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[Philote]

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

Considering the power scale here, I find this mental image hilarious. Kudos to you, random boulder hucker, where ever you may be. I bet nobody believes him when he says he once knocked out the Penultimate with a rock, but I know his story. I will carry it in my heart always.

This is good, please tell me you're not going to stop at this point.

Don't forget that we had a New Beginning Brawl thread at some point after I joined where Wulf, Jester and I....uh...Introduced ourselves to each other. I do not remember at what point in the NB threads it was supposed to exist.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Page Two opens with Wulf throwing point blank annihilation at the rock throwing crowd, which seems to me like seriously disproportionate retribution. He then picks up a fat man and starts beating people with him.

I can only pray for Mysterious Boulder Hucker.

Meanwhile, Myself walks up to Wish (I told you, that guy is everywhere) and obliterated his imagination, killing the Devil in a hilarious anti-climax. He then restores Wish's imagination, as if this makes up for the horrific invasive thing he just did to Wish. He then builds "The Ultimate Horocrux," something that will revive any member of The Holy Trinity if they die. Wulf, WHD, and Myself are literally immortal, invincible Lichs. God help us all.

Cut to Neogenetica, who has been so enthralled by Maplestory that he has noticed none of this nonsense. He hears Greenday's call from downstairs and heads down to see him and has a arrow shot at his head for his trouble. He blocks it though, because he just now notices he has superpowers. Specifically, wards. I'm not going to go into the specifics of how terribly this could have gone if only Greenday had received superpowers because it's pretty obvious. Luckily for everyone Neogenetica does have powers, and he decides to be a benevolent god and grant everyone who doesn't have any one or two immutable powers. There are now no non-powered humans left. Homo Sapiens are now extinct, replaced entirely by Homo Superior. Greenday momentarily blocks this, but thinks better of it. The two go outside an only then notice the carnage in the streets. He then makes this astute observation:

Greenday wrote

 "Neo, I think EVERYONE ON THE SUPERPOWER LIST GOT POWERS!!!!!!!!"

He didn't know. When he shot an arrow at his brothers head, he had no idea. He then continues to prove that he may in fact be evil by creating golems and kystians to go out to kill and kidnap people while he sit in his house, creating "Poisons and Super weapons" as he practices "controlling people."

This come to fruition as we go into page three, where he also creates a "fractal crystalloid" to help guard his house and his minions haul back around eight "teammates."

Meanwhile, in Australia, WHD has staffed his Xavier School with invisible clones of himself to do the grunt work. He now has two persona's: a normal one for everyday activities, and a Superhero one, WHD. He apparently has both crazed fans and enemies. He puts out another bulletin, telling everyone that there are super people now, which I can only imagine was met with a collective "Oh, really? Ya' think?" from the entire population of Earth. Anyway, he's been doing the whole "walk the Earth like Caine in Kung-Fu" thing and has ended up in a town that is hostile to supers. Despite everyone being super because of Neo. I guess they didn't get the memo. He then finds a gang of outlaw bikers, kills half of them unceremoniously, has the other half help the town before kidnapping them away back to his base for training.

Lets get into this training a bit: apparently, once you're in WHDs Xavier School, you can't leave and because of the shielding you can't communicate with the outside world. You are telepathically linked to every other person there, and if you're rowdy you are thrown into a power deprivation cell he has set up. You also know this man is totally willing to murder you if he deems you "beyond redemption." Finally, it's managed and maintained by invisible clones of the man who brought you here, so he is potentially always watching.

WHD now has three bases: His old house, one in Wulf's Attic, and the Xavier "School". All completely unassailable according to him. Wish decides to get in on the base action, and constructs one that's presumably on Rad World. This one is also completely unassailable, and can fly and turn into a giant robot.

Page 4 is almost entirely base and power wanking, so we'll pick this up on page 5 and 6. Neogenetica decides to get in on the base building and raises a giant continent called New Atlantic out of the Atlantic ocean, a paradise where it's always summer protected by a horrible cloud of poison that circles the coast and Kystians that attack anything that get's too close, along with "giant orbiting space squids ready to obliterate small countries." It is also not touching any other continent, even though it's occupying space that already filled up by parts of Africa and Europe. So, parts of those continents have been completely annihilated to make room for it. I can only presume that the massive tidal wave that would result from a new continent displacing that much water never happens. Him and Greenday then proceed to throw a fit when it's pointed out that this thing would screw the world up and they threaten to blow up Australia and Celadon if anything is done to fix it. Greenday then builds a Golem made a lasers.

