Like a Ton of Bricks (Unionversal Schemosity)
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CactusBrawler,
Posted on: 2011-01-05 17:03 in Roleplaying
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Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum
Least it's not snakes, right?
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Originally Posted by Paradigm_Shift
Or alien centipedes.
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Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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Hey it's a SHMUP boss...hammering it with high explosives is pretty much par for the course.
And it's a hardier enough creature that it survives long enough for the interdimensional heroes are able to gather in the right spot.
So there!
I dunno about hammering it with explosives... the only explosives Ildela has would be warburg nukes and even she's not crazy enough to detonate nuclear weapons in the middle of Paragon. Does hammering it with dark energy work well enough? Figured I should have at least one of my characters join the fray.
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
All these people shooting the crap, I hope you don't hit Mirel damn it D:
I was thinking the same thing, haha.
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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And if anyone wondered why the Outsider disapproved of such mindless blamming so much... 
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
((Uhm...still curious as to why this is here, and not in it's own dedicated thread, if it's a whole seperate plot?))
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Originally Posted by Omega_Chief
((I belive it's a plot tied into the whole thing that's going on, though the only thing that boggles me is why you'd go to Talos when all our characters are converging on Kings...))
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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
((It is part of the plot and Synth is slowly setting the scene for it though I'm not entirely sure why it would be a seperate thread, the Crab boss is merely a means of herding people together))
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I was hoping to get started in with just one post but as it grows I find there is more and more "setting up" I have to do.
I will accept whatever verdict you'd all prefer. It's not a problem. I can even return the The Crossing with a more minor player to jump into someone else's plot.
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
We're not saying there's anything wrong with the plot, I am indeed interested in just what it all intials.
It's just that we finally manage to get all the characters together at Kings Row Crab battle... and you go to recruit them at Talos island?
Just causing a few of us to boggle is all.
Which I find ten kinds of amusing given what the note on Found Spiders instruction sent, perhaps time his arrival for after the crab is defeated, all the characters should be ina nice big crowd talking then.
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Found it! Quick note about the RP so far. Seems it's branching out into three paths now; those wanting Pocket D for a cool down, those wanting City Hall for declaration of arrival/legal registration and those wanting Portal Corps to investigate a way back home. Or more likely even, all three. Whatever play people decide for their characters, I'm holding off from playing my hand until it's properly decided. Naturally, some would nervously avoid the approaching police detective and try to escape towards Pocket D/City Hall/Portal Corps, so it's only fair to wait and give others a chance to do just that. Heroes classically flee the scene before cops/press can question them anyway, but hopefully there'll be some of you left behind to have a chat with.|
Originally Posted by DeviousMe
((...I'd like to think that my Like a Ton of Bricks OOC thread is still viable, but of course I can't be 100% sure...))
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Also, quick question. Obviously for plot purposes but also out of cheer curiosity - putting aside creative licence, what would normally be the legal ramifications, in the United States of America, of a civil servant (registered or otherwise) killing a murderous gunman/terrorist? ...using high-explosives to the face, or not.
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Originally Posted by Pious
Also, quick question. Obviously for plot purposes but also out of cheer curiosity - putting aside creative licence, what would normally be the legal ramifications, in the United States of America, of a civil servant (registered or otherwise) killing a murderous gunman/terrorist? ...using high-explosives to the face, or not.
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Reminds me of some Texas sheriff I heard about whose team shot dead a 'crazed gunman'. When asked why they'd shot him 64 times he replied
"Because that's all the ammunition we had."
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
To be fair, ingame Ildela is a rogue. She's not known for respecting laws, American or otherwise. So the legal consequences wouldn't really bother her in the slightest. Should they try to arrest her for the property damage or the murder, she'll likely just thumb her nose at them and vanish in a puff of logic.
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
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and for that matter Ethan come from a land where the power of the law is who has the most fire power. Anyone that cuts down that many civilians on the way, plus police cars and men is not some casual gunman but some ubertooled up super freak.
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Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum
To be fair, ingame Ildela is a rogue. She's not known for respecting laws, American or otherwise. So the legal consequences wouldn't really bother her in the slightest. Should they try to arrest her for the property damage or the murder, she'll likely just thumb her nose at them and vanish in a puff of logic.
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Concerning Ethan and Ildela, I had pretty much figured that much from their clearly unheroic methods. It's to be expected if they did escape/flee the scene.
So despite saving the day, unauthorised use of lethal force, property damage and murder would be punishable by Law. I'll go ahead and play it along this logic.
Hey Ethan disputes the label unheroic. He very bravely took on the Mad Gunman, and given the Missile in game turns is no more powerful that the LRM from the epic pool, and the fact that Ethan was just not expecting any form of railroad system to be in use, and he did not aim the Missle at the Gunman, just a bit of metal. No Karma loss for that.
Mirel scoffs at your puny mortal laws :P
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I wouldn't call her unheroic as such, she's just not as... restrained, I guess would be the word, about the killing and the collateral damage as some of them are. That and she usually won't act until given a reason to care. Or until she gets bored, whichever happens first. (Hint: It's usually the boredom.)
| Concerning Ethan and Ildela, I had pretty much figured that much from their clearly unheroic methods. |
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
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Originally Posted by Pious
Also, quick question. Obviously for plot purposes but also out of cheer curiosity - putting aside creative licence, what would normally be the legal ramifications, in the United States of America, of a civil servant (registered or otherwise) killing a murderous gunman/terrorist? ...using high-explosives to the face, or not.
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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Reminds me of some Texas sheriff I heard about whose team shot dead a 'crazed gunman'. When asked why they'd shot him 64 times he replied
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Originally Posted by Pious
So despite saving the day, unauthorised use of lethal force, property damage and murder would be punishable by Law. I'll go ahead and play it along this logic.
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In the US, the law actually varies quite a bit on that. That there 'example' from here in Texas actually comes quite close to the truth, heh. However, in Rhode Island, as in most of the northeastern states, things tend to run a little less loosely.
If Paragon resided in our world, police there would liely behave no differently then in New York, Boston, etc, where the general motto is 'lethal force is discouraged, but if it's him or you, make it you' - i.e. a recognized law enforcement official won't be penalized for using lethal force unless the circumstances clearly didn't call for it.
In Paragon, the Citizen Crime Fighting Act essentially deputizes any registered hero, making them a de facto law enforcement officer. As such, they're expected to obey the same rules and regulations as the PPD, and (despite the 'rivalry' that Paragon's hero groups and the PPD have going) work together in essentially the same fashion as one another.
Unregistered heroes, i.e. vigilantes, however do not enjoy this protection, and vigilantism is just as illegal and punishable by the law in Paragon as it is in our world.
Now, this concerns the law as written. In reality, it's not always taken so verbatim. Generally, police (especially in an area with high criminality) won't bat an eye if someone on the street starts shooting and old Mr. Johnson comes out of his house with a shotgun and blows him away. They might interview him in an effort to figure out what caused the shooter to start - as they would with any other witness to the incident - but they won't detain, let alone arrest him.
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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At the rate Mirel's going, I can see the detective just grabbing a shotty and going for the face. @_@
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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I'll have you know she's being very restrained for a Dynast, letting mortals give her lip like that!
About the "pit".
Is it just a plain round wall of earth or is it a ring of closely-packed spikes?
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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It's just a hole in the ground, reasonabley deep, reasonabley wide, nothing special about it.
The wall is likewise the same, only a wall, now with bullet holes.
Or alien centipedes.