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[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Or let someone kill him/her off.

 

Thanks for replying. If there's any room (looks crowded already), I might try to come up with a decent character idea.

 

There's always room.  

[Kobold King he/him]

There's always room.

 

I'm a little confused about the general construction of this... is there a moderator for the game? How precisely does one go about joining it?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I'm the GM, but there's not really a moderator. It's more of a free-for-all, write-as-you-go story, with the only caveat being that it has to make some semblance of sense. (And no god-modding, which is somewhat easier in these types of games, in my experience.) You join by making a character, PMing me his/her weakness (if they're an Epic) and bringing him/her to Portland somehow. And at this point there are several alliances, so you'll need to decide on which one your character will join. 

 

(Funtimes! Oh Funtimes! She's crazy but she's cool! Funtimes! Oh Funtimes! She's riding on a mule! Fuuunnnnntiiiiimmmmmes!) 

[Kobold King he/him]

(Funtimes! Oh Funtimes! She's crazy but she's cool! Funtimes! Oh Funtimes! She's riding on a mule! Fuuunnnnntiiiiimmmmmes!) 

 

I believe I've mentioned my love of Funtimes before. If I end up joining, I'll definitely be seeking her out.

 

(Proof that I have no common sense or self-preservation.)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I believe I've mentioned my love of Funtimes before. If I end up joining, I'll definitely be seeking her out.

 

(Proof that I have no common sense or self-preservation.)

 

Sometimes love and abject terror are closer than you think.  

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Or you know you could start your own alliance. We'd have to plan some more, but we could do it. Ultimate destruction is the goal after all.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

We're going to have more alliances than the government has lobbyists. 

 

"Hi, I'm from the Coalition to Put CorpseMaker Six Feet Under, and I'm here to destroy you." 

 

"Well, I'M from the Coalition to Put CorpseMaker SEVEN Feet Under, and I'll destroy you first!" 

 

"Hey, guys! I'm from the Anti-CorpseMaker Decision Squad. Are we destroying each other yet?" 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

"I'm CorpseMaker. Look into my eyes."

*Sightline can't wear glasses to protect himself and teleport at the same time so breaks down in indecision.

Altermind: "If you can't see which one is me, you can't kill me. Nananana."

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

"Oooohhhhhh no you don't! We at the Anti-CorpseMaker Decision Squad know all of your tricks!" 

 

"I'll do it! I'm from the CorpseMaker is Sexy Patrol and I—" *dies* 

 

"Huh. Fangirls." 

[Kobold King he/him]

I've created a character, and after running him past TwiLyght, I'm posting his description here as a general reference.

 

Full Description (Sans weakness):

 

His name is Lightwards, formerly known as Thomas Cardinal. He was a thirty-four year old professor of ecology in a Californian university before gaining his powers.

 

His powers are similar to that of a necromancer--he is capable of restoring corpses or body fragments into whole, living beings. These living beings, of course, experience varying levels of intellectual decay. Most of them retain a decent portion of their former memories and intelligence, but become extremely susceptible to his voice and commands. He can repeat the process on a subject however much he wants, though eventually their minds will have decayed to the point of uselessness and he'll find new bodies. As a general rule, less intelligent entities are easier for him to maintain control over, so he usually travels around with an escort composed of various pieces of roadkill rather than control many human corpses at a time. Theoretically he could probably maintain a hold over around twenty dead humans at a time, although it would take a lot of focus.

 

This is his primary power. His secondary power is the ability to resurrect himself after being killed, though the same intellectual decay still takes effect. He's been killed twice before, once by a lucky student with a gun and once by another Epic. This has knocked his sanity down a few notches--while once he was a semi-rational if immoral teacher, now he's become a delusional man who believes himself to be part a "guiding light" for civilization. In his educated mind, he is a unique opportunity for humanity to defeat death and become the dominant force of the universe. His original goal was to simply carve out a small chunk of territory for himself, but his intellectual decay has brought him a far loftier ambition: the universe itself. And he has just enough cleverness left to make this insanity a dreadful possibility.

 

His weakness is [DATA EXPUNGED].

 

Summary For Those Bored by the Rambling Above:

 

• His name is Lightwards--a delusional title based on the idea of the dead moving towards a light.
• He's basically a necromancer, reanimating corpses into healthy living entities under his control. The stronger the original mind was, the harder it is for him to control the reanimated corpse--the extent of his power is probably controlling around twenty human corpses, with focus. Zombies he creates tend to experience mental decay.
• He can resurrect himself, but with the same mental decay handicap. He's died twice before, turning him from a fairly rational if immoral man to a delusional psychopath who sees himself as the savior of civilization.

[Matrim Bloody Cauthon he/him]

Cool. (I think precogs are much cooler but to each their own.)

Edited July 27, 2014 by Matrim Bloody Cauthon

[Kobold King he/him]

By the way, does anyone know what the time of day is in the game right now? Daylight hours? Midnight?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Evening, I believe. Drizzling, with a little daylight left.

[Kobold King he/him]

Evening, I believe. Drizzling, with a little daylight left.

 

Great, thanks.

[Edgedancer he/him]

His weakness is [DATA EXPUNGED].

I now must think of Lightwards as an SCP, which means he will be imprisoned for all eternitiy. At least thats what the SCPs for SCPs, no equal rights movement demands, I doubt they can get all the signatures needed.

 

Anyway, the complete destruction council wanted to petition the use of Nightblood for eliminating Portland, any objection?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

The Financial Board asked where they would be getting the, One minute While I check my notes, one-trillion, seven-hundred fifty nine billion, two-hundred and twelve thousand breaths required.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I intended to fuel him with the power of Calamity. As a kind of test run for the anti-Odium initiative.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Please tell me the museum has dinosaurs, please!

 

Apperently, our current three factions are the conquerors, the defenders and the insanos, guess which is which.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

The Insano Party requests you put your pink sombrero back on.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I don´t think you have the authority to speak for Corpsemaker.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

He refused Funtimes generous offer of a bejeweled loincloth. He forfeits his right to speak.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Fair enough, but my only pink fedora has a statue of the TARDIS on top of it. I hope you are happy now.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Kobold King he/him]

Please tell me the museum has dinosaurs, please!

 

Technically speaking, the dinosaur bones are entirely fossilized--entirely stone, with little to no trace of the actual biological material. But since I've already hinted that Lightwards can animate such disparate fragments of flesh as a can of spam, I think we could make a case for there being enough protein residue left for a reanimation, TwiLyght permitting.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Technically speaking, the dinosaur bones are entirely fossilized--entirely stone, with little to no trace of the actual biological material. But since I've already hinted that Lightwards can animate such disparate fragments of flesh as a can of spam, I think we could make a case for there being enough protein residue left for a reanimation, TwiLyght permitting.

If Epics can disregard the laws of biology, math, and physics, then you can too.