A new OOC!

I was alerted that the tread was marked closed upon creation.

The perpetrators have been sacked.

Dirty perpetrators, interfering with our pretty new thread...

And posties.  Now, Serenade, I'll hear no more insults as to my post ability for at least two days. Capice?

After I got back from South America, my pet rabbit (of 11 years) died.  I took this badly and crawled into my hole.  I emerge.

Sorry to hear about your rabbit, Flare, losing a pet is tough.   On a different note, South America? Cool! Where did you go?

R.I.P. Mr. Bunny :(

Thanks for the condolences.

Three friends and I went to Rio de Janiero during Carnival (woohoo) then Sao Paulo in Brazil.  We then went to Buenos Aires in Argentina and tangoed and shopped our hearts out.  The last leg was in Lima, Peru.   We made the grand attempt to get to Machu Picchu, but rains and suck prevented it.  We went to the second largest Incan ruins Sacsayhuaman (say it aloud).

It was two weeks of fairly awesome fun.  If I world travel again I will plan better, but otherwise, I really had a blast.

And suddenly I imagine Gale sounding like Peggy Lee (I really assume that she doesn't sound like Little Willie John)!!!  Love the Old School!

Indeed.  Meant to link to the Peggy Lee version in the post, but I forgot.  But I'm sure everyone can google it on their own.

I always think of the Madonna version, but that's just because I heard it first.  Conversation gives me an interesting thought though: what do people's characters sound like?  Gale is Peggy Lee, Impetus has a voice too holy and wondrous to ever be described, but what about everyone else?


Also, the weird educational video on corgis that came up while I was searching for Peggy Lee on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqCgFPV-8SM

Greetings everyone,

My name is Rusty and I am a long time friend of Rydi's, and I'm joining in the game! From what I've read so far this group maintains a very high quality, and I'm really hoping to be able to measure up to the standard you have all worked so hard to maintain.

Since I'm new and you guys have a lot of history together, I'd be happy to modify or change the way I post or interact with your characters if you feel like it needs a bit of a change, and if you want to intertwine backstories or character activities with mine I'd be happy to. PM me if you have any questions or anything like that.

Looking forward to not dying!

Regards,

Rusty

Welcome aboard.

Oh yes, I am still alive. I should get caught up.

Operator, pick a color, any color.  Except those already claimed by players that is... see this thread, first post, for a list of colors in use: link to a message in this game
You may also find some other helpful rules here.


Remember that quotes from NPC's are in yellow (highlight the text and click on the box "styled text" for a list of colors to select), and your quotes should be in your chosen color.


edit: oh, hiya Sol' :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:30, Fri 15 Mar 2013.

In reply to Rydi (msg # 13):


Rose is the color I will use for Operations' quotes.

Welcome Operator, it will be nice to have another new player around!  I like what you have written so far.  I already use rose as my dialogue color, but it never got updated on the list, so you may need to pick a different one.

Going back to a Rydi's question from this morning, who do we sound like?  Serenade sounds like Florence Welch (w/o the accent).

Yes, welcome!  I like your intro post, so I think you'll fit right in!

In reply to Serenade (msg # 15):

It looks like Orange is available, as is Coral. If either of these is preferable, I'll take that one. Coral is shorter, which makes it easier for me to type quickly, but if it resembles another color too closely, I'll take Orange.

Dragon is Orange...Welcome aboard!

I never bother typing it. Just write it all normally, and then go through the text, highlight speech with the cursor, go to the "styled text" drop down, and pick your color. Way faster.

I alternate.  Old coding habits built a habit of putting in that sort of thing on the fly while typing, and sometimes it's lazier to just use the keyboard than to reach over to the mouse.

In other news, welcome aboard Operator!

Welcome welcome! When I post using my i-things i type in the coding, the highlighting on touch screens is a pain.  Is operator going to be utopian, terat, aberrant, elite or unaligned?

Hello and welcome, Operator!

Very good intro posts!

I just noticed that my character description only has the most recent paragraph, giving new players no clue who Flare is.  :( This will be corrected.

Updated the character colors to account for everyone (I think).

I'm pretty sure Operator will be an elite, as you will probably all see shortly...  Though more of an independent contractor than tied to any particular agency.  Operator's player isn't quite familiar with all the various options for elite allegiance, but liked the general idea.

If he needs an 'in' with the group I could give him one, Solitaire knows some of the more independent Elites, for good or ill.

... because of course when you're insane convincing yourself something must be true when you've got absolutely no evidence at all is super easy.

Also, a fun fact, crisscross is apparently not hyphenated, and I always thought it was.

Soooo, everybody still affiliated with T2M is getting fired. The question is how to take Ragnarockette with us. Co-opting T2M:E would be a brilliant PR move when this shit hits the fan.

Gonna spend the day at work thinking on this. Hrmm.

Also, depending on how this goes, Utopia might go with it. Half of T2M:A is raiding one of its own prisons, with a bunch of Terats and a couple elites in tow.

BWAHAHAHA TAKE THAT THETIS.

Or we start a war. Either way, fun times.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:23, Wed 20 Mar 2013.

Waiting on Suzukaze's band of misfits to get dragged into this somehow...

I see this going 1 of 4 ways.
1) we get branded public enemies 1-whatever and are made global pariahs. Hard to do if we get our mojo back.
2) Laragione uses this as an excuse to clean house. This probably drives Thetis into the directive.
3) utopia falls as word of what's going on in the facility gets out and the old timers use their global influence against utopia.
4) profit.

I've assumed you were silently accompanying the group that Imp is leading.  You were invited to the Vegas meeting(Post 268 in full circle said all the old utopia members + dragon, and you predate him on the team).  Or, if you want you can be with Sol's group.  Either way.

Imp, I think some version of #2 and #3 are most likely.  #1 is possible, even with powers, but highly unlikely.  Especially with Impetus making the populace like his version of events better.  Sol's idea of disenchanted T2Mers away from Utopia is also pretty likely, at least a few anyway.  #4 is unlikely on the grand scale, since this will make the aberrant war more likely, but on the short term you are all rich enough that you probably don't even care.

Speaking of, Kraken should take the Wealth Beyond Avarice bg enhancement from Adventure!

A matter, perhaps, for when I live again.  10-12 hour days, 8 days out of 10 has really eaten into the schedule.

I understand that situation all too well...

Option 5) The aeon society, realizing that they're not total f^*&&^ morons, decide to get on board with shutting Proteus down.  They also realize that Laragione will be forever sullied by his knowledge and passive abetting of Proteus (yes, the blood of those forcibly aborted nova fetuses is on your hands too, Larry)  so he is removed from his post and replaced by.... Frostburn?

oooh, Just read the post where Guggie's been called in.  The tension, it builds!
This message was last edited by the player at 01:56, Fri 22 Mar 2013.

Doesn't Frosty tangently work for Proteus too? Shes up to her eyeballs in some cloak and dagger venture at least. Solitaire would be in favor, Frosty gets things done.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:47, Fri 22 Mar 2013.

This is going to get hairy, that's for sure.  Also, apologies: longer week, surprisingly less brain than usual.

Also, Comstock sounds like ... I don't know.  I have a voice in my head, but that doesn't really help.  Uh ... Webb Wilder plus Commander Shepherd?  Buck 65 meets George Clooney?  I guess just look all those up and shake well.

Yeah, Frostburn has been involved in some of the Proteus stuff, just not the inner circle.  Still her CIA background gives her insight into the hows and the why of what is going on behind the scenes and she really hates it.  So she's actually a good candidate if someone went that direction with her.

Alright, time to start reading through whatever took place since I was last alive.  Ah yes, a voice.  Let's go with GlaDOS from the German translation of Portal where the character was, of course, voiced by Werner Herzog.  A real morass of meaning that.  Incidentally, the simple substitution of German for English changes Portal 2 quite substantially.  Less zany, more ... Mengele.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw95J2VwVDI.  Oh, the test subject died so we scraped him into the furnace.  This doesn't remind me of anything, certainly not with German Cave Johnson's giddy narration over the top of everything.  Alright, one last thing before I start reading the posts proper, Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:47, Mon 25 Mar 2013.

Whoo hoo, 12 hours later I have sucessfully installed my new CPU and mobo and actually gotten it working. Victory for Sylvanas.

Voices voices, I hear voices... What?  Oh, a voice for Phantasm?  Uh, probably Emma Stone.  Yeah.  I like that.

Now, back to the voices...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42mF7ytCAAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdg9gkmWsEA
This message was last edited by the player at 21:00, Thu 28 Mar 2013.

Happy egg day everybody, hope you enjoy the chocolate's the rabbits laid for you.

If not, you can always go listen to the cheerful German GLaDOS.

Belated pagan-holiday everyone.

Finally making good on those GM duties previously mentioned.

So, I was told about a show called King of the Nerds, and having watched the entirety of the first season, I must say that it's good to seem my (our) peoples on tv in all their nerdy, slightly dysfunctional, glory.

Sounds interesting, might have to watch it.

I had a bit of a hiccup there in posting, but on the upside, new job obtained.

I'll post replies and move things along in the next 0-2 days.  Sorry for the delay.

I was hoping to get a few more replies and/or interaction on full circle before moving too much further though.  Not sure who is still interested and/or who is swamped by job/finals/etc., so I'm certainly not trying to pressure anyone, just letting you know that I'll move things forward for your character if I don't hear from you soon, just so we can keep the scene moving forward and finish off this portion of the story.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:56, Sat 27 Apr 2013.

Kaze, not sure if you noticed when i mentioned this before, so I will bring it up again in case you want to participate: you can be in the full circle scene, you were at the meetings after all.

Sol, you are conscious again by the time you get to the bottom of the elevator shaft.  Just achey and very heavily bruised.

Sorry about the lack of participation. I did catch that but was unsure where to work myself in. My original reason before you had brought it up was that I was too busy and missed posting in the meeting so thought I was too late and got left out. Another aspect was how I've played Kaze's hate towards the Teregen. She probably would have been cool with her friends and maybe Kraken... But when the rest showed up she probably would have abandoned the team. It's just a matter at this point of working her in...

Bah, 5 years of perfect attendance and I have to go and break it. CURSE YOU SICKNESS!

But at least that means I can post something today.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:50, Tue 07 May 2013.

