Every year at Christmas my family gathers at the same place for two weeks. All of the descendants of my great grandfather Harold Schmidt meet at a retreat center in the middle of the woods that he owns.
Unlike most family Christmas gatherings, however, ours holds special significance to the planet. Not only is it a place to meet long-lost relatives, but for two weeks it is a place for the strongest people in the world to meet and get to know each other better. See, Grandpa Harold was America's first super hero, and most of the family followed suit. Most of us have powers, but you don't need powers to be super.
Family tree:
Harold Schmidt's first wife: Angelina McCloud
Son of Harold and Angelina: Frank Schmidt
Daughter of Harold and Angelina: Kennedy Schmidt
Harold Schmidt's second wife: Jenny Wilhelm
Daughter of Harold and Jenny: Penny Schmidt
Family Rules, as enforced by the elders (Harold, Jenny, and the kids):
1) Keep secret identities and super identities separate, especially other family member's identities.
2) Never fight secret ID verses super ID.
3) Family gatherings are neutral territory. Keep your conflicts away from them.
4) Family only at family gatherings. This protects us all.
5) Never kill family.
Character sheets:
Name:
Alias:
Popular references:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
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Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Harold Schmidt
Alias: Adapter
Popular references: America's First Hero, The Man with a thousand powers
Gender: Male
Age: 101
Appearance: Grey Hair, wears a suit everywhere, uses a black mahogany cane with a stun gun built into it.
Super appearance: Retired, but used to wear a WWI army outfit with a flag on the helmet and back.
Skills:
Job: Real Estate Mogul
Powers: Adaptation Level 4 (That which doesn't kill him makes him stronger. He will adapt to hostile conditions, but it takes time. After the conditions are over it goes dormant until needed.)
Personality: Nostalgic, He remembers a time when not only was their no computers, but most people didn't have power in their houses except for lighting, and he isn't afraid to talk about it.
History: He found out he was special when he was a teenager and he got beat up for standing up for a girl in class. After the first beating it didn't hurt as much, and soon, it didn't hurt at all.
His dad died in World War I when he was young, so he made a copy of his dad's uniform and put flags on it, to show people he stood for America. He then went out and hunted criminals to stop them from hurting people.
Just before WWII, when new heroes and villains were starting to reveal themselves instead of just being rumors, he met Psychotic Sam, the man who would soon become his archenemy. Sam only wanted the voices to shut up, and he found that they were quieter when he hurt people. The fact that he had super strength and invulnerability made him that much more dangerous. Over the years Sam's attempts to hurt or kill Adapter made him far more resistant to damage than he used to be.
In '41 Harold went to England to try and help in the war. There he met Angelina, a Secret service agent with a secret of her own. Not only did she have wings and could fly, she also had a sky blue aura which could absorb damage and the ability to project that aura around melee weapons for extra damage and to make the weapons take less damage. They fell in love and, when the war was over, they moved back to the US with their son, Frank. She got pregnant again and, late in '46 gave birth to a daughter, Kennedy.
Psychotic Sam found out about Adapter's family and, while Angelina was still in the hospital recovering, he murdered her. Harold went after him, but this time Sam threw him off the top of the Statue of Liberty, paralyzing him. It took him almost eight months to recover from the injury, and when he went after Sam he found that Red Seraph, Angelina's brother, had killed him.
For the next few years he tried to raise his kids and keep up his crime fighting, but he was starting to wonder if it was worth it. But in '49 he met the White Witch, a sorceress who would draw on elemental forces for the highest bidder. He protected her from the mob while she turned state's witness, and during their time together they fell in love. When she the situation was over, they got married, and two years later, early in '52, they had a daughter, Penny.
When, around the Vietnam war, he decided to hang up his cape, he invested what he had in real estate, and eventually became quite rich.
Close Family: Angelina McCloud Schmidt (deceased wife), Frank Schmidt (son), Kennedy Schmidt (daughter), Jenny Schmidt (wife), Penny Schmidt (daughter)
Name: Angelina McCloud Schmidt
Alias: Blue Angel
Popular references: none
Gender: Female
Age: Deceased (31 when died)
Appearance: black hair, blue eyes, wings (keeps hidden)
Super appearance: Blue leotard and glove, with a blue bandanna mask
Skills:
Job: n/a
Powers: Flight (level 6), protective aura (level 3), Aura projection (level 2)
Personality: fun-loving and carefree. Nuts about her family.
History: The grand daughter of Britain’s first “super hero”, the Crimson Gent (who worked for Scotland yard and had a red aura and could project it into energy blasts from his hands) she joined the war effort as a nurse when Britain came under attack from the Nazis. There she met Adapter, and left the other nurses to help drive the Nazis out of her country.
