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As for the Captain and Commander knowing each other the Captain's work post supering was more black ops CIA stuff. She was never a front line soldier post supering. Beyond that I can't say because I have not read the Commander's profile yet. I will after work.

Edit: I will say not all of her black ops work involved killing it required a skill set she was sort of familiar with pre supering but she is coming at it from a different perspective now.
 
You know, the "secret identities" thing is fun, but it is kinda fucked up from a in-universe perspective, right? Like, the tradition basically produces what would be the equivalent of sleeper agents or secret police—except they also have superhuman powers. Journalists trying to expose secret identities have it right IMO
 
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Looking at the character list, it does strike me that we could do with more PC villains. We have Minotaur, Lady in Black and Leviathan on her bad days. Need more heavy hitters in there.
 
Could use someone like Two-Face, who runs with a gang of mooks. That way it's not just a single guy/girl and there's some backup/NPC's for other players to mop up. Or maybe a BIG bad, like someone Darkseid-level. Or an Ultron-like robotic intelligence with an army of killer droids.
 
I can have Hotline do something hot
 
OrganicIntelligence said:
Looking at the character list, it does strike me that we could do with more PC villains. We have Minotaur, Lady in Black and Leviathan on her bad days. Need more heavy hitters in there.
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Maiden of Might is capable of doing villainous things in pursuit of her own agenda. cough Don't look in the basement. cough

She is not a hero but she is not a villain. Not really an anti-hero either, or maybe she is.
 
dispatch99 said:
I can have Hotline do something hot
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I was considering having Telamon be over in California helping with some search and rescue after a mild earthquake. Maybe it turns out that Hotline is messing with telecommunications in the area, making responses to the quake harder and so the Bureau sends Telamon to check it out since he's nearby? And Hotline could be causing mischief like that for any number of reasons, right? might not even be his own interests if he's working with/for another villain or group.

Of course, I could also see how that idea might box you in a little and not give Hotline much to do. I'd be happy to come up with something else or just have Telamon do his own thing for now :)
OrganicIntelligence said:
Looking at the character list, it does strike me that we could do with more PC villains. We have Minotaur, Lady in Black and Leviathan on her bad days. Need more heavy hitters in there.
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I could cook up a villain, too, if that'd help!
 
Okay so first of all, everyone's starter posts are amazing and I'm inspired, gosh that's such a fun starting scene.

Second of all I wrote this on my phone while at work so please let me know if I got any details wrong or if someone would prefer a little more to bounce off of

:loves::loves:
 
RedemptionforaHotdog said:
I was considering having Telamon be over in California helping with some search and rescue after a mild earthquake. Maybe it turns out that Hotline is messing with telecommunications in the area, making responses to the quake harder and so the Bureau sends Telamon to check it out since he's nearby? And Hotline could be causing mischief like that for any number of reasons, right? might not even be his own interests if he's working with/for another villain or grou

Of course, I could also see how that idea might box you in a little and not give Hotline much to do. I'd be happy to come up with something else or just have Telamon do his own thing for now :)

I could cook up a villain, too, if that'd help!
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The nice thing about Hotline is that he can be everywhere at once 😁 I'm not sure disrupting search and rescue is his style though, although the idea is enticing… Maybe he's trying to not let a good opportunity go to waste here to bump off someone who knows where he is?
 
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The nice thing about Hotline is that he can be everywhere at once 😁 I'm not sure disrupting search and rescue is his style though, although the idea is enticing… Maybe he's trying to not let a good opportunity go to waste here to bump off someone who knows where he is?
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How about I just throw out a starter post and you can decide whether or not it makes sense for Hotline to be involved? No problemo if not, I'm just excited to have my character(s) interacting with all of y'all's!
 
A bit late but this piqued my interest 👀 Now... should I play a crazed villain whose abilities relate to butterflies or a vigilante tormented by eldritch beings...
 
