So, I have one group oriented RP that focuses on super heroes in the works at the moment. Check that out here. Seeing as I want to have a few RP's going on at the moment, I decided to start another RP up at the other end of the spectrum of Super heroes, super villains.
The setting itself will be in modern day NYC (or another large bustling city with a lot of bad neighborhoods and gang violence). The RP will follow "The Sinners" a gang made up of seven individuals that each take on a nickname of one of the seven deadly sins. At first, everything is normal, but then a huge gang war breaks out (think "Warriors" movie but instead of one gang being the target, everyone is out for everyone else) and during a large fight in an abandoned building, there's an explosion. Black gas is released throughout the building and everyone inside is knocked out. After awakening, our characters, and the other gangs there, wake up feeling sick. Some of them die, others go crazy, but for a select few (probably 50 or so others besides our characters) they come to realize they have abilities. So what happens?
Well, everything goes back to how it was before, but with powers now. The gang members with powers use them to commit crime, fight other gangs, and other such things. Our characters will, unlike the other gangs, where only a few people got powers, all have received a power that corresponds with the sin they're named after.
At first, I thought I'd just create the powers for each sin and then let you guys put your own spin and style on it, but I decided now that each player can come up with their own power, as long as they can justify it fitting with their sin.
For example I'll be taking one sin off the table (as this will be the sin I will be RP'ing as), sloth. Sloth is basically the sin of being lazy, so how would this translate into a power? Well, I think that having sloth basically be a power house would make the most sense. Strongest, fastest, smartest, etc. Basically a super human. The drawback of course, that also relates this back to the sin of sloth, is that for every minute they use their true power, they have to sleep for 15 minutes afterward a certain amount of time passes without using that power. Basically, sloth could destroy a building within a minute's time by focusing the support structure and breaking them with bare fists, but after that, sloth would be unconscious for 15 minutes.
As long as the power ties in somehow (in sloth's case, the drawback is what makes the power work with the sin) then it'll probably be fine. Like wrath could be able to make weapons out thin air or blood (both their own blood and blood of the enemies they beat) or lust could produce pheromones that put men and/or women under their control.
So, I need at least 6 other people, each person willing to fill up a position of the 6 remaining sins. Let me put a list of them up right now.
-Wrath
-Greed
-Gluttony
-Pride
-Envy
-Lust
I know that there's also a lot of other stories and media that use the idea of the seven sins as antagonists (FMA for example comes to mind) but I just want to do something fun/evil since I'm gonna also be running a Super hero RP. :)
If you're interested, post what role you'd like to fill, and also a small description of what you think would be a good power for that role.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, but this will be a character driven RP with an arc like story that will come into play after we establish the characters and such. I'd actually like to devote the first segment of the RP to arcs that focus on each of the 7 main characters one at a time, helping to establish them and also define their relationships with the other members. I like deep well written characters to be developed throughout the RP, so we can see growth and changes, not just have a CS that's boring and lists everything.
The setting itself will be in modern day NYC (or another large bustling city with a lot of bad neighborhoods and gang violence). The RP will follow "The Sinners" a gang made up of seven individuals that each take on a nickname of one of the seven deadly sins. At first, everything is normal, but then a huge gang war breaks out (think "Warriors" movie but instead of one gang being the target, everyone is out for everyone else) and during a large fight in an abandoned building, there's an explosion. Black gas is released throughout the building and everyone inside is knocked out. After awakening, our characters, and the other gangs there, wake up feeling sick. Some of them die, others go crazy, but for a select few (probably 50 or so others besides our characters) they come to realize they have abilities. So what happens?
Well, everything goes back to how it was before, but with powers now. The gang members with powers use them to commit crime, fight other gangs, and other such things. Our characters will, unlike the other gangs, where only a few people got powers, all have received a power that corresponds with the sin they're named after.
At first, I thought I'd just create the powers for each sin and then let you guys put your own spin and style on it, but I decided now that each player can come up with their own power, as long as they can justify it fitting with their sin.
For example I'll be taking one sin off the table (as this will be the sin I will be RP'ing as), sloth. Sloth is basically the sin of being lazy, so how would this translate into a power? Well, I think that having sloth basically be a power house would make the most sense. Strongest, fastest, smartest, etc. Basically a super human. The drawback of course, that also relates this back to the sin of sloth, is that for every minute they use their true power, they have to sleep for 15 minutes afterward a certain amount of time passes without using that power. Basically, sloth could destroy a building within a minute's time by focusing the support structure and breaking them with bare fists, but after that, sloth would be unconscious for 15 minutes.
As long as the power ties in somehow (in sloth's case, the drawback is what makes the power work with the sin) then it'll probably be fine. Like wrath could be able to make weapons out thin air or blood (both their own blood and blood of the enemies they beat) or lust could produce pheromones that put men and/or women under their control.
So, I need at least 6 other people, each person willing to fill up a position of the 6 remaining sins. Let me put a list of them up right now.
-Wrath
-Greed
-Gluttony
-Pride
-Envy
-Lust
I know that there's also a lot of other stories and media that use the idea of the seven sins as antagonists (FMA for example comes to mind) but I just want to do something fun/evil since I'm gonna also be running a Super hero RP. :)
If you're interested, post what role you'd like to fill, and also a small description of what you think would be a good power for that role.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, but this will be a character driven RP with an arc like story that will come into play after we establish the characters and such. I'd actually like to devote the first segment of the RP to arcs that focus on each of the 7 main characters one at a time, helping to establish them and also define their relationships with the other members. I like deep well written characters to be developed throughout the RP, so we can see growth and changes, not just have a CS that's boring and lists everything.
