Gotham City Origins part two :No Man's Land Recruitment thread

[Batman4560]

Hey all, Gotham City Origins is moving forward eight months.

After the Riddler gives Poison Ivy an E.M.P. stole from Wayne Enterprises by Catwoman, Gotham is thrown into chaos. A prison break by Killer Croc. Has led to Gotham being over run by criminals and the corrupt. Now Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl and the police led by Captain James Gordon are trying to place the city back under control. The Military has blocked off Gotham and won't let anyone in or out. In two months the President plans on bombing Gotham and killing everyone in the city unless someone can take control.

We need players who are willing to play the various villains in the city. This will be a sandbox style story with every villain controlling a gang. Eventually every villain will be stopped and placed in either Arkham or Blackgate. We need players for characters like James Gordon, Penguin, Joker, ect, ect.

Roles Filled:

Batman
Nightwing
Batgirl
Catwoman
Deadshot
The Joker
Poison Ivy
Felicity Smok
Oliver Queen
Harley Quinn
Spoiler
The Question.
Riddler
Huntress
DeathStroke
Two-Face
Holly Robinson
Tim Drake

Roles Needed:

Black Mask
Jason Todd
Penguin
Other villains.


James Gordon
Harvey Bullock

If you are interested please either P.M. me or let me know here. I hope to hear from everyone soon.

OOC Thread: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=218350.0

Character Sheet:

Name:
Alias:
Age:
Race:
Sex:
Orientation:
Occupation:
Height:
Weight:
Personal Effects:
Personality:
Brief: (Name and role in Gotham)
Role Play: Batman Verse (Free Form)
Extra:
                   
Backround:


Want to see the approved character sheets? Have a look here:

https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=196064.0

[Diesel Heart]

Red Hood?

[Batman4560]

We can make it fit. I'll be getting a cs up after I wake up in the morning. So get a concept for Red Hood who was never Robin. We can work out the details via P.M.

[fezesarecool]

I'd be interested in Jim Gordon!

[Life in Color]

I would love to write an Ivy for this.

[Batman4560]

Gordon and Ivy :) Noted. I look forward to seeing everyone's character sheets.

[Batman4560]

Two have been approved so far, who else is interested?

[TheVillain]

Well, I did have an idea I've been kicking around with.

Name: Sgt. Floyd Lawton
Alias: Deadshot
Age: 32
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Special Ops - Sniper
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 210 lbs
Personal Effects:

• Laser Eye Patch - A high tech laser-assist eyepatch he wears over his right eye to augment his aiming skills and access personal databases. In combination with the scope of a sniper rifle he's said to never miss a shot.
• Sniper Rifle - Floyd's weapon of choice.
• Colt M1911 - Floyd's backup weapon of choice.
• Locket - A small locket often worn around his neck but slipped into his pocket for his attacks. Contained is a picture of a woman and two children, one of the children is Caucasian while the other is clearly at least half Hispanic. The woman is his dead wife Susan, the Caucasian child is his dead son Eddie, and the half-Hispanic child is his missing daughter Zoe.
• The List - It's not exactly public knowledge that the President is prepared to nuke Gotham if the situation isn't contained in 2 months, but Floyd knows this. Because Floyd is the president's Plan B. Given a list of 100 individuals, Floyd has been told that Gotham City will be destroyed in 60 days unless every single individual on that list is either committed in Arkham, incarcerated in Blackgate, or Dead by the end of those 60 days.

Personality: While not blatantly suicidal, Floyd has been psychologically evaluated to have very strong self-destructive urges. He seems to genuinely not care if he lives or dies, he just doesn't want to do the job himself. He always was a bit of a loner and a tad anti-social. Prefers to exclusively hire the services of prostitutes for sexual encounters, claims that in his experience marriages never end well even when they do start well. The only real exception seems to be if Children are involved, especially Zoe. Floyd may have no reason to live on a personal level but the very idea of Zoe being in danger can bring out the Papa Bear in him after all.
Brief: The mysterious grim reaper in Gotham, and possibly its savior. The President has to nuke Gotham in 60 days you see, that's the time analysts give before sensitive materials and knowledge officially gets out. But the President does have a Plan B - because only certain people actually have to die. So if Deadshot gets to them within the 60 days the bomb doesn't have to drop.

