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[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

"There are generally three kinds of cities with lots of supers. The first, and typically best-known, are big coastal cities with lots of trade coming in from across the nation and world; unsurprisingly, these attract superheroes and -villains, who then attract one another. The second is cities that are the only major city in their region, as they tend to become the nexus for all kinds of urban activity (and superheroics in farm country is suitable only to the dedicated, the super-fast, or the teleporters). The third and least-thought-about are cities with high crime or poverty rates; this leaves a large number of disaffected youth to attempt to become heroes, villains, or minions, as well as a hightened chance of gaining powers and of course the attraction that the criminals or poor people will attract fame- or minion-seeking supers.
"Out of all cities in the United States, Chicago fits these qualities best. It is on the coast of Lake Michigan, a Great Lake and hence connecting Chicago to the rest of the Midwest. Its location also forces significant amounts of land travel over it. While there are other large cities in the Midwest, Chicago is undoubtably the largest, and dwarfs other cities in northern Illinois and Indiana and southern Wisconsin. In addition, it has had historically high poverty and crime rates for decades, although not as bad as some areas of the nation. Combined with Chicago's sheer size--the third-largest city in the nation--its strict gun control laws, and a history of "super-crime" lasting back to Big Al, is it any surprise that over a third (about 1.5 million out of 4.8 million) of America's superheroes, and almost half (3.3 million out of 6.8 million) of its supervillains live in the Chicago metropolitan area? Its total parahuman population (estimated at almost 5 million) is highest in the nation, as well as the highest proportion out of any city which has been properly surveyed. This is testament to the 'common knowledge' that Chicago is where wannabe supers try to make their start."
--Dr. Orville Smith, Sociologist and Parologist, in Superology: How Supers Work In and Affect the World at Large

Superheroes--and villains--have been a part of our world for as long as we can tell. Paleoparologists argue over if parahumans (the technical term for superpowered people) began appearing tens of thousands ago, millions of years ago, or if they're as old as Animalia. What's known is that supers appeared before civilization. Demigods, Magi, Shamans; whatever you call them, they were probably supers. However, in recent centuries, more supers have been showing up.

"It started with the Industrial Revolution. The first recorded parahuman with an artificial origin was Steam Man, also known as Seymour Smith, who in 1857 fell into a coal hopper and became partly fused with it. When the engine was disassembled, it was discovered that Smith was still alive. Steam Man was superhumanly tough and strong, as well as being able to emit steam jets (granting greatly enhanced jumping) and both generate and fire burning pieces of coal. Smith, a Prussian, fled to America. He was followed in successive years by many others, and Steam Man gathered a team during the Civil War to combat a similar team in the Union. Since then, increasing industrialization of the world has brought increasing numbers of supers (and not just from industrial sources). The US--home of the first super teams--remains a major center of parahumanity."
--Superology

As noted at the top, Chicago is one of the top superhero cities in the US and the world. It is the base of operations for the PCs in this game. The Chicago metropolitan area contains almost 10 million people, and almost half of them are some variety of super. Many of them are not heroes or villains, and many of those who are are only part-timers. Regardless, gang wars tend to be fought with superpowers almost as much as firearms, muggings tend to require several muggers to deal with the inevitable band of random heroes who help out (and sometimes fight amongst themselves over who saves the muggee), and bank robberies rarely make the news.

Despite the number of parahumans in Chicago, the US, and the world, the end result of history is remarkably similar to the real world. This is partly because superheroes aren't sufficiently significant in number, even in this modern era, to affect events in most areas of the world; partly because both sides of every war had supers; and partly because this is a superhero game, not a chance for me to wax eloquent on an elaborate alternate history and map of the world. Now, before we get into the interesting bit, one last point.

Supers have affected not only the real world but that of fiction as well. In the 1930's, a new character was concocted: Superman, an alien hero who satired the assorted heroes running about the United States at the time and their easygoing attitude towards public safety and such. Over the years, most comics save certain old DC characters have become more serious and realistic in tone...
While a few comics are based on real supers, most such media are independent.
--Superology

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

You are a wannabe superhero or -villain who is in Chicago. Whether you were born there or moved there to make a mark on and an image in the world, you are here. You already got your powers...and your weaknesses. Only a fraction of supers are completely without any weaknesses, and the rest have to just deal with it. Regardless of who you are, or what you want to do...you'll be making a mark.

