[OOC] Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

[Roman]

32 IC posts in and I finally get Frank on the board. I think that's a new fastest post for me in these things.

Boring establishing post but I a) want to use Frank to react to what's going on elsewhere in the 'verse, and b) want a slower build-up to Frank coming out of 'retirement'. I think I set the scene for both of those things with this intro post, and I'll work on a follow up tonight and over the weekend.

[Kale19]

I'm postponing Quicksilver for now, but I'll probably write up his concept next week.

[Kyoka]

@Kale19
Will get to writing for She-Hulk tomorrow. Going to try and get some sleep for now.

[webboysurf]

32 IC posts in and I finally get Frank on the board. I think that's a new fastest post for me in these things.

Boring establishing post but I a) want to use Frank to react to what's going on elsewhere in the 'verse, and b) want a slower build-up to Frank coming out of 'retirement'. I think I set the scene for both of those things with this intro post, and I'll work on a follow up tonight and over the weekend.

@Roman

It was a damn good post. Looking forward to Frank's arc.

[Supermaxx]

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It was a damn good post. Looking forward to Frank's arc.

@webboysurf

Seconded. Always love in-character reactions to events in other parts of the world, and Castle's a grad-A grump about it

[Roman]

oh, you guys

[Ever Faithful]

I think I'm gonna try something unorthodox for Mr. Freeze. It might work or it might be too early for him to play nice.

[Hillan]

[Kale19]

Quick

QUICKSILVER

^{_{PETER MAXIMOFF ♦ THEIF}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"Super-Speed. Google it."}

Born as an only child to Django Maximoff he taught him that crime was fine, as long as you didn't get caught. When he reached the age of twelve he began his career of petty theft. Being born with the gift of superspeed, he didn't have a problem with getting caught. Since then he's been stealing from banks, stores, and basically everything else. He's had run-ins with the flash, who he considers the only person who could take him in a race. From time to time he gets involved with the other mutants, but not all to often. He's stolen from some of the worlds greatest inventors, including an Ion Reactor core (patent pending) from Amadeus Cho (But he doesn't know it yet)

P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ):

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I wanted to play an annoying teenage dude whose only goal is to annoy everyone else. Mainly he'll just show up every once in a while, but if he's involved in a plot there might be some more interaction. He's one of the Flash's nemeses, as well as sort of an annoyance to Amadeus Cho. Most of the interactions will be with either my other characters or the X-Men, although you might see him pop into Amadeus's story a little bit.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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He's not a X-Men, although he shows up there from time to time
@me is you want to play someone involved with him
Don't expect a lot of Quicksilver posts as I'm mostly focusing on Brawn
The 'Peter Maximoff scale' is how he rates someone's looks. To him He's a 10/10

T I M E L I N E :

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2004: Birth of Quicksilver
2016: Quicksilver learns his powers
2017: Quick run-in with the X-Men (We don't talk about it)
2018: Ion core stolen from Amadeus Cho
2021: Now

P O W E R S A N D W E A K N E S S E S:

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Powers:
Superhuman Speed
Regenerative Healing Factor

Weaknesses:
DO NOT MENTION THE SHIRT he hates Pink Floyd, he just happened to photobomb a picture with it on, and now it's all over everywhere.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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None

[Retired]

@Kale19 Just one thing. The Magneto of this world is different. @DocTachyon, @Bounce, and I are treating him as if he never had a career as a supervillain. He's just an old mutant dude who co-headmasters at the Xavier Institute and has a pretty vocal view of mutant rights.

[Kale19]

Boom, this is why I don't read why I'm tired...

RANDOM FATHER GO!

[Kale19]

Thank goodness for Django Maximoff

[Mao Mao]

By the way, if anyone is looking for someone to collab with, I'm sure that Wonder Woman could help out at this moment.

Also, I'm gonna post Agent Venom soon.

[Sep]

@Kale19 so did Brawn jump out the plane? Its kind of unclear. Like is falling out of the sky a metaphor or is it legit?

[Ever Faithful]

finally got it all out. I probably should start planning Mr. Freeze's arc but this is fine.

[Bork Lazer]

First Blade post made that sets up the character along with the setting of New Orleans. This is technically a prologue post that lays the foundation for what lies ahead.

Collab post with @Rapid Reader should be arriving shortly.

[Enarr]

The picture for Jason & Roy looks like shipper fan art and it pleases me to high heavens

[Kyoka]

Does anyone have any advice for writing fight scenes? I found myself really struggling and needing to rewrite and rethink a few times but still in the end feeling rather unsatisfied. Feel like it is rather hard to make it flow naturally and had difficulty in thinking of what should go where or if there should be dialogue in some places or none and so on and so on...

[Dead Cruiser]

@Kyoka In my mind comics (and therefore comic battles) are a lot like pro wrestling. The basic technical stuff, strikes, jabs, blocks, etc, you can gloss over. What you should be expounding on are the "spots" of the fight, things that shift the momentum of the fight one way or the other, or are important to the story/characterization. To get the latter, understand first why you're writing the fight, and things should be clearer for you.

[Sep]

Does anyone have any advice for writing fight scenes? I found myself really struggling and needing to rewrite and rethink a few times but still in the end feeling rather unsatisfied. Feel like it is rather hard to make it flow naturally and had difficulty in thinking of what should go where or if there should be dialogue in some places or none and so on and so on...

@Kyoka

I feel like do it in a way that seems more natural, you can gloss over as DeadCruiser suggested. I tend to describe it, I never found I was particularly good at writing fight scenes but someone told me I'm okay.

Honestly take a look at what your favourite writers here do, you get some that go more poetic and some that go more descriptive. The most important thing is this: Find your own style.

I've not read your post yet but I will, and if I see anything I'll throw you some pointers in your PM, but we're all pretty friendly here and quite happy to give feedback/advice.