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Note this OOC is viewable by everyone :), since you are all Supervillains I suggest keeping your plans to your individual OOCs, just relate here mostly what you want everyone to know :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:36, Wed 08 Apr 2020.

Not sure why the OOC was archived I guess that's why no one used this :)

I wanted to make some things clearer so I changed some tags, I gave the current Followers the Follower tag, Current Contacts the Contact tag, and I changed the tag on the Champions to NPC.

I was thinking perhaps the number of folks showing as player characters was perhaps daunting to the new player I recruited. I was trying to explain the different in Variable Power Pools and Multipower to them but they haven't responded. They are new to champions as well as my other player.

It is up to you two if you know each other previously but TBD is very much in the character craetion phase. (Also being converted from Mutants & Masterminds)

Note I do plan for you to be in solo games but you might know one another or decide to cooperate. You don't have to do that right now.

I'm good. I have never had great luck running super hero/villain games. People evaporate very quickly.

If you would like another player to run though I do have some names I could reach out to.

It was a person that advertised for a solo villain like you I reached out to, right now we'll just do the two but we may grow once we have our legs :)

That's fine. All I ask is to not make my storylines completely dependent on them right off the bat. If they post consistently for a couple months we can circle back around but like I said I have given up running super hero games because I have found the players to be flakier than most.

It seems like people LOOOVE character creation but then lose interest fast once the character has to actually do stuff.

Hello Mr. TBD

Hello! And yes, I do want to apologize for the spacing out. Life seems to be fine right up until I try to join games.

I'll have some updates tomorrow :)

Didn't feel to good today sorry I didn't get more done.

No worries, take your time.

Sorry had a couple rough days will update this tomorrow :).

Sorry Grandma has been real bad today. I'll try to get updates tomorrow :)

No worries. I am slammed too! Tis the season...

Might be a few days folks but we will get back on track. Sorry for the delay. She has not recovered and it's looking like this might be he last days on earth.

Sorry been a very rough week hope to get restarted soon. Thanks for your patience.

No worries, at your leisure!

just checking in

Nemesis can you see OOC I made for you specifically?

I see "Character Creation/OOC"(has no mention that it is for Nemesis) and the private message where I posted Nemesis

Sorry things have slowed down. I'm still recovering from my surgery and my grandmother where I've been staying has had a stroke and is now bedridden. This has consumed a lot of time lately. She is starting to do some better and if that continues then hopefully we'll be back on track soon.

No worries. Take care of RL first of course. I will periodically check back in out of habit but take all the time you need.

you take care of real life we will be here

It's alright, and I can definitely empathize. Past month or so has been a lot of scrambling to find doctors who're open and trying to get things fixed.

Family comes first, no question about it.

I hope to start posting again next week. Grandma's condition seems to be stabilizing and I think I'll be able to devote time to the game. Thanks for your patience.

No worries. Glad to here things are settling down again.

any word on starting?

Well just got a new keyboard today, things are not so good but I hope to start in the next few weeks :)

ok just letting you know I'm still here

I am hoping to get this restarted. The future is still uncertain but I do want to do this, so who all is still here?

I might need to recruit a few more players to be successful but before I put that word out I want to see who we have, who's still interested, that sort of thing.

yes I want to play a villain

I know it's been labor day weekend hope the others are still here.

Yep I'm still here.

Okay 1 person waiting with character finished and ready
1 person not reported back in
1 person getting ready to enter combat....this was from before finishing up their thing
1 person working on their character, put in suggestions, waiting for feedback.

In reply to Socrates (msg # 35):

Hey everyone.   How's it going?

I haven't added any complications yet.  He'd rather run away than kill.
Science fascinates him
Secret id
Hunted by police
Hunted by super group

How many more do I need?

You'd need 75 points of Complications

Sample Hunteds:

Hunted by Champions (Mo Pow, Infrequently, Harshly)    15 pts
Hunted by PRIMUS (Mo Pow, Infrequently, Harshly)       15 pts
Hunted by Interpol (As Pow, NCI, Harshly)              15 pts
Hunted by FBI (Less Pow, NCI, Harshly)                 10 pts
Hunted by CCPD (Less Pow, NCI, Harshly, Limited CC)     5 pts

Friend! Countrymen! Lend me your superpowers...

Been a rough couple days, my grandma who has been bedridden didn't sleep for 2 days and was in a delirium which prevented me from sleeping. Should have us restarted by Monday :) with active threads for all :).

In reply to Socrates (msg # 39):

woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope your grandma turns out okay

I'm alive by some chance.

