Echoes of the Multiverse

For Dr. Petrie -- do the mysteriously referenced upstate facility, and the markings on her head, have anything to do with a certain polymath bronze doctor? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree? That's one of the references, but whether whatever brain surgery was done to her involved a rever...

EternalPhoenix wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:56 pm Naturally, simply having a conversation about the problem with say, the Powerhouse, has never crossed its mind as a plausible course of action.

It's what happens when your consciousness is patterned on a group whose members achieved their positions through ruthless opportunism and exploitation.

Proctor [/color] https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-QP5PmXg/0/7a128685/S/proctor-S.png The saying goes, "If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras" -- in rather more words, it is foolish to make unlikely conclusions from data when there are more plausible ones to be made....

... so I guess I'm watching two movies this April. My life is so hard. <disconsolate sigh>

Commander Titan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:00 am
But in a small corner of Chicago, for the last twenty or so years an older man named “Tom Kurz” has run a small butcher’s shop and deli, sometimes playing the guitar at local bars on weekends…

I'm honestly crying. Happy tears, don't worry about me, please.

Ah, dammit, Charles.

Tell me that there aren't giant spiders in the thing, and you've sold at least one ticket.

Gilliam wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:50 pm

Davies wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:17 pm

Gilliam wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:40 pm My picks are Elsa or Megatron.

One of those is ... close.

But. Think. Bigger.

Hmmm ... Bigger.

I will see what else I can come up with.

Hint:

Spoiler

"No one summons Megatron!"
"Then it pleases me to be the first."

Gilliam wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:40 pm My picks are Elsa or Megatron.

One of those is ... close.

But. Think. Bigger.

I'm pretty sure that Opal City is meant to be an ersatz Seattle (real world nickname: the Emerald City.) I'd be tempted to identify Hub City with Portland, as the latter is also the inspiration for Sin City. But Atlanta might also work. Edit: It seems that there are several American cities that are ...

Also ... Guardian Flora [/color] https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-cmLMDJZ/0/93c0a7f3/M/ezgif-2-3bc992e2cb-M.jpg The Erlking https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-gBLc44P/0/3a299d83/M/treebeard_2002_01-M.jpg Guardian Lucis https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-B8K63Wf/1/9...

Next week -- more villains!

I would sooner pick Minneapolis for Dakota City, given that the Dakota nation place their origin in Minnesota, and leave Detroit for the Green Hornet and Robocop.

Kyle (also called the "Blackthorne", hence the name) is given some dark choices to make, such as one advertised in many a mag- when he comes upon one of his people held hostage, he can either free them... or SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD. Oh, Nineties. ... dare I ask how it comes to pass that th...

EternalPhoenix wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:44 pm Is she Chiraben?

Yep. (Her facial markings are tattoos.)

Kalama Mazainin https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-pZdwm2b/0/4093c84f/S/moonsoo-lee-2c8d2984-e3aa-4725-ac94-30f8e3294783-S.jpg Art by Moonsoo Lee Not so very long ago, on a planet on the trailing side of the Technate, a middle-aged woman, beat down by years, sat at the bar in a broken do...