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Toxate Arc begins
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Constant events shall occur after the Toxate arc.
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Total votes : 22

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Shark isle
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:52 pm

Faction Name: Prometheus
Location: Worldwide, but their headquarters are located at Oslo, Norway.
Level of Technology: Prometheus prides itself with having the latest of modern technology, some of which they invented. Prometheus' technology consists of robotics, laser weaponry and tools, high-tech security systems and advanced computers . Recently, Prometheus received a shipment of Xanthian technology that was left behind after the invasion, mostly weaponry and the remains of a communicator. After receiving this technology they ordered their scientists to try to reverse-engineer the technology for the corporation's own use.
Faction Biography/Lore: Prometheus was founded by Dr. Malvin Knudsen in 1963 as a think - tank. During the first 10 years of Prometheus' existence they were contracted by the Norwegian government to find a process that made desalination cheaper. In 1974, Promehteus was bought out by a Swede name Noah Ekholm who immediately cancelled the contract with the Norwegian government and started to take contracts from private companies while having Prometheus' scientists develop technology for their own use. In 1982, Noah Ekholm was arrested for embezzling money from his own company and was replaced by Dr. Ragnar Jacobsson, Prometheus' senior scientist. For the next 20 years Ragnar turned Prometheus from a humble think-tank to a world-wide scientific corporation specializing in robotics, laser technology and other scientific ventures. In 2003 Ragnar died due to a stroke and was replaced by Dr. Sebastian Cristescu, a Romanian scientist and chief researcher in charge of Prometheus' genetics program. After the Xanthian invasion Prometheus took in a interest in the superhuman that spawned from the Xanthian Box and its aftermath. Sebastian, wanting to know how the powers worked, ordered Prometheus to start doing experiments on 20 employees that were affected by the box and harvest their DNA for testing. Within a few weeks the experiments Prometheus did ended up killing half the test subjects and putting the rest in comas. Despite all the tests they did Prometheus was no closer to decoding the superhero genome much to Sebastian's anger. Sebastian then ordered Prometheus employees to scour the streets of the world to find homeless people affected by The Box, Kidnap them, and bring them back to one of the numerous Prometheus facilities across the world to run experiments on them.
Population Size: 9,000 employees.
Army Size: N/A
Additional information: Here is a list of notable Prometheus employees.
Dr. Sebastian Cristescu, CEO. http://sciencecouncil.org/web/wp-conten ... ge-img.jpg
Dr. Bill Gomez, Head of the American Branch of Prometheus. http://www.blackenterprise.com/wp-conte ... 20x480.jpg
Dr. Jurgen Critchen, Head of the Western European Branch, http://www.mymedicalforum.com/blog/wp-c ... terjpg.jpg
Dr. Anatole Cantos, Head of the Eastern European Branch. http://previews.123rf.com/images/lovlea ... -Photo.jpg
Lisa Santiago, Head of the South American Branch. http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xd/460736 ... 1A10B43129
Dr. Ishimoto Dayu, Head of the Asian Branch.http://image.shutterstock.com/display_p ... 065923.jpg
Marvin Lemmens, Head of Security. https://www.champ.net/wp-content/upload ... rvices.jpg
Billy Smith, CFO. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 7943210505
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Republic of the Cristo
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Postby Republic of the Cristo » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:06 pm

NAME: Martin strong
ALIAS: Athens
NATIONALITY: American
ETHNICITY: Black
AGE: 21
APPEARANCE: I couldn't find a picture: 6 "5", bald, very buff, large facial features, dark brown eyes.

ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good
OCCUPATION: Gas Station cashier

ABILITIES: Body involuntarily turns into Titanium when ever he is about to be harmed, or can do so at will.
SKILLS: Is fairly good with working on computers, is a decent code writer, can speak passible Spanish.
WEAKNESS: If he is ever unable to breath ( in a Smokey area, underwater, being choked out ) he cannot turn into Titanium. Also, he cannot turn his insides Titanium, so poison will kill him as well.
GOALS: To be a good man, and to be a hero
FEARS: the water - Titanium sinks...

