Okay here's the chatlog.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Real-world reality hiccup, and all the players on X server at x time turn into their current toons. Someone on the character select screen is in for a world of pain
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: ouch
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: I only hope I'd land in my 50
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: it would suck to land in a lvl 1 alt
[The Legendary] Foxboy: then of course you'd wind up with the ZOMG Supers reaction form the various Gov'ts
[The Legendary] valles: ...establishing identities...
[The Legendary] valles: ...learning feminine hygiene...
[The Legendary] valles: ...all -sorts- of fun stuff.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: it would suck even more to land in a Huge body or one with wings
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: what secret identity?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And havingthe Government realize that each of these individuals is an "army of one"
[The Legendary] valles: On the other hand, the hotness quotient of the geek sector of society would increase drastically.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And of course power effects would hinge on RP description, not the limitations of the hardware/software
[The Legendary] Foxboy: For example, If I wound up as Nogi, the ninja would be Kunoichi rhater than Generic ninja
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: sorta reminds me of the series finale of Buffy, but with all geeks, not just women
[The Legendary] valles: Ooh. I like that thought.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Let's see, say Virtue server at 10 pm eastern
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: next bully that tries to beat up a geek gets a BIG surprise
[The Legendary] valles: Well, 'slong as they'd played CoH.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Blitzing Galaxy Adjutant.
Wide Receiver: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Another thing....
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You'd definitely have heroic villains and villainous heroes
[The Legendary] valles: Yup.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Cause it would be the total JERKS online as well as the decent folks.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: oh maaaaannnnnnn
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: a thought
[The Legendary] valles: Like, if somebody who'd be D&D 'Lawful Good' happened to be playing their Stalker or Brute...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Imagine some ofthe PVP jerks with the powers ofa level 50 blapper.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: anyone that made a sucky character on purpose would SO regret it
[The Legendary] Foxboy: But. A sucky character in Game is AWESOME irl
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: imagine being stuck as "Yaoi Boy"?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: oog
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: I'd love to be stuck as Skye or Jacob.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Skye moreso than Jacob, people hate Jacob.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: I could handle being Nadir or Jimmy
[The Legendary] valles: Well, I doubt there'd be anything making you answer to the toon's name or stay in their costume.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: unless the costume is part of you, though, but yeah, true
[The Legendary] Foxboy: nope, but the fact that "real clothes" tend to get severely damaged in superbattles....
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: ...means I hope more women wear casual!
[The Legendary] valles: As Caitlin Fairchild was all too happy to demonstrate.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And the 8-foot and 4-foot huges....
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: the governments would REALLY freak at the Kheldians
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: and so would the average person
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Especially Japanese schoolgirls
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: *snark*
[The Legendary] valles: ...
[The Legendary] valles: BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Of which there would be a MUCH larger population
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: heh: "THAT IS NOT KAWAII!!"
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Skye's/My tail would still be a chick magnet.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And of course the catgirls
[The Legendary] valles: I'd almost certainly be buying my first bra.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: whew.... real glad I only play male chars
[The Legendary] valles: I have, like, -two- characters that don't use the female model.
[The Legendary] valles: One of them is explicitly a dimensionally-displaced me.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And only one of those is male in personality
[The Legendary] valles: The other is a girl in a gian warbot.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: If I ended up as Jacob it still wouldn't be so bad.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Sure, not as attractive or even remotely good.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: But, well, he's a freakin' -god-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Then of course there'd be the HEAVY RP'ers who'd snap
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: heh
[The Legendary] valles: 'When someone asks if you're a god...]
[The Legendary] Foxboy: YOU SAY YES!
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: that'd be half of the new heroes job... stopping the ones that can't handle the change
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: There is only Zuul.
[The Legendary] valles: Anyway...
