What's the Big Difference?

[SKJAM!]

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Bumping, since we have lots of new people and player characters now.

[Enforcer84]

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Enforcer: I'm ...married?

 

 

Ithecles: I am the son of Zeus? This does not bode well.

[Whitewings]

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Champion Wind believes herself to be a magical girl, empowerd forthe purpose of fighting the forces of Darkness in the form of the Nightmares, creatures that are basically people's dark sides gone out for a walk. In her counterpart's world... she is.

[Powerhouse]

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This is from my evil twin post. Only some of my characters are here though:

 

Some of my own characters who in their universe are the Silver Knights. Here they are the Dark Lords, a powerful super villain team who aim to eventually take over the world. To reach their goals, they do anything from stealing mystical artifacts to destabilizing governments. The Black Lady's more mundane connections only give them yet another tool in their arsenal though she is careful to funnel such efforts through other channels so as to not connect the two. Over the past few years they have perform a litany of evil deeds including but not limited to:

 

1. Devastating the Knights of Krim: the healer Cadeus (Bloodstone), Force, and Phoenix were all killed in a bloodsoaked ambush. Light Angel (Dark Seraphim), Tremblor, and Starlight (Eclipse) have struggled to carry on the fight ever since.

2. The Black Lady sold the souls of three Senators to demonic powers. One she intends to run for President in 2008.

3. Crippled Professor Preserver (Doctor Destroyer) when he and his forces prevented the team from killing 90% of the population. The good Professor has been forced to retire from active duty though his first lieutenant Doctor Sol (Professor Muerte) is still active.

4. Slaughtered a UN military force that tried to affect regime change in Zumunda, the land where Earth Lord rules with an iron first. Some feel that the invasion may have suceeded with US support but key Senators voted against funding US troops for such purposes. The international team of Eurostar suffered heavy losses and two are still missing. The government denies holding Sentry (Durak) or Bora though the Black Lady herself smirked when answering.

5. Beat to death the well respected superhero Bulldozer. The Harvard professor who gained super strength in a freak accident, the man never forgot his humble upbringing where he worked as a blue collar worker to go to school.

6. Nearly converted the world to an extension of hell when working with the Destroyers (Champions). Only a falling over and epic spell battle with Blackfire (Witchfire) prevented its success. Since then, the two teams have been mortal enemies.

7. Tyr setting the original Constitution on fire and leveling the Supreme Court.

 

1. Lady Silver becomes the Black Lady: raised among good sorcerers hidden away in a pocket dimension, she would from an early age seek power of any type. Eventually, she made a pact with a demon lord for the power to slay her brethren and steal their magic. From that point, it was an easy matter to force the portal to Earth. From day one, she has sought to increase her magical power by stealing artifacts, making pacts with dark powers, and murdering other wizards to steal their secrets. No fool, she also valued the more mundane paths to influence and used her natural beauty and charm to make friends in high place. Claming her family's pharmaceutical holdings (her mother was original an outsider before wandering into the pocket dimension) only enhanced her wealth and status.

 

In general, the Black Lady is a ruthless opponent who delights in causing her foes great agony through the darkest of magic. Although a cunning planner with long term goals, she can find herself distracted by petty vengeance and will use her influence to drive a foe through a personal hell of financial ruin and slander. She takes what she can, destroys what stands before her, and manipulates allies through charm and sex for her own aims.

 

Good aligned magicians, including the Light Angel (ie Dark Seraph) are very worried given the extent of her evil and ruthlessness in addition to a deadly combination of incredible natural talent for magic and her stolen arcane secrets which seems to increase her power in leaps and bounds.

 

2. Nova: an alien whose peaceful race was annihilated by a war-like race of conquerors, she learned quickly that good and evil are irrelevant in the universe. Instead, only strength is important. Only the strong survive and all others weaker than her have no right to leave save to please her. Stranded on the backwater Earth, Nova is a raging engine of destruction who vents her rage against any who stand against her. As a result, Nova thinks nothing of killing for the slightest of insults and her body count is past 100.

 

The only person who can keep her in line is the Black Lady, the one who first defeated her on Earth. Recognizing this strength, Nova pledged her service to dark wizardress. This bond has been strengthened over the years through charm spells and a number of intimate encounters. She is the Black Lady's most loyal bodyguard and enforcer, a living weapon to use against others.

 

3. Star Knight becomes: Star Marauder: an ace pilot who was court-martialed for targeting civilians in order to make a bombing run, Ameiko was on her way to execution when a mysterious light filled her with the power of the Order of the Celestial Knights. Intended to be a force of good due to an innate talent for the power, she instead chose to break out of jail and slay the judges who had found her guilty.

 

For a while she used her powers to steal on a grand scale whatever struck her fancy and kill any who opposed her. Eventually, several Celestial Knights of the order of 11 were dispatched to bring in the woman only to be ambushed by the Black Lady and the rest of her Dark Lords. Together with Star Marauder, they slew the knights, leaving the Order so devastated that billions have died across the galaxy in the wake of evil left unopposed.

