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NORTH DAKOTA: Rugaru (Ape-man cursed by a witch)

ALABAMA: Snakecharmer (Pentecostal mage specializing in healing, protection, and snake magic)

VERMONT: Libertas (Spirit of freedom)

PENNSYLVANIA: Pitt Fighter (Semi-retired old-school armoured hero)

>last I checked they somewhat agreed on Fish Girl being Delaware or any free state with a large coastline.
The last word on that discussion was
>Alright, would it be cool if we have Bachmann be in the state but have Fisher-Girl the Statesmen [of Maine]?

Thanks guys, I wasn't sure if I'd gotten everyone or not

Thanks to whoever pointed out to me that our snakecharmer was the representative of Alabama.

But I've been thinking more about the character so if people are cool with it I'd like to suggest him for Mississippi instead, anyways

>The Ashman
>Real name Eli Rhodes
>As a young teen Eli took up smoking like many others to fit in. As his love for tobacco greatly increased, so did his attempts to keep people impressed, ultimately leading to his stealing an old Indian peace pipe and smoking from it. Smoking from this pipe opened a connection between him and the Country's native spirits, who taught him the arts of turning any smoke he could produce into arts, illusions, tools weapons and all sorts.
>However this power came with the cost that he must remain one with spirits and nature, requiring him to become a drifter constantly sleeping under the stars and ensuring a healthy balance between man and the spirits
>Now a little older and in his mid 20s, Eli is a little more knowledgable about the world, but still hotblooded and eager to entertain

Off the top of my head, there's Idaho, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Delaware (if Fisher-Girl is representing Maine), New Hampshire, and Louisiana, though that last one may currently be worked on.

Also Washington DC itself.

Got one for D.C.

got a better one.

Don't forget the various territories, like Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

What the fuck does Idaho have besides potatoes?

Humans?

The Shoshone Falls, for one.

Potato man!

Hells Canyon, for another (though that's shared with Oregon and Washington).

Superhero idea - a shoshone with powers over watre, whose favorite food are potatoes.

The Idaho Statesman could be some kind earthbending person or draw (some kind of) power from the earth.

The Hell-keepers (Black Minister II, Johnny the Fiddler, and Ghost o' Jarone) have a hidden lodge in Hells Canyon where they conduct some of their business and keep tabs on what the Underworld's doing. There's a similar lodge in Death Valley, but fuck going to Death Valley.

That could work. We have a couple aerokinetics and hydrokinetics, but no geokinetics.

The theme and powers don't necessarily have to be about the state. Idaho could very well just have a flying brick or a darkness shaper as their hero. Any concept can work for any state, really.

They should still ostensibly represent at least part of their state's culture, at least on paper. It's why Florida's Statesman is an aquatic hero from Cuba who may be part-Atlantean and Utah's is a Mormon.

Arkansas Statesman: Razorback

A good old boy and college football star who was disgraced when it was discovered that he was taking an experimental supersteroid. Razorback begged his way into a nomination, seeing it as his chance for redemption in the eyes of his family and fans. He gets along well with Captain Justice and Ashman, and idolizes Atomic Cowboy, but has gotten into more than a few squabbles with Weatherman over their politics.

Razorback's costume is a modified, armoured version of his college football uniform, with tusks and spines attached to the helmet. Residual effects of the supersteroid have left him with superspeed and -strength. Despite his brutish appearance Razorback possesses a keen tactical mind.

Sure, but that state's culture could be as tenuous as "the only hero born and raised in Boise." Yes, the Boise Bubble Boy is a whiz with those shimmering spherical force fields he can make!

>keen tactical mind
>FUCK IT I'M GOING DEEP

The Hoosier from Gary: A former member of the Statesmen. He was a former astronaut who gained the ability to project an Venus-like atmosphere around himself. He was a living weapon of mass suffocation for a while - often clashed with other Statesmen over him going too far.

