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

Kelly Brown | Zac Wilson

Timber Falls, NY

Time: August This Year

Previously (5 years ago) on The Raptor Pack

It was yet another warm, yet breezy, summer day in Timber Falls. Although summer break was coming to a close, Zac still found some time to return home and see his parents. Just like last summer, Kelly tagged along, too. However, unlike last time, she was not as much of a newcomer to the Wilson family.

Zac and Kelly decided to take a stroll around the lake that was located not far away from the Wilson household. The lake created the perfect circumstances for the wind to blow a cool breeze to the surrounding area, making the summer day exceptionally nice. Within eyeshot, there was a small island right off the coast of the lake, where Zac and Kelly were taking there walk. The island was girted with a sandy beach, while leafy trees and foliage decorated the interior of the island.

“I haven’t thought about it before, but it has been an entire year since we’ve gotten our powers,” Zac mentioned to Kelly when he caught sight of the island. A year ago, that was the island where both Zac and Kelly were kidnapped by Doctor Diplodoc before being turned into metahumans.

“It has only been a year? With all that has happened recently, it has felt it should be longer than that!” Kelly answered her boyfriend back.

“Want to race, for old times’ sake?”

“You’re on!”

Zac stripped off his shirt before diving into the chilly lake water. Last time, Zac easily smoked his girlfriend and from how it looked to Zac when he got into the water, the end result appeared like it would not be any different. When Zac finally landed on the island’s beach, he turned around and was surprised when he did not see her behind him. At first, he was concerned that she might have had trouble while swimming. However, that fear was quickly dispersed.

“What took you so long?” Kelly taunted Zac in the most loving way possible. Zac knew that something was up when he noticed that her clothes were completely dry. She also had her power nullifier deactivated, which granted her wasplike powers and appearance.

“Hold up, that was cheating!” Zac reacted to his girlfriend’s victory in the race.

“You didn’t explicitly say anything about having to swim,” Kelly told Zac with a smile on her face, enjoying the fact that she bent the rules by flying to the island instead of swimming.

“If we’re using powers, I should be allowed to use my superhuman speed,” Zac proposed before pausing for a moment when an idea came to him. “Wait, could I run on water?”

“Hmm…good question. I would have to look it up,” Kelly answered, pulling out her cell phone from her pocket and opening up her internet browser.

“I mean, the Flash did it on that tv show, but I’m nowhere near as fast as he is and that’s comic book logic anyways, right?

“Actually, if you can make it to 30 meters per second, you could potentially mimic the basilisk lizard.”

“What’s that in non-metric units?”

“Umm…about 67 miles per hours,” Kelly answered after a short pause while she converted the units (or rather Google did).

“I can reach that easily…I think,” Zac said as he deactivated his power nullifier, which also swapped his wet pants for his dry superhero costume. “There’s not much real estate here, but I guess running around the island in a circle might work.”

Zac soon zoomed off, dashing around the island in a circle. With each lap, he increased his speed. Once Zac had felt he was in the right ballpark for his speed, instead of continuing in the circle, he just went straight towards the mainland.

The sensation of running on the water was weird, yet exciting. The pressure from his feet striking the lake’s surface in turn forced the water to push back up against his feet. With each step, Zac found that he was not yet sinking into the water. However, Zac’s downfall was him looking back towards the island in an almost cocky sign of victory. Instead, all this did was distract him, causing him to lose his footing and stumble. Just like a smooth rock that young children would toss across a lake’s surface, Zac skipped on top of the water for several feet until he crashed into the beach.

“Are you okay!” Kelly asked in concern as she hovered near him once she had flew across the lake’s surface to where Zac had landed.

“Nothing I’ve haven’t handled before,” Zac answered while giving his girlfriend a thumbs up.

“Well, that was an interesting first test run,” Kelly told him. Once she realized what she said, Kelly added: “No pun intended, of course.”

“At least I know I can do this. Might come in handy in the future.”

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

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

Finally got this post up. I had the first half of this post done since before Christmas, but that was also the day I first got sick (and I'm still trying to get back to 100% 3 weeks later).

I wanted to push it out, so the proofreading on the post was non-existent. So if you see any blatant errors, just let me know. :)

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

Christopher Arthur III | Kelly Brown | Samantha Kadowsky

The Sherman Center, Lost Haven, Maine

Time: Days After the Defeat of the Hounds of Humanity

“So, this is the device you were talking about,” Kelly stated as she examined the chair that Chris had designed to the false memories that had been sprouting in peoples’ heads. “But does it work?”

