[OOC] Mass Effect: Nova

[Dervish]

O LOYAL SUBJECTS, I HAVE RETURNED WITH TIDINGS OF THE LEGO MOVIE OF LORE! GATHER ROUND AND HEAR MY VOICE!

It's amazing, seriously go see that shit immediately. That was one of the most enjoyable movies I think I've seen in years, if not my entire life. I say that with no hyperbole or exaggeration. It's a perfect movie.

The movie does a really, REALLY good job at looking great and blurring the lines between CGI and stop motion, which at times I wasn't entirely sure if they were just using CGI or not. The movie moves a great pace, didn't overstay its welcome or drag on, the cast and characters were wonderful, especially normally very serious actors who just had fun with it and getting into character. The trailer didn't spoil everything, was was refreshing as hell, and there was a lot of stuff that genuinely surprised me. The writing was spot on, jokes perfectly timed, and it really captured the fun and spirit of Lego that's making me sincerely wish I didn't throw all my Lego out before I moved. Honestly? It's right up there with Pixar movies (except Cars; go fuck yourself, you anthropomorphic piles of shit), and it actually had some genuinely emotionally effecting parts with some great messages. A great twist at the end pops up that's pretty cleverly hinted at earlier on, and some of the stuff was genuinely unpredictable for how it plays out. The best part is, nothing you see in the movie you couldn't actually create with Lego and so much of it is so incredibly imaginative, I honestly had a big stupid smile on my face the entire time. I literally have no criticisms of the movie, not a single thing I would change, and I am totally buying it when it comes out.

There's very, very few movies I'd give a 10/10 to, and this is one of them.

EDIT: I don't want to do spoilers or anything, but seriously Batman is hilarious because he is literally every joke the Internet's made about the character rolled into one package.

[Voltaire]

I intended to see the movie from the beginning. The humor looked great and I'm a huge Lego fan myself. I've moved all over the western US and never once considered tossing my Legos. Shame on you Dervs. I've also discovered that my collection of Bionicles is quite valuable.

[Dervish]

Voltaire said
I intended to see the movie from the beginning. The humor looked great and I'm a huge Lego fan myself. I've moved all over the western US and never once considered tossing my Legos. Shame on you Dervs. I've also discovered that my collection of Bionicles is quite valuable.

Of all my regrets in life, that easily ranks in the top 3. D:

[Vakte]

I have an excuse for keeping mine. I have two children lol.

[Grif of Hearts]

Damn you, Lego, for getting rid of the Bionicle franchise. Damn yoooooou!

[Dervish]

Man, I need to post something here. Playing the games again is making me want to ME so hard right now.

[Voltin]

Despite the heresy this may be, I've decided to just assume that Shepard, and all the other major characters of the main trilogy never happen in the Nova universe.

[Salroka]

I am sorry, everyone. I just... I've lost my inspiration to do anything for Mass Effect at the moment. It's nothing anyone here has done, it's just writer's block and my depression rearing its ugly head. So I'll be dipping out on this for the time being. I may return down the road, and will keep my subscription.

If anyone wants to use Tallin as an NPC, as an ally, as a contact, etc... feel free to do so. I DID have high hopes for him, after all.

Thank you all very much for understanding, and I again apologize.

[Gowi]

Back from a few days sabbatical, but will check PMs.. read posts, etc. I'm struggling figuring this out but I still have drive for this roleplay. =)

[Voltaire]

Grif of Hearts said
Damn you, Lego, for getting rid of the Bionicle franchise. Damn yoooooou!

Seriously this. We don't want that Hero Factory crap dammit. And the fact that the original sets can go for 80 bucks a pop prove that there is still a market for them. I kinda fell off after the Inika sets, but only because I had no moneys. I wonder if they just ran out of ideas.

Voltin said
Despite the heresy this may be, I've decided to just assume that Shepard, and all the other major characters of the main trilogy never happen in the Nova universe.

Paragon Shepard is a Gary Stu anyway. Who also gets tricked into letting the reapers live. Pansy.

[Legion X51]

Voltin said
Despite the heresy this may be, I've decided to just assume that Shepard, and all the other major characters of the main trilogy never happen in the Nova universe.

