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-skimmer-
2010-10-30, 03:23 PM
Welcome to the 34rd Annual Avatar Battle Royale Discussion Thread!
The 33rd can be found here
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160293)
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Sometimes it doesn't matter how many, but how big mistake those many did....

-skimmer-
2010-10-30, 07:50 PM
New thread is new!:smallbiggrin:
....
Wow, I think I'm double posting here:smalleek:

Goblin Scribe
2010-10-30, 08:10 PM
Ooh, sort of first post!

Okay, I probably won't have too much Plotgoblin stuff anyway. Just Grayscale trying to avoid getting caught taking over a tower, which is hard when the catchers are genre savvy. :smalltongue:

Nageto004
2010-10-30, 08:36 PM
Oh a shiny new thread.

Maxios
2010-10-30, 08:38 PM
Ooh! New thread!
So, I'm thinking about making an ABR strip...

Green-Shirt Q
2010-10-30, 09:07 PM
Yay! New thread! That old one was starting to smell! :smalleek::smalltongue:

Just one question, though. Was the mispelling of "Lantern" intentional? It's kinda hard to tell in the context whether or not it's another way of parodying "go go power rangers".

HalfTangible
2010-10-30, 09:46 PM
Yay! my first new ABR dicussion thread =D

Lord Raziere
2010-10-30, 10:13 PM
*sniff* ah that new thread smell......

I should get a comic up soon, for both SoD and ABR corps.

HalfTangible
2010-10-31, 12:10 AM
The Avbaroy map seems bugged =/ there's a lot of white space where countries are marked

Mina Kobold
2010-10-31, 04:34 AM
*Huff huff*

Why did you have to built the new thread so far form the old one! :smallmad::smalltongue:

But I do love the smell of a new thread :smallbiggrin:

V'icternus
2010-10-31, 05:41 AM
Yay! New Thread!

And, to stay relevant, I expect far more Halloween related nonsense from now on!

GrlumpTheElder
2010-10-31, 05:47 AM
Two things:


Yay, New Thread
Like the new Comic, Q, reminds me that I should really make some more :smallbiggrin:

Mad Mask
2010-10-31, 06:39 AM
The Avbaroy map seems bugged =/ there's a lot of white space where countries are marked

What do you mean? I see nothing wrong with it. Perhaps your monitor confused the light grey with white?

-skimmer-
2010-10-31, 06:45 AM
Just one question, though. Was the mispelling of "Lantern" intentional? It's kinda hard to tell in the context whether or not it's another way of parodying "go go power rangers".

Yes, it's reference to their theme song:smalltongue:

HalfTangible
2010-10-31, 09:05 AM
What do you mean? I see nothing wrong with it. Perhaps your monitor confused the light grey with white?

I can see SOME of them =/

Lyinginbedmon
2010-10-31, 09:13 AM
Gotta love that new page smell.

Goblin Scribe
2010-10-31, 10:50 AM
Nice comic, Q.

Maybe we should make a rule that you have to spoiler all comics. The stretched screen is driving me crazy, and spoilers would at least help with it.
Just a thought from the newby here. :smalltongue:

EDIT: By 'you' I meant 'comic makers', not Q in particular.

Silverraptor
2010-11-01, 11:13 AM
Uhhh...

>.>

<.<

...So, ya. Hi again everyone...

...Does anyone have interest in FFF:r? Because I'm willing to make a hero comic (An idea has been bouncing around in my head for months) as soon as I finish the first story arc of Paladin Academy that I'm writing. We still have to get the other keys, right?...

Mina Kobold
2010-11-01, 01:12 PM
Uhhh...

>.>

<.<

...So, ya. Hi again everyone...

...Does anyone have interest in FFF:r? Because I'm willing to make a hero comic (An idea has been bouncing around in my head for months) as soon as I finish the first story arc of Paladin Academy that I'm writing. We still have to get the other keys, right?...

I am intending to do a comic soon, but it's not really important so you can do whatever you want and I might get an even better idea!*

*a better idea than Hula dancing kobolds? Blasphemy! :smalltongue:

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-01, 07:29 PM
...Does anyone have interest in FFF:r? Because I'm willing to make a hero comic (An idea has been bouncing around in my head for months) as soon as I finish the first story arc of Paladin Academy that I'm writing. We still have to get the other keys, right?...

I am still interested in FFF:R and keep meaning to make another comic - I'll get around to it soon...

Maxios
2010-11-02, 09:32 PM
Ironically, I just started a thread in the FFRP section about the Power Rings being introduced to the Nexus.

HalfTangible
2010-11-02, 09:33 PM
I should be preparing my speech.

Instead i made half of a Fantasticman template.

Even though i need to pass with a B and am currently averaging a C.

=(

Somebody punch me

-skimmer-
2010-11-03, 09:42 AM
Guess what I've been doing in school!

Bad photoshopping! :smalltongue:

-snip-
:smallbiggrin:

It was purely experimental and on my little fre time, so please excuse the sheer awfulness of it.

Hah, Awesome! That made my day:smallbiggrin:

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-03, 10:27 AM
I should be preparing my speech.

Instead i made half of a Fantasticman template.

Even though i need to pass with a B and am currently averaging a C.

=(

Somebody punch me

*Punch in the nicest possible way*

Get to it, don't throw away your chances like I did.

I'm only at uni atm due to extreme luck and clearing!

HalfTangible
2010-11-03, 12:31 PM
*Punch in the nicest possible way*

Get to it, don't throw away your chances like I did.

I'm only at uni atm due to extreme luck and clearing!

About twelve hours late, buddy boy :smalltongue:

Thanks anyway. I pulled myself together, got something together that at least won't hurt. I can probably pass with a B if i don't F up too bad from here on out.

Threeshades
2010-11-03, 06:33 PM
Goblin Scribe:
I don't think you need to explain your comics, they are quite understandable on their own.


Q:
That Photoshopped picture is freaking creepy.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-03, 07:29 PM
Q:
That Photoshopped picture is freaking creepy.

I agree with you so hard...and I was the guy who MADE it! :smalleek:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-04, 03:19 AM
At this point I'm not even sure if I'm going to get involved in plotting again, but if I do, I'll just leave this here...

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8840/redlantern.png

It's a pity I think Lanterns are boring in general.

I'd still be keen to try and do another world-build, provided it didn't end up like *shudder* Novaris. (as a note, I did actually retool that setting for my own use, but I'm keeping my baby faaaar awaaaay!)

Edit: An idea. Why not a post-apocalyptic Fallout-esque setting?

Lyinginbedmon
2010-11-04, 03:58 AM
Edit: An idea. Why not a post-apocalyptic Fallout-esque setting?

Because they've been done to death and we already have a dystopia in Future Imperfect?

Darklord Bright
2010-11-04, 04:10 AM
Because they've been done to death and we already have a dystopia in Future Imperfect?

I was just throwing ideas out there. :smallconfused:

Edit: Besides, "Overdone" is hardly an argument when it comes to ABR, seeing as we thrive on tropes, and it's all about having fun anyways :smallsmile:. FI and Fallout-style settings are also vastly different. (For instance, post-nuke settings are anything but dystopias.)

HalfTangible
2010-11-04, 07:21 AM
(For instance, post-nuke settings are anything but dystopias.)

In that there's no government to be opressive, maybe. :smallannoyed:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-04, 11:55 AM
In that there's no government to be opressive, maybe. :smallannoyed:

I'd say that's a fairly large factor, yes.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-04, 12:02 PM
Edit: An idea. Why not a post-apocalyptic Fallout-esque setting?

I like it! How much do you want for the permission to merchandise the soul out of the idea? :smalltongue:

By the way, what happened to the steampunk setting?

Darklord Bright
2010-11-04, 12:04 PM
I like it! How much do you want for the permission to merchandise the soul out of the idea? :smalltongue:

By the way, what happened to the steampunk setting?

Got swept under the rug I suppose when the Lanterns came out. I had, I think, two people even notice I had mentioned it as well as the specific ideas I'd had, and one person think I hadn't specified setting ideas.

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-04, 04:32 PM
Ooh, sort of first post!

Okay, I probably won't have too much Plotgoblin stuff anyway. Just Grayscale trying to avoid getting caught taking over a tower, which is hard when the catchers are genre savvy. :smalltongue:

You seem familiar... *suspicious*

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-04, 06:28 PM
You seem familiar... *suspicious*

Oh, I do, do I? Why should we take your word for it, Crimson....if that is indeed your name!

Nageto004
2010-11-04, 07:43 PM
You seem familiar... *suspicious*

Quick, activate detective mode!

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-04, 07:46 PM
Quick, activate detective mode!

*Hands over a magnifying glass and that hat Sherlock Holmes supposedly wore*
*Dons a black hat and a fake goatee*

HalfTangible
2010-11-04, 10:02 PM
Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

Gimliggamer
2010-11-04, 10:15 PM
Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?
Either make the hands or the space a little bit lighter. Or stick a randomn planet, ship, or a few stars behind the hands/liines in question. It is space, afterall.

Zexion
2010-11-04, 10:59 PM
Either make the hands or the space a little bit lighter. Or stick a randomn planet, ship, or a few stars behind the hands/liines in question. It is space, afterall.
Whoa, what are you doing here? :smallmad:

Erm, I meant "hey Gimliggamer, are you planning to join this?" :smallsmile:

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-05, 06:04 AM
Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

I've had a similar problem with hair. I think I'm personally going to make space a bit lighter instead, but Gimliggamer's idea aint bad either.

And Zexion, not everybody who posts or reads here wants to join ABR. Occassionally we have people who regularly comment but don't post comics, or just people who simply lurk and wish their opinions heard once or twice. Thery're curious or, dare I say it, fans?

HalfTangible
2010-11-05, 08:13 AM
Ketham VS Fantasicman

Taking all bets, guys! Takin' all bets!

Mad Mask
2010-11-05, 08:23 AM
Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

Put a coloured aura around the character. Like Vaarsuvius in this OotS merchandise. (http://www.giantitp.com/Images/VaarsuviusMagnet.jpg)


And Zexion, not everybody who posts or reads here wants to join ABR. Occassionally we have people who regularly comment but don't post comics, or just people who simply lurk and wish their opinions heard once or twice. Thery're curious or, dare I say it, fans?

ABR has fans? Amazing!

HalfTangible
2010-11-05, 08:23 AM
Put a coloured aura around the character. Like Vaarsuvius in this OotS merchandise. (http://www.giantitp.com/Images/VaarsuviusMagnet.jpg)

Fantasticman doesn't have a colored aura to put around him

Mad Mask
2010-11-05, 08:26 AM
Fantasticman doesn't have a colored aura to put around him

Neither does Vaarsuvius. There's a thing called artistic license that's useful in this situation. It's better in this situation to add an unmentioned white aura around a character than have his visibility reduced, and the quality of the comic as a result.

Threeshades
2010-11-05, 09:12 AM
I was just throwing ideas out there. :smallconfused:

Edit: Besides, "Overdone" is hardly an argument when it comes to ABR, seeing as we thrive on tropes, and it's all about having fun anyways :smallsmile:. FI and Fallout-style settings are also vastly different. (For instance, post-nuke settings are anything but dystopias.)

F³ - Fat Fish Fallout

Sounds catchy :smallbiggrin


@Q (again)
I only notice it now, you actually included MR's character in there. And he's not just a blue lantern either, he went Super Cyan!

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 03:02 PM
F³ - Fat Fish Fallout

Sounds catchy :smallbiggrin


:smallbiggrin:

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland. :smalltongue:

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-05, 03:26 PM
:smallbiggrin:

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland. :smalltongue:

You should make it a magic apocalypse so everything glows purple and most of the plants are dead and turned a silver color. It'd be pretty. :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 03:45 PM
You should make it a magic apocalypse so everything glows purple and most of the plants are dead and turned a silver color. It'd be pretty. :smalltongue:

Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

HalfTangible
2010-11-05, 03:56 PM
Start by making it somewhere BESIDES Avbaroy if you wanna move away from FFF and FI.