 

Star Marauder neither knows nor cares about any of this but instead concentrates on working with the Dark Lords to keep her bank account filled, her posh pent house stocked with the most expensive treats, and her bed kept warm by beautiful paramours.

 

4. Sentinel becomes the Ravager: an ex-Special Forces operative, Esteban Del Hoyo had a terrible cruel streak but also a talent for getting the job done no matter what he had to do or whom he needed to kill. Eventually though, his war crimes were discovered and he was sentenced to death. Saved from death row secretly by the CIA he would spend several years in the dirtiest and most dangerous places on Earth to kill whomever the US government wanted.

 

One day he picked the wrong target, a shadowy figure who seemed to wield

power over some key Senators. His assassination of the Black Lady was defeated but she offered the man the choice to work with her instead and his first assignment would be to help her kill the man's handlers. He accepted without a second thought.

 

The Ravager is a bitter man, someone who did his duty to his country only to be betrayed. The reality though is that he is also a complete sociopath who cared little for country but instead elected for any path that let him exercise brutal power over another. He is the Black Lady's tactical leader though he has designs for her throne. He will be patient and in the mean time ruthlessly trains the rest of the Black Lords to be as efficient as possible. In combat, he will often rig a battle field with explosives and set off one, killing innocents, just to show he's not bluffing.

 

Tyr: once a god of justice, Ragnorak perverted the being into a demon of sin. Clad in bloody armor and often seen with his once missing hand now whole but gloved and with a rotting stench emanating from it. He is the team's most powerful member and wildcard. Proud and arrogant, he is also their most difficult to control and it takes constant soothing by the Black Lady to keep the god in line. As long as he is provided with strong drink, beautiful women (willing or otherwise), battle, and justice to usurp he remains content. Few things give him greater joy than raiding a town for what he wants though his favored act is humiliating and maiming so-called champions of "justice." The head of Lord Brightsword (Dark Paladin) currently adorns the god's wall.

[Powerhouse]

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*ack*

 

Double post

[gewing]

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HMM, John Hawkshaw is the heir to a small but powerful country in a Fantasy world. (His dad never crossed over to the modern world) He is used to fighting undead, including the Bales...

 

 

 

Stalker in the other world was never reprogrammed by the Mind Master Complex, and he is a moderately well known martial arts movie star.

[Lord Mhoram]

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Blackcat - The alternate her is still a hero, but unlike her was never publiclly exonerated for the murder of the supervillian she killed while possessed by her powers; and never got the pardon for helping keep the rest of the inmates in Stronghold. So she has to work in the shadows, and not be a bright hero that is a shining example to the public.

 

Ballstic - still married to his ex-wife that this world version dumped years ago.

Alternately his fiance was not killed in the interplanetary invasion, and the superagency that he developed was not slaughtered in it either - so he has to live with the "perfect life" that he'd go back to missing when he got home. In play, when that happened, he had a small breakdown and fled to be a space superhero for about a year.

 

Meeb - dunno. "He"'s a pretty easygoing amoeba.

[Blue Jogger]

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We actually did this to one of our characters. The player couldn't show up one game, and we decided since the heroes had met with our counterparts the game before, that there was a mix up (he wasn't quite himself, you see) and went home with the WRONG guys while his doppleganger was RPed by the GM.

 

So the player shows up, the character woked up, and we all start RPing our OTHER characters.

 

 

 

The first change was minor, my character had an obviously irish accent (being fae) instead of an american accent. And could teleport.

 

All the characters had wealth and reputations for being rock stars as well as superheroes. There were a few more members on the team. The money and fame led them to become wealthy brats instead of upstanding superheroes. They still did jobs as superheroes but only if they got paid.

 

Which explained the heroes living in the Hall of Justice (instead of a minor tattoo place with a large extra-dimensional basement). They even had an expensive VTOL jet.

 

Of course the biggest change was THIS version of the superteam got their powers EARLIER and thus our poor traveler got the shock of his life when he saw in this dimension..... The twin towers never fell.

 

"Well... Duh, why do you think we're such well-known heroes."

 

(The player, BTW, loved it.)

[nexus]

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Velocity is a shy introverted teenager in her own world with a few close friends and limited social life. Her counterpart is a social powerhouse, the idol of her school, juggling serveral "boyfriends" at any given time and sitting the midde of a social web more complicated that most conspiriacy theories.

[Zed-F]

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In this alternate reality, Soulbarb has a public ID as one of the city's foremost defenders. However, her boyfriend Nocturne still operates in the shadows and has become even more bloodthirsty than she used to be. Since she's normally obsessive about keeping her existence a mystery, and since Nocturne's effectively her conscience in her own reality, this combination could be quite lethal for this reality's Soulbarb's reputation...