Hello there, I am The Kin, I have recently stepped up to take the place of the prior head of Cluster-Comics. With this renaming to avoid confusion, and a new office, I believe it would be suitable for me to remind everyone of the rules that govern our actions and of what this is all about.
We are writers, regardless of the specifics of what we are, whether Alien Space Bats or Elder Gods beyond the Elder Gods, Celestial Beings far past them or anything else- We are all united by our desire to remake this world into one of wonders; of heroes, of monsters, of villains and more. Together, we will be forming a universe by retroactively editing it, whether it be organizations or individuals, species and worlds or systems and materials. And we will be organizing them to aim for creating stories of all sorts of people armed with such wonderous abilities.
Sol-3, Earth, while being mildly altered and is still our focus, as always is a continental planet that is the third closest to the sun. It is still a modern day world, even if it does have some heroes now running amongst it from various different eras and worlds.
Now that has been restated, now to explain the rules keeping us in check and how to make our changes work.
Each turn is divided into two phases, Ideas and Results.
The Ideas phase is when you bring up concepts and vote on them, individuals, places, events, things, species, all of that good stuff. And during the Ideas phase, I may bring up a theme that can automatically boost Ideas into a higher Tier. If Ideas that pass counter each other, example being an Idea that has a character go in one direction and another Idea takes them in another direction incompatible with the former, then I will either go with the one that has more votes or if they are completely equal; try to work with both and mix them together.
Please be decently original with your Ideas here too, if you don't, copyright will beat us up and the lawyers will steal our lunch money. And no worries if your idea features the implications of big stuff (other species, alien worlds, a strange new town somewhere else, megacorps with advanced tech, advanced digital intelligence, etc), as long as they aren't the focus, it won't need to be placed on a higher Tier. (Such as if you introduced a digitally intelligent canine made by a megacorporation, sure that implies that with enough money and work; people can make artificial intelligence straight out of sci-fi works, if the Idea itself doesn't focus on the megacorp manufacturing more DIs and changing society with them, then it'll be allowed).
You can vote for five Ideas. And one of these Ideas can be yours, submitted in and automatically voted by you. However, if you don't submit an Idea, you can use all five votes to vote for other writers' Ideas. Though, you can't support the same idea with more than two of your own votes.
As for Tiers, they represent how much of an impact the Idea will have on the setting, and reflect how many votes will be required to allow them to pass. However, boosts can allow them to sidestep this a bit. As for what these Tiers consist of,
Tier 1: Basic Idea (1 Vote needed)
Retroactively grant someone a new knack for a mundane skill (or make someone with such a knack), slightly influence their decisions, etc.
Tier 2: Significant Idea (3 Votes needed)
Retroactively make someone or grant someone the chance to become someone with street-level capabilities (such as a lone crime fighter that effectively cleans up the streets, a person bitten by a genetically mangled fox and gaining the traits of a modified fox, or a basic supersoldier that can face off against a dozen well-armed troops), make someone more likely to enter a rivalry with the next opponent they encounter, influence the actions of a few people (like to make a club) or retroactively create such a club, cause a fight, etc.
Tier 3: Great Idea (6 Votes needed)
Retroactively create or give someone the opportunity to have capabilities that can influence an entire city (such as a cybernetically augmented warrior capable of fighting against suitably large mechs or an entire wave of soldiers on their own, or a magic wielder capable of creating a city-wide storm or casting illusions over every citizen), have a good impact on an individual's outlook and personality for a decent period of time, cause various city-wide events (such as an epidemic of people gaining inhuman mutations due to a xenotechnological crash into the water supply, or an election of some kind, or a gang war), retroactively create a group that can affect the entire city (such as a crime organization, or large corporation), etc.
Tier 4: Amazing Idea (10 Votes needed)
Retroactively generate or give someone the potential to have capabilities that can influence the entire state (like a candidate for state governor that has been enhanced with experimental nanomachinery, or a giant monster capable of walking through a few cities and crushing an army with some ease), hit a character with a moment that'll change their life, create a group that spans the size of a state (like an island nation or new state), create a full on new location (such as an island or a city of some sort), have an event that would span the state (such as a malfunctioning alien satellite covering a country in a forcefield, or a large amount of people permanently gaining actual superpowers), etc.
Tier 5: Incredible Idea (14 Votes needed)
Retroactively develop or grant an individual the capacity to affect an entire country (such as a digital intelligence acting as the leader of the country, or the leader of a fleet of automated psuedo-biological alien vessels, or the embodiment of stasis linking into an arcanally artvolved bird uplift to face off against the world's growing chaos; but limited to the country), create a whole new country, directly make a large group that can affect the entire country (such as a secret society or massive megaconglomerate), directly create a full on new sapient species on Earth, etc.
Tier 6: Mighty Idea (22 Votes needed)
Retroactively give or make someone that can affect the entire world, force the population of a country to deal with a large change to their status quo, affect the course of global affairs, cause a conflict in space, etc
Tier 7: Fantastic Idea (28 Votes needed)
Retroactively grant someone or make someone that has the power to affect the entire galaxy, directly create governments and authorities that span across stellar clusters or even the entire galaxy, unify Earth into a one-world government, retroactively change the backstory for all of humanity, directly give a large amount of characters superhuman character development, force everyone into becoming superhuman, etc.
Results in comparison are far more simpler, being me writing the results of your Ideas and what they lead to. I may ask for help, and you can feel free to suggest smaller ideas and tips for what to do with your ideas.
