Zanera wrote:Name: Bob Jack
Codename: Pill-OW!
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Appearance: About average Minnesota-an height, 5 to six foot something. 152 pounds. Caucasian with a poor workout routine, his superhero outfit is white spandex, and he wears a cushy pillow strapped to his frontside and to his backside. Has purple gloves and boots, and wears a woman's sleeping mask with the eyes poked out.
Bio: Bob did not have these powers as a child, nor as a young adult. Bob went into plumbing, and this era is as boring as his early years. Eventually, though, he found himself mucking around in a flood in a bathroom with a cast-iron tub. Eventually, he slipped and fell, but a pillow suddenly appeared under his head to keep him fro conking out in the middle of a flooded bathroom. He found this to be the realiszation of his secret powers, and he startedannoying his neighborsaiding those in need. He eventually was able to save a kitten from a tree using his powers. After this, he thought himself worthy of the Minnesota Infinites. The rest is current history.
Powers: Can pull pillows out of a alternate universe of infinite pillows, although it looks like it gets them from out of thin-air. He then uses these pillows as defensive shields or offensive weapons depending on necessity. Using his power too much will cause him to go to narcoleptic sleep, although a pillow does appear underneath his head before it hits the floor/table edge/cast-iron bathtub. The pillows do not remain stable in this dimension and eventually dissolve away into a bunch of biodegradable feathers.
Can pillow-fight like a boss.
(Things in parentheses are OOC. The rest of this is IC. A form for your character to answer.)
Describe your abilities: They're fantastic, and really help when I'm going to sleep. I don't even have pillows on my bed. I just up and conjure some pillows. They dissolve in the middle of the night, and I have to conjure some more, but with the sleep I get I ain't complaining! Huh? My abilities? Oh yeah, they're fantastic! I can pull pillows out of thin air! They dissolve eventually though. That sucks. But I saved a kitten from a tree by climbing up to it and pushing it off onto my pillow once! It was great!
Why did you become a superhero: After I saved that kitten from a tree, I knew I was on my way to greatness. So I became Pill-OW!. I assume I'll be able to help more kittens! Maybe even save them from supervillains! All the kittens and cat-ladies will love me!
What are your goals for the future: To save kittens. Maybe damsels. Mostly just use my power for righteous good, like those big superheroes. I can make a difference too. I think. But I heard of the Butterfly Effect before. See, it's this thing...
(Why is this character with the Minnesota Infinites. In other words, why do they kind of suck?): They're an idiot stuck with pillows as a weapon/defense, and using too many pillows makes them uselessly narcoleptic.
How would you describe your talents?: They're great talents. I can ramble on all day abou-...Oh. Not much space. Um...They're pretty useful...I guess. Did I mention I saved a kitten from a tree?
(What about your character's talents make them a D-lister?) Who the %@#* would beat up supervillains with cushion-y pillows?
What are your strengths?: I can take pillows out of thin air and use them as a weapon to defeat my enemies. Like gravity and cast-iron tubs!
What are your weaknesses?: I can only pull so many pillows out if thin air before I suddenly go narcoleptic without warning. I think it's weird. Plus the pillows just explode into feathers. They're biodegradable though. I had them tested, because I was worried about environmental hazards and you've heard about global warming and stuff right? Anyway,...oh, ran out of room...now.
(Any other flaws? Maladjusted personality? Social issues? Unmarketable aspects?): He's annoyingly righteous, and starts rambling about random stuff. He doesn't think he does it, but he kinda brags. It generally annoys people some. Probably the flashlight with the dimmest bulb.
Why should you if given the opportunity be allowed to advance in the Infinites?: Advancement would be great. You know, when I used to work in plumbing, I was given a chance to go and train a new guy. It was great. He quit soon though, can't imagine why. I get told to shut up a lot. I don't know wh-oh, ran out of space again.
(Why does the press hate or ignore you?): BECAUSE HE NEVER %$-
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*ahem*
During interviews, or even a two-minute talk with him at the scene of the kitten-saving, he has this thing where he DOESN'T SHUT THE-
*static*
Otherwise he's not really worthy of much attention, unless it's an extraordinarily slow news days and they need something to put on the air every ten minutes, then make it look significant and plaster BREAKING NEWS next to it at the bottom even if it was from six hours ago.
Ha ha. So, Pill-OW's enemies are gravity and cast-iron tubs, huh?
Definitely ACCEPTED! Welcome to the Infinites!
Ok. So, I'm going to tell you the basics of the plot, and then after that in a final paragraph, some things you should know before you introduce Pill-OW.
Plot: The Minnesota Infinites meet every Thursday night at 7 p.m. After they're done, on Thursday nights only, they do their best to do heroic work. This arc is now in the 3rd and final chapter, which means the RP has lasted three weeks IC. The plot has seen a bunch of twists and turns, from chapter 1 seeing the heroes who were told about a bomb threat, only it proved to be a fake and a lure for a bad-guy named the Can-Can Man to attack them. That battle took place on the top of the Zeke Enterprises skyscraper, the only 50-foot skyscraper in the small town of Orient (pop. 2000). In ch. 1, the villains had to steal 50 cows for the main bad guy of the arc, Mr. Big (who only shows up in hologram form of his face and is very mysterious). Nobody knows why he wanted cows at all. Some people think it was just a zany idea the OP came up with for the villains to do something with. The villains were initially hired by Mr. Big to the tune of 1 million bucks each, but due to general incompetence, that number has now been dropped to $250,000 each.
In ch. 2, the heroes were asked if they would help move high-tech technology from the laboratory of another mysterious figure, a Dr. Juneau Hu. At the same time, the villains were told by their boss Mr. Big to steal the same tech and try to bring it to a place he was going to tell them about. There was a battle. It ended with the founder of Zeke Enterprises, Zeke McDonahuelly-Smythe-Jones (Zeke McDSJ for short), his awfully overweight, bitter cat Archibald, and a whole slew of soldiers in robotic battle gear seeing one of the pieces of tech freeze the heroes and villains in place. Zeke McDSJ said there was no Dr. Juneau Hu, and this warehouse was his property, and he now needed to move his experimental tech elsewhere so it would be safe.
Now in ch. 3, the heroes had been delivering medicine to the people of Orient, MN, which has been afflicted by the dreaded Wombat Flu. They were helping the National Guard to do this, too. The villains were told to lure the heroes into a trap where the Infinites will be humiliated. The trap is at (you guessed it) Zeke Enterprises. They made contact and invited the Infinites to a fake party that was really a ruse to get them at Zeke Enterprises, with food and party favors (stolen from a grocery store). The villains got a text message from Mr. Big saying to bring everyone up to the 45th level of the skyscraper. There, they saw, well, a big open room with highly advanced technology, hay piles, about 50 stalls with mooing down on the far side of the room. And a loudspeaker announcement from Mr. Big saying he would finally reveal his plans and was coming right there. A door opened, and out came Mr. Zeke McDonahuelly-Smythe-Jones.
Meanwhile, Mr. Big previously activated the OPERATION DOOMSDAY COUNTER, that is ticking down to something really really evil. The Infinites (and villains, if they want to help) have that long to stop Mr. Big before it's too late.
Why this all matters to you (aka, how to introduce Pill-OW) - The running gag here is that your character has been with the Infinites the ENTIRE TIME OF THE RP. ALL 3 WEEKS, ALL 3 CHAPTERS. He just was really quiet, or being incredibly narcoleptic, or whatever. So he knows exactly what's going on here. Even though you as the player are new to this RP, Pill-OW has been there the entire time.
So that's it. Feel free to read earlier posts, but that's kind of the basics right there.
-Talc
