slyc_willie
Captain Crash
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[size=+2]The Progeny[/size]
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Schedule:
Jan 26: slyc_willie
Feb 2: AchtungNight
Feb 9: KarennaC
Feb 16: Remec
Feb 23: ?
The Map
Back Story
The Villains:
Joseph Baines Krell
Age: 66
Dr. Miguel Ruiz
Age: 61
Born into money, Joseph Krell never had to want for anything in his life. His father, however, insisted young Joe learn what it means to earn a living, and had his son start off as a middle-manager for a product distribution warehouse in Kansas. It was a job Joe hated, although he proved to be an adept leader. Still, his arrogance was telling to those around him; Joe looked down upon most people, and it showed.
His father was impressed with the way Joe handled business, so the young Krell was promoted several times, until Joe Krell became vice-president of Krellco Industries. At only thirty-one, Krell began investing his share of the business in numerous endeavors, including military and government contracts. The elder Krell was none to fond of his son's business tactics, however, even though they made the company money. He finally began to realize just how ruthless his son was when Joe closed down some less-profitable textile plants in favor of devoting money toward medical research. Tens of thousands in America's heartland were put out of work, a fact which Joe did not seem to mind.
Joe's father eventually threatened his son with firing him, to which Joe responded by leaving Krellco Industries and taking his contracts with him. Forming a new company called Firefall, Krell amassed an incredible fortune through defense contracts and medical research grants. By 1980, Firefall was one of the largest defense contractors in the country, and with its patents on hundreds of forms of technology, a global corporate giant.
In 1981, Firefall made a hostile takeover bid of Krellco and either incorporated or liquidated all of its holdings. In a public press conference, Krell fired his own father. As of that takeover, Joseph Krell became the tenth richest man in the world. His father would pass away a few years later.
At the same time, Krell's interests in medical research yielded interesting results. A little-known scientist by the name of Dr. Miguel Ruiz had succeeded in genetic alteration in laboratory animals and claimed to have developed a means of altering human DNA with predictable results. No one would touch his research, however, given the moral complications of human genetic testing. Krell had no compunctions, however, and funded Ruiz's work. He set the man up in a laboratory in the Bahamas.
By 1983, Ruiz had supposedly perfected his process for altering human DNA. Krell was eager to see the results, and supplied Ruiz with several test subjects. Most perished in gruesome ways, but one survived albeit hideously disfigured. Ruiz decided that fully grown test subjects were not the answer. Humans would have to be altered before they were born.
Krell agreed and brought Ruiz to the States. In the small town of Firefall, Wisconsin (named for the company, of course, which owns everything in town), a fertility clinic was established as part of Krell's new apparent initiative of “Medical Research for a New Tomorrow.” Before patients could be treated, however, the clinic was destroyed by fire, with everything apparently destroyed and Dr. Ruiz perishing. In a press conference, Krell blamed the attack on “corporate terrorism,” citing his numerous business enemies.
Not everything was destroyed, however. Dr. Ruiz, having discovered that Krell planned to do away with him once his “Metahuman Serum” was complete, faked his death with the fire and fled, taking the fruits of his work with him. He changed his name and found work as a janitor at a different fertility clinic in Chicago. Over the following six years, Ruiz altered the sperm samples of numerous donors, and has been keeping track of the children as they grew.
Now, twenty-five years have passed, and Ruiz's “children” have come of age. Dr. Ruiz still lives in the Chicago area under the name Manuel Garza. He runs a small private practice, catering mainly to low-income minorities and generally flying under the radar. But he has been keeping tabs on "his" children, awaiting the day they were all old enough to be brought together.
The Heroes:
Name: Damon Ross
Author: slyc_willie
Age: 24
Basic Description: Stocky, muscular male, dark hair and fair skin. Wrestled and played soccer in high school, might have become a professional athlete if not for an injury to his left leg in his junior year. Went on to college but dropped out after two years. He now works as a bartender and supplements his income through the creation and selling of ice sculptures.
Ability: Cryokinesis. Damon is able to create and manipulate masses of frozen water, and has developed a level of control that allows him to fabricate intricate designs with relative ease. He can create ice from ambient moisture in the air, and can even condense it to make his creations stronger and denser. More humid environments are naturally more conducive to his ability, so he lives in the Seattle area.
Relations: Damon was an only child and believe that the man he calls 'dad' is really his father. His parents live in Belleview, Washington while Damon's apartment lies in Federal Way.
Name: Samuel Baker
Author: Remec
Age: 24
Vitals: just shy of 6'. mid 180# range. Dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes (sometimes more green, sometimes more brown)
Power: Specialized form of intangibility and teleportation--Sam melds into shadows to the point of losing his physical form temporarily and becoming a two-dimensional silhouette. He can also shadow walk...slip from one pool of darkness to another one within his field of vision. (At first. He might be capable of blind 'porting, but hasn't tried or considered that yet.)
