Age of the Dragon

[Tank]

Hello everyone! I'm interested in starting a minor Diverse RP Superhero Story Arc. I used to help run a site (four score and a billion years ago) based on this premise and thought it would be fun to replay the story-line with any interested parties.

The main story line is thus:
Over the last one hundred years Super Humans have become more and more prevalent in the public eye. At first they were seen as freaks, leftovers from awful experiments carried out during the Second World War. Later it became apparent that these mutants were not failed experiments, but rather humans with mutated genes that gave them incredible powers. The popularity of these mutants has waxed and waned in the public eye. A Super would save a child from a runaway bus and the public would rejoice. Or, and more often, a super would kill, steal, and destroy, and the public would riot.

The current date see us at 2042. Supers have, for the most part, gone into hiding. There are very few who use their abilities openly and even fewer who aren't thrown into jail for "Endangering the Public". Pockets of Supers communes and villages have popped up around the world and are viewed by many as despicable and vile places. Many Supers however, choose to live life normally go to work like anyone else and enjoy life with a dark secret.

However, there is a dark force on the horizon. An image taken from a satellite and a recording that was leaked to the public. A reptilian species of unknown origins is on a collision course with earth. They seek nothing but total subjugation. The militaries have called on Supers everywhere to rejoin them to fight off the onslaught. Some did, most didn't. They fought off the dragons that came to their lands and did their best not to cringe while they watched the world burn around them.

It's been ten years since the dragons first landed. They've enslaved ninety percent of the earth's population and now they're going after the final ten percent. The Supers.


This will be a nine thread arc with a general outline below. This may change as the threads develop and the characters interact with the story.
1. Initial Invasion
2. Ten years later
3. Building the guard
4. Freeing the city
5. Military interdiction
6. Finding weakness
7. Freeing country
8. Pushing off world
9. Into the black

What I would like is to see just one or two people RP/NPC the dragons while the rest of us play Supers who have banded together to fight back. Some house rules:
1. This is going to largely be free form. If it falls within the genre, go for it.
2. Be realistic. I don't mind if you play a character with regeneration, but still have them feel pain and take a realistic amount of time for limbs to regrow and wounds to heal.
3. There will be a fifty word post minimum. I want to really be descriptive in our world, our actions, and our fights. And it may sound like a lot but fifty words can be typed out quickly and easily. This will also allow us to fully describe and "fill-in" our world. (51 words right there, so not as hard as you may think)
4. You can play super heroes that already exist but I would ask that you at least change their names. Also depending on the character they may have some weakness tacked on based on our custom rules for creating a character if they are deemed too powerful.

If we get 4-6 people interested I'll post a character sheet with info on how to select an appropriate number of strengths and weaknesses. Let me know if you're interested I hope to see this get off the ground.

 

[Talon maara]

Im down.

 

[Phantom]

I would love to do this

 

[Tank]

Sweet. If we can get one more I'll throw up a character sheet and rules for creating one.

 

[ctrocks307]

Sounds fun, I'm down

 

[Tank]

Sweet, I think four is a good starting number. I'll get a CS posted as well as fleshing out the rules for powers. Hopefully once we get CSs posted more people will join in. I think it would be a good idea for all of our characters to be in/from the same place for the first thread. Any suggestions? If not we'll go with London.

 

[Phantom]

London sounds good to me

 

[Kaane]

I can make a Dragon character and do some NPCing, if y'all would like.

The reptilian conspiracy theorists were right

 

[Tank]

Almost got the CS done. I've just got the personality and bio to fill in. I'll post it later this evening hopefully.

@Kaane for sure! I'll do a short write-up detailing their history, powers and goals and let you Play around with them.

 

[Tank]

Here is the CS for the super heroes. I don't expect much of a word count for personality or origin story. Mine are both fairly short. Just give a brief explanation and we'll flesh out the rest in the RP. I'll try and get the write up for the dragons done shortly, but in the mean time here is a picture of the two types of dragons. The first is a larger ancient dragon these are 100 meters long and have a wind span of 100-120 meters. The second is the dragon spawn, they are a little larger than humans about 7 feet tall on average with a wingspan of only 4-8 feet. Some of the spawn can fly, some can't.

