WWYCD #123? (No one is acting their 'age')

[Hermit]

Your character is knocked out, turned off, whatever by fleeing felons. When your character comes to... things have changed.

 

If your character is Iron Age and normally in a matching setting, suddenly he or she is in the same location, but it has become a 4 color world that sparkles with the wholesome unrealness that only a Silver Age (and some of the latter Gold age perhaps) comics can show. Folks don't curse, no one kills etc. How would the NPCs about your character have changed specifically, and what would your character do about it?

 

Reverse, if your character is chiefly Silver age or 4 color, suddenly he or she is thrust into the morass of an Iron Age setting. Certain DNPCs may have less savory professions, or attitudes. The lines are all murky. Again, it's the same people... it's just like the world has changed, all except your character. And no one EXCEPT your character remembers it ever being different.

 

 

Oh, and of course, your character may find out that their memories aside, OTHERS remember them with as fitting in, whatever that may bring (in a 4color pseudo golden age, Feral Woman is expected to know how to bake cookies etc)

 

(Yeah, I realize this is sort of a mix of things, not just What would your character do, but what would the new setting be like... but it's been awhile since I've done one of these, forgive me )

[Katherine]

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Menagerie would be stunned and suspect it was some kind of mental illusion. The "Xmen" like group that Evolution had become would disgust her. She was a Enivoermental activist flower child?! She'd spend most of her time trying to shake off the illusion and looking for mentalist responsble while not trusting her "friends" or betraying information. It must be some Purity trick to learn more about the group. If she couldn't find a solution she might just detonate her cortex bomb.

 

Pinnacle would be somewhat lost but her world is more "realistic" that an Iron Age world wouldn't be too much of a shock. Her main interest would be finding out how she got into Never land and how she was getting out again. Her darker team mates would frighten her and their description and expectation of her would be even more shocking. Being inwardly insecure a part of her would wonder was this reality and did she just snap and create the "other" world as s delusion to escape.

 

Four Colar Stopwatch would actually think the suits and stuff were pretty cool. She'd have some fun playing superheroe for awhile before trying to get back over the Rainbow.

[Hermit]

WWYCD #125? (No one is acting their 'age')

 

Got the wrong #, sorry about that.

[Metaphysician]

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Does the change effect teammates as well. If so, Microman is going to be downright shocked, probably. OTOH, he'll immediately suspect something happened while he was unconscious, and start investigating ( *away* from the iron age psychos ).

[Hermit]

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Does the change effect teammates as well. If so' date=' Microman is going to be downright shocked, probably. OTOH, he'll immediately suspect something happened while he was unconscious, and start investigating ( *away* from the iron age psychos ).[/quote']

 

It does. To put it simply, if you were playing Aquaman from the superfriends cartoon, your character would probably wake up to find out Wonder Woman was out of the closet about her taste in bondage or something.

[Metaphysician]

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Odds are, then, the other Sentinels will be full on Authority in attitude. Like I said, Microman will start investigating, *away* from them, thank you very much.

[OddHat]

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Style – Suddenly, no one is trying to kill him. Instead of Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism, the Dragon Cultists gain power through laughing and empty threats. Demon and Viper are comically incompetent, and the Dragon huffs and puffs and will never break free. Style has no desire whatsoever to go home. Still, his sense of duty will force him to find out what has happened. If he’s in the wrong world, he will reluctantly leave. If something has changed the world, he will agonize over changing it back. If he fails to do so, he has robbed humanity of its free will; if he does change things back, every scream will be his responsibility, forever.

 

Flesh Gordon – “Hey, my costume stayed on!†Flesh is in a Bronze-Silver version of the CU that he thinks of as pure Silver; the switch to a Silver-Gold CU would actually bring the world more in line with his point of view. On the other hand, a switch to Bronze-Iron would be hard on him.

[Blue]

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Anthem would be home! Being a silver/bronze age character in an iron age world, She can't imagine the world could straigthen up to the way it always should have been

 

Audra Blue would be a little disturbed. It would be strange to log on to the internet and not find the usual assortment of pervs and porn. It would all feel very disjointed. Over time she might be able to deal with some of it, but the occasional curse word does leave her lips, which might earn her some scorn.

 

Uncle Slam would feel deja-vu. He's been through all the ages. This is like the old days.

[BcAugust]

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Hmm, well, likely in an Iron Age scenario, full on, Millar Authority style, Cyrande is a happily mindraped first wife of the Divine Horus, kept happy to keep her from ordering Earth destroyed and married to Horus not only for a pet, but to give him a chance to claim Malva in the future.

 

Cyrande staggers to her feet, looking around and wondering what hit her. The world looks different, the shiny walls of Millienem City cold around her, the electrical signals off. Cyrande reaches for Aemoth (AI friend and follower), whose shocked and then delighted to have his old mistress back. In the meantime, Horus and the Warmaster have realized Cyrande has dissappeared from her rooms. Cyrande gets warned in time to put the equalivent of a psychic power disrupter sheild over the City as Warmaster locks on. It then turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout the city, which probably ends with Warmaster down(maybe dying, Cyrande doesn't hold back and her powers could prove very deadly to him), Horus and Warp barely singed, and Cyrande captured. Which would be just about the time for the "real" New Sentinels to show up...

 

Of course, if Cyrande got dropped in the real Mirror Sentinels Universe (Yes, of course we've already written out our evil counterparts), it would go more like.

