic he has a singular focus that allows him to cope with losing his world not once but twice. He feels entirely detached from the modern world he is surprised that he can manifest the tools and clothing he wore from the pocket dimension and is wondering if he is in a nightmare as the laws of physics are not behaving the way he expects them too. He was Catholic but has not seen a priest nor even another Christian of any sort for an unknown time. He has two half grown children but that is the only way he can tell whether or not time has passed in the other realm. After adulthood, no one ages or dies of old age. Although, most die of war, accident or misadventure. It is a savage world.

Ok, new guy Amalgam Archer mix of Oliver Queen and Jason Strongbow.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

If we have too many soldiers/martial artists, we can change the focus on both characters. Creed has snapped completely and he's more like Liver-eating Johnson than anyone modern. He has returned to his savage roots and is full-on war paint mode. It's tomahawk and bowie knife time, as one writer put it, "These are the old days, the bad days, the all or nothin' days - they're back and there ain't no choices left". He's not Col. Victor Creed, he's 'Tête Jaune' Yellow Head the scary blood covered boogeyman that haunted the Lakota and settler alike.

Guardian Angel is always winged, no hiding it. His greatest powers are granted only through prayer. He's even resurrected the dead. Not in the scary pet cemetery way but like Lazarus. Most of his free time is spent in prayer.

Those are the changes on the first two. The last guy is still a bit amorphous.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

I have a couple of different character ideas regarding both submissions. Plus another I want to run by you but it's late here.

Alt-history X-MEN

Looking to see if there's any interest in another superhero game. The world is similar to the Marvel cinematic universe in broad strokes. The difference is that mutants are not hunted fugitives for just being mutants. The changes started slowly in the 19th Century with mutants finding acceptance everywhere from sideshow and carnival work to specialized work in the military, medical fields, mining, anywhere mutant powers could help or entertain.

Mutants were fully integrated by WWII and a mutant with any useful talent can write their own ticket. Only the poor sods without any useful power are sol.

The players are part of a regular sanctioned unit that deals with super powered threats, tricky terrorist or hostage situations and direct as well as clandestine actions.

Characters would be the kind of people who would fit in with Special operations forces and elite police, anti terrorism, covert ops.

Is there enough interest to start? Players would need to be patient with my skills interfacing with the rpg features. I am new to roleplayer guild but not pbp rpgs

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A barrier, not one of the physical world, but in the physical world and spiritual as well unless Nate's eyes were cheated by some deceit. Would this barrier stop him though? That was the question and seeing a way to slip between the layers of the barrier he tried it.

Success! Now to find whatever was at the end of this figurative rainbow. Nathan was utterly silent in the snow. He was brought up in the rainforest and this forest was as easy as strolling through a camas meadow by comparison. Something moved at the corner of his vision and he froze.

Black and feathered, he was certain it was something from the Outer Dark, but it was worse. Ba'Yak! The damnable Raven oh, he was disguised as just another raven, but Nate knew him, could see his true nature. Raven was a trickster and a jealous, covetous, tattletale and rumor monger. If he spotted Nathan, he would be sure to tell someone, if for no other reason than to cause problems. Raven excelled at that.

Before he was selected by Thunderbird, Nathan could walk up on a doe with fawns and touch her on the flanks unaware. Now he could see where Raven was looking and decided he might as well give the trickster something to talk about, even if Ba'Yak would be in the dark as to the reason.

Sidling closer, Nathan used his oar in the classic maneuver used to flick sand in an enemy's eyes. Nathan just used the snow instead and with a speed he could have never matched before snapped a bucket-load of snow into Raven knocking him from his perch and blinding him while the black bird struggled to get free of the clinging snow and shake himself until he could see again Nathan moved quickly and quietly out of sight.

