Dedonus

All-Star Marvel (Always Accepting)

Hi! So yeah! I would like to be Kitty. So like I gets your example. But going into it again... since Rogue and Shadowcat are X-Women does that mean we control other x men until more x-peeps show up?

Bunnita

Right now I would say yes. The idea behind this is to allow other characters to be able to appear in the RP without having to have a bunch of people. There are countless characters in the Marvel Universe (tv, comics, movies, video games, etc.). We cannot possible have an individual person play each character (that would be chaotic and unwieldy). Also note that players may have more than one character labeled as a "Playable Character" (Max. of 3). There is a start limit of 1 and you get the others by making posts. This is just there to make sure people don't just write up character sheets and never post. I hope it will weed out the people who would post two or three times and then go AWL.

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

WEll shit. Just as I was typing up my post I see nexus has bailed on the fight. :(

Raptorman

Well, there is another character waiting on a fight. *cough*Iron Knight*cough* I'm just messing with you.

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus

Player Name: Dedonus Character You Wish To Play: Peter Benjamin Parker, otherwise known as the Amazing Spider-Man! Moral Alignment: Hero. Affiliation: The Amazing Friends Character Origin & Backstory: Peter’s life has been a story of repeated tragedies.

Early Life

Peter Benjamin Parker was born to Richard and Mary Parker. All that Peter could remember about his parents was that his father, Richard, was a geneticist and genetic engineer and that his mother, Mary, was a nurse. While Peter was still very young, his parents tragically died in a plane accident. Therefore, the burden fell upon Peter’s aunt and uncle, May and Benjamin Parker, who gave the young Peter all the love that they could. Even when the Parkers struggled to support their nephew financially, they gave the young Peter all the love they had. This was only the first tragedy in Peter’s guilt-ridden life. Through elementary and middle school, Peter was belittled and bullied since Peter was a book-worm, nerd, and an ‘A’ student. Although his academic studies helped him through this time, thinking that someday he would be all the ‘popular’ kids’ boss, there almost did not seem like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Not until he first met one of his future best friends: Angelica Jones. She and her widowed father, Bartholomew Jones, moved to Queens from Massachusetts after Angelica’s paternal grandmother passed away. Both being lonely and outcasts, Peter and Angelica quickly became friends. Things looked bright for Peter, or at least that how they seemed until Angelica’s microwave powers began to manifest. With the anti-mutant sentiment, Angelica’s father enrolled her at the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning. After a bitter and sad departure, Peter had lost his best friend almost as soon as they became friends.

The Birth of Spider-Man

Then there was the day Peter gained his powers. Peter was attending a demonstration of the latest findings of Doctor Curtis Connors, an expert on cross-species genetics. During the demonstration, one of the genetically altered spiders escaped from its container on that faithful day and bit Peter, infecting him with a virus that caused Peter to develop his abilities. After suffering a miserable night due to his body trying to cope with the virus that had infected Peter, Peter woke up feeling like a new person. Now with super-human powers, Peter knew what he had to do with them: earn money for his loving aunt and uncle, who had struggled to support him. It was the least he could do. While Peter was successful early on, having created his ‘iconic’ red and blue costume to conceal his identity, Peter’s cash supply was destroyed by a man who would be a pain in Spider-Man’s backside for years to come: J. Jonah Jameson. After Jameson’s crusade against Spider-Man in the Daily Bugle, Peter was distraught. How was he going to be able to help his aunt and uncle now? In his misery, Peter ignored a bugler while Peter heading home from the studio for the last time. While it seemed insignificant at the time, Peter would later regret that decision. Later that week, Peter’s Uncle Ben was killed when a robber broke into their house. When Peter caught the murderer, he was shocked to the core when he discovered that the murderer was the same man whom Peter failed to stop earlier that week. Shaken by the experience, Peter finally learned the lesson that his Uncle Ben had been trying to teach him: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. After he got his powers, but prior to his uncle’s death, Peter finally rallied up the courage to ask his dream crush, Gwen Stacy, out on a date. She was his Penelope. The death of Peter’s uncle just brought the two further together. However, as Peter’s career as Spider-Man began, Peter discovered how much damage his alter-ego had started to inflect on their relationship. Therefore, Peter revealed his secret to the love of his life. And this knowledge was the kiss of death for Gwen, although neither of them knew this at the time. There was yet another bright spot in the sea of darkness that was Peter’s tragedy life. Peter and Angelica crossed paths again and they would never go separate ways again. The X-Men (in civilian garb) were visiting a science museum as a field trip (since the institute was a school, after all) when suddenly the Juggernaut attacked. After Peter helped the X-Men subdue the Juggernaut, both Peter and Angelica discovered the other’s secret identities. From that day forward, Peter, Angelica, and Angelica’s fellow X-Man, Bobby Drake (a.k.a. Iceman) formed the Amazing Friends. After his first year of fighting petty crocks, Peter thought this super-hero gig would be a piece of cake. Or at least until he began to meet his first super-powered villains. His first ‘super’ was the Chameleon, a super-villain who could change his appearance at will. After his encounters will the Chameleon and some other villains, like the Lizard and Doctor Octopus, Peter realized that he could no longer rely solely on his powers, as he did in his first year of super heroics. He needed to use his intelligence in order to overcome the obstacles in his way.

