Gotham City RP (Tentatively Titled "Gotham City Limits") - Year 10 - All of the sidekicks and villains would be pre-established, so no first appearances - Plot to possibly revolve around the formation of the GTO (similar to White Knight), Batman joins them? Dually deputized agent of the law type of scenerio? - Gang wars? At least one primary conflict to pit two sides against eachother - OC characters allowed alongside canon - Primary factions being the Bat-family, the GTO/GCPD, and the Arkham crowd. More factions possible within player choices. - Focus on choosing "paths", the light, the gray, and the dark. - Serial killer sub-plot akin to Long Halloween? Someone's picking off the B-tier villains. - Another route would be the return of a forgotten enemy. Carmine Falcone isn't as dead as thought? Hush feeling up to another city-wide game? Hugo Strange looking to make more Monster Men? There are possibilities... - Death matters. And someone will die at pre-determined points. Maybe even Batman isn't safe? - Events would be focused on a single supervillain attack on Gotham. So one would be Two-Face centered, another would be The Joker, another would be League Of Shadows, ect. No two would be alike in scope or type of event. - No other DCU characters without justifiable provcation. Superman and Wonder Woman wouldn't be hanging around for an extended period of time. Green Arrow or The Question being in town to bust heads, however... [hider=And Now For Something Completely Different...]- Cobra is the main antagonist. Up until now, they've been little more than a rumor, a conspiracy theory propogated on fringe internet forums and YouTube videos that claim an anti-mutant, anti-meta, anti-alien resistance movement is building an army. This changes upon the explosion of Air Force One and the subsequent broadcast by an enigmatic, masked figure calling himself The Commander that claims responsibility for the explosion before cutting to a live feed of the President in their captivity. - Their demands are simple: complete extermination of the "powered" menaces and the President will be released. Images flash of the Metropolis Superman, Daily Bugle news clippings of The Fantastic Four, Doctor Clark Savage, Jr., Invincible, Wonder Woman, Professor Charles Xavier, The Samaritan, Mandrake The Magician, The Flash, ect. The immediate outcry leads to an escalation of anti-mutant rioting, triggering a counterattack by The Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. - Batman, Doctor Strange, The Spirit, and other freelancers are contacted seperately by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. in an effort to investigate what really happened on Air Force One, as some of Cobra's claims don't line up with what they recovered from the wreckage. Fury is also in constant communication with M of MI6, who has an agent in the field investigating Cobra's potential whereabouts. Simultaneously, Fury's deputy director Amanda Waller is conducting a series of raids across the Atlantic with her superteam, The Ultimates, to rule out the usual suspects in regards to Cobra's rumored dabbling in bio-terrorism. - The nation of Wakanda is the next to suffer a direct attack from Cobra, as a diplomatic mission to Khandaq is interrupted by a fleet of attacking H.I.S.S. tanks. While The Black Panther and The Black Adam set aside their differences to momentarily defend the latter's nation from incursion, the tanks retreat upon the theft of a secret artifact buried within Adam's ancestral tombs: the amulet of Isis. Coordinating with Fury, King T'Challa is able to discern that Cobra Commander is gathering resources of alternate means if their army is already capable of an attack of that scale. - Utilizing the amulet of Isis, bio-weapons confiscated from the remains of HYDRA, Romanian artifacts belonging to vampire overlord Count Dracula, and a device referred only as The Allspark, Cobra Commander intends to enact a ritual to Cobra's anti-meta rhetoric is actually a smokescreen, a false narrative to stir the public against the only true threat to their mission of establishing a one world government.[/hider] [hider=Ignore][INDENT][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019bd039-279c-773a-9673-002e1b5f2fc5.webp[/img][/center][b][center][color=black] T H E P U N I S H E R[/color] [color=lightgray]T H E P U N I S H E R[/color][/center] [/b][/h1][/sup] [color=silver][sup][i]"Plan your funerals. They're coming."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019bd039-7dfc-7142-a45d-371f6b204365.webp[/img] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [sub][COLOR=darkgray]Francis G. Castiglione / Frank Castle[/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]43[/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray]Widowed[/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]United States Marine Corps[/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray]Italian-American[/COLOR][/sub][/center] [indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A L L I E S & A N T A G O N I S T S[/color] [color=lightgray]A L L I E S & A N T A G O N I S T S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] A L L I E S[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ David "Micro" Lieberman[/b][/color][/color][/sup][/indent] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] A N T A G O N I S T S[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Billy Russo [/b][/color][/color][/sup][/indent][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P O S T C A T A L O G U E[/color] [color=lightgray]P O S T C A T A L O G U