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| ~Shin-Ra~ | Mar 9 2009, 03:49 PM Post #21 |
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Now that is original, I’ve not heard of an idea like this one before in any series or franchise, but it’s certainly something which puts a new spin on some of the older sci-fi ideas such as mental infection and manipulation. What you’ve stated here soundly like a ‘lesser’ form of multiple personality disorder created by the merge and events in relation to contact with the Scurge and something which would fully mature over time. As you said yourself, there are a number of possible directions in which this could be taken both in terms of the Source’s ability to understand and ‘dissect’ people’s identities and emotions, and possibly replicate them along with an individual’s physical form to create near perfect copies. Another option (take the fight against the Source as an example) might have been for the Source to manifest and control ‘possible identities’ of Jenosa, ones which with a number of events, emotional reactions or even stress could be used to alter and change people into other personalities. As I said it’s a very original idea with a great deal of promise, and it’d be good for the future development of thee characters involved with the Scurge (fighting it, infected by it etc)
It’d do more than just make them question them, in the best case scenario (if they discover the Scurge) they’d go to great lengths to make sure that the Enhanced Metroids (I’ll come up with a better name for them later on) and the Scurge never encountered one another, in the worst case scenario they’d probably try to destroy the Scruge and any Confed facilities relating to researching or producing it. It’s the kind of tactics the Commonwealth have been forced to use since it’s founding: ‘if it’s too much of a risk and you can’t guarantee it’s safeguard, wipe it out.’ But other than that they’d be willing to at least talk. Anyway, just about every other group than the one’s you’ve listed would be minor ones allied to one bigger group or another, or simply trying to stay out of the way. But the main question there is here, is who we’re going to get one group to encounter the other as the Metroids are trying to stay in hiding (the ones in the ‘first’ galaxy anyway) and as is the Commonwealth apart from a few very cautious scout ships. Any ideas?
What exactly do you mean by the virus’ effects? You’ve noted that the changes are much more subtle than seen within the scientists but what does that mean exactly, has the virus changed while it was dormant or has the encounter with the Phazon mutated it? As for Jenosa’s personality, I’ve yet to see any of your posts in relation to her but you don’t have to do any major changes just as long as you have something interesting for her to work with or focus upon for interaction I.E. the virus remerging, and give her some subtle or small scale changes in terms of her viewpoints or traits. Also, what of Jenosa herself? I know of her fate up to the cliff-hanger ending of Scurge: Hive but I know very little of whatever background you’ve written for her.
Well, first of all I read your last couple of posts in Descending Twilight to a certain extent and I saw no real lack of emotion or character to her actions and reactions, and she seemed to have a well rounded personality. I really can’t see what’s wrong with her and even if you weren’t to develop her that much she’s still an interesting character. As for the immunity plotline, I like the idea to it and also the fact it could lead to conflict within the Commonwealth but I can see just one problem with it. Wouldn’t the immunity be something more or a hindrance to many of her abilities than an advantage or development, for one thing she’d lose the fast healing power and the Scurge would most likely be even more hell bent upon killing her as she’d be a real threat. Well, It’d certainly make Scurge encounters interesting. Oh, and who/what is Omega? |
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| +CEMP+ | Mar 10 2009, 02:15 PM Post #22 |
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Wow! Thanks! The idea was mostly vague up until now, and now that I have it more defined, I'll have an easier time on working on various psychological stuff. What you're proposing defintely strikes more detail into the heart of the matter. Considering that this is most likely a merging of two minds, the partial blur between until one of the identities takes over would allow the Source to muddle around with her own memories and such. Afterall, memories are what give us an identity, and considering all the minds that are merged with the Source, there's no doubt it wouldn't be able to dissect various forms of emotions or stress to widle away at Jenosa's personality (This could explain the various colors the clones come in to an extent).
That reminds me, I'm actually playing a Scurge replica at the moment to see where i can get with him - let's just says hes sort of 'contracted' by the Confeds for one reason or another, either being threatened or out of deception. One of the things to take note of is that he's often worked on more independantly - and doesn't have much contact with the rest of his kind. Being cut off from the Source and recalling what we discussed before, there's a possibility some of his own personality to make up for the lack of 'identity' (To losely coin the term for the time being) that he gets from being with the Source or Sources. Hence, probably based off some assimilated memories, he'll have some human behavior to him compared to that of the first Source we see in the game. Of course, it's not like anything he'll be doing will be morally right or just. He doesn't give two shits about anybody, and mostly sees them as tools to an end; and he still bares a huge, insane loyalty to the well being of his own kind. He'll just react to situation in a more human-like manner, albeit with a small dash of the original Scurge personality in his dialogue ("I...win!").
