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What do you think should be in the guild? My list so far is:

OOC threads - an entire forum should be dedicated to these

Writer's forum - a room to discuss writing and RP techniques

start here - A sticky which contains rules, a summary of what's going on, links, and a FAQ

world data - either a thread, or a forum, detailing all of the worlds and locations, including those in the Mishaps base. Since we can have many worlds, and each one might have its own history and laws of physics, this might get long.

Character profiles - a thread for character profiles

MIA list - separate thread for those who have vanished.

Hire us - A separate thread for people who want to hire us.

Another question: should we include bios in the character profiles? The original form for Mishap Mercenaries didn't require them.

Separating design from ordinary chatter is good.

The Library is also a good idea - we should something for plot stuff. Especially since almost all plot is player created.

By the simulation room thing, do you mean that you would be something like a staff researcher? Like, you would have your own thread, and if someone wanted information on any particular subject, they should ask you?

You mean something like, someone says "hey Lancelot, your pet rabbit makes you too powerful, what's its weakness?" and Lancelot would post in the simulation room thread, "Lancelot's pet rabbit - power: autokills knights. Weakness: Holy hand grenades"? (Then we would tell Lancelot to seriously nerf his character, but I digress.) I've wondered that sort of thing about some people around here. Do you think there are enough other people with power-related questions to warrant a thread for them?

I once came up with a situation where that kind of character could happen... but it wouldn't be allowed for player characters. Start the thread, and I'll sticky it.

A question about Brian to start that off. I don't know if this was supposed to happen, but from here it looks like Brian's nanite powers run like this.

-Changes shape
-May create his own weapon by changing shape
-Turn incorporeal, using the nanites-dissolve-in-air-like-a-cloud trick
-Walks through walls. Nanites can eat a hole through most materials and slip through, or use that power outlet trick
-Invisibility, either through assuming cloud-form, or by flattening up against a wall and changing color for camouflage
-Flight, again using cloud-form
-Bilocation; can he split himself into two groups of nanites and be in two places at once?
-May consume most standard materials by contact, including walls, weapons, and enemy soldiers
-Actually, that last can be used as a 'touch of death' power as well
-Immune to standard weapons, displayed when the nanite beast was shot during the attack on the base
-Immortal, because if his body is damaged but not completely destroyed, nanites can consume the world around them and regenerate
-Immortal a second time, as in, even if his current body is destroyed, he can revive himself using one of those backups he had placed around the world

And that's not counting his abilities before he became a nanite swarm. How accurate is this?

Brian's nanite powers run like this. (My explanation...)

-Changes shape (main power)
-May create his own weapon by changing shape (usage of main power)
-Turn incorporeal, using the nanites-dissolve-in-air-like-a-cloud trick (Good idea....have not thought of this one yet, but see below for the problems I have for that power. ....)
-Walks through walls. Nanites can eat a hole through most materials and slip through, or use that power outlet trick (Yes, but it gives the opponents time..... nanites are not super time consistent.....It is more like a puddle of nanites slowly forming into a man....)
-Invisibility, either through assuming cloud-form, or by flattening up against a wall and changing color for camouflage (really, that is a subuse of the main power...)
-Flight, again using cloud-form (short span levitation would be possible, but since a single nanite could not store enough power to power itself for long spans, it would be more like a reversed spiderman flight...*spits strings of nanites towards power outlets*)
-Bilocation; can he split himself into two groups of nanites and be in two places at once? (Definitively not possible, mainly because his brain would fry.... I m,ean, brains are build around the baisc premise of not being in two places at once... Being in two places at once would most definitively ******** up his perception/movements/cause him brain-bugs...)
-May consume most standard materials by contact, including walls, weapons, and enemy soldiers (Immagine being sprayed by a slow acting acid.... it is not that quick, but it eats slowly....)
-Actually, that last can be used as a 'touch of death' power as well (ahem...... no..... It would not work, since the limited battery time....a more accurate description would be....
Soldier: Harr... I iz killing u!
Brian: *splusshes nanites all over him, nearly dissolves his normal form, and since he lost as much body mass as neccesary for covering the whole thing, the CPU formed by the nanites gets veeeery slow.... meaning the more body mass used by him, the slower he gets...*
Soldier: AAARgz! it iz eating away my clothes! *jumps*
Nanites: Since disconnected from the mormal form, and from the main power outlet, they stop their activity.... which means the soldier is now covered in some silvery goo.
Brian: oops...
-Immune to standard weapons, displayed when the nanite beast was shot during the attack on the base (definite yes.... but since it is not my real body, what do I care?(my real body (brain and spinal cord) is still in the simulations room, surrounded by a life support system....)
-Immortal, because if his body is damaged but not completely destroyed, nanites can consume the world around them and regenerate (but his organic parts can't.... Meaning that unless he finds a way to completly rebuild his brain, deactivate his normal brain, and then reactivate his nanite brain, he is trapped... And would you willingly do that to yourself, considering that he had bugs in the first time software?Basically, that is the kind of stuff only a power crazed maniac with a desire to die because he had a bug in the (startNaniteBrain()fun.ction) function he had overlooked would try.
-Immortal a second time, as in, even if his current body is destroyed, he can revive himself using one of those backups he had placed around the world (again, the software he had backed up was the controlling software for the nanites. )

