The New Ultimate DC RPG: Sign-Up/OOC Thread

[Blacklight]

Ahem... It's Jaime Reyes, not Jamie.








....oh, and I'm back.

 

[Carnage27]

Ahem... It's Jaime Reyes, not Jamie.








....oh, and I'm back.

Spelling is overrated!

 

[Byrd Man]

....oh, and I'm back.

Yeah, I'll believe it when I actually ****ing see a Dick Grayson post.

 

[Mr. Majestic]

Instead of Bludhaven Midnighter shall also be in Gotham City for a bit till i figure out what direction i would like to take him.

 

[Batman]

To be honest, while Byrd was accurate with the Bludhaven being apart of Gotham thing, it hasn't been introduced by way of the IC thread yet. And I honestly don't care about the idea anymore. So if you want to, you can make it a separate city.

 

[Byrd Man]

Yeah. Just get the **** out!

 

[Mr. Majestic]

Just want to make sure i understand you. Now you are saying i can make Bludhaven a separate city?

 

[Batman]

Yessir.

 

[Mr. Majestic]

Well that's cool and the gang.

 

[Carnage27]

.Screen name: Carnage27

.Character you wish to portray: William Hand of the Black Lantern Corps.

.Hero, villain, or walking the line?: Villain. I mean honestly, the guy's name is Black Hand.

.Powers and physical attributes: William possesses the strength, stamina and endurance of a human male in top physical form. He is also the bearer of a Black Lantern ring and all the powers it brings with it.

.Origin and backstory (as you see it):

From SenseiofCheese:
William Hand is the youngest of three brothers born to Matthew and Elsa Hand. However, Elsa died while giving birth to William, something his father would resent his son greatly for. Eric Hand developed a severe case of alcoholism, and would regularly beat his youngest son.

With each beating William took, he grew more isolated from the world. But he never cried. He never showed fear. Nor anger. Because William Hand knew there was something out there for him. That his destiny was great. That, one day, his salvation would come. And come it did.

On William´s 18th birthday, his life changed. He had snuck out one night and ventured down to a local cemetary; a place he treasured for it´s complete and utter serenity. Looking up at the dark night sky, William couldn't seem to remember what star was green. Closer and closer it came, but never growing in size, until William was presented with a lone, emerald ring. Told that he possessed a great deal of willpower, William Hand was inducted into the Lantern Corps.

William Hand had the honor of being the first human being ever allowed into the Lantern Corps. He fought tooth and nail for the respect of his peers, which he soon had. William quickly climbed through the ranks of the Green Lanterns, soon being hailed as the Greatest Lantern that ever lived. For reasons unknown, even the Guardians of Oa took a special interest in William, allowing him special privileges, kept secret to the other Lanterns.

After over 20 years of service in the Lantern Corps, William changed. One day, while on a mission with his then-partner Sinestro, William snapped. Attacking his partner with a torrent of black energy, William vowed that he would wipe out the entire Lantern Corps, before disappearing completely. Sinestro, barely surviving, reported back to Oa, but was ridiculed for his claims of there being a yet undiscovered black energy in the rings.

Added by me:

William returned five years later with a bang. He traveled to the world of Ysmault, a place of a horrific battle, and resurrected the dead combatants with his Black Lantern Ring. He then proceeded to attack Oa, systematically destroying the planet and killing the legendary Guardians.

.The burning question - Why this character?: I love Blackest Night, and I think the character is a terrific opportunity for various mind ****s against hero characters.

.How will this version of your character differ from others? How will it be Ultimate?:

Well, as Sensei established, William was a Green Lantern before being corrupted, the first human in the Corps.

.What do you believe you can bring to the RPG?: A villain that is a threat to the entire universe.

Not just Gotham.

.Provide a sample post as the character you wish to portray, in three paragraphs or more:

-EDIT-

.Do you know how to post pictures on the Hype?:

 

[Batman]

Hoo boy. Well, first off, I'd love to have you playing Black Hand. That'd give me a bit of liberty with my story with Hal Jordan, and to focus on the GLC's rather than both the GLC and the Black Lanterns. Plus, the more's the merrier, and Cats and I could use another good PC to bounce off of with this arc.

That said, there's two reasons why I can't approve you yet. One is more of a self-serving reason, in that there's one more post that I have to finish between Hand and Abin Sur that pretty much sets up my entire arc with Hal. The second is more of a practical reason, in that your app has a sample post made of copied posts written by other players. Because the sample's supposed to display what you yourself can do with the character, I'm going to have to ask you to write a new one.

So submit a new sample and you should be ready to go. As far as my stuff is concerned, it's up to me to hurry up and post so I can give you leeway for what you want to do with Hand, so don't worry about that as much as rewriting the sample.

 

[Carnage27]

Hoo boy. Well, first off, I'd love to have you playing Black Hand. That'd give me a bit of liberty with my story with Hal Jordan, and to focus on the GLC's rather than both the GLC and the Black Lanterns. Plus, the more's the merrier, and Cats and I could use another good PC to bounce off of with this arc.

That said, there's two reasons why I can't approve you yet. One is more of a self-serving reason, in that there's one more post that I have to finish between Hand and Abin Sur that pretty much sets up my entire arc with Hal. The second is more of a practical reason, in that your app has a sample post made of copied posts written by other players. Because the sample's supposed to display what you yourself can do with the character, I'm going to have to ask you to write a new one.

Wait...honestly my sample wasn't original?

I mean I knew that last part wasn't, I wanted to tie it in with what you were doing, but I honestly had no idea the "Five Years Ago" part wasn't.

My bad, seriously, I feel bad.

 

[Carnage27]

Here's a new one, I hope this is better, MB.

.Provide a sample post as the character you wish to portray, in three paragraphs or more:

Death. It is the one constant in the galaxy. The one thing that waits for all creatures. The one thing that lingers over the shoulder of kings and paupers alike. William Hand had become this force incarnate, and death was now his sword.

As the battle for Oa raged around him, he breathed deep. He knew what must be done next.

"Minion...come to me," he called to one of those he had created from the fallen of Ysmault. The zombie-like creature floated to it's master, its black eyes staring off into space. "Take a small detachment of the Fallen to the remnants of Krypton."

William had a plan formulating in his mind. He needed to start building his Lantern Corps, and he wanted the people that produced the Man of Steel on his side. A detachment of Kryptonian Black Lanterns would bring Earth to its knees. None would resist the release of death.

 

[Byrd Man]

I'm not going to approve you, I'll let MB decide since he didn't want to approve it for the first reason.

But let me say I ****ing hate you, you dirty cheater!

Just playing, but not really!

I am just kidding.

 

[Carnage27]

I'm not going to approve you, I'll let MB decide since he didn't want to approve it for the first reason.

But let me say I ****ing hate you, you dirty cheater!

Just playing, but not really!

I am just kidding.

Well **** you!



BTW, Could you post in Star Wars, my Sith slave?

 

[Byrd Man]

Yes, master.

 

[Batman]

Right, and with that, I'm done with the Black Lanterns. Hopefully that'll be end of me making posts that don't actually include Hal Jordan in them.

Carnage, you're approved as Black Hand. Sorry about the wait, but I wanted to free you up just as much as I wanted to progress the story. Hope you like where I left you.

 

[Carnage27]

Right, and with that, I'm done with the Black Lanterns. Hopefully that'll be end of me making posts that don't actually include Hal Jordan in them.

Carnage, you're approved as Black Hand. Sorry about the wait, but I wanted to free you up just as much as I wanted to progress the story. Hope you like where I left you.

That's perfect, MB. Thanks a lot.

 

[Andy C.]

Okay, so after some long contemplation and soul-searching, I've decided to pick up a third character. And after several rounds of hard liquor and brainicaning (that's like brainstorming only way more intense), I've made my decision as to who it's going to be....


. Application .

. THE NEW ULTIMATE DC RPG .
Character Application

.Screen name: Andy C.

.Character you wish to portray: Mr. Mxyzptlk, Lower Custodian of the Fifth Dimension

.Hero, villain, or walking the line?: Walking the Line...well, maybe hovering over it on a little cloud, or animating the Line to make rude pictures, or something.

.Powers and physical attributes: Mxyzptlk has the power to tap into the Great Dimensional Membrane, specifically the dimension of probability, or the Fifth Dimension. By manipulating the Fifth Dimension, he can alter the fabric of reality so that the ridiculously improbable (since there's no such thing as 'impossible') can happen right in front of him. A lesser being would consider him omnipotent, but really, that power just kinda comes with the territory.

Or at least it used to. In his current state of exile, Mxy can only appear to one specific person at a time, and only manipulate the area directly around them.

.Origin and backstory (as you see it): Detective Harvey Mxyzptlk was a crooked cop in the Gotham City Police Department, and---nah, nah, just kidding.

Okay, for real this time. You know how when us humans look at the world, we see it in three dimensions? You've got your length, width, and depth, and that makes up what we'd call "space." Then we move along in a straight line along a fourth dimension, which we'd call "time." And for most people, that's all they need. Recently, quantum physicists and other really smart people hypothesized about something called M-Theory, which states that the universe actually exists in the form of a membrane, consisting of eleven different dimensions.

