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I think it's Drake's turn to respond to Kokichi's weirdness. Am I being too pushy?

Maybe have him investigate what's going on with Kelvin? I dunno, it's up to you.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oc4Haddf2jcUP2Yoe7Y4mDaUcZyriG2_YK3dOBkg9Og/edit

Dammit, Sazedezas hasn't been on for more than a month. Anyone have any way to contact them?

Okay, I hate to both double post and put people on the spot, and I know many of you are busy but... @Sazedezas: We could use you on the meeting document both to write for Arachnerd and Bloodlight/Nate. The coffee shop scene seems finished, so would either you or @Hemalurgic Headshot post it or revise it or something? Also I'm not sure what's happening with Karabiner, but I assume he's coming in soon? @Kidpen, @winter devotion, @kenod, @The Young Pyromancer, @Voidus, @TwiLyghtSansSparkles, @Weirdpersonx: You all have characters either at or watching the meeting. Some of them may want to react or say something to respond to Epoch's question. (Armageddon, Kokichi, Amethyst, Nicroburst, Blank, Viktor, Neverthere, Jade/Nathan, Phytomagnet...) ...Is that everybody? Sorry if I'm being bossy, rude, and/or insensitive.

Hm. Oh right, also Brawl in the Family before it finished.

The Order of the Stick, Darths and Droids, xkcd, some other stuff here and there.

While I've always prided myself as a faster than average reader, but when you're introduced to the world of web serials and webcomics your reading list tends to grow exponentially. So far I've got about half of Ward, ~1/3 of The Wandering Inn, Twig, Pact, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, something in Chinese my mom sent me, the fifth Red Rising book, Bedlam, Armageddon Outta Here, The Legend of Xanth series, and How to Read Literature Like a Professor.

Completely unrelated to the RP (thought that's not exactly new), but I just caught up on A Practical Guide to Evil, and man it's a blast.

Bit of a dumb question, but who and what do we need right now?

Huh, you really did think this through. I missed several of those details. (also Custodian is just a bastard, according to Ward). What was Jack's trigger event? I must've missed it somehow.

I remember my first day here. It was just as the RP was dying down, and I did a dumb which I won't speak of, and you guys were so nice about it. I made a flat character and tossed him into Salem, I checked back regularly for months, not much happened, and I eventually moved on. I was so happy when I checked back on a whim and saw the beautiful star on the left next to the Question thread as well as an entire new RP somehow.

Bit of a topic change, I know, but have you decided on whether or not you'll be RPing a character and/or who?

Quick nitpick: Jack Slash, Crawler, Winter, Crimson, (most of the rest of the cloned Slaughterhouse 9), Teacher, Custodian, Bakuda, Oni Lee, I kinda guess I probably shouldn't go on...

Yeah, I was leaning towards Downfall anyway. So, wait, just checking: At this moment, meeting-wise, Epoch is slowing down the entire stadium to trap all his potential competitors. Blank or Kokichi or someone outside is going to notice and shout like a suddenly awake Taya (again I'm willing to delete that post if you'd like Darshall, just wanted to try and move it along while you were away), and chaos happens. Epoch dies, maybe other people die, and the day ends with Pariah loose, time barriers down, and no real leadership in the area. In any case, @The Young Pyromancer, @winter devotion: Whaddya say?

I was referring to the teleportation power, but... yeah. Wow. Didn't think of those. Also, bit of a dumb question. @TwylightSansSparkles: Would being covered in multicoloured paint be mildly traumatizing for Jade?

Hm, thanks for the feedback. I didn't consider that it was kind of an inverse of Trickster's power when I wrote it, but that's basically what it is, come to think of it. As for hard limits, I was thinking mostly reasonable sight range, so maybe about a mile, though he does actually have to be able to see and distinguish something a mile away to be able to teleport it. His control over the exact shape of the teleport is iffy at best, and he mostly uses squares and ellipsoids, and other pretty simple shapes. He could use a more complicated shape (like teleporting only a plastic bag without moving the stuff inside of it or something like that) but it would probably take more concentration and/or time. Size I haven't set a hard limit on just in case I want to try something stupid, but I'd say he can easily teleport things the size of a pretty big couch without breaking a sweat and an entire building is probably beyond him. As for teleporting bullets and other very fast things, I agree there's probably about two ways to go with that: enhanced reflexes or automatic teleportation of anything too close to him. I was leaning towards the first one because that lets him block things travelling way too quickly that he can't otherwise simply zap away. Also, that solves the (very) minor dilemmas of what happens when he's asleep/unconscious and what prevents him from teleporting his own clothes off (speaking of which, if the RP ever gets moving quickly enough for Tayahound to happen, will we be able to burn his/her (?) clothes off or would that not be family-friendly?). Also, I agree that just about any reality-manipulating power can be used creatively to be extremely powerful. Even a relatively lame power like putting temporary coloured dots on things can be used to great effect blinding people and as a form of lousy illusion (and defeating Green Lanterns) This power could be used to literally destroy the world without limits, and is enough to thoroughly inconvenience even the most powerful of Epics if used to its full potential. Finally, I disagree somewhat on the logical weakness part. (I'm going to assume I don't need to spoiler this.) Most of the High Epics probably could've been taken down by Epics which could capitalize on their weaknesses. Regalia was just as fragile as any human. While mind-control Epics seem to be relatively uncommon in the Reckonerverse, illusionists without easily-exploitable weaknesses (and probably even some with) probably could've misled and trapped Prof, though his forcefields are tough to deal with. Steelheart... alright I don't really have an answer to him. He's ridiculous. Same with Obliteration, though the bomb thing could've worked maybe possibly. Alright maybe I don't actually have a point here but still... shoot. I will say that Worm is a lot better with this because most heroes don't have literal weaknesses like they do in the Reckonerverse and largely the things exploited to beat nigh-invincible enemies are psychological weaknesses and the element of surprise.

Alright, I can't stand it any longer. I should probably wait until you guys decide to release it, buuut... argh argh argh! On the plus side, I came up with two Epics I would kinda like to roleplay, one more than the other. Actually I'll post the second one later. I'm feeling a bit tired. Would this character be too powerful in this setting? The idea was that he'd be an Epic who acts like Backtrack around strong Epics, but also like... some jerk around maples.

I would, but I'm not really in the meeting. Mostly I'm just waiting for the day to finish. EDIT: I'm looking at the meeting doc, and the question Epoch has posed is a good one: Who gets what? I think we might need a link to the map for that, and here it is: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z88z64ULbJzQ.keX1oRs5VZbs

I did read the comments when the chapter was confusing or I didn't know who the viewpoint character was in an interlude or something along those lines.

Well that was nice. Pretty good read. If I had to rate it, I'd give it a solid 8.5 out of 10. Very nice, quite long, might want to reread it later. It's definitely interesting enough to make me want to check out wildbow's other work, so I'll be back in a month.

I'm enjoying it! See you in a couple days! Maybe. I haven't checked the length.

No. What's the author's name?

Do you have a script I could look at? I am somewhat interested in reading things, and I don't know what to read now that I've gone through most of the Urban Fantasy Literature TVTropes page.

Alright, this made me laugh so hard. Unfortunately, I was TAing for a speech class while someone was speeching just after a particularly bad stumble, so now I'm sitting outside in the hall for a minute or two.