Heroish

Heroish is an original super powers role play that takes place in Washington D.C. where Supers and normal people alike must deal with crime, the government, homegrown terrorism and whether or not some maniac is going to try to either take them hostage or save them from some impending doom they probably could have escaped on their own. You’ve got Omicron: a new government agency trying to keep Supers in line; Upsilon: a defunct group of terrorists with a lot of money who were never defunct in the first place (they know when to hide); the League of Ordinary Leaders: some scrappy little upstart anti-Super terrorists rabble rousing in suburbia, of all places; The Crusaders: no one really knows what they’re about, but they’ll be making waves soon enough; and then there are the civilians that are trying not to die in the crossfire. Heroish was originally created in 2010, on insanejournal by a lovely human being named Muse. It is now finding its life again on jcink and we hope that you’ll join us for some good property damaging fun.

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We. Are. Live. Son

Welcome back to Heroish! We’ve re-opened, repainted the walls, brought new furniture and hung up some pretty pictures on the wall. We are now accepting applications, so please be sure to hit that Getting Started link so you know what’s what. If you have a question, you can throw it to the Cbox, but in the event that no admin or moderator is present, you can always go to our moderation forum to ask your questions. We are currently playing in the month of July, 2013. If ever you forget the board date, just glance below the banner and all the information will be there. Now, what are our factions up to? Omicron A portion of the staff of Omicron are in Quantico, Virginia for the intense training they have to do every six months. The agency borrows the FBI training facility and also makes use of more durable areas to train both their human and Super agents. Training includes firearms, intense physical training, academics, counter terrorism techniques, and much more. Since the Omicron HQ is useless without its people, small groups of ten to twenty go at different times. Upsilon Since they’re still underground and would like to keep it that way until the perfect time, they are quietly amassing resources and contacting those interested in funding a terrorist organization. They are also expanding their enterprise via location scouting for their future coffee chain Cuppa Terror. They are also training their agents, though they have their facilities underground. League of Ordinary Leaders With their connections in DC, they are still lobbying for a Super human registry to easily keep track of anyone with special abilities. The adults remain organized while the younger people involved in the street team grow restless and desperately want to stir up some trouble soon. The Crusaders This young group of troublemakers has grown larger since early April, and intends to make life difficult for the Super Youth Center and anything else that stands in their way. The plan is to start small and work their way up to taking the place of the defunct (or so they think) Upsilon. Everybody Else They’re just trying to live their lives as best they can, as always. Welcome aboard, see you on the streets! Curious about the weather? Check out the calendar.

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Washington, DC

People tend to talk about DC as being just politicians, monuments, hotels, and restaurants, with not much in between. That’s not actually the case at all. So when you’re going to write about DC, here are some things to keep in mind, in no particular order:

DC isn’t a state. While that may seem obvious, it leads to some odd things, like the fact that DC has no vote in Congress. This is particularly weird given that Congress approves DC’s budget and given that DC residents, as opposed to residents of places like Puerto Rico (which also have one non-voting member in the House), are subject to all federal taxes. (This was an issue during the government shutdown, because they refused to pass the DC budget as well.) A lot of DC license plates read “Taxation Without Representation”.

As of July 2016, there were about 680k residents in DC, with the number of people in the city reaching 1 million during the workweek. The DC Metropolitan Area (which is mainly DC, Arlington, and Alexandria) is the sixth largest metropolitan area in the US, with more than 6.1 million people.

DMV refers to DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Visiting the monuments is referred to as “monumenting”.

There is a large public transportation system in DC, consisting of buses and the metro. Nobody calls it the subway. The system is called WMATA. The buses are a flat rate of $1.75 (soon to go up to $2) per ride. The metro cost depends on starting and ending points and whether you’re On- or Off-Peak (aka rush hour). The highest cost is $5.90 for a ride. They no longer (I think) have paper tickets, so everyone uses SmartTrip cards.

The metro is a mess. They’re currently doing repairs, which mostly makes it more of a mess because they’re running shorter hours and frequently do single-tracking, which significantly slows down travel. On the other hand, it catches fire less.

There are twenty colleges and universities in DC.

You can’t take the metro to Georgetown University.

DC has neighborhoods and quadrants. Neighborhoods include Georgetown, Dupont, Potomac Heights, etc. Quadrants are NW, SW, NE, and SE. They’re not of equal size. Addresses contain the quadrant in them. For example, the White House is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

There is a lot of difference culturally and socio-economically between the quadrants.

Embassy Row is a road containing most of the embassies. On Halloween some of them give out candy and stamp passports. A lot of them also have very disparate architecture style, which looks very weird all next to each other.

Things are referred to by acronyms. Everything has an acronym.

The Homeland Security building is diagonally across the street from American University.

DC is ~48% Black or African American.

There are a lot of gentrification issues in DC.

DC is a very expensive place to live.

Tourists drive DC residents nuts, primarily when they can’t figure out how to use escalators.

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Heroish Staff Update, and other things!

Let’s say hello to our new staff additions. Lovely human beings, they are.

@adventuresintheshadeoftea - tea!

@tytoslannisters - summer!

Board Status?

Nearly complete. The image host we were using died (does anyone know what happened to sl.img?), so I’ve been going in and replacing a bunch of images. We aren’t officially open just yet, but feel free to stop by, say hello and look around. Check out our canon characters, too! 

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Heroish Staff Search

If you are interested in applying for a staff position on Heroish, please fill out and submit the form to our ask. Previous admining experience is a plus and knowledge of coding isn't necessary, but we won't kick you out of bed if you know a thing or two about a thing or two. Contribution of ideas to plots would be loved, as well as a discerning eye when it comes to looking at applications. FORM alias: whatever you would like to be called availability: timezone: position interested in: admin or mod experience: whether it be moderating or coding anything else:

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