Master of Puppets, A Madman's RP (Closed, Started)

[Lambi]

Far into the future, a drug has been made in secret that can make you almost immortal. When you die after having been injected with the drug, you are still able to die, but you'll be revived shortly thereafter. The drug has one flaw, though. Once you are revived, something about you will be changed. Personality, sanity, memories, gender, a part of your body or your whole body, you never know. A side effect of the drug is that everyone who gets it developes some kind of power instantly, and is the only thing that will never change, no matter how many times that person "respawns". The scientist who created the drug and his two assistants have kidnapped 10 people and placed them two and two together in each of 5 dimensions. He has turned the drug into a game. Only he knows what the game revolves around.

Spoiler: Character sheet

Name:

Age:

First gender:

First appearence:

First personality:

Powers will be distributed to everyone randomly using a random number generator after I've accepted sheets. A bio is not necessary for this RP because the scientist doesn't care about their background. But if you want to make a short bio anyway, go ahead.

Spoiler: The powers

Fire: Can engulf themselves in flames without burning themselves or their clothes and can shoot fireballs and streams of fire from their hands. Are immune to any kind of fire damage.

Ice: Can create an armor around themselves made out of ice and a weapon out of ice for themselves, both of which are quite sturdy. Also able to shoot ice out of their hands in various forms. Are immune to cold, whether it's from the ice armor and weapon or otherwise.

Lightning: Can surround themselves with sparks of lightning and are able to shoot lightning from their hands in various forms. Are immune to electricity damage, like from an outlet or a power line.

Water: Can turn themselves into water to avoid any kind of damage done to them, unless they encounter extreme heat which will evaporate them. Can also shoot bursts of water out of their hands in various amounts of strength.

Teleportation: Can not teleport to the other dimensions. Only in the dimension the person with this power is in.

Self Detonation: Is capable of either detonating themselves or just a part of themselves. Is greatly injured when it's activated.

Shadow Cloak: Produces darkness in a 10 meter, or almost 39 feet, radius. The person with this power is the only one that sees perfectly through the darkness.

Invisibility: Becomes invisible. Invisibility is only active so long as a weapon is not used and for a set amount of time.

Exploding Snap: By snapping their fingers, the person with this power creates medium explosions at the spot they are looking at.

Telekinesis: Is able to lift objects with their mind. The heavier the object, the harder it is to lift it. Is also able to punch with telekenisis.

Bullet Time: When activated, makes the person with this power go at double the speed of everyone else and has perfect control over their body and weapon. Only lasts for half a minute.

Illusions: Has the ability to create illusions.

I only have a few rules for this RP.

#1: I don't want to see one liner posts because those are pretty much never good. This is an RP that can get away with short posts, but one line posts I don't want to see.

#2: You can't escape your dimension in any way aside from some kind of outside source. You start the RP with just the clothes on your back and nothing else. Your character won't have a phone on them, or some kind of secret way to communicate with anyone in the outside world. You're an average person, not a cyborg equipped to the teeth with every weapon possible, or an FBI agent or the equivilant of that or anything like that.

#3: Which leads to this rule. No god modding or trench coating or Mary Sue-ing or anything like that. You get the power you've been given and the ability to basically respawn, along with anything else the scientist might provide you with. Nothing else.

If there are any questions regarding the RP, go ahead and ask, and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.

 

[VonKlaw]

Sound pretty interesting, especially powers being given completely randomly. Is it just one power/change the first time they respawn or are more "unlocked" as they keep respawning?

Anyway, I'll throw in my character sheet:

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Name: Michael Walker

Age: 46

First Gender: Male

First Appearance:
Michael is a mildly overweight man with balding blonde hair (which he keeps cropped in a bad attempt to cover) and dark blue eyes. He has greying stubble (which is mismatched the his hair which has remained blonde) on his face. Having worked as a manual labourer for most of his life, he is relatively muscular in the arms, though they are becoming flabby like the beer gut he has also developed. He has a badly drawn tattoo of a dragon along his lower left arm, which he claims was a teenage mistake but was actually part of a midlife crisis.
He is wearing casual jeans, a pair of cleanly polished steel-capped work boots and a red and white checked elbow-length shirt. He is wearing a plain gold wedding ring on his left hand.