'Kaze: Yeah, I figured.  No worries, you can just say you were "there all along", or your super-speed can allow you to slip in and follow the others.  The distraction that Pax is providing is more than enough to let you do so.

'Sol: Hopefully the time off lets you get feeling better at least, and maybe get in some entertainment time while you are off.

Geryon indeed isn't in the room.  That's what i get for posting post drinking. Post modding.

I actually liked the crazy talk, though I wasn't sure whether it was on purpose.

It suits the mood, and powerlessness has been hard on all the terats, not just Grav.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:58, Sun 12 May 2013.

Yay Kaze! Also Yay me!  Happy to have you back!  In response I have posted sarcasm which may motivate you into a further killing rage! Soooo much fun!

It's funny, without the mega-charisma I feel like I need to make Comstock's speechifying efforts more jockish and awkward.

Also, to keep momentum in the game I'm going to update again sunday morning at the latest to have Comstock hop through the portal.

I sit down to update, the tornado sirens go off.

I'll be back on later assuming my apartment (and thus computer) is here when I get back :)

So fun tidbit: since I work for a power company down here in Central Oklahoma, all those Tornados are really rustling my jimmies.  Looking at some back to back shifts and whatnot, not to mention the damages and human suffering involved.  But I'll try to keep abreast of matters here and post, because this game is still damn fun and I want everyone to get involved in the showdown.

Those of you not in the Oklahoma area, may I suggest good insurance if you plan to move down here?  Or at the very least living on the eastern side of a well populated area?  I'm not one to go advocating directly for aid organizations and all that, but I am one to ask everyone learn from disaster and take appropriate precautions.

For everyone in central Oklahoma, stay frosty.  It's still pretty hairy out there.  And for the love of all that is good, if you are going to build around here, built with an angled roof and round walls to minimize the damage from high winds.  And a basement too. It's an investment.

Hey everybody,
I hope that you and your families all safe and sound.  Watching the news on the storms on CNN and it's horrifying.  Why hasn't the government changed building codes to make mandatory things like concrete walls, basements, storm cellars...?

They are mandatory in some areas.  And we'd bury all the electric lines if we had another ~$55 billion dollars.  At the end of the day, though, living just about anywhere is a roll of the dice, and most people want/need housing now, not good housing sometime in the future.

'Stock, I second your statements.  Me and mine were fortunate enough to avoid the worst of it, though the tornado in Edmond was just down the street, and hopefully the job I just got is still secure (Moore school psychologist).  Work hard and remember to take care of yourself in the process.

Imp, thanks for the note of concern.

So another fun tidbit.  You know that tornado that hit the same place back in '99?  How would you guess people rebuilt in the immediate aftermath of said tornado?  If you guessed "to precisely the same standards as failed in said tornado" you win 10 quid.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/do...ATDSAMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2

With hurricane anchors tying the roof to the house and the house to the foundation and no other changes an ordinary house will withstand 160 mph winds with maybe a loss of shingles.  But it costs $0.85 per connection so that would add $500 or so to the cost of the house.  And that just cannot stand.

Long story short damage is probably going to be excessive.  And to a large extent unnecessary.

Facepalm.
Mind you, I am looking at moving to a community that is at risk if a tsunami hits, and I'm guessing most of the buildings there aren't built to withstand one.  Of course, tsunamis do not happen there every year, nor is the area known as tsunami alley.

Now, mind you, being directly under the tornado is not usually survivable for residential structures.  For that you want concrete forms, a dug in bunker, something of that nature.  But once the first tie on a normal roof fails, the whole roof quickly follows and insurance claims jump to 80% of the property (on average).  If you just put the hurricane ties in, your house can survive everything short of massive flung debris and direct exposure to the tornado itself.

The tornados aren't going away, guys.  They just aren't.

Sorry.  Still at work.  Found this soap box here and didn't know what to do.

Pontificate away, good sir

I am out of town and away from computer until monday.  Any replies people would like to make, or setting up for the scene, feel free to do.  I will post again when I get back.

Have a happy memorial day weekend.

OK, so my hard drive was the last original part on my comp, so naturally it died too. But it's now ok, because a laptop has been acquired. I'll catch up.

It occurs to me that despite my skill at fixing the bloody things, my luck with them is abysmal. Will consider this.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:46, Sun 09 June 2013.

Solitaire's Computer

Theseus's Ship.

The parallels are inescapable.

I will get another post up soon.  I was just waiting to get a few more posts in before doing so, but it looks like people are a bit busy right now with work/summer/upcoming holidays so I'll just move things along.  We are almost done with things though, one way or another there will be resolution and a setting shift as the result of it.  Yay!

I know the powerless arc was less popular than I expected, in part b/c it has been dragging on for so long, but the turmoil caused by the surrounding events should make some interesting waves in the overall continuity, and your actions in this final scene will decide where certain characters shift allegiances and how they behave in the future.  And you will of course get powers back, so that should be fun...

Thunder.  Stolen.

Ha, more like thunder added to.  'Kaze is just as depowered as everyone else, so she'll just be softening him up more for you. :)

Happy fireworks day all.

In reply to Rydi (msg # 67):

I'm bad people, edited the last post because I didn't include a couple of characters.

Alas only a short film, not a trailer, but apropos nonetheless.

http://vimeo.com/69882318

As I plan to be dumping other time consuming internet hobbies, perhaps I can finally give this wonderful game the attention it deserves.  (And Rydi will stop being mean to me)

Pacific Rim, if you haven't see it. Go.

If you like giant robots at all, Go. Even if you don't, I'd still say go.

That video was interesting Kraken.  Youtube is full of gems, I just never know which pile of crap to look for them in, so it's nice to have people point them out.

Sol, I want to see that, but no one will go with me during matinee time.  Makes me a sad panda.  I might, maybe, fingers crossed, finally get to see it friday or sunday though.

For weeks now I have been digging through the archives, without success, looking for the rest of the Freak/Annette storyline that starts in "Training Camp."  I know I read it before when I was going through the back material the first time, but I wanted to revisit it.  Does anybody remember where it is?

Saw Pacific Rim finally, was pleasantly surprised.

I can't remember where all of Freak's storyline is, but I think it might have been on the HQ thread (at least in part) and maybe vignettes?  Without digging for the next 30 minutes I probably couldn't tell you much more, but I'm off to sleepytime after this post.

Alright, but is it a 'good' movie or just a 'fun' movie?  I'm interested enough, especially after something with so much obvious love did so poorly against a field of rather bland and lifeless movies.

Except maybe Despicable Me 2.  The first one turned out to be alright despite my reservations.  So the sequel might also be alright.

Others can speak for themselves of course, but I thought it was fairly good, especially for a movie about giant monsters.  The side stories weren't exactly inspired, but I was pleasantly surprised by some of it.  The female lead, never got naked, wasn't ever a sex object, and she hardly cried at all, making her "stronger" than most female leads in these type movies.  The "smart" characters were painful at times but their plot resolved in an interesting manner and they were essential to the resolution of the film.  The other side characters were at least entertaining, and the action was of course quite good.  Looking at the plot, I can't really see where they could have done better, given the premise of the film.

I agree, it was about as good as a movie with giant robots fighting giant monsters could be. Considering the premise, your mileage my vary, but if you are even remotely interested I say go.

Also, I found a school teaching historical weapons, which is only about a mile from my house, so I just had a class on two-handed longsword. Holy hell that was fun. Apparently I should work on my posture though. Ouch.

Still, exercising is much more fun with a bastard sword.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:38, Wed 24 July 2013.

When I first saw the trailer to Pacific Rim I flipped out that it was an Evangelion rip off. Wife really wanted to see it so despite my dislike of it I went with her. I have to say it turned out that I really enjoyed it. So all I can hope is that it does well enough that they finally put out an Evangelion live action movie. I swear though if it comes out and I hear someone say it's supposed to be like Pacific Rim I'm gonna bitch slap them.

So jealous of you, Sol.  I've always wanted to learn proper fighting techniques for sword and shield, or staff, or halberd.  Especially halberd.  *drool*

They do that, but its on Wednesdays, which is movie night. : /

After 11 odd years in korea I still never got around to learning kum-do, or korean sword fighting.  Just never seemed to have the time/drive to do so.  Learning european weapon fighting though, I'd be all over that.  I watched a movie called reclaiming the blade that had a bit on the revival of western martial arts.  Very cool.

Anybody else here got Shadowrun on steam?  I'm playing through it now and am pretty dismayed by the railroadiness of the campaign, and find myself yearning for the open world feel of the genesis version.  I'm looking forward to 6 months from now when some nerd with far too much time on their hands gives me what i want.

Yeah, I have it, and I agree. However, it was only $20. Otherwise I'm rather enjoying it.

I crave it.  But I presently have no time for it.  I've even heard that Jake Armitage from the SNES game is in it.  (SNES > Genesis, by the way)

So they'll get my money sooner or later.  Even if it's just to reward a style of gaming I prefer.

Its not a bad fix until I get Wasteland 2.

And yes he is.

Hrmm, Solitaire can relate to Carolines current situation.

That statement gives me an idea... Sol, I'm posting an update with you in it in a few minutes.  I don't want you to be too bored while you come back to consciousness.

Oh, and Serenade, thank you for the vignette.  When all this is over you will have a bigger role in the Utopia PR department, or you can join any of the other movements acting against them, but wherever you go you will get to mainstream into the plot.

Ok, updated the last message instead of posting a new one, take a look at it again.  Down at the bottom.

Oh, I was just going to have a conversation with The Other Solitaire. This is interesting too though.

Both are viable within the same scene actually.

That is what I am currently doing. Solitaire has always had a special relationship with the multiverse, especially since it might only be in her head. However today was the final session of my year and a half long IRL game, so I am pretty wiped. I'll finish and post it tomorrow.

Ah hell with it. Who needs sleep.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:07, Sun 28 July 2013.

Np!  I have been enjoying lurking like a creeper on the Full Circle thread.  Speaking of which, the scenes with Sol, and Imp and Car are really good; where can I find the original stuff with Sol's alters and Imp and Car's relationship?

The first time The Solitaire shows up is in post #202 (currently page 9) in the Vignettes thread. After that she just tends to pop up when Solitaire is stressed or I have nothing else to post about. The real question is whether or not she is actually real. I could dig up a few more possibly, but they mostly serve to put her off balance. I do think the times she shows up are some of my better work though. :D

If she's real, I expect The Other Solitaire to take whatever that parallel dimension hopping power is and say hi at some point. That would be fun.

