Consolidated "Happy Birthday" Megathread

[N/A]

(2011.03.23 - 21:35:59) Gizmo: This...seems questionable, if you're familiar with the characters' histories.

(2011.03.23 - 21:37:38) AvengerAssembled: Maybe the perspective is off and he's about to shoot Prometheus in the back of the head.

(2011.03.23 - 21:38:09) Gizmo: Shoulda been a 3-Pack with a one armed Speedy...

(2011.03.23 - 21:38:49) AvengerAssembled: "My juicin' arm!"

[Raveled]

(23:13:03) trollthumper: Hmm. Where would you guys say represents "drive and passion" in Freedom?

(23:13:09) trollthumper: I'm trying to pull something out of my butt here.

(23:13:23) AvengerAssembled: I didn't need to know that, TT.

(23:13:24) Raveled: "(23:13:03) trollthumper: Hmm. Where would you guys say represents "drive and passion" in Freedom?" Art museum? Maybe Riverside?

(23:13:46) KnightDisciple: "(22:13:03) trollthumper: Hmm. Where would you guys say represents "drive and passion" in Freedom?" Not sure what you're asking...

(23:14:05) Electra: He's trying to pull something driven and passionate out of his butt.

(23:14:18) Electra: What's not to understand?

[Dr Archeville]

(2011.04.12 - 01:11:13) Quinn: You ever read the GCPD comic, Shaen?

(2011.04.12 - 01:11:23) ShaenTheBrain: Gotham Central? Yeah. It was amazing.

(2011.04.12 - 01:11:35) ShaenTheBrain: Well, good times for the readers. Not for Jim and Sarah's marriage.

(2011.04.12 - 01:11:48) Gizmo:

(2011.04.12 - 01:12:13) ShaenTheBrain: Gordon ran against The Penguin for mayor of Gotham in that storyline. They should have had the guts to let him win. That would have been an awesome evolution for the Batus Quo.

(2011.04.12 - 01:12:16) Gizmo: Terrible for everyone's relationships, really.

(2011.04.12 - 01:12:31) ShaenTheBrain: I just coined that phrase, but I like it.

(2011.04.12 - 01:12:40) Quinn: I'd have voted for Gordon.

(2011.04.12 - 01:13:04) Quinn: So, what, Penguin won, Bats beat him down, previous mayor came back?

(2011.04.12 - 01:13:24) ShaenTheBrain: Who wouldn't vote for Jim Gordon? He's like all the best parts of Clint Eastwood, Edward James Olmos, and Tommy Lee Jones rolled into one.

(2011.04.12 - 01:14:18) ShaenTheBrain: (Badass and likable and engaging as Gary Oldman's Gordon is, and goddamn he looks just like him, but Comic Book Gordon has more of the whole "quietly macho" thing going on.)

(2011.04.12 - 01:15:20) ShaenTheBrain: Quinn - No, Penguin lost. The district attorney won. I don't even remember her name.

(2011.04.12 - 01:15:34) ShaenTheBrain: She basically existed just to snap everything back to business-as-usual.

(2011.04.12 - 01:16:25) ShaenTheBrain: Like I said, it was a great story seed that puttered out into missed opportunities all around.

(2011.04.12 - 01:18:01) Fox: NEWLY-INTRODUCED CHARACTER (two Plains, two Mountain)

(Summoned Plot Device)

TAP: Newly-Introduced Character interrupts any hint of shaking the status quo, while maintaining the illusion that the status quo's been changed.

TWO SWAMP: Sacrifice Newly-Introduced Character for drama. This ability can only be used several months after Newly-Introduced Character was put into play.

(2011.04.12 - 01:18:35) ShaenTheBrain: That's brilliant.

(2011.04.12 - 01:19:01) ShaenTheBrain: And funny you should mention that. I believe she was killed sometime during or around No Man's Land.

(2011.04.12 - 01:19:02) Gizmo: Heh.

(2011.04.12 - 01:19:10) Fox: Presumably Newly-Introduced Character has bad stats (because nobody's impressed!) but trample (for stomping on continuity and plotlines!).

(2011.04.12 - 01:19:32) Fox: I've read almost no No Man's Land, but it's not exactly a blind bet.

(2011.04.12 - 01:20:04) Fox: You've gotta kill somebody for drama, and there are only so many significant others and token minorities to go around!

(2011.04.12 - 01:21:19) ShaenTheBrain: As opposed to her predecessor, who was onscreen all through Knightfall/KnightQuest/KnightsEn​d, but then bit the dust somewhere around Contagion, I think, in the lead-up to No Man's Land. When Ra's al Ghul released an airborne strain of Ebola Zaire as an hors d'oeuvre for the 9.0 earthquake in Cataclysm.

(2011.04.12 - 01:21:37) ShaenTheBrain: Because that man does nothing halfway.

(2011.04.12 - 01:21:56) Gizmo: NOSTALGIA (WWWB)

(Instant)

As an additional cost to play Nostalgia, sacrifice X non-white creatures. Return X target white creature cards from a graveyard to play.

(2011.04.12 - 01:22:12) Fox: The only No Man's Land I've read is, of all things, the parts of it in Catwoman's then-series.

(2011.04.12 - 01:22:24) Fox: That's fantastic, Giz.

(2011.04.12 - 01:22:36) Fox: Well-punned, sir.

(2011.04.12 - 01:22:42) Gizmo:

[Quinn]

(02:01:00) Cubist: Speaking of inappropriate mashups -- "Mah name's Gethsemane Sam! Ah'm the rootin'est, tootin'est, shootin'est Legionaire this side o' the Eu-PHRA-tes River!"

(02:01:12) Gizmo: Night, folks.

(02:01:20) Dariusprime: Goodnight Giz

(02:01:31) ChatBot: Gizmo logs out of the Chat.

(02:01:46) trollthumper: Night Giz.

(02:02:06) trollthumper: Now I'm imagining Jesus as Bugs Bunny. My whole cosmology is out of whack.

(02:02:30) Quinn: Heh. Slowly assembling an IC post, Troll?

(02:03:05) trollthumper: Oh. I was unaware of your IC post. I will get something up.

(02:03:14) Cubist: [satisfied expression] Then my work here is done, TT.

(02:03:22) Quinn facepalms.

(02:03:56) trollthumper: Sorry, Quinn.

(02:06:41) Quinn is amused. Is ok.

(02:07:18) Cubist: If Jesus is BUgs, would Judas be Elmer Fudd?

(02:07:31) Dariusprime: Daffy, man. Daffy

(02:07:44) Dariusprime: Elmer is Pilate

(02:07:58) Dariusprime: oh hell, now I'm stuck with that image too. >.<

(02:08:18) Cubist: "I can find no wong in this man...,"

(02:09:47) Quinn head-desks so very, very much.

(02:09:55) Cubist: "Who shall I fwee? Jesus, or Bawabbus?"

(02:10:19) Dariusprime rofl

(02:11:14) : Dr_Archeville: anyone need an island?

(02:12:56) Quinn: "Thith thirty pietheth of thilver..."

(02:13:24) Cubist: [snicker]

(02:13:26) trollthumper: I really need to get some cedar. How do all these moths keep getting into the apartment?

(02:14:50) Cubist: "Whaddaya MEAN, *thirty* pietheth of thilver? That'th an inthulting pittanth -- it'th nowhere NEAR the going rate for betraying a Metthiah!"

(02:15:19) Quinn moves away from Cubist, keeping an eye on the sky for errant lightning bolts.

(02:15:41) Dr_Archeville: TT> you're due a visit from the Mothman?

(02:15:57) Cubist: And we haven't even *touched* the Roadrunner or Wile E. Coyote...

(02:16:14) trollthumper: Well, I've got plenty of CHAAAAAAAP-STICK, Doc.

(02:16:16) Dariusprime: Or Foghorn Leghorn. He's got to be in there somewhere.

(02:16:20) Dr_Archeville: Wile E. Coyote is obviously Job

(02:16:20) Quinn: Care to take a guess who they'd be? Cube?

(02:16:41) Quinn pokes troll. Wants to see Haru go "NO! I AM INVINCIBLE!" before he sacks out.

(02:16:47) Cubist: I think Dok pegged the Coyote: Job, fer sure.

(02:17:08) trollthumper: God, this reminds me of the time we ended up doing "The Muppets do Dune" in guild chat on WoW.

(02:17:10) Quinn: Holds up a sign saying "Why Me?"

(02:17:22) trollthumper: Working on it, Quinn. Trying to get the dialogue right.

(02:17:26) Dariusprime:

(02:17:35) Quinn: "Eeeehh...what's up Doc? Why hast thou forsaken me?"

(02:17:41) Cubist: THe Roadrunner... hmmm. Abel? Cain *tried* to kill him, but every murder attempt misfires because he's too frickin' FAST...

(02:18:04) Quinn: We are all going straight Down Below, y'know that?

(02:18:21) Dariusprime: Hell is where all the interesting people are anyway.

(02:18:37) Cubist: Heaven for climate, Hell for company -- Mark Twain

(02:18:48) Quinn remembers reading a document online about a lawsuit on Wile E. Coyote's behalf against the ACME corporation...

(02:19:08) trollthumper: Shadow Dance IC post.

(02:19:51) Cubist: Adam: The Tasmanian Devil. He eats *everything*.

(02:20:11) Dariusprime: Foghorn would be a good Abraham. He'd sound great going all Charlton Heston and throwing around some tablets.

(02:20:33) Quinn: Here it is! Is quite well-written.

(02:20:43) Dr_Archeville: "Ten, ah say, TEN Commandments! Not suggestion, COMMANDMENTS!"

(02:20:54) Cubist: "Nice Lord, but, I say, he's about as sharp as a bag of hammers..."

(02:21:23) Quinn: Sylvester and Tweety?

(02:21:33) Quinn: And their bulldog cohort?

(02:21:53) trollthumper: I remember Yahtzee's quote about Legend of Zelda: "Sometimes I make his name 'I Say' so it sounds like all the NPCs are Foghorn Leghorn."

(02:21:58) Dariusprime: Peter, Paul and the bulldog as Thomas.

(02:22:05) Cubist: Foghorn even has a male relative of suitable age for the "sacrifice your son" routine.

(02:22:13) Dariusprime: lol

(02:22:39) Quinn: Except considering his opinion of said relative, he'd probably go through with it...wait, then what about Foghorn's dog nemesis?

(02:22:57) Dariusprime: Ramses?

(02:23:16) Cubist: Sylvester... hmmm. Pharoah?

(02:23:29) Quinn: Darius > I think you mean Moses, not Abraham.

(02:23:46) Quinn: And if Foghorn's Moses, no wonder they kicked him out of the palace! XD

(02:23:57) Dariusprime: oh yeah

(02:24:19) Cubist: Okayh -- Sylvester is Abraham. And the Lord told him to sacrifice Tweety...

(02:24:20) Dariusprime: I get those two switched around.

(02:24:26) Dariusprime: Meant Moses

(02:24:51) Quinn: How about Tweety as David and Sylvester as Goliath?

(02:24:58) Quinn: Kind of fits, size-wize.

(02:25:06) Cubist: [nods] Good point.

(02:25:08) Dariusprime: What about Grandma then?

(02:25:14) Cubist: Salome!

(02:25:26) Quinn ponders.

(02:25:30) Cubist: Either Greandma or Witch Hazel.

(02:25:39) Quinn: Witch Hazel's more Jezebel, IMHO.

(02:25:50) Cubist: ROFL!

(02:25:51) Quinn: Grandma as...Solomon?

(02:26:00) Quinn head-tilts.

(02:26:17) trollthumper: Well, I'm off to bed. Night, all.

(02:26:21) Cubist: Hey -- we've overlooked Porky Pig.

(02:26:24) Quinn: Night, Troll.

(02:26:28) Dariusprime: I'm afraid to ask...Pepe Le Pew?

(02:26:31) Cubist: bcnu TT

(02:26:32) Dariusprime: goodnight TT

(02:26:51) ChatBot: Error: Connection status: 408

(02:26:57) Cubist: Pepe le Pew is Solomon. *How many* hundred wives and concubines did that man have..?

(02:27:25) Quinn: Porky Pig? Totally Joshua. "Circle the w-w-w-w-w-city three times, then b-b-b-b-b-b-b-play those horns loud."

(02:27:55) Cubist: Hmmm. Grandma as Mary, Mother of Bugs, I mean Jesus?

(02:28:05) Quinn: NO.

(02:28:21) Quinn: That female rabbit Bugs is always chasing as Mary Magdalene, y'think?

(02:28:30) Dariusprime: yeah

(02:28:36) Cubist: Babs Bunny, yeah.

(02:28:37) Dariusprime: Droopy. Can't forget Droopy.

(02:28:43) ChatBot: trollthumper has been logged out (Timeout).

(02:28:47) Dariusprime: That guy is everywhere.

(02:29:27) Quinn: Droopy? Hmm...Jonah? Or maybe one of the doom-and-gloom style prophets?

(02:29:35) Cubist: [nods]

(02:29:57) ChatBot: Fox logs out of the Chat.

(02:30:02) Dariusprime: That works. Didn't they make a cartoon where the main character hides from Droopy inside a fish?

(02:30:13) Cubist: [snicker]

(02:30:38) ChatBot: Fox logs into the Chat.

(02:30:51) Quinn: So who plays Satan, then? When he tries to tempt Bugs, I mean Jesus?

(02:31:19) Dariusprime: Yosemite Sam? That red-haired, sneaker-wearing monster?

(02:31:32) Dariusprime: I know: Marvin the Martian.

(02:32:11) Cubist: Hmmm... Chuck Jones has to be God. So Satan would be a director who made the worst Bugs cartoons.

(02:32:17) Quinn: Naaah...Marvin's got another role, but I just can't think of it. >.>

(02:32:48) Cubist: Marvin: Casca, the Legionaire who stuck the spear in Bugs, i mean Christ, when he was on the cross.

(02:32:49) Quinn: ...

(02:33:05) Quinn copies this entire conversation for future posterity. It Came From The Chatroom, anyone?

(02:33:19) Dariusprime: Damn right.

(02:35:08) Dariusprime: "Oh goody! My illudium Q-36 explosive spear modulator."

(02:35:10) Cubist: Marvin's *got* to be a Roman Legionnaire. He already has the right wardrobe.

(02:35:34) Cubist: Oooh! Droopy is Methuselah!

(02:35:38) Fox looked away for just a little bit and now you're making some sort of Looney Tunes Christian mythology?

(02:35:57) Dariusprime: Turn to the dark side, Fox. We have cookies.

(02:36:00) Dariusprime: And dental.

(02:36:23) Quinn: We're all going straight to hell.

[N/A]

(23:18:39) ShaenTheBrain: Alright, enough of this memory-lane crap. I need sleep. Any last rules questions before I'm out?

(23:18:59) Fox: If you do the thing, and it triggers the thing, does the thing thing, or the thing thing thing?

(23:19:02) Gizmo: How much Morph is too much Morph?

(23:19:29) ShaenTheBrain: Gizmo, no Morph is too much Morph, because shapeshifters should be hard to spot.

(23:19:46) ShaenTheBrain: Fox, the thing thing renders the thing thing thing moot.

(23:19:59) Fox: Ah, of course.

(23:20:02) Fox: I had my things messed up.

(23:20:11) Gizmo: Hee hee!

(23:21:57) Sorus: Hee

(23:21:59) ShaenTheBrain: Fox, also keep in mind that the thing only triggers the thing if the thing is the thing, not if it's the thing.

(23:22:26) Fox: ....wait, no, if the thing is the thing, wouldn't it trigger the other thing by default?

(23:22:38) Fox: Or am I confusing the thing with the not-thing?

(23:22:39) ShaenTheBrain: Only if the thing is also the thing, Fox.

(23:22:43) Fox: Ahh.

(23:22:50) ShaenTheBrain: Glad I could clear that up.

(23:22:55) Sorus: You are making my head hurt

(23:22:59) Sorus: Thanks, jerks.

(23:23:08) Fox: Glad to have it cleared up. The thing thing's been eating at me for forever.

(23:23:53) ShaenTheBrain: Well, now that you understand the thing, you'll have to read up on the stuff.

(23:24:08) Fox: Ugh. But there's so much of the stuff.

(23:24:20) ShaenTheBrain: Well, that's why you start with the thing, and work up to the stuff.

(23:24:35) Sorus: ...

(23:24:44) Sorus just bans everyone.

[quotemyname]

(15:33:47) quotemyname: OMG

(15:34:02) quotemyname: I'm going to see Geez3r for the first time today in months! :favorite:

(15:34:12) Electra: Fun!

(15:34:13) quotemyname: I'm going to hug him :3:

(15:34:20) AvengerAssembled: Hooray!

(15:34:31) Raveled: o.o

(15:34:32) Ecalsneerg: ... you two really fail to help the jokes

(15:35:28) quotemyname: You mean the jokes about the forbidden love that he and I share?

(15:35:37) Ecalsneerg: Hey, not so forbidden

[Fox]

(21:26:34) Gizmo: Hm. What's the raptor mean by 'meatie'? Singling Cannonade out, I mean.

(21:27:11) trollthumper: I think it's basically saying warm-blood.

(21:27:29) AvengerAssembled: That would require a Raptor Pop Culture roll to know for sure, but you can make a Sense Motive check.

One day, I will have a character with Raptor Pop Culture.

[Dr Archeville]

(2011.05.23 - 16:33:13) ChatBot: AvengerAssembled logs into the Chat.

(2011.05.23 - 16:33:42) AvengerAssembled: I've thought about doing Tangent builds.

(2011.05.23 - 16:34:14) Gizmo: Based on PCs?

(2011.05.23 - 16:34:22) AvengerAssembled: Ye

(2011.05.23 - 16:34:54) Gizmo: Scarab as a young homeless boy who transforms into a hulking, chitinous insect creature!

(2011.05.23 - 16:35:26) Dream: now i'm invisioning all the PCs as homeless people with powers. Scary

(2011.05.23 - 16:35:35) AvengerAssembled: I haven't gotten past envisioning Jack of all Blades as Penance.

(2011.05.23 - 16:35:37) AvengerAssembled: Dream: Get help.

(2011.05.23 - 16:36:09) Dream: i was just being silly

(2011.05.23 - 16:36:36) Gizmo: Pointy, AA!

(2011.05.23 - 16:36:56) Gizmo kinda wishes the Loners had gone somwhere.

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:01) Gizmo: *somewhere

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:04) AvengerAssembled: I'd actually pictured Scarab as being an Egyptian Ted Kord.

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:18) ShaenTheBrain: "Loners?"

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:26) Sorus: AvengerAssembled best Avenger

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:35) Gizmo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon​ers

(2011.05.23 - 16:37:56) ShaenTheBrain: More like Loaners, amirite?

(2011.05.23 - 16:38:16) ShaenTheBrain: Oh hey, I was just setting up a joke, but there you go being all helpful and informative an' s**t.

(2011.05.23 - 16:38:46) Sorus: Gizmo is a helper

(2011.05.23 - 16:38:53) Sorus: !

(2011.05.23 - 16:39:19) Gizmo: Yus!

(2011.05.23 - 16:39:20) Sorus: Sweet Baby Ray's is some nice bbq sauce

(2011.05.23 - 16:40:26) trollthumper: Switching computers. Back soon.

(2011.05.23 - 16:40:33) Gizmo: Oh course, now Phil is crazy and evil again for realz, and Darkhawk finally got to do some real cosmic stuff, but still.

(2011.05.23 - 16:41:34) Gizmo: Turbo running a support group? Julie Powers with a crush on a Red Ronin cyborg? Ricochet's hilarious costume? Sign me up.

(2011.05.23 - 16:41:46) ChatBot: trollthumper has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.05.23 - 16:42:05) Sorus: Hee

(2011.05.23 - 16:42:37) AvengerAssembled: Let's see.

(2011.05.23 - 16:42:44) AvengerAssembled: Malice as a rage controller.

(2011.05.23 - 16:44:17) AvengerAssembled: Harrier as a British battlesuit user

(2011.05.23 - 16:44:32) AvengerAssembled: Fusion as a nuclear woman.

(2011.05.23 - 16:44:39) Sorus: Hee, Harrier as a British anything

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:14) Sorus: Sage as a plant!

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:23) Sorus: Willow.. as a tree.

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:25) Sorus: :/

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:31) Gizmo: Faaaaail.

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:44) Sorus: Pretty much

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:47) AvengerAssembled: Midnight as a time controller

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:55) AvengerAssembled: Wail as a banshee!

(2011.05.23 - 16:45:56) Gizmo: :ninja:'d!

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:05) Fox: Dragonfly as a terrible bug monster?

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:05) Gizmo: I was just going to say time controller!

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:19) ShaenTheBrain: Avenger as an executive at an insurance company.

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:34) ShaenTheBrain: No wait, he's already a soulless bloodsucker!

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:43) AvengerAssembled: It's fair!

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:44) Gizmo: So, still a blood suck- dammit!

(2011.05.23 - 16:46:44) Sorus: Though I can always do Sage as the super genius I know everything type

(2011.05.23 - 16:47:15) Sorus: Willow wouldn't change at all though. Plant controller to.. plant controller

(2011.05.23 - 16:47:56) Gizmo: Willow as a flexible martial artist!

(2011.05.23 - 16:48:12) Sorus: Willow as Bruce Lee

(2011.05.23 - 16:48:18) Fox: Heheh. Gaian Knight as a golem.

(2011.05.23 - 16:48:40) Gizmo: Jill O'Cure's name makes no sense out of context.

(2011.05.23 - 16:48:45) ShaenTheBrain: Breakdown as a decent human being worthy of respect and affection.

(2011.05.23 - 16:48:59) AvengerAssembled: I can't see it, Shaen

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:07) Sorus: That way only leads to madness, Shaen

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:15) AvengerAssembled: Breakdown: an entropy controller

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:22) AvengerAssembled: Give him Disintegrate and Corrosion.

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:25) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, that was a little far-fetched.

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:32) Gizmo: Nice, AA.

(2011.05.23 - 16:49:49) Gizmo: Wander as a mysterious Phantom Stranger-style teleporter?

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:26) AvengerAssembled: Citizen as a faceless Objectivist Vigilante

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:35) ShaenTheBrain: Rename Divine "Chastity." She's a Christian saint who derives superhuman power from remaining celibate. And unlike her Earth-Prime counterpart, she's got a good reason for being an Irish redhead.

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:37) Gizmo: Edge as a pouch covered mercenary!

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:44) Gizmo: Pouches full of knives!

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:54) Aoiroo: Changeling as, wait we already have that in this universe.

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:54) AvengerAssembled: Edge as Bullseye? Yes.

(2011.05.23 - 16:50:55) ShaenTheBrain: Actually, I think I just created the Divine of Anti-Earth.

(2011.05.23 - 16:51:23) Aoiroo: Funny

(2011.05.23 - 16:51:40) AvengerAssembled: Divine is Harris Milstead with superpowers, natch.

(2011.05.23 - 16:51:59) Gizmo: No no, Thrude as Bullseye with poor grammar skills.

(2011.05.23 - 16:52:32) AvengerAssembled: Or Lobo with a speech impediment

(2011.05.23 - 16:52:48) Gizmo: Th'rude?

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:12) Gizmo: Arrowhawk as a winged flier!

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:14) AvengerAssembled: Freedom Angel...hmm. A light-hearted street-level hero, fighting for the common man.

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:23) AvengerAssembled: Like early Daredevil.

