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Call To Action: Marginalized Groups Must Be Recognized In The Rules

I think the point there was that replacing harmful words with **** in a harmful message doesn't make the message not harmful.

If you took a racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic/whatever diatribe from a particularly virulent hater of whatever group it is they are hating and replaced each instance of whichever specific derogatory term, meaning N word and the like, but the message remained it would still essentially be the same message with the same impact.

Reading Mein Kampf with every use of an anti-Semitic slur replaced with a series of four asterisks would still be reading the same hateful tripe. Listening to a "sermon" from the West Borough Baptist Church wherein every usage of a homophobic slur was replaced with "Homosexual Individual" would still result in the same hateful message just ever so slightly less incendiary.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

Weapon Hexx

"Never did like these big cities. Folk all living on top of each other, dying on top of each other."

The cowboy out of time stepped up near the edge of the metal platform in the middle of a sea and hunkered down on his haunches looking down into it's depths. New York City stretched out below them, somewhere in that murky expanse. He'd tried to stay away from the big cities and never made his way to the big oceans while he was living. It was always prairie or desert or mountains, always moving. Made it to the Gulf of Mexico but that don't really count. When he came back they'd kept him mostly working in the Heartland. Chasing the wickedness men got up to far from the prying eyes of big city life. Here he was now, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of New York City, surrounded by some few million dead.

"United States won the war in my world, course I was still a corpse when we did. Other countries helped too."

Rising up he dusted himself off, more out of habit than need, and moved back away from the edge. He could swim well enough, wasn't entirely sure he really needed to breathe anymore, but testing that out didn't seem productive.

"New York City was big for us too but it weren't no aquarium. I was dead for a while, like I said, so sometimes I can talk with the recently departed. Sort of. Like the kid said though, I'm getting nothing out here. No souls. Too far down maybe, or too far gone. Don't like this place. Too many dead, too quiet."

Great expanses of land felt like home, great expansive cities felt like a giant trash dump on top of what might otherwise have been a fine home, great seas felt like some other creatures domain never meant for man. This place, a great city turned into a great grave beneath a great sea, felt like an abomination. A natural abomination but an abomination all the same. He dug his fingers into a tin of Spam and made himself as comfortable as he could manage on this strange platform in stranger seas.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

| Character Identity |

Jonah Hex, Weapon Hex

| Age |

Older Than Dirt

| Character Differences |

Jonah Hex lived once long ago during the Civil War of the United States. Raised in the South he may well have ended up fighting for the Confederacy were it not for the positive influence of his father, Woodson Hex. Fleeing the war (and potential charges regarding the sudden disappearance of his wife) himself Woodson took his son with him and exchanged him in New Mexico for safe passage through tribal lands.

Raised there among the tribe until as a young man he got into a violent confrontation with the natural born son of his adoptive father, the Chieftain of the tribe. Exiled from the tribe he went on to live a long rough life in the Wild West as a bounty hunter and all around rough customer. His story departs here from his traditional treatment in D.C. Comics.

After a hard brutal life he found a swift violent end and his body became a curiosity for some time before being acquired by a government run private museum of just such curiosities as well as any usable biological material. As the world developed and the United States government became aware of and involved in superhumans, mutants, and in time the supernatural several government operations opened up. Some operating officially and openly but many operating under more than one level of cover. One such program, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development, came into possession of Hex's body and one of their number with a particular affinity for speaking with the deceased talked him back from the abyss.

Classified as a Weapon for some time, perhaps correctly, Jonah Hex walks again. Now officially designated as Weapon Hex he came to become a major part of the B.P.R.D. in this reality. Largely filling in the large mean bastard with a big gun role that Hellboy plays in most realities. He is dispatched to help solve mysteries and put down threats of a supernatural and particularly dangerous nature.

As part of B.P.R.D.'s weaponizing Hex now has a substantial healing factor and as a consequence of his long visit in the lands of the dead he now has a connection to the underworld. A sixth sense essentially. Beyond that he is simply a large, mean, sharp shooting, dirty fighting, hard drinking son of a bitch.

| Brief World Background |

The world Jonah Hex/Weapon Hex comes from is a more violent and more magical iteration of the DC and Marvel Worlds. One without the big hitters that could likely solve many of the problems quickly. Without a Superman or his rogue's gallery the government had to, or chose to, get more involved in matters. Some agencies monitor the superheroes of the world, others monitor the more mundane but still perfectly sinister machinations of the unpowered criminals that litter the world, the B.P.R.D. keeps an eye out for the magical, spiritual and just generally freaky happenings.

