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TopGof Three potted cactus in a trench coat. from The Part of the world that's on fire. Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking

Three potted cactus in a trench coat.

#101: May 19th 2017 at 12:45:56 AM

Isn't it awkward when you are about to post an idea, then find that you took so long typing it up that somebody else posted an idea along similar lines? Anyway here's three possible antagonists for you.

Little Red (Vampire tree)

Name: Little Red
Species: Elder Jubokko (vampiric demon tree)
Skills:
- Movement: One of the many things fauna take for granted yet count as a skill for a tree. Yes he can move around. So can the other Jubokko.
- Socialization: Little Red can speak privately to other plants, Jubokko and any being that can talk to trees. It is almost definitely spreading rumors about one of the non-Jubokko man-eating trees. It tends to put on a more civil facade when speaking to somebody who cannot "speak plant."
- Vampirism: Little Red's branches can turn into tubes that function similarly to a mosquito's proboscis, though a lot bigger, stronger and made of wood(imagine a needle the size of a garden hose). It also likes to drink the spilled blood in with its roots
- Slow Regeneration: Little Red can heal rather quickly from physical wounds. Whack it a few times with an ax and the marks will be gone within as many hours.
- Mental Manipulation: Little Red can confuse, befuddle, and read minds. The tree can also draw people into its reach by working off emotions. i.e. If you're tired the Jubokko will look nice and inviting to lay down under.
- Summon Mook: Red's leaves can turn into batlike creatures that hunt for and feed it. Little Red is also the only Elder Jubokko in his (insert whatever you call a group of tree demons here), so he tends to be something of a defacto leader as the oldest, and strongest of the group.
- Healing Powers: In the blood-sap that comes out if you get a good hit in, and the branches. Both have incredible medicinal properties that can heal basically anything between them if you prep it right. Little Red will, of course, deny any of it.
Personality: Little Red is often quite civil when somebody talks to it face to face, but is liable to eat people and spread nasty rumors when their back is turned... or it can reach them. Red, like all Jubokko, is always thirsty and even he will tell you he's not too picky. He'll eat anything big enough to drain a little blood from, so long as he can eat it and it isn't a spirit, poisonous, or filled with overly magical blood (causes indigestion). He doesn't actually view any of his actions as evil, simply as something you do, though the non-Jubokko trees in the area see him as something of an elitist and with due cause. Little Red still thinks fondly of the Count that raised him and regrets his "rebellious phase."
Appearance: When not attacking somebody or wounded, Little Red looks like a medium height tree with a thick trunk and a sprawling canopy with fingerlike leaves. Oh, and the bones near the base of its trunk. He tidies them up as often as possible but they tend to accumulate.
Background: A Count (no relation to Dracula) was tired of the endless amounts vampire hunters that would come to into his castle almost unhindered, wrecking his things and killing his demonic hoards. So the Count took some advice from a strigoi to plant a tree in front of his house, and bring it up on a wholesome diet of blood and horror. When the tree eventually gained a demonic sentience and thirst for blood, he named it Little Red. Little Red would grow up in a charitable home full with the Count's leftovers, eventually seeing the Count as something of a father, and the Count saw it as a pet. Eventually, Little Red was big and strong enough to guard the castle from all those pesky vampire hunters with only the occasional Hellsing getting through. It worked so phenomenally well that the Count planted more of them, enkindling Little Red's jealousy. So it was that when the Count invited any and all counts and any other high-ranking vampires that could come so as to show off his guardtrees, introducing Little Red as just another tree among the group, that Red threw something of a fit and ate most of the party guests. It turns out that a vicious pile of living wooden stakes strong enough to crush a man in plate mail is very effective against vampires, and those that survived were understandably terrified. They forced the Count to part with his beloved pet and it's new younger siblings, demanding that they be cut down. But in an act of what might have been love, or what might have been the good sense in not trying to cut down the tree that just turned a ton of vampires into so much goop and ash, he had them sent off. After a remorseful goodbye and a long trip, they ended up in America, where they quickly gained a reputation as elitist jerks among other man-eating trees by "establishing a pecking order" wherever they went. Now they hang out in San Lorenzo woods. YAY!

