Fenrir sounds good.

edited 30th Apr '17 7:57:35 AM by kaalban

Going with Fenir, naturally!

While it means abandoning the symbol I had going with Hecatoncheires, a clawed hand where the thumb and index finger are highlighted to make a Roman numeral C for 100, Fenrir/Fenris might work better.

However, Hydra infamously had a number of off-shoots, so nothing stops us from using the rejected runner-ups for future names of such or subgroups otherwise.

Weird. Everything seems to have slown down, not just on this RP, but on others as well. Is there some kind of holiday I'm not aware of?

Ah, no wonder. Is it Swedish?

edited 30th Apr '17 12:06:25 PM by Enirboreh

National cabbage day

In our case its more like we are returning to our regular pace, there was a frenzy of activity recently.

edited 30th Apr '17 5:50:59 PM by Sijo

Okay, here's a concept I've been brewing for a bit now. And possibly to set up a future hero.

• Langston University was founded as Easton University by Jeremy H. Langston, in 1953, one year after the disbanding of the Glory Guard. Langston, also known as Metallic Man, was one of the members of the Glory Guard, and after its disbanding, he retired from hero work and founded the school. After his death in 1982, the university was renamed to Langston University.
• Langston University is a research university on the western side of the city. LU participates in research projects ranging from theoretical physics to archaeology to engineering. Langston graduates are given a comprehensive study of various fields followed by a specialization into a field of their choice. Due to Easton's history of being a hotbed for super activity in the United States, Langston University is remarkably egalitarian.
• Langston University works closely with companies like Omnitech for internship opportunities for the more tech-minded students, among other opportunities.

I like it. We could set many of our characters and plots there.

So unless anyone wants to add something, I'll approve it.

Edit: this is probably unnecessary, but anyway: on Monday May 1st, there will be a National Strike on Puerto Rico, mainly because of the way our 85 Billion dollar national debt has been handled. While the government assures us necessities like water and power will NOT be cut during the strike, rumors persist so, juuust in case, if I don't log in tomorrow you now know why. (I really doubt it, I'm just being obsessive as usual.)

edited 30th Apr '17 8:44:10 PM by Sijo

Duly noted

Google translate lied to you, the correct Latin is "Sciencia Potentia Est." And I like it.

edited 1st May '17 12:08:27 AM by Izshta

Hello, everyone, I'm taking over my brother's characters, so the Minuteman and maybe the Mechaniac are coming back into play. But mostly The Minuteman.

Anyway, saw the leitmotif thing in the signup, So I'll post The Minuteman's here.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zexgc7CN3f8

Also, I saw the current events, but have no idea where to start. Anything the government might send The Minuteman after?

edited 1st May '17 11:43:24 AM by ctrl_alt_deliiiight

Well, the Power did go out here but its back now, not sure if it had anything to do with the strike or if it was just a regular blackout (we have had like, SEVEN this month > < ) So I am back... tentatively.

c_a_d: Welcome, I'll soon be updating the current events list. Also our Hydra-like organization will be debuting soon, so maybe Minuteman can fight it.

edited 1st May '17 1:37:36 PM by Sijo

I want to make one thing clear about Vigour and Stalwart's strength. James is actually weaker than Jackson in both modes, despite him being trained. The only thing holding back Jackson's power is his anxiety and his untapped potential. So Vigour is actually much weaker than Stalwart.

I've also come up with a potential source of their powers: Some kind of symbiote. Like an energy based or mental based creature, which increases the users strength, and only awakens once the user has high adrenaline levels.

~pant pant pant.~

That made my brain hurt.

Also, welcome back Sijo (for now)

edited 1st May '17 2:03:03 PM by Enirboreh

I now have another android character, Tyson the PI. Now where would be a good place to start with him?

Guess I'll wait for them to come in.

Just give me some time to deal with current plots and set up new ones guys.

In fact I would like to start a new "In-Game" day because the latest one had a ridiculous amount of events in it.

Let's do it. Give me a chance to use Tyson in a new day.