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that Zoe went missing and Floyd is willing to do anything to get her back. Even if that means blowing up a city.

Role Play: Micheal Rowe
Extra: The names on the List are known only to Floyd (and the GMs) but Floyd has permission from the President to also kill whoever it takes to get through the List. It's personal for Floyd though. His son Eddie was raped and murdered by an unknown pedophile in Gotham, his former wife killed herself over that. He's also in Gotham because he's learned that while doing some special ops on one of the Cartels he ended up sleeping with a Gotham member of a Columbian Cartel named Michelle Torres, and she had a daughter named Zoe. And now Zoe has gone missing in the No Man's Land.

So Floyd's in Gotham not only to potentially save it from nuclear annihilation but he's also in Gotham to get revenge for his son's rape and murder that drove his wife to suicide, and to find his missing illegitimate daughter Zoe before she suffers a similar fate - because she is, without even a hint of exaggeration, the only reason he has to live for and he'll do anything to get her back. Even if that means killing everyone else in Gotham to do it.
                   
Backround: Floyd didn't have what one could call an ideal childhood. His parents didn't even really like each other, they just got pregnant and had a shotgun wedding. In time they grew to hate each other but by then they had two boys, Floyd being the younger of the two. Their home life was miserable but they did have a bit of refuge outside where they could go hunting. Both of the Lawton boys got to be very good shots actually.

Floyd's older brother Edward eventually lied about his age to join the military to get away from the abuse, which quickly trained him to be a sniper. It was coming back that was his brother's mistake. Believing his training had made him strong enough to finally being some peace to the Lawton house, all it did was enrage their father further. Floyd's father killed his mother and his older brother that night, and would of killed him too if Floyd hadn't managed to hide out in the woods with his hunting rifle. The lawyers called it Self-Defense. What he's only shared with a military psychologist though was that he had the rifle sooner and he tried to save his brother - would of too if he hadn't missed the shot.

Joining the military to follow his brother's footsteps, Floyd too would be trained as a Sniper. There's a quite a few people in powerful positions that would go as far as to say he's the Best Sniper America's ever had in fact. Susan just had the bad luck of falling in love with him. A reporter from New York they tried to start a family and life together, but unfortunately they tried to do it in Gotham. While Floyd was serving a tour of duty in Iraq their young son Eddie - named for Floyd's diseased but remembered foldly older brother - was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a pedophile. Their marriage might of survived elsewhere, but they were in Gotham. Susan would kill herself over how badly the Gotham PD handled the case and Floyd went deeper into his work to hide the horror.

Floyd didn't love Michelle Torres, that should be made clear. She was just a prostitute with the Venitas Cartel he slept with to maintain his cover during a special ops mission. She didn't love him either, but the condom broke and she became pregnant with a daughter she named Zoe and Michelle did love Zoe. Loved her enough to quit the life and set up a new home, if she could only manage Gotham. Michelle only managed to get word to Floyd about Zoe last year, and even then they have to keep it a secret. To Floyd though it was a second chance to try and be a good dad even if it has to be a secret.

No Man's Land has had him in a silent panic, all the more so that he's gotten word that Zoe's gone missing. Willing to take any excuse to get into No Man's Land, he'd get one from the President Himself. 60 Days. The President's analysts say that's about how long they have before the chaos of Gotham City results in something horrible getting out into the world, from sensitive information to experimental materials, something has to be done to Gotham in 60 Days. Floyd Lawton is the President's Plan B. The Pentagon has made a list you see, of 100 Gotham Citizens. Mostly Criminals, the Pentagon and the President are convinced that if all 100 are either in Arkham, in Blackgate, or Dead before the deadline then Gotham doesn't have to burn. Which is good, because somewhere in Gotham there's also someone who knows what happened to Eddie and someone else that knows where Zoe is.

