[hider=CREDITS]NOTE: This RP is a relaunch of an RP run by RisingRobin, so will use some of the framework that he has built, including the initial setup of the world. This work will therefore be a production that is original, produced independently but based upon much of the same content that he made, so existing characters can be directly ported! https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/197146-dispatch-welcome-to-sdn/ic[/hider] [img]https://image.api.playstation.com/vulcan/ap/rnd/202508/0621/a316285a09eceee300a8f0cb007599cf20aa6404a105a05a.jpg[/img] [color=gold][center][h1][i][b]Welcome to Dispatch![/b][/i][/h1][/center][/color] Welcome Heroes, Dispatchers, Phoenixes, and all other staff to SDN Claremont! Are you an aspiring hero ready to make a change in the world? A former villain turning his or her life around? Maybe you want to become an SDN legend like Phenomaman or Blonde Blazer? Great! Maybe with a few more years and a promotion you might make it to downtown LA's SDN branch someday! [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5643770]OOC[/url] [hr] [color=gold][center][h1][i][b]Setting[/b][/i][/h1][/center][/color] An RP based off the AdHoc Studios Dispatch series, this is a spin-off, and focuses on a dysfunctional workplace where instead of admin reports, our team are on the frontlines against crime, villainy, and more often than not, each other! The Superhero Dispatch Netwrok, or SDN deploys Heroes to subscriber needs, including police, civil, and other matters across the city. It's a quiet place. But, there's a fair share of recent action given recent....staff rearrangement. The newly minted "Phoenix Programme" takes on incarcerated Villains and puts them to use through rehabilitation programmes, effectively, one long community service arrangement. The programme has had mixed results- but, gives villains who have been on the wrong side of a tracks a way of making a living, putting their powers to go, and a future career beyond crime and infamy! As a result of having actual criminals working with real heroes and office workers just trying to make it to payday, this is an RP that sets itself on a relatively low stakes, office-comedy of an RP, allowing for your characters to grow, mature and react. This is a comedy RP at its core, but with superheroes in a workplace setting. It's a hybrid of slice of life, with players put into the boots of heroes, villains on remand and others behind the scenes that work at SDN Claremont, a branch of the nation-wide Superhero Dispatch Network. From assisting police to private matters, SDN stands as the biggest of the major hero networks for providing superpowered individuals with a means to legally fight crime while receiving a paycheck. Serious moments, funny moments, outright insane moments, with a sprinkling of what it's like in the 1pm-8pm shift of a superhero at a quiet, satellite branch of a hero dispatching network. You'll play the part of heroes, co-workers and colleagues who are on the front line against suped-up villains, drug dealers, petty criminals, schoolteachers who want charismatic speeches, security liaisons, and after work, chilling in hero bars and living the life in and amongst palm trees with heroes, and if HR is looking away, maybe even lovers and new housemates. [hr] [color=gold][center][h1][i][b]Job Postings[/b][/i][/h1][/center][/color] Players could be heroes, Phoenix Programme (or even just admin workers!)- and will take on the responsibility of fighting crime, rescuing cats and all sorts of behaviour that SDN's subscribers need. You're assigned to SDN Claremont's "A-Team" - though of course, "you may be required to attend other locations" beyond your assignment, especially for flying / teleporting heroes. That will come into play. [hr] [color=gold][center][h1][i][b]Workplace 101[/b][/i][/h1][/center][/color] This RP will rely upon one of my characters acting as a "Dispatcher". This will rely on a loosely "Storyteller" based system, where your character's traits will be matched against a luck-based system to see how you complete tasks. This means your reactions will be to dispatched jobs, and whether they went well, or not. You might not be dispatched to the right job, but based on my experience of running other RPs such as Delta Hyper, this means no result is always the same, and you'll always have a fun reaction! That said, beyond this, the RP is also qualitative in most other ways, with a rough "arc" of a plot. So if you're not a dice or systems person, don't worry- you'll still have plenty of room to work / play around here! There'll be a broad pivot that you'll play an "Afternoon" shift at SDN- split into two, with performance across the two used to inform how I as the GM react to you. You'll also have time outside of work, and the more you give, the more we'll all have fun. Plus, The Cowl Inn serves a mean Meanie IPA and is where you'll have the time to stretch your legs off shift. [hr] [color=gold][center][h1][i][b]Going Live![/b][/i][/h1][/center][/color] We have four players already confirmed to join, so come along if you fancy! The OOC is located here, and if you're keen, we will add you to a Discord too! [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5643770]OOC[/url]