What you choose:
Name: What you were called as a child. (Codenames come later.)
Gender: Helpful to know. Since you are (probably) human, you must choose.
Age: Must be old enough to be able to leave home without triggering parental alarms and making people wonder why you are out on your own.
Description: What your character looked and acted like before becoming a super. Afterwards...who knows?
Backstory: Your character's life before becoming a super. (DON'T INCLUDE ORIGIN--that is randomly determined.)
Intended Side: Do you intend to be a hero or a villain?
Motivation: Why do you want to be a hero or villain? ("It would be cool" or "To be like X" is an acceptable reason.)
Favorite Superpower: Let's face it, even in the real world most kids think about being superheroes would be cool. In a world where supers are real, common, and almost everyday, most would have decided on which powers they would want, especially the ones that eventually follow through on becoming heroes or villains. Which was your character's?

Code: (Character Sheet) [Select]

[u]Name:[/u]
[u]Gender:[/u]
[u]Age:[/u]
[u]Description:[/u]

[u]Backstory:[/u]
[u]Intended Side:[/u]
[u]Motivation:[/u]
[u]Favorite Superpower:[/u]

What you don't choose:
Origin, Powers, and Weaknesses.
You can influence them, but not directly. Name, preferred power, background, personality--all can affect the results. Three dice will be rolled when a PS (Player Super) enters play.
Origin:
1: None! You are completely without powers, which won't stop you from trying.
2: A freak accident. Whether you got struck by lightning while inhaling radioactive hard water infused with genetically-engineered swamp gas or what, you got your powers...alongside with horrible injuries.
3: An item. Is it technological? Magical? Both? It will vary, but it will make you better-off than someone with just fists, cunning, and/or an illegal gun. Woe betide ye if you lose it or it is stolen...
4: Experimentation. While this gives pretty reliable powers, it often comes with some kind of little catch, like needing to take special pills, setting off metal detectors, or having the Mob angry at losing their test subject. (Kidding, of course. Superhumans are more of a Triad thing.)(Kudos to Harry Baldman for helping me understand how triads work.)
5: Discovery. You found some kind of ancient artifact that gave you powers, or invented a power-granting serum, or something. You are probably unique, and aren't tied down, AND can possibly profit directly off of your power source!
6: Natural ability. You manifested this ability at a later date than birth, for some reason, or perhaps it was given to you as a blessing. While this lacks inherent downsides, it doesn't come with an instriction manual...

Power:
1: It's more of a curse than a power. Examples: The Thing or having your hands turn into snakes.
2: It's kinda pathetic, but can be used well with cleverness. Examples: Squirrel Girl or the ability to make flowers grow.
3: You have a moderately useful power, or a powerset that can be useful. Examples: Aquaman or (fairly) super-strength and toughness.
4: This is at the hypothetical "average"--a single powerful power or a number of less powerful ones. Examples: The Flash or shapeshifting.
5: Lucky you--you either have many powers, or one extreme power. Examples: Superman or micrometer-precision, multiton-strength telekinesis.
6: You have immense power or a number of powerful ones, but no control. Examples: Franklin Richards or being possessed by a major demon.

Weakness:
1: You have no weaknesses. Lucky you.
2: Your weakness is minor, or else is just a way to negate your powers.
3: Your weakness is moderate, or else it negates your powers and drains your strength (e.g. also incapacitates you).
4: Your weakness is pretty major, and basically incapacitates you if it comes up.
5: Your weakness is a full-out curse, severely inhibiting your abilities.
6: Your curse is also a boon...though it is not all good.

Spoiler: Miscellaneous (click to show/hide)

Have fun!

If there's anything you need clarified, let me know.

[GreatWyrmGold]

(Because I'm tired of having to check each time I create a new one.)

Spoiler: Character Template (click to show/hide)

Player: (If applicable)

Secret Identity:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Costume:
Personality Profile:
Background:

Powers:
Vulnerabilities:
Other Skills or Traits:

Assets:

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Player Supers

Heroes

Spoiler: (Clair Cantantio--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: scapheap

Secret Identity: Clair Cantantio
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Appearance: A lanky, flat-chested teen with green eyes and a red ponytail.
Costume: Cheap Spider-Man Costume
Personality Profile: Altruistic
Background: Fairly poor Chicago family. Recently obtained a job at LEXTech.

Powers: Acoustic Mind Control
Vulnerabilities:
Other Skills or Traits: Good Soprano

Assets:

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Finn Dunlap--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: SomeStupidGuy

Secret Identity: Finn Dunlap
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Appearance: Lanky, with short black hair and a black right hand.
Costume: Impractically Large, Garish, and Smelly Armor
Personality Profile: Strives for fame and fortune.
Background: Former failing actor. Dramatic and prideful.

