Alter Egos: OOC Chat - ARCHIVED

I'm having Morgan strike out on her own. How Tim handles this is up to Lac, but she honestly feels that it's safer for the others this way. She is not being dramatic nor am I trying to make her a victim. LOL She simply wants to keep them safe and has strong suspicions that Frank is working for RAID.

Modified my last post with Morgan. I'm having an off couple of days. LOL

Tiph, could I get you to make me a pic of Jess? And, for anyone else, would anyone have any suggestions on an alias for her. I'm pulling a mind blank.

I really can't a picture what her power actually is or does.

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In regard to my last post I was planning to move RAID to Chicago prior to Morgan's plan, and getting Frank to assist them in capturing a murderous meta-human was how I thought they could get the Hunter to tag along.

It's Frank decision. I guess what ever you figure he would do would work, either way, Birkshire is off to Chicago to deal with Amazon and Cursed Knight.

Her power seems very similar to DiVinne's, but he's outta the picture right now, so I guess there's room for more plant controlling mutants. Is she EXPENDABLE?

To be comic booky, she could be called Green Thorn or Snap Dragon, or something like that.

Snap Dragon would be could name for a plant mutant with martial art skills (of course most, heroes usually know some form of fighting art).

oh, her name could be Jessica Eden

Modified the Birkshire post, I always mess up my East and West. Naturally, Morgan would be leading Frank East, away from Chicago. Am I right?

No, not entirely. She plans on meeting up with him before then to get rid of him. She's actually headed southwest, towards Chicago. Now, if noone is wanting Birkshire to be led indirectly to Chicago, then I can change her post, not a problem. Plan was to give the group time to get to Chicago safely and with as little hassles as possible. Morgan is going to take her time getting to Chicago, sticking off road as much as possible, making it difficult for Frank to pinpoint her unless she surfaces in a town or something. Make sense?

She fully plans on making it to Chicago, unless Tim decides to come after her, which is up to Lac. Oh, I forgot about Totem. Well, give me your input and I'll change what needs to be changed. But, she is wanting to finish this with Frank or at least put him out of commission for awhile.

As for my newest character, I didn't know there was another plant meta-human. If this is a problem, then I can come up with something else. Let me know. As for expendable, I was thinking possibility. What are your thoughts? And, Jessica Eden is pretty good as for martial arts, I'll think on it. I do like Snap Dragon especially as they are one of my favorite flowers. LOL

Duplicating powers doesn't matter when it comes to minor characters like DiVinne. It's really only conflicts with Major characters that's a bother. As I said before mutants with the same powers work really well when they are enemies. Just like, we have Flaming Angel and Sun Storm, both mutants that use heat as weapons (in different manners though) but their on opposite sides. That makes for some good writing.

I'll modify my post I wasn't sure what direction Morgan was going. That will probably work out better anyway.

I wasn't planning on her being a major player and I've never had an expendable character before, so I say, okay, let's make her expendable.

It was just an idea I had so that we can have some casualties. Nobody, me included, wants to kill off their major characters, and we sometimes get attached to our minor's as well, so I thought that if we could create some 'expendables' that any writer can kill off (just give a heads up in OOC just in case someone has plans) a character to help expand the plot.

Just an idea. There's no need to follow suit if your not comfortable with it. I'll be creating a few more expendables anyway, but they have to written into the story line anyway so that people will miss them when they're killed by either RAID or Super Villains. Also, it's nice for the Super Villains to have some characters that they can unleash on.

I posted the diagram and some pics of Green Street in the 'maps and pics' topic. Let me know if anything needs be added.

I made the base quite extensive, since I figured it could be the main hub.

The late Silicone was an extra-ordinary computer hacker so her control room should suit Zoe well. Her quarters (a full suite) are right beside the control room and I guess, believably, some of Silicone's stuff will still have to be moved out.

Kasai, I am not sure how much you may want to delve into the history of Silicone, I just created her off of the top of my head, but realistically she would be missed by the other meta's who had once worked with her. There may even be a story line that could be made surrounding her death, perhaps something that some day Zoe may stumble upon, or something like that.

Great job on both accounts Teph. Not that I expected anything less.

If it's okay with everyone, I'd like to move Morgan and Frank's timeline up a bit, getting them to Chicago. Once Tim and group get there, they can be on the same timeline again. Is this okay? Won't do anything until I hear from you guys.

As long as your character is not currently entwined with that of another writers, jumps in the time line aren't a problem. Just make sure you put a time tag at the bottom of your post so everyone knows were your character is in the 'continuum'.

Birkshire does need to meet with Frank in Cleveland and he has some information that it is going to effect EVERYONE. Once the meeting is over, Frank will be heading toward Chicago where he will be free to do as he wants.

The only thing you have to consider with time jumps is that, Morgan will be out of sync with all the characters in Chicago. If you make a leap, she will be days ahead of mine and Kasai's group. Collaborative writing gets very touch with travel that's why I am really looking forward to everyone being in the same city.

Morgan can end being as much as two days out of sync, so if you make the leap you have to realize that your character is in the future and that type of writing get's very confusing.

Basically the entire group would have to agree on the 'jump' and we would all jump ahead a couple of days.

Tiph-- I hadn't really given Silicone much thought but if you had any ideas definitely bounce them off of me and we can maybe have it pop up later-- that would be kind of a fun twist. As for quarters, I was ind of figuring Zoe could travel in between the two bases (NY and Chicago) via the computers so she can basically help run both. She definitely is a major player in NY and Cassius' only support and since travel for her is so easy, she could just do both. So I may have her flit in and out of Chicago and NY when needed.

That sounds cool. Well there's a suit there for Cassius anyway, if he's heading to Chicago with the others.

When it comes up, we can definitely mention a little bit about Silicone here and there, it will most likely occur in conversation among those who knew her best. Your characters I imagine, Flaming Angel and then maybe Ultramarine, Sigma's definitely indifferent over the matter.

There, got my post outta the way.

So, Frank's time line depends on what he's going to do. Cleveland looks like it's about four hours from Chicago, so were he to keep heading west he'd be there by about 8:00 pm.

Now, depending on when Morgan shows up in Chicago, I think Kasai and I could probably take a leap to accommodate the difference, which means we'll use Morgan's time as bench mark to keep everyone on track. Lac and RPM can then do a time lapse to get closer to Chicago as well, and maybe then Grey could heal up more.

Those are just my thoughts on the matter. I can't help but see the entire story unfurling before me and I rarely focus specifically on my own characters which is why I find keeping track of time so important. It really comes into play when I am trying to throw in some RAID stuff to. But, like I said, once we are all in Chicago, it will be much easier.

The meta-human villains, were posted a long time ago, and are located on page one of the Heroes Character Topic. I thought, it would be nice to have a lot more villains why not just break some out, and the guy who got them out is a serious bad ass.

Kasai, you probably took note of Birshire mentioning that an extraordinary computer specialist was an accomplice in the prison break. Yes, it was Silicone and now she's dead.... supposedly killed by RAID... hmmmmmm. *scratches chin* (Silicone would have done this secretly, behind the backs of the others... so she was into some serious poo.)

How does Silicone Surfer sound? True identity, Joanne Keys. I'll make up a bio for the late Ms. Keys, and we can treat her death like a murder mystery as a little side story for the Chicago Resistance. There's lots of other stuff on the go, so it's something else that the characters can concentrate on and another event that we can build on. Nothing's really pre-set, aside from the fact that for some reason she helped a bunch of villains escape from prison, who knows what the reason may be. Right now as far as the characters are concerned, Joanne was killed in raid by RAID at some other location, maybe her true residence? (Obviously then one of the resistance knew her real name).

I'll make up a bio ASAP.

I have to agree with you, Tiph, a leap in time would make writing confusing for me and I'm confused enough as it is.

