| Skid Row [message #56782] |
Sun, 15 April 2012 07:55  |
 Ranmapat01
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Wasn't sure if I was supposed to start this up or wait for someone else. It sort of feels like trolling for compliments. I've been reading Whateley stories for a while now. I am working on a novel and hit a snag so decided to try my hand here to distract me for the moment.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56784 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Sun, 15 April 2012 08:06  |
Ranmapat01
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Location: New England |
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a lot of this is in the part that I'm working on now
I was totally trolling, too! 
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56792 is a reply to message #56784 ] |
Sun, 15 April 2012 10:10 |
Isodecan
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Location: Fort Worth, TX |
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Russian Mafia covers a lot of things in terms of their reaction being to do things the hard way. They are not nice people.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56793 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Sun, 15 April 2012 10:14 |
Ranmapat01
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from what I understand, a lot of the KGB went there when the money stopped coming in from the Soviet Government. A lot of crossover work "ethic" between organized crime and intelligence work.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56855 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Mon, 16 April 2012 01:36 |
realmfighter
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I've liked it so far, except I cannot empathize with this pants business.
Pants are terrible. Anyone who denies this fact is hopelessly brainwashed by the pantspiracy.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56862 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Mon, 16 April 2012 06:31 |
Ranmapat01
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Location: New England |
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I figure that most situations involving Superhumans, pretty much no matter what, are pretty ridiculous. So putting some humor, even slapstick is pretty much in genre. Also, I think that having no ability to keep your pants up would be pretty upsetting and bear mentioning more than once... especially in November, in New England... (this year not withstanding!)
I've been trying to make sure that I don't bump the ceiling on word count, and I think overcompensating. My writing partner and I usually use GoogleDocs which lets you drop a link to a particular document stored by them for others to read. I wasn't really sure of the rules on dropping a link to another sight here, so I decided to go with bite sized chunks instead...
As for update schedule, this story came through pretty strong for me, so I'm feverishly writing and posting when I can but I'm almost ready to wrap it up. I seem to be getting mostly favorable replies, so I might revisit Skid in a few more days.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56899 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Mon, 16 April 2012 18:08 |
Ranmapat01
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Location: New England |
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A lot of stories seem to use either full fledged supervillains or MCO goons or things like that. I thought a little organized crime might mix things up a little.
I've been running supers games off and on for, well more years than I care to contemplate (Lets just say I own a first edition Villains and Vigilantes, bought new...) and I really find that more human enemies tend to be taken more seriously. By making Constant's powers so limited, he's kind of the token "supervillain" in the story. But the real threat are a bunch of goons who are willing to run over a little girl with a truck...
The original Whateley stories tend to be mostly comedic, with threats that aren't really all that bad, mostly embarrassment or some other light consequence will be the worst they suffer. Going into the origin stories for the core cast, several deal with the some real darkness (Jade has some of that, so does Ayla-- I'm a big fan of Diane's Ayla Stories!) but once they're on campus, which is where we see most of them, the stories tend to be a lot more lighthearted (which is part of what I love about them, really).
I like some occasional darkness to make the light all the more bright. Likely when I continue Skid's exploits in a week or two, I'll succumb to the same lighthearted antics that occur around Whateley.
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56907 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Mon, 16 April 2012 20:28 |
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Maeve
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Registered: April 2012
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Read it, enjoyed it, waiting for more, etc 
You keep talking about revisiting her in a week or so, does that mean the current chapter is all wrapped up then? Or are we going to see the 'discussion' that ends up with her at whateley and some powers testing?
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56910 is a reply to message #56782 ] |
Mon, 16 April 2012 20:51 |
Ranmapat01
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Location: New England |
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I'll probably handle that in the next bit, I'd like to put a little more thought into it. I had pretty much all of what I've got now plotted out ahead. Plus, writing this has been kind of an obsessive activity and it kept me from a couple of real world commitments that I shouldn't have let slide...
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| Re: Skid Row [message #56924 is a reply to message #56923 ] |
Tue, 17 April 2012 11:18 |
Isodecan
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Location: Fort Worth, TX |
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Actually, in this case, given the nature of the Constant's power, I think the "instant" transformation may be justified. Part of his ability is to shift the victims form to something that can tolerate the manifestation. If their ability includes a BIT, then that is going to include shifting their form to whatever the final form for their BIT would be at the optimum age for them to transform.
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