[FATE] Venture City: Hold Back the Night

[Mitsubachi]

Aiko/Shinobi works under cover a lot so does not often wear a “costume”, but she does have a black ultralite catsuit for stealth / combat missions.

[psuedenim]

Costume - possibly a high vis vest that can be rolled up and put in his pocket and loosely laced work boots plus generic cargo pants. Shades if its sunny out.

[Lightwielder]

Hi again to all, just wanted tell i adjusted my sheet a little specieally the Skills based on the feedback

 

High Concept: Energetic sword wielder
Trouble: Too much focus on his cause
Aspect 1: Enthusiast promoter of the good side of power
Aspect 2: Reckless experimentator
Aspect 3:

Skills:
Great (+4): {Fight}
Good (+3): {Academics},{Will}
Fair (+2): {Athletics},{Physique}, {Investigate},
Average (+1): {Contacts},{Shoot},{Resources},{Rapport}

BACKGROUND AND PERSONAL DETAILS

Jacob Salvestri was a wageslave that worked to pay for his radiology studies inside a Medical subsidiary of Mitsuhama, both his need for money along his enthusiasm for science and the fact that he percieved the subsidary as the less evil of the corportate empire, made him accept to take part on clinical trials designed to develop new ways to unlock dormant abilities , which gave him his either casually or causally nuclear based powers, he was planning to work as a supe together with the energy subsidiaries when the revolution changed everything.

In the past he believed that he could help some organizations drastically reform and reinforce the positive within the system, but the crisis made him realize he has the chance of helpin build something new with what he considered positive from the old order, promoting responsible use of power (both economical and nuclear) and rational thinking, he focuses so much on his goals that he can fall in the same pitfalls he wants the new society to avoid

To protect his identity and lives of family members (Canadian - Argentinian background, mundane workclass) he uses a blond wig to hide his shaven dark hair, together with his goggles which also protect his eyes from bright lights, he uses black baggy cargo pants to carry items he might need

STUNTS
Wont accept a No: Determination of will often creates advantages due to constantly thinking strategies to fulfill his goals
Powered up body: +2 When resisting damage with physique

POWERS

Power Suite Description: He can generate nuclear energy inside his body which he canalizes into irradiating light swords that can penetrate and weaken tissue or even slice through different materials if enough intensity is applied

Drawback: The glow makes his presence and movements easy to spot, and after long exposure to it, can blind the eyes of people nearby, friend or foe alike (he uses protection googles for it) or even give them radiactive poisoning which is also why he wears the radioactive logo to warn civilians as part of his promotion of reponsible use of power

Special Effects: Area Attack, Inflict Condition,

Power Natural Weapon
Basic Natural Weapon: +2 to Fight while brawling unarmed in close quarters.
Enhancements
Critical Hit: Whenever cause stress using your natural weapon,may instead cause a mild consequence, if the target doesn’t already have one.
Cats landing

Synergies:

Energy blast: Use shoot to throw the energy swords at an objective
Super agility: + 2 Agility when demostrating it such as leaps

Physical Stress: [] [] []
Mental Stress: [] [] [] [] [] []

Consequences:
(2, Mild) []
(4, Moderate) []
(6, Severe) []

[Ursinorum]

Picture added. (yes, it's just a colour swapped picture of the Juggernaunt, so what? It's difficult to find the proper hypertrophic-dude picture)

Gyges has the costume that the corporation made for him.

[Mitsubachi]

Originally Posted by Ursinorum

Picture added. (yes, it's just a colour swapped picture of the Juggernaunt, so what? It's difficult to find the proper hypertrophic-dude picture)

Gyges has the costume that the corporation made for him.

Looks great to me! Have you thought of Brock Lesnar (or someone like that) as actor for this role? I might be able to create a pic for you.

[HotsuSama]

So it seems that we have a People's Champion in these parts. Godspeed, Trashman.

Originally Posted by Sirviantis

I'm thinking of a different drawback for her power(s) though I have a question: Ion's main/basic superpower is her super-intelligence as opposed of her chemical transmutation/control (somehow my favourite super niche power doesn't get represented in most rulebooks) would it be okay the drawback came from that side of her powers rather than the super-smarts? I'm thinking about maybe having her unconsciously transform things around her, getting herself stuck on occasion, leaving unique identifyable traces, etc...

