King Cosmos

HEROIC

Kitsune

Appearance

Mask

Akeno Kudo is something of an unknown when it comes to Chicago’s heroes. Most people wouldn’t even know she existed and even for those aware of her she would fly under the radar compared to flashier, more well-known heroes. She doesn’t have attention grabbing powers, she hasn’t dealt with any major incidents or appeared much in the news, she doesn’t even have a proper costume; her public presence is mostly limited to a few eye witness accounts from people she has helped and a small number of hastily filmed videos online.

What is known is this; she operates almost exclusively at night, mostly responds to crimes that are already in progress, preventing the act and then calling the police to deal with the clean-up, she knows how to fight skilfully, and she doesn’t speak much if at all during her appearances. Aside from this, her ‘costume’ is made up of clothing that would look more at home in a gym than on a hero, albeit all in white, and she wears a red and white kitsune mask to hide her identity. It would be easy to come to the conclusion that she isn’t a hero at all, rather a common vigilante who thought to put on a mask, were it not for the fact that she does have powers, as evidenced by the burn marks on the people she fights and the witness accounts of how the air around her is searing hot at times.

All in all, she mostly just comes across as a young woman with a power who decided to start fighting crime; though there are some that take her lack of speech, all white clothing and random appearances to instead speculate that she is some kind of spirit, appearing and disappearing when she is needed. She has a small following online, a few people enamoured with the mystery of her who look forward to any new sightings, but since she hasn’t publically announced her presence as a hero she remains something of an urban legend. They didn’t even name themselves, instead being granted a name by the media and people online based off of the mask she wears; Kitsune.

HEROIC

@ThisIsFine Here's the known information about my character.

If we're going to be discussing the major plot points then I think a discord might be worth it, even if its a small group. Doesn't need to be a full server, a group DM would work.

Kitsune

Appearance

Mask

Akeno Kudo is something of an unknown when it comes to Chicago’s heroes. Most people wouldn’t even know she existed and even for those aware of her she would fly under the radar compared to flashier, more well-known heroes. She doesn’t have attention grabbing powers, she hasn’t dealt with any major incidents or appeared much in the news, she doesn’t even have a proper costume; her public presence is mostly limited to a few eye witness accounts from people she has helped and a small number of hastily filmed videos online.

What is known is this; she operates almost exclusively at night, mostly responds to crimes that are already in progress, preventing the act and then calling the police to deal with the clean-up, she knows how to fight skilfully, and she doesn’t speak much if at all during her appearances. Aside from this, her ‘costume’ is made up of clothing that would look more at home in a gym than on a hero, albeit all in white, and she wears a red and white kitsune mask to hide her identity. It would be easy to come to the conclusion that she isn’t a hero at all, rather a common vigilante who thought to put on a mask, were it not for the fact that she does have powers, as evidenced by the burn marks on the people she fights and the witness accounts of how the air around her is searing hot at times.

All in all, she mostly just comes across as a young woman with a power who decided to start fighting crime; though there are some that take her lack of speech, all white clothing and random appearances to instead speculate that she is some kind of spirit, appearing and disappearing when she is needed. She has a small following online, a few people enamoured with the mystery of her who look forward to any new sightings, but since she hasn’t publically announced her presence as a hero she remains something of an urban legend. They didn’t even name themselves, instead being granted a name by the media and people online based off of the mask she wears; Kitsune.

Small Group Superheroes

You can send them now if you like. I'll wait for at least three players to send their character info before I make the official thread. That way I know how many people we'll be working with.

@ThisIsFine

Do you have a character sheet or a preferred format for us to use? I'm not sure how much information you want us to include.

The Hunt, A Modern Fantasy Smorgasbord RP

Morgana Faith

Morgana let out a snort of a laugh. It was that simple? All she would need to do was sign a piece of paper and her loyalties to this case over her family would be assured? Well, in the eyes of the OMR itself that was likely enough, but whether or not the individuals on the case believed the same they would have to see. “Sure. Should I sign it in blood or would ink suffice?”

She was joking of course; no self-respecting witch would ever willingly give another person access to their blood, even if making such a pact would surely prove her ties beyond a doubt.

“If I have a say in the matter then I suggest the lodge. The spirit sounds more like a job for the local authorities than this team and returning to England, by which I assume you mean to investigate the actions of my family would be… unwise without the proper preparations.” One did not merely request an audience with someone as influential as Angela Faith after all, not even the OMR, and trying to assault the demesne of a centuries old coven of witches without taking significant precautious would be... costly.

It would be wise for her to begin arrangements for such an eventuality once the paperwork was dealt with. There were things that she could prepare alone but they would require resources that she likely wouldn’t be able to acquire herself and for others it might be better to talk to others involved with the investigation and find out what they were capable of.

@Kumbaris@Martian

Small Group Superheroes

Probably something modern and gritty. More Daredevil than Thor Ragnarok.

@ThisIsFine

Yeah, that sounds good. I'm in.

