Too Many Cooks Spoil The Multiverse: This Is (Not) A Joke [Interest Check/Signup Thread]

• Name: "V" Vincent (Nomad Path)
• Appearance: The Arasaka Survivor
• Setting: Cyberpunk 2077
• Powers/Abilities: A chromed up choom with experience in the unusual, only accelerated by the Relic
  • The Relic - V's link to Johnny, a biochip that contains a digitized engram of Johnny's consciousness, it protects V from a variety of attacks against his brain and even is a major buffer against everyone's greatest nightmare, cyberpsychosis.
  • Mantis Blades - V's primary melee weapon, implanted blades contained in his forearms, the blades can be swapped out with treated blades and are sharp enough on their own to cut through intense subdermal armor of even the most enhanced Malestrom cyberpsycho.
  • Kereznikov - A neuralware processor that enhances V's already impressive reflexes
  • Chromed Body - V's got a bunch of more minor cybernetics, kiroshi optics, personal link, subdermal armor, enhanced myomar muscles and a reinforced skeleton
  • The Nomad - Nomad's live a life on dirt and open road, meaning they've got to have a few major skills to survive, the ability to fight off whatever chromed up cyberpsycho monster is in their way, the ability to drive like hell when the corps come chasing, and the ability to maintain the shit they have on hand.
  • Solo Of Fortune - V's got experience and the reflexes necessary to do any job that requires putting bullets into whatever poor schmuck that needs it. A body tempered with chrome and experience.
  • Netrunning Newbie - While by no means inexperienced, V's a decent enough netrunner to turn enemy cyberware against themselves while he angles for a better point of attack.
• Equipment:
  • Malorian Arms 3516 - Johnny's 14mm hand cannon of choice, now in V's hand. This power weapon can drop most foes at a good range but it lacks the punch of more traditional armor piercing weaponry.
  • Prejudice◊ - A power model HJSH-18 Masamune manufactured by Arasaka belonging to Rogue. V's medium range option, though he's a little confused as to how he got it. Johnny says it was a favor.
  • Bloody Maria◊ - A shotgun belonging to one Muamar "El Capitán" Reyes who granted it to V as a favor.
• Backstory: A nomad on the run, V entered into Night City looking to make a name for himself with his best choom, Jackie Wells. It worked for a little bit until a fateful encounter at Arasaka tower left V with a limited time left on earth and a terrorist asshole living in his brain. V's turned out a lot of paths, before eventually embarking on one last assault on Arasaka tower.
• Role In The City: V's a solo of fortune, someone looking to make a name for themselves and can be hired out for any major party. In truth he's just trying to fund access to the pills preventing the worsening of their condition.
• Other Things Of Note: I opted for a more jack of all stats with netrunning build despite the Sandevistan's current popularity because there isn't a properly feasible way that's fun for everyone to depict the Time Stands Still property of the Sandevistan. I left V's final fate vague as I couldn't think of any major path that would work well.