It's true the transmutation you have in mind doesn't have a comfortable equivalent in VC's standard picks, but we could wing it by rewording some stuff in an existing power - for example, 'Item Summoning' might be a good basis, just changing the summoning motif to one of changing existing items/substances instead. Something to think about! But to answer your direct question, yes, you can base your drawback on any of your associated powers.

Originally Posted by Lightwielder

Hi again to all, just wanted tell i adjusted my sheet a little specieally the Skills based on the feedback

Thanks for that, I'll use this version as a reference when I do my reviews/feedback (not long now! Been sick so I'm a little less productive lately...).

[Ursinorum]

Originally Posted by Mitsubachi

Looks great to me! Have you thought of Brock Lesnar (or someone like that) as actor for this role? I might be able to create a pic for you.

That could work, thanks! but it needs to be inhumanly muscular to fit what I have in mind.. marko cain is barely acceptable.

[Sirviantis]

Originally Posted by HotsuSama

It's true the transmutation you have in mind doesn't have a comfortable equivalent in VC's standard picks, but we could wing it by rewording some stuff in an existing power - for example, 'Item Summoning' might be a good basis, just changing the summoning motif to one of changing existing items/substances instead. Something to think about! But to answer your direct question, yes, you can base your drawback on any of your associated powers.

I've never really looked into item summoning as a thing in Ion's powerset, but it absolutely fits. That said, I'm a bit worried that Ion might be a bit useless in combat if I were to go that direction straight off the bat. I know that she'll likely be more of a swiss army knife than anything else, but I don't want to just stand there and be useless if/when combat breaks out. I think I'll keep the powerset I've got right now for Ion, which represent well-practiced and optimised manouvres/transmutations she can reliably perform whenever and has used quite a lot. Then in game she might learn to let go of her need to have everything prepared and start winging it, giving her more versatility in the form of acces to the reskinned item summoning.

Keep in mind, she only recently got her new transmutation powers, perhaps she's terrified of what she might do if she mistransforms anything. Even more so if she has the accidents drawback constantly getting herself stuck in floors, setting herself on fire, etc.

Get well soon!

[ihinka]

I've been wanting for a sups game for a while now. Aaaand it's Fate. And I can do once per week. I'm awfully tempted. I'll see if I can come up with something. It's been a while now since I've been properly motivated to RP. Life was just... a lot!

APP EDITED IN

Let me just apologize right away for the 'Background spoiler'. I am pathologically incapable of doing short backgrounds The app is more or less complete.

