RPG: Superheroes and Mary Sues, Part 4
Continued from Part Three.
Date: June 3, 2010
Categories: RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Sunday, 11 June 2023
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Continued from Part Three.
Date: June 3, 2010
Categories: RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Whee, first post!
Here’s a summary of this RPG so far:
A group of superheroes (and a few Mary Sues) have been called to the Muser Justice League. Their mission: save the world from ‘s evil forces of Mary Sues (i.e. perfect characters with no flaws). Unfortunately, they are off to a bad start as the main base is blown up shortly thereafter.
They find the hotel is staying in and split up; one group makes good headway and is able to break into
labs, the other is catapulted into the future but manages to escape. Both teams regroup and are attacked by the forces of perfect and nearly perfect book characters raised by
. Battling it out at the H&H, the heros win and break into
‘s base, but are repulsed by his forces and retreat to one of their bases, where the third and final battle against the MS’ is won.
The heros split up and strangely end up on alien planets and in Middle Earth, but are finally called to a beach where they come face to face with the Mary Sues yet again. Suddenly, all the book characters fade away and the “real” Mary Sue(s?) flee.
The members of MJL are transported into a base in a dystopian future where has taken over the world and are about to be briefed on their next mission. Also, everyone has their own personal “scientific assistant” who will research their powers and help them train, etc…
I’m going to repost my character profiles and I suggest that everyone do the same:
Name: Carrie Blue
Hero, member of the Muser Justice League (MJL)
Blonde hair, blue eyes, shiny blue supersuit (at least it started out that way)
Not very intelligent and slightly clumsy at times
Can change reality (“shift”) in just about any way, except that now her little shifts have caused the heroes to “fall out of time”, which allowed to take over
Name: Hera Rowe
Mary Sue, Carrie’s identical twin sister
A know-it-all, speaks x languages, excellent at material arts, … the whole Mary Sue nine yards. Easily provoked by Carrie. Was kidnapped at birth for her special powers- the same as Carrie’s, only that she can combine hers with ‘s technology to teleport.))
Hi! I’m rejoining for the summer!
Name: Kyra.
Side: Hero.
Description: Brown hair, blue eyes, wears fairly normal clothing; i.e. jeans and various clashing shirts.
Personality: Says very little, but what she does say tends to be in an explosive or argumentative manner.
Power: Lying.
((Kay. I’m posting. I’ll repost my characters.
Name: Anacae
Side: Formerly Hero, has been Sueified
…I don’t remember what she looks like.
Powers: Originally transformation (Real animals only), telekinesis, and the ability to know somebody’s name and powers. Now it’s sort of morphing into powers related to sleep as a result of her suspended animation. Long story.
Name: Aster
Side: Hero
Powers: A bunch of handy powers that allow her to survive in space and on a variety of planets. Most of them aren’t so much powers as attributes. She can mess around with gravity and all sorts of other things, but they all have unexpected consequences, so she can’t really use them on inhabited planets. She can teleport unlimited distances, but she just can’t control exactly where she ends up, since in space several hundred thousand miles doesn’t matter in the slightest.
She can fly on Earth without any massively catastrophic consequences.))
((My character:
Name: Anoia
Age: 15
Power: As an aura of annoyingness that keeps her hidden, or makes her very obvious. Also can make drawers and cabinets completely useless (Can anybody tell I’ve been reading too much Discworld?
Description: Nobody’s been able to get close enough to her to tell. But everyone agrees she is annoying (Gasp!). Almost like a little mosquito, that keeps buzzing around you, and is also quite a bit more intelligent than a mosquito.
Side: The Superheroes, but they probably won’t be very happy about that.))
((I’m re-rejoining! I’ll post my profile again.
Codename: Psyche
Age: 15
Side: Superhero, but can be as obnoxious as a Mary Sue without the evil tendencies.
Powers: Everything and anything to do with the brain. She has intelligence as great as Einstein, Edward Witten, Stephen Hawking and William James Sidis combined, and can see the future and the past. As of late, she can also channel psychic messages through her body so that other people can see and hear them like a telephone.
Appearance: Large black eyes that turn red when she has a vision, short auburn hair, and wears a black suit with red streaks on the side.))
((Okay, great! Would someone RP the meeting/briefing where we’ll hear about our next mission? I’ve been monopolizing the RPG way to much lately.))
((Name: Delta V
Side: Hero
Powers: Absorbing solar energy and releasing it in the form of energy blasts, force fields or flight propulsion.
Costume: Dark blue short-sleeve shirt (Neon-green Greek letter Delta on the front) and leggings, with similarly colored wristbands. Wears a helmet containing a radio to communicate with other heroes and with a face-concealing visor including an electronic display of useful information.
I might create some other characters if I have the chance, it depends.))
i can do first aid.
sometimes, if it is not to icky. i hate icky.
((Um, hi. A few pointers:
1# Capitalization
It makes your posts much more pleasant to read.
2# RPGs
This is a Role Playing Game. Basically, you create a character that fits in the setting (here, a Hero or a Mary Sue or even a scientist), describe en for us (we’re smart but we’re not psychic!) and write up a short backstory if you’re newly joining (how en got to be with the other characters, see what owl calls “History”. You don’t have to do this but it sort of helps the storyline.). Then you can jump in and start RPing with the rest of us, making sure that your posts fit the setting/storyline. We’d be happy to have you.))
(( my profile, and i would like to make a mary sue.
Zoe Nightingale
age: 12
powers: Telepathic ,teleports( only 3 times a week) and can shape-shift into animals. when in animal form she can talk to animals.
Description: very good to have on your good side and bad to be on your bad side. Straight shiny black hair and purple eyes.
Side: I think Superhero, but I might change sides later.
History: Knows Catherine, gets in traps because of her.
Catherine Clements
age: 12
powers: can control plants, also can turn invisible.
description: Red hair, Golden eyes, short, Kind of bossy.
History: Was Zoe’s neighbor, was adopted by Mr. Joe at they age of 5. Zoe joined the MJL at the same time,and Mr. Joe said she could get her revenge by pretending to be in it.
side: Mary Sue. Never changing. ))
Zoe
” Superheros, We need to go find a way to bring down Mr. Joe.” said TMFA
“Did you know that there is a place people go to be sueified? ”
We gasped in horror. I put all this in Catherine’s mind.
I checked my phone.
Try the mall. He keeps mistakes on the sueifer there. Zoe texted.
” Hey, Why don’t we go to the mall. I heard somewhere that Mr. Joe keeps mistakes on the sueifer there.” I said.
” Which would mean that they would be unsuefiers!” someone said. I knew I could trust Catherine.
Catherine
” The trap is set. Fetch my armor. We are to fight them there.” I said.
” The recruits are ready. ” Said the elf.
” Okay then. ”
” But… What if Zoe recognizes you!”
” Let her.” I sneered. The elf ran to my battle gear closet.
((owl, I’m not sure if it’s a plot device you want to introduce, but this is a dystopia of our world. The elf seems a little out of place. Don’t take it personally.))
Carrie:
A hero from this time, Zoe, suggested we go to the mall upon a rumor that kept mistakes on the Sueifer there. I looked around at the others- Delta V, Psyche, Anancae and Aster, that girl who never failed to drive me cray- Anoying? Anoya?-something like that and Kyra. Somehow, going to the mall seemed like a bad idea.
A pushy blonde scientist elbowed her way past TMFA. “Excuse me, but I need to remind anyone who hasn’t got the message: We are in the year 2050 and is the universal dictator. We tried to fight
with the heros of our generation but they were to weak. So we sent most of them- except for the most talented individuals- back in time and brought you here instead- their parents, the first generation of MJL. You do know the modern world- everything is a trap and it is far to dangerous-”
TMFA cut her off. “We aren’t here to hide. Zoe, where did you hear about the unsuefiers? Can you trust the source? If so, we should leave right away. Unless anyone has objections, that is.” he said, daring the scientist to interrupt him. She didn’t.
