Comic Casting Call- PCU Student/heroes


Chase_Arcanum

 

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Well, after a long delay, I'm planning my second, third, and fourth screenshot comic books. The next "trilogy" will likely have a common thread shared by the central characters- the evacuation of Paragon City University during the Rikti invasion.

While I'll be focusing on the interrelated stories of three characters, I really could take advantage of a quite a few extras for the major battlefield scene.

The scene's pretty basic: The rikti invasion forces PCU into an evacuation. As crowds gather at the Red line, heroes struggle to organizing a defense- some are students/faculty using their powers in battle for the first time, some are veteran heroes doing whatever they can in the turmoil. Some (not your characters) will fall in the fight.

The art style will be similar to the "Battlefields" predecessor, but I'm experimenting with a few filters to add to the illustrated look & feel.

If you're interested in adding your hero or villain to the evacuation of PCU storyline, I'll give credit to anyone that wants to participate.

Post a reply here.

How this will work
I'll be editing everyone in to the same scene, so I'll likely need no more than 15 minutes of your time in one of the "newb zones" (in case I need to roll an alt on your server) to take screenshots of you attacking various greys and take a /demorecord.

I can't promise much screen time, but I figured it'd be fun to add other community members to the story. You'll be credited by name (with references to the panels you appear in) and I might even be able to slip in a few battlecries.


 

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I would love to add Invincibelle for consideration. Her bio has her mutant powers being triggered by an attack on the RedLine during the Rikti invasion.


 

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Oh this sounds fun.

I'd say The Royal Regent is the best likely candidate for this.


 

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While I'd love to get a character in this, I don't think any of them really fit the requirement needed for it, I'm sure I could adjust them a tad for it, but that seems terribly superficial. It's probably because I'm relatively new and don't know much about the invasion so I've kind of distanced my backgrounds from most in game story lines. So... let's hope when you finish this it helps a little... or skews it more. Doesn't matter to me...

I'm just going to say that I'm looking forward to seeing this. I rather liked 'Battlefields' the first time I read through it.


 

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My fiance' and I run an SG on Virtue made up entirely of PCU Students/heroes called the Campus Alliance of Preternatural and Exemplary Students, aka The CAPES. The link is in my signature. Feel free to post one of the public forums and see who's interested.

It seems tempting, but my only probably is that the Rikti invasion was almost 5 years ago, and, therefore, most students that were attending PCU AT that time would have graduated by now, unless they were in the first year or two of undergrad at the time of the invasion and are now working on a doctorate. That is one long a** sentence.

My character, Psycharisma, was still in high school at the time, but she was probably taking some classes there at the time. However, she wasn't a registered hero until her sophomore or junior year. But maybe I can finagle something.

Either way, good luck! I hope to see the finished product.


 

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This sounds pretty cool. I'll go ahead and submit Frosty Femme.


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you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
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Thanks for the response! I'll be organizing things very soon... have a few fire drills appear at work suddenly thats taking up my game time.

Your storyline doesn't have to tie in completely, if you don't want it- if you'd just like a costumed hero in the background that just looks like one of your own, that's great too.


 

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One of my heroes is a graduate student of archaeology at the Paragon City University (she was an undergrad at the time of the invasion, though). I could grab some screenshots of her and post them tomorrow.


 

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You're the writer, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you want Frosty's background involved.

To help with your decision making, Frosty Femme is a Mutant with control over ice. Her sister, Flaming Femme, was a Mutant with control over fire. Flaming Femme went missing during the invasion and was presumed dead although rumors persist that she is alive and well in the Rogue Isles working for Arachnos. Frosty's main goal is to gain some closure regarding her sister. She wants to either find her alive or see her body.


your = Belonging to you.
you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
ur = This is not a word.

 

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Umm... how do I do a demorecord? Never done one of those things before...


 

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I think he's gonna do the demorecord while following you around and you're stomping greys in the low level city zones.


your = Belonging to you.
you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
ur = This is not a word.

 

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I think he's gonna do the demorecord while following you around and you're stomping greys in the low level city zones.

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Right. I figured that's about the easiest way.

/demorecord is a really neat way to capture what's essentially an editable video of something. What's neat is it's purely text-based, describing the character's appearance, animations, etc. I can thus edit the demo to have the characters run animations they normally wouldn't... or change my camera position to get closer to that shot I wanted (or so I hope).

I could literally just capture your look and do anything with it, but I'm still new to demorecord, and I'd prefer to have you doing the right powers in the shot, so I'd take a 2-3 minute clip of you in action to edit later. (I hope).


I may have been early on the casting call- my employer just notified me that I may be working late next week on a project that's suddenly "mission critical" to the client... after they delayed it and failed to let us move on it for four freakin months.


 

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Well, if you need any more bodies, I have a non-tenured Professor of Ethnic Dance out at teh Founders Falls branch of PCU.
Her hero card says Sword Dancer.


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Ugh. I really hate this, but things took another turn for the worst at work. Unless things change, I'll be putting in too many 80-hour weeks to get started.

Guess I was premature on the casting call.


 

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Nah it's never premature. This means we all can create more informative bios and such, better screenies of the characters, and you can rest up for doing it later

Work sucks! I don't work. lol.


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Ugh. I really hate this, but things took another turn for the worst at work. Unless things change, I'll be putting in too many 80-hour weeks to get started.

Guess I was premature on the casting call.

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You obviously work for Lord Recluse