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:26) Fox: Gizmo: Jill O'Cure's name makes no sense out of context. Jill O'Cure as the divine avatar/descendant of a deity with a death/creation duality, like Kali.

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:45) Aoiroo: Silhouette as, umm, I'm gonna need help with that one actually.

(2011.05.23 - 16:53:57) Gizmo: This is supposed to be an alternate version, Fox. But perhaps I say too much!

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:04) Fox: Haha.

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:07) AvengerAssembled: Silhouette as French lady-Batman

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:07) Gizmo: Wakka wakka wakka!

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:22) Sorus: I approve of French ladies

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:22) Aoiroo: Heh

(2011.05.23 - 16:54:47) Fox: Hm. Wraith (for all that she doesn't exist yet) as AA's reaper oddball.

(2011.05.23 - 16:55:14) Gizmo: Ghost Girl as an untraceable hacker!

(2011.05.23 - 16:55:31) Aoiroo: Heh

(2011.05.23 - 16:55:52) Gizmo: Miss Americana as a construct of the nation's history and values!

(2011.05.23 - 16:56:27) Fox: Gizmo: Augh, you beat me! I was just about to say Miss Americana as a patriotic super-soldier Cap A expy.

(2011.05.23 - 16:56:48) Gizmo: I was thinking more like Uncle Sam, Fox.

(2011.05.23 - 16:57:14) Fox: I...know nothing about Uncle Sam, though I've seen him in a single comic, I think. Time to look him up!

(2011.05.23 - 16:57:17) Gizmo: She derives her powers from patriotism!

(2011.05.23 - 16:57:28) AvengerAssembled: Uncle Slam!

(2011.05.23 - 16:57:29) Gizmo: He was in an episode of B:TBATB, if it helps.

(2011.05.23 - 16:57:51) Aoiroo: I'm a little astonished that I reconized that anagram.

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:00) AvengerAssembled: (Which was the name of the Gold-to-Bronze Age Patriotic hero on Wonderella's Earth)

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:05) Gizmo: Zephyr as a wind controller!

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:26) Gizmo: Dead Head as a telepathic assassin!

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:31) Sorus: Nice.

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:40) ShaenTheBrain: (13:55:52) Gizmo: Miss Americana as a construct of the nation's history and values! She's a self-hating Internet-addicted shut-in whose entire life is built on a foundation of lies and misdirection. That sounds pretty close to modern America already.

(2011.05.23 - 16:58:51) Aoiroo: The Scarab as, well mutant insect hero.

(2011.05.23 - 16:59:01) Gizmo: Already did that, Roo.

(2011.05.23 - 16:59:03) Sorus: She's like Pestilence from HoN

(2011.05.23 - 16:59:31) Aoiroo: Sorry, haven't got the whole of the conversation since I'm watching through the second season of Justice League.

(2011.05.23 - 16:59:47) Gizmo: Phalanx as a shield carrying duplicator!

(2011.05.23 - 17:00:05) Aoiroo: Wisp as a steam manipulator.

(2011.05.23 - 17:00:50) Sorus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G​SYSaHvSi5Y

(2011.05.23 - 17:00:55) Sorus: ^^ Pestilence

(2011.05.23 - 17:01:02) ChatBot: Azuth65 logs into the Chat.

(2011.05.23 - 17:01:14) Gizmo: Hellion as an arrogant prince cursed with the form of a terrible demon until he can find true love!

(2011.05.23 - 17:01:34) AvengerAssembled: Dead Head as the heroic hippie!

(2011.05.23 - 17:01:39) Aoiroo: Hellion as The Beast

(2011.05.23 - 17:01:57) Azuth65: (in his Spy voice) Gentlemen.

(2011.05.23 - 17:02:30) Aoiroo: Wonder what's better, Az's spy voice or Sorus's sick voice.

(2011.05.23 - 17:02:50) Sorus: My sick voice, yo

(2011.05.23 - 17:03:15) Azuth65: You two have ventrillo? We can put an end to the wondering.

(2011.05.23 - 17:03:46) Sorus: Not on this computer, no. And it won't handle it

(2011.05.23 - 17:04:38) Gizmo: Atlas as a super-genius with encyclopedic knowledge!

(2011.05.23 - 17:05:01) Dream: (15:58:40) ShaenTheBrain: (13:55:52) Gizmo: Miss Americana as a construct of the nation's history and values! She's a self-hating Internet-addicted shut-in whose entire life is built on a foundation of lies and misdirection. That sounds pretty close to modern America already.Right, Nascar and Myspace, the american dream

(2011.05.23 - 17:05:22) Gizmo: Ooh! If Gaian Knight is a golem, then Cobalt Templar can be like his Rusty the Boy Robot sidekick!

(2011.05.23 - 17:05:27) Azuth65: Just as well, I don't have my headset with the laptop and I'm nice and comfy on the couch.

(2011.05.23 - 17:05:31) ShaenTheBrain: (14:01:14) Gizmo: Hellion as an arrogant prince cursed with the form of a terrible demon until he can find true love! Yes. A terrible demon.

(2011.05.23 - 17:05:58) Azuth65: Dream, I think we've moved on to Facebook over MySpace but yeah, you're pretty dead on .

(2011.05.23 - 17:06:09) Gizmo: Gossamer as a spider-themed webspinner!

(2011.05.23 - 17:06:41) Gizmo: Grimalkin as a gothic, magical catgirl! ...wait.

(2011.05.23 - 17:07:28) AvengerAssembled: Colt as a horse.

(2011.05.23 - 17:07:38) AvengerAssembled: Like Bad Horse, but as a hero.

(2011.05.23 - 17:07:39) Fox: Not even a super-horse, just a horse?

(2011.05.23 - 17:07:52) Dream: of course of course

(2011.05.23 - 17:08:09) Azuth65: Nah AA, Colt as a sentient bottle of malt booze.

(2011.05.23 - 17:08:31) Azuth65: He can be beaten by Chester A. Bum .

(2011.05.23 - 17:08:49) ShaenTheBrain: Colt as Billy Dee Williams.

(2011.05.23 - 17:09:17) Dream: Colt as a Football Player!

(2011.05.23 - 17:09:33) Sorus: ...no

(2011.05.23 - 17:09:44) Sorus: Irsay

(2011.05.23 - 17:10:23) Gizmo: Crow as a humble penitent?

(2011.05.23 - 17:11:42) Dream: Crow as a movie critic

(2011.05.23 - 17:12:12) Gizmo: ...I'm not sure you really get what we're going for here, Dream.

(2011.05.23 - 17:12:40) Dream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D​cUkKltAidM

(2011.05.23 - 17:14:37) Dream: ah, forgot to add robot in there

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_Comics

[Raveled]

(10:09:56) Quinn: Well, considering the Five Man Band is Glowstar, Crow, Wisp, Changeling, and Myrmidon...

(10:10:09) Raveled: Magneto makes him into a suicide bomber. Well, makes them, but you understand.

(10:10:30) Quinn: Glowstar = Superman, Crow = Batman, Wisp = Wondy, Changeling = Martian Manhunter, Myrmidon = ...Green Lantern?

(10:10:44) Quinn: Actually, that kind of fits. Myrm does make weapons out of nowhere.

(10:10:51) Semi-Autogyro: I'm okay with that if Myr hooks up with a hot alien chick.

(10:11:10) Raveled: Sure. She'll be underage, though.

(10:11:26) Semi-Autogyro: Please, Myr is 3

[Gizmo]

(02:19:03) Gizmo: So, Willow's not really magic, right?

(02:20:33) Sorus: Willow is.. complicated.

(02:21:57) Sorus: Think someone taking magic ans super science and putting it into a blender

(02:22:55) Sorus: and then making a sweet smoothie out of it

(02:22:58) Gizmo: So... bit like Jack, then, actually. Huh.

(02:23:06) Sorus: tastes of strawberries

(02:23:19) Gizmo: ...like, literally?

(02:23:32) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 1d6 and gets 2.

(02:23:35) Sorus: Yep

(02:23:39) Gizmo: :facepalm:

[N/A]

(00:44:33) Fox: Or he could just never grow old! The Immortal Swordsman. What's one more ageless hero?

(00:45:00) Gizmo: It'd be pretty easy to justify; he's an energy manipulator, there's all kinds of life-prolonging energies all over the place, apparently.

(00:45:26) Electra: Maybe if they break into Divine's house, they'll find a few bottles still laying around.

(00:45:58) Gizmo: Maybe Thrude can set him up with Idun's digits?

(00:48:39) ShaenTheBrain: Idunn might have changed her number since the last time her and Thrude talked.

(00:49:39) Sorus: Heh

(00:50:09) Cubist: Depends how draconian Idunn's phone contract is, Shaen.

(00:50:20) ShaenTheBrain: But yeah, some ambrosia or an apple of Idunn would be the most straightforward way of making Jack immortal.

(00:50:51) Gizmo: Well, obviously Idunn has an iPhone.

(00:53:38) ShaenTheBrain:

(00:54:16) Cubist: Idunno about that...

(00:54:16) ShaenTheBrain: Right. Apples. iDunn. It all works. Dammit.

(00:54:34) Gizmo:

(00:54:45) ShaenTheBrain: And those Apples give their users iMortality .

(00:54:59) Fox: That's how you know it's a Gizmo pun. You look at it from another angle, and you only find...more pun.

(00:55:11) Gizmo: There's a golden app for that.

(00:55:19) ShaenTheBrain:

(00:55:29) Cubist: IFractal wordplay: No matter howfar you zoom into it, it's STILL PUN.

(00:57:12) Gizmo: I guess we've had a few of our most prominent immortal characters retire, so there's some room there. It's a thought.

(00:58:03) Gizmo: Probably have to be the result of an adventure where Jack was badly injured, impaled on the Grasscutter or something, and the apples were the only thing that could save him.

(00:58:17) Gizmo: Although Thrude probably wouldn't see the issue with just letting him die in battle.

(00:58:41) Sorus: Willow sez, "Wait, you're not going to die? Damnit, I signed up for a tragic romance."

(00:58:41) Electra: Stesha still has Ace's mankana plant

(00:58:42) ShaenTheBrain: He'd make a fine addition to the einherjar.

(00:58:52) ShaenTheBrain: Although if he refused the offer, she'd then consider saving his life.

(00:59:01) ShaenTheBrain: "If we can't have you, no one can!"

(00:59:15) Gizmo: There's probably some Willow/apple tree thing to be be done there, too.

(00:59:27) Electra: She could give it to Willow to give to Jack.

(00:59:31) Gizmo: Golden plant battlesuit!

(00:59:52) Sorus: oh man, Willow needs to ride that tree

(01:01:30) Gizmo: You could argue that eternity with Jack is pretty damn tragic.

[Fox]

(22:22:39) Electra: Gizmo, your character's grandpa just cold shot somebody. Now is not the time for carsex!

(22:22:46) Gizmo: Isn't it?

(22:23:05) trollthumper: ...God, I love this room.

I would like to note - for posterity - that the discussion was about cars having sex, not people having sex in cars.

[Quinn]

Every hero has their own way of punching things! What's yours?

(13:53:41) ShaenTheBrain: Yes. I see a certain player's fingerprints on this build or that power all the time.

(13:54:06) ShaenTheBrain: I can usually tell by looking at it whether a given build is an Ecal build, a Geez3r build, or an AA build, etc.

(13:54:46) quotemyname: I know what you mean.

(13:55:00) quotemyname: Ecal tends to make Defense shifted characters work.

(13:55:07) quotemyname: Geez3r tends to pile on the Dakka.

(13:55:32) quotemyname: And you have elaborately well thought out power structures that cover every base ever.

(13:55:43) ShaenTheBrain: AA's builds almost always find a reason to justify just going for base Attack +10 and STR 30 (+10).

(13:56:18) quotemyname: Including the lists of "things I will be power stunting for, yes I thought this out ahead of time, because I know exactly what holes this character has in it" that you come up with

(13:56:23) ShaenTheBrain: Of course, now that most of us powergamers are backpedaling and experimenting with less optimized and more minimalist builds and power structures, the styles are changing and becoming harder to identify or track.

(13:56:34) ShaenTheBrain: DokA does the same thing.

(13:57:00) Quinn: I'm guessing my builds are built solely for punching things?

(13:57:17) quotemyname: Yea, Blue's never going to be more than PL12 Defensively and likely not more than PL10 offensively.

(13:57:18) Quinn: Or punching things from a distance, in Push's case.

(13:57:23) ShaenTheBrain: That's one of the most important parts of a build, as far as I'm concerned: Identifying what you want the character to be capable of, powers-wise, and then dividing those powers into APs you're going to pay PP for and power stunts you'll acquire during play.

(13:57:55) quotemyname: And buying enough Luck to support it.

(13:58:05) quotemyname: But not too much for cheese.

(13:58:36) quotemyname: I think I can see Ferros climbing to higher PLs, simply because of the nature of his powers.

(13:58:45) Quinn: Dok A -punches things, Shaen mind-punches things, Gizmo stab-punches things, Dragonfly also -punches things, Quote bullet-punches things...

(13:59:04) Quinn: Everyone here pretty much -punches things.

(13:59:05) quotemyname: I won't be bullet punching things much longer.

(13:59:15) Quinn: Ok, now you metal-punch things.

(13:59:21) quotemyname:

(14:00:10) ShaenTheBrain: This is M&M. Building to punch things is the easy part.

(14:00:15) Quinn: Arcturus bear-punches things, Wander overkill-punches things, Grimalkin fancy-punches things, Glowstar ENDOFTHEUNIVERSENERGY-punches things...

(14:01:26) Quinn: Freedom Angel and Gabriel graduated from the Dresden school of thinking, "I punched it in the nose. Now we're friends.", Thrude WRATHOFTHEGODS-punches things, Zephyr...I don't know enough about Zephyr to make a guess there.

(14:02:05) Quinn: I should make a thread for this in OOC. "How Does Your Character Punch Things?"

(14:02:20) ShaenTheBrain: Zephyr punched things in the same spot a million times inside of a tenth of a second, and then they fell down.

(14:02:42) Godiva: Jade Dragon does not punch

(14:02:51) Quinn: Jade Dragon arrow-punches things.

(14:02:54) Raveled: JD arrow-punches.

(14:02:55) ShaenTheBrain: She actually punched them in that spot once, inside a millionth of a second, and then went back in time that millionth of a second and punched them again, and then went back in time and did it again, millions of times.

(14:03:10) ShaenTheBrain: (Autofire 3 on her Mighty Strike AP)

(14:03:11) Quinn: Arrowhawk also arrow-punches, but his arrow-punches are explosive.

(14:03:11) Raveled: so Z time-punches. Or punches time, depending.

(14:03:19) ShaenTheBrain: Both

(14:04:04) Raveled ponders just how many people metal-punch or -punch

(14:04:30) Quinn: Scarab punches your mind. Unless you're that one sorcerer.

(14:05:20) ShaenTheBrain has never wanted so much to commit seppuku over a die roll

(14:05:39) Quinn: KC unleashesunspeakableeldrichevil-​punches things.

(14:05:49) Quinn: Dead Head zombie-punches things.

(14:06:14) Quinn: Go do an IC post in Unstuck, Shaen. I dares you.

(14:07:28) Quinn: Lessee...Silhouette 2D-punches things, Changeling also fancy-punches things, Breakdown -punches things...

(14:08:22) Quinn: Fleur sad-punches things, Miss A both and snark-punches things (depending if it's robot or Gina)...

(14:09:47) Quinn: Lord Steam and Supercape British-punch things, Wail LOUD-punches things, Citizen Neo-punches things...

(14:10:19) Raveled: Fleur flower-punches.

(14:11:05) Quinn: Harrier...Harrier unspeakablyscary-punches things?

(14:11:40) Electra: Fleur more "grabs you with a plant and makes it sneeze sleepy-pollen on you. Then it eats you."

(14:11:54) Godiva: Godiva JustenditQuinn-punhes the joke

(14:12:06) Quinn: Fusion octopus-punches things, repeatedly, Geckoman Schrodinger-punches things...

(14:12:15) Raveled: Avenger scarey-punches.

(14:12:26) Raveled: Jack, of course, stab-punches. Jill sick-punchs.

(14:12:55) Godiva: how do you ignore someone?

(14:12:56) Quinn: Midnight alwayshasadevicethatprovidesthea​ppropriate-punches things.

(14:13:00) Raveled: Gossamer hair-punches.

(14:13:08) Raveled: Diva> By being the better person?

(14:13:48) Quinn: Edge luck-punches things, and Atlas flat out punches things. And that's all I've got.

(14:14:25) Quinn: Considering he only took one punch to down my mighty Siege Beast...dangit, Geez!

(14:14:29) Electra: Wander most-triumphant-just-punches

(14:14:47) Quinn: I think I gave Wander overkill-punches.

(14:14:59) Electra: That works too

(14:15:37) ShaenTheBrain: Atlas punches the bejeezus out of things.

(14:15:45) Quinn: He bejeezus-punches things?

(14:15:52) ShaenTheBrain: No, that's Freedom Angel.

(14:15:59) ShaenTheBrain: :mrgreen:

(14:16:35) Quinn: I think that's both Freedom Angel and Gabriel, Shaen.

(14:16:53) Quinn: Either that, or both Gabe and Wail qualify for LOUD-punching things.

(14:17:06) Electra: They punch the jesus into things

(14:17:28) Quinn: Be forgiven! *WHAM* Be forgiven! *WHAM* Be forgiven! *WHAM*

(14:17:51) Quinn: Nick creepy-punches things.

(14:18:08) trollthumper: Yeah. He punches things with ectoplasm. It doesn't get much creepier than that.

(14:18:37) trollthumper: And Cannonade... just straight up punches things.

(14:18:51) trollthumper: And only half those things are Nazis.

(14:18:56) ShaenTheBrain: “Quinn: I think that's both Freedom Angel and Gabriel, Shaen.†Heyzel was here first.

(14:19:00) Raveled: Cannonade tolerance-punches?

(14:19:08) trollthumper: Damn right he does.

[Dr Archeville]

What if... we talked about FC PbP the same way we talk about comics? Again!

(2011.06.10 - 15:10:05) ShaenTheBrain: Huh. Speaking as part of the editorial staff at FC Comics, the last few issues of The Interceptors (Volume 2) are flying off the shelves. I mean, the whole run has done so much better than Volume 1 it's not even funny, but numbers on these last few, and the Thrude and Willow one-shot tie-ins, are through the roof. Not to mention pre-orders for the wedding finale, and Interceptors #1 (Volume 3).

(2011.06.10 - 15:10:20) Raveled:

(2011.06.10 - 15:10:41) Raveled: It's the new team shake-up. Folks are taking bets on who will stay and who will go.

(2011.06.10 - 15:10:48) ShaenTheBrain: We were worried that putting half the core cast of Vol2 on the bus and introducing a new lineup would alienate the fans and kill the book, but pre-orders for Vol3 just keep coming in.

(2011.06.10 - 15:10:55) quotemyname: And that's exactly why I'm hoping I don't have to separate myself from the team.

(2011.06.10 - 15:11:34) quotemyname: It's my baby, and it's finally maturing!

(2011.06.10 - 15:12:00) Raveled: Ehn. Part of something growing up is when it doesn't need you anymore, QMN.

(2011.06.10 - 15:12:33) quotemyname: Who says it's the Interceptors that need me, and not the other way around?

(2011.06.10 - 15:12:55) ShaenTheBrain: And the FC Comics Showcase 2011 issues with Thrude stories are also flying off the shelves. We seriously did not think she'd be this much of a hit, but readers can't get enough of her. We're already in talks for an ongoing monthly series, but there's still concern about the writer's notorious track record...

(2011.06.10 - 15:12:57) quotemyname: Part of growing old is depending on your kids

(2011.06.10 - 15:13:22) quotemyname: lol

(2011.06.10 - 15:13:36) quotemyname: I like what I've read of Thrude so far.

(2011.06.10 - 15:13:41) ShaenTheBrain: Hey, fans still haven't forgotten the year-long hiatus between issues of The Scarab.

(2011.06.10 - 15:13:58) quotemyname: Is Scarab even still that active?

(2011.06.10 - 15:14:03) quotemyname: You don't talk much about her.

(2011.06.10 - 15:14:07) ShaenTheBrain: Or the premature cancellation of both Zephyr and The Black Hand.

(2011.06.10 - 15:14:38) ShaenTheBrain: Heh. No, The Scarab is not my most active character.

(2011.06.10 - 15:15:07) Electra: We're afraid to get attached!

(2011.06.10 - 15:15:11) ShaenTheBrain: Not even close.

(2011.06.10 - 15:15:50) ShaenTheBrain: "Electra: We're afraid to get attached!" So's the writer, apparently.

(2011.06.10 - 15:16:34) quotemyname: heh

(2011.06.10 - 15:17:32) ShaenTheBrain: We're still waiting to see if adding Freedom Angel back into the Freedom League lineup will boost sales on that book. It's been steadily plodding along, but aside from the Fleur/Darkstar wedding storyline, sales haven't been spectacular.

(2011.06.10 - 15:18:09) Electra: Getting Dark Star put on a bus was really not good for that series.

(2011.06.10 - 15:18:13) ShaenTheBrain: Seems like Doktor Archeville shows up in The Interceptors more often than he does in Freedom League these days, and he was originally just supposed to be a lead-in to that book, not part of the main cast.

(2011.06.10 - 15:18:43) quotemyname: That's our fault though.

(2011.06.10 - 15:18:57) quotemyname: We keep asking him to help us run stuff because we want to be involved!

(2011.06.10 - 15:19:09) trollthumper: Meanwhile, that one writer seems to be putting Nick Cimitiere and Cannonade everywhere he writes. It's worse than Greg Rucka and his kick-ass lesbians.

(2011.06.10 - 15:19:28) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, that's the downside to having so many creator-owned properties running around in this 'verse. Someone quits or moves to another company, and all the sudden it rips a chunk out of your whole line, rippling across your entire setting. It almost killed Image Comics a couple of times.

(2011.06.10 - 15:19:29) quotemyname: But he was always supposed to be running things. It was just supposed to be from behind the scenes / as VINCE

(2011.06.10 - 15:20:29) quotemyname: Like when we lost Alder and Durf to RL?

(2011.06.10 - 15:20:30) Electra: These days, Fleur is mainly a secondary character making cameos in other lines. But she's got a strong presence, so she's probably not going anywhere.

(2011.06.10 - 15:21:30) ShaenTheBrain: Ugh. Don't remind me. I still get angry letters from retailers who pre-ordered Partisan #1 and never saw it materialize.

(2011.06.10 - 15:21:52) ShaenTheBrain: We really should have waited on soliciting that book as hard as we did, but it seemed so promising.

(2011.06.10 - 15:22:02) trollthumper: And I was so looking forward to a crossover on that one.

(2011.06.10 - 15:22:40) quotemyname: Partisan?

(2011.06.10 - 15:23:09) Electra: The Young Freedom title really had to scramble to stay on top after losing three of its most popular characters.

(2011.06.10 - 15:23:12) trollthumper: durf's WWII supersoldier character. Basically "Patriot, but not a self-serving douchebag."

(2011.06.10 - 15:23:56) quotemyname: heh

(2011.06.10 - 15:23:59) quotemyname: O right.

(2011.06.10 - 15:24:22) ShaenTheBrain: But honestly, cancelling Young Freedom and merging the teen heroes back into Claremont Academy was probably the right call. Those were high-selling books, but we were overexposing those characters.

(2011.06.10 - 15:24:42) ShaenTheBrain: Spreading the line too thin.

