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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. I'm voting for this one for maximum Noir.
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While we're turning frivolous detective-based video games into high-stakes noir... Name: Richard "Dick" Stevenson Quirk: Relentless but is easily spooked by gunfire. Motivation: When Carmen Sandiego stole the Black Panther diamonds then FBI-agent Stevenson was the man assigned to the case. To throw the agent off her trail Carmen Sandiego had his daughter Jennifer kidnapped. Jennifer's body was later found in a burnt out car in upstate New York and Dick has been living in a bottle ever since, but now that Carmen has resurfaced he's doing everything he can to get assigned to the case...
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. Yeah, this one.
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Desmodae posted:Name: Howard Phillips This is the only worthy suggestion. Here's to the eternally terrified detective.
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We all know there's only one man who has what it takes to hunt down Carmen Sandiego. There's only one man as far at the top of his game as she is. Some say he's just a tourist; others, an explorer; some even believe he's a time traveller. Whatever the case, he shows up. Thousands of photographs in thousands of locations, and there he is: calmly standing among the crowd as if nothing was wrong with the world. He was at Dallas in 1963, in New York in 2011, in Berlin in 1989. And for all that he's a tricky man to find, he's one of ours now.  Name: Wallace "Waldo" Williams. Quirk: Chaos and destruction follow in his footsteps. Motivation: The thrill of hunting down his greatest rival.
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Jul 26, 2014 09:43
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A+ art, Chewbot. I'm looking forward to actually being able to participate in one of your crazy rides this time.  Name: Joey Mallone Quirk: When overstressed, compulsively stabs the nearest thing that is squishy. His stress-relief knife is named Martha. Reason for Joining: I'm going to second whoever voted for mistaken identity.
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Jul 26, 2014 10:58
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. Waldo is tempting, but I'm gonna go with this.
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I think we need to turn something on it's head. Since Chewbot has said he's probably going to mix and match anyway... Quirk: Extreme Teetotal. Refuses any sort of addictive substance, not even coffee.
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Elfface posted:Since Chewbot has said he's probably going to mix and match anyway...
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I thought of something better Name:Teddy Quirk: Can only communicate in primitive grunts and growls as a result if being raised by hyperintelligent chimps Motivation: To prove himself to his estranged father
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Jul 26, 2014 15:29
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego. There is no way we can't go with this.
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Jul 26, 2014 15:35
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Quirk: Cracks his knuckles at dramatic moments, but never actually uses his fists to fight anyone.
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Jul 26, 2014 15:40
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego. This is brilliant, voting for this.
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Jul 26, 2014 16:04
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego.  Voting this.
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. I am in love with this idea.
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Hold on, I think I have the best suggestion Name: Meme "Goony Reference To Another LP" McTiredjoke Quirk: The most stunning lack of creativity ever Motivation: All your case are belong to us Seriously, this is 95% of the suggestions in this thread. RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid.
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This is gonna be good.RickVoid posted:
and for maximum Noir I vote for this.
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Here's yoursTheGreatGildersneeze posted:Name: King Dick Love your art Chewbot, it fits the genre so well!
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Jul 26, 2014 17:35
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Here's yours No, he's right. The vast majority of the suggestions are completely uninspired goon garbage of the Zybourne Clock variety. RickVoid's idea is just brilliant, though. I hope it's chosen.
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Jul 26, 2014 18:59
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Man, I'm just trying to get some love for the father of the Noir genre.
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. ^^^^ Either this Whybird posted:We all know there's only one man who has what it takes to hunt down Carmen Sandiego. There's only one man as far at the top of his game as she is. Some say he's just a tourist; others, an explorer; some even believe he's a time traveller. Whatever the case, he shows up. Thousands of photographs in thousands of locations, and there he is: calmly standing among the crowd as if nothing was wrong with the world. He was at Dallas in 1963, in New York in 2011, in Berlin in 1989. ^^^^ or this I honestly don't care which.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:27
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego. One more vote for this.
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. Voting for this. I really want to see what you do with this LP because that prologue was awesome.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:58
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego.
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid.
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego. Voting this
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. Oh my god this is going to be amazing voting this
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RickVoid posted:Surname: Sandiego. I think we've found our winner. This one
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RickVoid posted:Holy poo poo. No matter what suggestions we give, this is going to be amazing. The Horrible Secret of Animal Crossing is what sucked me into LP in the first place, and I loved the poo poo out of Carmen Sandiego as a kid. Forget my previous vote, I'm supporting this. It just fits so well.
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Quirk: An unfortunate physical deformity. Motivation: Barely-suppressed rage at the world. Nah just go with Mr. Sandiego.
