Thread: Anti-Heroes

ANTI-HEROES

Don't know whether this sort of RP is welcome in the Arcane Arena, please say so if it isn't. I think it's worth a try, though, since it's worked quite well on some other forums.

I'm going to try doing an interactive story. This involves:

1. People submitting characters
2. Me writing new chapters every week
3. You pmming me your character's actions before next chapter

It basically means there's less god-mode RPing and creates a more coherent, game-like medium for you to work with.

The rough rules are below, in nice spoiler tags because they're way way long.

If there's no interest I'll give up and die.

Spoiler for Rules And Guidelines and Whatnot:

Simply put, I write in the chapter here:

Originally Posted by (me)

Bob, Joe and Francis arrive at Camp Deathness, where a great big ogre attacks them, if you please, with great snarling fangs and suchlike.

You, as the inventor of Bob, pm me this:

Originally Posted by (bob's guy)

I try and fight the ogre off with my sword and, if we kill it, I suggest cooking it for food (if that's possible with them ogres).

It requires participants to be mostly active as they will need to submit their character's actions after before the next chapter (will probably do chapters every Monday or some other fixed day of the week - obviously real life will come first, though, on mine and your parts). If you miss the action deadline I'll hazard a guess at what your character might do, or else try and avoid their storyline for the time-being.

...I'll explain it more coherently when we get started ...

Originally Posted by Character Sheet

Character Name: The character name...obviously...
Gender: I get confused easily
Age: ...obviously...
Appearance: This is physical appearance, not clothes. Be modest
Favoured Weapons: Try to pick some that will fit in, and remember these aren't necessarily the ones you'll end up with
Talents: The skills your character has; not too many, ego-freaks
Persona: The attitudes, the mannerisms, the general personality of your character
Alignment: Good/Bad/Neutral (will play a role in my storyline)
Special Power: See list below, you can choose one or go crazy with none

No backgrounds, I'll give you each a background story based around the ficitional world I inhabit.
It should be suitable for your character....
Also, it'd be nice to have a few average Joe's. Just once in awhile.

The setting will be a medieval-ish version of Heroes, really. Technology may include the occasional flint-lock pistol or somesort, but will be mostly swords, shields, spears, axes, etc. The Heroes edge is in that every character may have one special power, from a list I am providing.
Characters will begin (when the process might be a little confused) very separate, and gradually come together when we're all comfortable with the system.

Basically it will begin with very separate character stroy arcs that will teach you to work with the system, will develop your character (powers and general ability of characters will be weak to begin with, you gain experience, weapons, armour, fame, whatever as you go along), and eventually the characters will begin to interact more and you can begin making teams (Good vs Bad alignment is nice, with Neutral pwnting everyone) and secret alliances (you can confer through pm or whatever with other characters and make sneaky plans or whatever in your own time), and fight each other. Characters can (and probably will) die, and new characters might crop up if other people wish to join later on.
It should be fun.

So, if you're interested and think you're active enough to join, fill in the character sheet below and pm it to me.
Once I've started posting chapters you'll have to be extra-nice if you want to join, because it'll make my head hurt a little bit.

Posts here ought to be kept to a minimal, so I can keep some idea of where the story is.

Spoiler for Special Powers:

Special Powers

Telekinesis - Moving objects with the power of your mind
Regeneration - Quick healing of your own wounds, body does not regenerate after death
Healing - Can quicken healing of other's wounds, cannot heal after death and cannot heal yourself
Animal Morphing - Can morph into an animal, learning new morphs takes time and experience
Invisibilty - Can turn invisible for periods of time
Superhuman Strength and Reflexes - Increased strength and reflex speed
Phasing - Can 'phase' through solid objects
Superhuman Vision - Increased range of vision, as well as night-sight
Precognition - Can gain some knowledge of the future
Telepathy - Can read the thoughts of others, some chance of mind-control
Negate Powers - Can cancel out the powers of others nearby
Electric Manipulation - Can wield some control over electricity
Weather Manipulation - Can wield some control over the weather
Gravity Manipulation - Can wield some control over gravity
Pyro Manipulation - Can wield some control over fire
Aqua Manipulation - Can wield some control over water
Ice Manipulation - Can wield some control over ice, touching objects can lower their temperature
Sound Manipulation - Can wield some control over sound waves (such as creating sonic booms)
Force Field Manipulation - Can create force-fields of energy
Superhuman Speed - Increased speed of movement
Flight - Levitation of varying strength

Basically this could either work and be really fun or phail phail phail and make me look pretentious.

So if you're active and interested, pm me a filled in character sheet and I'll have them background story'd up and have the first chapter up in a week or so (depending on what feedback is like).

So...woo for uberpost.