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Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@MelonHead: Other than the characters directly involved with that event, most characters would not know about it, unlike thinks like D-Day, Umbaxis, and Pax Metahumana.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@MelonHead: That's also what the intro in the IC is for.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@MelonHead You can just follow the link to the S1 thread that had the summaries.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Aubrey Adkins

March (3 Months Before IC Starts)

It was Wednesday, the midpoint of the week, which meant that once class had ended on Wednesday, it would be downhill from there until the weekend. As I walked back to my apartment from class, I decided to check our mailbox. What I found there was mostly just the usual junk mail: reminders of events on campus, deals on food that you probably would not have bought anyways, and other similar generic mail. Sure, there were some bills, but I cannot believe that there is anyone who gets excited about paying bills. Something fun would be like getting a birthday card. But mine isn’t until May, so I don’t get my hopes up that high for finding something interesting in the mail.

The one piece of mail that felt out of place was this one black envelope. It also had a white rabbit logo on it, which was the symbol of the magazine company called Viera. What was more out of place was that it was addressed to me specifically. Since it was in fact late March, I safely assumed that this was some sort of ‘April Fool’s Day’ joke that my roommates had planned. For the past four years, we had this tradition that we would play some elaborate pranks on one another.

“Very funny, guys.” I announced to my roommates as I entered through our apartment’s front door. “But you do realize that it isn’t April 1st yet, right?”

Felecia, who was sitting on the couch while watching some television, turned her head towards our other roommate’s bedroom. “Ashley, you didn’t screw up the mailing, did you?”

“What are you talking about?” Ashley said as she stepped out from her bedroom, “I was going to sneak it into our mailbox.”

I held up the black envelope up in front of me, showing my roommate that I had what I thought was their April Fool’s prank. However, Ashley also had a second envelope in her hand.

“Wait, if that is the letter that you were going to give me.” I said as I gestured towards the envelope that Ashley was holding, “Then, what is this?”

As soon as the possibility that the letter that I held in my hand could actually be real entered my mind, I immediately released the envelope from my hand, just like if I had just realized that a plant I was holding in my hand was actually poison ivy. The envelope then floated down to the ground, where it landed a few feet from me.

Felecia picked herself off the couch, walked around that piece of furniture, and scooped up the envelope off the floor. After ripping open the envelope, she pulled out what appeared to be a stapled packet of papers. Once my roommate had skimmed through the several pages that had been contained within the envelope, Felecia pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen and placed them on the kitchen table.

“Aubrey, could you write your signature?” She suddenly asked me. I just shrugged, taking the pen into my hand. After I had placed my signature on that blank sheet of paper, Felecia placed the packet right next to it. On the page that she had placed on top, there was also a signature, which, when compared to the one that I had just written, was identical.

“I know how this looks, but I did NOT sign that, whatever it is.

“Either way, you’re now ‘Ms. May’. Congrats.” Felecia told me as she patted me on the back.

“What?” I asked, not quite sure what she was talking about. Felecia then handed the packet over to Ashley. Once the bound set of paper was in her hands, Ashley cleared her voice before she began reading the cover sheet.

“Dear Aubrey Adkins,” Ashley began, “Thank you for attending our emergency casting call on short notice. This was an unusual situation, as a vacancy appeared due to that Pax Metahumana threat last month”

“I was SO not at any kind of casting call or whatever it was.” I protested, although this did not stop my roommate from continuing reading the letter that was attached to the front page.

“After much debate and consideration, we are pleased to announce that you have been selected to fill this vacancy. Included with this letter is the contract that you signed when we last met and all the pertinent information for your centerfold photoshoot for this year’s May issue. We look forward to working with you and welcoming you into our family.”

“Is there a number in there that I can call? I’m going to straighten this whole mess out right now.” I demanded as I pulled my cell phone out from my back pocket.

“I might have seen a phone number. But I do remember seeing somewhere in that document where whoever signed it opted out of a clause that said that you’re under no obligation to pose in the nude.” Felecia remarked as she tried to recall what she had read when she skimmed through the document.

“Karma is such a bitch, isn’t it? We thought that Danielle was the one selling her body. Weren’t we wrong.” Ashley said as she skimmed through the packet for any telephone number that I could use to fix this little fiasco.

“Well, we all know that when God gives you lemons, you make lemonade.” Felecia added, “I guess this is what you do if he gave you melons.”

“YOU TWO ARE NOT HELPING!”

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

I think somebody just got on Icon's "List of Things to Punt into the Sun".

Marvel - Dawn of Heroes

@Nexus Prime Maybe I'll wake up before I read it. Because fuck me sideways that's long.

@Sep

tl;dr

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Create a Hero RPG Application

Character you have created: Christopher “Chris” Arthur III (CA3 – pronounced like RG3)
Alias: Iron Knight. Also known by: Daedalos Mk. 5, Project Theophonos (god-slayer)

Speech Color: Standard Forum Text, Silver (C0C0C0)

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: Semi-secret, except to certain officials in STRIKE.

Character Personality: As a playboy billionaire, Christopher beats his drums at his own tempo. He’s business by day, party by night, although he allows his leaned back nature bleed into his business affairs. Beyond his business life, Christopher enjoys Greek culture and history, utilizing his companies funds to support archaeological digs in search of new finds in this field, even though they are rare. He is also protective of his half-sister, since she is his only family left (see Origin Info/Details for more info).