(( Sorry, i couldn’t think of anything else. ))
Zoe
Uh-oh. Catherine told me to never reveal her, I wonder why? I guess i’d just lie.
” Uhh… a offical in…. another superhero league… She spied there once…” I was just reading Catherine’s mind. Everyone was looking at me like they didn’t believe me.” I even have her ID! Look! ” I made her ID appear. ” I guess we have to believe her, It’s our only lead.” TMFA said. I felt extremly guilty.
Catherinica
I grew a screen of ivy to hide them. Meanwhile, I turned invisible and watched for that traitor Zoe. And idiot. MAybe i should tie up the MJL with vines.
(( Hello? Or is it just me and the dust bunnies.
((Someone?))
(( POKEPOKEPOKEPOKEPOKEPOKEPOKEPOKE!!!!!!.))
((*pops* *sees this is dead* *un-pops*))
Delta V:
“Parents? 2050?” I looked around in confusion. “Could you get us up to speed on all that’s happened in the past… 40 years!”
Zoe:
” Okay. Mr. Joe sueified bakers in 2025, and there was sueifier powder in there, but the first generation of MJL had this gene that made them resistant to it unless at will.
“In 2040, Everyone but the superheros had been sueified and hypnotized by Mr. Joe. We met in secert hideouts around the world. Half were blown up, and a quarter are boarding schools for young superheros. Can we go to the mall now?” I explained.
” Fine. Okay Musers! Let’s go.” TMFA said.
” Who wants to teleport with me?” I said.
((May I rejoin?))
(( Sure, witchneko!))
((May I rejoin?
Name: Brenna Cathryn
Age:13
Power:Is a were…animal. Depending on the phases of the moon, she takes on many different animal forms. Here’s the list of forms and their corresponding phases of the moon;
Crescent moon (waxing or waning)-Raven
Half moon (waxing or waning)-Binturong
Full moon-African rock python
New moon-Panther
She can also talk to animals.
Description: Brenna is quiet to the point of being mute. She doesn’t even talk much to people she knows very well. When she does talk, it’s in a soft whisper that can barely be heard. She likes to just nod or shake her head in response to people questions.
Side: Good, obviously
Catherine
“Where are they?” I screamed.
Zoe
” Come on, it dosen’t hurt at all. ” I said.
((Name: Goes by Storm; code name Thunderstorm.
Gender: Female
Age: 14.5
Appearance: Neon yellow hair; cut short on one side of her head and long on the other. Wears a purple tshirt and white stretch shorts. Wears lots of bright yellow bracelets on her wrists and purple ankle bracelets. Has a butterfly tattoo in stormy gray right over her heart; and her eyes are also stormy gray.
Powers: Electrokinesis (ability to create and control electricity), mild umbrakinesis (the ability to manipulate shadows).
Side: Superheroes.))
((I shall attempt to rejoin.))
((Name: Cera
Powers: Transformation into a Black Puppy
Past: A while ago, she was still called Cerberus, and had much more powers. She wasn’t sure what happened to her, but now she can’t do nearly as much. Used to live underground somewhere in Greece before that, but all that’s lost to history.
Appearance: Shoulder-length, straight, raven-black hair; grayish-blue eyes, likes to wear black. When a puppy, she’s a (medium sized) black puppy.
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Typhaea shall pretend not to exist. ))
((-pained reviving poke- We need RPers!))
((COME BACK PLEASE.))
((pokes back))
((poke poke poke poke poke poke poke))
((-sadface- COME BACK OR WE POKE EACH OTHER TO DEATH
:D))
(( Post!))
((What should I post (Ohmigosh, I just wrote pist. Wow.)?????))
(( well we are going to the malll and it’s a trap. )))
(( Can one of you post, If i post to much, nothing would happen. Hint… We are walking into a trap….)))
Storm:
I walked into the room, having fun by making it so that I had no shadow. Well, it was more like my shadow was moved, but it didn’t really matter. “Heya, Zoe,” I grinned. “Who are these people? Who’s that girl?”
“Superheroes from the past,” Zoe answered, sighing at my ever-perky attitude.
“So, watcha doing? Teleporting them somewhere? Ooh ooh ooh, can I come?” The tips of my hair crackled with electricity, as well as my fingertips; an instant giveaway to my mood.
Zoe
“Yeah. We’re heading to the mall to find unsueifiers.” I said. Then I concentrated on all of us, then the mall, and… ZAP! We popped in the mall. I saw a huge screen of ivy. Then a girl materialized next to me. ” Thanks for playing. Game over.” She said. It was Catherine.
Catherine
I unsheathed my sword. My armor appeared. Zoe just stared at me.
“I-I- thought you were my friend.” she stuttered.
“Die, traitor.” I hissed. Vines wrapped around her, choking her. She turned into a snake, and slithered out and into my armor.
Zoe
“Oh, it’s on.” I hissed. Catherine let her armor melt into her dress.
“Oh, I’m so ‘scared’.” she said sarcasticly, trapping me in another plant, ivy, and rolling her golden eyes. Everyone was engaged in a battle with the hoards of demigods.
(( POST!POST!POST! ))))
CERA:
Confused at what is going on as always, I look around for the person who claimed to be my scientific assistance.
There was something about a mall. Some people left. I must’ve lost some of my memory again, or maybe it was just the dumbness that always seemed to follow me around. I headed over to the corner and tried to see if I knew anyone.
I wandered over to the girl with black hair, forming a shield of electricity around us. Again, I had no shadow; although that was more of a habit by now.
“Hey, you,” I grinned. “You’re one of the old heroes, right? I’m Thunderstorm. What’s your name?” While talking, I reached out with my fingers, curling them into a fist as I ripped Catherine’s shadow away from her. At the same time, I hoisted a ball of electricity in my right hand, sending it hurling over the walls of shocking force and towards the blond Mary Sue.
(( catherine? she has red hair.))
Zoe
Just as her sword reached my throat, Catherine’s shadow moved backwards. Then, a ball of electricity hit her, and she slammed into the wall. I took that chance to attack her. I turned into a lion and attacked her, my claws sharp. Her eyes fluttered. ” Perfect… People.. Never… Lose.” She said, and she told her last breath. ( I feel it necessary to alert you she has 10 lifes. )
Catherine
My eyes closed. Later, Mr Joe said that I was out for 5 days. Litlle did that pathatic loser know, I have 10 lifes.
((*pops* *re-reads the thread and has no idea what’s going on* *un-pops*))
“Damnit, Zoe,” I snarled, my fingers crackling with static electricity as I slapped her across the face, “you should have gotten rid of Catherine before. I told you that nobody with powers that good is a real superhero, but nooooo, you ignored me!”
I slapped her as hard as I could again, hitting her with a mild shock. “Come on, Cera,” I muttered (Cera had told me her name right as Catherine died, which was a cool effect), “leave Zoe here. She’ll get out soon.”
((She controls plants, Neko.))
Zoe
My face stung with cold from Storm’s slap. My eyes welled up. I walked over to the stairs and sobbed. It wasn’t my fault that my best friend, my closet couisin(!) was evil. She gave me everything. When my parents died in the accident, she let me know about the MJL. She was practically my best friend. And now I was trapped in a mall, with a tree to keep me company. I had used my last transport of the week on this. It was like Storm had mocked me about coming back soon. It wasn’t true that I ignored her completely. Sometimes I sent some wolves after her when i was angry she left me. But now we’ll never know, will we?
It wasn’t my fault I was blunt. Not my fault I was so thoughtless. Not my fault I could only harm, not heal, not help.
