Roleplay:The Curse of Day

Westopolis. A sprawling city teeming with life and activity. The roar of traffic and the lights of the city filled the night…before they were drowned out by a blinding flash of light and a noise like a meteor crashing into the city.

Those who were near the origin of the sound saw a cloaked figure standing on an elevated platform raise one hand and begin to speak.

"Greetings, insects," it said. "I have come to inform you of your doom."

Silence.

"LISTEN TO ME!" it bellowed. "I have located the Sol Emeralds of an alternate timeline, which, by remarkable serendipity, have been drawn into this timeline. With these gems, I will fuel my latest contraption and obliterate the night, empowering me with eternal light. Then I shall be invincible!"

Silence.

"MORONS!" it thundered. "YOUR DESTINED RULER GIVES YOU THE MEAGER CHANCE TO FIGHT BACK, AND STILL NO ONE SPEAKS? WHEN YOUR WORLD FALLS, REMEMBER THAT TAGLUMO WARNED YOU!"

Another blinding flash of light, and the figure was gone. However, the evidence remained. Aside from the countless snapshots on the phones of the passersby, one particular echidna flicked furiously across a tablet, her fingers whirring…

Rules

 * 1) Everyone's characters should be roughly equal in importance to the story. This means no godmodding, making the story revolve solely around your characters, extensively derailing the story to introduce your character, etc.
 * 2) No canon characters, extensively making use of relations to canon characters, controlling other people's characters, or creating backstory for other characters. There's too much potential for player annoyance if these are included, as someone is bound to think that someone else's character (official or fanon-owned-by-another-player) should have done something different or should have a different backstory.
 * 3) Try to make posts as high-quality as possible. See this for more details.
 * 4) Play in character, and do so nicely. Keep characters consistent with themselves, and don't have them derail the story by having giant fights with everyone else. If these two conflict, the character might be best not being entered into the game.
 * 5) No profanity. If you must have your character swear, you may do so with lines of asterisks (e.g. "You ***!"), although you are advised to simply use non-profane swearing (e.g. "You lousy jerk!"). You are not allowed to actually enter profanity, even if part of a profane word is replaced with asterisks. The whole profane word must be replaced with asterisks; if it isn't, everyone can tell what the profane word is, which negates the point of censoring profanity.
 * 6) The game is largely turn-based. I'll keep a note on this page showing whose turn it is once the game starts.

Current Participants
Add your name at the bottom of this list and add a character to the Characters section to join the game!
 * Wikikinetic (Game Master/GM)

Heroes
The noble individuals who attempt to stop the villain from ruling the world.

Other
''Anyone else. This may be broken up into more sections if enough non-Hero characters join.''
 * Taglumo – An arrogant villain who wishes to rule the world. Played by Wikikinetic.
 * Taru-Na – An echidna reporter who has vital information on how to stop Taglumo's plan. Played by Wikikinetic.

Story
Sections will be added here as soon as the story starts, which it will do as soon as there are enough players involved in the roleplay.