RPG OtakuBoards Survivor 4: The Titans

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]Well if our powers are suppose to be more unique, then mine will be the ability to fly, not like superman or into outer space, but to be able to fly to the top of the crime?s building to deliver say a shrunken Sakura so she could sneak in the building and disable the security from within would be handy. ^_~

Having our powers work well together would make the story even better. Anyway, I say we go with your idea Mike. Let me know how I can help with the plot and actual writing though I?m going to start coming up with possible scenarios that I can send to everyone later so we can hammer out the plot more. [/COLOR]

[Zen]

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So I suppose it will be:

Me as the muscle straight forward fighter.

Sakura as the infiltration person.

SunfallE as the reconaissance person.

White as the crowd control/security.

I suppose those will be our basic talents given our powers, and used together in teamwork, could create just about an unstoppable force. Sakura's and SunfallE's powers work perfectly together for their given talents, as do mine and White's considering he can control who and what he controls (alá, slow down a bad guy while I lay a good punch or two into him before you let him go and send him flying).

I think the other teams should have some degree of superpower themselves. It'd make them more interesting, in my eyes. Or atleast special abilities. Like The Mercenaries can take on a Kraven The Hunter/The Punisher kind of roll do to their name. The Laugh Out Louds could be like The Joker from Batman and his gang. And Team Argo would be artifact hunters/smugglers/thieves with a fetish for old sword combat and mythological magic-items.

Maybe we could work Sandy into the story as possibly the head of the criminal's councel or something. The final bad guy with extreme power (possibly super-speed like The Flash/Quicksilver).

Our little squad wouldn't have a real name, but the newspapers and general public would collectively refer to us as "The Titans" (unrelated to the Teen Titans for originality's sake). Cool?

Sounding good?[/color][/size]

[Sakura]

[COLOR=Navy]Cool, I like the sounds of it so far.

We need to come up with a title for this here screenplay so Stephen can get started on making graphics or whatnot.

And we should try to start this as soon as possible. We don't have much longer to do it now. We're about down to a week I think.[/COLOR]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]The whole thing sounds way cool Mike. ^_~ Especially this part: [quote name='The Boss][color=darkred][size=1]Maybe we could work Sandy into the story as possibly the head of the criminal's councel or something. The final bad guy with extreme power (possibly super-speed like The Flash/Quicksilver).[/color'][/size][/quote]We defiantly need a main villain to take down.

And it fits perfectly with some of the ideas I had for taking out one of the enemies by using our powers together. It gives us a common goal, but to make that goal even more shared I propose this:

I was thinking it could be the death of our former comrade JJ who was cruelly struck down by Sandy that motivates us to act as a team that is determined to wipe out his lackeys to get to him for what he did. ^_~ [/COLOR]

[Zen]

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AH! Great idea! That works with my idea too, the JJ part. We need a climax to bring us together in the end. The Climax can be JJ's death. I love it, cool cool? We need to get him a power though, because I don't want a Mary Jane Watson in this story, haha.

Hm.... how about impentrable skin? That way his death will be all the more dramatic, when his body is finally destroyed. Good?[/color][/size]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][quote name='The Boss][color=darkred][size=1]Hm.... how about impentrable skin? That way his death will be all the more dramatic, when his body is finally destroyed. Good?[/color'][/size][/quote]Works for me, it would make his death even more surprising since we would be thinking he couldn't be killed. ^_^ Hehe, this is gonna be fun![/COLOR]

[Zen]

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Me and Sakura have some more plot points now.

It's gonna be me, Mary,Tiana, JJ, and Stephen as five senior roll students from different social groups and what not, other wise not friends, who go on a field trip with their teacher (Mrs. Beth) to an big labratory. There, they are experimenting on genetic mutations in animals to hopefully cure diseases an what not. Stephen will mess something up (what a loser) and we'll get our powers from some wronged experiment. The whole story is going to have an underlying tone:

"In the end, despite or social differences, creeds, or colors, we are all humans, and should accept one another as such."

It's gonna be about breaking social paradigms. When these kids with otherwise no interest in one another find that they are bonded by these extra-ordinary gifts, they learn to accept one anothers differences slowly. Mainly through the tragedy of JJ's death at the climax. For somet time, they attempt to keep it a secret, but there teacher Beth, will attempt to organize them and then tragedy strikes and they are faced with having to deal with the crime syndicates.

This story is obviously going to be serious in nature, heh.[/color][/size]

[Riku]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1][FONT=Tahoma]Sweet idea, Mike. I love it.

So, it looks like mostly Mary and Mike will be writing the RP because they are so much better writers than me. Shall we get started on what the graphics should be? Such as backgrounds, title page, characters, etc.?

If we need to draw characters really quickly, I could do it. I just need to know what you guys want me and Stephen to do before the time limit is up.

Btw, story is looking good. If you guys need someone to type, I'll be glad to do it. n.n[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Sakura]

[color=navy]Yeah, I got Mike to post and explain since I did it last time =P

I've already written the intro part of the screenplay, and I sent that off to Mike already to read over and edit where it's due. I'm relying a lot on Mike actually because to be honest, I really suck at script format though I think I made a good attempt. Anyway, since Mike's better at it he'll show me how it's done XD

He mostly got the details right in his post, but they're not all honour roll students, and I called Beth, Ms. Beth.

But once Mike checks it over and maybe sends it back to me, we'll post it here so you guys can take a look and all that.

But yeah...all of us are seniors in High school and they inhaled some fumes from some experiments that Stephen knocked over.

We sorta decided amongst ourselves that we'll try to think of a title later because it's too hard right now. Hopefully we can get everything done by the deadline, which is 6 days away.

Tiana, if you want in on the writing we can put you in, just let us know. But I'd hope you give more attention to the graphics side of things since neither Mike or I can.

Beth, I'm not really sure what you want to do. First thing is how much time have you got? I don't know if you're working or whatever. If you don't have free time I can handle a load, being still on holidays.[/color]

[Ellerby]

[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma]Oh man. You guys have got such a talent for this. Seriously? If this was made into a movie, I would pay to watch it in theatres. Sounds freaking sweet.

Tiana, we should probably start thinking about graphics. You already said something about characters. I think you should talk to Mike about that first because I know he loves to draw stuff like that. Maybe you both could do it? It'd be neat if each character was drawn in a different art style.

As far as the background goes, I was thinking of making it look like an old Hollywood movie script with the typewriter font for the words and such. If I could do that, you could do some characters plus the cover page (or title banner, whichever) or something.

I've also got some music picked out so when you guys are done the script make sure to get it to me immediately. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][quote name='Sakura][color=navy']Beth, I'm not really sure what you want to do. First thing is how much time have you got? I don't know if you're working or whatever. If you don't have free time I can handle a load, being still on holidays.[/color][/quote]Not as much as I would like unfortunately, but I was thinking I could be an additional proof reader. And not just to look for typos but to suggest ideas as well. I?ve never written in screenplay format, but I?m positive I can help with reading to see how the story flows and such. And I still have ideas like the initial one where my talent combined with yours makes it possible to take down one of the crime syndicates from within. ^_~

And even the screenplay format is probably something that I can easily learn since Sandy does not require it to be like a true screenplay. Once I?ve seen how Mike writes it I?m sure I can do the same. And I'm sure he could fix any mistakes I made to make it match. [/COLOR]

[Sakura]

[SIZE=1]Well I think that'd be just fine. Because afterall as I mentioned in my last post, once we're done with a section and we've each checked it, we'll post it here as quickly as possible, then you guys can read it over, add suggestions or ideas and we'll go from there.

And yeah, I'm trying to learn the format, but I have yet to see how Mike will handle it.

