Gisk

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"No firework I've ever seen," Thomas answered her quietly. He tried to crane his neck to see through the balcony window, but gave it up as a lost cause and moved to the front window of the shop.

"I don't care about the lights," Michael said, moving to look out the window anyway. He continued in an undertone to his brother, "I care about traitor bitch."

"She'll keep, but Auntie Kat is pregnant."

"So?"

"So, the last time these lights showed up..."

"I... oh. Alright." He took one last look around, but then walked right out the door, forgetting about his coffee.

His brother looked back at Zoey and said "Sorry about the trouble," and then followed Michael, tossing Audrey's helmet unceremoniously to the sidewalk when he got outside. A moment later their engines roared to life, and a moment after that, Audrey Springer walked in the door, carrying the dropped helmet.

"The twins were looking for me?" she asked the room at large, then changed her priorities and asked, "Did anyone see that white thing?"

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I think anyone posting new should try to start up another scene, because there's already so many people at the cafe.

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No worries, I'm winging it too some of the time.

I'm not sure if I should post and keep this going, or wait for some of those who haven't chimed in.

I think I'll wait, at least for the mean time. I won't wait too long because I don't want people to forget what's going on and lose interest(waiting is RP death, in my experience), but at the same time I know that not everyone is as available as me or some of the rest of us, and I don't want to leave the busier players behind.

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And I wanna say, just in general, be careful with the size and particularly the number of actions in your posts. When there's multiple characters in the same area, you can't possibly respond to everything and eventually it will become a clusterfuck of events whose timeline is impossible to objectively decide.

An example is Michael putting the bill on teh counter, and the narration in Zoey's post remarking that there wasn't anyone there. When I made the post, Ellion's post had come before it, and in it Zoey had already returned to the front counter, but because of the large number of things happening, events got confused and it stopped making sense.

This sort of thing happens a lot when posts all try to react with each other. You have to be careful to keep the order of events clear, and this is the major disadvantage of longer posts, and the reason I typically advocate smaller ones for scenes with multiple players.

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Healing: 3

Anti Machine: 1

Time stop: 0

Wound Transfer: 0

Looks like healing it is. Though there's a few who haven't voted yet, so maybe one of the others will turn around.

@malmshodes
@SouffleGirl123
@mskennedy615
@Polyphemus
@Wicked Sweet

Just poking some people we haven't heard from in the IC/vote.

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Go ahead, I may as well see it.

I'm holding off on posting again. I want to get to my computer so I can bump the players who haven't posted/haven't voted yet. Make sure they know there's stuff to do.

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For real? I was naming them after a Cutthroat Kitchen judge.

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Thomas and Michael Morhaime: A pair of twins, brown hair, blue eyes, square features. Michael wears his hair short, and Thomas’ comes down to his shoulders when it's not pulled up.
The freshest legacy members of the Greenbriar Rogues, and mechanics in Springer Automotive, the shop that Audrey’s grandfather owns.

Solomon and Padma Majumdar: another pair of twins, but these ones fraternal. Mixed ethnicity, with an Indian father and African American mother. Both parents work in energy technology.
The twins are pretty hippy dippy, and both very concerned with environmental sciences. Solomon surfs, but Padma is afraid of the ocean.
Both are on a fast track to a good college in California.

Anthony Finch: in the same year as most of the characters. He is the oldest sickly baby from the lights eighteen years ago. He basically lived in hospitals until he was twelve, at which point his family just bit the bullet and brought the equipment he needed home, hiring a nurse to keep him alive.
He attended school haltingly, and often had to leave in the middle of the day to rest.

Some pretty basic info on background characters who will likely play roles in future events.

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@Gisk So this light you described in your post, is it the light activating the powers? Cause in that casse I should mention my powers starting to appear in my next post.

@NightmareInd

Yeah, though you haven't posted yet, so you can have some time in the beginning before the lights.

@gisk do you want the jist of my changes/responses to your characters/the scene to help finish setting the stage? So, if other people walk in on the scene, we won't have over talk?

@Ellion

Yeah, I'm not sure how much change is necessary, but tell me what you did. Or I'll just read it after the edit.

Try not to make me need an edit XD

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My post is up. Sorry for the length, and trigger warning for attempted suicide. If you don't want to read that, stop after the part in the cafe.