Turned out his powers came from an alien parasite, and he became a sentient cubic-mile storm of toxic gases. The Statesmen took it down, and the government disappeared it - they're totally not keeping it just in case, you guys.

as someone from GA. fuck that guy. lol

>Emerald Blaze (Delaware)
Born of an extremely well-to-do family (in a state where corporations outnumber the population), Cassandra Carter was - and still is, to an extent - as blue-blood as they come. Despite this, she insisted on not being pampered (too much) and eventually developed a legitimate interest in aviation, what with the Dover Air Force Base in the area. She earned her pilot's license and was soon in the skies. However, while flying over Nevada, a violent cosmic crosswind caused by a clash between the Atomic Cowboy and a new device the famed Doc Chase was testing buffeted and wrecked Cassandra's plane, causing her to crash in the desert. Miraculously, however, she survived and found herself with new and amazing powers.

Cassandra had newfound control over a radiant green energy that subsumed her. She could project and control this energy from her body in various ways, such as releasing blasts of power, creating a destructive aura around her that lets her destroy whatever she touches, internalize her energy for increased strength, project a protective shield around herself that also protects her from the elements and even allows her to breathe in space and underwater, and even fly. Her skin turned a little pale and her eyes turned green, but she can live with that much.

Cassandra returned to Delaware safe and sound and promptly made a name for herself using this "emerald fire" as a hero. With a specially-comissioned jumpsuit (seen here in partial undress), the energy controller christened herself the Emerald Blaze; she promptly rose to local prominence and was a shoe-in for the Statesmen. Plus, she gets to fly all she wants with her powers, and what better feeling is that?

North Carolina Statesman: Holograham

Back when he was human Graham Buchanan was an engineer working on light-based teleportation technology for a firm in Raleigh. One night he was working late in the lab, too engrossed in his work to notice that a tornado warning had been posted. When the tornado blew through it caused a catastrophic accident, exposing Graham to the raw energies of his prototype teleporter. Thought dead by the world, Graham painstakingly reconstituted himself out of the photonic substance his body had been transmuted into. For him, the Statesmen are as much of a support group of fellow freaks as a superhero team. Holograham maintains frequent correspondence with Dr. Glacier, who he sees as the only one on the team with a scientific mind to match his own.

Power-wise Holograham is able to project hard light holograms like a much weaker Green Lantern, and produce silent illusions. As a being of light he's immune to many of the frailties of humanity.

> How big is your character's rogues gallery?
Roughly Spidey-sized at this point.
>Are they a good match for your hero/villain?
I don't know what this means in this context.
Are they of equal power? Do they make food foils? Is one an "Evil Knockoff" of the hero? Does one have an obsessive love for the hero that makes his/her crazy and evil?

bachmann here, I had to run to a meeting. Go ahead and make fisher-girl the maine hero.

Especially since we now have a proper Delaware hero.

someone has mentioned several times that they are making a bog witch hero for louisiana. To avoid the Maine problem I advise we hold off on making that hero for a little bit.

Maybe we ought to make a Cape World wiki on 1d4chan or something?

If nobody is against it, sure go ahead.

Good idea.

There is a pastebin in the last thread with some of the statesmen descriptions. When I get off work today I will try to get some of the other teams recorded in the same way.

The majority of it was for the usa, right?

Can´t remember if we did with japan and germany more than honor/competition and shame.

>UTAH: Deseret
>Super Mormon girl
I grew up in Utah, you have no idea happy I am to see this

There's been material done up for Hollywood, Las Vegas, Japan, Germany and the UK at least, not counting the original /shg/ team.

well, Utah is Mormon central after all

Hey, you're welcome. Her thing is that she's definitely a Mormon, and dutifully follows their suggestion to be Deseret when she becomes a Statesmen (wearing a very basic flight suit with some yellow and black motif). But she's even more a FAN of superheroes and REALLY wanted to be called Taser or The Fulminator thanks to her flight and electric blasts. So while she's following orders, she's also constantly thinking of going AWOL and having some real superhero fun.

hey guys, I've tossing around a idea for a Canadian superhero in my head and I'd like to hear some ideas for what his powers could be seeing as I'm not really good at that sort of thing.

