Just a quick little pre-weekend check to see how everyone is doing, and/or if any of ya feel like you need more time or need answers or some other thingmybob.
I already know what Sanity's been up to, but how about you all?
@Crimson Flame, @Rin, @Zeroth and @Altered Tundra? Ya'll doing okay? Lemme know if yo need anything. Pointers, lore, yes/no, Mountain Dew Baha Blast.... Y'know, whatever.
Oh, and if anyone is having difficulty with creating their character, or just needs something explained or elaborated upon in general, just let me know. I'm more than happy to try and help.
@Shoopuf An excellent first submission. The only things I was going to pick at was that she had a power in her Supplementary Powers-field - as that's supposed to be empty at the start of the RP. However, since Inner Harmony is only a minor passive that doesn't really change or impact anything in any greater way, I'm going to let Stella keep it.
So, APPROVED 100%. Feel free to post yer sheet in that there Characters tab.
We have our first joinee, wooh~!
@Sanity43217 Sounds like a good enough reason to me. ^^
EDIT:
I've also finished up Chloe's sheet at this point, having just added her personality. In case anyone was interested.
Also what about the traveling abilities. Like super jump, flight, super speed. Are we gonna get those from get go or is that a feat we should acquire further in the game?
Those powers would fall undet the "Supplementary Powers", and nobody starts with any of those. You'll start gaining access to them after you get a few levels though, so no worries. They're still there.
EDIT:
Also, to anyone interested. I've started writing up the GMPC I'll be using for this RP. Some of their information can already be found in the Characters TAB under the hider: My Little nHero. It's not complete yet, but it does have all the Superhero info filled out, in case you want an idea or example of how you could write and do things for your own sheet.
Note though, while I've listed them as affiliated with "DATA", nobody is a part of any of the five groups at the very start of the RP. The first thing your character will do thoough is select one of the organizations to join. So really, if you don't want to edit your sheet after a few posts, you can just put which group you intend to join straight of the bat. If you're sure about which to pick, that is.
EDIT 2:
Oh, and just for a bit of fluff and general world-knowledge:
W'e going with Clark Kent rules when it comes to wearing costumes and being recognized. Menaing, as long as there's a very minor, minute difference between your face/hair/appearance when you're in and out of costume, nobody will ever recognize or make the connection between your civilian and superhero forms.
Peeps be dumb.
EDIT 3:
I've also added the first NPC. Who you guys will probably only ever interact wit once. But he's still a person, gosh dangit!
@Xaltwind Not disappointed in the slightest! You use the setting and general mechanics and that's good enough for me to sink my teeth into it!
I saw the use of Paragon City and some other locations (icon Atlas Park for one). That's good enough for me. Doesn't need to be a full-on recreation for me to really enjoy it.
I'll probably be going with a mutant blaster who utilizes electricity. I've made him in a few superhero-ish roleplays. Need to decide if I want to use the more "Street level" costume I made for him which is mainly jeans, shirt, and a cape or go for more armored (which is the cosmetic upgrade I gave him recently). His name will be Crimson Bolt.
Welp, if you're fine with it, then by all means, feel free to write up the Crimson Cuckad.. Bolt!
It'll be super-handy to have someone who actually plays the game, in the current time, since I'll be able to exploit ask you things that I personally don't remember or know the details of, seeing as it was... What... Over 10 years since I last played CoHH? ... Frikk I'm old... T-T
@Shoopuf Thanks a bunch. ^^ And that sounds like a totally viable and thematically functional and acceptable idea for a character.
@Altered Tundra Hah, I like your enthusiasm, friend, but... Unfortunately this is a vaguely inspired City of Heroes RP, and not a full-on, 100%-true-to-concept recreation. Sorry if that bums you out.
If it helps, I've borrowe dheavily from and used City of Heroes as a template and base-buildin-block for the RP though.
@Crimson Flame Luckily for me, I happened to play it a while after it came out, and they started running Free-to-Play accounts. Still only played it a few times with some friends, but it was good fun when we did.
Bernard is a man in his mid-to-late 50's, who works as the greeter and tour-guide for City Hall. He also guides new Heroes to the Recruitment Offices when they first start out. He's a chummy old man with a friendly and casual attitude, though prone to nostalgia and remeniscing.
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These men and women in blue are Paragon City's finest! ... Generic Police Officers, that is. You can find them on patrol all throughout the city, adnd they're always willing to lend a hand to a hero! ... Or ask them for help...
Mayor Matthew Philip J. Chesterwood has been the mayor of Paragon City for almost 12 years straight now. With his slight southern droll and affable attitude, he's a very popular and beloved political figure for the vast majority of citizens. He's also a big supporter of the city's superheroes.
