Omega Man

the Alliance of Liberty City

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The devices were activated. A pulse had been emitted within the walls of the building. And for everyone with internal superhuman abilities came a stirring of the senses and a bit of confusion. The Son of Liberty's powers all came from technology, so he wasn't affected by the field. Stampede's abilities came from a mystic artifact, same as Spellbound. They were both unaffected. And King Bee's powers also came from tech. The Queen of Gold was secretly an alien, so the devices were unable to do to her what they had done to the humans in the building with powers. The chaos bringer and Pitbull were really the only superhumans the power dampeners even touched! At the slightest hint of dizziness Pitbull ran through a wall and knocked himself unconscious, urinating on himself afterwards.

Eris wasn't sure what to think about the situation she found herself in. On one hand, she finally had the angel's attention and she was actively flirting with her. One the other hand, the magic user just blasted lightning between the two of them. She could hear footsteps making their way through the halls and nearby stairwell and her heart jumped a beat. She needed to get out of this mess before things spiraled out of her control.

"Spellbound, you ok brother?" Liberty Son asked as he and King Bee came through the room entrance behind the larger armored Stampede.

“Uh… yeah!” Eli said quickly even though his voice cracked. “Totally fine… Well, maybe not totally fine. I’m in a room with a chaos sorceress, and I may have interrupted some kind of hero-villain flirty thing? But… uh… magic still works! So that’s good.” He grinned nervously. “So, what’s the plan? Tell me it’s not ‘hit her until she falls down.’”

The chaos-bringer's power flared below her feet, the floor of the room liquifying as she began to step into it. Then the world went haywire. As the device pulsed through the building, she felt like her body was being ripped into two. The liquified floor fell away, leaving a gaping hole as it splashed down on the floor below. Eris' hands snapped to her head, clenching it tightly as she screamed. She stepped back, wobbled on the edge of the hole then fell through to the floor below.

"Nothing's ever easy in Liberty City..." Liberty Son thought to himself as he tried to get his wits about him. "Stampede, you wanna make that hole a little bigger?" he then said out loud.

Stampede took a short jog and cannonballed through the hole, making it easier for everyone to get through. He eyeballed the young girl in red, who was now a few feet away, from under the rim of his mystical helmet.

"You're not getting away that easy." the larger brute of a hero stated.

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Supercop was getting worried. The devices weren't all in place and he was beginning to think he'd have to leave the civilians underground and go back up top. What he didn't know was that the facility's attacker was already within it's walls.

"C'mon, guys. What in the hell is taking so long?" he muttered under his breath looking at the control to activate the power dampening field on his robotic gauntlet.

Meanwhile, outside the remaining heroes were left with confusion. One minute the angelic heroine was going after the chaotic woman in red in the air, before the attacker liquified the roof momentarily while also abducting the kid with the hero permit. Judah had JUST leapt to the ground from the roof thinking Spellbound would be right behind him. It was obvious where the action was headed, with the angel like hero crashing and burning through the academy office building to find the villain. Painkiller worked to get Pitbull out of the ground along with King Bee while Stampede was just dumbfounded as to what exactly was going on.

"Supercop had us setting up devices to dampen superhuman powers. When those are activated only heroes using tech like me and King Bee won't be effected." Liberty Son stated to the group as Pitbull dusted himself off with a growl.

"That ain't stopping ME, junior." Pitbull stated, ready to go.

"Me either." Stampede replied.

"If Supercop's got a power draining device about to activate, I'm going to stick around outside in case anybody needs emergency care. I can't mend bones and punctured organs if I'm powerless." Painkiller stated.

"Understandable. King, you ready to rock?" the Son of Liberty asked the shrinking and flying superhero.

Before the black and yellow clad hero could respond, Pitbull got tired of strategizing and talking. With a "BARK BARK!" he ran through the front entrance like DMX was already playing in the background.

"Damnit, there goes going in with any sort of plan. There's a stairwell on each side of the building. I'll follow Pitbull on the east side, you two go up on the west. Remember when the device gets activated, powers might get drained. Hopefully it doesn't screw with tech too..." Judah said on the spot as the three men entered the academy.

