Era of the Old/New Gods - Closed, may be reopened...

Oh yeah, GL do you want to know Lash's ability? Hm... there's a few reasons why it should stay a secret, heh.

Sure!

I'll PM it to you in a second.

Read it, really good stuff! Very unique!

Thanks, I'll respond tomorrow.



Hmmmm... we need more people here, and more interactions. GL, is there any of my characters you want Alex to interact with.

I'll take a look tomorrow and respond some time then.

Sorry for the lack of information in the appearance and personality sections Lonestar, I usually like to write those out in-character. I'm going to work on the bio later, but here is what I have to offer you now.


Name: Black Bedrich
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Appearance: Black is a bit of wildcard; if you're trying to identify his heritage. His father was Czechoslovakian, later being a citizen of the Czech Republic who left for Scotland because of the politics. He met Black's mother, and they soon married and had him. The economy drove them to seek their fortune around north-eastern United States, and there he is. Black has pale skin and a brown-red mix bed head kind of hair-do accompanied by matching stubble and strikingly intelligent green eyes. Having grown up in Scotland until sixteen, he has an accent which has been watered down a bit since his moving to the States. He usually wears something comfortable, whether it be baggy jeans, cargos, or even camo pants (he never wears shorts though, never ever). With that, he mainly wears a typical, white mens tank top when at home or just being casual and he always has those black combat boots. He is in good athletic shape, stands at 5'11", and to total it out, he weighs 175 lbs. Black has a few scars with their own stories (though none that are too notable), and rather calloused hands. Black owns little to no jewelry except for dog tags on a chain for when he was in service.
Black has a few quirks, and may even appear as hyper-active, especially if you look at his fingers which seem to be constantly moving or doing something.

Personality: The appearance section had it right; but those green eyes of his are nowhere near capable of reflecting his intellectual aptitude and bright creativity. He is rather gentle for the most part, but it is hard to see that if you can't get past his work-fixated mindset. There are always projects to be done, work to be handled, things to invent, books to read, simply a whole world that appears to be open to him like a public library. This larger and life disposition can make him appear rather charismatic to the untrained eye, but it a tad awkward in semi-casual social interactions with an unknown individual as making new friends isn't on his priority list. Religion and politics is unimportant to him as they are unrelated to his primary concerns, sexuality poses no issue to him, racism is illogical; this is to say that Black has little concern for much of the cultural issues that plagues the country as they are too silly to be worrying about in the first place. He tends to be rather oblivious to romantic relations and/or interactions, and it would take a lot for him to be attracted to a woman in a first place. But let's get back to one thing; he is a genius - hands down, no questions asked. He is knowledgeable in many different areas of expertise, including but not limited to: calculus, arithmetic, history, biology, computers, engineering, thermonuclear astrophysics... you know, the simple stuff.

Other: Black's father, Oswald Bedrich, was a steadfast citizen of the country Czechoslovakia long before it broke apart into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, more inherited by the more Germanic, Czech side of the country. The political instability lasted long before the break-up, and his father fled the country when the politics became too much for him. An engineer and mathematician by trade, it was easy to find work when he moved to Scotland. It later became a part time job when he figured out becoming a college professor suited him more naturally. He met one of his students, a young woman, Adair, only a year or two younger than he was, and learned that her primary aspiration was to be a network engineer and computer analyst. Apparently his advanced arithmetic course could assist her in better understanding binary code, which is a series of consecutive numbers, a code or "language" that computers use to process data and information. Over the course of the year, Black's father has bonded with this particular student and when she graduated, their relationship wasn't just teacher-student, but actual close friends. This friend, eventually became his romantic, and then Black's mother. There was little argument over the boy's name. The father while somewhat homesick, had no desire to give the boy a Czechoslovakian name. His mother however, wanted to give him a good, traditional Scottish name. The father didn't argue, and then there came the name "Black Bedrich".

Of course, his childhood was different than most people and was considered a child prodigy. He picked up basic skills with ease and said his first word at around six months of age. He could speak fluently at age four, and when you're smart and in kindergarten, you tend to get pretty popular. Of course, that mindset changes around elementary school and beyond. He was considered a nerd of course and was teased. His first experience in a fight with another student was in second or third grade when a larger, older student started messing with him and faked a punch; this is also when he began to learn of his ability to process information faster than others. He reacted nearly instantly, not knowing the punch would be fake, and twisted the boy's arm and landing a punch in the ribs. He would have been in trouble if the blow horn hadn't tossed him into an epileptic fit. Black learned a lot about himself that day. It was around fourth grade though when they moved to America since work around Scotland was getting hard to come by.

Nobody actually thought of his power to actually be a power, rather than some miracle of nature or freak accident. His mother and father taught Black what they knew of their professions when he was in high school until they taught him all they knew. Throughout his schools years, he has been getting A's and those occasional B's and has been skipping grades until he graduated high school between fifteen and sixteen. At the time, they couldn't afford a big fancy college, so they took him to a local university.

Let's fast forward: he's twenty. He got a doctorate's degree in biochemical engineering (medicine), an associate's degree in mechanical engineering, an associate's degree in physics (including quantum and nuclear), an associate's degree in history, in mathematics (calculus, geometry, arithmetic, etc.), in all sorts of things. He took no classes in other sciences (he probably already knows have the things there are to know about them). One thing he was never interested in though was string theory. In fact, the subject mostly just pisses him off so don't even bring it up. Anyhow, he originally started off making medicine as a company manager. He he was young back when 9/11 happened, and while he felt fiercely patriotic at the time of the event, he was took young and that passion has since been tempered. Another catastrophic event had happened overseas leaving him rather patriotic again, and the military even had a special job opening. So he has since put his medicine career on hold and enlisted. After a year of training, he was assisting in weapon manufacture and design, including firearms, explosives, and even warheads. He quickly learned thermonuclear astrophysics from their best and soon got started. There was only a few times he had to go out on the field himself. After five years of service, he resigned himself from duty out of a fit of guilt. Some Afghanistan militia had somehow taken under custody a bomb of Black's making. It was a thermal warhead, which instead of just exploding and blowing everything around it, released an immense amount of heat and some device that emitted microwaves. So instead of destroying everything around it, it cooked and fried every living person that was around it. It isn't as inhumane as it sounds, as the process is near instantaneous. Anyways, after getting a hold of the device, they tossed it into an American base. Black felt responsible for their deaths and personally hand-written all of their eulogies before packing his bags. It has been a year since he has left service and has gotten back into the trade of constructing medicine (looking for ways to create some common cold vaccine, mostly).

Power: He's pretty much a Stephen Hawking, except he'd put that little crippled bitch to shame. But okay, let's be technical with this. His brain is essentially super charged and is almost always active and operating at one hundred and ten percent. The size and amount of electrical discharges his brain conducts are completely out of the ordinary, capable of processing information at the speed of a super computer, and allowing him to react to the stimulating factor almost instantly. His brain capacity is also larger so it doesn't completely overcharge him and fry his brain. Many nerves and little tissues in the brain holds information and data so to speak and are half as large as they normally would. Those little pieces of data containers are multiplied and hold just as much as the average sized glands in the cerebral cortex of your brain. So he is allowed to process information, contain more information, react to outside stimulation, and produce conclusion to various problems much faster and more effectively than anybody else. Unfortunately, all of this activity comes at some price like all things do. There are sections of the brain called the pons and cerebellum, which are the brains sensory organs, and is also more sensitive than the average man. This curses Black with epilepsy, which can make the victim suffer seizures when processing an excess amount of information gathered by the sensory organs, especially that of the eyes and ears. Flashing lights and loud noises can cause these, lights being more effective than sound. Getting shot, as you can imagine, is rather uncomfortable experience; even more-so for Black. Another part of the brain, called the medulla oblongata, is responsible for the automatic functions such as breathing, your heart rate, and digestion. This is a mixed bag, as breathing can get more oxygen in your blood and your brain, your heart rate can get that oxygen around faster, and digestion breaks down the food faster. This also allows toxins to travel throughout his body lot faster than you and I.

Accepted. I will index later.

Last character for now. Let's get this rolling.