(2011.06.10 - 15:25:45) ShaenTheBrain: We're getting some good buzz about the upcoming Liberty League revival, though, and that's got a lot of connections to Young Freedom.

(2011.06.10 - 15:27:14) quotemyname is excited for the new season of claremont issues. Because he'll once again be able to write from his inner child.

(2011.06.10 - 15:27:17) ShaenTheBrain: Apparently the plan is for a sort of nuJSA/InfinityInc. kind of team, with the descendants and successors of the Golden Age heroes. Hit the nostalgia and teen demographics simultaneously, a one-two punch.

(2011.06.10 - 15:28:04) ShaenTheBrain: It's a pretty savvy gamble. But still a gamble. It could just wind up alienating fans of both, who each complain that the other ruined it.

(2011.06.10 - 15:30:29) ShaenTheBrain: Hm...which Freedom League characters do we not have to pay Green Ronin Comics royalties to every time we use them...Fleur...Archeville...Free​dom Angel...am I missing anyone?

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:10) quotemyname: Atlas on that team?

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:21) Electra: Ace Danger and Dark Star are gone, so yeah, that's about it. Writer conflicts prevented Wander from getting in there.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:26) ShaenTheBrain: I don't think so, Quote, no.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:28) quotemyname: Or was that midnighters? I can't keep straight all the hero teams anymore.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:35) Electra: Atlas was a Midnighter before that title failed.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:37) ShaenTheBrain: Atlas was on The Midnighters, which I think was also cancelled.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:41) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:54) ShaenTheBrain: Damn, we don't even own the rights to half the characters on that team anymore.

(2011.06.10 - 15:31:55) quotemyname: All I know is who's on Interceptors. I haven't been following Claremont recently.

(2011.06.10 - 15:32:19) ShaenTheBrain: Which is a shame, because that book filled a niche we're running low on these days.

(2011.06.10 - 15:32:32) Aoiroo: Young Freedom is Edge, Wander, Midnight, Cobalt Templar, and Sage.

(2011.06.10 - 15:32:41) quotemyname: Octopus Dropkick got sold to a west coast label (so it's no longer a FC Comic strip).

(2011.06.10 - 15:32:45) Electra: I think only two of the Midnighters even appear in new issues anymore.

(2011.06.10 - 15:33:01) ShaenTheBrain: I think the Equinox and Changeling solo titles are the only "magic" oriented books at FC Comics right now

(2011.06.10 - 15:33:27) Aoiroo: What about Nick Cimitere?

(2011.06.10 - 15:33:35) Sorus: Sage isn't YF. She's just someone whose own title failed and is given a bit part now and then in other titles.

(2011.06.10 - 15:33:49) Electra: I could see a New Midnighters forming up with characters like Nick Cimitiere.

(2011.06.10 - 15:33:51) ShaenTheBrain: The writer on The Scarab (Volume 2) has been talking about putting her on the new Freedom League ever since Knights of Freedom got cancelled. Maybe that could be the shot in the arm both titles need.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:01) trollthumper: Hmm. There's an idea.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:05) ShaenTheBrain: Duh. How could I forget Nick Cimitiere?

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:05) quotemyname: Blueshift's been doing pretty well on the solo circuit. But she really gained momentum with the romantic turn in her line.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:20) Raveled sees all these teams forming, has nothing to contribute to them!

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:30) Aoiroo: Changeling title hasn't been getting much popularity because of the lack of action oriented plots.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:37) Electra: Sage is YF enough for it to count. She's next-gen YF, she and Cobalt Templar are supposed to carry the title over to the new lineup.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:37) quotemyname: Wasn't it your idea to get the tech heroes together?

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:40) quotemyname: What happened to that?

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:41) Raveled: Gear Guard died before the origin story was completed.

(2011.06.10 - 15:34:58) quotemyname claims that's not his fault.

(2011.06.10 - 15:35:05) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, but we've been getting a ton of hate-mail about Blueshift lately. Specifically, her relationship craziness with Push. That was...not a popular arc.

(2011.06.10 - 15:35:13) Raveled: Heh. No, that was my fault entierly.

(2011.06.10 - 15:35:17) ShaenTheBrain: Well, that's not true. Lots and lots of people read it. They just didn't like it.

(2011.06.10 - 15:35:22) quotemyname: Yea, but that's blown over Shaen.

(2011.06.10 - 15:35:56) Aoiroo: Silhouette's reception has been so-so, the authors are thinking of pushing for a team work with her as well.

(2011.06.10 - 15:36:13) quotemyname: That arc can be Blueshift's African Child.

(2011.06.10 - 15:36:18) Electra: Young Freedom is going to suffer when it loses its last founding members. Getting Cobalt Templar and Sage set up is going to be crucial if the title is going to survive.

(2011.06.10 - 15:38:04) Aoiroo: Well Blueshift can't go down as badly as Breakdown did, especially after the failure of his solo issues after his WTH Hero in the prom arc.

(2011.06.10 - 15:50:14) Quinn: Push's writer is working overtime to make that arc palatable. Fans are on the fence.

(2011.06.10 - 15:50:29) ShaenTheBrain: We wish him all the best with the Authors Saving Throw.

(2011.06.10 - 15:50:54) Quinn: Author's Saving Throw, Shaen?

(2011.06.10 - 15:51:35) ShaenTheBrain: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik​i.php/Main/AuthorsSavingThrow

(2011.06.10 - 15:51:40) Quinn: Well, when you end up in a crossover with one of the most controversial writers in the Freedom City offices, there's going to be a lot of flak.

(2011.06.10 - 15:52:37) Quinn: Still, you have to admire a story that forges past a train wreck and keeps going; though the fans seem to obsess over that one rather awkwardly written comic in the arc.

(2011.06.10 - 15:52:48) Quinn: Actually, let me rephrase; Push has fans? 8o

(2011.06.10 - 15:54:01) Quinn has plenty of self-depreciating humor to break out. Is that a bad or good thing?

(2011.06.10 - 15:54:06) GranspearZX: The kids do like random destruction these days...

(2011.06.10 - 15:54:18) quotemyname: It's a good thing Quinn.

(2011.06.10 - 15:54:40) quotemyname: People tend to respect you more when you're capable of tearing yourself down as well as other.

(2011.06.10 - 16:07:15) Quinn: Say what you want about Push's author, his storylines, or the controversy; that writer sure knows how to make Push's cooking look good.

(2011.06.10 - 16:07:36) Quinn: Half the fans buy those issues for the recipes in the back of the comic anyway.

(2011.06.10 - 16:07:46) GranspearZX: Push can cook?

(2011.06.10 - 16:08:34) GranspearZX: Arc would like him marginally more if he knew that.

(2011.06.10 - 16:08:38) Quinn: "In Brief: Kinetic-controlling mutant with a habit of getting in way over his head, and a wisecrack for every occasion. Also an excellent cook." Yes.

(2011.06.10 - 16:08:47) Aoiroo: The other half of them buy them so they can try and calculate the cost of his usual collateral damage, and figure out why someone capable of independant flight needs a flying motorcycle.

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:13) trollthumper: The same reason Wonder Woman needs an invisible jet.

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:15) Quinn: *sigh* The writer's explained that a few dozen times; his flight drains him of kinetic energy. Energy which can be used to fight things.

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:16) trollthumper: FLASH, baby.

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:26) GranspearZX: I would argue: who doesn't need a flying motorcycle?

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:35) Quinn: And flash is important too.

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:49) Aoiroo: "(16:09:26) GranspearZX: I would argue: who doesn't need a flying motorcycle?"

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:51) ShaenTheBrain: "Aoiroo: The other half of them buy them so they can try and calculate the cost of his usual collateral damage, and figure out why someone capable of independant flight needs a flying motorcycle." The same reason Michael Bolton needs to sing a love song from the top of a goddamned mountain while white horses run through fire on the beach below him. "Because AWESOME, that's why!"

(2011.06.10 - 16:09:51) Aoiroo: Touche

(2011.06.10 - 16:10:54) ShaenTheBrain thinks that "Because AWESOME, that's why!" is a worldview and lifestyle he could really get behind

(2011.06.10 - 16:11:43) quotemyname: "(16:10:54) ShaenTheBrain thinks that "Because AWESOME, that's why!" is a worldview and lifestyle he could really get behind" seconded

(2011.06.10 - 16:12:44) Quinn: "The other half of them buy them so they can try and calculate the cost of his usual collateral damage..." Don't you read the back pages? They keep a running tally there.

(2011.06.10 - 16:13:24) Aoiroo: "

(16:12:44) Quinn: “The other half of them buy them so they can try and calculate the cost of his usual collateral damage...” Don't you read the back pages? They keep a running tally there.

" You know nerds, they always have to check the author's math.

(2011.06.10 - 16:13:38) ShaenTheBrain: Heh. Just like Todd MacFarlane used to keep a running tally of Spawn's power level, the writer of Push includes a tally of his collateral damage.

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:14) Quinn: I'm just surprised anyone reads those comics; Push is like the black sheep of the FC lineup.

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:36) Aoiroo: Not really, unless black sheep means shortest guy

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:36) Raveled: Ha.

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:49) Quinn: Though the number's gotten progressively smaller, there hasn't been a tally over a thousand bucks since Witch Hunt.

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:57) quotemyname: Blueshift thinks he's the right height.

(2011.06.10 - 16:14:59) Aoiroo: Though I guess it's part of the charm that the author doesn't make him out as taller than every female he's met.

(2011.06.10 - 16:15:19) trollthumper: Oh, yes. That's when Push just flat-out smashed a hole in a motel.

(2011.06.10 - 16:15:39) Quinn: Arcturus was in danger at the time, though.

(2011.06.10 - 16:16:12) Quinn: Still, credit to the writer; he does find a way to make Push fit into a lot of different stories.

(2011.06.10 - 16:16:15) quotemyname: weirdest artifact power ever

(2011.06.10 - 16:16:26) Aoiroo: Granted, though I'm sure the fans can appreciate that the damage only cost more because it was set outside the realm of Freedom City's hero insurance.

(2011.06.10 - 16:16:43) Quinn: And placing him in charge of the Unstuck In Time arc was a masterstroke. /egostroke

(2011.06.10 - 16:16:53) quotemyname: lol

(2011.06.10 - 16:17:05) ShaenTheBrain: Thrude keeps her trap shut during this whole "property damage" debate

(2011.06.10 - 16:17:54) Aoiroo: Fans of the Silhouette comics seemed to have a mixed response because of how often the stories take place with ehr out of costume, mostly it's mail about why she doesn't get Dragonfly to make her a device so she can change quickly and alwayas have her costume on her.

(2011.06.10 - 16:18:02) Quinn: And since Thrude pulled the "turning downtown into Yggdrasil" stunt, the fans have pretty much died down on the whole "collateral damage" issue. Though the writers of Doctor Metropolis weep.

(2011.06.10 - 16:18:30) Quinn: Well, sorry, since Freedom Angel pulled the downtown stunt. Not that the fans deign to notice that fact.

(2011.06.10 - 16:19:07) ShaenTheBrain: Doc Metro doesn't have his own book.

(2011.06.10 - 16:19:12) Quinn: Solid return on FA, tho'. Fans were waiting to see Heyzel make with the big voice again.

(2011.06.10 - 16:19:22) ShaenTheBrain: He pops up so often in everyone else's books, it's easy to forget that.

(2011.06.10 - 16:20:00) ShaenTheBrain: Also, Thrude and the wolf had wrecked an entire city block before F.A. even showed up.

(2011.06.10 - 16:20:36) Quinn: That's probably why the Powers What Is haven't approved a Push/Thrude teamup yet. The collateral damage page would skyrocket.

(2011.06.10 - 16:20:52) ShaenTheBrain: And unlike the Tree, they didn't get put right back the way they were in relatively short order. All the buildings that got turned into TREE got turned back.

(2011.06.10 - 16:22:12) Quinn: There's been a lot of good responses to the new Wisp line, too. It's building up steam.

(2011.06.10 - 16:22:44) Quinn: Though the writer of Crow needs to watch less Boondock Saints and actually travel to Boston sometime.

(2011.06.10 - 16:22:44) Aoiroo: "(16:20:36) Quinn: That's probably why the Powers What Is haven't approved a Push/Thrude teamup yet. The collateral damage page would skyrocket." Well yeah, but Thrude being a new popular character has been in high demand for team ups across the board.

(2011.06.10 - 16:23:07) trollthumper: Don't worry, Quinn; when the Boston crossover comes up, you'll be dealing with a writer who actually lived there.

(2011.06.10 - 16:23:17) ShaenTheBrain: Thrude's writer mumbles about that being a damned fact, and something about being overworked

(2011.06.10 - 16:23:39) quotemyname: "(16:22:44) Quinn: Though the writer of Crow needs to watch less Boondock Saints and actually travel to Boston sometime."

(2011.06.10 - 16:23:49) trollthumper: I am probably going to launch that sometime this summer, as the excuse for Cannonade being there is "his little brother's on a college tour."

(2011.06.10 - 16:23:50) Quinn: Hee. The character's also been catching a bit of flak for acting too old for Claremont; writer's still working on that.

(2011.06.10 - 16:24:42) Aoiroo: There going to be a lot of new batch of Claremont issues to fill the void left by the cancellation of Young Freedom.

(2011.06.10 - 16:24:54) Quinn: Still, the crossover with Wisp and the talks for the new Next-Gen series has got fans rumbling.

(2011.06.10 - 16:25:12) ShaenTheBrain: We're just folding all the teen hero stuff into one Claremont Academy title for now.

(2011.06.10 - 16:25:30) ShaenTheBrain: That line sold really well, but it also got really bloated and spread thin.

(2011.06.10 - 16:25:59) Quinn: Yeah. Graduation Day arc was highly anticipated too.

(2011.06.10 - 16:26:19) Quinn: Has the writer of Zephyr considered trying his hand at the Claremont series again?

(2011.06.10 - 16:26:23) ShaenTheBrain: I mean, did we really need like 4 ongoing Claremont titles? Probably not. Time to cut back.

(2011.06.10 - 16:26:37) Aoiroo: The Jade Arena mass crossover arc is losing some steam with the hiatus though.

(2011.06.10 - 16:26:38) ShaenTheBrain: No, the writer of Zephyr is staying as far away from the teen hero stuff as he possibly can these days.

(2011.06.10 - 16:27:13) Quinn: Jade Arena arc's got some solid reviews, definitley got the fans interested; and Crow's really shown some development there.

(2011.06.10 - 16:27:23) Quinn: The talks about this new Space arc have also got fans clamoring.

(2011.06.10 - 16:28:06) Quinn: I think we can all agree, tho'. The writers of Freedom City Comix never let the fans down.

(2011.06.10 - 16:28:48) ShaenTheBrain: Speaking as part of the editorial staff of FC Comics, we let fans down all the time.

(2011.06.10 - 16:28:52) Aoiroo: There's mixed reviews, but the older writers have an established style that certianly attracts readers.

(2011.06.10 - 16:29:27) Quinn: The new Myrmidon character in Claremont Academy has really established himself as an Ensemble Darkhorse, hasn't he.

(2011.06.10 - 16:29:29) ShaenTheBrain: We're constantly cancelling books half-finished, in the middle of storylines, or soliciting books that either never come out, or go for like 5 issues before being cancelled.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:01) Quinn: True, but those that do go and finish are usually very well-recieved.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:04) trollthumper: And some of our story arcs get delayed because the author's writing for TV.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:26) Raveled: The Ironclad line has never been a high-seller, but it's given readers a steady story at least.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:31) Quinn: Dragonfly's the Ensemble Darkhorse of Ensemble Darkhorses around here.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:31) Aoiroo: Poularity as he's polite, but somewhat awkward in an endeering way.

(2011.06.10 - 16:30:56) ShaenTheBrain: "Quinn: Dragonfly's the Ensemble Darkhorse of Ensemble Darkhorses around here." Yes. This.

(2011.06.10 - 16:31:02) Quinn: And her popularity's only skyrocketed with the recent crossover with Jill O'Cure.

(2011.06.10 - 16:31:05) Aoiroo: Well it helps that the writer is rather consistant with his updates, and usually finishes his storylines with her.

(2011.06.10 - 16:31:14) Quinn: I hear there's even talks about giving the two their own title.

(2011.06.10 - 16:31:17) ShaenTheBrain: Dragonfly is another character whose near-universal popularity surprised the hell out of her writer.

(2011.06.10 - 16:31:53) Quinn: It helps that she reminds geek fans of Mordin Solus sometimes.

(2011.06.10 - 16:32:47) Aoiroo: The less frequently updated Gaian Knight title is gaining popularity as well, especially with the crossover into the Fluer comics.

(2011.06.10 - 16:33:00) ShaenTheBrain: Dragonfly started off as a backup feature in The Gaian Knight. Within a couple of months, Dragonfly was the main attraction and TGK was the backup feature.

(2011.06.10 - 16:33:20) Electra: Gaian Knight has been underutilized, but he has a lot of potential.

(2011.06.10 - 16:33:24) Quinn: It's too bad the writer of Dark Star went on hiatus; though the increase in Fleur comics has really developed the character.

(2011.06.10 - 16:33:47) ShaenTheBrain: Come to think of it, Gaian Knight would be a solid addition to Freedom League.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:02) trollthumper: The author of Cannonade is probably trying too hard to push the character. Or is he?

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:04) ShaenTheBrain: He's already got the connection to Fleur de Joie, and they work well together.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:06) Electra: It's true, he's got the personality for it, and a solid power set.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:18) ShaenTheBrain: Nah, everybody likes Cannonade.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:32) Quinn: Cannonade's a solid title with a good character. Hard to push that too hard.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:42) Electra: Freedom League really does need a kick start.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:55) Aoiroo: Cannonade is fairly popular in the everyone easily recognizes as both thoughtfull and well written.

(2011.06.10 - 16:34:55) ShaenTheBrain: I hear the writers of the upcoming Liberty League revival and The Interceptors (Volume 3) are fighting over who gets to put Cannonade on their lineup.

(2011.06.10 - 16:35:06) Raveled: Ha.

(2011.06.10 - 16:35:23) Quinn: Still, some fans would like to see more spookity-occult action with Nick Cimitere, Barista of Doom, there hasn't been much fighty-times in that series recently.

(2011.06.10 - 16:35:43) ShaenTheBrain: NickC would make the perfect centerpiece to a Midnighters revival.

(2011.06.10 - 16:36:05) ShaenTheBrain: Get him with Equinox and Dead-Head...that would work.

(2011.06.10 - 16:36:05) trollthumper: Heh. Sorry 'bout that; always afraid I'm pushing things too hard.

(2011.06.10 - 16:36:43) Quinn: Hummm...Push's writer wouldn't mind throwing him into a Midnighters revamp, given his frequent storylines involving eldrich nasties (though the writer seriously needs to do his research ).

(2011.06.10 - 16:37:04) ShaenTheBrain: "Electra: Freedom League really does need a kick start." No kidding. It should be our flagship title, but it's in a serious slump. It's not getting cancelled anytime soon, but it's not selling like hotcakes either. Just kinda plodding along.

(2011.06.10 - 16:37:31) Quinn: The Warlock character would be an intriguing addition, though the writer seriously needs to work on his timing. And there've been some talks about a Kid Cthulhu revamp!

(2011.06.10 - 16:37:49) Raveled: LS!

(2011.06.10 - 16:37:59) ShaenTheBrain: I don't think Push really fits the spooky-magic Midnighters flavor. The revamped Warlock that's in the works would be perfect, though.

(2011.06.10 - 16:38:21) ShaenTheBrain: Trollthumper, talk with DokA, Ecal, and Lonestar about that. There's something there.

(2011.06.10 - 16:38:26) Aoiroo: Silhouette's writer is a bit worried about about her role in upcoming stories because of the character's lack of popularity.

(2011.06.10 - 16:38:32) trollthumper: I shall.

(2011.06.10 - 16:39:33) Quinn: Crow's been getting a bit more page-time recently. He's been getting overshadowed by Push, but I think he's carving a niche for himself; especially with the upcoming Next-Gen series. If that ever gets off the ground once the current arcs end.

(2011.06.10 - 16:39:42) Electra: Getting characters with solid appeal but recent underexposure like Gaian Knight and Scarab could be really good for the FL title, especially once the Doktor Archeville crossover spectacular is finished.

(2011.06.10 - 16:39:55) Quinn: Fans want more Evil!Dok!

(2011.06.10 - 16:40:13) Raveled: Fans want to see what will happen with Chevy.

(2011.06.10 - 16:40:25) Quinn: Fans want Arrowhawk back.

(2011.06.10 - 16:40:35) Raveled: I wouldn't go that far, Q.

(2011.06.10 - 16:40:38) ShaenTheBrain: You didn't hear it from me, but the rumormill says that Arrowhawk and The Scarab will both feature prominently in the next act of the EvilDok arc.

(2011.06.10 - 16:40:56) Electra: Old familiar faces, woo!

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:10) Raveled: Shaen> I would expect that. Hawk's been over in Europe doing stuff, after all, and Scarab's been investigating it.

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:17) GranspearZX: Arcturus's writer is having a similar issue, Roo.

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:23) Quinn: Eh, the writer of Arcturus has been hip-deep in out-of-company troubles thus far. Once he gets back in gear, the fans are looking forward to seeing more BEAR.

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:41) Raveled: And really, how many other PCs could stand up to an angry, evil Doktor Archeville?

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:44) trollthumper: Everyone loves bears.

(2011.06.10 - 16:41:59) Aoiroo: Yeah, but that has more to do with Arcturus recent hiatus.

(2011.06.10 - 16:42:02) trollthumper: Except Stephen Colbert, but he's a Communist.

(2011.06.10 - 16:42:16) GranspearZX: True. His writer was on a mental vacation.

(2011.06.10 - 16:42:35) ShaenTheBrain: Really, the problem isn't facing Archeville in combat. Getting him into combat in the first place is your best-case scenario.

(2011.06.10 - 16:42:36) Quinn: Arcturus chumming with his three new friends'd be good.

(2011.06.10 - 16:43:28) Quinn: Gah, overuse of winky face.

(2011.06.10 - 16:43:47) Electra: You're lucky Gizmo's not here.

(2011.06.10 - 16:44:10) Quinn: The new JOAB-Willow crossover's really got fans hopping, too.

(2011.06.10 - 16:44:13) Fox: "Electra: Getting characters with solid appeal but recent underexposure like Gaian Knight and Scarab could be really good for the FL title, especially once the Doktor Archeville crossover spectacular is finished." GK's been getting a surprising amount of appearances lately. I mean, he's no Dragonfly, but for a while you barely saw him outside of minor cameos in other books.

(2011.06.10 - 16:44:22) Raveled: Ironclad's writer needs to finish up some of those long-term stories that are bogging the title down.

(2011.06.10 - 16:44:38) Raveled: ... So he can debut new and improved long-term stories.

(2011.06.10 - 16:44:56) Electra: Which makes him an even better choice, he could ride that upswing of popularity into a successful team relaunch.

(2011.06.10 - 16:45:22) Quinn: Glowstar's also been getting a lot of new exposure, too, and his popularity's going up. Linking him with the new line of Claremonters is really helping the character.

(2011.06.10 - 16:46:13) Raveled: Yeah, but the writer hasn't done much of anything with Glowstar. Has to get some dramatic stories in with all that fluff.

(2011.06.10 - 16:48:39) Aoiroo: The Willow/Jack crossover got a lot of feedback from fans, mostly it was along the onlines of "It's about freaking time, and Kiss Her You Fool.

