Livelong: Dreams and huge boards.
Prosper: That's us!

Happy May Day, Oppressed Workers of the World!

If none of these continuity errors get explained before this storyline is over, I'll try and explain them myself in the follow-up to the last staoryline that I'm going to try and start when the Leaguers return.

This shouldn't deter anyone from trying to do so earlier, though. And we still have a Plot Device to technobabblize away.

Personally, I like the Byrne-izations that have been happening.

JD, Does the "Hero Crisis" have to do with that story your wrote about the "average" super hero?

:-) :-)

Something to do with its sequel, yes.

Re: board title:

Quantum Mechanics - the dreams stuff is made of.

Quantum Mechanics - the stuff nightmares are made of.

Especially for me!

Hi...ooops, I hope the authors can read this, not just you freaky character people. 8-O

I am now a university graduate, with my BA in English (with distiction), and a minor in Drama. :-D I'm quite happy about this! Of course, now I have to find a job that will still leave me time to write....and I live in a small town (curses...).

But all this means that I can come back and write on LICC again soon! I didn't avoid this storyline on purpose--in fact, I'm rather sorry I missed it. :-) It has been amusing me no end. I'll see you guys around the board in a couple of days!

Mazel Tov, Sarah!!!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations from here, too!

Many congratulations, Sarah! I suppose now the rest of us need to watch our verbs and past participles even more closely. *g*

Congratulations from us too!

And yes, we are having a great time here!

What happened to the Nitty awards?

Congratulations, Sarah.

Yeah, Congratulations. (Now I'm going to have to re-read every post I make. Why did we have to lose the spell check?)

The magicians objected to the Spell Check, Josh.

Congrats, Sarah.
BTW I started a bio for Quito on the New Archives Discussion. You can finish it.

Whoever created this board, were you trying to quote Shakespeare (Such stuff as dreams are made on) or Bogart (The stuff that dreams are made of)?

Both and neither, it would appear.

Bogart was (mis)quoting Shakespeare, so it's a moot point.

Note: I just meant that the GROSS equivalent of redshirts* will die from the cold, the GROSSies will probably just get runny noses & hacking coughs, aching muscles, etc., etc.

* Does GROSS have red, yellow & blueshirts?

BTW Author of GROSS, How can GROSS order the computer to ignore members of LICC** when the computer has ALREADY ACCEPTED the command to ignore GROSS***?

** LICC3 XXI

*** LICC3 XX

Also, despite having superpowers, GROSS seems to be overly reliant on computers & technology. No wonder they are superlosers.

KAM, the people working for G.R.O.S.S. obviously have to be from their ship, ergo their crew. Otherwise, how would you explain us not encountering any blue, red or yellowshirts onboard the spidership before G.R.O.S.S. showed up?

So why should I care if their people die?

It doesn't make sense that the members of G.R.O.S.S. would be able to order the computers to ignore LICC, anyway!

I'm pretty much ignoring that; there's no way that G.R.O.S.S. would be able to do that without doing some major, major hacking and reprogramming, which would take hours, possibly even days, to accomplish.

If you guys looked, it was by the 'current author' of GROSS. Jon enabled lockouts on everyone but the LICC and 'current authors'. Just a joke, folks.

Also keep in mind that although the computer acknowledged the command, it never actually did anything about it!

My story is... completed. Check it out at http://areoborg.tripod.com/Sunset.doc

Enjoy!

If anyone ever has the insane idea to do this author/character switch again, my characters will DEFINITELY be on vacation. No if, ands or buts. The stress & strain of this nonsense has been too much and I hope it wraps up soon.

Supervillains against ordinary humans, yeah, there's a fair fight.

KAM, I second that. This happens again, I'll be outta here until its over!

