Question 19

[Blackhoof]

22 hours ago, winter devotion said:

I don't know where to start reading-- can you give me a summary of what's happened in my hiatus?

 

 

phew, I wouldn't know where to start

 

In Portland, the Chimera/Lightwards fight is in progress. Corpsemaker has sent his troops throughout the city to impose his will, and is leading a convoy on a PR tour. Quote got Upgraded and is now smothering everyone in an oppressive feeling of despair. And Neverthere got tracked down and attacked by Electro and Timeport, but Nighthound and Lucentia fought them off and kidnapped her. She doesn't quite know she's been kidnapped yet.

[Blaze1616 he/him]

First post from a PoV other than Buttercup in a LONG time. FeelsGoodMan. 

@Comatose What are "our" plans for Epics in Corvallis whose owners have disappeared? An idea occurred to me that will help move the plot along, assuming I'm correct in my assumptions, but the Epic(s) I'll need have been inactive for a very long time. I'm looking into the plausibility of my idea now.

[breakingamber he/him]

Just saying: Isn't prime invincibility David's term only? Didn't Tia say something along the lines of, "I like the term, but I haven't heard it before." about the term PI?

Or is it just me?

Where has 18th gone? Just curious. I'm not sure if I could continue the Salem bar scene without him... And I really want to post something.

I plan to post a WHOOC soon. Just saying. It'll be really long.

Edited September 17, 2016 by breakingamber

[Blaze1616 he/him]

Just now, breakingamber said:

Just saying: Isn't prime invincibility David's term only? Didn't Tia say something along the lines of, "I like the term, but I haven't heard it before." about the term PI?

Or is it just me?

Hrm, good question. Though to be fair, we are in an alternate universe where the term "vanilla" is in use to describe humans. Unfortunately I don't own e-book copies to do a quick search for the answer to this.

Also, it turns out my original idea as mentioned in my previous post likely won't work given how bare bones Gleeman's descriptions of Mannequin's powers are. However my research revealed that Chase does exactly what I was hoping Mannequin could do, so the real question is this; @winter devotion, are you planning on rejoining all threads or only specific ones? Chase is going to get involved in Corvallis soon-ish.

[Voidus]

5 minutes ago, breakingamber said:

Just saying: Isn't prime invincibility David's term only? Didn't Tia say something along the lines of, "I like the term, but I haven't heard it before." about the term PI?

Or is it just me?

Where has 18th gone? Just curious. I'm not sure if I could continue the Salem bar scene without him... And I really want to post something.

I plan to post a WHOOC soon. Just saying. It'll be really long.

She did indeed, the common term is 'High Epic' although it's somewhat broader than a PI is. That being said I'd say the term 'invincibility' would be relatively common among non-scholars of Epics.

I'm time skipping Salem for the moment since it's been stuck for quite a while, if anyone needs to add something in they can do it in flashback.

[breakingamber he/him]

Just now, Voidus said:

She did indeed, the common term is 'High Epic' although it's somewhat broader than a PI is. That being said I'd say the term 'invincibility' would be relatively common among non-scholars of Epics.

I'm time skipping Salem for the moment since it's been stuck for quite a while, if anyone needs to add something in they can do it in flashback.

Completely fine with that.

WHOO!(C) 

[Mestiv he/him]

@Blaze1616 does Buttercup plan to visit Argon today? I want to know how long can Argon and Summer's post be, before Queens make him a visit. 

[Blaze1616 he/him]

6 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

@Blaze1616 does Buttercup plan to visit Argon today? I want to know how long can Argon and Summer's post be, before Queens make him a visit. 

That was the intent. I was actually going to have them approach Argon while he was still walking, but then you posted the whole getting home thing  

[Mestiv he/him]

Well then, I may post Argon meeting Summer post before you have yours or I may not, I don't know if I'll have time to write it soon. Anyway,this would progress the time only a couple of minutes, so your current plan won't have to change I'm curious how will Blossom approach the conversation

[Comatose he/him]

 

3 hours ago, Blaze1616 said:

First post from a PoV other than Buttercup in a LONG time. FeelsGoodMan. 