Ooh, I'm interested in the old movie script type format. That'll be awesome.

We can do this! Go Titans!

PS. If any of you have suggestions for titles then just let us know, though we still probably won't choose one until the end.

EDIT: Alright, Mike just sent me back the Intro piece that I've written. As seen below. Post and tell me if you have ideas or suggestions. I'll probably try to write the next piece in the next few hours because Mike hasn't had time. Different timezones and all.

Apologies about the piece, it's not very good ><;;

And a small note, the coloured gas they each inhaled is mostly based on the post colours I've seen each of us use in the past or that do.[/SIZE]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1]A loud chattering came from a large population of senior students who stood waiting outside a monolithic research facility. None of them were especially thrilled to be having a field trip at such a place but they had few other choices, the marks they got from the work they filled out was worth 20% of their year grade.

Ms. Beth:
The students in my group are JJ, Stephen, Tiana, Mary and Mike.

A small group of teens split away from their friends and gathered around the teacher. A slender, tall auburn haired Greek, Mike, sneered and crossed his arms as he looked at who he had to be stuck with for the whole day.

Mike:
Why do I have to go with them?

Ms. Beth:
I?m sorry but it?s not my choice, everyone was split up into these groups for a reason.

Stephen (a pale, blonde-haired nerd-type dressed in uncharacteristically preppy clothing):
I don?t think this group is bad at all.

Everyone stares at him for a while before Mike breaks the silence again.

Mike:
Whatever, let?s just go already.

Tiana (a small, dark haired Hawaiian with tanned skin, dressed in casual feminine clothing):
Do you have to be so rude?

Mary (an lithe Asian tomboy dressed in jeans and a hoodie):
Hmph, what do you expect, that?s all he?s good for.

Ms. Beth:
Now now, keep calm. And?.JJ-?

Mike:
I?m Mike!

Ms. Beth:
Sorry. Mike?s right, we should be heading in now. We?ll be starting at a different point to the other groups.

Ms. Beth consultes her map of the facility, and leads the way in through the large glass-and-steel doors.

Ms. Beth:
Here we are. This is the Main Testing Area.

The group of six walks into a large, sterile white room, seeing plenty of cages filled with test animals, from simple lab rats to large monkeys and orangutans.

JJ (a tall American boy with glasses and dark hair):
This place is horrible. Does animal welfare know about this?

Mike scoffs, walking around and looking at all of the different animals in disinterest.

Ms. Beth:
Don?t forget to do the page in your workbooks.

The teens sigh and begin flipping through until they reach the correct page. There are a couple of scientists in the room who are busily flipping pages on their clipboards and typing things on a computer.

Stephen takes curious notice of six corked test tubes in a rack. He bends down until they are at eye level. Making a small noise of amazement as each is filled with a vapour and a coloured haze, each looking different to the other. He reaches out a hand to touch it?

Scientist:
Hey you! Don?t touch that!

The shout startles Stephen and he spins around clumsily, hands still outstretched, sweeping the rack of test tubes onto the floor with a smash. Ms. Beth, JJ, Tiana, Sakura and Mike all run over to see what has happened, each happening to inhale a different coloured gas.

Tiana: (inhales navy blue fumes)
Does anyone else feel light headed?

Mary: (inhales purple fumes)
Ugh, I do. I feel like I?m gonna be sick?

Mike: (inhales maroon gas)
You?re all weak?AHHH! *feels shooting pain in abdomen*

JJ: (inhales black gas)
I don?t feel sick, but my skin?s all tingly.

Ms. Beth: (inhales pale blue vapour)
I feel itchy?

Stephen: (inhales greyish vapour)
I don?t feel anything.

Scientist:
What have you done?! Years of research! Destroyed!!! GET OUT!!!

Ms. Beth quickly ushers the students out of the room and outside into the open air. A few of them are coughing, not noticing they had inhaled the gas. They stand in the front entrance together in a small circle, Ms. Beth eyeing each of them carefully with concern.

