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A Game of Stands - A JJBA roleplay

"Oh no, not me. No, that would be my boss. Hold on, I'll get him. Hey Booooooooooooss!" He yells to the back, rolling up the window with his skinny felt arm.

The engine cuts off and the double doors of the backseat swing open as a man springs out of them. He lands on the tips of his shinny black shoes as he draws himself up, one hand of the brim of his large white tophat to tip toward you. The man smiles infectiously and says. "Hola! Bonjourno! Konnichiwa! Hello, my young friend! So pleased to meet you. My name is James Rodgers, James Maury Rodgers, and this is my special friend Rainbow Connection." He extends his arm and suddenly a psychedelic frog is perched on his shoulder, flashing in colors almost as gaudy as the vans. Almost.

"My, but it's incredible to meet someone like you as well." He continues. "For longest time I just assumed that that my imaginary friend had more punch than normal. Tell me, were you ever haunted by such thoughts Mr...?"

Jurassic Park

I love that they're bringing back Henry Wu, a man who created an invisible dinosaur completely by accident, who made raptors too smart and a Spinosaur with the strength to crack a rex's neck, dare I say the Bloody Stupid Johnson of genetic engineering, and telling him to just go hog wild.

There's no way that that could possible have backfired.

A Game of Stands - A JJBA roleplay

Suddenly a load *BANG* shatters the silence of the empty cul-de-sac. It echos off into the distance, bouncing between the old forsaken building and cars before finally dissipating. Silence again.

Then, another *BANG,* like a gunshot, ratted around, and this time when it fades a sound can be heard. A motor, puffing and puttering, and as the vehicle rounds the corner into the cu-de-sac it lets out another backfire. The van is old, very old, rounded like something from the 1970s, and across it's body is splashed a shinny, swirly pattern of psychedelic colors.

It rolls up beside you, the tinted driver side window slowly rolling down, and you get your first look at the driver. He's small, his head barely coming up above the window. His skin is puffy, soft looking, and of a deep blue color. His hair is curly and orange, he's wearing a little black drivers suit, complete with bow tie, his nose is bulbous and the same color as his hair, and he grips the wheel with his long thin arms. But the most striking things are his eyes. Wide, unblinking, and dead. Like a dolls eyes.

You share a long silence with the puppet in the drivers seat, the only sound the rumbling of the idling engine as he looks you up and down appraisingly. Then he nods, and makes a little "Hmm" sound, before saying in a friendly voice "Excuse me Mack, but do you happen to know the location of TYGER headquarters? We're here to learn about Stands."

Manifold Mecha Mayhem

I hope not. I've just been waiting for Grey Star to post more world building so there would be something to talk about.

Jurassic Park

Jurassic World is on Isla Nublar, so there shouldn't be any wild dinosaurs.

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AuntFlavia said
ILOVEPSYCHONAUTSI am six thousand percent interested. Count me in, waaaaay in. As far as thoughts go, my two cents: limit the age. I just think that trying to write as a group of kids would be more challenging and fun, and if you extend it to 18 year olds then everyone's going to end up choosing 18. I might have more two cents in the future, depending on how this all goes.

Speak for yourself, I want to be a 10 year old girl that talks to plants.

Manifold Mecha Mayhem

Darn it, I just realized I could have rode into battle in the Bagger 288.

Manifold Mecha Mayhem

IncredibleBee said
It's probably an international organization created under the UN with leaders, crew, and funding coming in from the US, Japan, England, China... basically any major nation.With that in mind, we likely answer directly to the organization's director. But the director answers directly to the world's leaders. We'd actually probably be kept under super close watch specifically to avoid agents going rogue.

I figured a team like this, filled with so many strange factors, would have to be some high ranking Earth Gov commanders baby. Sort of like the Avengers. Like there's one person or a handful of people really pushing the idea that what Earth needs is a dedicated task force for when things get real. Not "this country has declared war on this one" real or "terrorists have taken a cruise ship hostage" real, bigger than that.

"We don't know what it is, but it crawled out of the ocean and smashed Tokyo."
"Terrorists have taken the president, his family, and new super prototype we were demonstrating."
"They're going to take the colony and drop it!"