The Highlander NAME / HERO NAME: Lada Smith / The Highlander (it started as a joke, people who found out of her immortality dubbed her ’The Highlander’ after the movies and TV show, eventually it stuck) HIGH CONCEPT: The exiled Goddess of beauty, love, lust, family; protector of human life and women; daughter of the ancient deity Svarog. Rather than gaining powers, Lada lost almost all of hers. For it is true what they say about how petty the ancient gods can be. Some more so than others. And Lada and her family all fell victim to such godly pettiness. After being banished from her home, Lada was forced to live on Earth as any human would. Or... well, almost like any human would. She'd been stripped of almost all her godly powers save for the few scraps the villains left her with in order to punish her for whatever it was they thought she and her family had wronged them with. Immortality. Life eternal among a race of beings which existence was a blink of the eye compared to a deity's lifespan. And Lada was left to make her life, robbed of her loved ones in the most gruesome of ways. Unable to return home. Unable to bring the wrongdoers to justice. With only one option left. To live. Forever! And so she did, moving through history. Changing with the times. Adapting to the ages. Little by little minuscule portions of her former powers blinked in and out of her being. Allowing her to do work close to the one she had done while she still held her divinity. And work she did. For it was the only thing that allowed her to keep her sanity. To bear the weight of the times, passing her by.An exiled Goddess, stripped of her divinity TROUBLE: The Black God and the Goddess Woe, envious of Lada and her radiant family plotted to kill Lada’s consort - Yarila, the deity of spring, youth, fertility, passion and carnal love. As well as their son - Dit, a summer God, bringer of joy, happiness, mutual love, light and warmth. And for Lada they devised the cruelest fate of all. Made to watch as her loved ones were tortured, violated and killed, then being banished to Earth afterwards to live out her life, undying. Immortal for all intents and purposes. Unable to have the very thing she’d once ruled over. Family. Love. But the universe is not without a sense of irony and even gods aren't immune to it. And love never asks. And so it was that Lada fell in love again. Hopelessly, deliriously. One might say... Only as the Goddess of Love can. Until life...or something else... mercilessly intervened!I am cursed to always lose you! FREE ASPECT: I will hunt down whoever is responsible for the illegal supergene experiments and bring them to justice. Every! Last! One of them!I lost my Ava to the illegal supergene experiments. The responsible will pay!   "Hello..." Coming off a twenty-four hour shift at the ER Lada's voice was gravely with fatigue and too few hours of sleep. Ava's side of the bed was empty as their shifts had come out of sync with the sudden onset of a virulent, unknown flu-like virus that had left the hospital's administration scrambling to fill in the gaps. "Hello, ma'am, sorry to disturb you at such a late hour." The anonymous voice droned on in such a manner that had Lada sitting in her bed on pins and needles. "This is Detective Berkowitz. I have you listed as emergency contact and next of kin for one Dr. Ava McAdams." The feeling of dread clamped down heard on Lada's heart. "Y...es!" Her voice broke, rendering her unable to mutter even that one syllable smoothly. All the while she was screaming inside her head... Please, no! Nononononononono! Please anything but... "I'm sorry to say this, ma'am, but.." A broken 'no' tumbled out of Lada's lips as her breath left her and her soul shattered. Detective Berkowitz droned on in his morose tone of voice about Lada having to come ID the body and other procedures that had to be followed in such instances. "How...?" Lada managed to squeeze out and around the lump in her throat. "I'm terribly sorry, ma'am, but I'm not at liberty to discuss an open case." Something flipped in Lada then. She was out of the bed and throwing clothes on, her phone switched to speaker. "Not at liberty...!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. "Detective, you will tell me how my partner died, or..." The silence in the room was deafening. When next Lada spoke it was as if she was another person. "I am on my way to the precinct. When I get there you will tell me all you know about what happened to Ava!" It was not a command. It was not even a threat. It simply was. The broken wail that shattered the quiet night in the neighborhood was the catalyst for something that was talked about among Lada's neighbors for weeks to come. *** "This way." An attendant at the morgue respectfully led Lada to a room where a body had been laid on a steel slab. Covered in the proverbial white sheet. It had taken everything Lada had in her to walk up to the table and lift the corner of that damned white sheet. And sure enough the body of her radiant, dynamic Ava lay there. Empty! Robbed of the light that was Ava's spirit. Tears streamed down Lada's gaunt face as she exited the room. Her Ava wasn't there anymore. Wherever she was it was not with Lada and this was the straw to finally break the camel's back! Desolate and inconsolable Lada approached Detective Berkowitz, who was pacing nervously just outside the room. "Ma'am..." He bravely attempted, but snapped his mouth shut as Lada approached and stood so