Name: Rowena Transen
Author: EmeraldDragon
Age: 19
Power: Strong receiving telepath, weak sending telepath (she hasn't used it on purpose yet.
Appearance: Very scandinavian, pale blonde hair, pale blue eyes, very fair skin that sun burns very easily. 5' 6" on the skinny side due to a recent hospital stay.
Rowena manifested her receiving telepathic abilities very young. They are mostly uncontrolled. Like standing in a noisy football stadium and trying to pick out voices. Her mother and step father have her seeing shrinks and on major drugs for mental illnesses like schizo. for which she was incorrectly diagnosed.
She is 19 her older brother Brody would have been 24. He killed himself when Rowena was 12 after years of "mental Illness" (he had telepathy also although they didn't manifest themselves untill puberty)
Home schooled for the most part because of her frequent hospitalizations she has been taking college courses on line for several years. She has recently started private lessons with a very respected Tae Kwon Do instructor (she cant handle crowds) and she is learning some meditation techniques from him also. This is helping her block her mind and she is wondering now if she is really crazy or if there is something else going on. The meditation is allowing her to filter out a lot of the extra background voices and zero in on the thoughts of people that are physically closer to her.
Rowena's mother is extremely over protective of her. She has a half-sister (same mother) that is six years younger than her and completely normal. They are not close.
Through her biology and genetics class she has figured out that the man she thought was her father was not (through blood typing). This search for her biological father will lead her to the clinic where her mother and 'father' had artificial insemination done with donor sperm.
Name: Ted Stackmore.
Author: AchtungNight
Occupation: Mining engineer.
Age: 24.
Description: Slavic-featured Caucasian male, brown hair and eyes, muscular from years of working underground.
Hometown: Jackpot, Nevada.
Powers: Passive ability to find mineral deposits and explore caverns by instinct alone. When under stress, he can make earth move with his mind. Open chasms, cause tremors, create walls, and so on. He doesn't entirely understand his powers.
Turn-Ons: Gambling, strippers, alcohol, moonlit nights.
Turn-Offs: Users, people who like to hurt other people, nosy investigators, dangerous explosions.
Notes: Has a conscience and a sense of decency. Not sure if he wants to be a hero or even really is. His powers could all be coincidence. "Maybe the earth shifts on its own and I just happen to be there." He still has to learn that isn't the case.
Name: Gretchen Kincaid
Author: Glynndah
Age: ?
Gretchen Kincaid lives in a small town close to where she grew up. She's an average woman, doesn't stand out in a crowd and has absolutely no psychic abilities at all. She knows because she was tested along with everyone else in her sophomore psychology class, as a favor to a friend. She scored average at best.
However, it's a rather odd thing. In high school she used to babysit in the kitchen while her neighbor gave palm readings in the living room. On the nights she was there, the reading were extraordinarily accurate, but no one noticed the coincidence.
It was true she manifested no psychic abilities at all, but while she was filing papers in the psych lab, everyone involved in that afternoon's testing scored dramatically high, almost 98% accuracy. Try as they might, they'd never been able to duplicate the results. Gretchen moved on to another job on campus that fit her schedule better.
And that cute guy in the apartment upstairs, the one she flirted with during the elevator ride they shared each morning? He moved out yesterday, leaving no forwarding address. But he probably wouldn't be getting his security deposit back anyway. The "souvenirs" his landlady found when she cleaned out his apartment, linked him to the murders of those ten coeds who'd gone missing.
Name: Dorian Truslow
Author: KarennaC
Age: 22
Discovered his ability early, age 2 or 3, when he picked up a new toy and told his mother that a "bad man" made it. Turned out an employee of the factory where the toy had been made had been arrested for luring children with toys from the factory and... well, anyway, that's irrelevant to the chain.
Dorian's mom grew to be afraid of her son, especially since she was into some shady stuff herself and was afraid he'd find out about it with his ability. She became abusive, and Dorian ultimately ended up in foster care when he was 6. He realized that his ability freaked people out and also couldn't tolerate having so much information flooding his mind, so he trained himself to filter it, pushing aside anything that wasn't relevant and only focusing on things he needed to know. As he got older, he developed the skill of blocking his mind entirely, though when an object has information he needs to know, his hands tingle when he touches it and he then opens his mind to learn from it.
Even though people didn't necessarily know about his ability, Dorian made most of his foster families nervous, so they shuffled him around to the point that by his 18th birthday, he'd been in almost two dozen different homes. The day he turned 18, he took off from his final foster home and has been taking care of himself ever since. Because of the abuse from his mother, and the shuffling from place to place, Dorian trusts pretty much no one.
Physical appearance: Dorian's on the short side, only about 5'7"-5'8", and has a "baby face". At 22, he could easily pass for 15 or 16. He's skinny but muscular (had to learn to fight to deal with punks at school who hassled him for being a foster child and for being "weird"), and has brown hair and brown eyes.
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