>storm trooper
a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force young Alex Addy (names a WIP) was issued a seemly normal Ross rifle to use as a sniper. however this gun was unique compared to it's brethren as it's wood was made from a forest where a first nation tribe made shaman staffs from.
during the battle of Ypres the magic in the wood activated giving Alex power over storms, allowing him to push away much of the chlorine gas as his poor control of the magic could.
he then spent much of ww1 and 2 battling other supers until he retired having become a national icon for many Canadians during that era. his grandson would later find the magic gun and become the storm trooper of the 21st century but that a story for a another time.

now I have a bit of a issue on what having control over storms would mean in terms of superpowers, especially for a soldier. I'd like to hear any ideas you guys have for something like that.

one idea I had was that when ever he used the powers a very small storm would show up messing up the aim everyone but him. think a weaponized version of the storm clouds that show up over a cartoon characters head when they get sad.

what do you guy's think good, bad or ugly?

we should make a canadian team.

one thing at a time, we gotta finish the statesmen too.

Shouldn´t we finish the other´s first?

>Washington DC
should be a superpowered member of the Secret Service

also has anyone uploaded all the prior threads onto Sup/tg/ yet?

>should be a superpowered member of the Secret Service
maybe make him have the perfect body guarding powers? something like shen's from LOL ultimate where he can teleport to someone and make them invulnerable for a sort time?

Maybe he can bind his soul to other individuals (the president, vice prez, first lady, secretary of state, etc.) and can sense whenever a person bonded with him is in distress or danger and can either teleport to them or transport them to him or something.

writing something up, give me a sec

Ok guys, what do you think

WASHINGTON DC
The Representative AKA Pubic Service

It took years of lobbying by the residents of the District of Columbia for their resident hero to be included in the Statesmen, which is unfortunate, because it is hard to imagine a better fit for the team than the politically minded Representative. Born the son of a civil servant and a schoolteacher, Ed Norton has spent his entire life fighting to preserve the ideals of justice and the democratic process.

Origins
While finishing his law degree at Yale, Ed led a campaign to convert the school to clean energy using an experimental reactor designed by the school’s student engineers. The reactor generates infinite energy by moving atoms along spiritual lay lines. (see black minister, fairy finder)

campaign was a brilliant success despite vocal opposition from the school board, and for his help Ed was allowed to press the button bringing the reactor online. As the reactor came on line the surrounding area was converted to intangible energy for a brief moment, including Ed. When he flickered back into reality, Ed was forever changed.

He found that he possessed abilities far beyond the ordinary man. He can make himself intangible at will, allowing him to pass through objects. He can teleport across the globe in an instant. At will he can phase atoms of his body into another person, allowing him to a limited telepathic bond with that individual. His connection to the spiritual plane also permits him limited precognition.

Since his election to the Statesmen, Ed has spent the majority of his time defending the President from superpower threats. However, he still thinks that civil advocacy is the real way to save the world.

basically a bodyguard that can teleport to his subject and foresee any attack on them?
Yup, perfect bodyguard material.

*public, not pubic. I cannot believe that i made that mistake.

Pubic Service was categorically denied entry into the Statesmen.

CharGen in FASERIP sucks ass

any good houserules?

It was actually this clerical error that prevent Public Service from being allowed to join the Statesmen for so long, not any objection to allowing DC a superhero. The people of the district are super sensitive about not having a voting representative tho, so they just assumed that they were being oppressed.

I'm just starting to work on the Rogue's Gallery now that I have the Hero- Knight Errant! The Immortal Knight with a collection of magical artifacts collected from across time!
I'm thinking that maybe play up the future-clash between Knight Errant's whole look and equipment by making all of the villians tech-based?
Thoughts, dear Veeky Forums ?

throw in the whole medieval sense of ethics and righteousness

look to Shining Knight for examples. the following clip is great, sorry i couldn't get better quality

youtube.com/watch?v=13RU29IGg9I

That's one way to do it. Then again, the Flash has Captain Cold as an archenemy, while Wonder Woman has Cheetah. Make of that what you will.

