Listen to Christopher and Adam make a story on the air
http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-85-create-a-story-live
Just a thought, but could chain drive use his chains to overclock his allies equipment as well?
I was really struck by how random and vague everything was at the start, then there was a point near the end where it all gelled, as though these characters had always existed in their minds.
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Having one of them be a copy editor is great.
Is it too late to lobby for his name to be Brian? As a copy editor, I would be very happy with this.
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Idea: have Lynchpin have a power that points out weaknesses.
Also, lots of 'buffing' type powers. Lynchpin should be the key to making everyone else *better*.
During the beginning of the episode, I was yelling at the podcast to name the leader "The Gun" and make him be the gimicky gun character that they discussed. Also I was trying to figure out how to make the group be named G.U.N. but I couldn't figure out a good words to fill in the acronym. I would also have the 3 actual leaders names fill in GUN and the people they use to pay off debts would be called Bullets because for the most part they would be used once. Get it?
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As they were going through some of the riffing, I immediately thought of a bad-guy version of the old (and short-lived) TV show Vengeance: Unlimited.
This has been really cool to listen to - it’s fun how participatory it feels, even to listen as a podcast. I kept having ideas I wanted to shout out. “If you call them COGS and the organization THE MACHINE, they’re cogs in the machine!” “The paralegal would totally be able to find people to recruit!” “Oh, no, you made evil Jodie!”
A really fascinating thing about this episode and the Oni episode is how much they show that Christopher and Adam are willing to “kill their babies” - neither of them seemed to get stuck on an idea and be unable to let it go, until the whole story hung together. I can’t say it went in a direction I expected, and it probably didn’t go in a direction they expected either. That’s probably my biggest takeaway from this episode: how their ability to not commit to an idea until the whole thing is ready for prime time makes it all stick together in a cohesive way.
The other thing I kept doing while listening was trying to figure out how to make a Sentinels deck out of the burn-the-system Order of the Simple Machine. I think I would make three character cards that are all the same on one side with no HP, with the costumes and masks, and on their flip sides have the dock manager, copy editor, and garbage man. The deck would be full of “cog” stooges as well as cards that are plots or schemes or something. Each of those would have a thing that happens for scheme success, and a thing that the heroes can do to foil it and flip an order leader. Heh. I guess I just like coming up with Sentinels decks.
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>evil Jodie
XD oh no!
Yeah, trying to cardify things they come up with/reveal for post-card-game settings has become a pastime. :)
Well that was fun.
*excites*
You don’t name a duo? What about Bennifer?
Street level in space? They mentioned Greazer, but only by name; it’d be a great way to flesh out the space Fifties neighborhood he comes from. I just had the phrase “subdivision of planets” pop into my head; I kinda want to name it with some variation of Pruitt Igoe.
“Hi, I’m Wayne, I’m a gun person! Bang bang!”. If you know, you know.
If nobody has ever made a deck for the OotSM, there definitely should be one, and their nemesis can be a super-flavored variation of the Famous Freelance Insurance Investigator, “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.” I really like the juxtaposition of a character concept from the 1950s being mixed up with a group of characters that are extremely 21st century. Maybe this would be an excuse to make Lawhawk into a deck, as a team hero deck whose entire point is that the characters are disposable, they get played from your hand and can be destroyed, but the setup card makes it easy to pull them out before they die.
Since Adam didn’t like “cogs”, I would have gone with the word “clockwork”, which is a vague noun used in both singular and plural. You’d never say “I am a clock worker” or “they are the clockworks”, you would say “clockwork will be there”, and you don’t know whether you are meeting one person or ten.
I also think that at least once during the story, before we get a name for these guys, they get referred to as “The Disorganization”.
This is a very musical episode in my head. You got Lynch Pin by Fear Factory, and instead of Chain Gang Woman by Malice, instead it’s Chain Gun Woman.