Welcome to another edition of 'Xero Makes An RP That Is Basically A Revival Of An Older RP That Was Freaking Awesome So Let's Try To Make It Awesome Again!'

... *cough* ANYWAY, welcome to Age of Heroes! This was actually thought up as a 'spiritual successor' to an older RP by the name of 'Heroes of Our Age.' As the name suggests, it's a Superhero RP. That means, obviously, the characters you're signing up for will be superheroes/supervillains/whatever.

First and foremost, the rules!

[1] Follow Forum Rules. It's Gerk's big post on the main Roleplay forum. Follow those rules. ALL of them.
[2] No Godmoding.
[3] All characters must have weaknesses. Nobody is all-powerful and perfect in every way.
[4] To join post profile. Then wait until you are accepted. If you are accepted your profile will be added.
[5] Please do not pester others about your profile.
[6] As this is the OOC thread, all OOC conversation can go here.
[7] No canon characters! All characters need to be original characters and your creations. They can be from older RPs you've participated in. They may NOT carry history from them.
[8] I'm serious, we're not going to all app Touhou and X-Men characters and call it a day. NO CANON CHARACTERS. :P
[9] If you wish to leave the RP for whatever reason I wont be offended. Just send me a pm saying so or make an in-character good-bye post.
[10] Players who do not post in either the RP or the OOC forums or PM me an alert for an extended leave will be given an MIA status.
[11] Characters with an MIA status will be left behind in the RP.
[12] Characters with an MIA status for one month will be removed from the roster and the player will have to reapply.
[13] Obviously, Original Characters cannot be played by anyone else unless their current player allows it.
[14] Even if they're MIA.
[15] That's not cool.
[16] I'm serious.
[17] If you're caught trying to use someone else's character without their express permission, you will be ejected from the RP after one warning and a VERY stern talk.
[18] Death is permanent, but no character can die until the player who plays said character gives the okay. If a character gets into a dire situation and the player wants to avoid death, measures can be taken. I need to be PMed in this case.
[19] All characters should be able to get sick, except in the case of characters that do not have normal human skin.
[20] If you would like to leave anything unknown to the rest of the players and have these things revealed later, fill out an application skeleton with the unknowns marked as vague or otherwise in the app itself (It must be known that there are unknown things about the character!) and then send the completed application to me via PM. Once I have approved it, the application posted here will go into the character list and as the unknowns are figured out, the application will be filled out.
[21] Please look here for powers I would prefer to keep out of the roleplay. This particular post may get edited at any time, so please keep an eye on it. Keep in mind also these are generalizations of powers, and not specifics. If you are unsure if a power will be fine to use, PM it to me! Don't be afraid, I don't bite. Hard.
[22] If any powers would cause effects to other characters, the players of said characters need to be notified of this (either through the application or through PMing during any battle). Players can not use this information to the characters' advantage. Maintain the IC/OOC divide.
[23] Limit two characters per player. They can be in different factions.


The year is 2302, and the (currently unnamed) metropolis in the United States is in turmoil. 50 years earlier, a band of superheroes rose up and defended the metropolis from a crime syndicate, and wiped them out. However, it was short lived, as in the year 2300, a band of supervillains rose up, some from the crime syndicate and some from outside sources and made a nearby city into their headquarters. Now, two years after, the metropolis an its surrounding cities are in danger, and the band of superheroes (as well as other heroes unaffiliated with them) must stop the impending assault from the supervillains and the newly revived crime syndicate known only as GARNET.

(Overused stolen quote here) Fight, superheroes! For Everlasting Peace!


Here is the basic outline for your signup and what is required:

Player name: That's your name, not your character name.
Name: Character's name, western order.
Age and Gender: Should be between 16-30.
Loyalty: League of Superheroes, League of Supervillains, Crime Syndicate, or None (working alone, vigilante, etc.)
Appearance: Describe how your character looks, if they have a suit for their saving/taking over the day or not, minimum three sentences.
Personality: Give us a bit about how your character normally acts, their likes/dislikes, their moral strengths and weaknesses, their goals and fears. Minimum one paragraph (5 complete sentences).
Superpower(s): Give us at least one superpower that your character has. (Things such as super brains and simple strength are fine. Not all characters have to have superpowers, but it won't be very fun if not, will it?)
History: Optional. If you wish to inform us of your character's backstory, please do so here. Minimum one paragraph (5 complete sentences). If you wish to use a vague history, the one paragraph minimum does not apply.
Anything else?: Optional. If you have something you want to talk about considering your character that isn't mentioned anywhere else in the outline, please do so here. No minimum length.