That is probably the safest thing to do. 'Tis not heresy if it coincides with the interests of the rest of the players. Just because it has the tag line 'Mass Effect' doesn't mean that the Mass Effect games themselves must happen.

[Dervish]

Man, I really want to post but I am super friggin' stuck with Mosis being AWOL.

Oh well, time to work on my C-Sec spin off.

[Tick]

Mosis is AWOL??
No outside contact or nothin?

[Legion X51]

You have a C-Sec spin off? Pray tell.

Well, if anyone wants to do anything regarding getting Nova's stuff from the engine room, I'm game.

[Tick]

Beta: We chatted (sorta) about this in IRC, but I'll launch into redundancy anyways.
It's cool. :] The honest notice is appreciated. It can be work to get things into motion/have muse.
If you didn't want to enter Tallin into things by the general plan with Vakte, or are having trouble with ideas, I can help out. Whenever you're up to joining in again. There's a lot of things that could be done with him. And yeah, I might make use of that and start integrating him into the canon. :]

Gowi: There is at least one plan, that fits any newbie pretty well, that should be in your PM's. If you didn't want to do that, though, we can figure out something else. Though it'd give a chance for any of the new characters to start interacting before they get picked up by Nova, which I think'd be smart.

Alright, I haven't properly dealt with this stuff for a bit because life's been hectic, and it looks like we might need to do some work to push back into activity. Which I wasn't up to doing because of the former factor.

A post of our collab might be up soon, no promises. I'll get on a SB post. Think it's time to start contacting some people/hatching ideas, too.

Voltin said
Despite the heresy this may be, I've decided to just assume that Shepard, and all the other major characters of the main trilogy never happen in the Nova universe.

This is really, really the smartest idea. The Reaper business gets sort of messy, and would ruin a lot of what's cool about this RP/RP setting. Particularly since it takes a more grounded/narrow focus. It would also risk the possibility of referring directly to important, main canon characters, which usually goes poorly.

Plus, we could mess with how the universe would shape up based on hints from the games, keeping in mind the Reapers aren't a factor anymore.

[Tick]

Legion X51 said
You have a C-Sec spin off? Pray tell.Well, if anyone wants to do anything regarding getting Nova's stuff from the engine room, I'm game.

I obviously can't bring Tzvi your way, but I'd be up for contributing. :]

[Dervish]

I'll have a write up soonish, Legion, don't you worry a hair on your head.

[Legion X51]

There's a Nova IRC, Tick? If so, I can has link?

Also, I'd prefer to collab the engine room (I'll write in it this time, I swear) because I don't want Mari doing it all by herself, although that would be a good way of getting her back in the team's good books.

[Mosis Tosis]

Sorry I've been missing lately guys, shit's been hectic and is really only now starting to wind down a bit. That being said, I don't actually have all that to much post about. Tanya and Kosso are still waiting on confirmation that the security room has been neutralized before they make their move; anything before that is really just filler at this point (not saying filler isn't fun, but a bit hard to motivate myself to do when I've got other things going on). Either way, I will actually have enough free time this weekend to write a post up regardless of the circumstances, so....yeah.

[Dervish]

You guys are making it sound like that we -have- to include canon characters in our games. We don't, we reaaally don't. Remember, Nova was made with the idea that it was something that was taking place in the existing canon without actually having to worry about the shit that happens in the game because really, who all is going to know about it other than the unavoidable stuff? Hard to stick with our sticking to canon philosophy if we ignore everything. Besides, this game takes place a decade before ME1. It literally has no bearing on the games. Should we be doing stuff during the trilogy, well, it's a big galaxy. About the only things that we'd have to worry about and acknowledge are the attack on the Citadel, the Collectors taking human colonies, and then the Reaper war, which would actually be interesting to play from the perspective of people who are really doing their best to just survive instead of being friggin' heroes. They wouldn't even know who canon characters are except in passing, and the odds of meeting them are already extremely slim. I'm not going to shoe horn canon characters into a game when there's a huge, lore rich universe with countless of unique stories to tell.