Sombrero

The Golden Tree Hotel

Aaand this is now an actual RP! Sort of, not quite yet!
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/88922-the-golden-tree-hotel/ooc

⟣ The Golden Tree Hotel ⟢

The history of the vague foundation left behind by what must have been an enormous building in the 1920s is as unreliable as the memories of the people who visitted when it was still up. There was no documentation, no records, no artifacts left behind but lines and lines of building-shaped bricks and crumbling, sinking walls with a courtyard roughly in the middle of it, and a large dead tree in the middle of that.



Once upon a time, it was a place of glorious music, cheerful secrets, and romance aplenty. Nowadays, its music is the screech of rusty chandeliers and the pained groans of an old building in the wind. Its cheerful secrets are the stashes of junkies and the unlicensed fishermen that sneak onto the beaches at night. Now, the closest thing it gets to romance are on the dreary, rainy spring days when crows fight for boning rights behind the remains of its walls.

Or at least that's what the locals would tell you. It seems everyone in town is completely unaware of the fact that someone's been restoring it, and that a big, beautiful resort (although still quite old-looking and incomplete in the strangest of places) has been practically glowing along the beach for a few days now.

Welcome to the chilly, perpetually foggy realm of New England, the place where people with personal problems go to fight the unceasingly strange forces of ambiguous morality. Especially if fetus monsters get involved at some point. You've arrived here after receiving a rather fancy invitation announcing the grand re-opening of the Golden Tree Hotel, giving you the address and telling you to drop by sometime next week when the ribbon is cut. Perhaps you should go? Who knows what can happen on a vacation to the coast? Goodness knows that nothing bad could possibly happen...

Genre Information: THIS IS A HORROR GAME!... Sort of...

Before you go making a character, it might be useful to note that this will not be your average quirky romantic hotel vacation game. In fact, I'll try my best to avoid that at all costs. You're perfectly welcome to have your romance and your quirkiness, as it'll likely enrich characters and stories, but the setting will not facilitate that specifically. This resort is a Silent-Hill type locale that chews up inner angst and spits out monsters and such. You're also likely to meet several eldritch monsters and other beings that have been pent up in this location (for hidden lore reasons) for up to 80 years.

Now, I won't pretend that I'm a great horror writer, because I'm not. I'd almost call it dark comedic surrealism, if anything... Ah, screw my inconclusive ramblings, just suffice it to say that this will not be a normal Inn-type roleplay. You should expect your character to be going on an adventure and potentially dying.

Rules

1. The GM's word is law. *Puffs out chest*
2. You should at least try to post once a day.
3. Write as much as you want, but try to avoid going through paragraphs of action without giving other characters a chance to react.
4. As is the same in all places, Bunnying, Godmoding, Power Playing, Munchkinning, (I've seen it done in freeforms before...) and being a slimy wang in general are very frowned upon and also very NOT ALLOWED.
5. Romance is fine and mildly encouraged. If you plan on going beyond 2nd base (Or plan on going to 2nd base graphically and/or nudely) fade to black, drop the curtain, or have a heart-shaped iris shot and do it in PMs.
6. Have fun. Everyone who breaks this rule will be bored to death with extreme prejudice.

Character Sheet

PM me the sheet, and then post it in Characters if it's accepted. It won't count against you if you do post it here, but I'd like to keep everything as mysterious as possible... Also it requires 5 less milliseconds for me to access.

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Inventory:
Strengths:
PLEASE KEEP THESE LAST FOUR IN PM, IT'S MORE AWESOME WHEN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HOTEL IS GOING TO SPIT OUT.)
Weaknesses:
Fears:
Vices:
Scars (mental and/or physical):

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

How many of these villains plan on outright killing their respective heroic rivals?

Frank knows people who will pay top dollar for most of them if delivered alive. And money is the universal lifeblood, people.

@SepticGentleman

Depends on what happens over the course of the RP. Domonic considers the Coalition to be a highly dangerous force and will do anything in his power to stop them for good, or until he can get his family across the border. Whichever comes first and most conveniently. Currently, he'd prefer to sell Stand-Up Guy to any non-Russian kingpins, but if the detective were to do something like muck up his secret bank account or otherwise impede his debt-paying process to the point where one of his family members gets hurt, Domonic will stop at nothing to kill him. If the only way he knows of stopping them is through death, (he considers most long-term imprisonment and/or hostage situations, especially with people like the Coalition, to be the highest of liabilities) then he'll kill anyone he can unless he or someone else finds an alternative.

