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outofalpha2016-08-31 09:49 am
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Bring out the Clones
There are some exciting things in the works behind the scenes here at Alpha, mostly thanks to the ideas and suggestions of you awesome players. I can't say enough how much I appreciate your input and excitement for the game. I am blown away by you guys on a daily basis.
But enough gushing! Below are some top levels to give you an opportunity to ask questions, give some feedback and basically spread the Alpha love.
Alpha OCs.
Ever wanted to create an Alpha native who didn't get the special treatment and had to work their way up from the INFRARED vats? This will soon be a possibility! What we need to know is what information you need from us and Alpha to help shape these OC backgrounds/histories. What do you need to know about their childhoods? About Alpha dating customs? About the fastest way to be promoted from the vats? Ask all your Alpha questions here.
Tropes, Plots & More.
Have an idea for a gamewide plot? Dream about making a trope come true for one of your characters? Have an awesome idea for a secret society coup? This is where you can make suggestions, or seek out collaborators to make your plot dreams come true.
Adoptable NPCs
The goal of Alpha NPCs isn't to steal the show, but to help further plots and pass down information to characters in game. They are to act as external forces to help characters and story-lines move forward. That said, there is enough going on in Alpha that they may need to be played every once in a while for entertainment or plot purposes. This is just a list of NPCs that have been mentioned in game and are available as you may need them. These NPCs are also available for any player who would like to temporarily adopt them to play them against other players. Just let me know if you need them/would like to use them.
Alpha Love
As the mod, I get to hear all the awesome feedback you guys have for the game and for each other, but this is a post where you guys can just love on each other's characters and the awesome CR you've managed to build in such a small amount of time. Don't be shy!
But enough gushing! Below are some top levels to give you an opportunity to ask questions, give some feedback and basically spread the Alpha love.
Alpha OCs.
Ever wanted to create an Alpha native who didn't get the special treatment and had to work their way up from the INFRARED vats? This will soon be a possibility! What we need to know is what information you need from us and Alpha to help shape these OC backgrounds/histories. What do you need to know about their childhoods? About Alpha dating customs? About the fastest way to be promoted from the vats? Ask all your Alpha questions here.
Tropes, Plots & More.
Have an idea for a gamewide plot? Dream about making a trope come true for one of your characters? Have an awesome idea for a secret society coup? This is where you can make suggestions, or seek out collaborators to make your plot dreams come true.
Adoptable NPCs
The goal of Alpha NPCs isn't to steal the show, but to help further plots and pass down information to characters in game. They are to act as external forces to help characters and story-lines move forward. That said, there is enough going on in Alpha that they may need to be played every once in a while for entertainment or plot purposes. This is just a list of NPCs that have been mentioned in game and are available as you may need them. These NPCs are also available for any player who would like to temporarily adopt them to play them against other players. Just let me know if you need them/would like to use them.
Alpha Love
As the mod, I get to hear all the awesome feedback you guys have for the game and for each other, but this is a post where you guys can just love on each other's characters and the awesome CR you've managed to build in such a small amount of time. Don't be shy!
Alpha OCs.
Tropes, Plots & More.
Adoptable NPCs
Alpha Love
Free Enterprise Godfather
Known As: The Alphafather
PB: Andy Garcia
The man behind the scenes that runs Free Enterprise. He is entirely business minded and only cares about the credits rolling in. He can be ruthless in his practices of maintaining a competition free market
Teela O'Malley
Known As: The Oprah of Alpha
PB: Maya Rudolph
She's the star of Alpha Complex and the most influential vidstar. No one is entirely sure if she has orchestrated her own success, or if she's merely the Computer or someone else's puppet. She can make or break a citizen with her words alone.
She also has made it a personal goal to date every Alpha Eligible Bachelor.
Secret Society Members
These are also used to invite playable characters into secret society initiations.
Others...
Jakub Denis - Star of Alpha's ever popular Alpha's Most Wanted and #1 Eligible Bachelor.
Frank Gibb - One of Free Enterprises' Fighting Champions
Suggestions...
Re: Alpha Love
This is so long. I have a lot of feelings.
I love that Lydia took something terrible that happened to her and had it make her stronger. I love that Root turned a robo-pet into a security/warning system/spy. I love that Steve - the most unlikely spy - has risen in the ranks of Alpha by just doing what he thinks is right and wrong. I love that Dick bucked the system entirely and went off the grid. I love Morgana's willingness to learn what she needs to in order to survive a technological future. I love watching canon mates come together while also seeing how unlikely pairings on missions go and the consequences they have later. I love reading how each new character approaches Alpha differently and how they do their own thing, while also being part of the whole.
Basically, I love everything and every one of you. It's so amazing to write with people who actually develop their characters and look forward to putting them in difficult, embarrassing or dangerous situations. And even more amazing to write with players who develop plots organically, are so welcoming and supportive and incredibly talented. No matter how many times I've written a certain situation - from arriving to a new world to meeting someone new - you guys always make my threads feel fresh, new and exciting and I love that. And I think I've written love one too many times, so I'm going to stop gushing. But thank you guys for making Alpha such a special game for myself and for others.
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if you've written a tag here, i've read it (ok well i'm behind atm but i'm catching up!!!) and i love you
additionally the fact that everyone has sort of wordlessly signed this agreement that anything goes and dives right into the fun is something i think is rare for games and i cherish it so much!!!! i rave about the openness and drive of the players here whenever i get the chance so it's cheesy but literally everyone contributes to this game and i love it because that really is sadly SO RARE
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So, okay. My fave things? I love the fact that there's always something going on. I love the way that everyone just runs with what they're given. Case in point: Lydia and Barry getting sent on a mission together on her first day and instead of us just finishing the mission easy peasy, we ran with it and they ended up getting carjacked and having to walk back to AC, which is how they became such good friends.
