[OOC] Ultimate One Universe: Emergence

[Master Bruce]

Congrats or sorry that happened to you, but I ain't reading all of that.

@Hillan

You can't read to begin with.

[Ezekiel]

Had something of an idea while on my travels to do a Guardians of the Galaxy team with a version of Earth-Two Power Girl on the roster after she's yoinked from that reality when the war against Darkseid goes poorly. Think that could be an interesting way to do 'another Kryptonian' without immediately stepping on early Superman storylines

[Sep]

Had something of an idea while on my travels to do a Guardians of the Galaxy team with a version of Earth-Two Power Girl on the roster after she's yoinked from that reality when the war against Darkseid goes poorly. Think that could be an interesting way to do 'another Kryptonian' without immediately stepping on early Superman storylines

@Ezekiel

I mean the issue there is everyone else is week-1 so I'm not entirely sure on how they'd interact with a guardians of the galaxy

[mattmanganon]

@Sep I mean, being that they are in space, they don't technically need to interact with them. I'm just sayin'

[Retired]

I mean, if we're saying that only Earth is week one, and everything else, cosmic or otherwise, is fair game, that's a bad precedent to set.

[Ezekiel]

I mean, if we're saying that only Earth is week one, and everything else, cosmic or otherwise, is fair game, that's a bad precedent to set.

@Retired

I'd say that's only an issue if it's not used well, the entire universe being week one is surely more silly an idea than anything else (besides where would that put threats like Galactus/Darkseid). I think the better idea would surely more be that being week one, Earth isn't of relevant notice to more cosmic powers. There's already a Starfire in the Titans team so surely the usual background wider cosmic scene must exist no?

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I mean the issue there is everyone else is week-1 so I'm not entirely sure on how they'd interact with a guardians of the galaxy

@Sep

To answer this, I was sort of going for a more OG guardians team idea of them being stuck out of their own time/reality so they don't have to bring their own cosmic threats with them. More of an exploration/mercenary approach. I did plan on them getting to Earth relatively soon but in more of an undercover role than messengers of a greater cosmic cause as they later became.

[Retired]

I didn't mean that the entirety of the cosmos was in a week-one equivalent development. I meant that if we are ignoring the rule that our player characters have to be week one so long as those characters aren't Earth-based, then that establishes a precedent.

And I was moreso directing my comment toward Matt's thought process.

[Ezekiel]

I didn't mean that the entirety of the cosmos was in a week-one equivalent development. I meant that if we are ignoring the rule that our player characters have to be rule one so long as those characters aren't Earth-based, then that establishes a precedent.

And I was moreso directing my comment toward Matt's thought process.

@Retired

Gotcha, no worries anyway as I feel it's a useful conversation to have regardless.

[mattmanganon]

@Retired It's a fair conversation to have, but at the end of it, it's the GM's decision.

[Sep]

Yeah all I was meaning was obviously it would be hard for cosmic based heroes to get involved in any events/crossovers bar with potentially the lanterns (who being lanterns have duties, responsibilities and a reason to go to space).

If you did have them come to Earth then there's the added angle of we do t want any threats too large.

[Master Bruce]

To tag up on what's been said: we're all starting off on the first week of, more or less, superherodom. Superman appears (when I finally have him appear, sorry about the wait) and it sets off a chain reaction of other vigilantes and powered heroes showing up in this world, leading to things like mutants being more outwardly active and villains on an Earth-level coming out of the woodwork. The implication there is that every hero character is very green and amateur at what they do, leading to them being susceptible to mistakes and power levels that are far below their peak.

So when we say that we don't want major threats like Darkseid, Thanos, Galactus and the lot beaming down from space and challenging the current crop of characters, we literally just don't want our characters either getting an automatic power boost to compete with villains on that level or, more realistically, getting killed. It's not interesting to have characters this new to the cape life be decimated by threats that are ordinarily saved for fully stacked teams and heroes that are more experienced compared to having them struggle against jobbers like The Rhino or Clayface. That's the goal, which is to build heroes to eventually become capable of taking on bigger threats.

So no, we're not literally talking about the idea that the Green Lantern Corps just started and recruited Hal and Sinestro this week. That'd be absurd. Darkseid is obviously around and ruling Apokolips, he didn't just ascend to that throne. Galactus is out there. Thanos might already be off Titan, we don't know. It's just that for the sake of our player characters, the characters that matter to this game, it's the first week. Just don't throw something like that at any of them. We're telling a story as a group and that story is "Superhero? What even is a superhero?" in a generalized sense.

[Hound55]

We're telling a story as a group and that story is "Superhero? What even is a superhero?" in a generalized sense.

@Master Bruce

"I told you... He's an asshole."

[Sep]

What is a superhero, who is a superhero, why is a superhero

[Eviledd1984]

"Oi, da only good supe is a dead supe innit."

-Some edgy brit.

[Sep]

"The only good supe is a dead supe."

-Some edgy brit.

@Eviledd1984

[Eviledd1984]

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@Sep

Lol i was thinking of the other edgy brit.

[Sep]

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Lol i was thinking of the other edgy brit.

@Eviledd1984

He's Australian with a funny accent

[mattmanganon]

@Master Bruce

Spoilers for Lanterns

The idea im going with is that Sinestro has been doing his Lantern shtick for a while and he has chosen Earth to be a pawn in his galactic conquest plans specifically because its a tiny blip on the galactic radar that absolutely nobody will care about or even think to look into while he tricks the natives who are just emotionally mature enough to activate the Rings, while still having no idea about the galactic community. All of the other Lantern Corps are out there, they just have no idea what he's doing. And they wont until its too late.

Unless someone takes them, the idea that im currently running with is that there are other Human Lanterns, its just that Kyle Rayner was more focusing on the Galactic stuff and then defected to the Blue Lanterns when Ganthet made them and the Guardians only recently shanghai'd Guy Gardener and are training him to hunt down Kyle. 2 unsolved missing persons isn't exactly a massive blip on the US governtments radar.

Of course, if someone has other plans for those characters this is subject to change, but its the current set of plans i have going on in my head.

[AndyC]

To tag up on what's been said: we're all starting off on the first week of, more or less, superherodom. Superman appears (when I finally have him appear, sorry about the wait) and it sets off a chain reaction of other vigilantes and powered heroes showing up in this world, leading to things like mutants being more outwardly active and villains on an Earth-level coming out of the woodwork. The implication there is that every hero character is very green and amateur at what they do, leading to them being susceptible to mistakes and power levels that are far below their peak.

So when we say that we don't want major threats like Darkseid, Thanos, Galactus and the lot beaming down from space and challenging the current crop of characters, we literally just don't want our characters either getting an automatic power boost to compete with villains on that level or, more realistically, getting killed. It's not interesting to have characters this new to the cape life be decimated by threats that are ordinarily saved for fully stacked teams and heroes that are more experienced compared to having them struggle against jobbers like The Rhino or Clayface. That's the goal, which is to build heroes to eventually become capable of taking on bigger threats.

So no, we're not literally talking about the idea that the Green Lantern Corps just started and recruited Hal and Sinestro this week. That'd be absurd. Darkseid is obviously around and ruling Apokolips, he didn't just ascend to that throne. Galactus is out there. Thanos might already be off Titan, we don't know. It's just that for the sake of our player characters, the characters that matter to this game, it's the first week. Just don't throw something like that at any of them. We're telling a story as a group and that story is "Superhero? What even is a superhero?" in a generalized sense.

@Master Bruce

Meanwhile I'm over here playing two different characters who have been around for over a century. I did not understand the assignment.

[Retired]

Making good progress on reading the IC. Post incoming tomorrow.