close to him he had to slant his head up to maintain eye-contact, shorter than Lada by a good few inches. Quickly, though, he lost the battle of wills and lowered his gaze. For a moment there he'd looked almost as if ready to bend a knee before the formidable woman staring him down. "Everything you know, Detective. Now." Again Lada's words sounded neither like a command or a threat. And yet Berkowitz had found himself compelled to acquiesce. "I am truly not at liberty to discuss details, ma'am." The darkening of Lada's features forced the Detective to rush along. "But... I've been authorized to tell you your partner's death may be connected to illegal supergene therapy and experiments." Lada nodded automatically, in acknowledgement of the information. Her eyes empty. Almost as lifeless as those of Ava. But inside her head, universes were exploding with the implications of what she'd just heard. "You will keep me apprised." Again the non-threat, non-command. "Of course..." Berkowitz answered dumbly. "Ma'am!" He added for good measure. Nothing in Lada's body language betrayed any threat, any intent to command or sway the Detective in any conceivable way. And yet he was acting as if he was a worker drone before his hive queen. Outside the precinct Lada sat in her car at the visitor's parking lot, dropped her head in her hands and wept. How many times must she lose pieces of her soul to gruesome violence?! "Why can't I ever die with you, my precious?!?" Lada uttered brokenly. By this point she'd been almost certain Ava had indeed been some incarnation of her truest love ever and consort deity - Yarila. Of course Lada knew why she could never join her lost loves. "Forgive me, Ava. I could not protect you. But I swear, I will bring all responsible to justice!" Lada raised her head, green eyes burning with determination penetrated the dark night. The car shook as a couple collided with it, limbs entwined in a passionate embrace. Lips locked as if the couple were exchanging life force through their kiss. The woman squealed and chortled happily as her boyfriend pulled her roughly to him and away from the car. "Sorry." The youngsters apologized with goofy, giddy grins, vanishing into the night. Lada picked the pieces of her shattered soul, tucked them down deep, deep, behind walls upon walls and layers of protection and started her car. It was time to get to work! PERSONAL DETAILS: Lada's subtle ways extend quite a bit to her personality as well. Demure and soft-spoken, she is a patient and caring listener. She has the motherly feel down pat and people tend to flock to her when in need of comfort. Or simply to not feel alone in the world. And Lada is quite accommodating. She will rarely turn a seeking soul away. Always ready to lend a sympathetic ear or a shoulder to cry on. But for those perceptive enough, or the very few lucky enough to have been allowed within Lada's inner circle of friends, there is a sadness within her. A pain and sorrow so deep and eternal, one could crumble at the weight of it. She can often be found in deep reflection, running her fingers over her lower lip. Lada is a very tactile person. She will gently invade personal spaces, but will somehow always feel welcome there. And her touch is soothing. Almost intimately so. And yet, unimpeachable platonic too. Immensely lucky are those select few who've seen the passion burn bright in her jade eyes. Her quiet and gentle power is what the world usually sees. DESCRIPTION: At 5'10'' Lada is lithe and willowy. With long, wavy mahogany hair that Lada usually wears swept to the side or in a tick side braid. Her face is almost patrician in its features. Straight nose, full lips, high cheekbones, thick eyebrows. Her olive skin and dark coloring complement well her forest green eyes. Lada's style of clothing is usually unpretentious. For the longest time robe-styled dresses were her favorite. But in this modern day and age she prefers the practicality of understated jeans and flowy blouses. She rarely if ever wears make-up. And yet, she never seems to need it. Despite her subtle demeanor whenever she walks into a room she inspires awe and draws attention. AGE: Unknown, in appearance in her late thirties, early forties. POWER/S:Healing - 1pt, Super Senses (2nd power/base ability only) - 1pt + 1 additional point for a 2nd sense, Super Form - free base power theme Healing Basic Healing: You can make a Will roll against Fair (+2) opposition to clear another character’s physical stress. A character may only benefit from your ability once per scene. Additionally, you can use Will to start healing any kind of physical consequence on another character. The human body is incredibly complex, which means you Require Complete Concentration to heal your targets. Pacifist Aura: You can turn up your power to such a point that it’s almost physically impossible for people to get hurt in your presence. Everyone in your zone gains Armor:6 until scene ends or you end the power. However, the vital energy filling the area tends to make inanimate objects leap about in unpredictable ways. You add an aspect to the target, which you can invoke once for free.Inflict Condition; You recover from all physical stress.Physical Recovery Super Senses Basic Super Senses: You gain +2 to Investigate when using that sense. In addition, that sense cannot be impeded.Sight Basic Super Senses: You gain +2 to Investigate when using that sense. In addition, that sense cannot be impeded.Smell