First Personality:
Michael is a fairly outgoing guy with a crude sense of humour. He is fairly old-fashioned and methodical,obsessed with tidiness and order. He is currently going through a midlife crisis which makes him prone to overreactions and angry outbursts, though he is usually quick to apologies when he has thought things out properly. He is also slightly deluded regarding his age and increasing physical weakness (made worse by his previous physical presence and good looks), which sometimes causes him to attempt things he is no longer capable of.

 

[Lambi]

Just one power when they wake up in their respective dimension. But as you can see, the powers can do various things. Well, at least the first four, anyway. But you can still do various things with the other powers.

 

[booksv2]

Spoiler: josh sharia

Name: josh sharia

Age: 23

First gender: male

First appearence: 5?10 roughly 270 pounds. Short but shaggy brown hair and light blue eyes, his skin white and looking like he hasn?t been in the sun much in the last few years. Unlike his hair which is straight except for slight curls at the ends his beard is very curly and rarely is more than an inch ?long? even thou if grabbed and stretched out it can be more than 5 or 6 inch?s in length.
Wearing faded blue jeans and a tee shirt with the Chevy logo on it his shoes are regular thin soled tennis shoes. Wearing a sheep skin lined vest with 2 inside pockets, a breast pocket and 2 regular hand pockets. He would normally have a pocketknife and lighter in one inside pocket and a small light, pocket notebook and caped pen in the other inside pocket. But those were taken away from him when he was kidnapped for this game.

First personality: A nerd that has spent the last few years going thru job after job. Being ok at a lot of things but not even fairly competent at any one thing. He?s not a people person and dislikes those who he sees as stupid, which he would classify as most people in the world because they focus on stupid things. Lazy and procrastinating he will leave things to the last minute and when he does do it, there?s a good chance its going to be rushed and not overly well done.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Let's see if I still know this song and dance.

Spoiler: Allison Hardcastle

Name: Allison Hardcastle.

Age: 15.

First gender: Female.

First appearance: Allison has a very English skin, meaning to say it's pale and burns about as easily as an effigy of Mephisto made out of oily rags. She stands at about 5'1", and (quite rare for a teenage girl) actually has a healthy, normal bodyweight. She goes through hairstyles at a pretty rapid pace, but her current one is a very high ponytail that reaches down to just below her shoulders. She's dyed her naturally brown hair to have a few red highlights, and she has hazel eyes.

When she was kidnapped she was wearing a knee-length black skirt with a silvery spiderweb on the right hip, a dark purple shirt and a grey zip-up hoodie. She is also wearing green knock-off designer sandals without socks. She doesn't wear jewelry, but she does have piercings in her lip, nose and left earlobe.

She speaks with a mild Nottingham accent, though most people would just call it British (and they'd be wrong).

First personality: Allison is the kind of girl who always has something to prove, though to whom is not very clear. She seems very driven and eager to accept challenges, but rarely actually seems very happy about it. Nonetheless, this does translate to her generally being a pretty helpful (if slightly distant) person.

Most of the time she's got her head firmly on her shoulders and tries be a no-nonsense nancy, but on the rare occasions where she unwinds and feels secure enough, she likes to just take it slow and bask in the moment. She's not much of a goofball, but she makes for a pretty good third wheel: quiet, polite, helpful, keeps to herself; easy to ignore and content to be ignored, but worth the effort of getting to know.

Of course, it remains to be seen how well her down-to-earth attitude holds up post-kidnapping, but that's what she's generally like.

 

[blaze96]

Spoiler: Jack Fletcher

Name: Jack Fletcher

Age: 24

First Gender: Male

First Appearance: Jack is 6'8" and 260 lbs of muscle. His hair is short and brown and he has green eyes. He has two tattoos, one a simple tribal band around the right upper arm and the second is a full back tattoo in the style of an older Japanese painting depicting a tiger and dragon fighting each other. The second tattoo however has no symbols as he didn't want desire them.

First Personality: Jack is an up and coming professional boxer. Boxing made up the core of his personality, he picked it up as a teenager and felt like he had found his calling. He takes it all very seriously and aspires to that which any boxer worth their salt does, a title. However for now he is somewhat known but still obscure to all but the most hardcore stat watchers after having made his breakthrough recently.

This doesn't mean it is his only plan though, he is also working his way through college to become a trainer for when his career inevitably comes to an end. Though any time not spent studying is spent in the gym or in the ring as that is where his passion lies.

