Yes I spent far too long making some neato images when I could have been PMing players or something more productive. But I also discovered my post count is a monstrous double the next highest so I gotta slow down because some people seriously frown upon that kinda thing. So have a recap instead. It's not exactly best to worst but it's not too far off. So little to judge people on so far anyway.
She's not wearing it here but I love modern Rogue's green hoodie/cape look
She gets points alone for that avatar instead of the 90s Fox do
She's easy to get along with to chat and it's not gonna be a chore like I can already tell it could become with Kitty/Beast/Tigra. We've got a nice balance of fluff talk with strategy, she's got a serious case of flattery will get you places - what's not to like? She'll be a social threat later and I've no doubt she'll have her finger in every pie on the tribe in no time. So I'll stick close to her and make sure I'm fingering her pie the most. Wait, that came out wrong.
Oh, and she threw me a "hey, not calling alliances yet, but I already know I ain't voting you" line in her last PM which is always a nice thing to hear this early.
If Rogue is the future social tret then Beast is the obvious strategical one. He kinda hesitated earlier with that run-in with Supes but he came good and had my back a post or two later. Then in PM he's asking about whether we should align with the Villains
Woah there Nelly and let's sort our own tribe out first. Maybe he's not quite as smart as his rep would seem? But our conerrsation is definitely heading down that strategical route so I'm steering it back to the here and now and how to tackle this format he claims to have never played in real & relevant terms. He's active, he's eager, I can't see him not being a part of whatever comes together unless he jumps in two-footed somewhere he shouldn't. He is possibly a very new player hence the eagerness. New players are fine and even better to align with most of the time. But when they fuck up they fuck up bad and typically drag you down with them. So we'll see, the Jury is still out on how useful he can be until we see how good the rest turn out.
Tigra is good, very good. Maybe the best on the tribe and that's pretty obvious after only a handful of PMs. We've got a bit of social fluff going on but she is straight to the point and no messing around. Not stupid eager like Beast might be, but just now her last PM called out Susan for being here and not PMing. Good feline herself, if she didn't say it I was about to.
We need to talk some more before we have anything solid or above a kind of understanding. I'm playing a little dumb with her ngl, but I can knock that off once I figure out how the tribe starts fitting together as a whole and pull us closer together at that point. For now it suits me if she keeps her guard down a little and feels like she is the one leading me along, and we'll see where she tries to take us.
I've hard hardly three PMs with Nova and boy is he presumptuous. Swung in to check in, called the three who'd not arrived yet, and said damn they better show up and not flip the plot when we send them to duel
I kind of hate that mindset of last in first out. I know that's how it goes nine times out of ten, but just to assume they suck for not getting to the board before you got to the board.. yeah. And on top of that who plays as Nova but doesn't play as Kid Nova? wtf dude
So I've no great love for Nova. He was right about the late arrivals though, at least one of them does suck and he's sticking around at least for that long, so I suppose we'll make nice.
I'm not sure what to make of Kitty yet. She is gonna be maybe quite high maintenance. Are my PMs too long, too short? What did I miss in the last hour? What are your powers? Can you not call me Kitty Kat? Does my bum look big in this? Yadda yadda yadda?
But on the flipside she is here and chatty, so there's that. I feel like she's gonna align with everyone else sooner than me though. If the game was based purely on pre-builts, she's got the female click with the girls, she's got the X-Men click with Beast, she's got the young click with Wiccan, she's got the awful
click with Nova. So I'm in no rush to fit her into my plans based on Day 1. I think she' gonna stick around for a while though, so I better make some space.
Wiccan was not around too much. But he was around enough to fire off a PM or two and to explain he doesn't get much time at the weekends and that he'll be much better by tomorrow night. Seems sharp. Sharp enough to know that's the right thing to do if you're gonna suck on opening weekend. We'll see how he handles the obvious boot of Sue before I commit to how sharp that might be.
Sue was last to arrive. And then when she gets here, she answers no PMs
Not mine, not Tigra's, I'll find out from others soon enough if that's a universal thing. And not like she just swung through. She left a trail of posts about the place and was here on and off for a couple of hours. What on earth was she doing?? It is a goddamned mystery, but how can you work with someone who can't find their inbox? I truly hope this isn't her schtick, cos right now the chances are, she'll be first boot because of it.