Hi Rott, I love the idea! I would like to plan to play a pre teen urban power puff girl named Patrixia Smith. I hope she can fit right in with your SG.

She was part of the all female gang called "War of the Roses." She moved to titan city after leaving her gang. They placed a black rose order on her meaning that wanted her dead for not being the gang for life. In order to protect herself she escaped the South Bronx and came to Titan City to rebuild her life, however still wanting some action she became a bounty hunter for hire, hunting both villain and hero for a good price.

Character Mechanics: Gunner(Lethality ranged attacks, Grit for defense)
Travel Power: Super Speed.

I have a masked criminal.

Renegade: sort of like a criminal Robin/Nightwing.

She's trained by an assassin, carries guns, explosives, and an uncomfortable amount of knives. Wears body armor and not above using whatever gadgets and gizmos she can get her hands on to get the job done, but draws the line at body modifications.

Tends to stick to other criminal targets, robs mob fronts, raids crime lord's houses, that kinda thing.

Likes to keep her threat level low, doesn't kill cops, heroes, or innocents. Tries to stay below the notice of most super heroes, unless playing cat and mouse with them is more fun.

Just around to get as much money as possible, as fast as possible, and with the least amount of hassle.

Here Here! I hope you guys and gals remember the VG from City of Heroes that were called the Knives of Artemis and the Carnival of Shadows. Maybe our street level members will be able to take down bigger foes through will power or technology alone. I for one will be (In terms of City of Heroes terminology)a Rogue. It will be awesome when the character builder releases soon to make our VG in the chat zone and try out different group designs.

Rottweiler wrote:

Indeed I do remember them. I recall both were cancerous to fight. Looks like we're all going Rogue on this one, and here I half expected us to be Boddicker's crew. Can't wait to start making characters.

Carnies? Bah! They were annoying but nothing a group that was paying attention couldn't handle. The Knives, however; stacked DoTs, movement debuffs, stealth, and (I am convinced) some completely broken damage mechanics, they were a royal pain.

Don''t get me started on Malta.

Baby badies! Totally joking

Wrecking Crue, Street Enclave,The Reaper Posse,The Cardinal Viper Clan, Natural Born Killas, The Black Banner Brotherhood.

Awesome I like Highwaymen and Renegades to0! Maybe the unused names can work for guild member ranking names. hmm

I was thinking of tossing someone in for this, two potential concepts.

One is Sherwood, a thief and con artist who wields a (unknown to him) enchanted bow and arrow that encourages acts of larceny and stealing from the rich of Titan City and giving to the poor, as his bow may be the very same one used by Robin Hood.

Another option is the Highwayman, a gentleman rogue kind of character, uses classy and elegant but nonetheless effective weaponry and skills combined with a dapper demeanor and escape artistry to perform grand theft and other acts of villainy.

Last but not least, would be a former Five Dragons enforcer who left after the group took offense to his penchant for not shaking down a particular area (his borough of Lotus Hills) and is currently looking for new employment. He wields one of the five elemental trees such as metal, wood, earth, water and fire, which I do not know yet.

Thoughts? The last one needs a name too, and I like the Renegades as a team name, or maybe the Furies (Greek Mythos, Titan City and stuff.))

Oh and I forgot Outcry, my tragic Devices/Force Blast villain who uses sonic weaponry and gadgets of her own making to get revenge on the high and mighty like the corporation and government who cost her her life, career, husband, and son.

Name would be unknown as she has a inflated rap sheet and redacted classified info, but others would know her rough tech matches the prototypes possibly involved in a wetwork project known as ‘Operation: Siren’, headed by former and now disgraced head scientist Isadora Silva.

I’ll play the Highwayman then. A Devices/Lethality operator with a electrified rapier ‘acquired’ from an Aether Pirate first mate and otherwise uses non lethal but still effective weaponry. He’s more of a thief than a solid fighter and prefers subtle infiltration and grifting, but does love a good chase and pulling off a impossible heist.

