An Introduction to Union Roleplay

The issue with The Crossing is we have the potential (And I know at least one person doing some planning involing) vast World/Universe/Multiverse altering plots, which folks on the Unionverse who don't check/frequent the forums/that thread wouldn't feel that nice about being forced to acknowledge the undead necormancer who set up an icey throne in the middle of Perez Park.

I'm pretty sure none of us like to be Godmodded do we? Which is why it's only fair not to godmode other people.

It's reasons like this widescale plots take a lot of time and effort on Union, informing everyone about it, getting it roling, not having it limited to the forums and all, but even then we're still limited as we can't change certian things about the world.

And given how Kings Row is a popular place to live and work for many people and a Giant Robot Crab has leveled a small chunk of it, how do you think people would feel if you just slipped into conversation:

"Oh yea, that part of the Row got Wrecked pretty good"

When the other person might not know about it. Having many people sharing the same background has it's upsides and it's downsides, and this is one of the latter.

You mean the same ~Kings Row~ that has a constant clockwork giant monster problem?

If you can't RP a superman OOC, then please don't roll one IC.

On consideration, it was a pretty poor failure in communication on our side of the whole thing, and so far that on behalf of those responsible (Which includes me) I offer my sincerest apologies for all this mess, and hope it won't detract from the fun we were all having in The Crossing.

We are also, perhaps, getting a little off topic here, so lets not have this boil over into an argument proper shall we? Some people failed to communicate properly, and that caused some issues, sorry again guys.

Alright, it was my fault, I probably should have mentioned that while the Crossing is a Unionverse, it's not THE Unionverse precisely for the reasons mentioned above. Mainly because people of the Unionverse were very worried about the impact of the plot would have on Union that it was agreed to shift it to a different Unionverse, the same but different if you will, whether it becomes personal canon for your characters that's fine by me, it will be personal canon for one of mine.

Precisely for the reason that I reckon alot of the forum and Ingame Unionverse regulars/veterans would be up in arms and complaining loudly that they didn't wish to be affected by it almost constantly, I'd have the wolves baying for my blood. To have it shifted to a different but same unionverse proved to be the lesser impact.

I probably should have restricted it to simply just Union/Virtue superheroes but instead I went for something a little bit bigger, in going for that wider 'bring whatever you feel' kind of approach which people seem to be liking (so far got a Transformer, a DnD Halfling, an Exalted, a small interdimensional/alien scouting force, a dimension hopping duo, one familar with Paragon, one not, a Necromancer of sorts, a Zombie that has access to all dimensions and lastly one Mad Scientist coordinating the heroes) I was restricted on just how it affected the normal Unionverse.

As far as Mechano goes, well he'll achknowledge stuff happening in that thread as Canon 'for him' because he is a mad scientist and I can easily imagine a group of Mechano's working together through the usage of dimensional contacting to try and bring the Portal Storm to a close.

So for a couple of people it will have happened in canon for that character, it would be an event in their past that led them to the current Unionverse.

However come the server merger there really isn't anything stopping people from making a dimension hopping alt on the Union server to come check us out.

Heck even making a trial EU account (remember not to name it the same as your US account and delete the characters by the time you finish) just to hop across and visit us ingame.

For anyone finding it a bit tricky to picture how the Unionverse works, here's an analogy that I hope doesn't fall flat.

Union server is like one giant LARP game. We don't have any gamemasters or referees. All we have are a number of players, each essentially doing their own thing, but with the overriding concern that we all agree we're playing the same game, in the same reality.

This means that when Joey Heroey mentions getting jumped by Skulls in King's Row, then Ultra-Awesome-Man can mention being at the Zig while those same Skulls were being processed. At the same time, Norma Normal can say that she suspects those Skulls were the ones who stole her daughter's lunch money, and Super-Shooter identifies the leader as the brother of someone he's been tracking for the past week.

We feed off each others' stories, RP, events. It's extremely rare for someone to say "that hasn't happened". The downside to this overriding shared reality is that if someone says "I went around the world and now all of the giant octopuses are in sea life centres" (which they might feel is completely realistic and valid), there will always be others who pop along to IP and say "Oops, looks like you missed one... two... three... wow, you missed a LOT!"

As such, we try very very hard (in general) to not "god-mod the game world" - that is, we avoid making changes to the world in which everyone is playing that are not reflected in the reality of the game. While this may seem limiting to some, it really isn't, unless you let it be.

Ultimately, what this all means is that if people pay a bit of attention to the forum recap threads, I can take my character along to Pocket D, bump into someone he hasn't seen for 6 months, and have a fair expectation of being able to hold a coherent conversation about the recent past, because even though the two characters haven't seen each other, they do both exist in the same reality, which has the same history for each of them.

Pretty much what Shadowe said.
Heck, we've had alien invasions, black ops fights, currently got an Arachnos Regiment waging war against a group of Praetorians, a lot of stuff. It still feels big, even if it's not 'world changing'.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Aiight, not gonna quote all the replies since there are a lot, so just in general:

Thank you. Sorry about the upsetting word choice, but you saw where I was coming from, heh. It really did feel like a small group of people getting together behind my back and sticking a "we don't want your stuff here" note on the Unionverse door.

So thanks for the apologies. I can see your reasoning. I even agree with it. Just the method of delivery was a little...yeeeah, let's just try and avoid that in the future, aye? While arguments over one thing or another will always crop up, I think it's better to just be up-front about it.

Which reminds me...

*kicks Techbot*

Susan, Aurora, yes?

It's probably due to the mindset, I think we somtimes forget that not only Unionites use these forums anymore, or at least some of us.

So once again, apologies, and lets get back to beating up a giant robot crab

Original Post updated with Krimson Guard, no link added though as I couldn't find one.

As for everything else, I'm glad you've all kissed and made up now but couldn't you have had the courtesy to take it to an OOC thread for the plot? Not really what I'd intended for this thread.

Sorry Dante, if a Mod would be so kind as to rip out our silly argument and stick it in it's own thread I think we'd all be eternally greatful

But sorry again (Man I'm apologising so much today)

*Returns from Reality Time.* ...What the.. what?

...Alright. A bit glad I wasn't really here for all that.

Also, just now noticing The Crossing thread. Of course, I don't really pay much attention to the Roleplayer forum anyway.. but it looks like it could have been fun. A bit reluctant to jump in now, though, as it's already moving along.

Aaaanyway. Glad to see things moving along.

Oh, I believe I said something about putting together something about Virtue, but reality is doing that thing where it says, "Oh, you want -free- time, do you? Ahaha! AHAHAHA!!" So, that may not happen.

Pssh. Join in anyway, we won't mind.