A reminder because there seems to be some confusion, also being near-page-topper helps:
- "PMD A" == "games PMD" == no relation to AU
- "PMD B" == "branch where the dragons win" == Alternate AU
- "?????" == "branch where the dragons lose" == Normal AU
x However many to Silent.
Concern 1
Well, to me both 'Zam and 'Gross have similar levels of brainpower, and the events I want Chrome to remember are REALLY traumatic, and were probably etched really hard into his mind(s).
Concern 2
I assumed each half of the AU was a few thousand years down the line. And don't worry about PMDB being too much like LOTR/Elder Scrolls - I just want it to have a high-fantasy vibe in general.
Concern 3
I can definitely see where you're coming from (though in terms of motivations I assumed they were afraid the dragons would start another uprising). Like I said, I'm very open to an alternate, more peaceful way of getting the dragons a better place in society/public image.
Contact Me!Because of all the situation going in the chatrooms (both public and private) recently and what they are doing to my health, among other things, I feel in the need to ask that for once, a final decision on the chatroom split / OTing
is called. I know there were votes behind, like already two weeks ago. What are we going to do with that?
EDIT - added relevant link
edited 29th Jan '12 8:10:01 PM by SilentReverence
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Most of us said three chats, which is what I'm still backing.
There's no chart, but there's a list here
edited 30th Jan '12 6:12:51 AM by Umbramatic
Contact Me!I have been thinking about my character's powers lately, and I think I should get rid of them. Psychic powers are going to be very hard to write without making them OP, and getting rid of them would end my bit of the whole "Speshul Powers" dilemma. I was thinking that Jeff would go to talk to his mons, but then no longer be able to understand them (kinda like the scene from Kiki'sDeleveryService, except the loss of powers would be permanent) and have to find a new way to understand them. This could kill two birds with one stone by revealing Jeff's Pokéform. So, what do you guys think?
You don't need to completely rid of "psychic powers", it is a broad term that allows many things to be picked from. That it helps setup, yes, it does, but I'd guess you don't need to be brough completely down to "normal" (because there's the fact of what "normal" is for this RP anyway ;3 ).
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Well, let me say this again for the umpteenth time. I prefer our current system because, like Straw said, it's actually been working for the last couple of days (Stupid fights and overreactions over relatively trivial things that make me want to facepalm at their utter immaturity aside.). Also, as someone who spends most of his time during the school year away from his home laptop but has actual computer access, which I can't simply lug with me due to a broken backlight, I'd find it to be, pardon my Anglo-Saxon, a massive pain in the ass to have to use Speeqe to keep up with both (Perhaps even three or four depending on what we're doing that day) chats due to tag clutter. Maybe if I had Pidgin access 24/7 yes, and perhaps I'll eventually get used to this new system, otherwise I don't see this boding well.
Not to mention that, going by previous events involving the creation of new chats, all that's really going to happen is that besides the near desertion of one of these new chats we'll separate into even greater cliques than what I see has already occurred. I don't know about you guys, but I don't find the greater separation I've seen lately as very good. In fact I find it quite saddening.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.I find the separation saddening as well, but honestly, when the alternative is that I have to go through literal headaches trying to parse the log for useful information, and it has been proven already that the so-called OT model is not working, well... I shouldn't really ask forgiveness for putting my health and some planning order above, well, yackfest.
Bottom line, if I had the choice to be ambivalent (again, mind) I would. But I don't. I want to focus on the damn RP. Keeping the current model, or splitting the planning, is kinda unusable for me at this point. What is happening right now in the chatroom serves as better evidence as well.
edited 30th Jan '12 8:10:15 PM by SilentReverence
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Never had that problem, but you and I have already talked about that Silent so I don't think there's need for a redux. And all the OT problems have only happened due to massive overreactions on one or both parties parts. (Not blaming any one person mind you, I think there's plenty of blame to go around where that's concerned...)
Yeah, and maybe I don't feel like getting strung around like a damned yo-yo between my friends. Not like that's been any different lately...
But anyway, I'm done, you guys can do what you want, I've said my piece.
edited 30th Jan '12 9:02:32 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.OK, can I say one more thing?