Powers: Metal Control
Vulnerabilities: Flammable
Other Skills or Traits: Just-Acceptable Actor

Assets: Apartment, $400 in the bank, Dumpster Armor

Fame: Little
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Adi Langer--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Powder Miner

Secret Identity: Adi Langer
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Appearance: A tall, wide-framed girl with shoulder-length wavy sliver hair and silver eyes. She is made of silver and normally wears a brown burqa, modified to give greater freedom of movement but which also reveals the ends of her silvery limbs.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Rebellious, with a strong sense of right and wrong.
Background: The daughter of Leadfist, a major supervillain gang boss. She was raised in relative luxury, but when she came of age she gladly left to try and find herself a new life.

Powers: Made of Silver
Vulnerabilities: Made of Silver!
Other Skills or Traits: Advanced Self-Defense Training

Assets: Small House, $3,000 in bank, Car

Fame: None
Infamy: Daughter of Leadfist (Some know, Some remember)
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Kyle Mercer--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: draco1234

Secret Identity: Kyle Mercer
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: Average-sized, curly-brown-haired.
Costume: Reshaping his facial and other features.
Personality Profile: Obsessed with "justice." Traumatized.
Background: Mother died when young; father poor parent. Ran away at age 17. Never fit in.

Powers: Biomass Shapeshifting, Enhanced Strength, Homogenous
Vulnerabilities: Water Vulnerability
Other Skills or Traits: Urban Survival Tactics, Street Fighting Knowledge

Assets: Abandoned Building (not legally owned), $285.48 cash, Bicycle

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Damien Smith--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Fr0stByt3

Secret Identity: Damien Smith
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Appearance: Tallish and thin, with gold-streaked brown hair and blue eyes.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Focused, Independent. Dislikes the status quo.
Background: Son of CIA agents. Father died on 10th birthday, leading to slowly-more-detached mother. He abandoned home when he turned 18, and separated himself further when his mother sent her partner after him. He went to Chicago.

Powers: Radiation Manipulation/Generation
Vulnerabilities: Radioactive, Glowing
Other Skills or Traits: Assorted CIA-level Training

Assets: Cheap Apartment, $143.25 cash, 2 pistols, 5 magazines for pistols (3,4,6,8,8/8)

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: (Dick Winston--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Ipunchfaces

Secret Identity: Dick Winston
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Appearance: Tall and muscular, with a beard covering an unpleasant face. Some metal obvious along spine and limbs.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Mildly traumatized. Obsessive. Moderate "Cape Complex".
Background: Traumatized from bullying. Once he became strong and such, gained several assault charges.

Powers: Super-Strength, Near Invulnerability
Vulnerabilities: "CR4k" Addiction
Other Skills or Traits: Minimal Combat Skills

Assets: Big Sledgehammer

Fame: None
Infamy: Violent (Some know, Few remember)
Notable Deeds: None

Villains

Spoiler: (Mick Anakel--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Unholy_Pariah

Secret Identity: Mick Anakel
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Appearance: Normal: Tall, lean, and muscular, with pale skin,  brown hair and matching eyes. Transformed: Taller and more muscular, with leathery reddish skin, claws, wings, and a sheath of fire.
Costume: Indestructible Suit, No Mask or Anything like That
Personality Profile: Interested in vengeance, personal power, and the technological advancement of mankind. Presumably unaware of how much he is "proving" Luddites "right".
Background: Mick was the CEO of a major scientific corporation, specializing in milspec R&D, until he was nearly killed in an assassination attempt by a rival company via plane crash. The failed attempt was followed by evidence showing that he was embezzling and/or stealing military equipment and such.

Powers: Demonic Transformation
Vulnerabilities: Unknown
Other Skills or Traits: Some Technical Skills

Assets: Expensive Suit, Nice Watch, $500 cash, Assorted Military-Grade Scraps, Lightning Taser, Nigh-Indestructible Suit, Magic-Absorbing Amethyst

Fame: None
Infamy: Former CEO who allegedly stole a fortune in military equipment (Most Know, Some Remember)
Notable Deeds: Surviving a plane crash; Stealing a fortune in military equipment

Spoiler: Bladelord (click to show/hide)

Player: Dansmithers

Secret Identity: Dirk Poignard Fils
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Appearance: Caucasian male suffering from pattern baldness, with a chiseled chin.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Fame-Seeker with an obsession for knives. Mellower than he once was.
Background: Unremarkable

Powers: Ancient Symbiotic Dagger; Slight Super-Speed and Regeneration when dagger is in tattoo form; Slight Super-Strength and Toughness when dagger is in hand.
Vulnerabilities: When out, dagger cannot be dropped.
Other Skills or Traits: Moderately skilled with knife-fighting.