I love that everyone is so nice and welcoming and that everybody seems pretty stoked to play with everybody. Seconding Rin in that I also read a lot of the logs other people are doing because they're so much fun.
I really love that all the logs just sort of started happening in the Daycycle Change posts and just never stopped because that means they're all way easier to find and creep on.I love that Rin's portrayal of Ray made me like him so much that I started watching Legends of Tomorrow and eventually even caved and watched some Arrow because I loved him so much that I wanted to play him. I love that Shini's portrayal of Dick made me watch the first cartoon series I've bothered to even think about watching in like twenty years. I love that Steve and Felicity's stuff always makes me smile or laugh even when they're not posting to my characters. I love that Kristi's Matt Murdock made me watch Daredevil even though I'd been steadfastly ignoring any and all Netflix-MCU (and still largely am, with that exception...and yeah I will finish it, dammit, I will).
I love that all the OG players loved this game so much that we got Sam to reopen it and it's doing even better this time around.
Just...fuck. Everything. I love everything and all of you.
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All of you are the best
1. We have an amazing mod who lets just actually do what our characters would do IC, and rewards and punishes them accordingly — while always making sure that it's not only fun, but pushing our characters and the plot forward.
2. As multiple people have said, players who are willing to jump into anything, play anything, do anything. This is so amazing and fantastic that I really can't express how much I love all of you.
3. All of you make the world seem so real, by adding your own details of what little parts of Alpha are like in our threads.
4. All of you are up for meeting my characters, no matter who I throw towards you, and the ridiculous threads that have come out of it without any planning are just unbelievably fantastic.
5. All of you are so supportive as a community. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I love you all. <3
Alpha Complex: Civil War
wonderfulterrible influence on me, and I loved this idea so much I can't not share.One day in the future, if we feel like we want a game-altering plot, where everything goes to hell, here is the idea:
Again, this is something that is literally game-altering, so I only want to do this is everyone is into it.
BUT YES THAT IS THE IDEA I'M GOING TO RUN AWAY NOW.
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Were we serious when we said that Natasha can kick Steve really hard in the head to fix him?
Plotty question: When would this happen because it would be wonderful if Steve turned Natasha in for that thing we were plotting with her, forcing her to have to regain composure and/or start all over.
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You could also try killing Steve. They're just clones, right?
Answer #2: Um yes that the timing is perfect for these things to go together yes.
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#2: YAS.
...Also I see your little suggestion there and I would like to say that if Natasha felt like she had to kill Steve she would and the guilt be absolutely palpable between them.
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MMmm yes so this means you're going to kill him right.Everyone else don't look.Free Enterprise Ain't So Free
So after an extended talk with the Sam a couple of nights ago, I have a plot that I want to run by everyone because although I could keep it central to Natasha, I would love love love to involve as many characters as I can! I just want to clarify that although these are her goals they're in no way set in stone so all are welcome, from partners to people who wanna challenge her.
I'm sorry that this is so large in advance.
The Plan: So I was looking around the game and after educating myself on the concept of Free Enterprise I got this idea of Natasha trying to climb through the ranks and eventually overthrow the current kingpin to take his place.
The Purpose: Her reasoning is simple: the black market is being run incorrectly (in her opinion). Natasha doesn't think that things that people legitimately need, such as medications, prosthetic limbs, accessibility provisions, etc should be so expensive. In her eyes no one should ever have to choose between buying necessary items and buying food. Her plan would be, after taking over, to drop black market prices as much as possible depending on the level of necessity of the item requested, whether it be more complicated to smuggle or not. For instance, if you want a box of mac and cheese there will be a price for it (still probably lower than it is now), but if you need something like a prosthetic hand she's going to do her best to get it as low cost as possible. Her ultimate goal would be free for such cases, although in some that may not be realistic.
I've also been in plotty talks with Spencer and in the end, if she reaches her ultimate goal, she'd be working closely with Steve keeping an eye on the Alpha Complex underbelly while he keeps an eye on the surface. She wants to be able to help make AC as safe as possible, and although it'll never be truly safe the closer they can get the better, in her eyes.
Possible CR: There are sooo many ways I would love for peeps to be involved in this, but there's no obligation. I could always make like, a rough outline of how she'd go about this that can be effected by the daycycle plots and things but I feel like this would be a great way to integrate Natasha into the group.
Foot in the Door
She could really use someone to introduce her to the world of Free Enterprise in the first place. The more aware she is of it and the more aware she is of the injustice that the current kingpin is forcing upon Specials and the general population, the more motivated she'll be.
Right Hand
This sounds singular but it definitely doesn't have to be. The more people Natasha finds that she can trust, the more people she can replace that are currently in Free Enterprise. She would be hesitant at first to involve someone else but she's not one to tell someone not to do something because it's dangerous, she's not that much of a hypocrite *cough*Steve*cough*. If anyone is willing to put themselves in danger for the ultimate goal of a safer Complex, or if they want an in and favoritism from the woman who may end up supplying them with all their cool stuff, I'd love to plot something out.
Challenge
Anyone who would be up for competing with Natasha and/or trying to bring her down/expose her for any reason at all. Come on, this shady lady who knows how to paralyze a man with a plastic cup and a gum wrapper is climbing through the ranks of Free Enterprise and no one finds this strange? If you do a little research you'll find that Natalia Romanov translates into 'red flag' in Russian*.
*Probably not true but should be
Or anything else. I would love any ideas or plotty things. If any other players aren't cool with this plot feel free to let me know privately if you want (I'm pretty sure you all have my plurk) and I'll chat it out or scrap the idea all together if it messes with something you've got going on.