@MetalHead A werewolf would be pretty cool. I'd like there to be as many PCs as possible in one of the two teams, roleplaying these characters as having history, relationships, and grudges is a huge part of the fun.
@EkkoRhodes Your character might have decided to show up to help out, or they have a relationship with another character, any reason you think would be appropriate should be fine.
@vietmyke Don't worry about it, the doors always open, and I hope your other games go great!
@GreenGoat Same thing with Ekko, there's a ton of options. It's not unrealistic for so many supers to converge on such a huge event.
@RumikoOhara Awesome! Accepted, go ahead and put her in the CS tab. I'm guessing she came to Japan to support the team?
Also Poly already put me in the tab, but you guys can check out my CS if you missed it. Splinter team, behold your guide and mentor
Birth Name: Jack Cochran
Alter Ego: Red Jack
Gender: Male
Age: Physically in his late teens or early twenties, actual age thirty, and he'll look that young for a long time
Country of Origin: America, East Coast
Archetype: Supernatural
Allegiance: Splinter
Appearance: Red Jack is a tall broad shouldered man with sculpted features. He has perfect white teeth and the picture perfect musculature of a model. Those alone would make him a beautiful man, but his natural violet eyes and silver hair with his soft caramel skin give him an exotic almost ethereal allure. When enraged or in the joy of battle, his eyes turn a starling blood red. His ears are subtly pointed. In combat he wears black unicorn fur with minimal fae steel plating and a red head wrap covering his face and neck. When he kills a particularly worthy foe he dips his scarf in their blood. The original color of the scarf is unknown.
Powers/Skills: Red Jack is a painter who only uses one color, guess which. Red Jack is a talented killer who trained in combat since he could hold a blade. He prefers to use his custom forged fae steel hand-and-a-half sword in tandem with a Desert Eagle in combat. Jack also likes his knives, carrying a variety of blades hidden on his person, there's always one in reach of his hand ready to fling into an opponent. He is stronger, faster, and more durable than a normal human due to his fae heritage. Jack has very subtle powers of persuasion, able to mentally nudge people into whatever emotional direction he desires. When enraged or damaged enough Jack will fly into a killer rage, his speed and strength are even greater but he becomes a beast that can barely distinguish between friend or foe. He hates being in this state, preferring to fight with his usual deadly grace and skill. His inhuman powers are also his curse, Jack deals with barely restrained urges for blood and violence on a daily basis.
Equipment/Resources: A set of custom-fitted fabric and armor. The fabric is made from unicorn skin and is soft and supple to the touch. While the metal is intricately made fae steel with elegant curving patterns in the metal. The tight black leather doublet and breeches covers his whole body while the silver armor protects his upper arms, forearms, shins, and chest. The leather is enchanted and will completely stop knives and small arms fire up to military grade assault rifles. The armor will deflect most blunt force blows and provides protection from energy attacks, magical and otherwise.
He wears red fingerless gloves and footwraps. His scarf is a family heirloom, worn by his father and his father before him down a long bloody line of Redcaps. Jack also has an enormous amount of blades on his person, including two wrist mounted hidden knives. Jack goes to battle with his bastard sword strapped to his back and his nickle plated, ivory handled hand cannon strapped to his thigh. The bloody armored helm of his family is affixed to his breast in his pin, a symbol of his status which allows him to access his family's considerable resources.
Biography: Jack is the second son in a family of faeries. His mother was a woodland sprite and his father is a Redcap, a fae with a genetic predisposition for murder. Their coupling was passionate but brief as the nature of Fae encounters often was and Jack was born in one of New York City's many "Shadow Towns", hidden communities of supernatural beings living among mortals. His mother was a city dweller inconstantly and preferred to spend time in her beloved woods upstate, taking her son with her and teaching him of the beauty of life and nature. Her father, the clan chief, however did not want to raise a Red Son among his people and sent Jack off to live with his father. Jack's formative years were spent on Cochran Manor in upstate New York. His father, a prolific Winter Court assassin, took an interest in his strong son, for he only had one other son among many daughters and said older brother was a more bookish sort. His mother occasionally came to call on him at the manor, and one year he had a full-blood sister, his favorite sibling.
Jack received the finest instruction in all the myriad arts of combat and killing. He grew up the favorite child, with every luxury and none of the responsibility of being his father's heir. As soon as he hit puberty he began feeling the murderous urges, only barely balanced out by the more gentle nature of his mother's people. Jack followed in his father's footsteps and slaked his lust for blood by pursuing countless liaisons with beings of multiple races. He became his father's apprentice, accompanying him on several of his contracts for both Winter Courtesans and other beings supernatural and mortal. Jack gained quite a few notches on his built and scratches on his bedpost before he reached twenty. Jack acquired the name Red Jack in the annual Winter Court tourney, where he won in a melee that had Winter Knights, Orges, and Trolls. Jack became quite infamous among his kin, his bloodlust and actual lust legendary even for their family. His mother's clan for the most part shunned him, his violent nature making him anathema to the clan's pacifistic philosophy. For her part his mother did her best to balance out her son.
