Elite: Year One (Discussion)

[Synchronicity]

I'd be interested in taking part. Here's my submission. I wasn't entirely sure what you were looking for in terms of plot hooks, but I hope they're adequate. I've been following your Legacy story hour (And Agamon's Project Daedalus, and...well, actually, I read pretty much all of the M&M PbPs on ENWorld. ), and I'm really intrigued by the universe.

Christopher 'Chris' Jones. Caucasian male, age 22, brown hair, green eyes.

Summary: Christopher Jones is an incredibly intelligent 22 year old scientist, who was brought up and educated in the UK, but moved to American to work for VanDyne Industries after he completed his second university degree. (He has degrees in Biology and Genetics.) He's fascinated by science, but has always felt his life was missing something, that it was all somehow too easy. He's always been able to live easily, succeeding with no real effort. A week ago, he found that he was able to move at a speed far above the human level, even running up walls and over water. He's been using the VanDyne labs to examine his new condition, hoping to find a genetic reason for it. Chris has also been contemplating doing something useful with his powers, but isn't entirely sure what. For once in his life he's uncertain how to proceed and feels confused..and he quite enjoys it.

Plot Hooks: Christopher works for VanDyne Industries, a company on the cutting edge of genetic research. VanDyne designs GM foods and has been experimenting with genetically modifying animals, though this is still in the test stages. They’re rumoured to be a little…ethically flexible, too. Christopher is sure they’d be delighted to find one of their employees is a metahuman: which is why he intends to make sure they never find out. But the only place with the resources he needs to continue his examination of his altered genetic makeup is the VanDyne lab…(Hook #1)

The greatest threat to Christopher’s secrecy and contemplated new life isn’t VanDyne, however. Rather, it’s Kelly. Kelly is Christopher’s on again/off again girlfriend, a 24 year old up-and-coming lawyer. Kelly tends to be quick-tempered, and often gets angry with Christopher for seeming to pay more attention to his work than her. At the moment, she’s apparently not seeing him, which has allowed Chris some breathing space to test his abilities. But Kelly has a key to the apartment, and will doubtless return to take up their relationship again. Chris really does likes Kelly, but right now, he’s nervous; she’s very clever and extremely observant, and Chris fears that once she’s back in his life, his secret may not remain such for very long. Why is this a problem? Well, two reasons, mainly. Kelly has been somewhat vocal over the dangers of the newly discovered metahumans recently…and her brother Mark is a journalist. (Hook #2)


Family: Alan Jones, father, age 51. Worked as a civil servant, now retired. Resident in the UK.
Mary Jones, mother, age 52. Worked as a secretary, now likewise retired. Resident in the UK.
Notes: Christopher is an only child. He calls his parents an average of once a fortnight, and is conscientious about keeping in touch. He’s been contemplating a visit, now that he doesn’t need a plane to get to England…and still isn’t sure whether to inform his parents of his new abilities.

Powers: Christopher can move at an extremely accelerated rate with no real effort. He can run up sheer walls and over water without falling or sinking while so running. However, Chris’s powers have one major limitation: they require ambient light to function. Chris hypothesises that his body in some way coverts the light into a power source, enabling his superhuman feats of speed. If in a place with no light, such as a pitch-black windowless room or a sewer, Christopher’s powers do not function. [NB: This is basically the Power Source Flaw from Energy Control, adapted for Super Speed. I think it's quite a cool limitation...and it lets me call him Lightspeed. Go go Gadget names! ]

Hope that's neither too much or too little to be going on with!

 

[Mimic]

Samantha (Sam) Crayton

Sam started life out on the wrong side of the tracks in east LA, that is until her mother met and married a weathy man, (they met at a hotel that her mother was working at) and moved them all to one of his Beverly Hills homes.

Now Sam had a new house and went to the best schools, she hated it. She didn't fit in, she had no friends. The other girls made fun of her mixed background (Mexican/Caucasian), the way she talked, her choice in clothing, pretty much everything. The guys constantly hit on her figuring she was easy (the rumors the other girls started didn't help.)

The one thing that helped her through the day was acting, she was always part of the school plays as well as the local theater, acting helped her forget the problems she was having.

After the comet passed she noticed that her dexerity and agility were alot better then they used to be but the real surprise came when she was running late and had to get ready for a role, she was in a near panic she would never be ready by the time she was to be on stage. Then it happened, her skin got hot and some pain spread through her body, when she looked in a mirror someone else was looking back. Somehow she had morphed into the character she was supposed to play.

She kept her ability secret. Figuring that she could make some quick cash, she contacted some old friends and they got her in contact with some very bad people. She couriered a couple of times until something went very wrong.