But sometimes, like now, I felt so useless that I just wanted to cry. My clothes looked ragged and burnt-I deserved it, deserved it all…
I would have hugged Zoe. We’d been friends, once, and I could have hugged her. But now? Now I was just the cruel one, the mean one, the one who didn’t care about anyone else. I was pathetic.
So I leaned against the door, facing the wall; my shoulders shaking with muffled sobs as tears dripped down my face, breathing rapid, my stomach going in and out as I stifled the cries of sorrow. There were so many things I wanted to say-things like “she lied to you”, things like “I’m sorry”, things like “it’ll be alright”…
But now I could say nothing. I had been thoughtless for a brief few seconds, and now our friendship was dead.
I paced. It wasn’t Storm’s fault that i coould only teleport 3 times a week. I paced farther and farther and I saw… Storm? She was sobbing. I hugged her.
“It wasn’t your fault.” I said.
“T-that’s not what…I’m c-crying for,” I mumbled, not even making a move to brush my hair out of my eyes. “L-let’s just go, okay?”
” Okay. Wait- how do we get out of here?”
((Where are we?…))
CERA:
I watched, confused but quiet, as Thunderstorm and Zoe both began to sob. For a while they seemed agressive towards each other…then they hugged, still crying.
I will never understand how people’s feelings work, I realized, I would never know. People are so confusing, so complicated. Ones like me, who had grown up with Immortal companions in the shadow of the Underworld…will never understand.
((I have no idea what’s going on either. Why the heck are we at a mall?))
( catherine told zoe to and zoe thought it catherine was in the MJL and so she went and then it was a trap.))
((Eh, pie girl did this thing with her characters, like I know?))
“This way,” I commented, brushing the tears off of my face. “We need to get back to those old-school heroes.”
So we managed to run back to the hideout where the superheroes from the past waited. We gave no explanation for vanishing, but it didn’t quite matter.
((Gee, this revival strategy is going great! Get everyone lost, then disappear!
…sorry for being sarcastic, it *beep*s me off when people are vague like this.))
((This is why we probably shouldn’t be letting the newbies lead the thread. *sigh*
ANYWAY.
It doesn’t make sense that the MJL would follow an anonymous tip from someone they met five seconds beforehand, so can we forget what just happened and start over, or something? I think everyone would feel less lost then.
Sorry to be mean, but it’s messing everyone up.))
((Okay.
GAPAs, zap posts 28.1 and downwards? We’ve decided to fix it and reverse the story, so that 28.1 and downwards never happened. Thanks!))
(( Also, I’ve been on MB for like, 7 or 8 months, and I read the previous threads like novels. ))
((I know you have been on the MuseBlog for a while. However, usually once a new person has been on the blog for a few weeks, they adopt the sensible order and proper conjugation skills that most oldbies have. You never seemed to do so, which confused me because it made you seem like a ‘phyte.
Also, if you had read the threads so religiously like you say, I’m sure you would be better aware of the plotline and this would never have happened.))
(( * hides in small dark cave* ))
(( * dissappears*))
The Administrators hereby declare a time-out on this thread.
We haven’t been following “Superheroes and Mary Sues” very closely, but what appears to have happened is that the thread went dormant. Then Pie Girl revived it and took it in a direction that others didn’t like. Now some of you want us to retro-zap parts of the story.
We think you all need to sort out how to conduct this RPG, who gets to decide where the story goes, and what to do next.
((What I saw happening was this: when a new thread was created, it brough attention back to the old members of the thread, many of whom rejoined and reposted their information in the first posts [ex. 1-7, 20, 22-23]. Then, there was a confusion with a plot and new characters began posting with what seemed to be little knowledge of the previous plot of this thread, which caused us to go off the plotline of the last thread, get everyone confused, and deterr the old members who had rejoined from coming back because they didn’t know what was going on [ex. 26, 29, 31, 39, etc]. Now, I know that Pie Girl didn’t mean any harm, and she did help to revive the thread somewhat, but the direction in which it was taken really didn’t make sense. On the last thread, we were headed back to base to interrogate a new recruit, played by LBK. We were in “a dystopian future where rules”. If we still want to use the plot we have, we can simply say we lost at the ‘mall’ and go back to the base and start again. A post zap isn’t really necessary, but the absence of one might confuse new people who want to join later and who have actually read the thread.