[The Legendary] valles: I really think that there'd only be the one character I'd really be bothered to end up as.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: What would be hilarious is that the non-pvp builds taking out the 00b3r l33+ pvp builds due to usage of real-world physics
[The Legendary] valles: Oooh. Yes, i like that thought.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: I could really handle being Jimmy Amp... i can think of so many applications of being able to generate megawatts of electricity
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm? You mean 'Panzer?
_Snip a tangent_
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Then of course you have the folks who MISS the "event"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And.. the GM who was playing Ghost Widow in pocket D looking perplexed over their own cooling corpse...
[The Legendary] valles: Whether or not they orginally played the game.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: yup
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: hey all
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Greets!
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: hey Para
[The Legendary] valles: The game is going to switch our brains out, Para!
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: heh
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Dare I ask?
[The Legendary] valles: The plot bunny under discussion is that, one fine night, everyone playing CoX...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: at a specific time/server
[The Legendary] valles: ...suddenly becomes their character. Still in the real world, but with all powers, abilities, and appearances associated therunto.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: We still haven't decided what happens to someone on the character select screen
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: ..red pill or blue?
[The Legendary] valles: My vote is, 'They end up in the character they'd played most off of that server.'
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Yeah.
[The Legendary] valles: Server selecting folks are just SOL.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: agreed there
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: then I'd probably land in my 50
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So it would take the highest level toon for someone selecting
[The Legendary] valles: Unless one of their others had spent most of their time exemping, paying off debt, or just roleplaying, yeah, probably.
[The Legendary] valles: The other questions are...
[The Legendary] valles: Which one would you most want to be? Or -least-?
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: easy for me... most, Nadir or Jimmy, least, Sherman Abrams (he doesn't have a body ATM)
[The Legendary] valles: In my case, the answers are probably Kara for the first and Seelepanzer for the second.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My least on Virtue? Happy Grin
[The Legendary] valles: ...oog.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: He wears the mask for a REASON
[The Legendary] valles: No, he'd be -bad-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And the catgirl allergy
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I mean setting a building on fire because Suzie put on a pair of fake ears?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Not cool
[The Legendary] valles: Panzer is, y'know, a robot. Which'd suck.
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: being paradoxe would suck, seeing as, you know, he's got an MPD
[The Legendary] valles: And except for Kara and The Other Me, all the others are 5' 6" or less.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. I think mental effect would also depend on how heavily roleplayed the character is
[The Legendary] valles: So, if it happened -right this second-...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Wide
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: Para would probably be constantly having a conversation with the sword
[The Legendary] valles: Foxboy would start watching a lot more football.
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: appearing one-sided to everyone else
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: heheh
[The Legendary] valles: And my temper would get distinctly nastier.
[The Legendary] valles: 'Cause, Sky's a nice girl, but...
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Um, Paradoxe's MPD is that the Hero *is* the alternate personality. His secret ID is the 'host' personality.
[The Legendary] valles: She -is- one of your classic Redheads.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right. If it happened while I was on Nogi, I'd be fluent in archaic Japanese
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: the sword has little to do with it
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: yeah, but just thinking how it'd manifest if you became that and retained your own self IRL
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: true
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: If I happened to be Skye I'd be an unkillable spirit. >.>
[The Legendary] valles: Powergamer. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'd feel bad for the GM who was Running GW for a Pocket D event
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: One way to look at it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: But... her job would be GUARANTEED
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Despite being technically dead
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And if you wanna be REALLY technical, undead.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Also, fifties may find that they get the rest of their pool powers after a few months fighting the PVP greifers
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I picture THEM as arc one baddies
[The Legendary] Foxboy: With the feds as arc two
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: cya back a bit later, I gotta get some stuff done and my PC needs a reboot anyway
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Later Jimmy
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Gah, I can see it now. Someone in garish random costume because he got genericced running around going "It's like a mayhem mish, and I'm a hero! This PWNZ0RS!" and causing SEVERE property damage as a FOTM build.
[The Legendary] valles: Severe property damage..
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Anything fire.
[The Legendary] valles: Earth controllers.
