Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Speculative biology is simultaneously a science and form of art in which one speculates on the possibilities of life and evolution. What could the world look like if dinosaurs had never gone extinct? What could alien lifeforms look like? What kinds of plants and animals might exist in the far future? These questions and more are tackled by speculative biologists, and the Speculative Evolution welcomes all relevant ideas, inquiries, and world-building projects alike. With a member base comprising users from across the world, our community is the largest and longest-running place of gathering for speculative biologists on the web.

While unregistered users are able to browse the forum on a basic level, registering an account provides additional forum access not visible to guests as well as the ability to join in discussions and contribute yourself! Registration is free and instantaneous.

Join our community today!

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Ultimate SSU: History, Info, and Sign-up
Topic Started: Jan 21 2013, 07:03 PM (4,193 Views)
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
I am the Clocksmith. I have traversed the entirety of time and space. I have seen the beginning of things, and I have seen the end. I have seen all of the universe and its splendor. I have seen other universes as well. All of them. I know every detail about them, in and out. I am the Clocksmith. Guardian of Time. Protector of Space. I am history repeating.

I am here to offer you an opportunity. An opportunity unlike any other. I have the desire to see a new universe. But I wish to be surprised. I will not interfere, but I will give you a basic structure from which you can build the ultimate universe.


You shall begin life on Earth. It's history is relatively the same, with minor differences. This Earth is incredibly similar to yours, to the point where you could spend an entire lifetime without finding one. This is where you come in. I want you to fill the planet with changes and alterations. Nothing too drastic. I want differences that, with time, will give rise to a drastically different future.

I want you to make superheroes. Supervillains. Anti-heroes. Anti-villains. Everything in between.

There is a section labelled 'character allignment'. Basically, there is a grid on which you allign your character. There is Good and Evil scale, and there is the Lawful and Chaotic scale.

Here's a sample, with several recognizable people from other universes, along with flavor text.

Spoiler: click to toggle


I shall provide a template with which you can build a life.

Quote:
 
Character Name/Secret Identity:

Character Description:

Character Allignment:

Character Bio:

Powers:

Weaknesses:

Character Music:
[flash=800,200][/flash]



I shall provide a filled out template with a character to help you get started.

Quote:
 
Character Name/Secret Identity: Snakebite / Sean Penn

Character Description: A tall, thin man. His cheekbones are high, his eyes sharp. His skin is pale, and his mouth is wide. Thin lips, a long, split tongue, and long canines. Piercings and tatoos all over his body. The mere sight of this man brings to mind the primal fear of serpents. This man is a snake.

Character Allignment: Neutral Good; Snakes don't care about Chaos or Order. They just bite anything that's big enough for them to eat and has a pulse.

Character Bio: Born into a family known for their conformist demeanor, Sean is the black sheep of the family. Rather than get tanned skin, bleached hair, and do what's popular, Sean bleached his skin, darkened his hair, and did things he found good. He listened to what he wanted, modified his body as he wished, and worked out not to look good, but for strength.

He also took an interest in the sciences of herpetology and genetics. While on a lab tour in a famous college, Sean broke away from the group to use the restroom. Unbeknownst to him, an genetically modified snake had escaped earlier that day. As Sean emptied his bladder, the snake bit him from it's hiding place in the corner.

Venom coursed through his veins. Rather than kill him, the bite hospitallized him. While in intense care, his body changed. His jaw gained another hinge. Another row of teeth grew into his mouth, hidden between his cheeks and his normal teeth. He became part snake. Now with the ability to fully defy his family, Sean escaped the hospital and vanished into the night.


Powers:

Mouth of a snake: He can eat things much larger than his head, due to hinges, and the second set of teeth in his mouth. Among these teeth are a set of gigantic fangs capable of delivering a venomous bite. He's capable of digesting everything but solid metal and plastic, so he is perfectly capable of smuggling things and erasing evidence.

Enhanced senses: His senses of smell and taste are enhanced to the point that a single flick of the tongue can let him track a target for miles. He can sense heat, like a viper. He also has a 'tremor' sense. He can sense vibrations in the ground, which makes it hard to sneak past him without flying.

Enhanced strength: He is much stronger than the average human, capable of tossing a VW Beetle across a two-lane street with ease.

