NPC Faction Recruiting

[RikOz]

One of my characters, "Little Longbow" is not technically a member of Longbow, but she wears variants of their uniform. Her backstory is that she was cosplaying as a Longbow agent at a convention of some sort, and the event was attacked by Skulls cosplayers who turned out to be actual Skulls. The stress triggered her mutant gene, which gave her defensive electrical powers. She isn't built for fisticuffs, so she learned to use an assault rifle (AR/Elec sentinel).

 

I have a dual-blades brute ("Asa Castrelli") who is the daughter of a minor Family boss who was murdered by a rival, and she's out for revenge.

 

One of my villains ("Jouleiana") was a Crey scientist who was injured when a hero came rampaging through her lab. Now she hates heroes, so she stole the tech she was working on and repurposed it to create a suit that gives her energy blast powers. (Yeah, she's an honest-to-goodness, actual rogue Crey scientist!)

 

"Creyzee Ex" is a former Crey employee turned hero. (She claims she was in a romantic relationship with the Countess. The Countess denies this, of course, and has expressed hope that her former employee will seek professional help. The Countess has even generously offered to have Crey's doctors provide this help.)

 

"eZombie" is an escaped Vahzilok experiment. He retains some semblance of intelligence, though his intellect is that of a four-year-old. But it's enough to know that "Bad guys bad!", and he likes nice people.

[Player2]

1 hour ago, RikOz said:

One of my characters, "Little Longbow" is not technically a member of Longbow, but she wears variants of their uniform. Her backstory is that she was cosplaying as a Longbow agent at a convention of some sort, and the event was attacked by Skulls cosplayers who turned out to be actual Skulls. The stress triggered her mutant gene, which gave her defensive electrical powers. She isn't built for fisticuffs, so she learned to use an assault rifle (AR/Elec sentinel).

 

I have an Arachnos Widow named Espionage who went Rogue and sports the International Spy badge as she plays both sides as a double agent.  Her Longbow uniform is definitely not regulation.

 

[Heraclea]

Spaced one....

[RikOz]

Oops, I forgot about my character, "Goldbar". He's a former Gold Bricker. Went to prison, got himself an education while he was in there. When he got out, he cleaned up his act and used his brain and skills to get rich via legal means, and became a hero.

[expeditor]

Apparently not what the OP had in mind, but the title reminded me of a story arc I wrote when AE was first introduced back on live - Hellion Initiation - which sees your character "joining" the Hellions while playing them off against the Skulls to gather some artifacts for yourself. I even managed to find a backup of it! I vaguely recall an intention to make it a series, but if I ever added to it, I don't have them saved.

 

Thankfully a lot of stuff was later added villain-side to make us feel less like lackeys, but at the time I thought a story where you get to show a bit more initiative and cunning was sorely needed.

[Heraclea]

Just dusted off this character that I made about a year ago.  She is a cold/sonic defender for some reason; may have just been an experiment to see how low-key I could make the cold buffs.  But she would appear to qualify.....

 

[Gentoo]

Back on live, when City of Villains first came out  I had "Left for Dead" who was a zombified Longbow, who had been abandoned by his fellow Lonbow, died, and had been resurrected (possibly by Dr. Vhaz) and wanted to kill all Longbow.

[Heraclea]

And I just rolled another.  This faction is rather hard to build in the CC so I just went for a mix of exotic pieces. 

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by Heraclea