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Post by treacherous1 on Nov 1, 2014 16:14:03 GMT
This guy. ^
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Post by omfg on Nov 1, 2014 16:16:54 GMT
deo- Yeah, you're right on that part, even if Hitchens' father returned home before the war ending, Hitchens would be 21 at max, when WW2 began.
- The USSR had spies during the Manhattan Project dude, they had spies forever.
- I don't think the Government would have shared it. I don't think anyone knew about the Nukes, did they?
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Post by deo on Nov 1, 2014 16:29:35 GMT
deo- Yeah, you're right on that part, even if Hitchens' father returned home before the war ending, Hitchens would be 21 at max, when WW2 began.
- The USSR had spies during the Manhattan Project dude, they had spies forever.
- I don't think the Government would have shared it. I don't think anyone knew about the Nukes, did they?
Fair enough. On the last point I don't think we shared that technology with our allies, but I mostly just wanted a way to explain how people outside the US and Russia could get powers. |
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Post by omfg on Nov 1, 2014 16:42:32 GMT
deo- Yeah, you're right on that part, even if Hitchens' father returned home before the war ending, Hitchens would be 21 at max, when WW2 began.
- The USSR had spies during the Manhattan Project dude, they had spies forever.
- I don't think the Government would have shared it. I don't think anyone knew about the Nukes, did they?
Fair enough. On the last point I don't think we shared that technology with our allies, but I mostly just wanted a way to explain how people outside the US and Russia could get powers. The way others before the serum got their powers, naturally. We should probably add: With the fall of the Third Reich, and the occupation of Berlin, USSR scientists began to test on the citizens of West Berlin, using the tainted serum, until they were able to perfect it. When the Berlin wall was demolished, the Berlins became 1 Berlin, and the citizens had babies, with powers. Soviet laboratories were inhabited by the now free Germans, and the perfected serum became public knowledge to Germany. That way we have 3 major countries with the serum now in effect. USA, which has the perfected, original serum. USSR/Russia which has the tainted serum, and Germany, who have the new, perfected serum. Of course, with the fall of the USSR and the rise of the smaller countries such as Ukraine, Lithuania, ect... the immigration outwards boomed, and the ex-USSR citizens fled the country and settled into Europe, reproducing and such. For added effect, let's say when a Super-human is exposed to both serums (IE a super-powered German immigrant to the USA has a baby with a super-powered USA lady, their baby has both serums) that child is a Super-Super-human, being twice as powerful as the others, but this time, the DNA cannot be perfected and passed down. Also, screw it, let's throw in Aliens as well. When the Super-heroes began to bloom, places like Roswell began to release Aliens from the prisons, seeing that the Earth could now handle an Alien invasion. Some aliens stayed on Earth, ect... Maybe one of those aliens comes from one of the planets that is under the protection of the Roman Planet, and that's when Earth becomes noticed or something. |
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Post by Darkender on Nov 1, 2014 17:51:14 GMT
I thought it was just a US thing? Plus, even though it's been documented it still can be covered up, or attempted to be covered up by the government. But either way works for me.
Hitchens could be fairly young and brilliant genius, or the same thing that grants him his intelligence and strength is speeding up his age process? Since these would be the first batch of genetic super heroes I could see them having some debilitating effects coming along with their abilities.
Did USSR have spies in the US already at that time? I guess it really doesn't matter, but after does make more sense. I could see the US using a co-op type deal with manufacturing the serum. So it would make sense that factions of the allies would have small elite groups of serum soldiers.
Also, since Reach seems like it will be a part of this world, could someone give me a crash course on what it is?
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Post by deo on Nov 1, 2014 18:23:00 GMT
Also, since Reach seems like it will be a part of this world, could someone give me a crash course on what it is? It's a lot like Khazan. It's an island nation, full of superheroes and supervillains. There's more but that's the general idea. |
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Post by treacherous1 on Nov 1, 2014 21:18:40 GMT
Sounds like Reach City will be the new Khazan?
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Post by pseudo on Nov 1, 2014 22:32:28 GMT
Dang, I didn't even get the email that we were starting this. I am so in.
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Post by Bergy on Nov 1, 2014 22:38:05 GMT
About powers and power limits: I was not a big fan of the limited points system. I think the best, and probably easiest, way to do powers is to completely ignore limitations based on powers. The fact is that the most liked heroes and villains often have limited power, so if someone wants to write a crap character with massive power then let them, they'll get crucified in official matches.
And really, who's gonna bother writing planet busting level characters? They're never as interesting as street or "anchor" level characters anyway.
Last bit, it was basically impossible to write a batman-like character, who would be street level, under the old system. It would be subjective a bit, but I think we should categorize characters by their real abilities, not by how many points it takes to create them.
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Post by Nihlium on Nov 1, 2014 22:57:31 GMT
Things seem to be going smoothly. Since we seem to have the basic history set up I'll start working on some back grounds for the basic teams. I few ideas involving the Pinkerton, Prohibition, The Axis, Allies, ex-soldiers and aristocrats.
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Post by pseudo on Nov 1, 2014 23:20:01 GMT
For power numbers, it would make sense for there to be weight classes as far as the rumbles are concerned. Don't make no sense for Master Heaven and Spectrum to go toe-to-toe with Becki Bloom and Tony De Luca
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Post by deo on Nov 1, 2014 23:38:14 GMT
Also, screw it, let's throw in Aliens as well. When the Super-heroes began to bloom, places like Roswell began to release Aliens from the prisons, seeing that the Earth could now handle an Alien invasion. Some aliens stayed on Earth, ect... Maybe one of those aliens comes from one of the planets that is under the protection of the Roman Planet, and that's when Earth becomes noticed or something. Not sure how I feel about introducing aliens. The super-human alternate history is pushing us away from Earth norm already, and the existence of aliens living on our planet would push it even further. I'd hold off and introduce that stuff later. BergyI actually liked the power limits. They forced people to be concise and not try to Mary Sue. |
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Post by omfg on Nov 1, 2014 23:45:00 GMT
Just brain storming. I wrote that off the top of my mind.
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Post by pseudo on Nov 1, 2014 23:48:08 GMT
I say, no restrictions. Write what you want to write and our flexible continuity will bend around it. Just like the old FPL.
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Post by Darkender on Nov 2, 2014 3:13:17 GMT
I am for the power restrictions. For one, we don't need a bunch of batmen running around. Plus, I agree with Deo that it does force you to be a lot more creative when creating characters. It makes you pick powers that wouldn't normally be picked to get a certain effect.
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