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Post by SSJRuss on Oct 28, 2014 20:10:40 GMT
We could try meet in the middle. There could be a focal world were most of the stories converge/take place. This world could be new to the whole multiversal/nexus aspect of reality forcing them adapt in some way. Another idea is a world where the existence of other realms/dimensions/universes is a fact known by society but the concept of traveling to them is a known by a minority of society and the ability to travel to them is possessed by even fewer I'm liking that second idea the most. But both work for me. |
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Post by treacherous1 on Oct 28, 2014 20:25:32 GMT
Instead of realms, just a galaxy of neighboring planets that are in different levels of their planetary evolution. Some can be magical, some can be technical, some can be Cthulhu planets filled with Old One's. They are auite far apart and perhaps only the most technological or magically advanced can travel in between planets.
I also like the idea of a fighting arena or a war world. This could be the place for our rumbles thread. A place where we don't have to write complex stories to fight. The original FPL had a freaking gladiator arena. I say we do keep that.
Also Reach City could be a city on one of the more advanced planets. With planets, we have the opportunity to keep adding new lands that can interact a little more easily than splitting time and space.
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Post by SSJRuss on Oct 28, 2014 20:26:55 GMT
Instead of realms, just a galaxy of neighboring planets that are in different levels of their planetary evolution. Some can be magical, some can be technical, some can be Cthulhu planets filled with Old One's. They are auite far apart and perhaps only the most technological or magically advanced can travel in between planets. I also like the idea of a fighting arena or a war world. This could be the place for our rumbles thread. A place where we don't have to write complex stories to fight. The original FPL had a freaking gladiator arena. I say we do keep that. Also Reach City could be a city on one of the more advanced planets. With planets, we have the opportunity to keep adding new lands that can interact a little more easily than splitting time and space. I LOVE gladiator/war world planets. Good idea. |
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Post by Nihlium on Oct 28, 2014 20:57:41 GMT
I like Treach's idea, especially the battle-world. Even if we don't go with the multi-planet idea I think we should have an island or realm specifically for battles.
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Post by Darkender on Oct 28, 2014 21:45:23 GMT
I do like the thought of different galaxies over 'realms'. But is this FPL going to start us with street level characters as well? I don't see the Conspiracist traveling through galaxies to fight bad guys as realistic.
If we do go with this galaxy idea, I think the idea that someone had earlier about limited knowledge of these other worlds would be great. I love war world also btw.
Whatever we do I think there should be a focal point for our stories so we're interacting more. Most definitely.
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Post by kevindwolf93 on Oct 28, 2014 22:36:23 GMT
Instead of realms, just a galaxy of neighboring planets that are in different levels of their planetary evolution. Some can be magical, some can be technical, some can be Cthulhu planets filled with Old One's. They are auite far apart and perhaps only the most technological or magically advanced can travel in between planets. I also like the idea of a fighting arena or a war world. This could be the place for our rumbles thread. A place where we don't have to write complex stories to fight. The original FPL had a freaking gladiator arena. I say we do keep that. Also Reach City could be a city on one of the more advanced planets. With planets, we have the opportunity to keep adding new lands that can interact a little more easily than splitting time and space. alright sounds good on that Reach end. If we want planets over galaxies then Im game for it, might be Iinteresting to see what 'worlds' come out of it but to answer Darkender's question, I do think we could focus on travel on a case by case basis. Maybe we build a handful of worlds and work out how first contact occurs for plot reasons. Conspiracist wpuld prefer to stick to his own problems, and that would be just fine coupled with limited knowledge of other worlds. But if he gets zapped with some technobabble and popped over to cthulhuworld or world that has had superheroes for much longer, then he sort of has to deal with that whether he wants to or not. |
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Post by bigballerju on Oct 29, 2014 1:27:10 GMT
I think traveling from planet to planet should be done like Star Wars with ships. First contact could be high ranking officials visit one planet for a business deal but then those officials are assassinated on that planet triggering a war between two worlds. What becomes a war of one world like a domino effect causes a war of multiple wars. I think the worlds should be a combination of modern day and other Sci Fi like Star Wars where traveling among space as well as using blaster type weapons are common.
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Post by SSJRuss on Oct 29, 2014 1:51:26 GMT
I think traveling from planet to planet should be done like Star Wars with ships. First contact could be high ranking officials visit one planet for a business deal but then those officials are assassinated on that planet triggering a war between two worlds. What becomes a war of one world like a domino effect causes a war of multiple wars. I think the worlds should be a combination of modern day and other Sci Fi like Star Wars where traveling among space as well as using blaster type weapons are common. Yea, but then I think it'd be just like Star Wars or a space epic. (Which by no means is bad but not sure if that's the way we want to go, more superhero-ish or more sci-fi) |
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Post by omfg on Oct 29, 2014 2:26:39 GMT
How about this?