(2011.06.10 - 16:49:56) Quinn: Though some fans are thinking the heading upstairs was a bit quick. Still, it was well-written enough to silence most of them.

(2011.06.10 - 16:57:39) Quinn: Humm. Need to expand the Overclock line...anyone here have a hero who could concievably be going out clubbing?

[N/A]

(07:10:31) quotemyname: Yea, something like that.

(07:10:59) quotemyname: It should be appropriately campy, yet specific enough that it can actually be attained.

(07:11:37) quotemyname: So things like, "Amass a vast fortune" don't apply because it would mean every time I get some money it would trigger and that's "too often"

(07:14:00) quotemyname: What do you guys think about, "Someday, I'm going to sack that [really big important city that's never been sacked]!"

(07:15:03) Quinn: Preferably the capital of the Evil Empire.

(07:15:51) quotemyname: Do you think that's workable?

(07:15:53) Quinn: Ooh, call that one "I aim to misbehave..."!

(07:15:58) quotemyname: lols

(07:16:30) Quinn: I'd call bringing down a corrupt empire to be quite a future aspect, alright. And it'd trigger whenever you wreak havoc on 'em.

(07:16:52) AvengerAssembled:

(07:17:09) quotemyname: Truth.

(07:17:21) quotemyname: This is assuming we're "good" pirates.

(07:17:46) quotemyname: If we're actually evil scallywags I can switch it to "the shining city of good"

(07:17:52) Quinn: Arr.

(07:22:07) quotemyname: One more...

(07:22:43) ShaenTheBrain: You would disgrace the legacy of Blackbeard?!

(07:23:18) ShaenTheBrain: This chicanery is an affront to men of honor everywhere! This insult shall not stand! Draw steel, Scoundrel! Have at you!

(07:23:28) Quinn shoots Shaen in the head.

(07:23:37) Quinn: Right, who's up for coffee?

(07:23:42) ShaenTheBrain: Curse your genre-savviness!

(07:24:04) GranspearZX wants orange juice.

(07:24:10) ShaenTheBrain: You may have won this day, Honorless Dogs! But there will be a reckoning!

(07:24:23) Quinn: You done bleeding out yet?

(07:25:03) ShaenTheBrain: I regret that I have but 8 pints of blood to shed for my liege and my flag!

(07:25:54) ShaenTheBrain: Better to go to my grave as a gentleman, than to live one minute as slithering jackanape such as yourselves!

(07:26:32) Quinn checks his watch.

(07:26:33) Electra: Is jackanape the plural of jackanapes?

(07:26:49) quotemyname: singular...

(07:26:51) AvengerAssembled: The man just got shot in the head.

(07:26:58) AvengerAssembled: Don't judge his grammar!

(07:27:28) quotemyname: Actually, "Uphold the legend of a once great pirate they talk about in the story books."

(07:27:50) quotemyname: But he can't have been a real pirate, because I'm going to be the greatest pirate ever.

(07:27:58) Quinn: Eh, at least you're not going "I'm going to be King of the Pirates!"

(07:28:01) quotemyname: That could work. Thoughts?

(07:29:53) ShaenTheBrain: Please, steward...a glass of your finest port...so that I may meet my maker without the taste of my own blood upon my lips...

(07:30:03) Quinn:

(07:30:33) AvengerAssembled assumed Shaen's blood was port, honestly

(07:30:43) quotemyname:

(07:30:44) Quinn: You do realize Blackbeard took a cannon shot, several bullets, and a whole heap of sword wounds before he went down, right?

(07:30:46) AvengerAssembled should probably stop drinking this if it's not port

(07:30:50) ShaenTheBrain: And if you would button my jacket over the bullet hole...death is no reason...to abandon...one's dignity.

(07:31:10) ShaenTheBrain: X_X

(07:31:21) Quinn:

(07:31:49) quotemyname: Quinn: "Really? A Gun? You know Blackbeard took several bullets before he was killed, right? How fast do you think you can reload that thing?" *Draws sword*

(07:32:17) Electra: Shaen's alcohol-blood level is probably no more than a shandy, not anywhere near a port.

[quotemyname]

(10:40:47) ShaenTheBrain: I maim to please.

(10:42:38) quotemyname: LOL

(10:42:50) Quinn:

(10:44:14) Quinn: Shaen, that pun was just painful. You cut us to the quick.

(10:44:38) Quinn: No, wait! It was...

(10:44:39) ShaenTheBrain: Have you seriously never heard that before? That one's so old its whiskers have grandchildren.

(10:44:44) Quinn: Shaneful.

(10:45:00) ShaenTheBrain: I'll give that 3.5 out of 5 YEEEAAAHHH!s.

(10:45:43) ShaenTheBrain: Actually, since that one has layers, as it could be a portmanteau of my name and both "painful" AND "shameful," I'll upgrade it to 4 out of 5 "YEEEAAAHHH!!!"s.

(10:45:50) ShaenTheBrain:

(10:46:11) Quinn bows.

[Aoiroo]

(23:40:32) Aoiroo:

(23:38:14) KnightDisciple: “(22:37:22) bite me

Well dah, all we're doing on this site is recreational applied dissociative identity disorder.

(23:40:34) trollthumper just glares at Cubist.

(23:40:36) Quinn will eventually build his Eisen Swordsman, who will mix Durchsetzungburg and Soldano into a single elegant and wickedly precise whirlwind style, and sweep through Eisen on a tide of blood to reunify them under his banner! *flamingeyes*

(23:40:37) AvengerAssembled: IIRC it's actually the Vendel who can buy other nations's restricted weapons, because they have $$$.

(23:41:19) ShaenTheBrain: A Twisted Blade from a Vodacce fate witch is the only "special" 7th Sea weapon that can possibly compare to a Dracheneisen sword.

(23:41:20) Fox: Looks like anybody can get a MacEachern weapon.

(23:41:25) Gizmo: Roo, stop saying insightful things that make sense! It's creeping me out!

(23:41:53) Sorus: BTW, the license plate does have to say DATASS on it

(23:41:58) Sorus: It has to

(23:42:04) AvengerAssembled: Feel free to write that it does, Sorus.

(23:42:12) AvengerAssembled: And that it falls to the ground dramatically after hitting him.

(23:42:14) Fox: Avalon people and even MacEachern don't even get a discount on them. Though the MacEachern Heritage folks know how to make them.

(23:42:23) ShaenTheBrain: It's the question of "what's better?" between a sword that gives you bonus Hero Points or a sword that gives you an uncapped +5 bonus to both attack and damage.

(23:42:55) Aoiroo: (23:41:25) Gizmo: Roo, stop saying insightful things that make sense! It's creeping me out!

Why's that, are you under some impression that I'm not intelligent enough to have some insight on my own mental status as well as those of other roleplayers?

(23:42:58) ShaenTheBrain: Durchsetzunburg + Soldano would actually be a really great grand-master style.

(23:43:02) Quinn: And that's why they're on the Sidhe's permanent "OMGKILLIT" list, Fox. Because weapons that hurt the Fair Folk are, to them, a Very Bad Thing (stupid illusion-wielding fancy-pants spirits...)

(23:43:35) Quinn: And what gets me is that their Glamour is actually helping to hold that bloody shadow-world barrier together! (To those who've read Die Kreuzritter, you know what I'm talkin' about).

(23:43:39) ShaenTheBrain:

Aoiroo: Well dah, all we're doing on this site is recreational applied dissociative identity disorder

. ...That's the smartest damned thing anyone has ever said in here ever.

(23:43:45) trollthumper: Hey, Shaen? Straw Death.

(23:43:47) Quinn grumbles about stupid fae.

(23:43:53) ChatBot: Geez3r has been logged out (Timeout).

(23:43:56) Gizmo: See? What Shaen said.

(23:44:21) Dr_Archeville has no idea what Aoiroo is talking about. And neither does Dr Archeville.

(23:44:26) Sorus: posted in IC

(23:44:42) Cubist: Yeah, but does Dr. Archeville?

(23:44:43) Quinn: And other than that whole barrier thing...Die Kreuzritter's actually fairly badass. It's just that one bloody thing! With the magic!

(23:44:44) Sorus: Probably not the smartest thing to do tactically but it was funny

(23:44:45) AvengerAssembled: for Aoiroo

(23:44:46) Aoiroo: Want me to post it on the TV tropes page for quotes?

[Gizmo]

(17:41:35) Ecalsneerg: Oh god. I've accidentally used a demon build which could feasibly resist Jack's Bluff

(17:41:39) Ecalsneerg is gooood

(17:43:50) Gizmo:

(17:44:08) Ecalsneerg: Resist Distract DC 36 and Taunt DC 31 (1d20+20=29, 1d20+20=21) You win, Gizmo. For now *glares*

(17:44:32) Gizmo:

(17:44:52) Ecalsneerg: You better hope this thing goes down in one hit

(17:45:17) Ecalsneerg: Otherwise it's Skill Mastery means you're going to have to stop Move Action taunting, or actually roll

(17:46:08) Gizmo: If that demon build up on the boards somewhere, Ecal?

(17:46:31) Ecalsneerg: Shiny happy demons laughing

(17:46:49) Ecalsneerg: Shiny happy demons holding taaaaaalons!

(17:47:04) Gizmo: Upped in PL, I assume?

(17:47:37) Ecalsneerg: Giz: actually, no, but they're not Minions

(17:47:56) Ecalsneerg: Which means... ROLLING

(17:49:03) Gizmo: Ah, well, fair enough.

(17:49:03) Quinn: They see you rollin', you hatin'...

(17:49:12) Ecalsneerg: Jack's Autofire extra extends to his Strength bonus, right?

(17:49:15) Quinn: Sorry, had to make that gag.

(17:49:20) Gizmo: It does not!

(17:49:29) Gizmo: That stuff's expensive!

(17:49:35) Ecalsneerg: So the Autofire bonus caps at +7... thank lord

(17:49:42) Ecalsneerg: Quinn: I hate that song so much

(17:50:00) Gizmo: AP Energy Sword Flurry 7 (Damage, Power Feats: Improved Critical (18-20), Mighty, Variable Descriptor 2 [Any Energy], Drawbacks: Limited [Available, Concentrated Energy Types], Extras: Autofire 3) [31PP]

(17:50:05) Ecalsneerg: Unless it is actually satire, then it'll become merely average

(17:50:56) Gizmo: 7PP for the Damage, 4PP for the Power Feats/Drawback, 21PP for the Autofire.(

17:51:04) Ecalsneerg: Weee

(17:51:14) Quinn: I know there's a Tabletop filk version of that song somewhere...

(17:51:17) Ecalsneerg: Arrowhawk has Autofire on all his Strength

(17:51:25) Gizmo: Yeah, well.

(17:51:47) Ecalsneerg: This could have all been avoided had Jack not been magical

(17:51:55) Ecalsneerg: Otherwise they'd be Impervious

(17:52:11) Gizmo: Once I hit Platinum, I'll buy off some of Ellie's Sidekick ranks again and maybe think about putting another 9PP into it for the remaining Autofire.

(17:52:21) Ecalsneerg: I'd not bother, really

(17:52:29) Ecalsneerg: He can already blender up pretty much anything

(17:53:18) Gizmo: It'd give him more to stunt from is the main reason.

(17:54:40) Ecalsneerg: *grumbles about failing saves by 13*

(17:54:45) Ecalsneerg: Wanna inflict Knockback?

(17:55:11) Gizmo: Can he knock it... into one of the other demons?

(17:56:13) Ecalsneerg: He hasn't got the distance for it

(17:56:44) Gizmo: Not even the fire demon?

(17:57:04) Gizmo: Ah well. Still, back would be good, since he's trying to hold them off temporarily.

(17:57:25) Ecalsneerg: That'd work, but you'd need to wait until Shaen comes back unless you want the attack bonus used for this to potentially be horribly wrong

(17:57:57) Ecalsneerg: See, it says knocking things into other things is resolved as a slam attack, but that's... about all the rules say. So I'm inclined to say ranged attack bonus

(17:57:57) Gizmo: SHAAAAAEEEEEAN...

(17:58:35) Ecalsneerg: Because IMO the skill needed for +20 with a sword is not the same skill as +20 to play baseball with semi-conscious demons

(17:59:30) Gizmo: That's fair.

(18:00:10) Gizmo: Jack does still have +7 ranged attack, so it's doable.

(18:00:14) Ecalsneerg: I'm also working under the assumption that Autofire doesn't add to Knockback because otherwise the distances just get silly

(18:00:40) Gizmo: Well, it wouldn't, since logically only the last hit could be pushing it back.

(18:01:07) Ecalsneerg: But yeah, fiery guy is in reach

(18:01:44) Gizmo: Heh. Don't suppose that acid is... flammable.

(18:02:01) Ecalsneerg: Dude, they've all got Aura attacks

(18:02:41) Ecalsneerg: Well, the acid demon has his one up...

(18:02:50) Gizmo: Good enough!

(18:02:56) Ecalsneerg: Either way, if you hit, flaming guy takes damage and acid burns

(18:03:08) Gizmo: Let's do this.

(18:03:21) Ecalsneerg: Let's... plaaaaaaaaaay baaaaaaall!

(18:04:23) Gizmo: So, I'm rolling... what?

(18:04:27) Ecalsneerg: As a Scot, I can now safely say the closest I've been to playing baseball is over the internet with a Canadian playing a French-Hispanic hitting a demon into another demon with a magical flaming sword.

(18:04:44) Gizmo: You say that like it's a bad thing.

(18:04:48) Ecalsneerg: You just need an attack roll. The DCs and stuff are all just functions of your Knockback result

(18:04:53) Gizmo: Ranged, but does the sword specialization come into effect?

(18:04:59) Ecalsneerg: Namely, rank 4

(18:05:06) Ecalsneerg: I'm going to say no to sword specialisation

(18:05:45) Gizmo: Well, nuts. That's gonna take a reroll.

(18:05:48) Ecalsneerg: (Well, the knockback was rank 10, but they're quite beefy)

(18:06:06) Ecalsneerg: If you miss, he's still gonna hit a tree

(18:06:16) Ecalsneerg: Although you can re-roll if you want

(18:06:57) Gizmo: HP reroll. (1d20+7=27)

(18:07:17) Ecalsneerg: ... did you just critically hit a demon with another demon

(18:07:34) Gizmo: That's what I call...

(18:07:36) Gizmo: 8-)

(18:07:41) Gizmo: ...a grand slam.

(18:07:44) Gizmo: YEEEAAAH

[Aoiroo]

(02:25:29) Sorus: And, 'Roo, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

(02:25:39) Sorus: (except herpes.)

(02:25:43) Gizmo: (That is not a true thing at all.)

(02:25:44) Aoiroo: No, what happens in Vegas stays on Youtube.

(02:25:59) Gizmo:

(02:26:02) ShaenTheBrain: The refcave is ALIVE...with the sound...of nerfing!

(02:26:19) Ecalsneerg: Hey, we're giving a nice shiny present in exchange

(02:26:25) Sorus: oh, oh hey

(02:26:28) Gizmo: Sorus, thinking about hitting AAA tonight? Because if not... you are now!

(02:26:30) Sorus: partial wetsuit pic

(02:26:30) Cubist: o/~ "The hills are alive / OMIGOD THEY'RE MOVING..." o/~

(02:26:30) ShaenTheBrain: Forsooth, Ecal.

(02:26:42) Ecalsneerg also maintains the right to rescind his testimonial under grounds of inebriation

(02:27:06) Ecalsneerg: See, we're planning to take my friend's stag party to Vegas

(02:27:15) ShaenTheBrain: “Aoiroo: No, what happens in Vegas stays on Youtube.†, Indeed.

(02:27:16) Aoiroo: My sis is single and been away so when she's here she likes to be the nice cool big sis and spend time with everyone, I like spending time with her because she's like my mom when we're on vacation, if it's cute and you make a reasonable claim she'll buy me stuff.

(02:27:29) ShaenTheBrain: Gods help me, Roo, you're starting to really grow on me.

(02:27:38) Ecalsneerg: His name is actually Doug... so “Oh god, we lost Dougâ€

(02:27:45) ShaenTheBrain: Like a snarky, red-haired fungus.

(02:27:54) ShaenTheBrain: ...I mean that in the best possible context.

(02:28:06) Gizmo: This is like watching Wolverine and Jubilee...

(02:28:18) Sorus: Heee

(02:28:36) Aoiroo: No freaking way, I'd never wear a yellow trench coat, black is a classic.

(02:29:00) Gizmo: (Or Shadowcat or Armor or X-23 or Pixie or...)

(02:29:19) Sorus: Looking at these photos reminds me that I need to get my diving qualification

(02:29:25) Sorus: I've been sitting on that for too long

(02:29:47) ShaenTheBrain finds no fault with that analogy

(02:30:23) ShaenTheBrain: And all Gizmo and I need to make a Cyclops/Wolverine pair is some woman to form a love-triangle with.

(02:31:09) Sorus: ...

[Dr Archeville]

This started with a discussion about Chuck Austen's terrible, terrible storylines, like the one where Archangel and Husk have sex in midair (in front of all the X-Men, and Husk's own parents).

(2011.07.01 - 15:55:07) Ecalsneerg: Tell me, if you had to have one superpower, flying would not at least be on the shost list?

(2011.07.01 - 15:55:40) Raveled: Ecal> I'm not gonna dispute that. I'm just saying that 90% of the X-Men are creepy and weird, from a certain point of view.

(2011.07.01 - 15:55:48) Sorus: Invisibility, honestly

(2011.07.01 - 15:55:55) Sorus: I would abuse that so hard

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:01) Ecalsneerg: Sorus, yes, but you're a perv

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:05) Azuth65: It'd be on my top five for sure Ecal. Teleporting is higher on the list though.

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:08) Raveled: I'd go with telekinesis, but that's mainly because it could be a big ol' array of powers.

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:19) trollthumper: I'd want healing, because I'm a goddamn compassionate hippie.

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:21) Godiva: one superpower? can it be a linked version?

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:29) trollthumper: I'd spend my day at the VA hospital and heal amputees.

(2011.07.01 - 15:56:43) Godiva: and no flight, right?

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:11) Raveled: Can I get Ambrose Chase's powers? Physics manipulation?

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:14) AvengerAssembled: Time travel. Assuming I could get my shots first.

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:26) Godiva: this is a hard choice

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:28) ShaenTheBrain: Telepathy. I want to know what people around me are thinking. Nobody could ever lie to me. And my misanthropy would be justified with every bad thought I heard/saw/felt/whatever.

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:40) Fox: Shapeshifting.

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:43) Ecalsneerg: Shaen, you don't get superpowers, we've discussed this

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:49) trollthumper: If I have to get superhero powers, I'll get the flying brick "personal TK" package.

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:50) Godiva: i'm assuming "magic" is not on the list either? if so, that's an easy choice

(2011.07.01 - 15:57:58) trollthumper: If I have to get selfish powers, teleportation.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:03) Godiva: if not, hmmm

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:09) Ecalsneerg: Magic isn't a power

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:11) ShaenTheBrain: The bigger the psychic power suite, the better, of course. I wouldn't turn down the psionic combo platter.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:12) Ecalsneerg: It's a descriptor

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:13) Raveled stands by physics manipulation.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:15) Azuth65: Big props to TT for that one. Another option, Scarlet Witch's powers minus the insanity.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:24) Azuth65: Reality warping for the win.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:52) Raveled: Man, reality warping + human hubris =/= good times for anyone else.

(2011.07.01 - 15:58:57) ShaenTheBrain: But if I'm severely limited, on the scale of Heroes, or an X-Man who isn't a female character under Chris Claremont, then Mind Reading takes first priority.

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:19) Godiva: Emotion Control?

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:21) ShaenTheBrain likes to know stuff

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:30) ShaenTheBrain Not think, but know

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:31) Ecalsneerg: I dunno, you could get full Telepathy off of Heroes logic

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:53) Raveled: If I could manipulate physics, I could make millions putting satellites into orbit and manufacturing hard-to-make chemicals or metals.

(2011.07.01 - 15:59:58) Raveled: I would be freaking hella-rich.

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:03) GranspearZX: Speaking of Heroes... I could go for Reflex Memory.

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:18) Sorus: I'd be James Bond, if I had invisibility

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:21) Azuth65: On the subject of Heroes..., Bree said I look like Parkman. I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult.

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:26) Raveled would totally have the fat ducats if he had super powers.

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:33) AvengerAssembled: Parkman...or Cartman?

(2011.07.01 - 16:00:33) ShaenTheBrain: "Ecalsneerg: Shaen, you don't get superpowers, we've discussed this" Look, I only count as a supervillain in a 4-color setting where changing the status quo is innately a bad thing.

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:18) Ecalsneerg: Get out of my heeeeeeead!

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:24) ShaenTheBrain: Invisibility is pretty high up there on my list too. But if my psychic combo platter is big enough, I can AP Phantasm Concealment off my telepathy/mind-control array.

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:41) Godiva: Accurate Teleport 9 and a passport

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:47) Godiva: that's my final answer

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:55) Raveled: Diva> Why bother with a passport? Just learn the langauge.

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:56) Ecalsneerg: Hmmmm... as an alternative to Flight, Air Control

(2011.07.01 - 16:01:57) Azuth65: Why bother with the passport?

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:00) Raveled: What are they gonna do, arrest you?

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:07) ShaenTheBrain: In a gritty, realistic setting, like Real Life, I'm a hero who changes the world for the better. I'm the Ubermensch, and you're my Last Man.

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:12) Ecalsneerg: I could just fly around using air currents, and blast people with hurricanes

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:26) Raveled: I don't think I wanna life in Shaen's world.

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:26) Ecalsneerg: (By "people", I mean "Shaen")

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:27) Azuth65: Even if they did, teleport out of the cell. Easy enough.

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:37) Raveled: Be far too much chemical sterilization.

(2011.07.01 - 16:02:37) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 16:03:06) GranspearZX: Imagining the Shaenverse just sounds like a recipe for mental scarring.

(2011.07.01 - 16:03:29) Ecalsneerg is proud to be Shaen's Last Man

(2011.07.01 - 16:03:41) ShaenTheBrain: Why does no one like the idea of me being the Professor X of our hypothetical 'verse?

(2011.07.01 - 16:03:50) Godiva: man we're only allowed one power, but i'd like comprehend 3 (speak languages, understand languages and read all languages) with my Accurate Teleport 9

(2011.07.01 - 16:04:03) ShaenTheBrain: I would change the world for the better, dammit!

(2011.07.01 - 16:04:04) Ecalsneerg: They're not even thematically linked

(2011.07.01 - 16:04:19) Ecalsneerg: Nietzsche was an asshole

(2011.07.01 - 16:04:47) Raveled: Ecal> In the Paragon setting, there's a lady who can teleport all over the world and eat as much as she wants without getting fatter. How are those thematically linked?

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:01) Godiva: and maybe enough morph to look like the citizenry in the place i'm in so i don't get arrested for looking like a black girl in china

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:03) AvengerAssembled: He actually was not all that bad. He was a lesson in making sure the rights to your work stay locked up.

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:13) Azuth65: With a large and loose enough array, yeah there'd be a lot of healing going around and some abuse of things like flight and/or teleport, maybe pulling off what Parkman did with telepathically aided lovin'.

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:15) AvengerAssembled: Another good example: the rights to Conan.

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:32) Fox wasn't aware that being black was an arresting offense in China.

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:35) AvengerAssembled: There's a reason it took so many decades to make a movie version.

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:37) Raveled: The rights to Superman?

(2011.07.01 - 16:05:43) GranspearZX: Note to self: Don't go to China.

