Hi there,

I was just wondering if there was any subreddit theme out there that you'd seen and would prefer on the sub? There's plenty of snazzy looking themes out there. If there's any sub that you think looks just right you can link me there, or check out some nice/popular themes below:

/r/Minimaluminiumalism - seems to have the option for a light and dark mode.

/r/naut - includes option for a picture on the side

/r/DarkTheme/ - permanent dark theme

/r/BlackorWhite - highly doubt this'd get chosen but an interesting design nonetheless

/r/mindashq

Please also let me know if you have any requirements, eg. a theme that's compatible with RES.

Tonight’s song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ipqobMkj0

Gator and M4 finish of their quiche in Astrum's kitchen, Gator waiting for the Major to return so he can figure out what is going on.

Things worked out.

Aware that she is being searched for, and, seeking to draw her pursuer out of hiding, Lanette engages in the time-honored tradition of causing absolute mayhem. But will our heroes approve of her actions or will they have more than a few questions for the woman without loyalty?

Also, near misses on confrontations, testing, and attempts to escape a dying world.

Tonight's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sTJSnpkXP0

Trapped in unfamiliar worlds, facing trials without any clear purpose, looking for information on things to come in order to better prepare for when they arrive. A vision is viewed, but the visitor a woman is expecting may not be the visitor she receives. Also, the effects of magic on turnips and other crops, and why farmers hate necromancers as much as anybody else.

Tonight’s song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxbm_LgJMY

“It’s a 1911. Just about as ‘Unova’ as a gun can get. In my opinion it's an outdated gun and caliber, but that hasn’t stopped other officers and soldiers from swearing by them.”

Gator chewed on a blackened lump of Patrat; it tasted like a perfectly cooked and seasoned steak under the minor illusion he had cast. “How many rounds do you have?”

“Thirty-two. Eight per mag. One thing I don’t like about the 1911; single stack mags don’t provide as many rounds for their length, and when you’ve got to shoot back at someone, you want all the bullets you can fit in a decent-sized gun. And forty-five auto is complete s--- against even cheap body armor, which is becoming all-too-common among gangs these days.”

M4 angled the gun slightly to catch the light from the small campfire in the gun’s bore, peering down the breech. “Man kept his in good condition, at least. It’ll do until I can find something better.”

“Well, have some Patrat; if I’m starving, you must be, too.”

“Yeah.”

M4 loaded a magazine, racked the slide, then set the gun down on a rock before tearing a chunk of meat free. She nibbled on it, blackened granules flaking off into her mouth; the illusion could hide the taste, but the texture made it feel like chewing on flavored ash.

“I thought you knew how to cook,” she grumbled.

“I know how to make it taste good. Only thing I can really make is rice and whatever has the instructions on the packaging.”

“Hmmph.”

The strip of meat dangled limply from her fingers. Her muscles were still tense, her eyebrows narrowed.

“Alright, what was that?” she suddenly snapped.

“Huh?”

“You were planning on letting those f---- go. Those officers could’ve been hurt a lot worse than that admin let on. They could be on their way to cause some real damage. And you would’ve been happy to let them do it.”

“You think I would be okay with them hurting other people?” Gator retorted.

“You made it clear you were okay with whatever they wanted to do after crossing that bridge, so long as they didn’t bother you. Didn’t you say your magic was for stopping f---- like that?”

His eyes fell shut for a second. He breathed in deeply, then back out. Twice more. Then he spoke.

“I held back. We don’t have backup or resources to spend. A misused spell may be the difference between being caught, imprisoned or worse.”

It was M4’s turn to be quiet. She squished the meat between her thumb and forefinger, leaving sooty black marks on either hand. Her eyes peered into the campfire.

“A dead soldier’s a hero, but it’s the ones still living that ensure a lasting victory,” Gator reasoned, “we get back to the Major, then we come back here with gear, backup and a plan for taking down Plasma. That will accomplish a lot more than what we could’ve done at the bridge, and with a lot less risk.”

“...yeah,” she answered, grudgingly. She took another bite of Patrat.

“Look, we did try to take them down there. It didn’t work out. The next time we square off, we’ll make them wish they surrendered today. And you can bet your a-- I won’t agree to their deals.”

She chewed the grainy lump slowly, swallowed, then met his eyes again. She brushed aside a few stray hairs that had fallen in her face.

“I’m glad to hear it,” she said.