Down below the Academy, Supercop and the civilian employees waited in the bunker. It was a super simple bunker. There were seating areas, a few pillows, fewer blankets, and a glorified port-o-potty type of room off to one side. There was an area to look at security camera feed but Supercop was having trouble because several cameras had been damaged.

"Three of the devices have been placed, where'd the girl in white run off to with the fourth?" Supercop asked himself.

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The stage was set. This was their first real test as heroes. Nobody calls the capes in Liberty City 'deputies' except for the newspapers and reporters. They were superheroes and it was time to go be 'super.' The one called Interference darted the opposite direction of the behemoth Stampede, who had already got his tech into position and run outside to help the others. To his surprise there was now an angelic looking woman in the sky, and Painkiller and King Bee were in a brawl for some reason. Stampede's mystical based powers might give him a slight advantage, but nobody knew anything going into combat with this red chaos energy manipulating mad woman.

Her attention was now on the angelic woman in the sky, with the two mind controlled heroes fighting a short distance from her. Stampede, aka Marco Kane, tried assessing the situation. Like an idiot he yelled that she was under arrest which had her attention now on him. Her finger gun dealt real damage as she fired several chaos bolts of red energy at the hero that damaged the ground and outside walls of the office building.

"You just gonna hover, hot-wings, or are you gonna help save the people in the building?" he yelled out to the alien Queen.

”Where have you been hiding?” She asked a little frantically. She ran along her stepping stones, getting higher and higher into the air. ”You remember me, right?! The park! Come down! We can talk!”

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Kate rolled her eyes. "Unfortunately I do," she replied, moving farther away at the same pace the woman got closer to her with her stepping stones. "But I'm not exactly in the mood for-" At that moment she was interrupted by a behemoth of a hero making a loud entrance. Kate rolled her eyes even harder when said hero told the chaos woman she was under arrest. "Oh yeah, that'll definitely work," she muttered sarcastically.

"You just gonna hover, hot-wings, or are you gonna help save the people in the building?"

@Omega Man

Kate turned to the imposing hero accosting her. "You have an entire ACADEMY full of supers in there and you need my help?? Pah! she scoffed dismissively. "Useless..." she muttered under her breath. Still, she had shown up here to do a job, and was never one to turn down a fight, so she set her manifested battle staff alight with flame and dove at the chaos woman with speed, just as she had done in the park.
While everything was going on Painkiller managed to touch King Bee long enough to 'heal' the effects of the emotional manipulation. King then grew back to regular size and put the healing man into a submission hold where his hand was touching his own body, thus depleting the effects of the mind control.

Meanwhile the Son of Liberty and Spellbound were headed for the roof to get their tech set up. Supercop was gathering the civilian employees in the office building to a safe room type of bunker beneath the academy.

"Once I get mine set up on the far side, I'm jumping down to help the others. You been practicing spells the last few weeks?" Liberty Son asked his brother in arms as they ran up the stairs.

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@TideTypedWrong

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@TideTypedWrongI'd mostly tone down the Equipment section and the backstory, but then a lot of the smaller details can be foregone as well. With the equipment it went into great detail on the guns' make and models and such and without intimate knowledge of how those things are built it doesn't make sense how a shadow construct could be that complicated. Just saying a pair of handguns and a couple longer distance rifles are his go-to is good enough, don't really need it to be more complicated than that. Also, with long winded personalities they usually always tend to be one type of character with the addition they can be completely different around the right types of other people. If a character is a brooding type of character put that down, but then don't try to be the joke guy or the hot head as well. Five words for personality is all that's needed, then I gotta make sure you stick to that in-game.

Take a look at some of the accepted Character Sheets in the Character Tab at the top of the thread if you need to see about the length we need for a CS. There's also a section for 'Potential Storylines', so wherever you want your character to grow and evolve in the game needs to be in that section.

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@TideTypedWrong At first glance I dig the concept, but I need the CS to be formatted like everyone else's. If you wanna add a little more info in the 'Notes' section that's cool, but four or five hider tabs is a bit more info than we need. Here's the CS requirements from the interest check...