At times the B.P.R.D. comes in to conflict with the spheres of other existing heroes. Daredevil and The Hand, The X-Men and their stranger foes, and often with many of the more street level heroes when B.P.R.D. is called in and collateral damage occurs.

| Brief Character Background |

Dispatched on just another mission Hex found himself inside a decades old parking structure which had been torn down and bulldozed twelve years ago investigating an anomaly. Strange happenings but that was par for the course. Hackles raised, massive revolver loaded up and ready for bear, he moved slowly up the levels of the parking structure. Winds blowing up small dirt devils despite the parking structures immaculate keeping. Top to bottom, parking spots, security booth, all four stairwells, nothing supernatural. Nothing amiss. Except a moment later the sky changed colors and he was all at once in an entirely new world. Some powerful mojo at work.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

TGM, you're going to love Doom Eternal.

It just feels good. Explore a lot. IIRC you can use codes (which you find in the environment) freely so long as you don't care about achievements.

Soundtrack is sick.
Violence is sick.
Guns are sick.
Metal Album backgrounds are sick.

Fully sick.

Crucible - If David Cronenberg directed Star Wars

Given the Star Wars reference in the title, are you doing a setting with humanoid aliens?

If so is it to the level of Star Wars where people are mostly familiar with several species and unsurprised to see a variety of them or is it mostly human with a few standout humanoids? Are there species like Hutts, big slug things, or mostly just humans and humanoids of various statures?

This is purely a flavor question but...Is Crucible a small smuggler spaceport that is largely filled to capacity between long termers and folks coming in for short stays or is it capable of housing many more than are currently there but there just aren't enough folks left to fill the vacancies?

Either way is pretty cool. A small port now stuffed to the brim as there are fewer options for weary travelers or the husk of a once thriving piratey spaceport now with dozens of unoccupied rooms and no one to occupy them.

Blades of the Blood Coast

A man of refined tastes.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

In combat mostly just the same old Wolverine except less rage and animalistic stuff. Like the difference between someone trained in Krav Maga killing or incapacitating someone swiftly and ruthlessly and one of the typical Wolverine chop everyone up and scream a lot. Less skewering someone and picking them up over his head, more cutting the legs from under someone and finishing them.

John Wick rather than Rambo.

In regard to leadership he's less the on the ground lead by example type he usually is. I picture him as having earned the loyalty of his men in that way long long ago but after establishing himself in Madripoor he now had middlemen there that would be that sort of leader. He's more the scary face and promise of retribution behind the organization than the actual boots on the ground sort.

For the previous questions,

Hex is basically using Hellboys big ass pistol yeah, The Good Samaritan. If you meant the Red Right Hand I don't want him to have the actual kinda squared off giant hand I don't want that. I thought about having him have a burned up right hand or maybe a red glove, but the scarred up face and resurrection are probably enough.

For Old Patch, yes basically and absolutely yes. Going off the old like bushido shit Wolverine often had ties to there are crimes he will neither participate in nor allow anyone to participate in in Madripoor, but he's not a super hero anymore. Maybe a hero to many in Madripoor but not actually a hero. Sort of an anti-hero, means to an end for the law abiding in Madripoor. Some love him and some accept him and are maybe even like grudgingly glad he's around in the same way folks might become accustomed to and fond of a dictator.

MFP#5 - Sleep (Voting and Feedback)

Gotta vote for the "I always loved to watch you sleep" one. Solid.

Rogue Continuum: The Singularity Crisis (A DC and Marvel RP)

Jonah Hex / Weapon Hex

| Character Identity |

Jonah Hex, Weapon Hex

| Age |

Older Than Dirt

| Character Differences |

Jonah Hex lived once long ago during the Civil War of the United States. Raised in the South he may well have ended up fighting for the Confederacy were it not for the positive influence of his father, Woodson Hex. Fleeing the war (and potential charges regarding the sudden disappearance of his wife) himself Woodson took his son with him and exchanged him in New Mexico for safe passage through tribal lands.

Raised there among the tribe until as a young man he got into a violent confrontation with the natural born son of his adoptive father, the Chieftain of the tribe. Exiled from the tribe he went on to live a long rough life in the Wild West as a bounty hunter and all around rough customer. His story departs here from his traditional treatment in D.C. Comics.

After a hard brutal life he found a swift violent end and his body became a curiosity for some time before being acquired by a government run private museum of just such curiosities as well as any usable biological material. As the world developed and the United States government became aware of and involved in superhumans, mutants, and in time the supernatural several government operations opened up. Some operating officially and openly but many operating under more than one level of cover. One such program, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development, came into possession of Hex's body and one of their number with a particular affinity for speaking with the deceased talked him back from the abyss.