GMPC:
Cecilia Castoria
Description: Cecilia stands at an average height of 165cm (or 5'5") tall, having a healthy and shiny caramel skin tone, bright yellow eyes, along with long and blonde hair. She's got a curvaceous figure.
17 | Female | High School Student
Personality:
As a person, Cecilia is a fairly typical young girl. She enjoys being pretty and stylish, worries about her figure and weight, browses social media to an unhealthy degree and enjoys gossiping and hanging out with friends or classmates after school. She likes junkfood but feels guilty after eating it, listens to all the latest pop idols/bands and tries to keep up with all the latest trends and fashion. Really, she's the cardboard cut-out of your stereotyppical high school teenage girl that you could find anywhere. Well, for the most part anyway.
Aside from her categorization as a vapid valley girl, Cecilia is actually a really sweet and kind-hearted girl. She takes time out of her day to help others, like if she sees an elderly woman trying to cross the street, she'll offer to help. If she finds a lost child crying, she'll stay with them and look for their parents. She's got a gentle heart and caring nature towards her fellow humans. She also gets flustered and shy whenever she's praised or thanked, and gets all awkward and doesn't really know what to do. C.C. is also fairly open-minded and tries not to judge others or their hobbies and intrests (though it does still hapen), and is for the most part at least tolerant and accepting of people with different tastes or thoughts than herself. Mostly.
As a heor though, Cecilia is less pleasant, at least to devil-doers. She's got a strong sense of right and wrong and doesn't take kindly to seeing others inflict pain or villainy upon the innocent. Towards those who've chosen to go down the path of a criminal, C.C. has very little patience and even less empathy, and will summarily do whatever she can to stop such people from 'getting away with it', as it were. She still retains her same traits of caring and compassion for regular people though, and will prioritizie others safety and well-being over stopping criminals, and even her own health. She's the self-sacriifcing type and has a strong conviction to use her powers for others and for good, and not for herself or any selfish motivations she may have. Still awkward and shy when praised or thanked though. Blushy cheeks and all.
Background:
Cecilia is the only child of Stewart and Pamela Castoria. At a young age, she was doted upon and cared for wiht great love and care by her parents, who also made sure to instill into their daughter the importance of moral values and the importance of right and wrong. Stewart was a cameraman and Pamela was an on-field news reporter, so the two worked closely with one another even outside of the domestic confines of the family's home. They weren't absurdly rich or wealthy, but not poor or anything either. A fairly typical, middle-class family that got along well and had a, for the most part, pleasant life together.
That all changed some 7 years ago, when she and her parents were visiting a Resarch Facility over on the outskirts of paragon City. The family had been unable to find a babysitter, but given how well-behaved Cecilia was, the pair figured they could bring her along on their joint assignment, so long as she promised to be good. And she did. The facility was a, at the time, state-of-the-art location with high-tech machines and science and all manner of cool and exciting things. Her parents were there to do an interview with one of the lead scientists, who was apparently working on some new form of energy or somehting. The details are a bit unclear and C.C: honestly doesn't remember things all that well.
Reason being that, sometime during their visit, there was an accident. Something in the facility broke or got loose or was unsealed or something. Regardless of what exactly happened, an alarm was sounded to evacuate the place. Unfortunately, the Castoria family and lead scientists were in the very core of the structure at the time, and they just couldn't make it out in time, before a strange, blue-green gas of some sort covered everything and slowly choked them all. C.C. doesn't remember anything after that for a good long while, ony that she eventually woke up in a hospital bed, dazed and confused. She asked where her mom and dad were, but the nurses and doctors only shook their heads and apologized. Apart from her, nobody else caught in the gaseous cloud had survived.
The news and realization was devastatinga nd the girl became incredibly distressed and depressed. Fortunately, her aunt was - on her father's side - was notified and quickly came to Paragon City to take the orphaned girl in. But it was a tough year, a very tough one. Her aunt, Laura, didn't have any kids of her own and wasn't exactly what you'd call prime mother-material. She wasn't a good cook or very competent at chores... She wasn't sure how to cheer her niece up or what to say or do. But she tried. ANd Cecilia knew she did. So even if things were hard, and sometimes strange or didn't always turn out great, the two slowly built a mutual relationship of fondness for one another.
