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[WhitiusOpus]

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[TCM]

Ten is a good number of players to start with. Anyone else who wants in can be waitlisted for the next game. Now, I don't know how long the first game will last, as the starting location could place each player in a different area of Brazil, or possibly in the same room. It's also dependent on whether everyone's powers are 'Basket-weaving' and 'Stone counting', or 'Fire Breathing' and 'Chainsaw Tossing'.

[fractalman]

i counted 9?
in, if only for waitlist.

[TCM]

i counted 9?
in, if only for waitlist.

You, and anyone else who posts while I'm constructing the first turn, will be allowed to join the first game.

[TCM]

Game 1: Turn One

Location: Boubers-lès-Hesmond

It was a peaceful afternoon for the people of Boubers-lès-Hesmond. It was a small village of a mere 72 inhabitants, with the sea to the north and Belgium very close to the East. A semi-major road cuts through the center commune. It is situated in lush fields of deep greens and yellows. The handful of buildings are of an 18th-Century, distinctly European style.
And then ten unique individuals arrived for no reason other than to triumph over the nine other people competing against them.


Elephant Parade walks into the commune, singing his soon-to-be-released Swedish Pop Song, 'I Love This Girl So Much That I Would Buy Her an Aircraft Carrier.'

Mastahcheese immediately begins searching for a place to contact his bank, or at least a bridge.

Execute/Dumbo.exe wonders if she can teach the village girls about the wonders of Golf via public software licensing.

LordSlowpoke heads into the commune's administrative office, asking if he could set up a Czech Embassy.

Ozarck frightens a few village children by screaming, "GIVE ME YOUR DIRT BIKE, I NEED TO SAVE THE PRIME MINISTER."

Scapheap runs out of a treeline quoting 'Face-off'.

Donuts slows his car down to speak to a group of locals, "Y'all know about them good ole' Nordic mythologies?"

Anailater points to the sky, blabbering about some planet no one's heard of.

Darkpaladin flies onto the roof of a house, thrusting his arms into the air. "FOR THE GLORY OF ROME!"

WhitiusOpus finds himself at the foot of the commune church.

fractalman visits the crowd at the village tavern. "I bless you peasants with my presence. Now then, prepare to get a royal education in Geophysics!"

Spoiler: Elephant Parade (click to show/hide)

Elephant Parade:
Jonathan Fagerlund: +3 to Singing Swedish Boy Band Songs.
Lycapsus: Magically Create up to one full Bouquet-worth of plants from the Lycapsus Genus per turn.
Douglas Terman: +2 Military Knowledge and Writing.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Mastahcheese (click to show/hide)

Mastahcheese
Gustavo Guerrero: +3 to Tennis and using Tennis Rackets along with similar Items.
Bremer Bank: Full Access to all of the Assets of Bremer Bank, totaling about $8 Billion.
Ponte delle Tette: Literally "Bridge of the Tits". +5 to Seduction when on a Bridge.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Execute/Dumbo.exe (click to show/hide)

Execute/Dumbo.exe
Villette: +3 to Educating Girls. Also, automatically become Female.
European Union Public License: Start with a European Union Public License
Jerilyn Britz: +3 to Golf, and +2 to using Golf Clubs and other similar Items.

Inventory: European Union Public Licence
Status: Fine

Spoiler: LordSlowpoke (click to show/hide)

LordSlowpoke
Hillsboro, Wisconsin: Can speak fluent Czech.
John Follis: +3 to Advertising and Marketing.
Palitha Kohona: +2 to Diplomacy.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Ozarck (click to show/hide)

Ozarck:
Strategy of Terror: +3 to Stopping Assassinations of Political Officials.
San Felipe 250: +2 to Off-Road Racing.
Michelle Y. Green: +4 to Writing Children's Books concerning Stories about African Americans and other Minorities in the U.S.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: scapheap (click to show/hide)

scapheap:
Horace Brown: +3 when Running up to 5000 Meters.
1998 MTV Movie Awards: Extensive Knowledge of all Movies given Awards at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards.
Swedish Ice Hockey Association: +2 to Hockey and any actions performed in conjunction with Ice Skating.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Donuts (click to show/hide)

Donuts:
World War I Flying Aces from the British Empire: +3 to Flying and utilizing British WWI War Planes.
Barbara Leonie Picard: +3 to Writing Children's Books about Historical Fiction, Myths, and Legends.
"Take a Little Ride": Start with a Pick-up Truck, Vest, and Cowboy Hat.