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Archetype:
Name:
Alias:
Age:
Powers/Skills:
Weaknesses:
Equipment:
Personality: [5 words best describing your character]
Appearance: [pic or description]
BRIEF Bio: [couple paragraphs MAX]
Storylines: [What do you have in mind for your character?]
Notes: [anything else you need to tell us?]

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I'm a HUGE Green Lantern fan, and this puts me in the mind of Obsidian mixed with a cowboy. We just need a more Casual CS rather than Advanced CS. The reason I put suggestions next to requirements is so potential players don't get too long winded for nothing if their characters don't get accepted as is. I think I've used the five words for personality and 'brief bio' in my CS requirements for a few years now.

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@Omega Man Oh I got it! The vigilante is more hero like then anything, he's just a vigilante for reasons.

Also excuse me for asking, but what does CS mean?

Also note, I'm busy this week so I might be slow to reply back!

@TideTypedWrong

Sorry about the late response, I do most of my RP'ing Sat-Mon LOL

A CS is just a Character Sheet. I *think* the requirements are in the first post of this thread.

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@Omega Man Hey, looking to play a vigilante who has more hero beats than anything. Not sure if I should ask first or post first =w=

Oh and I may be interested in taking up the brute villain Archetype

@TideTypedWrong

Send me a CS in a PM for either of the archetypes. We need heroes more than villains to make the story run smoother atm...

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Several weeks had gone by, and over the course of several weekends the young heroes learned the ins and outs of superhero'ing. This last day was essentially registering your superhero name with law enforcement, swearing an oath, yada yada. There wasn't a big ceremony or anything like that. It was more like sitting at the DMV waiting to get your license. Supercop was there, but it was more for show than anything. There were secretaries or rather just regular office workers taking care of the individual heroes. Two of the guys didn't make it, Switchblade and Fire Fist. Switchblade didn't really carry himself well enough, and barely passed the mental exam. That's what was rumored anyway. Fire Fist was just too reckless and couldn't contain his own powers, which he channeled into a large metal gauntlet. Switchblade didn't even bother showing up, however Fire Fist left minutes earlier cussing and acting like a male Karen. He was told to quit playing hero or he'd be locked up for property damage.

"Just think, even if you just get a permit, we're all legit now. My Uncle and I have been working on this secret HQ under our apartment complex the last few weeks since we started the academy and everything." Son of Liberty said quietly to his two allies, Spellbound and Interference.

Throughout the course of their training, Eileen had been wearing a silly-looking hyottoko mask she had picked up at an Asian food festival due to the fact that recording equipment had been banned from the hero training center, and all of Eileen's equipment, including her mask, were technically recording equipment, and she didn't want to give away her identity to every other trainee. As if aligning with the silliness of the mask, Eileen had carried herself through training with an almost lackadaisical irreverence, thinly veiling her distrust of the very institution of policing, but when it came to exams and assessments, her genius and determination helped her lock in. She demonstrated a fine and nuanced control of her abilities without revealing the full extent of her power, mitigating the worry that she could go out of control. She played with light and sound in clever ways, did better with devices augmenting her, and preferred being in the backline, at least, that was as much as she was willing to reveal to the trainers.

She had tried to build rapport with Son of Liberty and Spellbound and they had become closer, practically ready to form a team as soon as they graduated. Son of Liberty had infrastructure and pedigree; even now he was talking about a secret base they could use. Spellbound was young and had access to magic, something Eileen wanted desperately to understand and learn more about. Though she understood the reasoning behind giving Spellbound a provisional license, she also understood his frustrations with it.* "Hey, as long as we're in the same team, I'll make sure no one treats you like a kid," Eileen reassured the magic user, then turned her attention to Son of Liberty, "A base would be nice. There's only so much I can build in a garage without the right tools. I'd love to understand how your powers work and come up with equipment to augment your strengths while covering over your weaknesses. Together, I think we'll be unstoppable."

