The Police of Brockton Bay (Worm)

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Even in a world dominated by the activities of capes there are still brave men and women serving...
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Pittsburgh PA
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Even in a world dominated by the activities of capes there are still brave men and women serving as officers of the law. In the city of Brockton Bay the police stand alongside the Protectorate and the Parahuman Response Team in the fight against crime and villainy.

Who are you?
[] Name
[] Gender
[] Race
[] Age

Background
[] The new recruit
You are only beginning your career as a police officer. Armed with a new bachelor's degree in criminal justice and fresh from the police academy you've just been hired by the BBPD.

[] From the beat to detective
This place might be a hellhole but it's your home and you've already spent more than a few years working on making it better. Now that you've made detective you've got a more active role in the place.
[] The old lateral
While you may be new to Brockton Bay this isn't your first time around a police department. You've spent so many years on the force its become the only thing you've ever done.

Traits (pick two)
[] Gunslinger
+ Good with guns
- Too quick to shoot
[] Brawny
+ Strong
± Intimidating
[] By the book
+ Incorruptible and honest
± The Fettered
[] Ambitious
+ Driven and hard working
- Demands respect
[] Conspiracy theorist
+ Wide breadth of knowledge
- Distrust of Federal Organizations/Capes
[] People Person
+Empathetic and approachable
- Losing people hurts
[] Cowboy Cop
+ Works around the rules
- More trouble than worth

A/N
This is going to be a fairly system light quest, with only a few dice rolls and some time keeping.
For character generation voting will be by plan.
 

[X] Plan the Conspiracy Investigator

[] From the beat to detective
This place might be a hellhole but it's your home and you've already spent more than a few years working on making it better. Now that you've made detective you've got a more active role in the place.

Traits (pick two)
[] Conspiracy theorist
+ Wide breadth of knowledge
- Distrust of Federal Organizations/Capes

[] Cowboy Cop
+ Works around the rules
- More trouble than worth


In a world with Cauldorn and Coil, where conspiracies are around every corner, seeking then out will be pretty interesting.

Also think about the possibilities if we get assigned to the Hebert case, a coverup ripe for the investigating.
 
[X] Plan the Conspiracy Investigator

Time to channel our inner-Mulder!
 
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Ofc course SV jumps right on the distrusting authorities perk. Lets do something that has a few more....homegrown plot threads to work with. Cauldron is probably out of the scope of a detective nee beat cop anyway.

[X] Plan Imperial Entanglements

[X][Name] Morgan "Kingfisher" Herren
[X][Background] From the beat to detective
This place might be a hellhole but it's your home and you've already spent more than a few years working on making it better. Now that you've made detective you've got a more active role in the place.
[X][Traits] Ambitious
+ Driven and hard working
- Demands respect
[X][Traits] Cowboy Cop
+ Works around the rules
- More trouble than worth

It took years of backbreaking work; stakeouts where your veins were pumping more coffee than blood, endless nights haunting the precinct, but you're finally here. While the shiny new badge is nice, the Archer St bust should be proof enough that you were already a detective in all but name.

Sure it may not have been 100% above the board, it's not like the CI forms have a checkbox for "overheard some skinheads talking at the latest family picnic," but the half dozen criminals (and the drugs they were cutting with who knows what) are off the street for good now. And doesn't that speak for itself?

It's not like you believe in any of that bullshit that they spout anyway. Sure you might not give it your all when going after people you grew up with, but there's plenty of other gangbangers under Kaiser's aegis that you wouldn't even think twice about locking up and throwing away the keys. Hookwolf's rabid dogs, for instance. Hell, just a few months ago you put down one of them who didn't realize that the streets are not, in fact, the same thing as a fight ring.

And besides, it's not like you're trumping up charges against minorities. All the collars your informants have fed you were legitimate instances of illegal activity. You made sure to double check. Most of the time you even made sure to come up with some (other) probable cause to 'investigate' them under. And again, you've also arrested plenty of white people too. Though, given the demographics... that's just a statistical inevitability.

Radical rationalization is what people liked about Taylor in canon, right?
 
[X] Plan the Conspiracy Investigator

Sorry to Imperial Entanglements, but Paranoia calls me :V
 
I think I like BlackWink's setup, so i'll be voting for the same!

[X] From the beat to detective
This place might be a hellhole but it's your home and you've already spent more than a few years working on making it better. Now that you've made detective you've got a more active role in the place.

Traits (pick two)
[X] Conspiracy theorist
+ Wide breadth of knowledge
- Distrust of Federal Organizations/Capes

[X] Cowboy Cop
+ Works around the rules
- More trouble than worth
 
[X] Plan Warmhearted

Name: Jennifer Greene
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 38

Background: From the beat to detective
This place might be a hellhole but it's your home and you've already spent more than a few years working on making it better. Now that you've made detective you've got a more active role in the place.

Traits (pick two):
** By the book
+ Incorruptible and honest
± The Fettered
** People Person
+Empathetic and approachable
- Losing people hurts
 
If the character isn't white, how strong gang influence is really matters here. Is the police force heavily infiltrated by E88? Can an Asian person join the police and suffer no major consequences from ABB?
 
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