Page 7 details how the two of them took their house to this new monster continent through a tunnel and built their palace around it. Zale pops in and points out that most of the players are complete psychopaths. On that same page Wulf details his Hellscape Torture Dimension.

Page 8, Mik details how he's been fighting angels all this time. He completes his training and slams head first into the Earth.

No new developments happen on the next two pages.

[Philote]

I can't wait to see what happens when you get to the part where I show up

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Out of curiosity Phi, when did you show up in NB?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Your commentary is awesome GV, but I wonder...How far do you intend to go with this? There are 1000 pages in each thread and over 20 threads...that upwards of 20,000 pages of content.

[Philote]

It looks like the very start of NB 3 is when I joined. I believe you joined right after me in the same thread.

Hopefully he goes through all of it, though maybe giving more of an overview instead of a page by page since that would take forever.

[Zaleramancer]

Have you got to Wulf's Flu Zombies yet?

I remember taking a formal entrance then.

[Zaleramancer]

Also: My Shadow is a psychopathic murder machine. This is intentional.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

So, page 10-20...

Like, I really can't stress enough that Mik, Wish, and Bug are the only players that are not completely cartoonishly evil sociopaths. Maybe WHD too because most of his evil is me reading things into his base that he probably didn't intend. I'll probably write those pages up late tonight or sometime tomorrow.

[Zaleramancer]

But I haven't done anything cartoonishly evil yet!

Or have I..

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Hey, there were other zombies, too...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Cartoonishly evil? I prefer the phrase 'really really REALLY chaotic Good'.

Though, I do appreciate you making your way through the thread. Considering this is about as much commentary as we've gotten about this arc from someone not actually involved in said events at the time, I'm really excited to see what you make of the rest of the thread(s).

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Pages 10-20 AKA Everyone goes crazy mad with blood and power lust.

But first lets travel back in time 2 years for the halcyon days of October 31st, 2010. At exactly 7:20 a.m. the very first superpowered being comes into existence. Bug awakens from his slumber to find that he has all the superpowers he has on the Superpower List a full 2 years before everyone else. Energized by this discovery he leaps out the window and runs off at supersonic speed to find the other people on the site to share the news, or perhaps warn them. It doesn't matter either way, because I can only assume he gets lost seconds after this and stays that way for the entire thread. His only other post in the whole thing was about how he was still searching for them. I like to think that first errant burst of speed put him somewhere in the Amazon rainforest and he remained wandering South America for the duration of the thread and beyond.

Meanwhile, Myself (seriously, he's everywhere) has found Mik buried in the crater where he hit the Earth and helpfully lifts him out of it with his psychic powers. Mik, thinking he's still in training, flips out and pops all of his joints "along with [his] spinal cord." He uses all the powers and traps Myself in a block of indestructible white matter, grows a sword out of his leg, and tries to kick his head off. But then he realizes he's not in training anymore, so he stops at the last second, releases Myself and asks him what's up.

Myself's sphincter slams shut with the force of an industrial press, and so traumatized is he by this event that he immediately creates a realm where he is omnipotent and places another Ultimate Horcrux in there, giving himself triple immortality. I apparently missed a post where he created another of these things to get double immortality and for that I apologize because I missed a chance to reference Hellsing Abridged. This will not be Myself's last redundant immortality.

This all happens before he replies to Mik, so fast it's like Myself never left. Anyway he puts on a strong face and tries to pretend that he's not completely terrified of Mik by having an idle banter with him. He also turns into a cat, perhaps in a bid to convince himself that he is indifferent to this man he is so obviously afraid of. He says he's healing Mik from the horrifying amount of radiation he's being bombarded with. Mik then says that the radiation is just him, as he's been fighting in star cores and things like that.

Let me segue a little bit to talk about Mik because he really is a different beast from everybody else in the game at this point and it bears pointing out. So far everyone else that has appeared in New Beginning has been a normal human given all their powers by the list. With Mik I do not believe this is the case. We open on him floating in a void in space. He's being trained in the use of his powers, something that no one else has to do (Wulf makes this same point in the thread). He has a rival that shows up on Earth later in the thread. Finally, nowhere in his first post is it implied that he received his powers from the List itself. In fact, the entity training him only makes reference to the list as something Mik was researching. Mik probably isn't human, not like the rest of the players. He isn't playing as himself who suddenly gained superpowers like the others, he is playing something else. Something not human. Something, I'm guessing, that already had powers and instead used the list as inspiration on how to give them form. Something shot at Earth to keep this whole reality bender situation in check, but went native instead.

The Jester, Thread 1, Page 1 wrote

Becausae the list came into existence we now have a slurry of omnipowered monsters trying to destroy all of existence."