Somewhere folded up in the membrane is the half-real world of Zrrrfff, home to beings that not only exist in all eleven dimensions, but can actually manipulate them, sculpt reality as they see fit. In their earlier incarnations, they ran amok with this power, accidentally destroying the whole of Creation about a dozen times. As they got older, however, they realized that making themselves gods and screwing with reality like children was actually a really immature thing to do, so they instead set to work on undoing the damage they had done, setting right all of the wrongs incurred on time, space, and everything else. The people of Zrrrfff declared themselves Guardians of the Whole General Sort of Mish-Mash, a name which was later stolen and rephrased by some less-powerful blue people who only lived in 4-D.

Working his way up the ranks of the GOTWGSOMM Corps was a lower-level Custodian of the Fifth Dimension, by the name of Mxyzptlk. The 5-D Guardians were charged with tracking down and undoing aberrations in the dimension of probability, restructuring all of the things that do happen in the lower Multiverse and disposing of all of the things that don't happen. Whereas most 5-D C's were content to go about their unending repair-job to reality and banish all the stuff that didn't belong into the Underverse, Mxyzptlk wanted to make sure that they would never have to do something like this again. In the event on another reality-shattering crisis, he wanted to make sure they had a back-up copy of the Multiverse handy. So secretly, without the GOTWGSOMMC's consent, he experimented with duplicating objects and people in the real worlds.

Unfortunately, these duplicates never came out right: whether they had a disproportionate number of bodies, aged backwards or sometimes sideways, or just stopped existing altogether at embarassing moments, his bizarre copies always ended in failure, and eventually got the attention of the GOTWGSOMM High Council. For the high crime of Pulling the Exact Sort of Nonsense We Formed This Group To Stop From Happening, Mr. Mxyzptlk was stripped of his rank, drained of his abilities, and forced to spend rehabilitation time in one of the lower cosmoses with only nominal omnipotence and a strict parole.

Now slinking around on some miserable 4-D world, Mr. Mxyzptlk has to find a way to redeem himself, or at the very least prove to the High Council that his ideas will work.

.The burning question - Why this character?: Because I think so far, with all the grim and gritty serial killers and cosmic apocalypses, there needs to be a balance somewhere in the game, for something wacky to have fun with. Also, because Mxy gives me the opportunity to pull off some crap I'd never get to do otherwise.

.How will this version of your character differ from others? How will it be Ultimate?: Well, first of all, Mxy's not just screwing around with the universe for kicks; despite his stupidity, he's actually out to prove something. He'll still be a cocky, priggish, annoying little bugger, though.

.What do you believe you can bring to the RPG?: A fun, smart, and hopefully completely insane character. That, and the recipe for immortality, but only if you ask really nicely. And I mean reeeeaaallly nicely.

.Provide a sample post as the character you wish to portray, in three paragraphs or more:

"Look, I'm just saying, why go through all the trouble of rebuilding the omni-verse again when we can have another one waiting right there? It'd save us eons!"

"That's not the point, and you know it!" High Councilmember Trfprzltrz bellows from under his mile-wide moustache. "We have a duty to uphold the Whole General Sort of Mish-Mash as it was meant to be, not go around all willy-nilly making backwards copies of it!"

"They're not supposed to be backwards! Just gimme a couple more tries and I promise I'll get it right!"

"Unacceptable!" cries Other High Councilmember Blklmnstp, head the size of a decent-sized star on a body composed of a single atom. "Your actions are not only reprehensible, not only irresponsible, they're....they're....exactly the sort of nonsense we formed this group to stop from happening!"

There are murmurs throughout the audience, which isn't that surprising since most of the audience is composed of Fpwmbldrf the One-Man Crowd.

"Fifth-Dimensional Custodian Mxyzptlk," announced Grand High Councilmember Drplfltz, whose existence is flashed out among a whole galaxy in Morse Code, "the High Council of Zrrrfff has found you guilty of Exactly the Sort of Nonsense We Formed This Group to Stop from Happening. Your punishment is exile to the 4-D world of Earth!"






"....do I at least get to bring all of my stuff."

"No. Now off you go, with only nominal powers, and no rank. Come back when you've thought about what you've done....Mr. Mxzyptlk!"

"....awww, nuts."

.Do you know how to post pictures on the Hype?:

 

[Batman]

!devorppA

 

[Carnage27]

Nice choice, Andy.

 

[SenseiofCheese]

Man, Ultimate Black Hand is ****ing awesome.

 

[Catman_prb]

But...you're dead! They told me you were dead!

 

[Batman]

*takes out gun*

He will be, at least!

 

[Carnage27]

Holy Crap! YES!