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<b>Name of Canon:</b> (write Original for original characters, Canon OC after the canon name for canon OCs) <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Journal:</b> <user name=""> <b>Player Handle:</b> <b>Player Journal:</b> <user name="">

D
     Dragonball
     Son Goku | songoku | Tetra (tetradecimal)

G
     Girl Genius!
     Maxim | nize_hat//moves_like_jaeger | Elly (tigerphoenix)

M
     Makai Kingdom
     Overlord Zetta | badassfreakingoverlord | Dragon (dragonoflife)

     My Little Pony
     Friendship is Magic
     Applejack | appletastic | Zoki (azora_mysta)

P
     Persona
     Persona 4
     Yu Narukami | linefacingforever | Skyla (skyla_doragono)
     Yukiko Amagi | gigglesnortpriestess | Lita (kittykatrawr)

     Pokémon
     Nightgale/G/Gale (OC) | twistedreality | Kitsu (kitsune_dreamscape)

     Power Rangers
     Mighty Morphin
     Billy Cranston | morphitudinous | Zoki (azora_mysta)
     Trini Kwan | legacyyellow | Mippa (mippa)

     Samurai
     Emily | earthslicer | Noah (eatme)

S
     Slayers
     Lina Inverse | dragonspooker | Wingus (wingus)

T
     Tekken
     Lee Chaolan (Power Rangers Universe AU) | golfandrobots | Silver-Fox (silver_fox_ninja)

In-Game Conduct:

Posting Format:
Morphosis is a prose game. Don't worry, you won't be graded on your ability to write great literature, and formal writing isn't required (you may break the stuffier rules of grammar and write sentence fragments as much as you please) but please try to make your writing readable to the best of your ability.

You may format communication over the voice communicator however you like, but try to make it distinct from other communication in the scene---use brackets or italics, or some other convention.

Adult Content:
This is a Power Rangers game. We'll allow slightly more edgy content than what is seen on a childrens' show (permanent character death, real blood, some swearing), but this isn't an adult game in a certain sense of the word. Include warnings in the top post or in the subject lines of comments for content that would be warned for in a PG-13 movie (drug use, nudity, discussion of excessively violent or sexual situations).

Use your best judgment when warning or choosing to lock posts.

The one hard line that we'll draw is that there is to be no sexual content posted to the main community. You may allude to adult relationships, but please take any smut threads to your character journals or museboxes.

God-moding:
You control your character, not anyone else's. Don't make posts that force another person's character into a certain course of action unless you have the player's permission. You can work out the outcome of fight scenes in advance or in OOC notes.

Infomodding:
Information you know is not necessarily information your character knows. Please don't have your hero characters magically 'sense' that a villain in disguise is up to no good---this is hard to enforce, and there are times when characters are leaving legitimate clues about their intentions that your character could pick up on, but be reasonable about it.

If your character does have a supernatural ability to pick up on information that most characters wouldn't (mind-reading, telepathy, aura sensing, and similar), don't use this ability on another character without that player's permission. It's helpful to create a permissions post in your character's journal to document the permissions you have.

Fourth-walling/canon puncturing:
Your character may come from a place where they know other characters in this game are fictional characters. For example, your character might have watched Power Rangers as a child and be familiar with some of the characters and teams. Blanket permission is granted to recognize the Power Rangers universe as fictional---all that will happen is that the discrepancy will be explained away. The universe is indeed real, it simply appeared in a modified form as fictional entertainment in your character's universe.

But if your character might recognize other players' characters in the setting as fictional, even Power Rangers characters, don't puncture without their permission. Don't have your character use their knowledge of another character's life without the player's permission either. And if the player you ask declines, respect their wishes.

Player Conduct:

Courtesy:

Be kind to your fellow players. Treat them as you would like to be treated. This doesn't mean 'don't disagree', or 'don't speak up if you're having a problem', but remember that the person you're speaking to is another person behind the screen, someone who wants to have fun just as much as you do. Don't be a jerk.

Conflict Resolution:

If you have a problem with another player that can't be resolved peacefully between the two of you, bring what you can to moderator attention. We'll do what we can to reach a mutually agreeable solution to problems.

Removal/Banning:

If a player's conduct is detrimental to the game environment, they will be removed from the game. Breaking the courtesy rule repeatedly, deliberately, and severely will result in action being taken to protect the playerbase.

