Re: X-Men, Marvel, DC, Original Super Hero RP

by **Kathryn Lacey** Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:40 pm

Would you happen to have an example of a federal psychological profile because I can't even find a non-federal example to aid me in writing it.

by **quakernuts** Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:15 am

Well it doesn't have to be exactly accurate, as according to federal standards. I doubt all of us would be able to do that anyways.

What I was looking for was mainly something saying "From the desk of Dr. blah" Followed by his/her perspective of your person. I might have an example from my own writing as to what I'm trying to do (Ala by night they walked) sort of deal, so if I can find it, I'll bring it up here as an example.

by **Kathryn Lacey** Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:21 am

I found it for you in this post. Thanks for the title of the RP. Because I was in it, I had the IC and OoC threads linked in my character archive.

quakernuts wrote:From the desk of Dr. Stacy Neuman

Operative Nariah is one of those few soldiers where fear, literally, is an unknown term. He has no idea what the concept of such an emotion even comes from, or how people even feel it. Were it not for the fact that his temper can get the better of him, he would be a perfect front line leader. Under fire, he is calm, calculating, fearless, and above all, inspirational. His men look up to him as someone who is going to keep them alive, and he will do his best to do so. The men below him are, in his eyes, family. Those that would follow him to hell and back, and not hesitate for even a moment. If only these qualities carried on to outside of combat.

Outside of combat, he is quick-tempered, quick to judge, rude, crude, and sometimes selfish. His men still are number one in his heart and mind, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear he treats them a little rough once in awhile and calls it 'tough love'. I have taken Operative Nariah aside a couple of times, and am happy to report that these personality traits are slowly taking a backseat to his more important ones, but I doubt they will ever leave him personally.

In short, he is a fine leader, a fine soldier, and a less than acceptable person.

by Lara Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:09 am

I suppose this is a question I should have asked a while ago, but I forgot. Is this going to be a RP where mutants are born with their powers, or was there some random genetic outbreak that caused them to suddenly pop into existence x number of years ago?

by **Kathryn Lacey** Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:11 am

It's based in the X-Men universe, so I imagine they're born with these abilities.

by **Digital Muse** Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:02 am

I think it could be either or actually. I can imagine some coming into their abilities through genetic tampering or the infamous 'accident in a vat of industrial goo'.

by **Kathryn Lacey** Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:21 pm

When we finish with our character sheets, should we post them here or wait until the official OoC thread has been made?

by **Digital Muse** Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:29 pm

Hrms...an OOC...when it's posted up?

by Lara Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:54 am

Mine's not done yet, so I'm cool with waiting for the OOC.

I will say, I'm enjoying writing some/most of my guy's profile from a clinical perspective =)

by Safton Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:15 am

I guess we should wait for the OOC thread.

Also, could public relations/public affairs be placed in the lowest skill category? It's arguably a police skill and it makes sense for what I have in mind for my character. Wanted to see what everyone else thought, first.

by Syrena Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:42 pm

Just wanted to say that I'm still here and typing up an explanation of powers for you all to read and make suggestions and what not. Unfortunately, finals are taking all my time at the moment. But everything wraps up Thursday. (Hopefully.)

Anyway, I think dumping character profiles in the OOC is best. That way no one has to wade through all the extra chatter here. (Of course, who is to say that the OOC thread won't fill up with chatter either...)

by Lara Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:52 pm

Safton, I'd agree that public relations can be a "lowest skill". After all, a big part of being in the police business is talking with bystanders/suspects/victims/etc. If you're not-so-great at that, it's probably something everyone should be aware of. =)

by Lumeus Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:11 am

I hope that I have come back in time to slide into this rp. All sorts of ideas have sprung to mind while I read this thread and it would be so much fun to implement them with you all.

For example: How does this specialized task force recruit? Are they recruiting officers from precincts? Finding civilian mutants that meet a certain psychological profile and then training them from scratch? Are they looking for mutants already in the police force? Mutants with government authority over normal people would have been a major topic of controversy that would probably still be a very touchy subject. You would have ignorant people coming out of the woodwork claiming that they don't feel safe with mutants being police officers.

Also, a publicly known team like this would instantly draw media attention, which would put a great deal of pressure on the team to succeed. The person who put this together would have their career on the line. I mean, any collateral damage, especially if it were a civilian bystander, would cast more blame on the "mutant menace," except this time the mutants killed people with the government's funding and approval. That's a PR nightmare that can cost a major or even a state senator their job.

These are wonderful problems to have in an rp in my opinion. And those are just a few of them.

All of that was mainly to give you all a reason to consider excepting my character into the fold. The premise is that with so much tension and trust issues circling around this team the government required several terms to be met, and one of those terms being that a human of their choosing be placed within the group to keep tabs, and make progress reports and such.

If its so far so good with you all I can toss up a character sheet, and I'm more than happy to answer questions or field misgivings.

by Lara Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:20 am

Why Lumeus, for a minute it sounded like you wanted to be the guy who wrote up all our "psychological profiles'! :p

I like the questions you pose. They're real issues, and they're not anything we've actually discussed yet, and I'm very interested to see what the group comes up with to deal with them. (Especially the first one. I've been struggling with that part of my guy's backstory!)

by **quakernuts** Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:38 am

I definitely like the idea of having our characters be discriminated against by the masses, it would definitely lead to some very interesting scenes where we are internally questioning if we should have our character let loose or not.

