IncredibleBee

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Are Cinder and Charlotte at the same research facility as Simmons and the SE guys are attacking?

@Earnest Evans

No. Unless said research facility was made by the Slavers, explored by the Kzinti, and then taken over by humanity.

@Flamelord

We need more names for our locations beyond "research facility"

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Guts - Siberian Research Facility Guts turned a corner to face a yellow-eyed woman in a surprisingly sultry dress, and her doll. She was probably younger than she looked. "Hey, you. Get out of here; it's dangerous." he said calmly, keeping a respectable distance. His oversized sword and armor were hidden well enough by the cloak wrapped around his body, giving him a phantasmal visage. "There's all sorts of monsters down here. If you don't get away, you'll die." he continued, speaking plainly.

Return to the Multiverse

The haymaker connected with Ganon's fist, and created a blinding light, engulfing the entire mountain and breaking the rest of it from the sheer force. Even miles away, it would be visible. Even if it could not be viewed, the power of the two clashing could be felt. Somewhere in Kakariko town, a baby gasped in awe as it sensed their primordial might. It would grow to be an amazing fighter some day. "YOU WON'T... SEE THE LAST.... OF MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-" Ganon shouted as the light grew brighter, and brighter.... the warlock's body seemed to dissolve as Ajax's attack forced its way through his being, dissolving his material form.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Guts - Siberian Research Facility Guts had been wandering and collecting chess-themed key cards for some time by now. "Let's see. Bishop key." he said, swiping the card across the pad. It had taken him 20 damned minutes to figure those things out. The black swordsman stepped into a room filled with large, cylindrical tanks, containing large humanoids with various states of mutation. One in particular had its eye stapled shut, a few others were gray, some with spikes sticking out of their bodies. "What is that? Are they studying demons? To keep them here, this place must be crawling with magic." he said aloud. It had been a while since he could talk and not have Puck say something dumb. It was almost worth trading off the elf's healing dust. Almost. Scratching the back of his neck, he shuffled around the room, finding some documents with boring magic stuff Schierke would know, some of those weird plastic tubes, and a blueprint for something called a "Phazon bomb". Everything in this building was absolutely useless, Guts decided. Chances were, there wasn't even an Apostle, and the Brand is what attracted those undead in the first place. I'm getting out of this damned tundra ASAP. he thought to himself, stepping back out into the halls.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

I suppose so. Everyone was already involved in a fight scene already, so I wasn't quite sure how to handle it.

@VitaVitaAR

"Hello agents whose powerlevels are suitable for the problem at hand. Shit's going down in this world. Finish up your fights soon, or else we're gonna lose it."

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Oh, yes, when I said destruction with no intervention is dumb, I certainly feel as if destruction with opportunity for defense is perfectly fine and we'll probably be seeing it. The reason it was an issue with the Mushroom Kingdom is that its defense disappeared, and there was no way for the UMMA player characters to get there at the moment.

@VitaVitaAR

Are you telling me Waluigi's missing? Also, just because you can't get there at the moment doesn't mean you can't get there on time. From a dramatic standpoint, it's more tense if the thing you're defending takes some damage anyways.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

Oh, I don't think the defense of a slice of life world is a bad idea for a plotline. I'm more saying, in a crossover RP, having a lighthearted well-liked setting of any kind mercilessly destroyed with no real chance for intervention is kind of dumb. As for ways to show how evil the villains are, it's equally possible without, say, having them somehow know that people like certain characters and killing them literally just for evil with no actual motivation. Like, say, having them deal with their enemies in merciless and cruel ways, opportunistic methods without regard for innocents... Deceiving people into working for them... In the end, Shadow Eternity is not in the business of large-scale conquering so I'm not sure it makes sense for this particularly. There'd have to be a specific object the Leader wants for her ultimate plan on a world for her to send people there, though her intentional vagueness probably makes it easy for people to assume that she wants some conquering to go down.

@VitaVitaAR

If the destruction without a chance for intervention is dumb, arrange some destruction with a chance for intervention. The opening OOC post states that UMMA's a security agency, right? Have it do some security. Even if there's not a specific macguffin there, you always need capital, which Earth on average tends to be. So you send in a force to wreck that world's military, and tell the populace that they work for you now, and they're going to provide food and minerals and other stuff for your army. That'd fall under "opportunistic methods without regards for innocents".

Massive Multiversal Crossover

I guess, but it always seems to be... "look how evil these villains are, attacking a slice of life setting in this crossover" and it's just kind of cheap and mean-spirited. There's better ways to show the bad guys are bad.

@VitaVitaAR

Slice of life settings inherently lack strong defenses, so it makes sense they're conquered quickly and immediately, unless an opposing faction places defending units in said world. Also, defending a SoL world would honestly make for a good arc; you should do that if you haven't already. But if you have a better way to illustrate how evil the bad guys are, then please share.

Massive Multiversal Crossover

DMSO vapor grenade

@Earnest Evans

When did this turn into Shadowrun? Also, I guess I'm back in or something.

@Lost Cause

Well, since Vita doesn't like Shadow Eternity taking things from happy-go-lucky settings and these organizations have been around for a while, it makes sense to me that they'd deal with any one of the many Shadowrun-based settings eventually.

@Earnest Evans

Well, that's not exactly what I mean. I've seen way too many crossovers where the villains basically literally butcher things from people's childhoods to show how evil they are, or the same with well-liked lighthearted settings. It's cheap shock value and it stinks as storytelling, frankly. I don't necessarily mind them showing up there, and even taking something from that setting, but if it's just pillage and terrorize it's a no-go for sure. ... I've seen the "villains ruin a setting" applied to slice of life, too, which is kind of baffling as well as dumb and mean-spirited given that I honestly have no idea why they would value a setting that is basically "normal earth".

@VitaVitaAR

"Normal Earth" is chock full of resources, including seven billion humans. If I was evil, I'd enslave the hell out of it.

Return to the Multiverse

"I.... yes. That's why I became a hero of justice." Bee responded, oblivious to the energy beams whizzing by. "So, uh. Want me to take care of those two? Because I can. They're totally evil, anyways." he offered, pointing to the Twinrovas.