Written by The Watcher 07-30-2002 08:22 AM
As established by the timeline compiled by Tanith, it's been 15 years since the Net Event first imbued people all over the world with their powers.
What have you been doing since then? How did you cope with the various events and changes which have occured since? How have you and your life changed? Where are you now and what are you doing?
Written by Locke
I sign up with the reigning party of Canadian politics the Liberal Party(which has since 1935 been in power save 1957-1963.1979 and 1984-1993-51 of the last 67 years)I sacrifice principle-I be mostly conservative in my personal political views-for the sake of my long-term goals.
I use my Taskmaster powers to capture the perfect speaking voice which coupled with my power of Betazoid empathy will enable me to manipulate any audience.
I use my personal life-story which is full of drama and struggle against poverty,atrocoius health et al to connect to the *little person*(remember I pump gas for a living now but am building to be a small business owner)
I figure I'll be a shoo-in.
And once I'm in
Presuming I remain on good terms with the Reigning Master of the House of Sinanju(Multiversal Branch)...and I dang well plan to..
With access to the Canadian Treasury(and Canada's a major gold producer as well) I can now afford his fees...
I plan to deal with these traitorous Quebec secessionist dirtbags..Permanently.
And if planning to destroy your wonderful peaceloving inoffensive country through secession *isn't* traitorous and *bad* I'd like to know what is.
Edit-you may presume I have used my photographic reflexes to master every known conventional martial arts,small arms and other related military skills to world class level.
You may also note that I am also now a world class free rock climber,a skill I tremendously admire in theory but have no desire to attempt to master in non-powered form.
Written by Jesse
I'm rich, but keep my real identity a secret. Easy enough, considering my psionic dampeners and holographic illusion powers.
Mr. X: Still watching, waiting. With Meddler's resources & ruthlessness, the world has come under greater control. Thus, he may relax somewhat, but still keeps an eye on the world's goings. Not to mention well-placed government officials. Meanwhile, he still keeps a secret 'normal' life, living without care as a caring member of his community.
Jango: One of the few who do not seek to travel the universe & keep off his home world most of the time. The Dogs of War have never been needed to combat a threat, thus he keeps a peaceful life. As such, I no longer maintain a secret identity, and keep assured that my enormous base of power is enough to keep my friends & family safe.
Of course, in the beginning, I had received training as quickly as possible. Combat-wise, I'm the beefed up version of KrispyKreme, due to the superiority of DBZ Ki Powers - meaning I'm one of the greatest combatants (martial arts-wise or not) on Earth 3.0. Doing the same as the 2.0 counterpart, I had also learned other skills such as cooking, sleight of hand, playing musical instruments, voice training (extending to singing), etc.
Through the might of my technomagic (along with some "charm" abilites that others have & the natural progress of humanity), the technology of Earth has risen. Not as dramatically as the other Earths, but greater than it would have been, nonetheless. One of the greatest achievements has been the Dimensional Defense Satellites. Commissioned by the world's governments to protect from other-dimensional threats, the satellites extend a shield around the world, strengthening the "reality barrier", effectively cutting themselves off from the multiverse. Of course, the satellites have been protected by enhancements, ensuring its stability & safety from outside forces. Anyone wishing to enter our Earth's dimension must go through proper channels & procedures
Written by Yeoman
CBY: Again, most of his life is pretty well documented, and didn't spend hardly any of it on mirror. He's been working on his force powers, and really just trying to carve out a little miche in the multi-verse for himself.
Oh yeah, on the subject of Age, Tanith mentioned age stopping, slowing techniques a while back, Between these and his unaging cursed form, Zel-Yeo is Physcially in his late 20's.
CBY meanwhile, has had only minimal acces to scuh things, and only his connection to the force keeps him vital. He appears to be in his mid thirties.
Written by Chuckg
15 years later...
* The reputation of the House has spread across the known Multiverse. Master Chuckg is regarded as the most reliable assassin one can possibly hire.
The fees, of course, vary all the way from extreme on up to positively Magrathean, depending on the target's ability to pay.
* My Sinanju skills have, due to my Immutability always maintaining my body at absolute peak without degeneration, ascended to a higher plane of mastery than any other Reigning Master in history save the Great Wang himself.
Whom I am the equal of.
* Several of my more "epic" contracts were not paid in gold, but in kind. "In kind" means "various bits of useful lore".
