Heroes virtual season?

[Byrd Man]

fate or a higher being

 

[AnimeJune]

Yeah - especially with powers like flight. You can't "enhance" something you've never had in the first place.

 

[Cmill216]

I'm going to be hanging in the chatroom over in the official site if anyone wants to join me to talk about ideas/collaborations and such.

 

[Byrd Man]

i meant enhanced in the sense of enhanced more than your average homo sapien

 

[Triligors]

It is IMPORTANT for every writer that wants to participate to CONFIRM whether or not they are planning to write a fiction for the character they came up with. Confirmation is MANDATORY for anyone who wants to participate, because there may be those who posted who have no intention of developing their character for the Virtual Season.

*= Confirmed VS characters

Heroes

*JOHN ABRAHAM Flight NYC DEAN5339
| Supporting Characters
- Ronnie Jacobs. TBD. Good&Bad
- Will Cane. firekinesis. Bad.

ELLIOT RHODES speed Chicago THRESHOLD

*CHRIS MILLER hydrokinesis Florida CMILL216

*AJ BYRD advanced hand-to-hand combat & laser vision Washington DC BYRD MAN

*DANIEL LEON aging Canada ANIMEJUNE

*CATHERINE SIMS Control others emotions TBD SPIDER-X-TREME

JOHN JACKSON Telekinesis Cleveland SPARTIN2008

*BIFF MCBAIN TBD BLACKHARDKNIGHT BLACKHARDKNIGHT

Good &Bad

*JEREMIAH TREMAINE energy absorbtion & expulsion Dallas, TX SQUIRREL


Villains

*ARAS BASRA generate explosion around body Middle-East GIGGS11UK

RALPH KRAMDEN sleep Sweetwater, Texas ATOMICCHUCK3

*BRUTUS MANN TBD Miami BLACKHARDKNIGHT

 

[spartin2008]

I still dont understan what exactly we are doing if its not RPG like, plz explaine...im slow and stupid!

 

[Triligors]

Wikipedia: Virtual Season

A virtual season is a collection of fan fiction stories, often by various authors, that continue a television show.

Each story can usually stand on its own, but borrows from canon and previous stories in the season, and quite often, strongly from its style, as well. Some, but not all, virtual seasons introduce new characters who become integral parts of the virtual season's storylines.

The process in which stories for a virtual season are made is much like it is with real television shows. Fans assume the roles of show runner, executive producers, editors, and writers all working together to provide fellow fans with an enjoyable end product.

In this case, I would be the show runner and the executive producers would be CMill and myself. All who participate will be writers.

For many sites, the process of running a virtual network holds a lot of similarities as real tv networks - with development and pitches designed to attract the attention of the senior members. However, unlike real networks, the pitched shows get a lot more support and are encouraged to improve - rather than being promptly cancelled.



Hope that helps explain.

 

[spartin2008]

So we basicly write a story, in the form of a tv show and we turn it into one big project?? Ok it makes sence now but how do we interact with other players/writers???

And thanks for the explanition.

 

[The Squirrel]

Okay here's a question.

Is each author writing an entire episode for his character? Or just parts of an episode with each episode focusing on more than one author's character?

 

[Cmill216]

Okay here's a question.

Is each author writing an entire episode for his character? Or just parts of an episode with each episode focusing on more than one author's character?

The latter. Essentially, you'll be writing your ongoing storylines for your character, and they will be combined with the ongoing storylines of the others, and will form the episodes. They will be cohesive when we put them together.

 

[The Squirrel]

The latter. Essentially, you'll be writing your ongoing storylines for your character, and they will be combined with the ongoing storylines of the others, and will form the episodes. They will be cohesive when we put them together.

Ok. Cool. That was what I was hoping for.

 

[Triligors]

More detailed: "we"= CMill & I- more information is also below.

To Spartan:

Unless your expecting your character to meet up with another character, you don't really need to. Up to you. Just don't make any major event that would cause the President's attention and you're free to go. I will send you the link the headquarters message board.

If you do not know script format, write it in prose and either CMill or myself will help you transfer it at a later date.

The episodes will come together through carefully editing made be CMill and myself, taking parts from the 'stories' presented and editing these parts together to create an episode. The role of the writer is to just write their heroe's story, CMill and I will put together the episodes. Since this is more serial, expansive characters over states, show than a series (same characters, and so on).

 

[spartin2008]

More detailed: "we"= CMill & I- more information is also below.

To Spartan:

Unless your expecting your character to meet up with another character, you don't really need to. Up to you. Just don't make any major event that would cause the President's attention and you're free to go. I will send you the link the headquarters message board.

If you do not know script format, write it in prose and either CMill or myself will help you transfer it at a later date.

The episodes will come together through carefully editing made be CMill and myself, taking parts from the 'stories' presented and editing these parts together to create an episode. The role of the writer is to just write their heroe's story, CMill and I will put together the episodes. Since this is more serial, expansive characters over states, show than a series (same characters, and so on).

Ok, well what script forman, and prose??

 

[Triligors]

Have you ever wrote fanfiction before? Or just roleplay?

 

[spartin2008]

nope

 

[Triligors]

Ok then, to make the transition- how does roleplay work exactly?

This will help me determine what type of writing you have experience in already and how it's different and similar to script and prose.

 

[spartin2008]

Well you play a character and act like him...you go through his life and fight battles of all kinds, i can give you an exampe from my posts in the Amalgam universe RPG as i am Iron Lantern(an Amalgam of Iron Man and the Green Lantern):

(Iron Lantern)

I am flying through the city when i reach my mansion. I go in and check it out more throughly. I find some inventions and sketches of guns and weapons and stuff.

