Question

[Edgedancer he/him]

Well PP is in freefall at the moment, I can have him land near the sports store if you guys want someone to have a fight with, he will need to live through it though so it depends how many people you're bringing and how likely him being able to escape is

I doubt a escape would be very likely for PP.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

"Oh no! We have to save that beard and the strange little man attached to it! We're coming, beard!"

 

--Taken from "What Happened in Oregon," page 20.

 

"A beard that fantastic cannot die! And if we save the guy, too—well, that's just icing on the cake." 

 

Everyone is too distracted by his awesome hat to help

 

Plot twist: The hat is actually a shapeshifting Epic with mind control powers, and it's trying to get PP killed by hypnotizing everyone else into staring at the fantastic hat instead of helping. 

 

 

By the way, I can totally imagine Nighthound stepping up to the crowd after Funtimes is gone and proclaiming that her barbecue slip-up was because she a cannibal.

 

 

To be completely honest, I'm not entirely sure where I got the idea for that….or how potential and Tennessee barbecues connect. Then again, it's Funtimes we're talking about.

[Edgedancer he/him]

"A beard that fantastic cannot die! And if we save the guy, too—well, that's just icing on the cake." 

 

 

Plot twist: The hat is actually a shapeshifting Epic with mind control powers, and it's trying to get PP killed by hypnotizing everyone else into staring at the fantastic hat instead of helping. 

 

 

To be completely honest, I'm not entirely sure where I got the idea for that….or how potential and Tennessee barbecues connect. Then again, it's Funtimes we're talking about.

It all comes down to the beard.   Behold their ture power.

 

Does that mean there are three people in PP´s head now?

 

Well, a barbecue expert could tell how much potential the meat of an animal has, which further proves that Funtimes is a cannibal.

[Voidus]

Does that mean there are three people in PP´s head now?

 

You may be closer to the truth than you realize 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

It all comes down to the beard.   Behold their ture power. beard.png

 

 

Well, a barbecue expert could tell how much potential the meat of an animal has, which further proves that Funtimes is a cannibal.

 

o.O 

 

O.o

 

Um…..

 

I was thinking "potential for fun" or "potential to spill barbecue sauce on your shirt" or, if you want to go really dark, "potential to pour barbecue sauce into the eyes of your enemies and blind them." But your option sounds more like something Nighthound would assume.  

[Edgedancer he/him]

o.O 

 

O.o

 

Um…..

 

I was thinking "potential for fun" or "potential to spill barbecue sauce on your shirt" or, if you want to go really dark, "potential to pour barbecue sauce into the eyes of your enemies and blind them." But your option sounds more like something Nighthound would assume.

Sorry for the image. As an apology more beards.

 

But that argument was from Nighthounds perspective, so that works perfectly.

[Voidus]

Oh and given the amount of pressure sensitive explosives in the museum now, no dinosaur rampaging in the museum anymore. I'm looking at you Nighthound!
>Glares

[Edgedancer he/him]

Oh and given the amount of pressure sensitive explosives in the museum now, no dinosaur rampaging in the museum anymore. I'm looking at you Nighthound!

>Glares

First you run away and then our museum begins to explode with your trademark purple? Seems like we have a traitor on our hands.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Sorry for the image. As an apology more beards.beard.png

 

 

Voidgaze looks like Santa! 

 

….

 

I was going to ask if Funtimes could sit in her lap, but given a certain Nighthound's—ah—tendencies toward double entendres, I think that would be a bad question. 

 

 

 

But that argument was from Nighthounds perspective, so that works perfectly.

 

Yes. Yes, it does. 

 

Almost TOO perfectly.

[Voidus]

First you run away and then our museum begins to explode with your trademark purple? Seems like we have a traitor on our hands.

I'm not running away! If anything I'm falling away.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Voidgaze looks like Santa! 

 

….

 

I was going to ask if Funtimes could sit in her lap, but given a certain Nighthound's—ah—tendencies toward double entendres, I think that would be a bad question. 

 

 

 

Yes. Yes, it does. 

 

Almost TOO perfectly.

Don´t let Nighthound control Funtimes life, just go ahead an ship it.

 

Don´t worry he doesn´t eat people.

 

I'm not running away! If anything I'm falling away.

The excuses of a filthy traitor, you use that beard to hide your true intentions.

[Voidus]

So now that we have a flying museum, dinosaur army and mass of terrified and confused people eating pancakes what's next for the WB?

[Edgedancer he/him]

So now that we have a flying museum, dinosaur army and mass of terrified and confused people eating pancakes what's next for the WB?

On my end it´s more recruiting, on your end it´s the pavement and for Funtimes and Lightwards I have no clue.

[Voidus]

The pavement is just the beginning!
Mwahahaha.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I just listened to the newest episode of writting excuses and tried using that I Ching they talked about. The results are interesting, to say the least. I´ll give you the boiled down versions/interpretations.

 

The first one was a more general question what to do next. The answere wasn´t exactly helpful but an alsmost perfect description of Lightwards and his empire.

