MrDidact

Justice League Unlimited: Paragons and Pariahs (MrDidact and FiroIV)

The Watchtower, Justice League Headquarters

It had been just over a month since Lex Luthor had saved the world. A month since two of the League's greatest foes had vanished. A month since the largest alien invasion in Earth's history. And in that time the Justice League had picked up the pieces. The Secret Society had been effectively destroyed with it's leadership and most of its strongest members behind bars. But there remained a desperate remnant of that group that had eluded capture. Until now.

Francisco Ramos, the Detroit-born Metahuman known as Vibe strolled into the briefing room. He was the first to arrive, and smiled genially at J'onn J'onnz the Martian Manhunter. Before, J'onn would have only nodded but after months among the people of Earth he returned the smile. Vibe chuckled and called out, "How's it hanging J'onn? First one here I see. Dang that doesn't speak well for the rest of the team if I'm first." Vibe kept smiling as he planted his rear down on a bench facing J'onn who stood by a monitor.

Vibe asked, "What's the job anyway? T didn't tell me anything except to get here ASAP." Vibe leaned in to whisper, a somewhat futile gesture considering that he was speaking to a Telepath, "Just between you and me, I think he woke up on the wrong side of the bed." J'onn smiled a little and said, "Mister Terrific has a lot of work to do, there's still a lot that needs to be done and sometimes he forgets to be polite. As for the mission, we'll wait for the rest of your team first. I know how little all of you care for telepathic communication and I'd rather not have to repeat myself verbally."

The young hero leaned back and put his head in his hands, "It's cool J'onn. Who do I got anyway? Probably not anyone else on the Seven, they'd already be here. Booster? Atom? Canary? Now there's someone I wouldn't mind wor-" he was suddenly interrupted by a manic voice yelling, " GOOD MORNING, WATCHTOWER! " Vibe cursed in spanish under his breath as the Creeper rolled, literally rolled into the briefing room.

The yellow-skinned maniac laughed and said, "Well, it's not really morning. No sunshine here." Creeper pursed his lips and scratched his head, "Goodnight? It's dark right? But you can't have night without day. Lunchtime? No that was an hour ago. Oh ok, HAPPY HOLIDAYS, WA- " J'onn held up a hand and said, "Hello Creeper. It's good to see you. Please take seat."

Creeper smiled, "Sure thing my space brotha from a space motha! Anything for J-Man! Or J-Manhunter." Creeper jumped and flipped in the air landing in the seat next to Vibe who muttered, "Hey Creeper." Creeper smiled even wider, "Sup Vibe? Been awhile. Last time I saw you was when we were chasing down the Society. Or was it when I cleaned out my toilet? One of those times, in any case a long time. Good to see you how are the kids?"

"I don't have any kids, Creeper."

"Wife?"

"I'm single. You've known me for more than a year."

Creeper laughed, "To me it's been like decades man. Seriously, you single? With dance moves like that? I'm shocked. Figuratively shocked, literally shocked is more fun. Anyway, I thought all the hot mamacitas would be lining up for the tamales." Vibe groaned as Creeper went on and on. He stared at J'onn and it didn't take a telepath to know what he was thinking. J'onn simply smiled again.

Suddenly Creeper started sniffing the air, "Speaking of hot mamacitas..." His head whipped towards the door and he cheered, "Vivi!" Vibe turned his head to look and he sat up straighter and mussed with his hair when he saw who was walking in. Vivian D'Vartis, the Crimson Fox, sashayed into the briefing room and made Vibe and Creeper drool, literally in the latter's case. The women of the League tended to be devastatingly attractive and Fox was no different. Her beauty was almost a physical presence that made Vibe's throat feel dry.

Crimson Fox smiled and said, "Hi Jackie." Her eyes met Vibe's shades and she smiled, "Hi Cisco." Sweat started to bead his forehead and Vibe was suddenly very glad he wore shades, he coughed and said "Hi Vivian, good to see you." Fox's eyes sparkled, "I know I barely see you two around any more." She grinned at J'onn, "Hey J'onn." J'onn smiled broadly, "Hello Vivian please take a seat."

