Next time on Beast wars!

[NaitoKage]

Sketched it. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3477

[starshadow]

CHOTTO MATTE! (wait)

WE FORGOT ABOUT MANTERROR!
Lol! It's a Sheartopus!!

The alien ship will be flight worthy as I want to have an aircraft battle. Hmm..that could be used as the pred's second ship, a two seater minion ship smaller than the Levi.

Star's joining the maxies in season 3 after OP gets an upgrade. Cece dies in Season 2 annnd..I'M GONNA BRING A NEW PRED YAAAAY!

[NaitoKage]

Oh I'm sure we'll find Manterror.. or he just joins.. or we accidentally run him over and then he joins. either way, he'll be found.

a two seater ship smaller then the Leviathan? Wow, probably smaller then DC's starhopper.. Though aircraft battle.. with the Leviathan?*L*

[starshadow]

Eh....I'll post the info ASAP.

EDIT:
- The ship is half the size of the Leviathan.

- Weaponry are the alien guns and small missles. Pfft...rookie ship.

- It has shields.

[NaitoKage]

Alien guns and small missiles hm? Sounds like a ship out of a old school shooter game, like Vic Viper or R9. Never underestimate those kinda ships!

[starshadow]

Teehee! and never underestimate crazy pilots. If Sonar's around, things might get crazier. Cece would be like "HEY! STOP SCRATCHING THE PAINT! BAKA BATTO!"

[NaitoKage]

*L* Oh geez. Poor "komori-san" (Mr.Bat)

You'll probably want to include some sort of translation as alot of the people wont understand words like baka(idiot/stupid) or certain suffix like -tachi(suffix denoting a group with person), or certain other things.

[starshadow]

Yeah. Reminds me of an RP I did with my pal. His OC was speaking spainish and I almost couldn't understand every single word.

[Blazemane]

*Skids in late, slips, face plants*

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*Wakes up*

I've been thinking of something that might nor might not coincide with the idea for a more light-hearted plot. Is anyone up for an original characters' players' switch?

We could set it up a lot of different ways, but a preliminary suggestion would be to look at the list of o.c.s, and the players who have them (as well any players who only use canons now, but say they want to do this), and then randomly assign o.c.s to players.

This would be a chance not only to put our own spin on the characters, but also, because those interpretations would still have to be based on how characters have been established, it would be a chance to see what impression our characters have left in other writers' minds.

And it'd just be an interesting exercise of imagination.

Of course, even if we do this, anyone with an original character could choose to keep theirs to themselves (I could easily see, for example, Worpex wanting to play Manterror since he'll be new to this next episode. The same would go for Starshadow with Cecaelia).

[NaitoKage]

Hmm.. I suppose we could try something like that for those who would be willing though nobody else replied to this so far so.. guess probably not that willing.

[Night-Hunter]

I like tha Idea, I'd like to see some one other then me play Sonar. I don't plan to blow Saber's and Sonar's little secret pow wow until much, much later. *evil laugh* ^_^

[WorpeX]

@starshadow: Manterror already joined in OC Episode 3, so no problems there. Hes not really going to be a main character, sort of just going to be cannon fodder for the most part so I didn't want his entrance to be a big deal. xD

@Blazemane: Yeah, i'd like to use my characters since i'm new and all. Cool idea though. ^^

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

The cartoon had episodes that had some world exploration, self exploration, and bond building. I'm totally cool with going with the stasis pod idea again. Maybe Optimus can send everyone on a laid back exploration mission to get the recent death off their minds, and then the arrival of the stasis pod (and storms) will eventually interfere with our OC's fun time. Megatron still needs to find a way to fully integrate Nemesis into his chain of command as well as have each Predacon become formally introduced to her. We should find a way to cover that, as well.

Agreed, Alak. We need some fun!

Perhaps the next episode can be something of a hybrid of New Ideas/The Spark/Spiders Game. Plus, we need some good tarantulas scheming going on! Perhaps we can split the cast up into a few teams between those two and Cecaelia's pod.

That's exactly what I was thinking, WorpeX. So it might be a long episode, but we've been cutting through them pretty quickly. It'd be good for the Maximals to relax with a little less drama because we aren't too far from the next Vok visit, which will inevitably have Primal's death and should end season one, begin season two, and introduce the TransMetals. And then bring back the monkey.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, did OOP or any of the other moderators approve of SS playing two Predacon OCs?

Uh no now that I think about it. But I'm not even sure they read that area anymore since they're so busy.. Um. Good point as usual Alak. On the other hand, we did approve Moon playing two maximals.. or I said "Go ahead and join the maximals" and OOP was like "Yeah, come to our side!" I'm guessing since she meets the character limit it's fine, specially since we're going to be getting another maximal soon.. and Star will be swapping to Maximal side in season 2.. Maximals are very popular. *L*

It's all good. I'll let it slide THIS time, even though the Predacons cheat.

Obviously I scrapped all those ideas as I knew back then OOP would strangle me and went with the most powerless version first, and then upgraded into the current version.

Really? You thought I would strangle you, NK? I don't even kill flies! Now, if you were a misquito and you were trying to suck my blood with that viciously annoying high pitch buzzing that I absolutely hate, then I might squish you. But, yes, the first season of BW characters should be pretty "powerless" when it comes to their tech, weapons and size. They should rely on their beast modes, team work, and all that other character development stuff and with a fun story before we get into the powerful bots like TransMetals or any gestalts or combiners and the more mature plot lines.

As for your idea, Blazemane, it's incredibly interesting, but I'm afraid I love my characters too much to let them go. Even for one episode.

So when did you guys want to start the next OC episode? And do you want to start it by basically picking up where we are right now just with a new topic since we have 30 pages on the current one? Or start fresh with a new topic introducing Airazor, Inferno and Cece, and some exploration and whatnot?

[Alak]

I thought about it for some time, but I don't know if I'm comfortable seeing someone else play Orcariner at this stage in the game. He's not developed enough and I'm trying to make him grow in every episode.

As for when we should end this episode, I'd say after Nemesis goes to the Predacons.

[Night-Hunter]

Well, now that I've thought about it, maybe some other time.