1 | [[FunWithAcronyms An "acronym"]] for "Creative Anime Prose Original Writing", CAPOW was a mailing-list RoundRobin writing group that was part FanFiction, part MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, and part diceless RoleplayingGame. |
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3 | It originated from the depths of UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}} as a "sister" group to the Roleplay/GlobalRanmaInsanityThread and moved to its own moderated mailing list (first on a member's personal server, and then on Yahoo Groups) where aspiring members have to apply and pass muster from existing members before they can join the group. By mid-1994 most of the groups' founding members had moved on to other projects and the group died a slow, agonizing death as people simply stopped posting. |
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5 | The basic premise of the group as a whole was this: you have Capow, a town/suburb/district of Tokyo that is home to the strangest collection of characters ever, and HilarityEnsues (as well as {{Drama|tropes}}, {{Romance}}, and StuffBlowingUp, among other things) as a result. |
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7 | The posts in raw form can be read at [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050207105142/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capowstory/ Yahoo Groups (in archived form)]]; it also has an information page [[http://capow.tripod.com/admin/capow.html on Tripod]]. |
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9 | !This series has examples of: |
10 | * AuthorAppeal - Since every character was required to have some sort of anime influence, that meant every member had plenty of opportunities to gush about their favorite series. |
11 | * BasedOnAGreatBigLie - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow. |
12 | * BlessedWithSuck - Powers above CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels are only acceptable unless they have some kind of handicap, and sometimes not even then. |
13 | * FourLinesAllWaiting - Several members were juggling different stories, so when things got very busy you could have a ton of concurrently ongoing plots. |
14 | * HyperspaceArsenal - Many characters explicitly have the power to access "malletspace", and most of them carry more things on their person than is advisable in real life. |
15 | * InnBetweenTheWorlds - The bar, which has a back door into Roleplay/{{GRIT}}; Capow as a whole is a Town Between The Worlds as well, since anybody from any series could theoretically end up there. |
16 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot - Inevitable given the wide range of genres that get brought into the series. (There may have been ''actual'' ninja pirate zombie robots.) |
17 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot - Occasionally a member will leave the group (causing their characters to become {{NPC}}s or completely unavailable), causing the stories that they were in to either become [[AbortedArc orphaned]] or necessitating workarounds. |
18 | * RuleOfIndex |
19 | * RunningTheAsylum - All of the members were expected to write, with the member providing the first post of any particular story arc acting as the impromptu "GameMaster". |
20 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield - Capow is said to be one of the districts of Tokyo, but it's never made clear exactly where it is. |
21 | * WeirdnessMagnet - Capow |
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