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PRE GAME PLANNING POST: TEAMS, ORGANISATIONS, ETC

This post is for discussing/establishing/working out details of specific teams, groups, organisations etc. with your fellow players. Use this post to -

clarify how long your character has been a part of an organisation and what rank they have or what role they play there,
suggest things about the way the group operates,
ask questions about specifics of mod run teams,
just generally throw out ideas!

You can suggest ideas and stuff for a group even if your character isn't involved in it.

We are going to make threads below for mod-created groups, but feel free to add your own for companies, teams, etc. that you think other people might like to be involved in.

Also, don't forget to check back on the CR MEME to check for new people to shove your character/s at!

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Alpha Force was founded in the 1960s and is currently the longest running active superhero team in the world. It usually has between four and seven active members at any given time, and although the amount of media attention the team gets varies they're typically in the spotlight, with new members often making the news. New Alpha Force members are generally determined by people already on the team, and it's typically only experienced and talented heroes that will be invited to join. (And ones whose public images aren't too controversial...)

Alpha Force operates out of a tower with their logo on it in downtown LA. Members have rooms there if they want them, and it has all the facilities you'd expect a team of superheroes to need. There's also room on the ground floor for event hosting where necessary.

Following the disappearance of Druid, Fissure and Zoom in November last year, Alpha Force will be seeking to re-fill those suddenly empty spots, either calling for past members to return or looking to recruit new ones, so if you want a character on Alpha Force they can either be a current member, one who joins at the start of the game, or one who used to be in it but has come back.

Alpha Force has been going for a long time and there are a lot of people who have been on the team in the past but have since gone solo, joined different teams, or retired. If you want your character to be ex Alpha Force that's absolutely fine – same if you want another figure in your character's backstory to have been an Alpha Force member.

Edited 2014-01-24 21:04 (UTC)

CONDOR are this universe's SHIELD equivalent, basically. They do spy stuff and they handle superhuman and paranormal activity in a more official capacity than just punching it or shooting lasers at it or throwing it into the sun. They often team up with superheroes, though, and there are some superheroes who are more closely affiliated with them than others.

By its nature CONDOR's inner workings are fairly mysterious to the public. They have multiple bases, but what we can presume is their main one is in the region of LA, presumably because of the city's status as a centre for superhero and villain activity. They have a lot of cool gadgets. The chief of CONDOR is Colonel Carmen Catmurder, who is in her 50s and smokes a lot of cigars. Apart from that you are welcome to bring your own vision to CONDOR as regards your own characters in it.

Edited 2014-01-24 20:25 (UTC)

A bunch, of losers. They've been around for the last 10 years or so and in that time have yet to appease their elemental spirit gods into fundamentally altering the planet's geography by stealing things from museums and banks and so on. I don't think we have any characters in these groups but if you have any questions about them go ahead.

Edited 2014-01-24 20:30 (UTC)

A society of wizards. Anybody who is a significant magic user gets extended an Enclave invitation as soon as the Enclave's existing members get wind of their existing, unless they are openly evil. They have no official charter or base of operations, they just conjure everybody into a pocket dimension whenever they want to hold a meeting. Alternatively, there is an astral plane hang out that is always open that can be accessed through meditation.

Edited 2014-01-24 20:41 (UTC)

This is more or less a joke, but if you do want your character to be involved in this, feel free to ask. Obviously, due to the nature of this universe, their operations are not quite as all encompassing in terms of the unexplained as the organisation they are based on, but they are just as secretive about the things they do secure and contain.

Edited 2014-01-24 20:32 (UTC)

In this game for the time being we're going to be dealing specifically with the West Coast Trailblazers, although there are other factions across North America. Characters can be transferred to the West Coast faction from other, similar groups. We have quite a lot on the Trailblazers so far because a lot of people have apped into it and we've had to answer a lot of questions and think about a lot of stuff, so here's some info you may find useful, and which will be going on the wiki presently:

As established, the Trailblazers is a youth organisation designed to help teenagers who want to be superheroes to find their footing in a stable, government supported (and monitored) environment, so that they can learn how to fight crime as part of a team without getting themselves into too much trouble. The age limit is technically 16-25, but older members of the team tend to be either long-time members, or college or just-out-of-college kids who are new to superheroics – someone age 23 who wanted to register as a superhero would not be required to join the Trailblazers unless they had no idea what they were doing.

Because they're mostly minors, they have to follow rules that other registered heroes don't: they're not allowed to go after a bad guy if they're not accompanied by at least one other member of the team, they're not allowed to engage anything with a threat level higher than B, and they're not allowed to enter an alternate dimension or travel through time without a chaperone. (There are probably more rules. Feel free to suggest some.) That's not to say these things never happen to them and that the rules never get bent – they do – but in an official capacity they aren't supposed to do those things if they have a choice in the matter, and should try to avoid getting into those situations where possible. They will get a stern talking-to from the CONDOR hero registration department officer who is tasked with keeping an eye on them if they flout these rules, and may be suspended or removed from the team if it happens too often.

