Ok, Here I'll try and answer questions about mechanics and roles and stuff.
Jdarksun, do you think that maybe, instead of physical Jenga, Gabe and Tycho will be pulling a switcharoo with some sort of beta version of http://www.strategyinformer.com/wii/jenga/
Also Jdark, how did you like that psycho Role Pm of yours?
For those not in the know:
You are...
River Tam!
River Tam Tam River River Tam. You were born-raised-grewup on Osiris with Simon Simon Trust Simon Helpme Simon.
You don’t know what experimentstraining they conductedinstilled on you when you were attrappedin The Academy, but you knew that Simon would helphe always helps always helpsSimon.
Simon gave up everything for YouMeRiver and he should be happy he could be happy without River god Simon I’m sorry STOP THINKINGthinking about me.
Thank you Simon thank you I’m sorry so sorry please forgive me THEY’RE COMING.
Two by two
Hands of blue
Two by two
Hands of blue
YouRiverJdarksun can trust SimonHylianbunny you can trust HylianbunnySimon trust. Simon don’t leave me Simon don’t leave me if you try to leave they make you leave I’ll stop them I’ll kill them don’t leave Simon no.
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HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
My grudges are naught but tepid fairy piddle
They usually peter out before the next Phalla's sign up even starts
1) VH *did* target me. Wasn't a grudge thing though; it was a reaction to me (as a "good guy") "outing" him in the thread as a bad guy, and him not paying enough attention to be a better judge of character.
2) If you had Mal shooting at me, why'd you change your votes? That was a really dumb move.
3) Dammit.
Honestly, I had no recourse but to either tell you I was Shepherd with a seer ability or someone (Jayne or Mal) with an alternate-night vigilante ability and "whoops.gif" on the Hakkekage killing.
I think the Jayne/Vigilante thing would have been easier for you to swallow.
Yes, Kaylee was the seer. Sorry about night one there Hakkekage. Squashua was a meanie and Karate-chopped you.
Night one not going as Balefuego planned it was entirely... *Drumroll* Drez's fault. He fell asleep and didn't send in an action - He was Inara and his ability was to defend against Saffron's nullify. It was a series of "I'll nullify your nullify of Balefuego's nullify," except Drez screwed up. I was considering replacing him if he didn't show up by a certain time yesterday. Strangely enough though, no bad guys decided to take a shot at you.
I'm also running and tweaking a lot of this on the fly - in order to preserve some semblance of balance. For example, my draft of the rules had originally called for Simon or River to get two kills after the other had been incapacitated, and then become incapacitated, because it was a "partners" mechanic that I had planned for a seperate phalla that I wedged into here instead.
I had realized that it was too powerful once you guys were networked up though, so I made it kill one person, and grant a bonus to the other.
Simon's targets were a Blue Sun Agent (visiblehowl) and another player. If visiblehowl would have won the coin flip, I would have given him an extra kill, though he wanted to kill Squashua, so it wouldn't have mattered. Niska won instead.
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HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
It's perfectly River-y, darling.
Honestly though, wouldn't River, in terms of canon, be a better seer? She's got that intuition shit going on, and stuff. And the mind-reading.
Although I did try to seer throgot Day 1, so maybe I have some intuition too
And yeah, I couldn't figure out the purpose of the vote switch, myself. Them people...:roll:
We figured Ardor was protected from the vote, if FWD and CJ had switched thier votes too, then we could have conceivably voted off Squashua, saved me, and killed Ardor.
HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
The "Hands of Blue" story is actually the most intriguing for me and that fact that it never has a chance to resolve is really disappointing.
It's for this reason that "Ariel" is one of my favorite episodes despite not being overly funny or up on character development (well, Jayne a little, I guess)
Just checked. It's a 3-issue series, and "Those Left Behind" was the name of it.