After all, the House must adapt its techniques to the larger Multiverse. Sinanju now has some new, mystic skills. Nothing overt, of course. A true assassin's best weapon is his hand, a true assassin's best defense is his skill and wits.
But with that many precogs and involuntary teleporters out there, it behooved the House to learn several defenses -- such as how to focus one's ki in a quasi-mystical way so as to become as invisible to clairsentient senses as the skills of the House have for millennia allowed Masters of Sinanju to become invisible to normal senses.
As for you involuntary D-porters -- launch no attempts, and you will suffer no disappointments.
* Locke's contract was completed as specified -- the out-and-out traitors (not just the political opponents) were quietly and discreetly sent to their just fate.
* PaDT is also a regular contractor. However, Tanith's offers of a long-term permanent position were politely declined. The House of Sinanju is pleased to have friendly associations, but several sad incidents in our House's history have taught us the folly of signing lifetime contracts.
* The House of Sinanju has discreetly set up a comfortable residence and treasure depository in some obscure out-of-the-way and entirely unknown corner of the cosmos. Applicants for business contracts leave their job offers with the House's attorney in Khazan.
*shakes head sadly*
We lose more attorneys that way...
* The House of Sinanju (Multiversal Branch) is pleased to announce that on the financial side, due to 15 years of unbroken success at fulfilling contracts for *extreme* costs, plus our feat of being the only customer in the history of the Restaurant At The End of the Universe to get a refund for their meal in cash (1), we are at present rich enough that a tesseract closet with anti-gravity shielding was needed to store all the gold, platinum, gems, spices, and other such precious currency bases.
Life is good.
It's also getting rather dull, sadly...
Edit -- ah, yes, I forgot the footnote.
As those who will recall the historical Hogwarts Incident know, PaDT and Tanith, thanks to the negotiating skills of Master Chuckg, attained full creative rights to every Final Fantasy video game made (2), in the process of being made, or yet to be made until the end of time.
Although sales did suffer a shortfall upon the new direction of the game in "Final Fantasy XIII -- Triumph of Sinanju", the release of the "Final Fantasy XIV -- The Fall Of The Powergamers" was greeted with great acclaim and joy by all except a certain small, disgruntled segment of the fanbase. The Final Fantasy franchise continues in the YtVW-verse to this very day, being very popular, very well-written, very bug-free, and oh so very, very, very, very, very, *VERY* game-balanced in all regards as relating to other Thread participants.
Save, of course, the Master of Sinanju, who as part of the fee for his services to a very very grateful client, still enjoys his privileged character status in FF battle scenes.
Not that Master Chuckg has ever actually had to be in any in, oh, about fifteen years...
I "persuaded" them to give the House of Sinanju the whole thing back. Not the original deposit, but the interest as well.
Since then, the RaTEotU has undergone a drastic revision in pricing policy. I now understand that they merely charge a flat fee, not a compounded account.
(2) And those ain't the only games we bought. Just the only ones where the sales have been publicly announced... so far.
(1) As you might remember, you paid for your meal at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe by depositing a penny -- and letting compound interest work on that penny all the way till the End Of Time, at which point the Restaurant took that for the price of your meal.
Written by Airshark
What have I been doing? At first I was doing espionage work (nobody can notice me when I'm nervous) and when my nerves got hardened to it, I switched to becoming very angry and stopping kidnappers (by sneaking through closed doors and using telepathy to disarm and incapacitate them.)
Oh yeah. And I've been doing gardening and working as a professional temp.
Written by Perfection
Written by The Watcher
Once I could be relatively assured of my anonymity as a super human, I then went about trying to make money. I used my powers to locate and obtain lost treasure like sunken spanish gold. I also approached governments and corporations and offered to lease long-term gates to them. Being one of the relatively few people in the world capable of creating permanent gates, I was able to make a considerable amount of money in this endevour. All of which was deposited in secret Swiss accounts. After a while I set up my own company under an alias called Gateways Unlimited to better facilitate organizations contacting me for my services.
My company, by the way, is not in competition with Planar and Dimensional Travels. They're more concerned with interdimensional tourism and transport of individuals, while I concentrated more on providing long-term gateway infrastructures to my clients, who are usually institutions and organizations. Most of my gates in fact connect two points within one dimension, such as the one to Mars which I leased to NASA or the one to the Delta Quadrant I leased to the Ferengi Consortium.