One theory is that the virus had some really subtle changes, changing her body in a slight manner that was similar to the Scurge's ancestors; in that her bio-energy was no longer ordinary by any means. It was only the mere presence of Phazon that made the virus, or perhaps her new physiology, reacted in manner to restructure her immune system, there fore giving way to more noticable, but still subtle, changes. The changes are similar to some of the changes the Scurge ancestors went through, but on a much smaller and less endagnering scail. One of the changes is that she has a sort of 6th sense for recognizing energy patterns such as electricity and getting an odd, intricite form of detail of how a force field works by being near. This ability would be very short ranged, but could grant her an eagle's eye for recognizing various forms of energy that aren't tangible or visible to the naked eye. It could also prove to help her 'create' various 'technique' or new abilities through the bio-suit she wore in the game; the virus now giving her a much more intricite control of her suits weapon. It would be rather helpful in adapting to knew situations. She is also presented with a slightly different vision, where the much strong forms of energy might be 'seen' as a slight colored haze, the color depending on the type of energy. It's not like she's constantly seeing a super huge amount of purple haze in her vision, but mainly things that largely stand out, such as something that would be giving off a strong, concentrated electromagnetic field. Like seeing a light, purple, hazy line to indicate there's a live wiry behind a wall. She could probably adjust the focus from being there slightly to not being there at all. She'd probably also have some faster healing abilities, though she probably wouldn't be able to regenerate entire limbs. Other subtle affects could be taken into account if we start analyzing the rest Scurge's traits, but it's best to leave it there and add on any details that we see fit as Jenosa progresses as a character.
Are you inquiring about her past before the events of Scurge: Hive, or after? If you're enquiring about her past before then, I suggest you read up on the first good portion of her history in her profile, which can be found in my character thread in the Reference section. However, if you want a recall of the events after Scurge: Hive - at least what's occured RE wise - then I'll be happy to lay down the details. After Jenosa is rescued (Ignoring where she was sent off to because I wanted to find a way to get her into the RE verse at the time and hooked up with a neat RP), and given a thorough scan, she was sent on her way with her pay. However, I also wanted her to have the bio-suit with her so as to have fun with it as well in Future RPs, since I doubt she'll be granted access of another suit by the Military so she can simply do a non-military related job. Hence, an idea game up that, while the upgrades were being removed, it was noted how the suit would not link up with anyone else who tried it except for Jenosa (Which they probably let her re-try the suit on without her knowledge that it didn't work for them). This could be due for any number of reasons, but lets skip the funky bio-stuff and simply say that most of the scientists, out of habit of wanting to follow protocols, would have normaly desposed of the suit. It was a prototype after all. However, one eccentric man thought differently from the rest, and thought it might be a fun idea to give her the suit as a 'present' for her hard work, minus the upgrades on it; just to see what would happen in the long run. Give a few excuses and reasons here and there; perhaps pull a few strings (Maybe convince the Commander himself that giving the suit might be a good idea), and she was given the suit in exchange for not attracting too much attention with it. She was a bounty hunter who kept her mouth shut and worked on a descrete contract, so the deal had already been 'sealed' a long time ago. The same scientist could eventually help her daignose the new but subtle changes to her body, and could be, in fact, one of the few people able to help her in a tight situation with the Confeds; all considering he did things not by the protocol. Aside from that, over the years before the re-emergence of the virus, Jenosa occaisonally experianced dreams that recalled her last few moments on Inos and her fight with the Source. She herself could not help but feel...a little different ever since then, but she could never put a finger on it; nor could she find anything out of the ordinary about herself. She even checked herself in the mirror once or twice after the afore mentioned dream. Finding herself a little paranoid, she decided to use the well-earned cash to relax and help put aside this troubled portion of her. The events on Inos, of course, did affect her, and she had informed Commander Kozan about what had occured on the planet; every detail minus the last battle she had with the Source in her mind. She could not find