Ms. Beth:
Is everyone alright?

There are muttered ?yes?s and smothered coughs from the group as they all out to sit on a patch of grass outside the facility.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Ellerby]

[QUOTE=Sakura][COLOR=Navy][size=1]
Stephen (a pale, blonde-haired nerd-type with a dressed in uncharacteristically prepy clothing):
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[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma]Wow, that's so funny.

[b]EDIT:[/b] And you would think that there wouldnt be any typos after it's been proofread (though I can guess that Mike proofread it and [i]then[/i] added the pale nerd thing). Anyway, the rest is sweet. Could my colour be grey, though? :<[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Sakura]

[COLOR=Navy]Yeah I didn't really read it again after he sent it back to me. But we will make edits again before we finally submit it I think. I'm guessing Mike was in a hurry because he told me he didn't have much time which is why there would be errors in his corrections.

And I was thinking of making your colour grey/white but decided against it in the end. Though if that's what you want we'll change it to that.[/COLOR]

[Zen]

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Tell me what you think everyone. Four typed pages.


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The students and Ms. Beth gather together in the front, Ms. Beth turned around, attempting to apologize to the security guards leading them out. The students all appear indifferent as they individually stare off into the sky. Close ups to their faces reveal expressions of ignorance, each one ignoring the other and patiently daydreaming.

Ms. Beth (turned around towards the students)
Very well, students.... Due to this unfortunate accident, I?m afraid we must all leave. I suppose you may all board the bus and we?ll leave.

Mary
So what are we going to be doing the for the rest of the day, then?

Stephen (crossing his fingers, he whispers to himself hopefully)
Early dismissal, early dismissal... come on.

Ms. Beth (eyes Stephen slightly)
I suppose you may all go home early today. Nothing else is planned for you all.

Mike and Stephen in unison
Yes!

Ms. Beth
BUT! You must all use what you saw today in an essay to be written and handed into me by next week.

The groups of students begin to moan and groan together, Mike cursing aloud and ignored by Ms. Beth. The group begins to walk away unmotivated towards the bus, Ms. Beth making a head count before giving a thumbs up to the driver and boarding herself.

We fade to black.

We have a montage of each character. First we see Ms. Beth returning to a nicely decorated apartment. She turns on the apartment lights and sighs. She begins to rub her eyes as she enters further to reveal a japanese-influenced decoration style, several antiques spread out in various places. She greets a small short-haired gray cat at her feet and then sits down her bag and sits down onto a plush red couch, crossing her legs.

Stephen is seen frantically swinging the controller of a Nintendo Wii. His enthusiasm is apparent in laughs and taunts towards the video game.

Mary is seen typing at a computer, her attention focused on the screen. Very little light enters the room, and she seems to be enthralled by the piece of writing she is currently involved with. We turn the camera to see her typing the essay that is due.

Tiana is seen at a large drafting table lit by a lamp to her right. She is elegantly drawing some large picture with long strokes of a pencil. The creative spirit glistens in her eyes as she admirably glares at the drawing.

JJ is seen sitting at a desk chair, body spread out as he swerves around and speaks animatedly into a phone. Laughter and importance are involved in his silent conversation.

Mike is seen at a public gym, his fists wrapped and shirtless, he pounds on a hanging punching bag with his fists and legs. His concentration is completely taken by his work out.

We fade to black once again and show each character in similar fashion, but now in bed. Each one slumbers uneasily, as if plagued by some pain or nightmare. Ms. Beth seems to be in a state of disbelief as she sleeps. Mary has an expression of shock and terror. Stephen looks as if he is mystified or in wonder. Tiana covers her ears with a pillow, as if trying to stop some unwanted noise. JJ desperately scratches his skin all over in his slumber. Mike wears an expression of fury, anger and internal pain.

The next day, a sunny Saturday morning, each character is involved doing something or another.

