Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Poking around with an idea. A superhero story with a different metaorigin that the one complete AND the one in process.

It's ripping off an idea from the backstory of one I read. The story was great, but -- I was kinda interested in what happened to a major character whose story the main character had learned. Back stories are generally nicer to file off the serial numbers off. BUT -- it needs to be simplified for structural elegance.

( Read more... )

When reading about how the law would apply to superheroes, sometimes I am mildly annoyed at the treatment of the law as if it were the law of the Medes and Persians that altereth not. Such as -- true, the FAA has authority only over people who fly with devices, and one of the last cases of a British court dealing with witchcraft had the judge telling the witnesses who claimed to see a woman flying that flying was not a crime. The advent of flying superheroes would change that quick -- or might not.

One thing that would affect how it would change would be the meta-origin. And if there were more than one source, it would probably affect how the law changed.

( Read more... )

So what is life like for a young sorcerer, RPG style?  That is, the sort that are innately magical?

How do they realize they are sorcerers?  How do they figure out what spells they have?  (Especially given that the player can choose the spells that have no relation to the source of the sorcerer's power?)  It's the sort of thing that is seldom role-played.  And what with verbal, somatic, and material components, it is hard to see how it can happen accidentally.

( Read more... )

So mucking about with the meta-origin for superheroes (and villains) and while I have declared -- by fiat -- that it affects no one under seven and precious few under fourteen -- still, when heroes have children, they will be exposed to the meta-origin source.

Prenatally, making the question of adoption at birth moot -- as, of course, does the little issue that super-parents will decide whether you place their children for adoption. 

( Read more... )

The oldest brother has been hailed as king. 

( Read more... )

How many practicing superheroes would have jobs, anyway?

( Read more... )

Zoning, of course, would be interesting in trying to deal with any super in a city not designed for supers.

( Read more... )

So what sort of government DO they have?

( Read more... )

The thing about the man in the iron mask is the rather weak reasons for locking the man down that severely and not, oh, slipping some poison in his soup.

( Read more... )

Last time I talked about forensics in Harry Potter, I missed one: time turners.

( Read more... )