Cracksmash!

So, we're moving towards finishing up Wanda's time in the future, and that means we're heading into the Siege storyline, done CS style.

Since we all have different time commitments and it is hard to coordinate a big event, people are welcome to play out scenes from this fight at any time they want, and if you want to skip over this entirely, you can do that as well. The Sentry fight will span the general sequence of events, so other fights and things can be built around it if you want.

Here are villains who you can fight:

Norman Osborn

Moonstone

Bullseye

Venom

Daken

Constrictor

The U-Foes

Others you could fight if you need more are the Wrecking Crew and Madam Masque.

If you need other superheroes, these are the ones that we've mentioned are part of the resistance:

  Some of you may have noticed that Wanda has been flung into the future! There are a few things you should know about that future world. What you do with your characters, is of course, up to you and those who would interact with them, but for general world-ness, this is all you need to know.

Sixteen years have passed. The superhero registration act was passed two years ago, and SHIELD is currently under the directorship of Norman Osborn (also known as The Green Goblin). Norman proved himself a "friend and hero" to the people by saving them from an alien threat, and after registration passed and the other directors of SHIELD were proven incompetent he was the logical choice to replace them.

Our heroes were divided. On one side, those who were happy to register did so. On the other...

Captain America and several other avengers have gone underground to fight against the injustice they see as Osborn's reign. Other heroes, including The Wasp and Hank Pym have decided to support registration (for reasons of their own) and are currently attempting to live their lives as unobtrusively as possible.

The mutant population have mostly moved to Utopia - their own country where they are not subject to the draconian laws of The United States.

Asgard has taken up residence on Earth (due to various magical circumstances) and while they are still technically sovereign, the fact that their entire world is currently suspended a few hundred metres above American soil makes relations somewhat strained.

You are free to play in the world however you choose. Do you support registration or not? Are you a double agent, or do you believe that your cause is just? Do you care?

This is an AU future, nothing your characters do or have done will necessarily come to pass (in the grand tradition of time travel in comics everywhere). The idea is to play with how things might have been.

What you do with your characters is totally up to you, and if you want to know where other people’s characters are just message them! Also regular CS universe will continue as normal, you are absolutely welcome to continue RPing your characters in the present as well as in the future. Just make sure to title or tag your Earth CS2 posts with Earth CS2 for archiving and tracking purposes.

*In the aftermath of the battle, the invading skrull force calls a full retreat. They have taken heavy casualties - in England, MI13 cleanses the land of them using magic and force. In Canada, Alpha Flight, still with fresh casualties from other events, manages to ward off the invasion. Around the world, skrulls are unveiled and everywhere they are fought, until the skrulls have no choice but to leave Earth or risk a longer conflict, one that would be out in the open this time*

*Many of their generals are dead or captured, and every one of their undercover operatives has been exposed*

In case people haven't noticed! Bobbi and Kate are going to go rescue Clint today. Part of Bobbi's plan is a bit cheeky, in that she's going to at some point release the Skrull Antidote across New York and other major cities.

Luckily, Cap and Jan have been working on coordinating the other superhero groups, so the only place we have to worry about is New York! As with our Savage Land plot this will go on for a day or so and doesn't have to interrupt other RP if you don't want to take part in any skrull battles. However, if you do feel like finding a few teammates and having a skrull fight, be our guests! Skrulls will be popping up all over, so it's really up to you where or who you want to be fighting. A general shield alert will go up when Bobbi releases the antidote, and then you can go for it.

We can keep this going for a couple of days, like with the savage land, and go at least into tonight so that our British members have some time to play with skrulls as well. 

I'll tag all relevant posts with #cracksmash and #theskrullplot and the rescuing of Clint will be tagged #Operation: This Looks Bad. The Shield alert will go up on the cracksmashforhire blog when the time comes. 

Steve to Jan after the events of Project Jocasta

Skrull!Pepper

Our current IRC server has been buggy and splitting several times daily, making OOC contact nigh impossible. With the help of the lovely Ralyse, I've set us up on a new, more stable server which is ready for our migration. 

Contact me via PM, in the old channel, or Askholebox on my main blog if you have questions/need help. I will straddle both servers/rooms for the time being to try to catch everyone from the old server and help them migrate to the new one.

If you had Op privileges in the old server, I can set it up for you in the new room as well. I just need you to log in and register your nick.

Hopefully this will cut down on the random d-cons and splits and facilitate better communication.

