Union, New Open RP OOC Discussion

I can totally see it as a covert military ops kind of deal, heck that was one of the things I suggested. Changing the kids to 'Orphaned/Kids stolen off the streets' deal since...well it is a time honored tradition amongst villains to use them as test subjects for all kinds of experimentation.

I just honestly can't see this as something one crooked politician would try to pass as a law. That just seems a beyond stupid thing to do, it would kill their career prospects quicker than their life expectancy from dumping them infront of Lusca.

Plus as Techbot said, the plot is there for the players to enjoy and so far the reaction from both GGOOC channel and the Union RPers channel to this idea of a plot in general has been 'not touching it with a 10 foot barge pole' the only semi-positive response this has gotten is from a Non-Union player (as in, doesn't play on Union, not we're all part of a Union and he isn't).

You've got to remember, unlike the US RP side on the forums, Union is a shared RP Universe so something like this would involve pretty much everyone from the rookie street heroes right up until the heavy hitters. Heck I can picture even someone like The Corporation getting involved after all Mercs need good publicity too (plus as a way to show heroes 'how it is done').

The big but in this is...well...so far nobody wants to be involved.

Feel free to try to run it but don't be surprised if it doesn't get much attention.

If I can make a suggestion;

Jaijot, you clearly have some very defined ideas that you are unable/unwilling to modify or explain for various reasons. In my experience in both p'n'p and online rp the GM's maxim of "No plot survives contact with the players" really is true. I have been involved in many plots which have had the GMs practically pulling their hair out because the players have gone off on some tangent, or been far too lucky for his plan to actually work.

Perhaps you would find it better to present your plot as a piece of fiction rather than rp which you wouldn't be able to control to the appropriate level. That way you could put your plot across in exactly the way you want, without having to worry about it being derailed by others.

Y'know it might have been usful to anyone who wanted to get involved to know that the plot wasn't taking place in the US, as I think nigh on all of our characters are based there, setting it elsewhere is quite a big important thing that you really should have mentioned before.

This is because it can change which characters people can use for it, that is of course if you were going to set it outside the US from the start.

You can't exactly have a go at people for making assumptions about basic details you've neglected to mention, here's an example.

"Alright you're in a house, it's quite stuffy and warm"

"Yikes in that case I open a window"

"Aaaand now you're dead due to explosive decompression ebcause you were in a house on the moon"

Techbot, Jaijot's contention is that this plotline is not to take place in the USA, but somewhere else in the world (presumably a country where English is not the first language, since all of the countries I can think of where it is the first language would suffer basically the same problem as the USA).

As such, the intention is to remove a number of superheroes from the Unionverse Paragon City to undertake vigilante action against members of the government of a country where the heroes probably don't speak the language, and have had to rely on a translation of the original radio interview to even know why they're going there.

Plot hook is non-existent for me. My characters are vested in Paragon City, and trust the heroes of other countries to look out for their own.