EQUIPMENT: none

PERSONALITY: Is a generally happy and pleasant person to be around. He is upbeat in most situations, and try's to be compassionate. A life of poverty has led him to become a hard worker.
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DISLIKES: (OPTIONAL)

BIO: WIP

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Orthodox Christian, Nationalist, Reactionary, Stoic


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The Starlight
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Postby The Starlight » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:08 pm

Republic of the Cristo wrote:NAME: Martin strong
ALIAS: Athens
NATIONALITY: American
ETHNICITY: Black
AGE: 21
APPEARANCE: I couldn't find a picture: 6 "5", bald, very buff, large facial features, dark brown eyes.

ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good
OCCUPATION: Gas Station cashier

ABILITIES: Body involuntarily turns into Titanium when ever he is about to be harmed, or can do so at will.
SKILLS: Is fairly good with working on computers, is a decent code writer, can speak passible Spanish.
WEAKNESS: If he is ever unable to breath ( in a Smokey area, underwater, being choked out ) he cannot turn into Titanium. Also, he cannot turn his insides Titanium, so poison will kill him as well.
GOALS: To be a good man, and to be a hero
FEARS: the water - Titanium sinks...

EQUIPMENT: none

PERSONALITY: Is a generally happy and pleasant person to be around. He is upbeat in most situations, and try's to be compassionate. A life of poverty has led him to become a hard worker.
LIKES: (OPTIONAL)
DISLIKES: (OPTIONAL)

BIO: WIP

RP EXAMPLE:

THEME: (OPTIONAL)

Please follow the format of the character application, which can be found on the first page, 2nd or 3rd post, I believe.
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Shark isle
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:12 pm

Am i accepted ?

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Tomia
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Postby Tomia » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:13 pm

Shark isle wrote:Faction Name: Prometheus

We're going to have to reject this one Shark. While the app isn't bad, its cut from a very similar mold as a lot of the faction apps. They all somehow have Xanthian tech, are studying and trying to improve it, are secretive etc. These factions are having trouble finding their place in the rp and so far have not been very successful. So we'd rather you and others move in other directions with characters and apps. Can't wait to see what else you can come up with though :)

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Shark isle
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:14 pm

Tomia wrote:
Shark isle wrote:Faction Name: Prometheus

We're going to have to reject this one Shark. While the app isn't bad, its cut from a very similar mold as a lot of the faction apps. They all somehow have Xanthian tech, are studying and trying to improve it, are secretive etc. These factions are having trouble finding their place in the rp and so far have not been very successful. So we'd rather you and others move in other directions with characters and apps. Can't wait to see what else you can come up with though :)

I can cut out the Xanthian technology part.

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Tomia
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Postby Tomia » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:16 pm

Shark isle wrote:
Tomia wrote:We're going to have to reject this one Shark. While the app isn't bad, its cut from a very similar mold as a lot of the faction apps. They all somehow have Xanthian tech, are studying and trying to improve it, are secretive etc. These factions are having trouble finding their place in the rp and so far have not been very successful. So we'd rather you and others move in other directions with characters and apps. Can't wait to see what else you can come up with though :)

I can cut out the Xanthian technology part.

Even without the Xanthian tech, it feels like it serves the same purpose and role as the others. And me and the other Co-ops and Star are struggling to figure out what role these groups can play in the rp. So we don't want to accept anymore at this time.

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Shark isle
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:19 pm

Tomia wrote:
Shark isle wrote:I can cut out the Xanthian technology part.

Even without the Xanthian tech, it feels like it serves the same purpose and role as the others. And me and the other Co-ops and Star are struggling to figure out what role these groups can play in the rp. So we don't want to accept anymore at this time.

I guess I have to think of another idea.

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Postby Siliarba » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:23 pm

Shark isle wrote:
Tomia wrote:Even without the Xanthian tech, it feels like it serves the same purpose and role as the others. And me and the other Co-ops and Star are struggling to figure out what role these groups can play in the rp. So we don't want to accept anymore at this time.

I guess I have to think of another idea.

Stripclub

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Indo-pasif archipelago
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Postby Indo-pasif archipelago » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:26 pm

Indo-pasif archipelago wrote:
Indo-pasif archipelago wrote:Character Application


Name: Samael Keter

Superhero Name: The Cabalist

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Race/Species: Human

Appearance: Here ya go!

Personality: Samael is an arrogant and highly self-centered person, to the point where one might think he is a megalomania. Nevertheless, he has a high sense of justice and care a lot about everyone around him. He doesn't usually get serious, even in a fight, but one must pay attention when he does get serious, for only a few can withstand his the overkill that is his spells. He is rather mysterious regarding his past and still has a grudge toward them. His life is quite happy though after the Xantheian Incident, since he can play with his spells without worrying about sending his opponent to the Hospital, or worse to the graveyard.

