World Traveler

Cog in the Machine

There were five blocks away and could see the massive billow of smoke coming from the now raging fire in the cars rear view mirror before john realised he wasn't breathing regularly.. He welcomed the sirens of several fire trucks as they sped towards the fire 45 seconds. On time. He thought as he felt himself for the first time start to feel in control of the night. He knew this was a false feeling. Like finding your balance on a boat. Your feet may have found their footing, but all it took was a small nudge and the boat was flipped and you were in the water. He was swimming while looking for a life boat with Josephine. The only problem was the waters of this city were icy cold and had sharks that were looking for blood.

The emphasis his partner added to the word psychic was deliberate and understandable. He knew the stigma of being a precog wasn't so much the fear that they knew more than others. It was a underlining feeling of not understanding. It was something that could not be fully explained, but was already completely enveloping the world and its daily life. It scared F166 and his fellow precogs almost as much as it did the general public. Especially since it was already causing such a wide and divisive separation between the two groups.

John could see the different ways he could go about explaining the situation. He saw some of them ending in him getting punched. He shook those visions off in favor of some of the less painful options. He knew being straight with Josephine was the best, but he also didn't like saying what he had to out loud. The weight of it had such an impact on him that he felt like he had to keep it too himself. He felt that, but he knew he couldn't. The faith an agent had in their precog was often seen as a one way street. That the agent followed the precog. Because of this many see the precog as the alpha in the partnership, but this couldn't be further from the truth. During the war F166 had learned to not only trust his partners to do what was best, but to know what was best. The precog is the navigator. The agent is the driver.

Positive they were not being followed John pulled the car over to the side of the street and turned the car off. He faced Josephine for the first time since he had entered the car and let out a very stressed sigh. "The police are no longer an option for assistance. I believe they were the ones who were in your apartment." John said in a false calm. The theory was somewhat new, but after seeing the equipment they were armed with led him to it. While not normal law enforcement issued the weapons were strikingly similar to a shipment the port authority had confiscated from a smuggling operation over two months ago. "I believe there is someone within the police force who is compromised. Someone within the precog program... On my side of the department. In a vision I heard a conversation that lead me to that. They were discussing a plan to kill you. They had information that was impossible without assistance from a precog."

The weight of what those words meant to John and those like him were unfathomable. He didn't need to see the future to know it would cause a witch hunt that would make Salem look like a game of duck duck goose. Everyone had always been scared of precogs using their powers for anything other than the good of humanity and indeed there were multiple cases of it happening. These were kept secret from all but the highest orders in the government. John only knew about them because several were from the same training program as he was. The tail end of the war had been particularly bad for his kind.

Cog in the Machine

"These men were here to kill you." John said in a stiff tone. He walked around the bed and shot the man once more for good measure. He then reached into his back pocket and handed his partner four extra clips for her sidearm. "You will need these." The total ammo count of the four clips was roughly 65 bullets. Considering a police officer normally carries anywhere from 15 to 20 bullets with them this was no small number of deadly objects to be handing. "I wasn't exaggerating when i said we need to leave now." John bent down next to the twice shot criminal and opened his jacket which showed he was wearing a thermal jacket. He then grabbed the mans arms and after closing the bedroom door propped the body against it and locked the door.

"In thirty-two seconds five men with enough weapons to take over a small country will breach into your apartment and kill us. I plan for them to be too late." John grabbed Josephine's upper arm and brought her to the fire escape. Though normally it is difficult to unlock the emergency lock that stopped people from carelessly using the fire elevator as a quick shortcut down to the street John found all the tools needed to get down in the bedroom. He pulled his weapon up and fired once more into the unknown corpse. The bullet struck the thermal jackets regulator box causing the entire vest to activate. Within a half second the magnesium lining burst into flames burning at nearly 2000 degrees. The door and floor caught fire almost just as quickly.

Warning Warning Fire Detected Proceed to Nearest Emergency Exit Warning Warning

The automatic voice continued to repeat; however, John had already gotten into the elevator with Josephine. The doors closed and the elevator began to decent. John knew that a slew of curse words about how he had just condemned everything in the apartment to a fiery death from his partner. He also knew that interrupting her before she asked the question was an excellent way to get her even more upset. Still he didn't care to waste time and also wasn't a fan of letting her use him as a verbal and literal punching bag. "The first thing they were going to do was use their own thermal grenade to clear the living room. No matter had I started the fire or not everything in your apartment was already gone."

