Sentinels of the Multiverse Challenge

    Arenson9 and I want to help motivate and mobilize this community to share Sentinels of the Multiverse with new players. To that end we've planned a series of challenges for the community as a whole, recognition for those people who teach the most new players, and an unfolding fan-written story that will be unlocked as each achievement is reached.

    The story is written by one of our youngest Sentinels of the Multiverse fans. The first chapter is below, along with a little information about her.

    For our first challenge, can we as a community teach twenty five new players? To help us meet the challenge, add to the count by posting to this thread with: New player count, who taught the game (forum user name), location (city, state/province,country) and date.

    If we meet this challenge, we will not only unlock the second chapter, but possibly also illustrations of that chapter as well.

    We are in need of multiple illustrators willing to lend their talent to bringing these words to life. If you have interest, send a private message to kirioni and arenson9, preferably with a link to your online art portfolio.

    Without further adieu here is the first chapter:

Chapter 1: Danger Calls

by Kiva Turner

        It was supposed to be a perfect day to relax for heroes:  Legacy, the leader;  Ra, God of the Sun; Wraith, secret protector; and Tachyon, fastest woman on Earth.  Legacy was planning to go on a vacation at the beach.  Ra was just about to check the pyramids.  Wraith was going to take a day off from running her business, and Tachyon was going to win a marathon.  That is what they would have been doing if Legacy hadn’t noticed something.

        Just as Legacy was packing his towel, he sensed danger in the city nearby.  It always starts with a cold shiver up his spine; then he knows there is danger and where it is.  He immediately called Ra, Wraith, and Tachyon.  Of course Tachyon was the first one to the city with her fast speed.  The rest of the heroes got there just as Baron Blade and his mobile defense platform were speeding away.

        When Blade was out of sight the heroes looked around and saw at least twenty people wrapped up in toxic seaweed!  Ra reacted first, burning the toxic seaweed off of eight people, but the other twelve had seaweed too strong.  Wraith had brought her smoke bombs and razor blades to help.  She sliced through five citizens’ toxic seaweed but the rest was too thick.  Legacy and Tachyon finished off the other seven with their strength and speed: Legacy used his strength to pry the seaweed off the victims, and Tachyon taunted the seaweed to chase her so she could lure the seaweed into large aquarium tanks to contain it, then use her scientific knowledge to render it harmless.

        Now that all the citizens were free, the heroes had to look for any more damage Baron Blade had caused.  When they found nothing else (surely because Legacy had sensed the danger so quickly and Tachyon had zipped to the scene before Blade could wreak more havoc), the mighty heroes went off to fight Baron Blade.

About the Author: Kiva Turner is a 4th grader who enjoys writing, reading, doing craft projects, putting on plays, and performing science experiments. She has two older brothers and a baby brother on the way, so will soon be the only daughter in a family surrounded by “three stinkin’ brothers.” Her favorite Sentinels character is The Wraith because she is very adventurous and fun to play as.

pwatson1974 (me) taught 3 new players (Annette, Katie and James) at the London on Board Meetup on Wednesday Aug 1st 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

London! That’s totally fantastic.

me: This looks like it was written by-
“Kiva is a 4th grader”
me: … ok, it makes sense now.

I, imprimis5, taught three new people last night (08 AUG) in a living room in Indianapolis, IN.

For the record, two of them were like, “Oh my god. I have to get this at GenCon!”

Sweet!

I just want it to be noted that I actively want to participate in this, but I’ve run out of people to teach this game to! I’m constantly on the prowl for new players, but my core group of seven or eight and I have taught everyone who is interested in games, heroes, or comics that we know. I’m sure I’ll find some fresh meat come the beginning of the school year.

This is a great idea! I look forward to what our young writer will be bringing us next!

Two more people taught!

Brian, who, like Christopher, I know from JoCoCruiseCrazy, is currently couchsurfing his way around Canada. He and I taught Sentinels to his hosts in Ottawa tonight, with me joining in via Skype. It totally worked super awesomely!

Anyone who wants me to join in to your game via Skype, just give me a shout.

We crushed Baron Blade on Mars and then won a squeaker against Voss in Insula Primalis.

My wife and I taught my good friend Dan and his buddy Mike last night.
We took on Baron Blade in Ruins of Atlantis for an easy victory with Legacy, The Wraith, Ra and Haka. We stayed the night at Dan’s so we’ll probably be playing some more today!

Taught to three more people while I'm here in San Diego.

Taught 4 people in Tacoma, Washington while the site was down :)

Awesome work, everyone! How many are we up to so far?  *apparently lazy about counting right now*

18! (Assuming my brain isn't so melted I can't do simple arithmetic... X-p )

Will demos at GenCon count? ;-)

18 is what I count as well. Sadly Rabit the official ruling is only complete games count. Though I would love to hear your demo count just to get a sense of the traffic you all see during Gen Con!

Heh, yeah, I definitely wouldn't want us to count con demos. We... play those very differently. ;-)

One more taught in San Diego. (As an aside, that makes eight of my eleven nieces and nephews taught.)

Can't take credit for it myself, but one of my nephews taught three of our cousins. A quote from one of them, "I don't usually like cooperative games, but that was really cool."

Wow. I have no idea how many new people I taught and played complete games with over GenCon. Gonna be conservative and say 25.

Craig -- how many of those 25 were not at the booth? I think maybe booth games -- as awesome as they are -- shouldn't count for this particular challenge.

Taught two more, names forgotten (sorry), yesterday at the London on Board Meetup.

 

That makes 24. Just one more to go and we hit the challenge.