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((Is this a good post? My first time posting a bit of a plot, got involved yesterday with Doc's bit at GG ))

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(( Yup, good post! And welcome on board ))

I've added a piece of fiction, and put it up on Creative, it's found here: A long day...

‘Boomtown’, 22:37:

Clearing out some of the area, the blue colossus Tower of Power was fighting ‘the good fight’, or rather, doing some light exercising with a group of Trolls when something ran past him at great speed… followed not long after him with what sounded a lot like swearing.
Turning to where the hero came from, Erik didn’t have to wait long to see what had the hero so spooked: a rocket propelled grenade soon hit him in the chest, the explosion sending him hurdling backwards.
Getting up and lifting up a large slab of concrete, Erik was resolved to delay the group of council at least a while longer to give the speeding swearer time to alert… anyone.
As guns were being fired, Erik jumped up high and got on top of the concrete: The longer he could prevent getting hurt, the longer he’d be able to hold them off. About 10 feet above the ground, he jumped off into an other group, mumbling: “I’m going to feel this in the morning…” and hoping to high heavens the hospital beacons would hold true.


Galaxy City, near the GG statue, 22:03

Woken up from a catnap by a lot of commotion by the statue, Attomic Kitten crept closer to observe. From her position in a tree, she could hear just about everything said.
After all had left, she was wondering… who would keep the more local groups in check?
Dropping off the branch, she ran to search for Chop Fooey. Disappointed as always to abandon his mighty meal, he took up his axe with glee none the less to assist the Kitten in her patrolling of Steel Canyon.


Skyway City, GHOST Corp building, 22:45

Listening to the reports on official channels, CEO Peter Ghost decided to call in and ask his pilots Felicity, Vivian and Elena to report for deployment.
Not long after, Shadow-Ghost and his ‘Angels’ F, V and E hit the streets of Skyway in not fully tested battle armours to dissuade local gangs to take advantage of the hero’s preoccupation.

This is a story based on actions that are part of a Roleplay plotline.
The Hunt for Requiem: To Search A Thousand Worlds
And would fit in well with the following thread, stories of this weekend:
The War Against Requiem

This is a long term open RP plot played out ingame, a focus point being the GG crowd.

It’s an adaptation of a game Story Arc.
Requiem is out to destroy the multiverse and it’s pretty likely he’ll succeed unless stopped, so.. being heroes and all, we band together to do just that.
Gathered under the guidance of Doctor Sebastian MacAlister ‘Temporis’ (Doc T, in short )

For weeks now (closer to a month) heroes have been pestering Requiem and his forces, shutting down vital and less vital operations of his in Paragon, around the world and in other dimensions

And now Requiem has had enough: he strikes back...


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A long day…


Sitting back in the magical hot springs of Mileena’s pocket dimension with an arm around her sleeping fiancée, an exhausted Jessica van Steenbergen lets her mind wander in hopes of getting some sleep herself.

“Wondrous things, these magical baths of Milly’s: the magic keeps the water warm, speeds up the healing process and helps revitalize it’s occupants.” She though and added with a light smile “and these floatation cushions keep you from slipping under while sleeping.”

“Where did it start”, she wondered. “Probably as I was prepping a team to investigate a mass exodus of a council base… Hikari and Lyn, it was great seeing them again. Alfred and Kit, a gentleman and his, well, rather feral lady. And Veskit… a good team, should be no problem getting to the mystery of that base.” With a sigh she let her memories be played out again: “A call for help came, to stop an assault planned by Malta. Investigate, or stop assault… I hope I made the right decision as we rushed to Shadowe’s aid. There was a giant titan robot in the are: A Kronos Titan. Popular items, those Kronos Titans... the Malta has some, probably want more, Lyn wants one, Kit wants one, Shadowe wants one too. I must try to get some in time for Christmas, I’m sure Zori would love to have one too. Getting to it wasn’t all that hard, fighting it... a bit harder, that thing really is tough. Loosing one’s footing and falling on my rear as it was coming down... Lucky this new armour Ellie gave me is a lot sturdier or I’d be a pancake...”