The elevator door opened as the reached the alley. Other elevators were beginning to descend as the entire building was beginning to be evacuated. "Two will come from the right corner in five seconds. Watch out for the people running out of their elevator in seven seconds the gunfire will cause them to panic and run towards us." John said as he started making his way towards the drivers side of the vehicle he had earlier stolen and shot. On cue two heavily armed people came around the corner in a slightly crouched motion. They hadn't identified John or Josephine as they began to quickly move along the wall. John got into the car and waited for Josephine.

All in a Day's Work: A Superhero RP interest check and signups

Please allow me to share what I had in mind.

My character would be a member of an ancient order who have been driven by the power of information. This organisation uses the archive of knowledge to maintain a balance in the world. They are either good nor evil in their pursuit; however, have the single goal of protecting the planet and its people from a catastrophic event. In the modern age information became even more important. In the age of heroes and villains it was the identity of those heroes and villains thats become the focus of this group. Five weeks ago a devastating betrayal resulted in a select number of heroes identities being stolen from the vault of knowledge. As a member of this organisation my character has been charged with recovering the traitor; thereby, protecting those heroes identity. My character has tracked the traitor down to Greenfield.

I will be playing both the traitor and the character chasing him. My plan would be to have the traitor rebrand himself as a villain himself with the goal of using the knowledge he stole to help rally a group of villains under his command with the promise that they will be able to finally kill their arch nemesis. The character chasing after this new villain will have to turn to the super heroes of Greenfield to assist in taking down the villain. Something they will have to do if they want to protect their identity and those close to them.

Hopefully that makes some more sense?

Cog in the Machine

John cursed at his car as the screen began to flash a warning sign due to his current speed. He removed a sidearam from the bag sitting in the passenger seat and fired twice at the screen causing it to explode and quickly turn dark. The car responded to his act of pushing further down on the gas peddle as he continued to blow past cars on the highway. The pain in his head was still pulsing, but it hadn't reached his eyes just yet. A small amount of blood was dripping from his nose, none of this mattered as he urged the car to go faster again. He had less then 15 minutes to make it completely across town to his partners apartment.

The vision that brought on such a frantic reaction from F166 had been one of the most vivid he had ever experienced. The understanding of visions was always a grey area for science. Instead of seeing things like they happen on a TV show the visions have different viewpoints ranging from a person to an object. This time it was a weird combination of both. The vision had been through the barrel of a gun. A gun pointed directly at his partner and fired. He had heard a conversation before this about why she was being killed. The words kept ringing in his head.

"You and your fancy partner had been a thorn in our side for long enough."

The single sentence held a single massive bomb. The fact that Josephine had a partner, let alone one in the precog program had been kept a secret from the rest of the police station and organised crime unit. That had been the main reason he had only met his partner face to face once. The distance had been easy for the two to handle as John had been in the same situation during his time in the war and Josephine was fine due to her distain for precogs. The partnership was completely built on faults, but held together through the raw talent of Josephine. At times she wouldn't listen to John who rolled with the punches; however, over the last several weeks he had become more and more upset when she did this. Tonight was one of those times.

I told her to always have her contact on her! He thought with another swear. He wished the car needed to be shot again, but couldn't validate the waste of ammo. The contact was his only encrypted communication tool he could use to reach his partner. They used them during missions, but in the military it is normal for both partners to always have them with them, some even implanting them into their ear so as to never be without their partner. This was a completely unique skill of Josephine's that John disliked very much. She had the ability to make him think fondly of his time in the military.

He tossed the contact back into the bag as his attempt to contact her again went unsuccessfully. He finally turned off the highway and four minutes later was parked in the alley behind Josephine's apartment building. Using his police access key he unlocked the fire escape quick access elevator and went up to the fiftieth floor. Before the door even opened and he could access the window he pointed his weapon forward and fired a single bullet. The gun fired and sent the bullet through the open window and entered the chest of the man standing in the bedroom. He dropped as soon as he heard the gunshot. John had little time for error as he moved through the window and stood in the bedroom. Right on cue Josephine entered the room with her weapon drawn.

