Tearstone

Aliens vs Predator

It's my understanding that Hard Meat (xenomorphs) are essentially drones, under the control/influence of the queen through pheremones and possibly mental control. There are strong warrior drones that seem to have a hierarchy or chain of command, but in general, no personality. Wouldn't that make playing a xenomorph kind of moot?

Star Trek - USS Tyson

Moderate interest - I've been thinking about rejoining my Star Trek/Starfleet group lately, since I left to focus on school and career. This might be a good litmus test for it.

The Dresden files

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The Dresden files

We could also use Oklahoma City, which has always been a crossroads area, has a rich Native American history and set of traditions in the area. Its crossroads nature is especially true for the supernatural as well as a littoral sense. It's not as big as Chicago, but it's population is still well over a million people.

San Francisco is another good choice, but people might associate it with Charmed too much. Seatle could work, or Portland. Salem and Ipswitch I do like as possible locations.

The Dresden files

I agree that dragons are under-used, but I'm not sure how they are organized or operate. The only ones I know of are Ferrovax and Sirriothrax, the latter of which was killed by Michael Carpenter. I think a Dragon would just be plot-device powerful... a GM's Player-be-good-stick to club people over the head with. Then again, history (if you base it off myth, lore, and legend) is full of dragons being taken out by even every day mortals. Know-how is a big part of it, so maybe they aren't that big of a blunt object.

The Outsiders could certainly play into things.

I agree that the White Council has its own corruption and problems, especially with Nemesis causing trouble there. I think in this particular scenario, as in present-day... it would put itself on the side to get rid of the ThreeEye again. There are better ways to amp up magical ability, without such hideous side-effects.

ThreeEye is kind of cornered on the market, and is being watched for. How about... a new drug. ThreeEye behaves pretty specifically, in what it does. That's usually one of the things about magic in general. Perhaps something new hitting the streets would be better. Something that gives people a supernatural high, and then thus amps up their energies. Evidence for this is seen in Fool Moon when Harry makes himself a potion to amp up, or refresh himself, like a Mana potion or something. It works great, and helps him a lot, but at the same time he blew through his refreshed energy very quickly, and it altered his judgement. For the average person, having a ton of life and magic jammed into them would be such a great feeling they wouldn't know what to do with it, and the high would last for hours or even days, and they would be a shining beacon. of energy, and probably delicious to darker things out there.

As Harry put it when talking to Bob, he wanted something like a good night's sleep in a bottle. It worked, really well... and it was almost like magical methamphetamine, with a very feel-good component. Another way to look at it is something like a magical energy shot, like 5 Hour Energy... only much more enhanced and longer-lasting. Focus, power, energy, will.. A lot of people could use it for a lot of things, good and bad, even without magical effects.

So, problem solved there.

The Wardens would definitely want to get involved. While this potion could be used recreationally and in a positive way... given over to darker, baser emotions, someone amped up on this stuff could manifest abilities, knocking out electronics, even creating bursts of energy and the like. If they figured out how to conduct rituals while on this, they could do some really undisciplined things. So then they start using it all the time and start learning magic but in a corrupt, twisted, unbalanced sort of way. Much like how Victor Sells was picking it up. Things could spiral out of control with this stuff, and it's addicting as hell. But it could instill and awaken real ability in others, which creates a whole new bag of worms for the Wardens to deal with. What do you do when you find one who's been using the Rise, and has the gift? That's probably going to depend on how, why, and what they've been using it for and with. It's going to require trials, much like when dealing with Lawbreakers.

This also means that the Wardens might get new fuel, and the ranks of the magical community swell again.

And if you want to be evil, perhaps a little seed of Nemesis could be carried in the potion. (I don't really like that idea, but it's a particularly evil idea that could be used. Maybe some of the potions have it, some dont, so there's a percentage chance of catching it...)

Just my unfinished/unpolished thoughts.

[High-Casual] Rare's Amazing 1x1 Interest Check

Yeah, I went and saw it in the theater a couple weeks ago and it was great.

Falling Skies, I discovered a few weeks ago and watched the first three seasons back to back. Season 4 is airing right now on TNT. Let's put it this way, I started re-watching the first three seasons again, just because.

It didn't seem like the Warfare and Cloverfield ones were taken, which is why I mentioned them.

[High-Casual] Rare's Amazing 1x1 Interest Check

I am disappoint as it's a great show. It's also post-apocalyptic, which is why :I figured you would, as there's a number of things in your IC that are Post-Apoc or related.

Like one or two others I'm interested in the Thieves idea,

I'm also interested in: In the Warfare
` Two related bothers/sisters join the Marines to fight for a cost, yet protect each other.
Action, Adventure, and War.
` BotherxBother.****

Others I am interested in:
How to Train Your Dragon

Video Games
Dead Island***
Elder Scrolls
Hitman**

TV Shows
The Walking Dead**

Flims
Cloverfield*****
Dawn of the Dead***

The Dresden files

I actually have access to the table-top materials in PDF format, in my dropbox. I'm sure you guys could view them without much trouble...

[High-Casual] Rare's Amazing 1x1 Interest Check

Mild to very interested in a number of things in this thread. Also, I wonder if you've gotten a chance to look at the TV show Falling Skies.

Roleplayer Profile

User Name: Tearstone Join Date: January sometime. I don't remember exactly. Don't remember oldguild date either. Writing Level - Casual, usually high-casual to low advanced. Forums: Oh come on Roleplayer Guild, you know you're the only girl for me... *shifty eyes* I do check in at Elliquiy, and a few others now and again.

• The Storm Watch
• The Lazlo Society (an IC message board)
• Star Fleet

Oh wait... Guild Forums: Casual, Advanced, Arena, 1x1's. - Tabletop never has anything I'm looking for. RP interests/Genres/Categories: (Listed in no particular order)

• Fantasy (medieval, modern urban)
• Sci-Fi - (hard sci fi, loose sci-fi, near future)
• Superhero (X-men, Marvel, Heroes Unlimited, Champions)
• Military
• Spy/Espionage/Assassination/Intrigue
• Semi-historical
• Post apocalyptic (largely zombies, but others are also good)
• Survival (not just surviving the badguys, but using true survival/bushcraft skills in the RP)
• Arena
• Mystery/Investigation
• Mix - I am a huge fan of mixing genres, especially if you can give plausibility 1x1's (all of the above are doable, including a number of fandoms)

Active Roleplays:

• Into the Maw: Space Command
• New Apocalyptica

Current Interest Checks: - None Past RP's - GM'd

• The Walking Dead, Miami
• many different groups, RP's and the like I have been a part of, some lasting around a decade, but most I could not link or find these days.

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