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Quick Fix Game 16: The Shades of Threnody
Mckeedee123 replied to RippleGylf's topic in Sanderson Elimination
It was part of a test of alignment. It was conducted poorly, so shame on me. -
Quick Fix Game 16: The Shades of Threnody
Mckeedee123 replied to RippleGylf's topic in Sanderson Elimination
Day 1 lunch? What does that even mean? -
We have a wiki, sure. Nobody's posted new content for a few months (besides Winter just now,) so the future of the project is a bit specious. Go to town with it, though. The world is cool even with just what we have on the wiki right now, even if not even a fraction of it is complete.
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Quick Fix Game 16: The Shades of Threnody
Mckeedee123 replied to RippleGylf's topic in Sanderson Elimination
I'll sign up for this one. I'll be Mekel Moss, the crew's cook and resident bad boy. Do votes count as kill actions for the Shade Inspection? -
How much of this thread have you read though? Did you read a summary, or skim through it, or... I just need to know what your baseline is before I launch into a long-winded explanation of all of this (as I'm prone to do.)
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I am amenable to this
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Am I allowed to be the millionth person to say that this is way too broad? I mean... just listen to me for a second, Chasm. On this forum, we hedge a lot. We honestly don't want to offend anyone by just absolutely shutting them down, and so because of that impulse we've just sort of kept compromising with this character, letting him retain his ludicrously strong powerset (I'm fairly certain that the Reckonerverse differs from most superhero universes in that strength derives mostly from versatility rather than outright "power" whatever that even means.) The fact that we keep coming up with tiny problems with the details of this character is basically just our way of subtly hinting that we want stuff changed. I just got back from a 14-hour shift at work and I'm sort of annoyed to see that Chasmfiend's powerset has come up again for the hundredth time. Please change it. I'm not even sure if I've bothered weighing in on this discussion before, but I think I speak for the majority of the RPers when I say that this guy just needs to be nerfed. Especially the "property changing" thing. It's not that we don't like you or anything. I'm only saying this because it needs to happen. Or maybe I really am just talking to myself here, and I'm completely wrong about how people feel about this guy. I'd certainly feel like a complete tool for writing this little spiel in that case. I've done stuff like that before, I suppose.
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Eh. I didn't think I was "interrogating" him. I was just legitimately interested. I like Kobold, and I kind of like to think that everyone here is on friendly terms with each other, even if we don't know a whole lot about each others' personal lives. I definitely wasn't trying to pressure him into writing if he wasn't feeling it.
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I see your Khione/Protector Pug and raise you Bloody Mary/Crush's Sunglasses Huh. That's interesting. I know that I've fluctuated, activity-wise, over the handful of years that I've been on this site. So what was the real-life reason for this? Have you just sort of slowly found yourself drifting away from spending a decent-sized chunk of your free time on The Shard? Did you get a job that's more time-consuming than your last? Did you just get engrossed in a video game, or friends, or something? I don't mean to pry.
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Nope. He lived. It's too late, I'm emotionally invested in his survival at this point, Cog. There's no coming back from that. Not in any of the PM's I've been in. It's weird, isn't it? I can understand procrastination, but there must be something else at work here for him to have just gone full lurker on us like this. We really need him for stuff, don't we? For sure, the Question threads have gotten a lot less interesting. Has anyone noticed that Twy seems closer than ever to usurping him as king of the Shard?
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Is Headshot actually dead? I remember that Nathan whacked him in the head from behind during the fight, but I'm not sure if anyone finished the job. Cog, you should adopt a few permanent characters. Frankly, you're an excellent writer. Fun. I'll PM you when I get back from work.
