Behold! The TP thread. This is where we will discuss any and all plots that anyone has in mind for the RP! Feel free to share ideas. Tell me what you'd like to see happen eventually. For example: I've told Samuel I would like to introduce Maverick as soon as the current chapter is over (Current chapter being the two freedom fighter groups join up and do a mission together). Samuel, in reply, suggested a "Jail Break" RP for that. He and I both agreed we would also like to introduce his character "Crow" the robot who loathes all living creatures. We also discussed the idea of an RP where Crow would suggest Blipvert try upgrading with an emotion chip.

I might even introduce the idea of an alien invasion for fun. Or have one of the goodguys go rogue. But in any case, this is all open discussion on plot ideas. No garuntees that any one idea will become a reality, of course, but it will help us all brainstorm on what we want to see in the future. And best of all, what we want for this place to be more fun! :)

Here's my idea. It's not a TP per say, but something to get everyone a touch more invovled with the plot. I plan on having each chapter starting with chapter 3 be mostly about a specific character. For example, perhaps chapter 3 could devote a bit to Joe's background and how he faces his ultimate challenge. Something honest-to-goodness serious like: The enemy offers him a supposedly "repaired" roboticized mother (Don't quote me on it, just throwing random examples). Or Mittens does something careless enough that it causes someone roboticization or death. Or a mission concerning Samuel's whole obsession that maybe features just how "neutral" he really is, adding to his character developement.

Just an idea I thought would be fun for each person to have their character featured for a whole chapter. It'd obviously still involve the others plenty and such... but... lemme know what you think and if any of you had TP ideas for your characters!

I like that idea.

TP!  hehm-hm-hmyeah!  I need TP for my bumhole!  wha-ha-ho-ho-ho!

feature a character...

duuuh...  Duhhh....  LISTEN TO MY FUNNY VOICE!!!

bzz.  *brain frizzles.*

It sounds like a lot of fun :) Fleshing out characters is always a great thing and I'd look forward to learning more about all of the characters we have here.

The only thing to keep in mind is that any character centered story would take a lot of preplanning between the character author and the GM.  Unless they plan to build up their character's story/personal struggle on the spot, they'd probably want to tell the GM as much as possible about their character so that he can pick and choose things that not only benifit the character, but also the world around them.  At the same time, though, it might be more fun to have the GM focus on the characters strengths and weaknesses as they appear so far and drop them on that character without warning, such as the Mitten accidentially getting someone roboticized scenario.

Another other thing to be concerned about is favoritism and characters being given too much attention, but that doesn't seem to be a problem around here since everyone seems to be on equal terms and very friendly :) That probably comes from having such a small, yet centered player base.

Well how can you have favoritism in a chapter that's all about that character? I hear what you're saying though. And again... I'm confident in this batch of RPers.

  Well, I guess it would be like how a certain superhero is more likely to do cooler stuff in a crossover if it was their name on the cover?  Though another possibility would be having the char specific stuff as a side part to the main stuff.  Still plenty of plotness to go around for everyone, with the added extra development and lack of 'well somethings up with the one specific chars connection/etc. Now what?' derail potential.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:38, Fri 08 June 2007.

My apologies for forgetting about this, but we'll start this in Chapter 4. What I need from you guys now, is simply that if the chapter is about YOU, you brainstorm with me about the plot for that chapter. Question is, who wants to be featured first? Who do we all want to SEE featured first? I am voting against myself for the time being, because I'd rather see the rest of you shine for a while. If you guys can't decide who to put first, I'll pull Mittens aside into a dark place and decide with him somehow (Dice maybe?).

Granted, Joe's idea is cool, but I meant to do that anyway. No point in making a TP that isn't going along with the long-term plot. So feel free to cast votes on who should go first. We can prioritize from there. :) I'm looking forward to this in a big way.

And Daemon... you're cool, but let's give you a chance to be in RP a while before we feature you, kewl? :) So... runner ups for chapter 4 are:

Hart, Joe Darkthorne, Lucky, Michael,  Mittens,  Nautilus, Samuel, Valin.

If I can start planning with whoever is decided on NOW, then I'll have an excellent idea by the time Chapter 3 is over. Thanks all!

As we discussed OOC IRL LOL, Lucky seems the most likely candidate as we're planning on featuring "how the heck did he survive that?!" in the very near future.  Not that he'll welcome the kind of attention that will bring, but often the spotlight shines on the unwilling.

I'd like the spotlight to shine on the unwilling / unassuming personalities first (such as Hart, Michael, Valin, Nautilus, etc.) and leave the less reluctant / more aggressive characters to shine later (such as Samuel, Daemon, Mittens, etc).  ...And by etc. I mean Joe because he's an enigma.