Activity/Activity Check:

Morphosis has a lenient activity check---this is meant to be a relaxed game, we just want to see that you're posting. One thread of activity will be required per month per character, no minimum comment count. Just show us that you posted a comment during the month and you're good to go.

You may take a hiatus of up to one month at a time if you know you won't be active for a period of time. Just inform us on the hiatus page.

An Abbreviated History Of This World:

The history of this Earth is much like the history of many other Earths. For the citizens of Earth, the notable divergence point was in the summer of the year 1993 CE, when the sorceress Rita Repulsa and her band of goons began her invasion of Earth. She focused her attacks on the once-sleepy town of Angel Grove, California, sending her clay foot soldiers and her large monsters (capable of growing to the size of skyscrapers).

Unfortunately for Rita, her former nemesis, the wizard Zordon from Eltar, happened to be based in a hidden desert fortress near Angel Grove. With the assistance of his trusty robot companion Alpha 5, he called forth the modern era's first Power Rangers---a team of teenaged friends from the local high school who had the talent necessary to use the power to save the city. The Rangers received incredible power, a giant mecha called a Zord (Zordon was a bit of a narcissist, you see), and the power to teleport anywhere in the world at will.

Time passed. The Rangers added and lost members in their ranks, faced down the threat of an evil Ranger controlled by Rita (they saved him and he became a central leader, of course), and new powers came along when old ones were destroyed. Zordon mentored his young Rangers for a few years, using his Viewing Globe to monitor the city and direct the Rangers to the monsters they needed to fight. Soon, though...the Rangers didn't need him anymore. He departed to return to his home planet, and all would be well.

...unfortunately, things didn't go smoothly. Zordon was captured and whisked across the universe (not hard to capture a head in a tube, is it?) and his Rangers took a chance on chasing him into the depths of space. With new alliances forged, the Astro Rangers pursued the latest evil threat to the galaxy and eventually found their lost mentor, but all seemed to be lost when they found him. Zordon advised the Rangers of the only path they could take: shatter the tube and kill him. Zordon was destroyed, but the remnants of his energy formed a powerful wave that was meant to expunge all evil from the galaxy. It worked...for a little while. The insurmountable threats were gone. But evil never sleeps for long...

Times changed. Rangers fought the hot clusters of evil all across the galaxy, though the base of operations remained in the United States. Nearly all the towns attacked by monsters are located in California, for some bizarre reason...

Power Rangers were no longer just teenagers plucked from the local schools. A team was recruited from a group of space explorers, there was a team of volunteer emergency responders, a team from law enforcement, a team of young wizards...Rangers came from all walks of life. There was even a team pursuing their enemy a thousand years into the past, the Time Force squadron from the 31st century.

Up until the year 2027, life for Rangers was fairly predictable. A new enemy would awaken and attack a new town, and a new team of Rangers with a new specialty would receive the power to fight them. Some teams were government-sponsored and publicly known, others were independent and kept their identities secret. No matter what, they always found a way to save the day in the end. And though they were loosely connected, they were a family: if ever the currently active team of Rangers needed help, their predecessors were always willing to come out of retirement and take up the morpher once again.

There were remarkably few casualties from year to year as Rangers got better at evacuation procedures, and the worst that usually happened to a town was a few destroyed buildings and drastically reduced property values for a while. There was a mass emigration from California when people noticed the high rate of monster attacks in the state. Housing prices there are now lower than they've ever been! But the California dream, sunny weather, and close ties to family still keep a sizable population in the area.

This relative stability couldn't last long, though. By the year 2027, the bad guys started to wise up to the Rangers' patterns (it only took them about 35 years!). Villains began coordinating their attacks against Earth: they attacked more than one city at a time, rotated their plans, and sent the skyscraper-sized monsters to the battlefield right away instead of starting with the puny ones like before. Every past Ranger who was still physically fit came out of retirement to fight this threat, and for a while they managed to hold it back---but resources grew thin. Casualties skyrocketed. No matter how strong the Rangers were, this time...evil was stronger.

