Voidus

Third time's the charm

I have no idea what you're talking about. Also couldn't you do this yourself?

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As Mac seemed to be busy, Jeffrey moved towards KoTiel before responding. "Of course, those should be in the Division of BioEngineering. Just past Alley 34512 and to the left of Alley ╔══╦╦═╬═" He said, motioning out of the room. As he left to escort KoTiel, he took a suspicious glance at Vakdwen before muttering into his collar. A moment later, someone else from decontamination showed up, seeming to be entirely identical to Jeffrey, only with a large amount of blood dripping from his shoulder. "Spikes are for approved personnel only I'm afraid" He remonstrated, moving to replace the spikes in their compartment. =================================== Laurelai continued muttering to herself as she read through notes, both physical and those that she drew from the memories that had been given to her. She didn't notice as Kotiel left to acquire the body they would need. Alright, I'm going to need some time and space for this. Maybe a few more subjects. This work is too exciting to pretend to be polite anymore. If I'm going to master the ability to change who I am then I need to be able to do that without Forgery as well. She straightened her back, looking over the room with cold eyes. "We need some space here, can anyone not assisting with the experiments please leave. And we'll need some additional subjects too, if we only test on this one we won't be able to generalize the results as well." She turned towards the, surprisingly still compliant subject. Mentally she ran through a list of possible permutations for the stamps she would need. "Please stay still. This may be a little jarring. Testing permutation A-1." It may take some time, but she would find what she needed to know. That was what science was about after all.

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Pure speculation and libel! And even if it was, who doesn't want free superpowers?

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@Ookla the NotVoidus, @Ookla the Paragon @AdOokla @Ookla the Lurker I think. Ookla season makes everything complicated. Yeah new years eve might work. I'm personally in favour of a bit after new years, otherwise some people might be on holidays / unable to access the Shard.

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At this point I think we can call the vote as the vast majority seems to be against time travel. So unless people want to keep it open @AdOokla would you be able to change that post? Regarding the end of the era, we already have Solace's story and Hellbent and the Well of Descension. Any one of those is probably enough on it's own, I'd rather avoid adding more into the mix this era.

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Yeah can we move this to the chat thread?

More than anything i don't want to force an ending. So while I'd definitely support that kind of ending, it doesn't seem likely given the way things have been going.

If he ever gets out of the barrier I'll make sure there's always a reason Voidus can't interfere with other stuff. (Barring people attacking him directly or trying to get to the worldspike) He's pretty non-interventionist by nature anyway but I understand that there's a bit more comfort in having a mechanical reason he can't intervene. I think we have enough era-ending plots for era 2 to come to a close safely, but might be an idea for end of era 3. Or even the first villain of era 3.

None taken that's a completely accurate statement, the DA does have pretty much limitless power. The DA existed before all of this so it already had an established history, and unfortunately it wasn't written just by me so I'm not getting rid of a bunch of RP and worldbuilding from other people or retconning anything. The trade off for this is that the DA doesn't interfere with anyone else, it's why the DA is one of the least active guilds in the RP, why we don't start any guild wars, why we didn't retaliate for the sdw, etc. So I completely agree, but that's also not going to change. I couldn't speak for what Mac wants to do with Mac but I imagine the same thing is going to apply.

I tried to pitch this for era 2 as well but I think guilds as a whole could probably stay the same, but PCs are more minor members in the guilds instead of the leaders / old guard.

The problem with letting everyone have an OP character is that it basically defeats the purpose of having an OP character. Taken to the extreme we could just let everyone have a character that is basically a god. And sure that might be amusing for a little while but eventually it just becomes the norm, is no longer interesting or challenging and becomes boring. And you also wouldn't enjoy playing it as much because there's a bunch of other gods who could just instantly counter anything you do. I think we might want to consider giving a few people who haven't had the opportunity to play an OP character, probably as a villain role. But on the whole I think most people want to tone it down a bit.

They aren't settled yet I don't think, that's probably going to be the next poll.

Poll related to whether or not we should allow time travel is up, please keep discussions on the topic here now so that we don't explode other threads with quoteboxes. Names are public at the moment, if anyone would prefer that they can vote anonymously please let myself or another Alleyverse mod know. Summary of my reasons against time travel: 1. I don't think it adds anything to the story that couldn't be accomplished using other means, and personally don't find the concept particularly interesting. (I also realize that that is a personal opinion not an argument but just to explain my views) 2. I think it's going to cause a whole mess of headaches, at some point we're going to have to start retconning things no matter how careful we are. 3. If changing the past is impossible then there's not really any point to time travel. 4. Foresight or prophecy could be used in replacement of time travel for any plotline featuring time travelers from the future. I don't think we'd lose anything out storywise by doing this and we'd save ourselves some headaches. 5. I think that any way we try to include time travel is going to necessitate handwaving to a degree that I'll struggle to maintain my suspension of disbelief.

And a Shard could move the planet away at the same rate and would also survive this completely even if they didn't, as could anyone who used the Well. Also, guardian of a sun != guardian of every star in a universe you don't even exist in. Failing all of that, worldhoppers. Shades can be killed, Spren can't really be killed by anything of LoTR lore that I can think of, nor can cognitive shadows, particularly if they just sit in the CR since they wouldn't even be able to access the CR. They're not necessarily powerful enough to win the war, but they'd survive it.