Byrd Man

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From what little bit I've seen of Vikings, it seems pretty good. Although I'm not well versed in Norse history, so I can let stuff slide that I can't when it comes to the history I know more about.

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Unfortunately, I took it upon myself to watch the first part of Sons of Liberty and the commercial breaks had tons of Sam Adams spots in them.

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Keep in mind this from the same people who brought you Sexy Captains of Industry! This is the shit they show in between the marathons of aliens and the pawn shops.

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While people work on sheets, here's one way not to do it. Sexy Founding Fathers!

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

United States of America

Characters


Government

Russell Reed - Vice President of the United States
Lilian Mather - Secretary of State
Clay Foulke - Speaker of the House of Representatives
Special Agent Jessica Hyatt - Federal Crime Bureau
Admiral Phillip Dalton – Secretary of Defense
Hank Kelly - Analyst, Clandestine Intelligence Agency
Patrick Connelly - Agent, Clandestine Intelligence Agency
Jeff Brewer – White House Chief of Staff
Liza Weld - US State Department
Roderick Marston - US Senator
Special Agent Nathan Parker - Federal Crime Bureau

Political Civilians

James Calhoun - Farmer and civil rights activist - Southern US
Arthur Stewart - College student and Friends of Northwest Sovereignty member - Vancouver
Inspector Mark Echols - Homicide detective - Vancouver
Jim "Sledgehammer" Sledge - Political operative - At-large
Traci Lord - Washington Post political reporter - At-large
Billy Carter - Professional baseball player - Detroit/Ohio
Boyd Rafferty- Assistant District Attorney - Natchez, Mississippi
Lander Gaffney - Writer - At-large
Sam Telford - Musician - Los Angeles/At-large
Tom Clark - Sun City Mayor - Arizona

Criminal Civilians

Elliot Shaw - Private investigator - Boston/California
Johnny Leggario - Gang enforcer - Chicago/Arizona
Bartholomew "Bart" Marston - Sheriff's Deputy - Arizona
Walter "Little Walter" Madison - President, Horde MC - California/Arizona
Jacob Tallchief - Member, Cahuilla Indians - California/Arizona
Barry "Bopppin' Barry" Chambers - Lounge singer - Arizona/California
Michael "Mink" Kane - Irish Gangster - Boston

Military

Captain Andrew Lopez – Commander, USS Ranger
Master Sergeant Silas Crystal – US Army Special Forces (Green Beret)
Marine Colonel Wallace Lee Callsign "Linebacker" - CAG, USS Ranger

NPCs

Michael Norman - President of the United States
Isiah Wolde "The Ethiopian" - Civil Rights leader
Alex - Leader, Friends of Northwest Sovereignty
Wilbur Helms - Nine-term senator from South Carolina
Liam Kane - Boston city councilman
Robert "Bobby C." Colosimo - Head of the Chicago Outfit
Benny D'Amico - Operator of the Desert Rose Hotel & Casino
Johann "Prussian Joe" Wittenberg - Bank robber/criminal mastermind

Post Catalogue

1. Inauguration Day
2. Blame Canada
3. The Stiff in Surrey
4. Literacy
5. Détente
6. The Dam
7. A Change is Gonna Come
8. State of the Union
9. Ranger
10. Northern Exposure
11. Operation Cruiser
12. Rat-Fucking
13. Sledgehammer
14. Coal Miner's Son
15. Resolute
16. Appropriations
17. Stealing Home
18. Hungry Heart
19. A Father's Love
20. Spooks
21. Asphalt Jungle
22. All the Way
23. The Score
24. Purgatory
25. The Scottish Play
26. Penalty Box
27. Harbor Lights
28. Strange Fruit
29. Sub Rosa
30. Bedlam
31. Hooray for Hollywood
32. The Music Man
33. Bone Patrol
34. Strange Bedfellows
35. Corridors of Power

Colonial

You're goddamn right.

