[OOC] University of Heroes

Dorin Thorha · 05-14-2010, 07:18 AM

Recruitment Closed (unless somebody wants to GM another thread of the world.)

Greetings! We have heard about you and believe you may be a good match for UoH

With your unique abilities, you are certain to be contacted by other Powers League colleges and the most prestigious schools in the planeverse.

But only University of Heroes offers you remarkable freedom to pursue your academic interests, and to work alongside alongside renowned faculty and other talented students on the cutting edge of heroism, all of this supported by the resources of a active heroics university.

At UoH, we take your success personally. We'll actively help you develop a plan and then we'll help you execute it -- whether that's immediate placement or development of superior powers.

In fact, 95% of recent UoH graduates found career-related opportunities within 3 weeks of graduation, many through school-supported field work!

At UoH, you will be in good company. Our graduates include guardians of major metropolitan areas, protagonists of epic sagas, and some of the most well-known martial artists in the nation.

And don't think your studies will be limited to just our legendary campus: We have exchange programs with many different planes and worlds.

I know you are the kind of driven student who can succeed at UoH. If you are interested, simply return the enclosed form and I'll send you our brochure 5 Things Every Successful Hero Knows About Choosing a Major.

Players:

Mongkut Klahan (Captain-Captain) Imbueing Martial Artist

Eri Sakamoto (ErhnamDJ) Naginata Master

Katrina (ladyarcana) Cat Girl

Sebastian (Totem) Invisible Crimefighter

Darwen (joppelknol) Stealthy Inflitrator

Lou (desorto) Ultra-Tech Force Swordswoman

This is an experiment in optimizing GURPS for PbP play. The game will consist of hopefully short, modular adventures such that the loss of players/GMs with so often plagues these games will be less of a problem. As a side effect, it will be possible for other GMs to run their own threads of the adventure if they wish to.

this game is over-the-top, anything goes. PCs will progress rapidly, and the UoH has training facilities that make it possible to acquire a wide variety of traits.

Campaign TL is TL7, but High TL and Low TL are certainly allowed traits.

Players are freshman students at UoH, built on 180/-50 points. Four majors are available:

Super:
Appears to be a normal human, at least to the casual observer, but has a block of points invested in one or more "super" powers. These powers are bought with a -10% discount.

Mad Skillz:

These characters have no exotic powers. They gain their awesomeness through extreme specialization, awesome gear, and high skill levels. Mad Skillz majors are allowed and encouraged to have specialized Talents, Techniques, and Gadgets.

Action Hero:

Action Heroes tend to be well-rounded, and often pack cinematic advantages. They are allowed to spend unused CP as Cinematic Points.

Exotica:

This is the Major for really weird chars. They are not humans at all, and their character is largely defined by their racial template. Mutants, robots, talking rabbits, etc. all go here. Exotica get no special bonuses, but they have the advantage of being able to use a racial template to bend and break the normal limits.

ErhnamDJ · 05-14-2010, 07:29 AM

I already have a master's in philosophy and a bachelors in fine arts. Will I still be able to find work within three weeks of graduating?

ladyarcana55 · 05-14-2010, 09:31 AM

I'd love to play! I have three character concepts, but I am not sure which to go with. I'll post them here a little later when I have more time.

ErhnamDJ · 05-14-2010, 09:40 AM

I think I want to play a Japanese-American woman whose superpowers revolve around her use of the naginata. I'll try and get something worked out today.

Where is the school located?

Dorin Thorha · 05-14-2010, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ErhnamDJ

I think I want to play a Japanese-American woman whose superpowers revolve around her use of the naginata. I'll try and get something worked out today.

Where is the school located?

The school is located in an unspecified region... The surroundings resemble a typical American university in the 1960s, if you ignore the anachronism stew and the fact that most of the faculty have various weird capabilities...

A few faculty members:

Auralia Lucientius, Dean of Admissions. Dresses like a ancient Roman, and rumored to have psychic powers... She has an uncanny ability to predict people's futures...

Trog: Coach of the school football team, "The Titans". 9 feet tall with green skin and webbed fingers.

Maria San, Professor of Winning By Skill: A dark haired, bright eyed, 5'4" woman. Doesn't look like much, but the last time a 13th century barbarian tank picked a fight with her they scraped him off the wall with a spatula.

Captain Awesome, Professor of Supernormal Humans: wears a purple and yellow bodysuit and a cape. Can fly, lift 100 times his own weight, and see through solid walls. Somewhat "best enemies" with Maria San.

joppeknol · 05-14-2010, 02:42 PM

Hi,

I'd like to join as well. I only have the basic set + magic. Is that ok?

I haven't thought of a character yet. I'll try to make up something tomorrow.

PS
Is magic allowed?

