Gods Among Us 8 - First Earth Battalion [OOC|Meta RP|Open]

[Dyelli Beybi]

Not a problem old boy!

[Dyelli Beybi]

Hi all, just letting you know I will be in Amsterdam a few days so not all that active though I will try to keep an eye on what is going on

[Anowa]

Yo, my character's still alive?

Work and Uni have slowly been smacking the life out of me.

[Dyelli Beybi]

They certainly are... This thread started breathing again just as I thought all signs of life were gone

[Granis]

Please, you know as well as I do it'll never actually die. Just sometimes it'll spend a month or two an undead shambling monster before returning to normal again!

[Communist Xomaniax]

Is this still active?

[Anowa]

Is this still active?

Yes

[Communist Xomaniax]

Is this still active?

Yes

Alright cool, I'll post an app

[Communist Xomaniax]

Hey, I had a specific idea for a villainous undead type character, a guy who can't heal naturally but replaces his body parts with fresh meat like a frankenstein. Kind of a master of disguise assassin/serial killer type. The OP says the RP is open to people not in the FEB and I was interested in seeing if there was a way I could work a character like that into the story, or at least keep the core concept.

Edit: nvm i have a better fitting concept

[Communist Xomaniax]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Strauss
Aliases: The Surgeon
Gender: Male
Age: 170
Appearance: Dr. Strauss stands eight feet tall and weighs in at 800 lbs, with leathery, blue-grey skin. He is completely hairless and has milky white eyes.

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Motivations

Goals: Dr. Strauss desires a stable environment and ample resources with which to conduct his experiments, through which he hopes to create a perfect, immortal body.
Fears: Permanent death or inescapable imprisonment.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: Undead curse, genetic experimentation.
Powers : Strauss possesses incredible superhuman strength, durability and toughness thanks to induced myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, being able to fling cars, smash through cement walls and bend steel beams with relative ease. He is also deceptively explosive and fast, being able to match the speed of a bull and jump tens of feet in the air. Due to his undead physiology, Strauss does not feel pain or fatigue, and does not require food, water, or air. He can also heal himself by replacing his own destroyed flesh with the flesh from any other living corporeal being, though this will cause his physical abilities to diminish until the new dead parts fully adapt to his form, which can take anywhere from a day to several weeks depending on the quality of the parts and the amount of doping needed to bring it up to the doctor's levels. He also cannot be killed except by total destruction of his body.
Abilities: Strauss has a doctorate level understanding of human anatomy, biology and physiology, as well as sports medicine and genetics, and is a supernaturally gifted surgeon. While not remotely a martial arts master, he has above average skill at wrestling and boxing.
Equipment: A full kit of obsidian-tipped, titanium surgeon's tools, a specially made, scoped single action revolver chambered in .950 JDJ, an armored and refrigerated box van which contains several zip-on skin suits, net gun with six capsules each containing an electromagnetic weighted steel mesh net.
Weaknesses: Strauss does not possess the ability to naturally heal, meaning that he can only repair damage by physically replacing damaged parts of his body with undamaged ones. This requires intensive surgery that can last hours at the least, obviously making it nearly impossible to do in the field. Being a corpse, his body is also constantly undergoing necrotic rot, which means his entire body must be replaced piecemeal replaced regularly. Due to his large size, he is also physically restricted in small spaces and highly conspicuous.

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Background:

Job: Surgeon, mafia hitman and doctor
Legal Status: Wanted criminal as several aliases, legal under current alias
Backstory: Born to a wealthy family in 19th century Belgium, Jean-Baptiste Strauss was a sickly child but a model student, considered friendly if quiet by his peers and a gifted pupil by his teachers. However, Strauss had a dark side, taking a keen interest in studying living creatures from an early age, practicing surgery on animals. As he grew Strauss became intensely interested in the human body and the occult, which he believed to be the key to unlocking immortality and curing him of his physical frailty. It was while he was in the capital, studying to become a surgeon, that Strauss first began dabbling in the occult. Soon people began to go missing, though nothing could be pinned on him.

After graduation, Strauss took a job as a surgeon in the Congo Free State, where he exploited his position and the regime's excessive cruelty to cover up his increasingly grisly experiments. The locals began to fear him and he soon grew a reputation for depravity, taking several of the region's most odious magi into his employ to aid him. Through occult dabbling and extensive surgery, he was able to cure his frailty, though at great cost to the local population. Fleeing peasants and diminishing rubber quotas brought the attention of the royal administration, which soon caught wind of what he was doing and removed him from his position. Strauss avoided the hangman's noose only due to the intervention of his family, who spent a considerable sum in bribes.

Excommunicated by his kin and in exile from his homeland, Jean-Baptiste took medical positions in colonial administrations across Africa and the Americas, always staying long enough to further his occult knowledge before being ran out for his torturous experimentation. In 1910, he contracted incurable tuberculosis, which wasted him nearly to the point of death. Destitute and desperate, he engaged in extensive human sacrifice, gaining the ability to extend his own life by replacing his diseased and dying flesh with healthy parts. Eventually finding his way to America, Strauss became an army surgeon in the closing years of the first world war, where he took full advantage of the overflowing dead. He was eventually discovered for this and arrested, leading to his trial and execution in 1918.

The corpse of Jean-Baptiste Strauss awoke in its grave a short few weeks later. His experiments had succeeded, Strauss had beaten death. He arose and has lived in America under a series of identities ever since, moving location and changing his name whenever his persona gets too old or he gets discovered. He currently lives in New York City officially as a retired doctor, though he continues his experiments in secret. Strauss does freelance work for several of the city's crime families in order to fund his experiments, acting not only as a hitman but as a "cleanup" and disposal specialist, the latter of which he uses to source parts. Recently he has joined the First Earth Battalion under the alias "Willard Keynes", a superhuman strongman. He plans to use the FEB's resources to further his experiments, and hopefully to capture a metahuman alive.

