Darwin Soldiers 4 Discussion thread

[Nick22]

This is the discussion thread for the new Darwins Soldiers rp. This one is alternate Timeline from the first 3, so whether we coubnt anything a canon will be left to the individual poster.

 the basic premise is that a majoir corporation has been doing research on subjects with powers and mutant abilities. one escpes and  havoc ensues.

 given that its AT, we can either bring back characters or create new ones.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Oh cool! Yeah I want to join, it's been ages since I did an RP with y'all

What's the name of the corporation, and the city this takes place in? Just want to know for purposes of coming up with a character

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

And for factions, it sounds like the main ones would be company personnel (scientists, security guards), test subjects (either working with them, or escaped), and city residents (law enforcement, civilians, criminals). Let me know if I missed anything, I just like thinking in terms of factions.

[Nick22]

sure those factions work, might have others pop uo too as we go along. Still working on my chars personally, but excited to head back into this universe

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Sounds good! Here's who I was thinking I'd play, they'd be involved in causing the test subject breakout:

Name: Dr. Casper Gemini
Age: 34
Species: Otter
Faction: Test Subjects (secretly), Scientists
Specializations: Psionics and Psychotronics Research
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: Soul-Bound Entity Materialization
Weapon of Choice: OTs-38 Stetchkin
Appearance: Prematurely graying hair, medium build with unkempt fur, often wearing a rumpled labcoat and looking lost in thought. Sociable but submissive in personality, often overlooked by others as not seeming particularly remarkable in any way.
Backstory: A disgraced scientist under investigation for a lab accident which killed his assistant and razed his laboratory (nobody’s quite sure how he survived without a scratch). He’s now on scientific probation after the incident uncovered multiple ethical and legal breaches in his research methods, and he’s virtually guaranteed to lose his job in a matter of days. In desperation, he’s planning a hail-mary act of sabotage to divert people’s attention to a much more dire situation, and he’s even got an ‘inside woman’ to ensure nobody can pin the upcoming catastrophe on him.

Name: Pauline “Polly” Gemini
Age: 34
Species: Otter
Faction: Criminals
Specializations: Hand to hand combat, swimming, improvised weapons, firearms, stealth, social engineering
Appearance: Long brown hair, well-maintained appearance as she previously used her body to charm her way into high-end establishments for assassinations. Tattoo of an anchor on her right shoulder. Physically fit with a thrill-seeking attitude and little to no regard towards her own safety or the consequences of her actions.
Backstory: A street orphan whose birth parents weren’t interested in raising a girl, Polly wound up working various oddjobs that grew steadily more shady as she proved herself a natural at robbery, smuggling, racketeering, and eventually contract killing. Her sordid lifestyle eventually caught up with her and led to her untimely death…but somehow that wasn’t the end, as she later found herself summoned by a similar-looking but unknown man who used her to shield himself from a deadly psionic blast. Further testing revealed he could “project” her into existence essentially at will, and she eagerly accepted another chance at life, especially when his ambitions were just as crooked and entertaining as the criminal sorts she used to work for. At the time the RP starts, she’s just started her job at Casper’s company as an innocuous janitor. Though the pair don’t expect to need that cover story for very long…

(Casper’s power detailed: Casper can summon Polly into existence, whereupon she emerges in front of him inhabiting a body functionally and visually identical to her original. She can remain in this new body until it’s killed, whereupon her temporary body disappears and her conscience is forced back into Casper’s head. She does not retain any clothing or possessions from previous times she was summoned. Casper can mentally communicate with her at all times, even when she’s dead, but he cannot preemptively ‘desummon’ her while she’s active in the field.)

[Serris]

So, from the premise, I assume that the psychic powers are naturally occurring whereas the mainline Darwin's Soldiers canon has the psychic powers be the product of experimentation by Pelvanida?

And I also assume that it's a private company engaged in the research versus a government owned entity?

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Out of curiosity, would anyone be interested in the escaped experiments being the focal characters? We could have other main characters chasing them as well, and unaffiliated deranged test subjects who start wreaking havoc on the city, but roleplaying a group of runaway mutants/test subjects might be really fun, we'd have to worry about cops and bounty hunters and whatever forces the company sends after us, plus we'd all get to choose different powers. Dunno, just an idea to consider