• Name: Johnny Silverhand (Robert John DeLinder)
• Appearance: The Breathtaking Asshole◊
• Setting: Cyberpunk Tabletop RPG - 2077
• Powers/Abilities: A former soldier who turned his rage into a music career
  • The Relic - The Biochip housing Johnny, a link to V and his current curse. Johnny however is taking it in stride and while he may on occasion demand a smoke or the driver's seat, he's also using it to help V out should something attack their brain. Turns out having a backup consciousness is useful for when one is out of commission.
  • Ghost Rocker - Being a Relic Construct, Johnny is untouchable and only visible to those who can see into V's head, this also gives Johnny free reign of the body should V become unavailable, just because you've knocked out one doesn't mean they're out of the fight.
  • Netrunner Lite - While by no means an expert, Johnny still has enough experience thanks to his time with one Spider Murphy who got trained by the crazed legend Rache Bartmoss. He's willing to loan what he knows from the experts to give V a boost.
  • Rockerboy Legend - While his current vocal chords belong to a Nomad who has never sung a tune in his life, Johnny's still got all the muscle memory of how to strum a guitar like an expert.
  • Soldier of the Rebel's Path - Johnny has served in two wars and came back heavily scared not only physically (leading to his stage name), but also mentally... but the trade off is that he has actual combat training and experience that proves invaluable in surviving the hellhole that is Night City and the NUSA. Johnny lends some of this experience to V when needed... or whenever he's given charge of the body.
• Backstory: Survivor of two wars, a rockerboy legend, and an anarchic rebel with a major chip on his soldier. Johnny's storied life was full of drugged up rock and roll debauchery until the fateful night of 2023 August 20th, where he along with Morgan Blackhand and Militech backing engaged in a major battle against Arasaka that saw a nuclear device being dropped into the city center and lead to 50 years of Arasaka rule, Johnny was digitized and largely dormant for that time only to wake up in some 27 year old edgerunner. Johnny has since declared that V is under his protection and is actively worried about overwriting V and erasing his existence.
• Role In The City: See what V is up to.
• Other Things Of Note: Largely made to continue what's my favorite dynamic of the game.

• Name: Adam Smasher
• Appearance: 96% Synthetic Psychopath◊
• Setting: Cyberpunk RPG to 2077
• Powers/Abilities: The ultimate Fullborg
  • Ultrachrome - Adam is 96% mechanical at this point, only his human brain being the left of him still meat, his body is a highly attuned Arasaka miracle meant to bring dread to all those that oppose the corp.
  • Internal Weaponry - While Adam can utilize any handheld weapon, his body contains several weapons, include two high caliber cannons in his right arm, a multibarrel gatling gun in his left,
  • Tireless - Befitting a fullbody replacement, Adam has no human needs left and continue so long as his internal power cells last.
  • Daemonic - Unless you have an expert tier netrunner on hand, Adam Smasher is nearly unstoppable, breaking past his defenses means getting past Arasaka's defenses themselves.
• Backstory: Formerly a street punk turned sociopathic soldier, Adam was scooped up by Arasaka and given a full body makeover to protect their corporate interests and Adam gladly accepted. He's been working for them non stop, with no traces of anything close to cyberpsychosis as he was already a sadistic monster even before the cyberware, Adam delights in slaughter and is ready to prove his philosophy of metal over meat right.
• Role In The City: Zone 2 Corporate Bodyguard
• Other Things Of Note:

Edited by EchoingSilence on Oct 7th 2022 at 11:35:31 AM

@EchoingSilence: Looks good to me, accepted. Please check your PMs for a server invite.

Name: Rebecca, aka "Becca"

Appearance: Five foot nothing of cyber-gremlin. She really likes the colors pink and blue. The Mox tattoos are usually hidden under her coat, when she feels like wearing it anyway.◊

Setting: Cyberpunk

Powers/Abilities: Rebecca is a solo with moderate cybernetic enhancements and significant ballistic weapons proficiency. The full extent of her cybernetic capabilities is never shown, so I'm taking some liberties here based off what is shown and what is available to mercs of her caliber.

• Cybernetics: Becca is less chromed out than some of her associates, as well as many of the people she's used to dealing with, but she's still packing some impressive tech. Given how much she drinks she's gotta have a cyber-liver or something, too.
  • Cybernetic Arms: They're both massive and let her fire guns as big as she is without any trouble. Presumably they're capable of squishing people like grapes in addition, but Trigger chickened out and didn't show us. They're dextrous enough for her to use them to "walk", and can handle and operate a wide variety of human-scale equipment with them.
  • Dermal Implants: Her skin is bleach-white, which is about the extent of the info we get about this mod. Given that she's an accomplished solo and we never see her get injured by gunfire, I'm choosing to interpret this as providing significant protection against small arms fire, but not anything high-caliber or otherwise packing an enormous amount of force behind it.
  • Cyber-optics: Bright and vibrant just like her personality, the standard optics suite includes a variety of features including thermal and low-light vision, high resolution vision and optical zoom, flashbang protection and ballistic targetting computers. It also records in a limited capacity to provide facial recognition data. She lacks any smartguns or smart link enhancements, so while her eyes help her track targets she still has to aim and shoot manually.
• Combat Experience: If it's got a trigger and can fire faster than once a second, Becca knows how to make it sing. Fond of launchers, automatics and shotguns, although she's also willing to run with slower, punchier guns like high-powered rifles.
• Kinda But Not Completely A Dumbass: Let's be real here, Rebecca's not the sharpest bulb in the fridge, but she's also not a total idiot. She's quick to pick up on things that seem out of place, but also averse to any sort of planning, given that her preferred methodology involves walking or running towards her targets while unloading at them until they're either gone or puddles of gore. Don't expect any miracles on the thinking end of the spectrum from her, is what I'm getting at.