Uniform/costume:

Uniform

Due to his side interest in ancient Greece (and history in a lesser extent), his armor has some influences from these time periods. The helmet in the suit shows this influence the best, since it resembles the helmet of the classical Greek hoplite. His armor also has an energy-powered long sword, inspired by the knights from the Medieval period. He also has a weapon what he calls the “Energy Javelin”, which was inspired by both the Homeric combat in the Iliad, where the Heroes would first throw a spear at one another before they engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the Roman Pila, which would break on contact so that an enemy could not revenge kill with it. His armor has other, more conventional weapons, but these are the “out of the box” ones.

At first, I kind of struggled with what I wanted Iron Knight’s armor to look like. I knew I didn’t want him to look just like Iron Man. Furthermore, I had an idea in my head what I wanted it to look like, but I could not put it down in words or even draw it out. After a little brainstorming, I remembered that I saw my brother and his friend either looking at or making a website about Gundam Wing (I cannot remember which, I was still fairly young). Although I found out that they were giant robots from doing some internet research (but it doesn’t’ surprise me, since it is a Japanese show), I still thought it gave the robotic feel I wanted. I just would have to scale it down to human size (i.e. like Iron Man in a way). Therefore, I placed a link to an image that I thought could be used as an inspiration for the suit (but obviously not an exact copy).

There are several changes I would make to the suit. First, the Greek hoplite inspired helmet (it would look like a hoplite helmet, but there would not be any openings in the front, and there would not be a plume). I would remove the wing-like attachments on the shoulders, and everything below the waist would resemble Ultimate Iron Man more than the sample image. I would probably make the breastplate more flat and all the joints would have to be made so that a man could fit inside the suit. Also, the color scheme would be different shades of gray.

Example 1
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Origin Info/Details:

Origin

Christopher Arthur III was born to Lexington Arthur II and Medea Arthur. The Arthurs were an extremely wealthy Virginian family, with its wealth tied both from inheritance from their ancestors and profit from the Arthur’s corporation, the Knight’s Corp. At age 16, Christopher graduated from MIT, specializing in Advanced Robotics and Electrical Engineering (he also picked up a minor in ancient Greek from a local college). Two years later, he received his Master’s. Christopher started to work in the Robotics Division at Knight’s Corp.

However, after his first graduation from college, Christopher’s life was turned upside down. His father had been involved in an affair for several years, which resulted in a child being born outside of wedlock. After Christopher received his Master’s degree, his father divorced his current wife and married his mistress. Five years later, a deranged Medea returned and killed herself along with Christopher’s father and his stepmother, leaving Christopher and his half-sister orphaned (who in their right mind would divorce someone by the name of Medea? That’s just asking for trouble). As a result of his father’s death, Christopher inherited both his family’s wealth along with his father’s company.

While Christopher did not have problem socializing with people through his life, he never allowed people to become extremely close to him, except for his childhood friend, Cynthia. While Christopher’s accelerated education robbed them of attending middle and high school together, they both continued to remain in contact. While Cynthia was by no means as intelligent as Christopher was, she was still quite smart for the average American student (top 5 in her graduating class) and she was a nice change of pace to talk to when you are constantly surrounded by super-geniuses. While Christopher desired that they became something more than just “friends”, but he did not want to risk ruining their current friendship if a romantic relationship did not work out. Even they went their separate ways, with Christopher running his father’s company and Cynthia becoming an Archaeologist, they still continued to find a way to keep in contact, even if it has to be emails and IM’s.

If someone asked him why he dubbed his armor “Daedalos”, he would give his usual response, that some terrorists in the Aegean held him up on an island and he created the suit to fly away, just as Daedalos fled from King Minos of Crete in Greek Mythology. However, this wasn’t the true story. Two years ago (from the beginning of this RP), his childhood friend developed a rare, but fatal and inoperative cancer. Christopher frantically developed his prototype robotic exoskeleton, designing it to keep her alive, while the chemotherapy, that would normally could not be used, destroyed the cancer. Christopher called the exoskeleton “Daedalos” because he hoped it would help free Cynthia from her cancer, just as Daedalos’s invention helped him escape Minos. However, Cynthia died before he could get his final product finished.

Shortly after his friend’s death, S.T.R.I.K.E. approached Christopher about his exoskeleton. They wanted Christopher to develop it into a mechanized armor that would allow normal humans to compete with the rising metahuman population, just in case something went out of hand. Since Christopher had already sunk a huge amount of his company’s resources into this project, he couldn’t say no.

Season 1

Chris has been used by S.T.R.I.K.E. as one of their special forces for taking on metahuman threats that the regular S.T.R.I.K.E. squads could not handle. One such threat was Nightmare, a metahuman who was gathering allies and were causing several massacres in Lost Haven. Other threats includes the D-Day invasion of Lost Haven and the Pax Metahumana Crisis.

One day, the minions of Doctor Diplodoc broke into Chris' mansion in Richmond and kidnapped his half-sister, Veronica. By using a tracking system that he had implanted in his half-sister, Chris followed the signal to an abandoned factory in West Virginia. Once there, he helped free his half-sister, along with a few other captives. However, other than Veronica, the other captives were placed in a temporary custody while they waited to be picked up by S.T.RI.K.E. When those individuals happened to disappear without a trace, Chris left the investigation to S.T.R.I.K.E. because holding those individuals captives in the first place was pretty borderline illegal.