My, I am editing the hell out of this post.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:20, Sun 28 July 2013.

Hmm, Imp and Car's relationship starts way back in somewhere I can't find either in the training camp thread or the HQ thread (I seem to recall a thread called las vegas the strip something something but that must be a product of my imagination).  Most of it is off camera though, or alluded to in the vingettes thread.

Well, there's Socializing on the Strip (which is on the second page of threads) or you might look through Off the Clock.

Second page of threads? Totally forgot that was there, this is what you get for doing much of your websurfing on a smart phone.
Also, my copy of Numenera arrived in my drivethrurpg acct today. Super stoked!

My thought process on seeing the last post:

"Numenera?  Is that an exalted supplement or something?  I'm not sure I've heard of it, I'll just google search and see what's ...
WHAT?!  New monte cook game?  And science fantasy with nanotech and similar things equaling magic?  I had an Empire of the Petal Throne spinoff setting that worked like this ... but didn't look as cool!  Rargrarglblarglbelelblelelbl..."

The End.

I was a playtester for Numenera, it's pretty damn cool, rules light, potentially awesome setting.  If you want a review before you shell out cash for it I'll be checking out the core book/players' guide on the train tomorrow.
It's also going to be the basis for the spiritual successor to Planescape torment:
https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/
Which looks frigging amazing.

Speaking of amazing, capital post in full circle, Rydi.  very very nice.  I'll post there when I'm less hungover/more capable of stringing together thoughts.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:41, Sat 03 Aug 2013.

Glad you liked it.  This chapter, and really this whole segment of the game, are moving toward a close.  Multiple character resolutions, and then a transition to a new "after Europa" era.

Yay, new chapter!!!

FYI: everyone infected with the eufiber virus, upon being healed, will gain 1 permanent taint.  This is the cumulative result of multiple node recharges, pattern damage, and general trauma.

This taint is not available for chrysalis, but you might be able to leverage your experiences here for chrysalis at a later date.

... because, you know, I'm just saying. You could have at least put a kevlar vest on him or something....

I blame thinking like baselines combined with feelings of hopelessness and with an unhealthy dash of desperation. That and, at least for me, work/life overload. Still, you survived, right?

Solitaire wouldn't have thought of it, who needs Kevlar? We certainly wouldn't.

Also, how belligerent would he have been if someone had told him no?  Even depowered, not sure I'd want to piss off the crazy guy.

Wheee consequences!  And opportunites!

Quick question:  did we bring communications equipment on this little interplanetary boondoggle?

I know Grav didn't. He's an unarmed unarmored civilian with nothing in his pockets. (Who is also crippled, sort-of-still-insane, and missing his cane...)

Solitaire technically has a cell phone, but I don't think I get coverage out here, and hell if i would pay the roaming charges

Totally didn't expect to land on one of the moons of jupiter (or any moon, really) so there was no thought of bringing anything more than Imp's Core Sat phone Mk 5.  Gonna have to talk to Mathematician to get some system wide subspace transponders set up within the next 5 years.

Thank you Kraken for inserting some believable security/repair issues in there.  Somehow the technobable sounds so much better when you type it :)

Comstock can broadcast and receive radio.  So if you have a long, long time to wait, he could solve the problem.

It helps that there are actual teleportation devices in existence today.  For electrons.  Over distances measurable in fractions of a nanometer.  Your television tuner might use a few Esaki diodes, for instance.  Certainly it would have if it had been made in the 60s.  It is sad that we've moved beyond using teleportation to fulfill our trivial needs because other options are more efficient.

Kraken, you make me wish I knew more about SCIENCE!

In reply to Solitaire (msg # 114):

No you don't. I mean, we can't even explain what birds are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw

Sure, we know they're all just a complex series of levers and magnets... everyone knows that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/...ith-and-laikingland/
http://iridescentlearning.org/...3/07/buildA_beak.pdf

But that doesn't tell us much, since magnets (and everything science describes) are just magic anyway.  There's no making sense of magic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

I'm currently working to turn this rant into the opening paragraph for a paper detailing the scientific conspiracy to take over the governments of the world and enslave them in service to the illuminati via science propaganda and forcing math and science on young children... I just need to start looking for some circular references from the conspiracy community and I'm sure I can do it...  But the point is, you're safe from the lizard aliens running the illuminati because you don't know enough about science!

Also, I don't want to go to bed, so this might be a ploy to keep me occupied in an effort to avoid it.  Or it could be the tumor.

Preach the message brother!

Anything is possible if you beg the question hard enough! Keep at it!

Down with science! Up with communicable diseases, childhood mortality rates and famine!

Tumors, huh?  You too?  This damn quantum, it's such a pain in the lobes.

I have no idea where I am going at the moment. But the ride amuses me.

I am going to reiterate again how much I enjoy that my offhand screwing with the metaplot pays such dividends. Thank you all for running with this.

That's what roleplaying is for, right?

True, but it was something I threw in for my own amusement, I never really expected any of that to actually be relevant.

Moral of the story:  Be careful what tools you hand the ST to use on us.

Lol, Colony reference. <3

In reply to Solitaire (msg # 125):

We try.

Whee. Free from classes for a few weeks. Then I go back to making money instead of spending it. :/

<3 Summer term though, when else can you take Vampirism in Film?

Cool, is your prof  going to be a discussion of the shift away from vampirism towards zombies that seems to be happening?

Nah, didn't cover that. Though that is something that would have been interesting.

On the other hand, I did very nearly pass out in class today. Turns out that showing up with a stomach bug and covering some squicky material is not a good combo. It was rather interesting, as that has never happened to me before.

Administrative Junk:

1) I posted a thread to help any new players we get over time.  If other GM's want to edit, add, delete, or otherwise modify the thread then by all means do so.

2) Will announce firm xp Tiers upon completion of full circle.

3) Will have a post up in FC soon.  Just started my new school psych gig in Moore.  The district is in complete disarray due to the 2 schools and admin building that were taken out in the tornado, so it has been extra taxing.  Should get something up in the sat-sun region, though you should all feel free to post until I do (as usual).

4) We might have a couple more players join in, as the conclusion of FC will make a good jumping on point.  As always, this can be hit or miss, but I feel that even short-lived pc's spice up the setting immensely.  (ex: Harley Logan and Prodigal)

Take it easy everyone, and may the start of the new semester (for those that still parse their lives by the school calendar) be a good one.

New blood? Welcome.

Hello everyone,

I am a friend of Rydi and Grav IRL who has listened to them talk about this game since it was first created and finally decided to join.

I am looking forward to joining this game and getting to know you all.

Also i will be using seagreen for my character.

Welcome welcome! Please ensure to keep all non fire-resistant appendages away from the Kraken/
This message was last edited by the player at 12:57, Sun 18 Aug 2013.

Triptych huh? So where is the 3rd one... In a superquantum reality? Other Solitaire may have bitten off more than she could chew there, but hey, it's not her World Line she's messing with.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:28, Sun 18 Aug 2013.

One is a Q-Ghost, a portent of things to come.  One is in a hospital bed, riddled with monstrous levels of taint.  The other... good question.  But wherever she is, she's marvelous.
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<3 How you run with my offhand ideas. <3 <3 <3

Allo, allo new folks and old.

OK, finally got time off of working-60-hour-weeks-because-employee-morale-and-staffing-levels-are-abysmal.  And it's fast day so I've got to distract myself.  So time to squash out some posts, probably starting with xp.

Welcome Daphne!!!  I think that we are going to be besties.  We.  Will.  Be.  Besties....

I have posted the Aberrant fan suppliments up on my website for people to grab if they don't have them.

These files are the following:
A Breed Apart - a supplement largely about 2nd generation novas
Brainwaves - the mega-mental book
Forceful Personalities - the mega-social book
The New Flesh - the mega-physical book

The New Flesh, in particular, has a bunch of other stuff in it as well (and is well-worth a look for just about anyone).

These books, since they are available for free, can be located here: http://soulfire.net/Aberrant/

I probably won't take them down any time soon, since there's no copyright issue with freely sharing them.

In reply to Gravitas (msg # 139):
Thank you Grav!

They really are amazing books, and I fully endorse their use.  There are of course a few unbalanced powers/enhancements, but I tend to okay almost any purchase from these books.

Get them if you don't have them: http://soulfire.net/Aberrant/
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:49, Mon 19 Aug 2013.

So, assuming an average distance between Earth and Europa, Gravitas needs 5 successes on the activation roll to get everyone back to Earth in one jump (actually 10, but you get Quantum autosux on the roll). On a related note, it will only stay open for (successes on a Willpower roll) turn, plus one for each WP point spent. Given the volume of people, it may be best to send everyone back via the machine and then have us go wherever afterwards via portals.

Imp says he's not trying to be "mind rape-y" but that many successes is an order of magnitude beyond anything Dragon could hope to resist with a regular dice roll (and he's not exactly weak-willed).  Would it be possible for him to spend a willpower to resist, at least temporarily?

Two quick things:
1) The average lightspeed time delay from Earth to Europa is in the neighborhood of 45 minutes, so we won't know what is going on back on Earth until we get there (as it is unlikely they're broadcasting the OpNet in this direction anyway)

2) Pax's Mastery makes it really hard to combat him, even with Q6. :P I'm sure words will be had between him and the PC Terats when we get the chance - I hope for his sake he didn't kill any by-standing baselines (like the cameraman or whoever else).

Yeah, that's pretty much what Solitaire expected to happen.

Holy shit...

Yeah, I'd probably classify it as "resisting instinctual response" as per the willpower expenditure rules.  1wp per scene unless Imp makes another statement, in which case you have to spend a willpower again... he can grind you down fast if he tries, but it gives you the ability to react at least.  (note that this is to resist the raw force of his charisma making you do something, not specific mega enhancements that have other, varied effects and resistances in their rules)

You also have a little more leeway in resisting due to Phantasm's roll, so long as you aren't opposing her proposed plans.

Dammit Shelby! Y'had to pick now to spaz out,hunh? It's almost like some force greater than you was guiding your actions for the sole purpose of making our lives more interesting.
Also, people blowing WP to not jump into bed with Imp's plan is cool, don't wanna remove player autonomy.

