Post by Astro on Sept 5, 2014 16:52:22 GMT
All characters are given the option at character creation to join a faction, although they can apply to join one later on. Be warned it is hard to change factions and you may be hunted by your former comrades for betraying the organization if you leave so do not take the decision lightly (If you're not sure start out as a freelancer then join a faction later on) Factions also have different kinds of missions depending on their goals and their leaders. Players can have different characters in different factions however a character cannot belong to more than one faction (However they can belong to more than one group combined with their faction of choice.)
If your looking for something smaller like a team or the like that would be a group, groups cannot create missions as factions can and don't tend to have the level of special incentives acting more as just a team of people but more official with a clubhouse on the board and the like. If you want to start a group PM an admin and ask to do so.
Each faction has PC leader that hands out missions and makes plots for their faction, as a way to seperate them from their subordinates Faction Leaders are granted 2 extra uprgrades/ability slots to use at character creation. Faction Leaders cannot leave a faction however without a very good reason and admin approval (Although a Faction Leader may be changed due to inactivity) One must apply for the position of faction leader with myself. You can only apply to be a faction leader if you have proven yourself capable of handling the responsibility.
Enigma Hunters
Maple Lake has many mysteries from the superpowered people running around (And the recent rise in superpowered beings outside the city) to strange creatures and artifacts to anomalies in time and space. Enigma Hunters are the sort of Neutral-Neutral Good response to this taking it upon themselves to investigate these strange occurrences and try to uncover the secrets of Maple Lake.
Types of Missions: Investigation and Acquisition mostly
Requirements: Inquisitive and curious nature, love of adventure, loyalty, and not stealing stuff out of the vault.
Headquarters Maple Lake Mystery Spot
Join if You Want: Mystery and Adventure kind of stuff, and a bit of action perhaps especially because we have a few competitors.
Faction Head: Paige Turner
Faction Roster
Guardians
Assembled by the students and teachers of the superpower school of Sinclair Academy to protect the city, it's people and find and train up superpowered person's from elsewhere to try and sway them to the side of good before people like Nova get their hands on them. Basically a special superhero task force run by the Academy in the school's underside to keep the city safe.
Types of Missions: Protecting the City from threats, fighting general evil, recruitment
Requirements: Good or neutral and willing to do good or at least protect people alignment.
Headquarters: Sinclair Academy: The Labyrinth
Join If You Want: To protect the city and or it's people, save lives, help keep the bad guys from winning, be a superhero.
Faction Head: Liam O'Brien
Faction Roster
The Lodge
No one knows who established it or when but the Lodge has been around as far back as anyone remembers. Standing at the bluffs overlooking the city in Oakvale The Lodge is a hang out for the rich and powerful of Maple Lake and beyond to get together and do who knows what. They are highly interested in collection of magic items, relics and super powered minions and are willing to go through pretty drastic means to get what they want. Despite many official members being just local business owners and the like they also employ 'honourary members' consisting of mostly mercenaries and super villains to do their dirty work in the city.
Types of Mission: General mayhem, acquisitions of pretty much anything that may be of interest or gain them power, facing off against the more good hearted types.
Requirements: Neutral or evil alignment, a willingness to indulge in more evoool behaviour
Headquarters: The Lodge
Join If You Want: Freedom to do more black hearted things, moral ambiguity, to be a bastard, to commit crimes (Within reason) and get away with it (Most of the time)
Faction Head: Durance Forgeron
Faction Roster
Freelancers
Basically anyone that doesn't want to join an official faction or group. Despite that there is somehow a faction head, this is simply a local buisness owner (Most likely of a bar, club or the like) that puts up mission that anyone can take on. Freelancer can also apply to do missions that are open to them for any faction if they know someone in that faction.
Types of Missions: Pretty much anything
Requirements: None
Headquarters: Based on Faction Head's Choice
Join If You Want: Freedom, not being tied to an organization
Faction Head: Open
Faction Roster
Zero Cross
These are organizations that operate within the city that players are not allowed to join but may affiliate with and certain factions do affiliate with.
Maple Lake Security
Privately owned Lawful Neutral security force that does the city's police work frequently work with groups like the Guardians to preserve order in the city. Have top of the line tech so be careful of them. May or may not have some dark secrets of their own.