Oh that's definitely a thing I'm going with, the Knightly Code of Chivalry and all tying into their powers from the Magic Armor
I suppose that's true too! I'll have to think on it some more

I was about to suggest Modern Day Warrior (joke off Tom Sawyer) for Mississippi.

But then again I can't remember if Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer took place in Missouri or Mississippi anyways.

COLORADO
Mountain Lion

Abbey Grant was a high profile environmental terrorist who served 20 years in prison for her connection to a plot to destroy the Hoover Dam. Her time in the penal system instilled in her a fierce respect for the ideals of justice and order. She created the persona of Mountain Lion upon her release in order to protect these ideals. Many people find her tactics unnecessarily ruthless, but her unrivaled ability to bring wrongdoers to justice earned her the respect of the public and a spot with the Statesmen. If the public every learned her true identity however, there is no question that she would be unceremoniously voted out.

As Mountain Lion, Abbey relies on the skills of tactical guerrilla warfare she acquired as an environmental terrorist. 20 years in prison have also left her in peak physical condition and an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter.

New Hampshire Statesman: Ushabti

A golem-like magical construct animated by a Dartmouth College secret society who dabbled in ancient Egyptian magic. After the society's magical mishaps came to light, those responsible were promptly expelled, though Ushabti was allowed to remain on the college grounds and became something of a Dartmouth mascot. Over the years Ushabti has protected the college from threats both internal and external, from berserk robotic engineering projects to an insane psychic looking to drain the brains of its staff. When the spot on the Statesmen for New Hampshire opened up, Dartmouth students rigged the voting system to guarantee the position for Ushabti.

Ushabti tends to be quiet, dour, and practical, though it is fiercely loyal towards those it considers its charges, and has a tremendous appetite for learning. It has weakly superhuman durability from its clay body, though Ushabti's true power lies in its immense knowledge base, having studied with the best and brightest of Dartmouth for decades.

i really like this one! it feels unique.

by my count we are at 44 statesmen!

So is all this Chargen going to amount to something?

Yes. A huge roster of heroes you can pull out of your ass whenever you're GMing a capes game.

A setting people can take advantage of. Plus, it's healthy exercise.

more than that I think. we are only missing Idaho, Louisiana, Connecticut and Minnesota, plus all of the territories. is there something else?

Batman has the Joker.
And beyond additional theming on top of that, there was no historical precedent for Bats and Clowns to hate eachother.

Heroes with diametric opposites do exist.

Superman's Brawn vs Bainy Brainiac/Lex Luthor.

Captain America vs Red Skull, a stinkin' Nazi.

Thor and Loki are a mythological reference.

There's also an element of straight up inversions of eachother.

Aquaman and your choice of either Black Manta or Ocean Master.

Willpowered Green Lantern vs Fearsome Sinestro

Or the relatively obscure, The Darkness and the Angelus.

Yep, basically this and this We're trying to put together a rules agnostic setting, complete with history and characters for use in super hero games. You might not use the setting, but having 50 concepts for superheroes (or villains) lying around isn't a bad thing.

>Flash has Captain Cold
cold is a lack of movement

>Wonder Woman has Cheetah
Wondy preaches peace, love and understanding
Cats are made of hate

also bats are humorless and spiders hate goblins

And Captain Cold isn't just about cold, he's about absolute zero, the point at which there absolutely no movement of any sort. He is the only ice-based character in DC that can do absolute zero, and is thus the perfect counter to the Flash.

Minnesota also has some Viking-ness much like Wisconsin. But it also borders one of the great lakes.

And we could use another aquatic hero.

The Lake Superior Monster, Ogopogo. A long thought extinct plesiosaur that formed a telepathic rapport with a local minnesota kid.

Becoming a sort of Lassie by way of Gamera.

I don't mind doing a lake themed hero, but we already have two 'children whose best friend is a monster' in the Statesmen.

Well lets go with the Gamera route then.

The Lake Superior Monster is a "friend to all children" that rushes to anyone's need. No kid tagalong. Just a generally friendly giant monster.