New rules posted.  If you hate them, comment now. I changed my mind on specialties a bit, but the new rules are overall more lenient i think.  The dodge change has minimal impact on play, but gets rid of the DV rules no one was using anymore.  The other stuff was more reminders and clarifications than anything else.

I have no problems, but then I haven't really been posting with rules in mind for over a year. /shrug

No problem from me either, although Imp usually doesn't do the fisticuffs very often.
Also, my post in the Vingettes thread was written for the Soliverse, it's not the future in the Rydiverse.  Probably.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:38, Fri 23 Aug 2013.

In reply to Impetus (msg # 150):

I just want to know which one of the insanely pissed women in the party takes your arm in that 'verse.  :-P

Also I have no questions or problems with the rules.

I think it's gotta be Sol. Early on she threatened me with violence if i tried any mind-fuckery, and other Imp has fewer qualms (i.e. none) about mind-fuckery, thus she's the most likely candidate.  That and you might notice that nobody used her name, the only nova (known) where that's an issue is Sol.

That is a very good question Serenade. There are so many possibilities. Could be The Solitaire, since it's her setting, but then Imp is still alive, would have been sloppy of her... Good precaution though.

Also, I suppose this opens up the 'Soliverse' if anyone else would like to have fun with it. Its not a 'evil' world line so much as it is a 'take a personality trait to an extreme' world line. If anyone would like more of my thoughts on the place, just ask.

As a last thing, 'Stock, want a lift out of the station? You're not known for moving fast so you immediately jump to mind if I'm going to grab someone on the way out. However, I've mucked about with your character enough for time being so I thought I would ask.

Yes!  Save me!

Er ... I mean, yes.  That would be fine.

Soooooo.... Should I roll on the random destinations table, or did the people that recalibrated the machine have a place in mind?

Kraken mentioned a particularly remote city in Peru at one point. Not sure if we wanted to go with that or if it was tied back to where we started, or what, so I left that part open in my post.

so, I was reading through the Teragen book, and I'm a bit curious about which faction(s) those of us who're not clinging to our humanity like a monkey hangs onto a banana (i kid, i kid) will gravitate towards/be courted by/found.
Terats in our group are: Kraken, Sol, Grav, Imp.
Factions that I think we might be mixed up with are:

Kraken: Seems to be a natural fit with the Mathematician, as they're both members of the 'I have more filthy lucre than god" club.  Has influence and power on a worldwide scale, thus would be attractive as an ally to the casanovas.  Horribly mutated by taint thus the harvesters might see him as a kindred spirit.  Has the panache and mystique to have groupies.

Grav: Again, as another cerebral sciency type (ok, THE cerebral science type).  Less global influence than Kraken (as in, doesn't run a multinational).  Less flamboyant than Kraken, also seems distinctly disinterested in accruing power and followers.

Sol: Really hard to pin down.  Not blood-thirsty like many members of Nova Vigilance, although she'd certainly be one of teh ones they call if they need some extra muscle.  Not a casanova.  Not a harvester.  Not cerebral like the previous 2, less attractive to the Mathematician as an intellectual equal/science nerd.  Definitley has the flair and power to start her own thing.  Probably not sympatheitc to the Supremacy as she's not a monkey-hater.

Imp: Casanova.  Maybe THE Casanova, along with Orziaz.  Friendly with Scripture, but has zero time for much of the cult of Mal.  Well, he's itching for some quality time with Apostle, but that's different.  Probably not too friendly with NV, as he is currently trying to downplay his raw power (outside of social abilities) and ability to destroy things in public.  Friendly with Mathematician, although Imp probably ties his computations in knots as Imp tends to affect things on a huge scale.  Definitley has the potential to acquire groupies.

Factions that I think none of us are interested in (IMHO):
Cult of Mal: no fawning toadies here.  While Scripture is good people the rest are probably either irritants or embarasments to many of us.

The Supremacy: While many of us are perhaps tired of human foibles and are dismissive of their abilities, none of us has the zeal to be a monkey-skinner.  Sol is probably friendly with Shrapnel, but I think it doesn't go further than that.

The Harvesters: While Kraken is a chewy bundle of taint wrapped in fiery acid, I don't think he revels in taint for taint's sake.

Input?

Probably should start planning this OOC, but there's going to come a point in the near future when Grav is probably going to attempt to punish Geryon for his public execution of the Michaelist. While Grav doesn't have any particular love for Michaelists, he does not approve of the killing of sentients "just because I can, and I don't like him" which seems to be about half of Geryon's reasoning.

He intends to, very publicly, declare that Geryon's actions are not condoned by the Teragen proper and that, moreover, since Geryon considers himself above baseline authority, Gravitas himself will serve as both judge and executioner. He will then condemn Geryon to death by solar incineration and start a fight (assuming it hasn't been essentially ongoing this entire time).

His intent with this is to show that even if novas considered themselves above baseline authority, they must police their own number and restrain or eliminate rogues like Geryon that treat human lives as if they mean nothing. Just because novas are beyond human law does not mean that humans do not still have rights.

Now, if people want to help Grav do this, he'd probably welcome the assistance - he's not exactly optimized to take down a brute like Geryon, though he could probably do it.

This will probably lead to a schism within the Teragen (if other factors don't already do so). Extreme elements will probably go one way while more philosophical or moderate elements go another.

So, how does Grav's decision to punish/kill horribly Geryon for twisting the head off of said Michaelite jive with Shrapnel going ape shit in Bahrain?  If you plan on offing all terats for killing those who they disagree with/want to then there're going ot be far, far fewer terats, not that this is a bad thing.  Imp's probably going to visit some churches now that he's got his mojo back and have a real node ot heart with them.  Will brain washing hundreds of em be seen in the same light as Geryon exercising his power over one man? For that matter, what happens when new and improved Imp hits the campaign trail and casts his net across millions?  Where's Grav's porting into the sun going to stop?

In Solitaire's eyes, Geryon is free to do as he pleases, that is the nature of Teras. While she does not support or condone this, if Geryon wishes to make himself an enemy of baselines in general that is his right. Where she takes issue with things like  this is when they claim to be speaking for the Teragen/Novakind in general. If they are going to invoke the collective, then they will be judge by its members.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:13, Sat 24 Aug 2013.

Grav's main issues with Geryon's actions are twofold: 1) the violation of baseline rights on the basis of "I'm a nova and I do what I want" which is incredibly childish justification and 2) that he performed this act publicly, on camera, and essentially claimed to be representing the Teragen while he was doing it.

Shrapnel is, seemingly, mostly targeting people involved with the Bahrain facility - that's not something Grav is likely to punish. If she steps out of that bound though and starts destroying an airport full of people just because she's mad? Well, time for a trip to the sun.

Someone has to police other novas. Having power does not make you void of responsibility to other sentient beings. If anything, it burdens you with more of that responsibility. Being immune to baseline law does not suddenly make killing humans okay. That's a message that, Grav feels, needs to be sent publicly and clearly to the other Teragens and the rest of the nova community.

Mindfuckery is an entirely different issue and one much less easy to judge (or even know is happening). Best to start with the big obvious one (ie: killing folks for being baselines in your way).

 We were policing novas just fine before a few ambitious souls ruined utopia. Sigh.

In reference to Imps earlier post, I think it is mostly correct, if we are just working with the existing factions. That said, I believe your presence has changed things sufficiently to support other factions within the organization, assuming it doesn't fracture down the middle.

FYI:
A modification to earlier statements regarding xp taking effect at the end of the Full Circle arc:
CHARACTERS HAVE FULL ACCESS TO UPDATED XP TOTALS (AND TRAITS PURCHASED WITH THEM) AFTER POST #566 IN FULL CIRCLE.

I didn't fully intend on a conflict here, but if it happens it will be the only one for a while and I would like to let you play with new toys and shine like the newly returned quantum gods that you are.

That is all.  Return to your regularly scheduled programming.

I don't know if Hell Kraken would really integrate with any faction.  His whole shtick is "protect and expand what is yours".  He's got no problem with baselines, so long as they're not trying to take what is his.  In fact, if they sign the right contract they become his and thus fall under his aegis.  So no Nova Vigilance, no Primacy, and no Harvesters.  The Teragen Movement doesn't particularly matter to him except as a necessary diplomatic channel, so no Casanovas (though they wouldn't be unwelcome).  I expect ties with many Terats will eventually have to be broken as bad for business.  Since the long term plan is that a relocation to Antarctica and the terraforming of it to make it habitable (or, rather, the terraforming of the rest of the planet to make Antarctica habitable) will eventually be necessary to escape governmental interference it seems likely that the KHI volcano base on Deception Island or some such facility may prove a useful fortress of solitude for some of the more philosophically minded Terats.  Or at least the less smashy-smashy minded Terats.  Scripture, The Mathematician, and Orzaiz perhaps.

Hey Daphne!  I just looked over your power suite; it's like another Comstock!  Different take, good opportunities for development.  Welcome aboard the "can't kill me" bus.

Also, Daphne, Operator and Serenade: what all do you want to get into first, plot wise?  We're resolving the earth's complicated plot troubles right now, but if you have an itch to get into it right now I can supply it.

Hey Comstock, thanks!!!  Serenade wants to go on the warpath right now.  She has seen the tensions mounting between the Michaelists and now the Tragedy of Bahrain along with Pax's public murder are like the igniting of the powder keg.  She doesn't have any political clout, she isn't a soldier, but she is an artist, and art can inspire people and sway public opinion.  So I want to have her launch on a campaign/tour of tolerance and peace, akin to the supergroup USA For Africa.  Gather as many big name artists that she can nova and baseline, write some songs invoking acceptance and brotherhood, record and blitz the opnet with the videos.  Go on a tour with the group.  Start organizing charities to benefit those who lost everything in the conflict, attend charity events, etc...

That is what she can do to help out right now, and if it forwards her career musically or politically...well darn.

Oh, before she does this, as much of a sacrifice as this is, she is going to cut all ties with Utopia.  She wasn't really entrenched in the organization yet anyway, but this campaign can't be able to be twisted into some real or asusumed PR ploy on the part of Utopia to try to regain public sympathies.