Those sorts of problems. And I imagine we have a ship or something that ferries us around to deployments, like the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Manifold Mecha Mayhem

IncredibleBee said
It's probably an international organization created under the UN with leaders, crew, and funding coming in from the US, Japan, England, China... basically any major nation.With that in mind, we likely answer directly to the organization's director. But the director answers directly to the world's leaders. We'd actually probably be kept under super close watch specifically to avoid agents going rogue.

I figured a team like this, filled with so many strange factors, would have to be some high ranking Earth Gov commanders baby. Sort of like the Avengers. Like there's one person or a handful of people really pushing the idea that what Earth needs is a dedicated task force for when things get real. Not "this country has declared war on this one" real or "terrorists have taken a cruise ship hostage" real, bigger than that.

"We don't know what it is, but it crawled out of the ocean and smashed Tokyo."
"Terrorists have taken the president, his family, and new super prototype we were demonstrating."
"They're going to take the colony and drop it!"

Those sorts of problems. And I imagine we have a ship or something that ferries us around to deployments, like the Tuatha Dé Danann.

A Game of Stands - A JJBA roleplay

anonzep said
Yeah, could you post your character here again, please? Also I think we should start in - recommend a place to start? Egypt sounds fine.

I figure we should start by arriving at wherever it is TYGER is based, and Egypt was my best guess. I mean, not arriving at their headquarters itself but maybe meeting on the way? On a boat or plane. Though I guess it doesn't really matter, seeing as Stand users tend to be drawn together by fate.

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Full Name: James Maury Rodgers

Alias: Jim the Magic Man, J.M. Rodgers

Gender: Male

Age: 29

Occupation/Status: Children's Show Host and Writer

Skills/Abilities: Painting, puppeteering, child psychology, writing, magic and slight of hand.

Appearance: A tall, slightly pudgy man, with long brown hair and a big but well kept beard. He wears a long white coat, clean pressed pants, and a large top-hat. Each of these is dotted with pictures that look as though they were drawn on with children crayon, depictions of things like clowns, flowers, candy, animals, nature, fantastic creature, cars, all crudely drawn wherever someone could find space. Under this he wears a soft red wool sweater. His belt buckle is two hands joined together in brotherhood.

Likes: Children, education, reaching peaceful solutions, fruit.

Dislikes: Violence, ignorance

Fears: None that stand out.

Bad Habits: Has a tendency to be direct and straightforward with children while speaking down to adults. His can get lost in his own imagination.

Personality: James is a optimist first and foremost, sincerely believing that there is good even in the most wicked hearts. There is no black and white to morality in his view, just white that has been tarnished, and he is always respectful to anyone he meets. He empathizes for other people tremendously, unable to turn away and ignore suffering. He will use any situation he's in as an opportunity to educate, but is a showman and will go about it in an bombastic way. He always goes about his business with enormous enthusiasm.

History: James grew up in the southern United States, and was an imaginative child even then. As he grew older he became interested in puppetry, a hobby that landed him a job on pubic access cable during his teenage years. Becoming a local celebrity through his puppets, he worked repeatedly with very young children and grew to love the way they viewed the world. Dedicating himself to education and entertainment he worked and worked until he got the opportunity to pitch his own show to the Public Broadcasting Station, a pitch that was helped by his Stand power and its ability to show them exactly what he pictured it being. All the while he wrote children books, often with the moral of understanding and accepting people who were different.

Stand
Name: Rainbow Connection

Namesake: The Rainbow Connection, The Muppet Movie

Appearance: A clownish looking frog the size of a mans head, with big red cheeks and a large star-like mane around it's neck. The colors of the frog are constantly shifting and changing and moving, like a psychedelic tie-dye lava lamp.

Abilities: Rainbow Connection Can jump between two people at high speed, connecting them with a rainbow chain. So long as at least two people are connected by the chain they will each see and experience what the other imagines as though it were happening in real life. This effect can be extended with multiple consecutive jumps, with each person in the chain seeing what is imagine by every other person in the chain. Rainbow Connection must leap directly between people to connect them via the rainbow chain. If it lands on anything but another person the chain is considered complete and no one else may be added to it.