I don't like the OT system. AT ALL. As much as I try to be on, RL gets in the way far too much for me to be on every scheduled OT time. Yet when I try to discuss things outside of it, I get drowned in WTF BADFICS or LOL ASKBLOGS or OMG GENERATOR REX. So having an OT chatroom 24/7 would help me - and a lot of other people - actually talk about the RP. It's better than me having to forcibly call an OT when I feel like no one is listening (and yes, I have done that)
Sorry if this seems blunt, but I've been wanting this for a long time.
Contact Me!So, I came up with some ideas regarding the finale, in order to make things work with plot decisions that were most likely made when I was asleep (Silly Timezones
).
So, it would probably be best to have Rayquaza!Vyvyan rescued and reunited with his Pokémon and Sierra a few days before dealing with Charon. Give him a few days to calm down after the initial shock and spend some time with his Pokémon and Sierra as they help him through it, or something.
So, during the confrontation against Charon, in which we try to shut down his weather machine(s), Rayquaza!Vyvyan could use his Rayquaza powers to cancel out the weather caused by the machine.
This would allow the volcano part to come into play in the form of Charon accidentally triggering it while attempting to get the weather machine to work again.
Optional idea:
- During the rescue mission, after managing to free Rayquaza!Vyvyan and reunite him with his Pokémon and Sierra, Team Ozone show up having been alerted to the situation, forcing the characters to make a hasty exit, and having to leave Depthcharge and Buggle behind, meaning they'd have to go back for them later.
Thoughts?
to the overall idea. Adding in the optional part, it gives us a good justification to play a Storming the Castle scenario against Team Ozone, thus diverging from having just one target to spam attacks on. Also it helps justify th e other Teams getting involved in the whole issue.
So, on finale preparations, there are some concerns that need to be addressed so that we can arrange for the finale events in an adequate manner that allow for as many of us as we want to to play a significant role.
- What is Team Ozone's resources? What amount of personnel do they have and how well equipped they are? also I realize them having Zubats makes sense...
- Where is Team Ozone's HQ located? How approachable it is?
- Someone suggested an airbase. Considering the precedent of airborne megaship / carriers in the anime, I'd guess TO could have amassed enough power for a S.H.I.E.L.D.-esque airbase.
- Otherwise (or along with it!) there are a couple of semideserted animµ islands near Sootopolis and Pacifidlog that we could use.
- Common sense says Charon won't be operating from any of the known TA/TM/TO/T[whatever] bases, and that he probably can control his best weather machines remotely. Where will he first be confronted?
- Are we handling the issue on our own or can we count with eg.: E4 or Law Enforcement?
- Since eventually the stability of Mt. Pyre is gonna be at risk, perhaps some of us could play scenarios either evacuating the nearby settlements, or taking down TA/TM efforts to control nearby areas.
EDIT: Quick mental rundown of the scenario, or what I know from it, suggests we split in three logistical groups (thus also avoiding the Sponge Boss problem):
- The "stop Charon / caldera" group, mostly concerned with avoiding catastrophe at the core or with handling Charon. I'd guesstimate at least DS and Tagg will be here. This scenario favors more the classical boss battle, plus puzzle bosses, and it will also be the one to directly involve the Legendaries.
- The "stop the teams" / "storm TO's place" group, mostly concerned from halting the Teams from causing yet more chaos (since they'll peobably be both interfighting and infighting). I'd guesstimate Umbra and Rex will probably like this scenario so that they get more or less a Baptism By Fire (I still feel we owe Rex his BBF from the OI, since we've never got to Shenanigan the Delta Battle). It allows for more variable development, and it is not as much limited by location, timezones or plot minutia as the above one can get to be if we delay.
- The "protect the public" group, mostly concerned with stuff like evacuating Mt. Pyre and nearby settlements, keeping civil order in nearby cities as the news go out, fetching or recovering supplies and tools we might need, and in the end probably performing arrests on the evildoers not named Charon. I'd guesstimate probably Luke will be interested in this kind of scenario. This kind of scenario favour less classical boss battles, if any, and is more tied by dependence on the effects of both the above groups than by
Comments?
edited 31st Jan '12 3:31:56 PM by SilentReverence
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