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I also agree that RickVoid's suggestion is excellent and I'm thinking about how to integrate some of this. Also, if your suggestions weren't chosen, fear not! There are going to be lots of characters in this LP and I'll probably nick ideas from the last three pages. So much good stuff! Update later today.
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Name: Otis "Ophelia" Balzac Quirk: Often loses her temper and composure, especially when confronted with sexism. Is always dressed to kill. Motivation: Ophelia, still legally Otis until the paperwork goes through, was born as a woman in a man's body. She wants to prove that dames can solve crimes just as good as any of the fellas. Finding Carmen Sandiego will finally show the world what broads can do, as well as help pay for Ophelia's expensive hormone therapy and surgery.
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Yeah I like RickVoid's character as well. Go with him. Let me reiterate how excited I am about getting to participate in this, let alone it existing! Godspeed, Chewbot.
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  Sorry about the lights in here- we keep blowing a circuit. This place is garbage. Come on.Hale stands sharply from the keyboard, knocking his head into the lamp above, and follows the man through a door on the opposite end of the room to enter an enormous warehouse. A flock of weathered desks fill roughly a quarter of the available space, making them look particularly pathetic. The handful of similarly dressed men sitting at them raise no more than a brow in Hale’s direction. Behold, the glory of ACME. I’m Crupper. Hale. Who did you piss off to end up here, Hale? I don't know. I got the transfer papers two days ago. That’s some rotten luck. What were you doing before? Precinct cop on the west coast.Crupper shakes his head. I’d give you the grand tour but you can see everything from here. This is the whole operation? I thought Interpol was globally funded. You really don’t know anything about this, do you? The last time Interpol handled its own investigations things went south and never came back. Now they hire third party agencies that aren’t so easy to track down, like ACME. That’s bullshit though, we're Interpol. But we're bankrolled by private investors. Barely. We just don’t want certain people to notice, especially since she started whacking detectives. She? How many detectives has she-? Look, you pick whichever empty desk you like. Not that you’ll need one. You’ll probably be on the ground most of the time. On the ground. Doing what, exactly? Jesus. Come here.Crupper leads Hale to a blackboard and erases an esoteric array of names and numbers. He replaces it with a loose outline of the world, making one mark labelled "Carmen" and adding others for her agents. Carmen's agents steal something and runs off to god-knows-where. That’s her racket, right? Meanwhile, Carmen’s working a deal with the country’s leaders. She never touches the thing. Here’s the messed up part. She wants us to follow her agent. They leave breadcrumbs. Why would they do that? Because eventually Carmen’s going to come to a deal, and when she does somebody needs to be holding the bag. Then she negotiates their release. She’s just buying time until they can pay off the ransom? Why bother trafficking it all over the world? Think about it. What else is she going to do? Gift-wrap a shogun’s sword and send it through Fedex? She needs a delivery man. Besides, it goes deeper than that. Most of the stuff she steals? Completely worthless. But you ever seen what happens when some drunk frat boys steal the rival team’s mascot? Imagine the Statue of Liberty goes missing. Half the country thinks it was Russia, the other half are convinced it was an inside cover-up. If the government lost a thousand bars of gold, nobody would bat an eye. But steal a national treasure? People lose their minds. The president ain’t going to get re-elected like that. He pays to get it back with the working man’s tax dollars, makes it look like an arrest and comes off a hero. “President rescues Lady Liberty”. Joe Blow cracking a beer in his double-wide ain’t even heard of Carmen Sandiego. Most cops think she's an urban legend. Meanwhile, she’s sitting on a king’s ransom, already planning the next heist. She's... pretty amazing. To pull that off. Do we even have any leads on Carmen?Crupper scrunches up his mouth and looks at the ground. That’s not what we do here. What difference would it make? She never touched the thing to begin with. She’d walk.  Check your machines. You’re leaving tomorrow. What, already? Wait, Chief. Come on. You putting me back in the field? We got two units already on cases. Any other senior agents around here you’d like to recommend instead? What about O’Brien?From a direction you don’t catch someone shouts “gently caress you, Crupper!”. The tickets already got your name on it. Deal with it. And Hale, rest up. You’re jumping in the deep end tomorrow.The chief leaves. Hale watches over the shoulder of a sulking Crupper, as he checks his printer.    God dammit. I hate Russia.
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Chewbot posted:
This is already going beautiful places. I've been f5'ing the thread all day, and I don't think that's going to let up for a good long while.
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You magnificent son of a bitch.
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That chief is the perfect splitting image.
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Lynne Thigpen will always be the head of ACME to me. Thank you so very much for that. That was beautiful. 
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I'm getting a decidedly Archer vibe from all of this. What I mean is, this is awesome.
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