One note, there is no 'leader' for the League of the superheroes. And the 'leader' of the league of supervillains is already taken as an NPC. So don't ask. :P

And the names of the leagues and syndicate will be made later.

Have at it! Any questions may be asked in this thread or PMed to me. I will be submitting my own outlines later.

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Last edited by Xero Wright on Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:36 am, edited 6 times in total.

Registering Interest, will think up characters later.

What about multiple character per person? Say I wanted a villain and a hero?

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Oh, dur, I should've put up the character limit.

I'd say for now 2 per person is the limit, and playing both a villain and a hero is perfectly fine. If we get enough interest I'll raise the cap to 3.

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When and where does the RP take place?

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The 'where' will be decided at a later point when I have more time to write out the worldbuilding stuff.

As for a general timeframe, assume this is somewhere around the year 2300, set in our own world. Currently we have no explanation of how the superpowers came to be, and that may or may not be explained in the story itself.

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Should I assume the same national borders as in the present day, or have things changed? For that matter, if the map has changed, do you already have one planned out, or do you plan on giving the players free reign to create countries of origin for their respective characters?

I'm only asking because I'm thinking of creating a character from Central Asia, and I want to know how much freedom of movement I have when it comes to her place of origin.

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I think we can allow for free reign of creating counties of origin, but I think it'd also be safe to assume most the national borders are the same, for at least all well known countries and regions. There could be some 'new' countries wedged in somewhere but the 'world map' is not ever going to really be displayed as this RP takes place in a central metropolis and its surrounding cities.

So I think some free reign is good, and using other countries to establish a locale for new countries of origin is even better.

For example: 'Somewhere south of Russia' 'Just shy east of the Europe/Asia line'

You can tell how unprepared I am right now... ahahaha

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All the more reason for me to ask these questions in the thread, then. Are there any potentially RP-breaking powers that should be avoided?

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Hm. I'd personally like to avoid any powers that directly affect other characters directly (such as any powers that could allow a person to 'move' another person) should be avoided. Powers that move objects to attack are fine. (This includes 'Magneto' type powers affecting characters with metallic bodies or body parts; if it can move a person without their consent, it should not be used for that purpose.)

Also any 'huge explosion' esque Flandre Scarlet-type attacks should be avoided at all costs. Explosions made from nothing, mind you, as I've seen these before.

Mind-reading powers should also be avoided as that requires knowledge that the player cannot normally obtain.

Any powers involving teleporting should have a cooldown.

And any particularly destructive powers that can level buildings or intersections in a single bound should be HEAVILY toned down; we don't want the metropolis or the surrounding cities destroyed in one day!

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What are the rules as far as death is concerned?

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As with most RPs I do on forums, death is permanent. No superhero or supervillain has special treatment in this category.

So I would advise thinking carefully before trying to get your character(s) killed. This isn't Dragonball Z, there's no Eternal Dragon to bring you back.

That being said, if your characters get into dire situations and you'd prefer them not die, measures can be taken to prevent this. But it's better to be on the safe side and try NOT letting that happen if possible.

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So in other words, I have the final say on whether or not my character dies unless I do something that warrants my getting kicked out of the RP.

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Yep.

Lida_Rose has sent in multiple questions, and the answers to these will be posted on the rules. Please take the time and re-read over them.

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I've looked over the updated rules, and I have a question that the updates didn't answer. You said it's the year 2300 (or very close to it) in this RP. What kind of technological improvements have we seen? The character I'm working on doesn't really have any powers that harm anyone on their own, so I'm thinking it would make sense for her to have some sort of weapon (such as a gun) for situations in which she needs to actually do direct damage.

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We've seen quite a few, from robots (some with AI and some without) able to defend and attack (which are, as usual, generally laughable against supervillains), as well as major advancements in armed weaponry. I'll leave it to the players to create weapons that can be used, though. As it is 300 or a little less years from our current time, I leave it to the imagination. I will say that advancements have made it where if a superhero or supervillain needed to they could modify weapons to great effect. Whether it's changing the type of ammo it uses, to how fast or slow it fires, to even what's IN the ammo. (Of course, that's if it's a gun. If it's just a ranged weapon such as an automatic crossbow or something, again, that's up to your imagination. 300 years can see a -TON- of technological advances.)

Of course, any superhero/supervillain that doesn't have thick skin or good dodging abilities may have trouble against the military robots.

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I also updated the main post with a very basic outline of the story. It'll get updated tomorrow. It's just to set up the three factions and put the year and basic situation out there.

And my first character is now visible on the character list on the first post.

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Does the League of Superheroes have a base of operations?

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Yep, in one of the tall buildings in the center of the metropolis. After all, defending the city for 50 years means the populace was well aware of their existence. No need to actually hide that.

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Okay, let's give this a shot!

Player name: Lida_Rose
Name: Real name is currently unknown. Alias: The Grim Reaper
Age and Gender: Male, age currently unknown.
Loyalty: None.
Appearance: The Grim Reaper is always seen wearing the same thing, regardless of weather: a full face mask, a turtleneck, gloves, long pants, and boots. Not much is known about his general appearance besides the fact that he has long, black-ish gray-ish hair and cadaver gray eyes.
Personality: Not much is known about The Grim Reaper's personality, either, though there are rumors that, when he's not wandering the streets, he lives in isolation outside of the city. He is a loner with no sense of loyalty, so they say. They describe him as silent, but deadly. How much about this is true is unknown.
Superpower(s): His super power is that he has poison barbs in his skin that are not seen by the naked eye. Direct physical contact with The Grim Reaper's skin will cause illness that will last a few days. How extreme the illness is depends on who touches him. Direct contact consists of skin touching skin. His other powers are unknown.
History: Not much is known about the Grim Reaper's history. There are rumors that he is a hermit, wandering from town to town, metropolis to metropolis, causing "plagues" wherever he steps, and the reason he is always alone is because his parents banished him from their home after discovering his powers. Are they true?
Anything else?: Nothing yet.

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Is this acceptable, Xero?

I'll PM you some additional information on her background once any issues you might have with what I've shown you so far have been addressed; no point in sending it right now if I'm going to have to change it to reflect changes in the next draft.

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Looks good for both of you!

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Player name: Pierre
Name: Thomas Andrews
Alias: Fireball
Age and Gender: 20
Loyalty: League of Superheroes

Appearance: A short young man of 5ft 8. Has hair dyed red and bright yellow on alternating sides (like how Blackquill's is split) with a large colourful tuft pointing up where the dyes intermingle in the middle. He wears coloured contact lenses to match his hair in his respective eyes ( Red/Yellow). Preferred casual wear is cargo shorts with a light, blue denim jacket over a light logo-less top of varying light colours. Superhero outfit is dual-coloured spandex to match his hair however he also wears a heavy crash helmet with a black visor to conceal his face with fire insignias emblazoned on the sides. A relic of his circus days.

Personality: Thomas is a loyal but quiet individual, he has learned that society isn't always accepting and so tends to keep to himself most of the time. In spite of this he believes humanity is worth saving and is prepared to fight evil where he encounters it. He is strong in that he is tolerant and accepting of others in an attempt to set an example. He is weak in that he can be easily provoked having a specific hatred of prejudice. He also lacks experience having led a somewhat limited and sheltered life so far and so is hesitant and unsure of a lot of things in the world. His personal pastimes include lounging around on quiet buildings with low light-pollution, working with pyrotechnics and art.

Superpower(s): Primary: Thomas can create localised force explosions at limited range and around his own body. Thus creating invisible bursts of force at will. For example Thomas could propel himself skywards by creating a force explosion on the soles of his feet. He could add extra emphasis to a punch by having a force explosion at his elbow propelling his fist into a foe with hydraulic force and then an extra attack by detonating a force at the end of his fist to send the villain away. The drawback is this skill requires some degree of concentration and so some tasks are currently things he cannot do. He could use a series of explosions to propel him through the air indefinitely but he wouldn't be able to shoot at a foe or arrange some coordinated attack while doing so. He also couldn't use it defensively to block a fast-moving projectile as he doesn't have the concentration to match the timing to propel a projectile away from his body with force.

Secondary Superpower: Durability, considering the violent force involved in the nature of his main ability, whiplash and dislocation is a real cause for concern. Fortunately Thomas also appears exceptionally durable to sudden forces leaving him unaffected by his own powers. This also grants him some resistance to outside blunt forces that would impact upon him. A fist hitting him would not have much effect as it much like the own forces he exerts upon himself but a stab wound is a different matter.

History: Born with powers he couldn't control Thomas caused an untold amount of destruction around the household as his poor family tried to raise him. However fearing for what others would say and do they kept Thomas inside and refused to let him attend school or go outside. His father also gave him hell while he was inside the house subjecting Thomas to insults and abuse, as his father was the one who paid for the repairs to damage Thomas caused around the house while his mother ensured Thomas stayed inside and secret. Given his lack of alternate activities and the prospect of punishment Thomas worked on controlling his abilities until one day at age 12 Thomas snuck outside and controlling his powers as best as he could he propelled himself as far away as he could blacking out in midair. When he awoke he found himself outside of town in the care of a passing circus. For the next 7 years of his life he spent time helping out and travelling with the circus, finding the people there especially pleasant and welcoming and like him, not always welcome in the eyes of society. His powers made him a natural at the human cannonball act as the ringmaster had him fired into all kinds of solid material without a scratch to be made on his body. Due to his training with the circus as a cannon engineer he has a knowledge of homemade explosives and pyrotechnics needed for running such an operation. One night over drinks with the staff he realises it's his duty to make best of his gifts and try and make a difference in the chaotic cities the circus avoids, much like the circus makes best of it's gifts to bring joy to others in these dark times. So with a little financial support from the ringmaster and his friends he leaves with his costume one night for the League of Superheroes determined to make a difference in the world and do his best to bring joy to others where he could.

Other: Opts to fight with his abilities where possible for concussive damage but can go into battle armed with explosives if he needs a little more collateral damage. An experienced brawler from clearing out drunks and troublemakers who would bother the circus and friendly bouts with the strong men. Hasn't had much chance at formal education and that didn't change with circus life and so while he can recognise some nouns that he would experience in day to day life he cannot actually read or write, a secret that he tries to hide in the high-class world of the city. In spite of his illiteracy he had a great deal of time to himself at home and so is quite good at painting and art and is capable of repairing clothes with needle and thread.

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Hello again everyone! Signups have reopened for this RP. All previous character submissions have been taken off the roster and must be re-submitted before they can be on the roster.

Any questions can be asked here just like when this was originally set up. I'm hoping to get this RP underway in a few days.

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So...If I PMed you about my charrie, do I have to do that again as well?

Oh, and here's my resubmission of my profile:

Player name: Lida_Rose

Name: Real name is currently unknown. Alias: The Grim Reaper

Age and Gender: Male, age currently unknown.

Loyalty: None.

Appearance: The Grim Reaper is always seen wearing the same thing, regardless of weather: a full face mask, a turtleneck, gloves, long pants, and boots. Not much is known about his general appearance besides the fact that he has long, black-ish gray-ish hair and cadaver gray eyes.

Personality: Not much is known about The Grim Reaper's personality, either, though there are rumors that, when he's not wandering the streets, he lives in isolation outside of the city. He is a loner with no sense of loyalty, so they say. They describe him as silent, but deadly. How much about this is true is unknown.

Superpower(s): His super power is that he has poison barbs in his skin that are not seen by the naked eye. Direct physical contact with The Grim Reaper's skin will cause illness that will last a few days. How extreme the illness is depends on who touches him. Direct contact consists of skin touching skin. His other powers are unknown.

History: Not much is known about the Grim Reaper's history. There are rumors that he is a hermit, wandering from town to town, metropolis to metropolis, causing "plagues" wherever he steps, and the reason he is always alone is because his parents banished him from their home after discovering his powers. Are they true?

Anything else?: Nothing yet.

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Last edited by Lida_Rose on Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, you do have to re-PM me to ensure that I've got the secret info you don't want to openly share.

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Ta-Daa!

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This hiatus of yours has proven convenient in my case, as I've decided to revise my character.


I've also opted to include some information on a now-dead character who is relevant to my character's past--assuming that is acceptable, Xero.

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Please mighty Xero, let you still exist and approve this RP, I am dying for a new place to burn words.

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Hey guys can I join in on the fun?