The Setting
Heroes of Chicago is designed as a modern world, street level meta-human RP. Generally speaking it will be a sandbox RP, though I will throw in the odd guided story arc to help get people interacting. Chicago has been chosen because it is a high rise city and New York is overdone.
The setting is a version of our world where, for one reason or another people have begun to display interesting and extraordinary abilities. In time, some of these people will become known as super-heroes, others' names will be used to frighten children into eating their dinner. At the moment though these people are unknown. This RP is set at the dawn of meta-humanism. People have written stories about super-heroes for decades but any caped crusaders who have existed up to this point have been people belonging to the 'real life superhero' subculture. All that is about to change...
... can be found here!
General Rules/RP Etiquette
- I am the OP and will try to mediate disputes etc, approve applications or recommend a rethink etc etc.
- Keep the OOC friendly!
- Please don't godmod, metagame or any of those other bad things.
- Keep it PG13 - try to keep the writing from getting too explicit.
- Please use proper English grammar. This is not an attempt to stifle your creativity, the rules of grammar make things clear and easy to understand. Please do not try to use asterixes to indicate an action and please use paragraphs.
Thread Rules
- Please don't destroy Chicago in the IC. This is supposed to be a street level RP (at least initially). If you are feeling the urge to, go and beat up some muggers... or mug someone.
- If you want to launch a plot that has wide-scale implications for the fate of the city/world please raise it on the OOC first. To avoid excessive escalation we will try to keep most villainy to street level stuff.
- Don't kill or mutilate anybody else's character unless you have agreed this with them in advance... though that being said, I do reserve the right to say 'you are dead' if you do something that has a zero chance of survival.
- Do not RP the population at large or any government agency. I will do that for the sake of fairness.
- Your character does not have a hotline to a deity.
- Have fun!
Creating a Character
- This is a street-level RP so there are certain limitations on powers. There are a lot of arguments on the internet about what, exactly, is a street level superhero. As a general rule of thumb I would say that it would be a character who would have difficulty overcoming a gang of a dozen or so assailants. If you can stroll into a military base and steal something without needing to worry, that is not a street level character.
For reference, a Batman/Daredevil/Cat Woman/Green Arrow type of character would be fine. Dr Manhattan/Superman/Wonder Woman would definitely not. - If you want to give people major powers, counterbalance them with either weaknesses or conditions to power usage.
- Please be specific about what your powers do.
- Do not create characters to act as sidekicks/adoring fans for your main character. Additional characters should not be used to beef your main up with complementary power sets (that is not to say don't let your characters meet). If you want to form a super-team, form it within the thread with another player.
- Your character is not known to the world yet. You may have started doing stuff on the streets, you might have even been reported on in some of the less reliable news sources but you aren't famous. Not yet anyway.
- Characters I create will also go up as applications. Feel free to call foul if you think I'm breaking my own rules.
This should go without saying but please delete the explanations I have put next to some of the boxes
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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Super Identity:[/b] This is for the future, you won't be known as this yet... unless it's a nickname from a scurrilous newspaper. Feel free to leave it blank.
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b] I prefer text but a picture is fine
[b]Occupation:[/b] Are you a cop, fire fighter or something else that could be plot relevant?
[b]Powers:[/b] Please note that we will assume you character is a meta-human if you put anything down here other than 'peak-human'. Also 'magic' isn't a power. The things you do with the magic are the powers.
[b]Conditions for Power Usage:[/b] What, if anything, limits the use of these powers?
[b]Equipment:[/b]
[b]Weaknesses: [/b] Please note that a personality trait is not a weakness. Feel free to include an unhelpful super-power
[b]Background:[/b] If you are a gadget user this is a good place to explain how you fund your machinery.
An example character application (who will be drawn into the RP when it kicks off) can be found in the post below;
Sorted by the character's preferred name (for most characters this is their first name). If I notice you are mostly going by a nickname or superhero handle in the thread I will reorder;
Andon Bedrosian - A precognitive bouncer and Uber driver who moonlights as a cage fighter
Andrew Samson (Puppetmaster) A blue man who uses pheromones to control and manipulate others.
'Billy', Jebediah Driftwood A drug addict who can drive others insane with his touch.
Carl Despender - A skilled marksman and the mysterious face of a secretive organisation
Corynn van der Stoep - A retail worker who can heal from (almost) any injury
Janet Burke - A reporter who can record and record and repeat sound, take photos using her body and fade into the shadows.
Jennifer Blake (Chameleon) - a shape-shifting singer
Kelsey Carlyle (the Starling) - an exceptionally nimble martial artist.
'Sawyer', Tate Sawyer - a medical examiner who can manipulate medical contaminants
Sean O'Connor - an Irish mobster who has just awoken after several decades frozen in concrete.
'Stitches', Heinrich Guerring (the Sentinel) - An immortal 14th century alchemist who works as a fireman.
The following is a list of non super powered characters who have achieved a more than passing mention in the IC thread.
Carlo Romano - the head of an unpleasant criminal empire.
John Babbage - A detective from Chicago P.D. John Babbage is a well respected, portly detective who is very close to retirement age. Babbage is currently investigating a triple homicide where not everything seems to add up.
Vito the Wolf - A mafia assassin who has handed himself in to Chicago P.D. and is offering to cooperate against his former employer provided that the police protect him from 'the vengeful dead'. Generally thought to have gone slightly insane.