Another thing I did early on was use the resources I was accumulating to build a secret ultratech hideaway somewhere deep underground, where I could sleep and rest in safety and comfort. Most of the work was done by people from other dimensions who went to the construction site via my gates, so they wouldn't know where it was. With my powers I can get there from anywhere, and I opened little gates to string phone and cable lines through so I can make and answer calls or log into internet accounts for any of my aliases as well as myself from their, while any phone traces would register wildly different locations.
With my needs taken care of, I went about doing my bit for the world. I used my powers of clairsentience to locate and spy on the worst of the power-crazed superhumans who threatened to spread mayhem and destruction, then gave the information I gleaned to the relevant authorities. If they specifically threatened me, I used my powers to get rid of them, sending them to dimensions like Athas. I also of course donated a lot of money to deserving charities, and provided gates pro bono to relief organizations so they could get food and medicine to distant places without having to face costly logisitical problems.
I also used my money to fund and orgaize a pro-superhuman lobby and public relations organization, to keep anti-super sentiments from forming and legistlation unfair and detrimental to superhumans from passing. Think of it like the NRA, except for superpowers instead of guns.
After I managed to set all of this up, I basically divided my time between overseeing my business concerns and spending time as a tourist, traveling the world and the multiverse seeing everything worth seeing and doing every thing worth doing. I also associated with fellow superhumans like PD&T and HALST, which got me involved in their adventures and activities. One of these which involved my mirror self the Meddler, gained me a Key of Power from King Thor and Reserve Membership in the Avengers. I've stopped by the Avengers' Mansion many times, training with my fellow members and getting involved in their exploits. One time I was even a full fledged member for about a year or so. Travelling the omniverse, I make many contacts and friends, and collect much ultra-tech and enchanted equipment from all over.
Being immutable means my memories don't deteriorate but instead remain as accurate and complete as they were the time I first experienced them. Which means I can remember every story and lesson taught to me since I gained my powers with absolute clarity. Thanks to this I've managed to pick up and keep fresh quite a lot of skills and bits of lore.
Today, wealthy and unaging, I look forward to the next thousand years. Hopefully I can make my world and the omniverse a better place to live, while enjoying an interesting life with many pleasurable experiences.
Written by CheeksTheToyWonder
In Fifteen years, I'll have pretty much flat out conquered Athas, where I'm currently residing. I'll have put together a large enough force to depose the current Dragon ruler, and I'll have set my sights on our earth again.
It shouldn't be too hard to commnicate between the dimension I'm currently on and home... People from Earth 2.0 Prime have been here before, as evidenced by the fact that, well, I got teleported here.
So... I'll have an entire ARMY of magical animals behind me, as well as the services of all the humanoid magic users that I can convince to join me...
And I bide my time, scouting out Earth 2.0, using my fear sensory powers to gain a psycological understanding of all of Earth's major world leaders...
Through and intense period of psychological evaluation, I'll be able to predict who will fight me, who will flee, who will preform completely unpredictably...
In fifteen years, I'll be almost ready for stage (C)..
Compiler's note: The above statement led to a bit of follow-up action which is recorded in Cheeks' side story of his exile on Athas.
Written by The Great Gumbo
a.) Billy Ray: Gone to khazan, worked as a waiter, gotten another job as a miner; managed to buy a dimensional hole opening galaxy crossing space ship, killed a wizard, freed a few countries; helped very little in the momentary outsting of Dreadwarlord FBH. Currently has a job working as the janitor over at Hogwarts and chasing after Kunchinchi for taking his stuff. And other unwritten adventures over the years.
b.) Genki Retsu: Totally dominated a cities economic capabilities in both the legal and illegal area's; partnered up with Cody(but that was mainly for the occasional tech. exchange and possible need of allies), after codies disappearance has partnered up with Miss Pellcia and is busy making sure his earth business's flourish while helping her attempt to gain control over C&C earth.
c.) Serthos was living homeless and looking for a job; is currently still looking for a job and living in a retro-fitted warehouse.
d.) R has gone all-over america doing miracle type deeds to people
Written by Metaphysician
. . .and gaining every useful skill, power, augmentation, or piece of equipment I could get.
Written by Z-man
Z-mage spends most of his time in the Pokemon universe, where he is now co-leader of the Blackthorne gym, along with his wife, Claire. He too has not affected his own aging, and feels much older than he is sometimes.
EDIT: They are both 35.