“Well, hypothetically it does,” Chris reassured Kelly, although his expertise did not do much to convince the brunette.

“So you’re telling us that you want us to use an untested machine?” Kelly then turned around and face Chris, Veronica, and Sammy. She had her arms crossed and was shaking her head, showing that she was unsure about this plan.

“Well, it is highly unethical for me to force some supervillain I had apprehended to be my guinea pig, so I needed someone who would help me out willingly,” Chris tried to defend himself, but from the expression on Kelly’s face he knew that it was an uphill battle.

“I would have done it, but I’m apparently banned from testing it out,” Veronica chimed in, much to Chris’ chagrin.

“I’m not going to subject my only sister to an experimental treatment before I know it works without a hitch.”

“So you don’t know whether it will work, do you? Yet you want us to test it?” Kelly snapped at Chris.

“You have to understand that she’s all the family I have left! I’m not going to risk scrambling her brains.”

“Yet you want us to take that risk! That’s just so reassuring!”

“I’ll do it,” Sammy finally interrupted the arguing with her calm, yet sorrowful voice.

“Sammy, Chris even admitted that he doesn’t know what the risks might be. You can’t possibly accept that type of chance!”

“I already have a broken heart. What more harm could scrambling my brain do,” Sammy answered her best friend back. Kelly would have tried to continue to dissuade Sammy from this path, but she knew that, once Sammy had made up her mind, there was nothing in this world that could change her course.

Sammy then slithered over towards the chair and took a seat. Her serpentine tail coiled tightly around the base of the chair, as she tried to calm her nervous. Although Sammy had made up her mind, that did not mean her nerves would not get to her.

“Take this,” Chris suggested to the snake-girl as he handed her a mouth piece, which she immediately popped into her mouth. “This should be over soon.”

Once Sammy had been prepped for the procedure, Chris stepped back and manned the controls that operated the chair. With a press of a button, the device that would rest above Sammy’s head descended above her. The machine then started to hum louder and louder. The metal that composed the base of the chair began to creak, as Sammy’s snake tail squeezed tighter and tighter around it. Sammy grasped at the armrest as the procedure continued.

Almost as quickly as the machine had warmed up and fired, the device also shut down just as fast. During the procedure, Sammy’s body had grown slack and limp, and her tail slipped from its grip on the chair. Thinking that the experiment had gone utterly wrong, Kelly rushed over to her friend’s aid. With a flick of her wrist, Kelly used a quick magical incantation to yank out the protective mouthpiece out of Sammy’s mouth and flung it across the room.

“Come on Sammy, wake up,” Kelly pleaded as she gently sat Sammy up in the chair. Kelly gave a sigh of relief when Sammy began breathing again and started to come to.

“How did I get here?” Sammy asked aloud as she realized that she was not in Albany, New York anymore. Instead, she was in the Sherman Center building, where the heroes had assembled for the Pax Metahumana crisis.

“It’s kind of a long story, so let’s get you home,”

As Kelly was helping Sammy out of the chair, Sammy had not realized that she had different powers now and therefore tried to take a step as if she still had two legs. As a result, she fell straight into the floor, face first.

“Okay, who’s the wise guy who tied my feet—” Sammy began to say until she looked at her ‘feet’ and saw that a giant snake’s body had replaced everything below her waist. “What happened to me?”

“That’s kind of part of that long story,” Kelly responded, not quite sure where to begin explaining everything.

“Please don’t tell me there was some Freaky Friday shenanigans involving Mr. Arthur’s sister!”

“Oh, it was nothing like that,” Chris finally interjected into the conversation. “I haven’t figured out what caused it, but something made you think a different version of you, who had a different life than the real you, if that makes any sense.”

“What do you mean a different me?”

“Can you recall anything from the past twenty-four hours?”

“Not really. Everything is sort of hazy,” Sammy replied.

“Maybe take a moment and see if anything comes to mind.”

Sammy then closed her eyes as she tried to rack her brain to figure out whether she remembered anything that had recently happened to her. At first, she wore a tired, confused look on her face, showing that she was drawing blanks. However, when Sammy’s cheeks began to blush, her snake coils gave out from underneath her, and she began biting her lower lip, it was clear that she had recalled something.

“Kelly, please tell me that Lyger and I didn’t…um…do it, did we?”

“Well, you did claim to have, but I can’t possibly fathom that it actually happened.”

“Maybe I should call Ky…Lyger. He should—” Sammy stopped midsentence when she was suddenly hit by another memory like a wall of bricks.

“Oh my God, what did I do?” Sammy cried as she held her hands up against her mouth in shock. “Did I really try to seduce and rape him?”