Days later, some idiot opened a portal between our world and a dimension similar to what we would imagine as hell. During this event, the heroes of Lost Haven rallied together to fight the interdimensional beings and close the portal. Once the portal was closed, it was simply mop-up work until the invaders were vanquished.

Weeks after that, the scientist, Doctor Diplodoc, announced to the world that he planned to transform everyone on earth into metahumans. As the heroes of Lost Haven searched the city to find the device that Doctor Diplodoc had hid in that city, Chris decided that the best option was to assemble a team of heroes to take down this "terrorist". After the heroes had either destroyed or deactivated Doctor Diplodoc's devices, he sent the heroes to the doctor's base, the same place where Chris had first found his sister and the other captives. Once the doctor had surrendered, Chris handed him over to the proper authorities.

Finally, once Nightmare showed his ugly face in Lost Haven, again, Chris teamed up with Icon, Lyger, the Aquilifer, Radiance, and Ramsey to take Ngihtmare and his allies down, once and for all. After Nightmare had absorbed his allies into himself, going full "final boss mode" on the them, the heroes combined their strength until they vanquished this monster that had taken countless lives since his arrival in Lost Haven.

Hero Type:
Power-Suit / Gray Matter (Super-Smart)

Power Level:
C. World Level (Ex. Flash, Superman)

Powers: Powers beyond the things listed in the “Attribute” (flight, strength, etc) will be listed here. Furthermore, Iron Knight can make revisions and updates to his armor to prepare the armor for different situations.
-Energy-based Sword
-Energy Pila
-Energy Shield: Iron Knight’s shielding must be activated to be used. Shielding must be lowered in order to use offensive weapons.
-Rockets and Missiles: Iron Knight has several different projectiles at his disposal to use against foes at a distance.

Attributes: Strength, Speed, Endurance, and Agility are at Normal Human levels when not in the Power Suit.

Attributes

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: Average weight for a man of his height who partakes in regular exercise.

Strength Level: 100+ tons.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 100+ MPH; Flight: Mach 10.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Power Suit can remain powered for several hours. Due to the mechanical components associated with the power suit, the wearer of the suit does not have to expend as much physical energy as one normal person would if that person were doing the same activities. However, it still takes mental concentration to control the power suit.

Agility: 20X Human level.

Intelligence: Super-Genius

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Extreme

Weaknesses:
-Still a normal man under the suit.
-Armor can become overloaded if enough energy is pumped into the suit.
-Takes some time to prep suit for usage.

Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):
-Veronica: Christopher’s half-sister. She is currently a freshman in high school.
-George: The Arthur family’s butler, helped raise both Chris and Veronica, especially the later when their parents died (“If Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark can have a butler, why can’t I?” ~CA3).

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes (see last app).

Sample Post:

Iron Knight

The cold wind chilled Colonel Cornwall as he paced around an observation bunker situated within the Nevada desert. He quickly glanced at his watch and groaned at what he saw.

“Damn Billionaires, why can’t they have any sense of time? They should learn that the solar system is heliocentric, not egocentric.”

Suddenly, a television monitor switched on within the room, revealing an image of a well-dressed man.

“Welcome, Colonel Cornwall, to an exclusive demonstration of the Daedalos Mark Four. I hope you sit back, relax, and enjoy your buttered popcorn that can be found at the nice concession stands to the rear of the theater. Please enjoy!”

“Can this guy take anything seriously?”

Finally, a robotic exoskeleton burst from the ground, flying straight up into the air. Once it reached the apex of its launch, it looped toward the ground until it straightened itself so that it was parallel to the ground. On the ground in front of the exo-suit were several metallic targets. Immediately after the suit reached the targets, it launched several missiles, piercing each target straight through the middle. The exoskeleton performed a crash down strike on the final target, smashing it with its fist.

In quick succession, the armor launched itself back into the air, darting towards a metallic structure that was beginning to collapse. Instantaneously, several rockets flew straight towards the armor, homing in for the killing blow; however, a blue energy shield appeared around the exoskeleton deflected every last one. The suit landed near one of the falling pillars that supported the collapsing structure, attempting to support the weight of the building. A small laser popped out from the suit, welding the pillar back in its place. The suit repeated this action on all the pillars, saving the almost-doomed building.

After the performance was completed, the Colonel stepped outside of the bunker, waiting for the armor to land.

“While it is totally clear that that armor can perform several different tasks, there is still one more question. So, Mr. Arthur, how does it performed against them meties*.”

However, when the helmet of the suit retracted, the Cornwall was shocked to discover that Christopher Arthur, CEO of Knight’s Corp was NOT the man controlling the suit.

“Sorry Colonel Cornwall,” the pilot said, “Mr. Arthur left for Brazil on quite a short notice. Unless you really want to bother him with an international phone call, you would probably have to wait until he comes back.”

“What is God’s name is he doing in Brazil?”
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* Meties = Metahumans (similar to Muties = Mutants).

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

Create a Hero RPG Application

Character you have created: Zachary “Zac” Wilson
Alias: [The] Raptor (originally Raptor-Man when I envisioned the character a few years ago, but I thought having a character named Raptor-Man and a player whose name is also Raptor-Man would be confusing.)