Considering who got their powers from the List, Miks boss can only be talking about the other players.

That's a lot of words I wrote about Mik. Later I'll write just as many about The Penultimate because his situation is, in my opinion, much much stranger.

Anyway, Myself the Cat asks Mik if he wants to help stop all the crazed superhumans and Mik decided he has nothing better to do while he waits for one of these nigh omnipotent evil badasses to show up.

As if on cue, at 2:15, a man named Spydyr wakes up in his home after a three day coma and breaks everything in his house with a surge of electricity. Intrigued by this he goes out to a park and conjures a thunderstorm, in the process reducing several trees to ash. The murder of these poor innocent trees causes the thread to flip out and declare Spydyr public enemy number one. Seriously, Mik and WHD imminently sense a disturbance in the force and the other aren't far behind.

Wulf is busy in wolf form killing the hell out of that same group of supers he was obliterating at the beginning of page 2, presumably looking for Boulder Hucker so that the mans great power can never be used against him again, when he somehow smells one of Spydyr's powers: Intuitive Aptitude. And this is a power that, as will become apparent, Wulf has a big old honking murderboner for. So he starts killing people faster.

Meanwhile, WHD has found and restored the park that Spydyr so brutally desecrated but somehow fails to find the man himself. He then makes a bunch of clones of himself and tries to find him by detecting Intuitive Aptitude, as he somehow knows Spysyr has this power. Instead he finds a young woman with that power and, not wanting to waste a good opportunity for murder, does just that by apparently giving her a brain hemorrhage when she tries to use it.

Mik asks what he's supposed to be doing and Myself replies "You weren't a psychopath and we need as many non-psychopathic superhumans as we can get." He is completely right, because at this point there's only him, Wish, Mik, and Bug. One of them will be dropped from that list.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Mik makes a point out of character that maybe they shouldn't just be, you know, killing everyone. Instead, he offers to build something that will imprison them so he can suck out their insanity and negative thoughts and put those into a rock or something. Instead Wulf....well....

Shadowulf1 (Wulf) wrote

Oh, my... while I'm doing all that coughing, I pass on Virus: Fungamonus, Virus:  Fungous Amongous and Virus: Virobacteriosis unknowingly, and soon look down again to see that most of the crowd of crazies is either incredibly sick and covered in their own filth and body fluids, or they're dead from the debilitating versions of normally-innocuous sicknesses, or they're zombie-like and passing their sicknesses on to others. The streets smell just plain foul and sickening (especially to my sensitive Wulf constitutions ), and so I decide to get a move on from this city block (taking my lovely mini-army of sickness and sickos with me just in case I should encounter some unpleasantness). Any of the creeps with sickness-immunity powers are conveniently "tripped-over" along the way...

It's the smiley that keeps me awake at night.

Make note that he decides to roll around with this sick death army, because it plays into something ludicrous near the end of thread one. Anyway, after that he wanders around sniffing the air for "maybe a worthy nemesis." That's right, after fighting for so long that his hands were literally too sticky with blood to fight with and giving a crowd of people hypersmallpox Wulf immediately starts looking for more people to kill.

On the topic of people Wulf wants to kill, Spydyr the treeslayer is back home, having tied up his roomate. He's taunting him, circling him, what could this diabolical fiend be planning for this poor- oh. You're just going to send him to Las Vegas? Really? Yeah, okay, Spydyr just teleports his roommate to Vegas. The fiend.

Cat Myself teleports to Wulf, lending his nose to the hunt for the insidious Spydyr. How the two of them can smell anything but Wulfs army of rot is a mystery to me. The last member of the Holy Trinity, WHD, sets all of his senses on high alert to try and detect him. Myself contacts the Army, pulling them out of Iraq and stationing them near all the world major cities in preparation for this attack by one guy. What?

Oh, you didn't know? Myself took control of the secret shadow government and dominates the United States, Russia, China, and Australia. He also got his own army from somewhere. Also the War on Terror was still going on. Despite the superpowered riots happening all over the world and a new continent obliterating most of western Africa the War on Terror was still happening. Those are some dedicated soldiers. While they're doing this, Mik sets up his non-lethal plan to take down all the crazy supers. He sets up little spinning toys that draw all the insane supers of all the major cities into marbles, which he arranges on a shelf somewhere.

Suddenly "1000000000000000000000000000000000x1000000000000000000000000000000000" Fempts, I assume some sort of Kystian creature, are unleashed upon the world by Greeday. If they head to the closet thing they're either going to ravage Greenland or what's left of Western Africa, and the Holy Trinity is to busy hunting down the wicked arboreal assassin to go fight them. Myself even commanded ALL THE TROOPS to defend the major cities of the world, so if they go for Greenland it's completely defenseless.

