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So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.

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Christmas today, dragged interstate. Will get something done over the next few days though.
Apologies for my absence. Got swamped with work. I'll have something up for Bounce tomorrow.


Work's been murdering me too, but I should have the weekend.
Hound, please make sure your wife is aware there are greater things at stake than simple office politics.


I know... TWO types of aliens and a T-Rex and she's still all "nyeh nyeh nyeh Put the dip out nyeh nyeh will we need more bread rolls nyeh nyeh go get some ice nyeh nyeh nyeh..."

It's enough to make a man open up temporal portals to the cosmic winds of change...
Yep. Wife's office Christmas party kind of interrupted things (held at our house).

Soon as I get time I'll finish it and put it up.
I might try and sneak in a Thor post today or tomorrow. Dr Fate is gonna sit on the back burner for a minute or two.

Not that I think anyone is waiting on me, but I'm gonna ask for a little leniency regarding post frequency in the next month. I have a surgery on Tuesday, and I expect the recovery/followups will command a lot of my time in the following weeks.


All the best. Get yourself right.
Going to get caught up today. Hopefully post tomorrow.

Weekend was crazy.
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Worse... her distant relations


I had a big event with the girlfriends family yesterday which kind of derailed posting. I'm off today so fingers crossed


Ah. Fair enough. Is she taking on the Kroloteans or the Chitauri..?
F A N T A S T I C F O U R
F A N T A S T I C F O U R

"It's okay to be afraid. It's okay to fail. But to say that you're not even willing to try...that's unacceptable." - Nathaniel Richards
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Reed Richards AKA Mr. Fantastic
Susan Storm Richards AKA Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm AKA Human Torch
Ben Grimm AKA The Thing

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Explorers, Scientists and Superheroes
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Based out of the Baxter Building in New York City

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Ten years ago, Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm set out together to test the world's first superluminal-capable spacecraft. Their vessel passed through cosmological event, exposing them to an impossibly high dosage of unknown radiation that fundamentally restructured the crews' genetic makeup. Upon returning to earth, the four of them pledged to utilize their new abilities for the betterment of mankind, christening themselves as the Fantastic Four.

They've spent the last decade protecting humanity from all sorts of fantastical threats: the Mole Man, the Wizard, Ronan the Accuser and the Super-Skrull, Annihilus, Victor Von Doom, the Council of Reeds, Mongul, as well as a host of others. The four of them have explored a vast multitude of planets, dimensions and universes. They have discovered unimaginable truths about the nature of existence, and they have stood before cosmic entities of existential significance. Through it all they've only grown closer as a team- and a family.

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Put simply, I have an itch for high-concept science fiction shenanigans that only the Fantastic Four can fill. I've been reading Johnathan Hickman's run and I'm brimming with inspiration. Its always sort of surprising how one of the oldest and most established superhero teams gets little attention in these One Universe Games, but Morden Man's foray in UOU is something I've gone back to several times while stewing on this sheet. Its just plain good.

As for the character themselves, I decided to take advantage of our longer timeline to include the team's rich history. They're all veteran heroes at this point, ready for just about anything that you could throw at them- or so they believe. I'll be putting a great deal of my focus toward the family dynamic of the Fantastic Four, especially in regards to each member's relationship with Valeria and Franklin, the Richards' kids. Something Hickman emphasizes in his run is the importance of family, and whether or not we're willing to put it before everything else- and in that run's case, before the world. That's something I'd like to touch on as well.

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I am happy beyond words...

My own F4 in that old thread was... beyond ambitious. Which was part of why it never really got off the ground and soared.
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On this note, I'm going to start enforcing our inactivity timer of 14 days starting tomorrow. Since it's pretty detailed in the rules and was never formally addressed back at the start of the RP. Will either spur activity or free up unplayed characters.


Can I make Driver/Montoya temporarily inactive during the event, and then pick them up again immediately afterwards?

Can't see myself posting within fourteen days with them, with the Event going on, but I still plan on using them once it's concluded.
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