really, you miss several important design specs.
1. He is basically a cripple now. he is nothing more then a brain, and some spinal cord. If his software fails, or is he makes an error, he is dead, since the life support software runs on the same computers. so, if anyone would accidentially destroy the computers, or cut of his energy supply, he dies after 20 hours....all his nanites would converge in a single ball to give the stored energy to his brain, to keep him in a state of coma untill the power is restored. if you would have a power outage, you could simply wait it out. Heck, you could even walk away and flipp the switch. He can't.
2. The nanites are good for three things only.
1. Build more nanites.
2. store energy /data, and process it
3. recreate or immitate systems they can understand. It does not mean that it can recreate a brain, since a brain cannot be fully understand. Like the old saying, a thing is not the sum of its parts.
So, to operate his artificial body in situations like the ones you described, (flying, walking, dissolving into thin air....), he would need to diverge his nanites to match the tasks.
if we want to go in even more deeply, here's the real deal.
Flying in gas form.... very very painfull. The nanites would have to operate in single clusters, most likely diverge all the attention and nanites towards the duplicate systems function, and as much as needed towards the store energy function. As a result, his processing power would diminish. It is allmost the same if you would hack your life support systems to play unreal tournament. It would all work great, except it would cause you to slow down... a lot....
3. The dissolving materials takes time..... can you imagine a robot that could pick apart an entire lego house in under three seconds? nope.... so, it is just a very slow way.....
My main reason is the following....
How to kill a soldier....
-pick his body apart, second after second, atom for an atom: long time.
-immitate a metal spike through his eyesocket, killing him by poking into his brain: Quite quickly.
So, my main mode of attack is allways immitate over dissolve.

So, and since you display Brian so overpowered, here are the ten quickest ways to kill the guy.
1. flood the simulation room with nerve gas., or simply kill the brain
2. shut of the power
3. heat the area so much that the nanites conductivity turns toward zero
4. disable the wifi by simple radio frequency blocking, thus not allowing the nanites to operate outside of touch range.
5. how about giving a swarm of nanites the hose, and watering them? as we all know, water hurts electronic equipment.
6. send a virus to his computer.
7. use an electro magnetic impulse, to fry the single cells... (I got veeery scared when ryan posed that line of thought with his neutrino bomb..... very ******** up way to be killed, since it would shatter the entire electronics system. And since we have seen oceans eleven, we all know how to build one. )
8. Use area weapons, like a flame thrower. Heck, even a fire extinguisher is dangerous to me....
9. overload the nanites with so much energy that they cannot handle them,.... they would melt, and it would take a long time to regenerate.
10. propose to him some way of the ones suggested above..... since he has several bugs in the software, there is a good chance you could not only kill the heap of nanites, but allso kill himself. And heck, he is an insane genius all through and through, he would not mind hooking his nipples up to a car battery if he had some, if someone told him a convincing way.

so, allways remember.... for you, it is a bootup failure..... for me, it is just my heart stopping.
And that's not counting his abilities before he became a nanite swarm. How accurate is this?

I think the library should hold any info on NPCs like Kavinsky and others, as well as terms commonly thrown around in the guild- my examples being Chaos, Chaosmonger, Emperium, etc.

Also, we need a forum specifically for the role-playing.