In early 2029, Earth's remaining Power Rangers led one last battle against evil. Rangers from across the galaxy converged on the moon palace, desperate to break the enemy's source of power. Their valiant attack failed, and all the remaining Rangers died, their essences warping back to rejoin the Grid...but in death their legacy lives on. In death they bring hope, for the added power to the Grid has started to tip the balance of power. Earth's last chance is now upon us. But don't worry, there's still some time: our villains are quite exhausted from their recent total defeat of the Power Rangers and are throwing a very pleasant cocktail party in their palace on the moon. Hey, no one ever said they were geniuses all the time.

Before the villains return their attention to the invasion and the last automated defenses fall, the Time Gate will be activated and history will change. From across time and space, a new generation of heroes have been invited to take up the space. That's you: the newest additions to the great legacy of the Power Rangers.

World:

Angel Grove:

Welcome to Angel Grove, California, a modern suburban American paradise in the year 2029. The weather is sunny and warm throughout most of the year, the housing's pretty nice, there's plenty of beach to cruise, and the downtown office buildings are shorter and stockier than they used to be. That's because this world has been subjected to localized alien invasions nearly every year since 1993, and the battles of the town's Power Rangers have leveled more buildings than the citizens can count. And the danger's only getting worse: lately, the Scorpion Empire has begun to make its move on the world, and there aren't as many Power Rangers around to stop it as there used to be.

But...but surely a team of Rangers can save the town no matter how small, right? The baddies only focus their attacks on one city per year, coincidentally the same city where the Rangers reside? 

Not quite. The baddies have gotten smarter than that. Most of their force is concentrated on taking out the last of the Rangers in Angel Grove, but there are villains to fight across space and time. The Rangers have the tools they need to get wherever they're needed, they just need more soldiers to their numbers. That's where you come in.

Major Angel Grove Locations:

• Angel Grove Park: In its heyday, this was a lush and beautiful park with greenery all around, pristine picnic tables perfect for picnicing on (or kicking monsters off), and a sparkling lake that was the perfect romantic setting as well as an ideal place for waterskiing and first diving lessons. The park has definitely seen better days----the monster attack outbreak of the mid-1990s scared many people away from the property, and years of taxpayer money have been spent on rebuilding more important things. Some of the old picnicing structures still stand, and the lake still sparkles, but you'll have dried grass and overgrowth to contend with.
• Angel Grove Beach: Once the premier vacationing spot on a hot summer day, the city's beach now features many rocks and scattered debris blocking off the sands. You won't find a boardwalk here, but you will find the occasional monster to battle. And if you can clear a good spot for yourself, it's perfectly possible to get a nice tan.
• The Juice Bar: Standing on the same site as Ernie's original business from the mid-90s, this local teen gathering place now features an extensive collection of classic video games for the playing. Light lunch fare and smoothies are still served, of course, and there's still a workout room for your gymnastics, field hockey, and other needs.
• NASADA Headquarters: NASADA is an independent space exploration and research program allied with the Power Rangers. It keeps spaceships independent of the Rangers' supply, researches alien activity in the galaxy, and clears the way for the Rangers to launch into space when necessary. Most information that NASADA receives about changes in electromagnetic activity from space is shared with the Hexagon.

Hexagon:

The Rangers' base of operations is the Hexagon, located in the Vasquez Rocks, a rocky and dry desert terrain to the north of the Angel Grove area. As the Hexagon's name might imply, it's a secret fortress much like the U.S. government's Pentagon---except it has six sides, because it's a hexagon. The Rangers employ advanced cloaking technology to keep wandering eyes from finding the base, and a Ranger never travels to it in a traceable way---they always teleport.

All Ranger characters start out inside the innermost chamber of the Hexagon. After their sudden teleportation into this world, they stand alone on a round silver platform surrounded on all sides by crystal sloping downward. There is one flat road down, and they find themselves standing in a black chamber with pinpricks of light like stars on the walls. Columns shining in all colors of the rainbow fill the room, and a certain small robot stumbles out to greet them.

"Ai yai yai! Another Power Ranger! Welcome to the Hexagon! 

An automated recording begins to play on the opposite wall, displayed like a hologram. In it, a computerized bald head reminiscent of a deceased wizard for good repeats the same spiel as always. Your character has been selected for their unique talent, raw nerve, or untapped potential as a hero. Your character will be told that they will soon be able to morph into a Power Ranger and restore justice to the world, and the Power will guide them in their fight. Tutorials aren't included on any of the new powers, because the Power will protect your character always.

