CaptainManbeard

Young Avengers

So far, it looks like we have potentially seven interested writers total, including myself. I'll give it a few more days to see if there is any further interest and then I'll post the main thread and the character sheet layout.

Young Avengers

So, how exactly will characters like Loki, Thor, and Hela work? That’s a minor issue I have with the story being that they all got their powers at the same time, in the same place. Will characters like that, whose backstories form the basis for their powers and concept and whatnot, just take the name and powers and otherwise be a normal person?

@RenegadeRunaway

Since this world is initially very similar to our real world, gods like the Asgardians don't exist in the same way they do in other Marvel universes. My idea for Donny and Owen was for them to take the names Thor and Loki from Norse mythology, so yes, they would be normal humans who were then mutated by the Terrigen, but their powers and personalities would develop to be similar to their MCU counterparts. I will also likely use younger versions of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleson as the faces for Donny and Owen. Once Owen gets a little older and goes full-on supervillain, he will be virtually indistinguishable from Loki in the first Avengers film in personality and appearance. I will also probably use Khary Payton for Bishop and Matt Damon for David Bruce Banner.

Young Avengers

I would love to throw my hat into this. I’d love to take on Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

@RenegadeRunaway

Sure! Welcome!

Intrested for sure. Thinking about rping as Marcus Milton (Hyperion).

@MelodicElement

Okay, sounds good!

I'm sorta interested, but more importantly, I wanted to give kudos to the awesome screen name! I love it!

@RedVII

Haha, thanks! Usually I go by "Captain Manbeard" or "The Magnificent Manbeard" on various sites. It's a nickname based around my ability to grow a kickass beard:

This sounds so cool! I would love to join if you'd have me. I'm assuming we would be able to turn to the dark side eventually in the story right?

@September

Sure! What characters did you have in mind?

Young Avengers

I thought I would keep it simple. Marvel.com says she is only human like you said but I figured make her superhuman traits with precision aim and for a boss power either invisibility or telepathy. I don't know what she uses but after some research I would update her weapons and gadgets.

@role model

Invisibility would probably suit her better than telepathy. You could deck her out similar to a Rogue in D&D.

Young Avengers

So if I wanted to be Spider Man, would I have to be Peter Parker, or could it be an OC?

@Crimson Flame

Yeah, that's fine. You could say the Terrigen gives him spider-like powers. There could be a spider in the tree above him in Central Park that drops down and bites him just before the fog rolls in or something.

I am interested. And I have never played a woman character but I want to rp Black Widow.

@role model

Since she is usually portrayed as a normal human, you have a blank canvas to create her powerset. I would recommend a dexterity-based mutation similar to Spider-Man, and in fact you could have her be near Crimson Flame's character and so they both get spider-like abilities and take spider-like names.

Young Avengers

My idea for this is to rework the Avengers as a group of teenage superheroes who get in over their heads and have to grow into their new heroic roles. To start, this version of the Marvel Universe is largely identical to our real world, with the exception of some old media of Captain America and other heroes in the 1940s. Notions of magic, aliens, and superpowers are largely considered fictional by the public, and all our starter characters are normal humans at the beginning of the RP.

For the sake of simplicity, I'm taking mutants, mutates, inhumans, and other types of powered beings and uniting them under the banner trigger of Terrigenesis. So our starter characters are just normal teenagers living their lives in New York City, and they're among those ready to celebrate on July 4th, 2023. However, when the fireworks start to go off that night, a sudden blue fog envelopes the crowd in a wave. People begin to panic, thinking they have been poisoned as they hack their lungs out. Unbeknownst to them at the time, a renegade scientist placed several Terrigen Crystals in with the explosives, hoping to see what would happen since his superiors refused to authorize human testing. And that's how our starter characters get their powers. Feel free to rework any Marvel character to fit within this joint origin story.

The goal for our heroes in the short-term would be to learn about their powers and try to uncover what happened, but the long-term objective will be to stop the scientists and their team of villains from detonating a Terrigen Bomb in Times Square during the Ball Drop on New Year's Eve. After that we can roll into heavily modified sagas centering around mainstay enemies like HYDRA, Ultron, and Thanos. I'd love to hear your character ideas.