Tech: Due to his own connection with the scientists of the lab, he's managed to procure a mechanical tail complete with a rattlesnake rattle. He's also got a special set of boots and gloves that allow him to scale vertical surfaces without footholds, called 'Gecko Gloves'.


Weaknesses:

Antivenom: Due to the fact that his venom is the same as that of the Eastern Diamondback Rattler, his venom can be counteracted by shooting him in the salivary glands with the antivenom.

EMP: His tail is purely mechanical in nature and can be shut down foricbly with an EMP. It is also possible to shut it down via hacking, cutting off the power source, or by knocking Snakebite unconsious.

Fear: He has a crippling fear of animals that feed on snakes, such as arachnids, eagles, coati, and mongooses. Things that resemble those four are enough to scare him.

Heat: He is naturally drawn to sources of heat, so he can be drawn in to traps involving fire and lava.



Character Music:





Remember, I want to see a brand new universe. Create something original and break the mold!
Edited by Kamidio, Jan 21 2013, 08:53 PM.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Replies:
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Chage the thing about being a dragon prince into his circus name, along with adding the healing to powers and lack of feeling to weaknesses and we's gots an deals.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Vash-the-Stampede
Member Avatar
Zygote
 *
Alright, but Lex wasn't actually a prince to begin with; his father was one, but he was exiled for falling in love with a human. So I suppose the entire "prince"concept doesn't matter very much at all...

But yes, I shall do that. Do I need to re-post my character info at all, or do I simply need to edit it?
A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved


I'm a true otaku and Professor Layton fan; feel free to talk to me about any sort of anime and manga~!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Edit is fine, but I prefer reposts, because they show the evolution of a character from point A to B.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Vash-the-Stampede
Member Avatar
Zygote
 *
Oh. Alright, I'll repost it then. I also forgot to add that he was once an alcoholic, anyway, so I suppose that would be best.
A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved


I'm a true otaku and Professor Layton fan; feel free to talk to me about any sort of anime and manga~!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Vash-the-Stampede
Member Avatar
Zygote
 *
Here's my edit, with the necessary changes:


Character Name/Secret Identity: Alexander Draigoran Dragonne a.k.a. Lex

Character Description: He is an orange-haired half dragon, with blue-green eyes and slightly pointed ears. He’s about 5’10”, semi-muscular and about 170lbs. He has scars all over his body, mostly on his legs and back, and though he once had wings and a tail, they had been cut off when he was sixteen; his tail has grown back, though it’s only about four inches long, but his wings won’t grow back until he’s twenty five years old. [Character pic can be found here: http://fav.me/d5bohlg]

Character Alignment: True Neutral

Character Bio: Lex is the son of the former(though now exiled and disowned) Dragon Prince of Austria and a human woman from Wales, seen as a half-breed abomination by both sides of his extended family. He didn’t let that get to him, though, and retained a pleasant and cheerful attitude until the age of twelve years old, when his mother died. His father became violent as the years passed, and by the time he turned fifteen he couldn’t stand living with the verbal abuse he’d suffered from each day. He ran away from home with a backpack filled with some clothes and a few of his most prized possessions, along with all of the money he’d saved up over the past three years, and he wandered around for a little over a year before he found the Neon Forest Circus where he was given a job and a place to stay. About two weeks into his employment he unknowingly attracted the attention of the Ringmaster, Rick Daimon, who sexually assaulted him and forced him to become a performer. When Lex resisted Rick began to torture him, cutting off his wings and tail and giving him most of his scars; he took to drinking beer in order to forget what was happening to him, though he quit when he ended up burning his throat. His assault and torture lasted for over two years, and the only reason why it had ended was because he had finally managed to escape. Now twenty years old, he’s still incredibly afraid that the Ringmaster will find him and bring him back someday, which causes him to travel around the United States without staying in any one place for more than a month or two.

Powers: He can breathe fire, absorb the energy from any sort of flames through his skin (Except when he has any sort of flammable liquid on his skin), can lift twice his body weight, and he has minor healing powers(he uses his fire to seal his wounds, which heals him but leaves scars if the injuries are deep enough).

