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Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Meanwhile, at Metropolis City Hall...

"Yes, I'm here to register."

"Superhero name?"

"BOOSTER GOLD!"

"I'm sorry, sir. This is for vigilante registration. Registration for the cosplay convention is at the convention center down on Main."

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Thank, though I didn't mind competing with a GM. I'd love for you to join the team when it's formed if you're up for it.

@King Kindred

In my experience, there's no scenario where a GM wins a competition that someone looking at the thread doesn't come away with the perception that the judging was rigged to begin with.

Not saying that my sheet would have won, just that I don't like how it looks to the casual observer (that we hope applies).

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@Half Pint I'm withdrawing my sheet.

I like that launching a player-based organization is a goal. That's a broader view than I had for my concept. And I had mentioned to Half the other day that I don't like the optics of a player competing with a GM.

Plus it allows me to channel the time to working on the character summaries and the database that's been tossed around.

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But it's like post too quickly and no one else feels like they're getting a turn, post too slowly and you're suddenly having to account for every interaction your character should have reacted to at once and it paradoxically slows time down to a crawl.

@Cyrania

Temporal mechanics for roleplayers

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

Would it be gauche to reply to King Kindred's post now? Should I wait until tomorrow and see if there's more posts to respond to?

@Cyrania

I don't think there's a "right" or "wrong" answer here. We have people posting at different rates.

In terms of what people can expect from me, I plan to keep at my weekly interval. I think, particularly for GM posts during an event, having consistency allows for people to plan around. If you know the GM is going to post on Monday, then if you want to get a post in the current round you know what to expect in terms of when the GM is going to advance things.

Worlds Collide: A Merged Universe Superhero Roleplay

And of course, people are welcome to add in Martians to your stories.

@Cyrania

"Martian? No, that's crazy talk. Martians? For real? Come on. I'm, uh, Atlantean. From uh... uh, from Posetonis."

"You mean Posedonis? Or Tritonis?"

"Er... yes."

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At one time I made these post summaries and this spreadsheet, but admittedly working on them did slow my pace reading the IC by a lot.

@DocTachyon

I'm all about player involvement and collaboration. What strikes me about the spreadsheet is that it could be linked and people could each contribute to it to help keep it updated, if they so choose, spreading the work out

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What the fuck kinda Deadpool stories are you reading???

@Roman

Deadpool Corps, Deadpool Kills Deadpool, the first and second movie (I still haven't seen the third)...

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'Guy came out of the nuthouse after failing to kill himself and immediately went back to fucking his own life up' is a harder sell than you might think.

@Roman

Is this Constantine or Deadpool? Because when you put it that way, I'm kind of envisioning John Constantine as portrayed by Ryan Reynolds.

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Or alternatively an ongoing plot/post summary for each character and/or plot and/or the IC as a whole.

@Roman

I like this because it feels like something people could contribute updates toward. "Here's what I want people to know about Hellblazer's story so far" kind of thing. The elevator speech.