Heroes of the Old West
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Superhero RP set in the Wild West.

Super powers aren't a common thing yet, heck they probably won't ever be common but a few folks have started noticing things about themselves or other people that just isn't right. This game is set in the mid 1800s during a time when these remarkable powers are first appearing. "Super heroes" and "Super villains" aren't developed concepts yet, and our characters will need to figure out how they are going to use their new found abilities.

Rules:
1) Absolutely no God Moding
2) Be polite and courteous.
3) Don't design other people's characters or their back stories unless give permission to do so.
4) Give the other RPers something to work with in your posts (2 or more paragraphs preferred!)

Character Skeleton

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[B]Character Name:[/B]
[B]Hero Persona:[/B]
[B]Physical Description:[/B]
[B]Gender:[/B]
[B]Age:[/B]
[B]Personality:[/B]
[B]Quirks:[/B]
[B]Powers (2):[/B]
[B]Weaknesses (2):[/B] (One must be crippling to their ability to function.)
[B]Occupation:[/B]
[B]Relationships:[/B]
[B]Back story:[/B]

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Characters

Originally Posted by Mythos

Character Name: Miss Lydia Ivy
Hero Persona: "White Lady"
Physical Description: Lydia is a little shorter than average with hazel eyes and blonde hair that is generally tied back in a neat bun for the classes she teaches. Her hands are often covered in chalk dust, as are her dresses. Generally for school days she wears a grey or black dress, but she does keep a little something fine for Sunday services.
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Personality: She strives to be pleasant and uplifting, through privately Lydia has some real confidence issues to sort out.
Quirks: Tats (makes lace) almost exclusively when she angry or upset
Powers (2): Pass through solid matter, become invisible (by temporarily traveling through spirit world)
Weaknesses (2): Both powers require a trained focus and Lydia becomes susceptible/target to harm from spirits while "invisible" (Due to their jealousy of her ability to return to the land of the living, the longer/more often she is using their world, the less hospitable they become)
Occupation: Schoolmistress
Relationships: None
Back story: Lydia is the second daughter of three born to an apothecary owner and his wife. Since the beginning she can recall always feeling 'invisible' as the 'forgotten middle child', but when she turned 14 and discovered there was a little more truth in the phrase for her than most other middle children. Instead of marrying off early like her sisters Lydia, who struggled in all of her previous attempts to associate with men, became a schoolmistress in one of the few towns her father decided to set up shop in.

Half a year ago her family moved further West to take advantage of the boom towns cropping up here and there, but tied to her duties as the schoolmistress she insist that she remain. It wasn't a popular decision with her family, but after the pleading of a few mothers to allow her to stay until another schoolmistress could be found (at least) they were convinced to part ways.

Originally Posted by Wyrmskyld

Character Name:Silas 'Silent' Kelly
Hero Persona: Death Rattle
Physical Description: Tall, tanned, with sunstreaked dark brown curls and grey eyes. Usually clean and cleanshaven.
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Personality: The nickname 'Silent' came honestly. Silas always seems to be quiet and thinking deep thoughts. Perhaps a bit absentminded. Very polite. Women find him intriguingly mysterious, and men find him good-natured, pleasant company. He usually has an even temper and seems almost impossible to anger, but every once in a while something sets him off with disastrous results for whoever angered him. Sometimes his personality just -changes- for a few hours-- see Weaknesses.
Quirks: Quiet. Doesn't drink much, by Western standards. Very aware of his personal cleanliness. If he weren't so tough he might be considered a bit of a dude.
Powers: 1)Speaks to spirits-- or rather, spirits speak to him. Often. It's why he's quiet and seems absentminded. He's listening. 2) Can grant the ability to see and hear spirits to other people temporarily.
Weaknesses: 1) Has a significant chance of being possessed by the ghosts he speaks to. If the ghost succeeds, it will try to carry out whatever purpose brought it back as a ghost. 2) He's always being pestered by spirits. It's like having annoying younger siblings who can walk through walls and never have to stop to eat or breathe.
Occupation: Cowboy
Relationships: With living people? Not many. Everyone seems to like him but nobody really knows him, and sometimes he has trouble telling if the person he's talking to is living or dead.
Back story: Silent's family has always had a history of what his grandmother called 'the Sight'. He was born in Chicago, and while he was still a baby his father took Horace Greeley's advice and 'went West', and his mother found another husband. Her new husband didn't want someone else's child, so baby Silas was sent to live with his Irish grandmother. He's glad of that, because she knew what to do when the small boy started talking to ghosts. Granny Kelly died of old age shortly after he graduated college, and her ghost asked him to find his father. He's been looking for several years, but hasn't found any information lately.