While incredibly ambitious, serious, and focused he does know how to be cordial and is more than willing to be friendly or even somewhat comedic when the mood strikes him. While he is generally intimidating to most, those that take the time and aren't an opponent can find him to be an all around good person who is just very focused on his passion.

 

[NeoAC]

Pretty sure I still do considering I think I'm the only one still around from the first incarnation.

I'll cook up a sheet when I'm not dead from work.

 

[roushutsu]

Sounds interesting!

Spoiler: Felicity Maynard

Name: Felicity Maynard

Age: 20

First gender: Female

First appearance: She has short, wavy brown hair that goes down to her chin. She wears a red dress with a black and white striped sash around her waist. On her head is a simple matching red hat, and on her feet are white sandals. She often wears gloves to hide the various cuts and calluses on her hands.

First personality: Felicity grew up on a farm, so she's developed a knack for hard work. She is not afraid to accept challenging work, and is not the kind of person to gloat about her accomplishments. She is very knowledgeable about gardening, having raised numerous vegetables from seeds and fought a variety of pests and diseases that threatened them. This allowed her to develop an impressive memory, able to recall things down to the smallest detail. She is also super health conscious, always yearning for organic food, and she can sometimes come off as very nit-picky when she's forced to eat something else.

She is always open to meeting new people, and will often encourage others to work together to complete a task. Despite this, she prefers not to take command. She would much rather follow and help others in her own way.

 

[drmigit2]

Couple questions:

#1: Do the fire powers make you immune to the snap explosion? Exploding is technically fire based so that confused me a bit.

#2: It says certain spells only last so long (bullet time lasts 30 seconds), but what is the cooldown on it? Can I use it again right after?

#3: How do the illusions work? Could I make a whole casino that someone could walk into and think is a real casino? Can people interact with the illusions?

#4: Self Detonation, is the fire guy immune to that too? Also, how large is the radius for it and what kind of damage does it do to others?

#5: How well can others see from shadow cloak? If I was attacking someone else and they used it, how easy would it be to justify hitting them? I can see the power being almost nullified by someone just saying they hear the footsteps of the guy.

 

[Lambi]

1. While explosions might make you catch fire, it doesn't mean the guy with fire powers would be immune to the explosions themselves. Only the fire damage it would give them afterwards.

2. I'd say the cooldown is about as long or double the effect time.

3. I don't think you can make a whole casino appear out of nowhere without that other person growing suspicious. The illusions are more combat oriented to confuse your opponent, although it has other uses as well. And no, they can't interact with the illusions. Once they touch them, they disappear.

4. Self Detonation doesn't really work the same as the exploding snap. Think of it more like that the typical fire and stuff from normal explosions is replaced with blood and gore. The radius is pretty much two or three feet from the one who has it, and it can be devastating for anyone close to them when they detonate and depending on what part of their body they detonate, if they don't just detonate their whole self. The closer the opponent is, the more damage it does.

5. I suppose I should have mentioned this in the powers list, but when shadow cloak is activated, it creates kind of a muffle for the person who activated it. While it doesn't make them entirely silent, it helps them stay as silent as possible if they're careful in their movements. Just remember that the cloak spreads pretty far. I should edit in the feet of the radius to help those that don't know meters.

 

[staika]

Very very interesting, think I may give this a shot. Haven't made a CS in awhile and nothing comes to mind at the moment but I will get one in by tomorrow at the latest.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

<spoiler=Nora>Name: Nora Bethany

Age: 26

First gender: Female

First appearance: Nora is a tall, 2.05 m, woman, with long hair, which she has dyed in two colours; white and black. She has brown eyes and wears makeup, like black lipstick and eyeliner. She is in general regarded as attractive, and gets attention from both genders because of it. Her body has an hourglass figure. She used to train and be careful with what she ate, to keep her shape, but it got more difficult over the years.

Nora wore an orange jumpsuit and black boots, when she got kidnapped. On the back of the jumpsuit D.O.C. is written in large letters. She had an accident before they kidnapped her, while trying to climb a fence and cut her leg badly. She managed to get to a safe house, but the right leg of the jumpsuit is stained with dry blood.

First personality: Nora is cold and calculating, but conceals it with charm. She doesn't care much for anyone else than herself, and has it difficult to feel empathy. She sees people more as tools to be used for her own gain, than other individuals with feelings and goals of their own.