Stranger still was the fact that, about a year after the accident, a news program revvelaed that the disaster at the lab hadn't been an accident, but an intended act of sabotage. When this was brought to light, it's very understanable to see why Cecilia was upset. So upset, in fact that... Somehow... For some reason... She managed to manifest some kind of wierd, force-related power... Which did a number on their home. Initially frightened, and freaking her aunt out, Cecilia wasn't sure what to do or how to or where to... But, as with everything, time and patience, and love and nurturing support, found a way.
Having suffered from tremendous survivor's guilt after the incident, and now having been given powers - most likely by the very same gas that killed her parents - it became clear to the young girl. Bad people had caused the deaht of her family, and had caused her to gain these strange new powers... Then it was only right that she use these powers to pay them back, and anyone else who ever throught of doing something bad. Initially reluctant to let the girl put herself in danger, Aunt Laura eventually agreed to let C.C. take the SHE once she was old enough, provided she could prove that she'd gained control over her newly awakened powers and that she was in suitably fit condition to do all that running and jumping around.
Thus, after entering high school, Cecilia joined the Track and Field club to help keep herself inshape. She also took extra care to enver skip out on or miss gym class. Her other studies were... Mediocre... But, hey, at least she wasn't failing anything. And so, a year passed, the girl trained and practiced her ability after school, whenever she had some time to herself, away from friends and chores and homework. Practice makes perfect. And thus came the day, where she finally took the Hero Exam, passed and has now just received the letter of success. The time has come.
Civilian Skills:
Ambidextrous
Fashionable & STylish (CLothes & makeup)
Athletic
----- Hero Info -----
Kinetic Comet
Body:
Face/Head:
Science | Controller | Level 1 | ELITE
Superpowers:
Force Energy Manipulation: The ability to generat and control force-energy, for things like conjuring forcefields or walls, shooting concussive bolts or beams, or creating tethers or restraints of force around a person or object, at both range and in close proximity.
Secondary Arts: None.- Cecilia doesn't have a secondary superpower.
Weakness(es):
Supplementary Powers:
N/A
Name: Force Wave Type: Active/Passive Rank: ★ Range: Ranged Description: Fires off a crescent-shaped wave of semi-transparent white force eneergy - which moves in the direction fired - that knocks objects and people in its path down or away when hitting them. Cannot topple or move things heavier than a human. Can hit up to three people standing side-by-side at once. --- Name: Kinesis Wall Type: Active/Passive Rank: ★ Range: Ranged Description: Creates a wall, as tall as a regular apartment room in height, and as wide as a garage door, of white half-translucent force energy. Can be tilted vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Can block incoming physical prjecitles or attacks, or be used to stop a runner or cut off a narrow path. Only one wall can exist at a time. The wall willb reak if enough damage is dealt to it. The wall cannot be climbed or scaled and can thus not serve as a ramp or makeshfit staircase. --- Name: Force Blaster Type: Active/Passive Rank: ★ Range: Ranged Description: Creates up to four hovering tennis ball-sized orbs of half-translucent white force energy, which can then be fired off at will in any single direction, within line of sight. Upon contact with anything solid, they burst like waterballoons, dealing kinetic damage equal to being hit by a pitcher-machine-launched tennis ball at high speed. The orbs fly in a straight line and cannot curve or cahnge their trajectory once shot.
[list][*]I don't use social media, discord or google docs.
[*]I suffer from [b]Retinitis Pigmentosa[/b] and use a text-reading software to get through other peoples' posts.
[*]I'm rude, short-tempered and unserious. I'll likely say things that'll upset, offend, annoy and/or infuriate you.
[*]I make dumb jokes, have dark humor and enjoy beating the dead horse with a stick.
[*]I'm a hopeless, unabashed and unapologetic perv. I like my lewd.
[*]I consider roleplaying a hobby and a pass-time, not art.
[*]I do anime-roleplay and [b]only[/b] anime-roleplay.
[*]If you've never roleplayed with me earlier or never spoken to me through a topic before, please don't send me PMs.
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><ul class="bb-list" style="white-space: normal;"><li>I don't use social media, discord or google docs.</li><li>I suffer from <span class="bb-b">Retinitis Pigmentosa</span> and use a text-reading software to get through other peoples' posts.</li><li>I'm rude, short-tempered and unserious. I'll likely say things that'll upset, offend, annoy and/or infuriate you.</li><li>I make dumb jokes, have dark humor and enjoy beating the dead horse with a stick.</li><li>I'm a hopeless, unabashed and unapologetic perv. I like my lewd.</li><li>I consider roleplaying a hobby and a pass-time, not art.</li><li>I do anime-roleplay and <span class="bb-b">only</span> anime-roleplay.</li><li>If you've never roleplayed with me earlier or never spoken to me through a topic before, please don't send me PMs.</li></ul></div>