The War of the Roses

However, Peter’s happiness could not last forever. Over the last decade, the Kingpin of Crime held an iron grip over the criminal underworld on the East Coast. However, when his wife, Vanessa, grew deathly ill, which prompted the Kingpin to focus on curing his dying wife, the Kingpin of Crime began to loosen his grip over the city as his attention was directed elsewhere. Then, out of nowhere, a crime lord called ‘the Rose’ started to encroach onto the Kingpin’s turf. As a result of the Rose’s challenge to the Kingpin’s hegemony, a power struggle spiraled out of control, all the gangs of New York vied for power, and the NYPD were caught in the middle of it. One night, when Peter was going to the Stacy residence so that he could take Gwen swinging around the city, Peter heard an explosion from within. After changing in his Spider-Man threads, Peter entered into the Stacy residence and found the mercenary, called Jack O’ Lantern, had kidnapped Gwen Stacy. Believing that someone had discovered his secret identity, which would made Gwen, his girlfriend, vulnerable, Peter chased after Gwen’s captor, following the Halloween-themed villain to the Rose’s base. However, once at the Rose’s hideout, Peter, undetected by the Rose’s men, discovered that the Rose was going to use Gwen as leverage against Captain Stacy in order to get the NYPD off the Rose’s back. Knowing that his dual-life as Spider-Man was not the cause of Gwen’s kidnapping, Peter rushed to Captain Stacy and updated him on the situation. Once everyone was on the same page, Peter and Captain Stacy drafted a plan to save Gwen. While the NYPD established a perimeter around the Rose’s headquarters and prepared for a raid on that base of operations, Peter snuck in to free Gwen. Synchronizing with Peter and Gwen’s escape, the police burst into the base, taking the Rose’s men by surprise. However, on their way out, Peter and Gwen ran into the Rose and Jack O’ Lantern. The Rose aimed to strike down Peter, but, utilizing his Spider Agility, Peter pushed Gwen out of the way and ducked away from the bullet. Nevertheless, that bullet still struck someone: Captain Stacy. When Peter and Gwen had not exited from the building, Captain Stacy charged into the epicenter of the base in order to find them. Unfortunately, Captain Stacy was in the wrong place in the wrong time. While Peter and Gwen mourning the loss of Captain Stacy, the Rose made his escape. But the Jack O’ Lantern remained to cover the Rose’s flight. During the chaos of the police raid and Jack O’ Lantern’s distraction attempt, Gwen was knocked off some scaffolding while Peter attempted to protect her from the Jack O’ Lantern. Peter tried to catch her with a webline, but the Jack O’ Lantern ignored the deadly situation that Gwen found herself in and sucker punched Peter in the back. Hoping to get out of the reach of his assailant, Peter leapt off the scaffolding and dove toward his girlfriend, catching her with a webline. However, when he dropped to the floor, Peter discovered that Gwen had not survived whiplash of his rescue attempt. After grieving the deaths of his girlfriend and her father, who had been a surrogate father to Peter since both his real father and his uncle Ben had been killed, Peter turned his anger towards Jack O’ Lantern. In a fury of rage, Peter would have beaten Jack to a pulp, if he had not realized that he would have become just like the Rose and Jack O’ Lantern: a killer. Instead, Peter left Jack O’ Lantern for the police to deal with. In the direct aftermath of the two Stacys’ deaths, Peter could not bring himself to dawn his Spider-Man costume, feeling that his alter-ego had been the cause of his girlfriend’s death. Combined with the rising uneasiness caused by the public reaction towards mutants and Jameson’s ever-continuing mudslinging, Peter retired his Spider-Man threads, believing that throwing in the towel would protect all his loved ones who were still alive.

