The Multiversers: Unlimited RPG Sign Up thread

Andy C. said:
How would setting up a brutal totalitarian regime that led to the extermination of the Jedi Knights and the destruction of an entire planet be "best overall for everyone?" Just askin.' Though a mission of that same sort of premise would be interesting character-wise, especially since Sonic spent most of his life fighting an evil empire of his own.

Because a future threat to the safety of the entire universe could only be averted by a strong emperial force uniting the galaxy. Midnighter's reasoning is that at least Vader has some sense of honor unlike his master, thus making him a preferable emperor.
 
Perhaps we could manipulate things so that Anakin becomes emperor, but doesn't fall to the Dark Side. That way, the galaxy will be united and the Jedi Order will still be around when the Yuuzhan Vong show up.
 
Manipulating things could cause the universe to fall into instablity, and thus destroy it. Don't worry about it now, the Star Wars mission is planned out and will be of a much smaller scale, albeit an exciting and interesting one.
 
I still like MB's idea about Superheroes living in the Star Wars U.
 
Andy C. said:
Perhaps we could manipulate things so that Anakin becomes emperor, but doesn't fall to the Dark Side. That way, the galaxy will be united and the Jedi Order will still be around when the Yuuzhan Vong show up.

Maybe. Although, I doubt Luke could effectively lead a massive galactic empire. Anakyn, however, could. Besides, while the Jedi are quite badass, their stance in combat is a passive one. They fight only to defend themselves. The Sith, on the other hand, take a very offensive aproach. Atack your enemy, wipe out his forces, topple his cities, enslave his people, and salt the fields of his land before he can even reload. Harsh? Yes. But sometimes necessairy. I think it's safe to say that Midnighter (and possibly Batman) would be a Sith who simply fights for the right causes if he had force powers.
 
byrd_man said:
I still like MB's idea about Superheroes living in the Star Wars U.

As do I, and as I promised him, we will return to that eventually.
 
The Question said:
Maybe. Although, I doubt Luk could effectively lead a massive galactic empire. Anakyn, however, could. Besides, while the Jedi are quite badass, their stance in combat is a passive one. They fight only to defend themselves. The Sith, on the other hand, take a very offensive aproach. Atack your enemy, wipe out his forces, topple his cities, enslave his people, and salt the fields of his land before he can even reload. Harsh? Yes. But sometimes necessairy. I think it's safe to say that Midnighter (and possibly Batman) would be a Sith who simply fights for the right causes if he had force powers.

Off-topic, but I've always thought the Sith to be the better of the two options. The Jedi aren't really allowed to 'feel' without being drawn to the Dark Side.
 
SuperFerret said:
Off-topic, but I've always thought the Sith to be the better of the two options. The Jedi aren't really allowed to 'feel' without being drawn to the Dark Side.

Oh, the Jedi are certainly allowed to feel. Yoda is usually quite jovial and even playing pranks on others when he's not doing the whole zen master of the force thing. But, they have to keep their emotions under strict control. Especially theur anger. While a Jedi can get angry, they have too keep it under control. The Jedi philosophies, not talking about the force powers here, are basically a combination of Buddhism and Bushido. Neither one laking emotion, but both expressing a great deal of self control. However, the Sith do revel in all of their emotions completely. Instead of trying to control their anger, they explore it to it's fullest potential and find a certain freedom in that.
 
I was never a fan of the Sith; their whole intent is entirely selfish, either to dominate or kill others. As for being a Sith "who fights for the right causes," just about all of the SW continuity shows that there's no such thing, because even if a Sith does the right thing, it's for the wrong reason. While the Jedi may not be allowed to feel (and I always hated that Lucas decided to portray them that way), they're at least out to help. I can't honestly imagine a group of superheroes (particularly one with Superman himself involved) intentionally setting up someone as consumed with hate as Vader to control an entire galaxy.
 
Andy C. said:
I was never a fan of the Sith; their whole intent is entirely selfish, either to dominate or kill others. As for being a Sith "who fights for the right causes," just about all of the SW continuity shows that there's no such thing, because even if a Sith does the right thing, it's for the wrong reason. While the Jedi may not be allowed to feel (and I always hated that Lucas decided to portray them that way), they're at least out to help. I can't honestly imagine a group of superheroes (particularly one with Superman himself involved) intentionally setting up someone as consumed with hate as Vader to control an entire galaxy.