She believes in a higher power, and used her god given gifts, mostly her looks, to get old rich men and women to fall in love with her. However, she had always been impatient and eventually got sick of waiting for them to croak. It was hard to hide the disgust she felt when they touched her too. She killed one of her lovers, after she had written her into her will, and made it look like an accident. Unfortunately, there were few that actually believed it had been an accident, and with time they proved it.

Nora became a more manipulative person while serving her time, but also found others which she could relate to for the first time.

 

[NeoAC]

Spoiler: Bringing out the Sheet

Name: Alex Broughton

Age: 22

First gender: Male

First appearance: Alex currently stands 6'2" and weighs 270 lbs, half of it muscle, half of it bulk. It doesn't get much use as a backup offensive lineman at Marshall, but he maintains it all the same. His sandy blonde hair is closely cropped in a militaristic style, but it's still noticeable against his tanned skin. His eyes are blue and he has a tattoo of a tribal sun on his left shoulder blade.

When kidnapped, Alex was wearing a black and green Marshall Thundering Herd hat, a white and green plaid button up shirt over a black t-shirt, blue jeans, a black leather belt, a pair of Nike sneakers and Mountain Ridge High class ring (Go Miners!).

First personality: Alex is a very proud man. Given the struggles against his weight when he was young, the fact that he has converted a good chunk of it into muscle and is now considered a top athlete is a big deal for him. He is very self-confident and wants everyone around him to have that same feeling in their everyday activities.

Having been on the receiving end of bullying as a child, he can't stand those who belittle others to either get what they want or make themselves feel better. It gets to the point that he might even been seen as bullying the bully, but those are rare occasions.

In his spare time, when not working out, practicing or studying for his degree in Nutrition, Alex enjoys watching vintage TV shows and having the occasional beverage on the town. It was the latter that led to his current predicament.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

And now, in what is totally just a fun exercise in nerdiness and not at all an overly elaborate bump for the thread, here's a list of Marvel and DC heroes and villains, matched up to our powers in the RP.

Fire: The Human Torch (Marvel) - Firestorm (DC).
Ice: Iceman (Marvel) - Killer Frost (DC).
Lightning: Electro (Marvel) - Static Shock (DC).
Water: Hydro-Man (Marvel) - Aquamaria (DC).
Teleportation: Nightcrawler (Marvel) - Omen (DC).
Self-Detonation: Kamikaze (Marvel) - Shrapnel (DC).
Shadow Cloak: Blackout (Marvel) - Nightfall (DC).
Invisibility: The Invisible Woman (Marvel) - The Invisible Hood (DC). *(I know, mind-blowingly original names, amirite?)*
Exploding Snap: Doctor Bong (Marvel) - Flex Mentallo (DC). *(You would not believe how hard it was to find matches for this one)*
Telekinesis: Jean Grey (Marvel) - Kinetix (DC).
Bullet Time: Quicksilver (Marvel) - The Flash (DC).
Illusions: Professor X (Marvel) - Harlequin (DC).

 

[drmigit2]

Spoiler: Adahn

Name: Adahn Loras

Age: 20's, he can't remember his age.

First gender: Male

First appearence:

Adahn was affected by the surgery in more ways than simply gaining powers. Firstly, his hair is largely dead now, and while it is still in his head, it is fried beyond belief, constantly falling out, and is a light grey. His hair is about shoulder length. The veins in Adahn's eyes also popped through the procedure, giving him blood red sclera. His eyes were originally green, now mixed with blood, making a rusty green look with pupils in the middle.

Most of this will heal over time, but over the course of the RP, it is unlikely he will see much recovery. Because of complications with the procedure, Adahn had to be strapped to the operating table and as such, wears a white straight jacket that has been ripped in such a way that the ultra long sleeves hang down nearly touching the floor. His jeans were relatively unscathed.

One positive effect of the drug is it slightly increased his muscle mass, giving him some serious bulk. Adahn's skin lost all melanin so he is effectively albino. Those who meet him will find him quite interesting to look at.

First personality: Adahn isn't well. If this were Dungeons and Dragons, Adahn would fit fully under Chaotic Neutral and with good reason. The drug has caused hell and high havoc in him and his brain is more than a little loopy. He occasionally speaks gibberish, is not keen on helping anyone, has a bad habit of hanging from ceilings and abuses his powers without the slightest thought.

