I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been busy with other stuff(mostly, I've been busy creating a super small and simple game to add to my portfolio...)...
Anyways, before we start, I'd like to settle a few ground rules to help us make this more concrete as to what we'll be writing, and to give you folks some ideas to adapt/create characters according to the world we'll be creating.
First, the story will NOT be taking place in Paragon City, or the City of Heroes universe. We'll be making up a new universe so we don't have to be restricted strictly to CoH lore with regards to enemies and historical events.
That said, this will be an "Alternate Earth" scenario, similar to that of CoH(Or Marvel/DC universes as well, technically), in which Heroes have been around since around World War II, so Superheroes are not unheard of, and in fact quite a few can and do publicly exist with community support("Superman-type"), though "Batman-types" who walk the finer line outside the law do exist as well. We'll be making characters in-between. We're not the well known Role Model heroes, nor are we the infamous vigilantes. We're the other guys who don't get any recognition, but do all the dirty work the bigger heroes don't do. ("Mystery Men-types", though not as cheesy and useless power-wise...)
I suggest, keeping the above in mind, that you all create a new character/s for this story, rather than reuse an existing one. You don't have to make up a new character if you don't want to, but I think that it's good practice to come up with something new once in a while.
Speaking of which, keep your powers within reason, and within theme! No "I make you're head explode with my mind, I win!" powers!
We need to be able to actually do battle, struggle, and overcome our opponents, not simply walk through them like a cat at a mouse convention... Overpoweredness gets boring to write/read about, but don't be too underpowered either! No one wants a useless Aquaman on their team...
All that sound good to everyone, or do you all have any input on changes to that you think should be made?
If there's no objections, I'll try and get started on the intro chapter tomorrow and post it in a new thread once it's done. I'd like for us to use this thread to do any OOC discussion(Plot points, comments, character information, exc.) so we can keep the Story thread clutter free to make for easier navigation/reading for anyone who's joining in or simply reading along as we add stuff. Sound good?