“Come on, Sammy. It wasn’t exactly like that. You weren’t yourself and your other you thought was going to be consensual.”

“But it was!” Sammy told Kelly as the waterworks began to flow. Kelly naturally allowed her friend to cry on her shoulder, hoping she could at least somehow calm down her stressed-out friend.

“Well, since we know it works, I guess it’s my turn!” Veronica tried to talk her way into using the machine next. However, Chris was not having any of it.

“You’re going to have to wait your turn. It’s guests first,” he chided his younger half-sister. “Anyways, it would be incredibly rude for us to rush them when one of them is having an existential crisis.”

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

Aubrey Adkins

Pacific Point, CA

It had been a month since the reign of terror that Hounds of Humanity had caused had been curbed and stopped. Things were starting to go back to normal, or at least as normal as things can be after such a crisis. Although the Hounds would resurface every once in a while, like the cockroaches they were, they no longer were so great of a threat that they threatened entire cities anymore. Nothing that the local heroes couldn’t handle.

I was just climbing up the wooden flight of stairs that lead to my apartment when I heard my phone ring from within my purse. After shuffling through the contents of my purse, I finally found my phone and retrieved it. The caller ID on my phone identified Will as the caller. He promised he would fly in and see me after he had visited his family for the 4th of July. I bet he was calling to let me know when his flight would come in.

“Hey, Will. What’s up?”

“Just making sure you don’t forget me,” Will told me over the line. “I don’t want to be stuck at the airport at 1 o’clock in the morning.”

“Why in the world would you book a flight at such an ungodly hour like that?”

“It was one of the cheaper options,” Will explained his choice of flight.

“I’m just messing with you. I’ll be there,” I told Will. “But I’m going to need a quick power nap in the meantime. Today was a long day.”

“You want to talk about it?” Will asked me about my day. I sighed before continuing.

“Management is already planning for the August pinups and they wanted a sports theme. After the couple hours the other models wasted arguing over who should get what, I wanted to bash my head against the wall. Half of them were all cheerleaders and dancers in high school, while the rest of them were too busy prepping for modelling or acting careers.”

“So what did you do?”

“All I can say is thank God Emily thought outside of the box. She volunteered to dress as a team physician. I then withdrew my name from the race for cheerleader and settled with softball, as I actually played the sport while I was still in school.”

“Please don’t tell me Whitney won the cheerleader sweepstakes.”

“You know she obviously did,” I told Will with a sigh, shaking my head, even though I knew that he could not see me. “I still have a headache from hearing her voice.”

“Well, at least you’re home now and you’ll be spending the week with me and not her, so that’s a plus.”

“Thank God!”

After we had finished small more small talk, we said our goodbyes, at least until we would see each other in a few hours. Once we had hung up, I headed straight towards my bedroom, where I changed into something I could nap in for a while. I pulled out a pair of athletic shorts and an oversized, grey t-shirt that Will’s parents bought for him, thinking he would grow into it, but he never did. On the front of the shirt, the text, “2008 NFC Conference Champions” printed, along with the red head of a Cardinal. I really wished the Cardinals would have won that Super Bowl. Nothing would have pleased me more than see the Steelers lose in the biggest game of the year.

Beside I slipped under the covers, I switched out the bra I had been wearing all day for my sleeping bra. Before I became a superhero, I could head to bed without one, but now that I was in the big leagues, I can’t feel comfortable at night without one. I know, it really sucks, but that’s life for you. I then set an alarm on my phone to go off in a few hours, so I could get up and pick Will up from the airport. Now that the alarm had been set, I slipped my phone into one of the cups of my bra. Shutting off the lights and reclining on my bed, I tried to catch a few winks before I had to wake up again.

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“90’s” Aubrey Adkins

Earth-99, Nautican Island (Not Destroyed)

Same Date and Time as the above

The steel elevator doors slide open before Aubrey stepped inside. Her five-inch stiletto heels clicked against the floor with each step. Once the doors retracted again, Aubrey pressed the “5” button on the elevator’s control panel. She had just finished a long day’s shift at the Lotus and was just returning home. Since Aubrey had been working at the Lotus for a couple years now, she wasn’t self-conscious about wearing her “work” clothes home. Working at the Lotus paid well that she was able to comfortably afford a nice car, so she did not have to walk to the bus stop at the twilight hours anymore. Plus, because she was a superhero, Aubrey could handle herself.