She nodded and sat down next to Vibe's right side. Now the young man found himself between the craziest man in the League and one of the most beautiful women he had ever met. Vibe counted himself lucky that he hadn't already gone crazy on the spot. He tried his best to act casual and mostly succeeded, "So J'onn, we all here yet?" J'onn shook his head, "No, this mission calls for a larger sized team. We're still waiting on Ray, Sand, and Gypsy."

Creeper smiled at the sound of the names and Fox did too. Vibe nodded and thought to himself that Ray was pretty cool but Sand was almost as weird as Creeper. He turned his head to the side and saw Creeper playing rock-papers-scissors to himself. He seemed to be losing judging by the sounds of frustration he made. Okay, nobody comes even close when compared to Creeper. And Gypsy was coming too. Vibe thought she was as attractive as Vivian, and he had heard of her back in Detroit, he couldn't quite put his finger on why but she scared him too.

Well at least this won't be a boring mission

The League - First Blood (Persistent World Superhero Sci Fi and Fantasy, Always Open)

It's fine really just if too many people get katanas it becomes silly.

I think a tomahawk fits better actually, his whole aesthetic and military background. They actually started having soldiers carry tomahawks in place of knives. Or he could just have a bigass bowie knife or machete. You can edit if you wish but there's no obligation.

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This thread is moving fast, a lot of players moving in but we can always handle more.

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Accepted it.

This thread is moving fast, makes me happy.

I'm thinking we could wait at least until tomorrow night for other players to post their sheets and we can start this baby up.

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Yeah everyone's part of the League now but down the line after the organization get's a decent amount of members and the world developed characters could go their own way. Be mercenaries, corporate shills, government agents, lone vigilantes, and even be full-on villains.

He can certainly keep everything on the down-low. But if somebody finds out, bad things will likely happen :P

Abaddon is accepted.

Killshade is accepted as well, his super-soldier program ties in with a few plots I have in mind. Don't be surprised if some MIB types get a little too interested in him.

But from now on if we're going to have melee weapons let's try something else besides a katana.

EDIT: I agree with the more girls sentiment. We also need more POCs. This is America we're talking about here :P

And Yog yeah that's basically what I had in mind.

The League - First Blood (Persistent World Superhero Sci Fi and Fantasy, Always Open)

Well I would write those kinds of consequences so yeah that would happen. It would just need to happen organically and make sense in the narrative, not just for the sake of drama.

What I'm trying to get at is that the League is regulated by law, as such they follow a few procedures when it comes to killing like cops. They can't hunt someone down and kill them, they can't shoot a guy if he's no threat but if the chips are down and lives depend on it they can kill. That doesn't mean it absolves them of political or social consequences but they'd be within their legal bounds.

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Please post the sheet to the CS thread, we don't want to clutter either thread too much.

The League - First Blood (Persistent World Superhero Sci Fi and Fantasy, Always Open)

If he enjoys killing that's certainly an issue but not law-breaking. Hunting down criminals with the express purpose of killing them would be however. It's not just a question of innocence but due process. If he's in a fight and they die than he's most likely fine. If he chases down somebody and then just kills them that would be a problem. Plus if that happens too much we'd run out of Rogues :P

He shouldn't be going Punisher on people but he can justifiably kill someone in combat is what I'm trying to say. At this stage all the characters would be associated with the League but eventually people would be able to branch out.

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So it's all good then.

No in this rp, heroes can kill as long as it's in the line of duty or in self-defense or defense of others. It's regulated though like being in the police. The issue with regards to him killing is that as a magic-user the White Fellowship of Sorcerers made it illegal to kill a mortal with magic unless it's in the situations described above. So he should be fine unless he coldly executes someone with magic but then he'd be in trouble with the law too.

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He Who Walks Behind, isn't a Dresden Files reference? :P

That's fine. There's probably gonna be plot points about Superhuman Academies or some such but that comes later.