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:04) Godiva: Fox, you see a foreigner pop in from nowhere with no passport

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:09) Godiva: what do you do?

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:11) Raveled: Fox> There's a lot of things they can arrest you for in China. Maybe Diva's just covering her bases.

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:12) AvengerAssembled: Fox: No, but just wandering around the landscape with no history of how you got there is probably a risk.

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:15) Godiva: call the police!

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:21) Fox: Heh. That's true.

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:22) ShaenTheBrain: I reject your morality and substitute my own!

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:25) Ecalsneerg: Wonder why the only person on Earth to get superpowers was an idiot?

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:30) Raveled: Diva> Someone pops out of thin air? I scream in trror.

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:33) Ecalsneerg: Seriously, you can go anywhere on the Planet, at any time

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:52) Raveled: And then cut off their head to gain their power!

(2011.07.01 - 16:06:54) Ecalsneerg: Oooh, the police are after you? Teleport.

(2011.07.01 - 16:07:01) AvengerAssembled: See, what happened with Conan was after the death of Robert Howard, his dad (who had the saddest damn retirement ever) eventually moved in with a friend when his health was failing.

(2011.07.01 - 16:07:19) AvengerAssembled: In return for signing over his own estate, which included his son's literary works.

(2011.07.01 - 16:07:54) Godiva: Ecalsneerg, i would like to enjoy my cacation, not be on the run

(2011.07.01 - 16:07:59) Godiva: vacation

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:07) Ecalsneerg: Then... don't teleport into the middle of a city?

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:14) Ecalsneerg: Go to the secluded outskirts, and walk into the city

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:28) Ecalsneerg: Google Maps, foo

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:30) GranspearZX: You should know the rules; Jumper laid them out clearly. Beware of Samuel L. Jacksons.

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:48) Fox would stick with his shapeshift. Maybe some form of immortality over it (low-key, age-defying regeneration due to malleable biology?).

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:52) AvengerAssembled: For those who don't know: when Robert Howard's mother was mortally ill, he asked his father what they should do. His father said "Wherever you go, son, I'll follow"

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:54) Azuth65: No, just find a shark to eat Sam.

(2011.07.01 - 16:08:59) Raveled wants his physics manipulation!

(2011.07.01 - 16:09:01) AvengerAssembled: He meant "If you move out of our tiny Texas town, I'll come with you"

(2011.07.01 - 16:09:12) Semi-Autogyro: Luck Control for me.

(2011.07.01 - 16:09:23) AvengerAssembled: REH went out to the parking lot and shot himself in the head. He was buried alongside his mother, who died a few hours after he did.

(2011.07.01 - 16:09:32) Raveled: S-A> Quicksilver "save my life" style, or Edge style?

(2011.07.01 - 16:10:21) Semi-Autogyro: The one where you could buy a random lottery ticket and win, or play golf and get holes in one.

(2011.07.01 - 16:10:29) AvengerAssembled: Dr. Isaac Howard: the saddest damn retirement ever.

(2011.07.01 - 16:10:44) ShaenTheBrain is relying on the classic "move his mind into a comatose body" trick for pseudo-immortality

(2011.07.01 - 16:10:59) Godiva: and no one would ever want to play agianst you, Semi

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:01) Raveled: AA> Wait. Did REH expect his father to kill himself, too?

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:09) AvengerAssembled: That's the theory, Rav.

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:17) Raveled: S-A> Eventually, the casinos will kick you out.

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:24) Semi-Autogyro: Then you have another superpower: Money!

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:25) AvengerAssembled: That he thought they were entering into a suicide pact with that conversation.

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:34) Raveled: And by 'kick you out,' I mean 'drag you out into the desert and chop your finger off.'

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:43) Godiva: Money is a superpower?

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:46) ShaenTheBrain: A luck controller who goes to the casinos is stupid.

(2011.07.01 - 16:11:50) Raveled: Diva> It can change the world.

(2011.07.01 - 16:12:01) Ecalsneerg: Hmmmm... according to Wikipedia, the Last Man should be weak-willed and mediocre

(2011.07.01 - 16:12:10) ShaenTheBrain: Buy a damned lottery ticket, and then invest some of your winnings in the stock market.

(2011.07.01 - 16:12:15) Ecalsneerg: But in this hypothetical situation I'm fighting a telepath using air control.

(2011.07.01 - 16:12:18) Godiva: Shaen, they'd only need to go once. hit ONE big jackpot

(2011.07.01 - 16:12:29) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, that's my argument.

(2011.07.01 - 16:13:03) ShaenTheBrain: Several hundred million dollars in a state lottery is better than a few hundred grand, maybe a million at a world-class high-stakes poker table.

(2011.07.01 - 16:13:05) ChatBot: Raveled logs out of the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 16:13:34) Azuth65: A luck controller who goes to the casinos and doesn't only play at the small time tables is stupid. Win about $50k, walk away, go to another casino down The Strip.

(2011.07.01 - 16:13:52) ChatBot: Setzer logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 16:13:55) AvengerAssembled: Mark doesn't understand why you don't just build a solid gold statue of yourself with your powers

(2011.07.01 - 16:14:17) ShaenTheBrain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg​a_Millions

(2011.07.01 - 16:15:01) ShaenTheBrain: "Ecalsneerg: Hmmmm... according to Wikipedia, the Last Man should be weak-willed and mediocre" Superficial appearances to the contrary, ultimately, he is, because of the very quality which defines him.

(2011.07.01 - 16:15:12) Ecalsneerg: We'd be scary people in a Paragons situation.

(2011.07.01 - 16:15:37) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 16:15:56) Azuth65: Yeah but with our luck in the Paragon'verse, we'd get craptastic powers like a second set of arms.

(2011.07.01 - 16:15:58) ChatBot: Quinn logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:01) Godiva: and here i never thought about getting rich, just travelling the world

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:01) Azuth65: Hey Q.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:04) ShaenTheBrain: The Ubermensch rejects the popular morality in favor of his own code, and he's so strong-willed, such a paragon, has such presence, that others soon fall in line behind him, abandoning the status quo in favor of his new way.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:25) ShaenTheBrain: While the Last Man clings to the old order with his last breath.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:26) Semi-Autogyro: Shock the monkey IC and OOC post, where Myr is the master plan master.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:32) Ecalsneerg: In such a way as to simply form another cultural standard, for someone else to reject

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:37) Quinn: Infodump'd!

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:55) ShaenTheBrain: What I find interesting is that you can make equally solid cases for either Superman or Luthor being the Ubermensch or his Last Man.

(2011.07.01 - 16:16:59) Azuth65: Money can't buy happiness. It can however buy security, free time, and a lot of pleasurable things.

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:06) Ecalsneerg: That's my problem with Nietzche. You don't "overthrow the popular morality" by making another one

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:13) ChatBot: GranspearZX has set their status to Away

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:17) ShaenTheBrain: "Ecalsneerg: We'd be scary people in a Paragons situation." Some of us more than others, apparently.

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:33) Godiva: thing is with money you can travel the world

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:33) Sorus: People who say money can't buy happiness just don't know where the stores are

(2011.07.01 - 16:17:34) Ecalsneerg: Actually, sod it, I'm gonna go roll on the MaMa random superpowers table

(2011.07.01 - 16:18:00) Godiva: i fail at seeing the forst for the pretty trees

(2011.07.01 - 16:18:07) Godiva: forest

(2011.07.01 - 16:18:13) ShaenTheBrain: Ecal, if you don't have another code to replace the status quo with, then you're just a childish contrarian anarchist, upsetting the established order for the sake of upset.

(2011.07.01 - 16:18:29) Sorus: I don't see a forest, I see money in timber form

(2011.07.01 - 16:18:56) ShaenTheBrain: Revolution is only productive if it goes somewhere.

(2011.07.01 - 16:19:04) Godiva: hey Quinn

(2011.07.01 - 16:19:33) Azuth65: Actually, with the money gained from my abuse of powers, I'd set up a sort of meet and greet for this board someplace. Maybe Vegas, maybe NYC..

(2011.07.01 - 16:19:38) Godiva: i've possiblt distracted the snake, go get into costume

(2011.07.01 - 16:19:45) Setzer: What about "modelling" istead of replace?

(2011.07.01 - 16:20:01) Fox: Azuth - with my shapeshifting, I would attend as everybody!

(2011.07.01 - 16:20:14) ShaenTheBrain: That raises the question, Godiva, of who's more dangerous? The person who gets powers and just uses them to improve their own quality of life, to satisfy their own immediate desires? Or the "visionary" with lofty goals of using them to "change the world?"

(2011.07.01 - 16:20:55) ChatBot: Ecalsneerg rolls 1d20 and gets 11.

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:08) Godiva: whatd you get

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:09) ChatBot: Ecalsneerg rolls 1d20 and gets 19.

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:14) ShaenTheBrain: Which is "worse" quality for a metahuman, greed, or idealism?

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:20) Ecalsneerg: Apparently Weather Control

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:32) ShaenTheBrain: OK, let's see what I get to oppose Ecal with.

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:33) Ecalsneerg: Yay!

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:52) Godiva: i shall oppose you with...

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:52) Azuth65: "Hey guys, guess what. I've set us up with rooms at the Stratosphere in Vegas and have rented a couple of their conference rooms. We've got Iron Man 1 & 2 showing today, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight tomorrow."

(2011.07.01 - 16:21:58) ChatBot: Godiva rolls 2d20 and gets 17,9.

(2011.07.01 - 16:22:19) Ecalsneerg: ... apparently Nullify

(2011.07.01 - 16:22:26) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 16:23:30) ShaenTheBrain: How many rolls do we get, Ecal?

(2011.07.01 - 16:23:39) Godiva: one!

(2011.07.01 - 16:23:41) ShaenTheBrain: You got Nullify? Dammit. Game over.

(2011.07.01 - 16:23:43) Ecalsneerg: I've just been going with one power

(2011.07.01 - 16:23:48) Ecalsneerg: Shaen: not really

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:01) Ecalsneerg: Seeing as Godiva is 5' tall and apparently not very big. We both dwarf her

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:02) Sorus: Hrrm

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:07) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 1d20 and gets 7.

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:11) Sorus: booyah, 7

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:24) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain rolls 1d20 and gets 14.

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:32) ShaenTheBrain: Heh. Mental.

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:45) ShaenTheBrain: Twas meant to be.

(2011.07.01 - 16:24:54) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain rolls 1d20 and gets 10.

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:00) ShaenTheBrain: ...Mind Reading.

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:03) ShaenTheBrain: This is uncanny.

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:05) Godiva: haha

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:10) trollthumper: Stepping out for a snack. Back later.

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:24) ShaenTheBrain: Apparently I've got Precognition, too.

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:34) Godiva: huh?

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:36) Ecalsneerg: The outcome of this fight will be:

"Apparently he's going to lightning bolt me"

*KRAKOOM*

(2011.07.01 - 16:25:59) Electra comes back from her nap and has no idea what anybody is talking about

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:10) Godiva: we're rolling one random power

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:16) Godiva: roll 2d20

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:30) Godiva: I got nullify

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:31) ChatBot: Fox rolls 2d20 and gets 20,5.

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:38) Godiva: shaen got mind reading

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:40) Fox: Concealment.

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:47) Godiva: ecalsneerg got weather control

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:48) ShaenTheBrain: We were talking about what powers we'd like to get in Real Life, how we'd use them, etc., and finally, Ecal just rolled on the random power tables in the Masterminds Manual.

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:49) Quinn rolls 2d20.

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:57) Fox is the invisible man?

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:57) Quinn: ...Ok, wrong button.

(2011.07.01 - 16:26:59) ShaenTheBrain: I got literally the exact power I said I'd choose earlier.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:01) ChatBot: Quinn rolls 2d20 and gets 12,20.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:05) ChatBot: Electra rolls 2d20 and gets 9,3.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:05) Quinn: What'd I snag?

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:07) Ecalsneerg currently won the superpower lottery

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:18) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 1d20 and gets 2.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:19) Fox: Weather Control, Quinn.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:21) Ecalsneerg: Crud, another Weather Controller

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:26) Quinn: *head-tilts*

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:30) ChatBot: Semi-Autogyro rolls 2d20 and gets 13,14.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:35) Sorus: Got cold control

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:37) ChatBot: trollthumper has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:40) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 2d20 and gets 5,8.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:43) ShaenTheBrain: Electra got magical Animate Object.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:45) Fox: E got (magical) Animate Objects.

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:46) Godiva: we should record these results

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:48) Sorus: Force Field

(2011.07.01 - 16:27:49) Fox:

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:01) Semi-Autogyro: What'd I win?

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:01) Godiva: Sorus wins actually

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:02) Quinn has it rain over his tomato garden. Meh.

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:04) Electra: Crap, that's a summon power.

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:06) Godiva: he can take a hiy

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:10) Godiva: hit

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:12) ShaenTheBrain: Which scares me, because I've seen what Jack Hawksmoor did with a large Animate Objects power.

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:31) Quinn: Don't go Fantasia on us, E.

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:42) Electra trades her power to the devil for an ice cream sandwich

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:43) ShaenTheBrain: Electra, it's a Summon power that turns anything around you into fanatical robot minions.

(2011.07.01 - 16:28:44) Godiva: what did Semi get?

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:02) Godiva is recording the answers

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:05) Sorus: Possession

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:06) ChatBot: Azuth65 rolls 2d20 and gets 6,8.

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:09) ShaenTheBrain: Remember Ludo's rock "friends" from Labyrinth? You can do that!

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:12) ChatBot: GranspearZX has set their status to Online

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:13) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:14) Semi-Autogyro: Sweeeeeet

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:14) Electra: Hey, I've _got_ magical animate object in a build. I'd rather have the ice cream sandwich

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:19) ChatBot: GranspearZX rolls 2d20 and gets 14,15.

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:45) Fox: Hrm.

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:47) ChatBot: Fox rolls 2d20 and gets 7,20.

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:54) Godiva: no rerolls!

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:55) Azuth65: I've got... Force Field. Hmm, I could probably stunt/array that into something like Sue Storm runs around with.

(2011.07.01 - 16:29:58) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 16:30:01) Fox:

(2011.07.01 - 16:30:28) Fox wants Concealment over Vibration Control anyway.

(2011.07.01 - 16:30:45) Semi-Autogyro: *snerk* vibration control.

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:10) Azuth65: (insert dirty comment here)

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:16) Godiva: Granspear got...

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:23) Azuth65: I'm too lazy to think of something better.

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:28) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 2d20 and gets 1,8.

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:39) ShaenTheBrain: Hey, if nothing else, I know when Semi-Autogyro is possessing someone.

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:39) Sorus: ... Nauseate

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:55) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 16:31:59) Ecalsneerg: Vomitman!

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:05) ShaenTheBrain: Know what else I know?

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:09) Godiva: thats what you get for rerolling!

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:12) ShaenTheBrain: Everything.

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:13) Azuth65: Con-Goer Man!

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:35) Azuth65: It's an olfactory based nauseate!

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:37) Semi-Autogyro: Power Perversion Potential

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:38) Godiva: You know what i know? that you don't know anything anymore

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:46) Godiva nullifies you all!

(2011.07.01 - 16:32:53) Godiva: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:14) Ecalsneerg just walks up and punches her instead

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:16) ShaenTheBrain: Ceiling Shaen is gonna AP ESP off of his Mind Reading and watch you

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:32) Setzer: Alternate form?

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:37) Setzer: Aw man!

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:38) ShaenTheBrain: Ah, Godiva's the one who scored Nullify. She's the killswitch.]

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:47) ShaenTheBrain: Fortunately for me, telepaths tend to have high Will saves.

(2011.07.01 - 16:33:59) GranspearZX: Ooh. Nullifier (N)PC named Killswitch.

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:00) Fox: The Invisible Fox presumably has concealment to all senses?

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:06) Godiva: unfortunately i cannot think of anything cool to stunt off my nullifyy

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:12) Electra animates some PL 5 chairs, watches as they blunder helplessly into walls

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:27) ShaenTheBrain knew you were going to do that before you did

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:41) Fox: Godiva - boost?

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:45) Electra: Well what _else_ was I gonna do?

(2011.07.01 - 16:34:47) Quinn: Gran > That gives me an idea for an NPC villain

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:04) Semi-Autogyro finds a nice trampoline to jump up and down on.

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:17) Fox: Electra: visit the nearest museum with an intact dinosaur skeleton.

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:27) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:32) Azuth65: Pull a Dresden!

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:34) Quinn: Killswitch; a professional assassin who specializes in heroes, and thanks to an innate nullifier field, is *very* good at what he does?

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:49) Godiva: sounds too dark for here

(2011.07.01 - 16:35:51) Electra animates a PL 5 dinosaur skeleton watches it blunder helplessly into a wall

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:07) Godiva: you think oyu're PL5?

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:13) Fox: Dinosaur skeletons do not blunder into walls.

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:18) Fox: Dinosaur skeletons blunder through walls.

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:30) Godiva: i thought we got PL0 powers

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:35) Godiva: PL10

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:43) GranspearZX: Off to work for me. Later folks!

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:45) ChatBot: GranspearZX has set their status to Away

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:49) ShaenTheBrain: We never agreed on a campaign power level.

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:50) Azuth65 places his force field around Sue the T-Rex and rides the skeleton through Downtown Chicago.

(2011.07.01 - 16:36:55) Fox: Well, the random chart suggests taking it at PL or rolling for the power rank.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:19) ShaenTheBrain: Having to roll for your power is bad enough.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:20) Setzer: Well, I got... ehr, solid. Could be worse. Atleast sounds useful

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:31) ShaenTheBrain: I'm not rolling for my power rank.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:35) Fox: Heh.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:40) ShaenTheBrain: "Could be worse?" Setz, you hit a jackpot.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:41) Semi-Autogyro: Who got the booby prize of color control?

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:44) ShaenTheBrain: You're freaking Colossus.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:56) ChatBot: AvengerAssembled rolls 2d20 and gets 9,7.

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:58) Setzer: Oh, no

(2011.07.01 - 16:37:58) Setzer: :-(

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:12) ShaenTheBrain: AA got Astral Form

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:17) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:26) Electra is basing her power use on her experiences with magical animate object in the past

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:28) Godiva: he IS Big Brother

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:29) ShaenTheBrain: Big Brother is watching us

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:32) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:40) Setzer: The evaluation says I´m not ready for that, I think

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:41) Azuth65: Ceiling AA is watching you masturbate...

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:45) Sorus: The chart also suggests possibly rolling a d20 for rank of power as well

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:48) Sorus: So...

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:53) ChatBot: Sorus rolls 3d20 and gets 9,1,10.

(2011.07.01 - 16:38:54) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, screw that.

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:00) AvengerAssembled: I have an 18 month old, I don't get a lot of use out of a power that requires me to leave my body behind.

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:02) Setzer: Aw that sucks

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:07) ChatBot: Quinn rolls 3d20 and gets 14,8,11.

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:07) Godiva: I'll have my PL10 power thank you!

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:16) Quinn: Ok, what did I score there?

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:17) Sorus: Rank 10 animate objects

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:28) ChatBot: Electra rolls 3d10 and gets 4,3,8.

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:33) Sorus: Mind Control, Quinn

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:37) Quinn: ...

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:40) Quinn: >:-D

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:45) ChatBot: AvengerAssembled rolls 3d20 and gets 14,9,12.

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:49) Godiva is scared she'll get a sucky power if she rerolls

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:54) Sorus: Alternate form, Electra

(2011.07.01 - 16:39:56) Quinn: PL 11 Mind Control, TYVM.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:05) ChatBot: Semi-Autogyro rolls 3d20 and gets 16,13,17.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:08) ChatBot: Godiva rolls 3d20 and gets 5,8,10.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:13) Electra: At least it's better than animate object!

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:13) Quinn: Nice ones, Semi.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:15) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 12 Mind Reading, AA.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:17) Godiva: well, its rank 10

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:18) ChatBot: Azuth65 rolls 2d20 and gets 11,15.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:21) ShaenTheBrain fist-bumps his fellow telepath

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:32) ChatBot: Fox rolls 3d20 and gets 8,2,10.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:33) AvengerAssembled: Wait, you're thinking "AA is a jackass"

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:45) Godiva: what did i trade my lovely nullify for?

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:48) Fox: Rank 10 cold control? I think I'd rather have the PL10 Concealment.

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:53) Quinn: Bah, you only read them. I CONTROL THEM. *makes puppeteering motions*

(2011.07.01 - 16:40:56) AvengerAssembled: Oh no, that's just me.

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:03) ShaenTheBrain: No, no. I was thinking "AA is a Jacque...ass. Yeah, you're not buying this."

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:04) Setzer: PL 10 Alternate form solid and, ehr... nauseate 5 ¬¬

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:05) Fox: Godiva - rank 10 Force Field.

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:11) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:13) Azuth65: Water control on the reroll. Not bad, I live near several lakes and could probably get away with some snow control.

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:28) Setzer: My nom-de-guerre will be "Rocky Horror"

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:31) Quinn laughs like Mark Hamill. Bow! Bow to my mighty mind-vise!

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:31) Azuth65: I'll never have to shovel my driveway again!

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:35) Godiva: i can survive hits now

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:42) AvengerAssembled: I want a power that will help my professional or personal life.

(2011.07.01 - 16:41:52) AvengerAssembled: I would mostly use Astral Form to bother Electra.

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:03) ShaenTheBrain: Mind Reading will destroy your personal life, but it can only help you professionally.

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:04) Azuth65: Quinn, did you see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:13) AvengerAssembled: And use Mind Reading to read the baby's mind. "Dad is...ah, nuts"

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:27) Azuth65: "Hey Kids, it's Mark Hamill. (Applause)"

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:41) Quinn: Az > Mark Hamill voiced the Joker.

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:46) Electra often wishes she could read the baby's mind and know what the hell he wants

(2011.07.01 - 16:42:52) Azuth65: I know.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:00) ShaenTheBrain: Damn, S.A.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:03) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 17 Speed.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:08) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:19) Quinn: In short, I Joker-laugh at all of you. And CONQUER YOUR MINDS! MWAHAHAHAHA! Ooh, nice one Semi.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:22) Semi-Autogyro: That's...wow.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:26) Godiva: SA makes millions being delivery seivce

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:30) AvengerAssembled: Let's roll for Robert!

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:38) Setzer: Everybody has awesome skills and I have the pits. That´s not cool, I dislike real life in my heroic fantasy

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:39) ChatBot: AvengerAssembled rolls 3d20 and gets 1,3,17.

(2011.07.01 - 16:43:50) ShaenTheBrain: "Ask me how the Queen of England is."

"How is s-"

*zip* "She's fine."

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:04) Setzer: Wait, are three dices?

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:09) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:12) Azuth65: Baby gets a rank 17 blast...

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:15) Godiva: rolling for rank now

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:18) Fox: Setzer - category, power, rank.

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:21) Electra: Yikes!

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:24) ShaenTheBrain: Setz, it's only 3 if you want to roll for power rank as well.

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:25) AvengerAssembled: Oh noo!

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:42) Godiva: he's tiny and has no aim

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:47) Godiva: he'll miss!

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:50) Electra: I am really not sure it's a good idea to give the baby a Rank 17 Blast.

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:52) ChatBot: GranspearZX[AFK] logs out of the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:56) ShaenTheBrain: Let's hope he doesn't get his power until at least puberty.

(2011.07.01 - 16:44:58) Setzer: ...

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:02) Fox: The random powers thing would be entertaining for a one-off game. Though you'd probably want to let people reroll if the group agrees that the power's weaksauce.