Biography: Samael was born as the last kid of the rich Keter family. You might think that's what made him so arrogant and selfish, but actually his childhood was the opposite of most pampered rich kids. Anytime his brothers did something wrong, he was the one that got the blame. When others were praised for their false achievement and rewarded handsomely, Samael were punished for sins he didn't commit. In his anger, Samael refused to follow what his parents had expected of him. He mockingly refused to study what his parents told him to, instead surrounded himself with 'faux' arcane knowledge and magic 'tricks'. He became a pariah in his own family, a failure everyone wished to go away.

And he did. Just one day, when the servants of Keter Manor knocked upon his door to awoken him from his slumber, they found that his wardrobe and bed are now empty, much to his family amusement. Almost nothing changes in the Manor, and the family never bothered to search their outcasted kin. But to Samael, everything had changed. His first destination was the home of a friendly war veteran that is his friend's grandfather. They both shared interest in the art of magic, and through him Samael found various other with the same dream as him. Soon he found himself drown in the pure seas of magic and revived the forgotten skill of Keter Family; The Dark Arts.

When he first met a cult that claimed to hold one of the most powerful book on magical world, Samael was sceptical. He found soon however, despite the cult's relentless attempt to master the book, only those that have the dark magic itself within their blood can properly master it, and so Samael uncovered the secrets of Codex Damnatio. He titled himself as the Cabalist, Champion of Dark Artistry, and served himself as the watchful guardian of the night. He vowed to protect anyone with the same fate with him, and tried his best to reach his full potential.

Powers/Abilities:
  • Dark Artistry Lifelong training in the Dark Arts has granted him a great power against all his adversaries. With simple runes and incantations, Samael can conjure creatures from the deepest abyss, summon a tornado of darkness, and burn his enemy with the same fire that burn through hell for ages. His spells are detailed below.
    • Corruptus Fragare: A simple ancient hex, Samael manipulate the innate arcane power in every sapient being, and twisted it into a deadly fire that burn his adversaries and everything it touches.
    • Nykta Volverdus: Samael carefully absorbed the shadow and darkness around him, captured it with a rune, and send a whirlwind of shadow forward to destroy anything on its path.
    • Nykta Elecktror: Using an ancient rune to trap the darkness around him, Samael let go the dark energy in a surge of magical blast, electrocuting his enemies while hampering their own innate ability.
    • Sanguis Invocere: Samael cast a rune using his own blood. The invocation conjure a spirit that consume his own blood from the rune that obey him and has the same endurance level with him. He can only sustain maximum two spirits using his own blood, although a longer version of the ritual can enable him to bind his enemy into the spirit, hence allow him to have more than two spirits.
    • Corruptus Kinein: The corrupted essence within every being can be manipulate for various purpose, and one is to affect the movement of physical world. The spell is useful to control the fire produced by Corruptus Fragare and telekinetically move small objects.
    • Sanguis Anguistae Tineshtai: Samael marked his opponent by his own blood, and punish them by their own blood. The spell slowly consumed the blood of anyone that is marked by the caster's blood (including Samael) and inflict them with the greatest pain they have ever felt.
    • Corruptus Suus Aequalis: The rune tattooed into Samael's arm depleted his own arcane energy to heal himself or his allies. Can be cast regardless of distance as long as Samael has visual contact on his target. Prolonged use may put Samael into coma or corrupted the target's sanity.
    • Sanguis Impendere Ruptus: Samael sacrifices his blood in the middle of the rune, which is consumed to power a large explosion within the rune's range. The explosion is delayed for a few second to give Samael a chance to retreat.
    • Nykta Movere Vocivus, Peisma Perpetuus: The runes of Nyktum absorbs the darkness around it and circle an area ahead of it, ceasing all movement inside the circle. Samael needs constant concentration to maintain the spell. He can only speak and cast some of runeless spells (e.g. Corruptus Fragare and Corruptus Kinein) without breaking the spell.
    • And the list go on...: His magics grow along with his knowledge. The list of spells might grow with the progession of the RP


