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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 16, 2009 16:21:33 GMT -5
This isn't really so much a plot proposition as a general notice (and in spite of the actual topic, it's probably best to keep the douchebag jokes to a minimum in this thread).
Basically, part of Paris will eventually be blown up as part of the Watchsues plot. In order to add some more moral ambiguity and put some faces to the numbers, I am offering to let anybody put characters they want killed off/have no use for anymore in the part of Paris to be vaporized when that plot point arrives. (There will be chunks of a few other cities that will also be devastated as part of this plot, so you can do it in one of those too.)
This isn't mandatory, by any means. If you don't want to kill off any of your characters, you don't have to.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 16, 2009 16:51:41 GMT -5
I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, but will it still be possible for characters who are wholly uninvolved in the plot to never ever notice? Just like some of them never noticed the zombie plot?
All things considered, calling that man a douche is probably as unkind as it gets. XD
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 16, 2009 16:56:22 GMT -5
It's really the most common insult I've read flung at him, to the point where it's almost funny.
As for noticing/not noticing, I was kind of hoping that maybe kind of... um. Well. That something people generally notice around here could get destroyed and that everybody would notice, and that that would create more of a sense of a single fictional space again plus the meta implications of that idea make me laugh somewhat nervously. Ultimately, it's up to Kris, though I figure it could also be put up to a vote.
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Post by Erik on Jun 16, 2009 17:01:05 GMT -5
It's not actually ultimately up to me at all. I'm just here to facilitate, I'm not the decider.
However, I believe that, historically, members here have been foursquare against plots that affect all parties without choice. Many plots have been rejected by the majority upon these grounds. I'd love for there to be a greater sense of communal unity, but at the same time people are used to playing in the way they want to, and taking away that choice doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think if we'd started out that way, as other rp's do, it might be different.
I'm not for or against it, I'm just thinking out lout about our past experiences. Granted, my efforts to bring people together in plot have all failed!
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 16, 2009 17:01:28 GMT -5
My characters would probably all notice, but that has more to do with my brain needing everything to take place within the same universe. Still, just like you can't really have a plot where someone takes over the whole Sueniverse, because that interferes with unrelated plots, and the Verse is just too big, I'm not sure how well that would work. The Watchmen/Repo!/etc plot is huge, but it's way outnumbered by all the other people who are here. I think it's up to those people individually rather than Kris.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 16, 2009 17:03:15 GMT -5
I was thinking that ultimately it'd just come down to "okay you guys for the next month such-and-such part of Paris is being rebuilt".
I may just go ahead and invent some new fictional district.
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Post by Mortimer on Jun 16, 2009 17:06:37 GMT -5
Unless something being destroyed actually affects one or more of my characters, they won't notice. And as a general rule, I ignore plots I'm not involved in.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 16, 2009 17:10:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean, I think it can happen, but I don't think you can really expect people to all be united in grief or horror. For the most part, I don't think they'd notice it had happened.
I like the fictional district idea. Hell, invent a new arrondissement.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 16, 2009 17:36:36 GMT -5
Just because I play a character who thinks he can unite a bunch of people through blowing stuff up doesn't mean that I think that's a given conclusion myself. Fictional arondissement it is.
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Post by Erik on Jun 16, 2009 17:39:17 GMT -5
LOL.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 16, 2009 17:42:07 GMT -5
XD Why is that line so thin here?
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jun 16, 2009 17:45:10 GMT -5
There really was a moment when I was all "WE COULD TOTALLY BLOW UP THE OPERA AND THAT WOULD MAKE EVERYBODY HAVE TO STEP ASIDE FROM THEIR OWN PLOTS AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT!!!!" and then I realized, okay, self, the meta is only funny when it's with Magda.
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Jun 16, 2009 18:47:40 GMT -5
Having him see that no one wants to be unified would probably be a blow to Veidt...
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Post by Magda on Jun 16, 2009 19:09:04 GMT -5
He'd probably totally crack.
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Jun 16, 2009 22:42:05 GMT -5
Since I'm wholly tied in to this plot, all my characters have to notice, but only when necessary, it's not like I'm going to take a day where everyone's going to get together and cry in a kumbaya circle.
And you know that Megan, although I love paying attention to other peoples plots, it keeps things fun round here.
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