That's exactly the type of situations I like to put in this type of game, hence our current mission.
 
Since the mission thread is going up wensday, Our first post will be in our respective universe's and then at the end they get "beamed up"
 
Multiversers: Unlimited Application

Codename:Mr. Fantastic

Real name: Dr. Reed Richards

Human name (if applicable): N/A

Mission Reserve or Chosen?: Niether, he is the leader of the Chosen and gives them their missions.

Age: 65 years old

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 180lbs

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Grey

Occupation: Scientist

Marital Status: Widower

Known Relatives: Nathaniai (father, deceased), Evelyn (mother, deceased), Susan Storm (wife, deceased), Franklin (son, deceased), Valeria (daughter, deceased), Benjamin (son, deceased) Johnny Storm (brother-in-law, deceased), Cassandra (stepmother, deceased)


Group Affiliation (history of group needed): The Fantastic Four. Known internationally as Earth's first family of super heroes, the members of the Fantastic Four owe their amazing abilities to their elastic leader: scientific stalwart Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic. As a starry-eyed student at State University, Reed already had set his sights on interstellar travel. His roommate and best friend, Ben Grimm, jokingly promised to pilot the craft. Working years later as an aeronautical engineer, Reed finally realized his lifelong dream. Exhausting the majority of his vast inheritance, he funded the construction and launch of a starship. Reed recruited Ben, who had become a successful test pilot and astronaut, to fly the vessel. Reed's longtime sweetheart and fiance, Sue Storm, joined him at the launch site.

When the government threatened to cut off its partial funding of the project, Reed elected to embark on an immediate test flight. Ben opposed the idea, warning that the ship's shielding might prove inadequate against intense forms of cosmic radiation. Nevertheless, Reed persuaded his old friend to serve as pilot. Sue and her adolescent brother, Johnny, insisted on accompanying the would-be history-makers. The four stole into the launch facility, boarded the starship and blasted off in pursuit of scientific glory. They intended to travel to another star system and back, but a solar flare temporarily boosted the intensity of the ionizing radiation in Earth's Van Allen belt. Cosmic rays bombarded the ship's cabin, irradiating the four passengers and slagging the controls. Ben was forced to abort the flight and return to Earth.

Back on terra firma, the four discovered that the radiation had triggered mutagenic changes in their bodies. Reed could become malleable, Sue could turn invisible, and Johnny could generate fiery plasma. Ben stood transformed into an orange-colored, thick-skinned, heavily muscled, superhumanly strong "thing." It was Reed who convinced his friends that they should use their newfound powers for humanity's benefit.
(taken from Marveldirectory.com)

Universe/Timeline history*: Universe designation 612, very similar to the "mainstream" Marvel Universe, up until the events of Doom Horizon, with effectively destroyed the entire universe and everyone in it, aside from Richards himself, who had been alone at the time of universal nullification, testing an invention that would allow his family to escape that reality.

In the year 2023, the madman Victor Von Doom had successfully created his own pocket dimension which he ruled with an iron fist, much like the way he had ruled Latveria, the nation that was under his rule until World War III. Doom seemed content on ruling his demiplane, and more or less left the "real" world alone. But on a multicosmic scale his actions were catastrophic, he had created an instability in that reality, which eventually led to it's destruction.

Skills: High level of knowledge in nearly all forms of science.

Powers (comparative to main comic book characters): Mister Fantastic possesses the ability to convert the mass of his entire body into a highly malleable state at will. In such a state, he can stretch, deform, expand, or compress his entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape he can imagine. He can extend his limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: the maximum length he can distend before his body segments become painful is about 1,500 feet. (Although he can extend discrete body parts, such as a single finger, an ear, or an eye, he seldom if ever isolates such parts in his elongations.) He can also extend his body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention. He has compressed his body into the shape of a solid sphere, a cylinder, a cube, a toroid, and a rectangular prism: he can assume the shape of any solid that he can envision clearly, of a volume no greater than 1.7 cubic feet (a sphere about 18 inches in diameter). He can generate thin-walled shapes that enclose great volumes of space. Mister Fantastic can flatten himself to the thickness of an average sheet of typing paper (.0035 inch) or narrow himself to a diameter small enough to pass through the eye of a #10 beading needle (about .045 x .06 inches). How his body's respiration and circulatory systems function at these distorted extremes is as yet unknown. Mister Fantastic can alter his form in a matter of seconds, often much less (depending on the complexity of the shape), and revert to his normal humanoid shape within a similar time. The greater the distance he stretches or the more extended the size of the object he becomes, the weaker his overall strength becomes.