Everyone is keen on the idea of multiple planets, and the idea of a gladiator/arena planet is a must.
So how about, multiple planets coexist in a state of more or less, peace. The Governments, however are always keen to prove that their planet is the best. So they send people to represent them in a tournament in the Gladiator/Arena planet. They are different "weight classes" that separate the fighters by power level.
That way web can add story lines and stuff.
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Post by deo on Oct 29, 2014 2:55:41 GMT
I'm concerned about how interlocking cultures would limit the kind of story backgrounds we can have. Just for example, a mandatory war world would imply that all the cultures know about each other. That would make it hard to write a story about guys living on planets that do not yet have space-faring technology/magic/powers/ etc. Essentially any civilization equal to ours or anything less would have no ability or reason to be aware. If you wanted a character more grounded in realism it would be difficult; essentially everything would become fantasy or sci-fi by default because of the setting.
So I think there should be at least some planets/ dimensions that are not aware of the others yet. Kind of like Earth in the Thor movies, or all the planets the Enterprise visits.
Second, should Earth remain unknowing in order to preserve stories that don't want to deal with more fantastical elements, or is it more fun to have see it adapt to the other cultures.
Or could we have multiple Earths, or Earth analogues?
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Post by omfg on Oct 29, 2014 3:03:24 GMT
deoLike on star trek dude. Some planets are still in "primal" stage, not aware of the other things. They don't get an official invite. Maybe the strongest one of them gets a special invitation Also, multiple earth like planets
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Post by treacherous1 on Oct 29, 2014 3:09:06 GMT
They don't get official invites, but they can always get watched and abducted for a gladiator fight by not so nice alien fight promoter types. Alien abductions anyone?
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Post by kevindwolf93 on Oct 29, 2014 3:11:01 GMT
I'm concerned about how interlocking cultures would limit the kind of story backgrounds we can have. Just for example, a mandatory war world would imply that all the cultures know about each other. That would make it hard to write a story about guys living on planets that do not yet have space-faring technology/magic/powers/ etc. Essentially any civilization equal to ours or anything less would have no ability or reason to be aware. If you wanted a character more grounded in realism it would be difficult; essentially everything would become fantasy or sci-fi by default because of the setting. So I think there should be at least some planets/ dimensions that are not aware of the others yet. Kind of like Earth in the Thor movies, or all the planets the Enterprise visits. Second, should Earth remain unknowing in order to preserve stories that don't want to deal with more fantastical elements, or is it more fun to have see it adapt to the other cultures. Or could we have multiple Earths, or Earth analogues? Multiple earth's is what i kind of considered- hence the WWC reference. A noir world, a superhero world, chi magic world, etc. Not sure if that's as easily viable for simply saying wayward planets over alternate earths that are so similar but I figure something could be done about a lot of earth-like planets. That might be more for when we can specify how many/what worlds we want. That aside, I think what you're saying would be the most effective balance of different worlds and freedom to do a bunch of stuff. To specifically give my two cents about an 'earth', short already having it be a Khazan/Reach affected world then I'm not sure what to put up for it. omfg: That could work, but again that just raises what their qualifications are so we'd need to have ideas for that on-hand as well. So if anything I figure what qualifications per planet should be considered here on if we go this route over multiverse, which seems likely. |
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Post by treacherous1 on Oct 29, 2014 3:14:19 GMT
I'll be reading this Reach thing soon. See what's going on here. Keep thinking HALO.
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Post by kevindwolf93 on Oct 29, 2014 3:45:33 GMT
Well to save you some time if you're looking for backstory and not some colorful fics and rping, currently you're not gonna get much lore-wise.
The short version is it's an alternate earth with all the metahuman, mythological, magic goodness you'd hope for and more. The oddness has always sort of been around, but until around the 1900's it was usually stuff that could be passed off as legend, myth, or just tall tales. The titular Reach City was made in the early 1900's as a sort of superhero Australia where they were kept rather than executed(you can imagine how turn of the 20th century would react to incidents). Of course the private contractor in charge was on the benevolent side so it went from that to a superhero central which was a decent place for gifted to reside and while the world unfolds decently similar to us, with all that action(superman types, rampant vigilantism, supernatural occurences, a shit ton of super intelligent inventors and scientists,etc) at an epicenter to be cultivated there are a quite a few differences from the 1910's to modern day.
I figure the base concept can be used at least if it's not quite on 'Earth', the backstory details don't have to be so meticulous as specific namedrops or characters since we'll be doing our own but the basic idea had a lot of flexibility for fic's and RPs in mind so the idea can be serviceable. I don't mind sharing or working on a good enough expy.
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