Question 19

[Chandrian]

Finding Nemo is getting a sequel? Huh, interesting.

On another note, just out of curiosity, how many of the people here are actually up to speed with major comics?

It was made official about a year ago, I think the film comes out this month. I'm suprised you haven't heard, but then again, they didn't advertise it as heavily as one would have thought.

I am to a degree. You're talking about what happened with Captain America, aren't you?

Edited June 7, 2016 by Bluefingers

[Edgedancer he/him]

It was made official about a year ago, I think the film comes out this month. They didn't advertise it as heavily as one would have thought.

I am to a degree. You're talking about what happened with Captain America, aren't you?

I see.

 

Not specifically. Just curious how many of the people involved with a superhero (well supervillain) RP also know their way around superhero comics.

[Chandrian]

I see.

 

Not specifically. Just curious how many of the people involved with a superhero (well supervillain) RP also know their way around superhero comics.

Not incredibly well-versed in recent comics, but I definitely know both major universes quite well.

[Blackhoof]

I don't really read comics, except the odd few. So no I'm not up to date.

 

But i watch the superhero movies!

 

Marvel ones at least

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I don't really read comics, except the odd few. So no I'm not up to date.

 

But i watch the superhero movies!

 

Marvel ones at least

 

Same here. The last DC movie I saw (Man of Steel) desperately wanted to be a Steelheart adaptation without straight-up admitting it was about a supervillain, so I can't say I'm impressed with DC these days. I didn't watch Batman v Superman, though I did catch all the major plot points courtesy of this hilarious FAQ. 

[Blackhoof]

Yeah I haven't seen B vs S, and i probably won't. DC just isn't holding up, and I have no interest in seeing a movie that I know I won't enjoy.

 

Superman bores me anyway aha

[Chandrian]

Same here. The last DC movie I saw (Man of Steel) desperately wanted to be a Steelheart adaptation without straight-up admitting it was about a supervillain, so I can't say I'm impressed with DC these days. I didn't watch Batman v Superman, though I did catch all the major plot points courtesy of this hilarious FAQ.

Upon reading that summary, I can't stress how glad I am that's the only superhero film this year I haven't seen.

[Quiver he/him]

I am something of a superhero fan.

I'm not sure if it's ever come up.

[Citadel16 he/him]

dont mean to derail the current conversation, but I think it might be easier for me to write with Antimatter if I shortened his revive period to... one hour? what is a happy medium for this? (I dont want it to be instantaneous but I dont want him out of the RP for months on end)

Edited June 8, 2016 by WarriorMark16

[Edgedancer he/him]

I am something of a superhero fan.

I'm not sure if it's ever come up.

It was subtily hinted at.

 

Of course you're one of the people that i wouldn't be suprised to get both the difference between Ms and Captain Marvel as well as knowing who the new totally awesome Hulk is.

dont mean to derail the current conversation, but I think it might be easier for me to write with Antimatter if I shortened his revive period to... one hour? what is a happy medium for this? (I dont want it to be instantaneous but I dont want him out of the RP for months on end)

Ah yes, the problem with resurrection times. It wouldn't be the shortest resurrection time we have, so I'm okay with it. Although, you may want to consider adapting his rampage time accordingly, maybe make it so it adds up ovet the time since his last resurrection. Not a demand or anything along those lines, by the way, just something to consider.

[Noelle]

Hello, hello. My name's Noelle. I'm a bit confused on how to enter the RP, but I was told to come here and introduce myself and the character I wanted to play so it's nice to meet all of you! I'm a big Sanderson fan, and I've really enjoyed what I've read of the Reckoners universe, so I figured joining this RP would be loads of fun!

 

If I do this wrong I am sorry! But here's my Epic, Lena (Epic name in progress):

 

I'll start with her powers, since that sort of helped to turn her into what she is now,

 

Lena is a flying epic, although of rather extraordinary skill, perhaps due to the source of her flight. Rather than manipulating winds or transforming, she can change how gravity works, but only with regards to her own body. However, she can lessen, strengthen, and redirect these pulls at will, allowing her to basically have herself pulled (or fall) in any direction she wishes.

