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Supervillainy 101

Seems like we are getting a rather nice array of characters with different reasons for not being liked.

This is gonna be fun. :3

Supervillainy 101

EPPIE JONES

Mutated Form

PERSONA

Maw

AGE

22

ARCHETYPE

Gifted

POWER SET

• Mutation (2 Point)
  Eppie can mutate her body into a grotesque figure of oozing body parts, increasing her size to about one and a half times her original size. She is able to perform acts like throwing her arm out and transform it into a beast like jaw or shifting her limbs and body parts to other locations on her body.
  • Mutation Drawback (Reduced Effect)
    The transformations that her body performs have a huge impact on her overall well being. Eppie can only fully transform for a very short reasonable amount of time, and use limited mutations for only a couple of several minutes. With the human body naturally unable to cope with these kind of transformations it will may leave her nauseous and drained of much of her energy, and in the case of long term transformations, haemorrhaging and tears in her skin.
• Heightened Senses (1 Point)
  Due to the multiple bodies living inside Eppie, she has an above average sense of smell and hearing, while she is also able to grow an extra eye on other parts of her body, for instance the palm of her hand.
• Internal Turmoil (1 Point) - New
  A new identity has awoken within Eppie, a shape-shifter claiming that it is the heir to the body. Both Eppie and Maw are currently unaware of her existence but others around may notice weird quirks like one of Eppie's eyes randomly changing colour and her body sleepwalking during the night. As this identity's strength increases, she will be able to shift portions of her body into mimicking the DNA structure of other humans.

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES

Strange DNA: In digesting the creature, you have acquired some of its strange influence. Your monstrous appearance affects the mental state of normals.

ORIGIN STORY

Eppie was first discovered in the bathroom of a country home, surrounded by the blood and torn bodies of her parents. The paramedics that arrived at the scene could not understand what nightmarish events had happened that morning, but they took the orphaned girl and eventually she ended up in a foster home. For many years she was moved from home to home with each foster parent saying that she had a severe identity disorder until one family decided to take her to get some test done.

The test came back with some unusual results, revealing that Eppie had an array of different genes living inside her with each identity being somewhat alive. The doctors thought it might be a variation of Chimera's Disease and attempted an experimental hypnosis session to try and subdue the dormant identities. During the first session it was unfortunately discovered how dangerous and blood thirsty some of these persona's were with Maw, the main voice in Eppie's head, reaching out with his arm and tearing the doctors limb from limb.

For the years following Eppie was on the run, eventually ending up in Mercury City where she would pick up the occasional job from a group of higher ranked villains in order to earn some scratch.

Supervillainy 101

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Supervillainy 101

Will be reading up and writing up a character some time after work.

Supervillainy 101

I'll be interested in this. I usually enjoy creating a few crazy characters and such.

Borderlands (1x1x1) - Applications in INT-CHK Thread

Still seeing if people are interested.

Edit: will be postponing this for the time being and look at it again in the future. :)

Borderlands (1x1x1) - Applications in INT-CHK thread

Still seeing if people have any interest.

Edit: will be postponing this for the time being and look at it again in the future. :)

Is WH40K just not roleplay viable?(Or perhaps am I unlucky?)

40k is a very rich environment and you can have a really interesting and in depth story if your fellow players are up to it. After all, there were a few games about the universe, Dawn of War and Space Marine, both of which had deep stories of hardship, loyalty, betrayal and plenty of action. Thats not counting the books, which some of them from what I've heard are REALLY GOOD!

I just think that most people don't see that side. All they see is the war aspect; The slashing, shooting and tearing apart of Orcs, Tyranids, Eldar and Men; so they loose sight of the story which is what should be the main focal point.

Out of curiosity, how open is the RP? Are you allowing people to choose from multiple races or one race? Are they all on the same division or different squads? And what sort of motivational goal have you seen for the players?

JASFR: Journal for Advanced Science Fiction RolePlay

I think a lot the issue can be summed up with the following rhetoric I often spew;

Good Sci Fi has cool lasers and explains how they work.
Amazing Sci Fi illustrates why those lasers are being shot and by whom.
The issue with these Sci Fi Rps is the laser never getting fired, only discussed.