Originally Posted by Temple

Character Name:Ohanko
Hero Persona:reckless red
Physical Description: Ohanko is a large man with long black hair that is braided all the way down with a eagle feather located at the top he wears a dusty suit with a shotgun holster on the right side.
Gender:Male
Age:28
Personality:Ohanko like his name is reckless when it come's to danger charging in to help who ever is in danger Ohanko tho try's to keep to himself being a native american but never letting himself become depressed.
Quirks:when ever Ohanko becomes stressed he finds himself playing with children because of there innocence.
Powers :(1) Ohanko has hawk like eye's able to see farther then normal people can (2)Ohanko has super reflexes from slashing with tomahawks to drawing a gun.
Weaknesses (2):Ohanko's powers are almost charged by the sun so if he finds himself outside of the suns reach for more then twenty four hours it renders his powers useless. Ohanko's powers can not be used at the same time as each other
Occupation:Ohanko helps at the school and also helps with heavy lifting but isn't able to get a real job because of who he is.
Relationships:Ohanko has two brothers and an older sister who are still with his people
Back story:Ohanko come's from a large tribe that like other tribes fallows the buffalo but Ohanko did not think that this was the life he would live after being given access to leave his people he took the amount of money that he had taken off of dead raiders that he killed buying a suit even when he looked like any other person he was shunned on for his skin but this never stopped him from smiling on life and his ancestors Ohanko when he was 25 found himself helping every one that he thought needed it from defending caravans to repairing buildings he always tried to help he always thought that his gifts were given to him from his ancestors to help people in need of help.

Originally Posted by Kilia

Character Name: Rosemary "Rose" Hunter
Hero Persona: Mirage
Physical Description: Has long black hair, surprisingly bright blue eyes, she is considered average for her height. Porcelain colored skin, though she can not tan, but she can also get sunburn rather easily. She has scar on one shoulder where she had been shot.
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Personality: She is rather outgoing, flirtatious, but this is only while she is working. She is independent, strong willed, and can be misunderstood sometimes.
Quirks: Writes and draws excessively. In other words she feels compelled to draw and write when ever she is able to do so.
Powers: Can create illusions, can also temporary shape shift
Weaknesses: She has to focus to keep her illusion up, and if she keeps it up for too long she can lose her eye sight for brief moment of time. Shape shifting is something that she can only do for about an hour, it also leaves her vulnerable after wards.
Occupation: Saloon Girl
Relationships: None so far
Back story: Rosemary is one out of six kids. Being the only girl in the family she was raised up in, she had been raised to be as feminine as possible. Her father not wanting his only baby girl to be the rough cowgirl that she could be. Even though she had proper etiquette, that did not stop her for donning a shirt, pants, a cowboy hat and cowboy boots to go out with her brothers to bring the cattle in.

Though all that had changed when her family was killed one day. The only way that she survived was because she kept focusing on the fact that help would come, only to have created an illusion to scare them off. It took her a while to gather her self up, to burn the family home down and move to another town, getting a job as a saloon girl, after all she was ruined for marriage. After having worked in a big city, she grew tired of the life, feeling homesick once more, she decided to don her cattle clothes once more and move back home, planing to rebuild what was destroyed.

Darnit, now I'm gonna have to write a post. :P

Wahaha! It's all part of my nefarious plan!

Hokay, posted. :P I kind of want to assume the schoolhouse is over the next rise, and it's lunchtime, but I don't want to accidentally step on anyone's plans.

>.> And I feel horrible for having one of my random throwaway cowpokes use a racist slur... but it's authentic and I'm too sleepy to fix it now.

Really well written, Wyrm! Seriously, it was like reading a book. (Maybe I should go back and spruce up my first post... xD)

Particular comments aside, I'm eager to see more of those guys around for 'the next three months'.

If someone is offended by Hank's comment it can always be edited, or you can leave an asterisks by it later and leave a little note if you want to be certain anyone poking around the RP thread knows you were in character and are willing to change it if someone still finds it offensive despite that fact.

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Temple: chellybean1985: We can start chatting in here now instead of the request thread. : )

I may do that... it really does bother me. XD

*bounces* I'm really excited about this game... about all of the RPs I/we're in right now, really, but this one looks like it'll be a lot of fun.

agreed! :P It makes me want to watch old cowboy movies!

agreed

Temple, I'll be pulling Silas and Lydia in toward town here soon. : )

ok

So i can just make something up right?

Yep! Just make up a character a character that's pretty balanced and post them here for me to check. : )

*Floats about*

Temple: We moved our characters into town and are kind of waiting for Ohanko to come interact with us.

hello could i join this rp? >w<

Yes, you'd be more than welcome to. : )
Standard procedure for my RPs... post your skeleton here and I'll just say if anything doesn't quite fit or not. Likely everything will, it's a fairly free formed game right now!