Speech Color: Standard Forum Text, Peru (CD853F)

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: While Zac always has good intentions and is dedicated to both his family and friends, he can sometimes be extremely stubborn and, sometimes, have a short fuse. His was raised in a traditional Christian household. While he is not extremely religious (going to church on Wednesday and Sunday), his parent’s beliefs have shaped Zac’s character. After his transformation, Zac is self-conscious of his height (he shrank down from barely 6 foot to 5 foot, 4 inches). With his short-temper, sparks might fly if someone mentions his height deficiency...

Uniform/costume: Until he gets a costume, the Raptor will wear normal clothing. His eventual costume will consist of two shades of brown (darker and lighter) with several black stripes on his back, arms, legs, and neck.

Origin Info/Details:

Acquiring his Powers

Zachary Bernard Wilson was born to Robert and Meredith Wilson. Zac lived a practically normal life as a single child in Timber Falls, New York, a small town in Essex County, northwest of Ticonderoga, NY. One of the only noteworthy events of Zac’s life was, when he was still in elementary school, Zac was swarmed by several wasps and was hospitalized due to their stings. Zac was the star running back at his high school (and practically their whole offense) and was offered a scholarship to play running back at the Albany State College. While attending college, Zac started to date Kelly Brown, a freshman Nursing major. After their first year at college, Kelly visited Zac and his family in Timber Falls during the last weeks of Summer Break. Everyone expected it to be a normal summer vacation; unfortunately, it turned out to be something quite different.

While Zac and Kelly were enjoying the outdoors near his parent's house, this young couple was kidnapped by the scientist, Dorian Dipillan, who would soon be known as Doctor Diplodoc and injected them with his experimental serum, which transformed Zac into a raptor-human hybrid and Kelly into a human wasp. However, since this formula was not perfected, besides superhuman powers, it had a side effect that the body would slowly degrade over time. Doctor Diplodoc was using a metahuman named Tiresias to gain access to what seemed like a persons' dream. When Doctor Diplodoc discovered that there was a metahuman-version of Zac in this dream, he sent his world's version of Zac into that dream so that Zac could be given the correct formula, which would in turn allow Doctor Diplodoc to perfect his own serum.

In what seemed like a "dream" world, Zac was healed of the serum's negative effects, the heroes of this world tried to help teleport Zac back to our world. However, this world's version of Arachne was accidentally teleported back with Zac. After freeing Tiresias from his captors and healing Kelly of the negative effects of the serum she had been injected with, the old man sent this otherworldly Arachne back home.

Six Months Later

One day after six months had past, Doctor Diplodoc hired four mercenaries with elemental-based powers to kidnap Zac and Kelly and brought them to Lost Haven. Icon intervened and restrained the mercenaries, despite how the villains made it seem like Zac and Kelly were the "bad guys" because Kelly had knocked one of the mercenaries out with her wasp stinger. After Kelly received a new costume from the superhero tailor, Mr. Giuseppe, a metahuman at a community shelter that Icon recommended to the two young metahumans helped Zac and Kelly get home.

Later, when Kelly was hospitalized from an inverse reaction to bug repellent, Kelly was forcefully coerced into joining Doctor Diplodoc and his allies. At the same time, Zac was kidnapped while outside of the hospital by one of Doctor Diplodoc's minions, Black Widow. When Zac woke up, he found himself in an abandoned facility in West Virginia, along with Veronica Arthur and their world's version of Aubrey Adkins (Arachne). By the intervention of Veronica's brother, Chris (Iron Knight), Zac and Kelly were able to escape from Doctor Diplodoc's clutches, although they were just transferred from Doctor Diplodoc's custody to S.T.R.I.K.E.'s.

However, when Athena helped free Zac, Kelly, and Aubrey from S.T.R.I.K.E. custody, Zac and Kelly found themselves in a field where an RV had been set aflame. Nearby, they found Kelly's best friend, Sammy, who had been transformed into a large cat that had her human head attached to it. When the police arrived, Zac chased after the people who had transformed Sammy, although Kelly was not able to keep up and therefore was taken into police custody. However, once Zac had found and subdued the perpetrators, had kidnapped a kid and killed her parents, the police released Kelly because they know had the true criminals.

Next, a villainess named the Silver Sorceress used her magic to create a false sense of jealousy in Kelly. Once she had succeeded in making Kelly believe that Zac was cheating on her, the Silver Sorceress struck, turning both young metahumans into stone. However, after the Greek gods Hermes and Asclepius restored Sammy to a more humanoid form (she still had cat ears and a tail) and gave her an anti-magic herb, Sammy went to her friend's apartment and freed Zac and Kelly from the Silver Sorceress' magic and defeat the magic user.

When Doctor Diplodoc announced to the world his intent to transform everyone on the Earth into metahumans, Christopher Arthur (Iron Knight) sent Lyger and Radiance to recruit Zac and Kelly because they had some experience with Doctor Diplodoc in the past. Along with the other heroes whom Christopher Arthur had assembled, they were able to stop Doctor Diplodoc's plans and apprehend him and his allies.

Hero Type:
Speedster

Power Level:
B. City Level (Ex. Spider-Man, Cyclops)

Powers (Be Specific):
-Super Speed (see below about limitations)
-Obsidian-Black retractable claws between the knuckles (i.e. 3 claws per hand – velociraptors had three claws). Not indestructible and needs time to regrow.
-Sickle Claw attached to foot, slightly below the inside ankle.
-Raptor Tail.

Attributes:

Attributes

Height: 6' 0" (human), 5' 4" (metahuman)

Weight: Average weight for a runningback of his size.