Legal Name:
Alias:
Occupation:
Alignment/Morality:
Gender:
Age:

Physical Description (hair, eyes, height, weight, distinguishing marks ect.):
Costume:


Power rules:
Your first power is free. For every other power you must have a kryptonite level weakness. Acceptable weaknesses can include weakness to a certain power type. For instance, a pyromancer might find themselves weak again ice or water powers. Someone with flight may not be able to breath above 8,000ft. Someone who slings plasma may be suspect to burns with prolonged usage that make it impossible to fight. Unacceptable weaknesses might include, physically weak or slow, uncharismatic or unintelligent, bad with computers, ect.

Any power is available for use. If you want to control time or use mind control that is fine, just know that we expect you to role play responsibly and we’ll be sure to call you out if you aren’t. :p

Be sure to flesh out your powers. If you can fly, be sure to answer how high and how fast. If you can control fire be sure to explain how it takes shape, can you create fire or just control a fire already made? Make sure you explain it as plainly and fully as possible so there isn’t confusion down the road.


Primary Power:
Secondary Power:
Tertiary Power:



Primary Weakness:
Secondary Weakness:
Tertiary Weakness:


Physical strengths and weaknesses:

Gear:


Personality:

Origin Story:

 

[Tank]

Legal Name: Ashley Cole
Alias: King Cole
Occupation: N/A
Alignment/Morality: Neutral Good
Gender: Male
Age: 26

Physical Description (hair, eyes, height, weight, distinguishing marks ect.): Ashley Cole stands at 6’ 4” tall and weighs in at two hundred pounds. He has dark skin, brown eyes and short straight black hair. He is a fairly thickly built individual but seems more aloof than domineering if you were to pass him on the street. He has a scars that dominate the majority of his back.

Costume: Street clothes, brown trench coat, black cowboy hat with brown trim.


Primary Power: Elemental control. Cole can control earth, wind, water, and fire. He does not have the ability to create any of these elements but if they are present in small amounts he can cause them to expand, where a small candle could fill a room or a drop of water could fill a bath. The opposite is also true, if there is a mudslide he could condense it into a small rock or make the props of an airplane feel like a small fan. Extreme acts of condensation or expanse come at high energy costs so he prefers to work with what is around him in abundance. With the power of wind he is able to achieve moderate flight, it is slow and difficult to control. He can control two objects at once, water and fire for example, but it comes at high energy costs and isn’t viable for long periods of time. As the saying goes, Jack of all trades but Master of none. Cole is able to control several different elements, but if he were to go up against a master of any one element he would surely be bested.
Secondary Power: N/A
Tertiary Power: N/A


Primary Weakness: N/A
Secondary Weakness: N/A
Tertiary Weakness: N/A


Gear: He carried a Springfield 9MM hand gun and several magazines of ammunition.

Physical strengths and weaknesses: Ashley Cole is a physically large person and strength is by far his best quality. He is fairly slow and not particularly quick witted or intelligent. He is typically in good health and while not charming, most people tend to see him as good company.


Personality: Ashley Cole is quiet and observant. He doesn’t like to stand out in the limelight and doesn’t seek fame or fortune. He prefers to sit in the shadows and wait until the appropriate time to act. He isn’t quick to speak and most of the time chooses not to speak at all. He cares about others and always sticks up for the little guy. He’ll be a loyal friend to the end if you are able to stick around for long enough to gain his trust.


Origin Story: Cole was working in his University’s chemistry lab one day during a lightning storm. His lab parter, Jenny, was working with him. One lightning bolt struck particularly close to the school and caused Jenny to drop what she was working on and knock over about three other beakers full of chemicals. Cole quickly ran over to help clean up the spill while Jenny cleaned herself up. Lightning struck again. This time it hit Cole. His body began melting into the chemicals, seemingly turning into liquid himself. Then the water began to boil and he reformed into fire. The very building beneath his feet began to morph in and out of solidity and the air around him swirled with massive force. He passed out from exhaustion before it stopped. Jenny didn’t make it out alive. Whether it was the chemicals he was cleaning up, or an impulse sent to his brain that unlocked his abilities, Cole may never know. But he has them now, and there’s no undoing a lightning strike.

 

[Kaane]

Hm...so both of the pics have them manipulating orbs; does this mean that the dragons have some sort of orb-based magic or tech that emulates it?

