(Retro) You are the hero in Heroes Rise!

[Don Chipotle]

-Absolutely—heroes are meant to enforce the law, not break it.

Breaking the law now will only hinder your heroic rise later, so you know you'll just have to be patient—extremely patient, considering that if you were a big-time hero, you could be flying home in a fraction of the time.

For choosing to follow the law, you have taken your first step down the 'Lawful' stat path. In addition to money, one thing to take notice of how you're perceived by the citizens of the city. Think of it as moral choices, but with more immediate consequences. Each stat path has an opposite and choosing one will impact the other and vice versa.

CURRENT STATS:

Lawless: 43% Lawful: 57%

Because of your choice, you are currently more law abiding than not. Good for you, you typical citizen! Once more stats become relevant, I'll post them following every update, so you can know just where you stand in the eyes of the world.

As you walk down to the Metro-Way platform, you pay for the ticket by rolling up your sleeve and accessing your MeChip, a bit of personal tablet technology embedded in the underside of your wrist. Not too long ago people used paper slips to pay for things and little plastic devices for phones, but that was before all communication, identification, entertainment, and banking functions became standard in MeChips.

Each MeChip comes fully customizable, with robotic personality programming that adapts to your habits and desires. There are three standard templates available for the robotic personality, so you decided to go with the:

Every hero needs their...robotic personality thing. Imagine if instead of a text message tone you got a robot personality image in our eye telling you you have a message. That's what a MeChip is. Much like the gender thing, you've got options and names. I'll post all the options and all the names, so pick a combo you like. This early stuff is all mostly groundwork, so the choices are coming a lot faster.

DECISION: Which MeChip personality did you go for?

Polite Butler.


Algernon.


Winston.


Jeeves.


Barcia.


Create your own name.

Sassy Diva.


Aretha.


Whitney.


Halleloo.


LaClarkson.


Create your own name.

Supportive Caretaker


Bertha.


Alice.


Poppy.


Fernan.


Create your own name.

So, do you want he Alfred from Batman? The Alice from Brady Bunch? Or maybe the Diva?

[Peahohze]

Jeeves! It has to be like a butler. That's just the best.

[Lancet Jades]

Aretha, because it's like urethra.

[Raist Classic]

This died quickly. :x

You know if you ever need a tiebreaker, you can put me in as an absentee voter for whichever choice Lades didn't pick.

[Don Chipotle]

Originally Posted by El Raisto returns!

This died quickly. :x

You know if you ever need a tiebreaker, you can put me in as an absentee voter for whichever choice Lades didn't pick.

I'm counting that as a pick for Jeeves. And so the adventures of Declan continue!


"Ticket paid for, sir," MeChip Jeeves says inside your head, with a slight British accent.

All MeChip functions are connected directly to your senses, so Jeeves floats in front of your eyes thanks to holographic imaging wired to your retinas. Only you are able to see MeChip Jeeves, who appears as a slender gentleman wearing a full tuxedo.

"Two dollars deducted from your account. Please enjoy your travels," Jeeves says before fading away.

Waiting on the platform, you spot an old-fashioned newsstand and decide to reward your flying-restraint with a gossip MeZine. Usually you try to get your hero news from more credible sources, but you secretly love the trashy magazines.

So you skim the screen that runs across the newsstand, looking over the digital covers displayed before deciding on Hero People.

It's like People magazine, but more heroic.

That was an easy choice, since your favorite hero, Rebellion, is on the cover. He's been the leader of MC's premier Powered team, The Millennial Group, for years.

In this issue of Hero People, Rebellion is giving an interview on the Group's latest roster change.

Rebellion is the first character variable we've encountered. Rebellion is kind of like this game's version of Superman. Naturally, The Millennial Group is like the Justice League. But instead of all of the planet and space like the JLA and its offshoots, The Millennial Group only cares about Millennial City. Because fuck the rest of the world.


Oh, also you may have noticed that Jeeves mentioned money, specifically the spending of it. That's another thing you'll have to keep track of, how much money you have. Money will come into play later.

CURRENT FUNDS: $2095

THIRTY MINUTES LATER

You finally emerge from the Metro-Way in your neighborhood: MC's Eastern Fringes, which consists mostly of public housing projects, pawnshops, and liquor marts. Despite its lack of charm, the Fringes are still home, so you start to relax as you approach your apartment building.

Like any good superhero, you come from humble origins. You live in the slums because it adds humanity to your heroic character. Why do you think an alien from Krypton calls a Kansas town slash farm his home? Because it's humanizing, dammit. So you're a gutter rat.

A loud crunch of glass snaps your senses to attention. Half a block up you spot a body that has been thrown through the windshield of a car. A teenage boy with writhing snakes coiled around his outstretched arms stands on the sidewalk nearby.

Before you can even blink, the body in the windshield leaps into the sky. It's another teenage boy whose woolly knees bend backward, like a goat's.

Slugger, you curse to yourself—another animal gang fight. The Eastern Fringes are home to a large portion of the animalistic Powered population, widely known to have the most interspecies tension. There's an especially fierce feud between two local Ani-gangs, The Cloven and The Scales.

Ani-gangs, if it wasn't obvious enough, are like the Crips and the Bloods but between groups of animal Powered (this game's word for 'people with super powers') people. I dunno if these gang members are like animal human hybrids or just like a bunch of Animal Mans gone horribly awry.

Also get used to seeing the word 'Slugger'. It's dumb. But it's slugger near everywhere.

As goat-boy bounds through the air, snake-boy reacts. His arm-snakes surge forward, straightening their impossibly long bodies and clamping on to goat-boy's thighs with their teeth. Snake-boy then whips his arms back, using the snakes as levers to smash goat-boy into the pavement.

Knowing goat-boy won't be able to survive much more snake-thrashing, you run toward the scene and…

DECISION: Two gang members are fighting it out. You're just an innocent bystander. What do you do?

-Jump into the fray, striking hard and fast.

-Hang back and contain the situation from a distance.


CURRENT STAT TALLY:

Lawless: 43% Lawful: 57%

CURRENT FUNDS: $2095

I'll add more stats as they come up for the first time/change so you'll know exactly what kind of direction you're going in.