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TLB's Secret Community Project - Finally Revealed

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  • frayfray Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Munch wrote: »
    Faynor wrote: »
    Ah, Munch. I was totally thinking of an idea where a person actively pursues trouble so he can get Sentry Duty. But he would be more doing it for the rush, and would eventually get addicted!

    It does seem like the concept lends itself well to the idea. I mean, if someone told me I could get temporary superpowers if I happened to stand near a supervillain while he was tearing shit up, I'd have a hard time resisting the urge to give it a shot. You only live once and all that.

    I had a similar idea, but it involved a guy creating accidents in order to be given powers. It wouldn't work the first few times because better candidates were in the area.

    I think it would end with him driving a bus full of kids off a cliff, and then all the kids gain powers and fly away and he ends up crashing.

    God freaking damnit.

    All you people stole my idea. Now I have to come up with something other than the first clichéd rubbish that came into my head, thank you very much.

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    somebody write me a story

    you got ten minutes

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    projeck you are drawing my stories and when they are written I will tell you now shut up

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    also sars your deadline is WRITE RIGHT NOW OR YOU ARE BANNED FROM PARTICIPATING

    and wiggin you ain't gonna do no blackwulf analogue

    you don't know from blackwulf

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Can

    Can I do a ROM analog

    Or maybe a ROM/Godzilla/Herbie analogue

    Or maybe just Herbie

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    no you cannot do any of those

    dangit wiggin did you even read the idea

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Saw a quarter and got distracted

    What were we talking abou--look a bike

    PS when my dude turns into a superhero he turns into Herbie

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    wiggin you cannot turn into herbie

    herbie's powers come from magic lollipops damnit

    you can have a dude who looks like herbie I guess

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    alternatively, list of banned participants:

    sentry
    faynor
    wiggin

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    oh ok

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    also hurry up

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    projeck I'll take my sweet time it's not like you got anything going on

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  • sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Saw a quarter and got distracted

    What were we talking abou--look a bike

    PS when my dude turns into a superhero he turns into Herbie

    That would be just wonderful. End the project because you made TLB so angry that his neck exploded.

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    projeck I'll take my sweet time it's not like you got anything going on

    im counting

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Unbannnnnnnnn meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee so I can not participated of my own accordddddddd

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    never

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I threw together a logo for this little project with my meager photoshop abilities.

    SentryDuty_logo1.jpg

    And here's the same logo with a white (clear) background PNG format. For some reason PNG files don't want to show up on the forums.

    Link

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I told you before I like it and I still do

    also in the next few days, since I have a bunch of pitches being thrown at me, I am gonna give everyone a breakdown of how the writing process will go and what steps everyone will take to get through to the final anthology

    pretty soon I am gonna be a huge dick editor so get ready

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    What is the difference between huge dick you and huge dick editor you

    is there a difference

    I'm not seeing a difference

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    just-kidding.jpg

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    normal me calls you awful

    huge dick editor me makes you want to kill yourself for not writing properly ever

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Much like you, I can write quite properly old chap. Sometimes I don't, however, so as to have what I say read in a certain way.

    Jerk!

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    faynor you are now double banned

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    That negates the first one, right?

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    no it does not

    you are banned

    and then if somehow another project comes along

    you are banned from that too

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    No to the way to the Jose. :(

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    going for the hat trick I see

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Q: Will there be restrictions in place on who can be deputized for Sentry Duty?

    I ask, because I was thinking about what would happen if a super villain attacked the president, and the president was given super powers.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    why are you asking

    you're never gonna be allowed to write that story

    also: no convicted felons, and no one who fails the psych evaluations

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    why can't we just be friends

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    because I hate your face

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Story pitch: Your cold heart is given the power to love.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    rejected

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
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    You're not the boss of me! I'll write it and you'll like it!

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    also: no convicted felons, and no one who fails the psych evaluations
    Shit.

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  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Lord of No Pants Parts UnknownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    also: no convicted felons, and no one who fails the psych evaluations
    Shit.

    If Moon Knight can 'Pass' the CSA psyche exam. Schizo Hobo might have one stable personality to fake it through the exam. :p

    Plus no one says they couldn't go insane after they get selected. Unforseen side effect of Numerous selections in 1% of 1% of participents?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2009
    Moon Knight didn't pass, he used The Profile's info to scare the examiner shitless

    Presumably a schizobo would not have access to a dude like that

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Thankfully I do.

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  • srsizzysrsizzy Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Ok, I'm sorry if these have been answered, but I've read about half this thread and they haven't (sorry if the answers are in the other half).

    What exactly happens when you're beamed? Does the satellite talk to you? Talk into your mind? Make an immediate subconscious analysis and then give you powers and you just know?

    And if people get psych evaluations, does that mean everyone is forced to go in and register? Or is it a choice? Can I have a character that doesn't want to have done it, but is suddenly forced into it? I mean, it seems if it's just a matter of getting registered, a person could avoid that. Can a person who's never gone into any agency or anything be in the middle of a vast empty expanse of wilderness, be the only one available to be zapped, and then be zapped?

    I'm assuming from many of your posts that realistic logistics are being abandoned. If people can be zapped in any country, anywhere in the world, then registration is impossible. If people can only be zapped in America, then the rest of the world would just be pissed the fuck off and be in way more danger. So, can people just be zapped any time, anywhere, no matter what?

    Also, in the AC I mentioned, how can this make money? You allude to using already established villains that belong to, well, mega-companies (like Galactus and Dr. Doom) in the OP. Was this just for establishing examples?

    Also, could superior alien forces jack this device in order to recruit a super-warrior for a cause grander than all of humanity?

    [edit] And as for the time period thing! What if someone asked for time traveling powers to avert some disaster in the past? Depending on whether or not time is non-linear, they could fail or succeed, or do something else that was inevitable and perhaps contributed to the future in a way they never expected.

    And then, if they did that, they could just go back in time with the powers they got, and rule the fucking world, and the satellite couldn't do shit, so I guess the satellite wouldn't give time traveling powers.

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Tossing out another story idea, free to take if anyone finds it's taste to their liking.

    What happens if the only available person has something better to do?
    I'm thinking a fire based villian burning down an apartment building, everyone else has evacuated save a fireman. Just as the fireman is exiting the building he hears a little kid screaming for help inside the a room around the corner. As he turns to find the kid and get it out, the fireman is called for sentry duty.
    I'm picturing the empowered fireman screaming at the satellite to lay off for a bit while he is picking his way through the building to find the kid, made harder by the fact that he might accidently bring the building down around him and the kid, likely killing them both, if he's not careful. Real world of cardboard moment.
    Happy ending: Fireman saves the kid, beats the hell out of the badguy and goes on to live happily ever after.
    Sad ending: Satellite (using pain [physical? psychological?] as a motivator forces the fireman to abandon the kid to a firey demise and fight the badguy.
    More sad ending: It was the firemans apartment building burning, and it was his kid he was forced to abandon.

    Alternatively, an ambulance driver hauling a victim to the hospital for emergency treatment. Hard to ask the near-death person to just be patient for a while because a satellite is asking you to go get your ass kicked by a supervillian for a while.

    Of course, this assumes that the Satellite AI is quite insistent and willing to invoke upleasent means as a motivator to insure that the super is going to do the job right now.

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