By then Nate was passed the meddlesome Raven and carefully watching for other creatures both above and below. He could still hear Raven complaining to himself, Raven would speak whether or not there was anyone to listen or not. He was a noisy creature.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

Guardian Angel - James Proudstar

| James Proudstar |

| 66 ageless appears like a fresh faced youth except for his eyes |

| Character Differences |
James Proudstar wanted to follow his brother into the world of the X-Men make the world better for all mankind. However, James was of a different spirit, while he was fierce and determined. He was a very religious young man. James was a different soul than his brother. No less determined to fight for what was right, he also had a deeply spiritual side. An altar boy, he planned to go to seminary when he gained the powers of Guardian Angel. Jame's gained the same abilities as his brother John, with a couple significant additions. He has superhuman vision including the ability to see things far off or hidden from the naked eye. James can see a person's soul but it is an intimate act for him and he must steel himself to the ugliness all men harbor. He has eagle's wings that manifest from his back when he wishes. Their nature is undetermined by James. He can fly at attack helicopter speeds with a hummingbird's agility. He also can manifest the Armor of God. A suit of ancient armor that no matter what damage (and it takes a lot of punishment to damage it), it suffers is always repaired when he calls for it again as well as a sword and shield. He tries to avoid calling upon these gifts. When he does call upon them he gains a golden halo like a red gold nimbus about his head. His voice also changes and can cause fear in the hearts of men. His first words are usually, 'Be not afraid'. His eyes fill with a golden flame when he is angry. He can heal himself or others and free himself or others from mental or spiritual domination.

Unlike our world he did not follow the Warpath.

| Brief World Background |
James Proudstar's world is different from our world. Mutation is understood but still feared. The guarded secret about mutants in this world is that they or those close to them, subconsciously influence the form their mutation will take. Several groups including the X-Men, Brotherhood, various governments and secret societies all try to find mutants before their expression of the X-gene and 'guide' the individual according to the group's needs and the individual's nature. This means that since WWII the US has mandated that mutant children be taken to specialized schools where the strongest telepaths and psychics, dream manipulators, and influencers attempt to shape the young minds.

Removing children from home when they are at their most vulnerable and replacing their families with artificial father and mother figures all who are trying subtly and not so subtly to influence them, has had some predictably unfortunate consequences, like raising a whole generation of emotionally detached and resentful superhumans.

| Brief Character Background |
personal James is a dedicated, kind deeply religious man. In many ways he is the best that could be hoped for from the world he was raised in. Mostly because he avoided government schools and was under the radar for most of his life. He feels compelled to do the work of Angels and finds little time or need for sleep. Prayer really can sustain him. He was snatched while in prayer at Saint Anne's church.

Secondary but I would be just as happy with either character.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

Inside combat, Creed will avoid killing until they force him to. He has fought with defined rules of engagement for the last seventy years. That sense of guilt at operating outside even the least restrictive framework will fuel a smoldering rage.

Victor doesn't mind killing his enemies, but likes to act within his moral framework.

Outside the games if he doesn't have contact with other prisoners, he will use the time to train, meditate and test the limits of his world.

Creed, once it is clear he must kill will do so with speed and efficiency. If they escape he'll act as best he can to get as many victims free and faraway as possible.

It will be very interesting to see how he reacts going from a respected member of society back to being a second class citizen.

And perhaps the triggering event that was avoided for this Victor will be faced wherever he winds up

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The mountain side was cold, but Nathaniel was used to that. In fact, men in his tribe had gone naked much of the year until the start of the twentieth century. This snow was deep but dry not wet and clingy. The better question was 'what in the world was he doing here?'

Thunderbird rarely 'talked to Nathaniel directly, for which Nate was truly grateful, but he had directed Nate to this mountain. If Thunderbird knew the reason or reasons, he was playing it close to the vest.

He had packed for winter hiking but he was too warm and took off his jacket tying it to the outside of his pack. His war paddle was in his hand, it made a handy walking stick and Nate was wearing black leather and kevlar combat boots.

What am I doing here? he asked himself then saw a strange sight. The path ahead was shimmering and not with heat waves or an illusion brought on by snow-blindness. He walked forward until he was directly in front of it and reached out a hand to touch it. He felt resistance.

"So that's what an invisible barrier looks like," he said in surprise.

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@Hitman

Sorry I had fixed it up this morning and somebody hit a power pole or dug up a line. I get it done when the power comes back.

I've updated the character section. I am not too sure how much power a full manifestation of the god should have. Let me know if I need to tweak it more.

Sorry about the short bio the first time. Nate really was my best friend, my first partner as a police officer at that village, and his life history matched. I forget not everyone knew my friend. Nor his personality. He was a good man.