Obvious advice is obvious. =(

Falgorn
2010-11-05, 04:02 PM
Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-05, 04:07 PM
Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

As long as there can be guilds I'll join :smallsmile:

-skimmer-
2010-11-05, 04:17 PM
:smallbiggrin:

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland. :smalltongue:


Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

Too bad, it would be awesome to have a post cataclysm (http://abr.wetpaint.com/page/Great+Cataclysm) setting during the "Dark ages" someday....

Then again, we're currently running 3 plots at the same time....


Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?

You still make comics?:smallconfused::smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 04:18 PM
Start by making it somewhere BESIDES Avbaroy if you wanna move away from FFF and FI.

Obvious advice is obvious. =(

You say to the guy who has continuously pitched this idea (and implied it in the quoted post) and made his own plot that took place outside of Avbaroy before. :smalltongue:


Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?
Once we figure out the world itself, we can work out the details, but I don't see why not! :smallbiggrin:


As long as there can be guilds I'll join :smallsmile:
Why would there be guilds in a post-apocalyptic world? If anything, there'd be gangs like the raiders, maybe some liberator-esque roving lawbringers, and a whole bunch of lunatic survivors and scroungers living in the odd town made of bits of everything's leftovers. I mean, I guess someone could make a group and call it a guild but the chances of anyone outside their immediate area even having heard of it before are slim to none, and there probably wouldn't even be enough people around to legitimately actually be a guild.

Then again, crazy people.

Edit: interestingly, the only real guild in the fallout world was the Slavers Guild, because it was the only one that was relatively global.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-05, 04:30 PM
Okay, I looked at the Novaris planning threads (I call them that because that seems to be all you talked about :smalltongue:). What would you say went wrong with it, DL? Once we work that out, we can try and make a proper setting without messing up.

For instance, should we not have many races? Should magic be D&D based? Should I play the king of the world/scrapyard? :smallwink:

-skimmer-
2010-11-05, 04:36 PM
For instance, should we not have many races? Should magic be D&D based? Should I play the king of the world/scrapyard? :smallwink:

I think we started Novaris exactly by solving those questions:smalleek:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 04:39 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we already decided the basic idea of the setting, at least if people would be into a Nuclear Winter setting which focusses on most of the people in the world having gone at least a little kooky from surviving in the post-apocalyptic tundra.

Plus, I don't really want magic and stuff because I'd rather we have at least one non-fantasy plot, and I don't think we ever restricted people to DnD classes anyways. As far as 'races', I'd say normal human races and maybe allow some leeway for mutants.

I'd also say we set this in a world similar to earth but not earth, or at least never specify where anything is or anything about the world before the nukes.

Edit: oh, and Novaris went wrong in that people argued too much to go against the original ideas of the setting after they had been established and pretty much we had some cases of things being decided without consent of the whole. I tried to police what I could, but things kinda fall down when you really stop caring anymore :smallfrown:

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-05, 04:40 PM
I think we started Novaris exactly by solving those questions:smalleek:

The answers to all of them were no, though. I'm asking if they should be yes, if that makes the sensiness.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 04:43 PM
The answers to all of them were no, though. I'm asking if they should be yes, if that makes the sensiness.

I've already covered the answers. I've given the very bare idea, now it needs to be expanded upon. I always believe that groups and characters should be characterized beyond 'classes' and 'races' (hence why I typically frown upon setting which are fantasy kitchen sinks when it comes to races).

Mina Kobold
2010-11-05, 04:46 PM
Edit: interestingly, the only real guild in the fallout world was the Slavers Guild, because it was the only one that was relatively global.

Only one guild? Blasphemy! As soon as I get back to my PS3 I will start my own guild of People Who Should Statistically Be Dead Six Times This Month Alone! :smalltongue:

Also, what level do we want the tech in our schizotech (Though it's more off a tent-tech situation) to be? Modern day? Renaissance? Futuristic? 1920s? Neither?

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-05, 04:53 PM
Only one guild? Blasphemy! As soon as I get back to my PS3 I will start my own guild of People Who Should Statistically Be Dead Six Times This Month Alone! :smalltongue:

Also, what level do we want the tech in our schizotech (Though it's more off a tent-tech situation) to be? Modern day? Renaissance? Futuristic? 1920s? Neither?

Steampunk. Like a mixture of Schizotek and Lockutas. :smalltongue:
And I agree, races can't stand for the character. But races are fun, too, to make and to play. As for classes....well, that's not really applicable here.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 05:02 PM
Only one guild? Blasphemy! As soon as I get back to my PS3 I will start my own guild of People Who Should Statistically Be Dead Six Times This Month Alone! :smalltongue:

Also, what level do we want the tech in our schizotech (Though it's more off a tent-tech situation) to be? Modern day? Renaissance? Futuristic? 1920s? Neither?

Well, I'm pretty sure that as far as tech goes, we'd probably have mostly modern guns and makeshift melee weapons, though it's up to you guys if you'd want the odd laser in there was well. They probably wouldn't be very efficient as weapons, though, since you'd need energy to use them and there's not a lot of that.

Guns in general I'd figure would be around, but used sparingly due to conservation of ammo, so the most common weapons would probably be baseball bats, planks, crowbars, sledgehammers... maybe some crazies who fletch their own hunting bow-and-arrows. No swords or anything like that though, unless you can come up with a good reason why someone would have them (like they raided a museum or something, which is possible).

Most clothes and armour would probably be stitched patchwork, with the odd flak jacket or clothes made of hides of mutated animals. I think in general the tech is low, but still has obvious hints of a modern or post-modern society like in clothes people find and the crumbling buildings and such. People would still wear a lot of the leftover clothes like jackets and things too, especially if it was a permanent winter and they needed to keep warm.

There might be scraps of military who still managed to keep weapons and bullets in production, maybe even vehicles, but I would imagine fuel is hard to come by.

Does that work? :smallsmile:

HalfTangible
2010-11-05, 05:04 PM
Maybe we could have guilds or civ remnants which have various levels of technology?

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 05:17 PM
Maybe we could have guilds or civ remnants which have various levels of technology?


There might be scraps of military who still managed to keep weapons and bullets in production, maybe even vehicles, but I would imagine fuel is hard to come by.
:

As well as that, I figure there might be the odd small group with a little bit of tech, but I guarantee you it'd be hard to justify many non-military groups having anything but random tech in their possession. A building or two will probably work, but with the world being kinda destroyed and all, most things would need generators to keep power, and generators need fuel.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-05, 05:23 PM
Well, I'm pretty sure that as far as tech goes, we'd probably have mostly modern guns and makeshift melee weapons, though it's up to you guys if you'd want the odd laser in there was well. They probably wouldn't be very efficient as weapons, though, since you'd need energy to use them and there's not a lot of that.

Guns in general I'd figure would be around, but used sparingly due to conservation of ammo, so the most common weapons would probably be baseball bats, planks, crowbars, sledgehammers... maybe some crazies who fletch their own hunting bow-and-arrows. No swords or anything like that though, unless you can come up with a good reason why someone would have them (like they raided a museum or something, which is possible).

Most clothes and armour would probably be stitched patchwork, with the odd flak jacket or clothes made of hides of mutated animals. I think in general the tech is low, but still has obvious hints of a modern or post-modern society like in clothes people find and the crumbling buildings and such. People would still wear a lot of the leftover clothes like jackets and things too, especially if it was a permanent winter and they needed to keep warm.

There might be scraps of military who still managed to keep weapons and bullets in production, maybe even vehicles, but I would imagine fuel is hard to come by.

Does that work? :smallsmile:

Well I was thinking about having my character be the raving mad conspiracy nut with a steampunk (What? Coal and wood is easier to 'acquire' than gasoline) Laboratory/Library from where some frightful souls claim lightning is created.

Does that fit in le grande scheme or is it too ridiculously out there with the jellyfish?

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 05:30 PM
Well I was thinking about having my character be the raving mad conspiracy nut with a steampunk (What? Coal and wood is easier to 'acquire' than gasoline) Laboratory/Library from where some frightful souls claim lightning is created.

Does that fit in le grande scheme or is it too ridiculously out there with the jellyfish?

Well, it's pretty much nothing like what I've been pitching... I mean, it's not that I want to say "NO YOU CANT DO THAT :smallfurious:" but like, currently I'm talking about a world where pretty much the entire country is essentially a sparse scrapyard covered in snow with shanty-towns and raiders (at least, in effect it is) and you're saying you want a steam-powered laboratory that creates lightning. It's a little... out there. :smalltongue:

Edit: Mind you, as I'm saying this, I'm alt-tabbing back into Fallout 2 and stabbing scorpions with a spear in an abandoned temple.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-05, 05:40 PM
Well, it's pretty much nothing like what I've been pitching... I mean, it's not that I want to say "NO YOU CANT DO THAT :smallfurious:" but like, currently I'm talking about a world where pretty much the entire country is essentially a sparse scrapyard covered in snow with shanty-towns and raiders (at least, in effect it is) and you're saying you want a steam-powered laboratory that creates lightning. It's a little... out there. :smalltongue:

Not really supposed to take the lightning part seriously (hence why it was frightful souls and not the much more rational crazy scavengers) but I see what you mean.

What if his greatest achievement in the technological sector consists of a light bulb powered by a steam engine? With his 'base' being little more than a makeshift forge and anvil?

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 05:58 PM
Not really supposed to take the lightning part seriously (hence why it was frightful souls and not the much more rational crazy scavengers) but I see what you mean.

What if his greatest achievement in the technological sector consists of a light bulb powered by a steam engine? With his 'base' being little more than a makeshift forge and anvil?

Oh, I wouldn't at all be opposed to a guy who was trying to, in effect, get technology up and running again through a series of overcomplicated and probably more-trouble-than-they're-worth inventions and doodads. That'd be kinda funny. :smallbiggrin: Especially if his greatest achievement was a steam-powered machine which works through gears, pulleys, and a coal-fire that towers above him, all just to power his little shack or something. :smalltongue:

"What are you talking about? My machines aren't 'huge piles of junk', they're amazing achievements of technology and science!"

Mina Kobold
2010-11-05, 06:16 PM
Oh, I wouldn't at all be opposed to a guy who was trying to, in effect, get technology up and running again through a series of overcomplicated and probably more-trouble-than-they're-worth inventions and doodads. That'd be kinda funny. :smallbiggrin: Especially if his greatest achievement was a steam-powered machine which works through gears, pulleys, and a coal-fire that towers above him, all just to power his little shack or something. :smalltongue:

"What are you talking about? My machines aren't 'huge piles of junk', they're amazing achievements of technology and science!"

That is even better! I can't believe I thought of such a genius idea! :smalltongue:

Maybe a Doc Brown-esque refrigerator, a suit of armour that serves as the tea-maker. Yes, I see potential with this idea >:)

Where he gets the coal will forever remain a mystery, though :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-05, 06:20 PM
That is even better! I can't believe I thought of such a genius idea! :smalltongue:

Maybe a Doc Brown-esque refrigerator, a suit of armour that serves as the tea-maker. Yes, I see potential with this idea >:)

Where he gets the coal will forever remain a mystery, though :smalltongue:

I have a feeling even the nutjobs in the world would think he was a loon :smalltongue:

Sounds like fun!

Mina Kobold
2010-11-05, 06:35 PM
I have a feeling even the nutjobs in the world would think he was a loon :smalltongue:

Sounds like fun!

"A loon!? I am no simple fool but a man of science and reason, but if you'll excuse me I have to get back to my peanut-butter powered spring-machine"

This will indeed be much fun :smalltongue:

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-05, 09:36 PM
"A loon!? I am no simple fool but a man of science and reason, but if you'll excuse me I have to get back to my peanut-butter powered spring-machine"

This will indeed be much fun :smalltongue:

Can I be your bumbling goblin assistant? :smallcool:

HalfTangible
2010-11-05, 11:50 PM
Oh, I wouldn't at all be opposed to a guy who was trying to, in effect, get technology up and running again through a series of overcomplicated and probably more-trouble-than-they're-worth inventions and doodads. That'd be kinda funny. :smallbiggrin: Especially if his greatest achievement was a steam-powered machine which works through gears, pulleys, and a coal-fire that towers above him, all just to power his little shack or something. :smalltongue:

"What are you talking about? My machines aren't 'huge piles of junk', they're amazing achievements of technology and science!"
"You made a giant refrigerator slash calculator with buttons too big to press! That's not amazing, that's just stupid!"

Bradakhan
2010-11-06, 04:41 AM
Sounds like the beginning of an interesting plot. My idea for a character would be a radio presenter trying to broadcast the news through the wastelands. He would have taken over small radio station, although it would have a short range. (Of course, he wouldn't know that :smalltongue:)

Also, how did we survive the nuclear war? (or whatever other hazards happened) Would it be living in Fallout-esque vaults, or are we just lucky?

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 05:45 AM
Can I be your bumbling goblin assistant? :smallcool:

We have goblins now?


Also, how did we survive the nuclear war? (or whatever other hazards happened) Would it be living in Fallout-esque vaults, or are we just lucky?

"Let's just say that tinfoil has more uses than you'd think and leave it at that."

Jut kidding, I suspect that the survivors where just lucky enough to live far enough down the hitlist and lucky enough to find a safe spot (The deserts, the secret facilities beneath mount Dashmore, New Jersey) where the bombs didn't hit.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-06, 10:27 AM
We have goblins now?



"Let's just say that tinfoil has more uses than you'd think and leave it at that."

Jut kidding, I suspect that the survivors where just lucky enough to live far enough down the hitlist and lucky enough to find a safe spot (The deserts, the secret facilities beneath mount Dashmore, New Jersey) where the bombs didn't hit.

I thought it was fantasy. Are we following the Fallout thing that closely?

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-06, 10:40 AM
I like this idea alot - I actually think that if we made it just Human rather than all the fantasy creatures it could be much more poignent - although possibly more clichéd...

Oh look, I made a character for it - No idea about name yet or back story, but I can work on that...

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w192/pomchop/TFS2/F3.png

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-06, 10:49 AM
I like this idea alot - I actually think that if we made it just Human rather than all the fantasy creatures it could be much more poignent - although possibly more clichéd...

Oh look, I made a character for it - No idea about name yet or back story, but I can work on that...
I rather think races can add flavour if used right. Also, I make it a point to play a goblin wherever I go, because it's my opinion goblins give something instant awesome. :smallbiggrin:

And yeah, I thought it'd be cool to have a magic apocolypse. If we aren't doing fantasy in this plot, I may not participate. That's not meant as a threat to make DL go along with it, though. It's just that I have no idea how to play in a non-fantasy.:smalltongue:

HalfTangible
2010-11-06, 10:57 AM
I rather think races can add flavour if used right. Also, I make it a point to play a goblin wherever I go, because it's my opinion goblins give something instant awesome. :smallbiggrin:

And yeah, I thought it'd be cool to have a magic apocolypse. If we aren't doing fantasy in this plot, I may not participate. That's not meant as a threat to make DL go along with it, though. It's just that I have no idea how to play in a non-fantasy.:smalltongue:

Scifi is just like fantasy, only instead of 'a wizard did it' it's 'newmetaltanium did it'

EDIT: Seriously though. I'd prefer it to be either scifi or fantasy. If i wanted everything to be realistic, i would turn off my computer and go outside.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 11:42 AM
I thought it was fantasy. Are we following the Fallout thing that closely?

I don't think it was specifically Fallout based when this conversation took place


Yeah, I'm pretty sure we already decided the basic idea of the setting, at least if people would be into a Nuclear Winter setting which focusses on most of the people in the world having gone at least a little kooky from surviving in the post-apocalyptic tundra.

Plus, I don't really want magic and stuff because I'd rather we have at least one non-fantasy plot, and I don't think we ever restricted people to DnD classes anyways. As far as 'races', I'd say normal human races and maybe allow some leeway for mutants.
I'd also say we set this in a world similar to earth but not earth, or at least never specify where anything is or anything about the world before the nukes.


The answers to all of them were no, though. I'm asking if they should be yes, if that makes the sensiness.


I've already covered the answers. I've given the very bare idea, now it needs to be expanded upon. I always believe that groups and characters should be characterized beyond 'classes' and 'races' (hence why I typically frown upon setting which are fantasy kitchen sinks when it comes to races).

Kinda makes me wonder if my reading of every single post is overdoing it.

Especially since I do it for about ten FFRPGs as well... :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 02:38 PM
I'm going to try and make an intro comic or two just to set the scene so we can expand further, but you have no idea how hard it is to avoid starting with "War. War never changes." :smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 03:12 PM
I'm going to try and make an intro comic or two just to set the scene so we can expand further, but you have no idea how hard it is to avoid starting with "War. War never changes." :smalltongue:

What about a season analogy?

"Winter always come. you can pretend that summer lasts forever but in the end, the old fades away and the earth will be bare of life"

Or some other quasi-poetic nonsense to make the fact that we screwed up big time sound better :smalltongue:

HalfTangible
2010-11-06, 03:21 PM
I'm going to try and make an intro comic or two just to set the scene so we can expand further, but you have no idea how hard it is to avoid starting with "War. War never changes." :smalltongue:

What about a season analogy?

"Winter always come. you can pretend that summer lasts forever but in the end, the old fades away and the earth will be bare of life"

Or some other quasi-poetic nonsense to make the fact that we screwed up big time sound better :smalltongue:
Every day, the sun rises. Every night, it falls.

Every morning, the sky turns bright.

The darkness returns each and every night.

They say it still rises far in the sky...

But we have not seen through these years of unrest.

Since our now-eternal winter said good-bye,

There is naught but cold darkness.



That's quasi-poetic =D it even rhymes a line or two!

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 03:44 PM
Oh, no, I never said I was having trouble coming up with a narrative. I was just having to avoid starting with the Fallout line we all love so much. :smallbiggrin:

HalfTangible
2010-11-06, 03:54 PM
Oh, no, I never said I was having trouble coming up with a narrative. I was just having to avoid starting with the Fallout line we all love so much. :smallbiggrin:

I don't =( i never played fallout. Starting to wish i had so i had a better idea what you were talking about beyond 'nuclear winter'.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 04:09 PM
I don't =( i never played fallout. Starting to wish i had so i had a better idea what you were talking about beyond 'nuclear winter'.

And I've played Fallout 3, exactly once. I do know when it takes place, what the timeline differences are and why the giant naked mole rats make perfect sense. I like reading up on old games, amazes me how creative they were back then.

And now my quest continues to find more stuff to make people who actually played these games feel old! :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 04:30 PM
I wouldn't call a game series released five years after my birth 'Old' when I'm only going to be 18 this month.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 04:59 PM
I wouldn't call a game series released five years after my birth 'Old' when I'm only going to be 18 this month.

Well, I was joking but I actually would call a game made five years after my birth 'Old' (capital letter and all :smalltongue:)

But why is that a bad thing? 'Old' stuff is still around for a reason, it's very good old stuff :D

And just so I don't forget: Congratulations! Does that mean you can do exactly one more thing that you don't need more than last year? :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 05:07 PM
Okay guys, here's the SUPAR SERIOUS INTRO. Though obviously each character will have their own level of serious, the world takes ITSELF seriously at least. :smallwink:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8393/nukewinintro.png

I'll post it in the thread soon.

Edit: Huh. Three hours to make that? Really?

Mina Kobold
2010-11-06, 05:25 PM
Okay guys, here's the SUPAR SERIOUS INTRO. Though obviously each character will have their own level of serious, the world takes ITSELF seriously at least. :smallwink:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8393/nukewinintro.png

I'll post it in the thread soon.

Edit: Huh. Three hours to make that? Really?

*applauds*

Keveak wishes to let you know that he wish he could draw explosions that well.

Keveak fainted at the mention of that only taking three hours to make.

Sincerely, Secretary Matty.

Falgorn
2010-11-06, 06:02 PM
Epic intro, man. Epic.

So, a question - would a gang powerful enough controlling a hotel/generator be out of the question? I want to make a rip-off of some New Vegas gangs. :smalltongue:

Threeshades
2010-11-06, 06:03 PM
Okay guys, here's the SUPAR SERIOUS INTRO. Though obviously each character will have their own level of serious, the world takes ITSELF seriously at least. :smallwink:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8393/nukewinintro.png

I'll post it in the thread soon.

Edit: Huh. Three hours to make that? Really?

I remember the last shot. You're reusing that from that interactive comic you did once. :smallmad:

:smalltongue: :smallwink:

Rae Artemi
2010-11-06, 06:27 PM
I remember the last shot. You're reusing that from that interactive comic you did once. :smallmad:

:smalltongue: :smallwink:

You're right! He just got rid of the tent!
I think.

Zexion
2010-11-06, 07:00 PM
Someone should make a bunch of 9- type little cloth guys. :smallbiggrin:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 07:09 PM
I remember the last shot. You're reusing that from that interactive comic you did once. :smallmad:

:smalltongue: :smallwink:

Orly?
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3007/oreely.png
Only the tire and the snow texture were recycled.

edit:

Epic intro, man. Epic.

So, a question - would a gang powerful enough controlling a hotel/generator be out of the question? I want to make a rip-off of some New Vegas gangs. :smalltongue:

They'd probably be a pretty major faction if they were able to control and keep an in-tact building out in the lawless tundra. It's certainly possible, but I'm not sure what others think.

I was personally thinking of a similar idea where there was a gang controlling a supermarket-turned-fortress where they routinely had to send people out to search for fuel, and defend against raiders and such...

All that needs to be decided is what the plot's about. What will it have established? Will it have anything established before people post it here? Etc.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-06, 07:58 PM
Maybe....*craziness ensues*
There are these weird mutant animals that look very strangelike that were created from animals that scientists were experimenting on with nuclear radiation right when the holocaust occured. They reacted strangely, and now they're becoming pretty common.

Wait, sorry. That's unhelpful, and a bit silly. Let me try again:
Okay, so this camp, they find a patch where there are some plants growing. And that's really, really rare, and hardly seen before in these quantities. As the area begins to slowly get greener, though, a bunch of Bad Guys, who have control over the only other such patch, grow concerned the world is recovering. This means they'll lose their monopoly, and with it all their power. So they decide the patch, where a small group is forming, has to go.

It's also a bit silly, but I hate it less. Still, it may alter the genre of the game in a major way, so it may not be a good idea.

Bradakhan
2010-11-06, 08:09 PM
Maybe....*craziness ensues*
There are these weird mutant animals that look very strangelike that were created from animals that scientists were experimenting on with nuclear radiation right when the holocaust occured. They reacted strangely, and now they're becoming pretty common.
Wait, sorry. That's unhelpful, and a bit silly. Let me try again:
Okay, so this camp, they find a patch where there are some plants growing. And that's really, really rare, and hardly seen before in these quantities. As the area begins to slowly recover, though, a bunch of Bad Guys, who have control over the only other such patch, grow concerned the world is recovering. This means they'll lose their monopoly, and with it all their power. So they decide the patch, where a small group is forming, has to go.

It's also a bit silly, but I hate it less. Still, it may altar the genre, so it may not be a good idea.

In Fallout (or Fallout 3, at least) there are animals that have been mutated by the radiation, such as bugs, dogs and moles.
Also, in Fallout 3, there is an area filled with normal trees (grown by a mutated tree-thing :smallbiggrin:) so your ideas aren't as far out as you think :smallwink:

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-06, 08:34 PM
So, since cockroaches obviously are still around, should they have acquired sentience in the nuclear explosion? Seems to clearly be the next step to take. :smallwink:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 08:53 PM
So, since cockroaches obviously are still around, should they have acquired sentience in the nuclear explosion? Seems to clearly be the next step to take. :smallwink:

I'm allowing for some crazy things, but that's a little bit much.

Lyinginbedmon
2010-11-06, 08:54 PM
I'm gonna call dibs on any 9-type stitchpunks.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-06, 08:58 PM
We just need a starting scene for me to work up, with a vague goal, and then we can work from there. (Which is why I was asking the plot.)

Zexion
2010-11-06, 09:23 PM
I'm gonna call dibs on any 9-type stitchpunks.
:mad:
But I already had some artwork ready!

EDIT: But you can do the first comic! :smallsmile:

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-06, 09:24 PM
I'm allowing for some crazy things, but that's a little bit much.

What if the cockroaches were being experimented on? Or they're ants, which are apparently the smartest insect in the world?
I'm joking, by the way. I'm a goblin, but I'm not that nuts.

Falgorn
2010-11-06, 09:42 PM
We just need a starting scene for me to work up, with a vague goal, and then we can work from there. (Which is why I was asking the plot.)

Like you said, with the apocalypse, you want resources. Now, if we can expand on this.
An old supermarket, like your suggestion, maybe a pre-war military installation.
I dunno, I'm not good with ideas.

I have no ideas for a starting scene, though.

HalfTangible
2010-11-07, 12:49 AM
Like you said, with the apocalypse, you want resources. Now, if we can expand on this.
An old supermarket, like your suggestion, maybe a pre-war military installation.
I dunno, I'm not good with ideas.

I have no ideas for a starting scene, though.

I have an idea for a voiceover for a starting scene (or intro comic)

Mina Kobold
2010-11-07, 07:48 AM
We just need a starting scene for me to work up, with a vague goal, and then we can work from there. (Which is why I was asking the plot.)

Someone discovers leftover nukes? A mysterious disease? A Shrangri-La like legend of a pllace where the nukes never hit? Government remnants attempting a hostile takeover? 4kids Entertainment is still around?

That's the only plots I can think of :smallsmile:

Rae Artemi
2010-11-07, 09:27 AM
4kids Entertainment is still around?

Worse, they are the only business left untouched. 4Kids now controls EVERYTHING. :smalleek:


:smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-07, 11:11 AM
Worse, they are the only business left untouched. 4Kids now controls EVERYTHING. :smalleek:


:smalltongue:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Don't scare me like that :smalleek:

Zexion
2010-11-07, 12:15 PM
So, if we're going to do a mini-plot with the stitchpunks, then maybe we could have that plot take place in underground tunnels or something?
Also, how many stitchpunks should there be, and how long have they been around for?

Lyinginbedmon
2010-11-07, 12:24 PM
So, if we're going to do a mini-plot with the stitchpunks, then maybe we could have that plot take place in underground tunnels or something?
Also, how many stitchpunks should there be, and how long have they been around for?

The Scientist made his stitchpunks as the war was ending, among the last humans alive. Given that this is a nuclear winter, a similar situation would have the stitchpunks be around the entire time human survivors have been in the bunkers, perhaps made by a scientist who was too busy making them to notice the bunker alerts.

They've probably gone a bit batty or anti-social depending on their experiences as a result, likely having been isolated or in small groups for decades.

Zexion
2010-11-07, 12:28 PM
The Scientist made his stitchpunks as the war was ending, among the last humans alive. Given that this is a nuclear winter, a similar situation would have the stitchpunks be around the entire time human survivors have been in the bunkers, perhaps made by a scientist who was too busy making them to notice the bunker alerts.

They've probably gone a bit batty or anti-social depending on their experiences as a result, likely having been isolated or in small groups for decades.
IDEA!
What if the stitchpunks discovered how to build new stitchpunks! So there was like a big city underground of maybe 2000 or so?

Also, my character idea is a stitchpunk who obsessively collects anything that he sees that might be useful. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: I found two pages on stitchpunk reproduction (http://pchat9wiki.wikispaces.com/Stitchpunk+Reproduction)and medicine (http://pchat9wiki.wikispaces.com/Stitchpunk+Medicine). The reproduction page is very tame, by the way.

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 02:39 PM
IDEA!
What if the stitchpunks discovered how to build new stitchpunks! So there was like a big city underground of maybe 2000 or so?

Also, my character idea is a stitchpunk who obsessively collects anything that he sees that might be useful. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: I found two pages on stitchpunk reproduction (http://pchat9wiki.wikispaces.com/Stitchpunk+Reproduction)and medicine (http://pchat9wiki.wikispaces.com/Stitchpunk+Medicine). The reproduction page is very tame, by the way.

Would you like to make a string of Kingdom Hearts character knockoffs with me?

Zexion
2010-11-07, 02:43 PM
Would you like to make a string of Kingdom Hearts character knockoffs with me?
You mean stitchpunk-style? Because that would be awesome. :smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-07, 02:48 PM
Erh...

What's a stitchpunk?

Zexion
2010-11-07, 02:52 PM
Erh...

What's a stitchpunk?
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2009/09/9characters.png
They're from the movie 9, they're like little sentient electronic cloth dolls.

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 03:28 PM
You mean stitchpunk-style? Because that would be awesome. :smalltongue:

I'm Marluxia and I'm going TO EAT YOU!

Zexion
2010-11-07, 03:32 PM
I'm Marluxia and I'm going TO EAT YOU!
That didn't answer my question. Stitchpunk or human?

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 03:35 PM
That didn't answer my question. Stitchpunk or human?

Either way. :smallfrown:

Zexion
2010-11-07, 03:38 PM
Either way. :smallfrown:
I think that a stichpunk Organization 13 would be mindbogglingly awesome and badass (just imagine them fighting a mutant wolf, it would be as big as a city block to them :smalleek:), but I don't think magic is allowed in the steampunk game, so no Zexion or Xemnas... :smallfrown:
EDIT: And I am currently working on a stitchpunk Saix who is an OCD collector. :smallbiggrin:

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 03:40 PM
Z- Zexion. :smallfrown: Screw Xemnas.

Does Axel's fire count as magic in this world?

Zexion
2010-11-07, 03:50 PM
Z- Zexion. :smallfrown: Screw Xemnas.

Does Axel's fire count as magic in this world?
You could probably throw in some technobabble about his inner mechanisms containing a special mechanism that creates liquid oxygen from the air that he breathes, and then the liquid oxygen is pumped down one arm with a pressurization system, where it is set on fire then sprayed out a metal tube. Basically, he'd have a flamethrower built into his arm. :smallsmile:

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 03:59 PM
I feel so rusty working with inkscape now. :smallfrown:

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:07 PM
Stichpunk Saix, AKA Seven:
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1834/stichpunk1.png

Darklord Bright
2010-11-07, 04:31 PM
I'm so confused... where did my post-nuke world go? :smallfrown: And why are there suddenly magic weapons and things? What happened to "Humans only"?

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:33 PM
I'm so confused... where did my post-nuke world go? :smallfrown:
The stitchpunks are part of the post-nuke world. They were built by a human scientist to be a sentient species on the Earth if the humans died out or something. :smallsmile:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-07, 04:33 PM
The stitchpunks are part of the post-nuke world. They were built by a human scientist to be a sentient species on the Earth if the humans died out or something. :smallsmile:

But didn't we say right at the beginning that there would be only humans in this plot as a sentient species?

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:34 PM
But didn't we say right at the beginning that there would be only humans in this plot as a sentient species?
You did?
...
Errr...
Please can we have the stitchpunks as well? Pleeez? :smallredface::smallfrown:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-07, 04:37 PM
You did?
...
Errr...
Please can we have the stitchpunks as well? Pleeez? :smallredface::smallfrown:

I've already disallowed fantasy races and sentient cockroaches. Because this is supposed to be about humans. Not only that, but people are giving themselves magical weapons.

It's pretty much the only set of groundrules I established, and everyone's trying to break them :smallfrown:

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:41 PM
I've already disallowed fantasy races and sentient cockroaches. Because this is supposed to be about humans. Not only that, but people are giving themselves magical weapons.

It's pretty much the only set of groundrules I established, and everyone's trying to break them :smallfrown:
Magical weapons how? The flamethrower is rooted in science that would actually work!
EDIT: Wait, is that what you meant or not? :smallconfused:

And I know about the ground rules, but I think it would add another level of awesomenss (oh, and depth as well) to the story if there were stitchpunks. Because stichpunks are awesome. :smallsmile:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-07, 04:44 PM
Magical weapons how? The flamethrower is rooted in science that would actually work!

And I know about the ground rules, but I think it would add another level of awesomenss (oh, and depth as well) to the story if there were stitchpunks. Because stichpunks are awesome. :smallsmile:

It's magic, you're using the tech to explain away a magical weapon so you can get around the 'no magic' rule to use it.

I don't see how adding "stitchpunks" would do anything but lose depth. This is about humans trying to survive in a post apocalyptic tundra, many of which have gone bonkers from having to survive. Adding Stitchpunks changes the entire theme of the setting.

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:49 PM
It's magic, you're using the tech to explain away a magical weapon so you can get around the 'no magic' rule to use it.

I don't see how adding "stitchpunks" would do anything but lose depth. This is about humans trying to survive in a post apocalyptic tundra, many of which have gone bonkers from having to survive. Adding Stitchpunks changes the entire theme of the setting.
Okay then, in that case we don't have to have the "magical" flamethrower, because it's your setting.
EDIT: I hope that you allow the stitchpunks though... :smallfrown:

And it would add depth because there would be two levels of the story going on, the humans trying to survive the environment, and the stitchpunks trying to survive the wild animals (which, in their opinion, includes the humans).
See? Depth!

-skimmer-
2010-11-07, 04:50 PM
It's magic, you're using the tech to explain away a magical weapon so you can get around the 'no magic' rule to use it.

I don't see how adding "stitchpunks" would do anything but lose depth. This is about humans trying to survive in a post apocalyptic tundra, many of which have gone bonkers from having to survive. Adding Stitchpunks changes the entire theme of the setting.

I have to agree with Bright on this one....

Zexion
2010-11-07, 04:58 PM
I have to agree with Bright on this one....
But the stitchpunks wouldn't take anything away from the human plotline, it would just be a kind of mini-plot. :smallfrown:
EDIT: Or maybe we could just make a different post-apocalyptic world and have the stitchpunks live there. *shrugs*

Darklord Bright
2010-11-07, 05:06 PM
It loses depth and distracts from the plot.

For instance, the plot as it stands is about the struggle of humans to survive, battling human nature, embracing it, or going insane. It's about human interaction in a post-nuclear world where society is gone. The reason there are no other races is because they're an excuse to avoid giving someone good character and explaining it away with "They're an elf". Everyone has their reasons for what they do, and that's what I hope this will be about at its core, even if not all the characters are serious (and I hope they aren't!).

It's not about Stichpunk Organisation Thirteen fighting mutated rats.

Zexion
2010-11-07, 05:18 PM
It loses depth and distracts from the plot.

For instance, the plot as it stands is about the struggle of humans to survive, battling human nature, embracing it, or going insane. It's about human interaction in a post-nuclear world where society is gone. The reason there are no other races is because they're an excuse to avoid giving someone good character and explaining it away with "They're an elf". Everyone has their reasons for what they do, and that's what I hope this will be about at its core, even if not all the characters are serious (and I hope they aren't!).
That makes sense.

It's not about Stichpunk Organisation Thirteen fighting mutated rats.
Fair enough. So what about if we had the macro-scale humans-trying-to-survive plot, and a micro-scale stitchpunks-awakening-and-trying-to-survive-on-a-different-scale plot? The stitchpunks would basically be tiny humans, with no special abilities that you haven't approved.
(This is called the "compromising" stage. :smalltongue:)

-skimmer-
2010-11-07, 05:30 PM
EDIT: Or maybe we could just make a different post-apocalyptic world and have the stitchpunks live there. *shrugs*

You could make post-cataclysm FFF plot during the dark ages about this, but we already have plenty of active plots and I don't think we have enough people to run them all at once....



