OKAY, WE HAVE DILLY-DALLIED LONG ENOUGH, IT IS TIME FOR THE TIME TRAVEL NONSENSE TO ACTUALLY START HAPPENING.

Here's how it's going to go down.

On August 2nd (this Wednesday/Thursday IRL) a group of scuffed n gritty looking future versions of characters already in the game will emerge from a time hole in the middle of LA. In their timeline, the death of Celestia on August 7th 2014 at the hand of a mystery assailant resulted in the collapse of Alpha Force, which allowed various supervillains to rise unchecked, eventually plunging the world into a horrific dystopia, ruled in part by the sinister Sovereign and in other part by the equally sinister (no, really) Princess Unikitty. This band of rebels has come from ten years in the future to try to stop the assassination of Celestia, and in doing so hope to prevent their timeline from coming to pass.

However, they have likely been followed into the past by some less than savoury characters who are intent on stopping them from achieving this – or simply on using the time portal to their own advantage. The time travellers will need to convince their past counterparts of their good intentions at the same time as trying to stop any ne'er-do-wells who followed them into 2014 from disrupting the timeline in any negative ways.

On August 7th (February 14th/15th IRL), the time travellers will see to it that Celestia is not murdered while she making a public appearance at a local school – they anticipate that her assassin, a mysterious figure known only as 'Wyoming', is planning to plant a power-destabilising field in the venue and are able to thwart it, preventing her death. However, the assassin will instead succeed in stealing the Sun Medallion, the source of Celestia's powers and eternal youth, and escape back into the future, resulting in a dystopia just as dystopian as the one the time travellers were trying to prevent.

After this, the time travellers will have to follow Wyoming into the future to attempt to retrieve the medallion – with the assistance of some characters from the present. We'll probably give folks a week or two to have their characters run around in the future before the Medallion is finally retrieved and everybody returns to their rightful time period.

(Or doesn't – if anybody does actually want to keep around their future character, they're welcome to submit an app. Similarly, if you feel like this would be a good excuse to app in a character From The Future who you don't already play, you can absolutely use this as an entry point to introduce them.)

We'll be putting up an open log for the future characters to enter through the TIME PORTAL on Wednesday; in the meantime, everyone is encouraged to finalise what's going to be going on with their characters for this event.

Well, I have, for the time being finally come to the decision to drop Saren from this game.  I still have a desire to play him but I feel like he just wasn't the RIGHT fit for the game and it wasn't clicking with me.  So rather than taking up space, I figure I'll drop him.  Who knows, maybe I will re-app him in the future.  Instead I will probably be in a the market for a villain who I can play a little more naturally in this setting now though!

Obviously I still have other characters here so I will continue to see you all!!

Hello, everyone! My name is Wings, and I am new to Capital H. I offer to you Loki Laufeyson from his (mostly) current comic book incarnation. He looks more like a lovable scamp than his older self but he still lies like a dog every chance he gets. My plurk can be found at entropicwings if you're so inclined.

I haven't quite figured out the wiki yet (where is the New Page button...) otherwise I would link you to it. I will say that he's basically the same as he is in canon except that Loki, his older self and this teenaged self, have not belonged to any organizations before. I'm VERY up for plotting past things if you'd like for your character to have had dealings with the God of Mischief in any of his forms.

And VERY up for plotting current day things, of course! :) Thanks!

AS MOST OF YOU PROBABLY RECALL, a little while back we put up a post for discussing a plot where a group of characters would show up from 10 years into a grimdark alternate future to try to change the past. WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO DO THIS, but a few things need to be hammered into place before we can go ahead with it.

What we DO know is that ten years into the future, Earth will be approximately half under the tyrannical rule of Sovereign, and half under the equally tyrannical rule of Princess Unikitty. Each of them is trying to wrest control of the other half from their rival, but they must also contest with various resistance groups, as well as the planet being ongoingly under siege by various alien forces – Alternians, Skrulls, etc. - which are only just being fought off every time they stop clawing at one another's throats for long enough to try to invade, leaving Earth increasingly dystopian and war-weary.

A group of rebels will use a time machine – I think there was talk of it having been constructed by Black Ghost – to travel back to CH's present day in order to prevent this future from coming to pass.

After this is accomplished, all or some of the time travellers will go back into the future with some present-day characters in tow in order to, probably, do something with the time machine to make sure that the timeline will be properly reset.

THINGS WE NEED TO ESTABLISH:

• Which characters are coming back into the present? Doesn't have to just be resistance fighters – they can be followed through or infiltrated by villains! In fact it would be pretty great if they were followed through by a few bad guys, because that would better justify needing present-day characters to come back to the future with them to help seize the time machine back.

• What event are they attempting to stop?

• Who came up with this plan?

SO reply to this post with what your character/s are doing in all this (their status in the future timeline, whether they'll be involved in goings-on in the present), and if you want to, make suggestions for the above bullet points, and GET DISCUSSIN'

(If anyone has any characters they would like to app to bring in during this plot and leave in the past after it's over, also, feel free to throw ideas around for that!)

Hi ho, Anna the frog here with a new player character to add to CH's ridiculously eclectic cast, luke-warm... off of the... acceptance presses? Because I'm slow.

From the player who brought you STARSCREAM and NEKU SAKURABA, I now give you... GRIMLOCK.

