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Thought I had found out how you all post your characters without using attachments. Sorry if that's not the case.

I used the attachments function, then I copy the URL and then paste it into the Insert Images mask. Then remove attachment. That wrong?

 

Anyway here are the Strawhat Pirates Luffy, Zoro, Sanji.

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He was an Olympic-level downhill skier—rich, handsome, glamorous, and ridiculously talented. He seemed to have everything going for him, until that night when he discovered that the lady du jour was actually a demon bent on consuming his body and soul. He was rescued by Brün, the powerful (and occasionally insane) demigodess best known as one of the Five Pentarchs. He was exposed to raw octarine (the color of magic) and gained exceptional speed and agility, the ability to fly, and control over ice and cold. His life and outlook forever changed, he went on to become one of the Pentarchy's most effective operatives:

 

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Desperado!

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The five Pentarchs? Could you explain that please?

 

The Pentarchs are five beings of extraordinary power who observe and direct the progress or many worlds across the multiverse. Of these, only Brün (the one who recruited Desperado) has been seen in this reality. She speaks occasionally of the others, but has never named any of them. If they even have names.

 

The history of the Pentarchs is veiled in mystery. Are they cosmic guardians? Renegade elder gods? Ascended archmages? Mad angels? Or something even more unlikely and incomprehensible? Their origins are known only to themselves.

 

The same is true of the Pentarchs' goals and agenda. Their organization and its operatives, collectively known as the Pentarchy, performs missions as simple as rescuing an important person from a premature death and as complex as overthrowing governments to make way for more enlightened ones. The Pentarchs are patient planners; they may take an action today that is calculated to produce the conditions necessary for a more important event a millennium in the future.

 

Analysis of their agents' missions would seem to suggest that they work toward a more stable world/universe/reality, though the motivations of the Pentarchs are undoubtedly more complex than that. The short-term effects of Pentarchy operations may include an increase in chaos and destruction, even for decades or centuries, if the changes those operations bring about ultimately serves the Pentarchs' purposes.

 

One important fact must be remembered concerning Brün (and by her own admission, the rest of the Pentarchs): they are not kind, they are not gentle, and they are not always sane. Whether this is an effect of their awesome power or a common personality trait is not known. They do not share the traditional views of 'Good' and 'Evil' held by most lesser beings; their morality is a very pragmatic one. That which leads the multiverse to a state that is more in harmony with the Pentarchs' goals is 'Good'.

 

Still, those few who know them will generally say that the Pentarchs are benevolent (or at least benign), even if they are occasionally insane.

 

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If you want more details than that, you'll have to ask Lord Mhoram's wife. They're from her campaign. :)

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If you want more details than that, you'll have to ask Lord Mhoram's wife. They're from her campaign. :)

 

Good summation. The Pentarchy is who Black Cat's works for these days (after a couple of years in the Byzantium special forces, working for the ruler of Byzantium, Owen (this is an inter-dimensional nexus Byzantium).

 

The Pentarchs were the last 5 survivors of an inter-dimesional war - those 5 dimensions collapsed into raw chaos, and the power of that chaos is what the Pentarchs control - so they are at odds with themselves; wanting order and are being of chaos. Sometimes the stress gets too much for them, which is when they take time off to be crazy.

 

The goal of the Pentarchy is to make sure nothing like that ever happens again, so they appointed themselves (as no one else was doing it) the guardians of interdimensional contact. They make sure no other interdim wars get started... at least none that will destroy the dimensions or weaken dimensional barriers. Part of the reason they don't deal with Vahn or the Congeries - they may be conquerers but in that campaign world, they keep things stable.

 

They can't get involved in every single war, just the ones that threaten to tear the inter dimensional fabric apart. They really don't care for Cthulu and his crowd.

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Good summation. The Pentarchy is who Black Cat's works for these days (after a couple of years in the Byzantium special forces' date=' working for the ruler of Byzantium, Owen (this is an inter-dimensional nexus Byzantium).[/quote']

 

Byzantium, as I pictured it, has always sat at an interdimensional nexus. All the significant dimentions are easily accessible from Byzantium, and most of the others are only one or two additional hops away. And then there's the Bistro. (The Nexus Bistro appears in various places in the different dimensions (as well as in Byzantium) at the most unusual times--seemingly at random, but always at times that are beneficial to the residents of wherever/whenever it shows up. Mathematicians at the University of Byzantium have been trying to construct a mathematical model of the Bistro's behavior for the past 300 solar years.)

