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The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

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Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Character you have created: Angel Price

Alias: Equilibrium

Speech Color (Actually say what you're using, don't go "Like this", or what not): Speech=Silver
Sherlock=SkyBlue
Mech. Synergy=Cyan

Character Alignment: Walking the Line, mostly Heroic.

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Angel, as his name would suggest, has a strong personal code of honor, and dislikes distasteful acts, but the one thing that keeps him from being truly heroic is the fact that he will kill innocents to achieve his goal. He tries to be a good person, but the road that he has traveled has taken a toll on him, diminishing his formerly happy-go-lucky persona into one that is filled with hidden pain and regret, even if he does act like he is fine.

Uniform/costume:

Normal outfit

Angel wears a hoodie and jeans, most of the time, with a tank top underneath. His headphones and laptop connect directly to Sherlock, the A.I. he had 'liberated' from S.T.R.I.K.E.

ATD Suit

The Armored Titan Defense suit is about 3 times the size of a normal human, and is colored gunmetal black, to give it some semblance of stealth.

Other Suit ideas

Valkyrie Assault Suit

Atlas Destroyer Mech

Hephaestus Light Combat Suit

Icarus Airmech

Hercules Heavy Combat Suit

Origin Info/Details:

Angel was always... different. Whether it was the fact that he hung around more household appliances than people, or the fact that those appliances would do his will, from birth, the Price household was in a state of constant flux, whenever Angel was there. This led to his father's eventual drinking problem, and abuse on Angel's mother, who he blamed for for giving them a freak for a son.

Angel's mother put up with this treatment until he was at the age of 11, when Angel's father had come home from a particularly nasty drinking binge, and actually struck the boy. This led to a struggle between Angel's parents, after his mother tried to stop his father. This only turned his attention to her. Sometime during the struggle, which had wrecked the kitchen, a knife was involved, and his mother came away with a knife in her chest. His father had fallen in front of the refrigerator, and Angel was so blinded by rage, that he lashed out, causing the fridge to explode, thus killing his father, by forcing it to overheat. He was thrown out the kitchen window by the blast, and landed out in the street. By the time neighbors had come to investigate, the boy was already gone.

The next few years were a blur. Angel wandered the streets, working as a hacker/repairman for several minor gangs, until one day, he thought that he was cracking into just another government database, but it was actually a covert minor server of STRIKE. While it didn't contain any important information, it changed everything. He had discovered that there was an organization meant to deal with people with abilities such as his own. And as he searched through the files, STRIKE discovered him as well.

He was extracted from his gang by a single agent, whose designation was VKTR-17, a specialist in retrieval of all things transhuman. When brought to the STRIKE facility, not the main one, but one for information gathering, he was trained in the use of his strange ability. One day, during his training, Angel poked around the STRIKE system for something interesting. It was an A.I, codenamed 'Sherlock'. It was incredibly intelligent, and it's sole purpose was to gather and process intel. It was also apparent to Angel that the A.I. was in pain from being suppressed, being withheld from his true potential. So, he downloaded Sherlock onto an external hard drive, and left the facility, covering his tracks, leaving no trace of himself. STRIKE sent VKTR-17 after him, but after years of no success, the retrieval of 'Sherlock' and Angel Price were put on the backburner.

After leaving the facility, Angel came upon an abandoned heavy industrial factory, just outside Brooksdale, and set up shop there. The machines, while in massive disrepair, were quite simple to fix up. Over the course of a year, Angel built up the factory, stealing machines from factories around Lost Haven. However, no one, including STRIKE, could find a pattern, or a trail of this 'Machine Thief'. It was if the machines got up and left the factories themselves.

And then, with the recent rise of metahumans, Angel thought it was time to act. Taking parts and refining the materials in his factory, he built the Armored Titan Defense suit, a mech. The weapons were mainly created by himself, although the ordinance he needed had to be siphoned from military bases, with the exception of the custom ordinances. After three months of constant work, the ATD was ready, and he named it Equilibrium.

Hero Type :

Technopathy/Mechanical Synergy (Angel has the ability to control machines and technology, and meld with certain machines, such as his ATD suit. This is his one meta ability.

Power Level:

City Level (Normal) / World Level (with ATD Suit)

Powers:
Mechanical Synergy- His one meta ability. He can sync his mind with most man- or alien-made tech, although he has to understand the interface to control it with any semblance of competence. This allows him to directly override any coding, and replace it with his thoughts. However, most firewalls and defensive code will have to be dealt with first. Once in, he can manipulate it in almost any way he wishes.

