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Post by Dead Sidekick on Oct 30, 2009 17:31:52 GMT -5
You found them all There were more, but they got cropped out with the final edit and upload. Shockwave's laptop has a Starkline wireless card WIFI connection and a Lexnet firewall running on the taskbar, and the time on the clock reads 10:17pm "Most violent bar in Times Square" review wasn't so much an easter egg, as a prophecy, sorta like the radio broadcast in Solo's Chap. 5.5 thread set the day after talking about what's about to happen in Chapter 5.
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Post by shockwave on Oct 30, 2009 19:06:03 GMT -5
Was thinking we need to solve this nonviolently, and have Flashdance teleport away before reporters are around, just to ruin the radio broadcast.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Oct 31, 2009 4:24:03 GMT -5
You don't know when the interview takes place. Could be the next morning.
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Post by shockwave on Nov 1, 2009 12:47:42 GMT -5
I'm good with a pause for everyone else at this point, so no problems there.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 1, 2009 17:05:15 GMT -5
Kewl. My friend's character is nearly ready.
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Post by shockwave on Nov 2, 2009 10:32:49 GMT -5
Trying to understand what Spellbound's selection is. Is it the ability to cast any spell after a 3 round waiting period? And what does the rank number actually do?
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 2, 2009 11:25:35 GMT -5
Selection is a power in the UPB that allows a character to choose a power (from all the powers) and have that power at Selection's rank, then when the character wants to change powers the change takes 3 rounds to kick in. Basically every power in the book is available, but the character limited to only manifesting one power at a time. Think Ultra Boy from the Legion of Super-Heroes. Seems outrageously powerful at first glance, but really isn't.
We worked out that her mutant / magi physiology actually channels raw universal spell energy and defines it to very specific effect.
Really, she can be any crappy one-powered hero she wants to be, hehe.
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Post by shockwave on Nov 2, 2009 11:34:42 GMT -5
Thanks. I was just making sure I understand it correctly. (Not that it requires me to understand.)
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Post by shockwave on Nov 2, 2009 15:41:09 GMT -5
First of all. Welcome Spellbound. Saw you had a first post over in the character forum. Second...first job. Grab cosmic awareness to tell us WTF is going on.
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Post by TasK on Nov 2, 2009 17:01:09 GMT -5
Welcome. Nice to have you here. Hope you brought band-aids.
TasK
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Post by shockwave on Nov 2, 2009 17:14:14 GMT -5
Another waste of a good roll...with initiative for a round that might not even need initiative.
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Post by Flashdance on Nov 2, 2009 23:50:36 GMT -5
Hopefully my low roll for the round just got spent. Hey Oldschool - I hope your son's arm is all better. My daughter is only 2 and I obsessively worry about her getting hurt. I think a broken arm would put me over the edge!
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 3, 2009 7:02:34 GMT -5
What a weird coincidence. I didn't know anyone was experiencing any real-life broken arm traumas, so sorry about that. I guess it's rather evident now that Felicia's son Tommy isn't such a sweet and innocent kid... heh. The scene is working out well. I think I might be up for Evil GM of the year by Chapter Nine...
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Post by TasK on Nov 3, 2009 12:08:42 GMT -5
He's doing fine, FD. Thanks for asking. It was a weird injury. He fell off of his buddies borrowed bike, dislocated his elbow, broke the radial? bone in his forearm and tore tendons. Pretty heavy stuff for a 9 year old. I was ready to beat up the park that he got hurt at. You feel pretty powerless when your child gets hurt and guilty that he's in pain... all I could do was be supportive (I know, it sounds cliche). You just got to be there for them. BUT, if I ever catch that park walking through my stretch of neighborhood, it's toast!
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Post by shockwave on Nov 3, 2009 12:47:23 GMT -5
I fortunately haven't had to go through any injuries with my son, but since he's only 6 months old, I'm sure I have plenty of that in my future.
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