Ye of little faith

@Gravitas:
After discussion with 'Stock, we have concluded that the events with Geryon killing Gale and Flare's attackers occurred prior to the current full circle events.  You were peripherally aware of it, and now that your faculties have returned and you've seen the current destruction... well, if you want to carry out your own justice in front of the cameras covering the Bahrain events, now might be a good time.

Comstock: I figured someone had probably done the "i can't be harmed" schtick, but didn't know for sure.  Daphne is a bit more subtle in her approach to being unkillable, well somewhat. She won't truly be unkillable till quantum 6 when she gets access to immortality.  The big thing is she has little ability to do damage and what she does have needs to be done in close combat.

As far as what I want to do, i am not sure really.  I am posting my eruption story soon and will probably need to figure it out from there.  Daphne is supposed to still be really new to this whole being awesome thing and as such will probably tag along once she finds someone she trust. Along with that, I have mentor 5 and after talking with Rydi some it makes sense for one of the older Novas to take her under his/her wing.  I think that Comstock, Gale or Phantasm make the most sense for various reasons.  I am not really sure how to introduce her to these people, especially since they have been spending some time not on Earth.  I would welcome some ideas and input from people about this and who would be a good mentor.

Slider was shot? Goddam it I'm not there. She is one of MINE. Somebody is going to pay for this...
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 03:56, Tue 27 Aug 2013.

Post edited, that's what i get for posting on teh fly between classes

Well, that remains to be seen.  She's coughing up a lung though, that much is certain.

Oh, and someone make sure to chime in on Daphne's request (I mention it only b/c with things being so active tonight, things might get lost in the shuffle).  She needs a 5 dot mentor and wants advice on who to go with out of Gale, 'Tasm, and 'Stock.

Obviously her mentor should be Comstock, the great and powerful. Who else could teach such techniques as "how to break planet with face" and "Bullets: usually safe, sometimes annoying."

That really depends on her personality/how she erupted.  If she's dark and twisty, then it's P.  If she's uncomfortable in her own skin and feels alienated from the rest of the world, then it's Gale.  If she's a Comstock fan-girl (and who isn't? Amiright, ladies?) then he's the logical fit.

So, the portal from Bahrain to the UN is still open?

In reply to Solitaire (msg # 178):

Wavering, but yes.  Probably not for more than a round.  And people should think carefully before going IN rather than getting their friends OUT.  There's still a lot of people being hurt back in Bahrain (some probably care more than others about that) and the specifics of the UN sitaution are pretty nebulous.

But do as thou wilt...

In reply to Impetus (msg # 177):

She is a mostly outgoing girl, but is uncomfortable with being a nova. If she could go back she would, at least that is how she feels immediately following her eruption. She does not necessarily feel aliented from the rest of the world, but defiantly isn't sure where she belongs. She isn't really a nova fan, she was raised by crazy anti-nova Christians. However, comstock has similar powers and has suffered from some issues that she is currently dealing with (lost of senses due to powers).

I posted her eruption and that should, hopefully give people a better feel for who she is.

Imp, 'stock, and Sol (with Slider) are currently in NY, but retreating to Bahrain. Everyone else (including Grav, but excluding people who weren't a part of this storyline at all, like Daphne and Serenade) are in Bahrain.

Once/If Flare gets around to helping Slider, I feel that as a member of the Pantheon, it should probably fall to Solitaire to witness the brewing duel. I feel we should be setting precedent here. Imp could too, but he's going to be late and Solitaire is in a kind of a sit in judgement mood.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:38, Wed 28 Aug 2013.

See, and I was really hoping for help, because I'm going to be relying on the dice roller to pop me some pretty good successes on a gravity field roll. If that doesn't go off, I probably won't be able to do anything that could meaningfully hurt or affect him. Unless his WP happens to be laughably low, in which case I may be able to time stop him (though that would prevent me from actually dropping him through the portal, which is the end-goal).

Also, he's unlikely to acknowledge any sort of judgement on this issue. As far as Grav's concerned, he is the judge here, and that'll come out in my next post.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:41, Wed 28 Aug 2013.

I was thinking I would be more of the Master of the Field with out little Code Novus Duello here. I don't really want Nova justice to be mobbing people who disagree with us. There should be some sort of structure. If you want it to be your posse vs his, that would be fine, but I think that somebody should officiate.

Okay, its on. Pick a side. :P

Yeah, I was just about to say the same thing. Solitaire is not in a mood to put up with this.

Assume if you're a player character that Gravitas exempts you from his gravity field - until and unless you act against him or any ally of his, in which case, suck 9 gs.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:20, Wed 28 Aug 2013.

Yeah, there is a reason why Solitaire keeps her temper very tightly in check. Solitaire is scary when she gets mad, even if she'll be depressed about losing control later. Fun to let her run once in a while though :D

Post #9010!!!

Sooo, just so this doesn't come out of the blue for people, I'm thinking the time has come for Imp to be put out to stud, even with the new awesomeness of bad touch psionic angels fucking with things (which he takes so very, very, personally).  I've been thinking about this for a while, as his powers are the type that can sideline, or remove the autonomy from the other PCs.
Also, as I've discussed with our various STs, Imp's ambitions are going to take him off the front lines and into the board rooms and back rooms of the political arena, which will make it very hard for him to mix it up with everybody else, and I don't really want to just post about political maneuverings and long winded speeches.
This doesn't mean that I, the player, am leaving. I'm cooking up a new character that is going to be totally different from Imp, and everybody else, and that I hope will be more long term playable than President Imp (fight it if you must, powers that be, but we all know it's inevitable).
If people want to interact with Imp, I'll be happy to dust him off, but I think it's time for him to become part of the background (albeit the sexiest part of the background ever).

Quick post to Daphne:  Your back story is very similar to Gale's, which could be good or bad in a mentor.  Your power suite is more like Comstock's.  If you wanted, I'd say that you could probably use a combination of the two of us, if you didn't want to pick just one.  I'd be cool with that.

@Gale, Daphne:  Agreed.  You could use both of them.

Also, I have a ready explanation for your Eufiber 5 background.  Eufiber colonies as developed and sophisticated as 5 are still pretty rare, but Comstock's parting ways with his.  Also, you need one: your force field keeps you from changing clothes.  So, from a grumpy man approaching 30 and invulnerable, take this gift and wear it well.

I think having two mentors is a good idea. I wasn't aware that it was an option, but I guess it doesn't really matter as long as it makes for a good story.

I hadn't really figured out how I was going to get my hands on some eufiber, it is a nice gift.  Yeah, being in the same clothes day in and day out gets old.

Now your clothes can look like whatever you want!  With some work.  Comstock was never good at that.  Best he could manage was changing colors or making a hood.  Made it into a suit and tie a few times but that took forever.

Dragón is pretty handy with eufiber tricks that he wouldn't mind teaching.

As is Serenade the Mistress of Style :-P.
Sorry Dragon but we can't have our girl here rocking fatigues!

If you want any tips on scrapping feel free to ask, or if you want the reasonable approach to Teras. Solitaire is happy to give direction or assistance to any Nova, but finding her at any given time is a part of the test.

I'll have you know that Angelo can copy any fashion you care to show him.  That's beginner stuff.  But what's she going to do when she's out "in the field" so to speak.  I don't think Versace or Tommy Hillfiger has much in the way of active camouflage, gliding wings, claws, prehensile tendrils, etc., etc.  I mean, you might be able to get a couple of things from Land's End, but...

Eufiber might also go through the forcefield too, since it attunes to your actual quantum signature.  Just sayin'...

Speaking of which, Operator we haven't heard from you in a bit and we're bringing things to a close.  Want some work?  Comstock's hiring.

I need a powerful psychic to help my fledgling movement get off the ground.  Someone who can't be found, and who can help other people not be found.  Someone like Sophia Rousseau.  Want to help me find her?

I had actually assumed that the eufiber would go through my force fields, but given that Daphne is not the most comfortable with being a nova it might take time for them to get along.

Interestingly, Geryon may still be able to survive, since he has mega-stamina and the adaptation enhancement.  But if he gets sent to the sun, good luck getting him back from the sun.  This is hilarious, because I was just joking with someone earlier that Gravitas could simply tele-frag all of us.

Hitting someone with the warp is actually the hard part - if this works at all, its only because I went through the trouble to debuff first (though, admitedly, I probably could have debuffed him a little more).

Also, once this is over, I'm going to be like... way low on quantum. If Sharpnel decides that makes it a good time to attack, I'm not going to be able to stop her.

My tank is fight.  No one puts Quentin in a corner.

I get the feeling that if Shrapnel goes after Grav, she won't last long enough to realize it was a bad idea.

I do have some not-so-stirring-as-if-someone-else-said-them words to add after this is safely over (assuming my own success). Hopefully I can edge them in before another riot breaks out.

Honestly, it seems the easiest means of executing a nova is the California Death Penalty, old age.  Provided they can't teleport, just drop them out in the middle of deep space.  Sufficient Mega-Stamina can make you laugh off the Sun at point blank range, but even maxed Hypermovement is as nothing compared to the immensity of the void.  And now I must listen to Hawkwind's Black Corridor.

Oh, as far as the Sun's pressure goes, while it is true that the pressures at the core of the Sun are the same as those holding together atomic nuclei (they have to be for fusion to occur) the average density of the sun is only slightly higher than that of water.  Which means that the vast majority of the Sun is incredibly tenuous, a gas at considerably less than 1 atm of pressure.  So long as the portal wasn't aimed at the very center of the Sun air would actually go in instead of Sun coming out.  Certainly so once the gravitational potential was taken into consideration.

The rules on Warp specify that material doesn't involuntarily flow from one side of the portal to the other (I am forced to assume this excludes photons, as you can specifically see through the portal).

Also, why would I aim for the sun's periphery? I want him dead, not lightly toasted.

It's probably best not to bring physics too closely into contact with the rules, I suppose.  Otherwise the equal and opposite radiation pressure coming out of the portal (necessary for the Sun to avoid simply collapsing) would cause all sorts of weirdness.  Like enabling you to use the portal as a rocket to move the planet around.

And it wouldn't be the periphery so much.  75% of the way down the pressure is still only 1/600th of an atmosphere.  Virtually all of the fun stuff happens in a volume only slightly larger than Jupiter.  The rest is just gas convecting.

