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.
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
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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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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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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and wiggin you ain't gonna do no blackwulf analogue
you don't know from blackwulf
Can I do a ROM analog
Or maybe a ROM/Godzilla/Herbie analogue
Or maybe just Herbie
dangit wiggin did you even read the idea
What were we talking abou--look a bike
PS when my dude turns into a superhero he turns into Herbie
herbie's powers come from magic lollipops damnit
you can have a dude who looks like herbie I guess
sentry
faynor
wiggin
That would be just wonderful. End the project because you made TLB so angry that his neck exploded.
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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
is there a difference
I'm not seeing a difference
huge dick editor me makes you want to kill yourself for not writing properly ever
Jerk!
you are banned
and then if somehow another project comes along
you are banned from that too
I ask, because I was thinking about what would happen if a super villain attacked the president, and the president was given super powers.
you're never gonna be allowed to write that story
also: no convicted felons, and no one who fails the psych evaluations
You're not the boss of me! I'll write it and you'll like it!
If Moon Knight can 'Pass' the CSA psyche exam. Schizo Hobo might have one stable personality to fake it through the exam.
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?
Presumably a schizobo would not have access to a dude like that
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.
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.