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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Stockpile: PREVAIL is going to stay TOP SECRET outside of ourselves, and our employers! No info can leak out... especially not to our enemies like Justice Unlimited.
Greg, who is literally Rhys in disguise right this second: Sure thing, boss!
 
Well, now this sounds like it's gonna be a hell of a fun time.

No secret shall remain in the shadows, it seems... and we will celebrate. LET'S DRINK TO ULTIMATE SUCCESS!!
 
Wolong is going to smile and nod at this press conference while frantically typing a text on his phone to Leizi BIG SHIT TO TALK ABOUT, HORRIBLE NEWS, AWAIT FURTHER DISCUSSION WHEN I GET BACK that's going to ruin her ability to have fun at the Christmas party.
 
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BraininaJar’s Candidates
  • Apocrypha
    • I told you I'd write some candidates, didn't I?

    Name: Ismael Boulos
    Age: 19
    Stats: HIT 2, ESPIONAGE 3, REPUTATION 2, OPERATIONS 4
    Tolerance: 7
    Chaucer's notes: I actually don't have much to say about him. Self-declared rock-paper-scissors world champion; his father runs a convenience store in the Worker's Mitt and was present alongside him in the Town Hall where Mona unmasked herself. He apparently knows her from occasional visits to the shop, and thus got the name "Project Prometheus" out of Mona from a wager; reportedly he had to win twenty rock-paper-scissors games and she just had to win once. He has now communicated his willingness to participate, saying, and I quote, "If even bumbling Mona can be part of it there's no way there won't be space for me!"
    Lady Leizhi's notes: Not much to say, other than he's too clever by half. A bit of humbling would make him a splendid hero, but I hope he would not pay dearly for the experience.

    Name: Bertha Blau Blumenthal
    Age: 18
    Stats: HIT 4, ESPIONAGE 4, REPUTATION 4, OPERATIONS 4
    Tolerance: 4
    Chaucer's notes: Miss Bertha is considered by many to be a gem. A veritable teenage genius, at her young age she is considered an expert in capoeira, parkour, computer science, chess, painting, playing the guitar and olympic shooting; and when not doing any of that, she swims and runs marathons. She would have her pick of most any university in the world but choose to remain in Horizon and not enroll for now, baffling many. While clearly very talented, I attribute most of her excellence to hard work; why, I don't even know how she can fit sleeping in such a packed schedule!
    She had her suspicions about a Justice Unlimited "secret project" alighted by a quite deranged post in a hacking community. It was complete nonsense, but on hunch decided to investigate further and so discovered a bit about the project. I think she would be an excellent candidate, provided her… enthusiasm…is properly dealt with. I have seen my share of burnouts, and I'd like her to avoid such a fate.
    Lady Leizhi's notes: Her determination is born of the senseless deaths of her parents at young age due to a metahuman clash. Ever since, she craves feeling in control, and chases manner after manner of self-improvement to do so. Had she actually awakened powers she could have become quite the villain, but hopefully with guidance she can channel this trauma in a more constructive way.

    AN: She lives with her grandparents btw, but don't know where to put that.

    Name: Simão Cruzes da Silva Neto, alias "Cain"
    Age: 30
    Stats: HIT 6, ESPIONAGE 7, REPUTATION -1, OPERATION 6
    Tolerance: 3
    Chaucer's notes: What is this submission doing here!? Is someone out of their minds? Was there a mistake? I know he can't possibly have volunteered for the project, since I dare not say he can't find it...
    Anyhow, I have flagged this submission and hopefully it will be removed soon, but for any enterprising soul who finds this file by accident, let me be very clear: "Cain" is a spree killer, though some say "vigilante" (pfhah!) and is the deadliest mundane in Brazil, and possibly in the world. His killing habits began when he was a mere twelve years old, and there are even rumors he had murdered his cousin before that! He was a monster who mercilessly killed anyone who he considered "criminals", no matter how small their crimes, while hypocritically participating in the drug trade himself. He has gruesomely killed several gangs, including those with metahuman membership! Even in jail his killings did not stop, even when ambushed inside his cell seven-to-one he killed the ambushers without pause. He has an estimated murder count in the triple digits, including his own father!
    I cannot imagine any reason this man should even be in a kilometer from the Apiary, much less part of our project. It is toying with a mad beast!
    Lady Leizhi's notes: Our dear Chaucer is quite heated, isn't he? For the record, I put this submission in myself, even if I consider him far from a prime candidate; you can say I'm somewhat sympathetic to him. One of the few whose childhood rivals my own, and when I killed my own dog he was taking a human life. The cousin thing is fake, by the way.
    But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, aren't I? His story begins even before his birth, where his abusive father kicked his pregnant mother viciously, leading to a wound in his cranium before birth. At 9 he had escaped from home to go to São Paulo, where he lived as a petty thief. At 12 he killed his first victim, a local drug dealer, and ran away back to his home to escape the police. At 14 he killed the deputy-mayor of his hometown for falsely accusing his father of participating in a corruption scheme, costing him his job and leaving the family destitute. At 16 he was back at São Paulo, and fell in love with a 17 year old female drug-dealer; I heard he was quite happy for time living with her and assisting in her "job"; and were even expecting a baby. Of course, that's when a rival gang killed her while he was away, and in response he massacred the majority of the gangs in the city; to hear it described it seems the streets were awash with blood. At 18 years old he was finally captured, but was quite a troublesome prisoner, participating in many mutinies and rebellions, and of course the mentioned episode where he killed his own father; he was being transferred to another location after a rebellion and, presumably due to carelessness, was put in the same transport as his father, who had been arrested for finally killing his wife during one of his abusive episodes. The rest, as they say, is history.
    The reason I put him on the candidate list is that he is genuinely trying to find peace. He was released on probation due to mysterious circumstances, and is in Horizon to help his nephew, who has been having it though. In his free time he has a vlog where he talks and shows his daily life; a dangerous thing considering his reputation but he doesn't seem to care at all. I understand he is very dangerous, so even with my sympathies I'd only consider it during a very rainy day.

    AN: Surprisingly based on a real guy, if you can believe it, though fluffed-up for a comic-book setting. Even if you don't know him, you probably know someone based on him. Leizhi is mega-yapping on this one, but with the parallels to her life (as I see it) it kinda just came out.

    Was not sure that last guy would get the QM OK, but it's all good.
     
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  • Apocrypha
    • It sounds like Philosophers wants to conquer the world or something similar to it atleast.

    Probably because Hand wants to be worship as a god or something.

    Towarri was partly trained by them afterall and she noted it was a military cult.
     
    At this point, our Espionage is high enough that we're getting a big bonus from the gap between it and 10 that even a middling roll will give us a Major Success.
     
    ScorpioSting said:
    At this point, our Espionage is high enough that we're getting a big bonus from the gap between it and 10 that even a middling roll will give us a Major Success.
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    Yeh basically as long as we dont roll below 10 we crit. Now debuffs to our netword due to ReR or events might happen but it still means weve managed to hone Leizi's Perk to reliably proc.

    We could still used more Espionage of course liek being ablt to alway artificially crit would be nice. But John gives a Decent espionage bonus and depending on his power should get some buff to it too.
     
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