During an exchange a couple of cops wandered into the meeting place and tried to arrest everyone, shots were fired and a few people were hit. Sam ran and never looked back. To this day she is uncertain if anyone is still looking for her luckily she was carefull never to let anyone see what she really looked like...

hooks a plenty from that short background.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Thomas Ryan O'Donnel (Portal)

Ryan was your typical colledge student doing the 'need to get spending money' gig on campus as part of a sleep deprivation trial. About a week into the study he 'passed out' by way of just vanishing from the room. He woke up 10 hours later in his room where he'd apprently just 'appeared'(his live in girl friend didn't hadle the sudden appearence too well and left him. )

Up to that time, Ryan had lived a fairly normal life, growing up in North Carolina where his family had lived for the better part of 200 years as first Yeomen farmers then small businessmen. He had signed up to Duke University on a football scholarship (wisely heeding his father's advice about teh specifics of the scholarship, since he spent most of his first season down for a torn achillies tendon and eventually having to drop off the team after it never quite healed right). He settled on a dual major in business administration and computer science, looking to move out of the familie's hardware business for a shot as systems adminstation manager for one of the growing Banking concerns in the Charlotte, NC area.

The emergence of his talent pretty much has derailed that for the time being. Since his powers emergence he's been part of a major study between the Duke Medical Colledge and the High Energy Physical department of MIT. His (thus far) unique ability to teleport over distances seems to be growing as well as his talent for adapting his power to new situations. He's gone distances up to 1/2 a mile so far and pulled off multible teleports up close within a very short space of time (though he did suffer from massive exhuastion)

(will do more.. that was the gist of what came to me so far today)

 

[Samnell]

Ok. Here's a go. I kept embellishing to be sufficiently hook-a-licious, but I could always add more on top too.

Jan Sverak is a student pursuing his PhD in Medieval history at Oxford. The son of Czech exiles who fled their home after the crackdown following Prague Spring, he spent the first half of his life living in London. When the Iron Curtain fell, the Sveraks returned to Czechoslovakia in 1993 and his father began a successful career in politics. Uncomfortable slightly in his ancestral home and greatly with his father’s increasingly hardline nationalist platform, Jan returned to Britain to finish his education. At the same time his mother took a position teaching Czech literature in Canada, uncomfortable around her husband’s new political contacts. He has no siblings.

Estranged from his family, Jan grew very close to his Latin instructor, the famously eccentric Dr. Sidney Silby-Bryce. The good doctor tried repeatedly and without success to interest Jan in Antiquity instead of the Middle Ages, which became a running joke between them. Buried deep in royal charters from the Anglo-Saxon period one night, Jan’s studies were interrupted by a power outage. On investigation he found a group of physics students had set up a Tesla coil outside and were enjoying the spectacle, which Jan noted was announced on one of those student bulletins he never read. Seeing Dr. Silby-Bryce in the admiring crowd, Jan decided to be a good sport about it and went to get a closer look at the roaring, sparking electrical contraption. But as luck would have it the students weren’t careful enough with the Faraday cage containing their coil and as Jan approached some ten thousand watts blew straight into him.

Jan took the whole charge of the coil and possibly saved dozens of bystanders in the process and woke unharmed, but with an instinctive ability to control and generate electricity. This rapidly drew the attention of the Physics department and left Jan more than a little bewildered and not sure what to do with himself. He isn’t entirely fond of the idea of being studied. His father is in contact with him again, full of talk of rebuilding bridges and renewing family ties. Jan doesn’t know if he should suspect the motives behind the repeated phone calls or not.

 

[Tokiwong]

Good concepts so far... so many good ones... man I am overwhelmed!

 

[Shalimar]

All of these PhDs and college proffessors, the game could be called the brain trust.

 

[Samnell]

All of these PhDs and college proffessors, the game could be called the brain trust.

I like intellectual characters. Mark's sort of the exception to my normal rule. I am a bit surprised by all the intellectuals everyone else is putting out, though.

 

[Tokiwong]

I guess I will have to make the game somewhat intellectual

 

[Synchronicity]

Heh, the idea just came to me including the degree-ey goodness. Plus, I think it'd be fun to play a speedster whose highest stat isn't Dexterity! (Yes, Dex'll be second highest. But that's not the point. ) People never expect the speedster to be one of the smart ones...though if he ends up being in this game, he'll likely be around the group average!

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Guess that means my 'porter would be the 'Joe Dirt' of the group eh?

"Well Ma'am mah IQ is only 130.. Ah'm de dummy of de group.."

LOL