Due to the great malleability and elasticity of his molecular structure, Mister Fantastic is able to absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming his body along the path of the projectile's trajectory at the point of initial impact. After his body absorbs the kinetic energy of a ballistic projectile's impact, he can expel the object back along its trajectory by flexing like a trampoline if he is adequately braced. He can enclose and absorb the energy of a large explosive, on the order of 8 to 12 pounds of TNT (excluding exotic, high density explosives). Such shocks to his system are physically exhausting.

Mister Fantastic's transformation to a malleable state is reflexive and nearly instantaneous: if he was at his normal form and taken unaware by machine gun fire, his body would still absorb the bullets' impact through radical deformation. Mister Fantastic's skin is virtually impervious to laceration or punctures unless he wilfully relaxes his reflexive control over small areas of his body. In that case, scalpels and ordinary needles can penetrate his skin.
(taken from Marveldirectory.com)

Hero, anti-hero, villain?: Hero

Brief Sample Post (In the format you plan to portray your character in-game):

"Susan.." I whisper, caressing the torn photograph that consists of all I have left of my wife, a tear rolling down my cheek. I lay in bed, alone, as I have for longer than I can imagine. My base of operations exists outside of time, and I no longer age, thus I have become immortal, much to my utter dismay.

I stand, gazing around at the cold, soulless metallic wall of my domicile, the same walls I see where ever I go in this station, the same walls that make up my base outside of reality. It is my greatest accomplishment, and it is my prison. For all eternity.

An alarm sounds, the noise bouncing off of the aforementioned walls, ringing in my ears. Another reality is in peril, and my last team of "Chosen" all perished in their last task.

Even though I hate it, I realize I must call upon more champions from the Multiverse, even if it means their demise.
 
byrd_man said:
Since the mission thread is going up wensday, Our first post will be in our respective universe's and then at the end they get "beamed up"

Pretty much. My first post will consist of my Reed sample post, and then a description of him (and his possible assistants) going about "beaming you up", which will end with him addressing your characters.

Your posts can start there if you want, or you could show a little of your universe and what's happening when you're "beamed up".
 
I had an idea with the Star Wars universe. With all this talk about Superman and Batman being there I was thinking of someone else. I thought it would be cool for someone like Galactus showing up like on Coruscant or something.

Hmmm Galactus reminds me of somebody like Unicron we could have a mission set in the Transformers universe...

*pumps shotgun* I call Optimus Prime ****ers
 
Y'know, for a long time I had an idea for a SW story with a sentient Death Star. Maybe that could be the SW equivalent of Galactus.

But perhaps we're getting ahead of ourselves. We've still got a Gotham campaign to go through before we start thinking about SW too much.
 
Andy C. said:
I was never a fan of the Sith; their whole intent is entirely selfish, either to dominate or kill others. As for being a Sith "who fights for the right causes," just about all of the SW continuity shows that there's no such thing, because even if a Sith does the right thing, it's for the wrong reason. While the Jedi may not be allowed to feel (and I always hated that Lucas decided to portray them that way), they're at least out to help. I can't honestly imagine a group of superheroes (particularly one with Superman himself involved) intentionally setting up someone as consumed with hate as Vader to control an entire galaxy.

There's nothing about the Sith that dictates selfishness. They simply allow their emotions to take hold of them and do whatever it takes to acheive their goals, unlike the Jedi, who practice self controll and a more passive stance on most issues. Remember, we've only seen four Sith within the course of the films, and three of them worked for the fourth.
 
