Strat's Idea Emporium (Interest Check)

Yeah.

You can sign up as a villain, a hero, whoever you want. The key here is that these characters died and they were given a chance to keep on living.

After the Beacon City concept fell, I was actually brainstorming a lot of stuff for it, prominently the first real overarching plot. In the original I wanted my character, Eggman, to be a the main recurring villain of sorts, with him trying to collect the Chaos Emeralds for world domination. He would already have about three of them with one inside the statue those thieves in the beginning tried to steal and the other three held by other characters (specifically Merlin, Dracula, and the Airbender temple). Of course, the heroes try to stop him/the villains plan to take him out as competition.

For this new Beacon City, we could have it as the Kingpin (Micheal Clark Duncan version) seeing the growing superhero population as a threat to his organization and contracts various supervillains to keep them distracted, running concurrent with Robotnik trying to claim the Chaos Emeralds. Also, there would be a sidestories where the trolls from Homestuck was transported to Earth and basically drafted into SHIELD and ARGUS, and the heroes getting funding for their endeavors by Scrooge Mc Duck.

Seems to me the mixed settings and agency would work well together by virtue of sending the least-qualified P Cs for the job.

For example, sending The Ahnold on the "kill ten rats in Ms. Miggins' basement" quest, sending a barbarian to solve a murder mystery with a motive on par with Midsomer's, sending a wizard to an interplanetary diplomatic summit...

The mixed setting idea might be cool if characters switched settings with other players from the RP itself (and inevitably make a pig's ear out of the entire fiction).

For instance, seeing an Ork Warboss suddenly having to deal with being thrown into Sailor Moon's role, and having to defend Tokyo with the power of love, while Sailor Moon has to lead a Waaagh! against the Imperium. Or something like that, I don't know.

edited 29th Jul '15 10:36:34 AM by Locoman

Hm, I'd be interested in both a Si Vis Votum reboot (because the concept is awesome and I love it) and the Mix and Match bit.

@Ud: I'm gonna be frank, one of the big complaints about Beacon City was that you wormed your characters into every plotline no matter whether people wanted you there or not. I'm going to take any suggestion you give me with a huge pile of salt and the chances of them being used are really small, so don't go making wild ideas based on speculation like you always do.

@Loco/Chabal: the idea with Mix and Match is for characters to be mixed from the start. What you suggested would fit more with a fanfic, where we could approach one character without having to worry about the others.

But the plots won't always be the same, will they? Unless it's a form of purgatory or something.

I don't think so?

For Beacon City, only thing I can suggest is to do like what True Detective did for the second season. Dammit, don't wanna spoil much but the death of someone there did set off a few story arc waves that is tied to together to the murder.

Also, are you gonna whittle the list down to remove those that don't have a lot of votes.

I'm gonna leave that up for a while, see who's left- it seems like our first RP is gonna be To Boldly Go, anyway.

Gotcha, mate.

What exactly does "AU versions of existing characters" entail? Is it just to avoid the introductory "OMG there are multiple universes" stuff, or do they really need to be different from the original?

I'd imagine For Want Of A Nail is in full effect in such a scenario. IMO, a truly interesting AU character keeps the core of the character but is different because of the different circumstances.

I mean... that's kinda implied with the phrase 'alternate universe', is it not?

IIRC, the original To Boldly Go wasn't strictly limited to AU versions of characters. There were a few original characters from preexisting fictional alien races.

^edit (as opposed to what, Vox - real alien races? that sentence made more sense in my head)

edited 30th Jul '15 5:54:59 AM by Vox

Hmm. To Boldly Go could be interesting. I have some character ideas which could work for that.

As in, why have them be AU in the first place unless it's for convenience.

Like, having a Captain Kirk who's from an AU melding Star Wars and Star Trek would make sense in order to avoid "what's the Force? why won't this go to Warp factor 5? what's a lightsaber?" scenes ad nauseam, but Jedi Master Captain Kirk means everything his personality and memories are based on is no longer true.

Maybe for To Boldly Go, to facilitate the Greyand Gray Morality of the setting, we could have it that the only reason the Empire are the villains and the Rebel Alliance are the heroes are the supreme leaders of each faction. The Emperor is a charasmatic bastard who is the Epitome of Villain with Good Publicity who like the torture innocents in his spare time and would wish to indulge in more blatant forms of corruption and power abuse instead running everything but enjoys the power and prestige too much to risk an approval rating that's less than 100%. The Rebel leader is a charasmatic compassionate man who truly wishes to bring about true equality and propserity to the people, helping those who are oppressed and forgotten and wishes to overthrow the Emperor because he knows the guy is a ticking time bomb.

Popping in to say that the Crossover Agency interests me the most, then To Boldly Go, then the Contest Of Champions.

Also have a (probably dumb in hindsight)question, since To Boldly Go is in the lead; By AU versions of existing characters, do you mean characters from any sort of fiction, or explicitly characters from Star Trek/Wars universes?

edited 30th Jul '15 12:54:58 PM by lightdarkhero250

The original had all sorts of characters from all sorts of media changed to fit in a vaguely Star Trek-ish universe.

Hmm.....I'm throwing around a few ideas in my head for TBG. I assume that sword users and such will still be workable in this, yes?

Of course. In the original TBG we had Selvaria, who used a lot of swords.

Methinks.

Only the one. And she never really used it for the duration of the game.

My Predator character used blades. Lasers too, though.

edited 30th Jul '15 3:19:21 PM by Vox

I don't suppose you would be joining us this time around?

edited 30th Jul '15 3:26:38 PM by Stratofarius