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@IncredibleBee: I suppose so. Everyone was already involved in a fight scene already, so I wasn't quite sure how to handle it. Not to worry, though, Walugi single-handed destroyed all the Shadow Eternity ships. @EarnestEvans: I didn't quite mean it like that. It's more that when she specifically asks for them to do something that's the reasoning she uses. Otherwise it's often for, well, the kind of things you'd need to sustain an organization like this or anti-UMMA strikes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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Well, at least that's two. ^^; If more people are still interested I really do want to keep this going.

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If anyone is I'll keep this going. I mean I guess I can just skip to the dungeon, I thought people might want to let their characters interact before I did though.

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Since the fight scenes have ended I'm going to try and wait for everyone to post before I do again, so no-one gets left any further behind.

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Flamelord, the end of the Nono part of your post makes me very happy. ^_^ Saber will be so flustered.

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I'm sorry we didn't get to your bio today, Facepunch. Things were a bit of a mess and by the time they calmed down Roxas was offline.