EDIT:  For shits and grins I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation of the radiation pressure.  A portal of 5.5 square meters in size, about the size necessary to push someone through, opened into the core of the Sun would emit sufficient radiation to do 33000 gigawatts of work to the planet.  Or a similar amount of work as the entire planet does nowadays.  A 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale or so.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:38, Thu 29 Aug 2013.

Hey everybody, Imp here, meet my new character: Wheelman.  You want ultra professional(mundane)transport and security, he's your boy!  Also, his alter ego Mechanus: a hard partying devil may care masked elite with the power to turn into cars, jets, submarines, robots and more.

In reply to Hell Kraken (msg # 210):

What Kraken said.

Also, the dice roller is amusing in its bad roll timing.  Geryon's 1 success after debuffs was so amazingly bad.

I need to stop posting in the morning, it makes me late.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:17, Thu 29 Aug 2013.

Not trying to offend or be pokey; but Flare is with us in Bahrain, is conscious, is a healer, and, afaik, doesn't want Slider dead.  Would it be fair to assume that she has healed the poor, bleeding, girl so that the rest of us can stop being all angsty/wondering how to heal her before she bleeds out?  Unless Rydi wants her to die.  Which is kinda his schtick (I kid, I kid).

Hey, it's the autobot!  Welcome.

Also, paging Dr. Flare.  Dr. Flare to Bahrain, please!

Yeah, I think we're just waiting a bit to see if Flare's going to post it.  If not, she will be assimilated into the NPC hive.  Bwa ha ha.

For the record, I'm well-aware of these effects (I've taken classes with fancy titles like 'Stellar Astrophysics'). That all said, Warp isn't really intended to be a weapon power, and allowing anything mechanically dangerous to pour through it when its open basically gives anyone with the ability a giant death-beam (or, as pointed out, incomprehensibly powerful thruster, or with less successes on a distance roll just a lava spout or giant vacuum or whatever).

Best to leave it at 'non-harmful, though perhaps blindingly bright, light only'.

I think I saw an extra somewhere to let warp allow passage of some sorts of particles, but every game I've ever seen nixed it immediately.  One engineer or physicist in the room and suddenly everything's chunky salsa and dioxgen-difluoride.  Bad enough what can be done anyway.

In reply to Gravitas (msg # 215):

I find it incredibly gratifying to check in and find that I don't have to answer questions bc other people are answering them for me.  Carry on, carry on ;p

::goes back to eating lunch tacos at the Mexican supermarket ::

I swear people.  I can't leave you alone for a second without some Nova dying! :) Dr. Sexy ::ehem:: I mean Dr. Flare is on the case.

Yeah, that happens when the posting rate picks up. I am just going to say how nice it is to see red whenever I refresh the page. xD

I have been loving this!  I LOVE story time!!!

It is nice isn't it.  A bit like when the game first began.

Yeah, I thought about that, Grav (the baggage associated with the cross memorial).  It is a problem, to be sure.  If anyone bugs Comstock about it, he'll try to make some other symbols or just tear the thing down.

We can all imagine the political fallout that might result.  Or just have someone knock the thing over while clearing debris.  Or whatever.

I think its fine. Comstock likely wouldn't think of it, and at least Grav has decided that its best to leave it alone rather than say anything.

In mostly unrelated news, I heard Bahrain mentioned on NPR during my drive to work today. Naturally I thought of the game. :P

I'm with everybody loving the increased post rates.  It does sorta feel like we've restarted, which is really, really cool.  Also,fitting, considering that we're going to be at 2008, the start of the official game.

Are we, dare I say it, done with Full Circle?

Everybody make whatever posts you want to finish off full circle, then we'll archive over the weekend.

We'll get some specifics up for the downtime so you can start posting your vignettes for the time jump while we get setting material in the setting threads.  Then, new story arc thread will go up sometime in the next 1-2 weeks.

If by "done ith full circle" you mean tht that particular storyline is wrapped and dusted in a way that doesn't bone any of us too hard, then I concur.  Also, a cross in Bahrain? Somebody's got to give 'Stock some classes in cultural sensitivity.  I nominate, well, not Geryon (he's gonna be hard to contact) maybe Sue?

Alright, here's a question: do aberrants have their own symbol?  Novas?  Teragen?  He might erect that if someone describes it.

But yeah, in the absence of anyone telling him otherwise, he just does what seems right and will probably cause a minor scandal.

If you want to draw on Dillon's Mormon background, they don't go with the whole cross thing.  Their chapel buildings always have a tall spire that tapers to a point.  That probably wouldn't ruffle too many Islamic feathers.

Hey!  Good call.  Let's edit.  He just needed some sort of tombstone or memorial anyway.

Grav, feel free to edit or not edit your commentary on it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:31, Fri 30 Aug 2013.

Lets try getting some of this posting stuff in....

Were there going to be any more posts in the Full Circle thread (Dragon interacting with Johnny, for instance) or have we pretty much decided to wrap it up?

I'm good with a wrap.

Yes, it would seem we're here for a wrap.  I'm making a post or two to bring things to an adequate close.  But then it's time for some time skip and some new plot.

EDIT: Suzukaze, any input on what you want to do next?  Proteus has you on the kill-list now, and so disappeared your family and faked your death so you couldn't exist in polite 1st World society now under your real name.  But if you have a direction for the character, or something you want to do next I'd love to help.

Also, in-game we are probably looking at something like a one-year to one-and-a-half-years time skip.  Most everyone has things they want to be working on in that time, but I just want to check to see -what- your characters want to do with their 'off-camera' time.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:28, Sun 01 Sept 2013.

Yup, its pretty much a wrap.  I'm going to lock the thread sometime tonight or tomorrow.

The time jump will be our longest yet, taking us into very early 2008 near the start of the book timeline.

Off-camera Serenade is going to be touring, recording, launching a clothing line, and setting up a non-profit organization to help the civilian victims of conflicts such as what occurred in Bahrain (purposely not bringing up Nova involvement in these conflicts).  Outside of her career, she is going to be pushing hard to learn how to use her powers.  She figures that it is like a musical instrument in how you learn it, in that it takes practice practice practice, so she is going to be trying to devote about an hour a day just working on that.  Any spare time that she has after all of that she splits between her daughter, and networking (partying) with her entourage (Operator, Wheelman, and Daphne).

What Solitaire does will probably depend a good deal on the fallout of current events

Whee, love cons. Spent the day wandering around as Booker from Bioshock Infinite. It's really interesting how much more attention I got once I found an Elizabeth to hang out with. Even had a few people throw quarters at me. The ego boost was quite nice, as my head has been in a weird place for the last few weeks.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:47, Mon 02 Sept 2013.

I just recently finished Bioshock, had never played it before, and found it thoroughly engrossing.  I started playing Infinite the next day, and it is really, really pretty but hasn't bitten me as hard as 1 did, maybe because it's less creepy (except for the throw baseballs at the inter-racial couple).  I hope it gets more horror/suspense rather than action adventure as it continues.
Spoilers=unappreciated.

I found Infinite to be very good - I only played a demo of the first one though, so I can't really compare them.

That said, Infinite does have creepyness in it. I won't say when or how much, since you don't want spoilers. Just know that its in there.

In reply to Gravitas (msg # 239):

Closing full circle tonight.  Deleting super old Pm's over the next few days too, my list of Pm's is rather large. I won't get rid of anything from the last year though.

Leave application PMs too, regardless of age. I sometimes use them as a reference (like when I made the list of people's xp by join date).

Oh, that's something I've sort of wanted to say for a while though:

If you want to PM someone, and you've already got a PM thread with them, please just use that thread rather than starting a new one. Its much, much less clutter.

I have a question about Connection (I know that it is a long time off for it to be appropriate for Serenade to even contemplate such things, but inquiring minds want to know).  The Teras and the different archetypes are about transforming oneself into something more and is very much a private, internal act.  Are the Virtues internal or external?  Meaning, does the character in question consciously strive to attain and maintain his/her virtue, or is it more of a case of them doing acts that make them exemplars of said virtues?  Does Superman maintain and develop his connection because he strives to maintain Hope and Perseverance (just pulling things out of the air), or do the actions that he takes make him a symbol of Hope and Perseverance?  I hope that I worded my question well enough to get the gist across.

In reply to Serenade (msg # 243):

The two are not mutually exclusive.  I would say it's a little bit of both.

The first person to suggest Connections as an alternative to Chrysalis was Solitaire.  I don't remember exactly how it played out or when virtues were attached to Connections.  But yeah, I agree with Rydi.  I don't know that it matters.  The whole point is that rather than casting off the baseline world and your humanity, you are holding it close.

Notably, it's also about the relationships you have and hold on to, how those virtues play out in your relationships.  Thus Connection.  No man is an island, but a Terat is a universe unto herself.

Ok, I understand better.  I like the idea.  We will see how everything plays out.

So to use the Superman reference, the character of Clark Kent is strongly influenced or defined by his relationships with Ma and Pa Kent, Louis, even Jimmy Olson rather than just his relationships with the JLA.

My knowledge of DC is very scattershot, but I would say probably? Though I have no idea what goes on after Flashpoint at all.

I would say that it is holding true to your roots, defining yourself first and foremost as a human rather than a Nova. It is not a us against them thing for Connection, its all 'us'. Connection is very much about the group whereas Chrysalis is about the individual.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:17, Tue 03 Sept 2013.

Bingo.  Those relationships ground him, give him something to fight for, and put his strength and responsibilities in context.

So, for another example, Comstock has tried to keep in touch with his family, give back to his hometown, and has adopted the greater Las Vegas area as well.  He likes to have a reason to fight, a better world he can make with his own hands.  Taking away his community would hurt him, and hurt him dearly.  Without them, he is lessened.  Comstock is close to the rest of T2M, and other novas, but he has, thus far, refused to stop thinking of himself as just a man.  The other PCs (or the JLA), no matter how close he feels to them, aren't why he fights.

So, reading this makes me wonder where Phantasm fits in.  She's overcome some of the hang ups that kept her from connecting with others, and she is immersed in humanity, both as a cover for her real motives, and because she really wants to save the world from a deadly future.  I've got her listed as on Connection, but reading this I realize that she doesn't have any real human connections anymore, and in my most recent posts she firmly believes that novas are the new gods.  Not distant or morally superior gods, rather they are gods that should walk amongst mortals and share their lives and shoulder greater responsibilities commensurate with their godly power... but still gods.