Character Name: Rosemary "Rose" Hunter
Hero Persona: Mirage
Physical Description: Has long black hair, surprisingly bright blue eyes, she is considered average for her height. Porcelain colored skin, though she can not tan, but she can also get sunburn rather easily. She has scar on one shoulder where she had been shot.
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Personality: She is rather outgoing, flirtatious, but this is only while she is working. She is independent, strong willed, and can be misunderstood sometimes.
Quirks: Writes and draws excessively. In other words she feels compelled to draw and write when ever she is able to do so.
Powers: Can create illusions, can also temporary shape shift
Weaknesses: She has to focus to keep her illusion up, and if she keeps it up for too long she can lose her eye sight for brief moment of time. Shape shifting is something that she can only do for about an hour, it also leaves her vulnerable after wards.
Occupation: Saloon Girl
Relationships: None so far
Back story: Rosemary is one out of six kids. Being the only girl in the family she was raised up in, she had been raised to be as feminine as possible. Her father not wanting his only baby girl to be the rough cowgirl that she could be. Even though she had proper etiquette, that did not stop her for donning a shirt, pants, a cowboy hat and cowboy boots to go out with her brothers to bring the cattle in.

Though all that had changed when her family was killed one day. The only way that she survived was because she kept focusing on the fact that help would come, only to have created an illusion to scare them off. It took her a while to gather her self up, to burn the family home down and move to another town, getting a job as a saloon girl, after all she was ruined for marriage. After having worked in a big city, she grew tired of the life, feeling homesick once more, she decided to don her cattle clothes once more and move back home, planing to rebuild what was destroyed.



(okay i hope this is good i thought long and hard about it lol)

do i have to change anything?

Sorry for the delay, Kilia! The university internet connection here has been loopy for the last few weeks and several times I'll think a message has sent on to Mene as a post only to find that it took too long for the information to send from my end and times out. Lots of kids are out of exams now and watching youtube or television online on top of other things.

I don't quite understand what you're saying in her personality section as being outgoing and shy at the same time, but personality isn't really a mechanic, so it doesn't need to change, it would just help me 'get' the character faster! xD

The temporarily gaining powers "Rogue" ability on top of creating illusions is kind of OP and under-functional in this setting in my opinion. I'd say she's good for one or the other but not both. Perhaps if her second power is somewhat more related to her illusion ability (like change appearance) or just the temporarily gaining powers?

I say under-functional because you have three other characters to work with here... Rogue's character was set in a world filled with mutants who she could utilize. If this game had a larger number of players there would be no question I'd be supporting -that- power rather than the illusions because Rogue is one of my top five X-Men ever. ...After Storm and Colossus, naturally.

YA were going to be posting soon

Oh not a problem i completely understand :) i have been having problems with my own

Well i fixed her personality portion i just meant she acts one way while working and another way when not at work is all

Lol yea i know not very creative but i was trying not to have the same powers as everyone else cause it seems everyone has powers that deal with the spirits

okay so ummm.....okay i got it lol going to resubmit it in a moment or i mean submit it in the same spot i don't know gah but i change it lol

lol i love Rogue too lol

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Gah!!! *flails around* i hope i fixed all the problems and stuff

Originally Posted by Kilia

Character Name: Rosemary "Rose" Hunter
Hero Persona: Mirage
Physical Description: Has long black hair, surprisingly bright blue eyes, she is considered average for her height. Porcelain colored skin, though she can not tan, but she can also get sunburn rather easily. She has scar on one shoulder where she had been shot.
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Personality: She is rather outgoing, flirtatious, but this is only while she is working. She is independent, strong willed, and can be misunderstood sometimes.
Quirks: Writes and draws excessively. In other words she feels compelled to draw and write when ever she is able to do so.
Powers: Can create illusions, can also temporary shape shift
Weaknesses: She has to focus to keep her illusion up, and if she keeps it up for too long she can lose her eye sight for brief moment of time. Shape shifting is something that she can only do for about an hour, it also leaves her vulnerable after wards.
Occupation: Saloon Girl
Relationships: None so far
Back story: Rosemary is one out of six kids. Being the only girl in the family she was raised up in, she had been raised to be as feminine as possible. Her father not wanting his only baby girl to be the rough cowgirl that she could be. Even though she had proper etiquette, that did not stop her for donning a shirt, pants, a cowboy hat and cowboy boots to go out with her brothers to bring the cattle in.

Though all that had changed when her family was killed one day. The only way that she survived was because she kept focusing on the fact that help would come, only to have created an illusion to scare them off. It took her a while to gather her self up, to burn the family home down and move to another town, getting a job as a saloon girl, after all she was ruined for marriage. After having worked in a big city, she grew tired of the life, feeling homesick once more, she decided to don her cattle clothes once more and move back home, planing to rebuild what was destroyed.



(okay i hope this is good i thought long and hard about it lol)

i do hope this looks a lot better

Yep, yep! I'll post her profile up right away and you can post for her as soon as you please. :D

awesome!!!!! just have to figure out on how to get her in now