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Both Needed Web-heads and Spider-Fans Wanted (Two Spots Open!)

Lighthearted would probably be best for now, but we should maybe think up a new set of villains for our characters.
 
I don't really do lighthearted. Some humor, yes, but lighthearted, nah.

For tone, I like urban mean streets, down to earth not fantastic.
 
Sooo, why don't we just play it the way the comics usually do ... the stress of living a life in a gritty, beaten-down, crime infested part of the city, juxtaposed against literally getting to rise above it all, the liberation of getting to put on a mask, a persona, punch a few villains, and pretend for a little while that you're somehow too important to worry about past-due rent, or piling up laundry, or feeding yourself. I think anyone who has work a mask for even a little while can attest to the impulse to engage in some manner of hyperbole. So we play it as the colour of being a superhero against the dark grey of daily life. Thinking that taking down the crime boss is the end of it until you find goons sniffing around your neighbourhood looking for you, for your family, waiting in your apartment.
 
@Cheshire Cat

Can you give us an idea of our power level with the powers you mentioned earlier?

  • Enhanced Strength
  • Enhanced Speed
  • Enhanced Reflexes and Agility
  • Kinesthesia
  • Boosted Healing
  • Wall-crawling of some kind
  • Webbing or grapple-lines
  • Enhanced senses
  • Spider-sense
You stated that a character would lose against 6 competent opponents, but how competent? Do you mean 6 college football players, 6 prison tough guys, 6 professional MMA fighters, or 6 Russian commandos?
My character has enhanced strength, but how enhanced?
She has enhanced healing, but how enhanced?
If my character got straight up sucker punched in the back of the head, what would happen?
If my character got shot, what would happen?
 
Spider Powers

That's a fairly reasonable guide. Bikki is the only one with any combat training, and I wouldn't expect it to be black-belt level with her spending about a year at the lab. Six people with pistols would likely injure you, a single good combatant could likely get a hold of you, and cause you significant pain, six trained fighters would kick your ass ... or, most characters' asses, you would get your ass less handed to you ... You can strain to lift up to 10 tons, your lift and carry is half that, and your lift and walk is a fifth of that. Single limb strength is probably like ... 500 lbs I guess? She can heal from cuts and bruises over night, fractures of small bones in 5 days, and larger bones in a week. Body tissues are tougher, making the character harder to injure, and more able to withstand landings and jumps and their own punches, essentially it is equivalent to their strength. A normal person punching you in the back of the head would throw you off balance, someone with a good punch could knock the wits out of you and you'd be staggered if not prone. Your character, if shot, would get shot, just like a person. Your tissues are more dense, so the bullet would get stuck in your body in all likelihood, but a rifle round or something would still go right through or stick into bone, but you'd still have a bullet hole in you, and if you didn't take the bits of the bullet out, your body would heal around them and you'd have chronic pain. You don't seem to get sick ever, you don't suffer hangovers easily, you don't need as much sleep (though Victoria needs almost none :P ) you have no allergies, rarely get things like headaches and muscle pain ...

Also, you can jump like ... 15-20 feet from a crouch. Your speed is more a matter of reflex, and muscle control. If you were looking at someone aiming a pistol at you, you could likely pull a limb out of the way if you started moving when the bullet was fired. If it was at center mass, you'd be grazed or suffer a flesh wound.
 
Cheshire Cat said:
Spider Powers

That's a fairly reasonable guide. Bikki is the only one with any combat training, and I wouldn't expect it to be black-belt level with her spending about a year at the lab. Six people with pistols would likely injure you, a single good combatant could likely get a hold of you, and cause you significant pain, six trained fighters would kick your ass ... or, most characters' asses, you would get your ass less handed to you ... You can strain to lift up to 10 tons, your lift and carry is half that, and your lift and walk is a fifth of that. Single limb strength is probably like ... 500 lbs I guess? She can heal from cuts and bruises over night, fractures of small bones in 5 days, and larger bones in a week. Body tissues are tougher, making the character harder to injure, and more able to withstand landings and jumps and their own punches, essentially it is equivalent to their strength. A normal person punching you in the back of the head would throw you off balance, someone with a good punch could knock the wits out of you and you'd be staggered if not prone. Your character, if shot, would get shot, just like a person. Your tissues are more dense, so the bullet would get stuck in your body in all likelihood, but a rifle round or something would still go right through or stick into bone, but you'd still have a bullet hole in you, and if you didn't take the bits of the bullet out, your body would heal around them and you'd have chronic pain. You don't seem to get sick ever, you don't suffer hangovers easily, you don't need as much sleep (though Victoria needs almost none :p ) you have no allergies, rarely get things like headaches and muscle pain ...