Maybe the Grifters as a name, or perhaps something like the Dirty Dozen or the Vagabonds?

Rottweiler wrote:

We are a gang of thieves akin to the Rogues from DC, yes.

The Rogues is probably copywritten... but Rogues Gallery doesn't appear to be?

I actually like the Rabble as a collection of villainous rogues and misfits. It’s dismissable but those who do so do it at their own peril.

‘The Rabble of Titan City strike again!’

Yeah I am in favor!

I love Rabble too! Maybe add Rabble-Rousers. :)

Nom de cape: Burns, a.k.a.The Man With The Plan.
Not-so-secret ID: Luenener. An ancestor apparently came from the town of Lünen, in Germany, and so got tagged with that as a family name. His given name may be Jack or Jake, he'll answer to either. (It's actually James, but he encourages the confusion.)

Faceclaim: [youtube]Upn8oUy5xPk[/youtube]
It's also where I got the idea for this character. ^_^

Archetype: Director (Control/Support). Prior research into the scene and people involved in a proposed heist allows Luenener to give his team an edge both in avoiding and engaging in combat.

Disadvantages: The readers don't want to read about heists where everything goes according to plan. So those heists are backstory, or things that happened between the [i]interesting[/i] heists. Which are the ones where things gang aft agley....

For several examples of how things can go interesting, see [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068718/?ref_=nv_sr_1]The Hot Rock[/url] (or [url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UK7TVS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2]read it[/url]!)

Hope wrote:

I would.

Some kind of an enforcer with energy bracers and super spring boots.

No name or costume idea besides that but it is a start.

Are we going to be able to turn off XP do you think? Sometimes it's nice just to fight the lowbies forever.

The devs said that you can stay as a street level character throughout the entire game if you wanted to.

Well if this is going to be a heist group I'd like to throw my hat in the ring, those banks have a lot of security to deal with supervillains, so what we need is a gadget man. Mainly Spellrigger, a man who can take apart any magical device and then put it back together with a couple machine parts to suit his needs.

Xselcier wrote:

*taps chin* Hrrrm... if this is gonna be a heist crew, I'll need to advance Fiddleback's personal arc, which has three distinct stages.

Early Fiddleback, when the suit was in almost complete control, was a monster terrorizing the favelas of São Paulo.

But it sounds like this RP will require the suit and Caro to have struck a balance, which is more in the middle stage of her development.

*scurries off to hole to do more character planning*

*pokes head out of hole* Would anyone like to be the person that found/recruited her down in South America?

I would have offered, but Ezra mainly works in Titan City and only goes international for big bucks, and i would like to keep him local for now. I do think that it would make sense to have Fiddleback recruited by Blaine on maybe happenstance doing some odd jobs in Central America running interference for a drug cartel on maybe their current boss’s orders, and taking Caro back to build up their team, which may have perished and is why Blaine needs to make the Rabble in the first place?

Debt and fear of a big bad Kingpin like character is a very strong motivator.

Gladatoria wrote:

And Kool, is Patrixia a pre teen? Is hanging with big bad adult thieves and villains a good idea?

I think having a polymath or rather someone who can build stuff maybe named the Quartermaster would be cool, like a villainous armorer and crook who uses the best pieces of stolen tech to help pull off impossible crimes and hesits, for a price of course.

I could fill that roll, I already offered up SpellRigger for it actually...

Heya Glad, Patrixia is good. :) She has hung out with the worst and still came up on top. If i were to classify her in terms of specialty she is good with small arms and unarmed attacks. She definitely picked up some street brawling tips from being in gang wars before.

I guess count me out then. I will probably join a VG when I get to know the game play mechanics more.

Ezra would be the one who stole-or rather found a recipe for sauce.

And yeah that was my only thing, that I don’t believe that this would be an environment to develop a child character.

This is a crew of thieves and super criminals.

Sapphires got the grill...or making brownies

Spellrigger would probably be trying to make a oven out a wand fireballs and a jet engine while everyone else is trying to tell him that they have a perfectly good oven right here in the kitchen.

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