Also, Lumeus, me and you have to get to work on an OOC so people can get their CS's up and out of the clutter that is the Interest check. Hit me up with a PM when you're ready to talk it through, or get a hold of me on skype, username quakernuts.

by **Digital Muse** Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:12 pm

Lumeus, all those questions are really good ones. Since this whole premise is loosely based on a game I ran RL, I'll toss out what I did and we can see what parts people want to incorporate into the RP.

Recruiting: In my head, there are few, if any known Mutants in positions of authority (like the police department) because of the public outcry and distrust. Any that are would be considered very low-powered and are not in the field. However, the very nature of the crimes committed by Mutants often leaves normal cops at great risk, so the Police Department is literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Thus, recruiting would at first be voluntary (because it requires registration) and as you said, intense scrutiny by the media, but also the public and by other Mutants who fear any possible registration acts. After some mild success and more funding, active recruiting may happen and contact made to more ‘obvious’ mutants, but as you mentioned, the selection process would be rigorous for fear of potentially letting a loose cannon loose on the public.

Media Attention: Here again, you’re absolutely right. The media from every state and country would be all over this. Mutants dealing with world-ending threats are one thing, but being regular cops , so to speak, brings things too close to home and somehow would feel more threatening to the average citizen. Thus, the head of this program (probably a Human or hidden Mutant) would have to be influential enough to get the program through several billion miles of red tape, but be willing to risk his own career (if not his life), pushing for it.

The team would be under incredible pressure to avoid confrontations or collateral damage far more than ordinary cops would. This aspect could make for some awesome RP situations. I can also see regular Humans cops being part of the team to help ease public panic.

We definitely would need someone specializing in Public Relations in some manner (PC or NPC). So definitely get together with Ysopet and Quaker to see what they want to hash out.

Just my two cents. Cool

by Lara Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:02 pm

Being under the public eye is already making me nervous for my guy. XD I consider him an accident waiting to happen, or at least he was in the past.

I completely agree that the number of mutants actively in authoritarian positions is likely low. I wouldn't say "none", because people in high power tend to look the other way if the "special skills" of someone end up helping them too. The way I see it, no mutants with overly "active" powers would hold high/large positions in big-scale things, the police and such included, but a few with more passive, "coincidental" abilities might be kept around (easiest example I can think of: a mutant with the ability to speak/learn languages might get a high position as translator at government functions). Even these people, though, would probably have their own issues, and would probably be under close watch.

I can definitely see why mutants would be concerned about joining L.A.M.P - doing so would mean making yourself known and registered, which would probably put you under the government's watch. I like the idea of a selection process - I can see volunteers having to pass various mental/physical/psychological tests ("passing" scores being relevant to the mutant's known abilities; i.e., a mutant with super strength would have to score within a different range in the physical examinations than everyone else). Maybe these tests are even where our Psychological Profiles come from.

On an unrelated note - this will depend entirely on the characters everyone is creating, but if it turns out that no one created has a strong ability to heal, I'd be more than willing to offer up a doctor to treat L.A.M.P members. I figure a specialized task force might want a specialized medical team, what with them being not entirely accepted by the public.

by Safton Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:01 pm

I had my character pictured as a sort of inter-agency transfer. He has no powers, but I suppose he could be a liaison or even a monitor of sorts?

by Lumeus Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:15 pm

Dipping into plot ideas now.

The mutant related crime rate in L.A. has slowly been rising for the past few years edging ever closer to a drastic response from the city officials, but there would need to be a catalyst, a major disaster caused by mutants that tipped it over the edge and brought about the creation of LAMP, and it makes sense if that incident involved the deaths of several Los Angeles police officers and civilians.

Bringing in an idea from another rp I was in, this event in Los Angeles is considered the worst act of mutant terrorism (the government really likes to throw around that word) since The Clash in New York City seven years ago. The Clash was a city wide battle between mutant "heroes" and "villains" that tallied over six hundred casualties and cost billions of dollars in repairs.

Two weeks after New York, 7 mutants in Huntsville, Alabama were taken prisoner and tortured for weeks before being murdered. This came to be known as the Alabama Massacre.

Local law enforcement began to see more and more mutant gang activity all across the country, and it has grown progressively worse since then.

by **quakernuts** Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:56 am

Alright, so OOC is being constructed. When you're done your CS, just send them to me and I'll start adding them to the official OOC.

