LC: Super Scrubs World Building

Dec 26, 2024 10:07 pm
Because a game can never have too many threads... here's another, regarding world-building. (There can indeed be too many threads; I'll cool it soon. Forgive me... supers games excite me -- they are in my blood!)

Everyone please provide me with the following:
1. A major city, anywhere in the world, that you wouldn't mind seeing destroyed in an alien invasion.

2. A major city, anywhere in the world, that you really -don't- want to see destroyed in an alien invasion.

3, A well-known landmark, anywhere in the world. Ancient, historic, recent -- anything goes.

4. A fictional / futuristic place or piece of advanced tech anywhere on the planet, the moon, or mars -- an advanced city, a skyship, an orbital elevator, an underwater colony, a space station, a pair of teleportation gates, etc.

5. The name of the International defense / crisis management / emergency response agency that two of our PCs have ties to.
Dec 27, 2024 5:07 am
1. New York City
2. Prague
3. The Space Needle in Seattle
4. Solace Station: a massive ring station orbiting Earth, still under construction, but already housing hundreds of thousands and acting as a trade nexus between Earth and space.
5. A.E.G.I.S.: Advanced Emergency Global Intervention Service

...and a zillion more ideas if you think any of those are terrible or don't fit.
Dec 28, 2024 9:50 pm
1. London
2. Reykjavik
3. Stonehenge
4. The Weather Pattern Formation, Reformation, Observation and Manipulation Device, a large mobile floating science station that can manipulate the weather around it. Colloquially known as the Weather FROG
5. CAIN - The Central Agency for Intervention and Neutralisation

KCC

Dec 29, 2024 1:59 am
1. Moscow.
2. Paris, France.
3. The Statue of Liberty.
4. Cloud City.
5. F.O.R.C.Ehttps://i.imgur.com/qUXR93k.jpeg
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Dec 29, 2024 3:02 pm
1. Washington DC (if Longshot City is in the US)
2. Berlin
3. The Pyramids of Giza
4. The decommissioned superscience portal to the Still Zone, in Professor Cerebral's laboratory, after the last Stasis Incursion
5. JANUS
Dec 29, 2024 3:32 pm
Clarification -- these cities can be real or fictional. If the latter, just specify where they are and maybe a few words about why you hate 'em or love 'em.
Dec 29, 2024 9:26 pm
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4. Solace Station: a massive ring station orbiting Earth, still under construction, but already housing hundreds of thousands and acting as a trade nexus between Earth and space.
Love this.
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4. The Weather Pattern Formation, Reformation, Observation and Manipulation Device, a large mobile floating science station that can manipulate the weather around it. Colloquially known as the Weather FROG
Cool. Floating... on the ocean? In the atmosphere?
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3. The Pyramids of Giza
KCC, BZ -- you both said this! Someone pick anew.
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4. The decommissioned superscience portal to the Still Zone, in Professor Cerebral's laboratory, after the last Stasis Incursion
Oh yeah. This is totally a thing!
Dec 29, 2024 9:38 pm
KCC says:

5. WIP
I'm just saying forget AEGIS, CAIN, JANUS - the agency should be called WIP and it stands for...
World Initiative for Protection
Worldshield: International Protection
Worldwide Intervention Protocol
Worldwide Incident Prevention
or something...
Dec 30, 2024 4:26 am
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Cool. Floating... on the ocean? In the atmosphere?
I was thinking in the air. Something blimpy or balloony.
Jan 1, 2025 1:31 am
@LightOfMidnight , want to throw your ideas into the mix?
Jan 1, 2025 11:20 am
Crap sorry. I was trying to wait till I was awake to see in I could come up with some fictional city concepts and then got lost on the fog that exists between christmas and NY!

1. Well Bowl already said London, rude :P Las Vegas

2. Atlantis

3, Niagra Falls

4. The Beacon. An experimental obelisk in London which sent out a signal into space that earth was here, and willing for contact. Now seen as a historical landmark, seen as the reason for first contact, later leading to the building of Solace Station

5. D.A.T.A - Defence and Tactical Agency
Jan 1, 2025 10:12 pm
No worries, and YES! There -is- a fog between those dates!

Thanks for the responses!

So summing up:

Major Cities Y'all Don't Like: NYC, London, Moscow, DC, Vegas
Major Cities Y'all Like: Prague, Reykjavik, Paris, Berlin, Atlantis
Landmarks: The Space Needle, Stonehenge, The Statue of Liberty, The Pyramids at Giza, Niagara Falls
Futuristic Places: Solstice Station, Weather FROG, Cloud City, Portal to the Still Zone, The Beacon
The Defense Agency: A.E.G.I.S., CAIN, F.O.R.C.E., JANUS, D.A.T.A.

Sweet -- thanks for playing along, everyone. I can use all of the answers from the first four, but let's settle on the name of the agency you'll be working for. I'll put a poll up in Discord.

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