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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 13:03:27 GMT
I thought to create a new thread for discussing possible plots and setting. I know that we had the post-apocalyptic survival plot ongoing when the game last left off, and I cannot speak for anyone else, but that hits increasingly too close to home for comfort for me, given ongoing current events.
Are people interested in a reset to prior to the apocalypse and starting out a new board-plot, perhaps one slightly less hopeless?
Other questions for taking this into account, does anyone have specific characters from their collections they want to bring in and have involved? That could help to shape direction and vice versa.
For myself, I have four I want to hit the ground running with - the Professor if we have the Institute back up and running, Pietro, Odin, and I have a new person I would like to debut about whom I am quite excited but who works best in a stable setting as he would probably be dead in an apocalypse, due to being the anti-Pietro.
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Post by Gambit on Jun 25, 2017 18:21:00 GMT
I'd be interested in that, yes. The post-apoc setting was insanely attractive and I had tons of ideas, but all of my threads stalled and I suspect it was due to the setting as well as to other writers getting adjusted to every minutiae of the circumstances. It's just too heavy to get rolling right off the bat, especially if you need to coordinate it with a large number of people, I admit.
I'd be happy with where we'd left off. (I wouldn't even mind returning to the previous board for that.) I'm pretty sure I can have four out of my five (Gambit, Aqua, Smiler, Morph, Havok) going at a moderate speed, or replace one of them with someone fresh. Weren't we short on canons prior to the hiatus?
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 18:39:23 GMT
I remember us being short on canons, but I also made a little list (due to enjoying lists) of players and characters, and I think that we could all pull together from our previous canon lists/incarnations, and make it work. We would have the Professor, Storm, the twins, Gambit, Morph and/or Havok, and Mystique and Magneto, and whoever Shade or Typhoid wants to bring in for other canons - Rogue or Nightcrawler or Polaris, and if Kitty returns, she had a load of canons. We could make it work.
I will admit that I missed writing X-Factor and look forward to the ability to have Morph, Golem, and Odin back on the beat.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:04:07 GMT
As an addendum, since I am full of ideas and energy at the moment, if we did go back to the old board, I can do a great deal of clean up and set up some new places. It would be nice to have everything linked in one place if we go back to a pre-apocalyptic setting.
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Post by Mystique on Jun 25, 2017 22:07:34 GMT
Yeah, the post-apocalyptic setting was pretty heavy and it took a lot of effort that I guess took me by surprise. But I would be willing to go back to the old board and help with clean up.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:10:10 GMT
We are also living at the precipice of an apocalypse which also adds to the heaviness.
Clean up help would be appreciated, as always.
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Post by Typhoid on Jun 25, 2017 22:15:24 GMT
I would be happy with where we left off, although it would mean retconning some of what Omen went through (wouldn't mind that in particular either). As mentioned elsewhere I would like to flesh out Rogue a little, perhaps get the movie version closer to the sassy Southern spitfire from the comics that we all know and love.
Can one of you post the link to the old board, if we end up going back? I've gone through more then one computer upgrade since that time.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:17:48 GMT
I see no reason why we cannot retcon anything and everything that needs to be retconned, including retconning canons that have passed hands or whose later film portrayals were underwhelming. And, yes, we will need to retcon the prophecy plot, but that should be fine. And we will have to put ourselves quite out of present time step, but that is also fine. We do not need to take place in 2017 when we are running so much slower than back in 2008. For the board link: godsandinsects3.proboards.com
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Post by Mystique on Jun 25, 2017 22:19:29 GMT
Wait, didn't you mean the second old board, G&I4?
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Post by Typhoid on Jun 25, 2017 22:22:01 GMT
I've been in that one. It is largely unused.
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Post by Typhoid on Jun 25, 2017 22:23:40 GMT
And we will have to put ourselves quite out of present time step, but that is also fine. We do not need to take place in 2017 when we are running so much slower than back in 2008. I see no good reason to live in 2017 in a fake world as well as a real one.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:23:43 GMT
Do we want to pick up at G&I 4? Almost none of our threads were there and almost nothing was transferred when we moved. G&I 3 has 90% of everything we wrote between the transfers from G&I 1 and then the years we spent there. With G&I 3, we can move old threads and characters to the archives, preserve everything we ever wrote otherwise, and not worry about losing much in further transfers.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:24:52 GMT
And we will have to put ourselves quite out of present time step, but that is also fine. We do not need to take place in 2017 when we are running so much slower than back in 2008. I see no good reason to live in 2017 in a fake world as well as a real one. Every character I have ever written agrees with you, and I am including Herald in that statement.
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Post by Typhoid on Jun 25, 2017 22:26:39 GMT
Do we want to pick up at G&I 4? Almost none of our threads were there and almost nothing was transferred when we moved. G&I 3 has 90% of everything we wrote between the transfers from G&I 1 and then the years we spent there. With G&I 3, we can move old threads and characters to the archives, preserve everything we ever wrote otherwise, and not worry about losing much in further transfers. I like this idea.
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Post by Odin on Jun 25, 2017 22:29:43 GMT
I am gratified, because I am cleaning out old profiles as we speak.
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