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Richard ([personal profile] traumaticus) wrote in [community profile] expiationnet2024-08-17 07:23 pm

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Salutations to all The Chosen of Aldrip,

My name is Richard Plantagenet, the Duke of Gloucester of England and the son of Duke of York. My time in this world may be merely a blink of an eye compared to some of you who have been residing here for over a full calendar year, experiencing the change of all four seasons under the sky. However, during my brief stay I have come to notice that there are plenty of wrongs in this world, which threatens the peace of our lives here. Now, some of these wrongs might be out of our control, such as the afflictions plaguing our environment. Or the activities of the council. However, this does not mean that we are completely powerless.

It has come to my attention that thee has been a several times when we have been faced with a violent threat and an attack, be it from monstrous creature from the depths of the ocean or a curse spreading among ourselves. I fully believe that we, as a community, could benefit from organizing ourselves so that we might be prepared when the next crisis arrives to our doorsteps.

I call forward anyone with any combat training, be it from military training, self-taught or magically oriented, and share their knowledge to those who might lack skills in self-defense. It is not in my intention to position myself as a leader, nor a raise an army, but to strengthen our teamwork and cooperation as a community. I am myself experienced knight who fought and served my king in a civil war known as War of Roses, and currently I'm learning the usage of firearms under the tutelage of Mr. Valentine. I am willing to train and pass down my knowledge to anyone who is willing to learn. However, I am aware that I am out of my depths and that many of you possesses abilities both as fighters and as tacticians that I could not even fathom. Which is why I sincerely hope those individuals to answer my call and step forward and help create a safer city.

Signed,
Richard Plantagenet, The Duke of Gloucester


[ooc: ooc info can be found here!]
mightymorphin: (pic#17349190)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-17 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
and it sounds like you guys will need it pretty badly if you want to be more than just a big self-defense class. ... tell you what, I'll give it a shot. if I can get any of that info across I'm sure it can help someone.

then it sounds like you're already qualified to me! no complaints here.
mightymorphin: (C; running through hell)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-18 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
'create a better future', huh? I'll be happy if we all survive the next round of chaos.

the real test is gonna be how you handle the next disaster that pops up. no pressure though! and good luck.
mightymorphin: (C; throw away all your money)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-19 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
and that damage has been pretty severe lately! if you can't get at least a good chunk of the Chosen organized then we're really going to be in for it.

this whole plan is important for our survival here, so yeah, you got it.
mightymorphin: (C; what would you trade the pain for?)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been here all that long so I can't help you out there.

oh boy how do I explain the basics... I'm with a superhero team called the X-Men. being a superhero just means I have an unusual ability that most normal humans don't have. usually we keep busy fighting supervillains who are also people with strange abilities but are trying to do evil things. typically we're fighting with fists or with our powers but a handful do use actual weapons in fights too.
mightymorphin: (C; running through hell)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-20 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
uhhh well we're not affiliated with any military. we tend to have a pretty rocky relationship with the government as these things go.

but the 'highly trained and elite' part works!
mightymorphin: (C; and i've been putting your name to it)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-20 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
because we're trying to make the world better. getting caught up in wars isn't going to help our cause, it just makes us mercenaries. it's not the kind of respect we want to earn.

plus we're already bankrolled by a guy who's stinking rich, so we don't need the money.
mightymorphin: (C; i used to be a real go-getter)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-21 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Richard isn't wrong honestly, a lot of superheroes are vigilantes... and Morph hasn't even gotten into how the mutant thing complicates it more.]

it sort of is, yeah. I know it must sound pretty strange but on my world people with unusual powers are scattered all over, so the system works out.
mightymorphin: (C; what would you trade the pain for?)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-08-29 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
uhhh neither? I was born with my powers, they don't come from anywhere but me.

long story short, the X-Men are mutants, which is a term that means we're all born with our powers. a lot of regular humans don't like the idea of mutants just, you know, existing alongside them. so the cause of the X-Men is to try to get humans to like us better by beating up the mutants that use their powers for crime or to terrorize people.