For me, I'm going to be playing four guys to start: Donald and Owen Blake, two brothers from London spending the Summer in America; Bruce Banner, a young genius years ahead of his time; and Lucas Bishop, a skilled athlete who aspires to one day become a Navy SEAL.

After their first Terrigen encounter, Donald is able to channel lightning and becomes Thor; Owen can cast illusions as Loki; Bruce morphs into various forms of the Hulk; and Lucas absorbs and redirects energy in the form of red plasma. Over the course of the first saga, Owen gradually becomes a villain and ends up a major antagonist. Feel free to create multiple characters yourselves to have some as heroes and some as villains. PM me if you have any questions.

Once Upon a Precipice of Extinction

The year 2020 was wrought with chaos and catastrophe. The populace thrust from one tragedy to the next; a global pandemic, a rapidly deteriorating economy, injustice and organized oppression at the hands of corrupt governments, to name a few. It was also the year humanity went extinct...

Earth prospered under it's new human-free existence. Cities and structures were reclaimed by nature, pollution finally began to fade, and a new global eco-system prevailed in the coming millennia. Removing sentient beings from the planet allowed it to thrive once more, but wouldn't it be a shame if something... brought them back? ...

This roleplay would tell the story of a group of passengers aboard a flight in August 2020, who had just been released from quarantine after the tropical island they were on was put under lockdown. This was after many people thought the danger of viral infection had passed and thousands had swarmed the island. So, our characters are on a plane, heading back home to America after their vacation didn't turn out like they expected. At first it's smooth flying, but then they find themselves in rough wind as a massive electrical storm rolls in seemingly out of nowhere and begins thrashing the plane around. The vessel begins getting struck repeatedly by a strange red lightning, blasting open windows and hatches, and electrocuting most of the passengers. Just as they are losing consciousness, they witness the plane starting to crack as it dives toward the ground, a bright light envelops them all, they hear a distant sound of a loud explosion, and then darkness.

Out of the approximately three-hundred passengers onboard, less than a dozen suddenly find themselves on the shores of a jungle island that is likely near the one they left. But what's strange is that they are all naked, any belongings they had are gone, and the plane itself is nowhere in sight. The stars seem off a bit as well, and everything feels strange -- and that is before the mutant bugs come out of the jungle to attack them.

Somehow, they find a way to survive in the coming weeks, and then are shocked when suddenly there are bright flashes in the sky above them, followed by the plane reappearing and crashing down on the beach. They discover more passengers on the plane, but still not all of them. However, there seems to be a time discrepancy because for the second group, it's only been moments since the first group vanished. Then they begin to remember the passengers seemed to get hit by the red lightning in waves. For our main characters, they were technically part of the second wave, having seen those at the very front of the plane get hit first. They conclude that they must have been flung into the far future, with timeskips between each wave. But if our main characters were part of the second wave, and the third wave threw people farther ahead, shouldn't the people from the first wave have arrived first? Where are they? Did they show up somewhere else?

I'll have the milksteak boiled hard and your finest jelly beans

Thank you all for the warm welcome! I hope to start posting up ideas soon. Probably the first one I'll throw up is sort of a fusion between Lost and Dr. Stone, where a plane full of passengers becomes enveloped in a massive electrical storm over the Pacific and they get hurled into the distant future, long after humanity has gone extinct, but still well before the Sun exhausts it's core hydrogen fuel. I'll include more info in the Interest Check post.

I'll have the milksteak boiled hard and your finest jelly beans

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I remember seeing a lot of Star Citizen in development stages but I've never played it. Didn't honestly realize you could. I'll have to check it out.

@Lord Wraith

It's still very pre-alpha. We have quarterly server wipes to update the client, but it's fun to mess around in. You have to be a backer to actually play, but on the website the cheapest packages are like $35 I think and you get a starting ship and some credits.

I'll have the milksteak boiled hard and your finest jelly beans

Here's a gameplay video I did a while back. No voice-over, just me showing the space travel mechanics. It reminds me of Firefly a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRbk-vLxeos