Not sure which direction to go, or what fits.  Can you be a connected god?  Or does it make sense to be a particularly caring and humane Teragen?

Sounds like Teragen to me.  Humanity has become terrain for Phantasm.  She's never been comfortable in her own skin, and went out of her way to conceal or sever ties with her mortal life.  Even if she integrates with people, it's generally under an assumed identity, or as the Phantasm.

Edit: Now if she spent a year in one place, building meaningful relationships with lots of people, that might qualify.  But she has a long road there.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:56, Tue 03 Sept 2013.

Yeah, it's sort of interesting to see how this plays out.  I assumed initially from Gale's need to belong somewhere that she would be connections, but the in-game events have pushed her the opposite direction.  And now things that were just neat ideas when I started (losing her name, the sense of betrayal) now fit into her narrative almost too well.

Almost feel like she doesn't fit either path.  It's nice to get the experience breaks, but I'm not sure she really fits the teragen mold or has a firm idea of what to become.  Marvel?  Portent?  Monster?  They all fit to a degree, but on another level they're all a poor fit.

And yeah, Gale's transition seemed really natural and appropriate, I can see her becoming a Marvel very easily.  Elemental Angel, thunder and awe.

The thing that bothers me about the teragen, at least in the core, is that they were originally posited as nova terrorists, supremacists, and cultists (Mal).  Like how lunars were written in the original exalted stuff to be unplayable monsters.  Then the teragen book comes out and suddenly they're a philosopher's club that has some racists, some misanthropes, and some true visionaries.  And lots of hangers on and cultists waiting for someone to show them how they should walk the path to moreness.
In the Rydiverse we fundamentally changed that.  Mal is sidelined, haven't seen hide nor hair since Columbia.  Half of the Pantheon is Utopia/former Utopia.
Gale would make a great Marvel, as P said, or an amazing Portent if she delved more into the philosophical nature of her separation, and of her powers over weather and air.
For P, teragen fits.  She believes in nova rights, and believes that humans are slow, frail, foolish things, yet still deserving of respect and decency.  She's generally not flashy enough to be a marvel, at least she's been downplaying her flashy powers.   This may just be because we've lost much of our mojo for the last year.  She feels more portent to me, though if she went darkside then she's a Monster that will make baselines scream in terror.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:12, Tue 03 Sept 2013.

Whether P is better suited to Connection or Chrysalis would depend greatly on whether she intends to separate from baselines or reach out to them.  If novas are the new gods, does she see them as being something that emerges from humanity to become its own unique form of entity, or is it an evolutionary leap forward?

Timeline questions:  How many months between Full Circle and the "restart"?  And how long after Full Circle is Imp calling his meeting?  [I'm in the middle of writing my "downtime" vignette and need to know where these things fit within that]

I'd say a couple weeks after Bahrain.  This is important, and Imp wants people to know things, in case he gets dissappeared.

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This message was last updated by the player at 06:51, Wed 04 Sept 2013.

Best recap ever, or greatest recap ever?

Most greatest recap ever!

Only if it's readable.  Other journalists may take whatever positive reviews come along, but I'll only be satisfied if no one calls into Two Minutes of Hate this week telling me I'm cancer on the face of good journalism.  Newsflash: journalism's face has always had cancer.  I'm the chemotherapy.

Most Greatest recap ever!  I love story time!

 Serenade and Daphne, when is your thread? It seems contemporary with Bahrain, but I want to jump in so bad.

Loving all the activity.

This is why 'Stock is awesome.  He's been working very hard getting everything together behind the scenes, and deserves someone standing in the crowd to start a slow clap or something.

::Claps slowly, then stands::

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Gale, it can be right after Bahrain.  We're in favor of whatever makes for more gooderer stories.

Claps slowly, then stands

::looks around, nods to Rydi, claps slowly and stands::

Gale, it is definitely happening after Bahrain.   Come on in and play with us!

Is that a Starship Troopers reference? I think its a Starship Troopers reference.

Also claps slowly and stands. Clapping slowly and standing does not even begin to cover it.

Makes a horde of four armed, mouthless children. They, and their maker, all stand and clap slowly.

If I could interrupt the clapping to request the Tibetan Monastary scene be moved to group vignettes instead.

Getting back a bit late on this... Not really sure where I want to go with her. Before Chiraben and the the kidnapping of her family was thrown in her face I was planning on having her go after the assassins. Whether with some of the group or by her lonesome. Maybe see if I get her killed off or not. Not that I want her killed off. Or stop playing her, but I think I've kind of hit the wall with her.

Like Imp I've also had urges to try something new. At first I thought of a magician style character who could start out with a few tricks, but then expand out into anything. Which as I planned him out and my desire to watch Outlaw Star again turned into a gunslinger. Was planning quantum weapon made guns with a bunch of powers linked to them. However Operator showed up and I didn't want to pitch a character that seemed simular.

So while I plot and scheme Kaze has new plots as well. Think I'd have her spend the time off period in hiding training/working with Phantasm and anyone else to hunt down Chiraben and rescue her family. While having people think she has gone crazier by talking to Annette/Annette's memories. Maybe someone would like to try and redeem the broken nova? Also not sure on the Chrysalis/Connection paths. Connection would probably make the most sense. However already questioning her existence as a nova she sees herself becoming a monster drifting away from humanity.

Done.

So, I've decided that my nerd creds are seriously lacking in the realm of comics, and am reading up on stuff that the infalliable community of online geeks says I should.  If you haven't read Locke and Key, it's really good.  I'm curremtly ploughing through Hellblazer and I gotta say, Allan Moore really hated Thatcher.

Cursed Elder Scrolls Online stress test, I actually want to play the bloody game : /

Daphne and Serenade, don't wait on me to wrap up your thread.  I was going to write a post earlier this week, but I forgot I had other social engagements that kept me out all night.  I'm sure Gale will get to meet Daphne very soon. :)

So, I just back from watching Mumford and Sons perform.  Best.  Concert.  Ever.

It was at a music festival called Gentlemen of the Road.  At one poin  they got Bear's Den and The Vaccines on stage with them and they performed "Come Together" by the Beatles.  I can die now.

You went up to little ol' Guthrie?

Yep yep yep.

For those patiently waiting, we'll have the new story arc and the events for downtime started sometime this coming week.

In the meantime, if you want to start the business portion of your meeting in Group Vignettes Imp, you might do that (the other people can retroactively attend or whatever) so that we can see if any of your planning session will impact the direction of things.

Do we have a firm decision on how much time passes between Bahrain and the restart?

Will do. Some sick bastard scheduled 9h of my classes on Monday, so I'm a bit cooked. I'll get that done within 24h or so.

roughly a year and a half dragon.

and imp, no worries.  just didn't want you delaying on account of us.

Date for the Bahrain Incident was a non-specific day of August 2006.
Date for the next major plot thread starts February 1st, 2008.

So, a random thought from my fatigue addled brain as I drove home:

Flash forward to the aberrant wars.

Wheelman is a taint-crazed decepticon that has merged with the opnet and consumed an entire city to become a devastating robo-hemoth.

Comstock, in shredded eufiber, on his knees. Battered but unbroken, glowing blue crystalline remains of Impetus's last chrysalis glowing in his chest.  Impetus's voice whispers in Comstock's mind "Rise, Dillon.  Rise Nova Prime!"  Cue the music as Dillon slowly rises, limned in quantum fire, to face down the giant world-eating monstrosity as the spirits of novas past lend him their strength.

"You've got the touch... You've got the power..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg

I need more sleep apparently.

That is awesome! Now all I need is a few hundred xps to make it a reality.  Ok, maybe 150 if i really focus...

Does the shard of Imp's last chrysalis give Comstock a truck ass too???

No Serenade, that would be the spirit of Caestus Pax that gives him that.  Who in the Aberrant universe was a bigger ass?

Touche`

Though I can think of a couple other runners up in our extended universe material...

Harley!  I thought P broke that shift SOB in at least a dozen fatal ways.  we saw the corpse and everything!
In the giant ass contest in Aberrant, i think it's a tie between all the surviving members of the Aeon Society as they gave Thetus free reign to do her heinous crap.  Don't get angry at the dog, get angry at the SOB that lets it run free.

::coughcoughgurglecough::

Realizing he was dead, and also buried under tons of liquid on an alien moon, Logan died once more.

In reply to Harley Logan (msg # 290):

And there was much rejoicing.

In preparation for a new story arc and a potential new player or two, I would like people to update their Character Descriptions, their posts in Character Descriptions and Transhuman Traits,  (maybe even clean up and/or add formatting to it if you haven't, just to make it more readable for people interested in your characters).

1 xp for character descriptions, 1 xp for updating your thread post, 1 xp if there is anything else you think would be worth adding to make our house look pretty for new players.

(post here to brag about your rpol interior decorating projects)

I think I'll decorate in the Rococo style...

Updated description and thread post.

Hehhehehe ... Dillon has a bad case of Truck-Butt.

In reply to Comstock (msg # 295):

I think they make a cream for that...

link to a message in another game

Also, changed the game info.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:31, Thu 12 Sept 2013.

Made minor updates to my description and the Transhuman Traits entry.

If you haven't seen this yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKNDml12Big
you really should.  It's a modern trailer for monty python's search for the holy grail.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:00, Sun 15 Sept 2013.

Wow, good edit there.

Wow!  Amazing shape-changing skills!  Wheelman looks exactly like Impetus...I mean, I can hardly tell the difference.  O'course, you need to work on the voice...you still sound Irish.

Err.... yeah ... no problem here.  Edited and fixed that for you, Imp.  Thanks Dragón.

*Cackles*

I love my rank. Pax isn't the leader of bloody well anything as far as I am concerned, bet that pisses him off to no end. Mal is all that is Nova, but there's no reason to worship him.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:52, Sun 15 Sept 2013.

Oops! That's what I get for posting before my morning coffee.

ha, yeah, I think that will be a minor problem for anyone playing multiple characters.  Alas.

And yeah, I was trying to figure out how to name the ranking members of Teras Undivided and then realized the only one I had to care about was Sol, and she didn't give a fuck.

