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What's it doing? There might be a way to cheat this.
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I won't break the rules, but it does make me wish I could go in and personally fix the captcha.
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Hurm. That's dumb.
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Do you think it'd be kosher to copy and paste the excerpt into an Alan for those who can't get past the captcha? I'd be willing to do that, if it's okay.
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I did.
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When I subscribed, I got the last issue, so I don't think you've missed the boat. Also in this newsletter: An announcement that Sanderson will be a guest at a convention in Spokane this year. The same Spokane where I used to live. And don't live anymore.
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What if everyone at that cafe who became an Epic took the name of one of their menu items?
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This is extremely plausible. It has a catchy name and the front page has a picture of the owner giving all potential customers the middle finger. I don't know what kind of plot line would center on this, but I now kind of want a flashback scene where Jade (Funtimes' real name) and Brandon cross paths there.
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And I see where you're coming from, but I don't think that the length of David's struggle makes it any less momentous. Prof fought that corruption for at least ten years. Megan probably fought it from the moment she got powers to the moment she escaped the corruption. And it was a losing battle for both of them, because Calamity rigged it in his favor. The entire deal is rigged—you're not supposed to be able to refuse, and you're not supposed to be able to resist the corruption. Megan and Prof had already fought the long battle, proving that it was a struggle. For David to simply say "No" and have it be over makes the scene even more momentous, in my opinion. By winning a rigged game, and winning it quickly, David upset the balance more than he would have if he had taken the powers and fought them, kicking and screaming.
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I shudder at the damage Nighthound could do to Ponyville. Seriously, his smirk alone could create mass panic—and this is a place that's been terrorized by Discord.
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Which is another argument for giving Iconoclast his own city. Put him in an existing thread, and like you said, he'd bend the entire arc around himself. Put him in his own thread, and you allow him to be the center of it, thus making alliances with other characters more interesting. If he's the center of his own thread, it would make it all the more plausible that Lightwards would hear of him and seek him out as an ally. I doubt we'd go that far. But I've already been worldbuilding for the places Funtimes will visit in her backstory—Wasilla, Barrow, Deadhorse, Coldfoot, Vancouver, Seattle, and an almost-ghost town in Wyoming called Lost Springs.
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I didn't even think of that, but it's definitely something to consider. And he's already cheating his limit with Toymaker's soldiers; add the ghouls and he'd go from Emperor Lightwards to ZOMBIE LORD OF ALL THE UNIVERSE. With some steps in between, but you catch my drift. Rule 24 of the Oregon RP: If it is mentioned in the RP, it will be subject to worldbuilding and possibly added to the game later on. See: Connell, WA.
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I didn't see it as a letdown at all, and for one simple reason: Refusing Calamity isn't easy in the Reckonersverse. Earlier in Firefight, Megan says that she was made an Epic involuntarily. The way she puts it—"This was done to me against my will"—makes it sound like she refused. Multiple times. And it happened anyway. Regalia doesn't mention consent when she talks about creating Waterlog (and possibly Knoxx, though there's no concrete evidence he was one of the Epics she made). However, she doesn't seem like the type to bother with consent, and that she doesn't mention it implies that it isn't crucial to becoming an Epic. On a less drastic note, gifters can gift their powers without needing to obtain consent; we see Prof do this in Firefight, and it's never said whether or not the Diggers had to give Digzone express permission before taking the powers that drove them insane, but given Steelheart's infrastructure, I think it's safe to say that not all of the Diggers wanted to take Epic powers. It's probably also safe to assume that some of them attempted to refuse once they realized the power was driving them insane, but Digzone continued gifting anyway. With that in mind, the scene takes on a whole new meaning. David isn't just saying "No thanks" to free superpowers. He's doing something that has never been done before. "You don't get a choice," Regalia tells him, but it's too late: He's made one anyway. Calamity's offer is independent of consent, but David refuses it nonetheless. In that scene, David didn't just refuse powers so he could continue being good ol' David. He changed the game entirely.
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What he really needs is his own city to terrorize. Not a town like Dallesport, but a city like Salem.
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I think Iconoclast would actually upset the power balance in Portland quite a bit. Both Thoughttown a and the Empire are dependent on keeping their vanilla populations under their control. Add Iconoclast, who just wants to watch the world burn, and all of a sudden you have ghouls running through the streets and upsetting the entire balance through mass panic. Lightwards and Altermind could conceivably lose control of their territories, and the CorpseMaker war we've been building to would either be put on indefinite hold or come to nothing at all as all three factions were forced to deal with Iconoclast. While a ghouls vs. Portland war would be cool, having it happen now would be the equivalent of sending bombers with nukes to threaten the armies poised to battle at Minas Tirith in The Two Towers: definitely interesting, and definitely a twist, but one that completely demolishes the previous conflict in favor of a new one.
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Yeah, I'd assumed that the Epic who could only be killed by someone who was 37 exactly had something terrible happen on their 37th birthday. I think that with fears like that, where it would be impossible to duplicate the situation that caused the fear, Calamity latches onto a reminder of it. Like with Newton. It would be impossible to duplicate her root fear, short of holding up a recording of her father saying "Yunmi, I am disappoint," so her weakness was something that reminded her of what she feared.
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Edge, what did you have for Shiny Sparkle's Dallesport backstory?
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It sounds like a small town, without much reason for stronger Epics to take it, leaving it to vanillas and Epics at or below Shiny Sparkle's level. Maybe it's run by gangs, some Epic, some vanilla, some mixed, who fight for control? Maybe not having a gang, or not supporting a gang, is as dangerous as antagonizing the wrong one? Maybe Shiny Sparkle left in part because she'd grown sick of all the gang wars and wanted to see what the other side of the river had to offer?
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Another thread for new players isn't a bad idea, actually. I think we'd need to hash out the logistics a bit more—where will it be, what's the political climate, who will be joining, etc.—but Astoria and The Dalles might be at risk of being overrun. Just a sudden thought—what if we opened up Dallesport? Shiny Sparkle's intro established that it's not affiliated with The Dalles, and while it's close enough that she knew about Koschei, it's distanced enough that she didn't know all the details. So what if we made Dallesport a thread and let new players cross over to The Dalles once things get a bit less crowded?
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...and it would be kind of sad if you based a character's backstory on Dallas, only to realize there were entire places that had to be retconned out. The Dalles is a smaller city near the Washington border that I know best as a stop between Spokane and Portland when visiting family.
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Welcome! Like mail-mi said, you can send me your Epic bios (or just the weaknesses) and then post them in this thread for feedback.
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I will make it rain jellybeans as I flee from Voidus who now has the powers of Metronome!
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Know how Reader can look at a person and know everything about them? mail-mi can look at an avatar and know everything that person is about to post.
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TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
"If I don't maintain at least a one-mile gap between my car and the car in front of me, the other cars will eat me!" --drivers in my city, apparently -
I can't decide. Is that better or worse than Nighthoundington, where they just don't exist?