Assets: Apartment, Bank Account ($2,600), Some Kind of Day Job, Gang of Prisoners

Fame: None
Infamy: Explosion In Chicago (All know, Most remember), Lead a Gang of Prisoners to Escape (Few know, Few remember)
Notable Deeds: Terrorist Attack in Chicago--Massive Bomb

Spoiler: (Johnson "Brainwave" Cheyl--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: flameboy99

Secret Identity: Johnson Cheyl ("Brainwave")
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Appearance: Pale, scrawny, and hairless.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Vengeful, interested in scientific advancement
Background: A physicist whose laboratory was destroyed in a fight between supers. He swore revenge, using a modified prototype powered armor.

Powers: Powered Armor (super-strength, weapons [stun-fists, shoulder turret, flamethrower, Grenade Launcher], advanced computer [includes such things as navigation, combat programs, advice, databases, etc], medikit, absurd durability)
Vulnerabilities: Little Mobility
Other Skills or Traits: Extreme Technical Skill

Assets:

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Ferris Parson--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: BFEL

Secret Identity: Ferris Parson
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Appearance: A dark-haired, toned youth.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Traumatized but trained.
Background: The son of Photonic and (Golden) Priest,

Powers: Undying, Autokinesis, Mechanical Assimilation, Mild
Vulnerabilities:
Other Skills or Traits: Assorted parkour/martial arts/etc training

Assets: $4,900 cash

Fame: Child of Superheroes (Few know, None remember)
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: Silver Scarlet (Unofficial) (click to show/hide)

Player: Dwarmin

Secret Identity: Erin Lunaris
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Appearance: Pleasant-looking middle-aged woman with long brown hair, frigid blue eyes, and nice hips.
Costume: Stage costume of Silver Scarlet (a near-skintight red suit with silver trimming and a silver symbol over the chest).
Personality Profile: Determined by frustrated
Background: Formerly an actress/waitress.

Powers: Inhabited by Ghosts
Vulnerabilities: Inhabited by Ghosts
Other Skills or Traits: Decent Acting Skills

Assets: Apartment, $925 in Bank

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Other

Spoiler: (Kel Alern--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Sarzael

Secret Identity: Kel Alern
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Appearance: Average
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Vengeful and somewhat traumatized
Background: Unknown dads, whatever that means. Traumatized by the worsening crimes his friends committed, coming to a head when his girlfriend was shot trying to stop an murder attempt.

Powers: None
Vulnerabilities: None
Other Skills or Traits: Moderately skilled at criminal behavior

Assets:

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Irving Love--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Xanmyral

Secret Identity: Irving Love
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: Suspiciously average...very suspicious...
Costume: Hoodie, "Special Hat," Pants
Personality Profile: Suspiciously average, save for a mild inability to make decisions and slightly heightened curiosity. Recently paranoid.
Background:

Powers: Strange Headwear (grants telepathy)
Vulnerabilities: Brain Damage
Other Skills or Traits: Average

Assets: Some Generic Job, Apartment, $1,300 in bank, $100 cash

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: Nothing at all

Spoiler: Neo (click to show/hide)

Player: zombie killer

Secret Identity: ??
Gender: Male
Age: 30s?
Appearance: Copycat of a certain Matrix character
Costume: Copycat of a certain Matrix character
Personality Profile: ??
Background: ??

Powers: Improved Luck, Heightened Reflexes
Vulnerabilities: Electrical Vulnerability
Other Skills or Traits: Unusual Skills

Assets: Trenchcoat, Firearms, $25,000 in $100 bills

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: (Ozkar Herczeg--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Harry Baldman

Secret Identity: Ozkar Herczeg
Gender: Male
Age: 91
Appearance: An extremely and obviously old man, thin with extremely wrinkled skin and very sparse but long white hair. Large, thick spectacles hide his eyes, and he limps.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Somewhat altruistic. Talkative and energetic.
Background: Former coroner.

Powers: None
Vulnerabilities: He is very old.
Other Skills or Traits: Fairly Energetic

Assets:

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: (Niemand Wichtig--No Codename) (click to show/hide)

Player: Chink

Secret Identity: Niemand Wichtig
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Appearance: A mass of animate, sentient vines.
Costume: None, ever
Personality Profile: Mild antisocial tendencies. Notable greed.
Background: Street Man. Suspected marijuana dealer.

