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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Perrine" data-source="post: 1745573" data-attributes="member: 20347">ISSUE #1  posting instructionsmutants and masterminds P . R . E . S . E . N . T . S VILLAINOUS m a r v e l . m i n i o n s_________________________issue #0"an offer they can't refuse"_________________________Welcome gentle  WRITERS  to the opening issue of "Villainous" the first ever look into the lives, loves and larceny of Marvel's Mighty Minions!In the first of our THEIV-A-RIFIC issues we shall open in  "MEDIA RES",  that translates to "in the middle of" for all you knuckle dragger monosyllabic thugs out there!  More to the point - this is where the ACTION is!!  Lot's of "all-cap" words,  a plethora of "explanation points" and a myriad of action verbs!The kick here folks is that your merry marvelous master of the game,  hereafter known as GM,  gets a breather from the verbose and wordsmithing...  "WHAT?!!?!?"   you say!!Here's the protocol for Issue #0...Imagine your Villain  (the hero of his OWN tale)  in the middle of his latest caper...  Describe  (not too longly)  the scene and the plot of your mission.  This should be a mission, a heist, whatever type of crime,  etc...  created by  YOU.  Maybe you needed the money,  maybe it's payback... whatever - this was YOUR brainchild.Go hogs wild!Give'me the flavor text,  show off your Villain's powers in your opening scene...  Toss out some dialogue to get us familiar with his style.  Trash on some poor guards or heroic minions.......  The choice is yours!The only rules for this flavorful setup that  YOU'RE  creating for yourself are:-  no heroes or other villains... don't incluce any  (that's for me to do)-  make the plot attainable for  YOUR  level of Villain  (no taking over the world yet)-  make it in a cool location, memorable...  a cool place to fight!!-  you HAVE NOT achieved your goal yet.....  you're about too, but not yet.-  In fact,  write - RIGHT up to the point when a SUPERHERO will be coming to stop you...-  write the BEGINNING  up something like this:CODENAME:  Stilt ManAKA:  Wilbur DayMISSION:   Steal the Pym-Atomizer to sell on the black marketTACTICS:   raise up to the saucer level of the outer tower and smash through the glass, creating havok to daze the crowd and guards.LOCATION:  the Spaceneedle in Seattle where it's on displayas we join the scene...  [this would be the 3-6 paragraphs of exciting action opening to my mission, staring Stilt Man!]Ending in something like:"...And as the Stilt Man contracted his armored leg to step into the Space Needle tower the elevator made that all familiar  "DING"  sound as it opened to reveal........."That should be some opening FUN.I will then go in and  "take control"  of the scene you've created.  This won't be a super long set of events.All your characters  WILL  be apart from one another in this opening  (so no contact between you yet)  but you  WILL be describing the events that lead up to the OFFER  that will extend to roll into  ISSUE #1!Questions??I'll post the beginning story thread by 6pm tonight  (Tuesday)  then you can begin posting the  MEDIA RES  openings tonight!!So be thinking about how  YOU  want the  "world"  to be introduced to your Super Villain.  Picture it as the first 1-3 splash pages in a super hero comic,  except it will be focusing on YOU  the villain...THIS  is your  "screen entrance"  for the first time...  make it dazzling!!thanks again for being patient with me... this should be awesome fun.Expect me to reply lots in the beginning to set you up and then approximately once every three days  thereafter.cool?I'll post the  ISSUE #0  thread link here later today.thanks</blockquote>

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