_rigel_ said:
A bit late but this piqued my interest 👀 Now... should I play a crazed villain whose abilities relate to butterflies or a vigilante tormented by eldritch beings...
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AN ELDRITCH BUTTERFLY!

His patron: Menelaus, Agent of Change and Rebirth! His wings will darken the world and a new one will rip from its cosmic cocoon to replace this dry shell we all rot upon! I give it Malenia from Elden Ring vibes. Rot butterflies.
 
Moonside said:
AN ELDRITCH BUTTERFLY!

His patron: Menelaus, Agent of Change and Rebirth! His wings will darken the world and a new one will rip from its cosmic cocoon to replace this dry shell we all rot upon! I give it Malenia from Elden Ring vibes. Rot butterflies.
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I think I'm just gonna play two separate characters, a stylish psycho butterfly assassin and a doomer graffiti artist plus vigilante who communes with eldritch forces to grant him power (which I already have an unused OC for, but I have to edit his abilities since he was made to fit the Marvel universe), but damn that eldritch butterfly idea does sound spicy.
Though I am thinking of making them have some history with each other (maybe also make them exes because that sounds like fun?). Maybe once upon a time Mr. Eldritch Guy killed Butterfly Boy's client and found love... in killing each other's targets? We'll see 👁️
 
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A bit late but this piqued my interest 👀 Now... should I play a crazed villain whose abilities relate to butterflies or a vigilante tormented by eldritch beings...
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That's funny—my main hero has an alien symbiote from the star Rigel 😂
 
Captain Cardboard said:
Name: Drake Marshall / Crosshairs
Date: 11/15/2023
Location: Condor Indoor Shooting Range

BLAM BLAM! BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Drake dropped the magazine out of his pistol, quickly reloading. The slide snapped shut, and he continued firing into the target. Bullet after bullet tore into the paper target, a silhouette of a man holding a gun. Center mass. Head. Gun. Arm. Wrist. Ankle. Knee. Each shot hitting the target with absolute precision. The second magazine empty, Drake loaded a third one. Then paused. The hearing protection he wore at the range was more than just a set of headphones, Drake had replaced the radio set inside with a miniaturized police scanner. Reports of a fight, supervillains robbing an armored van. Minotaur and Doc Arachnid. A tough duo, with brains and brawn working together, and not to mention Doc Arachnid having all of those mutant spiders.

Should he respond? No doubt there were already quite a few heroes already going to the call. That HEROSIGNAL app tended to get out the call faster than the police were alerted to it. It was a pretty good app, but no way in hell would Crosshairs use that app as a hero. The less info out there, the better. Drake pressed the button on his firing lane, bringing his target paper closer so he could take a better look at it as he listened to the police scanner. Jade Lightning and Bubble Girl were on scene, fighting the villains. The daylight heroes probably had this situation under control.

It was by the time he had made it to his car that another part of the event unfolded. Reports of another superpowered person arriving to the scene. Leviathan. A real wild card. Every time that cloaked woman showed up, it was always something different. Helping catch bad guys one day, attacking heroes the next.

Hm.

Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to check in and make sure nothing got too out of hand. At least until some more daylight heroes showed up.

Drake drove towards the fight. He stopped a few blocks away, grabbing one of his go bags from the trunk of his car and confidently walking into the shadows of the alleyway. Despite the people around, no one seemed to give him a second notice. With memorized practice, Drake slid a manhole cover open and decended into the sewers of New York City, sliding the cover shut behind him. He walked quickly through the sewers, unpacking his bag as he went. His vest and duster went on in practiced precision. Even in the dark, throwing on his costume was muscle memory. Crosshairs applied the facepaint and removed the assault rifle from his bag, tossing the bag aside.
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Doc Arachnid's spider horde was emerging from underneath the street - if Crosshairs is approaching the scene from underground, he might encounter a whole nest of them, plus maybe some webbed up civilians. Hope he's got a lot of ammo...
 
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