[GleefulNihilism]

Well, here's a new system I've never tried before. Got a bit of a wild idea, let me know if it works or not. Here's a rough idea.

The Instigator of the May Upheavel Vox NAME / HERO NAME: Publically known as Dr. Timothy Saint-James, a Professor of Physics at Venture City University he secretly also was also known as the mysterious hacker-activist Vox. This is until the May Upheavel when he was outed as both. HIGH CONCEPT: Anarchist Turned Unwilling Leader. Dr. Timothy Saint-James is a diehard anarchist and has been for a long time. A victim of the abuses of corporate greed and governmental madness he is, at least arguably, the one person most responsible for the May Upheavel. As such in the Post-Upheaval Landscape he's considered a Leader whether he likes it or not. TROUBLE: There's Nowhere For Me To Hide Now This is true in multiple ways. The most immediate one being that Timothy/Vox is actually physically mute. His voicebox basically destroyed from a childhood bout with a rare form of throat cancer, Tim/Vox needs to use technological aids to talk. Without his technology he communicates via sign language or writing. Learning the truth about his childhood illness, he expressed his rage outward as a Hacker-Activist and arguably Supervillain dedicated to being a rebel against the abuses of corporate and governmental power by any means nessecary. The thing was though that he actually turned out to be right and was instrumental in the May Upheaval. During the events of the Upheaval his dual identity became exposed, which he considers sacrifice that was acceptable but he does find it annoying. Now a Leader in the Post-Upheaval whether he likes it or not, Vox tries to stick to his principles while the world tries to force him to violate them every day. Now he has to make the choices he hated others for making, every day. Somehow keeping his soul in the process, at least for now. BACKGROUND: - The Instigator of the May Upheaval Born on Carmine Avenue, sadly this would be smack in the middle of what became known as Cancer Road. The land used to be owned by a chemical engineering corporation called 3V and they secretly used the site to dump waste. Then they sold the land which was made into a housing suburb. Unfortunately this would lead to the vast majority of the residents developing various cancers that would kill many of them including Tim's whole family and would render him mute. He tried to overcome this and during his treatment he did discover an aptitude for Physics and Mathematics. Properly cultivated this became outright genius, and right about the time he finished his early PhD in Physics it was discovered that the pharmaceutical company that produced the cancer drugs for the victims of Cancer Road had diluted them for profit. By day he was Dr. Timothy Saint-James, Professor of Physics at Venture City University. By night, he was a Hacker-Activist and Supervillain named Vox determined to burn the whole system down to the ground. Then, one day even to his own surprise, he actually succeeded and the May Upheaval happened. Now he's helping rebuild to try to make something better. This unfortunately has made him a leader of the new way whether he wants to be or not. PERSONAL DETAILS: - Dresses surprisingly conservatively for an Anarchist when at his day job, but that's sort of by design. Don't want people figuring it out right away. When relaxing he's often satisfied with just a t-shirt, something that hides his neck, and jeans. Sometimes even Pajama Pants if he's expecting to do a lot of programming or hacking. - His throat looks like something tried to tear it out from the inside, if after he's had time to heal. The scars and pits are dramatic. - Mute, he has invented what looks like a cloth mask that covers his neck and lower jaw. This device is made and programmed to figure out what muscles he's trying to use and translate them into audible speech. It doesn't work 100% of the time, but that's more from how messed up the muscles in his neck are then the device itself. - Dark hair, blue eyes, glasses, and does have some tattoos if they're intentionally placed to be hidable under clothing. POWERS: Technically he actually doesn't have powers and has never undergone the gene therapy. He is however considered a genius of such caliber that he keeps up anyway at least in some ways. Gadgeeteering + Machine Control (Computers Only) Drawback: Kept Alive By Machines Tim/Vox's throat was extensively damaged in childhood from a rare form of throat cancer. Most immediately obvious is that Tim/Vox is actually phyisically incapable of talking as his neck muscles are incapable of the fine control needed for speech. Other medical issues arise as well from this, he has difficulty eating solid food without technological aide for example.

[GleefulNihilism]

Hey! Looks like I made the box. Gave a tweek if it helps, what am I missing?

[mystwatch]