The image that comes to mind for Sam and Daemon is a scene where the Starcraft tactical commander gives them the order to begin building a doomsday virus.  After a very, very long progress bar fills to full, they speak in unison saying, "The virus is complete!"  ...And heaven help the enemy.

On the other hand, I'd just as soon see the story develop without a focus on any one character at any one time.  *Shrugs.*

I wouldn't mess with a virus, it could mutate... I'd just drop a rock on the fat freak... a BIG rock/asteroid that I'd have etched his name on with a laser.  And of course have sabotaged all of Robotnik's spacecraft so they would blow up with him in it if he tried to leave the city....And that big laser he'd use to shot the rock... I'd sabotage it with a prism so that when turned on it created a lightshow that read, 'All your base are belong to us!'

Since everyone is going to get a turn it is only a matter of who gets the spotlight first and in that regard I don't really care.
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mmmm you could save d43m0n for  long while, I mean I haven't even got a chance to get into the whole struggle for hope, id like to see the players that have been here the longest get their chances first. The n00b should always be lastest... besides a shining role... would be a lot of work. I'm lazy and don't know if I could withhold it hehe

but yea, oldies she be on the spot light

:)

Never heard of the "Throw in the n00b first and see what they do to 'em" tactic?  Works well in MMOs anyway...  >;)



Heh.  I meant a computer virus that'd turn his robot armies into Chip'n'Dale dancers.  :P



LOL!  That's when he'd know he has no chance to survive!

lol no i've never heard of that one, comming from a fps background the 1337est always comes out. who would throw a newb on the front lines aye? good way to get your whole team shot hell and back... its Armageddon i tell ya :)

Typed these last night... just thoughts at the moment. Feel free, each of you, to either come up with your own TP or develop on the ideas listed here. Based on what is developed for your personal TP is not only how I will plan Chapter 4, but also how I can pick which order the character featuring will be. I know some characters are missing here (Currently MIA: Lucky, Mittens, Joe, Mika and various alts of mine), but never mind that. I'll be thinking up stuff for them.

Primary note: All of the characters must make use of their weaknesses once in a while. I'm thinking maybe their "Feature" story would most definitely make use of the weakness. This could be even more important than using their abilities since it is a character's weakness that shows what that character is truly made of!


**** ANGEL

Unity story arch.

Channelwood and/or Aquarius visit Unity.

Angel gets hit on the head and has memory loss.

Angel gets captured by an enemy of Unity.


**** EMERALD

Ra: "Emerald Haynsworth is our new target. She knows things that are pertinent to Robotnik's unchallenged victory!"

(Emmy the bot?)

Show Emmy's background coming to the surface.

The Chaos Emeralds

Guest appearance from an alternate universe version?


**** HART

SO needs to play chess with the princess or another likely chess player (Like maybe Samuel, lol. It would rock to see Sam's reaction to being beaten at chess by some unassuming deer).

Swimming competition for fun! Maybe at the start of a chapter?

Hart is seperated from the group somehow and has to solo his way to finding the others.



**** Nautilus

Shelly challenges Nautilus to write a speach and speak it?

Nautilus teaches ediquette to the newbies (Sam included? Well definately Mittens and the rescuees)

Nautilus overexerts himself. Nautilus wants to prove his manliness to some younger ones to embarrass himself?

Nauty teaching Shelly and/or going over some Swimming basics with her.



**** Drestastic (aka Daemon)

Faces NOT having his laptop "Juice"



**** MICHAEL

Katy gets inocapacitated (Sick or hurt bad) and it's up to Mike to take care of the Freedom Fighters.


**** SAMUEL

Samuel betrayal story arch

Samuel has a chance to betray and does not?

One of Sam's crew rescued?

Someone from Stelaris gets shot down (Or lands?) only for Samuel to discover it was a space pirate who stole a Stelaris ship.


**** VALIN

Valin gets provoked to violence

**** MITTENS
Goes to the cave of no return in search of the armor of invincibility.  Gets squished by a giant.  I like swords.  XD

**** LUCKY
Tries to play match-maker between his new mother figure and father figure.  Fails so monumentally that the universe implodes.

That is definitely possible. Could also tie it in if you wished with a mission to get something to treat Katy's condition (could be a type of poison or something.)


Well  fir the first one/two, there are a number of factors that would come into play as Samuel doesn't trust Robotnik or anyone who works for him, thus who Samuel would even be tempted to consider such an act given how it burns bridges behind him.

Since Samuel's three crew members have been roboticized, rescuing one would be difficult.