Powers: Made of Vines; Formerly, Grow Said Vines from Self
Vulnerabilities: Flammable
Other Skills or Traits: Green Thumb

Assets: Apartment, $500 in bank, $1,250 cash, $750 "product"

Fame: None
Infamy: Deals Marijuana (Few know, Few remember)
Notable Deeds: None

Non-Player Supers

Heroes

Spoiler: Blue Jay (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Breeze Rush (click to show/hide)

[3,4,6] I'm thinking Magical Girl

Spoiler: Butterfly, The (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Unknown
Gender: Female
Age: Early 20's?
Appearance: A tallish, slim woman with long, black hair in two braids down each side of her head.
Costume: A purple wetsuit, sans flippers or snorkel mask, with a set of large pink plastic wings on her back and a jet on the back of those. Her gloves are reinforced with metal studs, and she wears a motorcycle helmet.
Personality Profile: Cheerful but practical.
Background: Unknown

Powers: None, but possesses an aerojet and a pair of large wings for flight.
Vulnerabilities: Flimsy
Other Skills or Traits: Skilled at some form of martial arts

Assets: Unknown

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Crab-Man (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Matthew Simon
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Appearance: A man with a crablike head and a pair of claws for hands. He has four crablike legs instead of the normal human two, and his skin has been replaced with thick, chitinous plates.
Costume: A thick, orange water-filled suit made of kevlar, tightened at the wrists, hips, and neck and marked with a red crab symbol. He wears long, thick, white socks over his legs and modified boots on his feet.
Personality Profile: Bitter and disliking technology.
Background: A researcher exploring genetic engineering, specifically in the super-soldier field. He drew the short straw and hence had a formula intended to give the subject tough, chitinous armor. (Well, it didn't fail...)

Powers: Toughness, Claws
Vulnerabilities: No hands; Breathes with gills in his chest
Other Skills or Traits: Brilliant Geneticist

Assets: Mostly what the team gives him

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Insect Just (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: 25?
Appearance: Unknown
Costume: Partly transformed into some bug or another.
Personality Profile:
Background: Unknown

Powers: Ability to partially transform into various arthropods; Enhanced Strength; Resilient Anatomy
Vulnerabilities: None (known)
Other Skills or Traits:

Assets: Unknown

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Paladin, Shining (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Mary Magelline
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Appearance: A slender yet...curvy woman with blonde hair, green eyes, and pale skin.
Costume:
Personality Profile:
Background:

Powers: Healing
Vulnerabilities: None
Other Skills or Traits:

Assets:

Fame:
Infamy: Messianic Claims (Many know, Some remember); Temper (Some know, Few remember)
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Shot Lass (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Skitter (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Unknown
Gender: Female
Age: Teens?
Appearance: A shortish girl with longish brown hair who keeps herself mostly covered with her costume whilst superheroing.
Costume: Bodysuit made of yellow-dyed spider silk and green-painted insect shells for armor. Green mask with mandible-like armor sections and dull yellow lenses over the eyes.
Personality Profile: Congenial
Background: Unknown. Spent time with the Undersiders when she started, claiming to be attempting an undercover operation. When the Undersiders were taken down, Skitter went freelance for a while before helping found the Arthropoid Avengers.

Powers: "Bug" Control
Vulnerabilities: Vulnerable to malignant influences by the insects
Other Skills or Traits:

Assets:

Fame: Skill and creativity with power (Many know, many remember); High success rate (Most know, many remember)
Infamy: Joined the Undersiders for a period of time (Most know, many remember)
Notable Deeds: Defeated Lung, and with the Undersiders several of the New Wave

Villains

Spoiler: Blackjack, Skilled (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Uncertain
Gender: Male
Age: Early 30's?
Appearance: A thin man. Probably bald or clean-shaven.
Costume: A black near-skintight outfit from head to foot, except for the right eye and left hand. There is a just-noticeable bulge over the left eye.
Personality Profile: Greedy, with slight vigilante tendencies
Background: Unknown

Powers: None
Vulnerabilities: None known
Other Skills or Traits: Highly trained at multiple martial arts, including arts identified as june keet do, krav magah, and juto ken.

Assets: Unknown

Fame: Defeated various minor villains and petty criminals, bringing them in for trial (Many know, Many remember)
Infamy: Defeated several minor heroes (Many know, Some remember)
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Blitz (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Bjorn Alder
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: A shortish, muscular man with long blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a swastika tattooed on his left shoulder, a tan serpent spiraling down his arm, and a golden eagle eating a bald eagle on his palm. Oh yeah, he also has brownish wings like those of a gold eagle sprouting from his back.
Costume: A brown military uniform similar to that of the German army in the late 1930's, with the left arm removed.
Personality Profile:
Background: A white supremacist who agreed to a Neo-Nazi Super-Soldier program.

