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Very well, where do I begin?

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.

My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.

There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking. I highly suggest you try it.

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In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Okay, just to make sure that I get this straight:

Should the next MME be voted yes for the end of this season, none on the fence due to their own personal capabilities of entering the fray would be opposed? Because that sounds like what I'm hearing, which means that so far, the vote is overwhelmingly in favor of it.

I'll keep the option open for the next couple of days. Friday, I think, I'll announce what's gonna happen. Just trying to get it straight so that none leave this season feeling embittered or slighted or anything.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
It's not even a formal vote, really. Just presenting a case for the other side of the issue. I'm not seriously going to sit here and tell the other kids, "No, you can't play in the sandlot!" just because I'm still at home tying up my laces.

Besides, honestly: what's the point in voting? You just abstain, then complain about the horrible things happening that you could have helped prevent. Duh. #millenials


And then some Russian hackers come in and just rig the thing, anyway.
Разве это не так, Владимир?
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Well, it's not so much that I worry I'd drag down the interaction. It's more that at the rate I'm working through my first arc: Thanos will have assembled the Infinity Gauntlet, Galactus will be chomping on Antarctica, Darkseid will be using his Omega Beams to kill the President, and Superboy-Prime will have punched reality again... before Cap and his team have even set boots down in Qurac.


#CapWorldProblems

But your vote is noted.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
My plan is that Team 7 will certainly be involved in the next MME, but with my current rate of posting... I don't know how feasible that will be. Now, that's the selfish reason I say to hold off until Season 2.

But from a thematic standpoint, it might make sense -- given the condensed seasons -- to spread out the events, anyway; whereas before the events were like a bookend, tying a longer season together, now they could serve as more of a through-line tying separate seasons together. Also, bear in mind that the very conceit of this game is that our characters are ostensibly very new to this superhero-ing business, and dropping a ton of shit in their lap all at once might be a bit much. It might be like having the Avengers fight Thanos in the first movie, rather than the third.

Just to devil's advocate a bit, as the general response has been neutral/leaning towards Season 1. (And, seriously... my ass would have to get moving.)


Are you sure that being involved in something where you'd have to bounce off of other people rather than stick to solo posts wouldn't bump up your activity more, though? Sometimes, I've found that it helps with me to just write in-character replies if I'm in a big solo rut.

And as far as dropping things in anyone's laps goes, don't worry... none of you will be overwhelmed by what I've got in store. If anything, it's specifically tailored to the fact that each hero is new and is only just coming up on the first major threat. The Surfer fight, by comparison, was more extreme of a threat than the second MME due to The Silver Surfer's general power levels. That was some shit that was a job for Superman.

(And The Flash, I guess. If you wanna give Sep that much credit.)
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
The biggest issue I see with starting an IC with an MME is that it does open up the dreaded 'Robinson Park' scenario. Especially since we'll likely have an influx of new players to expand the roster or replace some of those we've lost along the way. An easy way to establish oneself is to contribute to an MME and a lot of roleplayers do desire interaction over the more sandbox approach.

For that reason, an MME as a kickoff in the IC could lead to overcrowding which would bottleneck progress potentially.

Or it could go really well and start things in a really exciting manner.

I think though if we were to have an MME at the start of the next IC, I'd prefer it about 50 posts in or so.


Maybe if people were prepared for some shit to go down, OOC, it'd reduce the influx of people wanting to leap in?

Though I will say that unlike the Robinson Park scenario, the next MME is specifically designed to get alot of different heroes into action. It's gonna encourage anyone who wants to take part to be able to do it within reason, given it's not gonna be restricted to one area like the first Surfer encounter was.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Who hasn't..?


Says the dude playing the character second only to Hawkman that deals heavily in reincarnation.

Coming from the dude playing the character who was reincarnated as himself throughout time because Grant Morrison's a weird fuckin' dude.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
The game turns into the one Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror where Homer constantly tries to fix the timeline, only with Morden’s F4 going to different earths and watching them all end horribly


You figured out the other piece of my long-term plan so soon, eh?

Next season was gonna feature an Earth where Batman is a 17 year old trust fund super-genius who's really short in stature and constantly gets wailed on by his rogues.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Very true. Not sure what it means for Season 2, though.


Everyone in the game dies horribly and we immediately have to scramble to find legacy replacements.

Sorry. Spoiler alert.
In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Condiment King takes no prisoners


He'd have relished his victory over scores of victims that'd have never been able to ketchup.



In CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One → 8 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
I kind of already presumed the game's concluding date would get an extension.


I've learned never to presume or assume with this game. This entire season has been one giant learning experience for me as a GM, and all of it is definitely going to inform how I approach Season Two. It's exciting, but also highly unpredictable on a day-to-day basis. That's why I even put up the MME to a vote, because the original plan was actually to have three and we're now going to have two, if the vote turns out in favor.

We'd have never been able to pull off three. The scale of it was going to be way too high, and in hindsight, it was probably for the best that it didn't happen. Alot of peoples' characters, my own included, aren't ready for what was originally intended to be the third act. The season's big bad would've just decimated everyone.
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