"Josephine we need to leave now." John said as he moved to the side and waved for her to enter the fire escape elevator.

Cog in the Machine

This role play is inspired by the short story Minority Report which was made popular by the Tom Cruise film by the same title. There is an alternate world, but the concept of precogs and their use by crime fighting organisations makes this story close enough to its inspiration to warrant a shout out. Now that I have your attention I will get started with the explanation.

Role Play World / Background

It is 60 years in the future and the world is a very dangerous place. War for water, oil, power, and influence has scared the earth, however from those wounds the earth has finally seen itself under one unified group. The United Post-War Collective or U.P.W.C. was created after the allied forces of the east turned the tide of the global conflict almost overnight with the introduction to a new branch of their military known as Precog Partnerships. The small elite branch was created by bringing together the best from the military and the best from the newest research and development programs dealing with medically induced precog gifted individuals. With one on the battlefield (soldiers) the precog would harmonise with their partner and guild them through any obstacles between them and the desired mission objectives. Stories of one partnership taking down entire invading forces were exasperated but held truths of their brutal efficiency and unkillable presence.

Since the war this branch of the military and its research has begun to be used in many different facets of the newly formed planetary government. It was no surprise that law enforcement was the first to being incorporating precog into their portfolio of crime fighting methods. Soon enough major crime cities began slowly introducing small, military trained, Precog partnerships. The effect was overnight with several international crime organisations crippled at strategic choke points. A new wave of precog partnerships is set to be deployed with politicians promising that this is the first step to a true utopia.

All in a Day's Work: A Superhero RP interest check and signups

Before diving head first into what looks to be a fantastic role play I wanted to know if there was still room for one more? I would be wanting to play a single character who would have ties to an organisation similar to Anonymous whose goal is outing and reporting all hero and villains true identities. Considering the high concentration of activity involving secret identities in Greenfield it would make sense they would send an operative to investigate. Unsure how he would play into the role play, but I have always gotten inspiration from other peoples characters as to how he can be incorporated. More than likely his character would have a history of sorts with several of the characters involved iT this role play.

Look forward to hearing back!

WT

Minority Report Inspired (Main: Action-Adventure Sub: Romance-Mystery)

This role play is inspired by the short story Minority Report which was made popular by the Tom Cruise film by the same title. There is an alternate world, but the concept of precogs and their use by crime fighting organisations makes this story close enough to its inspiration to warrant a shout out. Now that I have your attention I will get started with the explanation.

Role Play World / Background

It is 60 years in the future and the world is a very dangerous place. War for water, oil, power, and influence has scared the earth, however from those wounds the earth has finally seen itself under one unified group. The United Post-War Collective or U.P.W.C. was created after the allied forces of the east turned the tide of the global conflict almost overnight with the introduction to a new branch of their military known as Precog Partnerships. The small elite branch was created by bringing together the best from the military and the best from the newest research and development programs dealing with medically induced precog gifted individuals. With one on the battlefield (soldiers) the precog would harmonise with their partner and guild them through any obstacles between them and the desired mission objectives. Stories of one partnership taking down entire invading forces were exasperated but held truths of their brutal efficiency and unkillable presence.

Since the war this branch of the military and its research has begun to be used in many different facets of the newly formed planetary government. It was no surprise that law enforcement was the first to being incorporating precog into their portfolio of crime fighting methods. Soon enough major crime cities began slowly introducing small, military trained, Precog partnerships. The effect was overnight with several international crime organisations crippled at strategic choke points. A new wave of precog partnerships is set to be deployed with politicians promising that this is the first step to a true utopia.

Role Play Characters

My Character: F166 (Male) (26-31)

F166 is an F generation trained precog who was among the final military trained generations with the intent being they would end World War 3. F166 has had two partners before the war ended and he was decommissioned until the request for precogs was sent out in hopes that some would return and join on as civil servant employees. Since there are sever restrictions on what sort of job a person trained as a precog can hold F166 was among the first group to accept the position and was immediately sequestered from the main group and brought into an even more elite crime fighting program aimed at attacking organised crime groups.