Alpha will ask whether your character agrees, and if they do they will receive their Power Morpher and be welcomed into the Hexagon complex. Down the sleek and modern hallways decorated in blue and black, your character will find sleeping quarters, a mess hall, training rooms, an infirmary and a memorial to the fallen Rangers of this world. The sixth side of the Pentagon opens to the inner core: an airport, where the Rangers' personal spaceships are stored. Missions to the various other planets requesting Ranger services launch from here.

• Sleeping quarters: each Ranger has their own bedroom with a single bed, a desk, a computer (the screen shows a briefing on the world crisis and the character's new situation by default), a personal bathroom with shower, and a coat rack. Toiletries are provided and replenished by the Hexagon and all bear its logo---a hexagon with the colors of the rainbow in six wedges on the inside, kinda like a filled Trivial Pursuit piece.
• Mess hall: No matter what your character's dietary needs, they will be filled with artificial replications of food---though the smoothie bar's actually pretty good. You can get any nutrients in your smoothie that you like, just approach the big black machine and push a few buttons. Real food is readily available in Angel Grove or the neighboring towns if you're picky, though.
• Training rooms: exactly what the name implies. Rooms your character can rent to train, either alone or with a partner. Weight and sports equipment are provided.
• Infirmary: the Rangers' infirmary is one of the top hospitals in the world. Your character can teleport here instantly and receive medical attention, and with their advanced alien tech? Just about anyone can be brought back from the brink. Recovery times are quick too---with the infirmary's skill and the Rangers' inherent healing ability, even the gravest injuries should require no more than a week of healing.
• Memorial: Every fallen Ranger is commemorated with a beam of light in their color, grouped by their first team. Rangers who wore more than one color during their careers are marked with a cluster of colored beams. If a character touches the beam, a holographic display of the fallen Ranger's name, picture, and achievements will be displayed.
• Space and Time Port: The Astro Megaship and the Time Ship reside here in the center of the Hexagon. With these ships, the Rangers can travel through space and time to pursue baddies and stop any further damage to the world.

Neighboring Cities and Planets:

Information on these cities will be added as the Rangers are sent there! Neighboring California towns include Stone Canyon, Silver Hills, Reefside, Briarwood, Panorama City, and more.

Neighboring planets that the Rangers may visit include Aquitar, KO-35, Mirinoi, Triforia, and more. Rangers would be well-advised to stay away from the Earth's moon and Planet Nemesis, though---both are currently in the possession of the re-formed United Alliance of Evil. Both locations feature breatheable air, a horse stable, and a homey evil palace where villains may scheme in comfort.

This document was helpfully left behind for the incoming Rangers on the eve of the final battle: a backup, just in case the failsafe plan was needed. Contained in this little booklet is all the advice and information that your predecessors have left for you.

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A Power Ranger is an individual who's got the ability to morph and to even up the score. Okay, more seriously, here's the rundown of your equipment and powers. You'll pick it up as you go, newbies: this is just to help you out a bit along the way.

• Red Rangers are traditionally the 'face' and leader of every team. Though Red Rangers have a tendency toward leadership, this isn't a requirement---there have been a few Red Rangers who don't have leadership positions on their teams, and those teams have had non-Red leaders. This is also the go-to color for Rangers with fire-based powers and fiery personalities.
• Yellow Rangers are a staple of nearly every team. This color sees a lot of types---'grounded' folk associated with the earth, bubbly teens who are rays of sunshine, or people with lightning-based powers.
• Blue Rangers are a little weird. male Blues traditionally wear royal blue while female Blues wear a baby blue. Again, it isn't necessary to stick to this scheme. Blue works for intellectual types, mechanics, people with water-based powers, grounded personalities, and seriousness to them, though we've had a few comedians in our time.
• Black Rangers may be leaderlike, often seen paired with Reds in command, though some have their funny sides as well. It might also suit those of you with gravity-based powers.
• Green Rangers are more frequently silly than Black or Blue Rangers, but they have their different specialties as well---the most famous Green Ranger of all time was definitely not a comic relief type of person,  I'll have you know. Green also suits people with plant or earth based powers.
• Pink Rangers tend to be women, but I wouldn't count on that always being the place. And it definitely doesn't mean the Pink Ranger has to be super feminine--they can be, but again, not always. Pink is also a color with a tradition of badass wielders behind it.
• White Rangers have accent colors---this may be black and gold, or blue, or green, or pink, or any color you choose as trim. There are also a few White Rangers with ice-based powers.
• Violet, Orange, Gold, and Silver can also appear as Ranger colors, though they're less traditional than the others.