Family & Friends: -Richard and Mary Parker (deceased): Peter’s biological parents -Benjamin Parker (deceased): Peter’s Uncle (Richard Parker’s Brother) -May Reilly Parker: Peter’s Aunt (Benjamin Parker’s wife and Richard Parker’s sister-in-law) -Gwen Stacy (deceased): Peter’s most recent girlfriend. She was Peter’s Penelope, rivaling Peter’s own natural intelligence. What she lacked in powers, he made up the difference with her intelligence, aiding Peter in many occasions. Her death at the hands of the Rose has traumatized Peter. -Angelica Jones (aka Firestar): Close Childhood Friend of Peter’s. Went to Xavier Institute of Higher Learning when her powers manifested. She developed a crush on Peter while still in middle school, but she has never been able to act upon those desires. Is the time right or would she prefer them to remain as ‘friends’? -Bobby Drake (aka Iceman): Close Friend of Peter’s. Went to Xavier Institute of Higher Learning when his powers manifested. -Mary Jane Watson: Even before Peter and Gwen started dating, Aunt May had been trying to get Peter hooked up with their neighbor’s (Anna Watson) niece. Now that Gwen is “out of the way”, is it time for this pair to come together? Or is it too early? Powers and Abilities: -High-level Intelligence: Peter Parker is an extremely gifted student, allowing him to excel in his academic career while he is not busy with his super-heroics. If he is given the correct guidance, tools, and education, Peter Parker’s intelligence could possibly rival those of Tony Stark, Reid Richards, Hank McCoy, and Hank Pym. -Wall-Crawling: Spider-Man has the ability to create atomic attraction between himself and other objects, allowing him to adhere to numerous surfaces. -Spider-Sense: Spider-Man possesses an uncanny 6th sense that alerts him to danger within his local proximity. Although his Spider-Sense can alert him if there is danger, it does not provide him with the location or direction from which the danger comes. Combined with Spider-Man’s reflexes, Spidey becomes a difficult target to hit. -Mechanical Web-Shooters: -Superhuman Strength: Spider-Man can easily lift approximately 5 tons. He can lift more weight if he exerts himself. Spider-Man must also pull his punches against opponents without similar levels of durability and strength. -Superhuman Speed: Spider-Man’s natural speed exceeds that of modern Olympic athletes. In other words, Spidey could give Usain Bolt a run for his money. -Superhuman Stamina: Spider-Man does not produce as many fatigue toxins while he physically exerts himself. He has to spend several hours under strenuous circumstances to feel impaired by these toxins. -Superhuman Agility: Spider-Man is twice as flexible as a normal human, allowing him to perform acrobatic maneuvers that high-level gymnast would envy. -Superhuman Durability: Spider-Man can take punishment that would severely injure or otherwise kill an average person. Spider-Man must roll with punches against him in order to prevent the assailant from breaking their limbs. -Superhuman Reflexes: Spider-Man’s reflexes 20 times greater than an average human’s would be. -Superhuman Recuperative Healing Factor: While not anywhere near as efficient as mainstream Wolverine’s healing factor, Spider-Man can recuperate from injuries more quickly than they would otherwise normally take. -Superhuman Sense of Equilibrium: Spider-Man can retain a perfect state of equilibrium, allowing him to remain oriented while crawling upside down and performing acrobatic moves. -Resistance to Foreign Chemicals: Spider-Man’s metabolism allows him to be less effected by drugs and diseases. -Immunity to Vampirism: Due to the unique nature of Spider-Man’s Red Blood Cells, Spider-Man has no need to fear any Vampire, in respect to being transformed into one. Weaknesses: -Guilt complex: Blames himself for things outside his control (Uncle Ben’s Death). -Pesticides: While Spider-Man has increased resistance to foreign pathogens, pesticides still are effective against him. -Not Invincible: Spider-Man can be killed and injured by conventional means. Spider-Man just can take more punishment before he reaches this point. -Double Life: It is a difficult job trying to juggle school, family, a social life, and his super-heroics without wrecking any one of the other aspects of his life. Sample Story Arcs: - Ultimate Spider-Man made an interesting proposition by giving MJ powers. Nevertheless, they never really did anything with it after the Clone Saga story arc. I plan on not making that same mistake… - A ‘Kraven the Hunter’ story arc based on The Most Dangerous Game is too good to pass up. - What Spider-Man would be complete without a Marvel Knights story arc? Sample Post:

Sample Post

Using his spider-powers to cling to his bedroom wall, Peter was staring at a photograph of his deceased girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, reminiscing all the good and the bad times they had together. For the last couple months, even since the day that Gwen died, Peter could not get himself to pull out his Spider-Man costume from his closet. In his head, Peter kept replaying images from that night and he contemplated how he could have changed those events so that Gwen, and even her father, might be alive today. But unfortunately, thinking about how he could have changed the various outcomes of that night could never bring either of them back from the grave. “Peter! You have a guest!” Aunt May hollered to her nephew from the bottom of the stairs. “Tell him I’m no here!” Peter shouted back. But instead of the silence that Peter wanted, he heard a knock on his door. Landing softly on his bed, just like a cat leaping down onto the floor, Peter flipped a switch on his desk that unlocked his door. “It’s unlocked!” Peter said to whoever was on the other side of the door. “You do realize that shouting down to your aunt kind of defeats the purpose of trying to get me to think that you are not here. And assuming that I am a ‘him’ is sexist.” Angelica Jones walked into Peter’s room. Angelica and Peter were best friends in middle school, but her father enrolled her at the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning once her mutant powers manifested (although at the time neither of them knew what mutants were). But once the two became acquainted with the other’s secret double life, as Spider-Man and Firestar, the two old friends were able to rekindle their friendship. “Whatever.” Peter said as he gazed at the floor, not looking his friend in the eyes. “’Whatever’? That’s not what the Peter I know would say. He would have thrown a pun my way, no matter how bad it is! Are you sure you aren’t an imposter?” Angelica joked, trying to liven Peter up. “No. I just have had a few rough months, that’s all.” Just mentioning the last couple months brought back painful memories of Gwen to Peter, causing him to sigh. Angelica plopped beside Peter on his bed, wrapping her arms around him, trying to give him the comfort and support that he needed. “Maybe we should go out on patrol. Just to get your mind off of things.” Peter shrugged off Angelica’s grasp on him, jumping up from his bed. “I don’t know. I just have not been in the mood since Gwen died.” But when he turned back around to face his friend, Angelica was trying to make the saddest facial expression that she could make. “But do you even have your costume with you?” Peter asked. But almost as soon as Peter had uttered these words, Angelica lifted up the bottom of her shirt, revealing the yellow fabric that composed her ‘Firestar’ costume. “Never leave home unprepared.” Angelica smiled at Peter. Peter paused for a moment, contemplating whether he should even dawn his Spider-Man costume again. After much internal debating over this subject, Peter finally crumbled to Angelica’s peer-pressure. He opened up his closet door and scrambled to find his costume. The first costume he pulled out was the one he had worn on that fateful night when the girl of his dreams died. However, Peter had neglected to wash to since then. Therefore he made a mental note about washing it and continued to search for his spare costume. “Okay, let’s do this.” Peter told Angelica, holding his spare costume in his hand.

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus

I have made another interest check here, so if you are still interested, please say so in the interest check just to make it not look like two people have shown interest.

All-Star Marvel (Always Accepting)

Hii~~!!^-^!! Soooo... yush. Like that does clear things up buuuuut... sounds kinda' complicated? But sure let's see where this goes, right? Soooo... gunna' wait for others to post charries to see what kinda group we gets!

Bunnita

Maybe a simpler example would be the Fantastic Four. If one player wants to play one of the Fantastic Four and if no one else does, I would not be against the idea of allowing that player to control all the members of the Fantastic Four (as it would be difficult to function as one person). As of right now, I have two other people who said that they were interested, making it a total of 4 people so far. The characters we so far have are: -Spider-Man (me) -Gambit -Rogue -Shadowcat (I assume you wish to play as Kitty Pryde)

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

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All-Star Marvel (Always Accepting)

Hiiii~~!! I like this idea, but I do have questions: Soooo... like if we do gets accepted are we to form a super group? Like the way you propose the writing for heroesis interesting, but like it sounds like we are gunna do solo adventuring? And what about other super groups in teh world? How is that handled? Like I only know of the movie marvel peeps, like x-men, fantastic four, avengers and guardians of the galaxy (lurvs Rocket~~<3!!!) but do all those groups exist in the same timeline? Oh and speaking of timeline, what year is this all set up in?! K, so like after all those questions, I wanna be Kitty Pride!!! Cuz Ellen Page~~<3333!!! Ikr!? Lurvs. K. Later~~!!^-^!!

Bunnita

It will be a mix between solo and 'team' adventures and everyone exists in the same timeline (think of it like the MCU - the non-Spider-Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four movies, but we can use any characters that we want, as long as they belong to Marvel in some function). Also, the RP will be set in 2012, which in this RP will be around the time when "superhumans" begin to surface around the world. For the groups/teams, the players who have characters in those specific groups will have "control" over the characters that no one is playing (to a certain extent). For instance, for the X-men, the people who are playing the X-Men characters can control the X-men characters that are not played other players. Let's say three people are playing Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), Gambit, and Cyclops, then those three players have to work together to control the other X-Men, although I would say that some characters are "too" big to be NPC'ed, like Wolverine. Hope that clears things up.