Nova Enterprises
A relatively new large scale business that seems to exist everywhere inside and outside the city, they don't seem to make anything themselves but they seem to be heavily involved in the production of a wide variety of products. In addition no one seems to know much about them, they hire on the Lodge and their associates to collect things for them and provide funding towards Sinclair Academy but their true purpose or where there local office is remains an utter mystery.
If your looking for something smaller like a team or the like that would be a group, groups cannot create missions as factions can and don't tend to have the level of special incentives acting more as just a team of people but more official with a clubhouse on the board and the like. If you want to start a group PM an admin and ask to do so.
Each faction has PC leader that hands out missions and makes plots for their faction, as a way to seperate them from their subordinates Faction Leaders are granted 2 extra uprgrades/ability slots to use at character creation. Faction Leaders cannot leave a faction however without a very good reason and admin approval (Although a Faction Leader may be changed due to inactivity) One must apply for the position of faction leader with myself. You can only apply to be a faction leader if you have proven yourself capable of handling the responsibility.
Enigma Hunters
Maple Lake has many mysteries from the superpowered people running around (And the recent rise in superpowered beings outside the city) to strange creatures and artifacts to anomalies in time and space. Enigma Hunters are the sort of Neutral-Neutral Good response to this taking it upon themselves to investigate these strange occurrences and try to uncover the secrets of Maple Lake.
Types of Missions: Investigation and Acquisition mostly
Requirements: Inquisitive and curious nature, love of adventure, loyalty, and not stealing stuff out of the vault.
Headquarters Maple Lake Mystery Spot
Join if You Want: Mystery and Adventure kind of stuff, and a bit of action perhaps especially because we have a few competitors.
Faction Head: Paige Turner
Faction Roster
Guardians
Assembled by the students and teachers of the superpower school of Sinclair Academy to protect the city, it's people and find and train up superpowered person's from elsewhere to try and sway them to the side of good before people like Nova get their hands on them. Basically a special superhero task force run by the Academy in the school's underside to keep the city safe.
Types of Missions: Protecting the City from threats, fighting general evil, recruitment
Requirements: Good or neutral and willing to do good or at least protect people alignment.
Headquarters: Sinclair Academy: The Labyrinth
Join If You Want: To protect the city and or it's people, save lives, help keep the bad guys from winning, be a superhero.
Faction Head: Liam O'Brien
Faction Roster
The Lodge
No one knows who established it or when but the Lodge has been around as far back as anyone remembers. Standing at the bluffs overlooking the city in Oakvale The Lodge is a hang out for the rich and powerful of Maple Lake and beyond to get together and do who knows what. They are highly interested in collection of magic items, relics and super powered minions and are willing to go through pretty drastic means to get what they want. Despite many official members being just local business owners and the like they also employ 'honourary members' consisting of mostly mercenaries and super villains to do their dirty work in the city.
Types of Mission: General mayhem, acquisitions of pretty much anything that may be of interest or gain them power, facing off against the more good hearted types.
Requirements: Neutral or evil alignment, a willingness to indulge in more evoool behaviour
Headquarters: The Lodge
Join If You Want: Freedom to do more black hearted things, moral ambiguity, to be a bastard, to commit crimes (Within reason) and get away with it (Most of the time)
Faction Head: Durance Forgeron
Faction Roster
Freelancers
Basically anyone that doesn't want to join an official faction or group. Despite that there is somehow a faction head, this is simply a local buisness owner (Most likely of a bar, club or the like) that puts up mission that anyone can take on. Freelancer can also apply to do missions that are open to them for any faction if they know someone in that faction.
Types of Missions: Pretty much anything
Requirements: None
Headquarters: Based on Faction Head's Choice
Join If You Want: Freedom, not being tied to an organization
Faction Head: Open
Faction Roster
Zero Cross
NPC Factions
These are organizations that operate within the city that players are not allowed to join but may affiliate with and certain factions do affiliate with.
Maple Lake Security
Privately owned Lawful Neutral security force that does the city's police work frequently work with groups like the Guardians to preserve order in the city. Have top of the line tech so be careful of them. May or may not have some dark secrets of their own.
Nova Enterprises
A relatively new large scale business that seems to exist everywhere inside and outside the city, they don't seem to make anything themselves but they seem to be heavily involved in the production of a wide variety of products. In addition no one seems to know much about them, they hire on the Lodge and their associates to collect things for them and provide funding towards Sinclair Academy but their true purpose or where there local office is remains an utter mystery.