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:09) ShaenTheBrain: Heh. AA, Electra, your son is Cyclops.

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:16) Godiva: he is!

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:17) Electra: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:18) AvengerAssembled: Actually, his Shrinking gives him a substantial attack bonus vs. medium-sized creatures like us.

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:50) Godiva: oh wait, youre right

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:52) Electra: He will be insufferable and have a horrific personal life, and we will never know our grandchildren except as gritty antiheroes our own age!

(2011.07.01 - 16:45:55) Azuth65: And now we have a plot for some babysitting Vicky can do over the summer... Dealing with a super-powered child (though, blast 17 IS a bit much).

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:04) AvengerAssembled: That would make a pretty good story seed.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:07) Setzer: Ooookkkaaay... Emotion Control 19. Alternate form (solid), Nauseate 5, Emotion Control 19. Which is the main theme!?

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:14) AvengerAssembled: Little kid has crazy powers and goes on a rampage.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:24) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain rolls 1d20 and gets 14.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:25) Godiva: Setzer one power

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:25) Fox: Setzer - you only get one!

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:27) ShaenTheBrain: Woot.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:29) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 14 Mind Reading.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:36) Azuth65: Any chance you'd run that AA?

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:41) ChatBot: AvengerAssembled rolls 1d20 and gets 3.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:46) Semi-Autogyro: roll 1d20

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:49) Electra: Fleur does need to line up a couple of babysitters this summer or fall.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:49) Semi-Autogyro: err

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:58) ChatBot: Semi-Autogyro rolls 1d20 and gets 15.

(2011.07.01 - 16:46:59) ShaenTheBrain made his other two rolls already

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:07) AvengerAssembled: She should go to Claremont and hire.

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:12) AvengerAssembled: Especially since she's married to a teacher.

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:23) Semi-Autogyro: Yeah. I'd take rank 15 possession over speed, hands down

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:34) Electra: Possibly, possibly.

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:36) Sorus: Willow will babysit!

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:52) Electra: Willow and Fleur still haven't met!

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:54) Sorus: Does the baby have immunity to suffocation?

(2011.07.01 - 16:47:59) Godiva: forcefield is a boring power

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:02) Azuth65: Also,

Wisp sez: Sit in the corner and think about what you've done. ...And no powers or so help me I'll teleport your video games into the next town.

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:04) ChatBot: Godiva rolls 3d20 and gets 9,6,12.

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:27) Electra: All superbabies are PLX since they aren't allowed to have sheets.

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:46) Godiva: if i get force field again

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:53) Godiva: even at rank 12

(2011.07.01 - 16:48:54) Azuth65: Diva, Force Field is basically Sue Storm's power with a linked invisibility tacked on. She's gone from weakest to most badass of the FF.

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:09) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 12 Astral Form. That sucks, G. Well, at least you can go see what the moon looks like.

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:11) Azuth65: She's taken down The Hulk with force field.

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:14) Ecalsneerg: Well, in MnM terms, Force Field is sustained Toughness

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:26) Ecalsneerg: Sue Storm has got Create Object too

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:36) Azuth65: Yes yes but it can be stunted into Force Objects easily enough.

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:40) Setzer: I wish I had those powers. Alt form & Emotion Control? Rocky Mule? Waiiit a sec... http://i186.photobucket.com/albu​ms/x22/DrunkMonkGar/Motivators/Wa​rforgedPimp.jpg

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:45) ShaenTheBrain: You guys also keep forgetting that we can probably AP off these, and we can definitely stunt off of them.

(2011.07.01 - 16:49:49) Sorus: I ask because you are aware of the restriction on Willow's plantsuit, right?!

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:00) Electra: No, Sorus

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:04) Sorus: Stesha can use it

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:06) Ecalsneerg: Weather Control is definitely an array >:-D

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:17) Setzer: And nauseate for those pesky uber-will & toughness builds. Not so bad!

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:40) Sorus: Plant Controllers (this immune to suffocation from carbon dioxide)

(2011.07.01 - 16:50:48) Godiva: stunting off of Astral Form 12 will get me more options than Force Field 10!

(2011.07.01 - 16:51:17) Electra: Given her parents, Ammy surely can get by without oxygen somehow

(2011.07.01 - 16:51:53) Fox isn't sure what he'd stunt off of Concealment, but does like the idea of being unseen. It's not a bad defense against random enemies!

(2011.07.01 - 16:52:58) ShaenTheBrain: So, Ecal. Mind Reading vs Weather Control. Stunted Mental Blast, Stun, or Mind Control, versus stunted Move Object and Lightning Blasts.

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:06) ShaenTheBrain: Think you can push me before I push you?

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:35) Semi-Autogyro: I really wouldn't know what to stunt off of possession.

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:48) AvengerAssembled: watches the fight with Astral Form!

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:48) Sorus: So, yeah. Chances are Willow can put the tyke into the plant armor

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:50) Quinn has his mind controlled minions take y'all down.

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:53) Sorus: Which would be amusing

(2011.07.01 - 16:53:59) Sorus: Baby in a plantsuit!

(2011.07.01 - 16:54:06) AvengerAssembled: Plantsuit baby!

(2011.07.01 - 16:54:10) Godiva is up there with Avenger in astral form

(2011.07.01 - 16:54:11) ShaenTheBrain: Fox knows the value of not being seen

(2011.07.01 - 16:54:12) Semi-Autogyro: It would be a plantsie

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:24) ShaenTheBrain: As a psychic, I'm looking forward to a series of tumultuous relationships with obnoxious energy blasters and regenerators.

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:39) ShaenTheBrain: Also, getting fridged once every 18 months like clockwork.

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:40) Godiva: who has astrral form in comics?

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:51) Azuth65: Doctor Strange?

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:51) AvengerAssembled: Dick Grayson

(2011.07.01 - 16:57:52) ShaenTheBrain: Doctor Strange uses it a lot.

(2011.07.01 - 16:58:00) Godiva: dont be silly shaen, you're a guy

(2011.07.01 - 16:58:01) AvengerAssembled: Bam! Dirty joke for you there.

(2011.07.01 - 16:58:02) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 16:58:49) Godiva: apparently though, i need to "step up my game"

(2011.07.01 - 16:59:30) Godiva: wait, there are no black females in comics. I'm safe!

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:03) ChatBot: trollthumper logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:07) trollthumper: I'm back.

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:10) Azuth65: Unless you're Storm. Then you're blamed for Katrina.

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:12) Godiva: (and non existent)

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:14) Azuth65: WB TT.

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:22) Godiva: hello trollthumper

(2011.07.01 - 17:00:47) Fox: Natasha Irons, Monica Rambeau.

(2011.07.01 - 17:01:01) Fox: And Storm.

(2011.07.01 - 17:02:06) ShaenTheBrain: Vixen, when the artists remember that she's black.

(2011.07.01 - 17:02:56) Godiva: i think the young justice cartoon had a black female with wings. Wasp?

(2011.07.01 - 17:03:00) Godiva goes to look

(2011.07.01 - 17:03:08) AvengerAssembled: Bumblebee

(2011.07.01 - 17:03:24) Ecalsneerg: There's also Onyx

(2011.07.01 - 17:03:33) AvengerAssembled: I used her as the pic for Bee-Keeper III, since her dad (Bee-Keeper II) is black.

(2011.07.01 - 17:03:52) Ecalsneerg: Although she was last seen... Christ, when was the War Games arc?

(2011.07.01 - 17:04:12) trollthumper: I dunno, but it was when they killed off the OTHER black member of the Batfamily.

(2011.07.01 - 17:04:14) Godiva: thats where i emember seeing it avenger

(2011.07.01 - 17:04:34) AvengerAssembled: Bee-Keeper II is played by Isiah Mustafa.

(2011.07.01 - 17:04:53) trollthumper: "Hello, Queens. Look at your hive. Now back to me."

(2011.07.01 - 17:05:02) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 17:05:10) ChatBot: quotemyname logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:05:48) trollthumper: Mmm, cinnamon bun ice cream.

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:10) ShaenTheBrain: Oh, and if we wanna go really obscure for black superheroines, Onyx.

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:13) Godiva: how often do Dariusprime and FelicitousFolly show up?

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:14) Setzer: Bonjour quotemyname

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:23) quotemyname: Hey

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:28) Ecalsneerg: Shaen: I beat you to it

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:29) Electra: If Beekeeper had shown up out of costume and asked Fleur on a date on his first appearance, their relationship could've been very different.

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:31) Azuth65: Hey QMN.

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:37) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:45) Electra: Darius posts more often than he shows up in chat

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:51) ShaenTheBrain is a psychic, but an easily distracted psychic

(2011.07.01 - 17:06:56) AvengerAssembled: But he didn't want a date! He wanted an archnemesis!

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:05) Electra: He did not, he wanted a queen!

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:14) trollthumper: Another obscure one? Empress.

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:19) trollthumper: Whose power set is... weird.

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:23) Ecalsneerg: Onyx might be obscure, but she gets the honour of being allowed to work in Gotham without getting a Batarang up her arse.

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:23) AvengerAssembled: And also a queen!

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:48) Godiva: trollthumper, that lead to a page about the monarchy

(2011.07.01 - 17:07:52) ShaenTheBrain: "trollthumper: I dunno, but it was when they killed off the OTHER black member of the Batfamily." When Black Mask killed Orpheus?

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:00) AvengerAssembled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp​ress_(comics)

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:06) trollthumper: Oops.

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:08) trollthumper:

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:16) ShaenTheBrain: War Games. Also the story where he tortured Stephanie Brown to death in the most creepily sexualized manner the artist could convey.

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:29) quotemyname: Oh...@#$%

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:31) trollthumper: She's a combat trained Badass Normal! But she got part of the Anti-Life Equation in her head, so she's got mind control! But she's a mambo, so she's also got voodoo powers.

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:40) AvengerAssembled: You know, I could build this character.

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:43) Godiva: "Empress can telepathically command people to do simple actions (like forcing someone to stand still or shut up) through a piece of the Anti-Life Equation she holds in her brain. She is also an accomplished Vodou practitioner, which she learned from her mother and grandmother, allowing her to teleport and perform other spells.[1] She is an accomplished fighter with her sword baton ("Emperor's Stick")."

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:48) quotemyname: It seems I've forgotten to eat today. I'd better get something in my stomach before this party goes down >_>

(2011.07.01 - 17:08:51) ShaenTheBrain: ...And the Wikipedia article on War Games doesn't so much as mention him.

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:11) quotemyname wouldn't want to drink on an empty stomach.

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:26) Godiva: why is it that black mages are always Voodoo

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:35) quotemyname: My choices of food in this house are ramen, ramen, and ramen.

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:45) Azuth65: Diva, whitey...

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:49) Electra: Ramen works

(2011.07.01 - 17:09:52) AvengerAssembled: A Terminus baby raised in voudon culture.

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:07) AvengerAssembled: Encouraged to take up swordery as a way of getting personal discipline.

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:18) trollthumper: I dunno, Godiva, but I'm reminded of MGK's article on Firestorm villains.

To be continued!

[Dr Archeville]

Part 2!

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:18) trollthumper: I dunno, Godiva, but I'm reminded of MGK's article on Firestorm villains.

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:19) Azuth65: Also, "Christopher Titus" said:"I'm whitey and I apologize."

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:38) trollthumper: "Her powers are turning into spirit animals and super-gambling skills. If her weakness turned out to be liquor, how wrong would that be?"

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:39) ShaenTheBrain: "Godiva: why is it that black mages are always Voodoo?" Same reason American Indians can always make it rain.

(2011.07.01 - 17:10:55) trollthumper: ...huh. Timely.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:04) Ecalsneerg: Cunning manipulation of the weather channel?

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:05) Setzer: Gambit Baron Samedi Custer? What´s that comic?

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:13) ShaenTheBrain: Goddammit, I am getting ninja'd left and right today.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:17) Azuth65: To his credit, I don't think Listens To Wind has ever made it rain on screen.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:18) trollthumper: Setz - Young Justice.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:35) Godiva: My third character (if i ever get it ) will break that stereotype

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:43) trollthumper: Az - We're talking about Rainmaker, the Gen13 character who was a Native American girl with... weather manipulation powers.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:44) ChatBot: Raveled logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:11:51) ShaenTheBrain: "And all you non-white people, you should probably go ahead and accept our apology. I mean...did you see how fast we got organized?"

(2011.07.01 - 17:12:14) Raveled: ?

(2011.07.01 - 17:12:26) trollthumper: Oh, and by "Young Justice," I mean the original Peter David run. Not the current series or the comic based on it.

(2011.07.01 - 17:12:27) Raveled: ... Oh, wait. I saw that stand-up routine.

(2011.07.01 - 17:12:39) Azuth65: 5th Annual End of the World Tour.

(2011.07.01 - 17:12:48) ShaenTheBrain: Context

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:25) quotemyname: Shaen

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:35) Azuth65: "Turns out the problem? ...Those f***in' white people."

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:43) quotemyname: The super senses cost increase only applies to awareness and detects, correct?

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:45) Electra: AA is AFK, btw

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:48) ShaenTheBrain: *sigh* Oh, Slipknot.

(2011.07.01 - 17:13:56) ShaenTheBrain: Yes, Quote.

(2011.07.01 - 17:14:40) ShaenTheBrain: For some reason, Slipknot parleyed knot-tying and trapping skills into a supervillain career. And for reasons neither science nor religion can explain, he kept going up against Firestorm, The Nuclear Man.

(2011.07.01 - 17:15:13) trollthumper: Like MGK says, a good power set and theme to face down Batman. Set yourself up in Gotham, call yourself Garrote.

(2011.07.01 - 17:15:19) Electra: He turned down a visit to the pizza buffet, so I suspect he is not feeling well.

(2011.07.01 - 17:15:20) ShaenTheBrain: He tried to kill Firestorm twice. Once by hanging him, the second time by tying him up and throwing him off a roof. Since Firestorm can f**king FLY, this was less than effective.

(2011.07.01 - 17:15:24) trollthumper: Don't face the man who can TRANSMUTE MATTER WITH A THOUGHT.

(2011.07.01 - 17:16:05) trollthumper: It says a lot his most impressive appearance was the Suicide Squad comic where he totally failed to choke a Manhunter (robot), bought Captain Boomerang's lie about their explosive collars being fakes, and got an arm blown off when he ran.

(2011.07.01 - 17:16:25) ShaenTheBrain: Slipknot is one of the few supervillains in the history of comics who makes Batroc The Leaper look formidable and dignified.

(2011.07.01 - 17:16:32) Azuth65: ...Who turns down a trip to CiCi's?

(2011.07.01 - 17:16:35) ShaenTheBrain: He's Angar The Screamer levels of pathetic.

(2011.07.01 - 17:16:52) trollthumper: Now, now. They're actually trying to make Batroc badass these days.

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:00) trollthumper: That will NEVER happen to Slipknot.

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:04) Raveled: A guy whose power is jumping really far?

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:07) ShaenTheBrain: Yeeeah, good luck with that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:11) ShaenTheBrain: Worse, Rav.

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:14) Setzer: Ahhh, Suicide squad...

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:22) ShaenTheBrain: Batroc has no superpowers. He's a French kickboxer.

(2011.07.01 - 17:17:26) Raveled: They did it with Matter Eater Lad, but he has an actual, you know, superpower.

(2011.07.01 - 17:18:23) Azuth65: I still think Adam Richman is retired and partially de-powered Matter Eater Lad...

(2011.07.01 - 17:20:42) quotemyname: okay gotta go...

(2011.07.01 - 17:20:42) quotemyname: later

(2011.07.01 - 17:20:49) Raveled: Later QMN.

(2011.07.01 - 17:21:15) ShaenTheBrain: Hey Quote

(2011.07.01 - 17:21:22) ShaenTheBrain: Roll 3D20

(2011.07.01 - 17:22:03) ChatBot: quotemyname has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 17:22:07) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 17:22:19) Godiva: i will roll for quotemyname!

(2011.07.01 - 17:22:24) ChatBot: Godiva rolls 3d20 and gets 14,18,16.

(2011.07.01 - 17:22:48) ShaenTheBrain: I suppose rank 16 Telekinesis is far from the worst power to put in Quote's hands.

(2011.07.01 - 17:23:04) trollthumper: Ooh, I wanna see what I get!

(2011.07.01 - 17:23:20) Godiva: i got 12 ranks of astral form

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:05) ShaenTheBrain: What power did you get again, TT?

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:10) trollthumper: I didn't.

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:16) Raveled: Shaen> What are you rolling?

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:19) trollthumper: I don't think anyone rolled for me.

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:19) Godiva: roll 3d20!

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:23) ChatBot: trollthumper rolls 3d20 and gets 11,1,18.

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:30) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:38) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 18 Air Control. Whoa.

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:50) ShaenTheBrain: Air Control is basically flawed Move Object + flawed Trip.

(2011.07.01 - 17:24:58) ShaenTheBrain: And it's Perception-range.

(2011.07.01 - 17:25:08) trollthumper: Huh. Not exactly what I wanted, but it's good to know I can recreate Katrina if I ever get pissed off.

(2011.07.01 - 17:25:15) Raveled: Ha.

(2011.07.01 - 17:25:24) Godiva: but its not precise, so all you can do os blow people away!

(2011.07.01 - 17:25:49) ShaenTheBrain: Heh. You're The Human Tornado.

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:00) Godiva: but hey, you get som cool stunts

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:02) Godiva: i think

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:18) Azuth65: He can become a human air freshener.

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:39) Godiva: air control is flight

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:45) trollthumper: This is probably one of those powers that becomes infinitely more badass after you take courses in meteorology.

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:45) Raveled: TT smells like pine?

(2011.07.01 - 17:26:56) Ecalsneerg: Eh, I got Weather Control

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:01) trollthumper: It's like that Ultimate X-Men comic where Storm says she looked up the "recipe" for ball lightning on the Internet.

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:05) Ecalsneerg: I've got Air Control

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:15) Godiva: i got nullify before we were rolling ranks

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:25) Raveled: What is all this rolling you're doing?

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:32) Godiva: but 12 ranks of astral form?

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:40) Godiva: raveled, roll 3d20

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:47) Godiva: you will get a power

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:50) ShaenTheBrain: The random power table in the Masterminds Manual.

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:52) Azuth65: Little bit TT. Actually, watching episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender would also be a good place for ideas.

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:54) trollthumper: We're rolling to see who gets what powers at what rank when the Super Mass Empowering Event comes, via the Masterminds' Manual's random power table.

(2011.07.01 - 17:27:56) ChatBot: Raveled rolls 3d20 and gets 5,17,9.

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:09) Godiva: 9 ranks it better be cool

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:21) Raveled: 9 ranks of Luck Control?

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:35) Raveled: 9 ranks of Immunity?

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:49) ShaenTheBrain: Protection.

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:56) Godiva: ha!

(2011.07.01 - 17:28:56) Raveled:

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:04) Raveled: Oh, well. If it's Impervious, I'm bulletproof.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:07) ShaenTheBrain: Hey, you're basically bulletproof.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:08) Ecalsneerg: If we're nice and give him Impervious, he's bullet proof

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:08) Godiva: reroll that

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:09) Semi-Autogyro: You can stop anything below a tank shell.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:14) Raveled: Hahahaha.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:14) Ecalsneerg:

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:14) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:18) trollthumper: So, which event are we choosing for our powers to strike on? The solar eclipse? Promicin in the water supply? The independence of India?

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:22) Raveled: Wow, the double ninja.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:26) Raveled: TT> 2012.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:32) Raveled: End of the world, baby!

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:32) ShaenTheBrain: He's got a decent chance of shrugging off the tank shell, too.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:43) trollthumper: Bah. I thought we were getting dragons in 2012.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:48) Godiva: Shaen, it depends on his Con

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:49) trollthumper: And magic.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:51) trollthumper: And orcs.

(2011.07.01 - 17:29:58) Raveled: On the bad side, if I ever get cancer or something, better hope the surgeon has a diamond-bladed saw.

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:04) Godiva: how hearty are you Raveled?

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:12) Raveled: TT> I'm afraid we're already off schedule for Shadowrun.

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:20) trollthumper: Well, yeah, I know that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:22) trollthumper: But a man can hope.

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:26) Raveled: WE should already have life-like prosthetics and people replacing healthy body parts.

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:34) Raveled: Diva> I am huge like bear! *Flexes*

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:43) ShaenTheBrain: "Godiva: how hearty are you Raveled?" I'm guessing "not very."

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:53) ChatBot: Electra has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 17:30:58) Semi-Autogyro: Aww that's a cute teddy bear!

(2011.07.01 - 17:31:25) Fox is that trope.

(2011.07.01 - 17:31:34) Raveled: Indeed.

(2011.07.01 - 17:31:41) Raveled embodies that as well.

(2011.07.01 - 17:31:52) ShaenTheBrain is quite happy with the Professor X spot

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:00) trollthumper is of average build.

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:15) ShaenTheBrain is gonna change the world!

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:31) Godiva: "Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like "You know, sometimes I forget to eat!" Now, I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but I have never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. — Roseanne Barr"

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:34) Ecalsneerg is apparently Storm

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:40) Godiva has forgotten to eat sometimes

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:43) trollthumper: Shaen, stop lying. We KNOW you're Magneto.

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:44) ShaenTheBrain One hollowed-out thrall-I mean, "enlightened convert," at a time

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:45) Semi-Autogyro: Lesse...possession people? All I can think of is Jericho.

(2011.07.01 - 17:32:46) trollthumper: Or Henry Bendix.

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:08) ShaenTheBrain prefers to think of himself as Jenny Sparks or Jack Hawksmoor

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:12) Raveled: S-A> Read more Simon R. Greene. Shows up in his stuff on occassion.

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:22) ShaenTheBrain: Are you Storm, Ecal...or Thor?

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:25) Godiva: TVTropes is leading me down that road again

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:28) Raveled: Shaen> You run around in a Union Jack shirt and no shoes?

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:35) Fox will be there, watching you dangerous supers, to stop you if you slip up!

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:45) Raveled: Fox> Nullify?

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:54) trollthumper: Great. Fox is The Haitian.

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:57) Godiva: it'll be five hours later and i'll be somewhere between 7-10 windows open

(2011.07.01 - 17:33:59) Ecalsneerg: I'm claiming faux-mystic

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:01) ShaenTheBrain: No, Fox is the Invisible Man.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:05) ShaenTheBrain: He scored Concealment.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:13) ShaenTheBrain: It's his only power, so it's safe to assume he has a lot of it.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:13) Godiva: I had nullify

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:15) Raveled: We just need someone with super-senses, then.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:19) Ecalsneerg: I mean, sure it's just the same shared origin story for everyone

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:26) trollthumper: Does this mean I have to link to that John Hodgman survey again?

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:30) Raveled will be Colossus!

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:33) Ecalsneerg: But if I shout gibberish while conjuring lightning, who's gonna know?

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:35) Godiva: I. Had. NULLIFY

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:39) Fox: Heck, if we go by rank-10 powers I've got all of it. All the concealment.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:41) ShaenTheBrain: Actually, Setzer is Colossus.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:46) ShaenTheBrain: He got Alternate Form (Solid).

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:50) Raveled: Heh.

(2011.07.01 - 17:34:59) Raveled: Setzer is an amorphous liquid?

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:00) ShaenTheBrain: So go back to it, Godiva.

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:09) Semi-Autogyro: He's a brick house.

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:12) Raveled will take his bullet-proof chest.

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:21) Godiva: i'd have to roll ranks

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:34) Godiva: do i really want to give up 12 ranks of astral form?