So, from what my bro's told me and what I've found by searching his posts, The Minuteman is a war hero who became an activist, got killed by not!Antifa, brought back to life by scientists and a magic angel alien thing, and now works as an anti-super agent for some government agency, who hides his employment from the public by painting himself as a normal super with a flashy outfit and an active social media presence. He also has a whole lot of guns. Is this accurate?

edited 1st May '17 6:49:15 PM by ctrl_alt_deliiiight

Check his entry, its in the character signup page in the Former Members section (I guess I should update that since you are playing his characters now.)

Remember, you *must* use the stuff written in the Character Sheet, that way there is no argument about what he can do, what he carries etc.

Edit: I've decided to do a (small) timeskip soon to start the New Day, mainly for the benefit of the new players. However I want to give time for everyone to either wrap up their current plots, or postpone them (it will be most likely just one in-game day)

edited 1st May '17 8:42:56 PM by Sijo

Makes sense.

So, in preparation of the Time Skip, I'm listing the currently ongoing plots:

-What to do about Papyrus and Fyodor. The smart thing would be for them to remain at Winterbloom's until their problems have been resolved. We can say they stayed overnight, and their next events occur the following day. (after the skip)

-There will probably be a battle between The Angels, Vigor and some of the Sin Princes. This deserves to be longer but again, I wish to skip to the next day. Perhaps the Princes fail to find Azur and decide to run for it.

-The characters planning to find Azur (Chickening, Terror Duo etc.) likewise can choose to meet the following day.

Is this OK by everyone? Am I missing anybody?

edited 2nd May '17 5:33:41 PM by Sijo

I will wrap things up for my characters, so that we can finally go to next day.

Ni and Kosh will sense Angels' presences and will retreat for the time being, promising to meet at the designated location.

I've got nothing to say on Terror Duo... except for the fact that I made them leave Chickening too. I changed that post to be... more ambiguous (post 2472)

Joseph and Elizabeth are in their hideout, so there is no problem for them.

edited 2nd May '17 6:47:53 PM by kaalban

Kaalban: could you post about those things? Just to make them official.

Similarly, anyone else who needs to have something happen *this* game-day, speak now. Otherwise, we Skip forward tomorrow.

edited 2nd May '17 7:19:02 PM by Sijo

Among my considerations for moving characters over to Kaapa:

Amethyst, he's a teenager, about 16. He'd be missed from the game proper though.

Rubeous, not a character I got the chance to use yet but might actually like too. I'd de-age him from 18 to maybe even younger than Amethyst.

-I just remembered I need to wrap up the TALOS/Val'Ark scene too.

   ROUGHDRAFT   

Let's not approve this outright. I still want some feedback, suggestions, what do y'all think.

But here we go, Not!Hydra

Fenrir

The great wolves who would swallow the sun, bring about the twilight of the gods and usher in a newer, better age.
Tsk

...

The most well-known origin of the Fenrir lies in twenty years proceeding The Great War and preceding its succesor. It was a coalition of men from around the world, from every ethnicity and culture, who saw past the mere limitations of skin color and sought to uplift a true master race from the human dredge. They would pathe the way for this race's ascension to global domination.

Mystical Origins

The true origins of the Fenrir were older than that. Long ago, when humanity was still young, The Monster raided the setting of The Shadow, as is The Monster's want. One of the least souls of The Shadow was captured and taken back to the ramshackle lair carved between the settings of his peers. Here, The Monster dripped snake venom into the captured extra's eyes, torturing it until insanity settled in and it transformed into a revenant.

Only then did The Shadow reveal his deception, that this lesser soul was half-dead and tainted by The Abomination. This impossible deed was done with flesh stolen from The Impossibility. The Monster recoiled in true horror and cast the unliving spirit from his presence before the taint could spread any further. It, now they, multiple and fractured in its monstrous insanity, had its emanations scattered across the universe. Their various personalities and identities were taken and taken by godlings, influencing them and being influenced by them in strange paradoxical manners; specifically Loki and all his children, including the great wolf Fenris.