Weaknesses
  • Perfection Needs Patience: Just with any art, careful measure and great patience is needed to make a spectacular artwork. Samael needs to write the runes accurately and must speaks the incantations, which may need a long time that can be used by his enemy to attack him.
  • The Cost of Magic: Most of his spells need to 'consume' a few things to work. While they don't necessarily consume blood, they will not work if they have something to consume. Ie. Nyktum spells need to consume darkness, Corruptus spells need to consume life-force or arcane energy and so on.
  • Limited Memory: While he is of great intellect and power, perfect spells need perfect invocation. Thus he always keeps the Codex Damnatio that details the pattern of the rune, list of incantations, and how to read them properly


Equipment: Codex Damnatio, pre-written rune for emergency, the ominously black coloured robe with an indigo sephiroth drawn on it, dark violet armlet that together with his robe helps focusing his power, and basic mortal human needs.

Likes: Magic, bragging his own abilities, slowcore music, Twilight Zone (the TV Series), cloudy days, and Capestagram
Dislikes: Heavy Metal Music, sunny days, nighttime, and Capestagram
Theme Song: Got no idea, any suggestions?


Additional information:

RP Sample: N/A

I'm aiming for Dark Is Not Edgy here, hopefully it can past the edgy char filter.


He's good?
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Postby The United Equstrian Front » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:10 pm

Sorry if my post is a little short.

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Postby Charmera » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:21 pm

Indo-pasif archipelago wrote:
Indo-pasif archipelago wrote:
He's good?

Accepted.
Zarkenis Ultima wrote:And here, we see a wild Shittonicus Charactericus, coloquially known as Charmera, in its natural habitat. It seems to be displaying behavior expected from one of its kind, producing numerous characters and juggling them with its front paws.

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ANNOUCEMENT

Postby The Starlight » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:45 pm

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:
This RP is ending due to unforeseen complications...jk, you didn't fall for that, right? ;)

Ok, the real news. The ban on supervillains, villainous corporations, antiheroes and edginess has ended. I feel like the ratio of heroes:villains is closer to 1:1 now than it was before. That said, I will be holding very, and I mean very high standards for apps of these chars. "Woe is me," one-dimensional characters will not fare well under my gaze, fair warning. So, if you made a villain app that was rejected or pended due to the ban, it's your responsibility to repost those apps so that they can be looked at again. As for corporations, however, no more of them will be accepted if they're simply tech companies trying to do things with Xantheian tech or superhumans. There have been plenty of those already, and I don't see the majority of them doing much anyway. If you want to make a corporation, shy away from tech companies, or Xantheian tech at all really.

All this said, I do not want to see an overwhelming tidal wave of supervillains and not!Batmans. What I would love to see would be some more player created nations on Earth...hint hint, wink wink.

Regarding apps in general, I'll also start looking, for those who already have chars, how consistently you're posting with those characters before allowing you to create a new one. If you're not active with the 5 chars you've made and yet hope to app for two more, your dreams are going to be crushed. Either scrap those characters or start RPing consistently with those characters.
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"Strength does not make one capable of rule. It makes one capable of service"
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"
Tri: NS's Tolkien incarnate
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Postby Tomia » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:18 pm

Character Application
[Hi Stir]


Name: Fredrick Owens

Superhero Name: Animaster

Age: 45

Gender: Male

Race/Species: Human

Appearance: This guy

Personality: Fredrick is obsessive, sociopathic, egotistical and fanatical. He is a goal driven maniac who has swiftly fallen into madness. Moments of his old scientific and medical self sometimes resurface but they are constantly drowned out by his distraught state. He has a messiah complex and see's himself as a hero and a savior of man kind.

Biography: Fredrick Owens was once a well known and well liked Pandora City local. He was a medical doctor and a renowned biologist as well. His intelligence was unquestioned and he was known for his kindness and compassion. However in private he had a near obsession with scientific and medical advances. he was determined to eradicated the disease known as death. He dedicated his life to this quest and this put a strain on his his marriage with his wife Jennifer.

He loved her deeply but began to grow more and more distant from her to the point of where she was contemplating a divorce. That was six years ago, when Fredrick's life changed drastically, and not for the better. He was in the emergency room of his local hospital trying to bring a patient back to life with the defibrillator when the Box was opened. The other man's life force flowed through Fredrick like a flash of lightening, killing the patient instantly and sending Fredrick flying across the room. He was in a coma for over a year, and no doctor could explain how exactly he stayed alive. Little did he know that he was absorbing the life force of those dying around him in the hospital.