We see Mary awaken, slowly she opens her eyes and takes in her surroundings. Slowly, she realizes where she is. In her bed, but now several times smaller. Wrinkles in the sheets seem like tidal waves, her pillow like a mountain, she begins to scream.

Mary
Oh God.... W-what!? This is a dream... yeah of course. It?s gotta be a dream!!!

We slowly move away to see just how small she is, hearing her desperate cries against reality in a small, squeaking voice.

Ms. Beth is in her kitchen, watching as her coffee machine works itself bored, she looks down to a small novel in her hands. She is dressed in a night robe, her hair up in a towel and skin wet from a shower. For a moment she sits, enthralled by her novel. Then the phone rings. She steps out to answer, but screams in suprise as she trips over her pet cat. She begins to fall and attempts to grab at the air, but fails to save herself. She continues to scream and clenches her eyes, but then realizes the lack of pain. She opens her eyes to stare at the floor below her, turning her head, she looks around her body and realizes that she is floating gently in the air. At this realization she drops to the floor with a loud THUD!

She slowly gets up and looks around in disbelief. The phone continues to ring, but she is too mesmerized and white eyed. Slowly she gets up and answers the phone.

Ms. Beth
Can?t talk.... right now...

She then hangs the phone up without care.

Stephen is up playing his video game in his pajamas. He hears a distant call from the distance, his mother.

Mother
Stephen! I need some help!

Stephen scoffs
One sec! I?m busy!

Mother
Now Stephen!!!

Stephen
ALRIGHT!

After his yell, he drops his controller and mumbles to himself

Stephen (in a whisper)
Can?t wait a damned minute, God....

He makes his way down stairs and calls to his mother.

Stephen
What is it ma?.... Ma? MA?!

He begin to look for her, annoyed, and then finds that she is standing in a still pose, as if frozen. Her mouth open in a mid-call, hand raised to her mouth while her other holds a basket of laundry.

Stephen (softly now)
Ma....?


Tiana sits alone at a breakfast table eating a piece of jelly toast. A glass of orange juice sits away from her, as does a TV remote. A small television sits off at a counter a few feet away from her. Her eyes seem lazy and she reaches for the orange juice. It?s too far for her reach, but she tries hard anyway, concentrating on the glass as she leans her body over to it. The glass begin to edge along the table by itself slowly. Unnoticed at first by Tiana, the glass lunges at her and into her open hand. She leaps back shocked and spills the glass.

Tiana
....whoa....

As if testing herself, she raises her eyebrow and pokes her tongue from between her lips. She begins concentrating on the TV remote in front of her. As if by magic, the remote trembles at first and the flies across the air and into her hands.
Tiana
Awesome! Haha!

Looking to the TV, then back the remote, she relinquishes the object and concentrates on the television. To her delight, the television blinks on. She begins to clap happily.

JJ is outside of his home, sitting on a stoop as he ties his shoes. He hears the sound of a car horn, and is startled by the noise. As he jumps, he loses his balance on the stoop step and falls over, and onto his forehead on the hard granite sidewalk. For a moment, he sits, then slowly raised up unfazed. Visibly confused, he raises his hand up and wipes his forehead only to brush off small particles of concrete.

JJ
Huh.... lucky me.

JJ begins to ponder, and wonder. He looks over to his stoop?s hand-guide, a stone-slab leading up the stairs. Balling up his fist, at first hesitantly. He rids his mind of fear and takes his hand, ramming it into the stone at full force.

He cringes at first, and then his face takes on an aura of wonder yet again. He looks to his hand to see it is undamaged.

JJ
....huh?

Mike is walking down the street in a visibly rough neighborhood. Graffiti-ed walls and cracked sidewalks abound as he makes his way down the block. His attention is taken away quickly by a fast motion behind me. A rough looking Caucasian man dressed in layered clothing is behind him, a pocket knife poking into Mike?s back.

Thug
Give me all ya cash and you won?t get hurt, kid.