Powers: Flight, Electrokinesis
Vulnerabilities: A definitive lack of super-toughness
Other Skills or Traits: Decent Marksmanship

Assets:

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Frigid Fly, The (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Unknown
Gender: Unknown
Age: Greater than 15
Appearance: Unknown
Costume: Blue and violet powered armor, including a built-in jetpack and "freeze-thrower" as well as assorted other gadgets.
Personality Profile: Slightly maniacal, but wants to avoid death or serious injury.
Background: Unknown

Powers: Sparkiness
Vulnerabilities: Gremlin
Other Skills or Traits: Moderate medical skill

Assets: Unknown

Fame: Avoids harming people (Some know, Few remember)
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Gray Merrow (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: James/"Swimmy Jimmy"
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Appearance: An eight-foot-tall gray-skinned person with thick muscles and long, greenish hair. He has claws and long, sharp teeth. His skin is smooth.
Costume: A red-and-indigo costume with a shirt, doublet, and pants, accented with bits of mostly-decorative brass armor. It also has a blue cape that reaches from his shoulders down his back, which terminates in a short, finned tail.
Personality Profile: Thrill-seeking and short-sighted
Background: JJ was abandoned on the shore of Lake Huron when young. He fed on fish and migrated south over the years, sometimes terrorizing fishers or swimmers (earning himself the nickname "Swimmy Jimmy"). He was found by Flamebeard, a minor villain near the Museum Campus, and raised to be a proper supervillain child. When Flamebeard was defeated, Leadfist adopted him and continued funneling the lake monster's aggression. It is believed that further superpowers may manifest as he gets older.

Powers: Super-Strength, Regeneration, Water Breathing, Psychometry
Vulnerabilities: Flammable
Other Skills or Traits: Skilled at platformer video games

Assets: Safehouse by the lake

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Howling Android (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: None
Gender: N/A
Age: 3
Appearance: A human-shaped robot with a lupine head. It has claws for hands and a third, wheeled leg instead of a tail.
Costume: None
Personality Profile: Typically none.
Background: A robot made by (fill this in when an appropriate supervillain is created)

Powers: Mild super-strength and speed, typical robotic "powers". Sonic powers (induce emotions or pain).
Vulnerabilities: Typical robotic weaknesses, "Emergency Shutdown" button on back
Other Skills or Traits: Programmed with advanced psychological and mechanical knowledge

Assets: None

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Krieg (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Greta Gruber
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Appearance: A tall, thin, blonde woman with green eyes and
Costume: A military uniform similar to those used by the German military in the 1950's. The legs have been ripped off at about mid-thigh; dark red tights may be worn underneath in poor weather. She also has a reddish helmet resembling a knight's.
Personality Profile: Arrogant and irritatable about being here, just about wherever "here" is.
Background: The daughter of a major white supremacist, who "agreed" to a Neo-Nazi Super-Soldier program.

Powers: Super-Strength, Rapid Regeneration, Enhanced Reactions, Projectiles (supersonic steel), Moderate Clairvoyance
Vulnerabilities: None of note
Other Skills or Traits:

Assets: Uncertain but conservatively estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Leadfist (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Louis Langer
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Appearance: A young-looking man except for his dark gray hair. He is muscular and has piercing, gray eyes.
Costume: A lead-gray suit, complete with matching tie and fedora, all enchanted to be indestructible and self-cleaning. He also wears wraparound shades and nice, enchanted dress shoes. He has a metal gauntlet on his left hand and carries a pistol in his left.
Personality Profile: Selfish and cunning,
Background: Louis was the seventh child of Charles Langer, the current patriarch of the Langer family (most of which is currently in southern Wisconsin). The Langers were skilled at magic, but Louis was the unlucky kid without so much as a drop of Talent. As he grew up, he did his best to show how he could succeed, even without help from magic. Taking several percent (less than his share) of the Langer estate and fleeing to Chicago, Louis set up a criminal empire based on using the fairly sizeable population of poor magicians. After a battle, a botched healing attempt turned part of Louis's chest into lead; a botched attempt to fix that gave him his signature power--transforming into lead. Later on, direct magical empowerment made him exceptionally strong. He now rules with a lead fist as crime lord and supervillain.

Powers: Inherent super-strength ability to transform parts of his body into lead. Enchanted items grant an extra layer of armor, flight, mildly enhanced speed (max sprint approx. 30-40 mph), misc. enhanced senses, fiery blasts, and quasilegal internet access.
Vulnerabilities: Magic Vulnerability
Other Skills or Traits: Extremely knowledgeable about magic, to the point of being able to entirely disrupt enemy spells with a well-aimed fireblast or a well-timed blow. Skilled with firearms, notably pistols, as well as hand-to-hand combat (including a martial art he invented called juto ken, which incorporates blows with pistols alongside punches and such).