One day there was a mass shooting in Pandora City mall, and the numerous deaths coming through the hospital all at once was enough to bring him back to consciousness. He was released with a miraculous clean bill of heath and returned home to his elated wife. Something was different in him however, his obsession with science and medicine subsided and he no longer seemed interested in his work. Instead in his free time he began studying aliens, angels, magic, anything he could use to explain his recover. His wife grew very concerned and angry at this turn, confronting him one night in his office. Their argument turned violent as she tried to set fire to his collection of strange books. He slammed her head against the desk in retaliation, and the disturbed man watched in fascination as the blood drained from her body and her life force was transferred to him.

This was when he ascended into madness. He was arrested and began babbling about his powers and his ability to "transcend mortal man", He was shipped off to Northland heights, a high security psychiatric facility for treatment. In his isolation and madness he began to develop his skills and furthered his insane theories about his powers. It didn't take long for him to realize the true nature of his abilities and once he did that Northland Heights was no match for him. Security was soon overwhelmed by murderous bed-frames and weight lifting equipment that stormed through the facility, freeing their master and unleashing him upon the world.

Owens proved to be one of the first real tests for the Justice Queens. Their first encounter took place in Pandora City mall, where dozens of people were being slaughtered by animated video game counsels and kiosk booths. The Justice Queens managed to apprehend him but only after a very difficult fight. Owens remained a regular nuisance for the JQ, seeming to have made them the targets of his obsessions.

However things changed when the Xanthians arrived. They were the granter of his powers and so Owens saw them as gods and the saviors of humanity. When the JQ defeated them and drove the aliens away Fredrick was devastated and driven even more mad with grief. He went on a rampage, raising an army of inanimate warriors all across the world. Thousands died and that only made Owens stronger. The JQ, along with the rest of the world's hero's were able to defeat him, but there was no doubt that Fredrick Owens was quickly becoming a threat not only to the JQ but to the entire world.

And so the Justice Queens reached out to their extraterrestrial contacts and discovered an intergalactic insane asylum. Owens was transferred here in the hopes that he would never again be able to return to Earth. He however has other plans and continues to plot his revenge on the Justice Queens. In his madness he has taken on the name, "Animaster" and now sees himself as the messiah of the Xanthians and the last hope for humanity. When in fact, he may very well be one of the greatest threats to humanity's continued existence.

Powers/Abilities:
  • Animation: Animaster can give life to inanimate objects. These objects morph and mutate into deadly forms strength vary based on their size but some can be quite dangerous. He can raise an army of huminoid weed wackers flamethrowers and God help the people of earth if their pyramids or airplanes start coming to life around them...
  • Life force absorption: When a living being dies around him, the Animaster is able to absorb their life force. This can be put towards animation, but also to to increase his own strength and size to massive proportions. The more people who die, the stronger the Animaster becomes.
  • Creation: Animaster can use absorbed life force to create his own inanimate objects of his own twisted design.


Weaknesses
  • Mental State: Fredrick is insane on many levels, and it often hinders his plans. His egomaniac tendencies and obsessive disorders make him his own worst enemy at times.
  • Requirement of life energy: The size of the object that Fredrick is able to animate is very dependent on the amount of life energy is able to absorb. Whole buildings or an airplane would take a massive amount of stored energy.


Equipment: A whole library of books, a number of which filled with his own scribblings and ramblings

Likes: Death, destruction, killing the JQ, Xanthians
Dislikes: The JQ, hospitals, Pandora City,


RP Sample:
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Shark isle
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:36 pm

Since the corporation thing is no longer acceptable can i just make a organized crime syndicate ?

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Postby Shadowwell » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:42 pm

Shark isle wrote:Since the corporation thing is no longer acceptable can i just make a organized crime syndicate ?

If you do, my latest cahracter could have connections, as he provides things akin to medical services for cash.
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Postby Shark isle » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:46 pm

Shadowwell wrote:
Shark isle wrote:Since the corporation thing is no longer acceptable can i just make a organized crime syndicate ?

If you do, my latest cahracter could have connections, as he provides things akin to medical services for cash.

Ok.

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Postby Shadowwell » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:53 pm

Shark isle wrote:
Shadowwell wrote:If you do, my latest cahracter could have connections, as he provides things akin to medical services for cash.