 

The Pentarchs were the last 5 survivors of an inter-dimesional war - those 5 dimensions collapsed into raw chaos, and the power of that chaos is what the Pentarchs control - so they are at odds with themselves; wanting order and are being of chaos. Sometimes the stress gets too much for them, which is when they take time off to be crazy.

 

The goal of the Pentarchy is to make sure nothing like that ever happens again, so they appointed themselves (as no one else was doing it) the guardians of interdimensional contact. They make sure no other interdim wars get started... at least none that will destroy the dimensions or weaken dimensional barriers. Part of the reason they don't deal with Vahn or the Congeries - they may be conquerers but in that campaign world, they keep things stable.

 

They can't get involved in every single war, just the ones that threaten to tear the inter dimensional fabric apart. They really don't care for Cthulu and his crowd.

 

I did not know that. Thanks!

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And now for a little alternate history:

 

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and critically wounded, but survived. When the would-be assassin was revealed to be a communist sympathizer, the Red Scare of the 50's returned to the United States with a vengeance. All the old paranoia returned, matched only by the outcry that something be done to make the country safer. In the midst of this political climate, President Kennedy, now confined to a wheelchair by his injuries, oversaw the transformation of the nation into the single dominant political and military power in the world.

 

Fueled by outrage in the international community and unprecedented sympathy back home, Kennedy began America's War of Liberation against Communism. Under American military and technical leadership, the New Allied Nations drove the Communists from power in North Korea, North Vietnam, and most of the Warsaw Pact nations. Chairman Mao was forced to abdicate in China, and Chiang Kai-shek was installed as President in a pro-American government. Finally, in 1979, the Soviet Union collapsed and fractured into more than a dozen individual nations, all of them desperately seeking alliances with America.

 

Enjoying unparalleled prestige and popularity, Kennedy had also moved to consolidate his power base back home. The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution overturned the Twenty-second Amendment in 1967, allowing President Kennedy to run for President in '68 and again in '72. He won both elections easily. By 1976 his newly-formed American Freedom Party had supplanted both the Republicans and the Democrats, and by 1984 he was making his quadrennial run for the Presidency effectively unopposed. In 1992, before cheering crowds, he declared himself President for Life.

 

Since then, the American Freedom Party has ruled politics in the United States with the proverbial iron fist. The government-sponsored press, the nationalized economy, and the largest military in world history are all answerable directly to President Kennedy. Crime is virtually nonexistent in the United States, as convicted criminals are shipped to prisons overseas and never seen in America again. Unemployment is unheard of; those without jobs are put to work building roads, bridges, power stations, and other projects essential to the nation's infrastructure. Those who will not work are deported.

 

In 2002, the American Union replaced the outdated United Nations as the world's premiere international organization. Those nations allied with the United States enjoy peace and prosperity. Those that aren't are crushed and left to fend for themselves.

 

Now well into his nineties, American President for Life John F. Kennedy effectively rules the world. Everyone in America is happy with the state of things—or if they're not happy, they don't say anything.

 

Late in 2006, a young and idealistic American history student named Marcus Norlander came to a startling conclusion: His country was no longer what he had always been taught that it was. It was not the country that had freed the world from the specter of Communism. It was the country that had supplanted Communism and taken over the world under the leadership of a despot. The Pax Americana was a lie.

 

That's when the 'accident' occurred. Marcus probably should have been killed in the explosion, but instead he gained superhuman powers: vast strength and resistance to injury, super-speed flight, and the ability to project blasts of pure force with devastating effect. Working with a small group of like-minded renegade heroes, he seeks to restore America to what it once was—and what it should be. Taking his code name from an American heavy bomber from World War II, Marcus now fights for the salvation and restoration of America as ...

 

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The Liberator!

 

Quote: "In the 1940's, America helped liberate the world from tyranny. Now, in the twenty-first century, it's time to liberate America!"

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