It talked about the "uneasy Seat of power occupied by the conqueror" and how his early success (dinosaurs and flying museum) thanks to his current excelent balance of power (our WB), could lead to disorder as soon as the inevitable change happens. This change will be caused by an approching danger (most likely the other Epics) and it is up to his influence on others whether he can shape the world after his will or it all breaks down in chaos, which is why he has to carfully decide on his every move. It also advises him to work step by step

 

My second question was what kind of Epic I should let Nighthound fight. While it ignored said Epic it gave a very unexpected way for Nighthound to develop. 

Baisically, it told me to have Nighthound make up with people of his past (Lucentia as planned), then have him start to give away his power in earnest instead of enslaving people, so he can turn into an good Epic, and break up the empire of Light.

Next, I Ching wants Nighthound to carfully manipulate the now seperated members into becoming better and gather them back together.

Now with the band put back together he´s supposed to lead them and slowly put things into "their proper place," which I would interprete as ending the rules of the Epics.

I´ll be honest, I could not have made that up myself.

 

Last question: Will it be revealed that Nathan isn´t an Epic? I have two ways to interpret this one.

Either, he doesn´t get discovered and becomes a master actor (the more likely one in my opinion both from a storyteller perspective and from the reading itself) or he turns into a proper Epic (It might also be possible that an Epic gifts him his powers). One way or another he manages to resist the temptation of letting the common people suffer and improves their living conditions, to the point where he boecomes a hero figure.

It also hints at an fallout with Funtimes and him thinking back to the good old time.

[Kobold King he/him]

Those are some very interesting ideas for this whole thing--as one might expect, Brandon Sanderson has better ideas for how the RP should progress than we do.

 

I fully expect a major challenge to the Empire's reign to come soon. Then again, Thoughttown has been standing all this time without significantly difficult struggles for existence. We might need more manufactured crises to actually threaten the larger factions.

 

The idea of a reformed Nighthound is... strange, to say the least. If he went from sadistic, psychopathic troll face to sympathetic defender of justice in just one turn, I would be inclined to doubt any true character development had occurred. I'd assume it was an act. But I could definitely see it being a slow process lasting several pages. Any chance of getting a glimpse at pre-Calamity Nighthound and Lucentia?

 

Finally, Nathan. I suspect TwiLyght already has a Master Plan for him. Me, I thoroughly expect his secret to be discovered (possibly by Lightwards or Nighthound) and for him to end up strapped to a table in a white robe again, probably when Funtimes is unable to come to his immediate aid.

[Voidus]

We might need more manufactured crises to actually threaten the larger factions.

 

Well I can always blow the museum up XD

But yes I'm definitely thinking we need some major action soon, what good are dinosaurs with no one to make them eat?

[Edgedancer he/him]

The coincidences random chance can deliver.

 

There´s always the option to let the three factions duke it out.

 

The becoming a good gifter part would be essential for that. As for more pre-Calamity content, sometimes maybe.

Anyway, new post with no sign of him betterng himself is comming up.

 

With Funtimes recruiting more people, someone might make the conection that she only picked him up and Nighthount has an easy way to check if someone is an Epic or not.

[Voidus]

PP's other personality is already a bit suspicious of Nathan, and someones eventually going to realize he only ever teleports while touching Funtimes.

[Kobold King he/him]

New energy Epic I see. By the way, if she ends up killing any dinosaurs, just make sure you save a piece of them for Lightwards. He could reanimate them from a bloodied piece of hide if need be.

[Voidus]

Well we'd better hope PP doesn't fall nearby, he's not particularly fond of Energy Epics.

[Kobold King he/him]

Well we'd better hope PP doesn't fall nearby, he's not particularly fond of Energy Epics.

 

I think we can all agree Sausage McMuffin Epics are easier to get along with.

[Voidus]

I think we can all agree Sausage McMuffin Epics are easier to get along with.

So much this, I think we can all agree that when the smoke clears Big Al will be the last Epic left standing. On top of a mound of Sausage McMuffins.

Mmmmmmmm.

[Edgedancer he/him]

New energy Epic I see. By the way, if she ends up killing any dinosaurs, just make sure you save a piece of them for Lightwards. He could reanimate them from a bloodied piece of hide if need be.

She can only deal piercing damage, so even in the worst case scenario here will be a corpse.

 

Bets are still open on her survival, in aderhance to this week´s writting prompt I already rolled a dice in case I get no good arguments, but your guys votes also counts as random.

 

While I´m talking about her, currently I handle her under the name Ray and here is her pony.

 

ps. Big Al is immortal.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I just listened to the newest episode of writting excuses and tried using that I Ching they talked about. The results are interesting, to say the least. I´ll give you the boiled down versions/interpretations.

 

The first one was a more general question what to do next. The answere wasn´t exactly helpful but an alsmost perfect description of Lightwards and his empire.

It talked about the "uneasy Seat of power occupied by the conqueror" and how his early success (dinosaurs and flying museum) thanks to his current excelent balance of power (our WB), could lead to disorder as soon as the inevitable change happens. This change will be caused by an approching danger (most likely the other Epics) and it is up to his influence on others whether he can shape the world after his will or it all breaks down in chaos, which is why he has to carfully decide on his every move. It also advises him to work step by step

 

My second question was what kind of Epic I should let Nighthound fight. While it ignored said Epic it gave a very unexpected way for Nighthound to develop. 