Small Group Superheroes

I'm interested, but I'd like to know what kind of tone you were aiming for with this story before committing.

The Friestan Incident, a Fantasy Sci-Fi Fusion RP

Sumiye King – Acting Chief Engineer

The Chang’e project was a pipe dream.

That was Sumiye’s professional assessment after looking at the project notes the captain had directed her towards. Like Almira had said, it was a scientific endeavour aimed at fixing the recurring problem that gravity presented every time humanity wanted to launch something into space; namely that several thousand tons of metal, plastic and glass was a tad difficult and prohibitively expensive to get off the ground, meaning that space ships, stations and other large constructs needed to be flown into space piecemeal before being assembled in orbit. Getting something the size and mass of the Thucydides into space the way people did it a few centuries ago, by pointing it straight up and firing the engines at full blast, would probably bankrupt whatever country had built it with the fuel costs and achieve little more than burning a very large crater in the ground. So far their solution to that was simply to turn one trip to space into one hundred, splitting the work into manageable chunks so that shuttles or space elevators could handle the load. The Chang’e project, started about 60 or 70 years ago, aimed to find an alternative method of defying gravity by, well, defying gravity; that Sumiye had never heard of the project before and that it had little to nothing to show for its efforts despite the decades it had been running was down to one simple fact.

Anti-gravity was essentially pop science.

Humanity’s understanding of the universe had progressed in leaps and bounds over the last few millennia. They had turned that understanding into achievements, accomplishing things that had once been thought impossible; they’d even managed to achieve faster-than-light travel, breaking through the bounds of relativity and overcoming the limit that many thought would prevent them from truly conquering the stars. Their very presence on this planet, the predicament they now found themselves in, was only possible because of these strides that humanity had taken, the seemingly insurmountable challenges they had overcome.

Even so, they couldn’t manipulate gravity.

It was one of the four fundamental forces of the universe after all, one of the fundamental interactions that determined how their universe worked on a basic level. It was the weakest of those four, sure, but not so weak as to simply bend to their will. The Chang’e project was an attempt to do just that, but how they intended to do it was unclear; the documents seemed more concerned with the potential applications of the technology than how it would actually be made reality. There were two main theoretical methods being proposed; to create a device that negated the pull of gravity, unshackle the ship from its hold so that it could fly as freely in a gravity well as it could in the vacuum of space, or to somehow reverse gravity, to turn the pull into a push in order to have a planetary body repel the ship the way two opposing magnets would. Both of these were… interesting ideas, albeit ones that were more in the realm of fiction than reality. The report did contain so ideas on how they could be accomplished, numbers and formulas and diagrams that she skimmed through, but the whole thing seemed more like a project proposal than a fully realised idea; a submission for further funding, to keep alive a project that was as dead in the water as the Thucydides currently was.

Sumiye would not say it could not be achieved. There were a lot of things that ‘could not be achieved’ that were now achievable, but it could be achieved in the short term. It could not be achieved by her or her team; not with the limited resources available to them, not with their lack of understanding of how gravity worked as a force. For all that it was the weakest universal force, it was also in a lot of ways the most mysterious and least understood. It would take a revolution of science, the overturning of everything they understood, to make the Chang’e project a reality.

But hey, if shape shifting dragons existed, then maybe this was possible too?

Urban Starlight Wonderland: A Magical Girl RP

Shun Nakano

High above the streets of Shinjuku, sitting on the edge of a building with her feet dangling a hundred feet above the ground, the very cool and professional Magical Girl Shun Nakano was in the middle of something vitally important. Her phone pinged as her fellow Magical Girls sent yet another message in their group chat; they were coordinating a combined attack on a Shade somewhere nearby but she couldn’t let herself get distracted. They could handle it without her input; they would have to, as her current task was far more urgent.

Her very future as a Magical Girl was at stake.

[Shun-Shun]: Hey, if my parents ask can you tell them I’m at your place?
[Ami-tan]: Uh, yeah sure
[Ami-tan]: What are you up to?

Letting out a sigh, Shun quickly typed back a response of ‘something shady’, because she was the type of terrible person who found puns funny, and closed the conversation. That would hopefully stop her parents from finding out what she was doing for another night, but she was quickly running out of excuses and friends to rely on so if she was going to continue to sneak out like this she would need to come up with something. How did all the other girls do it? The ones that were older probably didn’t have to worry about it as much, but surely the ones still in high school like herself had to be telling their parents something, right?

“Hmm, maybe I should just join another club.” Club activities, night time practice sessions, even just more people to cover for her with her parents. That would work, except for the fact that joining a club would end up eating into her time even more than the Magical Girl stuff did. “Too bad my school doesn’t have an archery club. I wouldn’t even need to practice.” Would that be cheating? That would probably be cheating. The fairies probably wouldn’t be too happy if she used her abilities to win a few trophies, even if it was in service of the greater good.