And afterwards.. Shadowe wasn’t in good health, try and get that past Hikari... seems he needed energy or something. Hiki let him drain from her, maybe not the best ideas, but then again, that was Hiki’s field, rather then mine. As he was doing so, it felt almost like Shadowe was forming a blackhole of sorts... right up to the point where he disappeared with an explosion... Lucky for us I had placed a shield around them, lucky for Hiki she had her own protection.
Alfred said he could still sense Richard’s mind, so he was probably still ‘ok’... We moved, of course, didn’t want to be caught in an implosion after all. Hiki was exhausted, as one might imagine, so I shared some of my energy with her, that and Alfred’s ever present chocolate, she was starting to feel better again.
And then Richard returned… not sure how, but he came back… without any clothes. I’m still not entirely sure if I regret the tree being in the way, or if I’m relieved.. ah, no matter.. at least now we know which gender Lyn’s interested in, I can’t believe she shouted at him to “take it off” after he put on a bathrobe Kit gave him.

Shifting a little as Ellie leaning against a nasty bruise was starting to become rather uncomfortable, she smiled apologetically at her sleeping fiancée. “Sorry, love, I should have let you know I was out missioning again but I didn’t want to worry you, and by not letting you know, I caused you to worry even more… This business with that contract on my life.. I hope we can resolve it soon, it’s wearing us both thin. Luckily we have safe havens like this where no assassin can enter.”

Jessica sat still with her eyes closed, trying hard to not consciously acknowledge the images running across the eyelid theatre: Sebastian, down on the ground in a very bad shape; Ellie absorbing and redirecting energy from his damaged power cell; the wormhole she herself held open for Sebastian; Sebastian exploding inside a containment field; Mina crying over the loss of her father; Ellie consoling Mina that he always came back, Molok saying she should steel herself for the possibility that he might not…

Jessica rest her head against Ellie’s as she went on to the next set of events: Requiem’s retaliation. “I knew the Council had a lot of troops, but the sheer number of what just one faction managed to throw at us, it’s mind boggling. As Circe reported portals opening around the world and all over Paragon, Ellie and I decided to go to Peregrine, a moment’s doubt as Terra Volta was also a prime location to hold.. But others already switched their destination to help out there. Ellie had called in support from the Peacebringer army and minutes later we arrived at Portal Corp.”
“Upon arrival, after the initial greeting at gun point, I was put in charge… Sometimes it’s not convenient to have a good reputation, but still, until someone more qualified showed up, it was up to me to keep things together.”

Jess sighed at the memory. “And I thought leading a 16 man team was hard… it’s nothing compared to the strain of commanding a full scale battle, developing situational awareness over the front line was hard enough, keeping tracks of what went on in the rest of the zone next to impossible. I was really glad when some of the Peacebringer commanders showed up and helped out, too bad they decided that a change in leadership at that stage would lead to more chaos…. Why am I thinking about this like I’m telling a story?” she frowned lightly.

More images flashed over Jessica’s eyelids as she went over the battle.
The command table: the front desk of a Portal Corp office, a map of Peregrine spread out over it, flags marking known positions of both their and Requiem’s forces.
The flashing seen in the sky from the window as Bright and Dark Nova’s from both sides battled it out up high.
The big explosions from kamikaze blasters: granted stealth and sent into a dense group of enemies, and teleported out after setting off a nova blast.
The look of confusion on those heroes that were just returning from other dimensions. The confusion turning into determination, especially those that had just returned from the Council Empire dimension.
The red and purple flashes of Quantum Array Cannons being deployed by both sides.
The coming and going of superspeeders bringing information as backup to the radio team that was struggling to keep up.

A shiver went through Jessica as the memories of Ellie being gunned down ran through her mind. Their link letting her know her love had fallen long before observers could report. She recalled the surprised look on one of her adviser’s face as she ordered Team Delta to assist Ellie’s team.. a second later, realising this would put Team Beta at extra risk, she ordered them to retreat from their forward location, thinking: “I’m not cut out for this…”

She still remembers every word of what came through Team Delta’s radio, despite being more focused on leading the rest of the defences: “Delta is encountering heavy Quantum resistance, good thing we’re not Kheldians.” … “We have a visual, Team Alpha IS down, relaying coordinates for teleportation…” … “That’s nearly all of them, but we can’t hold this position much lon… what the …?” the next few words being drowned out by a loud blast. “Alpha Leader just got up and blew the <beep!> out of them! Moving in to finish the extraction…”
And the relief felt from the simple words in her mind “I’m OK.”