Their greatest creation were the two brothers, travelling warriors, adventurers and mercenaries. The fallen soul appeared before them as a great wolf in a forest of iron and tore them apart. Upon the rise of the next moon, they rose again, changed, not quite dead or alive. They were super men who would eventually become known as Hati Moonhound the Berserker and Skoll Sunchaser the Betrayer.

They became the central figures of the Fenrir cult, the fathers to a new race of supermen that would conquer the world. Heroes, however, have never been in short supply. They were defeated upon one of their raids deep into the south of Europe, by the Bronze Bull of Crete and then banished from this world be the sorceress Medea. Skoll cursed them to betray one another before he was stricken from this world.

Skoll's curse comes true, and Medea betrays the Bronze Bull, leading to his death. As he bleeds out from a leg wound, his last thoughts are of the brothers for whom he truly blames for his predicament. With his last breath, he vows with a curse of his own to return in some shape or form and hound the brothers once more.

The Second Origin

Skoll had wormed his way back to Earth, only to find that the cult he had founded had forgotten him. He had been cast aside in favor of his brutish brother. Enraged, he infiltrated the cult and sought to destroy it from within. He would forge a new organization, one not as obsessed with spawning a master from his own loins as his brother was but his mind and imagination.

Through generations and alternate pseudonyms, he bid his time. It was the period between the World Wars that saw the genesis of his new Fenris as he gathered like-minded men from all over the world to his vision. Far more influential, far more driven, far more wide spread, they subsumed the old cult and replaced it with an organization and philosophy of mostly science and technology. The occultic influence of the old guard, especially in Europe, was never fully abolished, but the old cult was well and truly destroyed in time.

The final nail in the coffin for the old cult happened after WWII. They finally managed to break the Seal Of Medea and bring their god back into this world. The new organization took the opportunity to clean ranks and capture Hati. Skoll dragged his brother to a dark hole and had him disected in an effort to better understand both their biologies.

Second World War

It was during this tumultous time period that Fenris, Skoll's Fenris, saw the zenith of their power. They were spread all over the world, openly funded by the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, but their fangs sunk as well into the allies and especially indecisive America. In response, the flagging League Of Nations gave birth to TALOS and charged them with lighting a candle in the dark.

Throughout the war, TALOS fought from the shadows all across the globe against Fenrir. They countered the espionage happy branch of North America, the black art driven branch of Europe, the robotic and cybernetically inclined branch in Asia and genetic engineering of the African branch. TALOS helped to prevent any branch from gaining a foothold in Australlia, though they mostly credit that to Australlian forces themselves and something about drop-bears. To their later regret, they ignored the underfunded South American branch.

At the end of the war, TALOS stepped out of the shadows and was adopted by the League's succesor, the United Nations. The four major branches of Fenris were ousted one by one and forced to flee into the shadows. The surviving assets of all of Fenrir retreated to South America, coalescing their resources for a second coming.

The Hundred Hands Of The Hecatoncheires

From the ashes of Fenrir, a new organization arose, The Hundred Hands Of The Hecatoncheires. In reality, The Hundred Hands were more of a dummy corp, a front to hide the true return of Fenrir. After the cleansing of the old cult, a mysterious man called Deimos took to the reigns. In reality, this was the zombified corpse of Hati Moonhound, subjected to genetic and cybernetic enhancements and under the control of his brother.

Skoll Sunchaser took the identity of Grimwulf, a black robed figure with the head of a wolf skull. The story told to The Hundred Hands was that Grimwulf was the last remaining member of the old cult of Fenrir, spared by Deimos for his usefulness but permanently disfigured so as a show of power. From this position as vizier, Skoll continued to run the show.

The Hundred Hands set about their new task, to destroy the hated TALOS, to light a spark in the Cold War and to pathe the way for a new master race; them and whatever they create. TALOS is already infiltrated, sleeper agents created during the shadow wars of WWII. These agents indoctrinate more TALOS agents to the side of Fenrir, by hypnotic brainwashing or recruiting impressionable youths.

TALOS begins to catch wind of this and a civil war erupt within their ranks, agents against agents, no one knowing which side anyone is really on. They don't see this battle with their old foe as the smokescreen it partly is, albeit a particularly venomous smokescreen. Their gaze turns away from the movement of the Hundred Hands.

