Seems like ya'll feel up to the challenge of keeping this rolling (which I appreciate). And since nobody's offered any objections to it, I'll just go ahead and slap a Co-GM tag onto @Birdboy for now. That way, you at least have someone who you can all point fingers at if you need to or want something in particular.

As for whether you choose to elect them as your official GM for the RP, or if you all democratically agree to go with a GM-free set up for the future, that's entirely up to ya'll to decide.

Also remember that, while I won't be GM'ing or running this RP anymore, if any of you want my lore or any of the events/scenarios/timeline shennanigans I had planned, just shoot me a PM or call me with an @Xaltwind, and I'll appear like the genie of the lamp and share my intended plans/knowledge/whatever. Or somethin'.

We should go gm less in my opinion. No one seems stoked to be the gm and I like the freedom. How would we do this though? Who will be playing villians? Maybe we each take turns? Who knows!

Xalt I would absolutely love to see your plans!

We should go gm less in my opinion. No one seems stoked to be the gm and I like the freedom. How would we do this though? Who will be playing villians? Maybe we each take turns? Who knows!

Xalt I would absolutely love to see your plans!

If you're going for a more free-form game without anyone in particular being the GM, you could just agree to play your own villains or ne'er-do-wells, and use the "I write what I want my character to try and do" mechanics whenever you interact with someone else's
villains or scumbags. That way, you can all be equally in charge of handling fights or situations.

Or, you could all just go completely ham and blow shit and people up with MIND BULLETS whenever you want. That's also an option.

As for my plans, you'll have to be a bit more specific. ^^;
My immediate plans for after you guys got signed up at the kiosks and joined your Hero Org was just somehting along the lines of:

1. Let everyone go outside into Atlas Park.
2. Set up several small-time events with low-level threats/crimes, like a purse-snatcher, a cat stuck in a tree, some punk kids spray painting in an alley and things of that nature.
3. Let the heroes choose one of the above situations and have them team up or go solo in handliong them.
4. After finishing 3 of these "tiny" quests, they'd get their first "level up".

If you want further-reaching plans that were made for the distant future, I can send you those in a PM. :)

Something fun we could is assign one of the faction kiosks to a player who isn't in that faction. That way we can still to with each other.

I wouldn't mind to dm but I am not sure I would keep valiant if that's the way we go. It always feels weird to have a dmpc like that.

Not sure I would want to make us all do really trivial heroics. If it's cool with you all I'd like to send us all on a mission, maybe one that sends us in a few groups?

Or just a training facility to test out powers and see who can do what.

Apologies if my means of replying causes a multi-ping.

If you're going for a more free-form game without anyone in particular being the GM, you could just agree to play your own villains or ne'er-do-wells, and use the "I write what I want my character to try and do" mechanics whenever you interact with someone else's villains or scumbags. That way, you can all be equally in charge of handling fights or situations.

That's one of the ways I was thinking we could do it GM-Less. Though I'm also thinking that for certain villains (not all of them) we could share em and/or pass em around for ease of RPing?

My immediate plans for after you guys got signed up at the kiosks and joined your Hero Org was just somehting along the lines of:

1. Let everyone go outside into Atlas Park.
2. Set up several small-time events with low-level threats/crimes, like a purse-snatcher, a cat stuck in a tree, some punk kids spray painting in an alley and things of that nature.
3. Let the heroes choose one of the above situations and have them team up or go solo in handliong them.
4. After finishing 3 of these "tiny" quests, they'd get their first "level up".

Not sure I would want to make us all do really trivial heroics. If it's cool with you all I'd like to send us all on a mission, maybe one that sends us in a few groups?

I'm okay with starting slow, though I think it might be good to get a bit of action in. I'm thinking we could do the standard "Suddenly there is an emergency" before/after/in-the-middle-of that? Perhaps a fire breaks out somewhere, there's a cartoon-y bank robbery and/or there's a supervillain (Probably a more laughable C-Lister) showing up and doing a plot.

Something fun we could is assign one of the faction kiosks to a player who isn't in that faction. That way we can still to with each other.

Smart, gets us a bit of practice while also making it so no-one is forced to solo-RP a kiosk. I second this idea!

[quote@Birdboy]Or just a training facility to test out powers and see who can do what.[/quote]
I'm on board with the idea of putting the team in a Power Testing Teambuilding Exercise. It's a simple way to keep an all-characters scene going and can lead quite nicely into an emergency call if we decide to go with my earlier idea.

How does this sound:

We do the kiosks and get some info on our new factions.

We go off to do some basic heroics (walking old ladies across the street, stoping a mugging/vandalism, saving cars from trees, etc)

There is an emergency, something small to cause the heroes to the heroes to have to spring into action. One that hopefully alludes to a later adventure. (Bank robbery, gang fighting, maybe a mad but somewhat weak villain, etc)

The heroes go to a training facility to get some further practice working together.

The heroes then are sent to deal with an actual crisis proper.

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I'd love to write the ELITE kiosk if no one else wants to. And I'd be willing to run our first little event.

Sounds perfect to me @Birdboy!

Sounds good. I'm about to disappear for about a week but when I come back I will gladly get a post out for the Elite folks. I would love if everyone else would pick a kiosk to roleplay as too. I assume it will be first come first serve (which includes Elite).

And I would gladly dm our first escapade if everyone is ok with that!

So should I still respond to the last GM post or no?

So should I still respond to the last GM post or no?

Definitely. It's still canon as far the RP goes and it allows us to see which kiosk you go for etc.

I'll probably go ahead and post for elite tonight or tomorrow. Soon!

Let me know if you guys want me to try again or edit this btw

I somehow missed your IC post until now. It looks great! I should be able to throw in a reply to that on Monday. (Edit: Or Tuesday)

I'd also offer to grab a kiosk; but given that I'm currently a tad busy it may be a while until I get the opportunity to write out two messages; so I'll just grab whatever's still going when I can.

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Haven't been sure how to word this, but I think I'm probably out after all on this RP. I'm not super interested in everyone sorta sharing GM duties, and judging by the lack of other people jumping in for weeks now, I'm guessing I'm not the only one?

Yeah, probably. I appreciate the honesty