Named Task Force: Vanguard

by **Kathryn Lacey** Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:42 am

Wouldn't it be wiser to have us each post our own OoC's in the thread and just have you link it? That way, if we need/want to edit anything, we have that ability and won't have to wait for you to get around to it?

by **quakernuts** Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:43 pm

I'm going to be posting all the CS's in a single post of mine in the OOC. That way, I only need to link to one post with all of them on it rather than have to link each and every CS, which may be separated by people talking. It's a lot less clutter in the end. If you really want to post it in the OOC, go ahead, but know that's what I'm going to do regardless.

by Safton Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:10 pm

Fair enough. I don't see why both can't be done; we can all post our own if we'd like for easy future editing if necessary, while your post would serve as the quick and easy reference.

by **Kathryn Lacey** Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:15 pm

I don't think that's convenient at all. I mean... Honestly, if both are going to be done, it's MORE clutter. If we only do it where all posts are in one post, then players can't edit their individual sheets, and they have to waste time trudging through one post to find a specific character's anyway. If they're all just directly linked to each specific sheet in specific posts, it'll take us straight to the user's sheet anyway, so it really isn't that cluttered at all.

If you're too lazy to link each individual post, I can't trust that you'll update my sheet if I need edits to it, and if they're all in one post without the individual links, then if I edit my own individual post while you have them all posted in one of yours, no one will see my edits. It just makes a lot more sense to link individual player posts.

If you don't want to do it, I can. I have no qualms with doing the coding for it, and it takes me like... two seconds.

by Safton Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:41 pm

I was referring to quaker's post having links for our posts, like you're suggesting. Sorry, I didn't really make that clear before. But that does make the most sense to me.

by **quakernuts** Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:53 am

Ok, I'm going to get this first issue out of the way right off the bat.

I do not like the tone you are trying to bring to this very light 'disagreement' that we seem to be having. I understand that you want to do it that way, I said I was going to do another. I also understand why you want to do it your way, but what I don't get is why you're sideways attacking me personally?

I didn't have to say 'yeah, I could help with the setup of this RP', you could have but didn't. The way I want to do it is actually more work than yours because then I have to make sure all the CS's are up and formatted properly, along with going through everyone to make sure it's what they want.

Let's throw in the fact that you're also an Admin, you can edit my posts any time you want. If you really wanted to edit your CS, you could simply edit my post whenever you felt the need. The coding wasn't the issue, it was the fact that linking to someone's CS, then having to scroll back up to find the next link or search through the OOC for another one. Having them all in one place assures that if someone wanted to look through them all, they would all be there and with minimum scrolling.

Now, if everyone else agrees with you (I know Safton does but we still have a few more people who we don't know about yet) then I will do it your way. Until then, could you please keep the comments about my personal work ethic out of this? That would be greatly appreciated.

by Lara Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:59 am

Personally, I don't mind either way when it comes to the character sheets. Quaker, your way ensures that when I submit my CS to you, it's done. I've got my character written out just the way I like it, and since I'm not in control of making changes whenever I want (without messaging you about them, that is), I'm going to be certain that everything is perfect before clicking 'submit'. Yes, it does add in the extra step of sending it to you, and it puts a bit of extra burden on you to make sure the first post stays updated, but by having them all in one spot, you're right that I wouldn't have to hunt through pages of chatter (assuming we chatter a lot) to find the sheets.

I can also see the merit in Kathryn's approach, considering it would allow everyone to have control over their own character sheets and the content in them. For anyone who nitpicks over their profiles (I can admit to changing wording often once I've posted a sheet) this can be extremely beneficial. It's also true that linking to each of the posts that contain the sheets probably wouldn't be too difficult (just don't ask me how to do it; I've never been able to figure it out XD ).

From the way things have started, it looks like people are posting their character sheets in the OOC on their own. Why not let both happen, in a way? Everyone could post their own sheet, and as they're posted, you could edit them into the first post/whichever of your reserved pages you want to house the sheets in.

Or to make it simpler, maybe ask that no one post in the OOC for now unless it's their CS? This way, all of the sheets are on the first page, and really all I'd have to do is CTRL+F peoples' usernames/character names. As no chatter would have happened, my first instance should be the profile. Then once everyone has posted their sheets, the OOC could be "open" to discussion - and until then, we could all continue to post here, like we're currently doing?

Not that my profile is done either way. But I will admit, every time someone posts in the OOC now I add a bit more to mine. XD The pressure is on!

by **Kathryn Lacey** Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:21 am

Meh. Doesn't matter anyway. I think I'm out of this game. No, it's not because "I may or may not" get my way on this issue. I'm just... not feeling it any more. I guess my ambition for writing has tanked. I have real-life things going on that are more important right now than role-playing.

by **Digital Muse** Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:55 am

Since we're expressing opinions, I think links to individual sheets in the first thread of the OOC makes the most sense.

I'm sorry you feel the need to drop, Kathryn. I was looking forward to writing with you again.

by **Kathryn Lacey** Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:01 am

I was looking forward to writing with you, too, but lately, I've been having problems with my relatives (which... btw... I'm sorry for seeming so bitchy to you quaker. I had a fight with one of my relatives, and I think my mood totally transferred over into my response to you which was uncalled for and unnecessary, so again, I'm sorry.), and it, combined with the change in night shifts to day shifts lately at work, has effectively killed my drive to write. I can't even bring myself to work on my solo written works lately... I'm not a day person... Ugh...

Anyway, I hope you guys have fun with this!

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