At any one time the West Coast Trailblazers squad includes kids who are on active Trailblazer duty and kids who are in training – unless they have experience doing superhero stuff, new members usually spend a while in training before they become active members, doing combat training with and taking pointers from the more experienced members, and occasionally accompanying them on more basic everyday crime fighting stuff, although how long varies.

CONDOR is not responsible for the education of Trailblazers members, although it does provide living accommodations for those who would prefer not to have to commute to the base. The West Coast Trailblazers base has some single rooms and some double, with a few communal bathrooms, and a communal kitchen and recreation area. There are also training facilities, although nothing super technologically advanced. There is no specific amount of time a member is required to spend at the base. They do all get communicators.

The base itself is very high security, but on the outside it looks like a normal building and its location isn't made public, for the safety of Trailblazers members who live there or spend a lot of time there but are trying to maintain a civilian identity at the same time.

Personally I'm imagining the agent tasked with dropping in on the West Coast Trailblazers' base to make sure they haven't wrecked the place is Cobra Bubbles from Lilo & Stitch, but if somebody ends up wanting to app a character into that role he can always retire.

Edited 2014-01-24 22:16 (UTC)

Awful. The precise goals of its mysterious leader are uncertain, but basically amount to world domination. In pursuit of this nebulous but sinister goal, the organisation will take whatever it can get in terms of scientific and technological advances and it doesn't care whether those are scrupulously gotten, so it's a convenient source of funding and resources for people who want to do grossly illegal science research and don't care who it ends up benefiting. Of course you can't just stroll up to TRIDENT and offer them your support, because their actual bases are under the Pacific ocean and some of them may be ambulatory, but they have contacts all over the world and will often reach out to people whose methods they feel might be good to have on board.

Not every character who works for TRIDENT operates out of their secret underwater bases – some of them are just funded and supported by TRIDENT and may only have contact with other TRIDENT members remotely. Others actually live there, though, under the Pacific, because either they wanted to or TRIDENT had to spirit them away from their previous location in order to keep on using their skills without them getting arrested.

For stuff unrelated to any specific organisation that people might want to discuss or establish about the game universe! For example, I notice we have some Ace Attorney characters on the taken and reserves list, so if anybody has any thoughts about universe-specific superhero law, feel free to mention it. Or anything else you might want to throw out there!

Just gonna toss this on here in case anybody wants to be involved with this, Vanessa Goldpaw's company does a lot of science stuff but the fun, glossy gadgets end of innovation is where most of its money is made. Like Apple but with a paw print logo. Imagine. Smartphones with a pawprint on. Cute as hell. Wow.

Anyway, all kinds of people are probably employed in Goldpaw Tech for various stuff. It's a nice working environment. Pretty relaxed and spacious. They're based out of LA but no doubt have offices all over the place.

PROBABLY WORTH HAVING ON HERE...

Most things about trolls are covered on the relevant wiki page but if anybody has any thoughts or questions about that fire away. One thing worth mentioning is probs that it makes no real sense for "troll" to be like a respectable, direct translation of whatever the Alternian word for troll is, so I'm assuming that "troll" is kind of like a short, slangy, negative word for the other side in a war, like the equivalent of "hun" for Germans – not exactly a slur but also not what you'd call them to their face unless you were being rude, and if you were being polite you'd just say Alternian, probably!

It's still very much a work in progress which is why I haven't set up a page for it or anything (it doesn't even have a name okay they can work on it together) but if you have a teenager or young adult who is unregistered or otherwise doesn't want to be part of the Trailblazers for [x suspicious reason] then COME JOIN NAGISA (and possibly Jake English??)!

I don't have any concrete plans for it yet--as of game start Nagisa will only just be trying to get something going--but if you're interested in ridiculous possibly matching uniforms and super secret meetings on rooftops, hit me up!

Baelheit started a private R&D firm after he left TRIDENT to continue his cybernetics research, but he's expanded beyond just making people into cyborgs because unfortunately at this juncture that doesn't pay the bills. Mintaka Industries manufactures all kinds of neat gadgets, from shield generators to sonic pistols, ET CETERA. It isn't a HUGE firm, but big enough to employ plenty of researchers and such, so if your character needs someplace to work (or wants to work there) hit me up! Baelheit sells his tech to all types, villains and heroes alike; he's mostly in it to make the money to fund his research, as well as his upcoming political campaign.

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