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Name: Dr. Peadar Browning Age: 36 Appearance: Browning is a very fragile man, standing at a diminutive height of 5’4 and barely weighing above 120 pounds. His long hair is black with streaks of white. He wears a collection of suits that were once fine, but are now tattered and stained due to the conditions since his exile. Along with his clothing, he has a small bag with medical supplies. Bio: Dr. Peadar Browning was born into one of Tirna-Sorset’s upper middle class family, a family of social strivers. Peadar was taught how to read and write at an early age and soon amassed an impressive library that contained everything from plays, treatises, works of fiction, and political tracts. He had dreams of one day becoming a writer, but he was pushed by his father to practice medicine. He acquiesced to his father’s wishes, but continued to write on the side as he studied. Under the pseudonym of E.G. Rathais, Peadar published the best-selling adventure serial The Bowrocker. Further successful Rathais works followed. There was the sweeping epic A Kinsman's Journey, the romantic and bawdy Tales of a Country Wench, and the runaway successful novel The Life of Callum Creag that was published in several languages across the world. While the name Rathais became an international celebrity, it didn't provide much future so Dr. Peadar Browning quietly continued to practice medicine by day and write at night. Among his closest patients were a duke and his wife. The duke and duchess were part of a small group of nobles who were beginning to grow disenchanted with Aenda’s regency. They invited Browning to meetings where they discussed the rights of nobility, the aristocracy, and who should rule. Motivated by these discussions, Browning wrote a series of essays under the pen name Publius, the essays were titled Thoughts on Constitutional Monarchy. The works called for making the royal family powerless figureheads while a governing council made up of the nobles ran the country with evenly divided power. The duke and duchess provided the seed money for publishing. The essays, published during the height of Aenda’s war with the gentry, sent shockwaves through the nation. The followup pamphlet Thoughts on Self-Determination was even more radical and called for a mixed government of nobles and commoners elected directly by the kingdom's land owners. After the brief civil war's end the duke and duchess were arrested by the army. Under duress they confessed that Browning was Publius. The good doctor was arrested and served six agonizing months in a dungeon before he was shoved on a ship and sent across the water to Uponhill. Browning was party to the hellacious first year the colony suffered. Like the rest of the town he suffered disease and starvation. As a doctor, he did what he could for those in need of his help. Those he could not help he helped bury. The first year is now over and Browning, emaciated and constantly sick due to his weak constitution, serves as just one of two doctors the town has. He helps the people of the colony where and when he can. In his free time he continues to secretly write political tracts that concern the radical ideas of self-governance hoping to one day find an audience that is ready for his ideas.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Never mind China, I want something like that to play.

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 1 (Completed)