Grey Sweets (Wendigo)

Name: Grey Sweets
Species: Wendigo
Skills:
- Hunger: A wendigo is always hungry and feels it as acutely as somebody in the depths of starvation. They will go to any lengths to get at the only food source that can alleviate this hunger. You can guess what that is. The more people they eat, the bigger and stronger they get, and the more people they can eat, becoming even hungrier in the long run
- Invisibility: Yup. Why? Because a giant, super strong, undead monster that is only vulnerable on the spiritual plane of existence wasn't enough for the Inuit for some reason.
- Wendigo Septic: He's not venomous, but if he scratches you it'll get a nasty infection. Like really nasty. No worse. Yeah, there ya go.
- Wendigo Strength: Super strength, a near invulnerability to physical damage, and being undead. He is vulnerable to attacks at metaphysical levels such as magic and attacks from beings with a heavy "Spiritual Presence." but if Because regular monsters weren't enough for these people.
- Cooking: He was a chef once. Ask about his secret casserole recipe, it's fantastic.
Personality: Sweets' personality is food centric. He's always seeking to satisfy his unbearable hunger and will use almost anything as a justification to eat somebody, most commonly "If they knew how hungry I was then they would WANT to be eaten, possibly offer to cook themselves into a _____. Mmm, _____." His past as a chef holds strong, however, and he has not yet failed to try and get people to choose a dish to be part of, he's a cook, not a savage. Sweets is also completely off the deep end if you haven't noticed.
Appearance: A giant emaciated man-wolf-caribou thing with ash gray skin. He has not won any beauty contests for it.
Background: Gray sweets was a cook before the event. Everyone knew him, everyone liked him. Often carried leftovers he couldn't save over to the homeless shelter, rather than throw them away, gave cake to orphans, that kind of thing. Afterward, he was a foody, though people didn't realize it at first. Once he had eaten himself out of business he began eating trash, then random plants, then trees, then wild animals and anything else he could find in his desperate search for food to make the hunger go away. It was once he had tried eating basically everything else in the neighborhood(rats, raccoons, cars, street lamps etc.) that he was discovered trying to make off with somebodies dog. At that point he was absolutely nuts with hunger, cooking and eating everything he could see. He fell into the pattern that all the wendigo transformed eventually fell into. First, one kept him full for a day, then it would take a slightly larger one, then a larger one, then he needed to eat two a day to keep full, and so on. He would spend the rest of his days on America's most wanted list as he ate his way across the nation.

Aria Green (Plotdevices R Us)

Name: Aria Green
Species: Alan
Skills:
- Stock Trading: She was good at it even before becoming a monster.
- Running a Company: Master's in business, and holds sway over the majority of companies in town.
- Untouchable: So ridiculously rich that her lawyers can get her out of basically any fuss she can get into.
- Flight: With her wings
- "Fortune:'' Since becoming a monster everything from money to magical knick knacks tend to fall into her lap, or just appear in a room she owns when not looking. It's gotten to the point where she owns half the town, a large portion of the businesses, and most of the organized crime in town is on her payroll.
Personality:Immediately unlikable. She's greedy enough to make Ebenezer Scrouge blush, and mean enough to make a dryad's tree into a coffee table. Do to the fact that her sister, and mother, turned into dryads this is somewhat of a touchy topic amongst the family, especially considering that this is a literal thing she has done. "Miss Simmons' tree" is in her living room.
Appearance: Her face is a gray leathery beaked shell with two beady black eyes poking out from it. She has an extra set of batlike wings to go along with her new folded torso. Each of her fingers points backward at the wrist, and her toes do the same at the heal all ending in long sharp claws.
Background: Aria has always been a greedy money grubbing maniac. She was running extortion rackets since the first grade, a food business since the third and learning how to scam people out of their money from her father as far back as she could remember. Aria's relation with her family was forever strained since her sister and mother were more like the people she would scam than they were like Aria or her father. She eventually went to college and continued in her ways. She came back ten times smarter and an even worse human being for it. She hadn't even paid off her student loan when the transformation occurred. When she found all her endeavors succeeding and herself bogged down with cash, she paid them off in record time. She put her talents to use and soon built herself an empire.

Don't really know for sure what I was thinking when I made these, but I was going for an enemy that you have options on how to face. You can brute force it to no small amount of difficulty or choose a different route, and maybe not have to fight at all. Anyways, all of them are flawed and need some serious editing, and chopping down. But I'm writing this super late when I'm writing this and I am not in a proper state to make these decisions. I'm forced to fall back on the excuse as old as time itself "I'll do it later." I appreciate any feedback but don't feel pressured to read all or any of it. I get really wordy when I'm sleepy.

Argue everything you can argue. Doubt everything you believe. Ask every question you have. Argue, doubt and ask. Through this we learn.

