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This blurb assumes you've read Steelheart already. There will be SPOILERS for said book. Hope that's succinct enough. And happy reading--it's an awesome piece of work.
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Thanks for the words and sympathy, everyone. Upvotes all 'round. That would be cool, but kind of difficult for me at least--my house tends to be a very noisy place, and I have neither a webcam or a method of easily obtaining a webcam. But TwiLyght! What about the deep space aliens? Think of the deep space alien children!
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Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)
Kobold King replied to killersquirrel59's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Granted. Your brain is removed from your body and replaced with that of a better person. I wish for a TARDIS. -
Thanks. To give credit where credit is due, Quiver and TwiLyghtSansSparkles helped me make it more precise and meaningful. Ah... no. Sorry, but I have absolutely zero idea what a skybridge is. I'm ignorant on a lot of topics though, so my ignorance may not be enough to judge by. To Google I go...
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Part of me's tempted to post Backtrack's weakness just to see if any other player feels it's worth exploiting. Though I do kind of want to know what Moon Unit's powers are, by the way.
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They were far more annoyed about his sunglasses and his incessant whining. While I found no crossovers between Shakespeare and green-hatted necromancers, I did find this.
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Yeah, Backtrack's frequently treated as a vanilla. Of course, for the first year or so after Calamity, he was a vanilla. So he's actually lived long enough to have been bullied around by Epics prior to becoming in any way useful to them. At one point, an Epic he was working for made a point of demanding the weaknesses of every minor Epic in his service, to illustrate his power over them... but didn't even ask for Backtrack's. Backtrack has always been torn between being offended and relieved about this. Ah, but a plot point is that Juliet is upset about Tybalt's passing. And no one would be believably upset about Nighthound's passing. Is this the loser ex, or someone whose band is worth googling and listening to?
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If you think about it, there are actually plenty of ways in which Backtrack could exercise his powers for badchull feats of daring do. But tragically, he will never think of them. I'd say ours is better. When there's a production of the play where Romeo is a necromantic professor and Juliet is the Queen of Disco, then we'll talk.
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When Backtrack made his only visit to Newcago, he was accidentally assigned to the casino staff because Fortuity took him for a vanilla. To this day he bears affection for the ginger-haired man who chatted about Doctor Who with him in between shifts. "Argh! Your music is too loud! Turn it down!" "C'mon, Professor C, get with the groove! We're all cool cats here." * bang * "The groove consists of whatever I tell you, Stu. Meet me in the main hall when you resurrect." ... "Stu? This isn't... hip. Get up." ... "...Stu?" It was at this point that Lightwards realized that Stu was actually his true love, and that he'd forever squandered his chance at happiness.
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Disco Stu's ability to resurrect directly corresponds to how groovy his attacker was. Therefore, his weakness is being killed by anyone he would have termed "a total square."
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Upvotes all 'round because people are being fair, rational, and apologetic to each other. And there's not enough of that on the world wide web or in humanity at large. (And again--I'm really fortunate that the first and only forum I joined is an island of kindness on the sea of meanness that is the Internet. This is perhaps the only site I've yet seen where people treat one another as human beings as opposed to abstract personifications of the opposing argument.) Though for what it's worth, I agree that bringing historical figures would distract from the point of the RP. Firebending Genghis Khan, alas, should remain a fleeting fancy of fanon. I'd adopt him.
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Every one of these posts is just building our anticipation for Quota and Timeport's ultimate demises. Always keep that in mind. Also... yikes. I'm really slacking off where the actual RP posts are concerned. I think I've delayed the Empire and Thoughttown's war efforts far more than the MEE ever could. I'm really going to try posting in both threads this weekend. Sorry, guys.
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Here's a terrifying thought. What if Bringer summoned somebody like Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun... and Calamity granted him powers?
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Theoretically he could strike a useful alliance with Backtrack; Backtrack could peer into the past to find personages of historical significance, and could report on which ones would make the most useful soldiers.
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I like him. You'd need TwiLyght's stamp of approval, but I think he'd be neat. As long as measures are put into place keeping him from summoning Moses or Steelheart at a moment's notice, he could be a fascinating addition to the action. Would it be too morbid to allow Lightwards to assemble an army of zombified Thomas Cardinals, though?
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And behold, from beyond the pearly gates of Heaven, Mr. Meh stared down upon his murderer and proclaimed... "Meh. I've seen better."
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the most useless uses for useful powers
Kobold King replied to king of nowhere's topic in Cosmere Discussion
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Welcome! Do you have a work-in-progress already, or will you be starting from scratch? I feel your pain. The Social section of the site has become a hotbed for vicious, brutish, well-organized, and strikingly handsome thugs. But ya know, I'm sure you could say a lot about the urbanized Ponyville and what its surroundings are like. Are there still apple orchards in abundance outside the city? How has the Everfree Forest been affected by the urbanization? Have the weather teams been forced to employ new techniques to supply water to a larger population? Is there a Flim Flam Factory supplying minimum-wage jobs for the poor? I'd love to hear more about Spokane or the state of Washington as a whole. I'm not sure how long it should be, though. I suppose that depends on whether the info will be in a few expositional paragraphs or incorporated into a larger sequence of scenes. Looking forward to everyone's contributions! Now, to finish reading the contributions from last month...
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Is it weird that I was already planning on recommending it to you? I knew you were a fan of superhero deconstructions, and Dr. Horrible is one of the most brilliant in the field.
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Wow! Great-looking submissions. To my shame I haven't read all of them yet. I will amend this ere long, and will hopefully have something constructive to add to the conversation. But without further ado, let's be about our January business. Quiver has trusted me with this month's prompt, and after a healthy amount of obsessing over it and frantically asking people for advice, I have it. So here's this month's prompt: Happy New Year! This time of the year the world celebrates the Earth's successful journey across 584 million miles of space, and all the successful journeys behind and ahead of us. What events or phenomena bind the people of your setting together? How is your setting connected or disconnected to its surroundings? I hope this is helpful for everyone. A few random setting questions to get the cranial juices flowing: What plants or animals are endemic to the region? What kind of weather is the region known for? What characterizes the local economy? Are there any mythic or historic characters well known among the populace? How would the people of your setting react to an alien battlecruiser appearing in the sky and declaring war on the planet? Again, happy New Year and happy writing!
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Thread necromancy for the new year! Anywho, I watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog here recently. Has anyone else seen it, enjoyed it, or become convinced that Captain Hammer was an early Epic?
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Meh. Apathy's overrated. I don't dislike it, mind you. I just think it's overrated.
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"Give my my glasses back, you glittery thief! Uh... I mean... heh, what's your name?"
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While of the two of them Revolution would be more likely to flirt with Nathan, I'm pretty sure she was merely using the word to annoy him. Killer laser wasps--the silent killer. And also the noisy killer, and all levels of death-volume in between.
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Go ahead. I don't think either of them actually flirted with Nathan. They both made fun of him, though. America's young women must be taught about the dangers of killer laser wasps, and how they can negatively affect their lives.