... Doesn't mean he can't be stopped by way of popular vote...

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

@UrbanEvolution

"That connection came lightning fast"

@Lauder

"The other day I fall on face, now head hertz. Hah, I joke."

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

Part one of Big Game's game plan is to brown-nose Electron so she'll be more open to cooperation with his game plan.
Part two of Big Game's game plan is KILL THE FLASH!
Part three is to rig an innocent damsel to explode and use her as a collateral/safety net to force Professor Psychic to a drinking contest.
Part four is... I dunno, kill the Professor since his mind powers would be impaired, probably.
Part five is to interrogate the hell out of Damselfly, because if she was hired under such secretive/questionable circumstances, then she's obviously hiding something important.

We would definitely need to keep the other guys busy when dealing with PESP and Damselfly, though. Luckily Ben can handle pretty much anything Sixgun and Night Terror have to offer, although the Man of Steel, Mecha Man and the Indestructible Jew would be tough to handle. Saint Frank has a plan for the Man of Steel, though, Electron might be able to get the suit to short-circuit and Ginny might be able to get the internal computers to screw up somehow. I'm sure Succubus can get the Golden Armor guy to do something that ain't chivalric. I haven't found any great counters or targets for the others yet, but I'm sure it'll be fine if we can get our hands on enough apache helicopters.

Perhaps we should take the ladders off one of thos 30-foot-deep swimming pools, get Magarac in there, and freeze it somehow until we're ready to deal with him. Then we should root out all the human normies and have the murder tanks like Dragonfly and Crow come in and kill them while we hold off everyone else. Again, apache helicopters are key.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT IF WE GET IRON MAN TO SCREW UP, WE HAVE TO KILL HIM IMMEDIATELY! Genius/Engineer-type heroes always fix their shit afterward, and you can never defeat them the same way twice. If we don't take him out with the first few plans, we might run out of workable plans.

Actually, scratch killing the flash, Durga sounds like a natural leader/morale paladin-type hero, so we may need to use Redline's ego and power hunger to disrupt their harmony, assuming he doesn't prove to be too much of a problem for us. That way, we're more likely to get them apart and be able to take them down like a real villain coalition...

Which does beg the question as to why we shouldn't just subtly turn them against each other, but I guess uncovering that kind of scheme is Stand-Up Guy's biggest threat. Obviously we must kill Stand-Up guy so as to create a subject of blame and internal conflict as well as destroying their best detective...

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

@Ghost Queen

Big Game doesn't brood, he builds explodey things and deals with his shit.

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

Oni.mp4

@Mr_pink

I cannot possibly express how upset I am that none of that has appeared in an MLG montage.

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

@FantasyChic

Sonja is still wide open!

@Polyphemus

She'll be wide open by the time we're done with her! *villainous rimshot*

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

<Snipped quote by Sombrero>

The grinding will be fierce and atomic.

I'm glossing over the others, but I know Frank's plan to subdue Magarac will involve a large metal box and some liquid nitrogen. He'd bet there's at least one dude out there who'd pay for a big steel dick to use as a hood ornament.

@SepticGentleman

Your villainous plan has a fatal flaw: What if Magarac turns out to be poorly endowed? I imagine this would be made worse by the fact that he'd be exposed to cold liquid nitrogen. Unless this box has several atmospheres of pressure?... Aha! We must challenge him to battle in the Glenn Research center, ramp up the pressure to 70-something atmospheres, and then cover him with warm liquid nitrogen to ensure ultimate wang quality!

Nemesis 13- Original Universe Supervillains

Well, I'd imagine Electron can go pretty fast, but a bunch of meat-based organisms trying to convince someone of her ego to fight the speedy guy and not valiantly challenge the leader or stubbornly refuse until we first pursue vengeance against her archie would be as challenging as the actual confrontation between the two, especially since our personalities and motivations would all likely grind against each other like limestone bowling balls in a washing machine...

Sheesh, I'm starting to realize why the Legion of Doom never won! The betterment of people's safety is a much easier cause to rally like-minded, less difficult people around than 'We should stop people from doing that kind of crap'... This rp is going to be one of those awesome ones, isn't it?