"I must have designed these"

I try to take of my helmet but it is latched on there and i cant get it off. I sit down at a desk in my room...

"Who were those two back there. The one with the claws seemed familiar, like i have known him before. I don't know. And what was up with that freak that got crushed in the sewers. And who is this Thanoseid, I don't believe i remember him. There is some strange stuff going on lately. I think i got to go check some stuff out."

I fly right out of my window and start to go up and down the streets. There is nobody around...well it is late. When i go past a jewelry store and i see a window smash out. I fly down to investigate when i see 3 rather buff men inside and a women out the door. They don't see me yet. I shot my beam at a near by trash can and turn it into a smoke grenade. I pick it up and through it in there. The smoke starts to get bad and i see the people run out. I fly down in front of them and say...

"Is there a problem here?" No sooner than i say that a 4th and way more buff dude comes up from behind me and hits me with a baseball bat. I fall to the floor and feel like i barley got hit, but i still went down.

"C'mon guys, we should get out of here. I don't know what the point of this piece of scrap metal was, but...

"Scrap metal" I say as i get up. "You just made a big mistake". I shot my beam at the bat and turn it into a snake. I wraps around the guy that was holding it and i shot it again, now turning it into a rope. I use the rope that continues to get longer and longer and i tie it around the 2 of the men and the woman. I look to the last one and he starts to run.

"Now don't move." I say to the people on the floor tied up. "Never mind, that joke was in bad taste."

I shot of using the boosters in my boots right after the guy running. I tackle him from behind and pick him up in the air flying high.

"Get your hands off me." He yells.

"Well you asked for it" I drop him right over an open dumpster only 15 ft. away from his partners in crime. I quickly shoot the trash and turn it in to wet cement. He plops down in it. "That should hold you."

I pull out a cell phone that one of the men drooped. I dial 911 and i talk to a cop.

"Yes, I'm a robber and me and 3 of my friends are over here at Jacky's Jewelry and we were steeling some jewel's. Would you come arrest us please. 3 of us are tied up and one is in a trash can full of wet cement."

I then grab a firm hold on the phone and crush it in my hand.

"Have fun in the jail cell. It should be more fun than that cement." I say as i fly of, "Just consider me the new hero in this town." I say as i take off toward home.

 

[Triligors]

NOTE TO ALL WRITERS: DO NOT MAKE YOUR POWERS BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. THIS WILL MAKE THE END PROCESS OF PUTTING THE EPISODES VERY DIFFICULT. SO, POWERS- DO NOT BECOME PUBLIC INFORMATION..... (that is unless the President in the PILOT episode already knows)....

 

[The Squirrel]

NOTE TO ALL WRITERS: DO NOT MAKE YOUR POWERS BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. THIS WILL MAKE THE END PROCESS OF PUTTING THE EPISODES VERY DIFFICULT. SO, POWERS- DO NOT BECOME PUBLIC INFORMATION..... (that is unless the President in the PILOT episode already knows)....

what about friends and family and maybe some rival enemies?

Because if not then I have to change the major storyline of my character.

 

[giggs11uk]

when is the first episode coming out for the VS?

are you going to wait untill fall to see the REAL show first?

 

[Byrd Man]

when is the first episode coming out for the VS?

are you going to wait untill fall to see the REAL show first?

i hope not

 

[Triligors]

Note on the above: by 'public' I mean, in a way that lots of people from the town see the powers in use. Friends and family can be trusted, they won't give away the secret. Rivals- up to you. But, for instance showing powers at a fundraiser where there are lots of people who would see your powers in use- is a "no can do".


Unless your expecting your character to meet up with another character, you don't really need to. Up to you. Just don't make any major event that would cause the President's attention and you're free to go. I will send you the link the headquarters message board.

If you do not know script format, write it in prose and either CMill or myself will help you transfer it at a later date.

The episodes will come together through carefully editing made be CMill and myself, taking parts from the 'stories' presented and editing these parts together to create an episode. The role of the writer is to just write their heroe's story, CMill and I will put together the episodes. Since this is more serial, expansive characters over states, show than a series (same characters, and so on).

Example of prose:

Prose example

Example of script & how to write a script:

How to write a script

Example of a script:

Script example

 

[spartin2008]

O, so is it alright if we wright Script cause i know that prety good, we had a 20 page DRAMA PROJECT REPORT due for school and we had to make it a Script, like a play or movie. Those examples helped, im stupid, i knew that just it didnt click right away.

 

[Triligors]

I have no idea when it will be released. I can say, however, that will definitely not show any earlier than October.

All depends on a couple of things:

1. How soon EVERY writer is finished. INCLUDING the possible transferring from prose to script.
2. How fast CMill and I can edit the episodes together. We will have the first episode premiere when we feel comfortable in how the episodes are coming along.

You must understand one thing. This is a long and complicated process that doesn't just develop in a matter of days. Pre-production (writing). Production (transfering & developing the page to host). And Post-Production (editing the episodes togehter). Takes time. This isn't something to rush through just so we run side by side with the show, if we did that the final product would not be that great. We will take however much time is needed and when CMill and myself feel comfortable in how the episodes are coming along, we will premiere the first episode. When this will be? I have no idea. Might be October, might be Christmas- latest would probably be a month after New Years. I don't know right now. Just time for every writer to feel comfortable with the work they submit and for the episodes to be put together. The last thing I want is for this to become a rush job.

 

[Triligors]

Yeah, write it in Script. Because script is the final format anyways. From your example, didn't want to put you through much of a writing transition if it wasn't needed. But, since you know Script- that's great, it makes you job and our (CMill and I) job alot easier.