Majestic he/him Posted June 16, 2018 Posted June 16, 2018 3 minutes ago, antgrgmn said: I would prefer to play my already created epic if possible. I barely got to use him at all. My thoughts exactly
Bladestorm Posted June 16, 2018 Posted June 16, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, antgrgmn said: I would prefer to play my already created epic if possible. I barely got to use him at all. I’m sure we could do just about anything in a new city, including old characters, with a bit of handwavium and fairy dust. The only issue would be trying to use EVERY old character. Edit: Europe sounds amazing. We could move from city to city, messing with Big Ben one day and the Eiffel Tower the next. Edited June 16, 2018 by Bladestorm
nmgrgtna he/him Posted June 16, 2018 Posted June 16, 2018 Europe would be cool. It would give a reason for any new epics we introduce.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 15 hours ago, winter devotion said: On a semi related note, has anyone been watching/reading My Hero Academia? Red and Himiko Toga would probably get along to a disturbing extent. Like, seriously, it’s kinda hillarious exactly how unintentionally similar but opposite the characters are. On the bright side, Himiko would actually try and kill Nighthound after getting a crush on him. Making everyone mistake her for a hero.
Comatose he/him Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 On 6/15/2018 at 5:52 AM, Bladestorm said: I like the idea of using a Canadian city, but they could be too unfamiliar for most people. Toronto’s the big one, and it’s already part of canon. I know I had no knowledge of Corvallis when I started, and did a lot of research on maps and Wikipedia and the general internet to get the details right. What I was trying to say is I know enough Canadian cities that I could provide people with the information they need to RP there. I think Canada is nice because it's close enough to Oregon that we can reuse epics (unlike with the problems ID'd with Europe). We tend to use many smaller cities anyways (aside from Portland) so I don't think initial unfamiliarity with a city will be an issue if we do some research. And there are a lot of other big cities besides Toronto. We've referenced Vancouver already in the RP, and Calgary and Montreal both have well over 1 million people (Vancouver and Montreal both have several million I think), and Edmonton and Winnipeg are getting close. All of those are bigger than Portland. There are lots of small cities in Ontario or across the Prairies that could be used as well if we want to avoid well known places. For example, my home city is like 5 times the size of Corvallis, even though it's still on the small side. American cities, of course, work fine as well, but between WHiO and the books, the States are a little full of epics at the moment, and in Canada we might be less likely to contradict canon. I'd be down with anywhere of course, but those were the reasons behind my suggestion.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 1 hour ago, winter devotion said: Yeah, she would. I knew there'd be people here who were fans of the show. You read the manga too or just the anime? Also, Funtimes meeting the League of Villains would be freaking hilarious. I've been interested in comparing Steelheart and Oregon to MHA, actually. Epics tend to have a much higher starting level of power with fewer practical limits outside of their weaknesses and their arrogance, but there's very little focus on the training side of things in comparison to the super hard work the cast of MHA puts into things. Even Megan's basically aware of what to do with her abilities off the bat. That's probably because they're designed to be overpowered, but still, I think I'm going to do include my Epic characters training their abilities in this Canada/Britain/Whatever based RP. Also, I find the similarities between Midoriya and David really interesting cause they both start out as vanillas who's main strength is analyisis. They both have large amounts of notes and are fascinated with everything to do with the superhuman abilities. Basically everyone in MHA is what we'd consider a minor Epic, as prime inviciibilities would break the story irreparably. Steelheart is set 10 years after, MHA is set anywhere from a hundred to two hundred. Also, Aizawa and All For One are particularily intriguing as meta Epics. (Are meta Epics actually called that in universe or is that something we came up with? I don't remember.) They're in the same category of affecting quirks but nobody seems to see the connection, likely because there isn't one. Quirks are split up into Transformative, Emitter, and Heteromorphic/Mutant. Epics can be transformative or emitters. There's heteromorphic too, to an extent, but those abilities don't tend to have physical effects. (I love this subject a lot). Like, Steelheart has impenetrable skin but his skin still looks human. Most of the Epics distinguish themselves with outfits. Honestly, the vast majority are emitters. But since they can have multiple powers, it's totally normal for them to be multiple at once. The Minor Epic Empire is the closest equivalent to the League of Villains... That's a strange thought. Reading the manga too. One of the big things limiting Quirks compared to Epics is that every person only has one. (Ignoring the extremly rare edge cases that get by on technicalities) Meaning that even if some Quirks would manage to qualify as PIs, that's all the person in question could do. Most powerful Epics on the other hand tend to have an array of powers. There's some mention of Epics training, specifically by Prof, I think, but yes. The ability to use the powers does seem to come with the actual powers on some instinctual level. Granted, the only new Epic we see didn't get much time to experiment around with his powers, so the impression might be faulty. Quirk's on the other hand are treated more like a body part (with some emitters not really fitting that angle) and need to be trained like an actual limb.
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 18, 2018 Posted June 18, 2018 You know, I never really got into this thing. Pretty sure it's hayday was before my time anyhow. But see, it looks like it's starting it up again... And I figure, to properly reboot, you're gonna need some new blood, yeah? Beyond the pinned threads, is there anything in particular I ought to read through to get a sense for what exactly this is?
Bladestorm Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Just a question: for the new rp, do we want any sort of plot? Or just the standard character-based stuff.
Comatose he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I think a destabilized location would be fun, since we've done a couple dictatorships already. What characters are people interested in bringing back? I would love to do more Brandon and Taylor Swift since they didn't get to do much in the Dalles.
Bladestorm Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Should we run it pre-calamity or post? The possibilities of post are interesting. We could have both darkness-affected and non affected epics.
Comatose he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I'd prefer pre-Calamity personally, but after could be fun too I agree. If we do a city far enough away, we could even do it during the events of the books. Maybe right after Steelheart dies?
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 On 6/18/2018 at 2:36 PM, winter devotion said: Yeeeessss!!! I wouldn’t say you need to read all of the old threads b maybe a few pages of them just to get the idea of what’s up? Well I read a couple pages of Corvallis. I very much approve of a character-driven plot. However, I also have a suggestion for this. Take what I say with a grain of salt because I don’t know as much about it as most of you all do. But what if, on the creation of a city arc, we all agreed on a termination date? (We could also do this with major factions in a city if participants wanted to) I think a little something to push development and conclusions could help a lot. I noticed in the old RP that lots of really fantastic stuff happened, but it was difficult for there to be endings. And consequentially, change was difficult (you all still had moments where you did a really stellar job of this, though). I think it might be more fun if we agreed on a fixed time window to actually write the epic conclusions that the RP arcs deserve. Plus, that means new settings can be opened up as older ones are concluded. Or, if a setting is particularly well-liked, a new arc could be opened up in the aftermath of the last arc, possibly with a timeskip in between.
Comatose he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I love the idea of a set time frame, provided that there is enough inherent flexibility to allow people some freedom to be creative. I actually had a set time window for Corvallis (of a week or so of actual RP after the prologue iirc) and I like to think it would have worked well had we gotten that far. Or do you mean a real world termination date? That could be interesting, but it might be difficult if people's schedules vary in business.
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 42 minutes ago, Comatose said: I love the idea of a set time frame, provided that there is enough inherent flexibility to allow people some freedom to be creative. I actually had a set time window for Corvallis (of a week or so of actual RP after the prologue iirc) and I like to think it would have worked well had we gotten that far. Or do you mean a real world termination date? That could be interesting, but it might be difficult if people's schedules vary in business. Actually yes, I am talking about a real-world termination date. For each arc, I am proposing that we would designate a period of maybe two weeks, during which participants would write the conclusion of the story. That should be long enough for everybody to at least summarize what happens to their characters, and possibly follow up later with a more detailed RP if they feel the need to. I concede that scheduling makes this difficult. But I think this will always be an issue when coordinating something for everybody to participate in. An in-world ending date would often be effective, and I definitely appreciate what you did with the Corvallis arc. My concern is that an in-world end date doesn’t always arrive, as in the case of Corvallis. If people start posting less, the ending is postponed, which I don’t think is desirable. Ultimately though, if this actually got off the ground enough for there to actually be multiple arcs, I don’t see why we couldn’t field-test several approaches to this.
Voidus Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Real world timelines are a bit awkward I think, real life can be unforgiving at times and if one key player isn't around the entire story can start to unravel a bit. I'd definitely be up for an in-game deadline though. (Side note: Recent activity in this subforum has meant someone just upvoted an old post of mine that I'd completely forgotten about, so I just had the very novel experience of reading one of my own posts that I felt like someone else wrote. ) 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 14 hours ago, Drake Marshall said: You know, I never really got into this thing. Pretty sure it's hayday was before my time anyhow. But see, it looks like it's starting it up again... And I figure, to properly reboot, you're gonna need some new blood, yeah? Beyond the pinned threads, is there anything in particular I ought to read through to get a sense for what exactly this is? Once we figure out which characters get carried over, it might help to read up on their story arcs. Otherwise there's some good stuff in the backlog that I'd recommend but nothing that'd be necessary outright. 13 hours ago, winter devotion said: Yeeeessss!!! I wouldn’t say you need to read all of the old threads b maybe a few pages of them just to get the idea of what’s up? What’d be interesting is pairing up All Might against someone like Steelheart, if we temporalily negate the impenetrable skin. I’d say All Might probably win if it’s on even turf but it’d change a lot depending on if there’s civilians nearby. In his prime, I think he’d be able to win even in a crowded city but he’d probably turn out accidentally causing the same scale of damage as in Kamino Ward otherwise. I mean, I guess it depends on if Steelheart would be able to pick up on All Might’s selflessness. He wouldn’t have the same sort of emotional weapon as AFO re:Shimura but All Might wouldn’t have backup cheering him on. Now what would be really terrifying is AFO in the Steelheart universe. His power seems to be limited to some certain number of quirks he can use efficiently otherwise it’d be a total curbstomp no matter how powerful OFA got, but the amount of OP Epic abilities that are both easy to learn and hard to beat in a fight... I think we know he has at least sixteen or so, which is a freaking terrifying amount of capacity. The healing of Nighthound, matter manipulation of Funtimes, the teleporting of (Insert Oregon Teleporter Here), the future sight of Fortuity, the water manipulation of Regalia (?)... Excluding Calamity himself, I seriously don’t think there’d be anyone powerful enough to stop someone with THAT level of brokennesss. Like, the only benefit in that situation is he’d leave Nighthound without healing (and probably without any of his other abilities because those are great too) so he’d be basically dead instantly. Actually, that might be worth it. I wonddr what the results of an Endeavor vs in person Regalia would be. She’s got a vulnerable body but a bigger scope. His fire should be hot enough to vaporize the water, though. Hm... I wouldn’t be sure who to root for in that fight. One abused other people for their own gain, causing them to lash out, and pushed someone very close to them into committing monstrous acts and the other was Regalia. Are you all the way caught up? If not, what arc are you on? EDIT: I'm rereading portland now and i have a new otp. it's called ray/happiness. jeez. (also red/death but that doesn't mean i'm not gonna keep writing her.) Honestly, that match up would turn into rocket tag, with both sides being able to one shot the other with a solid hit. All Might does appear more agile from what we've seen of him but then we also have never seen Steelheart dodging, because why would he? Dodging is for lesser Epics. However, even giving All Might the edge in agility, Steelheart can use his wind powers to mess with his movements, so that evens out somewhat. It'd be a very destructively fun fight. Really, AFO is the superpower equivalent of Hemalurgy, without the mind control weakspot. He'd be at much the same level that Larcener pretends to be, plus being actually driven. It's a scary thought. Endevour's big problem would be finding Regalia. There isn't really much that can be done against her by just slamming brute force at her. Unless you're Obliteration and your brute force can level an entire city. Endeavour isn't quite at that level though. Mostly caught up, couple of chapters behind. BTW want to take this to PMs? Might turn a bit off topic even by Question standards. Unless anyone else wants to participate? 9 hours ago, Bladestorm said: Just a question: for the new rp, do we want any sort of plot? Or just the standard character-based stuff. Character based stuff sounds good to me. 8 hours ago, Comatose said: I think a destabilized location would be fun, since we've done a couple dictatorships already. What characters are people interested in bringing back? I would love to do more Brandon and Taylor Swift since they didn't get to do much in the Dalles. True. Not having one ruling faction/character could also be helpful in that it avoids giving one player the central position without everything would grind to a halt. I'd probably carry over Voidgaze with Big Al and Ray as her new number one fan. For the obvious reasons. 8 hours ago, Bladestorm said: Should we run it pre-calamity or post? The possibilities of post are interesting. We could have both darkness-affected and non affected epics. 7 hours ago, Comatose said: I'd prefer pre-Calamity personally, but after could be fun too I agree. If we do a city far enough away, we could even do it during the events of the books. Maybe right after Steelheart dies? Another thing where I'm mostly okay with anything. The lack of corruption might significantly alter some of the more... crazy characters though. Like Red, possibly Taylor. So I'd leave that choice mostly to people affected there. 5 hours ago, Drake Marshall said: I very much approve of a character-driven plot. However, I also have a suggestion for this. Take what I say with a grain of salt because I don’t know as much about it as most of you all do. But what if, on the creation of a city arc, we all agreed on a termination date? (We could also do this with major factions in a city if participants wanted to) I think a little something to push development and conclusions could help a lot. I noticed in the old RP that lots of really fantastic stuff happened, but it was difficult for there to be endings. And consequentially, change was difficult (you all still had moments where you did a really stellar job of this, though). I think it might be more fun if we agreed on a fixed time window to actually write the epic conclusions that the RP arcs deserve. Plus, that means new settings can be opened up as older ones are concluded. Or, if a setting is particularly well-liked, a new arc could be opened up in the aftermath of the last arc, possibly with a timeskip in between. We could maybe try out a time limit for the introduction arc and see if it works out with IRL. There would definetly need to be a safety buffer. 1 hour ago, Voidus said: (Side note: Recent activity in this subforum has meant someone just upvoted an old post of mine that I'd completely forgotten about, so I just had the very novel experience of reading one of my own posts that I felt like someone else wrote. ) Ha, I know that feeling. 1
Voidus Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I consume LNs WNs and Anime but not Manga so I'm up to date on the anime for Hero Academia but not the manga, so depends if the conversation is dipping into that territory. As for carry over characters I'm not sure who I'd want to bring. Metronome will probably make an appearance but likely not as a main character. Scribbler maybe? Or PP but a rehashed one, so essentially a different character with PPs original backstory, which I always wish I'd stuck to.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Voidus said: I consume LNs WNs and Anime but not Manga so I'm up to date on the anime for Hero Academia but not the manga, so depends if the conversation is dipping into that territory. As for carry over characters I'm not sure who I'd want to bring. Metronome will probably make an appearance but likely not as a main character. Scribbler maybe? Or PP but a rehashed one, so essentially a different character with PPs original backstory, which I always wish I'd stuck to. If neither of the Momentum twins show up, Scribbler does sound pretty sweet. Though I think out of all of us, you're the one capable of saying screw it, I got alternatives the most. 1
Voidus Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 3 minutes ago, Edgedancer said: If neither of the Momentum twins show up, Scribbler does sound pretty sweet. Though I think out of all of us, you're the one capable of saying screw it, I got alternatives the most. Depends when we set it timeline wise, if it's post calamity then only one of the twins would be around. :'(
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, Voidus said: Depends when we set it timeline wise, if it's post calamity then only one of the twins would be around. :'( Oh. The poor girls.
Voidus Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Just now, Edgedancer said: Oh. The poor girls. And if it's post-calamity and they've been redeemed then it's possibly even worse because they now have to live with what's happened without the protection of Epic rage. Very interesting character potential though.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Just now, Voidus said: And if it's post-calamity and they've been redeemed then it's possibly even worse because they now have to live with what's happened without the protection of Epic rage. Very interesting character potential though. God, that's even worse than having to live with Backtrack as your boyfriend. (I'm just gonna assume ex. ) Still around post Steelheart is in the running too. 1
Voidus Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, Edgedancer said: God, that's even worse than having to live with Backtrack as your boyfriend. (I'm just gonna assume ex. ) Still around post Steelheart is in the running too. Sadly Backtracks awesome glasses were destroyed along with the rest of the state and MV quickly realized he wasn't nearly so interesting without them.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 3 minutes ago, Voidus said: Sadly Backtracks awesome glasses were destroyed along with the rest of the state and MV quickly realized he wasn't nearly so interesting without them. Good. The girl deserves some standards.
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 16 minutes ago, winter devotion said: Yesssssss, more Ray. I wasn’t gonna say anything cause I didn’t want to be pushy but I totally wanted to see more of her. And Red would probably stay crazy, no matter what happened. Happy to hear one of mine is requested like that. To be fair, without Nighthound around her behaviour is probably going to be somewhat different, just from the change of circumstances, but she did deserve that break. That's... good? Man I'm sure Ray really hoped to be finally rid of her.
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