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Started a thread about #superhero speedster running speed and the slowness of the speed table in Advanced #FASERIP (by Gurbintroll Games, a retro-clone of the 1980s Marvel Super Heroes) on Big Purple.
True to form, respondants keep bringing up things like extra actions and multiattacks, even though I SPECIFICALLY stated, more than onece, that I was only talking about straightline speeds. Thread is full of it.
Big Purple gonna Big Purple.
The siege of the bank had been going on for hours. Scores of police blocked off the street, and on top of a nearby building a TV news crew broadcast the standoff to a waiting nation.
Then the crew noticed movement. A young woman, dressed in a black skirt,leather vest, and Doc Martins, wearing headphones, was making her way through the police lines. She spoke to no-one, but no-one tried to stop her. She walked up to the front door of the bank, and went inside.
After a few minutes, the bank robbers and the hostages all started filing out, most of them with their heads hung low, some crying. One of the bank robbers raised a gun to his own head, and then just gave up, dropped it, and sat down, head in his hands.
From the flanks, the police moved in and secured everyone. The police in the centre did nothing at all. A few of them had likewise sat down and appeared to be oblivious to what was going on around them.
The news crews closed in.
Getting a coherent story out of anyone proved difficult. Most people just asked what the point was. Some shrugged and said nothing at all. Eventually the news crews pieced together what had happened. Wherever the young woman had walked, people around her were struck with a sense of hopelessness, despair, or just all consuming apathy. Those on the edges were least affected, those closest, the most.
The rooftop news crew kept watch as the crowds slowly dispersed. After an hour or so the mystery woman walked out, looked around, looked up at the news crew and gave them the finger. Then she walked off, the world just a little greyer and duller as she passed.
The city had a new hero. The Goth. And she didn't care.
#Goth #Superhero #SFF #SF #microfic #tootfic #microfiction #IAmWriting
The siege of the bank had been going on for hours. Scores of police blocked off the street, and on top of a nearby building a TV news crew broadcast the standoff to a waiting nation.
Then the crew noticed movement. A young woman, dressed in a black skirt,leather vest, and Doc Martins, wearing headphones, was making her way through the police lines. She spoke to no-one, but no-one tried to stop her. She walked up to the front door of the bank, and went inside.
After a few minutes, the bank robbers and the hostages all started filing out, most of them with their heads hung low, some crying. One of the bank robbers raised a gun to his own head, and then just gave up, dropped it, and sat down, head in his hands.
From the flanks, the police moved in and secured everyone. The police in the centre did nothing at all. A few of them had likewise sat down and appeared to be oblivious to what was going on around them.
The news crews closed in.
Getting a coherent story out of anyone proved difficult. Most people just asked what the point was. Some shrugged and said nothing at all. Eventually the news crews pieced together what had happened. Wherever the young woman had walked, people around her were struck with a sense of hopelessness, despair, or just all consuming apathy. Those on the edges were least affected, those closest, the most.
The rooftop news crew kept watch as the crowds slowly dispersed. After an hour or so the mystery woman walked out, looked around, looked up at the news crew and gave them the finger. Then she walked off, the world just a little greyer and duller as she passed.
The city had a new hero. The Goth. And she didn't care.
#Goth #Superhero #SFF #SF #microfic #tootfic #microfiction #IAmWriting
The Eternals is an overstuffed, overlong movie, full of great ideas and visuals, thrown in a blender and served cold. In hindsight it's a real shame it wasn't made as a TV series.
In just 8 episodes, we would have had time get to know each of the many characters, and how they relate to each other. We could have seen their relationships shift and fragment over time, instead of getting an exposition dump and a video slideshow of it all in the prologue.
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Wow, the first 30 seconds of Thunderbolts really sums up where the MCU is at in 2025.
Spidey has so much stuff on his phone. Music, apps, games, obviously. A medieval game, obviously.
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