[HIATUS] Make Mine Multiverse (Marvel Universe[s] Quest, CKII-ish)

It's the eight iteration of the multiverse, and things aren't doing so well. It's varied protectors are scattered and unfocused, unable to see the cracks in its reformation as it threatens to fall apart like a house of cards. The Exiles, on the run. The Spider Totem, preparing for battle against the Inheritors yet again. The Captain Britain Corps, rebuilding. The Time Variance Authority, fallen to its own inertia.

Because of this, the Living Tribunal, reconstituted after being destroyed by the corrupted entity Logos, has set a charge for you, a lost soul left adrift after destruction and reconstruction of entire universes. You will organize various teams of champions to interfere when necessary, to do anything from defeat an alien invasion, kill an innocent, or give comfort in a time of need.

But who are you?

[X] Watcher - You disagreed with your peers, finding the manipulation of "lesser" beings to ensure there would still be something to watch while forsaking responsibility repugnant. During the collapse of the reality you were observing, you faked your own death, casting aside the name you no longer used as penance for the guilt of not saving those in need yourself. But now you have been given a chance to redeem yourself, and save the multiverse before it's too late.

[X] Chronomonitor - The timeline you were supposed to monitor was destroyed. Ordinarily, you would have been destroyed, but this didn't happen somehow, so the higher ups of the TVA decided to cut their losses and lay you off. As an entity that has only been able to comprehend quantum bureaucracy, your newfound freedom terrifies you. So you may as well take this new job and get some direction. Granted, you've never interacted with an actual human being before, but how hard could it be?

[X] Morph - Hey, you're finally back! The one and only MORPH! (Ignore the infinite versions of Morph throughout the multiverse - no, omniver - no, it's multiverse). You've been gone for a while, but you've got a ton of experience at the whole saving the multiverse thing - you've even played Timebroker before, so why not try it again? Transform into your finest tux, put on your most charming smile, and tell the multiverse to get ready, because heeeeeere's Morph! (And don't listen to the voices in your head saying you're someone called "Proteus", what do they know?)

[X] Galactus - It was once decreed that Galactus would never starve. However, there came a time when mighty Galactus found pause after a great and terrible battle destroyed all the planets within close range save for your herald Nova's homeworld. You listened to her pleading and allowed her to try to find another world for you to consume, only to be attacked when at your weakest by a fleet of races whose planets you've consumed. You could have stopped them from firing the Ultimate Nullifier if you were at full power, but you could only escape from that dimension before it was destroyed. You will not allow yourself to be blinded to

[X] Write-In (Subject to GM approval)

This is a 'Crusader Kings'-ish style quest. You play as an organization in the Marvel Multiverse (one that includes various alternate universes, including ones in the comics, adaptations like the MCU and cartoons, and various original stuff), starting out as one team and their coordinator, but could expand to potentially dozens of specialized teams.

Each turn you will choose a mission for your team based on their skills and their team cohesion, during which they shall operate mostly independently to achieve their objective. They will then go through various challenges and shall use their individual skills according to five categories: Martial, Diplomacy, Stewardship, Intrigue, and Learning. Each action is associated with a DC; after voting, the basic system is that I will roll a d60 for each action, and if the roll at least equals the DC, the action succeeds to some extent; otherwise it fails. The higher the roll, the better. The lower the roll, the worse.

As they complete missions successfully, you will achieve "points", which you can use to improve your base, gain new personnel, and create new teams to achieve more points. When you have gained enough points, you will start voting on personal projects based on the five categories, and make your name in the multiverse known. You may also have arcs dealing with some crisis you will have to take care of personally.

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Heroes (some of which might be better described as Villains, but whatever) are particularly prominent people in your organization. Recruiting requires ASSets

Each Hero has a value in each of the five statistics, hard-capped at 53:

0-10 Human

10-20 Heroic

20-30 Planetary

30-40 Galactic

40-50 Cosmic

When rolling for an action, most bonuses decrease the DC. Hero bonuses are the only bonuses that actually improve the roll. Specifically, the hero's value for a certain stat is added onto the d60 roll. This may sometimes cause the roll to exceed 60; in this case only (a roll of 61+), the d60 explodes, i.e. you get a re-roll to add to your current total. The same hero bonuses also affect this roll, so that you can get a prolonged chain of hero bonuses.