Masked Warrior Actaeon NAME / HERO NAME: Alphaeus Luna / Masked Hunter Actaeon HIGH CONCEPT: Ex-Enforcer Revolutionary TROUBLE: Severe and Brooding BACKGROUND: A Past Erased Alphaeus doesn’t remember much of his past; even the name ‘Alphaeus Luna’ is something that was merely given him, as a name for when he was out of ‘costume’, as it were. What he can remember was service— service to Mitsuhama Splice, from which he gained his powers— the ability to transform into an armored form reminiscent of a deer crossed with a wolf— and everything else he had; it was his home. A soldier without memory and without connections to anything else, he was conditioned to follow their every order, whether it was to be a ‘superhero’ and to keep the peace, or to be an enforcer who got rid of anyone who got in the megacorp’s way. He was in their employ for around ten years. However, it seemed, despite his amnesia and his brainwashing, he kept his conscience, and little by little, he felt hesitation, and then distaste, in the gruesome acts that his handlers would tell him to do. Still, he did not know what to do, for Mitsuhama Splice was all that he knew— until he soon discovered that there were more like him— perhaps not necessarily in the exact same situation, but victims all the same to the corporations. He bided his time and slowly figured out a way to reach out, and so it was when the May Upheaval exploded, he was one of the instigators. His work is not yet done, however, and while he would accept anyone’s grudges towards his sins, he still has yet to live to take down the rotten structures of Venture City. And maybe, perhaps, he could also find who he was, before everything… PERSONAL DETAILS: Alphaeus looks vaguely Asian, although it is hard to pinpoint which ethnicity, specifically; he has shaggy shoulder-length black hair, small slanted black eyes, a tan complexion, a face littered with scars and a heavy, ponderous expression. He looks to be around his thirties, give or take. He stands at around below average height, at five feet and ten inches, with a lean, but strong build, with subtle musculature. While he was often formally dressed in his days as a sponsored super from Mitsuhama, these days he wears simple shirts and pants and sneakers, with maybe a leather jacket thrown in. The Masked Warrior Actaeon is a man covered in blue armor with accents of silver, with a wolf’s head (that can actually bite!), deer's horns, gauntlets that end in claws, and greaves that end in hooves. When he activates his hyper mode, the coloration switches to silver with accents of blue. Besides his fangs, his claws, and his armored body, he can summon antler-like spears to wield as weapons in battle. Alphaeus is a sullen man of few words, always blunt and to the point; he does not seem to have any hobbies, and does not seem to find joy in anything. He seems to be purely devoted to dismantling the strangehold the companies have on Venture City, to a self-destructive extent. As one might have already guessed from his background, his whole motivation is atonement for what he has done under the employ of Mitsuhama; while one can argue that he was not completely in control of his actions, for him, it was still his hands that had murdered all those people and destroyed so many things. His family, from whom he was taken, may still be around somewhere… (a family perhaps too poor or too far away to know his current condition or do anything about it, or in a worst case scenario, similarly enslaved, or killed...) This is a topic that, while Alphaeus tries to bury it with work, something that he is admittedly curious about, although he is not sure if he deserves a connection with people at this point. POWERS: Actaeon's Armory Super Toughness, Natural Weapon, and Super Agility, with the Super-Form theme. Drawback: There’s a Beast in Me Collateral Damage Effect: Hyper Mode Bestial Instincts Super Senses (Smell), Sensory Suite (Hearing), Alertness Drawback: Strong Scents and High Frequencies Collateral Damage Effect: Hyperfocus

[Sirviantis]

I summarised Ion's background in a handful of words for table reasons. I think she's complete now, but please tell me if I missed something.

[HotsuSama]

Firstly - cool, new heroes! Welcome to our newest applicants!

Originally Posted by Sirviantis

I've never really looked into item summoning as a thing in Ion's powerset, but it absolutely fits. That said, I'm a bit worried that Ion might be a bit useless in combat if I were to go that direction straight off the bat. I know that she'll likely be more of a swiss army knife than anything else, but I don't want to just stand there and be useless if/when combat breaks out.

Originally Posted by Sirviantis

I summarised Ion's background in a handful of words for table reasons. I think she's complete now, but please tell me if I missed something.

Well, the thing about Fate is that conflicts are pretty open-ended, and reward actions aside from just 'hit the thing that's bothering you'. Your transmutations might be pretty handy for the move 'Create an Advantage', which is basically creating or changing an aspect on the scene, and maybe earning free invokes to either use yourself or hand out to your allies depending on the circumstances. So I think you'd be fine!

And thanks for boiling down the background. That summary is more important than just a table reference - that might be the aspect Ion will take on as part of her character! Looks like you've addressed all the fields I've asked for too.

Originally Posted by GleefulNihilism

Hey! Looks like I made the box. Gave a tweek if it helps, what am I missing?

At a glance, looks like you have everything I've requested!

[Touketsu]

HotsuSama, were you still planning to give feedback?