Assets: A few million in assorted properties, goods, businesses, cash, etc; the Inverse Philosophers, the mega-gang he runs

Fame: None
Infamy: Leads the Inverse Philosophers (Most know, Many remember); Defeated several major heroes single-handedly (Most know, Most remember)
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Pocket (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Eris Irwin
Gender: Female
Age: 43
Appearance: An obese hunchbacked woman, covered in large, brownish scales, with elongated, kangaroo-like legs.
Costume: A pair of cargo shorts and a tan vest with lots of pockets.
Personality Profile:
Background:

Powers: Small, extradimensional "pockets"; mildly enhanced toughness; above-average jumping
Vulnerabilities: Clumsy, crude. Often brings back "corrupted" versions of what gets stored in her "pockets".
Other Skills or Traits: Knows French and German

Assets: Cheapish Apartment near Lakeshore Drive, a few hundred dollars in the bank, assorted trinkets and uncertain cash in extradimensional pockets

Fame: None
Infamy: Smuggler (Some know, Few remember), Possible Drug Runner (Some know, Some remember)
Notable Deeds: Stole Leadfist's old flight ring (Many know, Some remember)

Spoiler: Quasit (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Aidan Dark
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: A short, chubby, pink-skinned man with reddish eyes and longish, dirty fingernails.
Costume: An orange shirt (T- or sweat, depending on season) and sweatpants, with a plastic demon mask over his face.
Personality Profile: Slight quasi-dissociative-identity disorder from inhabitant; one side is mellow and meek, the other maniac and sociopathic.
Background:

Powers: Inhabited by a quasit, granting him a wide variety of abilities which vary from day to day but usually work well together.
Vulnerabilities: Vary from day to day but are typically severe.
Other Skills or Traits: Knowledgeable in the occult.

Assets:

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Screaming Jackal (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Slash'n'Blast (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Mary M. Eris
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Appearance: A tall and thin woman with a shaved head and a "mer-Polly" (fish-tailed parrot) on her head. Her skin has several scars.
Costume: A suit of plastic "armor" that varies from escapade to escapade.
Personality Profile:
Background:

Powers: Plastic Generation (usually lasts little or no more than about ten times the length concentrated for; typically used to create projectiles or blades before crumbling to dust), Minor Agility, Enhanced Strength, Mild Durability, Slightly-Slow Regeneration
Vulnerabilities: Brittle, Meltable
Other Skills or Traits:

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Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

Spoiler: Strike Jester (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity:
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Age:
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Spoiler: Waveform (click to show/hide)

Former Player: Remalle

Secret Identity: Troy Tucker
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Appearance: A shortish, gangly teen. Long, straight, ginger hair; pale blue eyes; braces.
Costume: A black hoodie over a black T-shirt and loose black track pants, with
Personality Profile: Thrill-seeker. Enjoys action movies, video games, and '60s rock. Suspiciously average.
Background: Not much of note.

Powers: Has an amulet that generates noises and sounds, possibly loud ones
Vulnerabilities: Partial paralysis of left arm and leg
Other Skills or Traits: Um...

Assets: Apartment, $680 in bank account

Fame: None
Infamy: None
Notable Deeds: None

Spoiler: Zeit (click to show/hide)

Secret Identity: Zelda L. Watcher
Gender: Female
Age: 7
Appearance: A little girl with pale skin, white hair in a ponytail, and blank, empty eyes.
Costume: A simple white leotard and a pair of pink sunglasses.
Personality Profile: Unusually pessimistic and selfish for a child her age; disturbingly violent.
Background: An orphan abandoned in an orphanage at nine months of age, with only

Powers: Control over her own flow through time
Vulnerabilities: Blind, Seven Years Old
Other Skills or Traits:

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3 to go! (Those rolls worked out well.)

Other

Out-Of-Townies

Super Groups

Heroic Groups

Spoiler: The Arthropoid Avengers (click to show/hide)

A number of heroic individuals with arthropod-based powers or motifs.

Members:
The Butterfly
Crab-Man
Insect Just
Skitter

Assets:

Base:

Fame:
Infamy:
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Villainous Groups

Spoiler: E.V.I.L. (click to show/hide)

A mostly-unorganized gang of prisoners.

Members:
Dirk Fils (leader)
Tobias Judson Dyer (reincarnated Benjamin Franklin)
Gary Gus Gent (self-made Chaos Sorcerer)
Frederic Clement Faulkner (green-skinned flammable plant-maker)
Katheryn Iris Munoz (powerful telepathic)
82 other assorted prisoners (29 useless-superpowered)

Assets: One Nuclear Warhead

Base: Condemned Skyscraper

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds: Broke out of Jail

Other Groups

Spoiler: Group Template (click to show/hide)

Brief description

Members:

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Base:

Fame:
Infamy:
Notable Deeds:

(Because I'm tired of having to check each time I create a new one.)