Captain-Captain · 05-14-2010, 02:43 PM

Name: Mongkut "Mongo" Klahan
Race: Human

Attributes [99]
ST 12 [20]
DX 13 [60]
IQ 10
HT 11 [10]

HP 12
Will 10
Per 10
FP 14 [9]

Basic Lift 29
Damage 1d-1/1d+2 (normal) 1d+1/2d+2 (imbued)

Basic Speed 6
Basic Move 6

Ground Move 6
Water Move 1

Social Background
TL: 7 [0]
Cultural Familiarities: Western [0]
Languages: English [0]

Advantages [100]
High Pain Threshold [10]
Imbue (3) (Chi) [36]
Imbuement Talent (1) [10]
Striking ST (4) (Accessibility (Only for Imbued Attacks) (+2); Chi) [14]
Trained By A Master [30]

Perks [3]
Power Grappling [1]
Special Exercises (Crushing with Limb) [1]
Style Familiarity (Bando - Kachin Bando) [1]

Disadvantages [-50]
Code of Honor (Comics Code) [-15]
Honesty (12 or less) [-10]
Miserliness (12 or less) [-10]
Overconfidence (12 or less) [-5]
Secret Identity (Utter Rejection) [-10]

Quirks [-5]
Attentive [-1]
Distinctive Feature [-1]
Humble [-1]
Nervous Stomach [-1]
Nosy [-1]

Packages [0]
Bando - Kachin Bando (Martial Arts) [0]

Skills [33]
Aggressive Parry (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0]
Arching Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Area Knowledge (local) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1]
Arm Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 14 [0]
Bank Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Burning Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Chilling Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Choke Hold (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0]
Current Affairs/TL7 (local region) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1]
Driving/TL7 (Automobile) DX/A - DX-1 12 [1]
Elbow Strike (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 11 [0]
Eye-Rake (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0]
Far Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Guns (SMG) DX/E - DX+0 13 [1]
Hammer Fist (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0]
Head Butt (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 12 [0]
Jam (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0]
Karate DX/H - DX+0 13 [4]
Kicking (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0]
Knee Strike (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0]
Leg Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 14 [0]
Low Fighting (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0]
Lower-Body Arm Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0]
Lower-Body Leg Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0]
Penetrating Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Power Blow Will/H - Will-2 8 [1]
Push Kick (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 10 [0]
Roll with Blow (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 12 [0]
Shattershot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Stupefying Blow (Karate) DX/VH - DX+0 13 [4]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Throwing DX/A - DX+1 14 [4]
Timed Defense (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0]
Triangle Choke (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 9 [0]
Vampiric Weapon (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1]
includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent'
Wrestling DX/A - DX+1 14 [4]

Stats [99] Ads [100] Disads [-50] Quirks [-5] Skills [33] = Total [180]

Hand Weapons

Ranged Weapons

Armor & Possessions

The US, after driving the Japanese out of Burma was a big influence on the reestablished nation. One of the lesser known people providing that influence was an intelligence officer for what would become the CIA, Paul Headley. Headley and his wife, Constance were living in Rangoon. Headley had been carrying on a couple of affairs with local women and Constance retaliated with the personal bodyguard he kept a Burmese guerrilla fighter of Thai ancestry named Suchart Klahan.

Society in the mid forties were far more tolerant of men who cheat than women who cheat and her 'retaliation' ws likely to backfire. it did, spectacularly. Headly caught the two in bed and managed to get himself thoroughly beaten up by Klahan. Local scandal, Klahan was briefly jailed.

But Constance was pregnant with his child. Giving birth to a mixed race child in 1948 was not good for either parent or the baby boy. Simple comparisons of her date of divorce and the baby's date of Birth told the story to anyone bothering to look. And the date of her wedding to Klahan was falsified by a year and that technically had her a bigamist married to two men simultaneously.

Constance remaining in Rangoon brought the scandal back to Paul, however, so he had friends arrange to have her, he new husband and her brat return/immigrate to the US. As a 'half-breed', little Mongkut didn't get a very good education. he didn't lack intelligence, but he was encouraged to wards a career as a day laborer in school. His father had hooked up up with a private investigations firm even managed to get a license after a few years and worked as a bodyguard.

Suchart kept his son studying the martial arts rather than hang out in the streets like common riff raff. And Suchart had contacts with Sifus and Gurus and hired some of them to teach his child more advanced forms of martial artistry.

Mongkut is a little older than most of the students, but somewhat lagging in basic educational fundamentals because of institutional bigotry in the Public Schools.

Katelyn · 05-14-2010, 02:47 PM

So would it be possible for us to play faculty members? HMmmmmm?

Dorin Thorha · 05-14-2010, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joppeknol

Hi,

I'd like to join as well. I only have the basic set + magic. Is that ok?