And Jake's been talking about teaching us that we shouldn't always use violence to stop our enemies, or whatever. Well, other than doing the old "transport the enemies somewhere else and leave them there with no way to come after us" trick, that's about the only way I see GROSS being defeated. And since they're supposed to be heroes but are acting like villains, it seems to me like they probably deserve a butt-kicking more than any other enemies LICC have faced lately!

Actually, I liked this adventure at the beginning, but now it's dragging. It has a lot of potential, but if it doesn't end soon, it's just going to turn into a neverending zap-out.

We need to defeat the villains and go home by Monday at the latest, imho.

I concur with Kira.

Kira, I am getting more than a little annoyed here...I am TRYING to END this, and everything I post gets twisted around!

I couldn't have put it better myself!

You want to end it? Be my guest.

I've laid the way open for Webber and BF and Jon and Electron and the rest of the equipment-buffs to run in and trounce you. Hopefully they will take the hint, stop talking about what they're going to do, and do something. I'm on the bridge and I have no spiffy technology. I've done what I can.

Listen, I'm sorry I messed up your plans, but they were too subtle for me to understand with my puny brain. I couldn't see any visible end in stealing the computer and blowing up the Spidership except for disempowering the authors. My bad. I am stupi¶ and ill-mannered.

Your superior intelligence is no match for our puny weapons!

Electron, would you like me to delete your K-NIT post that followed the Insane OOP post until I deleted it? (with the author's permission, of course)

Make it so. It doesn't make sense without Insane's.

Waitasecond - I'm here again?!

Ok.. who's back and who isn't? And where is everybody?
We know that at least the Furbies and Kiehart have returned...

Electron, Webber and Jon have returned. BF is in Engineering yet hasn't returned. The rest are elsewhere on the ship. A little note, it would stick to previously established plot if no-one can be switched back without being in proximity to or traveling through the rift...

Rift?

The post that switched almost everyone was of a conscious entity that switched people all over the ship simultaneously.

Why not just say the 'rift' spread out and switched all the rest back?

Cuz tain't the same thing

Yeah, well, whatever. It's over. I'm outa there.

BTW why are some people having characters that, presumably, weren't on the Spidermobile reappearing there?

Rikard only switched when his character set foot on the Spider. Obsy was off the Spider & didn't get switched. And Artsy, presumably, wasn't on the Spider either, so Sarah didn't get switched (although Quito was there. Hmmmm?)

I think nitpicking LICC is essentially useless these days, that's all I have to say.

Because I thought it would be fun for the Evil Executive to show up.

If you haven't been able to download my story, try copy and pasting the link into your address bar. It should work then.

http://areoborg.tripod.com/Sunset.doc

Sorry about that.

Interesting. We find out at the end of Chapter 9 that Rogat had a sea mammal as a pet (His porpoise had been fulfilled).

Scott: HA HA HA! *ROTFLMAO* Oh that is SO funny! I can't breathe.

Did you flounder around a bit before you came up with that joke, Scott? ;)

Abaloney, BF. You're just crabby becuase you didn't think of it. Quit being shellfish.

Hey, I'm just here for the halibut!

Let's knock off all these fish puns and listen to some music. How about Salmonchanted Evening or Tommy Dorsel?

Nah. I think I'll tuna my radio to a sports station. Maybe they'll have on a bassball game.

I should've expected this. My astrological sign is Aquarium.

Re: Quito:

She was technically under Ansh's authorization during this storyline since I was too busy to post. I guess she could be considered KAM's also, so either way she vanished when the authors showed up and is now back on the Spidership.

A typographical error?!?! NOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason jumps out the window.

I guess we're just a grouper punsters! Maybe we oyster just clam up before Jason puts some mussel on us!

So if Jake refuses to leave the story, does that mean that the L.I.C.C. moderator is Milkshake or Taconator?

That's right, KAM-O!

And I'm his Assistant! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

And now, K-NIT is proud to introduce our new series... The Adventures of Milkshake and Taconator

With Commander Milkshake as a discussion board moderator and Taconator as his wacky assistant. Hilarity ensues as they try to manage the completely insane group of NitCentral posters, including the punning KAM, the annoying ScottN, and the popular Kira!