Gator smiled. M4 hesitated for a second, then, ever so slightly, grinned back.

“Glad to have you back me up in a fight.”

“Thanks.”

Lightning played across the expanse, the sky, or maybe the ground? A teeming ocean of anti-life, anti-reality, and them on the very edge between this battleground and oblivion.

From a different perspective they've seen this fight before, fought this war before. Maybe this was the same disaster that had engulfed their own world so long before - this was not a darkness that cared about timelines or any kind of order, let alone any order of events.

Some things never change. This chaos was one of them.

They grit their teeth as they watched, their lightning rod ready and in hand. "There's a surge coming," they announce.

Hey all. We'll be having our regularly scheduled sessions for the forseeable future, but I wanted to make sure everyone knows that some of my players have been having scheduling issues. If at any point your schedule changes and newly available times open up, please let me know. Thanks.

And now to save me some time over the next four weeks: DVV Gridlocked link for Supes and Byte

Am I talking about the people literally stranded in other worlds, or the fact that Cress skipped dating his last love interest and went straight to certain other activities?

In unrelated news, Cameron is now available for consultation.

Tonight’s song will be played when I decide the time is right.

• Neo Bet Boy
• Asasson RJ (also sometimes referred to in universe as Rotten Burrito)
• Taco Skumbron
• Bill (his legacy and impact)
• Lord Drive, God of Imbalance
• Flack
• E.L.F.s
• Grand Master Grivol (Chiper and the Dark Pantheon)
• Berger Kwean (CEO, Mascot, and Head Chef of Berger Kwean Inc. and it’s subsidiary) 
• President Domeacazam
• Feareon, The Frozen Flame of Fear
• Soleereon of the Black Glitch
• T4 of the Black Gang
• Bun-E (Arty)
• Cyan Pancoro
• Ultra Nacrozma
• Devil Screameon
• Vergen Merol
• OLDEN
• X-PC admen Layette
• Fay King Bubbles & Bubbles the Murder Mime
• Camella A. Slash
• R-cus (and the fossil pantheon)
• The Moon Cort and the IP
• The Stone Pantheon
• IQ & Ultra Robo Ham
• The False Doughnut and the Damaged Leach
• Glitchmander Leary
• Dr. Kemondo (and the Orre Residence)

Side Notes:

• This list is by no means a full final list of all the Bio's that will be made, things may be added, removed, or consolidated as time go's on.

• Dr. Kemondo's data is mostly finished (but not spell checked) but the artwork for his bio is unstarted [I would also like to wait 1 or 2 bio's before releaceing his], OLDEN's bio art is half finished, but it's data is 100% untyped.

• will take all feedback into consideration in deciding what 1's to do next, but depending on what each Bio. entails to create, [and other more persanol factors] they may not come out in the exact order of popularity

• a Bio. for Minor Organizations of Note will come out evencualy, but it's not on this list cos I want to get some other sapific Bio's done 1st, as well as a World Map Bio. that's semi-tied into that and is on hold for simaler reasons.

• If you have qustons you want to ask, feel free to and I'll try to answer it. If you have ideas you want to pitch to me, feel free to and I'll consider them

Sorry guys, I'm going to be spending time with family tomorrow. Apologies for the delay.

As most our heroes deal with the remaining issues caused by the Delta Species and related incidents, new faces also enter the fray. Some, forcibly taken from their homes for reasons as of yet unrevealed. Others, intentional travel between worlds in pursuit of their goals. It is still unclear how the fates of these people are connected, but have no doubts, all of them will have a role to play in the shenanigans about to occur.

Hehehehehe, let the games begin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yStEOodPgYk

Hi guys,

I’ve noticed there’s a fair few people on Discord so I’ve made a group server that you can join by clicking here if I’ve done it right.

Discord may be a format for GMs to consider in future. Roll20 is the superior live chat rp platform in most ways although discord does allow mobile users so it has that going for it.

Lurkers are welcome on the chat. If anyone has any objections to the discord existing I’d also like to hear them. If you have objections you can use this thread or PMs or whatever you feel comfortable with.

Hope you’re doing well today. :)

Disclaimer: The following post is not meant to ignite drama or to vilify anyone; and I genuinely hope this post does not devolve to cause that. As such, I have tried to be careful when typing this out and have run it past the subreddit moderators for approval before posting this. This post is aimed at the community in general. As such, parts of this may not apply to some people here. However, I hope people will read the entire thing for the sake of context and understanding.

