On March 7th, at precisely 11:41 AM (PST) a unexplainable event occurred.
Gravity suddenly...
Gravity suddenly...
Survive: Its not the fall that'll kill ya (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
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On March 7th, at precisely 11:41 AM (PST) a unexplainable event occurred.
Gravity suddenly reversed in a localized area comprised of the entirety of California. This strange event lasted for several minutes. In which time all who had the misfortune of being outside were dragged into the sky alongside cars, various random debris, and in some cases entire buildings. All of which then fell back to the ground after the cessation of the event.
The government scrambled for answers even as aid began to roll into the state.
However the next day, at exactly the same time as the day before, gravity once again reversed. Rendering all aid efforts for naught, and rendering yet more damage to the state.
Character selection:
[] Name?
[]Place in the MCU:
Pick one:
[] The Magical Girl:
[] The Master of Gravity:
[] The lucky survivor:
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Funnily enough, this idea actually came from a nightmare I had recently. I figured it actually sounded like a pretty cool premise, so I'll see how far it goes.
Gravity suddenly reversed in a localized area comprised of the entirety of California. This strange event lasted for several minutes. In which time all who had the misfortune of being outside were dragged into the sky alongside cars, various random debris, and in some cases entire buildings. All of which then fell back to the ground after the cessation of the event.
The government scrambled for answers even as aid began to roll into the state.
However the next day, at exactly the same time as the day before, gravity once again reversed. Rendering all aid efforts for naught, and rendering yet more damage to the state.
Character selection:
[] Name?
[]Place in the MCU:
[] Pre Iron man
[] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[] Post Avengers, but before Cap2
[] Post Cap2
[] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[] Post Avengers, but before Cap2
[] Post Cap2
Pick one:
[] The Magical Girl:
A experienced warrior of the light, you've spent many years facing down monsters hiding in the shadows. Eventually your friends managed to drag you off to Los Angeles to celebrate Spring Break. You were just one of the many unlucky kids out on the beaches when it all happened. You managed to save hundreds of people from falling to their deaths with your power.
Pros:
Cons:
Pros:
Savior of the people: The group you saved will listen to you and do as you say. So you can use them to gather supplies and scout out parts of the city if you wish.
Fragment of the truth: You saw something as you fell into the sky. There was definitely something hiding above the clouds!
Flight: When transformed you can summon a pair of wings to grant you flight. This is part of how you managed to save anyone at all.
Fragment of the truth: You saw something as you fell into the sky. There was definitely something hiding above the clouds!
Flight: When transformed you can summon a pair of wings to grant you flight. This is part of how you managed to save anyone at all.
Cons:
Guardian: You must look after the people you saved.
Busted!: Your friends have exposed you as the girl that saved everyone. You cannot rely on simply being another face in the crowd.
Busted!: Your friends have exposed you as the girl that saved everyone. You cannot rely on simply being another face in the crowd.
First lets clear the air, you are not the person responsible for this. You like to think you're pretty strong, but not that strong! You were outside like so many others when the gravity first flipped. Thanks to your powers you managed to stay firmly rooted to the ground, but because of that you got a front row seat to the aftereffects. Well, you came to this city in search of a job, looks like you found one.
Pros:
Cons:
Pros:
You decide which way is up!: Your powers allow you to control how gravity effects you and things near you. This allows you to fly, pick up even the heaviest of objects, and ignore any sudden climate shifts.
Cons:
Mistaken for Villain: "You control gravity! How can you not be the guy behind this!?" So says just about every person you meet.
Ignorant of the truth: You start with no clues whatsoever.
Ignorant of the truth: You start with no clues whatsoever.
School was out for the week, and you had been planning to spend the day fishing. But when you stepped foot on the boat gravity reversed and hauled everyone into the sky! Everyone, except you. Your not certain why you weren't effected, but you've always been lucky like that.
Pros:
Cons:
Pros:
777: Your luck never seems to run out. This has helped you big time in the past, but there are limits. If you say... take a jump off a skyscraper, you'll survive the landing. But that's all, no promises after that.
Fragment of the truth: You were on a boat when gravity changed.
Jackpot: If you go looking for something material, you'll likely find it. Your just lucky like that.
Fragment of the truth: You were on a boat when gravity changed.
Jackpot: If you go looking for something material, you'll likely find it. Your just lucky like that.
Cons:
Glass Cannon: Your just a regular guy. You'll break if your hit to hard, but with your luck you'll probably still manage to hit the other guy.
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Funnily enough, this idea actually came from a nightmare I had recently. I figured it actually sounded like a pretty cool premise, so I'll see how far it goes.
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- Location
- Just passing through.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Jack Gambit
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
Rossum
Not a Cyberman
- Location
- Earth
[X] Lois Angeles ("It's pronounced Anne-jellies ... it's Italian, like Michelangelo or Giovanni. I'm not named after the city. Or an angel." *pouts*)
[X] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[X] The Magical Girl
Figured I'd give her a punny name and naming her after the Californian city of Los Angeles would be cool. First, Angeles sounds like Angel which fits her ability to grow wings. Secomd, I imagine a name like that would really stand out so she'd constantly try pronouncing it all Italian-like to make it sound better, but since it's spelled like that everyone thinks she's named after the city.
[X] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[X] The Magical Girl
Figured I'd give her a punny name and naming her after the Californian city of Los Angeles would be cool. First, Angeles sounds like Angel which fits her ability to grow wings. Secomd, I imagine a name like that would really stand out so she'd constantly try pronouncing it all Italian-like to make it sound better, but since it's spelled like that everyone thinks she's named after the city.