E[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][sup][COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]XX[/b][/color] - Post Name[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color] [color=lightgray]T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]___________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Serving two tours overseas, first in Iraq and then a second in the island nation of Corto Maltese, Frank Castle was an exemplary officer of the USMC with multiple commendations for bravery and leadership. He could have easily made General if he'd chosen to extend his last tour, but an incident involving his platoon being ambushed by the country's dictatorial forces made Castle resort to extreme measures. In a night of heavy combat, he'd singlehandedly killed an estimated seventy-four enemy occupants to stop them from reaching his unit's makeshift camp. By the time the sun would rise on Corto Maltese, Frank would be escorted off the LZ covered in blood and guts, with a crazed look in his eyes. His superiors, deciding it was not worth the PR nightmare if similar incidents occurred, convinced him to accept an honorable discharge - much to the chagrin of his fellow soldiers. To them, they were losing their most valuable asset. But quietly, Frank knew that whatever had been unleashed on that field, it wasn't capable of command. It only wanted death. So the soldier came home. While Maria Castle had spent the last couple of years raising Lisa and Frank Jr. alone, and she expected them to resume their marital bliss, Frank's inability to connect to civilian life created a strain between them. He'd try to earn his keep by accepting a few odd jobs here and there, but the truth that Frank wouldn't admit was that he missed the combat. Missed war itself, as if it were the only place that he'd felt at home. Maria tried to be understanding of his PTSD, but things were far from okay. After six months, Frank decided that for the sake of his family, he'd have to go away - maybe permanently, to allow Maria to move on and find someone who could give her what she and the kids deserved. The plan was to take the kids for a picnic in Central Park. There, he and Maria would plan the terms of divorce. It was the first time that Frank and Maria had seen eye-to-eye since his return, cementing that this was the correct course of action. But fate had other plans for the Castle family that day, beginning when their daughter Lisa went looking for their runaway dog. What the girl accidentally found was a mob killing in progress. Spooked by the intrusion, they fired upon Lisa and accidentally tipped off a rival gang stationed in the area. The result was a standoff that became a massacre, and Frank found himself gravely injured but alive. His family hadn't been as lucky. Sent spiraling back into the crazed frenzy that he'd entered in Corto Maltese, Frank escaped from the hospital and began searching for answers. Who'd killed his family and why, who else had been involved, all of it. Calling in favors from his war days, Castle eventually got his answers, beginning prep for a different war altogether. Consulting with David "Micro" Lieberman, the former intelligence officer for his division, he got his hands on a small cache of weapons that would become the first part of an expansive arsenal. Guns, grenades, knives, body armor, rocket launchers, nothing was too lethal. But Frank didn't think of it as seeking revenge against the perpetrators. The man who'd married Maria and fathered Lisa and Frank Jr. was buried with them. He just wanted to [i]punish[/i] them. And he did. With a list of names gathered of every person who'd fired a bullet that day, Castle went to work and orchestrated assault after violent assault. In a disturbingly short amount of time, he'd managed to murder everyone on the list - not just them, but the gangs that had tried to protect them. Within a month of setting out on his mission, Frank's body count had already reached mythical proportions. He knew that once he killed the last man, there wouldn't be a return to 'normal' life. That part of him was gone, and what remained only wanted one thing: to exterminate every piece of filth that looked to cause harm to others. Spraypainting a massive skull symbol onto the bulletproof vest that he'd taken to wearing like a second skin, Frank sent a clear message to all who'd be unfortunate enough to cross his sights: The Punisher out there. And he was hunting. [/indent][/COLOR] [INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color] [color=lightgray]P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]__________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]I've always enjoyed the character in the stories that I've read with him, but I've never actually written anything with him. I want to delve into all the questions that naturally come up. Not only whether what he's doing is truly just, but also where you can really take a character so deadset in his ways. Frank doesn't question himself or his mission; it's way too late for him to start having any of those misgivings. So what do the characters that come across him and live think? What do his few recurring enemies do to justify going after a man who's capable of the things Frank is? I think those questions lend themselves pretty handily to interactions.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][sub]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][right][color=silver][sup][i]"You hit 'em and they get back up. I hit 'em and they stay down."[color=2e2c2c]___[/color][/i][/sup][/color][/right][/COLOR][/INDENT][/hider]