Warmly,

Just a little discussion post because we have a few new members and this occurred to me the other night when attempting to RP with my husband (yes I've finally gotten him involved in RP! not Cracksmash unfortunately though). Also a few of these things have come up in chat and I thought it might be nice to clarify them in Cracksmash mode.

Godmodding.

Godmodding is basically when your character carries out actions that cannot be defended against by another RPer. Usually it refers to fights, where one character will write a post in which another character is hurt or killed, without consultation with the other character. It is an action that cannot be disputed, and it takes the power and agency away from the other player.

It doesn't ONLY happen in fights, however. Godmodding can also take the place of discussing another characters' actions with others during RP. So, Person A is RPing with Person B, their characters are discussing Person C's character. In the discussion, Person A refers to something that Person C's character has (according to them) done outside of official RP time, without consulting with Person C about it. 

Now naturally your characters are going to discuss other characters, but we can't be making decisions for anyone's character's apart from our own, because that's godmodding! If you want to refer to something someone else's character has done, that's fine, if you want to discuss their character traits or speculate about what they might do, that's also fine, but it's important never to RP for anyone else. (My husband got yelled at on Saturday night - in a friendly way of course, for doing exactly this, and I've been guilty of it a few times, it can be very annoying).

TIMING

We're a disparate group from lots of different time zones. As such some people don't get the chance to play with each other very often. That doesn't mean they're characters are not interacting at all. Feel free, in consultation with the other people of course, to have things happen "off stage" as it were. For something to have happened in the RP it doesn't have to have a thread. We sometimes like to go back and do flashbacks as well!

FLASHBACKS

Are fun, especially for some of our older characters (Logan I'm looking at you). Just be sure to label them as flashbacks to avoid confusion, and avoid changing the future and disrupting the space time continuum. It's always hard to clean up the mess.

ANY WAY I hope that answers a few questions and we will return to our scheduled Cracksmashing now.

Note: these rules are not official as of now; these are being posted to get feedback from the group. Please reblog with any concerns/changes you would like made.

To Request a New Character:

must post a request to the #Cracksmash Character Request tag, stating that you are interested in playing the character

after a request is made, players have 5 days to contact the original requester if they also wish to play that character. Please also reblog the post if you want to play the same character, so that anyone else who wants to play them knows everyone who is interested

if no one else has expressed interest in the character after 5 days, the original requester is free to make the character blog. If a character is needed sooner than 5 days, the NPC character blog can be used

The 5 day rule can be circumvented in two ways:

every member of Cracksmash has the opportunity to like the original requester's post. If the original request post is liked by every current active member of Cracksmash, the original requester is free to make the blog

the original requester can contact every member of Cracksmash, either through chat or tumblr asks, and make sure that they do not also want to play the character

Current Members of Cracksmash are:

barbeauxbot

hollysocks

knottahooker

mageflower

magesmagesmages

nitrostreak

ouyangdan

ramblingredrose

skyedestiny

vanessasketch

vespidaequeen

If you have an active character and I have forgotten to add you to the list, or if I have gotten your tumblr url wrong, please let me know.

The Dossiers page is up to date. New entries are at the bottom of the page; hopefully everyone is there. If you would like a new icon for your character, please host an image (smallest size being 100x100 px) and provide the URL for it, and I'll get it changed!

The character page on the wiki has been rearranged. Characters are now more or less sorted by organization. If you feel your character should be under a different heading or is missing from the page, feel free to edit or to let me know.

The plot page on the wiki has been divided up. Golden age refers to everything from the start of CS to Florida, Silver age goes from Florida to Janet's death, and Heroic age goes from She-Hulk onward. Current plots should be placed on the Heroic age page. There is also a page for X-Men specific plots, since the X-men side of the rp is starting to grow bigger.

There are a number of new character blogs to follow! Here are the blogs that have popped up in the last few weeks, as well as changes to blog URLS:

Wanda Maximoff

Pietro Maximoff

Rogue

Gambit

Quentin Quire

Idie

Blade

Faiza Hussein

Charles Xavier

Hey Cracksmashers! Remember those pesky portals that started opening last week? Well they're getting worse. Dormammu and his evil mindless ones (can you have evil mindless ones? any way they're not kindly inclined) are opening portals all over New York, with the intent of enslaving humanity. I'm going to put up a couple of posts of portals in various areas around New York, and then there will be a general avengers all points (is that what we call it) and any heroes who wish to fight some mindless ones can go and be heroic!