From the wiki:
Bridging the gap between the end of the television series and the beginning of the movie is a three-issue comic book series entitled Serenity: Those Left Behind. The comic is written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, illustrated by Will Conrad and Laura Martin, and published by Dark Horse Comics. The story focuses on the crew of Serenity taking a salvage job from Badger following a botched theft on a backwater planet, and the pursuit of River by the ominous blue-gloved men seen in the television series. The story is considered part of the Firefly/Serenity canon. Each issue of the series features three different covers, with each cover featuring one of the nine main characters, each by a different illustrator, including Joe Quesada, Bryan Hitch, Tim Bradstreet and John Cassaday. The first issue was published in July 2005, and the final one appeared in September. The comics quickly sold out on release, with both the #1 and #2 issues going into second printings. Many comic book retailers reported that it was their highest selling comic those months, in part because of the multiple covers, but also because it attracted a group of customers who are not traditionally comic book buyers. The comics were later reissued as a trade paperback compilation.
It has been recently confirmed that Joss Whedon will reteam with Brett Matthews to write Serenity: Better Days for Dark Horse comics to be released in the fall of 2007 as we see what happens when a heist goes right and the crew finds themselves in a rare place: on easy street. "This new story will take place in the 'Firefly' years i.e., everyone's alive," teases Whedon. "Basically, they pull off a heist and everything doesn't go completely wrong. This, needless to say, has never happened, and it's about how they deal with success."
Shit. I actually just read the above and it says zilch about the story.
Basically, in my "expert comic reviewer who got quoted by Marvel Comics in a press release" opinion, it does the Hands of Blue a complete disservice.
There's a Serenity RPG by one of the people who created Dragonlance that may or may not fill in the blanks; essentially it contains much background information not explored in the series that is considered canon.
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Jdarksun, do you think that maybe, instead of physical Jenga, Gabe and Tycho will be pulling a switcharoo with some sort of beta version of http://www.strategyinformer.com/wii/jenga/
And how could jdarkson not have even watched the show? It hurts me. Deep inside.
I meaant cj Iwakura. Sorry avbout besmirching your good name, jdarksun.
But it's for the best. I would've taken on Gene Starwind from Outlaw Star and would've ranted and raved.
I would've kept calling River "Melfina". :winky:
Also, Jesus H. to DA when he dies, how many bloody times is he going to be evil?
NNID: Hakkekage
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These are some mighty fine hijinks being ensued up there
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Ahahahahahaha
Oh lord why did I have to die so soon'
Oh lordy lord lord
NNID: Hakkekage
Like real men does, and all
hahahahahaha oh my god
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Terr us
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Oh really?
Also Jdark, how did you like that psycho Role Pm of yours?
For those not in the know:
River Tam!
River Tam Tam River River Tam. You were born-raised-grewup on Osiris with Simon Simon Trust Simon Helpme Simon.
You don’t know what experimentstraining they conductedinstilled on you when you were attrappedin The Academy, but you knew that Simon would helphe always helps always helpsSimon.
Simon gave up everything for YouMeRiver and he should be happy he could be happy without River god Simon I’m sorry STOP THINKINGthinking about me.
Thank you Simon thank you I’m sorry so sorry please forgive me THEY’RE COMING.
Two by two
Hands of blue
Two by two
Hands of blue
YouRiverJdarksun can trust SimonHylianbunny you can trust HylianbunnySimon trust. Simon don’t leave me Simon don’t leave me if you try to leave they make you leave I’ll stop them I’ll kill them don’t leave Simon no.
They usually peter out before the next Phalla's sign up even starts
Case in point: TehSpectre, Zerinan.
NNID: Hakkekage
He was actually shot by Mal - we were onto him for trying to bullshit his way into the network.
2) If you had Mal shooting at me, why'd you change your votes? That was a really dumb move.
3) Dammit.
Honestly, I had no recourse but to either tell you I was Shepherd with a seer ability or someone (Jayne or Mal) with an alternate-night vigilante ability and "whoops.gif" on the Hakkekage killing.