So it's really simple. The President has written off Gotham and it's citizens already. They're all already dead, they just don't know it yet. But if Deadshot can kill enough of them then the rest of the people can live in the hellish cesspool they call a city. Sgt. Lawton is saving lives, with every bullet and body he puts in the ground there's a chance that someone else will live instead. Which is good, because if the reward is finally getting some Revenge for his son Eddie and being able bring home safe his missing daughter Zoe then Deadshot is willing to kill every single citizen of Gotham to do it, one bullet at a time.

[Batman4560]

Looks good. Welcome aboard. I am waiting of a few more sheets before I get anything going for sure. But I'll be adding this to my character sheet list.

[Batman4560]

Also check the first post for any links that I may put up incase you need to check anything out.

[Batman4560]

Poison Ivy and Joker have been taken but we still need more players, keep those sheets coming guys.

[Batman4560]

Still need a few more writers. Send or post your sheets.

[Batman4560]

One last bump before we move on.

[Batman4560]

Hey all, the Out of Character thread is up.

[Batman4560]

Still taking characters. :)

Put in an app here or p.m. them to me.

[Batman4560]

Game starts today, continue putting in those apps.

[Deamonbane]

Would Ozymandias from the DC Watchmen comics be acceptable for this game?

[Batman4560]

I don't like to say no to characters but we are keeping this strictly Gotham Themed characters simply because the last time we didn't things got gunked up and bad.

[Deamonbane]

Right-O.

[Batman4560]

Come write with us.

[Batman4560]

Still taking players.

[VoluptuousVixen]

Name: Felicity Smoak
Alias: Oracle (Dare I use it?)
Age: 24
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Oliver Queens Personal Assistant
Height: 5`5
Weight: 120
Personal Effects: Glasses, Her laptop and cell phone are her weapons.
Personality: Fun and Talkative, Loyal and very brave.
Brief: (Name and role in Gotham) She was visiting Gotham with Oliver Queen when Chaos ensued.
Role Play: Batman Verse (Free Form)
Extra:
                   
Backround:

Felicity is the daughter of Henry Ivo, and Donna Smoak. She is the good friend of Oliver Queen and John Diggle. Primary contact between The Arrow and Starling City Police Department Officer Mcennan Hall. She is also a friend and former employee of Walter Steele. Felicity is very intelligent and extremely proficient with electronics, which is why both Walter and Oliver initially approached her for help in their separate problems. Felicity was drawn into Oliver's vigilante team due to her desire to find her abducted boss and friend, Walter Steele, who, prior to his kidnapping, had secretly asked her to look into some suspicious things happening with his money and business. When she finds evidence confirming his suspicions, Walter asks her to stop looking further because he didn't want to put her in more danger. However, she stubbornly continues to look into it, and after Walter is kidnapped, she realizes that he might have been taken due to the things she found.

Meanwhile, Oliver Queen has approached Felicity for help with a few odd tasks (that he couldn't complete himself), using ridiculous cover stories in a vain attempt to hide the true purpose of his request. Putting two and two together, Felicity begins to suspect that Oliver was involved with Starling City's new vigilante archer, which helps her eventually decide to approach Oliver with Walter's copy of The List (which Walter found in his and Moira's bedroom), trusting him with the information.

After Oliver is shot by his mother, he retreats to Felicity's car, revealing his identity to her and asking her to drive him to his warehouse instead of a hospital. After she and Diggle save his life, she agrees to join his team, but only until they find Walter. After Walter is found and rescued in "The Undertaking," Felicity decided to remain with the team.

In the beginning, Felicity doesn't agree with Oliver's methods in catching criminals, but later starts to loosen up after she helps capture The Dodger and realizes that what he does isn't all bad. Unfortunately, she would later be unable to get a lock on the location of a criminal, and is subsequently forced to watch a man die due to her failure. She begins to lose faith in herself until John Diggle realizes that their target was on a moving train underground, which allows her to anticipate where the train would be next and help save Roy Harper.

Felicity has gone on three undercover missions: first as a card-counter in a mob-run casino, second as a Big Belly Burger delivery girl at Merlyn Global Group, and third as bait for The Dollmaker. She had her first solo-mission, taking down William Tockman.

