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Do you still need a cook? I can cook.
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I nominate my brother. Seriously, if the apocalypse hits, I call being on his team. He keeps a med kit and MREs in his trunk, for crying out loud--and we live in the suburbs.
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Calamity (The Reckoners #3) Takes Place in Atlanta
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to Argent's topic in The Reckoners
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"Doing that?" "Sir, you're losing." Given how Epics normally act, it does seem odd that an Epic powerful enough to kill with a song would forsake his humanity to serve an anthropomorphic panda. I also agree with others who have said he's OP for The Dalles, but would fit in perfectly in Astoria. (Especially if he went with a costume inspired by The Phantom of the Opera. Seriously, that would look awesome.) There has to be a way Vondra can survive without relying on Plot Armor. We've done really well in avoiding it so far; why bring it into play now? I say if the only way a player character can survive is being protected by plot, we ought to come up with a different, more survivable scenario. (I prefer my privacy, thank you very much. )
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....and thanks to his reaction to David's handing him the key, I was able to read that without terrified wailing.
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Dang. I've spent the past ten years bouncing around from idea to idea, so that's impressive. And if the detailed worldbuilding I've glimpsed during my peeks into the Edassa thread are any indication, it looks like your dedication is paying off. But yay, another twentysomething! I put the first novel I ever wrote, The Legeand of the Black Diamond (yes, the misspelling was mine; no, I didn't catch it until I started typing it up into a Word doc) through the shredder. Other half-finished LOTR ripoffs like Renegade Sorceress were given similar treatment. I could probably still find my notes from the latter one, though, and I think I still have a Mary Sue superhero story floating in a drawer somewhere that we could use as fuel. Oh! And I'll dig up some opinion pieces I wrote for the school paper! This will be quite the bonfire. (Edit: I forgot to mention the best part: The heroine of Legeand was given my name…spelled backward. And her instalove interest was named Kaland. Yeah.) My whole family eats additive-free, but my brother occasionally buys a bag of Skittles.
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Fear is like a matter manipulator who turns all of her enemy's guns into pancakes—then transforms their bullets, shoes, paperwork and "Dilbert-strip-a-day" calendars into butter and maple syrup, just in case?
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I have a few songs in mind already. …you know, grasshoppers are a somewhat popular snack item here in Arizona, but I've never tried them. Partly because all the prepared grasshoppers I've come across have had varying types of food coloring and/or flavors in their seasonings. (It's kind of amazing what companies will put food coloring into. Some pizza chains even put Blue 1 into their dough. Apparently, just a tiny bit makes it look whiter?) But yeah, sometimes I think it's an evil Liebrarian conspiracy to keep me from trying tasty things. I'd consider doing that….but considering I go to a church where my parents are the "cute young couple with the kids," it probably wouldn't work.
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I'm picturing Nathan, restrained by zombies on all sides, shouting to the heavens: "DOCTOR! DO WHAT YOU WERE BORN TO DO! DANCE!!!!" ...it's pretty entertaining. Yeah, it was that way when I had to stop eating Skittles. But I found better organic alternatives, so it's all good. ....dare I ask? Thanks. It's just weird, going from being the youngest in most RPs to being maybe the oldest.
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All of this is true. Well, the "easily distracted" part is only true when she's not angry about anything at the moment. Still, I worry sometimes. It's what I do. I know she's a heavy hitter, but I don't want her to be wipe-out-all-invading-armies-with-a-single-dance-move powerful. Yikes. That must suck. Yeah, I'm okay as long as I stick to homemade or something with "all-natural" on the label. 22? Wow, now I feel like an old fart. And adding onto what Voidus said: The Panda can transform living beings into pandas in a very short period of time, without requiring skin contact or their consent. That's more powerful even than Slaughterhouse, one of Kobold's backstory Epics who needs to touch his victims to transform them. Even without the ability to give himself wings, or create flying pigs and killer squirrels, the Panda could simply walk down the street, transforming passersby left and right, and by the time they opened fire on him, he could just order the soldiers' former loved ones to go on a suicide run and end the attack before it began. If he now has the ability to create a new and terrifying virus, what's stopping him from heading over to Newcago and threatening to murder every one of Steelheart's subjects if his demands aren't met? What's to stop him from doing the same thing in city after city until the Fractured States become Pandatopia? I love the Panda as a character. He's wild and wacky, and his devotion to the Radiant Panda—gah, you have no idea how much I laughed at "NOW GO AND BRING FORTH THE GLORIOUS PANDA REVOLUTION!" I just worry that the lack of an upper limit will stretch credulity.