Many more images blurred together, split second decisions, discussions with the advising Kheldian commanders, a fleeting memory of Earl Grey tea?
Until the imposing and reassuring arrival of General Hammond with the Shadow Shard reinforcements. “These are the first, more are on the way, but will take a while” he said as about a hundred battle hardened soldiers marched right through the command centre.

For no apparent reason, Jess’s mind switched to story telling mode again, who was she talking to? Her fiancée in her arms? Her Kheldian in the back of her mind? A figment of her imagination? Herself?
“Was I ever glad to see them, with their help we were able to stabilize a front line AND ensure that more civilians were evacuated safely. After about 10 minutes of observing and getting to know the situation, General Hammond offered to take command… you’ve no idea how relieved I was to grant him that. He took command and for a while I stayed and helped him as an advisor, not that he needed much help, mostly just current situation things and such.”

Jessica’s head started to sink into her pillow, sleep was getting close as she continued. “After a while, I decided to be more useful, I joined the battle outside… it was much, much more intense then it seemed even from the command centre… I can’t remember how many fireballs I’ve thrown, how many blasts my shields deflected… how many hit… Empaths are great to have around, but even they can’t heal everything…” She scratched absentmindedly at the edge of an other bruise. “I can’t really remember when, but at one point I was teleported out. Reinforcements had finally arrived, allow those of us that have been at it since the start to rest. Good thing too, I was tired before this started, I’ve gotten past the point of exhaustion… And now here I am, resting, hoping for sleep, to recover enough to be able to help again.”

A vague but familiar voice whispered in Jessica’s mind: “Sssh, now. It’s alright, you’re sleeping, get some rest.”

Portal Corp, 10:42

The Grav Mistress and Tiger White stepped out a wormhole into the Portal Corp courtyard, staring down quite a few barrels of assault rifles.

After a moment looking around Grav spoke: “We have Kheldian reinforcements coming in soon, who’s in charge so we can coordinate?”

The soldiers on the inner courtyard looked to their sergeant, the sergeant looked around a bit nervously before speaking his hope: “Uh, you are Ma’am”

Glad her combat goggles hid the look of horror that would have been apparent in her eyes, she began giving orders “I need to now what’s going on.. Tiger, go have a look, let me know what’s going on, help where you can” turning to the sergeant, as Tiger White took to the sky, and about to speak as masses of Peacebringers arrived through teleportation, most already entering the battle upon surveying the situation for a moment.

Taking up a com unit, Grav declared: “This is Grav, I’m coordinating the defence for Peregrine now” and with that, began the slow progress of bringing order to the chaos.

Luckily, the Shadow Shard troops were able to send reinforcements, with them came General Hammond and at 11:45, Grav turned over command to the much more experienced general.

I was keeping an eye on the following chat channels:
1) the official raid Global
2) Request (as it was said that'd be the secondary?)
3) Team, for my hold team's coordination

I saw a LOT of speach bubbles, sometimes I even managed to read some of them, but without having any idea if it was just an idle scream in terror for what ever, or an order from the raid leaders.

Contratulations Doc!
I wonder... how many hours have you logged on him?

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you could do a complete retcon of the character

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i'm sorry to have to ask but what does this mean?

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Retcon: Link

Basically, a retcon is rewriting your character's history.

a complete retcon... I'll give you an example of one of mine.
I had Misha, a cheeta girl, but beyond that, not much else. I was playing in on the 'cat girl' hype. Didn't play her more then 2 or 3 times.

Later, I got a free costume token, and changed her appearance. And with it her background. No more tail, no more cat ears. She was now no longer a 'girl' but a woman of 80, who became a vampire almost 50 years earlier. (bit drastic, but it worked for a bit)

Now, a delete and remake later, Misha is a cat young lady. Not much more or less then that. Very different from both previous versions.