 

With these powers come a several secondary ones, but almost all are passive. She is exceedingly durable, as well as almost complete resistance to the dangers of G forces (since, after all, those are caused by gravity), which is quite helpful when you sometimes fly into things at mach speeds. However this durability mostly comes not from shrugging off an enemy's attack, but from healing through it, and so while few things can kill her, many things can hurt her. A lot. 

 

On the other hand, her reflexes and reaction times are significantly higher than a normal human being. Her senses of hearing and sight are also many times more powerful than a normal humans, however her other senses are unchanged. While it is extremely difficult to injure her, she is not actually strong, just hard to hurt, and has no sort of danger sense besides her sharp eyes and ears. 

 

Her final ability is that of gifting, although she has only ever used it to make others able to fly like her (and consequently caused more than a few deaths when the users of that power killed themselves by accident), claiming that it is the only ability she /can/ gift.

 

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Lena has little need to leash herself to more powerful Epics. After all, with the ability to withstand as much punishment as she can, the epics that can harm her tend to be famous enough for her to avoid. However, she has little offensive ability. While yes, in theory she could just pummel others by flinging herself at them at high enough speeds, such a thing is extremely /painful/. Even if it doesn't cause her lasting damage, for the short time it does last it is excruciating. Over time she has grown better at working through the pain, but it is not something she can ever ignore. Due to this, Lena is surprisingly non-confrontational for an Epic. It's not a matter of being easy going so much as not feeling like a fight is ever worth the effort. This leads, sometimes, to her seeming apathetic or lazy when pragmatic is often the more appropriate phrase.

 

However, without the need to subjugate or control so fore in her mind, Lena's most powerful foe tends to be her own boredom, and thus she is on a constant quest for novelty. Embroiling herself with a city's people, epics, and problems tends to be a delightful distraction, so long as she can stay entertained. It's certainly better than the dullness of the country-side, but it tends not to keep her attention for long. So Lena is something of a nomad, flitting from city to city as it catches her attention, and leaving once it has lost it or it's too dangerous to stay. Her moods can change often and easily as her whims take her. For Lena, it is not so much a matter of reacting to things "appropriately" as it is inciting the most interesting reactions from those she interacts with.

 

(Her backstory is a WIP because I want to run a few things by Coma to see if they make sense, since I haven't finished the books yet and wouldn't want to write something impossible c: )

 

I hope I did that right, thanks for reading! If I didn't, sorry for the useless wall of text QuQ

Edited June 8, 2016 by Noelle

[Edgedancer he/him]

I very much like this Epic idea. Let's start this off with some questions first however.

How exactly does her healing factor work, what's the speed and limitations on it?

On the gifting, we don't know how much control this requires from the Epic but

they are capable of only gifting away certain funtions of their powers, meaning not only the overall power level for the power but also how it can be used

How familair are you in the RP, what have you already read and do you already know where you want to bring your character in?

How far into the books are you?

[Quiver he/him]

It was subtily hinted at.

 

Of course you're one of the people that i wouldn't be suprised to get both the difference between Ms and Captain Marvel as well as knowing who the new totally awesome Hulk is.

 

You say 'Captain Marvel'.

 

Are you talking the original Kree flavor, the photon-based Avenger during the 70's/80's, the Marvel Boy Morrison wrote who took the title during Dark Reign, or Shazam?

[Edgedancer he/him]

You say 'Captain Marvel'.

 

Are you talking the original Kree flavor, the photon-based Avenger during the 70's/80's, the Marvel Boy Morrison wrote who took the title during Dark Reign, or Shazam?

All of them.

Now the better question is which Ms Marvel am I talking about.

[Blackhoof]

woo go alliances and trade!

[Noelle]

I very much like this Epic idea. Let's start this off with some questions first however.

How exactly does her healing factor work, what's the speed and limitations on it?

On the gifting, we don't know how much control this requires from the Epic but

they are capable of only gifting away certain funtions of their powers, meaning not only the overall power level for the power but also how it can be used

How familair are you in the RP, what have you already read and do you already know where you want to bring your character in?

How far into the books are you?

Thank you!