Speaking of LA, the quest is meant to take place there. All of California is being effected, (Take a moment, let that really sink in.) but the bulk of the quest is meant to be in the city.
- Location
- Florida
[X] Jack Gambit
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
[X] Angelica Maes
[X] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[X] The Magical Girl
As a pretty big fan of Magical Girls, I don't really consider the Cons all that bad in return for the nice Pros. And unless Strange shows up really early, we'll have very unique abilities compared to all the other MCU heroes for awhile. She's also the most experienced with her powers out of the three options.
[X] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[X] The Magical Girl
As a pretty big fan of Magical Girls, I don't really consider the Cons all that bad in return for the nice Pros. And unless Strange shows up really early, we'll have very unique abilities compared to all the other MCU heroes for awhile. She's also the most experienced with her powers out of the three options.
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The MG cons basically mean you cant hide from your enemies or well meaning busy-bodies (SHIELD). And anyone wanting to hurt her now knows exactly how to do it.
Now consider all the groups out there. SHIELD, Hydra, Inhumans, aliens, Asgardians, and more. The cons are specifically set up to let them get the upper hand on the MG. That's not to say they will, but its a option.
[x] Angelica Maes
[x] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[x] The Magical Girl
A little less on the nose than Lois Angeles, looks good to me!
[x] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[x] The Magical Girl
A little less on the nose than Lois Angeles, looks good to me!
Rossum
Not a Cyberman
- Location
- Earth
Yeah... I'm thinking it would look positively post-apocalyptic. I mean, I'm not sure exactly how this effect works, but I do recall from H.G. Well's story The First Men in the Moon where a scientist invented a "gravity blocking alloy" that would let them travel to the moon.
Okay, this alloy called Cavorite had the effect of being opaque to gravity. Bascally, you set a sheet of it on the ground and it blocks the gravity coming from the Earth and everything above it becomes weightless. Sounds cool, right? Thing is, it has the effect of making the air above it weightless as well. The air that normally weighs down on everyone with (quick google search here) I guess about 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level. With the gravity block in effect, that air is now weightless and can float up... thereby making the air around the area of zero-gravity come rushing in to replace it. Basically, the guys in the story were able to make a spaceship that can launch them into space by simultanously negating their own weight while letting air pressure from the surrounding atmosphere rocket them upward as it fills in the gaps.
That's just negating gravity... I imagine a reverse gravity field would have a mess of other horrifying effects, especially at that size. With gravity reversed, all the air in that area would start falling up as well, exerting approximately 14.7 lbs per square inch on everything in addition to the gravity itself. Then, as the air falls into the sky, air from the surrounding area around California would rush inward to try and fill in the vacuum. No idea how strong the winds would be... but I'm guessing that describing it as "explosive decompression on a massive scale" would be about right. Anyone just outside of the gravity reversal effect would suddenly face gale-force winds as the air rushes in to replace the missing atmosphere. The result would basically suck them up into that same area. It would be something like a massive implosion with the energy of an atomic bomb... instead of a blast sending a shockwave outward and forming a mushroom cloud, the 'mushroom cloud' forms from all the air and debris in the area falling upward (and possibly spreading out once they fall into the low-pressure parts of the atmosphere causeing the air pressure to suck the air outwards) and a massive vacuum forming around the effect sucking in everything and everyone nearby.
If you're in California at the time, you fall up. If you are just outside the border of the effect, hurricane-level winds blast you from the side and suck you straight into the area, thereby causing you to fall into the sky! I imagine the rough boundaries of the gravity reversal effect would become quite apparent soon after it ends as the ring of destruction caused by the outer winds shows and the higher concentration of debris falling from the shy in those areas.
Unless of course there was some kind of force field in place preventing that from happening, or the gravity reversal didn't effect the air.
*Whistles* I hadn't even considered the air being moved. I'm flipflopping between it being a gentle rise over a long enough period that even the lucky ones get broken bones, and a complete reversal so people go flying into the air and reach terminal velocity... (ah what was it, 12, 20?) seconds later.
Anyway, consider that the clue that Lucky starts with. He's on a boat, he just got on the boat so it has to be at a pier or close to land. But he's unaffected.
Basically assume there is weird shit happening. In fact there has to be for the buildings to even be a thing and not just so much rubble. (unstable buildings are fun to play with. Piles of rubble, not so much.)
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
[x] Angelica Maes
[x] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[x] The Magical Girl
[x] Post Iron man, but before Avengers.
[x] The Magical Girl
Definitely. Because as someone with a peripheral knowledge about statics, i can tell you that almost no building can survive a gravity reversal, even one with low G-Forces. They are just flat out not build for withstanding forces that go upwards. Especially in the States. Damn lightweight disposable architecture, that.
Depends on the extent of the reversal...I don't think sturdier construction would help, even if quakeproof. Theres more than enough mass in the foundation to rip itself free of the ground and then rip itself apart from density differentials
- Location
- Home
[X] Jack Gambit
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
- Location
- the Netherworld Dood
[X] Jack Gambit
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
Luck stat OP PlzneverNerf
[X] Pre Iron man
[X] The lucky survivor
Luck stat OP PlzneverNerf
I'm not sure if the Gravity Master has had single vote so far. Orion technically wrote a GM option down, but didn't vote for it.
Depending on how you count it, either the magical girl is tied with the lucky survivor, or winning by one vote.
Depending on how you count it, either the magical girl is tied with the lucky survivor, or winning by one vote.