Her phone pinged again and Shun raised it up to read the latest message.

[Starry-Eyed]: Ooh, croquettes. Get me one.

@Ammokkx

The Hunt, A Modern Fantasy Smorgasbord RP

Morgana Faith

It was very rarely the case that such an ominous phrase would be followed by something pleasant and as Morgana leaned over Madeleine’s shoulder to read what she had found she saw that this time was not an exception. “Well, it seems my attempts at being coy were useless.”

Her family did this. Maybe not directly, but they had a hand in the unpleasantness that surrounded them, providing the knowledge needed to create the bewitching ritual at the very least and perhaps the resources and the man power as well. She had suspected as much when she had seen the tattoo but didn’t want to jump to conclusions; a few aspects of the ritual had been more than just familiar, but her family were hardly the only witches in England or the only ones to use such techniques. That her family’s crest, the one she had not worn in years, would appear on the wall of a murdered man’s apartments drawn in his own blood was a little harder to excuse however. “Yes, it seems that my family, and in particular my mother, are involved with this Mr X in some capacity.”

To what end and to what extent she didn’t know. She had intended to find out, on her own time and by her own methods, which was why she had not said anything at first; that was no longer possible now though and likely never had been. Still, she had wanted to keep these matters separate from the investigation; she had joined the OMR after breaking from her family and would prefer to keep the two from ever meeting.

Lest the latter become tainted.

“I would hope that this does not make me a suspect, seeing as how I rather publicly broke ties with the rest of the Faith family years ago. I would understand if this would lead you to request my removal from this investigation, however; seeing as how I am no longer… impartial in these matters.”

@Kumbaris@Martian

Urban Starlight Wonderland: A Magical Girl RP

Shun Nakano – Magical Girl of the Stars

Shun Nakano

Age: 16

Personality: Energetic might be a little bit of an understate when it comes to Shun. She is like what would happen if you bottled lightning and turned it into a girl; constantly in motion, never able to sit still for long and constantly, always cheerful. This combined with her endless confidence makes it easy for her to make new friends as she is willing to approach anyone and everyone at least once, but it also makes flighty as she tends to commit to plans with people without thinking and over-booking herself.

She can reckless, as well as tactless, as she has a habit or acting and speaking before thinking and getting herself into trouble, but is more often than not able to escape trouble using the same traits that got her in trouble in the first place. This lack of consequences has left her somewhat over-confident, or at least with the impression that things will always work themselves out in the end. Although, this attitude has been put to the test somewhat recently.

Skills: As a capable soccer player and a member of her school’s team, Shun was athletic even before gaining her new abilities. She has good situational awareness from her time on the pitch and is used to working together with other people for a common goal.

Backstory: A simple child from a simple family, Shun always considered herself to be the typical teenage girl. Her parents worked average jobs, she was an only child like most of her classmates, she hated studying and always left her homework to the last minute; typical high school stuff. The only thing that really made her stand out from the crowd was the fact that she played soccer on the school team; well, that and the fact that she was really good at it. Good enough that her team had a shot at making it to nationals for the first time in years.

It was something that she was proud of; even though she was only playing the sport because she loved it, even though she would have kept playing even if she terrible at it, it was nice to actually be good at something she cared to be good at. She didn’t buy into any of the talk about her being a future star, a future pro, since she knew that there were better players than her out there; still, if that kind of talk kept her teams spirits up then let them dream for her. If they were able winning then that just meant they could play together longer.

They won the final match of the regional tournament, earning their school a spot in nationals for the first time in a decade, but during the final ten minutes of the match Shun was hit by a bad tackle that left her with a sprained ankle. Hardly the worst injury, but it meant she would be out of commission for the first match of nationals. The team was disheartened, but Shun wasn’t; all they had to do was win one match without her and she’d be able to join them for the rest. No big deal. She waved them off from her crutches as they boarded the bus to their first match.

They lost, of course.

Shun didn’t blame them for it, though they all felt devastated. She had got them to nationals and didn’t even get to compete, but she had no hard feelings about it, the other team was just better than them. The same couldn’t be said for the rest of her team however; no matter how much she tried to put a brave face on things, she couldn’t help but think that maybe he team blamed her for being injured , for letting them down. That hurt more than the disappointment or her ankle.

She began to distance herself from the team and from soccer in general. Even after her ankle had healed she didn’t hop back on the pitch or even touch a soccer ball. Some of the spark that made her love the sport had been lost. Then the fairy appeared and she suddenly had a lot more to worry about than just her school team’s feelings.

Magical Girl:

Hider

Concept: Archery

Archetype: Sagittarius

Abilities:
- Enhanced speed and agility.
- Enhanced vision; increased range, able to see in the dark and has enhanced visual acuity.
- Can summon an ornate bow to her hands and is granted the knowledge and skill to use it effectively. Though it doesn’t come with arrows, it instead shoots arrows of pure star light.
- Is able to pinpoint her opponent’s weak spots.