Re: Community Effort Idea

[JR19759]

Might I suggest something slightly different. I think the organic approach we have right now may be the way to go with this. Everyone is keeping an eye on what everyone else is writing and we can see how their characters are developing and guessing where they are going next. We already have defined points of interest (the NPC characters) that we are each incorperating into the story, so why don’t we build the crossovers around them, for example Iscarioto’s character meets up with the Triad boss, my character meets up with the Red Hand boss who suggests that they search for the Triad boss if they want help, crossover between my character and Iscarioto’s maybe two chapters (one written by each, instead of two view points of the same chapter, as it would be in a normal story or comic) then the two split off and do other things for a while. Then everyone meets up at the end for the grand finale.
When the crossovers happen it would be advisable to pre-warn and ask for permission from who ever you are planning to crossover with, to avoid confusion of you writing stories that occur at the same time in two completely different places.
I’ll also add my two pennies worth on the outline. I think it would be better if the forming a resistance came later on. Let everyone go their own way for a bit, try to find out some stuff before bringing everyone together in the finale. We have so many NPC’s that can be bought in and/or investigated that we could all go off on tangents for a while to bring these guys into play before we all get mixed up in interaction between our characters.
Also, I think that in this context the costumes should be as bare minimum as possible/ as realistic as possible, if we should bother with them at all. If you think about it, we are right in the middle of a war zone here. Who in their right mind (or even not in their right mind) sits down to do some fashion design when they have cyborgs shooting lasers at them? I can understand getting some sort of protective bodysuit/ bullet proof clothing and that sort of thing, but going the full spandex would be stupid.
I’ve got another idea for an embellishment of one of the NPC’s. Because the guy who created Empty Vessel has gone missing, wouldn’t it be a good ploy on the behalf of Ascension to put a few robot doubles out in the streets to lure in people who might be trying to find him? Just a thought, and one I will probably run with (although that shouldn’t stop you guys from incorperating it if you want).