AntiMatter's Lab, Praetorian Earth, January 19, 2007, 21:55 Eastern time
AntiMatter peered into his intruments at the newest world his sensors had picked up. It was completely useless, except as a source of potential slaves. No obvious paranormals, no magic, seriously weak technology. Easy pickings, and thus, useless. Tyrant enjoyed a challenge. Sighing within his containment suit, he turned from the viewer and prepared to send his probe to another universe. About that time, his probe collided with another.
Paragon City, City of Heroes Earth, January 19, 2007, 21:57 Eastern time
Tina MacIntyre began to panic. She recognized the technology behind the device in the last transmission from the experimental probe as coming from Praetorian Earth. Who knew what would happen with the interaction between the unstable quantum core and whatever AntiMatter used to power his. The results were potentially catastrophic.
NCSoft Offices, California, Our Earth. January 19, 2007, 19:00 Pacific time
The superstring created by the collision of two extradimensional probes infiltrated the racks of computers that made up Virtue server for the City of Heroes MMORPG during prime hours. It's quantum energy reacted with the device and sent pulses along the primitive computer network, changing the lives of 1521 people forever...
Okay, this bunny is pretty simple. At 10 pm eastern on January 19, 2007, a hiccup in reality results in every player logged on to Virtue Server becoming the character they were playing at the time.
1.) Each person is transformed in situ. That is, sitting at your computer playing CoX one moment, blinking in confusion wearing "spandex" at the computer the next.
2.) The amount of RP done with the character has an impact on the effect of the transformation. Physical appearance is always modified to match the character.
Mental effects vary. A PL'ed FOTM character will result in a relatively straightforward transformation into the player with the powers, but little idea of how to use them.
On the other hand, a casually RP'ed character will result in some of the character's Mannerisms, knowledge, RP'ed special effects, etc. being added to a base of the player's personality. For example, if I get zapped while playing Wide, I get an encyclopedic knowledge of Football, and the equivalent in a bachelor's in Mathematics (Statistics)
Another example, a heavy RP'er gets subsumed by his or her character. That is her character is confused, with these memories added that don't make sense. I feel sorry for the {mature RPer's} in Pocket D.
Powers will translate into the real world in wildly different ways, depending on how they're RPed/explained if at all. Two energy/energy Blasters can have a Kirby Dots power or Beach Baby's high-pressure water power. A PL'ed ninja mm will have the vanilla ninja set, but Lady Nogitsune would have her Kunoichi FINALLY able to shed their bland disguises.
3.)This will affect people logged into the Virtue server at 10 pm eastern on that day, ONLY. A person on a character is transformed into that character. A person on the character select screen is transformed into the character they've invested the most into: usually, but not always, any 50's they may have, depending on time chatting under atlas, working off debt, etc.
Edited for Actual numbers of Players online and NOT hidden on Virtue at the time and date indicated.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
AntiMatter peered into his intruments at the newest world his sensors had picked up. It was completely useless, except as a source of potential slaves. No obvious paranormals, no magic, seriously weak technology. Easy pickings, and thus, useless. Tyrant enjoyed a challenge. Sighing within his containment suit, he turned from the viewer and prepared to send his probe to another universe. About that time, his probe collided with another.
Paragon City, City of Heroes Earth, January 19, 2007, 21:57 Eastern time
Tina MacIntyre began to panic. She recognized the technology behind the device in the last transmission from the experimental probe as coming from Praetorian Earth. Who knew what would happen with the interaction between the unstable quantum core and whatever AntiMatter used to power his. The results were potentially catastrophic.
NCSoft Offices, California, Our Earth. January 19, 2007, 19:00 Pacific time
The superstring created by the collision of two extradimensional probes infiltrated the racks of computers that made up Virtue server for the City of Heroes MMORPG during prime hours. It's quantum energy reacted with the device and sent pulses along the primitive computer network, changing the lives of 1521 people forever...
Okay, this bunny is pretty simple. At 10 pm eastern on January 19, 2007, a hiccup in reality results in every player logged on to Virtue Server becoming the character they were playing at the time.
1.) Each person is transformed in situ. That is, sitting at your computer playing CoX one moment, blinking in confusion wearing "spandex" at the computer the next.
2.) The amount of RP done with the character has an impact on the effect of the transformation. Physical appearance is always modified to match the character.
Mental effects vary. A PL'ed FOTM character will result in a relatively straightforward transformation into the player with the powers, but little idea of how to use them.
On the other hand, a casually RP'ed character will result in some of the character's Mannerisms, knowledge, RP'ed special effects, etc. being added to a base of the player's personality. For example, if I get zapped while playing Wide, I get an encyclopedic knowledge of Football, and the equivalent in a bachelor's in Mathematics (Statistics)
Another example, a heavy RP'er gets subsumed by his or her character. That is her character is confused, with these memories added that don't make sense. I feel sorry for the {mature RPer's} in Pocket D.
Powers will translate into the real world in wildly different ways, depending on how they're RPed/explained if at all. Two energy/energy Blasters can have a Kirby Dots power or Beach Baby's high-pressure water power. A PL'ed ninja mm will have the vanilla ninja set, but Lady Nogitsune would have her Kunoichi FINALLY able to shed their bland disguises.
3.)This will affect people logged into the Virtue server at 10 pm eastern on that day, ONLY. A person on a character is transformed into that character. A person on the character select screen is transformed into the character they've invested the most into: usually, but not always, any 50's they may have, depending on time chatting under atlas, working off debt, etc.
Edited for Actual numbers of Players online and NOT hidden on Virtue at the time and date indicated.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll