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Let me clarify this is not an official shop restart. This absolutely does not involve art, but rather a completely optional RP. We can even explore different possibilities, as long as we're good enough to keep ourselves separated from one "alternate path" to another.

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I think a 5-8 year jump would be good, it'll put most characters at a 23-30ish age range, old enough to be adults, young enough to be children sometimes. That'll help not to be too terribly disconnected.

Now, in that time frame, what do you guys want to see happen? I have some ideas, some things that were already plotted out and some things that weren't but come to the top of the mind.

But I'm so not interested in making this a "Ariya leads all" thing. For this, before I shove out ideas, I'm asking for yours.

What is a general idea you would like to have happened to your characters / NPCs / the world?

Here's what I'm thinking as far as some world events, you guys yay, nay, or add to them :::

** Flashduck Yeah, that typo was too funny not to leave there... Flashcharge and Solarduct are dead and have been 1 - 2 years... Leading up to this would have been more and more vicious, massive battles going on two, three times a month. Final massive battle is published that FC sacrificed himself to make sure SD's final blast explode too far out, but it completely destroyed everything in the orb.

** This has only fueled fear and hatred against evolveds AND love for them. Major divisions in this court in the Americas.

** Photon - his situation with the gang? He could EITHER... Resolved at the very last second with his turning the gang in. HIS version of the story is that he had it all under control, knew what he was doing, and Charles need to cool his hot head with his over-panicking. SOME characters might have the whole story about what this did, but I'll suffice it to say that it a) crippled some major villain tactics and b) had Charles put him "on probation for psychological watch" for several months, which may or may not have equaled out to a year or more... which would have c) created more rifts between him and Charles. IF he is still around, he IS still with the NSA, and has become the most seen hero.... though at this point it's much more of a shared effort.

--- OR, have joined the mafia. What do you think? =)

** Susan/Darebone = New Head of NSA... CoLeader with Charles and Jim, and sort of the touch of sanity they need. IF Photon is still around, the reason for his still being around.

** Things have always been a bit international with us, but depending on where we go with Lufa's idea, it may get even more so. There are things in the wing for that. =)

** Sir Aquifer? Definitely still around, still going strong despite his age. His children are now 22, 18, and 14. This may make for additional development, depending on things.



Plenty of possibilities float around these... Again, brainstorm away!

Well I guess the ultimate questions are: Do you need a villain? Do you want to play the villain and be responsible for the plot movement. How much do you want to put into this? Before all the characters were pretty much fledgling Supers. Their bad guys were well and good being bumblers not exploiting obvious weakness.

I think an overarching war (you mentioned a divided America) would be too big for our small group of players to handle. Maybe people would hear blurbs of riots in major cities (possible ex: New York 'revenge riots' might have been triggered by the mass panic created by Belia) targeting pro-Evo or anti-Evo groups.

I like the idea Photon as a villain, though Mafia seems below him. I can see him stepping into the shoes of Solarduct or very near that. He's well known, would have immense notoriety as a fallen hero, has significant powers.

Susan as new head of the NSA is peachy, Charles as an adviser (he got a little too old for it, or was he starting to see too many ghosts?) seems ideal.

I like international, though I think that for the concept of expedition of travel new tech might be in order. LoQuinn would have developed his Kinetic Cannon technique (with help from his stone) for rapid, supersonic travel.

Oh, I'll probably need to update powers to the 'tier three' given the time skip. I figure he had probably another year or so under Freegraff before deciding he'd gone as far as that would take him and found his power focus on the plane (should I RP that out so it's common knowledge or should I just summarize it?). I'll also have to make note of what the focus stone does for him.

WORLD:
Well then, we have to agree what world it is first I guess. Do you just want to do a time-skip with the aforementioned changes? I know that this isn't shop related technically but it's still kinda your baby and we (I, at the very least) don't want to go stomping around on it too much. We liked the feel of CoE, it's why we're here. I think we just need to age it a little.

HERO/VILLAIN:
Assuming LoQuinn hasn't slowly gone crazy in the woods as a result of owning his focus stone I would assume that he's still a decent guy at heart. After all he would see his theft of jewels to be a way of empowering himself and therefore better serving the community at large. A myopic but completely honest and maybe even noble view of things.
Where do you want/need him: an anti-hero who steals to support his power-lust, or a villain who doesn't have reservations against doing what is necessary?

META:
I've always liked combat and character development personally. I like interactive bits where I'm not just effectively typing for the sake of typing. The powers would be for the most part (by this age ala timeskip) settled, correct? The DA/NSA's job was presumably to give them the training they needed so that they wouldn't get killed right off the bat and indoctrinate them into their fold. Powers can be handled in a character profile.

LoQuinn as I've written him doesn't strike me as the kind of character who sits back while other things are happening. He's fairly reckless, aggressive and doesn't have much penchant for order.