Weaknesses: Staying out in overly cold temperatures for extended periods of time, any sort of overly-flammable liquid(mentioned above), he was once an alcoholic so there is a chance that he could become addicted again, he can't really handle having beautiful women flirt with him(shyness), he's wary of men between the ages of 25 and 35, but only those who could/would try to take advantage of him(fear), and he cannot feel anything in his arms, legs, or back.

Character Music:
A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved


I'm a true otaku and Professor Layton fan; feel free to talk to me about any sort of anime and manga~!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Accepted.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
TAXESbutNano
Member Avatar
I'm going back to basics.
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Since I presume this is going to be a bit less interact-ish than SSU2, I'm probably gonna join. Not this issue, though.

Quote:
 
Character Name/Secret Identity: Liam Davidson, Pearl-Wight

Character Description: Liam is about 6 feet tall, and is 25. He has a slight scar on his middle finger from where he cut himself on a saw. His hair is ginger, he has blue eyes and most of his height is made from his slightly longer-than-average neck and limbs. He usually wears a brown t-shirt of some description. His hair is short and sticks up. His ears are average, with fairly large lobes. His right canine tooth is missing.

Character Allignment: Chaotic Good

Character Bio: Liam started fighting crime at the age of 17, after he saved someone from being mugged. That person was called Jessica-Marie Smith, normally called Jess, who happened to be researching armoured fabrics. She noticed that he was abnormally tough after looking at the knife injuries he had sustained, and (after carefully thinking through the positives and negatives) suggested to Liam that he should become a hero, and she could make him a protective suit and help him out through a radio in the suit. Liam decided that this was a brilliant idea, and instantly agreed, choosing the name 'Pearl-Wight' after an extremely creepy smile he could do (which was, in his opinion, hilarious). Liam has continued to be a superhero for the past 8 years, and Jess has continued to help him. Liam, when not fighting crime, works in a pub. His hobbies are fencing, aikedo and cross-country.

Powers:
Toughness: Liam has abnormally strong flesh and high stamina, as well as his suit, which can deflect most slashes and prevents bullets from hitting vital organs. It also stops the majority of piercing weapons.

Constant positivity: Liam is immune to psychological trauma, and is normally immune to 'negative' emotions such as anger, sadness and fear.

Weaknesses:
Extremely bad news: If directly told something that he is unable to pull a good point out of, Liam can't cope and will go into a beserk rage, usually ending with the deaths of whoever told him said news and/or the least-liked person in the vicinity. He will beserk until he passes out, and afterwards, his brain will have completely forgotten the day that said news was in.

Needles: Liam, while having no fears of needles because of his main power, generally avoids needles. He knows that his suit can't stop them, and that another of his weaknesses is...

Drugs: Liam usually has an adverse reaction to any drugs more potent than alcohol. Stimulants result in completely losing his violence-related morals and will murder people for fun, depressants make him stop moving, and hallucinogens... Well, whatever happens with them, it's going to be bad.

Social skills: Because of his constant positivity, Liam is unable to feel grief. This often alienates him amongst people who have been with him when deaths have happened, or when other bad things happened.

Character Music:
Edited by TAXESbutNano, Jan 28 2013, 02:56 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
bloom_boi
Member Avatar
What The?
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Your music should be "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO.
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
TAXESbutNano
Member Avatar
I'm going back to basics.
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Yup, fits. Thanks!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Accepted.

It's nice to see a hero the suffers from Stretch Armstrong syndrome.

Though I wouldn't call it suffering, so much as 'they've got gigantic arms and will use them to bash in skulls'. Abe Lincoln had the same condition.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
TAXESbutNano
Member Avatar
I'm going back to basics.
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
DID SOMEONE ORDER....




A LAAAARGE HAAM!!!!!!!!???????????


Quote:
 
Character Name/Secret Identity: Dave Smith/Villainy Itself

Character Description: Dave has dark brown hair and green eyes. His hair is fairly long and straight. When he's not doing villainy, he usually wears blue jeans and a white t-shirt, sometimes with a leather jacket. His villain costume is made up of a leather jacket with black armour plates added to it, with black leather trousers. Both aren't real leather, but in fact a plastic/carbon fibre/elastic weave, built to withstand high temperatures, bullets and other such things while being lightweight and looking cool. He is 23 years old.