Strength Level: Athletic (football player).

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 70 (slightly faster than a cheetah). Can reach higher speeds, but cannot maintain for long amounts of time.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 2-3 hours (Running around average speed); Normal Human (anything else).

Agility: At least 5X.

Intelligence: Average.

Fighting Skill: Untrained.

Resources: Minimal.

Weaknesses:
-At higher speeds, he cannot maintain that speed for as long as slower speeds.
-No super-human strength or endurance (beyond running endurance), so can be vulnerable if caught.
-Claws are not impervious and can break. If they do break, it takes time for them to regrow.
-You cannot walk around in public with a raptor tail and not go unnoticed(negated by power nullifier)

Supporting Characters:
Robert Wilson: Father – Laid-back, outdoorsman
Meredith Wilson: Mother – Over-obsessive about her son, wishing he was still his little boy (imagine what the thoughts of injury does to her)
Kelly Brown: Girlfriend - Met at college, Nursing Major

Powers

Speech Color: Standard Forum Text, Khaki (F0E68C)
Powers:
-Flight via wasp wings
-Wasp barb that can induce temporary paralysis
-Ability to cling to walls (similar to Spider-Man)
-Compound Eyes allow for better perception of light variation, allowing her to have better reaction times.
-Wasp Antennae
-Second Pair of Arms
-Enhanced Endurance from chitin infused into Kelly’s skin.
-Ignores any 6th sense from Arthropod-based meta-humans (or a meta-human based on any species that is the prey of any parasitic wasps).

Attributes:Height: 6' 2" (human/metahuman)

Weight: Average weight of a woman of her height that partakes in regular exercise (and strenuous activity due to super-heroics).

Strength Level: 10 tons.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 20 MPH (Flight: 40 MPH).

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 hours.

Agility: 5X Human level.

Intelligence: Above Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Minimal

Weaknesses:
-Pesticides
-Compound Eyes make it difficult seeing details.

Samantha Kadowsky: Kelly's childhood best friend. Happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, which resulted in her being transformed into a human-headed cat. Recently has been restored back to a humanoid form.

Powers

Powers:
-Cat tail and ears
-Enhanced reflexes

Attributes:Height: 5' 6"

Weight: Average weight of a woman of her height that partakes in regular exercise (and strenuous activity due to super-heroics).

Strength Level: Normal (for a woman her age)

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 20 MPH.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 hours.

Agility: 5X Human level.

Intelligence: Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Minimal

Weaknesses:
-None tied to her cat-like powers.

What can you bring to the RPG?:
-I feel that I am flexible and can get along with people.

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:

Raptor

<- This is not a picture of my character. I am just establishing that I am talking about the dinosaur raptor and not the bird raptor. ;)

Sample Post (Minimum Four paragraphs containing dialogue. As this is an Advanced Level game, Sample must also meet the RPG forum's minimum requirement of 12 lines):

Sample Post

A soft breeze whirled through the small, wooded town of Timber Falls, on a day that would otherwise had been a hot, sunny day. A small car steadily crawled up the mountainous roads, heading towards an average sized country house. Once the car had pulled up the gravel driveway, a young man hopped out of the driver’s seat and collected in his hands several pieces of luggage from trunk. From the other side of the vehicle, another person stepped out onto the gravel, a young lass. She wrapped her arms around his toned arms, her head barely reaching the top of his shoulders.

“Do you think your parents are going to like me?” This would be the first time Kelly met her boyfriend’s parents because both Kelly and Zac had been so busy with their first year of college.

“Are you kidding me? What is there not to like?” Kelly’s cheeks glowed red after she heard Zac’s complement. Even though she thought that she was likable, deep down inside her heart, there was still some doubt.

Once they reached the front door, Zac pressed the doorbell. Even though the door was shut, they both could hear feet hurrying down a set of stairs. A few moments later, the front door sung up and Zac’s mother engulfed her son in a big bear hug.

“O how I missed my little Zachary!”

“Mom...” Zac moaned. Zac was the leading rusher in the conference, with which his college, Albany State University, was associated. He even was only a true freshman, too!

“Don’t ‘mom’ me, Zachary.” Mrs. Wilson finally released her vice grip on Zac, allowing him finally to breathe. “Are you eating enough at college?”

“I eat fine, thank you very much.” Zac quickly grasped Kelly by her arms and pulled her in front of himself. “Mom, this is Kelly, my girlfriend”

“Oh, welcome to Timber Falls, dear!” Mrs. Wilson took Kelly by surprise when she too received a big bear hug..”

“Um...thanks,” Kelly murmured, trying to catch her breath. Once Kelly escaped from Mrs. Wilson’s arms, she teetered for a few seconds, finally being able to breathe.

“Speaking of eating, are you eating enough, dear?”

“Meredith, you do know you shouldn’t talk about a woman’s weight.” A man, dressed in boots and a wide-brimmed hat, stepped onto the porch form inside the house.

“Oh, Robert, I was merely pointing out a simple observation”.

“You were insinuating that she was too underweight.” Zac and Kelly just looked at one another, unsure whether they should be laughing at such a trivial argument.

“If you don’t mind, I’m going to show Kelly to her room,” Zac interrupted his parents. There were two guest bedrooms in their house, one next to Zac’s room and one neighboring his parent’s room. Of course, Mrs. Wilson picked the latter room for Kelly, so that Mrs. Wilson might be able to hear anyone sneaking off to someone else’s room during the night for some hanky-panky, as she called it.