Player Name: Byrd Man Character You Wish To Play: Rachel Cole-Alves Moral Alignment: WTL Affiliation: None at the moment. Formerly, Marine Forces Recon and the Central Intelligence Agency Character Origin & Backstory: Before there was Rachel, there was Frank Castle. November 12th, 1950: Francis Castle is born in Queens August 10th, 1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing president Lyndon Johnson to use conventional military force to stop the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam. July 28th, 1965: Johnson pledges to send nearly four hundred thousand troops to Vietnam, tripling the US commitment to fight the Viet Cong. January 30th, 1968: Anti-Communist forces launch the Tet Offensive, pouring men and resources into the area and sending the conflict in Vietnam from police action to full-on war. November 12th, 1968: Frank Castle enlists in the US Marine Corps September 2nd, 1969: Sergeant Frank Castle ships out to join the 1st Marine Division as a platoon sergeant December 25th, 1969: The Christmas Day Massacre near Đắk Glei wipes out half of Castle's platoon. He kills over two dozen attacking VC with an M60 machine gun. Castle is awarded medals for bravery and recruited for Special Forces work. January 1st, 1970 - April 30th, 1974: HISTORY REDACTED AT THE REQUEST OF USMC FORCE RECONNAISSANCE May 1st, 1974: Granted a battlefield commission to 1st Lieutenant, Frank Castle is honorably discharged from the USMC and sent home. June 2nd, 1975: Frank Castle marries Maria Castle. March 24th, 1976: Lisa Castle is born. August 17th, 1978: Francis Castle Jr. is born. July 7th, 1980: Maria, Lisa, and Frank Castle Jr. are all murdered, caught in a cross-fire at Central Park between mobsters. Severely wounded, Frank survives. December 18th, 1981: After two mistrials and numerous accusations of jury tampering, Jimmy Rizzo and Carlo Andolini, the two Scargetti Crime Family hitmen who killed Castle's family, are found not guilty by a jury of their peers. The same day Frank Castle leaves his family home for the last time. December 20th, 1981: Jimmy Rizzo and Carolo Andolini are found dead, their bodies tortured and mutilated. December 22nd, 1981 - March 17th, 1982: Fifty-two made men and associates of the Scargetti Family are brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. March 18th, 1982: Fearing for his life and safety, Dominic Scargetti turns himself over to members of the FBI and confess to numerous racketeering and conspiracy charges. He receives life in prison. March 28th, 1982: Frank Castle mails a letter to the Daily Bugle with explicit photos of Scargetti Family members shortly before their murders. In the letter, Castle claims that the men killed were the first casualties in a new war on crime he is waging. Not as Frank Castle, but as The Punisher. 1982-2002: Using his military background and money from murdered criminals, Frank Castle wages his one man war with the criminal syndicates in America. Over a twenty year span, he kills at least a thousand men in thirty states in addition to another two hundred speculated murders around the US and abroad. Until September 11th, he is first on the FBI's Most Wanted List. June 6th, 1984: Rachel Cole is born in Brooklyn September 30th, 2002: Rachel Cole enlists in the US Marines Corps. January 12th, 2003: The last known kill by the Punisher is recorded in Philadelphia, PA. 2003 - 2007: Gunnery Sergeant Cole serves with the USMC in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Cole is recrutied into the Marine Corps Forces Reconnaissance. 2007 - 2009: HISTORY REDACTED AT THE REQUEST OF USMC FORCE RECONNAISSANCE February 13th, 2009: Cole is honorably discharged from the USMC February 15th, 2009: Cole is hired by the Central Intelligence Agency as a "Security Advisor" 2009 - 2012: HISTORY REDACTED AT CIA REQUEST November 11th, 2012:Cole returns to New York City and finds employment as a cable TV installer. February 14th, 2013: Cole becomes engaged to marry Dr. Daniel Alves, a Brooklyn based dentist. October 5th, 2014: 13 members of the Cole-Alves wedding party are gunned down at their reception by unknown assailants. The members of the wedding party are thought to have been unfortunate bystanders caught in the crossfire between the attackers and the men they were chasing. Among those killed include the groom Daniel Alves and mother of the bride Jessica Cole. Rachel Cole is wounded and rushed to surgery where she recovers. November 16th, 2014: Rachel Cole-Alves is discharged from the hospital. At the same time, three associate members of the Brutenilli Crime Family are gunned down in the Bronx. The three dead men match eyewitness descriptions of three of the shooters involved in the Cole-Alves wedding massacre. November 18th, 2014: Sixty-four year old Frank Castle emerges from seclusion and contacts Rachel Cole-Alves at her home. November 20th, 2014 - December 7th, 2014: The entire Brutenilli Crime Family are executed by persons unknown. Joseph Martinzio, the boss of the family, is found stabbed to death and wearing a bloody wedding dress. December 19th, 2014: A fire breaks out at the Federal Maximum Security Penitentiary in Fishkill, NY. While the men are being escorted to safety, a man disguised as a corrections officer stabs the now ninety year old Dominic Scargetti to death with a rusty shiv. Inside the dead Don's pocket is a faded photo of Frank Castle in his family. December 23rd, 2014: A dead body is discovered on the streets of the Bronx. It is positively identified as Frank Castle. An autopsy reveals that the man died of liver cancer that had metastasized years earlier and eaten at nearly every major organ in his body. Pathologist determine that he lived nearly ten years with the cancer and ignored the intense pain. January 1st, 2015: Fredo Lopes, a Spanish Harlem pimp suspected of killing two prostitutes, is gunned down in cold-blood by an unknown gunman. Carved into the dead man's forehead is a skull. A letter to the Daily Bugle and published the next day claim responsibility for the murder. The death was not justice: it was punishment. Frank Castle is dead, but his legacy lives on. Powers and Abilities: No powers, but Rachel is a former Marine and is an expert soldier with a training in a variety of forms of conventional and unconventional warfare and hand to hand combat. In addition to that, she has access to the money and guns Frank Castle had confiscated over a lifetime of waging his war on crime. Sample Story Arcs: Give 2-3 ideas on where you want to go with your character: The Boston Massacre: Rachel experiences growing pains in her new role as the Punisher. In Boston she goes toe to toe with the Irish Mob and their gun-running enterprise. City of Angels: Following the trail of gun-smuggling, Rachel finds herself in Los Angeles and has to protect an LAPD office who finds himself in over his head when a simple traffic stop becomes something much more complicated. Mission Creep: The Company has gotten wind of Rachel's activities and come calling. A figure from her past returns, hellbent on getting her under his boot no matter the collateral damage. Sample Post:

Sample Post

La Araña Discoteca Spanish Harlem "The hell do you want, puta?" The bouncer outside the nightclub didn't have time to get his answer. A powerful fist struck him in the face and drove him to the ground. The bouncer looked up, his sunglasses astray, and right into the blade of a butterfly knife. The clubgoers standing outside watched on in shock. "Carlos Fring," Rachel said, placing the blade of the knife under the bouncer's eye. "Fuck off!" The large man yelled. "Wrong answer." Rachel raked the blade up the bouncer's face. The bystanders recoiled and horror and began to scatter. "Ahhh!" The bouncer screamed. He held his bloody face with both hands. "He's in the back office!" Rachel flicked the blade back into its handles and slid the knife back into the holster strapped to her thigh. She stepped over the bleeding bouncer and into the club, a sawed-off shotgun hidden under her coat. Strobe lights flashed and heavy, techo music blasted out the club's speakers. She navigated through the jumping and bumping throng of people towards the club's back offices. A few hundred feet away, Carlos Fring sat at the desk in the club's backroom. He had his pants around his ankles and a woman's face buried into his crotch. While Carlos "relaxed", twin brothers Rob and Roy James were busy at a folding table in front of the desk. They were counting and weighing the half dozen bricks of cocaine and marijuana that were stacked on the table. "This all?" Roy asked. "This ain't nothing." "Times are tough," Carlos said as he titled his head back and closed his eyes. "In a few more weeks we will have a full shipment. Relax. For now, get your people to...," Carlos lost his train of thought as the woman between his legs rolled her tongue. "... Just, business as usual. Smaller supply, cut it more." On the main dance floor, Rachel started to climb up a flight of stairs when a pair of powerful hands grabbed her by the shoulders. She spun around and was brought face to face with a large, Latino man in a dark suit. He tried to shout over the music, but couldn't be heard. While he was shouting, Rachel leveled the shotgun at the man's stomach. The gun kicked in her hands and knocked the man back. The sound of the music masked the shotgun blast. The dying man tumbled down the stairs and came to a stop on the bottom step. One gyrating young girl saw the dead body and screamed before running towards the exit. Rachel racked another round into the shotgun and turned around, quickly climbing the steps. Another guard was waiting at the top of the stairwell. Before the man could react, Rachel brought the butt of the shotgun up into his face. She drove the cartilage from the man's nose up and into his head, puncturing the brain stem. The guard collapsed to the ground, spasming from the brain injury that would kill him in a few seconds. Rachel calmly walked down the hall leading towards the backroom. She was almost there when a black man jumped out and knocked the shotgun from her hands. The man drove Rachel into the corridor's wall and slammed up against her. The guard pummeled her with blows to the face. Rachel shook off the blows and headbutted the man in the face. The guard stumbled backwards and Rachel whipped out her knife, flicking the blade open as the guard charged. She took a glancing blow to the shoulder, but managed to drive the blade of his knife into the side of the man's neck. He cried out and fell to his side. Rachel loomed over him, her face bloody and bruised, and kicked the hilt of the knife further into the man's neck. He went to scream, but blood bubbled out of his mouth and ran out on the floor. Rachel picked up her shotgun and kicked in the office door. Rob and Roy James looked up just in time to be hit with a blast of pellets. The twin brothers fell to the ground, their heads and chests covered in blood and buckshot. Carlos cried out in pain from behind the desk. The sudden shock of the gun had caused the woman between his legs to bite down. "Crazy bitch!" Carlos yelled. He rolled back and the woman underneath the desk popped up, blood and chunks of flesh coated her mouth. "You bit it off! ¡Oh, Dios. Me voy a morir! Maldita perra." "Go," Rachel said, looking at the woman. She scurried off and Frank walked over to Carlos. The gangster held on to his bloody crotch and moaned. Rachel looked down at the bloody member laying on the floor. "I guess it's true what they say about men with little feet... I had planned to shoot you, but I think this is worse." She kneed Fring in his crotch. "¡Dios mío," the man howled in pain and dry heaved. Rachel grabbed Fring by his shoulders and bent down. "Now that I have your attention, you're going to deliver a message to Don Eladio... He's next."

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Alright changed it up. Kept the surname since that's already old English, but tinkered with some of the other names.