Inventory: Pick-up Truck, Vest, Cowboy Hat
Status: Fine

Spoiler: anailater (click to show/hide)

anailater:
(69463) 1996 VZ1: +10 Knowledge of this Planet.
Buildings in Buchanan, Stirling: Gain Ownership of one of the Buildings in Buchanan, Stirling; your choice.
Adam May: +2 to Journalism.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: darkpaladin109 (click to show/hide)

darkpaladin109:
Roman Governors of Syria: Instantly become a Governor of Syria if it is taken over by Rome.
Skvader: +2 to Sprinting, also have Wings for Flight.
Mecyclothorax ferruginiosus: Spawn a Colony of Ground Beetles once per turn.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: WhitiusOpus (click to show/hide)

WhitiusOpus:
Glorious Gospel Christian Church: Gain Holy Abilities when in Japan.
La Vénus d'Ille: Can Animate any Statues of Venus.
Aurélie Samptiaux: +2 to Football and Football-style Techniques.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: fractalman (click to show/hide)

fractalman:
Kings of Urartu: Instantly become a King if Urartu is reestablished as a Sovereign King.
G. Michael Purdy: +2 to Geophysics and Oceanography.
St. Augustine Catholic High School (Ontario): +2 Technical Knowledge.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Xantalos (click to show/hide)

Xantalos:
Mai Martinez: +2 Charisma while on Live Television.
Mississippi Armed Forces Museum: +2 to Piloting Military Helicopters and Tanks.
Mike Woodard: +1 to Baseball, using Clubs and Throwing.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Zanzetkuken The Great (click to show/hide)

Zanzetkuken The Great:
Mashonaland First-class Cricketers: +4 to Cricket. (The Bonus is so big because I have no clue how playing Cricket, the game literally no human being understands, could be useful.)
PCTE Group of Institutes: +2 to Electronics.
Paul Deussen: +3 Writing in Sanskrit, and fluent in Sanskrit.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Sheb (click to show/hide)

Sheb:
ISO 39001: +2 to Road Safety, and Automatically Bypass Traffic.
Union Square (Hotan): +2 Charisma with Foreigners.
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings: +2 to Politics and Military Strategy.

Inventory:
Status: Fine

Okay guys, here's one thing I've been thinking about: Should the starting location be the set boundaries for the game? Because otherwise, some player's powers will be flat out useless. There are three options regarding this:

1. The starting location sets the game's boundaries.
2. The starting location serves only for the start, there are no boundaries.
3. As a compromise, the starting location serves as a temporary boundary; the borders of the location serve as a boundary for the first three turns of the game, and afterwards the boundaries disappear.

[fractalman]

I think #3 sounds good…unless you want to re-roll all location-based things or something. 

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Mabye 3, yhea, that would be better.
Go serch for a golfing store, if said counter is run by a woman, teach her the truth of hard luck and people stealing golf clubs and bats.

[Elephant Parade]

Wow. Practically everyone has horrible skills.

Hide in an abandoned building. Begin writing a song.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Wow. Practically everyone has horrible skills.

Attempt to drive people insane with my annoying voice.

Donught and darkpalidin have at least one good thing going for them, at the very least.

[mastahcheese]

I have money.
That's a very powerful ability if you use it right.
That said, Find an ATM.

[fractalman]

Wince, ever so slightly, when I remember that "peasant" used to mean, well, "citizen", but it has become a somewhat derogatory term due to definition and connotation drift.


Give them a jovial, if rather compressed, lecture on plate techtonics. Then tell them about how, just yesterday, a new fault line was discovered right under their 'town'...and try to recruit them to my cause

"But don't despair, citizens of this realm, I have computed the most likely antinodes-those are the safe points in an earthquake-and since we are reasonably far from the ocean, there is no need to worry about tsunamis...but, should your homes be destroyed, there will always be a place for you fine folks in the kingdom of Uratu.

and offer them a place in my kingdom

Wow. Practically everyone has horrible skills.

Have you forgotten about ingenuity?

[TCM]

Wince, ever so slightly, when I remember that "peasant" used to mean, well, "citizen", but it has become a somewhat derogatory term due to definition and connotation drift.

Ah, an enlightened despot I see. Retroactively disregard that line about the "peasants" then.

As of now, the third option for Boundaries appears to be the most popular, where the perimeter around the Starting Location is impassable for third turns, after which it dissipates.

[Xantalos]

IN YES

[TCM]

IN YES

Okay hold up, gimme' a second.

Spoiler: Xantalos (click to show/hide)

Xantalos:
Mai Martinez: +2 Charisma while on Live Television.
Mississippi Armed Forces Museum: +2 to Piloting Military Helicopters and Tanks.
Mike Woodard: +1 to Baseball, using Clubs and Throwing.

Inventory:
Status:

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Would I be able to join?