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Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Oh ho ho, we got a nice turn out on these christmas posts, and they're pretty good. Good job guys.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Location: A happy house
Time: Christmas night

David wasn’t born in Lost Haven, nor had he grown up in it. Objectively it was a terrible place to live, every other day featured some kind of meta human brawl somewhere, he would know, but it was also the best place on Earth for him to live, because it was in Lost Haven itself that David had met the love of his life, and today they were celebrating with as many friends and family as they could. Some managed to fly in, some just happened to be here, and some were born here.

The entire house was a glow with happy spirits and joyful chatter, old friends catching up with each other, and meeting some new ones. David’s wife, Cecilia, was off in another corner talking to some of her own friends. His daughter, Madeline, also managed to find people roughly her age and they were happily chatting about something. David was worried she wouldn’t have too much fun as he wasn’t sure who was going to make it, but he was glad things turned out for the better.

At first David had thoughts about patrolling the area, just a little bit, to make sure it really was a silent night, but it felt so peaceful that David gave into his selfish side. If there was trouble he’d entrust the other heroes, and maybe even villains, to keep a lid on the chaos tonight. Nobody deserves to spend their Christmas alone or unappreciated. And that’s just what David told himself as he made another pass at the food table, shoving in as much meat as he could. Even getting a little fat wouldn’t affect his super heroics, much.

Just another happy coincidence. David thought with a grin as he packed in his next plate tightly.

Out of all his friends only a few had managed to come by, fellow archeologist Carmine Williams being one of them, but he seemed to be just a little down as he watched everyone. So that was when David decided to walk up to him.

“Thanks for inviting me, David. I’d have been pretty lonely this year if I didn’t know about this.”

“Hhmm, didn’t feel like holding a party of your own, nobody special?”

“When you say it like that it feels like I’ve been doing it wrong.” Carmine replied, he gave a fake tug at his collar like it suddenly tightened.

“Seeing you with Cecilia makes me a little jealous, I’ll never win big like you.”

“Aww, cheer up pal.” David picked up a bottle and began to poor a generous amount into Carmine’s glass, after which he dipped his head back with the glass, draining it in one go.

“Hmm, well now I’m feeling a little brave tonight.” Carmine said as he pointed to a certain someone in the room.

“Ah, I see you’ve been eyeing her for a while right? You should go for it, you’re an adult now, take the risks you never would have back in high school.” David said with a powerful smirk overtaking his face.

“Yeah, yeah you’re right. Although I’m a little hesitant, her face just seems, a little familiar.”

“It should, her name’s Erin, but you might know her as..” David paused to put a firm hand on Carmine’s back.

“Eric.” David whispered into his ear, and then pushed him into the Christmas party crowd.

“What?” Carmine shouted as he was jerked forward

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Carmine had arrived with a slight frown and now he was leaving happy, David was glad Carmine was leaving in a good mood, he even managed to find a couple of his old friends. David waved off everyone leaving, it was good seeing them, and hopefully some would stick around in Lost Haven for a while. It was just after sunset now and they still had sometime before ‘Santa’ came, and Maddie had to go to bed, so they spent the next hour or so watching a Christmas marathon.

They’d just finished watching Rudolph when Madeline began to say something. “I wonder what it’d be like to fly, I mean riding in a sleigh sounds fun, but I want to be in control, like Rudolph!”

“Hmmm, I wonder.” David said, making a show of tapping his finger on his chin, he and Cecilia looked at each other with a smile. David spent a few months going at it alone, making sure only he knew his secret that the Earth had given him a gift, but women were smart in a devilishly sneaky way and Cecilia had found out somehow anyways. And eventually Madeline too, she was so much smarter than him and it made him so proud, although he was a little embarrassed that his secret vanished so quickly, and he thought he had it easy not having to hide a costume. But just like a true family they didn't let anything stop them, even with his new powers, David wasn't leaving them any time soon.

“Do you want to come?”

“Oh no, I don’t do heights. Besides, it’s warmer in here.” Cecilia replied with a smile, while flapping her hand at David lazily.

“Then Madeline, today you get to fly, just like Rudolph.”

“For real? But you always said it was too dangerous!” She shouted as she jumped off the couch, and then stopped herself. “Wait a minute, what do you mean,I get to fly.”

“It’s just like I said, come to the backyard with me, you get an early Christmas present.”

