The Legion [OOC]

ENDGAME PART 3
SUMMARY

In the last phase of their fight against Chronoblivion, the Legion has found themselves in a sprawling dimensional wasteland, with their flight rings dead. The only way to stop Chronoblivion is to get the Miracle Machine close enough to Its core self to work, something that's near impossible without the ability to fly.

Fortunately, the Legion Outpost has crashed its way into Chronoblivion's shell and the staff have stumbled on something strange that has manifested due to time and space breaking down outside: the vehicles from the Road War that happened in Murderworld.

Now the Legionnaires must face down a blast from the past and transform and roll out, surviving Catastrophists and mercenary Warboys pulled through time long enough to make it down the final road before them.

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ENDGAME PART 1
SUMMARY

This is it, the day the Legion has been dreading since finding out about the threat of Chronoblivion. Chronoblivion's eyes watch over every world as the massive being starts to consume the Legion's universe - and with it, the multiverse. Metron's throne has guided them towards something that can be used to fight Chronoblivion: The Miracle Machine, a mysterious device passed between the Metrons of different timelines that's capable of granting its bearer a "wish," i.e. the ability, to (very briefly) alter reality. This device is powerful enough to create or destroy universes and therefore is powerful enough to destroy the sentient universe trying to consume all of existence.

Brainiac 5 now knows where to find the Legionnaires that were lost over a year ago - and using one of their powers, he can breach into the Miracle Machine's hiding place so they can use it to defeat Chronoblivion once and for all. But there's a catch: the machine powers up by feeding on the background consciousness of sentient beings and it can't do so if all the sentients nearby are preoccupied with fear and hopelessness as the Catastrophists and Metron's other minions weaken its last defenses.

Now the Legion must bring hope to the galaxy at least one more time to have any chance at all of defeating Chronoblivion and saving all of existence.


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ENDGAME OPEN INVITE

With endgame approaching, The Legion is extending an open invitation for any past players that want to join in for endgame to return to the game app-free! Any player that has ever played at the game may also join the game's post-endgame sandbox, as well. The only exceptions are the few players who were banned.

CURRENT STATE OF THE LEGION

Massive constructs - Chronoblivion's eyes - now float around every UP planet, watching them all as it prepares to consume the Legion's universe and then every other world after. Legion World has been destroyed. The war planet Apokolips - once the home of Superman's godlike archnemesis, Darkseid - still acts as a base for the forces of evil. Led by Chronoblivion's Herald, The Penitant, it's manned by nihilistic Catastrophist cultists that want to bring about the end of days.

But there's still hope. Though Legion World is gone, its self-destruct crippled Apokolips, leaving it stationary in space and unable to stalk the Legion. Taking refuge in a cramped, cloaked, decommissioned, barely-functioning Legion Outpost, the team is still refusing to give up and preparing for its final assault on Chronoblivion. Armed with the ancient chair of Metron, once belonging to the New God of knowledge, the team has a chance to get their hands on an artifact powerful enough to stop the Big C.

There's still a chance they can win against this cosmic evil. They may be outnumbered, outgunned, and under-equipped, but all it'll take is the Legion overcoming impossible odds against against an enemy that's never been beaten...

Um.

Piece of cake, right?

Luckily, the Time Trapper is willing to pull out all the stops and bring back some familiar faces to help out.
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The mods have talked over some things in regards to game caps.

During endgame and in the post-game sandbox, all game caps will be removed. The player cap will be removed, so that all players, current or past, can play in endgame and the post-game sandbox. (However, the game will remain closed to new players on a permanent basis once new player apps close for endgame. Only present or past players may participate in endgame and the post-game sandbox.) We'll also be removing cast caps and the characters-per-player cap as well, to allow all past or present players to bring in as many of their current or past characters that they want.

All that said, in light of cast caps no longer being needed since we're close to endgame, and in the spirit of not inhibiting anyone's fun, we've decided to remove all cast caps right before endgame, starting now, to let players app in whoever they want right before endgame, to get their last characters in so they can participate in the sandbox later.

That said, the overall player cap and the character-per-player cap will still remain in place until the main events of endgame start.

ENDGAME DISCUSSION
Hey there, Legionnaires! Korel here.

After some crit and discussion with a few players the mod team sat down and had a talk about the pacing of the rest of the game and endgame. Alongside having to consider certain things that people felt they were missing out on, we also had to consider some natural hurdles certain conceits of the game have caused the game to hit. We also had to consider the mod team's time and energy, especially with various RL things in the way, like escalating school responsibilities, new jobs, the upcoming retail season crush, and, in my case, having to move in the middle of Alaska winter to a new place and potentially going fulltime at my job, which would entail a lot of responsibilities like even being on call sometimes for surgeries.

Right now the mods are feeling a little burnt out. This mod burnout is no one's fault; you've been an amazing playerbase to mod. But the kind of sustained attention and energy a game requires is just a lot to juggle over a long period of time, especially given some of the RL situations of the mods. At this point in the game, so close to endgame, it just doesn't make sense to try to pull new mods on, either, and Legion being based on a specific canon has always made that a tough prospect.

For this reason, we've decided to move endgame up a little bit, to try to give the game a satisfying ending and move it along to the post-endgame sandbox before it loses momentum and before the mods get too burnt out. We apologize for those that recently apped or thought they'd have more time. We do plan to give you a set time to set up stuff if you want to backtag pre-endgame stuff and endgame itself should have some fun things to play out. The game will also definitely still have its post-game sandbox set up for anyone that keeps wanting to play. It's just we feel we should get to that a little sooner since it'll be self-sustaining and not reliant on the mods for people to have fun.

We have a timeline in mind for the next few months that we'd like to put forth for your consideration and while moving endgame up sooner isn't a choice that's open for discussion because part of it is based on trying to wrap things while the mods still have the time and energy, a lot of the things that happen during the leadup and endgame itself are flexible and open for discussion.
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GAMEWIDE HMD MEME

This is the periodic Gamewide HMD meme!

✦ The Gamewide HMD is optional. If you opt out of participating in the gamewide hmd, please at least have an hmd up in your journal.

✦ This is not a love meme but it is okay to tell a player they're doing well. Please also keep this constructive and let them know what it is you like so they know to keep doing it.

✦ If you ask for crit please also give some to other players. While we can't enforce this because some of it will be anon, the mod team would like to ask players to please try to give at least (3) other players crit.

✦ Please keep crit polite and constructive.

✦ Please escalate severe or repeat issues to the mods, if appropriate. If repeated attempts at constructive crit don't bear any fruit, there are rules for the many possible causes of this: bad player behavior, ICA=ICC, IC /=OOC, characters having to be IC, etc. If frustrating problems consistently happen without any improvement, it is possible they're verging on a rule break, so if that is the case, rather than letting things devolve into hostility, please escalate things and contact the mods to see what steps can be taken next.

THE BODY SNATCHERSSUMMARY

After the Legion is asked to provide security for a treaty conference between the UP and a new potential member world, several Legionnaires find themselves at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. The planet's security forces start attempting to monitor and then capture them and even several other Legionnaires like Kid Q and Brainiac 5 seem to be under the control of whatever force is behind it all, turning on their teammates and attempting to capture them as well. The un-brainwashed Legionnaires must uncover the truth, dismantle the conspiracy, and prevent assassins from killing important officials, or the treaty conference is doomed to failure -- all while avoiding coming under the mental control of those behind the conspiracy. Set during "After These Messages."

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