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Alright! It's been a while since anything has happened in most of the threads, so I think it's about time to passive-aggressively post the link to the almighty spreadsheet! It may or may not have been updated recently. Probably not. From Spreadsheet's memory banks, and from my own imperfect knowledge of what has and has not been written, here's the breakdown: Portland -The Chimera Situation: I double-checked. Kobold's next up. -Kidnapping Neverthere: I... think Timeport's next to post. The other people involved could probably write something too, though, if they wanted to. -Backtrack and Friends, Back in the House: Backtrack was the last to post here. The interaction with PP and Sach is over, I believe. I'm not sure what their plans are, actually. -Corpsemaker: Do something maybe. Whatever. -A whole bunch of other tangents which are vaguely waiting on our current set of major events to come to a conclusion in order to continue: Wait for the current set of major events to come to a conclusion, then continue. You know who you are. The Dalles -Quicksilver Fight: I'm hoping to write this in a series of collabs, if at all. First, though, me, Kob, and Twy have to make a little thing. This should be extremely fun. -The Clinic: Lyla posted last. Looks like Edge or Voidus are next up. Scribbler's reaction is probably more important but Shiny is the one who hasn't posted for the longest. The upvotes are just raining down on this little interaction, so post 'em like they're hot. -Freq's Gang: Honestly, I have no idea where this is going. I wanted to have a little out-of-town sideplot happen, but Shattered sort of disappeared on us. If anyone thinks Sunspot and Blindside look fun (they were extremely well-written, for sure,) go ahead and ask to adopt them, then maybe we'll ask for a post occasionally and you can have a character on the dark side of The Dalles. If no one wants them, I think we'll probably just move to infiltrate the city directly as soon as the Quicksilver thing is resolved. I'll have to double-check with Maill about that. -Rowena(?): ? Astoria -Ragnorok/Antimatter: Something, something, something. I have absolutely no idea where this is going, but I'm guessing it isn't done yet. Edge already wrote a post as a reaction, so I suppose Warrior is primed to continue with whatever he's going to do. -Invasion stuff: I assume it's still going on. They were arguing or something (hold on...) mmm. Nope. I don't think there are any loose ends there. I think we're just waiting for more time to pass before actually doing the invasion. -Corpsemaster: I have more stuff here, but I guess I'm waiting for someone to interact with. Voidus...? *whimpers for attention* -KFC: No idea where this is going, but I'm guessing you guys' PM stalled. Corvallis -Whatever: This city has so many loose ends at the moment that I'm not even sure where to start. I don't even write in this thread. Go figure it out for yourselves Salem -Hey! We're important!: Yeah, nothing's happening. I dunno. Does anyone even have anything right now? -Oh wait, I do: Was planning to write an introduction post for the Rift Cult. Wastelands -Just do your thing, Wastelands: Just do your thing, Wastelands.
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We may or may not be doing something with the whole situation in that Washington town. It sort of depends on whether Shattered comes back (if it's just going to be me and Maill writing the thing, I don't think it's worth it.) Shoot us a PM, I guess.
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Go ahead and post any worldbuilding you've come up with. People still follow this thread, I think. Maybe it'll restore the "Diaemus Fever" of old.
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I guess it was sort of designed with the Adventurer in mind. He doesn't really have anywhere "dungeon-ey" to explore at the moment, which I wanted to rectify since I have a sort of character-crush on him. On another level, I just wanted something sort of creepy.
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I probably should've consulted you before introducing any half-baked worldbuilding elements into the town, shouldn't I have? Well, anyway, I sort of wanted to have a sort of RPG-dungeon sort of thing going on in there, so I thought of this Epic named Echidna who could swallow eggs whole and then cough them back up so that they hatched into monsters instead of birds or whatever. Some of them would have Epic-ish powers, maybe. Enough to pose a threat to anyone who ventured down there. Echidna's spawn won't attack her, but they don't obey her orders either. She really is half-baked, like I said, since I don't actually have any specific Spawn in mind. I had some vague idea that if anyone actually wanted to go in there, they could sort make it up as they went. As for the caverns themselves, there's exactly one exit, which leads into a shallower section that's sparsely populated by vanillas. There are a handful of passages in there that lead farther inside, and those are the sections that are populated by Spawn. I visualized Corpsemaster and a handful of PI'd Epics sort of having fun killing them and keeping them contained down there. I was planning to maybe mention some of this stuff in the next post, which I'm probably going to write as soon as there's somebody to interact with. For the record, I'm not exactly attached to any of this. Tell me if there's anything that bugs you (as I'm typing this, I'm kind of guessing that you think that Lucentia wouldn't really like the idea of the Spawn roaming around down there.)