After the war she moved to the US with her husband to raise their son and soon had another child, this time a daughter. Before she left the hospital, though, a man came to her in her hospital room and, surprisingly, he knew who she was. Her aura wasn't strong enough to protect her against a super strength enhanced machete blow, and she died.
She was avenged by her brother, Gabriel, AKA Red Seraph.
Close Family: Harold Schmidt (husband), Frank Schmidt (son), Kennedy Schmidt (daughter)
Name: Frank Schmidt
Alias: Tank
Popular references: n/a
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance: Likes to wear dress shirts and khakis.
Super appearance: Black full-body suit with three diagonal forest green stripes across the face.
Skills: Kickboxing
Job: Boxer (retired), underground MMA fighter (retired)
Powers: Super strength (level 5), Beige Protective aura (level 4)
Personality:
History: When he was eighteen he started going to an underground fight club as part of a sting operation his father had set up. When the mission was over, however, he decided he liked fighting, and visited a local boxing agent to set up a fight. He quickly climbed through the ranks, stretching them out by not using his powers unless absolutely necessary. He experienced his first loss when he was 30 he experienced his first loss, this one to a super-villain turned Heavyweight champion. After that he switched to the kickboxing circuit, letting himself become a legend in boxing. When he was forty-nine he was contacted by someone representing a major cable network. They wanted him to face the man who had beat him before in a Pay-per-view match. He agreed. The fight lasted for almost ten rounds, with him losing in the tenth due to a TKO.
Close Family:
Name: Kennedy Schmidt
Alias: Guardian Angel
Popular references: n/a
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Appearance: Wings
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
Powers: Flight (level 6), fast healing (level 4)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Jenny Wilhelm Schmidt
Alias: White Witch
Popular references:
Gender: Female
Age: 105
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job: Retired/ ex-mercenary
Powers: Remote energy channeling (level 6)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Penny Schmidt
Alias: Necromancer
Popular references:
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
Powers: Animate corpses (level 4), Mind control (unconscious, level 4), Resurrect the dead (level 2)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Unfinished elder character sheets will be finished eventually, but if you've got any ideas, feel free to make suggestions. Also, I've got to actually design the resort for us. I know it needs a cafeteria, a gym, sauna, several pools (including one with a 12" bridge across it for team building exercises), cabins, and a paintball field. It'd also be good to have a teleporter room, a giant hologram generator (to hide us from the outside) and our own generator.
This RP uses a 1-10 scale for powers, with 1 being "scientifically provable, but barely there" and ten being "Superman".
Interest Check
Unlike most family Christmas gatherings, however, ours holds special significance to the planet. Not only is it a place to meet long-lost relatives, but for two weeks it is a place for the strongest people in the world to meet and get to know each other better. See, Grandpa Harold was America's first super hero, and most of the family followed suit. Most of us have powers, but you don't need powers to be super.
Family tree:
Harold Schmidt's first wife: Angelina McCloud
Son of Harold and Angelina: Frank Schmidt
Daughter of Harold and Angelina: Kennedy Schmidt
Harold Schmidt's second wife: Jenny Wilhelm
Daughter of Harold and Jenny: Penny Schmidt
Family Rules, as enforced by the elders (Harold, Jenny, and the kids):
1) Keep secret identities and super identities separate, especially other family member's identities.
2) Never fight secret ID verses super ID.
3) Family gatherings are neutral territory. Keep your conflicts away from them.
4) Family only at family gatherings. This protects us all.
5) Never kill family.
Character sheets:
Name:
Alias:
Popular references:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
Powers:
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Harold Schmidt
Alias: Adapter
Popular references: America's First Hero, The Man with a thousand powers
Gender: Male
Age: 101
Appearance: Grey Hair, wears a suit everywhere, uses a black mahogany cane with a stun gun built into it.
Super appearance: Retired, but used to wear a WWI army outfit with a flag on the helmet and back.
Skills:
Job: Real Estate Mogul
Powers: Adaptation Level 4 (That which doesn't kill him makes him stronger. He will adapt to hostile conditions, but it takes time. After the conditions are over it goes dormant until needed.)
Personality: Nostalgic, He remembers a time when not only was their no computers, but most people didn't have power in their houses except for lighting, and he isn't afraid to talk about it.
History: He found out he was special when he was a teenager and he got beat up for standing up for a girl in class. After the first beating it didn't hurt as much, and soon, it didn't hurt at all.
His dad died in World War I when he was young, so he made a copy of his dad's uniform and put flags on it, to show people he stood for America. He then went out and hunted criminals to stop them from hurting people.
Just before WWII, when new heroes and villains were starting to reveal themselves instead of just being rumors, he met Psychotic Sam, the man who would soon become his archenemy. Sam only wanted the voices to shut up, and he found that they were quieter when he hurt people. The fact that he had super strength and invulnerability made him that much more dangerous. Over the years Sam's attempts to hurt or kill Adapter made him far more resistant to damage than he used to be.