“Kids, now remember, if you stay beside the window-side wall, the floor panel won’t squeak,” Mr. Wilson whispered, although his wife could still hear him.

“Robert, don’t be giving them any ideas!”

“Oh, I was merely pointing out a simple observation.” Robert smiled at his wife, while she was just shaking her head. The two parents just watched as their son hurried along with his girlfriend, going to get her settled in for the week. However, their blissful moment would only be short, for the telephone inside the house began to ring. And as Mr. Wilson answered the telephone and listened to whoever was on the other line, his smile quickly washed off his face. Even before her husband walked back to the front porch, Mrs. Wilson already knew that something was wrong. His posture and facial expression revealed it all.

“Sorry, Meredith, but I am going to have to cut this little family moment a little short. Farmer McGregor had some problems with his chickens and he wanted me to check it out.”

“I understand,” his wife replied, her hopes for a nice, family moment crushed.

Seeing his wife’s mood plummet, Mr. Wilson swung his arms around her and smiled at her.

“I won’t be long. I promise.”

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

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Character you have created: Aubrey Adkins
Alias: Arachne

Speech Color: Standard Forum Text, FireBrick (B22222)

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: Secret, only known (eventually) by her roommates

Character Personality:

Personality

If you were to ask Aubrey to describe herself with one word, it would be religious. She grew up in a conservative Catholic household, therefore is a devout Catholic. To those who are not quite as religious as she is, she might come off as a little bit too much sometimes. She is also on good terms with her family. While her religious and family life might be extremely stable, the rest of her life is somewhat unbalanced. She is unsure what she will be doing after college, even though she is a senior now. While she was set to earn a teaching degree, she is unsure whether that is what she desired to pursue. Furthermore, a Sociology degree (as a second degree option) was not going to give her many choices, either. She has already become burnt out from school (4 years in both high school and college), having major senioritis. Her romantic life is not quite as stable either, for she had already gone through several different boyfriends since her senior year in high school, some ending more or less gracefully than others.

One thing just recently has begun to bother her. Recently, she was injected with the same serum that gave the Raptor (Zac Wilson) and the Wasp (Kelly Brown) their powers. At first, unlike those two, Aubrey’s physical appearance has not changed at all (besides the wrist spinnerets). However, after a few days had pasted, her condition progressed, resulting in Aubrey waking up to find that her entire lower body had been replaced by that of a giant Brown Widow Spider. While she can hide her drider-like appearance with a power-nullifier that Christopher Arthur III had reverse-engineered from a similar object taken from Raptor (Zac Wilson), she has to sleep without it due to the adverse side effects from wearing it too long.

Aubrey has slightly above average height for a woman (five foot nine) and her comic book-like physique was the result of a reaction between her own healing factor and a metahuman's ability to a person's appearance to whatever the metahuman desired. She has blonde hair and gray-blue eyes.

Uniform/costume:

updated costume

Image created by Blazbaros.

The below costume, but substitute the brown with gray.

Costume

These two images give an idea how the spider lower body human upper body combination looks like. However, they are only inspirations, not exact images for Aubrey. Costume on first is not what Aubrey will wear...

Body Type Sample 1

Body Type Sample 2

Origin Info/Details:

Pre-Metahuman

Aubrey Rose Adkins was born into what most people would consider a normal life. She was from a middle-class family around the Columbus, OH. She was heavily involved with sports, was Homecoming Queen her senior year in high school, even went to college at St. Henry’s University, a liberal arts Catholic university in Columbus. Everything seemed to be extremely normal, until late January this year arrived.

Aubrey’s life was turned upside down when she was kidnapped by a mad scientist (same man who gave Raptor and Wasp their powers) and subjected to an experiment involving the finally stabilized serum. Luckily for Aubrey, the Raptor and Iron Knight had infiltrated (not coordinated) where the scientist was holding her. Now, since she has escaped from the clutches of the mad scientist, Aubrey must attempt to learn to assimilate herself back into her ‘normal’ life. Or is this even possible?

Sports have always been part of Aubrey’s life, especially during high school. When she was in high school, if she was not currently at one sport’s practice, she was probably running off to another one. While this had given her practice at juggling multiple aspects of life at once, nevertheless it sometimes negatively affected her grades. Once she got to college, she had to pick one sport and stick with it. She picked soccer (one reason why was that she received a scholarship at her small university to play that sport). Therefore, she had to drop the others and focus on soccer (and school).

Acquiring Her Powers

Whether it was just some dumb luck or a fate dictated by the laws of the multiverse, Aubrey was one of the individuals who were abducted by the scientist that would be later known as Doctor Diplodoc. Once she was in his captivity, she was injected with a serum that the doctor had developed to naturally give regular humans powers. However, she did not need to wait long to be rescued, the combined efforts of Raptor and the Iron Knight helped free her along with Kelly Brown and Veronica Arthur. But before they escaped, Aubrey, along with the villianess Black Widow, fell into a vat full of Doctor Diplodoc's serum, resulting in the two women swapping powers. Although she did not immediately transform into the drider-like humanoid that the Black Widow was, she would soon find out that she eventually would.