Eli had been fidgeting with his sleeve, a nervous habit he hadn’t quite grown out of. He looked up at Eileen when she spoke. “Really?” he asked, his eyes went wide. “Thanks. That… actually means a lot. “I mean… I get why they’ve got the rules. I do. It’s just… kind of hard not to feel like a sidekick… But I’m sure this will be great!”

He turned to Judah. “A base sounds amazing. Magic is cool, but even I haven’t quite gotten a handle on how half of it works. So if you’re serious about helping me figure all this out… I’m in. I think we’ll make a pretty good team.”

The trio as well as four other heroes managed to pass the tests. Fire Fist, on his way out of the building while still cussing at anyone who would listen, was drowned in liquified earth between the parking lot and the entrance by an unknown adversary. Pitbull, a smaller feral hero, went down in the same manner but went down fighting after seeing the other guy sink into the ground. Panic ensued into the rest of the building, and while the heroes were on their way out... Supercop yelled.

"The Academy building is under attack from an unknown superhuman! Painkiller and King Bee are already on their way to try and do what they can to save lives. I need the four of you to help me with this tech. It basically shuts down superhuman abilities short term like an EMP does to electronics. I just hope her powers aren't mystic or alien in nature..." Supercop began to say.

"What kind of attack are we dealing with, Supercop?" Liberty Son asked readying his weaponized Torch.

"She's a reality warper, that's all I know. Now, LISTEN UP!! For this to work I need two of these on the roof and two here on the bottom floor on opposite ends of the building." Supercop exclaimed handing the Son of Liberty and his two friends devices that looked like old boomboxes.

The last of the devices was handed to the only other hero from the academy that passed the tests to become a deputy. Stampede was a large man in his early thirties, husky some would say, with enhanced speed and durability. Once he got his momentum up he was nearly unstoppable. He mentioned one weekend he almost chose the name Wrecking Ball but decided against it because of some country singer's daughter having a song by the same name.

"People's lives depend on us right now. Are you ready for this, big guy?" Supercop asked the large hero in leathery looking clothing.

"Let's ****ing GO!" Stampede yelled running towards the far side of the academy building.

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Their first weekend was half over, and the second day had just begun. It was a Sunday, and hot outside. The previous day they went over the short schedule. Four weekends in a month's time, between sixty-five to eighty hours depending on how long the training goes each day. The class size, as the group was told by Supercop, was on the smaller side. The written mental exam was the previous day, however there were no problems with the class of nine would-be-deputies. They also had to trust Supercop with their secret identities, however some of them were skeptical about who had access to the information. Judah and one other hero were both in the military, which gave them an advantage in most situations.

The CPR class went by in roughly an hour or so. Basic hand to hand training lasted roughly three hours before the group broke for lunch. The group were told the remainder of the day would be spent exploring their powers and putting them in power classes in case they're needed for specific situations. "A hero with healing powers may be called on in the event of an EMS shortage..." was the example Supercop used.

Supercop, aka Alexander Murphy, was a former officer in the Liberty City PD who served the city for nine years. After a terrible explosion mangled his body, experimental technology was used to restore his bodily functions and to make him more than just a cop reborn. Now a man fused with machine, he's a one man precinct that still serves the city to this day performing regular patrols as well as running the Superhuman Deputy Law Enforcement Program. And to his displeasure, the Son of Liberty was taken back by how much of a fan of Lady Liberty this Supercop was. The young man just wanted to eat his lunch and get the day over with...

"I never got the chance to serve with your mom on the Alliance, but we helped each other a time or two here in the city..." Supercop went on as the Son of Liberty was attempting to eat some kind of meat and cheese snack from one of the vending machines.

He looked around hoping that someone would come over and bail him out. The group of young heroes weren't allowed to have their phones during Academy hours so Judah couldn't use the phone call excuse to dip out of the situation.

"Growing up I actually wasn't my mom's biggest fan. It was awesome having a superhero mom, but I couldn't tell anybody about it." Judah finally said before finishing off the snack and standing up. "I'm gonna go grab another drink real quick before we get back out in the field..."