@Darkmatter

Too many people are interested in creating these grand design ideas and concepts but never really follow through with them as they want that perfect moment to "release the power" so to speak. Something that I have noticed when comparing some Fantasy RPs to Sci-Fi RPs is that the Sci-Fi RPs tend to go over and above in the ideas, thus making them less useful during normal situations; where as fantasy seems to allow for for the more often use of magic.

For instance:
In a fantasy a mage could throw a fireball and that would be his main attack.
In a Sci-Fi a soldier would have a BFG9000 and use it only in special situations.

Now I know that it's not for every roleplay that this will happen, but I believe that people should possibly think about adding more trinkets to the world to help with the immersion. A droid that follows them around, a communication device, a contact lense with a HUD, even a cybornetic hand or a keycard reader. Little things like these help improve the immersion and thus leave the big BFG9000 not as the world building tool, but more the 'Oh Damn' moment (however it still doesn't change how the gun is a special situation item).

Borderlands (1x1x1) - Applications in INT-CHK Thread

WELCOME TO PANDORA

PLOT:

As the Vault Hunters travelled through Hero's Pass on their way to stop Handsome Jack, they had high hopes of both a victory against Hyperion dictator and saving Pandora from the monster that he was about to release. In the end though... they were defeated.

The Hunters had no idea how powerful the warrior actually was and after a long gruelling fight they stared failure straight in the face, realising that there was no way they could win against this godlike beast. Wishing sweet revenge on all the Vault Hunters, Jack imprisoned the surviving fighters aboard the Helios to both torture and force them to watch as his dream of cleansing Pandora were finally falling into place.

Moxxi upon hearing about what Jack had done sent out a distress call to the far reaches of space calling for any Vault Hunter who would be willing to take up the cause to stop this insane madness once and for all. A mission to defeat Jack, to save Pandora from annihilation, and return the survivors back to Sanctuary.

THINGS TO KNOW:

• I will be running this RP as a 1x1x1 to give a good player variety.
• In order to make things fair for everyone I will be asking for a submission of character sheets in this Interest Check thread and will be choosing the ones that I feel best fit the universe and the posting quality that I am after.
  (I won't have a set closing date, but will close entries when I feel I have achieved what I am looking for)
• Most of my RPs tend to have a 400-500 word count and I usually post a couple of times a week. No speed posting!
• I will also be looking for players that are not afraid to take the reigns for a bit and help drive the story, that way I'm not playing narrator and GM, but more collaborating and collectively building a story.
• We will be starting the RP with the characters landing on Pandora, making their way to a rendezvous point with the people of Sanctuary, and compiling a plan to stop Jack, the Warrior, Hyperion, and hopefully saving the others.
• Finally, committed players. I understand that sounds pushy, but I've had several RPs that have had players drop out and it's a real annoyance.

CHANGES TO THE WORLD:

Since this is an adaptation of a game into a story, some mechanics will be adjusted to make a bit more sense. As things go on there may be points added.

• Injuries will be treated as somewhat realistic, ie: No transfusion grenades, auto healing medkits, second winds, etc.
• Deaths may occur, however at the moment of death the character's conscious is downloaded and implanted within a new Digistructed body back at Sanctuary. Side effects may occur...
• Slag will be treated as sickness of sorts, slowing down the player and impacting their response time.
• No Shields or weapons with unique abilities, unless otherwise discussed.

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CHARACTER TEMPLATE:

Character Template

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Class:
Unique Skill:
Bio:

Weapons:
To allow for a consistent balance, your character is allocated a 5 point value where they can pick one weapon from each class so long as they don't exceed the given point allowance.
Pistol - 1
Grenade - 1
SMG - 2
Shotgun - 2
Assault Rifle - 3
Laser Gun - 3
Sniper Rifle - 4
Rocket Launcher - 4

Once you have made your choice, please fill out the information below for each weapon.

Gun Type: (Selected from above)
Manufacturer: (Bandit, Dahl, Hyperion, Jakobs, Maliwan, Tediore, Torgue and Vladof)
Element: (Corrosive, Incendiary, Explosive, Shock or Slag)
Details: (Just some light details about the weapon. Not looking for anything with special abilities)

Casual Forum Interest Check can also be found here: [Link]