After being freed from S.T.R.I.K.E. custody, Aubrey discovered that her liberator was actually the Greek goddess Athena. At that time, Aubrey had no idea what type of trouble that the daughter of Zeus would drag her into, but she would soon learn. During the D-Day invasion of Lost Haven, Athena brought her into the middle of all the craziness that was that day. After taking down a Leviathan-like demon snake with the help of War-Pulse, she confronted Iron Knight (Christopher Arthur), who had placed her in S.T.R.I.K.E. custody in the first place.

After D-Day, Aubrey tried going out to let off some steam. However, since Athena had empowered her during the fight against the demon snake, Aubrey blacked out during the night. As a result, a group involved with human trafficking picked her up while she was out cold. Although Aubrey was able to escape her cell and contact the police and the FBI, her actions resulted in the leader of this group, a metahuman who had the power to change the appearance of anyone in anyway, started to showcase Aubrey to group's potential buyers by transforming our hero into a variety of real and fictional characters. Once the authorities arrive, the leader of this group left Aubrey in the appearance of the Sorceress from Dragon's Crown.

However, her healing factor would not leave Aubrey with this fate. Slowly, her innate metahuman powers began reverting Aubrey back to her original appearance. However, when the metahuman, who had changed Aubrey's appearance in the first place, used her powers to change Aubrey back, Aubrey's healing factor became confused by a contradiction: it needed to revert the changes made by the metahuman's powers, but Aubrey's original form was also restored by this same power. Since it considered her original appearance as an alteration by the metahuman's power, Aubrey's healing factor created a new 'default point', mixing and blending any of the previous transformations where the healing factor had not already fixed. Therefore, Aubrey was left with a body that was not her own, except for anything from the neck up, her skin, and a few others parts.

And this nightmare did not end there. When she woke up the next morning, Aubrey was horrified to find that her entire lower body had been replaced by that of a giant spider. After concluding that her healing factor would prevent her from the easy way to escape her fate as a "freak", she tried to hide her condition until she could locate her power-nullifying wristband(which would make her look "normal" again). However, this did not go according to plan, as Aubrey accidentally revealed her drider form on a Skype conversation to Will, with whom Aubrey's alternate universe doppelganger had set up this 'date'.

Month One

Once all of these transformations had ended, Athena had finally gotten another task for Aubrey. In Lost Haven, a shape-shifting metahuman, in the guise of Ares, was trying to spread the worship of Ares against the "Prime Directive" of the Athanatoi. This "Ares" also had an empowered follower, named Polemos, whom Arachne had to trick into thinking that she had injected lethal poison into him. With the aid of the hero Icon, Arachne and Athena were able to stop this wannabe Ares' unauthorized activities after a hard-fought battle.

During the downtime between Athena's various tasks and missions, while a little buzzed from some caffeine she had recently ingested, Aubrey accidentally slipped that she (and her roommates) thought that her friend's roommate, Danielle, was in the "adult film" industry (to put it nicely). However, it turned out that this was not the case and Aubrey received her just desserts when Danielle guilted Aubrey into doing some modeling jobs.

Furthermore, just for the fun of screwing with Athena's pupil, Aphrodite sent her son, Cupid, to Aubrey's residence. While Aubrey was chatting with Will via an instant messenger, Cupid made sure his aim was true and let loose his love-inducing arrow at Aubrey. As a result of Aubrey and Will set up an in-person date. Due to the distance between where the two of them lived, Aubrey guilted Athena into taking her because of how often Athena had dragged her around.

When Doctor Diplodoc had revealed his intent on transforming every person on the Earth into metahumans, Aubrey was recruited by War-Pulse for a team of superheroes who were organized by Christopher Arthur III (Iron Knight). She helped the other heroes assault Doctor Diplodoc's base and apprehending him and his allies.

Hero Type:
Muscle/Acrobat (i.e. Spider-Girl)

Power Level:
B. City Level (Ex. Spider-Man, Cyclops)

Powers:

Powers

-Wall-Crawling: Arachne has the ability to create atomic attraction between herself and other objects, allowing her to adhere to numerous surfaces.

-Spider-Sense: Arachne possesses the ability to sense people’s movements through the miniscule vibrations she feels in the ground when people move and changes in air pressure. Along with an uncanny 6th sense that can detect danger (but not pinpoint it – Arachne must rely on the vibrations and air pressure for that), this allows Arachne to be quite an allusive target.

-Hybrid Bio-Mechanical Web-Shooters: Arachne has natural spinnerets in her wrists; however, she cannot eject them from her wrists like Spider-Man does in the original Spider-Man films with Toby McGuire. She can only pull the threads out like pulling out floss. However, Christopher Arthur III created a device that would draw the webs from her wrists and eject them, just like Spider-Man’s web-shooters.

-Superhuman Strength: Arachne can easily lift approximately 50 tons. She can lift more weight if she exerts herself. Arachne must also pull her punches against opponents without similar levels of durability and strength.

-Superhuman Speed: Arachne’s natural speed exceeds that of modern Olympic athletes. In other words, she could give Usain Bolt a run for his money.

-Superhuman Stamina: Arachne does not produce as many fatigue toxins while she physically exerts himself. She has to spend several hours under strenuous circumstances to feel impaired by these toxins.

-Superhuman Agility and Reflexes: Arachne is twice as flexible than a normal human, allowing her to perform acrobatic maneuvers that high-level gymnast would envy. Her reflexes are 20 times greater than an average human’s would be.

-Superhuman Durability: Arachne can take punishment that would severely injure or otherwise kill an average person. Arachne must roll with punches against her in order to prevent the assailant from breaking their limbs.