This fall on K-NIT TV-47!!!!

Also this fall, all the good shows will be cancelled. Oh, wait, that's ABC. ••••••• Mickey Mouse network. Philly was a classy show! I haven't been this PO'ed since they canned Sports Night and Clerks!

I never watched Philly, but I agree with you about Sports Night and Clerks. I think ABC wanted to kill off Clerks before it ever aired, which is why they kept moving it around so much.

This is true. If you listen to the Commentary tracks on the Clerks Animated DVD, Kevin Smith and Dave Mandel talk about this.

In case anyone is owndering, that Begining of the End thing is leading up to the big day when Jason Kiehart will leave the LICC.

The fact is, I don't think I can take the character very much further. Now, it may be silly for me to be thinking like an actual writer on the same level (or at the very least aspiring to the level of) Douglas Adams or Kim Stanley Robinson, but the fact is, thankls to SOMEONE (JAKE!) venting him into space, twice, I wound up making him FAR more powerful than I'd actually intedned, which ultimatley LIMITED the places I could take him as a character. Think about it. Lately he's done nothing but make jokes, hurt Adon, and louse around just 'waiting for the Banshees to be needed.' Not a very good hero when you look at it.

On the other hanbd, I really haven't fleshed out Grant Lopez very much at all. We know his name, that's he's a good pilot, and that he tursts Kiehart profusely. But more than that, he's a normal human. There is a lot more potential for good character development.

I plan to have Kiehart's bio left up at the LICC arhcive site of course. He wouldn't be the first former member. But apart from (hopefully) a brief part in whatever the final storyline of LICC 3 may be, Kiehart won't be showing up again after Chapter 27 or 29, depending on how it goes.

I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here, but then again, this well be helpful (one hopes) to anyone who's violating one of the LICC Commandmants, Don't Make Any Long Term Plans.

So Lopez is going to take over as your regular character after Kiehart splits?

Well, we need to do the story that ends the corruption in the Space Marshals before Kiehart leaves, then.....

I know what you mean about characters getting to be too powerful, though. That's why I haven't had Rocket Ranger use his powers in a while.

In fact, I'm going to be explaining why he hasn't been using his powers much very soon.

:: he tursts Kiehart ::

I hope I never get tursted! It sounds painful!

BF, good idea. The build up to the departure is going to be slow though. One or two posts per chapter leading into it, right up to the chapter when this sick woman shows up on the SPidership. I still need to work out some details with Jon (Tacoman is going to figure prominently in the story, since he was the one who gave Kiehart his job), so we can do that Space Marshalls thing anytime.

OK, there's been some concerns about power levels being too high in LICC and I have a possible plot twist where the end result is that all those with too high power levels are reduced.

I mention it here because it would only work if the authors agree to go along with it.
And it's not really a storyline so it shouldn't disrupt anyone's plans for stories. Maybe a day or two at most.

Anyway if all agree then heroes, villains & other would be reduced in power to avoid situations like "[blank] snapped his fingers and fixed everything" or "[blank] threw the switch on the Itdoeswhateveriwant Machine and fixed everything."

Another possibility would be to have some kind of backlash to excessive amounts of solving problems with some previously unknown machine or other deus ex machina. Either against the person doing it (as with Patricia when she ended the endless nanobot war) or just something that makes the situation worse ("Yes, Miracle Boy, you did clean up that world's toxic air pollution with a finger snap, but now their sun is going to nova.")

BTW this would only apply WITHIN the LICC Universe. If a character left the LU their power levels would go back to whatever they were, but any over-powered character entering the LU would have them reduced.

Anyway, what do y'all think?

Just want to note that all this stuff with the DoS is NOT a new storyline, just establishing a side-story which will not be really covered here.

