With blessing from the mods, the CBR RPG guy has returned!
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SETTING: The planet Gehenna is dead, the surface below the sea of clouds marred and decayed from a terrible mutagenic plague. Only the five Ark-Cities remain, floating bastions of humanity that escaped the ruination below over six hundred years ago. These five cities: Avalon, Valhalla, Eden, Elysium, and Shangri-La represent the highest technological achievement of mankind, alongside their protection from the dying and mutated world.
However, mankind did not escape the plague unchanged. A small percentage of those that fled were mutated on a subtle level, and some four hundred years later, psychic powers manifested in a very small percentage of the population alongside better physical stats. These psychics, called Espers, were seen as a blessing and humanities protectors. They became regarded as special and were treated as instant celebrities almost overnight.
Now, two hundred years later, the small percentage (less than 0.1 of the population of five million) are still treated like nobles and celebrities, to the point of even being given their own schools to train in and learn at how to be the five cities guardians.
And that is where you come in. You have just been accepted to Hades Academy where you will be educated and trained to harness your powers and your psychical capabilities to further help and protect the five cities. Of course, you will also discover that perhaps Hades, and the five cities, are not quite the Paradises and noble encampments that the history books say they are.
Good luck and have fun!
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CHARACTER SHEET:
NAME:
AGE: (Between 14 and 21)
HEIGHT/WEIGHT:
APPEARANCE:
CITY OF BIRTH:
ESPER POWER: (Mind control not allowed, but mind reading is. If not sure if something is allowed, ask me. Obviously nothing amazingly powerful just yet).
SPECIAL SKILLS: (Up to two per person, these are personal skills your character excels at beyond the norm).
HISTORY:
OTHER: (Optional info)
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES:
All stats cap at 20. You will all start with SEVEN points to spread across your five categories. A 0 in each stat represents a normal/average human being. A 20 in Strength would be a Class ten. A four in agility is low level bullet timing (Ozamandius level) or roughly very high Aim dodger (Lady Shiva). An 8 would be Cassandra Cain level bullet timing, and a twelve would be Kenshin Himura level (actually leaving Sonic Booms and the like through full movement speed). A 20 would be Mach 2-3. Durability scales up the same as strength. Stamina is the level at which you heal from tiredness or injury. A ten in Stamina is Wolverine. A twenty is Deadpool level. Skill indicates your psychic skill level. The higher this skill level is, the better your psychic power and the more you can do with it. There are five psychic levels, and each time you reach a plateau (every four points) you earn another subset of your base psychic power (which you start with).
STRENGTH:
AGILITY:
DURABILITY:
ESPER SKILL LEVEL:
STAMINA:
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WORLD INFO:
Gehenna is a ringed planet with two moons that orbit it, one larger further away and a smaller one closer to the planet.
The five cities are all interconnected, with the four others circling Avalon, which sits in the center and is the largest. Each city is connected via tubed highways, and each one is responsible for various resources for all five. The five are ruled by a Council of ten, two from each city, and below them is a "senate" of 50, ten from each. Alongside them is the Judicial Tribunal, which is made up of the Executioner Prime, the High Judge, and the Defender of Lives.
Eden: This city is mainly farming and livestock growth. It has the smallest population (200,000, but almost all the food for the five cities is grown here, alongside livestock creation/birth and maintenance).
Shangri-La: The city with the second smallest population (250,000), it is mostly concerned with the Reclamation Forces and their continued efforts to study the scarred surface. It is from this city that their main headquarters is located, and from which they launch weekly trips to gather water to be recycled from the oceans below, and where special trips once a year are made to the surface to study artifacts and the like. Fairly tough to get into organization.
Elysium: Next in line, this city (with a population of 550,000) is all tech based. From here the main tech breakthroughs in medicine and other technologies are born, and thus most, if not all, labs and the like or stationed here. They are responsible for the creations of pretty much all technologies used in the Ark-Cities, save the Gravity engines and barriers that surround each city.
Valhalla: The next largest population (1,750,000), Valhalla is the judicial and financial center for the Ark-Cities. All courts, prisons, main banks, and brokers work here. This is also the city where the main religious house is located, called the Temple of the Stars (the Ark-Cities participate in basic ancestor honoring/worship, and believe that in the end their spirits go forth into the stars to watch over those still alive).
Avalon: With the largest population (2,250,000), this is where the richer populations live and work, and is the center of entertainment, education, and culture for the Ark-Cities. It is in this city where the various psychic Academies are, with Hades being one of them, and the main police headquarters. The gravity engines that keep all the five up are located here, as are the sources of power that generate the protective energy field that surrounds the cities to keep out the wind and chill.
Any questions, feel free to ask/pm me.