Teams will also have a morale score. High morale signifies good teamwork, positive relations between members, upbeat attitudes, and respect for you. Low morale signifies the opposite of all that. Morale is lowered through clashing personalities and arguments, unsuccessful missions (especially with death of teammates), overwork, and being disrespected by you, and is raised by conflict resolution, successful missions, relaxation, and being treated with respect.

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Team 1 (Name TBD):

Okay, now you'll be selecting your first team. You can choose any six of the following fifteenn characters, who each have a little mini-profile so you can how well they'll be doing as a team (I'll write full character sheets with stats and power details for the winners). Vote for six members as part of your team, and the six that get the most votes will form your team. For now, try to select a diverse team that has no specialty but can thrive in any situation. After this, we'll have an intro and we'll select our first mission.

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[X] Steve Rogers/Joe Fixit
-When Steve Rogers was a child, he had an imaginary friend based on gangster movies, exaggerated in the way only a child can. When he volunteered to be exposed to gamma rays for the governments' Super Soldier experiment, this forgotten childhood friend became real, transforming into him when he gets angry. The two are often at odds as Rogers is idealistic and Fixit is mercenary, but they've learned to live with each other as they fight the Axis powers.


[X] Venom-Thing
-Years ago, Spider-Man, the Lizard, and Venom battled against one another in the Florida Everglades. The Lizard managed to bite a weakened Venom with, ironically, a venomous bite that cause the symbiote to reject Eddie Brock, allowing the Lizard to finish him off. However, the symbiote escaped and eventually found a new host, the Man-Thing. Since the Man-Thing had no mind, the symbiote managed to completely take control, choosing to remain in the Everglades after discovering Spider-Man died in a disaster that killed most of humanity.


[X] Captain America
-In the future, humans and mutants would finally make lasting peace between the two races, allowing technology to expand to unimaginable heights. However, none realized that the artificial intelligences created became self aware until the machines began to protest their conditions, leading to battles and bigotry on both sides. To lead a new revolution, the machines created a leader based on the most inspiring individual in the historical records, the super hero Captain America, as a symbol of freedom. However, the newly minted Captain fears that it will not be able to create peace between the biological and the mechanical.


[X] Elektra Natchios
-As a college student, Elektra and her father, a Greek Ambassador, were held hostage by terrorists, only for Elektra and her boyfriend Matt Murdock to battle them. However, during the confusion, a police officer fired into the fray and accidentally killed Matt. Heartbroken but inspired by Matt's sacrifice, Elektra would join the international peacekeeping agency SHIELD, and become of if its premier members. However, she is cynical of authority, and wrestles with various complications and trauma, which seriously strains her relationships with friends and family.


[X] W0lv3r1N3
-Larry Trask was a boy genius, whose favorite superhero was the mutant Wolverine. When Wolverine and all the other X-Men were killed by the Sentinels during their worldwide takeover, Larry built his own robotic self-repairing Wolverine, and ordered him to find the maker of the Sentinels and kill them. Tragically, this turned out to be Larry's own father, the business mogul and genius Bolivar Trask. In his grief, Larry told Wolverine to go away and forget about him, leading to Wolverine to wipe his memories, wandering the post-Sentinel wasteland with the mind of a child imitating their favorite superhero.


[X] Doom 2099
-In the year 2099, a man believing himself to be the original Victor Von Doom challenged the megacorporations that took over his home country Latveria, only to be soundly defeated. Using the technology of the new era along with his own brilliance, Doom set out to reclaim his country through war. After many battles, he has recently succeeded and defeated the corrupt Tyger Wylde, turning his attention to trying to discover how he came to this new era, as well as succeed in his original goal of world domination.


[X] Doctor Octopus
-When Otto Octavius was denied funding for mechanical arms, his research was scrapped and his isotopes dumped into the ocean. As time passed, fish began to mutate, leading to one Octopus in particular to gain unbelievable intelligence. Calling itself Dr. Octopus, it led a new civilization made of mutated sea creatures until they were attacked and killed by the Atlanteans, having mistaken the fish people for a long dead race they warred with millennia ago. Dr. Octopus swore revenge, hiring himself out to humans both heroic and villainous to build great and terrible devices so that he may one day kill the ones who killed his people.


