Dawn of Legends (A Legacy of Failure) (Inactive)

Game Master JamZilla

Plus we have that great 'I'm big, you're small' trope going on.

Kinda...?

Guys if you are interested I put together a pretty big post outlining the movies from the Marvel Universe and how the world is as the game starts.

It was useful for Concussion who wasn't a Marvel nerd.

It's in the Campaign Info tab.

Cool, I'll check it out, though I'm a fan of the movies.

Spore, thanks for the Spanish(East) Harlem suggestion. It's perfect.

The New York Post listed one part of the neighborhood – the block of Lexington Avenue between East 123rd and 124th Streets – as one of "the most dangerous blocks in the city" because police crime statistics for 2015 showed that 19 assaults had taken place there, more than for any other city block. The Post also reported that there were, according to the Harlem Neighborhood Block Association, "22 drug-treatment programs, four homeless-services providers and four transitional-living facilities" in East Harlem.

RE: Neighborhoods
Glad to help!

RE: Names
Spore will be going by Spore in pretty much all circumstances, unless he needs to pretend to be something other than a plant-alien, of course.

RE: Groot!
Haha, yeah kinda! I actually thought about making a Groot joke in character, but then realized that people on Earth generally wouldn't be aware of the Guardians so it wouldn't really work.

RE: General Marvel awareness
Huge comics fan and MCU fan here, but thanks for the summary. It always helps to have something written to reference.
P.S. BIG fan of Moon Knight, who I've seen referenced a few times ;)

And Lastly,
RE: Appearance
I've been picturing Spore to look something like these three pictures; a friendly, tough, and gentle giant, but big and weird with gangly vines everywhere. Cheers!
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How tall is Spore? I didn't find it anywhere.

I'd say he's the on the larger/largest size of being mechanically "medium", which puts him somewhere between 7 and 8 feet depending on how tall he feels like being at the moment.

Trystt & Spore, Do we know each other at this stage? I'm guessing that we are to attend the Induction course so we are newly arrived at the Meta training facility, I can't think of any reason why I would know either of you outside of that.

I didn't see anything that made me think that we would. But we will soon. =)

I'm excited about the dynamics of the team.

I have to agree, I can't wait to see how we all work together.

Same!

Also, on the topic of aliens, do Spore and Melania recognize each other's species?

Knowledge plains check DC 15?

Can't make that untrained, so that's a no for me.
I've only got Kn Nature, unfortunately.

If that's going to be sort of a "general awareness of aliens" skill, maybe I should swing a point from acrobatics into Kn Planes? Thoughts?

Spore: You might want to do it for character reasons since your species is alien and spread throughout the galaxy/universe?

Mechanically, Trystt will be dabbling in the Knowledge skills. I'll be keeping Perception, Disable Device, and Spellcraft maxed.

I wasn't expecting to deal with the 'confined spaces/underground' personality quirk right off the bat. That should be fun to deal with.

Trystt if you do have questions, fire away, character interaction in these situations is exactly what I love best about pbp :)

Oh, it'll come up, probably on the ride down. Between genuine curiosity and nervousness about being underground, there's no way that Trystt resists.

Yeah, agreed. Unless there's an issue, I'll move that skill point over. Fits the background better to have it, if nothing else.

Sort of unrelated suggestion in case anyone was on the fence:
Go. See. "Logan".
I was hugely skeptical beforehand, but it was absolutely amazing.

And, back to game related things:
DC 15 Kn Planes on Midnight's Race: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

I find Wolverine ok as a character, I just dislike his currently place in Fox's X-men movies where he's in everything(like x men days of future past *rolls eyes* that was bad.)

I didnt even see the last solo Wolverine in Japan, But! I have heard good thing about this more so than usual so I may have to listen to your suggestion here as I'm also hugely skeptical.

Don't get me started on Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds.

Do you want me to run through each area all in one go, or would you prefer each one individually and then pause for a chance for you to react?

I vote all in one.

I like doing the little scenes as I've done with the fight cages. So it might be too much to do it all in one without it being a humungous wall of text

Plus feel free to interact with any of the characters mentioned btw

Spore is the same as the others with the Knowledge Meta; I'll be spending some time at SHIELD getting some basic info to justify the skill point, since I've basically been reading old newspapers in the park and eavesdropping since I've been here.

Just to let you know guys, there is a point to all this.

Mainly to show that there are a number of heroes out there and you can start making contacts with them and to help you bond as a new team over a training exercise that we will get to eventually.

But also because I was thinking about making the training centre something you could use in your downtime for temporary or possibly even permanent bonuses.

The heads up is appreciated. At the same time, don't worry too much about it. Roleplay is cool, not everything needs to be combat. You've shown that you want us to be cool and to have fun. That earns a lot of trust.

That's an awesome idea for the training center. If you go that way, being able to pick up an extra feat or something would be dope.

Honestly, I haven't worked it out myself yet.

