Dawn OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 We are getting somewhat Norse-heavy, aren't we? Not sure if that's good or bad; means we're going to have a group that is already tied closely together. Could be too many norse, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Stone Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Brainstorming a few villains for Bastion: ,, The Heiress (PL 8-10) - A stuck up rich girl whose daddy got her a pink battlesuit so she could try her hand at crime fighting. She's only in it for the fame, money and prestige and doesn't care anything about actually helping people. She becomes Bastion's enemy when he embarrasses her and causes her to lose favor with the public. Fighting crime is a popularity contest, after all. ,, Mr. Pibb and Red Vine (PL8-10) - Mr. Pibb and Red Vine are crazy delinquents. Mr Pibb is genius who masterminds a heist while Red Vine uses her elongation powers to slip in and slip out undetected. Sad thing is, they do this on school nights. ,, Sweet & Sauer (PL7-9) - Two small time crooks with really bad, fake Cockney accents. They work for a powerful Crime Lord known only as Mr. Bulky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 And Mary (Ensign Minneapolis) Masters comes from Minneapolis, which has a heavy Norwegian/Swedish population. ,, Meh, I'm a powersuited character though, no Norse stuff in me, nope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Stone Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 And Mary (Ensign Minneapolis) Masters comes from Minneapolis, which has a heavy Norwegian/Swedish population. ,, Meh, I'm a powersuited character though, no Norse stuff in me, nope! Allow me to translate guys: ,, "I have nothing relevant to add to the Norse/God topic, I just felt like posting something." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 No I was trying to illustrate that not all of us are taking the Norse path. ,, I'm only seeing three in this conversation. ,, Anyways... is there anything else that is needing to be discussed while we're here? Otherwise I think I am satisfied with what we got and I can get to work. And stop bothering you guys to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fox Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I'm actually thinking about doing a forgotten god. One of those Norse gods who, due to the merging of tribes and deaths of others, simply fell out of the histories and was forgotten. ,, "Oh sure, get mentioned in the Prose Edda and everyone loves you... but what happens when the tribes that worshiped you get wiped out? More than a thousand years of near oblivion, that's what! I'd almost forgotten who I was myself until some archaeologists uncovered the remains of a village where I was once worshiped. When they read my name in the runes, it was like a strike of Thor's own lightning hit me and I opened my eyes for the first time in at least a thousand years. I tell you, I barely remember who I was, and so weak... this must be what it feels like to be a mortal!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Fox, sometimes the local Gods of a tribe weren't wiped out but absorbed. It's why the Prose Edda and some of the other old Norse texts conflict with each other. You could also play a God/dess that was absorbed into another God/dess. So instead of the sleep issues, your PC could struggle with identity issues (after all, they were merged with and part of someone else for millenia and now they're themselves again, and that is deeply, deeply creepy and intriguing), as well as feelings of betrayal from worshipers who didn't fight harder to keep his/her identity separate. Then add in the Asatru who are learning to revere the newly discovered God/dess and he/she could deal with the fear of being dependent on humans again, who could forget or distort again. It could lead him/her to trying to find a way to become a static God/dess or something other than a deity, to avoid that loss of self again. ,, Just some thoughts for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalmonMax Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Thoughts like that cast a new light on things like the Inquisition, and other cases where strict orthodoxy is imposed by a religion. ,, How strange and perhaps awful it must be to feel oneself changing, slipping, day by day into something else, just because the fickle mortals can't keep their heads straight. How tempting to enshrine absolute doctrine, graven in stone, so that you never change. ,, But then, never changing is a curse too. ,, How do you find balance between the chaos of wandering beliefs, and the stasis of absolute control? ,, Or is that control fictional in the first place? Even if you stamp out the practice of heresy, can you stop people from changing what they believe in their hearts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fox Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 That is a very interesting idea Carver. I'll have to give that some more consideration. I had thought a little about that, but hadn't considered the implications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 I think I'm calling dibs on a candy themed crime syndicate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Cavity Cartel? ,, Sweet Syndicate? ,, Toffee Triad? ,, Yum Yum Yakuza? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I think I'm calling dibs on a candy themed crime syndicate... ,, Delicious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor OOC Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I think I'm calling dibs on a candy themed crime syndicate... ,, Please please PLEAAASE tell me there is a "Jawbreaker" in the group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Moreno Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Jawbreaker's been done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalmonMax Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Yeah, but everything's been done in one place or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 That's what SHE said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eingar Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Carver, If you decide to go with the daughter-of-a-Jotun idea, I know Ein and I have already chatted about our PCs, and Fox seems to be leaning in a Norse direction as well. Maybe we could all collaborate and see if any interesting story hooks crop up. ,, We shall be... ,, ,, The NORSE FORCE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalmonMax Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Hee hee! ,, I was gonna go with "Helloooooooooooo NORSE!" ,, But that sounds more like a goofy Broadway musical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 *looks to Ein* "I used to be a super hero just like you... then I took an arrow to knee." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Instead of Jawbreaker I was thinking an immortal powerhouse named Everlasting Gobstopper (cuz.... Y'know... He breaks jaws). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor OOC Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Dave: You know what, if you wanna do that, go for it. I love it! All of it. Finally having some fun with this concept! ,, Okay... character time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jael Carver Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I am going with Jael for this. The site's favorite sociopath is back. ,, And this is her father: ,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 –5 Completely inept or disabled –4 Weak; infant –3 Younger child –2 Child, elderly, impaired –1 Below average; teenager 0 Average adult 1 Above average 2 Well above average 3 Gifted 4 Highly gifted 5 Best in a nation 6 One of the best in the world 7 Best ever; peak of human achievement 8 Low superhuman 10 Moderate superhuman 13 High superhuman 15 Very high superhuman 20 Cosmic ,, Guys, please keep the above in mind when you're submitting a PC. I look closely at the benchmarks and compare the attributes with the PC being presented. While it's possible for regular people to have extremely high attributes, even super human attributes, it's not very likely. Especially at the PL10 stage. Just some food for thought people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z011 Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I'm going to set Dahlia as an NPC for this game. Given the character concept, she just doesn't work as a PC in an OW setting. Nova Vida is still around as a convenient point of contact and teaming up, and Dahlia is about as someone to meet, she just wouldn't have anything to do on a regular basis as a PC in a game that will have more one-shot plots from different STs than long-term, overarching, tightly controlled plotlines from a single ST that is tailored to a specific set of PCs. ,, I'll try and come up with another PC idea over the next couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misthal Thorn Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Claiming London and Arthurian Legend as part of my character concept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn OOC Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 I have posted the NYC write up in its own thread. Feel free to comment and question, as well as offering places to insert PCs. I'll be more than willing to edit to include anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin OOC Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Joani and I will be making Characters based from Los Angeles, I'll work on a writeup for LA, though as things stand I'm not really intending to change all that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor OOC Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Minneapolis won't be changed much outside of a couple locations and local organizations that I will note in the writeup. ,, Also, something crossed my mind. How are Power Points (The XP type) going to be handled for this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I haven't had a chance to read over everything here (I lost my wallet over the weekend, which sort of forced me into 'lockdown' mode), but I'd like to submit a reworked version of Min-Max for this. ,, Also, if no one else has called it, I'd like to stake my claim to my hometown of Chicago; actually, I was born in suburban Elmhurst, but it's fairly boring and would be super-lame if it had superheroes in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mariner Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Hey, I'm in Minneapolis... not exactly Gotham by any stretch. ,, Also, I'd love to see Min-Max, and if he ever needed backup, I'm wiling to take a little business trip to Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ST Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 Ladies and gentleman. Please, when you submit a character please submit a full write up. That means background, stats, complications, etc... Don't submit half a character then tell us you'll submit the rest later. If the character is not sent in it's entirety then it will not be gone over for approval until the rest is sent. Submitting half a character is wasting your time and ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eingar Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Been doing my research... Apparently Ullr (or Ull or Uller) is still worshipped today - by skiers and 'boarders. They actually send up little prayers to him for good snow. Additionally, the Colorado ski-resort town of Breckenridge has held an Ullr-fest every year for the last 50. ,, Perfect place for his boy to manifest for the first time. ,, According to the most popular version of the story, he's also supposed to be the son of Sif and the stepson of Thor, and when the ice giantess Skadi left Njord, she hooked up with Ullr. Apparently he had some of mom's way of appealing to the opposite sex. ,, So Ivarr Ullson will be the son of Ullr and Skadi, just fyi. ,, Why be a superhero? Well, Ullr was also a god of justice and duelling. (Quite a busy boy.) I could see his son hunting 'outlaws' and níðingr (villains), especially if he wanted to become a god in turn. ,, Still working on the character, just thought I should share that the cult of Ullr is alive and well in modern times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 That's pretty cool Ein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eingar Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Ivarr Ullson has been dispatched to the gods for judgement... ,, "I say thee YAY!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mariner Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Outstanding. ,, One hell of a lineup so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillian Johnson Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Background and Character submitted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn OOC Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 I'll be crunching numbers and leveling opinions tonight after work. Be ready! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mariner Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I do have a question: How many of us have started generation on our second characters? I think I'll wait to start on Shirley until I got Ensign established. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misthal Thorn Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I havn't even been thinking about my second character.. to busy with Misthal, London and my take on Arthurian Legend in this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z018 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Still trying to get the first one sorted out, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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