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Funny, I have the opposite problem. I didn't mean to make Funtimes as powerful as I did….and you'd be surprised how much time I spend thinking of ways to nerf her. I'm currently thinking she's only able to manipulate matter within a close range, and that the number of people she can take with her shrinks with the distance they travel. So evacuating all of Oregon to the Yukon Territory would be out of the question, as would turning an entire battlefield into tar. Why do you think I hate rereading my old posts? But yes, marshmallows are good. Buy the kosher ones. They don't have food coloring in them. (Which I only care about because I happen to be allergic to food coloring. Weird allergy, I know.)
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A sad middle aged man with no qualms against killing random bystanders to make himself feel better for not getting cooler powers. I'd say Lightwards is pretty bad. It's true. The sheer number of talented teenage writers in this RP makes me want to dig up everything I wrote before I turned twenty...and burn it in a bonfire over which many marshmallows shall be toasted.
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It's true. When is learned you were still a teen, I was surprised. The quality of your character development and writing is far above what I've seen from a lot of teens.
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The thing about viruses, though, is that they're a very specialized branch of medical knowledge. People spend their careers studying existing viruses just to learn how the flu might mutate this year; creating an entirely new virus would be a lifetime acheivement (albeit a dubious one) for many. If the Panda's motif was viruses and bacteria, it wouldn't be hard to swallow, but his thing so far has been cloning, which is itself a very specialized and speculative branch of medicine. That he has mastered both in the time he's been an Epic is a little farfetched to me. Not only that, but getting an army of pandas to take over a city is a pretty remarkable acheivement on its own. It already presents endless opportunities for the Panda to show off his might, so why is the virus necessary?
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Yes, this is part of his backstory. It's always been part of his backstory. Inexorable , I like that idea. Go right ahead.
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Let's see, life span of a pansy is a year, maybe less.... Yeah, still longer than someone who asks a delusional Epic for a ride to the store.
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What, are you too good to accept a ride from a delusional Epic who probably killed a dozen people before breakfast? Next thing you know, you'll be expecting her to have some fancy-pants "driver's license" and some big-city "clean driving record." Pansy.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Jolly Ranchers will be the bane of my sanity. I know it sounds like a small thing to get to me, but it really bugs when when people smack their lips on hard candy. So of course my work has a big bowl of Jolly Ranchers out in the open, which of course everyone likes. Add to this the fact that I haven't been feeling well and everything seems ten times more annoying than it actually is....and I have a day where I just want to hide in the bathroom until all the Jolly Ranchers are gone. I've tried to just get over this before. I can't. No matter how long I spend trying to desensitize myself to the sound of smacking lips, it always just bugs me even more than it did before. Why must my brain hate me? -
Those four would combine into one terrible monarch. Think a super grouchy Stalin, who like a mob boss has a penchant for making enemies "disappear," and just might end you if you interrupt one of his hours-long whine fests.
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Yes. Yes it does.
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Little known fact: Before Oregon was destroyed, Big Al was elected Supreme Emperor of Everything.
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It doesn't have to. All it has to do is introduce itself to vanillas like Sam and Remington and they'll make him their popularly elected leader.
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No kidding. How does Big Al not have his own city yet?
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Maybe their degree of autonomy is directly related to their loyalty?