Fair enough. So what about if we had the macro-scale humans-trying-to-survive plot, and a micro-scale stitchpunks-awakening-and-trying-to-survive-on-a-different-scale plot? The stitchpunks would basically be tiny humans, with no special abilities that you haven't approved.
(This is called the "compromising" stage. :smalltongue:)

I fail to understand how this compromise deviates from what you suggested earlier....it's still going to be heavily distracting mini-plot about stitchpunks....

Please just stray away from any stitchpunks, mechas, robots, golemoids, or sentient constructs and make an insane human being like everybody else....

Zexion
2010-11-07, 05:35 PM
I fail to understand how this compromise deviates from what you suggested earlier....it's still going to be heavily distracting mini-plot about stitchpunks....
No, it wouldn't be, because it would be a tale of survival against the elements instead of a bunch of cloth dolls beating up radiated mice.

Please just stray away from any stitchpunks, mechas, robots, golemoids, or sentient constructs and make an insane human being like everybody else....
I would like to take this time to point out that only with stitchpunks or other small people can you make an working elevator out of a retractable dog leash.
Thank you.

-skimmer-
2010-11-07, 05:47 PM
No, it wouldn't be, because it would be a tale of survival against the elements instead of a bunch of cloth dolls beating up radiated mice.

I would like to take this time to point out that only with stitchpunks or other small people can you make an working elevator out of a retractable dog leash.
Thank you.

You're missing the point, they are just out of place in this plot....

Zexion
2010-11-07, 06:08 PM
You're missing the point, they are just out of place in this plot....
Fair enough... I guess. :smallfrown:

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 07:11 PM
Yo Zexy.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/CrimsonAngelChris/oots/r30.png

The cloak was a whole lot darker on my other computer. :smallannoyed: I'mma make more later.

Rae Artemi
2010-11-07, 07:12 PM
Yo Zexy.
-snip-

The cloak was a whole lot darker on my other computer. :smallannoyed: I'mma make more later.

You have been paying attention to the discussion what with the no magic and stuff, right?

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 07:22 PM
You have been paying attention to the discussion what with the no magic and stuff, right?

You did notice he looks nothing like a burlap sack and I never mentioned he was going to be in the new plot, right? /sarcasm

Also, "The server is too busy at the moment"

Rae Artemi
2010-11-07, 07:25 PM
You did notice he looks nothing like a burlap sack and I never mentioned he was going to be in the new plot, right? /sarcasm

Also, "The server is too busy at the moment"

Well, you and Zexy were talking about the two ideas at the same time, so I figured they correlated.

And yeah, it's been happening a lot lately, the mods are trying to figure it out.

Zexion
2010-11-07, 07:46 PM
Yo Zexy.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/CrimsonAngelChris/oots/r30.png

The cloak was a whole lot darker on my other computer. :smallannoyed: I'mma make more later.
That. Is. So. Awesome.
Can it be my new avatar? Please? :smallredface:

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 07:47 PM
That. Is. So. Awesome.
Can it be my new avatar? Please? :smallredface:

No. Yah sure totaly! :smallbiggrin:

Falgorn
2010-11-07, 07:51 PM
Hrm. Darklord, have you worked out an opening scene for the characters yet? I have a small faction in mind, but I have no idea what to do with them.

Zexion
2010-11-07, 07:52 PM
No. Yah sure totaly! :smallbiggrin:
Thank you very much, but could you turn all the blue stuff to a more bluish-purple color, if it's not too much trouble? And make the cloak darker?

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-07, 08:07 PM
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/CrimsonAngelChris/oots/r30b.png

I just finished Demyx and i'm moving on to Larxene. :smalltongue:

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-07, 08:54 PM
I've made a start on something for this, still not 100% certain on details (such as character name and why he's stuck out in a cave) but I'll get there eventually:

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w192/pomchop/Nobody/F32.png

How long after the nuclear holocaust are we setting it? A few years or a few centuries?


Edit: is it just me, or is his head too big?

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-07, 09:42 PM
Not to bring anybody down, but I have an overwhelming feeling this post-nuke story isn't going to last long.

That being said, I think I'm going to try and join it anyway if I can find the time (time enough to make two comics, since I also intend on continuing ABR Corps). It could be interesting. T'was thinking of having alternate universe versions of the Qs. Realistic versions.

Quin Redd, a space program major and his best friend and roomate Quinn Grene, a civilian bodybuilder and ex-electrician. Both of whom used to be quite wealthy individuals but are now trying to survive as best they can with all of their possessions destroyed or stolen. While Quinn Grene tries to remain positive during this crisis, Quin Redd's personality (and perhaps sainity) is very noticably taking a heavy toll.

These versions of the Qs will probably be a less "jokey" as well. I might post pictures of them later, too.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-08, 08:45 AM
Fair enough... I guess. :smallfrown:

While I do agree with Skimmy and Brigthie Boy*, I don't think you should give up hope yet.

There'll be the perfect plot for stichies someday, or you can make your own glorious story! :D

I really need to draw some comics, I really do.

But first I need to find some shiny stuff to distract me with :smalltongue:

*Silly nicknames! :smalltongue:

-skimmer-
2010-11-08, 10:00 AM
I've made a start on something for this, still not 100% certain on details (such as character name and why he's stuck out in a cave) but I'll get there eventually:

-snip-

How long after the nuclear holocaust are we setting it? A few years or a few centuries?

I would make it an unspecified number between 20-40 years after the "Big Thunder" as people tend to die in a single century....



Edit: is it just me, or is his head too big?
I've never seen a head that would be "too big" in oots....


Not to bring anybody down, but I have an overwhelming feeling this post-nuke story isn't going to last long.

Experience says so....then again, those currently dead plots were fun while they lasted, no?:smalltongue:



That being said, I think I'm going to try and join it anyway if I can find the time (time enough to make two comics, since I also intend on continuing ABR Corps). It could be interesting. T'was thinking of having alternate universe versions of the Qs. Realistic versions.

Quin Redd, a space program major and his best friend and roomate Quinn Grene, a civilian bodybuilder and ex-electrician. Both of whom used to be quite wealthy individuals but are now trying to survive as best they can with all of their possessions destroyed or stolen. While Quinn Grene tries to remain positive during this crisis, Quin Redd's personality (and perhaps sainity) is very noticably taking a heavy toll.

Pure awesome:smallbiggrin:



These versions of the Qs will probably be a less "jokey" as well.
I hope not....

Darklord Bright
2010-11-08, 02:17 PM
See, that's all well and good, and I'm glad everyone's having fun thinking of ideas - but we still need a goal for the plot so I can try and make the first comic to set things off! After that we can be well on our way!

HalfTangible
2010-11-08, 02:24 PM
If you throw something in space, the thing still flies, you just also move depending on how your threw it.

Just saying :smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-08, 02:32 PM
If you throw something in space, the thing still flies, you just also move depending on how your threw it.

Just saying :smalltongue:

... What?

Completely spaced out but rereading the last couple of posts brought me no answer to what SPACE! has to do with anything.

Unless it's a metaphor, in which case I still have no idea what it means.

-skimmer-
2010-11-08, 02:46 PM
... What?

Completely spaced out but rereading the last couple of posts brought me no answer to what SPACE! has to do with anything.

Unless it's a metaphor, in which case I still have no idea what it means.

Look at the last comic Grlump made, then read it again....

Zweanslord
2010-11-08, 03:37 PM
Darklord Bright, if I may ask, how did you make the snow falling texture? It looks interesting and I am curious. While I can guess, I can also ask, so here I am, doing just that.

Anyway, I have more so been looking at the ABR thread with pictures, and only recently read through a bit of the discussion thread again as I saw a new one being made again. (Sheesh, XXXIV, while the one with the pictures is only at VIII, haha.) But hey, if you do need a goal for the plot, you could go with something cliché like "we heard a message of people needing help, who in turn were looking for warmer land and heard about it, being somewhere far off.." Or another bunker of supplies or something.

Edit: Also, why not put the picture you have on the ABR picture thread too? Would be nice.. because it can get easily lost in here.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-08, 03:40 PM
ABR:C
Something Something Physics


-snip-
... (http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w192/pomchop/Nobody/ABRC_2.png)


Hope it doesn't seem too soon for me to destroy a character, but if it is, hopefully this semi-cannon comic will apease you :smallredface:

-snip-


Too soon to destroy a character? No. Don't worry about that. You're comic is valid and accepted as canon, as all ABRC comics will be. :smallbiggrin:


Experience says so....then again, those currently dead plots were fun while they lasted, no?:smalltongue:

Yeah. I actually believe that realism and ABR don't really mix well. I'm willing to give it a try, but I dubt it'll last long before people get too scared their ideas will be seen as stupid. But that's just my prediction.


I hope not....

Well, I don't plan for them to be completely serious. They're still Qs. But I will see if I can expand my horizons and write characters who are going through serious struggles and try to handle them as best they can. They will seem a lot more serious than their mainsteam counterparts, but they'll have their funny moments, hopefully.


If you throw something in space, the thing still flies, you just also move depending on how your threw it.

Just saying :smalltongue:

Who cares? Laws of physics suck and are jerks. They owe my 40 dollars! :smallmad: :smalltongue:


See, that's all well and good, and I'm glad everyone's having fun thinking of ideas - but we still need a goal for the plot so I can try and make the first comic to set things off! After that we can be well on our way!

My recommendation is to allow the members of the plot, making the characters, come to the goal themselves. I think that might make people more attached to completing the goal if they help come up with it. The start should just be something simple to set things up.

FFF I think is a great example. It started off as a floating fish trying to get laid. Then that girl he was hitting on tries to take over the world. Than somebody else introduces the Sovices and so on and so fourth, building ideas on top of ideas until it's a pretty epic plot.

Only thing wrong with this idea is that it leads to a lot of side plots. But I think that may be part of the fun.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-08, 03:52 PM
See, that's all well and good, and I'm glad everyone's having fun thinking of ideas - but we still need a goal for the plot so I can try and make the first comic to set things off! After that we can be well on our way!


Okay, so this camp, they find a patch where there are some plants growing. And that's really, really rare, and hardly seen before in these quantities. As the area begins to slowly get greener, though, a bunch of Bad Guys, who have control over the only other such patch, grow concerned the world is recovering. This means they'll lose their monopoly, and with it all their power. So they decide the patch, where a small group is forming, has to go.
No good, or did you just miss it?

Bradakhan
2010-11-08, 05:22 PM
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/greyshadow0/Portfolio/drawing-62.png

Ok, I've designed my character for F³. (I think that's the title we're going with :smallconfused:) I tried to draw suspenders, but it turned out more like lederhosen :smallbiggrin:


My recommendation is to allow the members of the plot, making the characters, come to the goal themselves. I think that might make people more attached to completing the goal if they help come up with it. The start should just be something simple to set things up.


This is probably the simplest idea, although we'd still have to think of how to start it off, possibly several groups fighting over supplies, land, or the last sources of power. Or it could simply be people trying trying to start a life in this new world, and stumbling over... something :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-08, 05:26 PM
I dunno, I was thinking of calling it "Endless Winter/EW" because it really isn't related to FFF, but the only other "endless winter"s I can find are ski-related.

Also, as soon as we've got a title, I'm officially posting the intro and my first comic.

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-08, 07:34 PM
I dunno, I was thinking of calling it "Endless Winter/EW" because it really isn't related to FFF, but the only other "endless winter"s I can find are ski-related.

Also, as soon as we've got a title, I'm officially posting the intro and my first comic.

I like Endless Winter, but I also like F3, but which is better?

There's only one way to find out...

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w192/pomchop/Fight2.png

But no, seriously Endless Winter implies a bleak, forbidding world while F3 implies a parody of Fallout...

Darklord Bright
2010-11-08, 07:37 PM
I like Endless Winter, but I also like F3, but which is better?

There's only one way to find out...



But no, seriously Endless Winter implies a bleak, forbidding world while F3 implies a parody of Fallout...