I haven't thought of a character yet. I'll try to make up something tomorrow.

PS
Is magic allowed?

All you need is GURPS Lite, though familiarity with the other books helps.

I don't have Magic, but if you really want it you could. A lot of possible adventures are going to be low or no mana though.

Dorin Thorha · 05-14-2010, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katelyn

So would it be possible for us to play faculty members? HMmmmmm?

I'm afraid I can't let you get away with that, unless you want to be an assist GM and run a adventure of your own...

05-14-2010, 07:18 AM	#1
Dorin Thorha Join Date: Oct 2009	[OOC] University of Heroes Recruitment Closed (unless somebody wants to GM another thread of the world.) Greetings! We have heard about you and believe you may be a good match for UoH With your unique abilities, you are certain to be contacted by other Powers League colleges and the most prestigious schools in the planeverse. But only University of Heroes offers you remarkable freedom to pursue your academic interests, and to work alongside alongside renowned faculty and other talented students on the cutting edge of heroism, all of this supported by the resources of a active heroics university. At UoH, we take your success personally. We'll actively help you develop a plan and then we'll help you execute it -- whether that's immediate placement or development of superior powers. In fact, 95% of recent UoH graduates found career-related opportunities within 3 weeks of graduation, many through school-supported field work! At UoH, you will be in good company. Our graduates include guardians of major metropolitan areas, protagonists of epic sagas, and some of the most well-known martial artists in the nation. And don't think your studies will be limited to just our legendary campus: We have exchange programs with many different planes and worlds. I know you are the kind of driven student who can succeed at UoH. If you are interested, simply return the enclosed form and I'll send you our brochure 5 Things Every Successful Hero Knows About Choosing a Major. Players: Mongkut Klahan (Captain-Captain) Imbueing Martial Artist Eri Sakamoto (ErhnamDJ) Naginata Master Katrina (ladyarcana) Cat Girl Sebastian (Totem) Invisible Crimefighter Darwen (joppelknol) Stealthy Inflitrator Lou (desorto) Ultra-Tech Force Swordswoman This is an experiment in optimizing GURPS for PbP play. The game will consist of hopefully short, modular adventures such that the loss of players/GMs with so often plagues these games will be less of a problem. As a side effect, it will be possible for other GMs to run their own threads of the adventure if they wish to. this game is over-the-top, anything goes. PCs will progress rapidly, and the UoH has training facilities that make it possible to acquire a wide variety of traits. Campaign TL is TL7, but High TL and Low TL are certainly allowed traits. Players are freshman students at UoH, built on 180/-50 points. Four majors are available: Super: Appears to be a normal human, at least to the casual observer, but has a block of points invested in one or more "super" powers. These powers are bought with a -10% discount. Mad Skillz: These characters have no exotic powers. They gain their awesomeness through extreme specialization, awesome gear, and high skill levels. Mad Skillz majors are allowed and encouraged to have specialized Talents, Techniques, and Gadgets. Action Hero: Action Heroes tend to be well-rounded, and often pack cinematic advantages. They are allowed to spend unused CP as Cinematic Points. Exotica: This is the Major for really weird chars. They are not humans at all, and their character is largely defined by their racial template. Mutants, robots, talking rabbits, etc. all go here. Exotica get no special bonuses, but they have the advantage of being able to use a racial template to bend and break the normal limits. __________________ <>< Last edited by Dorin Thorha; 11-29-2010 at 06:58 AM.

05-14-2010, 07:29 AM	#2
ErhnamDJ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: OK	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes I already have a master's in philosophy and a bachelors in fine arts. Will I still be able to find work within three weeks of graduating?

05-14-2010, 09:31 AM	#3
ladyarcana55 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bellflower, CA	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes I'd love to play! I have three character concepts, but I am not sure which to go with. I'll post them here a little later when I have more time.

05-14-2010, 09:40 AM	#4
ErhnamDJ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: OK	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes I think I want to play a Japanese-American woman whose superpowers revolve around her use of the naginata. I'll try and get something worked out today. Where is the school located?

05-14-2010, 02:42 PM	#6
joppeknol Join Date: Dec 2009	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes Hi, I'd like to join as well. I only have the basic set + magic. Is that ok? I haven't thought of a character yet. I'll try to make up something tomorrow. PS Is magic allowed?

