Justice League: The New Wave (OOC - Interest Check)

[kizkiz]

That is damn cool. Nice job.

I've been slowly working on this the last few hours. not nearly done just want some feedback
I'm particularly proud of the roster bit. I don't know why just sounds kinda batman-y.

LINKY LINK

 

[ChasNicollette]

I especially like that Rose and Karan's date got its own chapter!

 

[kizkiz]

Fanserv!

I especially like that Rose and Karan's date got its own chapter!

 

[WiredIn]

I especially like that Rose and Karan's date got its own chapter!

It was the only character arc that I can remember happening between the kryptonian and kobra

 

[ChasNicollette]

Well, there was Lex' recruiting, the first meeting of The New League and the intro to the HQ, but that was mostly housekeeping stuff. Not as dynamic as relationships and punching.

 

[WiredIn]

I still think my favorite line so far is where Karan is justifying staring at Rose

 

[Varshanka]

I still think my favorite line so far is where Karan is justifying staring at Rose

which time?

 

[Varshanka]

the google doc is awesome. Love the cover.

 

[WiredIn]

All the times. And thank you

 

[Zet_Cross]

I've been slowly working on this the last few hours. not nearly done just want some feedback
I'm particularly proud of the roster bit. I don't know why just sounds kinda batman-y.

LINKY LINK

Genius.

 

[WiredIn]

Thanks

 

[WiredIn]

couple questions should i leave out the prologue? as rereading it most of it is stuff from characters who arent around and intros
and that leads into the next question, should i leave out characters who've gone poof

 

[ChasNicollette]

couple questions should i leave out the prologue? as rereading it most of it is stuff from characters who arent around and intros
and that leads into the next question, should i leave out characters who've gone poof

Characters who have gone poof are still in continuity.

They're just off-camera mostly.

And the prologue leads into future events.

It's your project and your discretion, though!

 

[WiredIn]

Are they still considered leaguers?

 

[ChasNicollette]

Are they still considered leaguers?

Silver Bullet is considered a Leaguer at the moment but after this arc will leave to help form Titans West with Captain Marvel, who won't become a Leaguer after all.

Kelley Bishop never joined The League but instead became part of Lex' private security and his protégé.

Constantine I've made into a supporting character based on Othermoose's unused profile. Not a Leaguer.

Val-Zod is in secure containment and when Karan and Rose help him put his mind back together that will lead directly to bigger and darker things. Not a Leaguer.

Kaldur obviously I've kept on as leader but I'd like to scale him back at some point so that an actual PC can chair the League. I don't generally subscribe to the GMPC/NPC as leader methodology, and I'm pretty sure Legend was leaning away from that himself, given how he put Nightwing as Leader at first even though that wasn't Vic's intention.

Did I miss anyone?

 

[WiredIn]

I don't think so

 

[ChasNicollette]

Ruby's Dial functions correctly.

Which is to say, unlike some malfunctioning Dials, it doesn't rip powers away from Heroes across hypertime, leaving them temporarily powerless and bereft while someone worlds away messes around with their stuff... it copies their powers and personalities into an "ectype."

Of course, given The Dial Wars raging at the heart of The Exchange unbeknownst to our heroes, Kiz may have heard of or encountered a Dial that steals and siphons a person's powers and neuropsychic net, and may not realize that the proper ones just-- heh-- Xerox?

 

[kizkiz]

Yeah Kiz doesn't always have to be right! Who knows, maybe he's already gone insane and is just pretending to make sense.

Her powers reminded me of an alternative form of Void Binding, I'd come up with (and written half a story around) where instead of summoning them and providing them a seeming. Instead they swap places whole sail like what happened with Rydia in FF4. I'm sure there's a bunch of that in the Dial Wars.

I was sort of thinking they swap soul/bodies but keep their minds, but creation is big place.

Or maybe Kiz is just fucking with her because she said his tattoos were "not bad" and he's in a foul mood?

We'll see.

Ruby's Dial functions correctly.

Which is to say, unlike some malfunctioning Dials, it doesn't rip powers away from Heroes across hypertime, leaving them temporarily powerless and bereft while someone worlds away messes around with their stuff... it copies their powers and personalities into an "ectype."

Of course, given The Dial Wars raging at the heart of The Exchange unbeknownst to our heroes, Kiz may have heard of or encountered a Dial that steals and siphons a person's powers and neuropsychic net, and may not realize that the proper ones just-- heh-- Xerox?

 

[TertiusHuman]

I do hope that I at least got somebody to chuckle with that introduction

 

[ChasNicollette]

I do hope that I at least got somebody to chuckle with that introduction

Definitely!

 

[kizkiz]

Yeah, you pull BB off well as the semi-comic relief.

 

[LuckyVic]

I do hope that I at least got somebody to chuckle with that introduction

Beautifully done.

 

[ChasNicollette]

Here's a bit of historical context for The Dial Wars and The New Dial Wars as related by Christopher King Grant of Earth-25:

"Like Stephen King once wrote," Chris Grant murmured, almost wistfully, "'there are other worlds than these.'"

"At the center of this Universe, there's a funny little red-brown world orbiting a green star called Sto-Oa. But this isn't the only Universe. And at the place at the center of all the Universes, all the parallel Earths and all of Hypertime, there's a world called The Exchange. Once upon a time, the beings of The Exchange discovered that they could copy anything they wanted from the rest of The Multiverse by using a technology that they called Dials. And so they did-- calling themselves Operators, they used their Dials to turn themselves into superbeings that could build cities in days, to conjure technology and supplies and forces of nature and anything else you could possibly imagine."

"Only sometimes the Dials didn't just copy. They stole. Tore meals off of the tables of lower realities. Siphoned away the powers of superheroes as they were in the throes of battle, with disastrous results. But the Operators considered these acceptable losses, an acceptable coefficient of risk, and kept Dialing no matter the pains suffered by other peoples in other places. And over time, rumors spread throughout The Multiverse of these 'vampires,' these 'parasites,' at the heart of all things. Soon there was a war, an alliance of angered worlds pitted against the infinitely diverse resources of The Operators."

"When the battle turned against The Operators and their beloved Exchange, one Operator, a mad genius determined to win at any cost-- he used an unholy combination of technologies to detonate a Time Bomb, a weapon that could punch a crater in Reality and unleash unimaginable forces. The other Operators were desperate to stop him, they fought against him, but nevertheless he detonated The Time Bomb, standing atop the shrapnel of their battle, atop a junkyard of broken Dials."

"The force of The Time Bomb turned The Exchange inside out and scattered those broken Dials across The Multiverse, and wherever they went those Dials touched lives and spread chaos both terrible and wonderful-- even influencing technological developments on the worlds they came to, such as the telephone. The Exchange lost the war soon after, and became a wasteland under the rule of that mad Operator, a bulwark from which The Operator would begin a campaign of vengeance on the worlds that had ravaged his civilization."

"But Dial-touched heroes from elsewhere in The Multiverse-- the legendary Manteau and her companion Rescue Jack, and the formidable Open-Window Man, from worlds not unlike our own, and others, from worlds far more diverse-- they formed a band of pilgrims and quested for the forgotten legends of The Exchange. When they got there, they freed The Exchange from The Operator and his cohorts and began to rebuild the world into a new utopia, inviting in the people who had fought against The Exchange to partake of the resources available to those who wield The Dials."

"All of this was decades ago-- time moves differently in The Multiverse, Time's Arrow flies at different velocities in different worlds-- and since then new souls have inherited rulership of The Exchange, and they have not managed to maintain the utopia that those heroes created. There has been a difference of opinion-- and two factions now war for the heart and soul of The Exchange. One faction supports the ideals of Manteau and Jack, the freely giving and the selflessly saving-- the other wants to use The Dials to command, to control, to exert their power over the worlds of The Multiverse like an iron fist. As part of that war, both sides have sent out signals creating new Dials on new worlds throughout their histories, hidden in the available technologies, bonding with compatible souls in times of great transformative danger, in hopes of recruiting new Dialers to each of their respective causes and drawing them to The Exchange to help them fight."

"Many of those Dials were made here on this world. Stonehenge, Mayan calendars, sundials, on and on throughout history--"

Much of this is inspired by and extrapolated from the events of "Dial H" of The New 52, which presumably would have also taken place in some form or another on Earth-0/Earth-Prime of The New Wave Multiverse. Given that he's the only one in the thread who's done much traveling in The Multiverse, Kiz would be the only one in our current group who would have any inkling of this, but may not know all of it.

The forces currently playing tug of war with The Exchange are the side of Life, led by a mysterious figure known as The Wizard... and the side of Anti-Life, ruled by the indomitable Master-- who is of course Darkseid, but that's not common knowledge.

Ruby will learn some or all of this at some point in her arc, discovering where her Dial came from and what it represents, though not immediately.

 

[ChasNicollette]

Also, heh, at some point-- not that I'm fishing--

--it might be good for Ruby to Dial someone actually nearby, so that she can see that her Dial doesn't steal their powers or soul.

That might set her mind at ease.

 

[ChasNicollette]

I'm glad Beast Boy is giving us that fanboy factor.

We were kind of missing that without Silver Bullet, I'm glad to have it back!