Name: Megan Emmet Jerius
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Appearance: Megan is a woman of youthful energy and has a strangely Gothic-like appearance, she appears to be way younger than she is like a teenager. To get started she is a European woman of light-olive colored flawless skin with no imperfections such as scars, blemishes, etc. She does have a few large and noticeable freckles sprinkled all across her face. She comes from a family of Britons, her Father, Mother, Grandmother are all from the great English Country, she has lived in England for a good majority of her younger years before departing for the states at the age of 27 to live with her family and experience new things. Since I couldn't resist this; she speaks with a heavy English accent in her natural voice. Megan has a slender, yet athletic build, with a bit of muscles on her being only visible to curious eyes and on her arms, her shoulders are a bit wide for a woman. Standing tall at 5'11 weighing exactly 153 pounds. She has abnormally-long arms and legs, it isn't genetic at all.


Megan has a square shaped face, very pronounced facial features. Due to her powers she is really attractive--- not the most attractive woman on Earth, but pretty easy on the eyes. On that subject she has slightly large and cat-like eyes, which are brown and very distinct in shape. She has a small nose, it's usually not the first thing you'll notice about her, and her ears are medium-sized and pointed at the tips. The color of her hair varies, naturally her hair is straight, and black. Styled as a tidy bobcut.




Megan dresses in a Gothic-like style without over doing it, the main part of her attire is her long knee-length frilled dress, it looks kinda like one of those dresses you'd see movie stars in. This dress has no sleeves and worn over it is a black unbuttoned vest made from the same material as her dress. Directly above her waist is a thick leather belt, which serves absolutely no purpose other than adding on to her style. When she's wearing this dress she has on barely transparent thigh-high/hold-up stockings, and all black combat boots, these are clearly made for men but she doesn't exactly care. Finally, around her neck carries a diamond necklace, not one of those highly expensive ones, nope. The cheap ones that you can get from the malls.


Of course she tends to wear other things when the situation calls for it. This is her casual attire.


Other:


Power: All of her perfect and flawless appearance is because she is a shape shifter, her looks are taken from other people. You see, Megan can copy aspects of people depending on what part of them she consumes. So to elaborate on a greater level; if she drinks someone's spit then she'll be able to speak in their voice at will, if she eats a bit of someone's skin/hair she can change into their face, if she drinks someone's blood then she'll be able to change into their body, and if she licks up someone's tears then she'll have their eyes. As you may have already thought; she just goes around and if she sees something she likes on someone then she'll work to acquire it and add it to her being. At will she can change things about herself, such as change her skin color to any natural shade, or change the color of her iris, and she can do this while having some one else's form so she can easily disguise herself.



But, the ability that really takes the cake is her... hm. Absolute shape shifting, as I'll call it. She'll be able to shape shift into a perfect copy of someone having all their looks, memories, personality, and even power. At a horrible cost of course. She'll have to cut someone's head open and eat a piece of someone's brain. That is something undesirable because one; it requires the person to be dead (and she isn't even that cruel) and it's a messy process.




Another ability that Megan processes is that on touch she can shape shift into object as long as it's no bigger than herself. Almost anything, though unlike her human shape shifting abilities she can only turn into one object after she touches it. And she can still feel pain while being the object, and in that form she'll take damage like a human--- meaning if it breaks then she'll start gushing out blood and when she reverts back to a human she will be injured.




Now, there are quite a few drawbacks to this amazing ability. The biggest weakness is that her body is extra sensitive and frail at the same time. So, someone poking her will hurt her much more than a regular human and her skin will get ripped up far easier, cold and heat are also extra bad for her. Next, there are things that Megan can't copy, such as unnatural alterations to a being (Tattoos, Dyed Hair, etc) or scars. So, if she turns into that man that is covered in tattoos it's a dead give away, but that's not going to be the case most of the time. Say if she copies Jake's appearance she won't have that noticeable scar under his eye. Finally, if she falls unconscious or goes to sleep she'll revert back to her default form (the form described in her appearance section) and if she's damaged too much she'll also revert back to the default form. Some frequencies of sound and light will also cause her to turn into her TRUE form which is worse than her default form.


You don't want to see her true form.

My characters will soon be appearing. Claire's intro will be rather...memorable, though I need to ask lone about it first, as it kinda breaks the "average joe" rule.

What did you have in mind?

Basically, Peter steals a boatload of money from Carole's father so she hires Claire to "get rid" of him.

So she's the mercenary type? I`ll allow it as long as it's kept small scale. Meaning she shouldnt be a professional death machine.