It has been almost five months now and F166 has been partnered with __________. They have never met, as is normal for a precog and their partner. Instead the two only know each other by voice and even that is sometimes distorted by the radio earpiece that connects the two. Still recently F166 has at times said several odd and cryptic things to _________ before or after missions as it is the only time he is allowed communication with ____________.

Your Character: ___________ (Female) (25-35)

A career cop who has heard every joke about it being a mans job. The way she shuts them up usually involves a punch to the jaw or a simple kick in the balls. Thankfully her record has now completely silenced all but the most dense headed coworkers. I am happy to leave the rest of this summery to you, but ask that you give a little background (and a name of course) so I can replace this section with your characters background and keep it as a footnote for us to go back to in the role play to fill the character development. For the past five months she has been working with her first precog, F166, the whole practice has taken some getting used to, but after her life was saved three times in one hour during a mission gone bad she has learned to take F166's words as gospel. Always follow and have faith.

Role Play Starting Point

The role play will start in ___________ apartment or condo as she returns home from a normal day of paperwork at her office in the center of downtown (feel free to pick a city) The dull evening quickly picks up when she finds evidence of a break in and is further alert when she finds a dead body wrapped in plastic in the middle of her kitchen with her place slightly wreaked and tossed. Another shock comes from a gunshot coming from her bedroom. As she rushes in a man wearing black is seen collapsed, bleeding from a gun shot wound in the middle of his chest. Another man stands at the window which was not opened when _________ left for work, but is now open. Moving from outside the window into the bedroom the man stands up and ignoring the gun ________ has aimed at him he speaks. "________ we need to leave now" His voice instantly recognised as F166.

K.N.I.G.H.T.

Devin made no effort to stop the hot head girl with a hard punch as she left for her date. He was all too good at recognizing a teenager in a fit from having been one as well as babysitting his sister. Instead he sat down on the fire escape and drew a very long and very tired breath. The weight of his costume seemed to crash down on him. A moment ago he had been moving around in it as if it was a second skin. That was different than now. Before it was reactionary with little thought. Here he was alone with only his thoughts.

He wasn't nearly as confident as he was when he set out on this little crusade. That wasn't surprising as he jumped at it much quicker than he would have guessed the day before LISA contacted her. He also began to worry over the unknown that seemed to be the enemies pit bull. Despite what anyone said the people involved had no answer to whatever it was. 'None of them have faced something like that.' Devin though as he looked down at his hand. 'I've only shaken hands with one of them and that was enough to feel defeated.'

Thankfully Devin's thoughts were dragged out of the well by his radio cracking in and out. moving to the roof he could hear LISA's voice clearly. "I apologize for my lack of understanding the enemies capabilities Devin." Had emotions been possible Devin could almost hear an honest amount of self loathing. while making no difference he thought some encouraging words would be nice.

"You arn't a magic eight ball LISA I never expect you to have all the answers just help me navigate the map to where they are hiding. Now how about we draw up or next move." Pulling his grapple gun out and making his way away from the scene of the fight the Vituvian man made a stop at his favorite sushi where he got an order to go. He arrived back in his dads old hideout under the raised subway tracks.

Inside he began to cure his empty stomach and listen to LISA draw up responses. They mostly fell in line with what Devin thought would be best; however with one major difference. "You want me to what!?!" He shouted at the screen.

"It is my opinion that learning as much about the enemy as possible would be the best step after gathering the desired pieces. Waiting will only keep you on them defensive and therefore losing side."

"So we go after the corrupt companies. Going after that unknown without any sort of teamworkmsounds like a suicide mission." The two continued tomdebatw with LISA winning over the hero. "So all that's left is action. I want to meet the people we saw fighting again. Use your big smart brain to contact them. Let them know I will met them on the roof of the old abandoned hospital in the east side." Devin put his outfit back on and once again left via the train overhead.

"Already done." LISA said in his ear piece.

K.N.I.G.H.T.

Chibi what type of character are you hoping to make? If possible having your character have some sort of professional (in the hero sense) connection to one of the other characters already involved could be a good idea.

K.N.I.G.H.T.

I will be trying to brainstorm a way for Vitruvian Man to contact everyone at the fight but havent had any immediately come to mind. Might have to go the tracking down route but if other people have an idea I am all ears!