@Comatose What are "our" plans for Epics in Corvallis whose owners have disappeared? An idea occurred to me that will help move the plot along, assuming I'm correct in my assumptions, but the Epic(s) I'll need have been inactive for a very long time. I'm looking into the plausibility of my idea now.

My next plans were (a) to have Rainmaker and the Queen's meet, (b) check in with Princess GOOD, (c) have another public "speech" type scene where Rainmaker addresses the population, and (d) secrets (let me know if I am missing anything.  

What were your ideas for moving the plot along?  I'm open to pretty much anything :).  

[Mestiv he/him]

@Comatosewill this speech be announced some way? I want Argon to hear it, but first he would have to know about it

[Voidus]

44 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said:

Hey, guys! Since I'm a fairly prominent member of this community and am now involved in multiple plotlines, I think my recent absence merits explanation. The end of the quarter is coming, and I'm swamped. To date, I'm involved in:

1. Defense of my #1 GPA from ambitious peers -- I really want all A's
2. AP classes
3. A class at the nearby community college
4. Ambassadors
5. Make-a-Wish presidency
6. Mock Trial captain
7. Piano
8. Volunteering at hospital 
9. Learning to drive
10. Journalism (I'm a bit of an overachiever in this class; my last article ended up at 10 pages)
11. Responsibilities at home
12. Maintenance of a suddenly active social life
13. Whatever else comes up

So, yeah, there's a lot going on.  To make absolutely clear, I am not dropping out. I love being involved in this project, and plan to continue writing and joking with all of you for a long time coming. It just might be a little while until my next post, and I thought you folks should know why.  

RL always comes first, good luck with all your amazing achievements there. Though I must say I'm disappointed at the lack of chess club presidency too.  (I joke of course, you're doing an amazing job to balance all of that at this point in the year)

[Edgedancer he/him]

50 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said:

Hey, guys! Since I'm a fairly prominent member of this community and am now involved in multiple plotlines, I think my recent absence merits explanation. The end of the quarter is coming, and I'm swamped. To date, I'm involved in:

1. Defense of my #1 GPA from ambitious peers -- I really want all A's
2. AP classes
3. A class at the nearby community college
4. Ambassadors
5. Make-a-Wish presidency
6. Mock Trial captain
7. Piano
8. Volunteering at hospital 
9. Learning to drive
10. Journalism (I'm a bit of an overachiever in this class; my last article ended up at 10 pages)
11. Responsibilities at home
12. Maintenance of a suddenly active social life
13. Whatever else comes up

So, yeah, there's a lot going on.  To make absolutely clear, I am not dropping out. I love being involved in this project, and plan to continue writing and joking with all of you for a long time coming. It just might be a little while until my next post, and I thought you folks should know why.  

That's a pretty impressive list there. Go and be awesome, you shall always be one of us.

Edited September 17, 2016 by Edgedancer

[breakingamber he/him]

2 minutes ago, Edgedancer said:

That's a pretty impressive list there. Go and be awesome, you shall always be one of us.

I've got quite a while to go before that happens. 

@Voidus, I personally think you should wait until Crankshift gets set up. He just got here, you know.

Edited September 17, 2016 by breakingamber

[Voidus]

4 minutes ago, breakingamber said:

I've got quite a while to go before that happens. 

@Voidus, I personally think you should wait until Crankshift gets set up. He just got here, you know.

Yeah I did mention that he could arrive either in the morning (Post-time skip) or at night. 
@Screwloose which would you prefer Crankshaft to arrive at? I didn't see anything in the post indicating one way or the other.

[Voidus]

Just now, Cognizantastic said:

Aww, thanks Edge. That really means a lot to me. I'm happy to be a part of this great thing that we have going here. 

Heh. I appreciate it, Voidus. Once I have time again, I look forward to doing some really fun stuff with you and @Kobold King in the Backtrack plot. Oh, and Chimera vs. Lightwards is going to be great too! I'm sure Kobold will appreciate the break from me bugging him to write, though.  

Would you two (or anyone else) be interested in reading my article when it's published? The issue's topic was about social media, so I wrote a short story about Shakespeare being snatched from the past and introduced to things like Snapchat and potatoes.

I am unsure how exactly the Bard would react to Snapchat but I'm sure he'd love potatoes.
Yeah I'd love to!

[Blaze1616 he/him]

10 hours ago, Comatose said:

My next plans were (a) to have Rainmaker and the Queen's meet, (b) check in with Princess GOOD, (c) have another public "speech" type scene where Rainmaker addresses the population, and (d) secrets (let me know if I am missing anything.  

What were your ideas for moving the plot along?  I'm open to pretty much anything :).  

1 hour ago, winter devotion said:

I'm not sure about Salem and the Dalles for now, but Corvallis, yes! 
Should I just do a filler Chase post to reintroduce her for now?

So it occurred to me while writing my latest post that there's a really easy way to track down Iconoclast. He's shifting vanillas and turning them into monsters. Chase has every vanilla in Corvallis tagged. More than that, Chase has shown on the first page of the thread that she can, at will, feel the emotions of her tagged vanillas. And even more than that, she can put her consciousness into their bodies at will. We literally have an Iconoclast detector. Or, now that he's gifting instead of shifting himself, we have a gifted detector, which in itself proves useful for tracking Iconoclast down (both his movements and his description).

I'm honestly a little upset with myself that it's taken me this long to realize this. My original plan was for Mannequin to have an army of puppets spread out across the city to find Iconoclast, but even though he has no defined range, he can't sense through all of them at once. Chase, though, can.

So my plan only moves the Iconoclast plot along, and even then just a little bit. Better than nothing though, in my mind.

[Screwloose]

1 hour ago, Voidus said:

Yeah I did mention that he could arrive either in the morning (Post-time skip) or at night. 
@Screwloose which would you prefer Crankshaft to arrive at? I didn't see anything in the post indicating one way or the other.

Mornings fine if that keeps things moving. I wasn't quite sure what time it was supposed to be at that point.

[Blaze1616 he/him]

1 minute ago, winter devotion said:

So will Chase realize this and then share this information with Rainmaker? Also, can you summarize what I've missed in Corvalis, so I don't hav eto go through and read all the way back? 

If you want Chase to realize this and propose it as a plan, then sure! If that kind of a realization isn't something Chase would make, I can have Blossom or Buttercup bring it up as well. Up to you, you know Chase better than I do. 

As for a summary, I'm not entirely certain where you left at, but here you go:

• Insight still has Euphoria. Blossom has been tasked to track him down, but is struggling to come up with a means of doing so. She has a plan with which she is unsure about, that involves Bubbles and can't happen until tomorrow in game time. Whether or not this works is totally up to Comatose.
• Iconoclast has begun to gift his abilities to vanillas, and sends them off to "shift" groups of humans in an area. Corvallis Security is currently managing to keep up with his efforts, but he could easily out do them if he so chose. Iconoclast has also made an ally with a female Epic, though there hasn't been really any posts of them since this happened (if memory serves).
• Converter is still trapped in the Sports Fields. Nothing's happened with this plot whatsoever, mostly because her owner (I forget the user's name) has left the RP.
• The human rebellion plot has hardly progressed. I'm unsure if it's been dropped or not, to be honest.
• Rainmaker has spent the day dealing with a few new High Epics coming into town. The owners of these High Epics are still involved, if I'm not mistaken, but the in game day has been moving slowly so they haven't had many posts.
• Argon, another High Epic who kept his status as a High Epic secret when entering, is currently under investigation by Buttercup and Kenshin, who are wanting to know for certain whether he is or isn't a High Epic. Buttercup is currently confident he is a High Epic, and has called in Blossom for help. I am unsure what Kenshin's thoughts on the matter are as of right now.
• Jumpdrive has gotten a taste for what real combat is like during a ghoul encounter.
• Princess G.O.O.D. is cleaning up the messes of all the ghoul attacks. I'm personally interested to see where she goes from here, as I like her as a character.
• There's also a vanilla named Summer who is a servant for a chull named Drainer. I'm not sure where Mestiv plans for this to go, but it seems Argon may get involved.

I do not believe I missed anything? There's some other Epics that have posts, but have not really done anything worth mentioning in forever, and I don't believe their owners are around anymore?

[Blackhoof]

From what i remember, way back at the start of Corvallis Winter and I decided that shifted vanillas count as having 'died' from Chase's perspective, so she loses them. So there isn't an immediate way to tell if a 'dead' human died or was shifted. You can narrow things down certainly, but that relies on Chase WANTING to be so proactive and important. Issues arise if she becomes their Icono-tracker for her weakness.

 

[Blaze1616 he/him]

13 minutes ago, Blackhoof said:

From what i remember, way back at the start of Corvallis Winter and I decided that shifted vanillas count as having 'died' from Chase's perspective, so she loses them. So there isn't an immediate way to tell if a 'dead' human died or was shifted. You can narrow things down certainly, but that relies on Chase WANTING to be so proactive and important. Issues arise if she becomes their Icono-tracker for her weakness.

Well she's able to tell when she loses a tag, and losing multiple tags in succession from a specific area of the city would allow her to then jump to a tag in the area and see what's going on. As for her weakness, I won't argue if this is enough to trigger it, but as a Queen there must be some sort of tolerance. If the weakness activates anytime she's ever important ever, being a Queen at all, even a "behind the scenes" one, would be impossible, and in fact being an Epic at all would be impossible if we were to take it to the extreme.

[Mestiv he/him]

Summer, Drainer and Argon will have scenes together I have plans for them 

[Comatose he/him]

19 hours ago, Mestiv said:

@Comatosewill this speech be announced some way? I want Argon to hear it, but first he would have to know about it

I thought I responded to these earlier today, but I guess my post did not go through.  Argon will definitely hear about it -- there will be an announcement

 

12 hours ago, Blaze1616 said:

So it occurred to me while writing my latest post that there's a really easy way to track down Iconoclast. He's shifting vanillas and turning them into monsters. Chase has every vanilla in Corvallis tagged. More than that, Chase has shown on the first page of the thread that she can, at will, feel the emotions of her tagged vanillas. And even more than that, she can put her consciousness into their bodies at will. We literally have an Iconoclast detector. Or, now that he's gifting instead of shifting himself, we have a gifted detector, which in itself proves useful for tracking Iconoclast down (both his movements and his description).

I'm honestly a little upset with myself that it's taken me this long to realize this. My original plan was for Mannequin to have an army of puppets spread out across the city to find Iconoclast, but even though he has no defined range, he can't sense through all of them at once. Chase, though, can.

So my plan only moves the Iconoclast plot along, and even then just a little bit. Better than nothing though, in my mind.

Sounds like a decent plan to me .

12 hours ago, Blaze1616 said:

If you want Chase to realize this and propose it as a plan, then sure! If that kind of a realization isn't something Chase would make, I can have Blossom or Buttercup bring it up as well. Up to you, you know Chase better than I do. 

As for a summary, I'm not entirely certain where you left at, but here you go:

• Insight still has Euphoria. Blossom has been tasked to track him down, but is struggling to come up with a means of doing so. She has a plan with which she is unsure about, that involves Bubbles and can't happen until tomorrow in game time. Whether or not this works is totally up to Comatose.
• Iconoclast has begun to gift his abilities to vanillas, and sends them off to "shift" groups of humans in an area. Corvallis Security is currently managing to keep up with his efforts, but he could easily out do them if he so chose. Iconoclast has also made an ally with a female Epic, though there hasn't been really any posts of them since this happened (if memory serves).
• Converter is still trapped in the Sports Fields. Nothing's happened with this plot whatsoever, mostly because her owner (I forget the user's name) has left the RP.
• The human rebellion plot has hardly progressed. I'm unsure if it's been dropped or not, to be honest.
• Rainmaker has spent the day dealing with a few new High Epics coming into town. The owners of these High Epics are still involved, if I'm not mistaken, but the in game day has been moving slowly so they haven't had many posts.
• Argon, another High Epic who kept his status as a High Epic secret when entering, is currently under investigation by Buttercup and Kenshin, who are wanting to know for certain whether he is or isn't a High Epic. Buttercup is currently confident he is a High Epic, and has called in Blossom for help. I am unsure what Kenshin's thoughts on the matter are as of right now.
• Jumpdrive has gotten a taste for what real combat is like during a ghoul encounter.
• Princess G.O.O.D. is cleaning up the messes of all the ghoul attacks. I'm personally interested to see where she goes from here, as I like her as a character.
• There's also a vanilla named Summer who is a servant for a chull named Drainer. I'm not sure where Mestiv plans for this to go, but it seems Argon may get involved.

I do not believe I missed anything? There's some other Epics that have posts, but have not really done anything worth mentioning in forever, and I don't believe their owners are around anymore?

One clarification - Converter is outside the city now.  Gelliton air-proofed her prison, and then  Converter suffocated and reincarnated outside the Bubble.  

[Blackhoof]

3 hours ago, Blaze1616 said:

Well she's able to tell when she loses a tag, and losing multiple tags in succession from a specific area of the city would allow her to then jump to a tag in the area and see what's going on. As for her weakness, I won't argue if this is enough to trigger it, but as a Queen there must be some sort of tolerance. If the weakness activates anytime she's ever important ever, being a Queen at all, even a "behind the scenes" one, would be impossible, and in fact being an Epic at all would be impossible if we were to take it to the extreme.

 

true, but I figure that she loses tags from normal deaths here and there constantly. Epics killing their servants, people dying from normal methods. And in this period of chaos, the level of tag-losses would jump way up.
It can still help narrow things down, but I think only if the ghouls are being hidden. If they are out in the open they will be noticed very quickly anyway and at best you get a few minutes faster response time. Its a worthwhile strategy to try, anyway.

True, but at the moment her role is quite minor among the Queens. If she suddenly becomes their primary method for taking down one of the greater threats to Corvallis security, she will freak out. Even if it doesn't trigger her weakness, her paranoia about it (and about becoming a target) might just get her to run away, or hide her usefulness. Her characterisation so far has been nothing if not that of a maximum scaredy-cat who runs at the first sign of trouble, danger or importance.

That said, she is already established as having fought ghouls using her powers before, during the attacks.

 

12 hours ago, Blaze1616 said:

If you want Chase to realize this and propose it as a plan, then sure! If that kind of a realization isn't something Chase would make, I can have Blossom or Buttercup bring it up as well. Up to you, you know Chase better than I do. 

As for a summary, I'm not entirely certain where you left at, but here you go:

• Insight still has Euphoria. Blossom has been tasked to track him down, but is struggling to come up with a means of doing so. She has a plan with which she is unsure about, that involves Bubbles and can't happen until tomorrow in game time. Whether or not this works is totally up to Comatose.
• Iconoclast has begun to gift his abilities to vanillas, and sends them off to "shift" groups of humans in an area. Corvallis Security is currently managing to keep up with his efforts, but he could easily out do them if he so chose. Iconoclast has also made an ally with a female Epic, though there hasn't been really any posts of them since this happened (if memory serves).
• Converter is still trapped in the Sports Fields. Nothing's happened with this plot whatsoever, mostly because her owner (I forget the user's name) has left the RP.
• The human rebellion plot has hardly progressed. I'm unsure if it's been dropped or not, to be honest.
• Rainmaker has spent the day dealing with a few new High Epics coming into town. The owners of these High Epics are still involved, if I'm not mistaken, but the in game day has been moving slowly so they haven't had many posts.
• Argon, another High Epic who kept his status as a High Epic secret when entering, is currently under investigation by Buttercup and Kenshin, who are wanting to know for certain whether he is or isn't a High Epic. Buttercup is currently confident he is a High Epic, and has called in Blossom for help. I am unsure what Kenshin's thoughts on the matter are as of right now.
• Jumpdrive has gotten a taste for what real combat is like during a ghoul encounter.
• Princess G.O.O.D. is cleaning up the messes of all the ghoul attacks. I'm personally interested to see where she goes from here, as I like her as a character.
• There's also a vanilla named Summer who is a servant for a chull named Drainer. I'm not sure where Mestiv plans for this to go, but it seems Argon may get involved.

I do not believe I missed anything? There's some other Epics that have posts, but have not really done anything worth mentioning in forever, and I don't believe their owners are around anymore?

two clarifications- Iconoclast has found a new house and gone to sleep, his ally tagging along, since he recruited her.

[Voidus]

New Neverthere post up.
Someone pass the brain bleach please.