NOTE: Most weaponry, with the exception of the ASM and 'Pegasus' Jump Jets, are retractable, and able to be hidden underneath armor plating.

DMS arm-mounted melee system- The DMS is, essentially, a giant chainsaw on the ATD's right arm, operating at 56,000 RPM, an insane speed. The blade is made of a tungsten-steel alloy, laced with industrial diamond edging, and can cut through most normal objects. However, it does come to a loss when facing metahuman subjects or material.

LAT-WS- The Laser-guided Anti-Tank Weapons System is a .50 caliber belt-fed rifle with armor-piercing rounds that is aimed by a passive tracking system, and operates almost autonomously in combat, even when Synced with Angel. It is able to identify pertinent targets, and fire at apparent vulnerable points.

HM-18 (Hellbeast Model 18) Focus Laser- The HM-18 is a shoulder-mounted cannon that fires an extremely narrow beam of light, that, even with atmospheric interference, has a range of 1 mile. This laser takes a significant amount of power, and ignites the air for a second, which could possibly explode any hazardous material.

ASM (Shiva Mg.)- The Arm-mounted Shiva Machinegun is a versatile weapon, able to switch ammo types and reload in an instant. It sits below the left fist of the ATD, and can fire four types of ammo.
-Conventional: Normal machinegun bullets.
-Explosive: Bullets that go boom, not too powerful, but in sustained fire, can chip away at harder targets.
-Rubber Bullets: For the non-lethal touch.
-Electrified Ordinance: While not able to be fired in a automatic fire mode, this ammo latches onto a target, and delivers from between 75 volts, to 750 volts of electrical energy, at Angel's discretion.

QUERY Sensor array- The ATD suit has several advanced sensor systems, which can detect most objects and track them successfully.

'Lancelot' Mechanical Intervention Shield (MIS)- The MIS is a physical shield, which is about half the height, and one third the width of the ATD. It can be held in either hand, and works as a shield of the knights of old. The MIS can hold up against most non-Icon level attacks, and can also be ejected as a projectile from it's sheath on the ATD's back.

'Merlin' Energy Disruption Field (EDF)- The EDF is an energy shield, essentially, but one that does not stop physical objects. This is his most important meta-fighting system, because it can allow him to block most energy-based attacks. It can put up with 3 minutes of direct attack from a meta such as War-Pulse, and with any lesser energy, can hold up for hours. It is projected like an invisible sheath around the ATD, and fits the form nicely, although it hovers several inches off the surface of the mech.

ATD Armor MK-XVI- The armor surrounding the ATD is made of the same material that the 'Lancelot' is, and the plating itself is generally 8 cm thick, although it is considerably thicker at the vital systems areas. Underneath the plating, however, is the kinetic evaporation system, which uses hydraulics and directive impact plating to funnel an impact to the ground.

'Pegasus' Jump Jets- While not capable of sustained flight, these rockets allow the ATD to launch itself into the air, and come back down, with minimal damage. The range varies from angle to angle. It can launch the ATD into the top floor of a skyscraper, but it can also just as easily launch the ATD horizontally, giving it extra movement speed.

Attributes:

Strength Level: Normal Human (outside ATD), 100+ tons (ATD suit)

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 30x human (normal), 50x human (w/mechanical synergy), 20x human (ATD suit, unsynergized.)

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human (Normal), 2 hours (normal w/mech. synergy), and due to the merits of the ATD being a mech suit, it can remain at peak combat capacity, if out of combat, for 12 hours on end. However, the limited power, in combat, decreases to 7 straight hours of combat capacity. The ATD suit acts as an extension of his own body, so the mental strain is lessened.

Agility: Normal Human (Normal), 15x (Mechanical Synergy), 3x (ATD suit)

Intelligence: Genius (Normal), Super-Genius (Mechanical Synergy)

Fighting Skill: Untrained (Normal), Mastered (Mechanical Synergy, ATD suit)

Resources: Large (Monetary) /Extreme (Technology/Information)

Weaknesses: Angel, while able to evade combat outside his ATD, most of the time, isn't very skilled in unarmored combat, and he is quite squishy, inside the mech. Also, his willingness to do whatever it takes to accomplish his goal might bring him into conflict with the other heroes. His lack of any truly overpowering offensive abilities might hurt him, when he fights with someone truly powerful, such as Icon.

Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):

Sherlock- An AI that Angel managed to steal from STRIKE, and reconfigure to support him. While mostly redundant, with his Technopathy, Angel considers Sherlock to be a friend, and is glad that the AI is watching his back.

Sherlock

VKTR-17 (Victor)- Victor is a covert agent from STRIKE that is tasked with retrieving Sherlock and bringing Equilibrium in for questioning.

Victor

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Sample Post:

The rain pounded down on the cracked asphalt leading to the abandoned factory just outside town. However, the factory was anything but abandoned. Inside, many mechanical arms were at work, drilling, prodding, and holding a mechanical hulk that was Equilibrium. Sparks flew down on the concrete floor, as the final plate was welded to the faceplate. Nearby, a young man pushed up a welder's mask, and smiled, looking it over. It was ready.

With the recent rise in Meta activity, (Angel himself notwithstanding,) the 25-year-old had decided that someone had to do something to combat it all. While there were some Metas that were benevolent, like Icon, there were twice as many that were malignant, and even more who just worked as mercenaries. STRIKE had proven itself unable to deal with this competently, and even though it was a powerful organization, there were just too many variables to control. Also, they were kinda a bunch of douches.

"Hey, Sherlock! It's done! Equilibrium is ready to reveal itself to the world!" Angel pulled the welder's outfit off, and revealed a black t-shirt and jeans underneath, by all appearances a normal college graduate. However, this man was a meta himself, able to control most forms of machinery.

On a computer monitor, sitting on a cluttered desk nearby, a line of text appeared:
<OH REALLY? I COULDN'T TELL, FROM THE GIANT MECH SITTING INSIDE THE BUILDING. TELL ME, ANY MORE OBVIOUS INFORMATION YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE ME, ANGEL?>

Angel chuckled, and lifted himself up onto a scaffolding surrounding the mech's cockpit. "Heh, Sherlock, don't be like that. It's not nice." Angel dropped into the cockpit, thick metal encasing him with the hiss of machinery. As the helmet pressed down, protecting his head, Angel aimed a mock pout at the nearest security camera, saying, "It makes me sad."

As the systems to the mech booted up, a line of text flashed across Angel's vision. <Yeah, yeah. Anyways, that thing you asked me to do, you know, the one about The Shroud? I've got the data packet stored inside the mech's memory, so you can review it on the way.> There was a second before Sherlock spoke again, as if thinking. <Anyways, Angel, what are you going to do next?>

The man inside the suit smiled, and clenched the giant fist, synced with the suit fully, and spoke, the synthesized voice of the suit reverberating throughout the room. "Not Angel. Equilibrium."

Stepping out into the rain, Equilibrium was ready to raise hell on the scum of the city. Not literally, like D-Day, though. That was just freaky. Luckily for Angel, the only thing Sherlock and him had to deal with was a little maggot thing that tried to eat his face- anyways, time to get back to the mission at hand. Powering up the 'Pegasus' jump jets, he launched into the air, at a 45 degree angle, the thrust throwing him about a mile to the south. He hoped that the city was ready for yet another freak to change things.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

@NeutralNexus And it just so happens that the person who noticed him is in a big badass mech, too. :)

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

The rain pounded down on the cracked asphalt leading to the abandoned factory just outside town. However, the factory was anything but abandoned. Inside, many mechanical arms were at work, drilling, prodding, and holding a mechanical hulk that was Equilibrium. Sparks flew down on the concrete floor, as the final plate was welded to the faceplate. Nearby, a young man pushed up a welder's mask, and smiled, looking it over. It was ready.

With the recent rise in Meta activity, (Angel himself notwithstanding,) the 25-year-old had decided that someone had to do something to combat it all. While there were some Metas that were benevolent, like Icon, there were twice as many that were malignant, and even more who just worked as mercenaries. STRIKE had proven itself unable to deal with this competently, and even though it was a powerful organization, there were just too many variables to control. Also, they were kinda a bunch of douches.

"Hey, Sherlock! It's done! Equilibrium is ready to reveal itself to the world!" Angel pulled the welder's outfit off, and revealed a black t-shirt and jeans underneath, by all appearances a normal college graduate. However, this man was a meta himself, able to control most forms of machinery.

On a computer monitor, sitting on a cluttered desk nearby, a line of text appeared:
<OH REALLY? I COULDN'T TELL, FROM THE GIANT MECH SITTING INSIDE THE BUILDING. TELL ME, ANY MORE OBVIOUS INFORMATION YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE ME, ANGEL?>

Angel chuckled, and lifted himself up onto a scaffolding surrounding the mech's cockpit. "Heh, Sherlock, don't be like that. It's not nice." Angel dropped into the cockpit, thick metal encasing him with the hiss of machinery. As the helmet pressed down, protecting his head, Angel aimed a mock pout at the nearest security camera, saying, "It makes me sad."