I don't know whether free feats might work out too powerful, I was thinking more like temporary boosts.

I'll think on it and discuss with you guys as it becomes relevant :)

Indeed, we have a long way to go before it becomes relevant.

Sorry if that wasn't clear Trystt, the place isn't entirely physical.

No, you mentioned the sign for the other stuff. That was an in-character thing because the physical training isn't what interests Trystt.

Talking about the training I like the idea of getting a boon. Gives us a good reason to go there and we can interact with more heros!

While getting feats would be cool, if it was something like that what if it was more just unity ones? Like endurance ? Some thatpeople don't pick up? We did talk about boon for the next combat I like that too, anything you come up with will be nice.

Haha, hey! Endurance is absolutely VITAL to my build.

Really though, it's probably easier to write off, in character, that regular leveling/advancement is in part due to the use of training facilities as well as actual fighting/adventures.

JZ, any thought on how much I know about Midnight's people?
My Kn Planes roll was a 21, if that helps

I think that might be better answered by Midnight ooc.

21 is going to give you a pretty good overview of the world itself, major continents/countries, governing structure, recent history etc.

Under the wise guidance of a visionary leader, hundreds of years ago the Aurorans experienced a golden age of exploration, and were able to settle most of their home system, a sprawling civilisation of a dozen planets, asteroids and space stations. Forging peace treaties with their neighbors and pouring their resources in to civil works heralded an era of technological advancement and wonder.

All that came to an end when the visionary leader was assassinated by unknown parties and several different factions arose to try and assume his mantle. The resulting political and societal turbulence fractured the race and split them both geographically and ideologically. There are those who seek to continue the work of the visionary, maintaining the status quo, another who sees the visionary's work as a good start but who now want to capitalise on the advancements they've made to conquer other systems, and even those who wish to close their borders and become isolationist, eschewing the rest of the galaxy and its problems.

You know that the Auroran society is very fractured with vastly different ideologies between the factions and in fact far worse than Midnight left it, bordering on civil war, that eventuality only being kept at bay by the unequivocal (some say brutal) tactics of the Peacekeepers.

In terms of the geography, cities, centres of government etc, you can work that out with Midnight depending on how much detail you want to go into in RP between yourselves.

I'm back, but a bit discombobulated from the trip still! I'll try to get a post for Lucas joining you all soon!

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Welcome back dude, hope you had a good trip!

Welcome back Lucas :)

Welcome back!

Midnight, if we have an hour to kill in game before The Box is ready, we can have that discussion now, or if you wanted to wait until we weren't about to run a live-fire combat drill, that's fine too.

Spore, Midnight is in New Zealand FYI so as I type it is about half-past four in the morning there. So don't expect a quick response :D

Ahhh good to know. Thanks.

It's 8pm here and the kids are in bed, so it's forum time :)

Yup that's right, Midnight flies so fast she's posting from your future ^.^

Spore, with a fair bit of time available whilst SHIELD set up the scenario we're about to run, Midnight would have spoken with you further, so I'll spoiler the 'previously on Dawn of Legends' to cover off what we talk about!

I like to keep the game moving quickly, those who've played with me previously will know that, but I also highly encourage roleplaying between the group and with NPCs and I think spoilers are the best way to manage that :)

Couldn't agree more JZ, PbP games live or die on pace, so spoilers are a great way to get more in depth in to a situation without holding things up :)

Err, in my efforts to post quickly, I did a bad job of making this clear, and now I've missed the edit window, but my post is meant to be relevant either before or after Trystt's distraction and after we get closer, if we pursue that route.

Sticking with my intended actions.

I like the group initiative thing. It's easier in PbP.

Looking back at my previous post, I want to be clear that I was not ignoring your suggestion, Shift, but I realized that my response appears brusque. I was just trying to convey my actions to our GM. If I came across like an asshat, I'm sorry and it was not my intention to be rude.

Sorry guys, busy day yesterday, will Update this afternoon

Looking back at my previous post, I want to be clear that I was not ignoring your suggestion, Shift, but I realized that my response appears brusque. I was just trying to convey my actions to our GM. If I came across like an asshat, I'm sorry and it was not my intention to be rude.

Didn't come across that way at all, but not to worry even if it did. I'm fully aware that writing only conveys about 20% of meaning, absenting body language, tone and other clues, so I never take offense at a seeming slight online.

Coolio, thanks.

Great job,guys. Got 'em down before they could warn the others!

As GM, how do you prefer to handle trap searching? Do you like us making active checks, or you making checks for us, or something else?

Active checks usually. I don't want to assume you search every single nook and cranny because that totally negates the trapspotter rogue talent.

Coolio. Yeah, I'd love to pick that up at some point. But I think that is a rather distant future.

I think I labeled what should be Round 1 & 2, 2 & 3 instead. Apologies.

Also, since Spore could soon be below zero HP, please note he'll use Diehard to stay conscious. Thanks!