Baisically, it told me to have Nighthound make up with people of his past (Lucentia as planned), then have him start to give away his power in earnest instead of enslaving people, so he can turn into an good Epic, and break up the empire of Light.

Next, I Ching wants Nighthound to carfully manipulate the now seperated members into becoming better and gather them back together.

Now with the band put back together he´s supposed to lead them and slowly put things into "their proper place," which I would interprete as ending the rules of the Epics.

I´ll be honest, I could not have made that up myself.

 

Last question: Will it be revealed that Nathan isn´t an Epic? I have two ways to interpret this one.

Either, he doesn´t get discovered and becomes a master actor (the more likely one in my opinion both from a storyteller perspective and from the reading itself) or he turns into a proper Epic (It might also be possible that an Epic gifts him his powers). One way or another he manages to resist the temptation of letting the common people suffer and improves their living conditions, to the point where he boecomes a hero figure.

It also hints at an fallout with Funtimes and him thinking back to the good old time.

 

Those are some very interesting ideas for this whole thing--as one might expect, Brandon Sanderson has better ideas for how the RP should progress than we do.

 

I fully expect a major challenge to the Empire's reign to come soon. Then again, Thoughttown has been standing all this time without significantly difficult struggles for existence. We might need more manufactured crises to actually threaten the larger factions.

 

The idea of a reformed Nighthound is... strange, to say the least. If he went from sadistic, psychopathic troll face to sympathetic defender of justice in just one turn, I would be inclined to doubt any true character development had occurred. I'd assume it was an act. But I could definitely see it being a slow process lasting several pages. Any chance of getting a glimpse at pre-Calamity Nighthound and Lucentia?

 

Finally, Nathan. I suspect TwiLyght already has a Master Plan for him. Me, I thoroughly expect his secret to be discovered (possibly by Lightwards or Nighthound) and for him to end up strapped to a table in a white robe again, probably when Funtimes is unable to come to his immediate aid.

 

Wow. First of all, I'm flattered that you guys seem to think I'm a better/more detailed planner than I actually am. You know that saying, "No plan survives the battlefield?" Well, in my case, it's more, "No plan is ever completed before TwiLyght reaches the battlefield because she gets too excited and just starts writing before she loses the idea." 

 

Reformed Nighthound….if you think you could carry it, it'd be interesting to see. Very strange, though. Strange in…well, in the words of the Newsboys, "Dull as dirt, you can't assert/ The kind of light that might persuade/ A strict dictator to retire/ Fire the army, teach the poor origami." But I for one would pay good money to see Nighthound surrounded by children, teaching them how to fold a paper crane. 

 

A crisis could easily come when the other factions see the Empire of Light and Yak Meat growing in number, and not just from Lightwards' recruiting. Think about it: You have two areas you can live in Portland—Thoughttown or the Empire. Thoughttown has utilities, but also a stringent entrance exam, and if at any point you fail a subsequent exam, you're essentially abandoned in the middle of downtown Portland. And then there's the Empire which, although run by a megalomaniac who could very well kill you and turn you into a zombie, has dinosaurs and a right-hand woman who is more likely to give you free yak meat than she is to kill you. Entrance exam <<<<<<<< yak meat. That's a serious threat right there.

 

Finally, as far as Nathan goes, I have no real master plan. ("No plan ever survives TwiLyght because she sees the shiny chance to write and runs off distracted before the plan can have its say.") Immediately, I was going to have the guy in the wife beater teach him how to shoot, at Funtimes' urging, probably in the privacy of their cottage. If she can't swing that, they'd use the "he's new to this whole Epic thing" as an excuse. 

 

Later on, though, I could see a couple of things happening. 

 

1. He remembers that he told Alice to think, tracks her down, and she teams up with him and the guy in the wife beater. Any sort of serious team-up would probably happen after his cover was blown, as the Epic whisperer, the thinking zombie, and the last surviving member of the NRA wander through a mostly-destroyed Portland to take down the most powerful Epics there. A team-up with Joe/Sightline would probably happen here as well. 

 

2. His cover is blown, he's back on the table in a white robe, Funtimes intervenes at either the last minute or when it's already too late, and Lightwards and Nighthound have themselves a scary new enemy. (Of course, if Nathan is killed, you must know up front that you would be subjected to an unknown number of posts from Funtimes' perspective. ) 

 

3. He becomes so good at pretending to be an Epic that while some might suspect something, they never guess, and he uses his position in the Empire to help the common people. This, I think, is the most likely if Lightwards and Nighthound believe his cover story. It seems like they do. 

 

4. He gets powers. This….while it could be likely, I don't know if I'd go for it. If it did happen, I see him becoming frightened and disturbed at the changes Calamity brings to his personality, and barely using his powers as a result. If forced into it, I'd imagine he'd become something of a recluse, too scared of himself to manage more than a few interactions with Funtimes, at the very most. 

Edited August 15, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles