MDT: What's the word on where we ended up finally managing to make our way to, geographically? Are we still stuck in Barstow, or did we manage to get closer to the scene?
Sorry guys! Got bogged down,t hen was intimidated by massive wall of posts. Catching up now.
For those who are not as gifted as Violet and want to build something easily and quickly to give an idea of your suit...
I would, as a team, agree on a general theme. A symbol, or color scheme, or something, if you don't want to get laughed at. :)
For those who want something with much finer control but takes a lot longer to finish...
Note the first link is a sub-program of the last link. The last one gives you the ability to layer objects. The first one has fixed layering.
Repeating question on where we're currently located, geographically.
Sorry, if you pushed volunteering closer to Santa Clara, they'd let you move up closer during the second week, but not into the quarantine zone. The quarantine zone is everywhere within 15 miles of the city. They are bringing the outbreaks under control, and don't want to chance any more people than they have to. Doctors and Nurses are being let through, everyone else (even EMTs) are being kept outside. People who have undergone full quarantine and blood work ups are being let out of the city if they want, but it's a full 10 days quarantine so they are just beginning to let people out now.
Anyone attempting to sneak in or out of the quarantine zone is being arrested and quarantined, with up to 10 years in jail being the punishment.
Mud can't change his appearance, so yeah. ALthough for him a costume is going to be hard, as his stretchyness is going to leave it loose or falling off or torn regularly. He may have to spend some time learning to incorporate his clothes into his powers (IE: Buy instant change).
Blaze will need them as well (fire resistant!), as you don't want his face visible if he flames out (either by being hit by water/CO2 or in an effort to not start a fire).
Yeah, there's no way Violet would advocate getting anywhere closer than 15 miles if bloodwork is needed.
15 miles, though, gets us everywhere as far south Morgan Hill and as far North as Union City. East/West gets us Livermore and Palo Alto - there's a lot of places around there to get lost in crowds, and help out.
I guess the real question is: Is Aegis going to ignore the cordon and try to get in and snoop around, and will we have to come bail her out? ;)
Not quite how fast to move here, so let me know when you're ready for the next week.
I guess the real question is: Is Aegis going to ignore the cordon and try to get in and snoop around, and will we have to come bail her out? ;)
Maybe and she's getting out one way or another
@MDT, Is there a way for aegis to buy having her metal turn into a mask so she could just 'summon' her disguise? Also any ideas on how to make her power less punishing on the environment and her shoes when she's dense?
She already has instant change, so she just needs to train herself to coat her shoes as well... and to put up extra plates over her lower face. In other words, it's RP. Although you should probably just get a lower face mask and keep it in a pocket, so you can un-metal and re-metal without revealing your face. Then just learn to put the metal over your clothes. Again, RP type thing.
I got bored, so Goth Violet says hello.
The IRay render engine is still giving me fits, but I think I'm learning how to bash it into shape.
The trim on her dress should be purple, though. Not sure why that didn't render.
@MDT: I'm not trying to explain away any of the science. There might well be all sorts of wacky things happening here, even if the explanation is "X-gene" or "SCIENCE!" or something like that. I'm just following what a traditional geneticist's reaction would be to hearing something like this for the first time.
Go for it, I promise it will make 'some scientific sense' once you find out what is causing it.
It continues to be fun to play a character who I share a college major with! Although Janice hasn't taken a genetics class since 2012 or 2013, which means there's some cutting-edge stuff (RNAi, but especially CRISPR/Cas) that she wouldn't have heard of. (Incidentally, most of the coolest biology of the past 3-5 years has focused on genetic engineering/reprogramming rather than analysis, which means that while Janice might be able to do molecular biology like a champ, she's pretty uneducated on the most likely ways to give someone or modify superpowers).
Your faulty assumption there is that they are on the same time line, and you forget that their tech level got boosts from alien tech. So, starting 12 years ago, they started moving ahead in general technology, so having things happen 3-4 years earlier is reasonable.
So maybe the bleeding edge scientists already were working with it long before things were put into the vegetable drawer (Get it? Crisper Case?) for everyone.
Also, I enjoyed Luke Cage an infinite amount more than Jessica Jones. From a writing standpoint, I feel Jessica Jones was much stronger, had a less lame feeling villain, but just didn't connect for me. It was just too shades of gray, even down to the cinematography. Compare and contrast the constantly striking color palette used for Luke Cage (So many yellows and oranges!)
I really didn't expect to like Luke Cage as much as I did (again, leaving out how forced the 'brother' thing felt.), given how little I liked Jessica Jones. Don't get me wrong, JJ was good, but it wasn't really my cup of tea for superhero goodies. :)
My personal opinion on costuming, is to definitely have at least a similar color that appears pretty often. In a different game I played, it was suggested that people wear the same-ish colors to make it easier for artillery to pick you out amongst the enemy so you didn't accidentally get shot. Doesn't apply as much here, but it's a thing. :P
If we do go with a color scheme that repeats, I vote gold, given that one of us doesn't seem to be able to adjust that color scheme :p
Looking forward to Iron Fist.