herself to mention this in fear of the Military's reaction to her. She knew she did not know anything about any other Scurge projects and didn't stand much of a chance. She didn't want to take any part in any other Scurge mess or get mucky with the military, and took to hear that Kozan would do the right thing. But it's not to say those events have not buit up on her. She later found herself meeting Omega Alpha, a humanoid Metroid that was actually the hatchling that Samus rescued from SR388 and had been revived through a stroke of luck for the pirates and genetic re-engineering (Check out Transcon's character thread for more info on him). Some strange events occured before and after Omega was captured, one which led Jenosa to have a rather foreshadowing dream, a nightmare that was much different from the other Scurge related dreams that had disturbed her sleep. She also began to experiance fragmented memories of some of the scientists that had been assimilated by the Source for a short time before the virus reacted to the phazon; all due to what Omega did to bring up a distinct reminder of what happened on Inos. In fact, she didn't know what a Metroid was until one character gave her a brief of what Omega really was, and that strangely made her feel compelled to help along. And probably brought about the memories, as Omega being described as a galactic threat reminded her of what the Scurge could have done if they had gotten loose. After the rescue and the re-emergence of the virus, Jenosa had herself checked up by a friend of the rescue, and was later quarantined incased she was infectious. Only by giving the eccentric scientist that gave her suit to her was called was she diagnosed as ok. During her waiting time, she had time to think over her mistake of taking the job for Inos and feeling a great amount of regret for doing so. She was also somewhat unused to the new changes and the sixth sense she now had, at for a time being. Over the years after she was freed, she had some time to adjust, although she now hides in the GFed space, not wanting to travel just yet back to her home space in fear what the Military's reaction to her. Her last bit of development was at the beginning of DT, where, while the fragmented memories of the scientists are gone (One idea being that they were downloaded and sealed away into her suit's digital compartment), the 'ghosts' of them still echo from the back of her mind. Being able to think more clearer, she begins questioning the commander's decision to send reinforcements to the planet instead of just her. She also feels theres something else she should be doing other than laying low, but hasn't quite put a finger on it yet. Apologies if i can't be more precise, but i left it vague on purpose for flexible character development. Let's just say those 'ghost memories' have changed the way she looks at her past decisions and events. At which point, all of this is stuff that happened in the RPs that I've used or am using her in. During the time I began using her, my idea of what the Scurge really where was still vague during then, and quite a few things i came up with during then i sort of pulled out of my ass on the fly, if you know what i mean. Heh, what can i say. I was trying to have fun back then, but i am still doing so now.
Umm, thanks! It was just a talk with Jefe about the way i was RPing that sort of made me think this. he sort of said that she acted like a "Princess in distress," but that's me asking for his point of view. Not like everyone's the same.
How? Why would the immunity block out intaking the Scurge's bio-energy? So far, we have a suit that resists the virus, but it doesn't seem to destroy the Scurge bio-energy that goes into Jenosa. In fact, considering that she takes in bio-energy before she get's infected, one can assume the bio-energy is a by product of the virus. After all, a virus is a pathogen and may not be alive (as with most regular, organic virus) in most cases; it just causes something funky to happen in the 'body' of whatever it gets into. I mean, our body takes in stuff to produce energy, so much like how organic virus inject their protein into a cell and that cell begins to constantly replicate that protein until it explodes; well, when the scurge virus gets ito the cells or whatever systems use energy, it changes the kind of energy that the cell produces. But in any case, there's plenty of room to say to that having an immunity doesn't block the bio-energy, since the bio-energy doesn't bring about the change the virus does; it's only the virus itself that does the changing.
Errr, would this be a problem in terms of plot? 'Cuz Jensoa kind of seems destined to tangle withe the Scurge threat more than once. That we can tell, and immunity or not, the Scurge would still be hell bent on killing her for standing in their way. Though the added immunity gives them a spare reason to do so.
Are you refering to Omega Alpha, the metroid that I already mentioned, or another Omega that i can't seem to recall mentioning. Alright, now...
The Scurge obviously wouldn't take kindly to being destroyed, and would give the Commonwealth quite a fight. Then again, there could be any sort of cpnsiracy going on within the Confederation that would make it a lot more difficult for Commonwealth to destroy them On that, we don't know what'll happen if the Enhanced Metroids and Scurge meet. There are many things to take into consideration since Scurge have a much more different physiology than most of the other creatures the Enhanced Metroids have met. Such a physiology could cause complications. Also, their adaptability should not be no down played, as it is one of their key traits that makes them who they are. There was one point that imagined that the scurge would get crushed a few times upon meeting the Metroids before suddenly rebounding and making it more difficult fo for the Metroid's to kill and drain their energy. On the other hand, I do want to be careful of where this adaptability goes, and make it not too borg-like. Granted, the Scurge do improve other time on an evolutonary stance, but their adaptability also comes from how multifarious their species would become as a whole. It could be all the various traits, some unforseen, that the Scurge could develop, and there's still the matter how the Sources will be able to manipulate them to get the job done
Now that's a tough one to figure out. The Confederation and Federation already seem to know each other....so, what are the other groups aside from the Commonwealth and Metroids that can meat one another. I seem to have forgotten/missed a few of them? Also, what would be the significances of two of these groups meeting one another in terms of plot? Sorry if i can't give anything else about that, it's just I don't seem to have much to work with on this question. |
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| ~Shin-Ra~ | Mar 14 2009, 06:42 PM Post #23 |
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Do you use him in RPs often or has he recently been introduced, because an amoral fanatic seems somewhat limited personality wise (no offence meant, it’s always good to have a fish out of water character or in this case ‘drone out of hive’ but he seems to be little more than a tool or weapon from your description.)
No, I found and read the background information to her in your character list. She doesn’t have quite as ‘normal’ a past as I first thought and I’ve seen similar backgrounds done with previous characters but it was well handled and each event seemed to flow quite easily into the next one.
That’s quite a history for a character, a lot of missions, events, and a lot of background info to work with. Thanks for giving information about it, it gives me more of an idea just how well established the RE verse is.
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. I’ve really got little else to say on the subject other than that. However, I was thinking more in terms of how the Scurge might view Jenosa’s growing immunity on a larger scale. She’s already their worst enemy and is (arguably) directly above them on the food chain, but she’s only one person. With the Scurge consisting of a vaguely ‘hive mind’ like state I thought that they would view other powers and species in comparison with themselves. As mentioned before the Scurge are a diverse race who evolve in different groups and sub-species, yet it makes sense that certain traits would be appear within groups to maintain their survival or to gain resistance to a specific threat. Now, humanity have the same capability but on a much smaller scale and a much slower speed, the Scurge could see this immunity within Jenosa not just as mutation caused by the virus but an adaptation which any other human could be capable of in the same circumstances (same rate of infection, wearing the same suit etc) proving that humans could all to easily become resistant to their virus. If Jenosa were to pass on her genes and the immunity was allowed to spread through humanity, humanity itself would become the Scurge’s biggest threat and would hold the key to possibly wiping them out. Yet, if the Scurge were to kill Jenosa before she could pass on her genes, or before other humans use her blood to create a remedy to the virus’ more physical effects… Well, you see why the Scurge may be more determined to kill her.
That’s the one, you were explaining Jenosa, you mentioned “although she has befriended people in Federation space like Omega and Adam and Samus.” I knew who the latter two were from Metroid Fusion (and I guess they’d be carried over into RE) but I’d not heard of Omega up till now.
I don’t doubt that the Scurge would eventually win, for one thing they’d probably have good resistance to the Enhanced Metroids’ telepathic abilities due to the Sources and while their other powers (telekinesis for example) would still allow them to do a great deal of damage to the Scurge they encountered, there’s still the question if they’d be able to fully develop an immunity to the pathogen if they became infected and no one fully knows what would happen if they began to drain the Scurge’s bio-energy in great quantities. You see, what the Commonwealth would truly be afraid of is for one race to gain the attributes of the other. If the Scurge was to fully infect and take over even one Enhanced Metroid, they’d be able to telepathically influence and even hijack hundreds if not thousands of different creatures at a time, and bring them towards the planet where the source was located for infection. Furthermore they’d gain a lot of firepower, enough to decimate threats both on planet and off it with very little support. If the Metroids ‘eat’ enough of the Scurge and begin to develop their attributes, then their own evolutionary and biological abilities would be further enhanced, perhaps allowing them to adapt and become immune to weapons from simply gaining information upon them and never truly encountering them. And god only knows what they’d be able to do if they gained the ability to create their own variant of the Scurge pathogen. As for preventing the Scruge from becoming too Borg-like, I don’t think that there’s much chance of that happening as they do have clear weaknesses. For one thing their entire ‘society’ hinges upon the Sources for continued existence, and while they can adapt to blunt various forms of attacks, adapt to environments etc this doesn’t happen instantly and it would take some time for an ‘immunity’ to a variant of weapon to spread through their species due to their diversity (if it even did at all.)
There’s only a small number of ‘minor’ groups involved in overall interaction between the major groups: -The psychic energy guys (the Arithean) who are supposedly a part of the Commonwealth but normally act individually, they are powerful but only number a few million and are particularly weak against the Enhanced Metroids. -The Enhanced Metroids in the second galaxy are another group, they’re less developed than the ones in the one where the Federation, Confederation and the Metroid storylines in general are located, but they easily number in their thousands of billions and have their own variants of ships armed with high power plasma weapons. The only problem is that they’re currently stuck 3.5 million lightyears away, with the only way to reach the Milky Way being the Ring network which is unpowered at one end and broken at the other. I still might find a way for them to get involved though. -Federation Intelligence. While these guy’s answer directly to the Feds, they would probably become involved with the other groups in one way or another quite early on and would pick up on any activity between them quite early on. As such I think that the Feds intelligence branches should be considered a sub-group linked with the Federation. In addition to this, Navel Intel appeared to be in places of power when the Consortium (a union of various high ranking individuals within Commonwealth military and politics) made it’s bid for power and overthrow the ruling governments, as such the Consortium should be considered a part of this group. -The last minor group would probably be the Space Pirates, I’m not sure as of yet how they’d become involved (other than under the control of the Scurge or Metroids) but I think that their opportunistic nature along with their ambitions would eventually draw a number of them into a plotline or two. I’ve not put too much thought into this right now, and I’m not aware of any major factions within the Confederation other than possibly those who wish to use the Scurge as a major weapons but the Confederation overall doesn’t seem to have much of a problem with that idea, as such this is just a rough idea of several minor groups. Edited by Shin-Ra, Mar 14 2009, 06:46 PM.
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| +CEMP+ | Mar 22 2009, 09:30 PM Post #24 |
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I recently introduced him in Descending Twilight, so he's rather new, and thus I am still experimenting with him and what I can do. Hence he's in a developing stage that I’m playing around with.
Of course I see what you mean. It only makes things much more funner; depending on how you work out the plot of course. There's also the fact that Jenosa isn't alone; she has met and befriended other people before. Plus she may always gain allies (Such as the commonwealth finding a way to gain her allegiance for whatever reason). That also reminds me that I'm thinking that the Confederation won't do the same thing that most other governments might do if they learn about Jenosa's immunity I.E. Chase after and do experiments on her. I remember discussing before that one plausible background for the Confederation is they were once slaves to an alien race, abducted and such and eventually freed themselves and became a community there after. Considering the slavery point, the Commander of the Military would still recognize Jenosa as being human and put out a sympathetic understanding for her reason for staying away; and that turning her into a lab rat would be very similar to becoming a slave; a person with no freedom in other words. And they don't see any problem in using the Scurge as a weapon because it isn't human - or it doesn't think with a human intelligence, and does many things that are heinous and inhumane in the Confederations eyes. The Confederation also knows she'll be more useful as a willing person, much like how she was contracted before the incident on Inos. They have experience in how she works, and could let slide a few the idea that she could have leaked out information that would be against her contract of discretion. In other words, the Commander would attempt to persuade her to join them on a few conditions that would reinstate her as a regular bounty hunter. This persuasion with the slavery concept et all could either be the truth, a ploy to lure her into a trap, or a mix of the both. The Scurge could possibly use this to their advantage to unsuspectingly get rid of this immunity problem.
This comes to remind of a particular argument that me and Aiko had a long time ago about the Scurge the X-Parasite, and what would happen if they ever collided. At the end of the argument, it was simply put by Aiko that everything would just end up as a big mess, primarily because I learned that we both share some slightly different viewpoints. There's no real canon to establish, and being completely fiction, the clash could go about in a million ways. Thus I came up the idea that if you are going to have entities like the Scurge and Metroid class, make what happens interesting and significant towards the plot; and not just a big babbling fight. Have both authors of both entities put their brains together so as to come up with an original idea that we would both agree on. Not that there is any kind of issue here that we need to resolve; I'm merely mentioning this idea in general. As of the time being, it's probably best we kept the Scurge and Enhanced Metroid away from one another until the moment seems right to let them meet. NOW[/i], looking at the groups that we know we have, it really depends on how we want to start everything up. Finding a good starting point to develop the plot is important, and that goes to what how we want to start everything off. If we're leaving the big boys out of this, we then have Federation Intelligence, the energy being and space pirates, and possibly the Enhanced Metroids from the other galaxy. The only way i can think of them coming here is by some dimensional phenomenon that one of their scouting parties run into and flings them all the way to GFed space. Actually, getting a small group of those metroids (Ones that can be dealt with) involved might cause alarm in the Federation or space pirates group. They could react in several different ways, but it would surely translate to making them more alert, and possibly patrol their area of space for anything out of the ordinary. Y’know, try to investigate the situation. It really depends on how you want to launch the plot, but if what I said does happen, it could eventually lead the Feds or pirates to discovering what the other big players are doing. On a side note, I’ve been coming up with explanations that would fit the mind-merging concept that we defined in this thread for what happened to Jenosa. I mean, we got several dormant or hidden memories that was in her head before, severally fragment, and if you’ve read my recent post, you’d notice how Jenosa almost lost. One thing is to say that when Jenosa beat down the other identity trying to destroy, it fragmented, obviously; the ego being partially made up by instinct and the other by memories, one can obviously assume that the memories and instincts held together to create the ego was shattered apart; as was the ego itself. But that didn’t mean the pieces faded out, as we know; and we know there was possibly some sort of merging process of the two minds, where either ego didn’t accept one another. Even if one beat out the other, it didn’t mean there wasn’t some kind of merging; and the fragmented pieces still remained inside of her head, but never fully interfering with her active conscious. One could assume, though, that the merging process was still happen only at a slower pace and in a way that wasn’t directly afflicting Jenosa’s conscious or ego. Most of the memories that would have afflicted her identity normally would be blocked out for obvious reason, but some teeny fragments might have seeped into her subconscious; and eventually they mixed with her mind little impurities being metallic mixture before it cools. I hope I explained that in way that you understand… This could explain why she eventually felt ‘different’ even before the virus re-emerged, and being in the subconscious area, one can say these impurities were the some of the Source’s instinct, and that some strong sensory input related to the Scurge would be enough trigger these instincts; like what we saw in my last post. In any case, I’m looking at throwing Jenosa into a situation that would be significant for her character. I don’t want to have to give away too much yet, but I did mention her spine having a significant change to it. I’m debating whether or not to remove it or not after the situation, seeing as Jenosa is already quite developed, and that the purple spine can, symbolically, indicate that she has those mental ‘impurities’ in her; and that it’s removal would indicate those impurities are gone and are no longer afflicting her conscious. |
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| ~Shin-Ra~ | Mar 30 2009, 05:19 PM Post #25 |
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| ~Shin-Ra~ | Apr 3 2009, 04:00 PM Post #26 |
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Well, that was certainly the longest 'eight to ten hours' I've ever delayed myself by.
What you’ve said does make sense, and as that’s the case I’ll try to come up with reasons for the two to avoid any encounters or confrontations in the future but I think that the more prominent concerns would relate to ‘what if’ scenarios and either the Commonwealth and other groups attempting to prevent them meeting than them actually encountering one another.
Oh don’t worry, I’ve got a few plans to get a small number of the Metroids into the Milky Way quickly and how to get them to encounter or engage a few of the other groups (starting with the Space Pirates and then players.)
Well, at the moment that wouldn’t be that much. The Federation would be on edge after the events of Ghost Light as would the Intelligence agencies (but with the intel having more knowledge of what is going on), the Commonwealth would be trying to hold itself together and rebuild while secretly scouting out nearby locations. I don’t truly know enough about the ‘character’ of the Confederation to describe what their stance is at this time (I also don’t want to impose upon your ideas either) but the next ‘event’ within the arc wouldn’t be taking place far from their boarders so they’d have plenty of chance to react to what is taking place next. I’ll PM you some of the ideas relating to the RP but the basis for the idea would be for the characters arrive at the location long after the various events had begun (rather than seeing things from the beginning) with two or three of the minor groups already being at the location where the RP is set and having gone into a cold war with one another, trying to fight and gain information without attracting attention of others. The only major problem I see with all this is me, as while I’ve got plenty of plans upon how to set up scenarios and environments but when it comes to GMing in general I lack a lot of skill in it and the last few RPs I’ve tried to set up have almost always gone onto lengthy hiatuses for one reason or another.
Okay, as I understand this you mean that during one of the ego based conflicts between Jenosa and her other ‘selves’ a section of her mind relating to instincts and other memories was shattered and broken down and while said memories still reside within her head they’re submerged I.E. amnesia focused within specific sections of her mind. It seems to be a reasonable enough concept and it’s well based within the whole mental concept of Jenosa’s character so I can see nothing being truly wrong with using it in RPs and her long term development but I’d try to avoid overusing it an focusing on it too much, Also, I didn’t exactly understand the final part which said ‘and eventually they mixed with her mind little impurities being metallic mixture before it cools’ though.
I think that in-character terms Jenosa would attempt to have the spine removed but in terms of out of character decisions you might want to keep it if she’s becoming more powerful and to also help the much more mental state of the Scurge’s effects on her remain in focus. Give her a characterised weakness and such if you even plan upon removing some of her other ones but otherwise I’d agree with getting rid of the spine. |
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| +CEMP+ | Apr 15 2009, 03:02 PM Post #27 |
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(After a small writers block...)
It might actually provide some nice tension for a plot, as the Commonwealth has to keep the Scurge and Metroid away from one another. It may definitley open up some nice avenues when this part of the plot (The discovery of the Scurge) becomes evident. And now that I'm thinking about it, we could use the Commonwealth as a good way to perhaps let only minor, very remote skirmishes occur with the Scurge and Metroids. This could allow us to do a little experimenting; come up with a few scenarios that could perhaps give us a better picture of what might happen if they class; or at least define the danger of them meat. It would defintly help us figure out where to go with these two groups.
And now that I'm thinking about it, Space Pirates Scurge and Metroids oh my. It could depend on how much we want certain factions to know what the Scurge are like but we've already seen that Pirates will attempt to experiment on anything to further their nafarious means.
Hmmmm, this could present an opportunity to develop the Confederation a bit more and work on their character. One idea that was tossed around and used in an RP was that the Confederation and Federation exchanged personel as a way to show trust or to prevent some sort of conflict. This could be happening for variou reason, one such being that neither government want to go into conflict, although the Confederation could be a lot weaker than it looks, but the Federation don't know this. They may also do this to help with problems they would have in common I.E. Space Pirates. There's still also the matter of what Jenosa's postion might be in all of this, but that could depend on what occurs in DT. Oh yeah, on a side note, the Confederation may not attempt to actually capture Jenosa like an experiment, but rather try to persuade her to work for them again. Even though she broke the contract, the commander would probably say her actions are understandable for the situation she's in. He might even go as far as to say to capture Jenosa does silly experiments on her would the equivilent of what the alien race enslaving them; something that they probably want to prevent in the Confederation. Of course, they disregard their 'usage' of the Scurge as 'slavery' because of how they view them to so inhumane. They think that since, hypothetically speaking, letting the Scurge run amok with their desires would cause every other race in genereal lots of trouble. They don't see hint that the Scurge could become respect to other species it comes across, so they think the next best thing is them to be used as weapons.
Yeah, I guess i could have done a better jump in explaining all of that. You did get the gist of what i was trying to say, but just to some up the last part you couldn't quite understand, the fragmented parts of the Source eventually seeped into Jenosa's subconscious. You might consider the description on par with what you described in the quote; or in other words, the fragments mixed into her subconscious. You can probably imagine how this might muddle Jen's mind a bit. I'm still giving thought as to where to go with this, but I do have some small ideas in where to go with her state. Heh, when I saw what happened in the game, I knew I had to eventually do something mental with the Scurge she had fought before.
Upon re-thinking about, I kind of prefer keep the spine for what you mentioned, though it might depend on what occurs later on DT or other plots; and perhaps if i think up any other ideas. |
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