I just now had a thought: If New Atlantis is right under Greenland whatever happened to Iceland? Oh god....

I'd like to ask you all the remove your hats and bow your heads in respect.


But wait. What's that up in the sky? It's a a bird. It's a plane. It's...! Oh my god I don't know what it is, it's like some sort of horrible demon with wings and an energy tornado coming out of it's back "a god mile in diameter" which we all know is bigger than a regular mile. It's Mik, he's unleashed the inner beast and entered the Bloodrith Throes and he's sick and tired of all these superpowered freaks tearing everything up. He was headed for the Holy Trinity because they're the biggest blips on his radar, but he can put that on the back burner just long enough to Save The World.

He warps space around all the Kystians, containing them before dragging out their collective vital essence and eating it. But not all of it! The bits that make up their minds and personalities he throws back into their own dimension. Even in this huge horrible demon form Mik again opts for the non-lethal option. He then leaves the husks behind to continue on his way.

Wulf meanwhile finds another dude who has that power he hates so much. He menaces and sicks his army of Super Lepers on him.

Back to the heroes: the soulless husks fall from the sky like rain, undoubtedly going to pollute the ocean. Suddenly, they all stop, frozen in midair. It's Wish, descending from Rad World in his shining battle armor. He sucks all the husks up with a rad machine. Greeday get's pissed because he thinks that Wish is the one the stopped his evil army, and plows through reality at him. But Wish it ready for him. All time stops and wish pulls out his anti Kyst, sucking him into it. He then teleports out of earths atmosphere and hits the machine containing Greenday with the explosive force of "a milion suns" to teach him a lesson.

Unfortunately, that machine must have been made of stronger stuff than Wish though because Greenday is completely unfazed and summons " 1 decillion to the 1 decillionth power" Kystians, which Wish eliminates with a sneeze.

Wulf, offended by this great amount of death not perpetrated by him, rips a he in space time and shows up just in time to suck all the corpses into his hellish torture dungeon dimension by eating them. Greenday uses this as a distraction, planting a nuke on Wish, but Wulf eats that to just as Mik, from Earth, saves the poor inhabitants of the torture plane by creating a black hole to suck in the nuclear explosion and teleporting it off into deep space to explode harmlessly.

Seeing his nuke didn't work, Greenday uses everything from mind bullets, to pollen, to fire, to millions of force wreaking balls, to turning into a bird to defeat his adversaries. Finally having enough Wish summons his robot base from Rad World and has it occupy the same space as Earth to protect it from the fighting. That's right, the base is as big as Earth. Rad World must be huge.

Myself, who didn't get the memo, Makes a bunch of arks and teleports select specimens of every species to mars, where they set up colonies.

The fight winds down, Greeday get's beaten but not killed, and the Holy Trinity offer Wish a place in their stable. Wish, somehow sensing that these guys aren't completely on the up and up, declines. Thus rejected Wulf makes the same offer to Greenday, the guy who just tried to destroy the word because he was bored. This offer is also rejected, but he does sign a pack to non-aggression with the Hloy Trinity.

At some point during the fight, Wish sealed Mik into a prison like a jerk. Taking to opportunity to calm down, he transforms back to normal and, no doubt distraught by all the fighting, unleashes a quasar to try and stop it before realizing that it's already over.

But Myself catches that in a pocket dimension because he's everywhere.

Myself then decides to brainwash "the crowds" into chanting the names of all his powers, constantly, in order for his powers to becomes more powerful. I assume these people are "the troops" he had set up to protect the major cities and the people left in the cities after Mik imprisoned all the mad ones. He does all this in preparation for the day when the insidious Spydyr decides to do more gardening.

Wulf finds a bunch of larpers larping with real power. He swings his superpowers around to impress them then, then paralyzes them so he can set his lepers on them and "enjoy it for a while as they slowly but surely encroach upon the fifteen nerdlies, to make them one of their own... "

Then Myself creates a virus that changes Kystians into Humans/Werewolves that he can control. Because, you know, non-aggression pacts aren't such a big deal, right?

[Philote]

These are pure gold

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Gotta admit. Things were pretty chaotic back then...

[Marvelous Miscreant]

So, you guys remember that Sword I designed for my character in Zale's Generic Fantasy RP?

Wayward Soul



I got bored and made a quick Model of it for fun. Behold!

[Philote]

Fancy

This was for your sword mage character?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Yeah, Logan Highbrand...The Spell Sword

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Ooh, nice. I like it.

Both your design skills, and the sword itself. Well done.