In other news: I've been doing a lot of thread trimming, as you can see.  Archived a bunch of threads, trying to leave open only the ones that will see solid use.  I started a new PR thread with a more focused direction, akin to the transhuman traits thread.  I think both the PR and Transhuman threads will be very important to us as we keep track of an influx of new characters.  I've already found the new one quite useful, as I'd forgotten about Imp's suitors adversarial background.

As you can see, the Teragen thread is up.  We've got a tad more to add to that, but will wait until the new arc is up (which is slightly delayed, but I'll try to have up sometime this coming week).  Until then, I'm updating/adding npc's, deciding on new players, and trying to get together some more organizational stuff.

If anyone has any requests or ideas for improvements, let me know soonish, while I'm still in renovation mode.
Edit: How would people feel about a "Backstory" thread in the vein of the Transhuman and PR threads? I don't want to clutter up the board, and I don't want to spread a single character out over a ton of threads either, but I feel like the division helps a bit in organizing, and prevents 5 page character info posts that you have to search through.  I only want to post it if people are interested, but I know Impetus at least sent me a PM about a thread for story recap and character motivations, neither of which are covered by our current threads.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:32, Sun 15 Sept 2013.

I feel like the Jordan McDevitt documentary is doing a great job of recapping the story so far, including links to the relevant threads.  If you're wanting individual character histories and motivations, I feel like those can be handled in our character profile descriptions.

Oh, the documentary is certainly sufficient for full storyline updates.  I was talking more about individual character backstories.  There is a lot of nuanced detail in some characters history, like Gale's relationship with Thorn and her experiences with her family, that don't show up in character description blurbs but would be nice to consolidate.  That said, I'm fine if people aren't interested in that route.  I would like to see some updated character profiles that catch people up to current times though.

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So, apparently when you bump a thread it changes the display date for the last post to the current date.  Sorry to get everyone's hopes up on the posts I bumped, I just wanted to get the archived posts down at the bottom of the threads list.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:23, Mon 16 Sept 2013.

That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that.

*Squee*

Solitaire has it right. Hahaha. Take that Pax.

You have no idea how much I love that.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:36, Mon 16 Sept 2013.

Minor canon-nitpick for Imp: I modified your post to a different problem that the Directorate did a good job on, because in our canon there was no "Newsman" incident.  Heinrich Keld (at best a ridiculous White Wolf stereotype for a one-off joke) was replaced by Gustav Keld (an actual media mogul) and so hasn't been busted.

On the flip side, groups that may or may not include the Directorate and/or a Proteus catspaw are putting Impetus and Gustav Keld on trial/sanction for alleged use of NLP during the Bahrain incident.  How dare you influence the globe!  That was mind control!

"That wasn't mind control," Shazam! "This is mind control!"
This message was last edited by the player at 01:43, Tue 17 Sept 2013.

Hello everyone.

::waves at the strange blue man, goes back to petting the cat::

Welcome fellow survivors!  We should start a club for people with Cronenberg-esque body horror resulting from near-death experiences leading to radical quantum adaptations!  Daphne, Comstock and now Joe!

Hello Joe.  Glad to have you aboard.

Hi Joe, welcome to the game.

Go Team Immortals!  Yeah!

Hi Joe!  Welcome to the game!

Greetings and Salutations!

Out of curiosity, what happened to the Training Camp thread? Did it get renamed and I'm blind or is it gone?

There's two pages of threads.  About two or three threads are on that second page now.

Hi Joe, welcome welcome!

Oh my. I didn't even think of that. Never seen that happen.

FYI:

Will be posting some new stuff in "Ties" focusing on in-group relationships rather than family this time.  People will be slotted into situations with other characters, and will get to react appropriately.  Just go with it.  Things will take place sometime close to, but before, the start of the new story arc.  I'll have this up in a day or two.

New story arc: New Beginnings
We're still finalizing some things, getting new players in, all that.  So, might be a bit later than I thought, but will still be up relatively soon.  Hopefully the wait will be worth it.  In the meantime, looks like you all are having fun anyway.

Damn 'Tasm...just damn.  ::applause::

Right, because like most public images, hers is a lie. Spin it like you want it. :P

'course most of us that were T2M with her know that - we've seen shit. But none of us advertise that. Its not in anyone's interests.

You are who you choose to be. Nothing less.

Ah, the ole' character development buffet.  Good for the soul(s).

Awesome.  Just awesome.  Don't think I'll be able to match that with my Chrysalis post.

You know, even with directions its really difficult to identify which threads to read here... kinda awesome.

That probably depends what you are most interested in I would think. Dawn of a New Era would be the place to start if you ask me. The Team Tomorrow Retrospective is amazing, but that whole thread is solid gold.

If you already have, just pick one that catches your eye.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:30, Tue 17 Sept 2013.

Welcome Joe!
Also, P, fantastic chrysalis post.
Stands. Slow clap.

In reply to Wheelman (msg # 331):

Noooo! We can't handle any more slow clapping :)
Thanks for the praise, but it was just kind of a natural outgrowth.  Seemed to write itself.

Gale, I'm sure yours will be great, just lacking the same horror b-movie charms. I anticipate something classy, graceful. Or at least something with less face eating in it.

I think it is frequently (always?) hard to justify face-eating...

Hey everyone! I'm still dotting Ts and slashing Is but wanted to introduce myself as one of them new players. I've been wading through threads and can say I'm very excited to get to join in with y'all! :D

Baroness, glad to meet you!

::Waves at other new person::

updated all the description stuff.

::takes xp cookie, runs away from the kitchen::

Greetings countess!
If i may, the storyline with Daphne, Serenade, Wheelman and seemingly soon to be Operator, is a bit out of place in the vignettes thread.  That thread is for, well, awesome stuff that's not attached to other interactions, like P's chrysalis, and Gale's upcoming one.  Maybe it could be moved to the Vegas thread or somewhere?
This message was last edited by the player at 00:59, Wed 18 Sept 2013.

In process... It's just a pain in the ass to copy/paste, so we've been taking our time with it :)

I think Avil is dealing with it though.

Yeah, I'm sort of putting it off because its a giant pain in the ass. There's not a 'move post' feature. I have to actually repost them and then delete the old ones. I think I am leaning towards Vegas as their destination (Group Vignettes was suggested as one target, but as they occur in Vegas, I think the Vegas thread is fine). I might do it tomorrow, if I'm phenomenally bored.

Hey, I did it last time it had to be done :P

Hi Baroness!!!

I'm sorry that I am caused you more work... :-P

I feel so common...  Compared to the dramatic potential of entering Chrysalis, descriptions of Connection seem so...ordinary.

Isn't that the point?

Yeah, but dramatic scenes are so much more fun to write!

Lol!!!  I plan on Serenade going on a zen sesshin (meditation retreat).  Yours is more entertaining than that I assure you.  What did she do before enlightenment?  Chop wood and carry water.  What did she do after enlightenment ?  Chop wood and carry water.

See, I knew Gale's chrysalis would be good.

I find it hard to praise people's writing without sounding condescending after so many years as an English teacher. That being said, very nice chrys post Gale!
P, I was gonna have Imp sit out of the island scene, as his combat skills seldom come into play with people like Stock, Sol, yourself and others around, but he's a pretty fair Shelby proxy, and you need a sparring partner.  M/A instead of brawl, but other than that TK, force field, super speed.  Feel free to throw him around if you want. I don't think we need die rolls for it.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:29, Wed 18 Sept 2013.

*blushing*  I try.  I feel like I could have made it longer, more fleshed out, less cheesy, but I'm glad you guys liked it.

In reply to Gale (msg # 348):

Didn't see much "cheesy," seemed pretty much good, too the point, and appropriate.

Imp, that sounds good.  What style you using?

[brucelee_enterthedragon] The art of fighting ... without fighting.  [/brucelee_enterthedragon]

Edit: and a link.  Because I must.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Ycw0d_Uow
This message was last edited by the player at 23:58, Wed 18 Sept 2013.

Imp's all about aikido, judo, and momentum redirection as fits his power suite. He's also able to do empty fist stuff, striking from a few meters away, leg sweeps, tk slams...

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Joe's idea of a martial art is to consume someone with colonies of flesh-eating bacteria and other deadly microorganisms if they touch him.

He's a lover, not a fighter.

EDIT: Err, not that anyone asked. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 03:15, Thu 19 Sept 2013.

In reply to Joe (msg # 353):

If you wait till someone asks, no one ever says anything ;)

Yeah yeah, but I'm new. :) I'm trying to be all polite 'n stuff, for a giant squid-skinned guy who could totally get down with some face eating (which I understand is frowned upon 'round here.)

Only by some...

Takes all kinds.  I knew this guy once, who'd put a tarantula on his ... well you get the idea.  If human is the meat of choice, get me a bucket of Kentucky Fried Long Pig and some reindeer eyeballs.

There.  It's done.  Good riddance.  Now onto new plots.

Protomen reference, <3. <3 it all.

I try to keep it all very believable, but yeah there's a bunch of references spread throughout.  The aforementioned Starship Troopers, Protomen, Psi Corps from Babylon 5, Superman, so on and so forth.

Everyone note that there are 2 McDevitt posts that just went up.  I almost missed the first one, so I wanted to prevent you missing out on an episode of this amazing documentary.

And, for you new folks, the documentary does a pretty great job of summing up the storylines so far and filling in blanks for how our current timeline is different from the Day 0 presented in the Aberrant core book.

Changes in the Nova Age post is up.  Not quite as entertaining as some of our other scene setting, but I figured this was necessary to inform people of what was going on.

Only a partial update on Ties, some of the scenes don't need update quite yet, and others only need a little more info dropped.

So, I am going to try to keep up as much as I can this week, but I am going to be out of the country so my internet availability could be spotty.  I apologize ahead of time.

I get to go to an out of state wedding this weekend, so I'll be posting on hotel internets.  We'll see how that goes.  Off to bed so I can be up in 4 hrs.

I've been on hotel Internets, and missed all of yesterday due to flying.  So hurray!  I can try to catch up now.

Ughh, I live, been nursing a massive cold for the last few days though. I bet the reason I'm not better is because I can't find my copies of either Big Fish or A Good Year. Those are my 'I'm sick' movies.

Feel better.

Also, someone entertain me.  I'm bored in a hotel room with nothing but this game to occupy me.  Wife is out doing bridesmaid stuff prepping for tomorrow's wedding, I don't watch tv, and I've ran out of internet (connection intact, content depleted).