In '41 Harold went to England to try and help in the war. There he met Angelina, a Secret service agent with a secret of her own. Not only did she have wings and could fly, she also had a sky blue aura which could absorb damage and the ability to project that aura around melee weapons for extra damage and to make the weapons take less damage. They fell in love and, when the war was over, they moved back to the US with their son, Frank. She got pregnant again and, late in '46 gave birth to a daughter, Kennedy.
Psychotic Sam found out about Adapter's family and, while Angelina was still in the hospital recovering, he murdered her. Harold went after him, but this time Sam threw him off the top of the Statue of Liberty, paralyzing him. It took him almost eight months to recover from the injury, and when he went after Sam he found that Red Seraph, Angelina's brother, had killed him.
For the next few years he tried to raise his kids and keep up his crime fighting, but he was starting to wonder if it was worth it. But in '49 he met the White Witch, a sorceress who would draw on elemental forces for the highest bidder. He protected her from the mob while she turned state's witness, and during their time together they fell in love. When she the situation was over, they got married, and two years later, early in '52, they had a daughter, Penny.
When, around the Vietnam war, he decided to hang up his cape, he invested what he had in real estate, and eventually became quite rich.
Close Family: Angelina McCloud Schmidt (deceased wife), Frank Schmidt (son), Kennedy Schmidt (daughter), Jenny Schmidt (wife), Penny Schmidt (daughter)
Name: Angelina McCloud Schmidt
Alias: Blue Angel
Popular references: none
Gender: Female
Age: Deceased (31 when died)
Appearance: black hair, blue eyes, wings (keeps hidden)
Super appearance: Blue leotard and glove, with a blue bandanna mask
Skills:
Job: n/a
Powers: Flight (level 6), protective aura (level 3), Aura projection (level 2)
Personality: fun-loving and carefree. Nuts about her family.
History: The grand daughter of Britain’s first “super hero”, the Crimson Gent (who worked for Scotland yard and had a red aura and could project it into energy blasts from his hands) she joined the war effort as a nurse when Britain came under attack from the Nazis. There she met Adapter, and left the other nurses to help drive the Nazis out of her country.
After the war she moved to the US with her husband to raise their son and soon had another child, this time a daughter. Before she left the hospital, though, a man came to her in her hospital room and, surprisingly, he knew who she was. Her aura wasn't strong enough to protect her against a super strength enhanced machete blow, and she died.
She was avenged by her brother, Gabriel, AKA Red Seraph.
Close Family: Harold Schmidt (husband), Frank Schmidt (son), Kennedy Schmidt (daughter)
Name: Frank Schmidt
Alias: Tank
Popular references: n/a
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance: Likes to wear dress shirts and khakis.
Super appearance: Black full-body suit with three diagonal forest green stripes across the face.
Skills: Kickboxing
Job: Boxer (retired), underground MMA fighter (retired)
Powers: Super strength (level 5), Beige Protective aura (level 4)
Personality:
History: When he was eighteen he started going to an underground fight club as part of a sting operation his father had set up. When the mission was over, however, he decided he liked fighting, and visited a local boxing agent to set up a fight. He quickly climbed through the ranks, stretching them out by not using his powers unless absolutely necessary. He experienced his first loss when he was 30 he experienced his first loss, this one to a super-villain turned Heavyweight champion. After that he switched to the kickboxing circuit, letting himself become a legend in boxing. When he was forty-nine he was contacted by someone representing a major cable network. They wanted him to face the man who had beat him before in a Pay-per-view match. He agreed. The fight lasted for almost ten rounds, with him losing in the tenth due to a TKO.
Close Family:
Name: Kennedy Schmidt
Alias: Guardian Angel
Popular references: n/a
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Appearance: Wings
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
Powers: Flight (level 6), fast healing (level 4)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Jenny Wilhelm Schmidt
Alias: White Witch
Popular references:
Gender: Female
Age: 105
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job: Retired/ ex-mercenary
Powers: Remote energy channeling (level 6)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Name: Penny Schmidt
Alias: Necromancer
Popular references:
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Appearance:
Super appearance:
Skills:
Job:
Powers: Animate corpses (level 4), Mind control (unconscious, level 4), Resurrect the dead (level 2)
Personality:
History:
Close Family:
Unfinished elder character sheets will be finished eventually, but if you've got any ideas, feel free to make suggestions. Also, I've got to actually design the resort for us. I know it needs a cafeteria, a gym, sauna, several pools (including one with a 12" bridge across it for team building exercises), cabins, and a paintball field. It'd also be good to have a teleporter room, a giant hologram generator (to hide us from the outside) and our own generator.
This RP uses a 1-10 scale for powers, with 1 being "scientifically provable, but barely there" and ten being "Superman".
Interest Check