[X] Iron Man
-When WWII broke out, Howard Stark was the greatest mind the Allies had to offer. This led to him being seriously wounded and kidnapped by the Nazis, forced to build weapons for them. However, Howard managed to build a suit of armor that let him escape and become the hero Iron Man. After winning the war, Howard put aside the suit and focused on his business for two decades, until his son was killed while touring Viet Nam. Reclaiming his suit, Howard masks his grief by leading the superheroes of his era.


[X] Sister Grimm
-After defeating their parents and saving the world, Nico Minoru and the rest of the Pride's children were separated into foster homes until being reunited by the time travelling Iron Lad, the young Kang the Conqueror, helping equip them to become the Young Avengers. However, the timeline was nearly torn asunder when Kang himself appeared to stop his young counterpart. While the Young Avengers were victorious, Iron Lad had to be sent back to the future with his memories erased to keep the timeline preserved. Nico retook the mantle of leader and the Young Avengers protect L.A. even now.


[X] Scott Summers
-Operating out of their hometown of Bayville, Scott Summers (vocals), Kurt Wagner (drums), "Rogue" (bass), Jean Grey (Lead guitar) and Pietro Maximoff (guitair) were a garage band called X-Men rEvolution. Writing songs about their shared experiences as mutants, they suddenly rose in popularity, eventually gaining nationwide success and even having to battle against pro-human bigots that attacked them. However, that all came crashing down when Rogue committed suicide after years of dealing with her depression. After that, Kurt joined the missionary, Jean checked into rehab after nearly dying from an overdose, and Pietro simply ran, leaving Scott alone and directionless in spite of being the most popular and wealthy mutant in the country.

[X] Thor
-During her first battle with the Avengers, young Rogue absorbed the thunder god Thor's entire being. In her confusion, she fell under the manipulations of the god of mischief Loki in his efforts to conquer Asgard. However, just before she killed the grieving Odin, she refused, allowing her to make contact with Thor on the astral plane, who encouraged her to take the mantle of Thor, saying the fact that she could hold Mjolnir proved that she was far more worthy than she realized. She has since accepted her role as protector of Asgard and Midgard, and found the acceptance she always desired as Odin's adopted daughter.

[X] Chokehold
-Super villains' personal lives don't get as much media attention as their heroic counterparts, but they get married and have children like anyone else. So it would come as no surprise that Titania and the Absorbing Man would give birth to little Trudy Creel. Now Trudy has grown into a very headstrong teenager, she has decided to use her inherited powers to try to become a super villain herself, much to her parents chagrin.

[X] Hawkeye
-The sociopathic assassin Bullseye has never been a hero. That hasn't changed even as Hawkeye. After Norman Osborn's absurd rise in power, he was selected through the Thunderbolts Initiative as part of Osborn's own darker Avengers, selected as the new Hawkeye since it fit with his own inability to miss anything. Since then, Osborn managed to secure his powerbase by his team "accidentally" killing the original Avengers, with "Hawkeye" himself killing Clint Barton.

[X] Emma Frost
-When young Emma Frost's telepathy awakened, she became hyperaware to the meddling of her toxic family. Eventually, she managed to blackmail her father and left to make her own way. She soon became part of a band of hippies travelling the countryside in their VW bus. However, tragedy struck when she had a horrifying experience with LSD, accidentally killing her friends through her telepathy, surviving herself only because her secondary mutation activated out of survival. She has since continued her journey in the stead of her companions, helping those in need as she struggles to become clean.

[X] Widowmaker
-Nikolai Romanov was a spy for SHIELD, a product of Russia's infamous Red Room, often teamed with fellow agent Clara "Hawkeye" Barton, most notably Budapest. Nikolai has grown from being just a spy when the goddess Loki stole a SHIELD tesseract, brainwashing many SHIELD agents including Clara. Nikolai joined with several women with fantastic powers discovered through the Avengers Initiative to free Clara and defeat Loki and her alien allies, choosing to stay together as a team of Avengers.