I think the Jayne/Vigilante thing would have been easier for you to swallow.
There was a miscommunication as to what we were doing cause we were arguing about it right down to the wire.
Mal would have switched his target to Ardor if he had gotten the vote switching info on time.
I was your goddamn seer. How do you them, now incapacitated, apples? :P
NNID: Hakkekage
Yes, Kaylee was the seer. Sorry about night one there Hakkekage. Squashua was a meanie and Karate-chopped you.
Night one not going as Balefuego planned it was entirely... *Drumroll* Drez's fault. He fell asleep and didn't send in an action - He was Inara and his ability was to defend against Saffron's nullify. It was a series of "I'll nullify your nullify of Balefuego's nullify," except Drez screwed up. I was considering replacing him if he didn't show up by a certain time yesterday. Strangely enough though, no bad guys decided to take a shot at you.
I had realized that it was too powerful once you guys were networked up though, so I made it kill one person, and grant a bonus to the other.
Simon's targets were a Blue Sun Agent (visiblehowl) and another player. If visiblehowl would have won the coin flip, I would have given him an extra kill, though he wanted to kill Squashua, so it wouldn't have mattered. Niska won instead.
Honestly though, wouldn't River, in terms of canon, be a better seer? She's got that intuition shit going on, and stuff. And the mind-reading.
Although I did try to seer throgot Day 1, so maybe I have some intuition too
And yeah, I couldn't figure out the purpose of the vote switch, myself. Them people...:roll:
NNID: Hakkekage
That was my plan anyway
I know the living aren't supposed to read this thread, but I think you're giving away way too much "secret" role information in the dead thread.
Does there have to be a reaver attack now? I swear, somebody might end up with a 2x4 in their chest.
NNID: Hakkekage
There is a 4-issue (?) comic book series that was collected in Trade Paperback format.
It (kind of) bridges the "gap" between the TV series and the "Serenity" movie.
It does not do a great job, but it at least wraps up the "Hands of Blue" storyline, albeit not as much as I would have liked.
Meaning that we don't get any additional background on them. Which sucks.
It's for this reason that "Ariel" is one of my favorite episodes despite not being overly funny or up on character development (well, Jayne a little, I guess)
NNID: Hakkekage
From the wiki:
Bridging the gap between the end of the television series and the beginning of the movie is a three-issue comic book series entitled Serenity: Those Left Behind. The comic is written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, illustrated by Will Conrad and Laura Martin, and published by Dark Horse Comics. The story focuses on the crew of Serenity taking a salvage job from Badger following a botched theft on a backwater planet, and the pursuit of River by the ominous blue-gloved men seen in the television series. The story is considered part of the Firefly/Serenity canon. Each issue of the series features three different covers, with each cover featuring one of the nine main characters, each by a different illustrator, including Joe Quesada, Bryan Hitch, Tim Bradstreet and John Cassaday. The first issue was published in July 2005, and the final one appeared in September. The comics quickly sold out on release, with both the #1 and #2 issues going into second printings. Many comic book retailers reported that it was their highest selling comic those months, in part because of the multiple covers, but also because it attracted a group of customers who are not traditionally comic book buyers. The comics were later reissued as a trade paperback compilation.
It has been recently confirmed that Joss Whedon will reteam with Brett Matthews to write Serenity: Better Days for Dark Horse comics to be released in the fall of 2007 as we see what happens when a heist goes right and the crew finds themselves in a rare place: on easy street. "This new story will take place in the 'Firefly' years i.e., everyone's alive," teases Whedon. "Basically, they pull off a heist and everything doesn't go completely wrong. This, needless to say, has never happened, and it's about how they deal with success."
Shit. I actually just read the above and it says zilch about the story.
Basically, in my "expert comic reviewer who got quoted by Marvel Comics in a press release" opinion, it does the Hands of Blue a complete disservice.
I do not own, nor have I read, a copy.