This is taken from a page I had written and place into the GM website which'll be used to plan the RP session. For those still interested, lemme know.
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The story will start out with a defector trying to let the city know about the upcoming attack by the Shroud. A couple of the heroes who we accept into the RP and most likely fellow SG members will be contacted through a middle man contact recognized as a popularly used contact in-game. They would then reach that contact only to find him assassinated, with a large energy burn on his chest. Then searching the body (we would have a freedom corps operative or the middle man contact to do so, controlled by GM of course) to discover something that would be discussed and eventually lead them to a retaurant weapons deal between the family and the Shroud which would have provided the family with plenty of energy pistols like the one Pheramone uses and that the agents (business suit cia style, not epic at proposal) of the shroud use when under cover. The family with their bullets launch a counter attack and get beat up while the agents try and escape only to be captured to reveal the location where the other pistols are stored before selling.
At this location the Herald will be encountered and fought along with it's widowers cloaked in the upper level catwalks and darkest corners, a couple agents with pistols outside the warehouse, and some scarabs guarding the floor of the warehouse and the larger shipments. At this point the dark melee psy blast AV and his minions battle the group of heroes who've been since joined by freedom corps to take down this new threat. Since this is an RP and not in-game, the Freedom Corps, will be getting their butts kicked in place of hero characters so we'll be setting some early examples of that ourselves and then at later times the heroes should be able to figure out when it's ok to kill off freedom characters.
Now, as for the aftermath, the heroes would get the technology in the warehouse and drag it to positron who identifies it's power source and sends the small hero team to Alivan Labs to get some answers from real experts and calls forth some more 'actual' heroes to meet you there so that when you have identified the maker or thief you can then group together to take down whatever force is behind it. But as we all know Alivan Labs is the source of the problem and has a powerful guardian known as Thelax protecting the company's assets. As they are ambushed by the building security agents with their pistols and an alarm going off calling all sacarbs in the area, the heroes then battle to confront the core of the company's productions where they find some Crustacians newly built and manned. From the factory section of the building they leave and defeat of those tanks they then travel to the labs section where they intended to find the scientists involved and did, but also finding the being known as Thelax who is not too happy, with more scarabs suddenyl showing up and the heroes having to fight the AV, he is defeated, leaking cosmic energy which causes the area to become unstable, and as the heroes escape the whole section of labs dissapears, leaving a great big sphere of emptiness in the company building which causes much of it to collapse upon itself putting the heroes in more danger. By now Positron has arrived with a large force of Freedom Corps to battle the forces outside the building only to see it start collapsing moments later and poeple fleeing it, rounding them all up via beating the crap out of them(scarabs and agents) or detaining them for questioning(unarmed ones).
After that catastrophy the assault on the city will begin and Positron and the Freedom Corps along with the group of heroes are called to fight and fight they do as they battle pockets of scarabs/crustacians, they spot a large force of dark shroud moving slowly between the streets destroying everything in it's path and as they get closer they notice the massive Scorpion tank and provide to gang up on it and the large force of enemies. Meanwhile as they try and fight it 2 Dragonfly swoop down blasting, one being clipped by positron's blast in a vital motor area which sends it crashing only to have the scarabs climb out of it and be battled by a couple FC members. However the second Dragonly lets out mid air a some Wasp lieutenants which easily macth the FC up in power and begin regrouping the scarabs and start turning the tide. At the same time the hero group will be also trying to take out the scorpion which is extremely difficult but thankfully it ends up taking down the 2nd Dragonly with it's massive tail cannon thanks to a certain FC flyer, even if he gets blasted by a Wasp moment later, hehe. Eventually they pierc the cannon tail and it creates a reaction that detonates the end of it which allows the heroes the room they need to blow open the top side of the scorpion and mess with it's gears and computers and end it. Posi then has his FC commander take over the area in battle the remnants of the dragonly troops and that which previously surrounded the scorpion to capture or eliminate the threat as he takes a time out as he has the heroes help'em extract hardware from the coprion's computers and accompany'em to the tech shop next to the statue. He'll then use it to track the scoprion back to where it came from by recovering the data in it's hard drive. Him and the group then start heading to the location but he is interrupted by a message from the Freedom Phalanx and must send the heroes to go on without him as he must attent to emergency matters as well. He reminds them not to stop for anything as they have the chance to stop this at the source and let the other heroes of the city do their job.
