Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Almost everything in Costco is absurdly low-priced and delicious. I have never seen another place sell a can of coke for 80 cents each. Really? $.80 US is about $1.05 Australian atm and there's plenty of places here that have $1 cans 1
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I mean 80 cents Australian dollars. I also live in Australia, Voidus. In Australia (or at least in Melbourne), vending machines are trying to run a scam ($2.40 for a can!? Seriously!?) and restaurants aren't much better ($2 isn't cheap enough). Wait, where do they sell $1 cans!? I must have some!
Kobold King he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I'm still confused whether it's a prequel to Astoria or if it's something different. I'm pretty sure it's its own thread, with no real connection to Astoria. My understanding--which admittedly may be way off base--is that Gresham would be used as a place for newcomers to easily enter and begin rampaging without having to catch up on the politics and history of the other threads. Thus there would be no ruling Epic or government infrastructure, and little to no communication with the outside world. What I'm a little foggy about is under what circumstances established players would be added in. If, for instance, I decided that Lightwards should go to Gresham to attend some sort of nefarious business, would that be permitted or would I be required to keep my characters out of the city? Would we put up an effort to keep key Oregonian characters out of the city, to preserve it as a simple tutorial region? 1
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Wait, there are Costcos in Australia?Woolworths has them pretty regularly, and a bunch of vending machines at my uni are doing $1 cans.
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Wait, there are Costcos in Australia? Woolworths has them pretty regularly, and a bunch of vending machines at my uni are doing $1 cans. Yup. Google it. There's a Costco at Ringwood and one in Melbourne. Ah, yes. The 12-24 pack deals. They have the Panda Seal of Approval. 1
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Geode: Terrakinetic abilities, capable of fracturing and manipulating stone. Also possesses Earth related projection capabilities. He can project his consciousness within a 1-mile radius where nearby dirt will form into an approximation of his body.Severance: Force field Epic, capable of creating and manipulating force-fields, can be used either offensively or defensively. While he has an incredible degree of control over his force fields they’re also very limited in range, he cannot produce or manipulate a forcefield to exist more than 5 metres away from his body. First Epics for WHIG 2
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted February 12, 2015 Author Posted February 12, 2015 With the Gresham thread, I think it'd be good to keep established characters out as much as possible. However, I also think that it would be good to bring an established character to Gresham now and then to give new players a chance to see said character's personality and MO--though if that's what we wind up doing, it might be better to make the tutorial thread completely separate from Oregon continuity so we don't have to continually invent reasons for established characters to visit Gresham. Make it a Hunger Games-style arena, though without the sole survivor rule. What do you guys think? 1
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Hm. Doesn't matter for me since I've never been and probably never will go to Australia. Although maybe someday. If you do, bring a fly-swatter. Scratch that, bring as many as you can. Flies in Australia have the strangest obsession of crawling into your orifices. The fly problem isn't so bad once you go into a city, though. And Australia is a fantastic place. So long as you ignore the insects. 1
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 If you do, bring a fly-swatter. Scratch that, bring as many as you can. Flies in Australia have the strangest obsession of crawling into your orifices. The fly problem isn't so bad once you go into a city, though. And Australia is a fantastic place. So long as you ignore the insects. Central Australia flies are the worst, they come in swarms of hundreds and then all try to cram themselves into your nose/mouth/eye. With the Gresham thread, I think it'd be good to keep established characters out as much as possible. However, I also think that it would be good to bring an established character to Gresham now and then to give new players a chance to see said character's personality and MO--though if that's what we wind up doing, it might be better to make the tutorial thread completely separate from Oregon continuity so we don't have to continually invent reasons for established characters to visit Gresham. Make it a Hunger Games-style arena, though without the sole survivor rule. What do you guys think? I'm a fan of having it removed from continuity that way we can kill characters there and they can still appear elsewhere. Might be a better way of getting the character out of the city than just having Epics decide to move in and out all the time. 1
Kobold King he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 With the Gresham thread, I think it'd be good to keep established characters out as much as possible. However, I also think that it would be good to bring an established character to Gresham now and then to give new players a chance to see said character's personality and MO--though if that's what we wind up doing, it might be better to make the tutorial thread completely separate from Oregon continuity so we don't have to continually invent reasons for established characters to visit Gresham. Make it a Hunger Games-style arena, though without the sole survivor rule. What do you guys think? If the tutorial thread is to be held as non-canon, I feel it would be better to leave it out of Oregon. A Gresham thread that's out of WHIO continuity would rob the primary RP of a perfectly good setting, as having two different threads detailing the fate of Gresham would be confusing. There would be no reason to set the tutorial in Oregon if it's not going to contribute to the narrative and worldbuilding of our setting. If we go with the Epic Hunger Games approach, I feel it would be better to keep it somewhere far away from Oregon, where the two continuities couldn't possibly be confused. 1
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 If the tutorial thread is to be held as non-canon, I feel it would be better to leave it out of Oregon. A Gresham thread that's out of WHIO continuity would rob the primary RP of a perfectly good setting, as having two different threads detailing the fate of Gresham would be confusing. There would be no reason to set the tutorial in Oregon if it's not going to contribute to the narrative and worldbuilding of our setting. If we go with the Epic Hunger Games approach, I feel it would be better to keep it somewhere far away from Oregon, where the two continuities couldn't possibly be confused. That's a great point, actually since we can use an out of Oregon city we can potentially have a much larger one too, like Washington or something (I know very little US geography)