F3 also implies correlation to FFF, which it doesn't have.

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-08, 07:50 PM
F3 also implies correlation to FFF, which it doesn't have.

Then my vote is definatly for EW

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-08, 09:28 PM
My prediction? A whole bunch of people are going to interpret this latest plot as a "darker and edgier" plot and introduce their characters by randomly killing people unprovoked.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-08, 09:55 PM
My prediction? A whole bunch of people are going to interpret this latest plot as a "darker and edgier" plot and introduce their characters by randomly killing people unprovoked.

So rather than making a whole bunch of pessimistic predictions, why not go ahead and prove yourself wrong?

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-08, 10:09 PM
So rather than making a whole bunch of pessimistic predictions, why not go ahead and prove yourself wrong?

I WAS GONNA DO THAT! What do think I am, a hypocrite? :smallsigh:

:smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-08, 10:13 PM
I WAS GONNA DO THAT! What do think I am, a hypocrite? :smallsigh:

:smalltongue:

I shall be happy to receive your contributions!

To be fair, my character isn't actually serious. He's a bit of a mixture of Jayne Cobb, Francis from Left 4 Dead, and my own designs. :smallsmile:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-09, 01:09 AM
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/greyshadow0/Portfolio/drawing-62.png

Ok, I've designed my character for F³. (I think that's the title we're going with :smallconfused:) I tried to draw suspenders, but it turned out more like lederhosen :smallbiggrin:



This is probably the simplest idea, although we'd still have to think of how to start it off, possibly several groups fighting over supplies, land, or the last sources of power. Or it could simply be people trying trying to start a life in this new world, and stumbling over... something :smalltongue:

Yet my character still has an endless suply of coal and wood for his inventions :smalltongue:

I really need to come up with aname for this guy... But first i need to actually draw him.

Zexion
2010-11-09, 01:18 AM
Yet my character still has an endless suply of coal and wood for his inventions :smalltongue:

I really need to come up with aname for this guy... But first i need to actually draw him.
Mark. Mark is a nice name. Or Jasper. Or maybe Audio, if you want a name of pure technological awesome. :smallbiggrin:

Threeshades
2010-11-09, 07:32 AM
So EW is humans only, not even crazy mutants, right?

V'icternus
2010-11-09, 08:08 AM
From what I, a completely impartial third party viewer, can tell, yes.

After all, you should never need to play a race to play a character.

And as for mutations, you'd need to be exposed to radiation for that.
And that's fairly deadly even in small doses. On the scale to actually mutate you? Radiation poisoning. Or instant death as your more complicated organs boil and fail, and then-
Well, you get the idea. Almost certain death for the possibility of a mutation that will probably just be a hideous bulge. That will also kill you.

Depending on how realistic we're treating Radiation, of course.

If we're treating it as a bit less... super-deadly, then I'd suggest only very minor, non-useful mutations. Otherwise everyone will want one!
Which is kind of not the point of mutation. :smalltongue:

Threeshades
2010-11-09, 09:21 AM
From what I, a completely impartial third party viewer, can tell, yes.

After all, you should never need to play a race to play a character.

And as for mutations, you'd need to be exposed to radiation for that.
And that's fairly deadly even in small doses. On the scale to actually mutate you? Radiation poisoning. Or instant death as your more complicated organs boil and fail, and then-
Well, you get the idea. Almost certain death for the possibility of a mutation that will probably just be a hideous bulge. That will also kill you.

Depending on how realistic we're treating Radiation, of course.

If we're treating it as a bit less... super-deadly, then I'd suggest only very minor, non-useful mutations. Otherwise everyone will want one!
Which is kind of not the point of mutation. :smalltongue:

People dont mutate from being exposed to radiation. Generally you don't mutate at any point in your life after birth. That's not how mutation works. Mutation is a change in the DNA that differentiates an individual from the parents. So radiation-based mutation comes from previous generations being exposed to radiation. With multiple generations having suffered corruption to their genome you can eventually end up with some sort of hideous little goblin creature. It's massively unlikely but not impossible.

V'icternus
2010-11-09, 09:47 AM
Ah, alright. I assume we were talking about specifically radiation-caused mutation after birth, hence the whole "yeah, you'd die" thing I had going there. (I'm looking at you, Spiderman!)

Anyway! Hideously deformed mutant goblin creature would be...

Quickly killed, I'd imagine.

And if one person gets to play mutant goblinoid, then the doors fly open for all the one-in-a-gazillion-billion chance life forms that people are bound to want to play with, and we'd end up with something representing a mutant fashion show instead of a comic.

If, and I do stress the if, we really need some sort of horrible mutated monster thing, I would suggest we have only one.
And that it be an NPC, obviously.

Because shooting someone else's character in the face for being ugly isn't likely to garner friendship and hugs. :smalltongue:

Threeshades
2010-11-09, 11:12 AM
Yes. Spiderman is not a mutant. Because if you change after birth that would be a metamorphosis. The teenage "mutant" ninja turtles should actually be called teenage metamorphic vaguely defined martial technique turtles. They're awesome nonetheless :smallbiggrin:

Okay then no hideous little gremlin mutant for me. I guess a human will do.

V'icternus
2010-11-09, 11:34 AM
If you like, it can be a short, ugly human.
I imagine there will be no short supply of those. :smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-09, 01:30 PM
Yes. Spiderman is not a mutant. Because if you change after birth that would be a metamorphosis. The teenage "mutant" ninja turtles should actually be called teenage metamorphic vaguely defined martial technique turtles. They're awesome nonetheless :smallbiggrin:

Okay then no hideous little gremlin mutant for me. I guess a human will do.

Are you sure the word can't mean more than one thing? I was pretty sure that cells mutate quite often (otherwise we wouldn't develop new traits no matter what since we would have only what our ancestors had, considering my hair colour appeared out of nowhere a good deal of millenia ago I sincerely doubt it :smalltongue:) and that metamorphosis was basically puberty but faster and with a fancier name.

But I might be wrong :smallsmile:

T-O-E
2010-11-09, 02:00 PM
For that, a phosphodiester bond between pentose and the nitrogen base would need to be cut. It's a condensation reaction so it's not as weak as the hydrogen bonds joining bases.
Then, the cell would probably not split itself enough to compete with the original's genome, or to even make any effect at all. And it wouldn't be passed onto the bloodline.

I'm guessing.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-09, 02:02 PM
Okay....what if my character is a hideous little man. Radiation during birth mutated his face, so his mouth is very, very wide. So in a lot of respects, he resembles goblins, especially because he's not very book smart and has a bad grasp on speech.

Is that okay? He could also be inbred.

Threeshades
2010-11-09, 05:06 PM
Are you sure the word can't mean more than one thing? I was pretty sure that cells mutate quite often (otherwise we wouldn't develop new traits no matter what since we would have only what our ancestors had, considering my hair colour appeared out of nowhere a good deal of millenia ago I sincerely doubt it :smalltongue:) and that metamorphosis was basically puberty but faster and with a fancier name.

But I might be wrong :smallsmile:

your eventual hair color was pre-programmed in your genes, if none of your parents or other ancestors hadf it you might be a mutant. If your genes are changed after your birth not much would happen to you, except maybe regenerative tissue looks a bit different after healing or you get a tumor. It could also cause a change of hair color over time, but to change your genetic code once you are developed is something incredibly improbable. Especialy if it were for more than just a few cells. And even if it happened you wouldn't be a mutant, because science said so. :smallannoyed:

HalfTangible
2010-11-09, 10:58 PM
Ok, i didn't read comics much as a kid, so someone help me out here: Who's the magic guy?


ABR Corps

http://i55.tinypic.com/zogm80.png

T-O-E
2010-11-10, 03:15 AM
That's Captain Marvel/Shazam.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-10, 03:19 AM
your eventual hair color was pre-programmed in your genes, if none of your parents or other ancestors hadf it you might be a mutant. If your genes are changed after your birth not much would happen to you, except maybe regenerative tissue looks a bit different after healing or you get a tumor. It could also cause a change of hair color over time, but to change your genetic code once you are developed is something incredibly improbable. Especialy if it were for more than just a few cells. And even if it happened you wouldn't be a mutant, because science said so. :smallannoyed:

I'm pretty sure I read that blond hair (AKA 'my hair colour') appeared somewhere between the first appearance of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and now

Illustrated Science* lied to me!

By the way, isn't most of our cells replaced over seven years? Besides, something must change if radiation can cause following generations to be mutants... Or is that just me being a teenager with little knowledge of advanced biology?


Ok, i didn't read comics much as a kid, so someone help me out here: Who's the magic guy?

I don't know his name here but he is a parody of Captain Marvel.

He is a little kid transformed into an adult superhero by the phrase ZHAZAM! which makes a lightning bolt that transform him but hurt others (even Superman, who is rather weak against magic)

Also known as the one who is a bigger boyscout than Superman.

*That's a magazine about science.

Bradakhan
2010-11-10, 03:20 AM
Ok, i didn't read comics much as a kid, so someone help me out here: Who's the magic guy?

He's a hero known as Captan Marvel (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics)?wasRedirected=true), who shouts 'Shazam' when he uses his powers

EDIT: Damn you ninja! :smalltongue:

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-10, 07:05 AM
That's Captain Marvel/Shazam.

Of course it's not. He's called Captain Spectacle/Alakazam. :smalltongue:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-10, 09:00 AM
That's Captain Marvel/Shazam.

The original comicbook series is called Zhazam because of copyright issues with DC between DC and Marvel, the character himself has never been called it. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmNotShazam)

And now you know! :smalltongue:

Threeshades
2010-11-10, 09:37 AM
I'm pretty sure I read that blond hair (AKA 'my hair colour') appeared somewhere between the first appearance of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and now

Illustrated Science* lied to me!

By the way, isn't most of our cells replaced over seven years? Besides, something must change if radiation can cause following generations to be mutants... Or is that just me being a teenager with little knowledge of advanced biology?


What changes are you reproductive cells, which are constantly regenerated and easy to corrupt by radiation.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-10, 12:28 PM
What changes are you reproductive cells, which are constantly regenerated and easy to corrupt by radiation.

Well, if those can be changed then in theory the rest of you could as well (needs more radiation, though) it would just take those seven years for the changes to evolve. Right?

Which means Spiderman was changed several years before the spider bit him! That explains everything!

I must tell the people! *Runs outside, yelling incoherently*

HalfTangible
2010-11-10, 01:00 PM
Well, if those can be changed then in theory the rest of you could as well (needs more radiation, though) it would just take those seven years for the changes to evolve. Right?

Which means Spiderman was changed several years before the spider bit him! That explains everything!

I must tell the people! *Runs outside, yelling incoherently*
An alternate theory is that he's mutating into a spider and has yet to get to the part where he shrinks :smalltongue: Pretty sure there's an episode or comic where he grows four extra arms

Mina Kobold
2010-11-10, 04:06 PM
An alternate theory is that he's mutating into a spider and has yet to get to the part where he shrinks :smalltongue: Pretty sure there's an episode or comic where he grows four extra arms

Two extra arms, and mutates into a giant spider creature as well.

An alternate version of Spidey that was not cured and actually changed his costume to fit the extra arms appeared in the episode about Madame Web's origin.

I love that show, it was the second best thing on Danish television when I was a kid (OK, a younger kid :smalltongue:) :smallbiggrin:

Threeshades
2010-11-10, 05:48 PM
Well, if those can be changed then in theory the rest of you could as well (needs more radiation, though) it would just take those seven years for the changes to evolve. Right?


Nope, most of your body does get renewed. That's why we all die eventually. So even if you changed the genetic code in every single one of them, nothing would really change.


An alternate theory is that he's metamorphing into a spider and has yet to get to the part where he shrinks :smalltongue: Pretty sure there's an episode or comic where he grows four extra arms
Fixed.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-10, 06:01 PM
Nope, most of your body does get renewed. That's why we all die eventually. So even if you changed the genetic code in every single one of them, nothing would really change.


