The Good, The Bad and The Spandex: Discussion Thread

True. It’s more for worldbuilding than anything else. Or a time travel arc, if we decide to do that.

It's appreciated either way.

More focus to the Gleipnir Alliance.

Back with new character!

GOA: remind us what that is.

Vampire: Welcome back.

In-character: TALOS is limited in jurisdiction, but Fenrir is not. They may use dummy corps and the like to do everything from trafficking, robbery, fraud and more to fund themselves. In acknowledgement of that Gleipnir is a TALOS headed resource sharing cross-jurisdictional alliance between other law keeping organizations. TALOS keeps getting all the cool stuff but everyone else gets to tap those resources for whatever they need. In exchange, TALOS taps their resources to keep track of any possible Fenrir activity.

As a consequence, TALOS continues to get all the cool stuff because everyone else can just tap it anyway. Meaning, everyone taps TALOS for their cool stuff so they have to get more cool stuff but everyone's cool with that because-

Often enough, TALOS and Gleipnir become synonymous to some people.

Out-of-character: Characters established as TALOS agents might appear in stuff that normally TALOS would have no business in because their on loan to another agency.

Oh, so they are TALOS' economic providers? Well since they are a United Nations security taskforce, I'd thought the UN would fund them, but then again, some of their stuff must cost *billions* and I'm sure they might not mind subcontracting from the private sector. As long as its a clean operation, as you mentioned.

On other news, I'm hard at work on the starting plot and hopefully, the new Game Thread will launch tonight.

Is Eldtrich accepted?

No, no. I’ll explain it better when I get home.

GOA: Ah, OK.

Vampire: Yes he is.

Again, I've been having a lot of internet trouble since yesterday but things seem stable now. So... beginning countdown to New Spandex Game...

So, TALOS gets their money from the U.N. The U.N. get their money from its constituent countries. Normally, they'd be reluctant to give TALOS too much because, hey, they have their other organizations to fund, domestic and abroad. However, because of the Gleipnir alliance, giving stuff to TALOS is like giving it to everyone else, because the agreement is to share.

This sounds rather convoluted and would be hard to get people on board with and then get it to work, like herding cats. Well, Gleipnir, the chained that Norse mythology says held down Fenrisulfr, was made from impossible things.

edited 16th Nov '17 3:41:18 PM by God_of_Awesome

Aaaand we are go! [1]

Heroes, go save lives! Anti-heroes, go fight! Villains, go look for a way to profit from this!

Posted.

Oh right, official announcement. Forgot.

That's the equivalent of someone ducking under the ceremonial red belt for some candy floss

Hey guys, this is my first real RP, so hopefully my writing improves over time.

Also, with the card-themed villain, the luck-themed villain, and my character's whole stage magician shtick, I could totally see a Vegas Episode coming up much later.

Be warned, with a guy who battled lovecraftian horrors and killed them being present, you should be prepared.

Just a bit more clarification on Kaylee's absolutely bizarre powers.

So, the larger constructs, such as giant robo hands, are made out of a mixture of clockwork parts, not necessarily gears, so I need to adjust that power name in her sign up sheet...

Anyway, the parts usually form out of thin air, and don't really conform to their own physics. They act like abstract art in they can levitate in thin air, rotate clockwise and anticlockwise simultaneously, and gain momentum and direction with a thought.

Basically Kaylee's powers is M.C. Esher if he had an obsession with clocks.

edited 17th Nov '17 4:54:42 AM by Enirboreh

You're all doing great guys!

Sorry if this is a rather simplistic mission to start with, but I wanted something that would let everyone get to show off for their debuts. I'm already plotting the next one, which involves someone recruiting members for a supervillian team. Any takers?

Strip Poker is joining, whether they want him or not.

And just for the record, since it seems to have come up, visually, the Goddess looks like a little girl in a tattered dress who’s never touched a bar of soap.

edited 17th Nov '17 1:30:45 PM by PossiblyQuiteInsane

I may or may not get back in some time.

You'll be welcome Silence.

Apex will probably join the Supervillain team (though it depends on how much money is involved).

Alternatively, Apex is already on the Supervillain team but never shows up to meetings because he's busy robbing liquor stores for funsies.

I need to actually write profiles.

So I’ve decided that the goddess needs a nickname, because it’s tedious referring to her as “the goddess” all the time.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Because the only thing I can come up with right now is “Filthy”. Which might have something to do with the fact that it’s the middle of the night.

Slight retcon on the height of Alex's AMP suit; it's now closer to 9 foot instead of 7. Just to make it a little more plausible for Kaylee to squeeze in with him.

PQI: How about Cloacina, Roman goddess of Sewers? Nickname: Cloaci.

Enirb: OK