A stolen Stelaris ship being encountered could be troubling, especially if it is in the hands of pirates. Stelaris and any other major interstellar organization the pirates could steal from would have access to teraforming technologies that Robotnik could use to kill all life on Mobius by teraforming the environment so that there is no longer enough oxygen for example... and once everyone is dead except him and those loyal to him or those who have been roboticized, he could change it back or into anything else he wanted. Samuel would definitely have to either reclaim the ship by any means possible or destroy it if he can't reclaim it.

And if your wondering Samuel would never work with a Space pirates (over the Freedom Fighters) as he has no more trust for them than he does for Robotnik.



That would be scary.... Hulk... I mean Valin Smash!

  As much as I like Emerald, Chaos Emerald and Alternate dimension shenanigans are something we should probably avoid and/or put off for a while.

  As for Angel, probably the enemy of Unity bit?  Beats the ‘yet another fully armed organization vs us’ angle a Unity story arch could go.

  With Hart, I’ve got a fondess for the chess angle due to having once made a ‘monster smash nowhere near as hard as hulk!’ method of problem solving char who also had a side in chess awesomery.

  Having Nautilus trying to teach people tact would be cruel.  But at least Joe wouldn’t be involved.

  Daemons is a nice ‘well duh’.  Getting it back / making a new one hopefully isn’t too ridiculous a task as that’s kind of all he has going for him.

  Mike... already takes care of the Freedom fighters?

  With Sam, the stolen ship angle would be simplest oddly, despite the whole ‘yes, we get it. Everyone EXCEPT us can gain significant tech from, literally in this case, anything that drops out of the damn sky’ thing.

  Valin smash.  Wolf shouldn’t have bit him in the ankles.


  I wonder, as I do off and on, how long till Joe pretty much has to form X-com for the world to survive all the other plot elements ;D  Reverse engineering Chaos Emeralds would just be a weekend project for them.

  But then Darkthorne X-Com style would make full unedited Blissian civilization as a whole look underpowered <.<
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Joe does bring up a point that now that I think about it, about large amounts of 'alien tech' (or magical stuff, or anything similar) just falling into Robotnik's hands. It is very easy for Robotnik to take advantage of it in VERY dangerous ways, but not giving anyone else much they can do other than destroy it and MAYBE salvage some of it, given that Robotnik is of the mind that if he couldn't have it no one could, so he'd try and destroy it anyways if he couldn't keep it for himself. And with Robotnik's forces he'd have an easy time doing so... since otherwise he'd not be able to get his hands on the ship (or whatever it is) in the first place. Thus it probably wouldn't be a good thing to bring such a ship (or anything offering similar one sided potential) in, at least till things change drastically and Robotnik doesn't have such a dominance over airspace all over the planet. For while space pirates could steal a ship easily enough, very few of them would approach a planet like Mobius, simply due to it not likely being profitable for them to even deal with Robotnik, due to the likely hood he'd double cross them given how they would be likely to know what he did to the Elsydeon's Captain. Although some space pirates would be crazy enough to try and steal a Roboticizer from Robotnik for their own usage, but they would rig their own ships to self destruct rather than let an enemy get a hold of them. And such a scenario would probably end up occurring without any PC interaction as either they would get away or they would be killed and ships destroyed before any FF group knew of them.

Regarding Michael, ya he takes care of things but he's typically the 2nd in command and doesn't take charge of important things that often, and Tim was probably expecting that to be a weakness, when I just see it as a change of pace. Michael can lead... he typically prefers not to simply because he doesn't want the responsibility and he's typically too busy with the maintenance duties to always devote the time and energy needed into running things.

I do agree with Joe that chaos emeralds and alternate dimensions probably should be avoided... this isn't DBS (Dragon Ball Sonic).

Thinking about Samuel's tech:  Wouldn't the new Human government ie: Federation or New Terran government ect. have an issue with advanced technology left behind on underdeveloped planets?  If some sort of space police were to answer a distress call from Samuel's ship would Samuel allow himself and the remains of his ship to be taken off the planet, or would he stay and live his life seekeng vengance on an unknown planet?   But, that's just me thinking. n.n;  As for myself?  Uhh...  I need more time to think about that.

The society Samuel is from doesn't consider Mobius underdeveloped... as Roboticization is not primitive technology. However due to the dangers of that technology, they'd probably quarantine the system due to how much of a danger that technology is, claiming there was a hazard and just have everyone stay away. Since the Elsydeon itself escaped (Samuel is mearly working to repair a shuttle from that ship) no one is likely to come to the planet as they don't want to risk Robotnik getting his hands on a ship that can travel to other star systems... right now in their mind Robotnik is contained so why risk breaking that containment as they figure his little empire won't last and they will simply wait him out; however if things started to look like Robotnik would threaten other planets, they could theoretically send military forces and just destroy the planet or something. But I doubt it would come to that. Especially since Robotnik isn't even going to consider interplanetary conquest till he finishes with Mobius first.