These retcons worked because they were never active characters. For a full retcon on an active character to work, you need either a darned good explination, and or the support of those around you



For you, I'd say it'd just be to rewrite pieces that caused the 'insult'? (can't think of the right word here)

Stalingrad, your leprecaun, is he a lepricaun that happens to be Irish or an Irishman that happens to be a lepricaun?

And indeed, the GG 'Mad' Leprican doesn't rely on an accent. He relies on hos costume, his name but fore most, on his maners and comments about the fairyworld

So, find out what is perieved as offencive about your character, and figure out if it's easy to fix and keep the character.
Alternatively, you could do a complete retcon of the character... though that would be a bit hard to explain to the rest of those you played with
(One way: not play him IC for a week or so, and have him comeback as a 'the second' or similar: "oh, you must have met my father"... just a possibility for you to play with)

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I agree, siphoning off part of your personality/one of your characteristics into a character can make them a lot easier to play. Try not to make them too much like yourself though, or you'll be guilty of self-insertion which many people equate with Mary Sueism.


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What is Mary Sueism?


That said, my main is heavily based on myself... or atleast was.
Similar backgrounds, similar situations... up to a point. That's where things start to get different. My main went to a school abroad, something I'd never have the guts to do (then again, neither did she if it wasn't for a bit of nudgeing)

When I took her to the RP world at large, in my case GG, she was a clean sheet with some pencil markings for guidelines.
I let her develop from there, filled in the blanks of her past, tweaked some events a little bit as time passed on (minor retconning)

To sum up: my character was me, with the personality sliders shifted a bit.
Now, she's her own person due to development in RP (nearly a years worth) that has some views I personally don't think I'd addabt in RL.

As for my secondary character... my main has a brother.
Again based on me, personality sliders a bit tweaked for extra 'buch' and imprinted a few traits from my own brother.

Ok, now I have 8 on the list...

if everyone shows up, we'll have:

4 Scrapper
2 PB
1 Controler
1 Tanker (me, though could easily switch to PB/Controller if decired)

Indeed, I like to calculate in some extra time so people won't be miffed if things stretch out.

And yes, that flying is a good plan. I'm sure we can work that again

So far I have 6 on the list (including me)

I think I'll be ingame by 1:30, and try some recruiting. Assembly a 2, and then hopefully we'll be able to actually start at 2:30

I think it should be possible to do this TF in about 2 hours, I expect we'll be done by 5 at the latest.

We're going to try and run the Croatoa TF tomorrow:
19th of June, starting hopefully not long after
2pm BST

So far, we have 3 on the team:
2 scrappers and me (either as a controler, PB or Tanker, depending on need)

Sign up please

My nomination for April

FloatingFatMan's The shifts of Fortune
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Happy Birthday Gid, may you have many more in good health and happiness!

As I have not attended more then 3 times, and not recently either, I think it's best to just drop out and make room for an other.
(That and the 2 dominators I've brought along are still lvl 8)

Grav Mistress, Grav/FF reporting for duty

One of the great things about being ShadowGhost, is that I get to relay messages from those that have passed on.

Zortel decided to give more indebth insight into one of the nominations:
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As Zeus said in Altered Beast: 'Rise up from your grave!"
Except this is more channelling via a medium.


Max has lurked about on the channel since it's conception (Ping!), has a good sense of right and wrong and has that handy potential to stay neutral in my opinion, unless it's about if kittens are hugglier than sheep. No one goes for sheep...

Prize? FFM? Break it up, you two. Take it to PMs

Prize:
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What was a positive thread by this one action has become negative?

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I have to mention, it takes 2 to tango.


Brighteyes:
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Personally I see no reason for mods in the channel, you have a problem with someone ask them nicely to tone it down, if they don't put them on ignore. Problem solved

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Luckily, this is usually the case. How ever, in the past we have cleaned up messes that were disrupting people's fun.
At such rare instances, it's nice to have policemen nearby to contain a situation.