Character Alignment: Chaotic borderline Evil

Character Bio: Dave is the owner of a large company, MoTech Corporation, that specialises in building machines (for a fee, of course) for those who wish to pay for them. Most of the time, he designs machines and other new things to go towards education and healthcare. It was inherited from his father, who spent his money on war machines. Dave decided that he wasn't going to make lethal weapons in MoTech, and so he decided to invest in non-lethal weaponry. However, even though human life was his main priority, Dave was a villain at heart, robbing banks and doing espionage for his company.

Powers: THE POWER OF DRAMATICNESS: Dave has the power to improve his chances of success by being, put simply, a large ham. The louder and more cliché he is, the smaller is his chance of being beaten. This is the main reason why Villainy Itself has never gone to prison. Explosions are another thing that help out in this regard. Other side effects include doing things that he wouldn't be capable of otherwise (freerunning comes to mind). If he is a large ham while he is in a rage at something (the most likely thing causing it is a disregard of human life), his powers can physically effect the world, and he can do such things as make lightning strike and set things on fire.

Evil laugh: His evil laugh, after a suitably hammy line, makes his non-allies stand still and gasp in horror. This results in humiliation, confusion, facepalms and sudden disruption of leaps and fast running (many a hero has tried to jump over something to him, before finding themselves gasping in horror and hitting the floor with a thud).

Robotic minions: His minions are robot dodo birds with stillness rays strapped to their heads. They have a central collection of intelligence, quantum-linked to the processors, preventing the robot's minds from being deleted and letting them be reuploaded into a new body.

Weaknesses: Confusion: If you do something completely unexpected and out-of-character, this will pull a logic bomb on the minions and shut them down, and Villainy Itself will be extremely confused, giving a break in his hamminess where he is weakened.

Senses being overpowered: Flashbangs, bad smells, bad tastes and other such things will cause a gap in the shouting as well.

EMPs and fire: His minions explode when exposed to enemy flames, and EMPs have the same effect.

Character Music:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kamidio
Member Avatar
The Game Master of the SSU:NC
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Over-powered. Try again. I would eliminate the fire and lightning. Heck, his powers could be psychic in nature.

Advanced telepathy could easily be used to make people stop in their tracks, psychokinesis to assist in jumping and running as well as enhance his voice into a weapon.

It would also explain why overloading his senses is a weakness, because if you overload the brain with information, then you can shut down psychic abilities.


Anyhow, I've got an important question. What happens if someone is hammier than him? Like say, roasted ham.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Posted Image
Quotes
WAA
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
trex841
Member Avatar
Entity
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
dialforthedevil
Member Avatar
Frumentarii Administrator

That's an awesome character Nano I have to say! He would be great fun to play with as well!
Please come visit A Scientfic Fantasy http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3433014/1/

ALSO!!! JOIN THE NEW RPG SITE!!! FOR ALL MEMBERS!!! IM GOING TO RUN MA GLOBAL SIMULATORS THERE!!! http://s4.zetaboards.com/jasonguppy/index/

Join the Campaign to save minotaurs from extinction!!! (include this in your signature to show your support!)
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
TAXESbutNano
Member Avatar
I'm going back to basics.
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
"IT APPEARS THAT YOUR FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBLE ROLE-PLAYING GAME CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPREHEND MY AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, we get it. BACK TO ZE DRAWING BOARD WITH YOUR FACE. *Attacks with giant rubber*

Well, your main problem seemed to be the rageface. He usually makes an extremely loud and awesome one-liner before ditching, instead of getting angry, when he's losing/lost. Might be best as a weakness, instead, because he has to break and rebuild his ham from it too.

Best thing to do would be remove the evil laugh (possibly freeze ray from dodos, too), since when he gets a good enough laugh (or freeze rays people), anyone else could simply explode them into a pile of gore without having to fight.

If someone is hammier than him, then he ONE-UPS THEM. If you're hammier than him by a magnitude (usually by using voice powers to be far louder, since he can pick out amplification), he usually just puts on an 'o fak' face and ditches. And then come back next time with enough other hamminess to be equal again (such as a robododolauncher).

One of his weaknesses, however, is that he operates on rule of cool instead of rule of efficiency. He's always willing to build an electrocannon instead of an A.K.A-47.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Create your own social network with a free forum.
Learn More · Register for Free
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Café Cosmique · Next Topic »
Add Reply