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It took a bit longer to get back to Astoria than Corpsemaster would have liked, what with the broken windshield and all, but he managed. Within two hours' time, he found himself passing the outermost diamond structures in the city, and was greeted by a handful of soldiers. They waved him in after a quick verification of his identity. Corpsemaster's peripatetic tendencies were well known to the border guards, and the howls and moans coming from the back of his truck didn't seem to make them too eager to linger near him. The sentiment was understandable, though unenlightened. Mortals never seemed to get how much more interesting the human body became post-mortem. Corpsemaster didn't have far to drive before reaching his territory. The entrance to The Catacombs was located in the higher portions of Astoria, built underneath an old, pre-Calamity golf course. There weren't any buildings there, so Lucentia had simply created a large, hollow diamond sphere above the only exit to ensure that anyone venturing into the tunnels would be reminded of her authority. Though Corpsemaster ruled most of tunnels that made up The Catacombs, he couldn't claim to have created them. That honor went to Gorgon, an Epic whose wounds spewed out a corrosive acid. Even now, eight years after his work began, Gorgon was still down there somewhere, melting away the stone underneath Astoria in some sort of insane, creative binge. The Catacombs stretched down hundreds of meters now, and even Corpsemaster didn't know where some of the deepest, darkest, ones went. Monsters creeped around down there, Echidna's spawn, and some of those possessed strange, eldritch powers to alter the tunnels' properties. You never really knew what you'd find in The Catacombs, if you explored long enough. But all of that was in the deeper portions of the caverns. The older, shallower sections belonged to Corpsemaster, and he liked to think that his usage of the space was a bit more enlightened. Thanks to Lightwrought and the Financier, Astoria was never short on food and/or random garbage, so he had taken the opportunity to just sort of corral vanillas in there and see what happened. Food, junk, and captives went in, some semblance of civilized society came out. The best part was that it was his civilized society, not to mention that he had an easy supply of corpses,should the need arise. It was a system that worked for him. Every Epic needed someone to rule, after all. Corpsemaster smiled wryly as he reached the structure built above The Catacombs' sole entrance and his corpselings dragged the vanilla out of the truckbed and into the tunnels. No explanations. No threats. The other denizens of the tunnels would fill him in on the rules soon enough. All Corpsemaster had to do was sit back and patrol, and his domain would flourish. Now, time to relax and watch some television.
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Perhaps we could say that the town's place in the timeline is a few weeks before most of the RP, and so posts made in it can either stand by themselves or function as introductions to characters that could make their way to other threads later on. Or perhaps we could just have the town's timeline be extremely convoluted. We could, say, have a set of 14 days, where at Day One the town is relatively stable and by Day Fourteen everything has gone to pot somehow, then have everyone sort of fill in the gaps in this crazy set of events. If we make the intro post on Day Fourteen ludicrous enough, the thread might just write itself. It's a weird idea, but it sounds sort of interesting to me, and it's perfect for a setting where activity is likely to vary wildly. We'd just have to have a formalized system for showing when events take place.
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For what it's worth, I actually really love the idea of the tutorial city. Basically just a tiny, walled town built along I-5 with a handful of vanilla farmers and a bar. Epics could pass through as they travelled along the interstate, moving in and out, maybe ending up in one of the established threads.
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I don't think there are any at the moment. If you want to write something there, go ahead and make your own gang. I've sort of been planning to have a small-scale turf war between the Rift Cult and Ghostfire's Militia, but I guess I just haven't got around to write it yet. Isn't... isn't Voidus still writing him?
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Blindside and Sunspot are adoptable, I think. In fact, I'd highly recommend that you take them, Mestiv, since we sort of need to finish a little conflict involving the whole gang before we're planning to go back into The Dalles. Last I heard from Shattered was in one of our PM's where he said he was frustrated with his procrastinative tendencies, and he hasn't been on in a month.
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There was an abandoned character named Hydron in the first few pages of The Dalles, and then there was also Ricochet at the beginning of Portland. I'm not sure if any of them are actually adoptable, since they never really enmeshed themselves into their respective threads' politics in the first place and neither of those threads is looking for new Epics at the moment. There's also Freq's gang, I suppose. We were planning to add an Epic with the ability to create a forcefield around his body and an Epic that could weaponize sound. Kobold seemed opposed to the idea of adding new Epics on principle, though, and his opinion carries a lot of weight.
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Eh. Perhaps I'm not the best judge of this, since I'm sort of "meh" about everything anyway, but the power didn't seem too useful. We can kind of just decide whatever weapons our characters are using on the fly anyway All it takes is the power of quality storytelling. Where's Kobold been this past week or so?
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Ah, yes. I noticed that as I read on. Silly me.
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Reading back through the thread, I think that Reader actually does have something to do. Frostfire left his quarters for an interview with him a few pages ago.