 

Cyrande awakens slowly, wondering who's holding her like that, though she doesn't mind the touch. As she wakes up, seeing Horus mutter something under his breath and kiss her, she freezes in shock as she also sees the alternate clothed version of the Sentinels around her, Starguard drifting away after healing her and the body of a villian crumpled unto the sandstone street. "Um..." It only takes a short time before the Sentinels are convinced this isn't their Cyrande, and start helping her look for a way to switch back, all the while pumping her for information on her world's Sentinels, their Horus giving her tips on how to deal with hers romatically. Of course, the gate is opened, everything is fine and switched back. At least until the invasion starts...

[Chuckg]

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I suppose that mindwhacking Princess Cyrande to marry into the power structure of Malva was the plan he embarked on *after* his little 'archangel in chains' venture ended disastrously, as the poor young girl selected to be the host of the divine spirit went irretrievably catatonic under the strain of carrying too much cosmic entity in too mortal a soul?

[BcAugust]

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I suppose that mindwhacking Princess Cyrande to marry into the power structure of Malva was the plan he embarked on *after* his little 'archangel in chains' venture ended disastrously' date=' as the poor young girl selected to be the host of the divine spirit went irretrievably catatonic under the strain of carrying too much cosmic entity in too mortal a soul?[/quote']

 

Not that lucky. Let's see... *nods* Got it. The Archangel of Mercy roams the world, occasionally killing those who would stray too far from Horus's plans, while she cures the sick and wounded, heals the lame, and eases the pain of the dying. The only payment* she asks is that all she helps rededicate themselves to the Divine Horus, who took down a treacherous angel that attacked him, then gave his spark to one of his followers that was injured, turning the young girl into the one known as the Sunguard. Who fights her impulses to betray the God as the unclean urgings of the angel, and walks elsewhere to avoid harming her God.

 

*(Aka, Spiritual transform: Normal mortal to devout worshipper of Horus Re)

 

And the reason Cyrande was mind controled instead of transformed? She refused Sunguard's help.

[nexus]

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Do our costumes/equipment change or are we still in our original gear?

[Hermit]

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Do our costumes/equipment change or are we still in our original gear?

 

I'll let you decide that because i hadn't considered it. Either your character wakes up in 'age approprate costume and gear', or they still have their orginal gear/costume in which case NPCs wonder why they have that "Indecent"/"Stupid" costume on.

[BcAugust]

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Well, Cyrande's current "costume" is certainly age appropriate for all games, including any Golden Age game that has a WW analouge. Of course, the varying questions would be "Ok, why are you dressed so simply?" rather then "Why are you wearing that?" Though it would probably be worse to have her costume change...

 

Anyway, for Golden Age.

 

Cyrande shakes her head, accepting Horus's hand to get up, wondering idly why her healing wakeup felt like golden light, then looking shocked as Starguard, glowing white with energy wings, finishes off the foe. Quietly, she reaches for mental contact with her AI and goes a bit into shock as he's not there. Looking around, she sees the rest of the team cleaning up, looking bizzare, especially Micro. And why is the EM spectrum so clean?

 

She takes some time, confused that she's understanding English now and with no computers, takes a few weeks to try and figure out what's going on, with the GA team wondering why she's turned so cold. Finding out she's still a princess who warned Earth about a Malvan invasion that they threw back sends her into a bit of shock, as is the seeming reversal of Horus and Starguard. She ponders staying, then goes to the rest of the team and asks to be sent home. Staying here would be shirking her duties. She might also try and "jump" the tech level a bit, to compinsate.

[S7Michelle]

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It takes Sailor Io a bit of time to realize that she is has been transported to a Silver Age world since the iron age aspects of her world tend to be subtle. Her suspicions would grow gradually. First she’d begin to notice little things. Everyone is just a bit too nice. Bladestar is more relaxed (since he no longer has a dark side to worry about). Usagi is no longer planning to drop out of school and marry Darien, is getting along with her parents, and is thinking before she speaks. As time passes, other more dramatic clues appear. The monsters the Senshi are facing just drain energy from people and turn into cards once they are defeated. And the other Senshi at her with confusion when she attempts to reason with the Youma instead of just attacking them. She discovers to her concern that Vash’s grave is no longer there. Things come to a head when, Sailor Io runs into Puck. Not only is he alive, none of the other Senshi understand why she’s reacting the way that she is. Worried, Hotaru tries to heal her, Mitzy makes her go to bed, and Zane feeds her chicken noodle soup.

 

While part of Sailor Io would be tempted to stay in this world, where everything is so straight forward and everyone seems happy, she’d began searching for a way to fix it or return home. After all, while this is a nice illusion, it’s not real. And she would feel vaguely dissatisfied and worried about the fact that everything is too easy. She’d be fairly certain that this was some sort of distraction meant to keep her attention away from what was really going on.

 

 

 

Cannis awakens to find herself in a much more revealing costume and holding a whip instead of her staff. All of her packmates look similar but just a bit crueler and there are several dead bodies laying around. A bit nervous, she’d remain quiet about the change, claiming partial amnesia if need be, and just watch to see what is going on. Over the next few days, she’d realize that while they are darker, her packmates are still the people she calls friend. The extra level of brutality would bother her a bit, though she’d remain quiet about it. On the other hand, she’d find herself enjoying the fact that in this world she and Adam’s relationship is a good bit more physical but feel a bit embarrassed about the fact that she also enjoys the traces of dominance involved. (No matter what universe, Cannis is very attracted to power.)

 

She would still try to find a way to get things back to normal or to get back to her own world. I have a feeling that if she stayed in the iron age world long enough, she’d end up picking up her packmates values and turning into a more true villain herself.