As the systems to the mech booted up, a line of text flashed across Angel's vision. <Yeah, yeah. Anyways, that thing you asked me to do, you know, the one about The Shroud? I've got the data packet stored inside the mech's memory, so you can review it on the way.> There was a second before Sherlock spoke again, as if thinking. <Anyways, Angel, what are you going to do next?>

The man inside the suit smiled, and clenched the giant fist, synced with the suit fully, and spoke, the synthesized voice of the suit reverberating throughout the room. "Not Angel. Equilibrium."

Stepping out into the rain, Equilibrium was ready to raise hell on the scum of the city. Not literally, like D-Day, though. That was just freaky. Luckily for Angel, the only thing Sherlock and him had to deal with was a little maggot thing that tried to eat his face- anyways, time to get back to the mission at hand. Powering up the 'Pegasus' jump jets, he launched into the air, at a 45 degree angle, the thrust throwing him about a mile to the south. He hoped that the city was ready for yet another freak to change things.

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As Equilibrium bounded across the landscape, he drew little attention, the only time he was noticed was when he landed on a farmer's tractor, crushing it in a hail of sparks and metal. Luckily for them both, the farmer had just gotten off, and now lay sprawled in the dirt, knocked backwards from the impact. Glancing at the farmer, and shaking the wrecked tractor off of his foot, Equilibrium said, "Uhm... sorry?" and then flew off, jump jets igniting.

As he lifted off, he thought to himself, Crap, that was embarassing. Luckily, Sherlock was off gathering information on Lost Haven, and not there to humiliate him. Several leaps through the night later, he landed at the outskirts, startling a mugger, and his victim. Both of them looking at him uncertainly, he waved at them, trying to appear cheerful. Which was hard, in a 6-ton war machine. "So I would drop that gun, if I were you. And maybe get a job. Seriously, if you're gonna try and mug someone, do it in another city. With your luck, a Meta or a crime boss will come after you. And I guess me, too." The mugger, knees shaking, nodded in consent, and ran off, dropping the gun. The woman was just as stunned as the mugger, and just sat there. Watching the mugger, to make sure he left the woman alone, he nodded in satisfaction as a door about a block down from where they were slammed shut.

Saluting the woman briefly before charging up the 'Pegasus' jump jets, Equilibrium aimed at the tallest building nearby, which was, luckily, an abandoned construction site. The steel I-beams reached towards the sky above the last completed floor, constructed out of concrete and steel supports. Looking around, he realized that he was in the part of Lost Haven known as Little Sicily. Sherlock hadn't gotten back to him about the particulars of each neighborhood, so all Equilibrium knew about the city was the layout, and its reputation for Meta battles.

Looking over the city, he noticed a blip on his sensors, coming from the direction of the water treatment plant. It wasn't much in the way of activity, but the energy readings were almost off the scale. Almost. A Meta? Charging his jets, he leapt forward off the building, saying, "Well, we can't have that, now can we?"

As he crashed into the ground outside, a cloud of dust rose from the cracks in the pavement that formed upon landing. There was no way that whomever the person inside was, that they didn't hear that. Unless they were deaf. Could deaf Metas be useful in combat? Huh. Might want to look into that later.

Standing up straight, and pointing the gun embedded in his left arm at the doorway, he saw on the sensors that there were two signatures inside the plant. The security guard outside was on the other side of the plant, although he would most likely be on his way over. "Hey, whoever ya are in there, get out. I dunno what a meta would want with the Water Treatment plant, but its probably not good. So geddout." A click, only audible to Equilibrium, sounded inside his helmet. It signified that the explosive rounds had switched out with the conventional ones. Whatever the Metahuman was, he would need a little bit more 'boom', most likely.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

A brawl with robots and supernatural murderers, a giant robot jumping into town... Yep. An eventful night, even for Lost Haven.

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@nitemare shape Cool! I'll get started on my first post!

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@Dedonus Well, actually, Angel's just going after the Shroud because he hasn't gotten much intel on the Crew or Ares yet. Once he arrives in Lost Haven, that most certainly will change.

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Oh, BTW, got my Origin and Sample Post up, and ready for review! Woooooo!

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@Raptorman Yah, had to go through it for DAYS. Luckily, everyone's characters were AMAZING, and kept me hooked. Seriously, I couldn't stop reading.