Base Powers and Equipment:

The uniform provides a Ranger's enhanced durability by spreading and lessening the impact of any enemy's attack with force-diverting microfibers, while the rush of energy from the Grid enhances a Ranger's speed, strength, flexibility, and healing abilities. The Grid will also help a Ranger who doesn't already know how to fight with basic reflex-enhancing and knowledge of battle skills as a support system until they can fight on their own, but this guiding spirit only works when you're morphed

Every Ranger is also equipped with a laser gun strapped to their belt.  If you can'tt use a gun in the traditional way, wrist-lasers or headset lasers might be given to you instead.

In addition to the laser guns, each Ranger has a single personal weapon that can be summoned by willing it into existence.  Personal weapons could be small swords, daggers, lances, spears, bows and arrows, axes, nun chucks, boomerangs, and more. Infused with the super charge of the Morphin Grid, these weapons are rock-solid and far more difficult to destroy than the average weapons of their type. These weapons can be combined with the personal weapons of at least two other Rangers to form a mega-blaster, a mishmash of charged weapons that unleashes a powerful blast attack.

Zords and Megazords:

Each Ranger has a unique zord, a giant mecha that's approximately the size of a small tank. Depending on the theme of your powers, this Zord might be shaped like a vehicle (van, truck, monster truck, ambulance, train...an animal, a mythical creature, or wherever the Power takes you. This Zord will typically have the same main color as your uniform and have the ability to serve as an attack unit on its own. Typical Zords have some laser cannons going on, but they might also have a special power that matches yours. Zords are called into battle by calling out some variation of the phrase 'we need Zord power, now!' Through the magic of the Grid, the Zord will appear and be ready to go in about 30 seconds.

A minimum of three Zords are needed to form the Megazord, a combined mecha with even greater power. Each individual Zord in the Megazord is combined by activating the fusion signal, and the Megazord's automatic setup process starts from there. It takes about 45 seconds for the individual Zords to change shape and combine. These Megazords stand at the height of skyscrapers. As the Zords combine, the cockpits of each individual Zord come together to put every Ranger in the Megazord in the same control room. From here, you ca coordinate your---movements are typically controlled by the leader, moving their arm to control the Megazord's sword arm.

Ranger Code of Conduct:

This Ranger Code of Conduct has been passed down through the generations. Follow these, use your head, and you should be safe. These rules were passed down from the great Ranger leader Zordon, and they served us well---when we bothered to listen. Don't repeat our mistakes, rookies.

• Rule #1: Never use your power for personal gain.

This means you keep your head down and your profile low. No using your zords to make a new skatepark crater in the desert, guys. And don't ever charge for your services. That's not who we are.

• Rule #2: Use your head.

Zordon's version of this was 'never escalate a battle unless the enemy forces you to'---and given what's just happened, I'm tempted to throw that out altogether. But I think it's worth remembering that flinging our Megazords around can have unintended consequences. Oh, but your Dragonzord's tail didn't mean to destroy the gym? Sorry. You've gotta keep your head on straight. Save your energy, don't pull out all the stops right away.

• Rule #3: Always keep your identity secret. No one may know that you are a Power Ranger.

This was the rule we definitely paid the price for breaking. After a couple years, we started going public with our identities. It worked great for a while---we had governments on our side, research and development was going better than ever, and our teachers understood if we were late to class. But the world's changed now. It's more dangerous than ever.

Back in the early days, the enemy used their magic to figure out who we were---they knew us and started harassing us in our civilian lives from Day 1. We've put a stop to that now, but it was too late for us.. A while back, we had our Mystic Mother cast an obscuring spell that'll keep the enemy from using their crystal balls to find out who any future Power Rangers are---it helps that she used to be one of those enemies, she knew exactly what to block. But her magic will only protect you if you stay hidden.

Don't morph in public, don't tell civilians that you're a Ranger, and don't give yourself away. People are moving to Angel Grove en masse because it still has lingering protection---take advantage of it, use that as your cover story if anyone asks where you came from.

Take care of yourselves, all right? If you can give the enemy the jump, you just might have a chance of winning.