[Dyelli Beybi]

I like the concept, my issue at the moment is that he doesn't fit easily into the current plot. Currently we are going into the final battle between the Master and the FEB. People with no reason to join with the FEB are going to be a bit shut out (I tend to run directed story RPs rather than sandboxes as I find them easier to run effectively).

The three options I can see open.

1. Make Strauss one of the Master's minions. Effectively this will mean you can come in at the back part of the mission.
2. Change the backstory etc so he can work with the team.
3. Wait for the next arc, after this mission.

[Communist Xomaniax]

I like the concept, my issue at the moment is that he doesn't fit easily into the current plot. Currently we are going into the final battle between the Master and the FEB. People with no reason to join with the FEB are going to be a bit shut out (I tend to run directed story RPs rather than sandboxes as I find them easier to run effectively).

The three options I can see open.

1. Make Strauss one of the Master's minions. Effectively this will mean you can come in at the back part of the mission.
2. Change the backstory etc so he can work with the team.
3. Wait for the next arc, after this mission.

I actually just assumed that we were all automatically on the team, my bad. I'm cool with him being one of the master's minions though, if you think that would fit better.

EDIT: Actually can you go more into detail about what's going on? I'm actually getting an idea for having him be a minion for the Master and later on potentially doing a heel-face turn and joining the FEB

EDIT 2: Reading now starting from page 5. Edited my dude's bio to be a servant of the Master. Where would be the best spot to put him?

[Anowa]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Dr. Anthony Ulysses Cross, MS, PhD
Aliases: Nexus
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Appearance:
Standing at a remarkable 6'5, Anthony Cross is what many would consider tall, his frame is topped with an angular face, well hidden behind a full beard. Wispy, combed back brown hair and intelligent hazel eyes adorn this head, summing up an above average man with a remarkably average appearance. Beneath clothing is a man who regularly makes an attempt to keep himself healthy, not extraordinarily fit, but enough not to have much notable fat.

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Motivations

Goals: Prevent the coming transhumanist plunge into a further class and social divide. Aid humanity in uplifting itself into a naively bright yet still attainable future. Solve the sudden and inevitable divide between base humans, transhumans, and metahumans.
Fears: Fireworks, Cats, Chryslers.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: Biological Mutation
Powers :

•Hypercorticosis: While Anthony is the sole individual who is aware of his condition, he is still capable of using it without public concern. Hypercorticosis is the condition when one's brain has a exceeding amount of cortical sulci and gyri, and as such a much higher surface area. This differs from Polymicrogyria in the fact that, while excessive in number, all sulci are of fully developed depth, and the gyri are not fused. This results in a much higher capacity for information retention, processing power, and capacity for knowledge. Anthony's brain is to humans what the OLCF-4 Summit is to HP Desktops. While unknown to him, his peers, and his teachers in his youth, Anthony can now simply pass it off as being mentally gifted.
Abilities:

•Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Of two Bachelor's Degrees (World History, Chemical Engineering), three Masters degrees (Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, and Business Administration) and two Doctorates (Computer and Electrical Engineering) under his belt, four of those degrees are in engineering fields. With plenty of practical and theoretical work in all four fields, as well as a career and company formed from the basis of such knowledge, it is safe to say that when it comes to technology, Anthony would be a valid choice for aid.
Equipment:

•Black Box AI Assistant "Theodore"
•Modified LG G6
•2017 Bentley Continental GTS

Weaknesses: •I'm a doctor, not a conversationalist: Anthony is socially inept, to put it lightly. In the 33 years he's been alive he has less than five people who he could say he wholeheartedly sees as an equal and a friend. Two of them were his parents one of them is his cousin, and the last two have since parted ways after university. This isn't for lack of trying, just that Anthony's personality and social skills are lacking or grating enough to drive people away more than give them reason to see him as a friend. His poorly contained paranoia over intellectual theft, possible assassins, and in general a feeling that people are out for him makes for a very poor general day to day friend.
•The pen is not mightier: To say that Anthony can hold his own in a fight is very massive overstatement. While he can maybe duck below a few blows, his lack of martial arts or firearms knowledge puts him in a position of 'being unable to fight out of a paper bag'. If he's caught in a situation without aid from someone or something else, he'll very likely go down easy.
•Limited Power: The Black Box AI he carries with him isn't much more than an incredibly advanced personal assistant along the lines of Siri or Cortana. While it has a much higher processing power and intelligence than the other two, it has no capacity to do electronic warfare at all. It is essentially a memory bank with a personality.

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Background:

Job: Majority Shareholder for Epoch LLC.
Legal Status: US Citizen
Backstory: Anthony was born in Carbon, Texas to a Vietnam War Vet and a Israeli photojournalist, Anthony always had a knack for picking up on things quickly. At an early age, Anthony excelled in academics. At the age of 6 he entered kindergarten, by 9 he'd qualified for highschool. At 11 he passed the entry exam for MIT's engineering department. A rather drastic move across the country gave the boy all he needed to prove he had a steadfast devotion to his education and future. He would graduate from MIT with a Dual PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the age of 16, by the time he reached age of majority, he would possess 4 separate academic degrees.

