Silver_Weasel

Oopsie...works a lot better at lower levels

Ok..

Warcrow has grown up with the stories of Lusca re-appearing, the chance he may have been told not to go into the Hollows as the bad men live there etc.etc.etc. If you gloss over background, you're losing out on a rich vein to be tapped.

Now I don't think they're stupid. I think they're odd. Big difference. If they matter to Weez, he'll explore why and form his own conclusion. If they're not, then Meh...who cares.

The stunning RP comes from ideas, and that's what the game gives me. The game system may restrict me, but I just imagine round any obstacles.

But I don't ignore them.

Hmm... There wasn't actually patronisation involved there Wordy. The basics physics of 'this' Universe means I shouldn't be able to fly as I do. Similar with Stealth.

What I am saying is that you can take the things that are game-balance based and use them in a normal way. Powers flow in different ways, but just because I glow when I aim doesn't put me off an entire story arc.

I'm still confused on why it's absurd that every hero had the vahzilok's Plague though...Everyone had the Legacy Virus didn't they? Everyone's had a bad case of flu before...

Lusca is 'driven off' not defeated. Weasel's no idea how she got harder, but she did. He's no idea how the Crey DNA clone of him has access to his powers, but it did.

As for the guy with the names, I suggest you check out the bad_RP'ers_suck community on LJ. There's FAR worse than that

All I'm saying is, it's a shared universe, and there are some things that you, as a player can't understand, so just don't let your character understand them either.

I'm quite happy RP'ing with Radioactive Pudding Man, but I'm not gonna believe his background. Doesn't mean I have to gloss over it.

-Regen, -Recovery? Owcccch

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The game world is where you were born, so War Crow Junior will have had to grow up in Paragon, or it's shadow; so he's already had to live through some of these 'problems'.

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You totally lost me with that one. Sorry.

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War Crow was born (I assume) in the same world that Paragon City and the game exist in; therefore, he'll have gone to school learning about Reichssmann & Statesman's titanic battle, and probably knows where he was on the day that the Rikti Invasion happened. Therefore, there's always threads from his pre-creation life that can be brought in to keep the plot back on track.

Hmmm...

First of all, I can fly. That's suspension of disbelief from the very start before we go into Stealth in bright light

I don't think it is that difficult to rationalise everything, and if not rationalise, then at least use the crux of it. The idea of ignoring anything you can't fit in to your story just feels 'wrong' in some way....It is a shared universe.

Terra Volta : Kendo threw aside his bright orange suit in favour of his close fitting outfit. Time after time he had warned them of the Power Station producing wormholes. Time and time again, the top brass would inform him that it was 'Working as Intended'. No matter, they would come and he would kill them. Every time he was close to these giant eggs though, he would feel strange...He could have sworn he had a brother at one point..Why could he not remember his name? Where was his dog? When had he started liking sushi?
This time must be the last.

Lead shielding : Given that Lead is the oldest cliche in the book; it 'can' stop anything I think the Terra Volta reactors have something far more sinister inside....Hell, Steel plates would stop me...

Lusca : No, and I used to pummel her. Perhaps why he feels so guilty now?

See, I think you're just taking it too seriously. Maybe the Vahzilok serum you got was dodgy?
Why spend all that energy fighting against the world when you could just be having fun within it?

NP guys, just got a little worried

I'm not saying you have to do it, or you haven't done it before; and I'm definitely not saying you spend 10 hours angsting over it. Jeez..*shudders*

(BTW, Weasel's been caught out like that before so his suit has a pocket of concentrated earth concealed within so that he can draw power when desperate..helped when I was in Space )

I just think that having to suddenly rationalise something instead of planning it all out is part of the fun.

*thinks* I don't remember ever 'not' doing it, but most of my characters adapt quickly. If Weez is narked off, then he's charging every purple he sees. If he has to genocide the Hydra, then he switches to KO blasts and silently says sorry. And he still gets scared and shivers near the Portals.

The game world is where you were born, so War Crow Junior will have had to grow up in Paragon, or it's shadow; so he's already had to live through some of these 'problems'.

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Well, not surpisingly with my character name beng Hanibal Smith i named my Pets:

Commando:
B.A.Baracus

Spec Ops:
Templeton Peck
Murdoch

Soldiers:
A-Team Buddy
A-Team Pal
A-Team Medic

The soldiers need a little work. any idea's?

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Amy, Tawnia and Murdoch's Orderly?

Ok, so it doesn't ALWAYS work

Hmmm..I wouldn't call it silly if it affects your characters judgement.

Terra Volta? The Artificial Womb you've been placed in was designed to restrict all flow of energy except through the pipes; as you get closer to the vault you find your magical energy being sapped; unless you can get out quickly then your powers will be gone.
As you reach the sunset, the first fingers of dawn fill you with the magical spirit oncemore, but this time you know how to channel it....
Aura? The Good Doctor needed equipment. I asked "Why me?" and he told me that he had word from Serafina (or whoever) that she knew of a way to let your inner confidence shine out; all he wanted in return was bits to build his crazy machines....
Serge? He was in debt to those damnable Tsoo, I'd already seen them robbing artefcats on the Streets of Talos; perhaps by getting him as a friend I'd finally manage to strike deep into their heart. And if I didn't, the friendship of a good tailor is always handy considering the amount of clothes I go through.