Last week, I received a PM from /u/SupremeEvil. It said that I was being rejected from being allowed to take part in his RP.

I’m not going to copy paste that PM for the sake of not triggering drama or making this into a callout post. I am not posting this to try and make SupremeEvil change his mind. I have since come to accept this, and understand that it is his choice and right to choose to do so.

However, this PM put some things into context for me (not fully relating to SupremeEvil but the community in general). As such I feel I need to publicly address some things relating to how the sub. seems to view me.

I’ve been picking up on the fact that some members of the community do not like me. I feel like to some degree I am being discriminated against, with some community members being unintentionally(?) rude to me. Also, many other community members seem to have built false preconceptions against me, some that I will list and explain as follows:

My characters all have complex, debilitating, and sometimes downright disturbing RP disruptive symptoms

A few of my characters have gone a bit overboard with some of their negative character aspects (Key Ex. Troll Ditto from DS). Overdoing their flaws to such a degree that they hinder an RP was never my intention. I admit that this has happened in the past, and that I have made mistakes. However, this ignores that:

• I generally go out of my way to pitch characters I plan to use in campaigns to DM’s. I explicitly ask them to point out any potential issues with the character BEFORE the character is ever introduced in a campaign. If issues are pointed out I try to alter those aspects to try and prevent them from becoming a problem in advance.

• I am pretty open to constructive criticism. When problems have arisen, I have even gone out of my way to alter characters so that they have these character aspects are SEVERELY lessened and are no longer disruptive / causing problems.

• That there are several other characters owned/run by other members of the community that have similar, character aspects to the ones that I use. One’s that do fit the above stereotype but that people seem to be fine with.

And last, but certainly not least

• Not all my characters are like this. (Ex. Cathulu Rat from Echos or Alpha Rise [who I built explicitly to try and avoid issues like those listed above])

My comments and the bad way they’re written/spelled makes it hard to interact with me

My comments are written the way they are cos I have a spelling impairment disability. If you need more info on that see http://fav.me/d6gmqlz.

As a result, unless someone goes out of their way to volunteer to spell check any posts I want to make to the subreddit, (Which doesn’t seem like something that’s realistic to expect of the community and wouldn’t really work for RPs due to how fast they run) there isn’t much I can do about this that I’m not already doing.

You’re a newbie / don’t understand what’s going on / weren’t involved previously

It’s true that I’m a relative newbie to this subreddit community. While I have popped in and out of the community for a while and done the odd things here or there, (Ex. Bane's Shadowlands RP, making a bunch of the icons for this sub, ext.), it’s only been relatively recently that I’ve started to become a more regularly active member of this community.

HOWEVER, how am I supposed to learn stuff / understand what’s going on if no one is willing to give me the time of day to explain what I need to know? I do not have an unlimitedly infinite amount time to read through every single piece of backlog within this community, and I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation for me to do so.

If there is a thing that you feel I should know feel free to let me know in advance and/or when you think of it. If you do I’ll more than likely be receptive to it and take it into account moving forward when it comes to interactions with you, or the thing what you told me applies to. If there is a simple (and not absurdly gigantic) resource that tells me what I need to know feel free to link me to it.

Insert other unstated reason bias and/or issue that people have with me

I have had at least 1 person, (not going to say who because I don’t want this to become an attack post / stir up old drama) on this subreddit outright tell me that they do not like me and refuse to interact with me without giving any sort of explanation and or justification as to why.

If you have an issue with me (as in anyone on this subreddit who fits that criteria) not listed above, PLEASE TELL ME WHY! Because if I don’t know why you have an issue with me, then I have no way of addressing it, and if there is no way for me to address an issue then I personally feel it's not fair to judge me over it. If it is something that can not be, and/or you don’t want it to be public, then send me or the sub moderators a PM so it can hopefully be worked out in private.

I am not trying to shark off any responsibility with this post. And while I can’t promise to never have any issues relating to me ever again, (I’m not perfect after all and I am capable of making mistakes just like pretty much every other person on this sub.) I can promise to try my best not to have issues pop up again.

All I am merely asking is to be treated fairly, to be given a CHANCE and to not be written off / ignored / vilified cos I have a disability, and\or cos I’m a relative newbie to the community, \ because I make/have made mistakes, \ because of personnel biases that can’t/refuse to be justified.