She's not a killing machine; she's kinda like one of big, tough-looking bikers that the people in the movies use to bump people off.

Then go ahead. I have several characters free for interaction. But I would like it if someone talked to Lin.

Maxx, I just got a great idea: How about Peter comes to Johnny/Sylvia to help him with Claire?

I got the bio in. It's a rough draft, but it should do adequately.

Interesting. The bio is fine with me.

Post comin' up.


Hm... I need a new theme for Claire. Something upbeat and metal-y, like Metallica.

Or dubstep? I can help you out there.

posted. did my post portray the rich bitch stereotype well enough?

No. No dubstep please.

Just a notice; I'm getting rid of Matt and Ahmed and replacing them with some...darker...characters.

Note that if this goes against the "average joe" rule, I will edit it.

name: Carter Eldridge

age: unknown

gender: assumed to be male.

appearance: Well, that's a little complicated. Imagine your worst fear, just a thousand times worse. In his non-mutated form, Carter appears as a six foot tall humanoid wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and matching black jeans, along with ruined black tennis shoes. His face...well...he doesn't have one. His face is completely covered over by what looks like a thick, slimy black film that's almost oil-like. The film smells terrible, like the worst thing you've ever smelled, though the particular odor is different from person to person. Though he has no face, he can still see, hear, and smell, though apparently cannot smell his own odor.



personality: Carter's mind is as broken as his appearance. Years of isolation and fear have caused him to become more animal-like and human-like. He is very instinctive, and fears humans, though, like most animals, his fear often turns into violence. He is seen as a monster by all, and it weighs down on his psyche. He has taken to talking to himself obsessively out of sheet loneliness (like Gollum from Lord of the Rings), and constantly refers to someone named "Lenore", who seems to be his imaginary friend.

powers: Carter is known as an Eldritch Abomination. He has the ability to shapeshift into any object. Well, sort of. When he transforms into an object or person, he becomes a severely warped, mutilated form of whatever he is turning into. Each transformation is different, even if he is transforming into something that he's already turned into before. The abominations can look like pretty much anything and only vaguely resemble the original human. Common mutations are long, slimy tentacles in place of long hair and massive, sloth-like claws instead of long fingernails. The slime itself has the same protection and strength of human skin, though heals about three times faster.

Now for drawbacks. Firstly, Carter's makeup gives him fits. The black slimy film on his body absorbs heat, making him quickly begin to overheat in bright sunlight. Secondly, the film is highly flammable, causing Carter to fear fire over anything else. When he sees any kind of flame, instinct takes over and he runs, for if fire touches him, hi entire body would go up in a fiery explosion, instantly killing him.

other: he is currently being contained in a biomedical research facility north of Black Falls.

Addendum-C1: on the makeup of Carter.

Carter's gelatinous makeup has been identified as some sort of nonmatter substance, though is not antimatter or strange matter. In normal form, his mass fluctuates increasingly without his body mass changing, meaning that some of his cells can actually faze out of existence in unpredicted ways. Secondly, the fact that his shapeshifting abilities are not limited by his amount of cells also breaks the laws of matter, meaning that his body can spontaneously create new cells out of what appears to be thin air, and destroy them at will. This does not seem to give him any sort of advantage, as he can be damaged as easily as a human can, and cannot control these weight and mass fluctuations.

I will comment on your sheet in the morning.

Now I'm going to get this out of the way since I was planning on revealing it at a later date but to be honest it's not that much of a reveal. There is a secret organization out there under the wing of government with their own special-forces sect that's specifically trained to hunt down mutants when they are discovered. They have eyes and ears everywhere especially research facilities. So I'm going have to ask that no one else puts anything along the lines of "captured for research" without running it by me, now on to the yel- I mean commenting.


First of which, Maxx. For starters no acid or toxic skin. The Eldritch Shape shifting is powerful enough on it's own.




Now on to you Operator. I have been thinking a lot on the subject and talking to a few people, and I have came to a decision. I know this is a bit late but I'm going have to ask that you nerf Proto more--- for starters get rid of the healing and make him heal like a regular human. Then I also want you for here on end to- you know make Proto a more original character since at this point he's basically Alex Mercer.



That is all.

Alright. I'll take that part out.