An all-out invasion is carried out against East and West Berlin. Horrors, genetic, robotic, cybernetic, arcane, everything Fenris ever created, are unleashed upon the armed forces and civilians alike. False reports are sent to the Americans and the Soviets that the other side is invading, and agents planted by the Hundred Hands within both governments, witting and unwitting, only further fan the flames. It seems the Cold War was damn near about to blow up in a Third World War.

TALOS gets its act together, cleansing their ranks of traitors in what his remembered as their truly darkest hour. The plans of The Hundred Hands, the pseudonym of their old enemy, is revealed and they are mobilised. Mutliple simultaneous campaigns are launched; espionage, diplomacy and military, to oust the agents of Fenris, prevent war and save Berlin.

Seeing that the jig is up, the guise of The Hundred Hands is cast aside. Some cleansing of the ranks follows, of those whose loyalties had been with the Hecatoncheires alone, but many more are relieved, or apathetic, to take up the old name. Though the flag of the Hundred Hands remains flying over Berlin, Grimwulf openly ascend to the throne. Deimos is "spared for his usefulness, but driven insane as a show of power", or so the ranks are told.

At the behest of Skoll Sunchaser the Betrayer, Hati Moonhound the Berserker takes to the field. "Deimos" leads a strike force of the very worst soldiers, warrior and monsters Fenris could raise and create, their elite, commanding the army of horrors already unleashed before. This is the opening move to Grimwulf's back-up plan, adding to the chaos and confusion as American and Soviet forces, mundane military and supers alike, move to quell it.

Deimos's strike force was one-half composed of Fenris agents with powers and abilities geared towards deceit, such a mind-bending illusionists, and one-half those with a bent for more straightforward warfare. The crowning jewel of the team was a shape-shiftic power mimic. That one spent the majority of the ability masquerading as other supers from both the Americans and the Soviets. Along with reports from political saboteurs from home, both sides are convinced that the other side is responsible for these Hundred Hands and conflict results.

An international coalition, with elements drawn from all over the world outside America and Russia, is led by TALOS into Berlin. For as much as their political and intelligence maneuvering is pulling the fangs of Fenris out from the Soviets and Americans one at a time, they know if they don't put a stop to the growing war in Berlin, it will be for naught. Not only would Berlin be wiped off the map, but the resulting fallout may very well spark a global conflict no matter how many Fenrir agents they manage to remove.

As the history books say, TALOS prevails. By force or reason, the militaries of the Soviets and Americans are made to stand down. Their supers are made to see reason or simply beaten into submission. The coalition, bolstered by some of the more reasonable Soviet and American super heroes, finally strike out against Deimos and Fenris.

Many brave souls die in that battle, including the Jade Turtle of China. His green power crystal eventually makes its way to a young Indian woman, who takes up the moniker of the Emerald Comet, and later Emerald. Rainbow Warrior of Rwanda, Africa, is credited with landing the killing blow on Deimos. She reported that Deimos smiled at the very end, as if he were finally at peace.

The resulting mop-up saw to the nigh-complete cleansing of Fenris once and for all. However, TALOS remains wary.

Now

The public has largely pushed Fenris to back of their minds, even TALOS. However, veteran agents still keep one eye peeled open for their old foe. The Shield Of Humanity is earmarked as a possible Fenris resurgence but they have only some pretty damn good conjecture so far. That the Invasion was a Fenris comeback was one of TALOS's original theories before they learned the truth. Afterwards, they leaked the theory out to let it become a competing conspiracy theory, shouting over all the others, including "it was aliens".

There had been numerous reports of Grimwulf's death or capture, each of them proving false or insubstantial. He is believed to still be at large and attempting to rebuild Fenrir. Only recently, the facility containing Deimos's body, still fresh after all these years, was raided and the corpse stolen. TALOS has been unable to figure out who did this, but veteran agents know who is at the top of their suspect list.

edited 3rd May '17 12:02:04 AM by God_of_Awesome