-Superhuman Sense of Equilibrium: Arachne can retain a perfect state of equilibrium, allowing her to remain oriented while crawling upside down and performing acrobatic moves.

-Resistance to Foreign Chemicals: Arachne’s metabolism allows her to be less effected by drugs and diseases.

-Immunity to Vampirism: Arachne has nothing to fear from the characters of Twilight...

-Superhuman Healing Factor: While not anywhere near as efficient as mainstream Wolverine’s healing factor, Arachne can significantly recuperate from injuries more quickly than they would otherwise normally take. She will eventually heal from any wound, however, the more serious the wound, the longer it will take it to heal.

Attributes:

Attributes

Height: 5’ 9’’ (human), ~6’ (drider)

Weight: Didn’t your parents tell you not to ask a girl about her weight? Rude!

Cup Size: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Strength Level: 50 tons.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 30 MPH.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 hours.

Agility: 20X Human level (2x Flexible).

Intelligence: Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Minimal

Weaknesses:
-Vulnerable to Pesticides, especially ones targeted towards spiders
-Able to “run dry” of web fluid, if she uses too much.
-She is vulnerable from attacks from behind because she cannot turn her body all the way around to deal with it.
-She is (over-time) invulnerable in body, but her spirit and mind do not have the same luxury.

Supporting Characters:
-Emily Porter: One of the Viera models and a friend of Aubrey's. She is also originally from Ohio.
-Ashley Winston: One of Aubrey’s ex-roommates.
-Felecia Blackwood: One of Aubrey’s ex-roommates.
-Kristin Harding: One of Aubrey’s ex-neighbors and friends.
-William Grant: Boyfriend. Aphrodite's joy in uniting people into an unlikely couple brought Aubrey and Will together.
-Athena: Greek Goddess of Wisdom. Still feeling guilty about the transformation of the ancient Arachne into a spider, she has decided to provide her aid to Aubrey, whether or not Aubrey likes it.

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Sample Post:

Arachne

The Worst Week of My Life

My name is Aubrey Adkins. Welcome to the worst week of my entire life.

After I had been kidnapped and injected with some weird serum that was concocted by a mad scientist, you might have thought that I had faced the worst of it. But if you thought this, you would be dead wrong.

When I got back to my apartment near St. Henry’s, right when I opened the front door, my two roommates rushed over to me, embracing me in their arms. Before I called them a few hours ago, my two roommates feared that I had been kidnapped by a certain trafficking operation that had just all the sudden sprung out of nowhere. Once they saw me, they over overcome with joy.

“Hey, Aubrey,” Felecia said, “Why don’t we celebrate your return by going out to eat and then getting some liquor?”

“Well, I think I will pass on this one. All I really want to do tonight is sleep.” I really wanted to go with them, but considering all the craziness I had experience over the last 24 hours or so, all I needed was to rest.

“Well, suit yourself.” Felecia said, “We’ll just celebrate for you.”

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Another strange occurrence happened while I was preparing to go to bed. After I threw on my pajamas and brushed my teeth, I noticed that there was a small white box sitting on my bed. I have already seen that box before. In fact, I had left that box behind at that rich billionaire’s mansion. While I would never admit it to anyone, I left it there on purpose. I mean, I had zero intent to become some spandex-clad super-heroine.

Since my two roommates were out of the apartment, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try it on once. I mean, I would wear it once and then trash it. Well, within that box were three items: the costume itself, two web shooters, and this device that would nullify my powers, although I think the purpose of it was more focused on the others who could not blend in with normal people. Unlike me, who pretty much looked like a normal person.

The web shooters were kind of unique. Unlike Peter Parker in the original Spider-Man movies, I couldn’t eject webs from my wrists. I could pull it out, but I can’t shoot a drag line to swing around on or something along those lines. Well, these little gadgets work just like how Spider-Man’s web shooters in his most recent movie, except instead of using artificial webs it uses the webbing in my wrists. It is kind of weird if you think about it, but what can you do about it?

Once I had changed into the costume that was in the white box, I checked out how I looked in the bathroom mirror. To be honest, I thought I looked like a genderbent Spider-Man. It was just a tad bit weird. I had my hair tied back into a ponytail that flowed out the back of the mask I wore. The costume itself did not look too familiar. It showed a hint of Spider-Man, but it wasn’t the ‘classic’ look, if you know what I mean. The only thing going for me was that since I had a somewhat athletic build, I didn’t look like some fangirl cosplaying a comic book character.

“That costume fits mighty nicely on you, Aubrey.” A heavenly sounding voice said. That voice made me jump in place since I thought I was alone in my apartment. Once I turned, I realized that there was someone else in the apartment.

Standing in the living room of our apartment was an extremely tall woman with titanium blonde hair and gray eyes. She wore a dress that fell to her ankles, along with a glimmering breastplate. She broached a blue cloak with rather large pin that had a large face on it, which kind of looked like an extremely ugly man. On her head, she had one of those classic Greek helmets and she wore it on to of her head just like how a football player does when he allows the helmet rest atop of his head, but does not allow it to come down over his face. Finally, there was an owl sitting on her shoulder, its head cocked towards one side, as if it was examining its surroundings.

“Who are you?” I asked, kind of freaked out that someone was in our apartment, especially someone I didn’t know.

“Why, I am Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and the Patroness of Athens, of course.”