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:40) Raveled: Although I wonder what's the justification there. Thick bones? Sub-dermal armor plating?

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:48) Raveled: Diva> Explore the center of your mind!

(2011.07.01 - 17:35:52) ShaenTheBrain: "Godiva: do i really want to give up 12 ranks of astral form?" Are you seriously asking that?

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:04) ShaenTheBrain: Astral Form is Mental Communication + ESP with funky descriptors.

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:07) Setzer: I got AF (solid), Emotion Control 18 and nauseate 5 or 6

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:14) ChatBot: Ecalsneerg rolls 1d20 and gets 5.

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:17) Godiva: Setzer, one power

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:18) ShaenTheBrain: Not "and," Setz. Pick one.

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:25) Ecalsneerg: Apparently I only get Weather Control 8

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:38) Setzer: Nataniel Link, Ironheart Pimp

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:42) ShaenTheBrain: That's a decent-sized area.

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:42) Ecalsneerg: Although that can still be about 32pp of Array

(2011.07.01 - 17:36:57) trollthumper: Hmm... do I want to go for the reroll table and give up my powers as Aeolus, God of the Winds?

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:01) ShaenTheBrain: 4PP of mix-&-match environments?

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:03) Godiva: you're right, Shaen

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:09) Ecalsneerg: Works for me

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:12) Setzer: Oh, well, it was a ridiculous combination. Whatever. Solid form, why not

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:16) Ecalsneerg: Then AP all my lightning and wind!

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:24) Godiva: nullify would knock every one out, but they'd still beat on me

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:32) ShaenTheBrain: I dunno, TT. I mean, 18 ranks of Move Object?

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:41) Raveled can do better than being bulletproof.

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:44) ChatBot: Raveled rolls 3d20 and gets 9,19,4.

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:51) Raveled: Oh, eff you ChatBot.

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:57) ShaenTheBrain: Heh.

(2011.07.01 - 17:37:57) Godiva: 4 ranks!

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:02) Ecalsneerg: Godiva, that's why you train to be Batman

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:06) ChatBot: Arichamus logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:07) Raveled: I better get Transmutation or something.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:07) ShaenTheBrain: But 4 ranks of an undefined magic array.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:09) Raveled: Hey Maus.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:12) Raveled: Ha! Magic!

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:14) Semi-Autogyro: TT: Powerstunt Nauseate. God of the Broken Wind!

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:14) Raveled dances.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:16) Azuth65: Hey Ari.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:18) Arichamus: Good Afternoon!

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:19) trollthumper: You've got a point, Shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:24) trollthumper: I can stunt a HELL of a lot off of that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:33) ShaenTheBrain: Rav, be the badass abnormal.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:47) Godiva: 8 point effects EVERYWHERE

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:48) Raveled: I can do a heck of an Obscure off that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:50) ShaenTheBrain: You got a utility belt.

(2011.07.01 - 17:38:52) Raveled: Then teleport into the mist!

(2011.07.01 - 17:39:47) Raveled: Darkwiiiiiing Duck!

(2011.07.01 - 17:40:42) Godiva: i saw where there was an elseworld you guys did years back where you played superpowered version of yourself

(2011.07.01 - 17:40:53) Godiva: why not do it again?

(2011.07.01 - 17:40:55) Setzer: What can you stunt from AF (solid). I´m made of pure METAL and thad´s sooooo rad, but...

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:09) Raveled: Set> Create Object! Metal objects.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:13) Ecalsneerg: You probably wouldn't stunt off it

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:15) ChatBot: Electra logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:21) Arichamus: Hello Electra!

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:21) Raveled: Blast! Go all Metal Arm Alchemist on folks.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:22) Ecalsneerg: Colossus just turns into metal and starts punching time

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:23) ShaenTheBrain: What do you NEED to stunt? AF (Solid) is a Container, containing stuff like Density, Impervious Protection, and Super-Strength.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:23) Raveled: Hey E.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:28) Godiva: but you are metal

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:30) trollthumper: I imagine my superpowered self would be a hideous mix of Spider-Man's attitude and John Constantine's power set.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:31) ShaenTheBrain: You're a brick house.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:44) trollthumper: Which means I get all my friends killed and am an unctuous manchild about it!

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:46) trollthumper: No, wait.

(2011.07.01 - 17:41:48) Godiva: and all things metal in your form

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:01) Ecalsneerg: Hey, no fair, I'm claiming the Constantine slot in this superteam

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:05) Ecalsneerg: Get your own look!

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:07) ShaenTheBrain: Well, "solid." You can be metal, or stone, or whatever.

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:19) Godiva: you ARE The Metal! and you WILL throw things to the ground!

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:19) trollthumper: Bah. I wasn't even gonna wear a trenchcoat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:20) Raveled: Can I be the Captain? As in Nextwave?

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:33) Ecalsneerg: Alternate Form (Stone), AP: Alternate Form (sand?

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:37) ShaenTheBrain: You can have the Constantine slot on my team, Trollthumper. Join me, and together, we'll make a finer world.

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:47) trollthumper: Okay, then. Ecal can be Modern Day Constantine. I'll get a studded leather jacket and me Punk Constantine.

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:53) trollthumper: *be

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:55) Fox suspects he'd be pretty busy keeping an eye on Shaen and troll....

(2011.07.01 - 17:42:56) Raveled: Shaen> You've watched First Class entirely too often.

(2011.07.01 - 17:43:14) Raveled ponders the Batman slot. Decides he doesn't have enough money for that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:43:18) Raveled goes to be Green Arrow instead.

(2011.07.01 - 17:43:19) ShaenTheBrain: Ecal just wants to keep things the way they've always been. But I know the truth. There's no going back. These powers have changed things, forever.

(2011.07.01 - 17:43:41) Godiva: My stral form 12 could be the spy of the group

(2011.07.01 - 17:43:55) ShaenTheBrain: We have to change with them. Change, or die.

(2011.07.01 - 17:44:09) Ecalsneerg: They oppose me. They try to foist their agenda upon me. But they will not succeed. I have a weapon. They know not how large my horn is.

(2011.07.01 - 17:44:14) ShaenTheBrain: We either lead the charge, or we'll fall before it.

(2011.07.01 - 17:44:36) Raveled will be Captain America and stop you both.

(2011.07.01 - 17:44:47) Ecalsneerg: Why am I being stopped?

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:03) Godiva: magical batman! not captain america!

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:07) ChatBot: Setzer has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:09) ShaenTheBrain: "This is Shaen The Brain, speaking for The Authority. Behave."

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:16) Godiva: you got 4 ranks of magic

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:24) Raveled: Diva> I much prefer to be Captain America, thank you.

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:26) Godiva: rock that shiz

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:49) Raveled: Can Batman have a public identity?

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:52) Azuth65: If given the choice of power slots, I'd probably want powers similar to Rogue's (during the period when she could 1, control her ability to touch people and 2, resummon up previously taken powers) or Miss Marvel's energy absorption...

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:52) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, Rav, you've got an 8PP array with the "Magic" descriptor and no base or alternate powers specified. Go nuts.

(2011.07.01 - 17:45:52) trollthumper wants to be on the Global Frequency.

(2011.07.01 - 17:46:01) ShaenTheBrain: You scored the toolbox.

(2011.07.01 - 17:46:24) Raveled: TT> Diva is the Global Frequency.

(2011.07.01 - 17:46:31) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 17:46:51) Godiva looks up the extended range chart

(2011.07.01 - 17:46:57) ShaenTheBrain: ...Actually, yeah, if hse keeps the Astral Form power, she can basically be Aleph.

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:01) Semi-Autogyro: All I'd be useful for would be perfect impersonator, fan-service, and wacky hijinks.

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:16) Ecalsneerg is just gonna stand ominous and make cryptic remarks while using his powers solely for dramatic weather effects

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:32) ShaenTheBrain: Ecal, I thought you were going to try to stop me from making a finer world.

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:35) Godiva: 12 = 20M miles

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:36) Ecalsneerg: "This world has changed. There's a storm coming." *lightning powers go*

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:47) Ecalsneerg: I can do both!

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:53) Arichamus: I'll be the duplicator that gets killed every issue to let everyone know how srs the situation is.

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:53) ShaenTheBrain: Fair enough.

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:56) Ecalsneerg: Eventually I'd run out of weather related puns!

(2011.07.01 - 17:47:59) Raveled: Ecal> Make sure you have a cape to billow dramatically.

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:02) ShaenTheBrain: Which power did you roll, Arich?

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:05) Godiva: i will know what people in GALAXIES are doing!

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:09) ShaenTheBrain: He's got a trenchcoat. Close enough.

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:13) Arichamus: We're rolling powers how now?

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:19) ShaenTheBrain: Roll 3D20

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:19) Raveled: Diva> Well, eff the Conspiracy. Join NASA.

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:28) ChatBot: Arichamus rolls 3d20 and gets 6,7,18.

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:36) Azuth65: Ecal... Remember the big reveal in Captain's Fury? With the volcano and earthquake during said big speech?

(2011.07.01 - 17:48:40) Godiva: 18 ranks of

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:02) Ecalsneerg: Wait, are we going on a straight 1d20 roll for powers?

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:04) Godiva: (color control )

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:10) Azuth65: Can't get more crowning moment of awesome than that.

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:15) Raveled: Diva> Faaaaaaabulous!

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:30) Ecalsneerg: I was assuming we were using the mechanic on the random table which was PL plus or minus a certain amount depending on the table

(2011.07.01 - 17:49:42) Godiva: yeah, first chart, second cart, ranks, ecalsneerg

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:01) Ecalsneerg: Well... crud

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:03) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:04) ChatBot: Ecalsneerg rolls 1d20 and gets 17.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:06) Godiva: what did Arichamus get

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:10) Ecalsneerg: ... well, not so crud

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:13) Ecalsneerg: Weather Control 17

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:16) Raveled: Whatever it was, it killed Shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:18) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:21) ChatBot: Azuth65 rolls 1d20 and gets 13.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:27) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:27) Raveled: Ecal> I foresee a battle between you and TT.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:42) Ecalsneerg: Well, if he's siding with Shaen...

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:46) Azuth65: 13 ranks of Water Control or Force Field, I can live with either.

(2011.07.01 - 17:50:51) ShaenTheBrain: Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:06) ChatBot: Setzer logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:07) Raveled: Go for Water Control. 3/4 of the world is covered in water.

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:11) Raveled: You shall rule the waves!

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:18) Arichamus: Hello Setzer!

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:23) Raveled: Hey Set.

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:28) Setzer: Hello people

(2011.07.01 - 17:51:53) Arichamus: So, what tables are we using here?

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:24) Godiva: Arichamus got 18 ranks of Mental Blast

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:33) ShaenTheBrain: Masterminds Manual random power chart

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:37) Raveled: Diva> Your head asplode!

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:44) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:48) Ecalsneerg: Only ignoring the mechanic on the chart for power ranking

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:49) Arichamus: Alrighty then.

(2011.07.01 - 17:52:55) ShaenTheBrain suddenly has a rival for World's Most Powerful Psychic

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:14) Azuth65: Actually, I've wanted a waterbed for a few years now...

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:24) Raveled: On the other hand, he can be defeated with a blanket.

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:31) Semi-Autogyro: Possesses Arich...for the Glory of SHAEN!

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:37) trollthumper: Well, this should turn into Scanners (NSFW, gore).

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:39) ShaenTheBrain: How so, Ecal?

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:48) Godiva: no wait, i was wrong

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:50) Setzer: Wait... Alternate form (solid) again. It´s my destiny

(2011.07.01 - 17:53:50) ShaenTheBrain: It says on the chart to roll a D20 for power rank or assign it arbitrarily.

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:13) Ecalsneerg: I'm looking at the Wild Cards one, where it says to roll a d20, and adjust the assigned PL by the amount given

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:16) Godiva: 18 ranks of Force Field

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:23) Godiva: i cant read charts it seams

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:47) Semi-Autogyro: Still nifty. Rank 18 FF.

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:49) Azuth65: Also, water control would make me all kinds of popular during spring break. Precision controlled t-shirt contest hosing.

(2011.07.01 - 17:54:56) Setzer: 20!!?? C´mon! I can´t conceive 30 points in Density!

(2011.07.01 - 17:55:01) Godiva: if you want to reroll force field or protection, arichamus, i'd say go forit

(2011.07.01 - 17:55:30) Godiva: we need awesome powers

(2011.07.01 - 17:55:31) Raveled: I dunno. I went from Luke Cage to low-level Batman.

(2011.07.01 - 17:55:35) trollthumper: I'd take the Force Field. I've always wanted to have the Invisible Woman's utility.

(2011.07.01 - 17:55:51) Arichamus: Nah, I'll hunker under my shield with all the other mindless sheeple rebels against the new world.

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:05) Ecalsneerg: Cower?

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:14) Ecalsneerg: I'm going to send a tornado at those assholes

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:16) Arichamus: We'll shun you into submission!

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:21) Godiva: yeah, but your exotic saves man! you'll absorb the nuke but die in the fall out!

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:49) Raveled: Hey, rules q for the refs.

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:58) Quinn: I'm out for a bit. Later, y'all.

(2011.07.01 - 17:56:59) Raveled: Can the Dimensional PFeat be applied to Super Senses?

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:02) Raveled: Later Q.

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:06) Azuth65: Later Q,

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:11) Setzer: Well, with 20 AF solid I´m too heavy for be moved...

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:34) Arichamus: Bue Quinn!

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:40) ShaenTheBrain: TT, I think it'll go more like this

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:45) Ecalsneerg: Raveled: yes

(2011.07.01 - 17:57:59) Ecalsneerg: Set: nothing about Solid alternate Form says "you must spend it all on Density"

(2011.07.01 - 17:58:46) ShaenTheBrain: Yeah, the powers listed under each Alternate Form are suggestions, nothing more.

(2011.07.01 - 17:58:49) ChatBot: Quinn has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 17:58:50) trollthumper: That's another option, shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 17:59:20) ShaenTheBrain: You scored 100PP worth of Alternate Form? Damn. That's a lot of Strength, Enhanced and Super alike.

(2011.07.01 - 17:59:23) ShaenTheBrain: You really are Colossus.

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:06) Setzer: Oh yeah? That´s gold! In the spanish version of the book you ONLY can take (unless DM says otherwise) what is granted in the description

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:06) ShaenTheBrain: Rank 20, 5PP/rank.

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:34) Raveled isn't sure how cool an 8 PP array would be.

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:45) Godiva: you're not Collosus the X-Man, you're the Colossus of Rhodes!

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:52) ShaenTheBrain: An 8PP array with a wide-open descriptor. Like I said, toolbox.

(2011.07.01 - 18:00:57) ShaenTheBrain: Utility belt.

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:10) Raveled: Shaen> ut each AP costs 1 PP.

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:10) Godiva: magic without definition

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:24) ShaenTheBrain: It didn't say how many APs you get, just the rank of the array.

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:33) Raveled: Well, that's a bit better.

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:34) Godiva: Power stunt, foo!

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:44) ShaenTheBrain: Yes, so much stunting.

(2011.07.01 - 18:01:56) Raveled buys many ranks in Luck.

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:01) Ecalsneerg: For 100pp of Alt Form, I'd certainly throw in some Growth

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:17) Ecalsneerg: So you can go from scrawny geek boy to towering effigy of stone and metal

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:18) Setzer: Yeah, but the rest of my sheet sucks. No exotic saves, no combat skills... well, disporportionate tradeoffs! That´s something I can live with. Let´s team with people with teamwork!

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:34) trollthumper: I've got that movie on DVD. I really need to pop it in one day.

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:35) ShaenTheBrain: 100PP of Alternate Form would go a long way toward changing the world.

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:39) Raveled: No exotic saves? This is really turning in to First Class.

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:48) Godiva: technically your character sheet is YOU

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:56) Godiva: you get the power

(2011.07.01 - 18:02:59) Setzer: Exactly!

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:08) Setzer: And I am a wuss

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:12) Ecalsneerg probably has terrible Fort (smoker), poor Reflex (not athletic) and decent Will (witch)

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:27) Godiva: not with 20 ranks of brick and steel and

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:35) Ecalsneerg: I can resist Shaen's mind reading, but I'll collapse if I try to run any amount of distance

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:41) Azuth65: AFK for a while, gonna forage for food...

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:43) ShaenTheBrain is, as a telepath, contractually obligated to have a decent Will save

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:50) Setzer: Not now that I am Gigantor, right

(2011.07.01 - 18:03:51) Raveled: Ecal> Which is why you fly.

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:03) Godiva: astral form makes me a telepath or a mage

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:04) ShaenTheBrain: I dunno, Dude. Rank 14? You think you can make a DC24 Will save? DC26, if I EE it?

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:33) Ecalsneerg throws all his HP into making that one save!

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:36) Ecalsneerg: Then... lightning!

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:38) Semi-Autogyro: Wow. That would make my possession DC 25 or 27 with EE. scary.

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:46) Raveled stunts Enhanced Will Save( Affects Others). Save the world, Ecal!

(2011.07.01 - 18:04:52) Fox ...is just never going to turn his Concealment off around you people.

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:00) ShaenTheBrain: Hey, if I'm Professor X, that means I should try to gather all the psychics up into one posse.

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:04) Godiva: ESP and communication dont have saves

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:20) Godiva really :love: astral form now

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:23) ChatBot: Azuth65 has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:23) ShaenTheBrain: If you keep the Astral Form, Godiva, it's only good for observation and communication.

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:36) Setzer: BUT I AM OF METAL! I CRUSH YOU! ALSO METAL!

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:50) ShaenTheBrain: Don't crush me, Setz. Join me.

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:53) Ecalsneerg foresees a massive pitched battle over Edinburgh

(2011.07.01 - 18:05:56) Godiva: Shaen, 20 million miles of recon

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:21) ShaenTheBrain: Help me tear down the established order.

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:27) Raveled: Ecal> Why would anyone fight over the fate of Edinburgh?

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:33) ShaenTheBrain: Help me force the world to make sense.

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:36) Arichamus: Then we can make a new, terrible one, with us in charge!

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:39) Semi-Autogyro figures his battle cry would be Look! A Distraction! Then your body is mine!

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:46) Godiva: i will be the oracle in this war

(2011.07.01 - 18:06:50) Setzer: I CAN NOT HEAR YOUR DOMINATION OVER MY MASSIVE METAL MASS!

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:02) Ecalsneerg: Rav: how else do you lure the dangerous rebel out to fight your giant metal man?

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:15) Raveled: S-A> No, o, no. "Why are you hitting yourself, why are you hitting yourself?"

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:19) Godiva: hit him with a lightning bolt?

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:21) Raveled: Ecal> Women!

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:25) ShaenTheBrain: Besides, if you don't join me, I'll just have Semi-Autogyro possess you. As far as most of you are concerned, I need your body a lot more than your hearts and minds.

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:43) Ecalsneerg: And he wonders why I'd try to stop him...

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:48) Semi-Autogyro: Sorry, Shaen has dental.

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:52) ShaenTheBrain: C'mon, I'm making a better world here.

(2011.07.01 - 18:07:57) Godiva declares neutrality and sell information to the highest bidder

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:00) trollthumper flies like the wind.

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:01) Arichamus: But my mind makes force fields! Doesn't that mine at least slightly valuable?

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:33) ShaenTheBrain: Mind reader, Godiva. If I want information from you, I'll just take it.

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:40) Setzer: MY BODY MAKES METAL FIELDS! ALSO RUST DUSTBUNNIES I CALL FRED

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:50) ShaenTheBrain: Why buy the cow when I can get the milk for free?

(2011.07.01 - 18:08:59) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:05) Arichamus: Man lives not on milk alone?

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:05) Electra: Wait, who's trying to possess me and steal my negligible powers?

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:14) Raveled: E> Shaen. Who else?

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:19) ShaenTheBrain: Arich, anyone who believes in my cause is valuable, no matter their power. We can find a use for anyone.

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:21) Godiva: you didnt roll ranks Electra

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:23) Ecalsneerg: Eh, I'm just gonna have to send a blizzard over the USA

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:33) Godiva: roll a d20 to determine your ranks

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:36) Electra: Did so, I got a Rank 8 Alternate Form

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:42) Godiva: ah

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:43) Raveled: Ecal> Can you summon a hurricane the size of the USA?

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:46) Setzer: WELCOME TO CLUB!

(2011.07.01 - 18:09:56) Raveled: E> That's not negligible. That's 16 PP of effects.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:14) Setzer: EHR NO. 40 PP

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:15) Raveled: Which is twice of what I have!

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:16) Electra: On the other hand, my son got a Rank 17 Blast, which is frankly terrifying, but explains the state of the living room.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:21) Raveled: Oh, effing hellfire.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:29) Ecalsneerg: Rank 17 Weather Control, Rav

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:45) trollthumper: That boy will be the death of us all.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:48) Raveled: Ecal> So is that a yes or no? I don't have the books effing memorized.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:56) ShaenTheBrain: No. That boy will be our salvation.

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:56) Setzer: I CAN BABYSIT YOUR SON! METAL MAN GOOD WITH BABIES!

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:58) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 18:10:59) Arichamus: Huddle under the shield, people!

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:06) Ecalsneerg: Rav; then go look it up

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:11) Godiva: forcefield is YOU ONLY

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:21) Godiva: not everyone

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:21) Ecalsneerg learned the rules for his benefit, not for the benefit of others.

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:22) Setzer: POWERSTUNT!

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:23) ShaenTheBrain: *cough* Interpose *cough*

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:30) Electra suspects it would be wise to take Robert far away where Shaen cannot reach him

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:32) Godiva: thats create object

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:44) Godiva: or interpose if you're close enough

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:47) Fox: Create Object is a pretty reasonable Force Field stunt.

(2011.07.01 - 18:11:54) Ecalsneerg: Electra, I will help you hide the boy.

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:09) Godiva: anyone getting the horrible chat lag

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:10) Electra: No way, you've threatened to kill me enough times already, Ecal

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:10) Semi-Autogyro Blackmails world leaders by making them wear silly costumes.

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:19) Raveled: Am I going to be the only one fighting crime here?

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:20) ShaenTheBrain: That boy is the pillar of avenging fire from the heavens we will use to carve our mark on the world.

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:22) Electra: You just want to raise him as Batman.

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:32) Fox: Rav - I'll have my hands busy keeping Shaen from taking over the world!

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:37) Setzer: WHO WAS FIGHTING ME? SORRY I FORGOT. ENORMOUS METAL GUY AND ALL THAD.

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:46) Godiva: heh

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:55) Ecalsneerg: Fox; I will help you!

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:58) Godiva: i'll be back in a few

(2011.07.01 - 18:12:59) Ecalsneerg: Well... not really

(2011.07.01 - 18:13:03) Ecalsneerg: Your powers sort of suck

(2011.07.01 - 18:13:07) ShaenTheBrain: I'm not taking over the world. I'm just guiding it in a glorious new direction of sanity and reason which will bring peace and prosperity to all.

(2011.07.01 - 18:13:15) Raveled: Set> The guy with Transform 8 (Metal to rust).

(2011.07.01 - 18:13:39) Semi-Autogyro: And you can't make world sanity without squashing a few puny minds.

(2011.07.01 - 18:13:59) ShaenTheBrain: Help me, get out of my way, or be destroyed. The choice is yours.

(2011.07.01 - 18:14:11) Ecalsneerg: Eh

(2011.07.01 - 18:14:15) Setzer: WELL, I´M 25 DENSITY RUSTED GUY. DRAMA ENSUES ¬¬

(2011.07.01 - 18:14:21) Ecalsneerg: Everyone knows by the end of the third act, you're depowered

(2011.07.01 - 18:14:32) Electra takes Robert to a remote monastery, far from civilization, with only his hundreds of plastic cars for company

(2011.07.01 - 18:14:55) trollthumper: Wait... monastery... lots of toys... isn't that how they find the new Dalai Llama?

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:01) trollthumper: Er, Dalai Lama?

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:03) ChatBot: Godiva has been logged out (Timeout).

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:06) ShaenTheBrain: I'll find him. Someone will know where he is. Someone always knows. And once I find them, then I'll know, too.

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:17) trollthumper: Goddamnit, that horrible script I read that used that awful pun got lodged in my head.

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:25) Ecalsneerg: I... smell... Messiah Complex!

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:28) Electra: If he annihilates the appropriate toys with his Rank 17 blast, they venerate him as a god?

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:33) Setzer: I WANTED TO BE HERO, BUT COLOSSAL METAL GUY IS MORE ON THE VILLAINS SIDE. SAYS ON STEREOTYPE POWERS CONTRACT

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:39) ShaenTheBrain: "trollthumper: Wait... monastery... lots of toys... isn't that how they find the new Dalai Llama?" Scroll up. I told you that boy would be our salvation, not our doom.

(2011.07.01 - 18:15:47) Electra: Frankly, I think if he annihilates any toys with his Rank 17 blast, they'll be impressed.

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:06) Arichamus: Certain items important to the previous Lama are given to prospects, if the kid likes the items connected to the previous Lama, they're the new one.

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:18) ShaenTheBrain: "Hero" and "Villain" are outdated oversimplications, inadequate for even the world we live in now, let alone the new world I'm going to create.

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:20) Electra: Yes, I watched Unmistaken Child too

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:37) Arichamus: Sorry, nvm then.

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:51) Electra goes to keep Robert from eating a magnet

(2011.07.01 - 18:16:51) ShaenTheBrain: And if you go "fight crime," then you're only addressing symptoms, not the root cause.

(2011.07.01 - 18:17:16) Ecalsneerg: Rise up! Be the one man to obliterate free will.

(2011.07.01 - 18:17:21) Setzer: WHAT ABOUT "TARQUIN" AND "CORNHOLIO"? I LIKE THESE WORDS!

(2011.07.01 - 18:17:23) Ecalsneerg: Join or die isn't a choice. It's an ultimatum.

(2011.07.01 - 18:17:50) ShaenTheBrain: We need to address the desperation and misery which drives people to steal and fall prey to addictions in the first place. Which means redistributing resources with a measure of sanity and compassion rather than blind, unfettered greed.

(2011.07.01 - 18:18:09) trollthumper totally plans to visit any banker who wrote a "boo hoo my paycheck!" editorial in the New York Times and create a tornado in their living room.

(2011.07.01 - 18:18:12) Fox: "ShaenTheBrain: We need to address the desperation and misery which drives people to steal and fall prey to addictions in the first place. " We call that one 'human nature'. Good luck with that.

(2011.07.01 - 18:18:23) Setzer: YEAH, EASY FOR YOU MIND-BOY. NOT MUCH I CAN DO APART THAN KICK MOUNTAINS

(2011.07.01 - 18:18:38) ShaenTheBrain: Fortunately, it just so happens that I have exactly the right power suite to have "good luck with that."

(2011.07.01 - 18:18:42) Fox: Setzer? Caps lock is not cruise control for cool.

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:11) Setzer: Sorry, Fox?

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:24) Ecalsneerg will kill everyone in Shaen's state, killing millions, to stop a war and save billions.

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:35) Ecalsneerg: And not only will I do that, I already have.

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:45) Setzer: NO!

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:47) Fox: So we're agreed, then: Ecal and Shaen are never allowed to have superpowers.

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:49) ShaenTheBrain: War is the very thing I'm working to avoid, and render obsolete.

(2011.07.01 - 18:19:55) Setzer: YOU TOLD NO KILLINGS!

(2011.07.01 - 18:20:21) Ecalsneerg: Eh, doesn't Shaen live in California?

(2011.07.01 - 18:20:25) Arichamus: I think bold and underline would work better for emphasis.

(2011.07.01 - 18:20:39) Ecalsneerg: It'll make everyone's lives more exciting. The weirdness'd have to redistribute elsewhere

(2011.07.01 - 18:20:59) ShaenTheBrain: "Ecalsneerg will kill everyone in Shaen's state, killing millions, to stop a war and save billions." ...You really sure you're the hero and I'm the villain?

(2011.07.01 - 18:21:14) Ecalsneerg: I was sure... thirty-five minutes ago!

(2011.07.01 - 18:21:16) Setzer: I CAN´T EMPHASIS NOW! TRY BEING GREAT KAIJU METAL MAN, YOU!

(2011.07.01 - 18:21:24) ShaenTheBrain:

(2011.07.01 - 18:21:49) Setzer: WE´LL STOP VILLAIN VILLAINESS

(2011.07.01 - 18:22:00) Raveled: Seriously Set. Your caps lock privileges are being revoked.

(2011.07.01 - 18:22:16) Setzer: Oww man

(2011.07.01 - 18:22:28) Setzer: Metal Giant Guy lost his powers...

(2011.07.01 - 18:23:07) Setzer: Now He Has To Wear Voice Regulator. Feels Weird

(2011.07.01 - 18:23:16) ShaenTheBrain: Look, my team isn't going to replace any governments. Not at first, anyway. We're just going to give them new marching orders, and extort, coerce, or kill anyone in a position of political or economic authority who doesn't fall in line. Is that really so bad?

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:00) Ecalsneerg will throw a hurricane up your ass

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:05) Arichamus: You tell us, you're the ones making up the new 'good' and 'bad' definitions.

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:09) Setzer: Yes? Why No Tell Them "Outta Here, I´m Powerful" And No Killing?

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:10) ShaenTheBrain: We're not going to put jackbooted thugs with rifles and surveillance cameras on every street corner. The opposite, in fact. The common man on the street will have more freedom, not less.

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:28) ShaenTheBrain: "you're the ones making up the new 'good' and 'bad' definitions" Heh. I guess I am.

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:59) ShaenTheBrain: Dictating a new macro-scale morality...I'm strangely comfortable with the notion.

(2011.07.01 - 18:24:59) Setzer: Tell Metal Man About Your Matal Minorities Program! He Eager To Hear!

(2011.07.01 - 18:25:21) Electra assigns all 16pp of her alternate form to luck

(2011.07.01 - 18:25:30) Raveled: I will be suck a Batman to you, Shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 18:25:35) Raveled: *such a

(2011.07.01 - 18:25:41) Raveled: ... Damn you, keyboard.

(2011.07.01 - 18:25:49) Electra: Now there's an epithet

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:00) ShaenTheBrain: Look, give us a year or two to turn things around, and trust me, people will start lining up around the block to fall at our feet and beg us to run things for them.

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:05) ChatBot: Godiva logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:08) Setzer: Oooo! Batman Cool!

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:17) Arichamus: WB Godiva!

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:38) Ecalsneerg: Eh, you think you can fight a war with overwhelming odds on your side and have the Scots give up?

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:39) Raveled: Diva, time to lay it on the line. Are you part of the Shaen-state or part of the Resistance?

(2011.07.01 - 18:26:48) Ecalsneerg: Hopeless fights are like our schtick

(2011.07.01 - 18:27:03) Godiva: whos with who?

(2011.07.01 - 18:27:03) ShaenTheBrain: "State" is such a limited term. I prefer "new order."

(2011.07.01 - 18:27:38) ShaenTheBrain: Rav's asking if you're going to help me change the post-superpowers world for the better, or if you're going to hide behind the status quo with Ecal.

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:03) Fox: "You are a fool.

You underestimate the character of man.

For they are weaker than you think.

You think that they'll surrender if you bind their working hands. But they are strong!

Just wait and see....."

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:05) Raveled: Will you help him enforce his own personal morality on the whole world, or will you fight for the dream of liberty?

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:07) ShaenTheBrain: Cling to the old ways, or tear them down and rebuild according to a new plan.

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:32) Godiva: seeing as i am an apparition who can go 20 million miles in any direction

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:40) Raveled: "Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Shaen?"

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:43) ShaenTheBrain: But what if the personal morality I'm going to impose upon the world is the dream of liberty, tempered by social responsibility?

(2011.07.01 - 18:28:52) Ecalsneerg: It won't work

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:03) Ecalsneerg: Liberty isn't something you can mind control and murder your way to

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:11) Raveled: Diva> What happens to your body? What happens to you when we stab your body in the heart?

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:17) Godiva: what are Ecalsneerg's promises and reasons?

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:20) ShaenTheBrain: "Raveled: Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Shaen?" Because I rolled Mind Reading and not Transform or Affects-Others Shrinking.

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:33) Raveled: It's a line from Red Son, Shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:38) Ecalsneerg: I promise I'm going to stop Shaen, and if necessary, kill him

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:39) Setzer: Assesor Tell Metal Man He No Only Now Must Talk Like Retarded But Try To Enslave Punny Fleshy Ones Too. Metal Man Got A PHD. Not Fair

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:52) ShaenTheBrain waves a thumb at the dog-eared copy of Red Son on his bookshelf

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:53) Fox: Plus, y'know, people will resist you because of your methods, or just for the sake of resisting you. People don't like being controlled, no matter the cause. You'll have to pick between failure, eternal struggle (which, here, is also failure), or mind-crushing everyone into obedience (which violates the principles you fight for).

(2011.07.01 - 18:29:57) Ecalsneerg: Having superpowers isn't a reason to say you know what's best and decide you get to call the shots for the world

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:17) Godiva: So, it's just me and you, Ecalsneerg, huh

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:24) Ecalsneerg: Nah, I've got Fox

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:31) Raveled: Well, being in favor of that plan is enough for me to fight you, Shaen.

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:32) Ecalsneerg: But he's invisible... so would you KNOW we had Fox?!

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:33) Godiva will fight despots for the greater good

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:34) ShaenTheBrain: No, being right is the rason to say I know what's best and decide that I'll call the shots for the world. All I lacked before was the power, and now my team and I have it.

(2011.07.01 - 18:30:44) Fox is an independent entity. Fox would watch Ecal as hard as he'd watch Shaen!

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:02) Godiva: i tried that fox, they told me to choose

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:03) Ecalsneerg: If you say "Give me and my team and we're invincible", we're going at it now

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:04) Raveled prefers to Batman-up Shaen's plans than enforce his rule.

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:08) ShaenTheBrain: "Ecalsneerg: Liberty isn't something you can mind control and murder your way to" The only people I'm going to be mind controlling and murdering are the people standing in the way of liberty for everyone else.

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:21) Fox: So that's...most people, then.

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:30) Setzer: Oooo Irony!

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:42) Godiva: Metal man said irony!

(2011.07.01 - 18:31:50) ShaenTheBrain: "Godiva: So, it's just me and you, Ecalsneerg, huh" Actually, most people seem to be falling in line behind you guys. Heh.

(2011.07.01 - 18:32:09) Fox: It's not your dream, Shaen! Your dream is lovely. It's your methods.

(2011.07.01 - 18:32:21) ShaenTheBrain: Too timid to make the tough choices. To seize the reins and take this carriage to a better road.

(2011.07.01 - 18:32:34) Godiva: Ecalsneerg is Professor X,Shaen is Magneto

(2011.07.01 - 18:32:48) Godiva: they both have their points

(2011.07.01 - 18:33:04) Fox: As an aside, why not employ subtlety? Use your powers to find people you KNOW are in line with your vision of the world, and quietly manipulate events (without overt shows of power, without murder, without outright mindrape) to put them into power where they can make a difference.

(2011.07.01 - 18:33:15) ShaenTheBrain: Technically, I'm Magneto with ProfX's powers.

(2011.07.01 - 18:33:33) Godiva: man, does it always have to comedown to mind rape?

(2011.07.01 - 18:33:37) Godiva stunts that

(2011.07.01 - 18:33:38) Godiva:

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:04) Fox: You'd be more effective (because you'd have a number of people doing your thing for you, all over, of their own free will) and less opposed (because nobody would know you were doing anything, and your methods would be far less drastic). It'd just take more time and effort on your part.

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:19) ShaenTheBrain: Well, yeah, of course.

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:25) Setzer: Can I Has Stunt Flight? Superman!

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:42) Godiva: you stunt and you're not metal man any more!

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:44) Raveled: Set> If you're forty feet tall, you don't need to fly.

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:49) Raveled: Just jog at a brisk pace.

(2011.07.01 - 18:34:57) Setzer: Everybody Discusin So Confusing Matters!

(2011.07.01 - 18:35:02) ChatBot: Raveled logs out of the Chat.

(2011.07.01 - 18:35:13) ShaenTheBrain: I'm a mentalist in a world full of elementalists and mages and metal-men. A measure of subtlety and a few layers of teammates between myself and my targets is going to be required.

(2011.07.01 - 18:35:40) Electra changes her mind, switches her alternate form to immunity to mental effects and Blast

(2011.07.01 - 18:36:03) ShaenTheBrain: Well, barring the occasional AP'd/stunted mental blast or mind control, that is.

(2011.07.01 - 18:36:29) Setzer: That Is Mean. You Hurt My Feelings. Like Being A Brick Joke. Metal-Father Would Be Ashamed

(2011.07.01 - 18:36:47) Ecalsneerg: You don't want to go in my head

(2011.07.01 - 18:36:56) ShaenTheBrain: But mind reading alone will allow me to collect enough information to put the right people in a position where they stand to gain more (or lose less) by siding with me than by opposing me.

(2011.07.01 - 18:37:04) Ecalsneerg 's psychic defense is him thinking Kesha on a loop

(2011.07.01 - 18:37:06) Godiva: holy hell, astral form is 5pp a rank

(2011.07.01 - 18:37:15) Godiva: i have 60pp of stunt!

(2011.07.01 - 18:37:52) Setzer: I Have 100. But Too Accustomed to Metal Body

(2011.07.01 - 18:38:15) ShaenTheBrain: Of course, there is one glaring flaw in my grand plan.

(2011.07.01 - 18:38:50) Godiva: this is why the world would not get superpowers, even one, they'd try to figure out how to screw everything up with wars

(2011.07.01 - 18:39:45) ShaenTheBrain: I'm already a misanthrope who bounces back and forth between wanting to help people and constantly feeling disappointed and betrayed by them, both individually and as a species. If I could actually read minds, that might tip me over the edge. Historically, being able to see things from another person's point of view, to get inside their thought process, has usually made me sympathize with them less, not more.

(2011.07.01 - 18:40:22) Setzer: Less Think More Defend Japan From Evil Kaiju And Mothra!

(2011.07.01 - 18:40:31) ShaenTheBrain: Actually hearing every horrible thought and seeing every shortcoming and insecurity in every person I meet might just drive me to become a hermit and leave the super-powered world to its own devices.

(2011.07.01 - 18:40:45) Godiva: hm, 60pp... Concealment 10, Insubstantial 4, Flight 5 (AP: Space Travel) Immunity 9 (life support)

(2011.07.01 - 18:40:50) ShaenTheBrain: Which would leave you guys short a villain.

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:10) ShaenTheBrain: Aw, hell, I can't do that to you.

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:14) Godiva: i can visithe worlds i see!

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:29) ShaenTheBrain: I mean, without me trying to take over the world, what are the rest of you going to do? Chase purse-snatchers?

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:41) Godiva: and then when i get there survey the earth

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:49) Arichamus: Stop wars?

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:53) Fox: I think a guy who discovers he has total invisibility is contractually obligated to visit locker rooms.

(2011.07.01 - 18:41:56) Setzer: Snatchers Menace!

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:00) ShaenTheBrain: I've got a responsibility to the community and the genre here. I can't neglect it.

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:38) Ecalsneerg: Well, I wander around in a big coat, hat and make snarky one liners anyway

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:40) ShaenTheBrain isn't the supervillain you deserve, but he's the one that you need

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:42) Godiva: though i think Concealment 10/Insubstantial 4 would be enough to stay on earth

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:45) Ecalsneerg: You're not really giving me much

(2011.07.01 - 18:42:46) Arichamus: Have adventures in other universes?

(2011.07.01 - 18:43:22) Godiva: if we're using this reality? there are no other universes

(2011.07.01 - 18:43:39) Setzer: Time To Evert!

(2011.07.01 - 18:43:45) Godiva: else they would have invaded us for being so boring

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:12) Ecalsneerg: Hmmm... I'm gonna have to cut out the Vitamin String Quartet from my iPod to put on Emilie autumn

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:16) Arichamus: Or they just can't go to other universes 'cause we're the original.

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:23) ChatBot: ShaenTheBrain has set their status to Away

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:24) Ecalsneerg: I can't have poetry and classical music. It's a bit too intelligent

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:32) Godiva: "we're here from the hedonism universe you were talking about a few days ago, prepare to be assimilated"

(2011.07.01 - 18:44:57) Ecalsneerg: "Bring on the boobs!"

(2011.07.01 - 18:46:10) Ecalsneerg: OK, finally finished the Dresden Files series, bar a couple of short stories

(2011.07.01 - 18:46:17) Ecalsneerg: ... I'm having a moment here.

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(2011.07.02 - 01:15:18) ChatBot: Dr_Archeville logs into the Chat.

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:22) Dr_Archeville: hey hey!

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:25) AvengerAssembled: Hey, Doc!

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:33) Electra: Doc, you're up late!

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:35) Gizmo: Hey, Doc, how goes?

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:49) Sorus: Doc!

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:52) Cubist: greets, Dok!

(2011.07.02 - 01:15:57) Dr_Archeville: I am! 'cuz I don't have to be up early for work tomorrow!

(2011.07.02 - 01:16:07) Electra: Yaaaay!

(2011.07.02 - 01:22:43) ChatBot: Dr_Archeville rolls 3d20 and gets 14,19,19.

(2011.07.02 - 01:23:06) Dr_Archeville: Telepathy 19!

(2011.07.02 - 01:23:22) Cubist: ah? what table(s) you rolling on, Dok?

(2011.07.02 - 01:24:21) Dr_Archeville: random powers table,pg.63 of the Masterminds Manual. Earlier in chat there was discussion about what powers folks would have, and at one point it was decided to determine it randomly. First two determine what power, third roll is rank.

(2011.07.02 - 01:24:24) Arichamus: Hooray! Psychic ahoy!

(2011.07.02 - 01:25:18) Sorus:

(2011.07.02 - 01:25:18) Dr_Archeville: Shaen got Mind Reading, Ecal got Weather Control, Fox got Concealment, Godiva got Nullify, Setzer got Alt Form (Solid), AA got Astral Form, Electra got Animate Object (Robert got Blast 17!)

(2011.07.02 - 01:25:41) Sorus: Good times

(2011.07.02 - 01:27:12) Dr_Archeville rolls for his wife

(2011.07.02 - 01:27:15) ChatBot: Dr_Archeville rolls 3d20 and gets 8,17,3.

(2011.07.02 - 01:27:31) Dr_Archeville: Sonic Control 3...

(2011.07.02 - 01:27:47) Electra: He is Most Dangerous Baby!

(2011.07.02 - 01:27:59) Arichamus: Wasn't all sunshine and roses and ponderings on morality. I got Force-Field, rank 18.

(2011.07.02 - 01:28:25) Dr_Archeville: ah, yes, I knew there was a few I was forgetting

(2011.07.02 - 01:28:49) ChatBot: Cubist rolls 3d20 and gets 12,7,20.

(2011.07.02 - 01:29:10) Dr_Archeville: Fire Control 20 :shock:

(2011.07.02 - 01:30:00) Cubist: hey, the dice never lie, Dok. of course, you can never be sure how much of the truth they're telling at any given time...

(2011.07.02 - 01:31:22) ChatBot: Gizmo rolls 3d20 and gets 8,18,11.

(2011.07.02 - 01:31:39) Cubist: Spatial Control 11. yow!

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(2011.07.03 - 19:44:22) Dr_Archeville: Heritage! Roll 3d20!

(2011.07.03 - 19:46:23) KnightDisciple: just type /roll 3d20

(2011.07.03 - 19:46:37) ChatBot: Heritage rolls 3d20 and gets 2,2,16.

(2011.07.03 - 19:46:45) KnightDisciple: are you making a big list somewhere, dok?

(2011.07.03 - 19:46:52) Dr_Archeville: Blast 16!

(2011.07.03 - 19:47:06) Dr_Archeville: maaaybe...

[Dr Archeville]

Arichamus: Force Field 18

Avenger Assembled: Astral Form, or Mind Reading 12

Auth65: Force Field, or Water Control 13

Cubist: Fire Control 20

Dr Archeville: Telepathy 19

Ecalsneerg: Weather Control 8 or 17

Electra: Animate Object, or Alternate Form (?) 8

Robert: Blast 17

Fox: Concealment, or Vibration Control, or Cold Control 10

Geez3r: Blast 19

Gizmo: Spatial Control 11

Godiva: Nullify, or Force Field 10, or Astral Form 12

GranspearZX: Possession

Heritage: Blast 16

KnightDisciple: Power Control

Quinn: Weather Control, or Mind Control 11

quotemyname: Telekinesis 16

Raveled: Protection 9 or Magic 4

Semi-Autogyro: Possession 15, or Speed 17

Setzer: Alternate Form (Solid) 20

ShaenTheBrain: Mind Reading 14

Sorus: Nauseate, or Animate Objects 10

trollthumper: Air Control 18

[Raveled]

(21:09:50) Gizmo: +15 Investigate and Gather Information vs. Trevor's +10 in both. On the other hand, Trevor is much, much scarier himself, so if he does find you, you're spilling your guts.

(21:10:02) Raveled: Well. I mean. His default stance is standing on the ceiling! If I put him into a tense situation, is he gonna break the mood by humming the Scooby-Doo theme?

(21:10:14) Gizmo: Chris is never normal.

(21:10:20) Ecalsneerg: Yes, but when you piss yourself and run away, Geckoman is the guy who will follow you by the smell of your urine

(21:10:24) Raveled is feeling the need to raise some goosebumps!

(21:10:31) Gizmo: Oh good?

(21:10:47) Fox: Psh. Wraith can do that, and she's not an investigator!

(21:11:00) Ecalsneerg: Look, when he finally has kids, every hour of every day of his life will be an agony

(21:11:12) Ecalsneerg: Let him enjoy his Scent ability when he still can without weeping at every diaper change

(21:11:16) Fox: Tracking people by their cologne doesn't make you Batman. It makes you Ace the Batdog.

[Electra]

(16:07:54) Arichamus: Is the Reflection Field power permitted?

(16:08:35) AvengerAssembled: It's a tremendous waste of points.

(16:09:01) Ecalsneerg: It's like... well, to use an analogy, your pp is your groin, and Reflection Field is a hammer

(16:09:08) Ecalsneerg: Would you shove a hammer into your groin?

(16:09:30) Arichamus: Understood. What would be a good replacement?

(16:10:30) AvengerAssembled: Anything else.

[N/A]

What would be a good replacement?

Buying one or more of Defense, Dodge Focus, Shield, Protection, Force Field, and/or Defensive Roll, with the "deflector shield" Descriptor.

If you want to be able to reflect the attacks back on the attackers, then yeah, you need Deflect. But 9 times out of 10, I think just buying normal defensive powers to push your Defense and/or Toughness up to the PL caps will serve you far better than the bloated overcosted mess that is Deflect ever will.