 

[Ruedyn]

Spoiler: Luke

Name: Luke Frost

Age: 23

First gender: Male

First appearance: Tall with a lithe and athletic build. His complexion is fair, with a bit of acne on his temple and freckles on his sharp nose. He has shifty blue eyes and is usually sporting a frown. His mop of curly red hair is usually pulled and combed back, out of his face, and he has some stubble on his chin.
He was kidnapped in a plain navy hoodie, over a yellow shirt and black jeans. He is wearing his fencing glove, though he was unfortunately not allowed to keep his sabre.

First personality: Luke very much tries to be a nice person; nice words for all, pacifism of a sort, he's even a friggin vegetarian. He usually uses his fencing to unleash his aggression, but otherwise he lets it build up inside him. He likes using his crass sense of humor to deflate tense moments, or just to shoot the shit, and is prone to say or do things without thinking them through all the way.

 

[Lambi]

Just a small announcement here. I'm going to close applications on Monday my time, so that's roughly three days from now or so. Unless I don't get enough sheets, then I'm extending it to next Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

[DragonofDecay86]

Spoiler: Ed Adams

Name: Edward Adams (Ed for short)

Age: 22

First gender: Male

First appearance: Stands about 5"5 feet tall with shoulder length bright blonde hair and emerald colored eyes. Ed has an athletic build with some muscles, yet not as much as most other athletes. Wore a dark green vest over top a white t-shirt, with a pair of silver and black dog tags. Nothing is written on the dog tags, they are unadorned.

First personality: Ed is someone who is quick to anger yet not rash enough to start a fight unless it's well deserved. Ed is a loyal friend, but someone quick to jump on an opportunity to get a step ahead of the person he's competing with, even if his methods aren't exactly always honorable. One of the biggest flaws that Ed has however, is that he can't stand to see a girl cry. He'll do anything to make a pretty girl feel better, even if that means it'll conflict with his own goals.

 

[King Kazma]

Spoiler: Tom Fergus

Name: Tom Fergus

Age: 22

First gender: Male

First appearance: Five foot ten in stature with broad shoulders and slightly muscled arms. His hair is combed back with some added gel if he can, dark browns the color. Styling a chin covering goatee. Hazel colored eyes and a pair of glasses to correct a stigmatism. Often a pair of aviator sunglasses replaces them. He's got a bit of a gut, overweight but not the fat guy overweight. Clothing wise a band t-shirt is worn often, probably something 30 years old by than. Blue jeans, work boots due to the profession he's in. In this normal attire you'd not pick him out of a crowd.

First personality: Easy going, a charmer, a comedian, he's a lovable guy. Not that he's found someone to love. As easy as it is for him to talk casually to people, talking in that sort of way, well, confidence issues and being confused about his sexuality make for one who shys away from this area. But he caries on trying not to be bothered. After a near suicide and run in with the law he's been piecing his life together. He's gone to school and took a job in his field. Things have been turning around but he's still a long way to go.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Oh hey, would you look at that!

Spoiler: Adrian Lieber

Name: Adrian Lieber

Age: 22

First Gender: Male

First Appearance: A pale, male Caucasian, standing at about 6'2", and weighing in at a whopping 155 lbs. "Long and Lanky" would be one of the ways to describe his body type, nothing but skin atop very tall bones. His hair is a sorta-light brown, shoulder length, and usually fairly disheveled. His brown, sunken in eyes are surrounded by long, dark bags, a price of his current, aimless lifestyle. He usually stays clean shaven, too (even though there's not much of a choice; he can't really get a mustache past peach fuzz, and he gets rid of it to avoid looking like an adolescent). When last seen, he was wearing a black and blue flannel shirt (his favorite shirt), dingy grey jeans, and old black hi-tops.

First Personality: Adrian'll never hesitate to tell you how much college has ruined his life. His degree is useless, his friends are gone, his tuition basically put him in debt, and he has nowhere to go. These things taught him how to hate. Not people, or his surroundings, but himself (and, well, college, to some extent). He's the butt of his own jokes, and he feels he deserves it. Some days he'll try and get his act together, try to bolster himself and say "today, i'll get shit done." By the end of that day, he'd find himself back a square one. Even then, he'll try to hide it in public. He'll socialize, he'll converse, he'll laugh and be a friend. But it doesn't hamper the self-loathing that boils from within. It's a pitiful facade slowly beginning to melt away like a candle, and inside lies a burning wick that just won't extinguish.