Not too long after his 23rd birthday, the young man started an upstart tech company dedicated to software and hardware design. Epoch Industries, a limited liability company which rather swiftly picked up defense contracts for the Air Force. In the decade since, Epoch has grown from a fairly simple tech company to a spearhead in the robotics and artificial intelligence sectors, it's name also dropping the 'industries' to simply become Epoch LLC. Anthony has since been noted to be distinctly aloof with most people he converses with and has come across as rude and narcissistic in interviews, however his acts of philanthropy ranging from new age prosthetic design, to excess donations to medical research groups, have painted him as a polarizing man.

Recently, the usually public man has become notably withdrawn and secretive, leading many to ponder what his next move is. Personally, Anthony has come to the realization that if something isn't done about the widening divide between metas and normal humans, Humanity at large will end up falling into a destructive cascade. He aims to remove the wedge being driven between Earth's two dominant sub-species, and for this, he needs to go the the FEB.

[Dyelli Beybi]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Dr. Anthony Ulysses Cross, MS, PhD
Aliases: Nexus
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Appearance:
Standing at a remarkable 6'5, Anthony Cross is what many would consider tall, his frame is topped with an angular face, well hidden behind a full beard. Wispy, combed back brown hair and intelligent hazel eyes adorn this head, summing up an above average man with a remarkably average appearance. Beneath clothing is a man who regularly makes an attempt to keep himself healthy, not extraordinarily fit, but enough not to have much notable fat.

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Motivations

Goals: Prevent the coming transhumanist plunge into a further class and social divide. Aid humanity in uplifting itself into a naively bright yet still attainable future. Solve the sudden and inevitable divide between base humans, transhumans, and metahumans.
Fears: Fireworks, Cats, Chryslers.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: Biological Mutation
Powers :

•Hypercorticosis: While Anthony is the sole individual who is aware of his condition, he is still capable of using it without public concern. Hypercorticosis is the condition when one's brain has a exceeding amount of cortical sulci and gyri, and as such a much higher surface area. This differs from Polymicrogyria in the fact that, while excessive in number, all sulci are of fully developed depth, and the gyri are not fused. This results in a much higher capacity for information retention, processing power, and capacity for knowledge. Anthony's brain is to humans what the OLCF-4 Summit is to HP Desktops. While unknown to him, his peers, and his teachers in his youth, Anthony can now simply pass it off as being mentally gifted.
Abilities:

•Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Of two Bachelor's Degrees (World History, Chemical Engineering), three Masters degrees (Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, and Business Administration) and two Doctorates (Computer and Electrical Engineering) under his belt, three of those degrees are in engineering fields. With plenty of practical and theoretical work in all three fields, as well as a career and company formed from the basis of such knowledge, it is safe to say that when it comes to technology, Anthony would be a valid choice for aid.
Equipment:

•Black Box AI Assistant "Theodore"
•Modified LG G6

Weaknesses: •I'm a doctor, not a conversationalist: Anthony is socially inept, to put it lightly. In the 25 years he's been alive he has less than five people who he could say he wholeheartedly sees as an equal and a friend. Two of them were his parents one of them is his cousin, and the last two have since parted ways after university. This isn't for lack of trying, just that Anthony's personality and social skills are lacking or grating enough to drive people away more than give them reason to see him as a friend. His poorly contained paranoia over intellectual theft, possible assassins, and in general a feeling that people are out for him makes for a very poor general day to day friend.
•The pen is not mightier: To say that Anthony can hold his own in a fight is very massive overstatement. While he can maybe duck below a few blows, his lack of martial arts or firearms knowledge puts him in a position of 'being unable to fight out of a paper bag'. If he's caught in a situation without aid from someone or something else, he'll very likely go down easy.
•Limited Power: The Black Box AI he carries with him isn't much more than an incredibly advanced personal assistant along the lines of Siri or Cortana. While it has a much higher processing power and intelligence than the other two, it has no capacity to do electronic warfare at all. It is essentially a memory bank with a personality.

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Background:

Job: Majority Shareholder for Epoch LLC.
Legal Status: US Citizen
Backstory: Anthony was born in Carbon, Texas to a Vietnam War Vet and a Israeli photojournalist, Anthony always had a knack for picking up on things quickly. At an early age, Anthony excelled in academics. At the age of 6 he entered kindergarten, by 9 he'd qualified for highschool. At 11 he passed the entry exam for MIT's engineering department. A rather drastic move across the country gave the boy all he needed to prove he had a steadfast devotion to his education and future. He would graduate from MIT with a Dual PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the age of 16, by the time he reached age of majority, he would possess 4 separate academic degrees.

Not too long after his 23rd birthday, the young man started an upstart tech company dedicated to software and hardware design. Epoch Industries, a limited liability company which rather swiftly picked up defense contracts for the Air Force. In the decade since, Epoch has grown from a fairly simple tech company to a spearhead in the robotics and artificial intelligence sectors, it's name also dropping the 'industries' to simply become Epoch LLC. Anthony has since been noted to be distinctly aloof with most people he converses with and has come across as rude and narcissistic in interviews, however his acts of philanthropy ranging from new age prosthetic design, to excess donations to medical research groups, have painted him as a polarizing man.

Recently, the usually public man has become notably withdrawn and secretive, leading many to ponder what his next move is. Personally, Anthony has come to the realization that if something isn't done about the widening divide between metas and normal humans, Humanity at large will end up falling into a destructive cascade. He aims to remove the wedge being driven between Earth's two dominant sub-species, and for this, he needs to go the the FEB.

Looks good to me!

[Anowa]

Lore: Born Vampires/Turned Vampires/Dhampirs/Ghouls
Since the dawn of civilization, notations of vampires have existed. Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. What we know and call vampires today though originates almost solely from 18th century Europe, when theological situations were changing heavily. The typical 'blood sucking, garlic hating, silver fearful parasites' were found to be seen as fact by few during this time. This is only partially true, but to understand a vampire one must go further back.

Originating in southern Asia thousands of years ago, vampires are not mythological beasts, but rather humans who cracked open a stone vault that they really shouldn't have. Though long since gone, near what is now Lahore, Pakistan is a cave that, at that point at least, had been a cave that had been sealed off for nearly half a million years. Within a colony of creatures so small, the tribesmen who broke into the cave knew not what was within. Bacterial infection set in, and within days those who entered the cave found themselves either dead, or changed. And thus the first vampires were born.

While initially just a small plague, those who were infected became frail, if powerful individuals. Evolution took place, as word was passed down from parent to child, hazards, ways of living, and options to take in regards to their apparent god granted powers. With time, the bacteria, mutagenic in nature, changed the human bodies over time, as the carriers themselves took to finding thew more successful of their peoples. Unable to live outside human bodies, the bacteria became as mutually beneficial as the bacteria living in the human digestive tract.

Always small in number, vampires have the following traits:

1. An almost anemic requirement for hemoglobin. While not true anemia, the biology of a vampire is much more suited to an intake of very large amounts of iron, a requirement for the high level of oxygen required to fuel their cells. if blood is not regularly drank in excess of a liter every 2 days, a vampire may start to experience full body hypoxia. Due to their intrinsic need for blood, all vampires have an extraordinarily robust immune system. Turned Vampires will be immuno-comprimised for a period of about 12 days after transformation.
2. Severe Allicin allergies, the chemical commonly found as a natural pesticide in Garlic has been proven to result in a fatal allergic reaction from vampires. Even if smelled it will result in hives at best and a closed throat at worst.
3. Chemically induced biological immortality. This chemical secreted by the bacteria has proven to greatly prolong the human lifespan, ranging from 600-700 years more. Unfortunately, said chemical also induces chronic and very reactive photosensitivity. A vampire will typically not be able to remain in direct sunlight -or UV light- for more than 40 seconds before appearing to enter a state of shock, if not treated properly, they will either die from bacterial infection -ironically- or recursive sun exposure. Vampires develop their own Vitamin D since they cannot absorb it from UV light, and usually cannot obtain enough from blood alone. This can be counteracted by reasonably high SPF sunblock, immuno-boosters, obscuring skin from UV rays, or brief repeated exposure over several decades, adjusting the body to UV light.
4. Enhanced sensory organs. Eyes contain a tapetum lucidum as well as a backlit iris, resulting in a very reflective pupil and a pale glow from the iris. the nasal walls have thinned to allow a more sensitive sense of smell, capable of smelling the feint hormonal emissions that humans give out. A small muscle in the outer ear allows tension to be put on the ear drum to increase sensitivity to sound, allowing vampires to hear the heartbeat of their prey. For a period of roughly a week, Turned Vampires will be rendered blind and deaf while the eye and ear changes in structure.
5. A very rapid, very acute, and nigh always fatal nickel allergy. This seems to be the basis of the aversion to silver, as sterling silver can contain traces of nickel, and nickel silver which was common in the 1700s, is not silver, but rather a copper, nickel, and zinc alloy.
6. An altered jaw and upper digestive physiology. As expected, vampires have elongated canine teeth, between 25 and 30 mm, leading to pockets in the sinuses in which the bacteria that grants them their power sits. Much like snakes, there are hollow tubes that can be opened or closed on demand to inject the veritable poison into a victim. The jaw and it's muscles are capable of opening to 65 to 70 mm, and can produce a bite force nearing 800 PSI. The tongue is greatly elongated to aid in suction and extends past the normal anchoring point in favor of setting it's anchor where the epiglottis would usually be located in a person, replacing it. The stomach and esophagus are also much more elastic. With an empty stomach, a vampire can completely exsanguinate an average man in 4-9 minutes depending on if arteries are struck. Due to the nature of tooth formation in humans, turned vampires may either lose all their teeth after transformation or may only grow replacement canines for the upper mandible.
7. Vampires heal quickly. While not to the degree of regrowing limbs in seconds, vampires can heal faster than the average human. Gunshot wounds and knife wounds will typically heal in days or weeks depending on severity, bouts of illness will last at worst a week, and limbs will regrow in two or three month's time.
8. They will actively emit pheromones that can be used to allure others. This is mostly based on the sensitivity of smell of those surrounding it, those with a greater sense of smell will show a more positive reaction, while those with a duller sense of smell will show a more natural reaction. Typically this is no more than seeing an attractive individual on the street or speaking with someone you trust. It cannot overrule basic survival instincts, and it cannot control people's minds. No matter how much one trusts someone or thinks they're attractive, you're going to run from someone with a knife, or shy away from a screaming match.
9. Vampires are stronger and quicker. As expected from a group that heals quicker, muscles do as well. While inherently, vampires are not superhumanly strong, they do have a much higher capacity for force and strength than normal humans. Risk of Turned Vampires causing harm to themselves by overly tensing their muscles is common.
10. Vampires have the capacity to emit a odourless light pink hydrogel from the soles of the hands and feet. This hydrogel allows the vampire to utilize van der Waals force to maintain an excellent grip on prey, as well as high foot traction when running on any solid matter (if bare foot or wearing notably thin shoes). Understandably it doesn't work too well when wet or on surfaces like mud. It also allows an the scaling of perpindicular or inverted surfaces. This gel can be left in traces on the surfaces traversed, and will dry into a light pink salt within 9 hours. Due to the nature of the gland development that allows this, turned vampires do not have this ability.