Work with it, not around it No character can ever choose what their parents think of them, so for a character to evolve they have to do things 'THAT THEY WOULD NEVER DO'.

Have a try sometime, if you don't like it, don't do it.

Guys? Not frightened you away have I?

MMmmm..point, but a good deal of all characters is built on what they perceive during their lifetime; so why ignore the tough bits to concentrate on, when you could be losing a rich source of new experience.

I know from personal experience that when they 're-modelled' Lusca, Weasel actually started feeling sorry for her as she was left lonely in IP... and as he flew past, he could hear the muted wailing as if the Giant Octopus was crying. In wanting to become feared, she had learned that fear brings it's own loneliness.

Sometimes the tough bits actually create far more character.

Meh, leap off a tall building and the one shot a purple

No risk, massive reward

From the poll from the other thread

I know I will die if I try to fight in "Red" health. 33% 6
Completely useless. 28% 5
It has helped once or twice. 22% 4
Great! Saves the day. 11% 2
I get healed before its useful. 6% 1

I've made my call (Once at 0 Endurance, Blasts draw on Health instead of Endurance; Making Nova etc. truly matyr material)

What's your replacement?

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It relies on time passing from past to future, yes. But it rests on the basic fact that observation of an object in a quantum flux collapses the possibilities to one single outcome. Thus any action you take in the past is essential to make the world how it was when you observed it the moment you travelled back in time. Cause and Effect is irrelevant, only the outcome, which you already have seen and cannot change.

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Interesting theory but it's got one big hole. Observation is a Cause/Effect as well; therefore by altering your history, you actually alter the future you have seen and the reason for doing it. Therefore, once you change history, you also change your reasons for changing history as well as possibly unwinding it.

This potential problem takes your relative stable state to one of Quantum fissure; hence re-creating yourself around time to cause the least damage.

E.G. If you travelled back in time to kill your father; at the point where his timeline shifted to the point where he couldn't father you; your own self would be placed in a quantum state where you both did and did not exist; and so to general perception you would appear unable to react to the 'normal' world you came from.

Hence, perhaps, explaining ghosts...

Therefore, Time protects itself by removing the Paradox before Time allows it to happen; in a similar way to a bath overflowing.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

Apart from that relies on Cause-Effect actuality, which doesn't exist in a non-linear time sequence.

There's an easy way to solve most of paradoxical problems and that's 3d Space.

Elimintates 99% of the Paradox's by creating multiple time-streams.

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It's time travel, ffs.

Stop being such nerds or I'll smack you.

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Bring it Any arena, any time.

Maybe they're both true.....

We haven't even looked at the idea of Praetorian Heroes yet..

And with Dimension/Time travel, there's been at least 7 versions of Spidey, 8 of Bats, 5 of Supes co-existing.

And that's without thinking that there has to be around 10,000 super heroes in a small town.

I'm not so sure on that; I think the world has to rationalise things so that they 'become' viable. (For instance, the concept of money : If it was directly translatable, then any big SG could buy Crey).

Therefore you have to start on the principles behind Cryptic's decisions and reverse engineer them.

For Training enhancements, say, I pick up a level 40 Accuracy Training after defeating a Sapper, then sell it to Ghost Falcon and buy a Magic Damage SO (Fury of Joule).

Rationale : As the Sapper is defeated, I spot that his backpack has small straps on it that if I shot at, it would cause the backpack to collapse.
This information isn't really that useful to me, as I'd not be good enough to pull off such a shot in the heat of battle, but I pass the information onto Ghost Falcon. He thanks me and says
"Great! Some of the younger heroes could use a little help. Is there anything I can do for you in return, Silver Weasel?"
I reply "Well, my powers are tethered to the Earth, but I need to get a bit more "Umph" out of them."
He thinks for a moment and says "Well, I've heard tell of a Hero called Joule who used his own emotions to tap into extra power. He wound himself up internally so that his mind would be more focussed? That might help."
I say "Cool!" and remember to get anger flowing next time before I use my Nova.

That sort of idea isn't really possible within a limited world, but a bit of thought can do most things

I've got virtually every Superhero RP game released, even SuperTwerps, but information on things (Like Ms Liberty's Scabbard acts as a low level regen) is always good to know.

Maybe it was possible, but has just been erased?

Time travel is certainly feasible, but once it's been done, it alters the whole structure of time and thus creates a paradoxical hole.

Time is a great healer....so they say....

Side Note : What do people think of the idea of Defiance being changed so that, once you run out of Endurance, you can keep blasting, but this time it takes off Health instead of End?

1-20 : Ooh extra power
20-32: What happened?
33-50: Yeh, like I ever let my health get that low.