Going to shelve Shazam for now and see whether I can come up with an alternative.
Woops.
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Could be worse... could've done it in the IC.
So far I'm looking to tie together the "business world" and tech sides of one of these games, just as other people in the past have looked to establish the "magic/magick/magik" side of these universes.
I've always liked how each of the most brilliant minds of the Marvel and DC Universes have kind of had their own corners of expertise and their own differences which have made them their own people. From Pym's instability, to Reed Richards insatiable need for knowledge and discovery.
Ted Kord's genius has seldom really defined him in most works and he's often a Batman-Lite business head/gimmick inventor who has amazing potential and has had issues of focus which have been his biggest obstacle when discovering that potential. He's almost "too human" to be the person he could really be. So I wanted to explore why that's the case, and wanted to give Ted something that other geniuses don't tend to have in order to better differentiate his mind from other Marvel/DC geniuses... hence the perfect eidetic/photographic memory thing.
In terms of influences, I've probably poached and pinched a bit from a lot of the previous similar games in the past. The L-Pad reference in the first post quite blatantly came from one (or many) of @AndyC's runs on Superman in the past, which I expanded out with naming it's video chat software as LLL. A lot of this will be reflecting back other events in the business side of this combined universe as we saw with how @Sep's Iron Man stuff has directly impacted K.O.R.D. The character of Mike Ross from Suits will impact a lot of what's come with Ted's perfect memory and using a brilliant but raw mind to dominate a new profession as well as my own class clown experiences in my own schooling, which probably impacted my decisions far more than I'm even willing to admit.
I'm stealing from everywhere! Even obscure places you wouldn't think about! I'm taking it! It's like an homage only more blatant and hacky!
@Lord Wraith
Sorry about disappearing, life got crazy. Essentially my schedule has drastically changed and I don't feel like I have the time for a roleplay as in depth as this. My apologies but I must withdraw from this roleplay as such. Whoever wants to use any of my characters can now do so.
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Honestly, you, me, @Inkarnate, and @Sep could probably afford to have a chat at some point about the nature of the competition between our tech moguls -- Osborn vs. Kord vs. Luthor vs. Stark, and that.
Does anyone have any designs on Sportsmaster? I've got an idea or two for him, but I figured I'd give someone else the chance to snap him up first.
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
Yo, no idea what's open or available but guess who else is back after an (actually) long absence?
Yo, no idea what's open or available but guess who else is back after an (actually) long absence?