Ok.

He can manipulate the body, whether reconnecting nerves or changing appearances, though they take time.
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Postby Finland SSR » Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:14 pm

The Starlight wrote:What I would love to see would be some more player created nations on Earth...hint hint, wink wink.

Gimme a few days and I'll give you one.
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Postby Turmenista » Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:25 am

Finland SSR wrote:
The Starlight wrote:What I would love to see would be some more player created nations on Earth...hint hint, wink wink.

Gimme a few days and I'll give you one.


[ Apocalypse Tank intensifies ]

Let's just hope a Yuri type guy doesn't come in and screw everyone over.

Anyways, Command and Conquer aside, I'll be making a third character soon.
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Postby Esternial » Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:13 am

Character Application


Name: August Muller

Superhero Name: Der Sensenmann (The Reaper), Black Dog
Age: 32

Gender: Male

Race/Species: Human

Appearance: [image]

Under the cover of his absolute darkness, one can only see two glowing eyes.

Personality: Literally living in darkness is bound to give a person some issues. August, on the surface, seemingly has none of those. He's perfectly polite and courteous in regular conversation, but underneath his gentlemanly behavior lie the thoughts of a vicious character. August is a psychopath birthed by the Xantheian Box. He takes no joy in taking lives, but find nothing objectionable about it either. At least that differentiates him from a full-blown madman: he is neither needlessly cruel nor a man that cannot reasoned with.

For fairly evident reasons, August is immensely bitter about the "gift" he was given.

Biography: In stark contrast to the man he is today, August Muller has lived most of his life as a fairly fortunate man. A man of business with a steady relationship and an even steadier job. From what he can still recall, he lived an ordinary childhood in an upper-middle class family. Indeed, August was an ordinary man living in an ordinary world. He had an ordinary job and that suited him just fine. August Muller had no desire for greatness or wealth to spend on frivolities, though he did enjoy the occasional indulgence. He was a man like many of us. One who aimed high in life but never expected too much, one who took the cards he was dealt and played the best hand he could. August looked forward to asking the love of his life to join him in marriage and settle down to start a family, using the money he earned from the sweat of his brown to afford him fewer hours at work and more by the side of his wife and children. He even looked forward to watching his children grow up and leave the house as his wife and he grew older, until the end.

Though, had this mundane and ordinary life of August Muller came to pass, his story would never have been told.

On that fateful day in 2014, August's life changed to the transmundane.

Unable to control his power, darkness beset neighborhood as August felt a pulse pass through his body. His eyes were burning as if two searing hot orbs had replaced them in their sockets, but once the pain receded he saw the world differently...quite literally. Colors were suddenly less vibrant and the world around his felt cold and inhospitable. It wasn't until his girlfriend came home, worried about the strange anomaly covering the neighborhood, that August realized something was terribly wrong. Unable to see her love except for two eerily glowing eyes, the woman understandably screamed her lungs out as August tried to calm her. Without hearing his pleas she ran and hurriedly drove off into the darkness, leading her to crash her car and lose her life mere minutes after fleeing Muller's home.

The German government immediately apprehended August and relocated him to an isolated compound in the Schwarzwald. It was here that a serum was developed from his own blood, capable of inhibiting his superpowers. Unfortunately, August was a broken man, and the German government had no use for broken men. Through extensive psychological conditioning, they created a weapon from the man formerly known as August Muller.

August set off from the Schwarzwald compound, carrying an ability-suppressing serum to allow him to walk among other in society. He began operating almost entirely autonomously with a single directive: eliminate metahumans hazardous to mankind. In the time leading up to the present day, August eliminated a number of metahumans, most of them petty criminals that abused their superpower to earn a quick buck. "Der Sensenmann" became known among certain online boards and became a concrete fear among some metahumans.

When night falls and his footsteps echo in the distance. Run.
When light flicker and die and fires find no more oxygen to feed their flames. Run.
When you feel your body weaken as his presence draws near. Run.
When you see his eyes pierce your soul through the darkness. You will run no more.