Mike is obviously unafraid and spins around, grabbing the man by the wrist (which is holding the knife).

Mike
How about not?

Yanking the man towards him, Mike sends a knee into the man?s sternum and releases him. The blow sends the man flying back into an alley way at great speed and with heavy force. He slams into a brick wall, causing pieces of rubble to fall onto his head as he lands into a pile of garbage. He lays unconscious without so much as a groan.

Mike
Damn... where?d that come from?

Fade to black.[/color][/size]

[Ellerby]

[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma][i]Freaking awesome[/i]. All I gotta say.

Okay, not true. While I do love it, could there be a couple changes? Nothing bad, just me being picky about my character.... Actually, nevermind. I love it the way it is.

Seriously you could turn this into an extended story and put it in the Anthology once the challenge is over. I think I only noticed two or three errors. At one point you go from talking in third person to first person. lol

[quote name='Bossman']His attention is taken away quickly by a fast motion behind me.[/quote][/FONT][/COLOR]

[Zen]

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Sorry, writing the Hit in first person is getting to me. Haha.

I'm glad you like it though.[/color][/size]

[Riku]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1][FONT=Tahoma]Freaking sweet, Mike. I absolutely love the way you describe all of our attitudes and powers so nicely.

Especially mine... drawing elegantly... I like it.

Anyway, working on our cover page and going to send it to you guys via PM tomorrow. It's small, so I hope that's okay; I work better with a small canvas.

As for the characters, Mike, if you want to do it, you can. I don't have the time and I don't want to take up something and not do it, thus letting the whole team down.

So yup... this story is totally awesome so far. And what should the title be? Just wanted to know so I can put it on the cover, lol.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Zen]

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I don't think I'll have the time to do characters. If Sandy will let me get them in late, I may, but I doubt it'd be worth it.

I suppose a good title would be....

[b]Children of Cronus[/b]

That's the most poetic thing I could think of. I wanted it to be elegant, but have some kind of depth and also coincide with our team name. Cronus was the first Titan in Greek mythology, and as mentioned before, the father of the Olympians. Thought it sounded appropriate.

Any objections?[/color][/size]

[Sandy]

[QUOTE=The Boss][color=darkred][size=1]
If Sandy will let me get them in late, I may, but I doubt it'd be worth it.
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[FONT=Century Gothic]Not a chance, Mike. ;D I expect to have each team's full script posted to the main thread during next Saturday.[/FONT]

[Ellerby]

[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma]Yeesh, Sandy. You're watching these threads like a hawk, aren't you? Haha.

Anyway, Children of Cronus sounds awesome. I've been fooling around with the background and stuff and its turning out alright. I may not go the Hollywood script style, though.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]Sounds good to me. ^_^ And I'm sorry I haven't been around, I had some dental work done earlier today and the pain meds sort of made me really loopy for a while. But later tomorrow I'll have time to hop back in and help more. [/COLOR]

[Sakura]

[color=navy]Yeah, I like the title, but isn't Cronus spelt "Chronus"? I don't really know but I always thought there was a 'h' in there.

Either way, it sounds good.

Sorry I haven't had time to write any more of the script, so if anyone has time to do it please do. If no one has done so by later when I'm free, I'll try to work on it. But no real promises there.[/color]

[Ellerby]

[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma]Chronus was a different greek being, the personification of time.

Also, KW. The cover looks awesome. I really like the Superman logo you snuck in to the right. Nothing to change there.

As for the script, I would [i]really[/i] like it if you guys could have it done by tommorow night. I want to have a full day to insert all the HTML and music stuff.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Riku]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=1][FONT=Tahoma]Fantastic, Stephen, just plain fantastic. I had absolutely no idea how to work the theme, "Superhero," into a cover until I just saw that picture of New York. After that, it just all came into play.

Anyway, it seems like everything is under control. If I can do anything else, let me know. :3[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]