“Whoa ho ho.” Madeline said excitedly, there’s no way she was going to sleep before midnight now.

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It was easy to forget it was cold outside if one spent the entire day inside, stepping outside was a slap in the face compared to the comfortable warmth a house provided. “Couldn’t we have done this inside, even mom isn’t coming out?” Madeline asked as she glanced back at the house, her mom gave an eager wave and she turned back around.

“Nope, step back.” Only a moment after David said that a brilliant light engulfed him, energy danced around his body like fireflies, a wave of light pushed off him, along with a soft blast of wind that threw snow everywhere. Maddie raised her arms to shield herself, but when she looked up her dad was still there, still as her dad.

“Um, are you getting old or something?”

“Well with age at least I have wisdom.” David replied, a laugh broke out somewhere near the house, with a smirk David continued. “Look at my hand Maddie.”

Maddie looked down, she had expected to see her father in his hero form, but instead he was just a normal old human right now, except he also held some kind of red ball in his hand, no not holding, it was floating.

“Are you ready?”

She nodded and the sphere rushed at her, hitting her in the chest, and it sunk into her. The same light show as earlier repeated, except her body had transformed and Madeline emerged as Terra Firma instead of David.

“Whoa, so you can just give it to people.”

“Not quite, have fun kiddo.” As soon as he said that Madeline shot off into the air, a trail of energy followed her up. It was so weird to watch ‘Terra Firma’ fly off, he only wished he could go off with her, but she’d be fine.

“WhoooOoooo!” She shouted as she continued to blast around. Flying was amazing, every time he lifted off David also felt a rush of excitement as the wind pushed back on his ‘face’, except he preferred to be on the ground, but his daughter seemed to be taking every bit of his own joy and multiplied it. She noticed that she left a trail as she danced around in the sky and started to make shapes.

David went back inside with Cecilia and they both watched as ‘Terra Firma’ raced across the night sky for a while longer.

LeeRoy vs As Many People as Possible All At Once

Yeah so I finally got my portion done, hopefully for you guys anyways this is enough to keep friendly fire to a minimum, and open ourselves up for some hyper team combo attacks.

Took me close to a month to get to it, i'm so sorry guys.

Oh yeah, I edited my thing to make some grammar corrections. Auto correct is literally hitler.

LeeRoy vs As Many People as Possible All At Once

Daniel shook his head disapprovingly, as his own earlier attacks caught one of the heroes in the back, but he noted that the other hero caught his knife. Would he use it? If he didn’t it would be no loss, the knife didn’t break and could not be lost. Dan also noted that their poor coordination was holding them back, the angel had blundered into ‘friendly’ fire, the woman had barely gotten away from the electricity, and that water tower stunt hit everyone.

They need more than super strength, they needed to start communicating, and even he did that back in his heroic days. How could these heroes neglect to talk to each other for so long? Since they seemed reluctant Daniel elected himself to begin dialogue. Reaching out with his telepathy to talk with people felt odd since he only ever used it to taunt his prey, and he would have preferred it to say like that, but nonetheless the situation called for it.

Daniel directed his telepathy at the angel, General Freedom, and the woman.

"Don’t be alarmed, I am communicating with my mind, you will only hear my thoughts to you, and vice versa. We need to start coordinating so we only hit the Splatterer. I plan to continue to attack at range, I’m setting up another barrage for the Splatterer in a building near you. My aim is on our enemy, don’t get hit." Daniel said, or thought, at the heroes. He took a second to give them a soft image of the building he’d dived into, not intrusive enough to distract them, but more like giving them a new memory.

"You, woman with the fire, unless you’re sure you can do damage stop trying to touch him. You burned him with your fire earlier, do it again."

Daniel considered that to be enough and slid back into position again, as of now he and his clones were prone on the floor, hiding out of sight until they were all ready, and now that they all were the time was now. Dan can’t produce enough clones to completely take up the floor space, but this number was enough to fill the side of the building, each clone stood roughly shoulder to shoulder.

The plumes on their helmets opened up to reveal their hidden beam mounts, over a dozen streams of heated super plasma burst through what was left of the windows, and trailed towards the Splatterer; and their small size should give the angel hero enough room to avoid being hit again.

Explain an Anime Plot Badly

Shut in neet spends the rest of his life playing the same dead mmo.

LeeRoy vs As Many People as Possible All At Once

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure the rest of us understand so take your time with this.