Equipment: Rebecca's gotten her hands on quite a large number of weapons in her short life, but only four of them managed to make their way into Concordia with her. They're all painted bright pink and blue, just like everything else she owns.

• Guts: Rebecca's custom-modded heavy shotgun based off the Carnage platform, it's both heavy and unwieldy enough to be functionally impossible for an ordinary human to fire. It's a little on the unreliable side, but she's gotten pretty good at keeping it running, and not much short of heavy duty armor can stop its shots. She always has either this or the Mk. 31 on her person when she's out and about.
• Mk. 31 HMG: The mother of all heavy machineguns, the Mk. 31 wasn't designed to be man-portable, it was designed to be bolted onto a point defense turret frame. That obviously hasn't stopped the most die-hard heavy weapons freaks from getting their hands on it, and Rebecca is no exception. Due to its design function as a mounted gun, it's troublesome to reload the whopping 300-round belt-fed drum magazine, but the gun is reliable and powerful enough that reloading is almost never necessary until there are no longer targets left to shoot. She always has either this or her Guts on her person when she's out and about.
• TKI-20 Shigen: A pair of smart submachine guns Rebecca got her hands on, which she usually uses for less serious engagements. As she lacks any smart link equipment, the "smart" part of the guns doesn't function. They make quick work of your average gangoon, but unlike her other two weapons they're effectively useless against even modestly-armored targets.

Backstory: If you haven't watched Edgerunners you should probably do that. Long story short she's a merc on a team of mercs kicking ass and taking names in a shithole called Night City. Rebecca is used to seeing people die, whether she killed them or not. Eventually, shit went bad after a particularly high-stakes mission, and Becca ended up in Concordia, extremely angry and confused.

Personality: A lovable highly-violent pink gremlin, Becca operates on the extremes of absolutely everything she's involved in. She by default tends to go all out in nearly everything she does, whether it's mowing down gangoons or partying it up with the gang. In spite of her firecracker mood swings, she works well in a team and is fiercely loyal and protective of those she cares about, which is a rather short list. Doesn't get along well with authority or anyone resembling authority, due to "authority" in Night City meaning the crushing boot of the mega-corps.

Role In The City: Merc for hire operating out of Zone Five, and sometimes Zones Six and Seven. Given that it's generally more difficult to get away with wonton violence in Concordia compared to Night City, Rebecca has had to chill out her antics to some small degree. Generally bored out of her mind, as far fewer people are trying to kill her on a daily basis relative to her upbringing back home. Willing to take up an incredibly wide variety of paying jobs due to the peaceful nature of Concordia relative to the extreme violence of Night City, on account of not needing to put roughly half of every paycheck towards medical and ammo expenses.

Other Things Of Note:

• Has heard of Adam Smasher, and remembers what the asshole who ruined her gang's party looks like, but has no idea they're the same person yet.

• Frequently can be found chewing bubblegum.

• Fan of Philip K. Dick, even though she's never actually read any of his work.

Edited by lynkzero13 on Oct 6th 2022 at 2:56:51 PM

Accepted.

I might be interested on joining.

Sure thing, just write up a signup and show us what you've got.

