Gauging Any Interest in a Hellboy / Frankenstein / Pulp-esque RPSG

I am totally up helping out with it! My Global is @Mentolar. Hit me up!

I live near Seattle so thats my time zone, though I'm on randomely usually nighttime is when I get on.

I'm a total noob to COH and MMORGs in general, but I would like to try this, since roleplaying is supposed to be half the fun. I'm pretty clueless as to how to hook up with specific people in game, though. How can I get involved?

Sounds cool, but not really my bag.

On another note, I'm totally fanboying because you're THE IMPERIAL!!!!!

I read your VV some time ago and I've got to say, you're simply the coolest. I love that you based him after Liam Neeson in Batman Begins. As I said before. Huge fan, and I wouldn't mind joining a few teams with the Legendary Imperial, if you bring him back that is...

Best of luck either way!!!

So I propose a meet-up ICly to Rp out our toons starting or just knowing each other. I feel like this would be a good chance to have some background established before we dive in.

I'm @JackNoMind. I don't RP terribly often, but I do have a character (Dr. Goodscience) that would be perfect for this.

id be interested in meeting after DXP

Quick reply/update (because it's three-something in the morning, goddamnit). We had an ad-hoc meeting of the minds of six of us earlier this week to get the ball rolling a bit.

SG is live and called The Strange. Fun times to be had coming soon. Tally ho. Carry on. So on so forth. I'm going to bed.

Graff is in. I don't know how much time I could commit but I'm feeling this so I'll make an attempt! Let's talk in game, dude.

Howdy! I'm currently in the position to invite peeps to the SG! My toon is Sir Headless and global handle is @Mentolar. Remember to join the MonsterOOC channel for better communication and all!

Also we should probably get to the harder ideas about how we formed and such before we get our RP on!

I've heard a few ideas and formed my own on there corpses. Here's my idea, we formed after a large fight with a big and terrible monster (called BTM from now on). I have this image of a group of "Founders", eight or so monsters and investigators, all being helped by a common and famous monster before he died in battle with that BTM. So the "Founders" got together and decided that a network needed to be in place to keep there kind safe along with making sure that things like the BTM never got our of hand again. Like a Network of the Strange...hurhurhur pun. So the "Founders" made The Strange, a hidden network for monsters and those who would help them.

The Network part makes it so it's just as loose as everyone wants it to be, but also gives each player the ability to become "close-knit" with the community. You could have a role in the community or just use it to help yourself in tight situations ICly. Along with that having "Founders" would make it feel concrete and give us ICly toons that run the organization.

My vote for the Monster that they had a connection to be Frankenstein. It fits the whole "make sure monsters aren't hated" cause he has that tragic past thingy going on. Hopefully this sparks some conversation.

I like that direction actually.

The whole CoX universe (and specifically our little section of the Virtueverse) has no shortage of monsters. And what's more, people know that there really are things that go bump in the night.

So think about those night-bumping things as wild animals like a lion. A lion can kill the hell out of a person but isn't likely to unless said person goes someplace they're not supposed to be. Leave the wild animals (re: monsters) alone and they aren't especially dangerous.

Continuing with that metaphor, if monsters are known to be out there then that means there are going to be monster sport-hunters, poachers and over-zealous Heroes.

The Strange want to protect the more benign monsters from humans while also protecting the humans from the really dangerous creatures of the night.

This opens up all sorts of cool possibilities for RP story-lines. Imagine hunting down the source of a new occult street-drug, or keeping a group of monster hunting zealots from killing some friendly beastie. And then there's always the unspeakable Eldritch abomination threatening to plunge the Earth into a thousand years of darkness.

I actually have an idea for flamingo's idea....I have the perfect idea for the BTM and for a redside nemesis group for the Strange. I have the perfect character that could be the BTM, basicly he's a mad scientist that went both feral and insane from his abuse of gene-splicing with supernatural creatures. If I started a VG with him, he could be the one that both killed frankenstien, if that's who we're going with, and would be responsible for both creating and improving upon the creatures that the Strange usually fight.

That sounds good. A common enemy could be really useful for linking The Strange together. Like a myth arc in a tv show.

So, when are our usual meeting times?

We absolutely need to figure that out soon. Right now everyone seems to either not get on or never see each other when they do. Nevius Prime and I have been talking about the SG together since we generally get on at the same time. I would like to get a list up of times our members are usually up for RPing and generally hanging and events and such. Right now I'm Pacific Time for my Time Zone and that doesn't look like it's changing. I'm on at 6-8:00 at night to 3 in the morning. What other times do we have?

Could sally be our mascot....

heh. That'd be fun! We could have a few college students in the sg who send us messages when a over-eager super or an evil villian is hunting it.

SO! Tonight three of our members discussed our plans for the SG and the background. Since it's been a bit I think I'm going to make this the "Hard Cannon" for our start unless you guys have a problem with it.

Our starts with 3-6 monstrous individuals who all have been in contact with Frankenstein's Monster. Each of their lives were changed by this meeting for the better, some turning to heroics others to peaceful existence. Upon the mysterious murder of their mutual friend they each went to Paragon City to attend his funeral. Seeing each other in the small but beautiful church they agreed to meet after to discuss what could have led to the death of such a powerful friend.

That meeting was much longer than planned. Much more passionate than any thought could have been. At the end they formed The Strange. To protect the strange from the wary!

Or something like that. We currently have three people willingly to be Founders! We're looking for a few more to round it out and would really like it if Imperial would be one also! Thank you! Right now @Nevius Prime and @Odegra are the tow other founders other than me and also can invite!

I can't attend (I'll be travelling, and I have limited or no access for the next few days). But I'm very excited about the SG!

Can we do a saturday meeting?

Lets say 6 pm pacific..7 mountain..8central....9 eastern? ( i dont know europe,japan,or australia sorry)

What location ?

I don't think the Atlas Dome is listed on any wiki (That I know of), and it's kinda tricky to find unless you know exactly what you're looking for,


so to save some dizzy heads come tonight, the Atlas Dome is located at in southeast Atlas Park (bottom right of the map), it's easily identifiable by its hexagon shape. Once there, there's some doors at the bottom with yellow stair signs on them. They'll take you to inside the top. Notice, there are more doors on the side without the signs that don't do anything, so don't get confused.

6pm. I'll be there.