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

Also, I have put up a WIP of the Olympians. I have not decided whether I should use Hesiod's or Homer's genealogy for Hephaestus, but I am set on using Homer's genealogy for Aphrodite.

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

Characters you have created: The Athanatoi (ἀθάνατοι)
Alias: The Olympians

Character Personality: Read any story from Greek and Roman myths. That should give you a pretty good idea. ;)

Origin Info/Details:

From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet.

Hesiod’s Theogony

The Athanatoi arrived on Earth long before humanity had developed any form of written language. These beings, along with their sister race, the Hemithanatoi (ἡμιθάνατοι), took on human forms in order to better “fit in” with the local fauna. Therefore, Xenophanes, a Greek critic of the anthropomorphic depictions of the gods, was correct in saying that if dogs and horses could draw images of the gods, the gods would look like dogs and horses because the gods were shape shifters. However, both the Athanatoi and the Hemithanatoi kept their residences on separate worlds (akin to how Marvel handled the several realms of Norse Mythology), even though they had the technology to transverse between worlds.

Once the Athanatoi began to be worshipped as gods by the ancient population of Earth, they began to build devices that could convert the sacrifices and worshipping of their followers into power that could empower and sustain the Athanatoi. This power was Ambrosia, the Nectar of the Gods. During this period of time, the Athanatoi would occasionally descend to the earth and mingle with its people, sometimes even producing offspring with the mortals. These hybrids are now known as the heroes of Greek Mythology.

However, after the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations, the Greek Athanatoi ceased their direct interactions with the mortals of earth. Besides a few exceptions, the Greek Athanatoi never again placed a foot down on earth. In spite of their absence, the Greek Athanatoi still received worship long into the Hellenistic Era of the successor states of Alexander and the rise of the Roman Empire.

However, once Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and spread across Europe in the Medieval Ages, and once Islam flew through Northern Africa, the heads of the Athanatoi pantheons called together a meeting, deciding that, once these new religions had secured their positions and extinguished their worship among the mortals, the Athanatoi were to refrain from affecting affairs on Earth. However, if something from the past has reared its ugly head back in the future, the Athanatoi have full permission to intervene, as it was because of them that humanity would be in danger.

As time went, the Greek and Egyptian Athanatoi withdrew from earthly affairs, and even the Norse Hemithanatoi did too once Christianity reached and assimilated the North. As the energy gained from their worshippers dwindled year after year, the Athanatoi adjusted their devices, allowing them to produce their subsidence without mortal followers. While this allowed the Athanatoi to live on, the devices were less efficient without worshippers.

Hero Type:
Shape Shifter / Supernatural (Cosmic deities)

Power Level:
D. Cosmic (Ex. Silver Surfer, Green Lantern)

Powers: (Applies to the Greek Athanatoi)
-Shape Shifting (see Iliad and Odyssey)
-Immortal: While their physical shell can be destroyed, the Athanatoi can simply reform it. If one were to destroy one of the Athanatoi, you would see an amorphous sentient being, which cannot be destroyed anymore.
-Advanced Technology / "Magic" that 'can' be explained through technology and natural phenomena.

Weaknesses:
-Relies on Ambrosia to remain alive.

Supporting Characters:
Zeus: King of the Olympians. Youngest (and Eldest) Son of Kronos and Rhea.
Poseidon: Middle Son of Kronos and Rhea. Rules over the Seas.
Hades: Eldest Son of Kronos and Rhea. Rules over the Underworld. He cringes at how modern media depicts him.
Hera: Youngest Daughter of Kronos and Rhea. Queen of the Olympians.
Demeter: Middle Daughter of Kronos and Rhea. Goddess of Agriculture.
Hestia: Eldest Offspring of Kronos and Rhea. Goddess of the Hearth.
Athena: Daughter of Zeus and Metis (technically). Goddess of Wisdom.
Apollo: Son of Zeus and Leto
Artemis: Daughter of Zeus and Leto
Hermes: Son of Zeus and Maia. Messenger of the Olympians.
Ares: Son of Zeus and Hera. God of War
Hephaestus: Son of Hera (no father)
Aphrodite: Daughter of Zeus and Dione

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

Hey guys, I'm bracing for Snowmaggedon 2015 (They really need to come up with better names for these things, there like, 8 Snowmageddons last year), so I may be awol for a couple of days, hopefully not.

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Snownado 2015? The Winter Cyclone? The Monsoon of Snow?