As they head to the location they see other groups of scarabs and crustacians led by wasps with the odd horned female and what appeared to bew a few freedom corps heroes turning on each other mid battle. There were also a couple other scorpions but for the most part dragonflies were the order of the day even as rare as they seemed to be. And as they entered the Skyway City they could see the same happening in this city zone. All throughout Paragon now the forces of the Dark Shroud march into the streets in full force. But they must go on, perhaps stopping here and there on their own free will but moving on they must, maybe even picking up a few freedom corps on the way who's lost their comperades or finished off their current enemy. All allowing for replacements to the heroes who dissapear during the rp or new heroes who want into it now. And seeing how there's 4 AVs left why wouldn't they. Now, as they enter the next 'mission' it'll have to be a place where the Hyperwing and a couple Dragonflies can be landed. And with Pathogen the pilot of the Hyperwing, he will be the next AV. During this underground facility invasion by the heroes they will allot of Wasps and Scarabs with a few Widowers suprising them at the entrence with their cloaking abilities and a few Hosts inside to make it more interesting. And after they defeat the AV PAthogen who will be leaking more radioactive toxins as his armour becomes more damage before finally being slain and his suit/body releasing a massive blast of energy that'll maybe kill a FC or if only heroes, then force some to seek medicical attention on a dragonfly which they'll then use to head to the Portal Corporation currently under attack after hearing on the Dragonfly trasmitter that the dark shroud are closing onto their objective and will have it any minute now.
While they were doing that, Positron, Sister Psyche and Synapse headed to IP where they would battle the Hyperfin rising from the sea to fight an array of heroes as well as the 3 legends bringing with them a small force of freedom corps to catch up with the battle as Crustacians are all over the waters and Scarabs all over the deck of the ship. The massive platform cannon turning to fire upon what it detected as incoming threats to be none other than the freedon phalanx and their freedom corps, of course having the cannon blast a few fc out of the sky as the rest of the fc take on the scarabs and crustacians, scattering themselves among the other hero battles while the freedom phalanx penetrate the ship and head for it's control area only to be blocked off by too many forces, pushed back as they rethink their strategy and head for the less guarded engine/power area which they then disable and cause a chain reaction that draws an enormous amount of attention to the ship while disabling it's cannon. That attraction reaching a familiar squid which then wraps itself around the ship's hull from below, creating a 3 way battle between the good, the bad and the ugly. Leaving many scarabs to drown and allowing the rest of the freedom corps, heroes and freedom phalanx to fight off the left over crustacians as the ship breaks apart and sinks.
When they reach the portal corp they shoot down another dragonfly and blast some forces, clearing a good chunk of the enemy before landing, allowing for other heroes to man the bird to defend the corporation from the rest of the dark shroud outside the building and all over the island as the heroes get into the inner sanctum of the corporation where they're seen by the stealthy Arachnid before netering to fight the Hornet women leading a force of Sacarabs and Hosts with Widowers gurading the two AVs. Socket being very tough to stop due to his syrum he injected himself with regularly and in bulk just before the battle. Eventually he dies being either thrown into a power box of some sort or getting his head cut off, who knows. As for Pheramone she'll get 'captured' early and then have control of a hero to attack his friends only to get beaten up again and finally to learn about her husband's demise and blaming Morcalivan tells the heroes where they can find him. Also she may try to kill herself or be left for the freedom corps to deal with'er.
As earlier the Arachnid knew of the heros' arrival and was able to warn Morcaliva who had his Arachnids (who Lord recluse had helped design) ready and waiting. These deadicated guardians, spies and assassins await their prey and let a spider set their trap well and patiently. The heroes arrive at the location and sooner or later they're ambushed on time after another by Arachnids, Widowers, and all other DS units only to be thwarted every time and give a chance for the heroes to become 'wounded' and/or 'tired' before facing the leader of the Dark Shroud, Morcalivan. Thanking them for eliminating that pesky Herald and revealing his prisoner, Statesman. He starts off by blasting away and uses both his armour, combat skills, intelligence, radiation blast gauntlet, and nictus powers to fight these heroes who dare try and stop him. Eventually the heroes beat him up, and gather up Statesman only to have Morcalivan play a final card, his gauntlet. Punching it into the ground he rips it from his shoulder and steps back as it charges up, and up, and up, sending arcs of lightning in random directions, maybe hitting a few if the group's too healthy, just to allow for them to be weak enough to want to flee as Morcalivan reveals a portal and runs through it heavily wounded only to have a lightning blast strike the home made portal and send it flunctuating before shorting out. Meanwhile the heroes must gather their wounded and flee as the reactor Morcalivan left planted in the floor is about to blow.
They obviously escape and they are left wondering about Morcalivan as the city's heroes fight off the Shroud, no longer having any powerful leaders or real command and communiction structure they fall back into hiding as their monster machines are destroyed. They soon would form cells to continue their force of Shroud, believing that Morcalivan was not defeated and would one day reunite them to fight again. But they would contiue to wait, for Lord Morcalivan had other plans, ones that did not include the likes of failures like them. And so marks the CoV era of the Dark Shroud and possibly a new RP.
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Am building an RP event using the Dark Shroud as main focus enemy/threat/event with the players as a task force of heroes. Will ne poeple to play the AVs, to plays contacts, random heroes, police, or to plan the way the story runs along. So send me a PM or post in here to lemme know if interested.