I also think that, in the future, proper grammar and spelling will serve to keep people on track.
/end rant))
((Okay. It’s time to come back.
Apparently, what has been going on here has scared away all the MBers that ever came here, including me. If everyone was, like me, waiting for someone else to post first, then we’ll never get anywhere. Let’s get together and have a nice discussion.
The plot doesn’t make any sense to me, perhaps because of my long absenses, but it doesn’t seem any less confusing to other members. We all conduct this RPG, decide what to do, and where the story goes, as long as it makes sense.
Most of the MBers here haven’t been on for a long time, and so only a few people were left to lead the story line. I think it would help to check back often . Supposed problems can be detected earlier, and the plotline determined by a consensus.
What has been going on for most of this thread is an attempt to REVIVE the thread. The ‘revival’, with all the poking and shoutouts, is actually more confusing to read than the parts that agrrrifishi would like to have zapped. Those should be zapped, because they will throw off future MBers more so than the current plotline.
I have no further opinion and so would like to ask others to REPORT BACK.))
((I’m going to use the plotline this seems to be using. But I don’t think I’ll have actually been in the mall. I think I will have hit the hard floor and been knocked out. Also, for those of you who remember, Aliena was an alias. For those who don’t, my character is Faldrea, an alien with the ability to shapeshift, but only in a enclosed space made entirely of mirrors. She and Aster just spent some quality time on planet Montrescianea in order to distract some of Faldrea’s personal enemies from her MJL allies.))
FALDREA
I opened my eyes to gray. “Wha- what happened?” I asked in Montrescianean.
“It’s awake!” Said a voice. “I think it’s babbling, I can’t understand what it’s saying.” My brain didn’t seem to be working well, but I realised that the voice was speakng Engish.
“You’re … human.” I managed, also in English. A patch of gray resolved itself into a white shape. A pillow. My head was on a pillow. The rest of my vision was gray. This had happened to me before, once.
“Of course I’m human!” The voice sounded confused. But what are you? And how are you speaking English?”
“I was … unconcious.” I said slowly. “I’m back … on Earth. How? How … am I back?”
“You’re an alien?” The voice sounded startled now.
My vision and voice strengthened. They gray was gone, but I still wasn’t seeing in color yet. “Yes, I’m an alien. A shape-shifter, if conditions are right. How the Flmulph did I get here? How long have I been out?”
“You got here when we pulled Superheros from the past. There was a soft landing pad, but you missed and hit your head on the floor. You’ve been out for a week.” Said the man. I could see him now, he was some kind of scientist.
“I get it. I’m part of the MJL. Did anyone come with me? A girl named Aster?” I asked.
“Yes, she’s with the other heros.” Said the scientist, just as I started to percieve color again.
“You said you pulled me from the past, what year is it now? Wait, why are you pulling in heros? Are you with Mr. Joe?!”
“It’s 2050. No we’re not with Mr. Joe. We’re the last remaining resistance. He’s universal dictator now.”
“It’s 40 years in the future? They’ll never be able to find me now! I can rejoin my friends! Wait, how come the language hasn’t changed?”
“Um, maybe you didn’t catch the part about Mr. Joe taking over the world?”
“He did?!? Flmpanhtr!!” I yelled. That made me notice how hoarse I was. “Umm, do you have any sulfuric acid?”
“Sulfuric acid?!” The scientist was shocked now.
“Yes, see I’m currently in the form of a Montreser, and they drink sulfuric acid.”
“Uh, no we don’t. We just have water.”
“OK, got any mirrors?”
“Don’t tell me you eat mirrors!”
“I don’t but I can shapeshift if I’m in a room where walls, floor, and ceiling are reflective.”
“Uh, the others we pulled forward brought a portable mirror capsule, is that what it’s for?”
“Yes, thank goodness they were able to bring it with them. Can you take me to it?”
*a little while later, walks out of mirror capsule as a fourteen year old girl, slightly tall, with brown hair and gray eyes*
“This is my human form.” I said.
A second scientist walked into the room. “The heros are back.” She said.
“My friends? Can you take me to them?”
“Sure.”
I was shown to a room where the other MJL members were returning.
“Faldrea?” One of them asked in surprise.
“Yes, it’s me. I’m back.” I responded.
((Sorry for the uber-long post.))
STORM
“Oh, another one of the old heroes?” I rolled my eyes, tired of this group. “You all know what’s going on, right?”
FALDREA
“All I know is Mr. Joe’s taken over the world and the MJL members were pulled forward to help deal with him. I’ve kind of been unconcious untill a few minutes ago.” I looked closer at the girl I was talking to. “What’s your name? Are you some kind of storm weaver? It would explain your outfit and apparent… vindictiveness.”
((Witchneko? POKE))
((*pokes back* I think now would be a great time to scrap m character and make a new one. Any ideas on how I can write her into the plot?))
“Got it in one,” I rolled my eyes, “although not fully.” My shadow flared up behind me, taking the appearance of a monstrous dragon, before settling down again. “And if that didn’t answer your question, you’re an idiot.”
((Wicked powers, by the way.))
CARRIE:
I started to comment, then shut my mouth. Intelligence wasn’t my strong suit. Somehow nothing had happened at the mall after all and I had the feeling that a plot was brewing. But since my power was time/space shifting, I couldn’t do anything. The annoying scientist had explained over and over that I’d somehow destabilized the balance of the time-flow-thingy and blamed ‘s takeover on me for bringing us (the heroes) out of time while battling various Mary Sues. So I sarcastically promised that next time I would sit there and twiddle my thumbs if everyone was in danger, except that “sarcasm” seemed to be missing even from is uncensored dictionary. Oh yes, Mr Joe censored everything that even remotely inferred MJL or traditional values, even the internet. And there was a curfew. And my favorite superhero-suit makers had fled to Norway. Could the day get any better?
((I’d like to put in Hera too, as soon as we agree on what the current plot should be.))
FALDREA:
“Oh, you’re a shadowbender? Wow. I always thought that power was so flmerphty. Do you ever use your powers for fearmongering? Shadows can definately come in useful.”
I tilted my head to the side. “What’s fearmongering? I don’t really use my shadow that much; I generally go for shock and awe. I suppose, in game terms, I’d be a fragile speedster. I’ve been working on attacking others with my shadow by winding it around them, but I can’t get it right.”
FALDREA
The girl seemed to be getting less snapish. The eye of the hurricane? Or the calm before the storm? I wondered.
“Fearmongering is basically working with fear.” I answered. “You know how little kids are afraid of monsters in the night? What they really see is shadows. Shadows can be used to scare people, but they can also help with stealth, or making it seem like a force is bigger than it really is. And you can make shadows corporeal? I didn’t know that was even possible.”
“ Fascinating,” Psyche commented, “but could we please get back to the subject of how we’re going to save the world?”
FALDREA
“Hmm… The best I can do is to turn into something dangerous, but the definition of “dangerous” changes depending on our strategy.”
((Somebody please respond!))
STORM
“No,” I shrugged Psyche off. Then I turned my attention back to Faldrea. “Huh. Never thought of it like that. I’d need to work with a mindreader for full usefulness, eh?”
FALDREA
“That might be hard to find. From what I’ve observed of human behavior, if you keep it undefined, their imaginations will show them horrors infinitely worse than reality. I don’t know if that holds with the uber-perfect Mary Sues though…”
((POKE))
((I see that a sort of revival has occurred that I’ve missed. Because I am currently quite clueless about what shall happen next, I shall disappear again.))
((This thread died, didn’t it?…*walks away hopelessly while shaking head*))