Red Jack begun taking contracts on his own, his mother's teachings and sensibilities compelling him to only seek violence against those he deemed despicable. It wasn't perfect but it was something. Jack's life went like that for years, killing anonymous hordes and having strings of anonymous lovers. When their shadow world exploded into the public eye with the rise of the superheroes, Jack received a much needed shot in the arm. He was one of the first Fae to embrace public life and became a "superhero", his looks and charm endearing him in the public eye while he amassed a reputation as a skilled fighter. He was a team leader in the Champions and one of their best field operatives. He filled another role that only him and a handful of Champions knew about.
Jack was the team's personal hatchet man, taking care of problems in a way that no other Champion could. Whenever there was too much red tape to take someone down legally, whenever they were too much of a threat to remain alive, or whenever plain old revenge was needed, Red Jack was the solution. Nobody outside of the team and very very few inside knew about his role. Jack left no evidence linking the incidents back to them, and Jack had "disappeared" a handful of criminals in the group's short history. Jack's occasional wetwork coupled with bedding rabid fans kept his urges in check. He assuaged his desire for a noble life through his superheroics and he made quite a few friends and bed mates among his colleagues in the Champions.
Nagoya was where things stopped being fun. For his part, Jack didn't contribute to the operation breaking down but he was in the thick of the fighting that came afterward. He lost too many friends that day and over the course of the battle, he started to lose it, taking wounds and becoming more brutal in his takedowns. Eventually he slipped into the blood rage and went on a rampage, slashing necks and stabbing criminals indiscriminately. His final body count was somewhere in the low dozens. Luckily for him his allies knew what was going on and steered civilians away from him and steered clear of his vicinity as he did his bloody work. The camera footage of the affair was quite frightening, with him laughing and yelling and perhaps even moaning in arousal as he snapped necks and ripped out throats. A few of them had tried to surrender. The whole affair was a red haze to him, he remembered almost none of it.
The public backlash that followed angered him even further. Who were the humans to blame him and his friends for the affair? They were ungrateful, moronic, disgusting. Some of the Champions were almost as bad in their arguments. Jack scoffed at the idea of facing legal action and forcibly removed any authorities who tried. His days were filled with frantic damage control and arguments and public censure while his nights were haunted by frustrated lovemaking and vivid nightmares. Eventually Jack just couldn't take it anymore and promptly led the Splinter movement to break off from the Champions, seeking to start over fresh. Jack's goal is to do what the Champions can't and hunt down the criminal groups he believes responsible for the massacre, seeking to brutally destroy those organizations from top to bottom and damn the consequences.
Special Notes: Jack is openly pansexual and not shy about it. Pursuing his sexual desires helps to alleviate his violent ones. He has quite a few bastard children living in the manor, he tries to show up for birthdays.
@DFTBA Oh yeah that should be fine. Add in that part and make one further thing clear. If his powers are based on magic do they affect all abilities or just magic powers? Can he also get the skills of Gifted NPCs and PCs? Clear that up and consider the character accepted.
@EkkoRhodes The PCs are all from different countries but this is almost immediately after the Nagoya incident. So everyone is in the vicinity of Japan at the moment. And it's up to the Splinter players to decide a name.
@DFTBA The only problem with your sheet is that metahumans, and by extension costumed superheroes, have only been a thing for a couple years at this point. This a world that is just discovering super powers, magic, and sci fi tech. To make your character work you could always make his family be decorated police officers or military members. And you can just say super powers instead of just supernatural powers when describing your character's ability, otherwise it implies he can only work with magic powers. Just my two cents.
@arca9 It's a good sheet, the only thing I need clearing up is if she's supernatural what is the specific origin of her powers? I'd just like some clarity on that.
@RumikoOhara You're welcome to submit another character if you wish but your concept is fine. I'm ok with the concept of the dragon and God Fist, I have participated in RPs with characters of vastly differing power level. But it is our job as the GMs to make sure the game offers equal challenge to all players and that the game is balanced, and that's what we're trying to do.
@Renny Well in all honesty his character defies classification under the traditional archetypes because as far as the world knows, there are no aliens. Depending on the exact nature of his cosmic heritage he may be more supernatural however. There's a tradition of cosmic supernatural beings in mythology such as eastern dragons and lovecraftian horrors. If he's unaware of his true heritage he could believe he is metahuman, but otherwise he defies the traditional categories. I'd also consider lowering his reaction speed. His strength and flying speed is one thing but since this RP can feature player vs player, the other players should at least be able to get the first shot in if they're skilled enough. If someone makes a speedster it's generally understood that they're not strong to balance out the game.
@WanderingSpirit Much like the real comics there are a variety of characters of multiple levels and believe me when I say that Poly and I will try to keep the game balanced as much as possible in the IC. And there are different kinds of power besides physical, I'm sure there are energy or attack based characters, magic characters, psychic characters, and what not who could knock God Fist out of commission if they're good enough. Your character could defeat God Fist with the right applications of his power.
@dragonmancer Villains in the game range from anywhere from Joker level physical strength to Doomsday and they're all legitimate threats. I'm going to go ahead and say God Fist is the absolute ceiling for physical strength levels in PCs.
@Renny I'll wait on Poly's thoughts but a kryptonite factor could be the answer. There are some very powerful characters in the RP, but yours is physically above all of them at the moment. Usually in an RP characters that powerful should be NPCs or Villains in my experience but we'll see. Also again if you're going with a cosmic backstory, I would be interested in seeing how that is fleshed out, but again he shouldn't be classified as a metahuman. He's entirely different. I'm also thinking he should look more otherworldly than he does.
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