Fixed.

What if it started when he was in the fetus, and part of the mutation is this his body structure is prone to warping?
*Has no clue what he is talking about*

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-10, 10:34 PM
ABR corps
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p468/master-ranger/ABRcorps-2.png
MR know what happened to Arachniddude

Errr, here's the thing, Master Ranger. I support your, and everybody else's, right to make whatever comics they want for this plot.

But one thing that's not recommended, for ANYBODY, is revealing where the rings (of any colour) came from. It's not that you can't do it, per se, it's just heavily frowned upon by me.

So I don't want your character saying "oh! NOT again!" because he knows what the black ring business is about. Have your character say that line for some entirely unrelated reason, instead. I'll leave the justification to your judgement, but I just wanted to give you a heads up about my little guideline I preferred everybody follow.

Also, a related topic, your comic making has improved, but here's another piece of friendly advice: comics are better when they are...longer than one panel. And show an event that contributes to the story in some way. Just making one panel saying "oh! NOT again!" with your character alone probably isn't going to be acknowledged by any other comic makers.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-10, 11:27 PM
Hey guys, what's happenin'?

HalfTangible
2010-11-10, 11:51 PM
Hey guys, what's happenin'?

We've seen Ketham's thought process when he's serious. Figured i'd show what happens when he isn't paying attention.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-11, 07:03 AM
Hey guys, what's happenin'?

I'm as confused as anybody for the most recent couple of comics, but what's supposed to be going on is an epic battle against the Team of Super Hero expys.

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-11, 07:20 AM
So I don't want your character saying "oh! NOT again!" because he knows what the black ring business is about. Have your character say that line for some entirely unrelated reason, instead. I'll leave the justification to your judgement, but I just wanted to give you a heads up about my little guideline I preferred everybody follow.


Oh, Ok...

Now I know what happend to Arachnid Dude...

Mina Kobold
2010-11-11, 11:21 AM
I'm as confused as anybody for the most recent couple of comics, but what's supposed to be going on is an epic battle against the Team of Super Hero expys.

Be assured I will be contributing to keep the focus on that battle.

Unless Buberine is take out, then I will contribute to the focus changing to a Baseball Zero-G Ball match :smalltongue:

Threeshades
2010-11-11, 01:30 PM
What if it started when he was in the fetus, and part of the mutation is this his body structure is prone to warping?
*Has no clue what he is talking about*

Usually a mutation doesn't become obvious before fetal stage. If a change actually happened to the stem cell dna after conception that would be called an octopus baby, I guess.


ABR Corps:
EXISTENCE ACKNOWLEDGED
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2222/masterranger.png

Woah, thanks Brighty, that ventilated some of my urge to so something hideously mean again.

Mina Kobold
2010-11-11, 01:48 PM
Usually a mutation doesn't become obvious before fetal stage. If a change actually happened to the stem cell dna after conception that would be called an octopus baby, I guess.


Octupus baby? O_o

I say we make that the new name for fictional mutants, it is too hilarious to pass up :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-11, 07:51 PM
So I was reading through "We all live in a Yellow Citadel" again. Lots of fun to be had by all.

I stumbled across my old Bright comics. There was such an innocence about them that I miss in ABR as it stands, from before I got dragged up in all this argument nonsense.

So I set about trying to figure out what it was I loved about them so much, and ended up making a... spiritual successor, if you will, to the original Darklord Bright.

But I find myself unsure of how to proceed.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4149/whichone.png

And what would I do with him anyways?

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-11, 08:02 PM
So I was reading through "We all live in a Yellow Citadel" again. Lots of fun to be had by all.

I stumbled across my old Bright comics. There was such an innocence about them that I miss in ABR as it stands, from before I got dragged up in all this argument nonsense.

So I set about trying to figure out what it was I loved about them so much, and ended up making a... spiritual successor, if you will, to the original Darklord Bright.

But I find myself unsure of how to proceed.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4149/whichone.png

And what would I do with him anyways?


Yeah. Things were better back before FFF ended. A lot less serious. :smallfrown:

*nostalgia*

My recommendation for the character? The spiritual successor to the original, fun, cute Darklord Bright? Either save him for when FFFR gets another burst of life, or incorperate him into ABR Corps somehow (he doesn't even really have to be a Lantern, if you don't want, though it's preferred).

I don't want to toot my own plot or anything, but I'm nostalgic about the good ol days of ABR as well and a big part of ABR Corps is that I'm trying to recapture that spontaneity and fun.

Darklord Bright
2010-11-11, 09:26 PM
Yeah. Things were better back before FFF ended. A lot less serious. :smallfrown:

*nostalgia*

My recommendation for the character? The spiritual successor to the original, fun, cute Darklord Bright? Either save him for when FFFR gets another burst of life, or incorperate him into ABR Corps somehow (he doesn't even really have to be a Lantern, if you don't want, though it's preferred).

I don't want to toot my own plot or anything, but I'm nostalgic about the good ol days of ABR as well and a big part of ABR Corps is that I'm trying to recapture that spontaneity and fun.

Well, I may as well. Probably not making him a lantern, but I'm working on the second intro comic to bring him into the fight anyhow.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-11, 09:57 PM
Well, I may as well. Probably not making him a lantern, but I'm working on the second intro comic to bring him into the fight anyhow.

Cool.

Also, I'm working on an EW comic. It's taking a little longer than I thought it would because I'm making it slight more detailed than usual comics (I'm not changing the art style or anything. Just paying slightly more attention to detail when it comes to the background).

V'icternus
2010-11-12, 09:45 AM
Explosions in space are clearly caused by Cthulhu.

As for the sound, a wizard did it.

An invisible space wizard.

Called Cthulhu.

Silverraptor
2010-11-12, 12:59 PM
Just came in here just to say,

"Darklord Bright, you ROCK!!"

I loved what you did in the ABRCorps.:smallbiggrin: Not only is it really great that detailed, but the villian and his minons are already well characterized, on only the second comic! Your comic actually wants me to try joining ABRCorps as well and make a character under your character's command. Would it work out?:smallsmile:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-12, 01:14 PM
Brightie. You are awesome.

Wish I could draw something that was just a tenth as good as that, unfortunately that's very difficult unless I actually spend money on a good art program.

I might actually make a comic one of the days, but homework will likely take up half my free time (The other half being taken up by watching cartoons older than me :smalltongue:)

Darklord Bright
2010-11-12, 02:23 PM
Less talk about the details, more conversion of those details into your styles for MASSIVE COMICRY.

YEEEEAAHHHH

Edit: You know what's fun? Adding details to other people's characters when I convert them into my style. Cause I have to, you know? To keep my characters from looking weirdly detailed compared to others? This also means I have to sometimes interpret things purposely in a different way just to add detail to their templates...

Only have one template made so far, I'm making them in the order they're introduced...

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/952/aeldra.png

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-12, 02:56 PM
Yeah. Things were better back before FFF ended. A lot less serious. :smallfrown:

*nostalgia*

My recommendation for the character? The spiritual successor to the original, fun, cute Darklord Bright? Either save him for when FFFR gets another burst of life, or incorperate him into ABR Corps somehow (he doesn't even really have to be a Lantern, if you don't want, though it's preferred). ..

Um...not to be accusatorisational, but didn't you tell me I pretty much had to play a Lantern to enter your plot?

HalfTangible
2010-11-12, 03:14 PM
Um...not to be accusatorisational, but didn't you tell me I pretty much had to play a Lantern to enter your plot?

No, he just put a lot more emphasis on preferring lanterns in your case.

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-12, 03:27 PM
Edit: You know what's fun? Adding details to other people's characters when I convert them into my style. Cause I have to, you know? To keep my characters from looking weirdly detailed compared to others? This also means I have to sometimes interpret things purposely in a different way just to add detail to their templates...

Only have one template made so far, I'm making them in the order they're introduced...


Great work mate :smallbiggrin:

Just want you to know that I can't wait for you to do Grlump in your style...

Can I request an avatar sized version as well for personal use if it's not too much to ask...

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-12, 09:31 PM
Um...not to be accusatorisational, but didn't you tell me I pretty much had to play a Lantern to enter your plot?

Well, yes I did. I also said that I would accept any comics made for ABR Corps as canon, so you could basically do whatever you want. But I would prefer a Lantern.

The only reasons I said that Darklord Bright didn't have to make his character a Lantern was because A) He already HAS a lantern character, B) he said once he found the lanterns boring and C) He's Darklord Bright! He could make any character awesome, and with his description of a "classic" Darklord Bright, I didn't want him to compromise his idea! Lastly, D) He's DARKLORD BRIGHT. I would have said ANYTHING to get him to join my plot! He's that awesome!

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-12, 11:52 PM
Well, yes I did. I also said that I would accept any comics made for ABR Corps as canon, so you could basically do whatever you want. But I would prefer a Lantern.

The only reasons I said that Darklord Bright didn't have to make his character a Lantern was because A) He already HAS a lantern character, B) he said once he found the lanterns boring and C) He's Darklord Bright! He could make any character awesome, and with his description of a "classic" Darklord Bright, I didn't want him to compromise his idea! Lastly, D) He's DARKLORD BRIGHT. I would have said ANYTHING to get him to join my plot! He's that awesome!

So....in short, you think I fail, and that DLB fails less, and you want to get him in your plot more than you want me to get in it. IS THAT RIGHT?! FAVOURITISM?! GO TO HELL, Q!

*Ahem* Sorry, forgot my crazy meds. That joke was a lot funnier in my head. I perfectly understand your reasoning, and though I will coldly plot your death, it's nothing personal. I'm doing that to everybody here.

....

Oops. Um, something shiny! Over there! *Flees*

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 12:18 AM
So....in short, you think I fail, and that DLB fails less, and you want to get him in your plot more than you want me to get in it. IS THAT RIGHT?! FAVOURITISM?! GO TO HELL, Q!

*Ahem* Sorry, forgot my crazy meds. That joke was a lot funnier in my head. I perfectly understand your reasoning, and though I will coldly plot your death, it's nothing personal. I'm doing that to everybody here.

....

Oops. Um, something shiny! Over there! *Flees*

I haven't been on this particular forum for very long, but i gotta say that on the ones I have, "old players" (for lack of a better phrase) always develop favoritism for each other, particularly if they like each other's work.

DB's art style, while odd given the forum, is very good and he has been in ABR before. I dunno about his characterization skills but judging from the first two comics he's made for ABRC it's nothing to scoff at.

I'm not saying you aren't good too. But DB would be a more... i guess the word would be predictable? Stable? ... element to the story.

Also: If you're plotting my death, can you wait on mine until i play ME3? That game is my current reason for pushing forward.

Goblin Scribe
2010-11-13, 02:27 AM
I haven't been on this particular forum for very long, but i gotta say that on the ones I have, "old players" (for lack of a better phrase) always develop favoritism for each other, particularly if they like each other's work.

DB's art style, while odd given the forum, is very good and he has been in ABR before. I dunno about his characterization skills but judging from the first two comics he's made for ABRC it's nothing to scoff at.

I'm not saying you aren't good too. But DB would be a more... i guess the word would be predictable? Stable? ... element to the story.

Also: If you're plotting my death, can you wait on mine until i play ME3? That game is my current reason for pushing forward.

Tell you what. Give me the game when you're done and I'll let you play it twice. Now if you'll excuse me, my genius plan involving a duck and a rather unsafe amount of dynamite is about to enter Stage O--
*From far off, an explosion, and a thunderous honk*
:smallconfused::smalleek::smallmad::smallannoyed:
Geese...ducks....who can tell the difference, anyways? *Runs off*

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 07:56 AM
So....in short, you think I fail, and that DLB fails less, and you want to get him in your plot more than you want me to get in it. IS THAT RIGHT?! FAVOURITISM?! GO TO HELL, Q!

