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God the biggest chunk of the serious rework done on Dr. O'Hara. He's meant to be the ultimate wildcard, showing up in people's storylines to be a source of chaos. I'm working on balance, I don't want his personal storyline to be anything much bigger than adding weirdness and existential feelings, bouncing between perceptions, and be the source of some interesting conflicts. It's just hella late right now and I've been slugging at that for awhile. Going to finish it up tomorrow.

@Ruiner

I can't wait to see what you've got! The images you used earlier made me think of some type of energy being that's human body died in space. Something like a cosmic Negative Man [from the Doom Patrol]. Depending on what you roll with I may use a cosmic character as a Secondary.

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@DocRock An alien with advanced tech would be cool, however the only way you get minions is if you're a villain. An alien merc with two of his boys going from planet to planet would make for an interesting enemy for anyone. Maybe even a short-term ally if @Ruiner's cosmic guy is stranded in space Tony Stark style with no idea how to return to Earth.

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@Kazemitsu You were in my Batman/Gotham RP where we went up against Bane after he killed all three of the Robins [Dick, Jason, and Damian]. Pretty sure you had the dragon man character. Can't remember what screen name I was using at that point, but I was using a guy called Skeleton Jack who turned out to be Deathstroke in disguise. That was right around the time Burning Kitty started acting a fool and tried one upping everything anybody did including shit I made happen as a GM. Glad to see you stuck around!

@Double I dig legacy heroes. So whip something up already LOL In all honesty 'Legacy Character' could have been an archetype. I just came up with half of them based on stuff I had from a previous game.

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@Omega Man I probably would have submitted some kind of Constantine-esque Mystical character but you've already got a mystical. Looks like Super Soldier, Sharpshooter, Feral Man, and Size Manipulator are all that's left, and I'm not sure I'm really feeling any of those.

@Double

I was looking at more anime/cyberpunk art for some reference and thought about you literally two minutes before I made that last post. "I wonder where Double has been, been a minute since I've seen that guy...."

If the above post didn't go into why I had archetypes enough, I'll add a bit more with this one. The archetypes were mostly included to give folks an idea of how spread out I wanted the characters, powers, etc. We could have two characters per archetype if enough archetypes are already filled out. And if I view a character more as one archetype than another I'll work them around on my accepted list. For example... Huntsman. I believe his sheet had demi-god listed because he comes from a more fantasy aelf [I really dig that it's elf with another letter lol] species with heightened attributes, however his powers include ice manipulation and he comes wielding a bow. Rather than demi-god, I've got him on my list as sharpshooter.

The archetypes are more like suggestions rather than guide lines. If you think our magic user is more like Scarlet Witch then make sure if you submit a magic user its more akin to Doc Strange or Brother Voodoo. That's all.

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<Snipped quote by Weird Tales>

My understanding is that it's not first come first serve, but a spread of archetypes might be ideal - so we can have more than one demigod, for example, but demigods might not be accepted if we have plenty of demigods and other stuff is lacking.

Am I understanding that right?

@Still Lake

@Weird Tales SL got it right with this response. The archetypes are just in place so that we don't get too many heroes with similar MO's or backstories. For example, one of my older Young Justice games had a total of 4 powerless vigilantes who used tech. And there were only ever 8-9 players tops. Then when I had a Co-GM take over for me for a few days he accepted a total of three archers. At this point I just don't want a handful of characters with heightened strength/speed/flight/durability on top of other stuff. We have an aelf and something of an Earth angel already accepted.

EDIT: Thought I posted this earlier but it looks like it didn't go through. Sorry I didn't double check sooner...

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Are CS's being evaluated right now?

@role model

RIGHT NOW! Had a long day yesterday and immediately after work I had a basketball game to get to. Crashed hard as soon as I hit a couch.

I'll go backwards towards my Blueface CS just because some of you had multiple sheets. I took notes LOL.