• Name: Helena
• Appearance: Boo
• Setting: Pokemon
• Powers/Abilities: These are her pokeymans
  • Marie the Gengar: A ghost/poison type pokemon. Most ghost types are capable of moving through walls and turning invisible for short periods of time. It likes to hide in shadows to surprise people. She is surprisingly fast and capable of gathering dark energy to hurl at opponents. Her long tongue is capable of temporarily paralyzing anyone she licks.
  • Margret the Froslass: A ghost/ice type pokemon. She is also capable of turning invisible and moving through walls. Her main form of attack is controlling temperatures to slowly freeze her enemy. She is also capable of freezing the moisture in the air to generate ice.
  • Charles the Mimikyu: A Ghost/fairy type pokemon. He can turn invisible like the other ghosts, but is less inclined to move through object. He just prefers to hide. When needed to fight he will manipulate shadows to fight and use his wooden "tail" as a club.
  • Anthony the Ariados: A bug/poison type pokemon. Capable of spinning large webs incredibly fast, his webs are thick and difficult to break. As well his bite and barbs carry a bit of poison that isn't lethal, but painful.
  • Diana the Kirlia: A psychic/fairy type pokemon. Telekenisis is her main method of attack. She is capable of using herm ind to lift objects of various size, but has difficulty lifting anything heavier than 60 lbs.
  • Dante the Houndoom: A dark/fire type pokemon. He comes with the usual package of claws and sharp teeth than dogs get. He gets a bit extra in that he can breath fire whenever he needs to.
• Backstory: Even as a young girl, Helena had a love for the creepy. Everything that scared the normies just captured her heart. This didn't earn her a lot of friends growing up, but she just doubled down on her enjoyment of the spooky. She even made sure that the first pokemon she received as a child was a Ghastly. Naturally, this meant that she was ready to travel the world without a care. Helena grew up traveling, gathering her own team of pokemon and spreading the gospel of the merits of her creepy babies.
• Role In The City: Seto Kaiba's secretary and corrupter to the ways of pocket monsters.
• Other Things Of Note: Its perpetually October wherever she goes.

Accepted.

• Name: KD 6-3.7, K, "Joe"
• Appearance: A Real◊ Human◊ Being◊
• Setting: Blade Runner 2049
• Powers/Abilities:
  • Replicant Physiology - Being an bioengineered individual, K is by all means far stronger and faster than the average human being, and even quite a few humans in peak condition. He heals quicker with a little glue(?), can shoot far steadier, and reacts far faster. Being a Nexus-9 Replicant, he was also free of the limited lifespan.
  • Detective Skills - K's received official training in the LAPD and can actually do police work, he's capable of following a trail of clues and drawing conclusions based on the information given, even if he may follow the info to more aggrandizing ends.
• Equipment:
  • 2019 LAPD Blaster◊ - A 5 shot heavy frame revolver meant for punching through even the toughest Replicant designs, outdated by modern standards but K says it feels "right" so he holds onto it.
  • 2049 LAPD Blaster◊ - An electromagnetic weapon capable of piercing armor, K's primary tool for long range combat.
  • 2040s Model Spinner - K's vehicle, a Spinner capable of long range activities beyond the boundaries of Los Angeles. Armored, comfortable, and even comes with a reconnaissance drone for hazardous areas.
• Backstory: A Blade Runner of the modern era, meant to work in "Retiring" "defective" and outdated Replicants on the run. K's last memories are of reuniting a father and daughter, for the first time in a long time, he has no clue what happens next but he's made peace with it.
• Role In The City: Private Investigator/Contracted "Peacekeeper"
• Other Things Of Note: Decided to make K post movie so he's not hunting for answers, more trying to find new meaning.

Accepted.