>Wondy preaches peace, love and understanding
>Cats are made of hate

Depending on Cheetah's origin, she's either a grave robber, stealing the relics of Wonder Woman's home, or cursed by the gods in the same way that Wonder Woman is blessed.

I wrote up a Minnesota hero too, mind if we put it to a vote?

Erik the Red

Erik grew up in a little town that time forgot in central Minnesota, on the shores of pristine lake and just off the edge of the prairie. His was the quintessential midwestern life, a loving family, church on the weekends, football in the backyard with his friends. His parents never wanted nor expected him to grow up into anything but a happy, ordinary person. However ,this wasn’t exactly the case. Erik did grow up, into a hulking 8 foot tall giant of a man. Each of his arms has the thickness and strength of a gnarled old oak tree, and his chest brings to mind the freight ships which carry iron across Lake Superior. His unnatural size and strength blue his kind demeanor however, and he is capable of surprising gentleness.

Fighting evil emerged naturally from Erik’s desire for everyone to get along, and soon he found himself appointed to the Statesmen. He took the name Erik the Red as a reference to his favorite football team, the Vikings.

I think you got more information down for your hero idea than I do mine.

So I'm entirely okay if Erik becomes Minnesota's representative.

Perhaps we can go with the Lake Monster as a hero that patrols ALL the great lakes. Honorary Statesmen as representative of some of America's natural wonders?

Anyone got any quick requests?

Well, not everything has to be part of a group. This is a setting too, remember? The fact that there's a Lake Monster that patrols all the Great Lakes can just be a thing that happens. It even has baked in story hooks, from the basic "We thought it was evil, fought it, and then found out it was actually good!" to something more complicated, even mystic. Like maybe research into the Lake Monster discovers that it travels so quickly from lake to lake because it's accessing a portal system that links ALL the lakes in the US together through a small, watery dimension. What else lurks in those murky, freshwater depths?

Waveracer and Fisher-Girl with the SICK BANTZ underwater

hey man! welcome back. would love to see some art of blue crab, brown recluse or rat pack

The concept that someone posted up above. The Blue Crab and Waveracer having a conversation while The Blue Crab's pilot lounges in a deckchair on the top of his crab-shaped submersible.

I think the Washington DC Statesman needs two key points.
-They practically scream "MURICA!"
-They're the leader of the Statesmen

Reverend Luther, Ghost o'Jarone, Alien God Killer and Pele all sitting together at a table, drinking coffee and discussing theology.

Rugaru and the Reverend in an arm-wrestling contest

Can't go wrong with the classic "young adult gets in freak accident and gains immense power, feels absolutely amazing" origin. The cosmic crosswinds likely infused her with a shitton of energy from the ether; the glowing eyes reflects her body brimming with the stuff. She likely had one of those "I've never felt so alive!" moments.

For the old Marvel Superheroes RPG

should I go with Basic or Advanced?

All three aquatic heroes on display. Just a quick sketch.

Mostly to litmus test the designs.
I was debating on giving the Blue Crab's Captain a more Captain Haddock or Popeye look.

Fishergirl has a sort of generic merfolk design at the moment. Might try incorperate some more of the previous legacies elements into the design. Bandanna, yellow outfit a la sailor rain coat.

the hell are Bantz? Muscles? Fitness? I can give that a shot.

batz=banter

would love to see Hoosier, Brown recluse, and Ghost o'jarone in a drag race.

Definitely more haddock, I think. When I was thinking of him, it was basically like, "What if Quint from Jaws wasn't a drunken asshole?"

Ghost o' Jarone and Johnny the Fiddler both holding violin cases. Johnny's is open, and inside is his Golden Fiddle. Jarone's, on the other hand, is shut. He looks at Johnny with an eyebrow raised, asking "Wait, you carry an actual instrument in yours?" While Johnny just gives Jarone the "Tired of your bullshit" look

pastebin.com/vPrgenKh

Updated pastebin for the Statesmen.

question: When were the statesmen created? We know that Blue Crab was one of the founding members, but that there have been three generations of Hoosiers in the team. Who were the other founding members? who are the oldest heroes? Libertas probably was one.