@Clever Hans - Of the two ideas... I REALLY dig the robot more. While Project Renascence is intriguing, ANDR3W reminds me of the Vision somehwhat and I've always loved those types of characters. Lupo would make for a good Secondary, if the game moves forward and we get to the point of Secondaries. Accepted.

@rocketrobie2 - I really dig Jake and Ch'uck and would use one of them for your Primary. Godkiller gives us something of an anti-Batman as an antagonist and would make for a good Secondary. Accepted, just let me know which you decide to go with.

@The Bork Lazer - Pizza is one of my favorite things. You submit some of the oddest shit I've ever seen and I know part of it is the troll in you. However I'm keeping a more open mind these days so I challenge you sir to make this the most menacing villain I've ever fucking read about. You can have a pizza spot on every other block and enslave an entire neighborhood. My guy is somewhat similar to the Question and this mf rambling on about a talking pizza helps with the whole mentally unstable nutjob I was going for. I would be the first victim in the Pizzapocalypse, so you have my attention. Accepted.

@Ruiner - I really dig the imagery. I'm probably one of five people on this forum that gets the Bucky O'Hare reference without Googling it. Don't let me down cause I really wanna see you do something with this. Cosmic is my jam.

@Metamore - I was worried about the levels of power, but with the power mimicry being as much a curse as a blessing you made it work. Can't wait to see where you take this character. One of the first I wanna try and make a micro for LOL. Accepted!

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BLUEFACE

Archetype: Vigilante
Name: n/a
Alias: Blueface
Age: n/a
Powers: accelerated healing factor
Weaknesses: taking too much damage will make his healing take longer, and his mental state is questionable.
Alignment: walking the line

Personality: mysterious, stoic, short-tempered, reckless, blunt

Appearance: see my avatar lol

BRIEF Bio: A washed up minor league baseball player… A cop who just got promoted to detective… A college kid who saw his sister get abducted… A homeless war veteran down on his luck… A mailroom worker at the Mountaineer Newspaper… Blueface could be anyone.
Potential Storylines:

Who is Blueface? – This will be an ongoing subplot as I’m not going to give him a secret identity from the start. I’m gonna pull a Shadow Hawk and rotate a few supporting cast members around the city to explore the setting and a few posts in I’ll decide which one will be under the mask. I’ll use this as a means to introduce some sandbox characters for the group to have access to such as minor superhuman criminals, organizations, etc. Villains will include Asylum, Ax Man, Heartbreaker, the Valentine Gang, and I’ll go into the J. Jonah Jameson type running the Mountaineer Newspaper.

Blueface Team-Up – Another more street level hero will cross paths with ‘Face and after a brief misunderstanding the two will go after a larger threat, the serial killer called the Ax Man. However there’s something odd about this one… and he and Blueface may have a history. Their powers and skills are nearly identical.

Notes: Equal parts Rorschach and Shadow Hawk. May be convinced to join a larger group of heroes later on. Now that I think about it he’s sorta like Will Eisner’s the Spirit…

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@Weird Tales We've got a demi-god/sharpshooter already accepted, and another player is essentially taking an angelic Superman type who can copy powers. There's tons of other archetypes I'm looking for to have some variety among the cast.

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I think I'm going to go for a loose cannon vigilante with a healing factor. He'll mostly use his fists but have no mercy when going up against multiple enemies and break out a gun once in awhile.

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I might like to join this if there is room.

@Omega Man When it comes to our character costumes do they need to be original(something not seen in the comics)? Or may we use existing comic characters?

@Raistlin Majere

You can use whichever. I always make avatars for at least a few players so if it's based on somebody's look I can always tweak it to make it more original for our universe.

@NecroKnight I LOVE the concept with the masks. If I micro the character I have an idea in mind for a mask [my mom used to collect odd stuff like that when she was still around].

@Still Lake Really dig that he's an archer with ice powers!

^^^ You're both accepted if it wasn't clear before LOL

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