Well, regardless of the color scheme, it might be sort of moot for me when I go "en fuego", but I doubt folks will mistake me for someone else :)
Just be aware that if we go with Gold as a common color, Violet is likely to make a lot of Dark Phoenix/Goblin Queen jokes. Like she said, vast mental powers plus breasts = she either eats the planet or invests a fortune in fetish gear and capes.
Take your pick.
Yeah... half our team can't exactly change colors (or at least, Janice is limited to earth tones). We could potentially have a shared *mask* color/style?
Or Argyle. We could all wear argyle. Like power rangers. Diamonds are in this season (I'm relatively certain. Probably. Equally certain it's not.).
Plenty of plants have yellow/gold leaves and flowers.
Heck, there's even a Japanese tree called Winter Gold that has gold bark in the winter and yellow leaves in the summer. STYPHNOLOBIUM
So, Aegis as Gold Ranger, Snapdragon as Green Ranger, Rocket as... what? Redshift Ranger?
Pulse as Kaleidoscope?
Sure... but Janice can't actually control the appearance of her forms, since I never bought that (I'm assuming a different color for each form, based on what sort of plant she's emulating—brown for tree, green for vines, orange for petals, etc.)
Just back from a business trip. Try to post RP tonight.
MDT, please add "instant change" to the wish list of XP spend.
cheers
Side Note: On Violet's last XP purchase, I forgot to up her Life Support to include natural toxins - so she is currently stuck at Narcotics and Sedatives (IE: Neutralizing Agents). I'll fix this on the next XP expenditure, but for now, her commentary to Pulse is, as far as she knows, accurate - just as with her flight ability, she actually has no idea that she's now immune to Narcotics (such as Sodium Pentathol).
I really feel like a dope because of this. I cut my teeth on HERO, I really should know my character better. Damn it.
To all my games : My father injured himself again Friday, and I have to go to Louisiana next week to deal with the aftermath. My ability to post will be spotty at best. My apologies in advance.
How is he?
Sorry to hear see you when you get back and good luck
Do what you need to do. We understand.
Best of luck
Life before game. Always.
We'll keep.
Very sorry to hear! Take care. We'll be fine.
I think I'm ready in game for more input from base--or else more progress in world (whenever makes sense in mdt's life).
I like the idea of serving metas...and as I mentioned in character, "I'm pretty sure that the Feds--and likely 12 other groups with way more means than we do--will start sniffing around everyone who starts doing work with or around metas, be it scientific investigation or advocacy or whatnot."...so we should run things by Sanction's crew before we go too far.
If we're not going to shine a spotlight on ourselves, we'll probably need to be very cloak-and-dagger about it. Rocket doesn't know how to do that, but I know Vi knows a fair bit.
I wonder if Pulse can do some untraceable communications to at least be a significant part of our outreach strategy...without exposing ourselves.
Sorry everyone, last week was busy. Got back late friday night, slept through the weekend, and then got hammered Monday at work because nobody could do anything without me last week. *sigh* I'll be caught back up by this weekend and normal posting will resume.
Good to see you back, well be here when you can post. How'd things go with your dad?
Welcome back!
Hoping everything's well with you (And with all the rest, too!).
You're fine, as always, kittyface. :)
Maybe moving the question over here will work better:
What sort of services could we reasonably offer Metas that wouldn't draw red flags either from the government, normals, or metas?
What do we, in the moment, feel is important to do moreso than anything, regardless of red flags?
It might be easier to answer out of character here, cause there are gonna be a lot of ideas that might not fit your own character.
A refuge for the persecuted meta. Food, shelter and legal advice.
When it rains, it pours... My brother in law is in ICU as of Sunday, ingested antifreeze. We hope being stupid and not trying to hurt himself. So things are... a bit disconbobulated...
Oh no!!
Sending prayers for quick recovery.
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Maybe moving the question over here will work better:
What sort of services could we reasonably offer Metas that wouldn't draw red flags either from the government, normals, or metas?
What do we, in the moment, feel is important to do moreso than anything, regardless of red flags?
It might be easier to answer out of character here, cause there are gonna be a lot of ideas that might not fit your own character.
I still think we should discuss with home base / Sanction's team before we take any action. This world is full of folks way better than us at investigation and espionage. I suspect any attempt we make to publicize ourselves will bring all the wrong kind of attention on us, and possibly more than we can handle.
OOC, my style is more to start doing heroic stuff and being useful...but I'm not sure I see a wise way to do so just yet. I definitely like the brainstorm of possible actions to take...but I think the conversation won't get much further (at least on my end) until we discuss with Sanction & co.
Be safe, Kittiface.
Hoping for the best, MDT. Keep us posted.
I like to imagine that the Disneyland pieces in THIS is not unlike how things might have gone with Violet, Pulse, and the rest. Had we made it there. Especially the bit about getting on a ride or else.
And churros.
I dun get it :P
Will try to get updates tonight, sorry all.
We'll be here, Kittiface. :)