Capes: Origins

CAPES
ORIGINS

The world is never as it seems.

Behind every tree, every brick of stonework, beneath every street, behind every cloud, lies a secret untold, a story waiting to be heard and, inevitably, lies.

Some are secret by conspiracy, others, through simple ignorance and neglect, and others, perhaps most horrifically, through simply willing disillusionment by those not wishing to believe their lying eyes. This is the world you have been born into, a world on the cusp of change, where the unwise and the unwilling will be thrust into the cold light of day and forced to decide how best they play their parts. Will you sacrifice all that you have, all that you are, for the betterment of those around you? Will you enforce what you think is best on the unwilling, come what may? Or will you enact your own will for your own benefit upon the world at large, and let the weak suffer what they must?

Can you live with the consequences?

You'll have to.

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SpoilerWelcome to Capes! The DC to Mask's Marvel... Or the Marvel to its DC... Darkhorse? Darkhorse. Lets go with Darkhorse.

In this game you are, of course, a superheroic being, just coming into their powers and abilities. Whether these are magical in nature, scientific, raw skill or something else entirely. There are of course a few caveats.

No superman. Playing something like 1930s Superman where he's superstrong with super endurance and can Jump-Good is relatively fine, but anything else other than that is absolute horseshit. It is also advised to, at least at the start, to not go full on Joker levels megalomaniacal villain. Sure your end goal may be to wipe out the West Coast, but try not to be too sociopathic too early, escalating violence will result in escalating response from both authorities and opposing Heroes and Villains.

Silly super hero rules will apply such as base level disguises. Yes the stupid Eye Covers will hide your identity by and large. Power levels will be relatively balanced but not too strictly enforced, meaning if, God help you, you're a skill based character who knows ALL THE MARTIAL ARTS and you're stuck fighting Thor you might want to think of other ways of going about it or else extricating yourself from the situation entirely.

Similarly, I will negate nerfing the more powerful characters and instead institute an articulate weakness of my own choosing that the player will not know about until they discover it in the story. It won't be anything as crippling as kryptonite effectively reducing you to a worm, as that is effectively knocking a player out of fight entirely, but this is in place so players have something they need to keep secret from other players' characters (and metagaming in this regard will be frowned upon in typical Gallo fashion) and to give the weaker characters a potential edge on the more powerful ones. This will be in addition to any weaknesses the players themselves decide to add to their characters, not in replacement of them.

Mid tier characters in the higher end of the power spectrum will have this secret-weakness rule applied to them if they have insufficient weaknesses to them, but this will be case by case since by definition, mid tier characters are hard to judge. Players who are pretty much human with human weaknesses wont have these secret weaknesses, since being human IS the weakness. Players can add weaknesses to their own characters anyway if it makes sense for the idea they're going with.

Minor player crossover events will be determined by player activity first and foremost (its pointless to crossover characters where one player is super active and the other isn't) and will be primarily focused on smaller adventures in comparison to Crisis events which involve everyone everywhere.

This game is aiming to be a bit lighter on the harsh realism of Masks, but of course, this being a Gallogame, the darkness will come sooner or later. Heroes and villains will be more competent than the police, especially when it comes to dealing with super bullshit.

I will from the outset be accepting 6 players to start with. And applications will run for a week or until all the spaces are filled, whichever happens first.

Secret Identity: The name you're character is most commonly known by, nicknames and all.
Alias: What you're known by to the world at large, if you so choose to pick a name for yourself at all. Others may choose one for you if you do not.
Description: What does your character look like? How tall are they? What hair colour and so on. What kind of person are they? What are their characteristics, warts and all?
Biography: What does their character get up to in life? If they have powers, how did they come to possess them, or, if they dont have them to start and you'd rather Roleplay them achieving their powers, explain how you'd want them to acquire their powers. Are they more a skill based characters? If so, how so, and what skills do they possess and how many? Are they intelligent, super or otherwise? Are they rich? If so, they can still be rich and skilled, but I will be capping off their wealth at 10 million dollars, rich enough to be useful but still in danger of running dry. If you would, for whatever reason, rather dump everything into being rich, you will be given a cap of 10 billion dollars, but you will not start off with any skills or above University grade intelligence, but I will require justification on how they have their wealth. You can of course, go on to train up in skills if you choose the uber rich path, just understand you'll be spending a lot of game time training. Which is fine if you liked the Namek arc of DBZ.
Costume Description: What duds does your character wear when out fighting CRIME?
Character Abilities: As stated before your character can have a number of abilities and powers. Perhaps they are skilled based, master of several martial arts and weaponry, perhaps they are very intelligent, a mad scientist perhaps, perhaps their power are magically based, or biologically based, either mutant or alien in nature. Or, perhaps their just stinking rich. You can mix and match but be warned, the more powers you have, the more watered down they are.
Home City: Self Explanatory, whats you're city called? Does it have any notable nicknames?
City description: Your city will be based in America, preferably the continental US for the sake of logistics, please describe it here, where is it located, how big is it, what are its defining features, its cultural distinctions and aesthetic looks, quirks and facets that make it stand out. Home cities will be their own unique entities and will not be replacing any of the standard cities in Real Life America, New York is still New York even if Gotham is a mile down the road.
Friends, family and associates: At the least I need to know your character's family histories up to their grandparents on both sides, including cousins, aunts and uncles, as well as brothers and sisters, as well as close friends, and others that know and work with them. Totally not for nefarious purposes you understand.