Welcome back :)

Had a bad night
Have a dr apt
might be tomorrow before update

No worries. I went through about 2 weeks of insomnia. I have finally had my first decent week of sleep in nearly a month...

https://blog.ochsner.org/artic...mnia-yes-its-a-thing

I have configured the die roller to do secret rolls by default, with more villain players joining, and the fact you are villains I figured you might want to make secret rolls rather than open rolls.

Will update tomorrow, been trying to get my Disability app finished today

No worries, take your time.

Yesterday didn't go as planned should have updates this afternoon :)

@Mr. GM can we get the Black Emperor access to the Techknight lawyer thread?

Yep :)

Sorry :)

I'll try to update the threads this weekend.

Sorry things have slowed down, I do hope to update this coming week.

I'll be doing updates tomorrow :)

I'm on antibiotics again and well hopefully avoid another surgery

Note I've had a stomach bug, not COVID, but still a bit eh, I will resume posting tomorrow or Sunday. I know ya'll waiting on me :) Thanks

I'm doing much better.

I'd like to get everyone kinda under the same roof (organization) working for Black Emperor as that will make things a bit easier for me.

I plan to have a VNN post later today.

Yvette will be contacting various villains in relation to it to hire on some crew. What you thought BE did that, haha.

Hmm TechKnight you've not posted in a while are you still here?

In reply to Socrates (msg # 55):

I posted a comment in character and nothing was replied.

Basically I had nothing to post to.  Waiting in limbo

Oh okay Black Emperor waiting for my VNN post :)

Happy holidays everyone.

In reply to The Black Emperor (msg # 58):

yes merry christmas everyone

Merry Christmas all

Guys and gals Techknight has dropped out due to our snail pace. Things haven't gone to well that's for sure, I'm wanting to know if you wish to continue the game?

I guess my open endedness is part of the problem, I made things to broad for me to really move things quickly forward. I can narrow things but we might have to have one of those revisionist histories etc, something to tie your backgrounds together so that we have a better springboard to move forward.

Also I know you want to play villains, but it's hard making up new heroes and such so if you could refrain from killing the heroes that might help just like in the comic books (cannon fodder like PRIMUS agents are okay :), I'm talking the Superheroes and well their dependents :) )

yes please

I'm fine continuing and the pace doesn't bother me too much. From personal experience as a long time GM on this site though I would ask that you take some time for reflection and figure out if you truly want to keep the game going or not.

In my experience sometimes when the magic/spark is gone it is better to just pull the plug than have a game wither on the vine for months on end.

If you still want to keep going though I'm fine with whatever pacing is put forward.

I'm fine with pulling us together into a group to keep focus
and playing the bodyguard is fine by me

Sorry for the long hiatus (ye olde holiday madness) and I'd want to continue. I sort of accepted this would be a slower pace game, especially as we got into the later months. Still, I've got no complaints if you want to pull us together... also, tbf, I only got a hero shot, not killed her lol.

In reply to Cat's Paw (msg # 65):

Nemesis killed her target as ordered(took his head off in public)

We'll be continuing though I don't think Black Emperor has figured out yet what Cat's Paw did before he tried to do it :)....that alone should get you an invite to the organization I think....

I'll try to get us up some new posts tomorrow now that the holidays are over :)

Sounds good and I am all ears about the exploits of the rest of you.

Are we still a game?

Hopefully I get us restarted soon :)

My grandma has not done to good lately and my mom was sick as well and I didn't get to work on it :(

In reply to Socrates (msg # 70):

Understood
Family first

No worries. Take all the time you need.

Trying to get us started again, let me know if you are here still :)

In reply to Socrates (msg # 73):

still here

I survive!

Thanks for letting me know hmm that might be all Black Emperor is still around to he didn't respond here but elsewhere.

Would Cat's Paw or Nemesis potentially visit the Bank of Evil?

I'm guessing that would be the bank of choice for those that have lots of money they do not want the government to tax?

Ever seen Despicable Me?

The Bank of Evil is kinda like that, a place for supervillians to borrow funds to use on their next capers, the Bank of Evil does expect a return on investment though and if you fail long enough they do give up on you....(like Gru in the film)

what no expense accounts from the boss for jobs given?

I like to think of it that they loan money for leverage over the villains in case they need specific tasks done. Also I figure they make considerable "insider trading" investments knowing who villains are going to target with their schemes. Their investments is probably where they make the bulk of their money and most criminal loans are write-offs unless a villain gets something particularly lucrative to ransom like the crown jewels or fort knox's gold. Then the loan comes due :D

Guys due to RL I'm just going to call this off for now, hopefully someday I can revisit the idea.