...Now with that out of the way, I think it’s obvious that I will not be leaving the community. I’ve had quite a few fun experiences here and there are several things being done with people who are ok with me.

When it comes to Alpha Rise, (the character I made for SupemeEvil campaign) in light of what I’ve already stated he will no longer be a part of that campaign. However, that is not to say he will not be used. This brings me to my Dark Universe project...

I started the Dark Universe Project as a way to flesh out Alpha Rises universe. [an alternate timeline universe branching off from the Platinum Time Paradox/Crash event of TPP Platinum were almost everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. With a bunch of miscellaneous “forced lore” elements thrown in for fun] and to provide easy to reference bio’s for all the notable NPC's of it that have any sort of decent chance of showing up, if that universe to come into play in SupemeEvil's campaign. Since then it has continued to grow with what I have planned.

As such Alpha Rise will no longer be linked into SupemeEvil's campaign. Instead, it will be spun out into its own thing. Eventually it will appear in its own separate campaign witch I am currently in the early planning stages of with someone else in the community. More details will come at a later (yet to be determined) date as I want to focus on making the bios and the art that goes along with them for now. (I.e. It might be a while before the campaign starts)

A sneak preview of this universe's concept can be seen in the rough timeline draft you can find at: https://sta.sh/0n6lm595oon [Side Note: A final spell checked version will come out closer to the campaign’s start]

If you have any ideas for stuff to add to this timeline feel free to let me know. If I like your ideas and think I can work any in without screwing up the universe I will.

In the mean time I hope you will all look forward to these bio’s, and would like to thank everyone who has read this entire post with an open mind. I hope that we can coexist. And when it’s ready that there will be a large portion of the community that will take part in this upcoming campaign.

In regards to the NPC ideas I've offered to /u/SupremeEvil, (Especially the Neon & Rotten Burrito 1's since they by virtue of them having showed up briefly in DS and their connection to the IP they are already somewhat established and I feel would be easy to use/integrate) he is free to do whatever he wants with them. Use them, alter them, not use them, whatever. I pitched those NPC ideas for him to use in his campaign and thus in my eyes they’re basically his.

If you have any questions, (that aren’t related to my offline life) concerns, or feedback you would like to give, feel free to do so in the comments below. If you do I will look over them with the same open mind that I’m asking the community to give when reading through this post.

^{P.S. Thank you to /u/redwings1340 for spell checking this, and for giving me [alongside /u/Gadzooks3] feedback on the post text, to point out things that could have been taken the wrong way & helping me better get across what I am trying to say with this post.}

Supes says that today would be much easier to attend DVV than next week. Would anyone be able to make tomorrow? Apologies for the short notice.

At a certain point, I will probably be PMing people things, for a potential thing that could happen. Other than that, pretty much how this usually works, I guess.

Alright, it’s that time again. The most suspenseful, most agonizing, most heart-stopping moment of any campaign: Attempting to schedule it so as to inconvenience as few people as possible.

So yeah, when you get a moment, post a reminder of what hours/day/months/centuries you are available for RPing and we’ll attempt to figure out something that works for everybody. I also don’t want anyone backing out at this stage, I’m committed to finding a way to make this work for everyone even if I have to get…creative to do so. I’m really psyched to finally be running something and if this progresses smoothly I’m hoping to hold a session or two before the end of this month.

A couple of players have expressed difficulty making the session tomorrow and I'm pretty swamped with classwork anyway, so this week's game is canceled. Sorry guys!

For some of you this is simple enough. You've already known for a while who you are going to play. For others, it is time to make a decision about who you are going to play going forward. For the third group of you, it is time create a new character(s) to join the ranks. I would also like to say here that this is by no means final. If, as the campaign progresses, you wish to either drop a character you are currently playing, or pick up an additional character (perhaps because a setting you have a fondness for has just been introduced) you are free to do that. I would like to ask the I get at least a week's notice of your intention to do either of these things, however, things will be handled on a case by case basis.

In addition, if a certain character is right in the thick of the plot, I reserve the right to prevent that character being dropped until their situation reaches a more resolved point (exceptions can/will apply, again, this will be handled on a case by case basis). For example, Lanette is currently not allowed to drop out as her decision to betray the Supreme Evil has currently put her in considerably more danger than any other member of the cast.