• Name: Doctor Albert W. Wily
• Appearance: Brilliant and megalomaniacal◊
• Setting: Mega Man
• Powers/Abilities:
  • Master Roboticist - Wily is an unmastered genius in engineering, having not only constructed machines capable of incredible feats, including generating two brand new energy sources that have withstood centuries. Give him some tools, some time, and a few pieces of scrap and he'll have a robot master ready to toss replicated weapons out.
  • Unidentified Flying Overlord - Wily is no stranger to combat himself, having numerous custom UFO designs meant to merge with mecha he operates himself.
  • Sly Skull - Wily is... well Wily. He's dreamed up numerous schemes and backup plans, if he gets arrested he has a breakout scheme, if he's cornered he has an escape, if he's low on resources he's capable of convincing robot masters to help him out. Wily is always thinking, and he's not afraid to debase and degrade himself to get closer to his goal. If it works, he lives another day to scheme after all.
• Equipment:
  • Wily UFO◊ - Gotta have style when traversing.
• Backstory: Kicked from robotics research for unethical experiments which may have involved chemical weapons, Wily lived in the shadow of his old friend Dr. Light until he finally snapped and stole his work to torment the people of the world, egotistical self serving he's always tried to conquer the world only to be stopped by the blue bomber himself. Now he finds himself somewhere new, with no Mega Man in sight, and new schemes of conquest already in mind.
• Role In The City: Future member of industry?
• Other Things Of Note: This Wily is a bit of an amalgamation of the games, comics, with some elements of fan media (Thank you the Protomen).

Edited by EchoingSilence on Jan 29th 2023 at 9:23:41 AM

Name: Audiogeist

Appearance: Ethereal.◊ I know my drawing skills (and the software I used) aren't the best, I would've preferred leaving that up to the reader's imagination. But oh well
P.S. If you look closely, you may be able to spot hands in the red blots

Setting: Original character, comes from a fantasy universe

Powers/Abilities:

• Posession: As a poltergeist, Audio can posess objects using his plasma and hurl them around. He can't do the same to humans, unless they have an extremely low willpower.
• Sonic Shock: Can produce explosive air waves with the capacity to stun enemies, knock them back and/or blow out their eardrums. He can also use this ability much more finely, which grants him the power of...
• Dem Sick Beats: Can (re-)produce any sound he's heard before. His favourite thing to do with this ability is to throw parties with (mostly) EDM music.
• Musical Buffs/Debuffs: His music can grant almost any feeling to a human - sadness, confidence, despair, excitement, you name it. This ability can improve the strength or stamina of his allies, or slow down his opponents.

Backstory: Once upon a time, Audio - an average poltergeist - got captured and bound to two obsidian rocks by a powerful magician, Thomassen, and was forced to serve. Thomassen was not a bad master, however, and over time, Audio grew to like Thomassen. Sometimes the two would even go out on adventures, where Audio would protect his master against other spirits, monsters, or thieves.
One day, the two set out to defeat the evil wizard Diabolus, who was threatening to curse the land and make it infertile. During the climatic showdown, one of Diabolus's spells struck Audiogeist and sent him to another universe... To this day, Audiogeist is hitchhiking across the multiverse, with no idea if his master survived or if he'll ever find his homeworld again. He's taken up the hobby of music production as a result, in order to better get in touch with humans.

Role In The City: DJ

Other Things Of Note: Despite being ethereal, Audiogeist can be harmed. If he overexerts himself, or his plasma gets disrupted too strongly by external influence, the resulting entropy can be intense enough to knock him out. If this happens, the only thing that protects him from certain doom is the sealing/protection spell cast on his obsidian rocks.

Edited by StepexNo2 on Mar 19th 2023 at 1:05:43 PM

• Name: Kokichi Oma

• Appearance: It's a lie!◊

• Setting: Danganronpa V3; Killing Harmony

• Powers/Abilities:
  • Picklocking - Pretty standard skill. He would only do this if no one is around.
  • Lying - He can lie whenever he wants, but he can't just lie willy-nilly.

• Backstory:
  • Please note that this has Danganronpa V3 spoilers around Kokichi's fate, so you have been warned.
    • Kokichi was one of the ultimates that were chosen to get on the gofer project as humanity was going on to extinction by space rocks. However, that failed the moment Monokuma was on the ship, so a killing game was bound to happen. Unfortunately, he didn't make it out alive as he try to make an unsolvable murder case and was so close to doing so. Said unsolvable murder involves him getting crushed under a hydraulic presser after getting poisoned. However, what awaits him wasn't death itself, but it's Concordia was waiting for him. As much as he wants to escape this, he has no choice, but to stay.