- Anonymous author

Powers/Abilities:
  • Absolute darkness: Within a one-mile radius, August projects a field of darkness that turns day into night. Even in broad daylight it seems as if the skies are overcast with a thick carpet of clouds, but when looking up at the skies the sun is still there, but eclipsed by darkness. The closer one gets to August, the darker it becomes. Within several feet one finds themselves in pitch-black darkness. At night this ability is obviously less pronounced, and only becomes noticeable in his immediate presence.
  • Night Vision: Without it he wouldn't be able to see much through the darkness surrounding him.
  • Energy Erasure: August can actively drain (or rather 'extinguish' as he absorb any of this energy) all kinds of energy in his presence. He does this, essentially, by creating a localized energy void. Fires, electrical appliances, moving objects (kinetic energy), etc.

    While his ability is limited at a range, August can accomplish more by directly touching whatever object's energy he's erasing. Doing so requires no focus on his part.
  • Superpower Erasure: By focusing on a specific meta-human, August can temporarily erase the superpowers of a particular metahuman (An extension of Energy Erasure)


Weaknesses
  • Passive ability: August can not actively control the field of Absolute Darkness he projects, making his presence fairly easy to predict beforehand (the gradual onset of darkness) and having made it difficult to interact with other people throughout most of his life. August has found a means to suppress this field, which unfortunately also suppresses all his other abilities.
  • Eye Contact: In order to erase energy, August needs to be able to see what he erases. He creates an area of null energy around the object, which he can then maintain without having to constantly look at it. This applies to static objects. Moving objects he will need to constantly keep his eye on.
  • Constant focus: When erasing certain kinds of energy, especially from multiple sources, August must maintain a fair deal of focus to maintain each "null field". Fires can be extinguished, but things like electrical circuits can not as the source lies somewhere else entirely. Once he loses that focus or stops using this ability, power goes back on as usual. Erasing a superpower requires a great deal of focus and prevents him from using his power on other objects.
  • Hand of Midas: August unwillingly erases the energy of objects he touches and induced some interference even when not touching them. As a result, certain kinds of technology are impractical to use for August when his powers are active, even when wearing gloves.


Equipment:
A serum that is able to suppress his abilities, allowing him quite literally walk in broad daylight among other people, a set of glass lenses to cover his unnatural eyes, concealable knives and several firearms (handgun, long-range rifle + scope).

Finally, he also owns a fold-able scythe, a weapon he decided to acquire after finding about the nickname given to him.

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Additional information:

RP Sample: lel.

I've had another character in the works as well but that one would be more of a supportive character, so there's no rush there.
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Rygondria
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Rygondria » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:14 am

The Starlight wrote:MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:
This RP is ending due to unforeseen complications...jk, you didn't fall for that, right? ;)

Ok, the real news. The ban on supervillains, villainous corporations, antiheroes and edginess has ended. I feel like the ratio of heroes:villains is closer to 1:1 now than it was before. That said, I will be holding very, and I mean very high standards for apps of these chars. "Woe is me," one-dimensional characters will not fare well under my gaze, fair warning. So, if you made a villain app that was rejected or pended due to the ban, it's your responsibility to repost those apps so that they can be looked at again. As for corporations, however, no more of them will be accepted if they're simply tech companies trying to do things with Xantheian tech or superhumans. There have been plenty of those already, and I don't see the majority of them doing much anyway. If you want to make a corporation, shy away from tech companies, or Xantheian tech at all really.

All this said, I do not want to see an overwhelming tidal wave of supervillains and not!Batmans. What I would love to see would be some more player created nations on Earth...hint hint, wink wink.

Regarding apps in general, I'll also start looking, for those who already have chars, how consistently you're posting with those characters before allowing you to create a new one. If you're not active with the 5 chars you've made and yet hope to app for two more, your dreams are going to be crushed. Either scrap those characters or start RPing consistently with those characters.

I had an idea where my hero steals a robot drone thing from a Corrupt gun company who was going to sell it to a balkan dictatorship if that would be acceptable ? If it helps the drone is made out of good old fashioned american steel and no xantheian tech.

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Esternial
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Esternial » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:31 am

Ooh! Ooh! I got a nifty nation idea.

It's basically Russia but "different".
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Turmenista
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Postby Turmenista » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:44 am

Esternial wrote:Ooh! Ooh! I got a nifty nation idea.

It's basically Russia but "different".


Space Russia?

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Ex-Nation

Postby Finland SSR » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:53 am

Esternial wrote:Ooh! Ooh! I got a nifty nation idea.

It's basically Russia but "different".

HEEEY

Help, a mentor is stealing my Russia!
I have a severe case of addiction to writing. At least 3k words every day is my fix.

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