For her healing factor, basically she's more durable than normal (so she doesn't have to, say, constantly regenerate while travelling at high soeeds due to friction burns), but if she sustains any serious damage she heals it in a matter of seconds. It's very fast and very effective (after all, if you run into the ground at mach speeds you'll be mostly a splatter >__>). The main limiting factor, if you will, is the fact that she does not have a dulled sense of pain when injured, so even if shes only horribly injured for a few moments doesnt stop it from being agonizing. Heck, because she can survive almost any blow, that means that while other people would say, simply die painlessly, she gets to have the unique experience of whatever pain it is. I don't want to be gruesome, it's just that the main "limit" of that power is her reticence to ever want to use it.

As for how familiar with the RP I am, I mostly have been reading "What Happens in Corvallis" since that was where I intend to enter. (I already messaged Coma ^^)

I also am almost perfectly halfway through the books since I have about half of the second book left before I start on the third ^^

[Edgedancer he/him]

Thank you!

For her healing factor, basically she's more durable than normal (so she doesn't have to, say, constantly regenerate while travelling at high soeeds due to friction burns), but if she sustains any serious damage she heals it in a matter of seconds. It's very fast and very effective (after all, if you run into the ground at mach speeds you'll be mostly a splatter >__>). The main limiting factor, if you will, is the fact that she does not have a dulled sense of pain when injured, so even if shes only horribly injured for a few moments doesnt stop it from being agonizing. Heck, because she can survive almost any blow, that means that while other people would say, simply die painlessly, she gets to have the unique experience of whatever pain it is. I don't want to be gruesome, it's just that the main "limit" of that power is her reticence to ever want to use it.

As for how familiar with the RP I am, I mostly have been reading "What Happens in Corvallis" since that was where I intend to enter. (I already messaged Coma ^^)

I also am almost perfectly halfway through the books since I have about half of the second book left before I start on the third ^^

That does pose somewhat of a problem, seeing we rather recently put up the restriction that you can't take a High Epic as a first character and that healing factor definetly turns her into one.

[Chandrian]

That does pose somewhat of a problem, seeing we rather recently put up the restriction that you can't take a High Epic as a first character and that healing factor definetly turns her into one.

I would advise creating an exclusively velocity-based damage immunity, or make her subconsciously alter personal gravity when she's about to do something fatal.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Or just soften her healing factor until it's an advantage, but doesn't work too quickly and won't save her from a fatal wound.

[Quiver he/him]

I maybe started writing that Lyla commentary...

...and scrapped it.

Comedy is hard.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I maybe started writing that Lyla commentary...

...and scrapped it.

Comedy is hard.

Just let the insanity flow through you. You can do it. If Kamala Khan can keep writing Avenger fanfic then you can write Lyla commentary.

[Chandrian]

Just an FYI, I changed my name from Bluefingers. I may change it back if I decide I don't like it.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Chandrian

[Voidus]

I am something of a superhero fan.

I'm not sure if it's ever come up.

I think it has, you like that one superhero right? The one who's really good with a bow? ... you like Hawkeye right?

[Edgedancer he/him]

I think it has, you like that one superhero right? The one who's really good with a bow? ... you like Hawkeye right?

Who doesn't like Hawkeye? He's a mobile spike dispenser.

[Noelle]

That does pose somewhat of a problem, seeing we rather recently put up the restriction that you can't take a High Epic as a first character and that healing factor definetly turns her into one.

Uhm this does pose something of a problem since I only wish to ever play one character (its hard for me to keep up with several different ones). The idea of not having it work quickly enough to prevent a fatal wound also would be sort of not what I would want, since this healing factor is more of making it so her powers don't kill her. She is a character more based around utility (since she would and could run from most fights). But if that is what pushes her into high epic territory and that is disallowed, I can't see how any alternative that would be as effective would not result in the same classification. Also, part of the reason I wanted it to be a healing factor versus danger sense or durability was so that she had an active reason not to want to use it. Her character isnt really based around utlizing her healing factor. That is much more of a secondary thing that helps enable her to be the somewhat playful and irreverant character that she is.

Instead of changing the power is there something else that could be done? I'm sorry to ask. I just didn't know when making her that this would be an issue D:

Edited June 8, 2016 by Noelle