FFM:
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I stand by the purpose of GGOOC. It's nothing to do directly with the roleplay at GG, it's just a chat channel that we want to keep family friendly

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Indeed, GGOOC was originally created purely for GG, it's now something that has grown into it's own being (I like to think so, any way)

And in the interest of overview:
The nominations so far are: (added valid nomination reasons provided in this thread)
<ul type="square"> [*]Red Commissar - A steady, regular player; often there to greet new people. Vocal and not too rash - he's been nothing but polite and helpful to absolutely everyone, i've never seen an ill word from him
[*]Molok - A steady player who's always been pretty fair and reliable as far as I've seen
[*]Dark Rose. - Mature player, knows where lines are/should be drawn, on till late, not afraid to speak his mind - Often the last at the GG, A very nice guy, who most players get on well with. He has his head on his shoulders but will take no [censored].
[*]Max - the ability to stay neutral when he wants to stay neutral
[*]Prize - Not on as much as we/he would like but always there for new players and happy to answer questions. - He's a poker player, he knows how to bluff and deceive everyone into resolving their arguments
[*]Inago - often the first memeber of the GGOOC to wake up. spends most days online and knows almost all the ggooc to talk to.
[*]Leif Roar -[/list]

If anyone would like to add reasons (particularly for Leif Roar), please do so with the following guidelines:
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Please consider the following when making nominations:

<ul type="square"> [*]Availability - They MUST be regulars on GGOOC [*]Fairness - They need to be able to NOT take sides in any issue [*]Personality - Being helpfull and friendly is a must[/list]

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Me? That'd mean i'd have to behave myself.

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1) Don't blame me, blame Ringmaster for nominating you
2) if you don't want it, you won't get it
3) there's also a voting round (Hmmm, must ask Bridger about spamming the board with polls)

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Why not all 3?

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Sorry for the late answer, Ironclad.

Maybe we will invite all three, we don't know yet.
We thought it only fair that the people who are to be moderated be able to cast a vote on who they trust to do the moderation.

(Plus, if one of those 3 reject, we'd have to go brainstorming again, so instead we leave that up to you )


And in the interest of overview:
The nominations so far are:
<ul type="square">[*]Red Commissar[*]Molok[*]Dark Rose.[*]Max[*]Prize[*]Inago[/list]

*hangs head in disbelief*

Why is it that people always have to boast about secrets and how powerful they are?

Have the movies taught us nothing?

/em lecture
When you start monolouging, you're lost!


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Back when the earth was still young, CoH and CoV coexisted piecefully: Global Chat had only just been introduced to the EU servers. It was not long after that it was decided that GG could do with an OOC channel.

After debating various aspects (mostly the name) GGOOC the concept was born.
And because I was at home and already logged into the game, I created the channel.

There you have it: I was the first MOD (and member) of GGOOC.
I appointed other Moderators (whithout asking them if they even wanted to be one) among those that have discussed and I thought serious enough to do a good job at it. (FFM wasn't in the first sellection )

There was a second batch of Moderators, who were asked if they wanted to have the 'job'.

This time 'round we're letting you all chip in


Now, if I want to sound harsh, I could answer RM's question of
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Who died and made you god?

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with:
<ul type="square">[*]No one, I already was.[*]GGOOC is the creative product of several people. The current MODs are part of that group, and there for have 'ownership rights'[*]If you don't like it, bugger off[/list]But since I'm not fond of sounding hars, I'll say this instead:
<ul type="square">[*]GGOOC is for and especially by the people. Let the MODs reflect that.[/list]

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I have stated my vewis in the gg thread. so i stand by my choice of Inago, dark Rose and Prize for the reasons stated.

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gathering here to keep things organized (You know how easily things get lost in the GG thread)
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<ul type="square">[*]Prize.. Not on as much as we/he would like but always there for new players and happy to answer questions. Plus lets face it.. it is Prize's bat and ball we play with every night.
[*]Dark Rose. Often the last at the GG, A very nice guy, who most players get on well with. He has his head on his shoulders but will take no [censored].
[*]Inago.. often the first memeber of the GGOOC to wake up. spends most days online and knows almost all the ggooc to talk to.[/list]
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Just one more thing.. what if the GGOOC members dont want FFM and Ghost to be mods anymore? Me? I don't mind i like them both, but it is an idea

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Pesonally, I won't mind adding my name to the votes list, but I'll talk things over with the others.

First, we'll handle the nominations

Happy Cake Day, Max!

A work of art *sniff* it truely is.