After the elevator’s quick ascent, Aubrey stepped out and headed to her apartment’s door. When she was a few feet away from her front door, she pulled out her phone from her purse that was slung over her shoulder. At first glance, the cell phone had the appearance of any other smart phone. However, when she pressed the side power button, a few holographic displays appeared from the phone’s touchscreen.

“Could you unlock the door, Athena?” Aubrey said to her phone in a way someone today would talk to Cortana or Siri. In a matter of seconds, the sound of the door’s lock clicked, signaling that it was now unlocked.

The first thing Aubrey did once she entered her apartment was to kick of her high-heels. The next thing on her to-do list was to change into something more comfortable. Before slipping out of her dress, she picked out an oversized, gray-colored t-shirt that belonged to Will. On the front of the shirt was printed “Super Bowl XLIII Champions: Arizona Cardinals,” along with that team’s Cardinal logo.

Once Aubrey had changed, she deactivated her power nullifier, changing her lower body back to its normal drider appearance. She sprawled herself on her coach and started to channel surf until her phone spoke up.

<I recommend you review the changes made to your costume due to your new sponsorships>

Because her superheroics would often cause Aubrey to miss many hours at work, all at unpredictable times, she had to supplement her income with corporate sponsorships. Sure, when she would make it to work, Aubrey would make a pretty penny. But that would also mean that she was leaving a lot of money on the table whenever her superhero career took precedence.

“Ugh, why? Do I really need to look over a few patches that were added and removed from my jacket?”

<The contract with Victoria’s Secret does not require you to show off their product. Perhaps we should reconsider the gaping hole on the front of your costume,>

“We already had this discussion. Adding a bit of spandex isn’t going to do me any more good than leaving some skin bare, especially when my healing factor will just spit out any bullets that hit me, no matter if it hits my skin or costume. Plus, I’ve gotten fond of the spider shape over the years.”

<I request that you at least try on your costume to see if I fits.>

“I don’t know, I think I’m ready to hit the sack,” Aubrey told her AI assistant with a very fake yawn. She just rolled of her couch and headed towards her bedroom, just ignoring Athena’s requests. “Just make sure my costume is linked up with my power nullifier’s costume quick switch function.”

<Updates in progress. Do you wish me to alert you when I am finished.>

“Remind me when I wake up. But not right when you’re finished. I’ll be sleeping. Otherwise I’ll chuck you out of the window.”

<Understood. See you in the morning.>

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

Guys we're on the 69th page.

Nice.

@Liseran Thistle

Season 1 had 460 pages. But that's what happen when you have discord. All the banter that makes 460 pages is transfer to discord.

@Dedonus

dammit, all of my information on mermaids and sirens came from barbie and veggietales, so I always thought that they were supposed to be mermaids because THATS WHAT BARBIE TURNS INTO IN THE MOVIE.

@Liseran Thistle

Meremaids kind of absorb the role of Sirens as female creatures that sing to sailors (cf. the Little Mermaid...the story, not the Disney movie).

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@Dedonus

Really? I thought the bird ones were harpies or some shit, the movies always made it seem like the mermaids were the siren ones. Aren't there like sea sirens or something, like the ones sailors used to hear and see and throw themselves into the sea for?

@Liseran Thistle

Both harpies and sirens are bird-people. Image below is of the sirens that Odysseus runs into in the Odyssey.

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@Dedonus

Welp that just falls in line with Mindy's recent post and Meln and Theodore telling her that the state has changed since she left. Provence is a small town in the middle of nowhere though, and sure some of the citizens are wierd but they're not supers or metahumans as you call them, Eris is the only person in Provence New Jersey with superpowers canonically.

@Indy Cooper

Also your characters sound super neat! And I'm sure they'd get along great with Eris and the gang, and I even have a Siren character, though when you say siren do you mean like a pretty mermaid lady who sings? because that's the kind of character mine is, but he doesn't socializing very much lol.

@Liseran Thistle

Sirens are bird-people.

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

@Liseran Thistle: Also, Atlanta should have a higher density of metahumans because back in Season 1, that was one city that was hit by one of the meta-domes by one of my villains. Seattle was also hit.

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@Indy Cooper

OH that sounds like fun, please introduce me! I haven't actually found the time to read through everyones stories and shit, and I haven't dared try to tackle the beast that is all of S1 because there are so many posts, so maybe i'll just rifle through the OC tab and read up on the characters instead.

if you are interested in joining the story though, feel free to visit Jersey anytime you want to, and make sure you stray from Georgia if you have any supers in your repetoire, the city is going through a bit of an anti super movement right now, lol.

@Liseran Thistle

If I recall correctly, Indy didn't join until Season 2.