[The Legendary] valles: Deeply RPed Brutes.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And REAL cops/military is what, level 20 max?
[The Legendary] valles: ...wait.
[The Legendary] valles: ...what happens to MMs?
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: I win.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: I mean
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Um.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Depends on how they RP their powers
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Well
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Jacob pulls his chosen through from his own dimension.
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: He acts as both a god and a rift between worlds.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nogi's ninja are nebulously magical
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: And Gang War, well, he throws his gate wide open and pulls as many people as he can through for a short period of time.
[The Legendary] valles: Lessee... Out of my three MMs...
[The Legendary] valles: One builds hers.
[The Legendary] valles: One inherited hers from Nogi-kaasan.
[The Legendary] valles: ...and one -seduces- hers. So, um.
[The Legendary] valles: ...'sprobly a good thing I don't play any of them that often.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well, we could say that tier one pets can be recruited IRL
[The Legendary] Foxboy: But the higher tiers... not so much
[The Legendary] Skye Valentine: Thugs could be.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: I'd say...
[The Legendary] valles: They get 'manifested' too.
[The Legendary] valles: -If-.
[The Legendary] valles: They've been developed as characters - given specific names and such - and...
[The Legendary] valles: ...if they were out at the time of the event.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ooog. What about the dual-box folks with pocket Healers?
[The Legendary] valles: ...wha?
[The Legendary] valles: Who?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Someone has two accounts, and creates a toon they want to play and a dum "bot" to spam heals
[The Legendary] valles: Ah.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm...
[The Legendary] valles: 'Transporter Accident'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Multiplexed consciousness? or smooshed together?
[The Legendary] valles: Smoosh.
[The Legendary] valles: But... perhaps it'd just be better if they -always- ended up as the healbot.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well that takes out SOME of the PVP griefers
[The Legendary] valles: Or at least sticks them as relatively harmless Em Defenders.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm. Cryptic would be getting hit with a -lot- of lawsuits.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: What about the saps that set themselves up as the shoulder kitten controlling the girl?
[The Legendary] valles: Most folks'd probably be cool with what happened to them, but some are just, y'know, dipshits.
[The Legendary] valles: They're stuck as shoulder kittens, of course. Justice. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nope, the PARENTS suing for their kids becoming Asshat villains
[The Legendary] valles: Well, them too.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Though, it might be fun to see the first few "silver age hero" news reports
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You know, mysterious flying person rescues kitten from tree
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Of course the villainy gets better ratings
[The Legendary] valles: And doubtless attracts do-gooders of varying competance.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I still wanna see a "gimp build" take out an 00b3r pvp for story purposes
[The Legendary] valles: Definitely.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Because the "gimp build" IS a hero. Despite being a weak dominator or mm build
[The Legendary] valles: 'Petless MM saves the day!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: All the players who'd grok the Spider-man philosophy as it were.
[The Legendary] valles: Or just a TA/Arch defender, maybe.
[The Legendary] valles: *[The Legendary] Foxboy: Doing the classic "pin to the wall" thing
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Pretty much half the "for fun in PVE-only builds"
[The Legendary] valles: 'AGH! My hand! AAAAAAAAHH!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Like the MAN-build
[The Legendary] valles: 'Martial Arts/??'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Someone who has ALL of their primary and secondary powers and can PLAN for a fight without stamina
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Martial Arts Natural
[The Legendary] valles: Ahh.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Specifically any toon that could be a "real person"
[The Legendary] valles: Like, MA/Inv without auras, or something.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: yup
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Petless thug/traps mm, as well
[The Legendary] valles: Could a Thug MM -with- pets be 'normal,' too?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: yes, I think so, but folks focus on the HOT TWO-GUN ACTION!!!!
[The Legendary] valles: Mercs MMs could work, too.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: All the mms but necro could actually
[The Legendary] valles: If you're willing to accept rayguns as plausible.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Forgot about bots
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And think about how many defenders will flock to hospitals?