Very true, and in real life, the Sith way of thinking comes across as very humanist. However, in the SW universe where abstract concepts like good and evil are very real and powerful, the people who have that sort of power have to maintain at least some degree of self-control. Look at how many people Vader slaughtered on all his little temper tantrums (especially in Empire, when he'd strangle anyone who gave him any sort of bad news) I know I'm mixing franchises, but with great power comes great responsibility, and the Sith idea of letting anger consume you is reckless and ultimately destructive, both to others and to oneself.

As for it not being selfish, look at the blatant disregard the Sith have for the lives of everyone around them. They start galaxy-spanning wars for personal gain, killing God knows how many billions of people in the process. They slaughter their serving officers the second they get a hint of bad news. The idea that any other life is less important than one's own is the very definition of selfishness, and the Sith show that in spades.
 
Hey all you GM's out there. Is it possible for people who are playing one of the Chosen to pick up an MRC? We need some MRC's here.
 
Yeah, I was too lazy to read through it all :o
 
Yeah well, I read it all the way through twice and when SF said he edited it I said screw it, I'll have one of yall answer my question.
 
Multiversers: Unlimited Application

Codename:


Real name: James Worthington "Jim" Gordon

Human name (if applicable):

Mission Reserve or Chosen?: MRC

Age: 45

Height: 6'0

Weight: 210

Eyes: Black

Hair: Salt and Pepper

Occupation: Lead Detective Gotham PD

Marital Status: Married

Known Relatives: Barbra Gordon (Ex-Wife) James Gordon Jr. (Son) Sarah Essen-Gordon (2nd Wife) Barbra "Babs" Gordon (Niece/Adopted Daugther) Richard "Dick" Grayson (Adopted Son)

Group Affiliation (history of group needed): Gotham PD. After Commissioner Loeb retired, Detective Flass was chosen as his replacment, With no Batman around, Gordon kept his head down and remained the only good cop on the force.
Universe/Timeline history*:

History: Since there is no Batman to team up with, Gordon didn't move up the ranks of the Gotham PD as quickly, but eventually made it to lead detective. After his first wife took their only son, Jim kept custody of his niece Babs Gordan. One night, while courting Sarah Essen, Jim took her to the circus to watch the show. That night turned out to be the night Dick Grayson's parents were killed. With no Bruce Wayne to adopt the poor boy, Jim and Sarah adopted him and made him best man at Jim and Sarah's wedding. Since then Babs and Dick have begun a romantic relationship behind their adopted parent's backs.

Skills: Decent marksman and skilled detective. as well as previous training in special forces combat.

Powers (comparative to main comic book characters): about the same as regular version.

Hero, anti-hero, villain?: Hero

Brief Sample Post (In the format you plan to portray your character in-game):

I hate this city.

Always have, always will. It's a cancerous cell that has very few bright spots. For every bright light like Harvey or Sarah. There are two more like Falcone and Flass. I try to keep my head down, but I can't take it anymore. Maybe that's why I'm driving up the long road towards Flass' house, excuse me, Commisioner Flass' house. That bastard is as crooked as a set of hillbilly teeth and I kicked his ass, long ago. Now I'm headed up the long and winding road, my service pistol strapped to my ankle and a length of rope in the back seat.

Tonight the madness stops.
 
Andy C. said:
Very true, and in real life, the Sith way of thinking comes across as very humanist. However, in the SW universe where abstract concepts like good and evil are very real and powerful, the people who have that sort of power have to maintain at least some degree of self-control. Look at how many people Vader slaughtered on all his little temper tantrums (especially in Empire, when he'd strangle anyone who gave him any sort of bad news) I know I'm mixing franchises, but with great power comes great responsibility, and the Sith idea of letting anger consume you is reckless and ultimately destructive, both to others and to oneself.

Oh, very true. I never said the Sith philosophy had no negative aspects.

Andy C. said:
As for it not being selfish, look at the blatant disregard the Sith have for the lives of everyone around them. They start galaxy-spanning wars for personal gain, killing God knows how many billions of people in the process. They slaughter their serving officers the second they get a hint of bad news. The idea that any other life is less important than one's own is the very definition of selfishness, and the Sith show that in spades.

Well, now we're only talking about two particular Sith: Palatine and Vader. Yes, Palpatine was a horribly corrupt and power hungry despot, and Vader was his unerringly loyal, cold, ruthless enforcer with serious anger issues. But that came from them, not the philosophies of the Sith.
 

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