05-14-2010, 02:43 PM	#7
Captain-Captain Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes Name: Mongkut "Mongo" Klahan Race: Human Attributes [99] ST 12 [20] DX 13 [60] IQ 10 HT 11 [10] HP 12 Will 10 Per 10 FP 14 [9] Basic Lift 29 Damage 1d-1/1d+2 (normal) 1d+1/2d+2 (imbued) Basic Speed 6 Basic Move 6 Ground Move 6 Water Move 1 Social Background TL: 7 [0] Cultural Familiarities: Western [0] Languages: English [0] Advantages [100] High Pain Threshold [10] Imbue (3) (Chi) [36] Imbuement Talent (1) [10] Striking ST (4) (Accessibility (Only for Imbued Attacks) (+2); Chi) [14] Trained By A Master [30] Perks [3] Power Grappling [1] Special Exercises (Crushing with Limb) [1] Style Familiarity (Bando - Kachin Bando) [1] Disadvantages [-50] Code of Honor (Comics Code) [-15] Honesty (12 or less) [-10] Miserliness (12 or less) [-10] Overconfidence (12 or less) [-5] Secret Identity (Utter Rejection) [-10] Quirks [-5] Attentive [-1] Distinctive Feature [-1] Humble [-1] Nervous Stomach [-1] Nosy [-1] Packages [0] Bando - Kachin Bando (Martial Arts) [0] Skills [33] Aggressive Parry (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0] Arching Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Area Knowledge (local) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1] Arm Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 14 [0] Bank Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Burning Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Chilling Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Choke Hold (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0] Current Affairs/TL7 (local region) IQ/E - IQ+0 10 [1] Driving/TL7 (Automobile) DX/A - DX-1 12 [1] Elbow Strike (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 11 [0] Eye-Rake (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0] Far Shot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Guns (SMG) DX/E - DX+0 13 [1] Hammer Fist (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0] Head Butt (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 12 [0] Jam (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0] Karate DX/H - DX+0 13 [4] Kicking (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0] Knee Strike (Karate) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0] Leg Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 14 [0] Low Fighting (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 11 [0] Lower-Body Arm Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0] Lower-Body Leg Lock (Wrestling) Tech/A - def+0 12 [0] Penetrating Strike (Karate) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Power Blow Will/H - Will-2 8 [1] Push Kick (Karate) Tech/H - def+0 10 [0] Roll with Blow (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 12 [0] Shattershot (Throwing) DX/VH - DX-1 12 [2] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Stupefying Blow (Karate) DX/VH - DX+0 13 [4] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Throwing DX/A - DX+1 14 [4] Timed Defense (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 8 [0] Triangle Choke (Wrestling) Tech/H - def+0 9 [0] Vampiric Weapon (Karate) DX/VH - DX-2 11 [1] includes: +1 from 'Imbuement Talent' Wrestling DX/A - DX+1 14 [4] Stats [99] Ads [100] Disads [-50] Quirks [-5] Skills [33] = Total [180] Hand Weapons Ranged Weapons Armor & Possessions The US, after driving the Japanese out of Burma was a big influence on the reestablished nation. One of the lesser known people providing that influence was an intelligence officer for what would become the CIA, Paul Headley. Headley and his wife, Constance were living in Rangoon. Headley had been carrying on a couple of affairs with local women and Constance retaliated with the personal bodyguard he kept a Burmese guerrilla fighter of Thai ancestry named Suchart Klahan. Society in the mid forties were far more tolerant of men who cheat than women who cheat and her 'retaliation' ws likely to backfire. it did, spectacularly. Headly caught the two in bed and managed to get himself thoroughly beaten up by Klahan. Local scandal, Klahan was briefly jailed. But Constance was pregnant with his child. Giving birth to a mixed race child in 1948 was not good for either parent or the baby boy. Simple comparisons of her date of divorce and the baby's date of Birth told the story to anyone bothering to look. And the date of her wedding to Klahan was falsified by a year and that technically had her a bigamist married to two men simultaneously. Constance remaining in Rangoon brought the scandal back to Paul, however, so he had friends arrange to have her, he new husband and her brat return/immigrate to the US. As a 'half-breed', little Mongkut didn't get a very good education. he didn't lack intelligence, but he was encouraged to wards a career as a day laborer in school. His father had hooked up up with a private investigations firm even managed to get a license after a few years and worked as a bodyguard. Suchart kept his son studying the martial arts rather than hang out in the streets like common riff raff. And Suchart had contacts with Sifus and Gurus and hired some of them to teach his child more advanced forms of martial artistry. Mongkut is a little older than most of the students, but somewhat lagging in basic educational fundamentals because of institutional bigotry in the Public Schools. __________________ ...().0...0() .../..........\ -/......O.....\- ...VVVVVVV ..^^^^^^^ A clock running two hours slow has the correct time zero times a day. Last edited by Captain-Captain; 05-17-2010 at 09:48 PM. Reason: TL fixed Background added, skill swap nickname & both sets of basic damages listed

05-14-2010, 02:47 PM	#8
Katelyn Join Date: May 2010	Re: [OOC] University of Heroes So would it be possible for us to play faculty members? HMmmmmm? Last edited by Katelyn; 05-14-2010 at 02:56 PM.