[Unholy_Pariah]

Reserved so i can turn my computer on and make an adequate supervillian.

Name: Mick Anakel ((cant think, must post placeholder))
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Description: Stands 6'4" tall with a lean, muscular physique, pale skin, short brown hair and brown eyes.

Backstory: Mick was the CEO of one of the worlds largest and most influential corporations specializing in military research and development projects before he was almost killed in a plane crash orchestrated by one of his leading competitors and his power hungry board of directors. After discovering their attempt on his life had failed they falsified the corporations records framing him for embezzlement and the theft of millions of dollars of highly experimental and highly classified military equipment that was on the plane with him. After realizing that he had been betrayed he took what little of the equipment that survived the crash and set out to enact his revenge.  ((the crash is not the origin, that comes afterwards while hes in hiding))
Intended Side: Villain/chaotic neutral
Motivation: The technological advancement of mankind and the establishment of an interstellar human empire, also personal power and revenge.
Favorite Superpower: Technomancy

((before i add in a name, how would it affect my powers?))

[kj1225]

Name:  Kyle Johnson
Gender: Male
Age:  21
Description:  Tall brown eyed and haired man. Has a goatee and wears glasses.

Backstory:  Kyle is a man who always was antisocial and likes messing with others.
Intended Side:  Hero
Motivation:  Wants to do something memorable.
Favorite Superpower:  hallucinatory powers

[GreatWyrmGold]

Reserved so i can turn my computer on and make an adequate supervillian.

Wait...what? Mind if I ask what stopped you from doing so on your phone or tablet?

((before i add in a name, how would it affect my powers?))

Occasionally...But it's not an important factor.

[Unholy_Pariah]

my phone browser is horribad when it comes to making alterations to stuff.

• the cursor bounces all over the place when your trying to move it between words and the only way to get it to stay is to highlight the word on the left and write over it.
• if said word is on the right side of the screen your utterly fucked because the cursor selects it for half a second and then jumps back to the left side of the screen, WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
• occasionally it decides to randomly jump between words while your typing.
• and if those things weren't bad enough it has no spell check

[GreatWyrmGold]

Ah. All the worst features at once. Fun.

[Remalle]

Name: Troy Tucker
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Description: A somewhat short, gangly teenager.  Long straight ginger hair, pale blue eyes, braces.  Usually wears a t-shirt hyping some '60s psychedelic rock band or other.
Backstory: Nothing much to say, really.  He's a high-school senior, neither a jock nor a nerd, an outcast or a cool kid.  Enjoys action movies and video games.
Intended Side: Hero
Motivation: Thrill seeking
Favorite Superpower: Stretching/body manipulation

[Unholy_Pariah]

i know right

now to figure out a good name guaranteed to give me some sort of technological advantage...

[Persus13]

reserved.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Name: Finn Dunlap
Gender: Male
Age:26
Description: Lanky, with some ever so slight muscles. Closely trimmed black hair.
Backstory: A young man, with a flair for the dramatic and slightly prideful.
Before the whole 'super hero' thing, he was a failing actor, with a less than pleasant past, that he aimed to escape through reaching world-wide fame. Of course, his whole failure in the field of acting tended to get in the way of this, but who knows, maybe super-heroics could be his big break.
Intended Side: Hero, according to him at the very least.
Motivation: Money, fame, all that good stuff.
Favorite Superpower: Creation and Manipulation of Metal(ie, creating a armor for himself, weapons, things along those lines)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Two characters and three reserves.

I'm going to wait until tomorrow to start. Maybe I'll have three characters and I don't know how many reserves.

[Dansmithers]

Name:Dirk Poignard Fils
Gender:Male
Age:47
Description: A balding white man with a chiseled chin.

Backstory:Dirk never really did much throughout his life, but he did establish an impressive collection of knives. When he gained his powers, he decided to become famous... in any way possible.
Intended Side: Villian
Motivation:Infamy
Favorite Superpower: Ability to throw knives and always kill the target, will usually miss if not totally focused

[Unholy_Pariah]

who wants to bet that the "Shot Lass" NPC left the g out of her code name by mistake and actually fights crime by drinking said criminals under the table or beating them to a bloody pulp with indestructible bourbon bottles?

[GreatWyrmGold]

I haven't figured that stuff out yet, I only got the names. Although...*scribble scribble scribble*...if she doesn't have any powers...maybe it could be a motif?