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001

#102: May 19th 2017 at 7:06:17 AM

Whoops, it turns out that I cannot add new entries to the Main Lists because I'm not the original poster. I'll see what I can do. In the meanwhile, both of Vampire's and TopGof's characters are approved.

edited 19th May '17 7:06:46 AM by Sijo

TacoBadger Well, it’s a badger, that’s for sure from either behind you or Albuquerque Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord

Well, it’s a badger, that’s for sure

#103: Jun 4th 2017 at 6:52:50 PM

Name: Stanley Waylon
Species: Human
Skills: Average strength. Higher than average intelligence. Survival instinct. Uh... I played baseball in elementary school? Does that help?
Personality: On an average day, Stan is charming and witty. He has a big sense of humor, and is very fun loving. But, days are rarely average here. Stanley is often stupefied and bumbling due to the amount of monsters in his area.
Appearance: https://ibb.co/bDGJ3F
Background: He'd leave, but he really doesn't want to. Something about monsters attracts Stanley. It's a bit of a turn-on, without venturing into rude territory. So, Stanley tries to bridge the gap with monsters, because he's really into them. He's relatively new, so he doesn't know that many people, but he wants to know people, and he wants to meet a nice monster girl to live with for the rest of his life. Is that so much to ask for?

Huzzah

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001

#104: Jun 4th 2017 at 6:59:06 PM

Hello again, Taco. No problem, you can have a normal human character. But are you fully familiar with the setting? Most (not all) monsters are people transformed by a magitech accident. And while San Lorenzo has a lot of them, there are many more humans. There's considerable racial tension but also groups trying to help society heal.

Anyway, approved. Err, I'm waiting on permission to edit the membership list (I did not make the first post) but go ahead and play already if you want.

edited 4th Jun '17 7:00:26 PM by Sijo

TacoBadger Well, it’s a badger, that’s for sure from either behind you or Albuquerque Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord

Well, it’s a badger, that’s for sure

#105: Jun 4th 2017 at 7:16:45 PM

Hello again. I did have a different idea of the lore when writing it, but after re-reading, I don't think it changes anything, really.

Huzzah

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001

#106: Jun 5th 2017 at 3:15:20 PM

OK! The new Sign-up Thread is up [1] Please use that one from now on.

MODS PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS THREAD! The new signup will link to the old entries here.

emilyorthoclase from Chicago, IL Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]

#107: Jun 15th 2017 at 9:22:09 PM

*Name: Roger "Rocky" Rothstein

*Species: Golem

*Skills:

Super strength and nigh invulnerability
Some training in boxing and judo

*Personality: Gregarious, loyal, and gentle, Rocky has taken his newfound status as a monster well - maybe too well. His kids think he's in denial, and Rocky does experience intermittent depressive periods. His new physique means that he has to be careful at all times to avoid accidentally hurting anyone, and while he has successfully done so so far, he has a tendency to break things by accident.

*Appearance: Rocky is a seven foot tall person-shaped hunk of clay, completely bald, and usually clad in a t-shirts and jeans

*Background:

Roger Rothstein was a perfectly average man from Chicago. He was widowed, had two adult kids (Sam, a math teacher, and Rachel, an attorney), and worked as an elementary school gym teacher. Then the M-reactor malfunctioned, turning Roger into a golem. The school he worked at fired him, thinking he was a potential threat to the students.
In what his kids have called a mid-life crisis and Roger has called an opportunity, he decided to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a wrestler. Starting off locally, he quickly grew a following. After finding out about the existence of the Monster League, he's moved to Southern California to join.

edited 15th Jun '17 9:22:52 PM by emilyorthoclase

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001

#108: Jun 16th 2017 at 7:16:11 AM

Approved! But, err, you were supposed to post this *on the New Signup Thread* Oh well I'll link to here from it.

emilyorthoclase from Chicago, IL Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]

#109: Jun 21st 2017 at 8:55:45 PM

Posted this on the new thread, putting it here for posterity.

