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dear_mun2015-02-27 09:38 pm
beetlebutt) wrote in dear_mun2015-02-27 09:38 pm
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Look, I know you want to get a nice little cadre of people to play with and don't get me wrong, with this worlds colliding thing, we need people. We are very far up a creek without a paddle. Or even, like, a boat. (And let's face it, it's probably also the wrong creek.)
Yes, it'd be great to have Batman. Or Superman. Or Robin. Or lots of people. It's nice enough you're all having them on as npcs or whatever. And it'd be really great to have a Ted Kord. But the thing with doing this as a casual little PSL with your friends is that means that finding people to join in won't be as easy as if it was a game, okay?
Honestly, who in their right minds would want to join in on this little adventure anyway? How am I supposed to sell that to people?
"Hey, you, other superhero, come with me to a magical land where two superhero universes combined in a big crisis thing and now we have twice the villains and twice the crises and twice the population on Earth, only not all the heroes are back from the one Crisis yet due to a time thingy, and Luthor's president and Norman Osborn is in charge of national security, doesn't that sound fun? And everybody has to work with superheroes they don't know and everyone will disagree with each other on basically everything, all the time, forever. It'll be good times, why don't you drop what you're doing and join in?"
That sounds so appealing. It sounds like a perfect setup for you people to ruin lives. Because that's what you people are at heart: life ruiners.
Look at what you've already done to me. Made me quit high school to just superhero because the world's a mess, made me almost get murdered by my mom for quitting high school - oh yeah, and you made me put up with a dementia-riddled Tony Stark hiding at my house for weeks while he got those secret IDs erased from his brain. Tony Stark. Tony Stark, who didn't know how to work a dishwasher because he "has people for that." That Tony Stark.
And he just. Never. Stopped. His mouth. He's a chronic banterer. Man's got a problem. I got quiplash. I'm still considering suing him for damages, he's good for it. My Defenders stipend is pretty nice but that's Milagro's college right there.
It's not an easy sell. So get used to it, because people aren't going to line up for the superhero version of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, whether we're making the world a better place and bringing hope back again or not. And they're definitely not going to do it if I ask them because I'm not Superman or Captain America, I can't do that thing where people listen to me no matter what I say.
I'm not your guy. Get back to me if you need an alien invasion taken out by someone not wearing pants. That, I'm good for.
Yes, it'd be great to have Batman. Or Superman. Or Robin. Or lots of people. It's nice enough you're all having them on as npcs or whatever. And it'd be really great to have a Ted Kord. But the thing with doing this as a casual little PSL with your friends is that means that finding people to join in won't be as easy as if it was a game, okay?
Honestly, who in their right minds would want to join in on this little adventure anyway? How am I supposed to sell that to people?
"Hey, you, other superhero, come with me to a magical land where two superhero universes combined in a big crisis thing and now we have twice the villains and twice the crises and twice the population on Earth, only not all the heroes are back from the one Crisis yet due to a time thingy, and Luthor's president and Norman Osborn is in charge of national security, doesn't that sound fun? And everybody has to work with superheroes they don't know and everyone will disagree with each other on basically everything, all the time, forever. It'll be good times, why don't you drop what you're doing and join in?"
That sounds so appealing. It sounds like a perfect setup for you people to ruin lives. Because that's what you people are at heart: life ruiners.
Look at what you've already done to me. Made me quit high school to just superhero because the world's a mess, made me almost get murdered by my mom for quitting high school - oh yeah, and you made me put up with a dementia-riddled Tony Stark hiding at my house for weeks while he got those secret IDs erased from his brain. Tony Stark. Tony Stark, who didn't know how to work a dishwasher because he "has people for that." That Tony Stark.
And he just. Never. Stopped. His mouth. He's a chronic banterer. Man's got a problem. I got quiplash. I'm still considering suing him for damages, he's good for it. My Defenders stipend is pretty nice but that's Milagro's college right there.
It's not an easy sell. So get used to it, because people aren't going to line up for the superhero version of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, whether we're making the world a better place and bringing hope back again or not. And they're definitely not going to do it if I ask them because I'm not Superman or Captain America, I can't do that thing where people listen to me no matter what I say.
I'm not your guy. Get back to me if you need an alien invasion taken out by someone not wearing pants. That, I'm good for.