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Ever since man has been capable of hitting other man with a rock, the world has been divided with power, between those who have it and those who do not. On this world, perhaps even more than ours, this division is more important than any other. Some secure power with the right mechanical gadgets and the years of study necessary to build them. Others seek out power at the bottom of a chemical vat, with the handshake of some otherworldly evil, or in the bite of a genetically unstable exotic pet. A few with enough money or federal funding simply strap six tons of bulletproof power over their chest and call it a day. All of these people, designated by their power, are known as Supers. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Universally, they're all pretty dramatic.

The powers that be reigning in these powerful persons are known as the United States Department of Hero Regulation and the Villain's International League of Evildoing -- they are the respective equivalents of a high-ranking government agency and an international labor union working in tandem to ensure the other side follows roughly the same rules. The fleshbound VILE Codex of Cruelty, for instance, shares no less than 500 identical pages to the official DHR Federal Mandates & Regulations Handbook, and this is no strange coincidence. Both sides have inscrutable teams of lawyers and investigative sub-agencies, and both sides are just about as scary as the IRS when you're on their bad side. Every ten years, they hold a summit to review and revise the rules, and the 2020 summit is to be held only seven days from our story's inception.

Supers!, which I am already regretting stylizing with an exclamation point, is to be a semi-sandbox story -- that means I am giving you a fair amount of freedom with your individual stories and themes -- with two overarching subplots going on for Heroes and Villains. I expect probably two people to apply to this, so accordingly, there are a bunch of rules (not in the annoying "i'm the GM i reserve the right to shit down your chimney" way) in order to ensure that these two people have sheets that demonstrate an understanding of this difficult-to-understand world. With that, I'll drop my GM voice and get down to it.

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Color me interested.

I do enjoy a good superhero rp. I just hope I can keep up, if things end up moving quickly for some reason.

A question, since I glanced at your vault version of this before coming here, but in regards to the "tolkienesque" factor, would that include entities such as "monsters" of the fantasy variety? Like Rocs, Krakens, Dragons, and the like? Additionally, since the same societal shifts exist, what does that mean of major comic book franchises such as DC and Marvel, do they exist in this timeline?

Also, would animal experimentation to create animal superheroes have possibly occurred? I ask all of these questions to see what character ideas I can play with. Hope this is fine-
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Color me interested.

I do enjoy a good superhero rp. I just hope I can keep up, if things end up moving quickly for some reason.

A question, since I glanced at your vault version of this before coming here, but in regards to the "tolkienesque" factor, would that include entities such as "monsters" of the fantasy variety? Like Rocs, Krakens, Dragons, and the like? Additionally, since the same societal shifts exist, what does that mean of major comic book franchises such as DC and Marvel, do they exist in this timeline?

Also, would animal experimentation to create animal superheroes have possibly occurred? I ask all of these questions to see what character ideas I can play with. Hope this is fine-


No krakens, dragons, grumpkins, or snarks. There are demons and otherworldly creatures, but the DHR and VILE only allow high-ranking magicians to legally try to contact these guys. A level 3 magician trying to talk to Cthulu would be like a high school chemistry teacher trying to buy plutonium. It doesn't work and you end up on a watch list. There are also monsters, but more of the hammer horror and cryptozoology variety than the pointy-eared elf variety. The sasquatch exists, for instance, but he's the byproduct of incestuous gorilla people created by the Russian government in the 50s. I'm not making that ish up, we sat down and discussed this nonsense at one point.

Animal and human experimentation are commonplace, but animals cannot be Supers. The only exception to this is Gorilla Warfare, who is technically a gorilla with a man's brain and sentience, making him a weird kind of cyborg, but not a trained monkey all the same.

DC and Marvel exist in this world, but I am trying to bring them up rarely. Their canon can be used as conversational references (Batman had the coolest villains), but I am trying to avoid characters bringing up the similarities between their own world and the world of comics. It'd be like a Naruto character pointing out that they speak English but their names have clear Japanese meanings despite Japan not existing, or a Game of Thrones character pointing out that the worldbuilding involves an unprecedented thousand years of no technological innovations, or -- you get the point. Regardless, comics and comic movies about fictional superheroes exist as well as comics and movies about real supers.
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Thanks for getting back to me, this is all really helpful.

I'll see what I can make, though it might be a hot minute. Since I had an idea, but he's not feasible since no dragons.

Are there any major corporations that act as fronts for villains, and if not, is it possible for a villain that is apped to have a few businesses funding their operations atop support VILE provides?
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Good question. I don't think I've added any CEO villains to the canon, but I should -- The only CEO Super off the top of my head is Mothman, who is our world's closest thing to Batman. Anyway, there are definitely supers with companies. If you or anyone else has questions and don't wanna wait the four days for me to see a message and respond, here's a link to the discord. It's ugly rn but it'll be less ugly as I fix it, and it's got all the info you could ask for short of an IC, which will be posted sometime this week.
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Thanks again for getting back to me, and yeah, we should probably just use the Discord for now.

I think I know what I want to use, though it may take me a bit of time to find a good FC that suits my concept. I'll explain more on Discord.
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I could be interested as well if it's open.
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