*Ahem* Sorry, forgot my crazy meds. That joke was a lot funnier in my head. I perfectly understand your reasoning, and though I will coldly plot your death, it's nothing personal. I'm doing that to everybody here.

....

Oops. Um, something shiny! Over there! *Flees*

Well, yes it's favouritism. But you know what, prove that your characterization skills, your story telling skills, and your artwork are second to none with one of the most, if the THE greatest, awesome fancomics ever made (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128110) and then we'll talk about increased character privileges. :smalltongue:

T-O-E
2010-11-13, 08:53 AM
Well, yes I did. I also said that I would accept any comics made for ABR Corps as canon, so you could basically do whatever you want. But I would prefer a Lantern.

The only reasons I said that Darklord Bright didn't have to make his character a Lantern was because A) He already HAS a lantern character, B) he said once he found the lanterns boring and C) He's Darklord Bright! He could make any character awesome, and with his description of a "classic" Darklord Bright, I didn't want him to compromise his idea! Lastly, D) He's DARKLORD BRIGHT. I would have said ANYTHING to get him to join my plot! He's that awesome!

Those are terrible justifications.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 09:00 AM
Those are terrible justifications.

Are they, T-O-E? Are they? :smallamused:

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 09:07 AM
Well, yes I did. I also said that I would accept any comics made for ABR Corps as canon, so you could basically do whatever you want. But I would prefer a Lantern.

The only reasons I said that Darklord Bright didn't have to make his character a Lantern was because A) He already HAS a lantern character, B) he said once he found the lanterns boring and C) He's Darklord Bright! He could make any character awesome, and with his description of a "classic" Darklord Bright, I didn't want him to compromise his idea! Lastly, D) He's DARKLORD BRIGHT. I would have said ANYTHING to get him to join my plot! He's that awesome!


Those are terrible justifications.


Are they, T-O-E? Are they? :smallamused:

When you put them that way, yes. :smalltongue:

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 09:28 AM
When you put them that way, yes. :smalltongue:

...What, really? How? :smallconfused:

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 10:13 AM
...What, really? How? :smallconfused:

Meh. :smalltongue: A and B are fine. C is a bit questionable but mostly ok, and D sounds like you basically said 'just cuz'

But honestly i was just... i think the term is 'playing devil's advocate'? Where you oppose the person just to demonstrate a separate opinion, not because you necessarily believe the new opinion?

V'icternus
2010-11-13, 10:30 AM
(NO SERVER YOU ARE NOT BUSY STOP LYING TO ME)

Ahem.


Anyway, what was I gonna say?

Oh yeah, Bright.

Well, first of all I think the comics he made already speak for themselves in terms of allowing a non-Lantern character.

Now, Goblin Scribe (Who I am just meeting now, I believe. Hello!), I'm sure you could have made a similarly non-Lantern character, if you had really wanted. ABR is not a dictatorship and no-one gets a final say on anything. (Unless the mods show up and say someth- {kpenguin only counts when he posts in red, shut up} -ing)
However, a Lantern character is both easier, already firmly established in the setting and a fairly broad array of characters could become Lanterns. The need to have a non-Lantern character in this Lantern-based game should be...
Negligible.

Now, Bright over there is an experienced comic maker, and has been in ABR for quite a while, true.
This is not why people are so quick to allow him into their plots.

Take a look at his characters.
Any one of them will do.
Find one, bring it up front and show it off.

You see, DLB's sense of humour, coupled with a great understanding of how to make a character act and feel real, are well documented.
Essentially, we know he can take an outlandish or weird character concept and make it work in almost any situation. He really is brilliant.

(And, because he's probably reading this and swelling up his ego, I'm going to point out that Canada sucks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFs5l9K--7M). :smalltongue: )

For instance, he once played a character who could not speak. At all.
I cannot imagine the restraint it took not to have at least a thought bubble of words, or some other form of communication other than frantic waving of the arms.


The point is, nobody's doling out favouritism here.
The idea of Darklord Bright (the character, not the person) being made for this new plot is just terribly exciting.

I for one can't wait to watch the hilarity ensue.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 11:15 AM
Well, first of all I think the comics he made already speak for themselves in terms of allowing a non-Lantern character.

Now, Goblin Scribe (Who I am just meeting now, I believe. Hello!), I'm sure you could have made a similarly non-Lantern character, if you had really wanted. ABR is not a dictatorship and no-one gets a final say on anything. (Unless the mods show up and say someth- {kpenguin only counts when he posts in red, shut up} -ing)
However, a Lantern character is both easier, already firmly established in the setting and a fairly broad array of characters could become Lanterns. The need to have a non-Lantern character in this Lantern-based game should be...
Negligible.

Now, Bright over there is an experienced comic maker, and has been in ABR for quite a while, true.
This is not why people are so quick to allow him into their plots.

Take a look at his characters.
Any one of them will do.
Find one, bring it up front and show it off.

You see, DLB's sense of humour, coupled with a great understanding of how to make a character act and feel real, are well documented.
Essentially, we know he can take an outlandish or weird character concept and make it work in almost any situation. He really is brilliant.

(And, because he's probably reading this and swelling up his ego, I'm going to point out that Canada sucks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFs5l9K--7M). :smalltongue: )

For instance, he once played a character who could not speak. At all.
I cannot imagine the restraint it took not to have at least a thought bubble of words, or some other form of communication other than frantic waving of the arms.


The point is, nobody's doling out favouritism here.
The idea of Darklord Bright (the character, not the person) being made for this new plot is just terribly exciting.

I for one can't wait to watch the hilarity ensue.

Perfect explanation is perfect. Though Canada DOESN'T SUCK! :smallfurious:

V'icternus
2010-11-13, 11:35 AM
That video says otherwise! And it is clearly correct. :smalltongue:

...Also New Zealand is just Australia for sissies who don't want to die.
Which, to be fair, sounds pretty appealing. =P
But fine, only the French parts of Canada suck.

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 11:39 AM
Which, to be fair, sounds pretty appealing. =P
But fine, only the French parts of Canada suck.

Sacré bleu! :smalleek:

:smalltongue:

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 11:42 AM
That video says otherwise! And it is clearly correct. :smalltongue:

...Also New Zealand is just Australia for sissies who don't want to die.
Which, to be fair, sounds pretty appealing. =P
But fine, only the French parts of Canada suck.

Zere's no canada,
like french canada,
it's the best canada in the land!
and the other canada
is a (couldn't hear the word here) canada
if you lived here for a day you'd understand =D

Mina Kobold
2010-11-13, 11:55 AM
That video says otherwise! And it is clearly correct. :smalltongue:

...Also New Zealand is just Australia for sissies who don't want to die.
Which, to be fair, sounds pretty appealing. =P
But fine, only the French parts of Canada suck.

Don't trust anybody with enough sanity to put together a video.

Or Lord of the Rings fans.
Jingle bells, jingle bells...
French Canada is the best part, they have the funny rules and names, English Canada only have maple syrup.

V'icternus
2010-11-13, 12:02 PM
In less completely off-topic news...

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3421/cmb1502.png
I don't care if no-one else will, I want to make an EW comic! :smalltongue:

Green-Shirt Q
2010-11-13, 12:17 PM
In less completely off-topic news...

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3421/cmb1502.png
I don't care if no-one else will, I want to make an EW comic! :smalltongue:

I'm making an EW comic!

It's just taking longer than I expected because I busy applying for a job and doing homework.

But yeah. I'll eventually join the plot, too.

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 01:16 PM
I'm making an ABRC comic with one of the worst puns ever devised and a rather blatant reference.

So yeah, you know it's crap :smalltongue:

Rae Artemi
2010-11-13, 01:49 PM
I'm making an ABRC comic with one of the worst puns ever devised and a rather blatant reference.

So yeah, you know it's crap :smalltongue:

Man, I used to play Artix Entertainment games, bad puns have absolutely no affect on me any more.

HalfTangible
2010-11-13, 01:53 PM
Man, I used to play Artix Entertainment games, bad puns have absolutely no affect on me any more.

The only thing helping this one out is that the character doesn't realize it's a pun. :smallsigh:

Mina Kobold
2010-11-13, 03:24 PM
In less completely off-topic news...

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3421/cmb1502.png
I don't care if no-one else will, I want to make an EW comic! :smalltongue:

Oi! I am procrastinating (Or however you spell it) about making a comic.

I would be making one if I hadn't gotten two new Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy games and some mangas.

At least that's the story I'm sticking to :smalltongue:

Darklord Bright
2010-11-13, 05:36 PM
Less praise, moar comicry!


Although the praise is nice.

CrimsonAngel
2010-11-13, 08:02 PM
I love DB's last comic... I giggled.

V'icternus
2010-11-13, 09:37 PM
procrastinating (Or however you spell it)

Procrastinating is correct.


Less praise, moar comicry!


Although the praise is nice.

What praise? Nobody's praising anybody. Get back to making comics.

GrlumpTheElder
2010-11-14, 11:31 AM
Well, I've done it, I've got an idea for an EW comic...

Still don't have a name for my protagonist yet...

HalfTangible
2010-11-14, 12:17 PM
Well, I've done it, I've got an idea for an EW comic...

Still don't have a name for my protagonist yet...

'The Elder'

Threeshades
2010-11-14, 12:34 PM
I also have an idea for an ew comic but i'm too lazy to make it.

V'icternus
2010-11-14, 09:22 PM
I would be making one right now! But I am currently mouseless and I need a mouse for art. Note: art = "art".

Threeshades
2010-11-14, 09:59 PM
I would be making one right now! But I am currently mouseless and I need a mouse for art. Note: art = "art".

i just recently bought myself a new mouse, so i have one to spare. If you'd like it, you can come over and pick it up. :smallsmile:

V'icternus
2010-11-15, 02:50 AM
No thanks, I have one, it just wasn't plugged in because my laptop was on my lap, and therefore using a mouse with it would have been difficult.
Save your mouse for someone who needs it!

Threeshades
2010-11-15, 08:13 AM
Darnit Vic, I wanted to do something with an empty gun. :smallannoyed:

V'icternus
2010-11-15, 09:06 AM
Sorry. :smallfrown:

But surely there is room for two empty guns in a world of Endless Winter and constant monologues!

Besides, who's gonna think you stole the idea from me?
Far more likely is that I came from the future, having finally figured out how to channel the life force of babies into time travel, and stole your idea, from the future, in order to annoy you.

HalfTangible
2010-11-15, 09:15 AM
Sorry. :smallfrown:

But surely there is room for two empty guns in a world of Endless Winter and constant monologues!

Besides, who's gonna think you stole the idea from me?
Far more likely is that I came from the future, having finally figured out how to channel the life force of babies into time travel, and stole your idea, from the future, in order to annoy you.
"Oh, this? I stole it. From the future."

Worlok
2010-11-15, 09:21 AM
Okay - That was one of those archive binges that only really leave two questions open: "(How) Can I get in on this?" and "Do I need a backstory comic?" :smallbiggrin:

HalfTangible
2010-11-15, 09:27 AM
Okay - That was one of those archive binges that only really leave two questions open: "(How) Can I get in on this?" and "Do I need a backstory comic?" :smallbiggrin:

1) Make a comic.
2) Not unless you want to :smalltongue: Ketham doesn't have a backstory comic.*



*He has a backstory but i have no way to make a comic out of it without making myself feel sick - i always hated stories where the bad guy suddenly decides to be a good guy... Don't give me that look, i never claimed he was doing a good job of being a good guy :smallannoyed:

V'icternus
2010-11-15, 09:36 AM
We noticed.

Magneto, head of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is doing a better job of being a good guy!
Note: The evil in "Brotherhood of Evil Mutants" is generally not used by the members, because that would be stupid.
Also, does anyone know how to spell Antidisestablishmentarianism? I can't seem to figure it out. See what I did there?

Worlok
2010-11-15, 09:40 AM
Antidisestablishmentarianism? Just like this: Antidisestablishmentarianism... :smallbiggrin:

And thanks, I'll think I'll set about joining in, then.