The San Lorenzo Witches Coven

Name: Paloma Dominguez
Species: Witch
Skills:
- Paloma's affinity is cats, allowing her to communicate with them, influence them, and in some cases outright control them.
- Paloma is always accompanied by her Familiar, a ginger tabby named Xochi. Xochi is a construct created by the spirit Paloma made her deal with, and relays everything she experiences back to the spirit even as she assists Paloma. Xochi has all the abilities you'd expect from a cat, plus human-level intelligence.
Personality: The coven doesn't have an official leader, but if they did, it would probably be Paloma. The most knowledgeable and experienced of the coven, she's an expert on magic and she wants you to know that. She's an adept manipulator, especially when it comes to using the image of a sweet old lady to get what she wants. She's very attached to Cassandra (and to a lesser extent, Elaine), who she views as as something of a surrogate daughter, and while she wouldn't say she likes Morgan, they do respect one another, somewhat.
Appearance: A rotund sixtysomething Mexican woman with shoulder-length gray hair tied back in a bun, wearing a black knee-length skirt and red shawl, always accompanied by a scrappy ginger tabby.
Background:
- In 1969, Paloma's mother contracted influenza. She was ill for weeks, with no apparent end in sight. A then thirteen-year-old Paloma had a dream telling her to go to the Mojave Desert if she wanted to save her mother, so Paloma stole her father's car and drove into the desert. There, she met a spirit who promised her power, enough to save her mother, and Paloma accepted. Paloma was found two days later by the authorities and returned to her family. While she had been gone, her mother had passed away.
- Paloma spent the next fifty years working at the local animal shelter and practicing magic, aided by a mysterious cat she found who she named Xochi. Children told stories about her being a witch, and adults avoided her with tight-lipped disapproval. Paloma told herself she was fine with this.
- After the M-reactor malfunctioned, Paloma was visited by Cassandra Gardner, a witch who had been kicked out by her parents. Impressed by Cassandra's lack of fear, Paloma agreed to take her on as a student and boarder. They were later joined by a third witch, Morgan Prescott, to form a coven.
Name: Morgan Prescott
Species: Witch
Skills:
- Morgan's affinity is for levitation, allowing her to make herself and objects around her float with ease.
Personality: Calm and collected, Morgan largely communicates through sarcasm as a means of hiding her insecurities. And she has many insecurities, largely stemming from her screwed-up upbringing and how it relates to her status as an unwed mother and a witch. So she points out others' flaws, she digs into their anxieties, and she makes herself feel better for a while. On some level, she's aware that this behavior isn't healthy, but she can't stop herself. More than anything, she wants to prove herself and be a good parent to Elaine, and while she skews toward overprotective most of the time, it has yet to cause any problems seeing as Elaine is only five.
- For her part, Elaine is a sweet, precocious girl who likes coloring, cartoon robots, and stealing things (given her lack of guilt over it, it's probably not kleptomania. Morgan is adamant that it's just a phase). Paloma and Cassandra have more or less adopted her as a sort of niece.
Appearance: A rail thin blonde with a sharp face and a penchant for sweater vests and dark blue.
- Elaine is a small, chubby half-Vietnamese girl who wears a lot of pink.
Background:
- Morgan is the middle child and sole daughter of a preppy east coast family. Her father, Darcy Prescott III, had some...interesting ideas about child-rearing, and he pitted Morgan and her brothers, Darcy IV and Elliot, against one another for his affection in the name of making them "strong." Her mother Melinda preferred to verbally belittle Morgan while coddling Darcy and Elliot.
- During a family vacation in California, nineteen-year-old Morgan met a bartender named Ned Nguyen. The two of them started dating, mostly because Morgan knew her family would never approve of him. A month in, Morgan discovered she was pregnant. Seeing a way away from her family, Morgan convinced Ned to run away with her, and they ended up in San Lorenzo. Morgan attended community college and worked as a waitress; Ned continued tending bar.
- As Morgan and Ned got to know each other, they soon realized that they were very incompatible in the long term. When Elaine was two, they decided to split up, alternating custody every week.
- After the M-reactor malfunctioned, Morgan found herself causing things and people around her to suddenly float (and on occasion, floating herself). After a few months of mishaps, she visited a fortune teller for advice (despite being somewhat skeptical about the whole thing). Said fortune teller was Cassandra Gardner, another woman who had developed strange abilities after the M-reactor, and the two formed an unlikely friendship. After Morgan was introduced to Cassandra's mentor Paloma Dominguez, the three of them started a coven.
Name: Cassandra Gardner
Species: Witch
Skills:
- Cassandra's affinity is for divination. When she is underwater, she can see the future. If time is of the essence, she can just dunk her head, but complete submersion works best for the full effect.
- Cassandra is an experienced swimmer.
Personality: Cassandra is dour, deadpan, and death-obsessed (she would probably qualify as a Goth if not for a fashion sense that some have described as "tweenage eco-fairy princess"). She may be moody and passive aggressive, but her insight and compassion are the glue that holds the coven together.
Appearance: A pale girl with shoulder-length auburn hair and a swimmer's build. Her typical outfit consists of a t-shirt, a pink tulle skirt, and purple hi-top sneakers. Also glitter.
Background:
- Cassandra didn't have a particularly fun childhood - bouncing from foster home to foster home and getting bullied relentlessly. Things started looking up in sixth grade, when she joined the swim team and proved to be quite good at it.
- The day after the M-reactor malfunctioned, Cassandra had a vision of a fire at a hotel during a swim meet. While her school lost, Cassandra, intrigued by what she had seen, visited the hotel and ended up witnessing the fire in person.
- After several more experiments, Cassandra concluded that something had happened, and she decided to visit Paloma Dominguez, an elderly woman rumored to be a witch. She managed to convince Paloma to take her on as a student and boarder.
- Cassandra dropped out of school and started working as a fortune teller. It was through this that she met Morgan Prescott, another witch. The two formed an unlikely friendship, and Morgan joined Cassandra and Paloma to form a coven.

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001

#110: Jun 21st 2017 at 10:04:24 PM

Please nobody else post here, use the Updated thread to avoid confusion.

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