Alter Egos: OOC Chat - ARCHIVED

No worries... *waves his cane* ... y'know old Tiphereth is a stickler for details.

(Lake Oneida is still in New York by the way. Maybe it's common knowledge for Americans, I dunno... I certainly didn't know. )

This Midwestern Heart of America boy, thanks the Gods for a road atlas, google maps and mapquest

I can't believe the detail of the maps. I go to Google Maps and take screen shots of various sections then photoshop them together to make one larger map with high detail, it's great!

Some of the small places they list though, when you google them hardly even come up with any information... I guess they are just small little boroughs or something.

They have no idea Frank wants to harm his daughter. Even if they did know, they really wouldn't care. All Birkshire cares about is catching as many meta-human's as possible, especially 'Cowboy'. Morgan and Frank are just a bonus to him, and Birkshire suspects that Frank might be able to lead him to Cowboy.

If two meta-humans want to kill one another it doesn't matter much to RAID.

Birkshire knows how dangerous Frank's ability is, but RAID has ways of dealing with telepaths. You have to think that they would have developed some sort of way of handling mind controllers after years of chasing and capturing meta-humans.

Yeah, I know eh?

I just figure that since they represent the Riggs Act and they are in a sense the ultimate opposition of the meta-humans they should be unreasonable and 'cold'. To them all Meta-humans are second-class citizens and their needs will never supersede those of a Human.

it is the FBI, that a Meta-human might be able to establish some trust in. While they are bound by the Riggs Act their agents still extend the same laws and rights to Meta-humans as they would to a Human. In the case of the two FBI agents that have been pursuing Tim, Henkel is pretty law abiding and just sees him as a regular Felon, while Jameson would like to one day transfer to RAID since he believes deep down that all meta-humans are a menace to society.

Any time you want to know anything about RAID or the FBI just ask and you shall receive.

Shinigami is coming...

The idea of presenting him as an assassin is to provide a 'competitive edge' for the characters. Our characters are obviously not in any jeopardy unless we want them to be and I will simply write Shinigami's actions and let you determine them. Once his fighting style is established and you are confident in writing him then include him in your post in the combat sequence. He is simply something to have fun with.

Each one of our character's has a skill that will test the perfect assassin but he should be able to counter most of them. When it comes to guns, he can pretty much know their paths and avoid them by dodging or teleporting since he can slightly perceive the future and second guess things. (of course a random barrage of bullets fired haphazardly would make Shinigami retreat until the coast was clear. Of course this might also hit other characters in the area.)

Realistically we will most likely reach a stalemate... but we'll just keep things flowing as well as we can until that point then work it out from there. The idea is take the opportunity to write a cool battle sequence as opposed to being a hero and ending the fight quickly, not that we want to drag it out too much, just a few interesting posts.

I just did a bit of reorganizing and created the Heroes Information for those long standing elements that people need to refer back to from time to time.

So I know that the current time might be a little bit in the future... say around 2013 or something? Do we want to establish a definite year and if so, what?

So what year was the RIGGS Act passed? Just wondering. I would like to establish a bit more of time line in the history.

I was also wonder when the funeral of 'Herman Young AKA Babyface' occurred since this is pivotal point in the story line that occurred before my time. I still think this even can have some relevance to future posts. Lac, can you figure out what the date would have been...roughly?

The time frame was set to be current or modern time frame. It's has been five years since the Riggs Act was passed into law and making the Meta's lives hell.

Herman's funeral never really took place because all hell broke loose when they tried to have one but it would have taken place roughly a month before the current time frame the story is currently in.

Man....had to believe all this crap has taken place just one month after the one time tight knit group got back together to honor Herman.

Anyway....that was the original concept of the story line.

Cool thanks I am going to document that. I had to ask because some of my posts delve into the past and I like to be somewhat accurate.

Somewhat is an understatement. LOL

I love your accuracy. It helps kee me on track.

I am glad it actually helps someone else. I really need to have some kind of history and time line to write from since, as you are quite aware, I try and make sure my posts span as much of the ongoing story as much as possible. I also really enjoy developing the history of the story line and the characters just as much as writing in the present.

Telepathy 101 by Tiphereth.

Frank's 'angel's songs' are probably feedback he gets from sensing meta-humans and he is tuned right into Morgan's mutation. Perhaps every time he has contact with a meta-human he can learn their frequency and later tune into it. This would give him the telepathic abilities of 'mental domination' and 'tracing'.

Despite Morgan's animal telepathy she would be just as sensitive to Frank's "Psychic Scream" attack, but she can countermand it by using her ability to build a mental barrier. This would be like a telepathic battle of wills.

Once telepaths engage in a mental battle they may at one point or another lock minds and then they enter a battle of wills pitting their telepathic powers against one another. Only they can break the connection or someone can do it for them by knocking them out.

LOL

I was thinking of Tim's situation, it is quite classic.

You have the stealthy hero who has thus far planned every move and stayed a few steps ahead of the FBI and RAID, but then he picks up a hitchhiker and all hell breaks loose. His ordered, laid back world is suddenly thrown for a loop, things beyond his control are occurring and it could cost him his freedom... Dun dun daaaaaa...

ROTFLMAO


Good way to sum it all up

From a Hollywood Perspective there is about a 70% survival rate if people are in a vehicle. If they are on foot.... DEAD... or they lose limbs and survive if they receive immediate medical attention.

Either way the vehicle, particulaly a standard one like Frank is driving would be destroyed. The SUV's that the R.A.I.D. agents are driving probably have a 50% chance depending on if they are armoured and how well. I would assume the omly one that is heavily armoured is the command car.

I know it seems like all avenues have been cut off, but I just did that to make sure we just didn't have a cat and mouse chase with roads appearing out of no where. We can always make roads, so I just thought I would define some definite parameters and put the characters in a situation where they probably have to fight their way out.

Not trying to make it impossible or anything Just adding some a little intensity, cause after this I don't think that RAID will be tracking Tim down again anytime soon.

In regards to plasma weaponry. This mainly concerns the character Sean. It is an established sci-fi/comic book sort of law that these electrical plasma weapons will damage 'moleculars', which are those meta-humans that can alter their molecular make up.

Toril/Wraith would be considered molecular and even in his 'wind form' a plasma burst can hurt him. The damage is obviously not as intense but it does have an effect. In Sean's case I believe it also should, but it's up to Jack to determine just how much.

(This is just pertaining to those moleculars who become non-coporeal. Of course, if someone becomes rock or wood or something else they have the properties of that element. When it comes to being transparent, airy or shadow, I always assume that 'scientifically' one cannot actually have those properties and remain a 'life form' unless they are magical beings. So there still has to be something that effects them. I know that in Sean's case this is light... so it's Jacks ultimate decision really if that is his one major weakness )