The brains, they are storming (7/30/08)

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome to the latest brainstorming post. No idea too big or too small.

Here's the last brainstorming post if you want to take a look at ideas and do more work with them.

One of the ideas that came up last time was the concept of having things that could be useful to someone else's plot without knowing if someone had a need to make use of them. So we'll have an OCD "plot spare parts" thread for anyone who'd like to use it. (An example of a "plot spare part" is here in the previous brainstorming post).

OCD is up! Storm away!

Comments

General brainstorming!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Plots, random events, whatever. Get the creative juices flowing here. Not dirty.

Re: General brainstorming!

[withoutverona]

A long time ago, someone (I think it was psycho_jackass) suggested a plot where all the bad guys in the various 'verses turned out to be one entity.

It was a fantastic idea and went exactly nowhere, but I wonder if there's some way we could adapt and use it for BDE purposes.

Re: General brainstorming!

[needsaparrot]

Ooh, yes - that was the point of gremlin_ops, just brainstorming for that idea.

The idea was sort of "KAOS has ties to COBRA has ties to Wolfram and Hart has ties to the Centre has ties to... " etc. Which crosses universes, but also includes a lot of canons that have multidimensional offices or travel abilities, so there's an easy explanation for that without bursting anybody's canon history.

Re: General brainstorming!

[atreideslioness]

The blame for this totally rests with mouthy_merc, who really should not be allowed to enable me. Seriously.

Super Deformed Day, where people turn into chibi-versions of themselves. Want to pull a giant hammer out of hammerspace and bash someone with it? Go for it! Chibis will bounce right back, leaving more chaos in their wake.

Inspired by these images by Dustin Nguyen.

Re: General brainstorming!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha I have the icon for that already, and can probably get more. :D

More specific!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

For things you need help with in terms of fine-tuning.

Re: General brainstorming!

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

Last night, Mr. Eriksen opened Caritas (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/2995652.html) due to a 'whoops' moment.

What if, (since so many of us have more than one character) the wrong person 'felt compelled for inexplicable reasons' to open a business instead of the usual employee? For example, a Tuesday could have Murdock working at Turtle & Canary instead of G'Kar.

It could be a random week-long thing, to give an opportunity for more people to be involved and to allow more leeway to ensure things like classes aren't interfered with. Since we wouldn't want students (or teachers) missing their workshops.

Re: More specific!

[the_merriest]

Randomly, I would love the idea of Fandom getting "stuck" somehow like in the movie Groundhog Day, repeating the same day over and over and over, but since the game plays out in real time it seems like that'd be impossible to do.

Plot spare parts!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Not the kind Igor deals with. The kind you can use to make new plots.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

May as well post one of my own - Peter has the power to draw/paint the future now. So if anybody wanted to make use of a picture that showed a plot point for their character, he's available.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[needsaparrot]

Sort of a combination spare part and want ad - there'll be an opening for someone to take over the (Y)MCA in the later part of August, so if there's a current townie looking for a new or additional job, or a townie someone's thinking of applying to bring in, teacher applying to move to townie, etc., there's that.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[intraspective]

Totally wrong account, but hey, whatever. XD;

Viki's a teleportation specialist--with a canon habit of every now and again landing her and whomever she's transporting in the completely wrong spot. ^^ She's totally available if anyone needed a transportation mishap--she can even send people to the wrong spot, by accident, without having to go along with them.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

G'Kar has a fake eye. A very advanced, highly sophisticated piece of technology that transmits images directly to his optic nerve.

Even if it's not in his head.

It can (and has been used canonically) to spy on either people. Could be useful for BDEs or random whatevers, even for dirty! purposes.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

Cable has a habit of knowing more than he lets on. Or letting on that he knows more than he's supposed to. He also has a habit of using this knowledge by randomly disappearing and then setting a few things in motion behind the scenes.

So if you need a grand ol' manipulator to set something up (within reason; he is a Good Guy, if one of severely questionable ethics) he's available.

ETA: He's also a telepath and, well, questionable ethics, so if anyone needs something dug up from someone's skull...

Re: Plot spare parts!

[the_merriest]

Rikku can upgrade weapons to do interesting things, like inflict poison with a hit or add fire/lightning damage. She can also upgrade armor to protect against those things. There's actually a detailed, complicated list of the various things she can add, and I'm willing to play around with other ideas, as well, since it's usually her taking items that can cause those effects and burning them into the weapon/armor. She loves playing around with upgrades, so if you need a weapon with a kick to it, lemme know.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo has an FBI file, one that for the time being she's bound and determined Francine can never find out about.

That said, I'm totally open to the possibility of someone finding out about it and using the knowledge of it to blackmail her into doing something for them, since she's not the sort who's going to step up and volunteer to help just anybody with stuff.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[montecito-east.livejournal.com]

If anyone ever wants to make use of this, the lobby of the Arms Hotel has a fruit bowl with strategically-placed fruit for "nudity emergencies." Mary also keeps towels and bathrobes handy at the desk for the same reason.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen's right arm can become pretty much anything she wants. Okay, flamethrowers or projectile weapons are out since she'd have to be firing or superheating part of her flesh, but she did once re-create a totem pole thing - living heads that bit each other, causing her to bleed - so it's pretty-open-ended.

It can also be turned into a living blade which can kill demons of any level or strength.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Basically offering Liz up for plots if anyone wants to use for her uncontrollable fire bursts. At this stage her powers work in this extreme if she's under extreme emotional distres but it's not hard to get her into this state.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[remember5th.livejournal.com]

*chimes in late*

I'm lazy, so these are both just going in one comment. Evey is pretty gifted with explosives; she's still learning, but she usually has enough stuff in her room to whip up some impressive bombs, so if you ever need a big boom, she's your girl.

Kaylee is a total Sue with mechanical stuff. Need a security system overhauled? Need an engine souped up? Need your tiny robot to be rewired to Rickroll people? She's happy to do it. She's usually happy to do things for free, but if you feel compelled to bribe her, she likes fresh fruit a lot. :D

Re: Plot spare parts!

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack is available:
to be Captain Obvious
to be hit on the head and knocked out for the rest of the plot
to do some lame thing that turns out to be badass (stormtrooper effect)
to be the best. damn. hair. in this game.

Re: Plot spare parts!

[woofbloodywoof.livejournal.com]

One of the thing's Gaspode's good at is noticing stuff, usually without being noticed in return -- who pays attention to a stray dog, right?

So, if you ever have anything NFB that you want certain people to find out about, he's available.

Also, if you want him to run and get help, Lassie-style, he can do that, too. He'll be much more grumbly about that and want to get paid for it, but can be talked into doing it out of the goodness of his heart if you try hard enough.

Questions!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

They are the things which are the opposite of answers.

OOC

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT ENDING THE WORLD, DAMN IT.

Much though some of my co-workers tempt me to do so...

Re: OOC

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

No world ending! Shark Week's not over yet!