There are also falsehoods about Vampires, as follows:

1. Vampires do in fact have reflections. This trait was only popularized by Bram Stoker, based on the silver found in mirrors being 'holy' and thus incapable of reflecting a vampire. This also carries over to film and photographs on the same basis, as silver can also be found in physical film.
2. Vampires also have shadows. Another popularization by Bram Stoker. Perhaps based on the misconception of spending their time in darkness to hide their lack of shadow.
3. Vampires do not become dust upon death. Bram Stoker again. Unless they are cremated, they will remain a corpse.
4. Vampires can be killed by more than a wooden stake, decapitation, fire, or drowning. Typically, anything will die if one rams a six inch wooden spike into it's heart, cut off it's head, or immerse it in matter they can't breath in.
5. Holy Symbols will keep vampires at bay. During a time of faith, those with a belief in God will believe the almighty may protect them from something they see as foul and demonic. During the 18th century, vampires that could 'resist' the power of God and their holy righteousness were hunted down and killed very swiftly and brutally. Smart vampires during this time usually just rolled with it. While a vampire may act as if it wards them away, it's more self-preservation than anything.
6. Vampires can only reproduce via biting others. False, as also seen with Dhampir below, there are two kinds of vampires: Born Vampires and Turned Vampires. Born Vampires are vampires born from a union of one vampire with another. After a 6 month gestation period, the child will usually reach maturity in 8 years. Typically, born vampires will always appear to be early 20s in appearance. Turned Vampires are the ones 'born' from a bite, and will take the appearance they were when turned, regardless of age or chemical processes. In the case of one's immune system not being able to take the bacteria's changes, they will become a Ghoul. Ghouls are frail, though deceptively strong, and somewhat lobotomized, their bodies will be in a constant state of pain, in which the pheromones emitted by a vampire are all that can relieve it to any great degree, the only real benefit of becoming a ghoul are the better senses, better capacity for strength, and immunity to blood borne diseases.
7. Vampires must be invited in. Manners are quite important, only hoodlums and scoundrels would break into one's home, and while they would drink blood, Vampires are still human if a bit strange. That doesn't mean they can't commit home invasions.
8. Vampires are obsessed with counting. Somewhat of a mixed bag, after a certain age, vampires will do almost anything to keep sane, as such, older vampires will do things usually foreseen as 'OCD' while younger ones may forgo it, unless they're expecting guests.

As mentioned above, vampires do reproduce sexually, this is not limited to vampire-vampire unions. Should a vampire have a union with a normal human a Dhampir will result. As with normal human genetics, dominant genes will result in winning. In 97% of cases, if the mother is a normal human, they will die during childbirth, while vampire mothers will survive no worse for wear. Dhampir will typically live as long as their vampire parent.

Dhampir have the following traits:

1. Allicin allergy, the chemical commonly found as a natural pesticide in Garlic has been proven to result in a a very acute reaction in Dhampir. While still a risk of death, a simple epi-pen or hospital trip can be all that's needed to help them.
2. Chemically induced biological immortality. Much like their vampire parent, they will have a prolonged lifespan, though for somewhat unknown reasons, the chemical is not as prevalent, and while the lifespan is the same, Dhampir will age more noticeable in their middle age and late years, and are more prone to sunburns.
3. Dhampir are also capable of consuming a very high amount of blood without any negative side effects.
4. Elongated canine teeth. As with their vampire parentage, Dhampir have somewhat uselessly elongated canines, as they do not have the same cavities that their vampire parent has, and as such cannot turn people into vampires themselves. Due to the positioning of the tongue, they almost always snore, and they may also have trouble swallowing properly when they reach their later years.
5. Dhampir heal quickly. While not to the degree of regrowing limbs in seconds, Dhampir can heal faster than the average human. Gunshot wounds and knife wounds will typically heal in 1-3 weeks depending on severity, bouts of illness will last at worst a couple of weeks, and limbs will regrow in 5 years at worst.
6. Dhampir are stronger and quicker. As expected from a group that heals quicker, muscles do as well. While inherently, Dhampir are not superhumanly strong, they do have a much higher capacity for force and strength than normal humans.

With the advent of commonality and a lessened degree of superstition surrounding them, Vampires have, for what seems to be the first time in millennia, come out of the darkness, figuratively at least, and have joined the lands of humanity in trying to grow a greater future.

[Dyelli Beybi]

Cool... from my perspective, this is now the lore for vampires. I will update shortly.

[Anowa]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Alexander Carmichael
Aliases: Osteo
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance:
Alexander Carmichael is a haunting visage of the absolute maximum the human genome can move to. A thick layer of metallic bone and calcified skin has replaced his dermis, as a heavy amount of luciferin like compounds course through his body. Standing at a little over 7 feet tall and weight close to 840 pounds without any of his equipment, Osteo is a walking freight train.

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Motivations

Goals: Re-establish America in his view of a truly democratic and free nation. Depose the current state of his view of a corrupt governmental system.
Fears: His efforts being for naught, a greater problem arising from his actions, The Vietnamese Language.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: An odd machination embedded on the inside of his T6 Vertebrae
Powers:
Cellular Control

• Osteo has a very fine tuned control over his body's chemical make up and cellular structure, as evidenced by the form he takes regularly. From protein structure to hormone production to cellular arrangement, Osteo can control what his body does and how it works. Within a brief time he can rearrange his structure to that of an Olympic athlete, to a normal person, to the walking tank he is now.
Beast of Bone:

• As it stands, without direct focus on something else, Alexander's body will revert to his standard sized bone encrusted form. A jagged form also makes attacking him somewhat of a risk, trying to avoid being stabbed or ripped open by all manner of protrusions. With an average running speed of 32 km/h, a lifting strength of nearly 500 kg and a punching force capable of sheering through nearly a foot of reinforced concrete. The bone plating he wreathes himself in is capable of stopping rifle rounds, but a more difficult time stopping armor piercing rounds of any sort without a composition or thickness change.
Hammerspace:

• The odd machination that was found embedded into Alexander's spine acts as a transdimensional storage compartment. By converting items down to raw atoms and energy via unknown means it simply adds mass to his body, allowing him to carry a multitude of objects with him, without risk of back damage or storage space. Allowing him to recall items basically at will.
Abilities:
Equipment:

• 7.5 cm Pak 40
• 14x PzGr. 39 Shells
• 40 lbs of Gun Cotton
• Sony A6100 Camera
• 3 TB HDD
• 200 lbs Steel
• 400 lbs Calcium
• 4x 1L Bloodbags in O-
Weaknesses:

• 7th Commandment: Alexander will go to excruciating lengths to avoid killing or permanently crippling anyone if it needn't happen. To such a degree that he would rather destroy his own plans through inaction than to kill someone to speed up his timeline. Life to Alexander is sacrosanct, and he believes that he has no right to kill someone if there is no risk to him.
• Biological Makeup: Corrosive or mutagenic materials will most definitely start to damage his tough ceramic like exoskeleton. Due to their nature, he has a very small selection of defenses against such an attack.
• Not the Only One: Much like his counterpart, Ingrid, his power rely on materials, energy, and time. While, for whatever reason, his powers are much more streamlined and rapid, they still are bound by those requirements.

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Background:

Job: N/A
Legal Status: US Citizen, Declared Deceased.
Backstory: Born April 17th, 1949, to an USMC Veteran and factory supervisor, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Alexander's life was dominated by red blooded patriotism, and a fervor for American democracy. His father used to regale him with tales from his time in the Pacific Theatre, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and every island between. A familiarization of the military and a sweeping fervor of national duty eventually took a hold of Alexander, and in 1967, he enlisted in the USMC to follow in his father's footsteps. later in life, he would see this as the moment in his life where fate took the reins.

His experience in Vietnam was short, taken captive during his first combat patrol, he was kept in one of the scant few prison camps near the North/South border. Interrogated relentlessly by PLAF irregulars and PANV advisers. As an enlisted soldier, he didn't have much to say, and when the camp was forced to move due to US forces honing in, Alexander was simply left behind in a bamboo cage in a blackened cave to rot. He didn't know how long he sat in that cave, gnawing on the bamboo bars to try and break free. The first light he saw in God know how long looked to be eyes, staring at him from the darkness. In what he could only assume was a hallucinated event, the eyes crept forward, and set him free from his cage.

He would spend a further 3 days under the jungle canopy, drinking whatever water he could find, regardless of cleanliness. Eventually, he passed out from exhaustion, falling into a river. Instead of waking up at the pearly gates of heaven, Alexander instead awoke on the shores of the very same river he fell into. Somehow revitalized and notably less fatigued than prior. The only difference was a wound near his spine, still weeping blood yet sub-consciously, not a concern for the man.

He would continue to wander through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon the same soldiers that left him to die. He would have no recollection of the ensuing fight, simply coming to his senses, now covered in a thick layer of bone, and wielding an anti tank gun not unlike someone would use a rocket launcher. Around him was a swathe of destruction and death. Afraid and confused, Alexander ran. He would run until he could run no more, bone falling off of him, and the cannon simply fading into dust.

Eventually, he was picked up by US forces, and sent back to the United States, where he would ride the rest of his enlisted time on the home front. After being discharged, he would leave a cryptic letter to his parent, before being declared missing on January 30th 1976. he was later declared as presumed dead in March of 1976.

However, during this time, he has slowly been formulating a plan to bring the United States back into a fold of true democracy, and to erase corruption in the public system.

[Dyelli Beybi]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Alexander Carmichael
Aliases: Osteo
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance:
Alexander Carmichael is a haunting visage of the absolute maximum the human genome can move to. A thick layer of metallic bone and calcified skin has replaced his dermis, as a heavy amount of luciferin like compounds course through his body. Standing at a little over 7 feet tall and weight close to 840 pounds without any of his equipment, Osteo is a walking freight train.

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Motivations

Goals: Re-establish America in his view of a truly democratic and free nation. Depose the current state of his view of a corrupt governmental system.
Fears: His efforts being for naught, a greater problem arising from his actions, The Vietnamese Language.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: An odd machination embedded on the inside of his T6 Vertebrae
Powers:
Cellular Control

• Osteo has a very fine tuned control over his body's chemical make up and cellular structure, as evidenced by the form he takes regularly. From protein structure to hormone production to cellular arrangement, Osteo can control what his body does and how it works. Within a brief time he can rearrange his structure to that of an Olympic athlete, to a normal person, to the walking tank he is now.
Beast of Bone:

• As it stands, without direct focus on something else, Alexander's body will revert to his standard sized bone encrusted form. A jagged form also makes attacking him somewhat of a risk, trying to avoid being stabbed or ripped open by all manner of protrusions. With an average running speed of 32 km/h, a lifting strength of nearly 500 kg and a punching force capable of sheering through nearly a foot of reinforced concrete. The bone plating he wreathes himself in is capable of stopping rifle rounds, but a more difficult time stopping armor piercing rounds of any sort without a composition or thickness change.
Hammerspace:

• The odd machination that was found embedded into Alexander's spine acts as a transdimensional storage compartment. By converting items down to raw atoms and energy via unknown means it simply adds mass to his body, allowing him to carry a multitude of objects with him, without risk of back damage or storage space. Allowing him to recall items basically at will.
Abilities:
Equipment:

• 7.5 cm Pak 40
• 14x PzGr. 39 Shells
• 40 lbs of Gun Cotton
• Sony A6100 Camera
• 3 TB HDD
• 200 lbs Steel
• 400 lbs Calcium
• 4x 1L Bloodbags in O-
Weaknesses:

• 7th Commandment: Alexander will go to excruciating lengths to avoid killing or permanently crippling anyone if it needn't happen. To such a degree that he would rather destroy his own plans through inaction than to kill someone to speed up his timeline. Life to Alexander is sacrosanct, and he believes that he has no right to kill someone if there is no risk to him.
• Biological Makeup: Corrosive or mutagenic materials will most definitely start to damage his tough ceramic like exoskeleton. Due to their nature, he has a very small selection of defenses against such an attack.
• Not the Only One: Much like his counterpart, Ingrid, his power rely on materials, energy, and time. While, for whatever reason, his powers are much more streamlined and rapid, they still are bound by those requirements.

---

Background:

Job: N/A
Legal Status: US Citizen, Declared Deceased.
Backstory: Born April 17th, 1949, to an USMC Veteran and factory supervisor, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Alexander's life was dominated by red blooded patriotism, and a fervor for American democracy. His father used to regale him with tales from his time in the Pacific Theatre, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and every island between. A familiarization of the military and a sweeping fervor of national duty eventually took a hold of Alexander, and in 1967, he enlisted in the USMC to follow in his father's footsteps. later in life, he would see this as the moment in his life where fate took the reins.

His experience in Vietnam was short, taken captive during his first combat patrol, he was kept in one of the scant few prison camps near the North/South border. Interrogated relentlessly by PLAF irregulars and PANV advisers. As an enlisted soldier, he didn't have much to say, and when the camp was forced to move due to US forces honing in, Alexander was simply left behind in a bamboo cage in a blackened cave to rot. He didn't know how long he sat in that cave, gnawing on the bamboo bars to try and break free. The first light he saw in God know how long looked to be eyes, staring at him from the darkness. In what he could only assume was a hallucinated event, the eyes crept forward, and set him free from his cage.

He would spend a further 3 days under the jungle canopy, drinking whatever water he could find, regardless of cleanliness. Eventually, he passed out from exhaustion, falling into a river. Instead of waking up at the pearly gates of heaven, Alexander instead awoke on the shores of the very same river he fell into. Somehow revitalized and notably less fatigued than prior. The only difference was a wound near his spine, still weeping blood yet sub-consciously, not a concern for the man.

He would continue to wander through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon the same soldiers that left him to die. He would have no recollection of the ensuing fight, simply coming to his senses, now covered in a thick layer of bone, and wielding an anti tank gun not unlike someone would use a rocket launcher. Around him was a swathe of destruction and death. Afraid and confused, Alexander ran. He would run until he could run no more, bone falling off of him, and the cannon simply fading into dust.

Eventually, he was picked up by US forces, and sent back to the United States, where he would ride the rest of his enlisted time on the home front. After being discharged, he would leave a cryptic letter to his parent, before being declared missing on January 30th 1976. he was later declared as presumed dead in March of 1976.

However, during this time, he has slowly been formulating a plan to bring the United States back into a fold of true democracy, and to erase corruption in the public system.

I remember osteo.... Hes accepted. Do you see him as a villain for a future arc?

[Anowa]

Gods Among Us Character Application

Character Description

Name: Alexander Carmichael
Aliases: Osteo
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance:
Alexander Carmichael is a haunting visage of the absolute maximum the human genome can move to. A thick layer of metallic bone and calcified skin has replaced his dermis, as a heavy amount of luciferin like compounds course through his body. Standing at a little over 7 feet tall and weight close to 840 pounds without any of his equipment, Osteo is a walking freight train.

---

Motivations

Goals: Re-establish America in his view of a truly democratic and free nation. Depose the current state of his view of a corrupt governmental system.
Fears: His efforts being for naught, a greater problem arising from his actions, The Vietnamese Language.

---

Strengths and Weaknesses

Source of Power: An odd machination embedded on the inside of his T6 Vertebrae
Powers:
Cellular Control

• Osteo has a very fine tuned control over his body's chemical make up and cellular structure, as evidenced by the form he takes regularly. From protein structure to hormone production to cellular arrangement, Osteo can control what his body does and how it works. Within a brief time he can rearrange his structure to that of an Olympic athlete, to a normal person, to the walking tank he is now.
Beast of Bone:

• As it stands, without direct focus on something else, Alexander's body will revert to his standard sized bone encrusted form. A jagged form also makes attacking him somewhat of a risk, trying to avoid being stabbed or ripped open by all manner of protrusions. With an average running speed of 32 km/h, a lifting strength of nearly 500 kg and a punching force capable of sheering through nearly a foot of reinforced concrete. The bone plating he wreathes himself in is capable of stopping rifle rounds, but a more difficult time stopping armor piercing rounds of any sort without a composition or thickness change.
Hammerspace:

• The odd machination that was found embedded into Alexander's spine acts as a transdimensional storage compartment. By converting items down to raw atoms and energy via unknown means it simply adds mass to his body, allowing him to carry a multitude of objects with him, without risk of back damage or storage space. Allowing him to recall items basically at will.
Abilities:
Equipment:

• 7.5 cm Pak 40
• 14x PzGr. 39 Shells
• 40 lbs of Gun Cotton
• Sony A6100 Camera
• 3 TB HDD
• 200 lbs Steel
• 400 lbs Calcium
• 4x 1L Bloodbags in O-
Weaknesses:

• 7th Commandment: Alexander will go to excruciating lengths to avoid killing or permanently crippling anyone if it needn't happen. To such a degree that he would rather destroy his own plans through inaction than to kill someone to speed up his timeline. Life to Alexander is sacrosanct, and he believes that he has no right to kill someone if there is no risk to him.
• Biological Makeup: Corrosive or mutagenic materials will most definitely start to damage his tough ceramic like exoskeleton. Due to their nature, he has a very small selection of defenses against such an attack.
• Not the Only One: Much like his counterpart, Ingrid, his power rely on materials, energy, and time. While, for whatever reason, his powers are much more streamlined and rapid, they still are bound by those requirements.

---

Background:

Job: N/A
Legal Status: US Citizen, Declared Deceased.
Backstory: Born April 17th, 1949, to an USMC Veteran and factory supervisor, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Alexander's life was dominated by red blooded patriotism, and a fervor for American democracy. His father used to regale him with tales from his time in the Pacific Theatre, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and every island between. A familiarization of the military and a sweeping fervor of national duty eventually took a hold of Alexander, and in 1967, he enlisted in the USMC to follow in his father's footsteps. later in life, he would see this as the moment in his life where fate took the reins.

His experience in Vietnam was short, taken captive during his first combat patrol, he was kept in one of the scant few prison camps near the North/South border. Interrogated relentlessly by PLAF irregulars and PANV advisers. As an enlisted soldier, he didn't have much to say, and when the camp was forced to move due to US forces honing in, Alexander was simply left behind in a bamboo cage in a blackened cave to rot. He didn't know how long he sat in that cave, gnawing on the bamboo bars to try and break free. The first light he saw in God know how long looked to be eyes, staring at him from the darkness. In what he could only assume was a hallucinated event, the eyes crept forward, and set him free from his cage.

He would spend a further 3 days under the jungle canopy, drinking whatever water he could find, regardless of cleanliness. Eventually, he passed out from exhaustion, falling into a river. Instead of waking up at the pearly gates of heaven, Alexander instead awoke on the shores of the very same river he fell into. Somehow revitalized and notably less fatigued than prior. The only difference was a wound near his spine, still weeping blood yet sub-consciously, not a concern for the man.

He would continue to wander through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon the same soldiers that left him to die. He would have no recollection of the ensuing fight, simply coming to his senses, now covered in a thick layer of bone, and wielding an anti tank gun not unlike someone would use a rocket launcher. Around him was a swathe of destruction and death. Afraid and confused, Alexander ran. He would run until he could run no more, bone falling off of him, and the cannon simply fading into dust.

Eventually, he was picked up by US forces, and sent back to the United States, where he would ride the rest of his enlisted time on the home front. After being discharged, he would leave a cryptic letter to his parent, before being declared missing on January 30th 1976. he was later declared as presumed dead in March of 1976.

However, during this time, he has slowly been formulating a plan to bring the United States back into a fold of true democracy, and to erase corruption in the public system.

I remember osteo.... Hes accepted. Do you see him as a villain for a future arc?

Yes. He likely won't be a major villain for a while, for the meanwhile he'll be playing second fiddle to whoever may fit his needs.

[A Paradise for Few]

I was absent and am back to the fold now.

[Raktio]

This is still going? I played in the precursor game(s?) to Gods Among Us and maybe the first one.

Would it be possible to add in a a background mega corp (major technology / weapons manufacturing, and all sorts of high tech gizmos initially made via the owner's tinkering power), probably would have most of its assets inaccessible for one reason or another, probably because a majority of it would be off world. The character for the game would be the CEO/creator's adopted daughter who has her own meta power set and there would be little connection to the corporation aside from her pulling off rich girl needing daddy to do something for her (which would likely be replacing her equipment after breaking it from use).

[Dyelli Beybi]

This is still going? I played in the precursor game(s?) to Gods Among Us and maybe the first one.

Would it be possible to add in a a background mega corp (major technology / weapons manufacturing, and all sorts of high tech gizmos initially made via the owner's tinkering power), probably would have most of its assets inaccessible for one reason or another, probably because a majority of it would be off world. The character for the game would be the CEO/creator's adopted daughter who has her own meta power set and there would be little connection to the corporation aside from her pulling off rich girl needing daddy to do something for her (which would likely be replacing her equipment after breaking it from use).

Sounds good to me. I don't particularly mind what you want to add to the background so long as you don't derail the plot

[Anowa]

I sense another tech mogul approaching.

Time to up my Iron Man game.

[Anowa]

By the way, I also updated the roster in my spare time.

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-----The Main Cast-----

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Michael 'Weyland" Evans - Granis
Ashley Rivers - Anowa
Ingrid Grimsdottir - Anowa
Zinnia "Icarus" Howard - Demencia
Camron "Death-Bullet" Morton - Atkemri
J.J "Cuttlefish" Triggs - Dyelli Beybi
Wikus Van der Berg - New Aeyariss
Imogen "Kaleidoscope" Vaughan - Dyelli Beybi
William "Casual Bill" York - Anowa
Andrew "Insect" Scott - Endem
Elle Oan "Omboovmatu" Maker - A Paradise for Few
Collinn "Warden" McKinley - Deutschess Kaiserreich
Corrina "Duchess" Speer - Demencia
Jack "Jumper" Dredd - Lessoni
Finn "Murk" Kavanagh - Kylantha
Erwin "Oktober" Korsar - Riysa
Jean-Baptiste "The Surgeon" Strauss - Communist Xomaniax
Anthony "Nexus" Cross - Anowa
Alexander 'Osteo" Carmichael - Anowa

[Dyelli Beybi]

thanks... I've imported onto the front page