Also, you can jump like ... 15-20 feet from a crouch. Your speed is more a matter of reflex, and muscle control. If you were looking at someone aiming a pistol at you, you could likely pull a limb out of the way if you started moving when the bullet was fired. If it was at center mass, you'd be grazed or suffer a flesh wound.
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(Cheng also has combat training XD)
 
MindLabryinth said:
(Cheng also has combat training XD)
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Waiwaiwait, I assumed he joined his MMA classes around the same time as med-school, meaning he's been doing it for like ... two years while also attending full-time classes, he wouldn't be THAT good ... if he IS that good, it's going to have to replace your healing ability as a power. As in the movies and comics, all spider-people can fight decently given their reflexes, strength, and spider-sense, and Cheng would certainly be at that level but with a little more style and coordination, but Bikki would lay him out 1-on-1, and he would be evenly matched against any of the others.
 
I forgot to put it in my character sheet, but I've spoken to Cheshire about a unique spider ability for Frank. Which is Urticating hair.

As for villains, why not just a regular bear? But it is wearing an old timey robber mask. I mean, five spider people coming trying to control their powers would be a pretty good match up against a bear.
 
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I submit an idea for a story arch. Minor or major, doesn't matter, but I feel like there's a teensy plot-hole in our cast of Spider-Folk-

With so many different ways for people to get powers, and with so much variety between other superpowered people, just how did our team happen to get the same schtick? Simple. The Spider God.

Now, let me be clear. This shit is some DEEP lore when it comes to the Spiderverse, and I'm not anywhere near familiar enough to integrate it into the story fully, but the concept has potential. (I.E., this isn't how it works in the comics.) Some otherworldly being, maybe not a real god, but something powerful enough to harness fate, serves as the common link between our characters. Cancer treatments, exposure to symbiotes, whatever changed our characters and gave them powers, were all indirectly pushed into our characters' destinies by It. For what purpose? Perhaps a prophecy of sorts, calling for very specific roles that made our characters the best candidates for powers.

Frank - The Endured
Brigitte - The Hardened
Emilio - The Redeemed
Victoria - The Purified
Cheng - The Blessed
??? - The ???

The Spider God might call upon the team to fulfill the prophecy, claiming that it'll give them powers that they themselves could provide, and elevate them to their true potentials. But maybe that isn't the entire truth. (Morgan, having no powers, likely wouldn't be included in this prophecy. But maybe being given a title like the others would blind her to the flawed Spider God's logic, and make her fall for the lies whereas someone else would take on the role as the voice of reason.)
 
Oh, the spider-verse is just the punch-line to Marvel's decade long joke about how many people have almost identical spider powers. There was even a galactic alliance of spider men, which suggested that there was not only a spider-hero on every planet with intelligent life, but with the addition of the spider-verse "Great Weaver and the Web of Life" stuff, means there's also at least one spider-man per earth/universe. Clones, magic spider-tattoos, demonic wishes, curses, ninja traditions, the same spider biting multiple people, unrelated cancer treatments that happen to also have spider-bites involved, Venom, Venom clones and chilrens, more clones, Clones of other people, children, technological mimicry, characters pulled in from other universes who just decided to stay, all the reasons :P

I do like the idea that the great weaver is responsible for there being this sudden burst of spider people, though, but am hesitant to get into it right off the bat because of the cosmic implications for a bunch of neighbourhood newbies. On the other hand, it could be a cool like ... the team meets Zordon moment ... I feel like they need to prove themselves with more than just the decision to become heroes though, and I TOTALLY think Morgan(a) would be "The Forged" :P

... Mole man army, anyone?
 
I had an idea about the city experiencing a rash of power-outages coinciding with heists, starting small at first and then getting more bold as it proves to be an effective strategy ... and then along comes a spider :P

The whole plot could get back to Shocker's protege, or some kind of tech villain, or someone more like livewire.
 
Frank is being remade. Probably to the point where the only thing remaining the same is his name.
 
@CasualAdventurer I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I said I wouldn't let canon weigh us down >,<

Maybe yeah, something is corrupting the web of life, corrupting the Weaver, whose power is flooding off into the worlds in an attempt to protect the web, but as a result we come up against of villainous spider-people? Or it COULD be a primarily slice of life plot that brings the characters together ... maybe some sleepwalk, others just have nightmares they remember when they wake up, ones with familiar landscapes or buildings or something?
 
Speaking of, have we decided on a starting strategy? Pushing the characters together, I mean.
 
It could be a highly visible crime. Something like a localized power outage, or an explosion, or a cloud of weird coloured smoke, or gunfire. Everyone has enhanced senses, and is in the same relative location ... albeit a rather large location, but are close enough that they would likely see police vehicles or emergency services responding.
 
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