The Week after She Oliver and Diggle went to Gotham City on Business and got caught up in the EMP blast. For the Last Six Months team Arrow has been operating inside Gotham under the Radar, With Felicty limited to what she can do in her role as "Oracle".

[Batman4560]

Looks good, assume that she will be placed in the Character Sheet thread when I have a chance.

[Batman4560]

Just a reminder that everyone is subject to obey the rules on E. If age or anything else is violated you will be reported. Not that it has happened but I feel that it should be stated.

[Matttheman89]

Name: Oliver Queen
Alias: The Arrow/The Hood
Age: 27
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: CEO of Queen Consolidated
Height: 6'2
Weight: 210 lbs
Personal Effects:

-Customized Oneida Kestrel Compound Bow: This Customized Oneida Kestrel Compound Bow serves as Oliver's bow, it was designed by Felicity. It can fire 2 small explosives from the ends of the bow riser. Oliver also uses it as an improvised quarterstaff. 

-Trick arrows: Oliver has used custom-designed arrows such as incendiary arrows that explode on contact. On occasions, he has also been known to use arrows embedded with recording and listening devices.

-Flechette: Oliver, as The Arrow, carries flechettes or the equivalent to darts to disarm people.

-Arrow Costume: Oliver wears a costume as his heroic alter-ego, The Arrow, to hide his identity from his enemies, when he goes out fighting crime.

-Arrow Gauntlets: These gauntlets are used by Oliver (as his heroic alter-ego The Arrow) to carry his flechettes.

Personality: Prior to his time on Lian Yu, Oliver was the stereotypical spoiled brat and bad boy. He was unimaginably rich, a playboy and didn't care who got hurt due to his actions. He was also laid back, selfish, and a manipulator, back then. He underwent a rapid change in his personality when his father killed himself, so that Oliver could survive and right his wrongs. During the five years that Oliver spent on the island of Lian Yu, he was molded by the many trials and tribulations he underwent into the man he is today; strong, stoic, caring, and filled with a newfound sense of justice that motivates him to fight crime as the Arrow.

Brief: While visiting Gotham with the rest of his team, Oliver Queen was trapped within in the city when it was cut off from the outside world. He now works as the Arrow to try and figure out a way out of the mess he has found himself in, so that he can return to his own home city and resume his war on crime there.
Role Play: Batman Verse (Free Form)

Extra:

                   
Backround:

Oliver Queen is the son of Moira Queen and Robert Queen, and the oldest son in the Queen family. Until his fateful trip with his father out on the seas, Oliver lived the life of a rich and arrogant playboy. He cared little about anyone but himself, and did nothing but spend his family's money. That all changed on the day he was shipwrecked on the island of Lian Yu. His Father confessed to him of the many shady and corrupt business deals he had been involved in with many of the businessmen of Starling City before committing suicide, knowing that there were only enough supplies in their lifeboat for one person. He left Oliver a list, asking him to right the wrongs that he had committed during his life.

Oliver spent the next five long years of his life stranded on the island, training and honing his body in order to prepare himself for the crusade that he would undergo should he ever escape the island. He was involved in many adventures with many different people; but it would likely take Oliver another five years to recount everything that he experienced on the island. Suffice to say, the Oliver Queen that came to the island was a very different Oliver Queen than the one that was eventually rescued five years later.

Upon returning to Starling City, Oliver wasted no time in fulfilling the promise he had made to his Father. He fashioned a costume for himself to hide his identity from his family and the people of his city; using his mastery of archery to hunt down the corrupt men on his Father's list and criminals of Starling City alike. But as skilled as Oliver was, it was impossible for him to go it alone forever. Eventually he was forced to bring others into his fight. First it was John Diggle, a former military officer hired by his Mother to serve as his bodyguard upon his return to the world. And then it was Felicity Smoak, an IT girl at his family company that was drawn into the circumstances surrounding his Father's list by his step-father, Walter Steele.

Their was some friction between the trio at first, but soon they were a well-honed crime fighting team. And together, they managed to unravel "The Undertaking", a plan put into motion by the Father of Oliver Queen's best friend Tommy Merlyn, Malcomn Merlyn. Now they continue to work to clean up the streets of Starling City as Team Arrow.