LeeRoy vs As Many People as Possible All At Once

I'm just getting started!

Skallagrim

It's time to go full berserker mode!

ImportantNobody

This isn't even my final form!

LeeRoy

I mean, I'm throwing around this knife with 60 tons of force, more like farce amiright? I just expected a little more out of it. But show me what you pros can do. Maybe it'll be something I can copy.

LeeRoy vs As Many People as Possible All At Once

Man I haven't gotten hit nearly as much as angle and eve and I'm also startin to feel it. My guy's throwin his knife around as hard as he can and nothin happens, can we go to easy mode leeroy?

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

It had been a few hours since the Lost Haven University was attacked by the Hounds, now that he was alone he had time to think, and his mind automatically went back to those he couldn’t save. Even with the power he was given he was just one man, he couldn’t possibly have saved all of them. He knew that, but even so, he couldn’t help but feel responsible. The Earth chose him for some reason, but why, wasn’t it to prevent disaster? If these Hounds keep going at it the future the Earth showed him is going to happen.

I need answers, I need a god damn explanation! David angrily thought in his mind.

So he reached into his memories, back to the first time he encountered the supernatural, back to that strange pyramid in South America, back to the crystal obelisk inside. David reached out with his Earth powers, he wanted to see that again, he needed to bring it back out, and he hoped that he could use it to get what he needed.

After what felt like hours he finally did it, something began to crack and emerge from the ground in front of him, and there it was. It came back up in the same odd shape, it was tall, it looked like an orb had been carved into the center, and it still had the same brilliant white glow. It couldn’t possibly be the same crystal. But then again, the one in that Pyramid sunk back underground after David had touched it.

I need to know, who are we fighting, who are you scared of? Is it the Hounds Of Humanity? David asked as he focused himself, planting both of his hands onto the ‘orb’. A few seconds passed and he received no answer, David put some force into his arms as if it would help.

“How do I stop the Hounds?” David shouted, but his ears were met with silence.

“Show me where the Hounds are, it’s them you want me to fight right?” David shouted once more, and again no answer. David felt his frustration peak and expressed it by punching the crystal pillar, but before his fist could make contact a bright light flared from the crystal and it burst into embers of white light that softly melted back into the ground.

Even if you didn’t mean for me to fight the Hounds, I will regardless. Simply closing my eyes because it’s not my job would make me a terrible hero, and an awful father.

David fell to the ground with a sigh, he wasn’t going to get any further with the Earth or their powers, but there was something he needed to get back to as soon as possible.

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David arrived at his house in his normal form, he wasn’t quite sure he was ready to reveal that secret yet, even to his family. With all this business with the Hounds, it might scare them more than anything, and that was something he was never going to do to them.

His house was a two story building, built with red bricks, and a large window right next to the door. Without even needing to enter David could tell they were in the living room, passive flashing lights told him that they were watching TV.

Reaching into his pocket he pulled out his phone and a cold chill swept over him. Using the form he calls Terra Firma, he is essentially naked, no clothes, no armor, and no pockets. The battle against the Hounds and his business afterwards took a few hours, and he had spent all that time in his hero form. During this time he had received close to a hundred calls and messages, from both his wife and daughter, along with Carmine with whom he had switched places with for the day.

It was far too late to call or message that he was alright, except for Carmine but he didn’t matter right now. With a gulp, David unlocked his door and stepped in, bracing himself for what was coming, and hoping he was going to be making the right decisions.
He was right, his family was glued to the tv hoping to hear news about him, they were becoming increasingly worried as their calls and texts continued to go unanswered. But they immediately tossed their gazes towards the door as David made his way in, and their faces said more than words ever could.

“I-I’m home!” David announced with a smile, he wasn’t quite sure how to do this, but he was doing his best.

His wife Cecilia rushed up and slapped her hand across David’s face, leaving him a large red handprint, before drawing into a tight hug. David’s daughter Madison followed soon after and joined the embrace, and together they stood there with the door open for a few minutes before separating. Tears began to stream down all their faces, including David, who had spent most of his day thinking of them, vowing to make sure they never see such brutality.
Never.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Oohh, I just remembered you said to look forward to something on the ooc and here it is. It's a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Thank you too DearTrickster, you're an important part of this community and it wouldn't be the same without you or anybody else.

To follow in Indy's footsteps here is an nice animal to show my appreciation.