Written by Brief
Currently Brief is running HALST, being the only one of the original Big 5 still to be devoting his full attention to it(1). He's also on the ruling council of HALST Island and has been ever since it became an independent nation (although HALST headquarters is still there).
Although he kept his identity secret for several years after the Net Event, after finishing university Brief no longer saw the point and revealed it. After providing security for his loved ones of course.
He still spends time training in Khazan of course(2). Not to mention adding other 'patterns' to his collection while he's there
Lengthy
Lengthy's life is quite simple - rather than spend time and energy conquering planets or devising schemes he prefers to merely do as he wishes. Whatever that wish may be. Regardless of who or what stands in his way.
He has been operating under this philosophy ever since the Net Event, as his first actions were to make sure the lives of certain individuals had been completely and utterly destroyed.. After that had been accomplished he zombified those supers whose powers he deemed useful.
Lengthy is not evil exactly, just a slightly twisted version of Brief. He has even been known to lend a hand in saving the world(3).. After all, it would be greatly inconveniencing if the world were to be destroyed..
Brief 3.0
Brief 3.0 hasn't really done much since getting his powers(4).... But he may crop up in his own storyline sometime soon......
Be warned...
(1) The others are still HALST Leaders, but they don't spend as much time on it as Brief....
(2) As payment for services rendered The Watcher secured Khazan Arena as a training ground for HALST.
(3) For example, he played a key role in stopping Sinister Sandman's forces during the Necrobe Incident.
(4) Unless of course you count turning an entire universe of Barneys into pudding..
Written by Tanith
1. Aside from a few personal tidbits on the Andromeda, I've been mostly concentrating on the expansion of PaDT as a multiversal corporate power. Most of the deals (except for the SWverse one) were done off-screen, 'cause otherwise there'd be too many to write about.
2. I cope with any drastic changes among family and friends, such as the death of my grandparents to natural causes (I doubt they'd let me try ultra tech to restore their health), by burying myself in work. That and the occassional d-hopping joyride.
3. My life is as hectic as ever. But now I enjoy the ride even more.
4. Worked out othe agreement between PaDT and the Muggle government and Potterverse wizarding government a while ago.
Rune:
1. She's studied intensively under just about every magical authority in the Riftwar-verse. To the level where he's become Pug's personal apprentice. She helps out sometimes with PaDT, and in her off time between studies and part time work, she has fun around the multiverse.
2. She copes through sheer optimistic personality. Her Immutability has frozen her at a permanent age of 15, and it seems to have frozen her emotional and psychological state too. She'll always be a happy-go-lucky teen for the rest of her life.
3. Her life is much more fun than mine. And she enjoys it very much.
Addendum:
As a very prominent co-owner of the multiversal Corporation PaDT, Tanith is known to be a metahuman. However, her specific powers are less known, as she has little need to use them openly (that and she's still a bit paranoid after all this time). People know she has some type of regenerative/anti-aging ability. And those others she's met with HL-Immortality knows what kind of immortality she has. She's also known to have some sort of d-travel abilities. Most people assume the usual interdimensional teleportation, but some people have suspected something more obscure.
Rune, on the other hand, is less of a focus of attention. Not everyone knows that she's a metahuman or cares, but those that she associates with a lot (Riftwar-verse folks and Pokeworld deizens) know she has some kind of durability/unaging power, as well as the ability to open gates. Those that she associates with more than casually also knows that she has magical powers. Not many knows of her clairsentience, and many usually take her 'zone-outs' for an overactive imagination and short attention span.
Written by Mg_knt
Went through the army doing all the dangerous training including Air Calvary, Paratrooper, Ranger, and finally went into school to become a Green Beret. After graduating and serving several years training Iraqi insurgents, Mg quit the army and started going into the soldier of hire business. On a mission he met Jaffa and joined the crew of the Andromeda. Mg is familar with all NATO, former Soviet Bloq, and civilian weapons. He also has extensive training with battle armor of his own design and weapons from various other universes. Mg speaks Arabic fluently and is almost fluent in Spanish.
Written by Jaffa
In just a decade and a half, I expect to still be there, living comfortably with the resources I can easily gather in such a world.
Eventually, I suppose I will retire to an empty dimension of my own, but in 15 years that tiem will still be quite far away.
Written by FBH
1: i have managed to set up my utopia type organization (without a proteus) and have established world peace.
2: I at war with just about every government on earth.
3: three I have been corrupted by power and am trying to take over the world,
any way the next 15 years shouldn't be boring,