Kobold King he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 That's a great point, actually since we can use an out of Oregon city we can potentially have a much larger one too, like Washington or something (I know very little US geography) Precisely. It needn't even be confined to the United States--why not cut the Aussies among us a break and start up What Happened in Sydney or What Happened in Canberra? 3
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Precisely. It needn't even be confined to the United States--why not cut the Aussies among us a break and start up What Happened in Sydney or What Happened in Canberra? Thanks to Australian politics over the last decade very little has happened in Canberra. Yeah I can definitely see some benefits to doing it that way. 2
Kobold King he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Thanks to Australian politics over the last decade very little has happened in Canberra. Yeah I can definitely see some benefits to doing it that way. Whatever else you can say about Epics, at least they're more progressive than Canberran politicians. (Depending on how picky you are about which direction the city "progresses." ) 3
Mailliw73 he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I like the Hunger Games style idea. It'd also be fun to have some decently powerful Epics that were permanent "Gresham"(for lack of a better name so far) residents for new players to see how their Epic could fare against some others. The permanents could resurrect after each kill and come back for another fight. Like a video game. I'd be up for one of those characters. 2
Mailliw73 he/him Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Well, they'd have to be resurrection Epics. I call being one of these "resurrection" Epics. But some sort of limit. Well, since this is just a tutorial type thing, they wouldn't have to be. They could just come back to life in a separate type of continuity. Like in a video game how you respawn when you die.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted February 12, 2015 Author Posted February 12, 2015 Heck, we could even throw gravity to the wind and make it What Happened on the Moon. We'd take care of the oxygen problem by shut up this is no time for stupid questions. Joking aside, I actually really like the idea of removing it as far from Oregon as possible. 2
Voidus Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Heck, we could even throw gravity to the wind and make it What Happened on the Moon. We'd take care of the oxygen problem by shut up this is no time for stupid questions. Joking aside, I actually really like the idea of removing it as far from Oregon as possible. I am now strangely compelled to create an Epic who can throw gravity to the wind. Not sure how that'll work but I'll figure it out somehow. 2
Mailliw73 he/him Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 A Möbius loop setting could be cool and would tie it in loosely with the rest of the RP. 1
Kobold King he/him Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Heck, we could even throw gravity to the wind and make it What Happened on the Moon. We'd take care of the oxygen problem by shut up this is no time for stupid questions. Joking aside, I actually really like the idea of removing it as far from Oregon as possible. A Möbius loop setting could be cool and would tie it in loosely with the rest of the RP. Möbius can travel into space. Why not combine the two ideas? If we made it canonically dubious enough to allow video game-esque respawns, then the potential for random meetings could be limitless. Wanna see whether Slaughterhouse could take Panda in a fight? Step right up and see. Wanna see whether Darkrose and Sunburst could take on CorpseMaker's gang all at once? That can be arranged. Wanna see if Funtimes working with Richard the Lion-Heart could successfully take the Holy Land from Saladin's forces? Absolutely possible. 5
Mailliw73 he/him Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Möbius can travel into space. Why not combine the two ideas? If we made it canonically dubious enough to allow video game-esque respawns, then the potential for random meetings could be limitless. Wanna see whether Slaughterhouse could take Panda in a fight? Step right up and see. Wanna see whether Darkrose and Sunburst could take on CorpseMaker's gang all at once? That can be arranged. Wanna see if Funtimes working with Richard the Lion-Heart could successfully take the Holy Land from Saladin's forces? Absolutely possible. In the MBI RP, which I haven't actually been to for a while, we had the same idea. There was an Arena subforum where we could duel other characters completely separate from continuity as well as create "badass loner Coinshots" as they called it. We already have that aspect kinda covered in Astoria though. 3
Voidus Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 I propose that it take place in the world created by:ManifestPrimary power: Pocket dimensional creationSecondary power: Universal creation and manipulation abilities within his pocket dimensions.MO: After creating a pocket dimension Manifest takes very little interest in manipulating it other than occasionally bringing people back to life. 3
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 Möbius can travel into space. Why not combine the two ideas? If we made it canonically dubious enough to allow video game-esque respawns, then the potential for random meetings could be limitless. Wanna see whether Slaughterhouse could take Panda in a fight? Step right up and see. Wanna see whether Darkrose and Sunburst could take on CorpseMaker's gang all at once? That can be arranged. Wanna see if Funtimes working with Richard the Lion-Heart could successfully take the Holy Land from Saladin's forces? Absolutely possible. The last one is completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that time-traveling Funtimes would go back to medieval Ireland, snag a leprechaun, and bring him back to Oregon for a family reunion with Lightwards. 4
Kobold King he/him Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 The last one is completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that time-traveling Funtimes would go back to medieval Ireland, snag a leprechaun, and bring him back to Oregon for a family reunion with Lightwards. What Happened in Medieval Ireland confirmed. 6
Voidus Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Looks good Winter! I look forward to seeing him in WHIAPOYUNALBWSBF (What Happened In A Place Of Yet Undisclosed Name And Location But Will Surely Be Fantasmagorical) 3
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