[The Legendary] valles: This about how many hospitals will be desperate to hire them!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And /dark mms... would feel VERY weird
[The Legendary] valles: Hm? Why?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I mean they can target ANYTHING with their heal
[The Legendary] Foxboy: to create the healing aura
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Consider RL a PVP zone where everything is flagged friend and foe
[The Legendary] Foxboy: that is you decide WHO gets your buffs, and you can target ANYONE/Thing with your debuffs/attacks/etc
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Shadow Fall to sneak in.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Twilight Grasp on a chair to power a Healing burst to patient
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Keep shadow Fall up, and Darkest Night the Hospital security
[The Legendary] Foxboy: to escape
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Howling twilight in the ER against a few trashcans to help code blues
[The Legendary] valles: Given how high the basic jump is...
[The Legendary] valles: -any- hero would be mildly superstrong by normal human standards.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And easily able to get into the NBA
[The Legendary] valles: Flying /SS tanks would be marketable for anyone building a skyscraper.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or effects in Hollywood
[The Legendary] valles: Flying -anything- would, for that matter - less of a hassle about safety measures.
[The Legendary] valles: Nah. Illusion controllers'd have -that- market sewn up.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Especially since they'd have MORE control of the illusions
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Fewer Generic decoys
[The Legendary] valles: Mind Control would be valuable to shrinks - and the legal system.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Except.... most of it would be inadmissible, or lawyers would fight tooth-and-nail to make it so.
[The Legendary] valles: Unless it'd been thought of as working like the Bene Gesserit Voice.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm?
[The Legendary] valles: Giving verbal orders that Must Be Obeyed.
[The Legendary] valles: And if you have a number of different telepaths, with no contact with each other...
[The Legendary] valles: I'd count them as falling under the 'expert witness' category, anyway.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ah the IST system
[The Legendary] valles: Dunno it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Should we put this up on the Forum to play with?
[The Legendary] valles: Absolutely.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Under "the legendary" or "Other People's Fiction?"
[The Legendary] valles: Mm... Legendary. With a note about being borderline.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: We can assume Virtue as the Source server, yes?
[The Legendary] valles: With what's been said about Roleplaying affecting mental state, that'd be the most interesting option, yeah.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. We'd also have to have some folks make up jerkwad characters too.
[The Legendary] valles: ...a perfect opportunity to make fun of political figures...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: First arc is of course "wow this is cool/this sucks"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Second arc is early forays into hero/villain fights
[The Legendary] Foxboy: third is Government crackdown
[The Legendary] valles: Third arc is society catching up to the implications...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Same diff
[The Legendary] valles: Fourth is...
[The Legendary] valles: First -real- Supervillains?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Arrival of Portal Corp
[The Legendary] valles: And fifth... yeah, that.
[The Legendary] valles: I can see Statesman saying... 'So, my double in this universe is a game designer?'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Real supervillains, you mean not just morons revellign in power, but actual "I am EEEEEEVIL" and "one... BILLION dollars" villainy?
[The Legendary] valles: Yeah.
[The Legendary] valles: People who are morally corrupt... -and- smart enough to bide their time until they're really -ready-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Now which states would we wind up with? Comic or one of the servers timeline?
[The Legendary] valles: Dunno the difference, really.
[The Legendary] valles: Like I said, I haven't gotten around to reading the comics, yet.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So we'd been dealing with Rhino and Bizarro, but then we'd be dealing with Kingpin and Luthor?
[The Legendary] valles: Yeah, exactly.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Lots of old bald guys?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ^_^
[The Legendary] valles: Not neccessarily old or bald, but...
[The Legendary] valles: Countess Crey would fall in this category, too.
[The Legendary] valles: Gideon Manly.
[The Legendary] valles: Blockbuster.
[The Legendary] valles: Capital-M-Master-Minds.
[The Legendary] Paradoxe: Bloody Grandville crashes
[The Legendary] valles: And I need to go eat; I'll copychat this on my way out.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: kk
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