• Role In The City:
  • He doesn't have any occupation as far as he's concerned, but he's usually seen in Zone 5 in the dark alleys.

• Other Things Of Note:
  • He's very elusive, so only a few people know he exists.
    • Kiel is also a part of the list of people that knows him, but Kokichi is somehow afraid of him.
  • He only helps out as long as he gets food cause being homeless isn't fun for an ultimate supreme leader.
    • The reason why he asks for more food was that he's not the only one whose homeless.
  • While he is an ultimate supreme leader, it's just that he works alone and does his own thing. But, he is willing to work with others as stated above.

Hey, when can I expect my signup request to be handled?

Edited by StepexNo2 on Mar 25th 2023 at 1:37:33 PM

@Stepex No 2: Sorry for the wait! I looked Audiogeist over and do have concerns with getting the character to fit in the setting; a lot of the RP hinges around plotting and intrigue, and it seems like there might not be much of a place for the character in our current roster - my concern is that he'll end up floating around without much of anything to do. The Musical Buff/Debuff trait in particular isn't something that will work well with the rest of the cast. Please let me know if you have any questions, and my apologies for the delay.

@Xabby: Questions sent on Discord.

Thanks for the response! I'll see what else I can come up with.

I do have a question, actually - what kinds of traits/abilities would/would not be favourable for this RP?

Not so much abilities, but character traits that lend themselves to a reasonably serious but slightly surreal setting with political intrigue and a decent amount of backstabbing - think Disco Elysium if that helps at all.

Is this still open? If so, I could prolly whip up a sheet? (Also, would the above mean that schemers are preferred over other kinds of characters? Or just peeps that would work well alongside schemers?)

Hi there, yes, we are still open. Schemers aren't preferred - we have all sorts - but we prefer characters who can slot into a reasonably gritty setting and have a defined social role. At the moment the main cast herds are:

a) A group dedicated to exploring the vast unknown nonsense dungeon

b) Police and police-adjacent staff with varying degrees of corruption

c) Political figures in a nepotism sandwich oligarchy

d) A rebel militia dedicated to overthrowing the oligarchy

e) People on the fringes of said groups

We do tend to skew towards longer intervals between long posts, so you may need a certain amount of patience to deal with us. Do let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for your interest!

Edited by troydenite on Mar 27th 2023 at 12:43:37 AM

Hmmm...Ok.

I can whip something up! I'm debating whether to use a Kingdom Hearts character or a Super Sentai character, but that's for me to figure out.

I am curious though: How exactly does the dungeon-crawling work in this RP?

There's a nonsense chaos realm surrounding the City, which can be shaped into real objects but is very dangerous. The Draughtsman's Guild goes out of the bounds of the City and tries to make sense of the nonsense chaos realm, mapping it into defined forms that the City can expand into. This is actually quite rare, so there haven't been a huge number of expeditions - most of their plot so far has hinged around the political implications that come with their position, rather than actual exploration.

If you are going to submit a Sentai character, keep in mind that there may not be much room for superheroics in that vein, as things are getting more and more hectic.

That's fair. The Sentai candidates in my head are more battle-oriented anyway rather than straight-up do-gooders; and that's if I don't use a villain for that.

And one other question: Are new people isekai'ed into the city periodically or is it assumed that they all flooded in en-masse and have spent time adapting?

Edited by klom99 on Mar 26th 2023 at 7:19:27 AM

You can choose either entry method but most player characters have opted for the second. If you do choose the first, you'll be the only one so far.

Gotcha.

And last question, for the sake of balance: One of the candidates I have in-mind has a Game Mod centered round them that expands their battle-style. Would invoking AU-elements be an issue or is it preferred to retain the primary version of a character?