Classified as a Weapon for some time, perhaps correctly, Jonah Hex walks again. Now officially designated as Weapon Hex he came to become a major part of the B.P.R.D. in this reality. Largely filling in the large mean bastard with a big gun role that Hellboy plays in most realities. He is dispatched to help solve mysteries and put down threats of a supernatural and particularly dangerous nature.

As part of B.P.R.D.'s weaponizing Hex now has a substantial healing factor and as a consequence of his long visit in the lands of the dead he now has a connection to the underworld. A sixth sense essentially. Beyond that he is simply a large, mean, sharp shooting, dirty fighting, hard drinking son of a bitch.

| Brief World Background |

The world Jonah Hex/Weapon Hex comes from is a more violent and more magical iteration of the DC and Marvel Worlds. One without the big hitters that could likely solve many of the problems quickly. Without a Superman or his rogue's gallery the government had to, or chose to, get more involved in matters. Some agencies monitor the superheroes of the world, others monitor the more mundane but still perfectly sinister machinations of the unpowered criminals that litter the world, the B.P.R.D. keeps an eye out for the magical, spiritual and just generally freaky happenings.

At times the B.P.R.D. comes in to conflict with the spheres of other existing heroes. Daredevil and The Hand, The X-Men and their stranger foes, and often with many of the more street level heroes when B.P.R.D. is called in and collateral damage occurs.

| Brief Character Background |

Dispatched on just another mission Hex found himself inside a decades old parking structure which had been torn down and bulldozed twelve years ago investigating an anomaly. Strange happenings but that was par for the course. Hackles raised, massive revolver loaded up and ready for bear, he moved slowly up the levels of the parking structure. Winds blowing up small dirt devils despite the parking structures immaculate keeping. Top to bottom, parking spots, security booth, all four stairwells, nothing supernatural. Nothing amiss. Except a moment later the sky changed colors and he was all at once in an entirely new world. Some powerful mojo at work.

Old Patch

| Character Identity |

Old Patch, once Wolverine, once Logan, once just normal Patch, once James Howlett.

| Age |

Old As Dirt

| Character Differences |

This is a version of Wolverine that lost just a little too much of his give a fuck. Or at least lost it in regard to the people that he is generally most known as having it for. Having found out enough about his past prior to joining the X-Men and the manipulations of Professor Xavier, both in regard to himself and in regard to the other X-Men and students in the Xavier Institute, Wolverine left the United States and Canada behind and returned to one of the few places he believed he could find some manner of peace and be free of their continued attentions. Madripoor.

In time he rose in the ranks there, eventually becoming near to synonymous with the small island nation. A crime lord of a sort, but popular in both High Town and Low Town. Often more popular than the actual elected leadership. Old Patch leveraged his recognizability and reputation to elevate the island nation and avoid annexation or war. Warding off China, HYDRA, Magneto, and the United States alike.

As much good as he has done for Madripoor he has his thumb in near to every illicit practice, with some obvious exceptions. Madripoor is a loosely policed nation, but venturing into the wrong business or sticking to safe businesses but deciding you did not really need to cut a piece off for Old Patch would quickly result in a visit from a small familiar figure. He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is rule Madripoor with an iron fist. An iron fist with knives sticking out of it.

| Brief World Background |

This world is mostly the same as the 616 primary canon world of Marvel mixed with a little bit of DC. Captain America exists alongside Superman, one representing the interests of the United States and one representing the interests of the planet. Batman exists in Gotham while Xavier exists nearby in New York. The world is a bit darker, more reflective of 90s DC or Ultimate setting Marvel, but largely the same.

Wolverine's absence in the X-Men setting has led to Cyclops having to work harder to lead and Storm stepping in to serve as his counter. The youths of the setting have had to grow up quicker. Some have ventured to Madripoor to seek guidance from the old canuckle head but many are disillusioned to find how well he has come to fit the role he chose for himself there.

| Brief Character Background |

Logan has lived a long life and suffered a lot of loss as a result. Enough that his mind began to shield itself from the loss by erasing difficult memories. Fighting in war after war, seeing the more mundane every day violence any man might see in such a long life, Yukio, Silver Fox, Jean Grey, Xavier's betrayal.

He moved to get away from all of it as he so often did. This time instead of running away to lick his wounds before trudging back in once more he found a purpose and a home. Not a particularly nice one, but one where he fit in. A competent fighter, a keen mind. Knives in his hands, metal on his bones. Heals a lot, hard to kill. Alcoholic but can barely get drunk. The perfect politician, the perfect crime lord, but I'm repeating myself.

Less prone to rage and violence, but more discerning with it's use. Harder, meaner, more of a leader.

I like both of them.

I'd be happy to RP either depending on which seems to fit in better with the setting. Wolverine has a more easily written for personality. Hex is usually kinda just a hard fighting big man with a big gun, which kinda works.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

took too long