I don't think it's a bad idea, KAM, but the big Plot Twist should be done well so as not to appear too contrived. Of course, you probably know that already, sorry.

Kiehart is going soon, so it really shouldn't affect him anyway.

Rocket Ranger's powers don't need to be downgraded. Besides, he has one power he hasn't used yet that already has a limitation: Using it puts him into a coma for a week!

(All I'm doing with Quincy and Holodoc right now is making some minor changes to his powers, and making them manifest with a blue color instead of teal.)

NOT contrived? An arbitrary act to have the writers power down their overpowered characters & machines & whatnot & you want it to not seem contrived???

Is that even possible?

LOL.

Say, which characters are telepathic? I know Quito is, and Ojanon, and Butrfli (right?). Anyone else? Oh, and Observer, but his telepathy doesn't work anymore....

Yes, this info is for a plot idea....

I think that's all.

b-b-b-b-di, b-b-b-b-di, b-b-b-b-di, that's all folks!

Butrfli has been known to be telepathic, yes...

Observer is passively telepathic. Quite receptive to telepathy and able to communicate if a link is established to him, and he was able to block Fuzzy Logic from his mind, but no active or offensive abilities anymore.

I'm gonna be gone until about Thursday, folks, so just pretend Milkshake is busy doing Captain stuff like he should. :-) See ya later.

So when is Milkshake going to acknowledge his promotion by posting as Captain Milkshake?

Wow, good thing I logged on this morning before I left. Anyway, he's not gonna. He is skipper of the Spidermobile, but he never rose any higher than Commander in the ranks of the Marine Corps. And frankly, I like it that way.

And test. Hey, it works! Disregard this, folks.

The Furby has limited telepathic abilities too. But they rely completely on his big spellbook. He can do very basic mind reading and several kinds of nasty brain-related attacks.

For your reading pleasure, I bring you... The LICC does the Holy Hand Gernade!

Captain Tacoman: "Observer, bring up the holy hand gernade!"

Observer, accompanied by several redshirts chanting latin, give Tacoman a small green sphere. Once the sphere has been passed, a giant, animated foot comes down from the heavens and crushes the Redshits.

Tacoman looks at the hand gernade in confusement.
Tacoman: "How does it, umm... how does it work?"

Commander Milkshake: "I know not, sir."

Tacoman: "Consult the book of armerments!"

Observer produces a PADD and hands it to Commander Adon.

Observer: "Armerments: Chapter 2, verses 9-21."

Commander Adon: "And The Moderator raised the hand gernade up on high, saying: 'Oh Phil Farrand, bless this, thy hand gernade. With which it my blowst thy enemies to tiny bits, in they mercy.' And Mr Farrand did grin, and the Authors did feast upon the lambs, and sloaths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangatang, and breakfast cerials, and fruit bats, and large..."

Observer: "Skip a bit, Commander."

Adon: "And Mr Farrand spake, saying: 'First shall thou take out the holy pin. Then thou shall count to three. No more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shall count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shall thou not count, neither count thou two, exepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out! Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobest thou thy Holy Hand Gernade of Nitcentral towards thy foe who, being naughty on my site, shall snuff it.'"

Observer: "Amen"

Everyone: "Amen."

Tacoman: "Right! One... Two... Five!"

Milkshake: "Three, sir!"

Tacoman: "THREE!"

In a bizarre coincedence with the story line, I am currently suffering from a nasty cold.

A miracle!

Follow the handkerchief!

No, follow the snot bubble!

Coincidence? Yeah, that's it. A coincidence. *gulp*

Actually when you complained of the cold during the author storyline I thought of it, and mentioned it in the storyline, where it was promptly ignored, and I just thought I would wrap it up since not much else seemed to be happening.

Hmmm, when this get moved to the Archives can we title it The Webber Virus?

Jason, isn't it supposed to be spelled Grenade instead of Gernade?

It derives from the root word Pomengranite.

Or was that Pomagranite?