Essentially am I going to be able to quas wex exort the fuck out of people?

 

[Tank]

The ancient dragons are "magic" experts. Most of that magic revolves around creation and manipulation of traditional dragon elements, fire, ice, poison, ect. They also have telepathic and minor time altering abilities. The spawn typically only have the ability to manipulate plasma (the orbs) that they can shoot at enemies as well as minor telepathic abilities. I'll line things out more clearly in the write-up but yes, the ancient dragons can blow **** up if they really let loose.

 

[Phantom]

Working on CS now, will be done soon, hopefully.

 

[ctrocks307]

Will work on it when I have time.

 

[Talon maara]

Will put CS soon

 

[Necris]

Still Open?

 

[Tank]

Absolutely!

 

[Talon maara]

Still a working progess will adapt bio if need be

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Legal Name: Noah Adams
Alias: Prisoner 142, Noah, Adam.
Occupation: Prisoner
Alignment/Morality: Neutral evil
Gender: Male
Age: unknown

Physical Description (hair, eyes, height, weight, distinguishing marks ect.): yellow eyes, 4'11" 140 lbs. his body is broken down to a gas like state (with a conscience) and he must wear a pressure suit specially made to contain his "body" together other wise he is just a cloud of floating gas with no true form.

Costume: full body armor (green/red/white), pressure suit (black/purple)


Primary Power: Power Replication. Noah can replicate the powers of others around himself by either touching said user or even witnessing the power or ability first hand. Noah can even stack several powers together, such as stacking electricity with an ice or water attack.
(Mimicking might not be instantaneous)

Secondary Power: Adoptive muscle memory.
Noah can copy any movement/action after seeing it performed once, including acrobatics, martial arts, and other physical stunts. With these skills he can become a master and incredible at what he does, by combining what several forms and movements in rhythmic motions instead of using the same thing over.

He can copy how a person aims, becoming an incredible marksman, though if he wanted to use certain weapons he would have to watch a person fire that weapon to be able to copy it. Such as how to fire a rifle as opposed to how to fire a bow, or how to throw knives or darts.
(Mimicking might not be instantaneous.)

Tertiary Power: N/A


Primary Weakness: weakness to magic and elemental based powers

Secondary Weakness: a rupture in his pressure suit. (See physical description)

Tertiary Weakness: N/A


Gear: pressure suit that can withstand some of both knives, explosions and bullets from penetrating, special armor plating to withstand a decent amount of blunt trauma.

Physical strengths and weaknesses: Noah Adams is quit a thin man, his stature isn't too threatening to the eye. Unless he encounters a being with super strength or and super attributes he will be of average physical condition.


Personality: Noah Adams is obnoxious at times and egotistical. He tends to live dangerously and on the wild side, taking near fatal risks for no particular reason or benefit. He hates waiting and sitting out of a fight, and tends to be a hot head when easily provoked. He has a knack for not caring about others and focuses on his own personal gain, (unless you are an orphan of some sort then he will do all he can to aid you.) He’ll be a loyal and formidable friend if you can accomplish said task.


Origin Story: An unknown Object crash landed in 1947, in the deserts of Chaves county, New Mexico....yes Roswell. After the crash landing the federal government couldn't find any bodily remains, but instead found a gas like mist that remained at the site for hours, so they collected this mist with intentions to find out its origins. Upon further research they realized the gas was not only a being but a sentient one at that. He bore a gift of being able to copy both movements and other beings special abilities which caught the governments eye.

During his stay in captivity he was given a name prisoner 142, but to some the being came to be known simply as Noah Adams. They chose Adam for this first being they have came in contact with from another planet such as Adam according to the bible was the first man on the earth and Noah seeing as he gone through a tragic journey to find a new home and way of life such as noah from the bible had to do so with his family.

Almost a century later he escaped his holding cell and came into contact with his long forgotten ship that crash landed many years ago. Obtaining his old gear he dawned his pressure suit and armor shortly after the arrival of the Dragons with a resentment of humans.....

 

[Tank]

Looks good, would you mind expanding on your powers and their limits when you have time? Also I think weakness 2 and 3 can be combined into one. You also only NEED one weakness with two powers so if you want you can take out the weakness to magic if you want.