Here is my idea, though. Frank will nab Morgan shortly after she arrives in Chicago and before she finds Tim and the group. He will take her to an abandoned warehous or small factory, try to force her to admit to her sins. He will have already helped Birkshire take care of Slither before Morgan arrives in the city. He will have her for a few days, Flaming Angel will find her, help Morgan put Frank out of commission for awhile. She will recognize her from Totem's picture, take her back to her place and contact Totem. Meanwhile, somehow, I was thinking that maybe Toril could find out that she is at Allie's place, hear Yelena talking about her or something like that and tell her where she is. Thoughts on this?

Honestly, it seems like you are forecasting a little too far. I mean, we can set up events but we have to give other writers the chance modify them and steer them as they might see fit. Part of the fun is setting something up and letting other people run with it.

I myself forecast far ahead, and keep an end goal in sight while having fun in between. When I make my posts I always try and account how other writers might respond to it. Sometimes people read my mind and go in a direction I anticipated but sometimes someone totally blows my mind and does something that I didn't foresee. That's cool! Personally, if I were to have everything go just as I plan, then wouldn't bother with collaborative writing and just write a novel

If you plan an abduction of Morgan, you cannot count out Tim being her Rescuer, that is actually a really good opportunity for Lac to stretch Tim's legs and get into some head to head action. For example: If Lac goes to a lot of effort and create an investigation to find Morgan and the story is going really well it is just then polite to allow that to continue. Having another character miraculously swoop in ahead with minimal effort and save the day ahead of a character who has been busting his hump, would just be bad form.

One day there may also be a serious confrontation between Frank and Tim, then you guys will have to hash what's going to happen. It is inevitable that Franks has to either turn over a new leaf or die since it seems very unlikely that some Hero would not eventually kill him if Morgan doesn't get him first.

Most of the time when I post and await others to build on what I have written, if things tend go my way it's because I have made sure to plant enough ques in my posts, but they don't have to. I have definitely made the mistake myself and set up too much expecting things to just go my way and have been thoroughly disappointed, but it was entirely my own fault for being too greedy, and I paid the price.

Follow your plans as you see fit, but remember to give others the opportunity to jump in. You never know what might happen if Morgan gets abducted, perhaps the super villain, Amazon might swoop in and save the day for some reason and shock us all. Who knows? Our posts should develop our characters, elaborate on others, and of course provide elements that in turn others can elaborate on. That's really what it's all about.

You are so right, Tiph. I kind of feel like an ass now for not thinking about the others and to anyone who sees this, please accept my sincerest apologies for being an ass.

I will definately take what you've said to heart and simply go with the flow, so to speak. Thank you for being honest with me.

OH MY... I wish that you could hear the tone of my voice when you read my words, you would then know that despite the way I write that I am really not as conceded and pompous as I portray. Please only take my words to heart as a humble critique to help you grow as a writer, I have seen make excellent posts Sin, and I believe you were only etching a little too much in stone.

Always keep a plot in mind, and yours is a good one, but just lay out and have fun with it. I guarantee it won't go as planned, but you may be pleasingly surprised by the results.

Please don't misread my little rant as an ultimatum, and you are hardly an ass. I reserve that title for myself, so you'll have to choose another

Oh, gee, Tiph, I didn't mean to come across like that. I know and welcome your advice and constructive criticism and I know that you weren't being condenscending or anything like that. It was just when I thought about it, I realized that I wasn't thinking about the others and felt bad about that.

Thank you, Tiph.

Ah, good. You are very welcome.

And I found a picture for your newest character, I am just going to doctor it up for ya.

Yeah, with regards to your posts, you can steer the scenes in two ways: OOC or by providing more details. For example, if your character gets kidnapped and you don't want anyone to find them right off, you just add that 'no trace' was left behind by the kidnapper if you need to nullify a detective from tracking you down. If say, there was a clairvoyant character keeping watch, in the case of Frank abducting Morgan, you can write that Frank's psychic abilities clashing with his daughter's cause too much interference for a clairvoyant to see them, and so on. You just have to shut down some avenues if you want things to move in a certain direction for a while. I often choose the latter to keep things spontaneous, sometimes it works, sometimes not, but it's all good.

Okay, thank you very much for the ideas. I hadn't thought of doing either one of those and was wondering how I was going to accomplish exactly that.