Before you weep to the heavens about there being YET ANOTHER Transformer in the game here, please note that Grimlock is a little bit different. For this AU, he is not an actual Cybertronian, nor does he have any back story ties with the rest of the cast. Grimlock is a human (TRIDENT) made prototype robotic T-Rex who will be making his home with the Alpha Force and CONDOR, mainly because Lina Inverse has basically already adopted him and everyone should be terrified about that.

Personality wise? He's like a big dumb violent puppy that can breathe fire and also change into a robot man. He has a cool fire sword too. He's going to be relying on LA's super hero community to teach him some proper manners and civilized behavior, but he'll also be available to smash things and stomp on mutual enemies if you're into that side of things as well. Hopefully I'll get his wiki page up soon so you can feel free to read more about him there but THAT'S THE GIST OF IT for now.

Sorry for the delay, this weekend was sort of disorienting!

The following characters' players neither responded to the activity check post nor informed us of a hiatus.

If you are on this list but have been active and just didn't get to the AC post in time, just respond to this post within the next week (so by November 17th) with the requisite information.

If you haven't got enough activity (two threads involving each character that are at least 15 tags long, for half of your characters – see the above linked post for more on this), but you still want to play at Capital H, please respond to this post anyway to tell us what happened and let us know you are still up for this! At this stage in the game we will probably not be telling anyone on this list to take a hike as long as they actually want to play, but we do reserve the right to eject people who are continually inactive.

If you only just got into the game in the last week and you just didn't see the AC post, that's fine, but please reply to this post anyway just so we know you're here!

Anybody on this list who has not responded to this post by November 17th will be dropped from the game.

Kit Peddler
Lex Luthor
Annabel McAlistair
Lyra Belacqua
Karkat Vantas
Signless
Sollux Captor
Finnick Odair
Katniss Everdeen
Aña Corazon
Billy Kaplan
Bucky Barnes
Clint Barton
Jessica Drew
Natalia Romanova
Rikki Barnes
Teddy Altman
Terrance Ward
Wanda Maximoff
Nihlus Kryik
Saren Arterius
Jack Sears
Celestia
Nilin
Chris Miles
Maxxie Oliver
Jon Snow
Megatron
Optimus Prime
Rodimus
Verity Carlo
Claire Belacqua
Sable

The following characters have been officially dropped since our last activity check:

Jamie Moriarty
Cynthia
Miriel
Airachnid
Ben Tennyson
The Disciple
Matilda Wormwood
Fa Mulan
Khisanth
Legion
Vanessa Goldpaw
Plaid Jack Clarity
Eusine

i'm going to have to drop legion. i'd love to stick around, but the latest AC has shown me that i haven't been able to keep up, and my schedule's only going to get busier over the next couple of months. it's best i do this now.


i'll see if i can return when my schedule clears up. until then, legion will be deployed to a small, newly-formed nation which has just come out of a civil war. they'll be helping peace efforts there ICly.

in the mean time, it's been a lot of fun here, and i'm glad i got to play with you all.

AT LONG LAST

For each character you are using in your activity check, you need to link to two threads your character is involved in that are at least 15 comments long, either on capitalh or capitalchan, that were started in the last month (since September 30th).

If you have more than one character, you only need to check in half of them (although you can provide activity links for more of them if you want to). If you have an odd number of characters, "half" is rounded down, so you need activity links for one character if you have three, and two characters if you have five. If you have a character/characters who you never check for AC and who we never see around very much, we may show up on your internet doorstep to interrogate you about character squatting, but this will be handled on a case by case basis – there are some characters who are better suited to only appearing occasionally, after all.

If you only joined the game in the last month (so if your app was accepted after September 30th) you don't need to provide activity, but you do need to check in so we know you're still here.

You need to reply to this post within the next week (so by November 7th). We will post a list of people who missed the check, and any of those people who fails to reply to the list within a week after that will be dropped. (You may still be dropped if you reply, you might just get a strike, you might get off scot free you smug rascal, depending on your reasons for missing AC and your general track record.)

Comment with the following for regular activity check:
<b>Player name:</b> <b>Activity:</b> <a href="LINK">CHARACTER 1</a>, <a href="LINK">CHARACTER 1</a>, <a href="LINK">CHARACTER 2</a>, <a href="LINK">CHARACTER 2</a> (etc, delete or add as applicable) <b>Other characters:</b>

Or this if you've apped in the last month and you're just checking in without activity links:
<b>Player name:</b> <b>Characters:</b>

HELLO I COME BEARING PLOT. This plot is going to be primarily player run, and as widespread or as narrow focused as you like. It could easily involve the whole game or just a few people. It is optional, but radical.

The idea: TIME TRAVEL.

The structure of this time travel plot will be thus:

PART ONE
Ten years in the future of CH, there has been a Bad End. For those unfamiliar, this means that everything has gone to SHIT through some means or another, and is tonally a post apocalyptic world of tomorrow. The nature of this “apocalypse” will depend on player plotting, and the people who want to step up to be bad guys. Has someone risen up to become an evil cyborg overlord? Have Alternians taken over the planet? Has TRIDENT taken over CONDOR? These are the questions that we must answer.

Everyone who wants in will get to make a gritty, dark future AU version of their characters. An INCIDENT will occur that will send a group of these characters into THE PAST (aka present game time) in an attempt to stop whatever bullshit has caused the future to suck so much. This could be one event, or multiple.

The important thing is that we have a team of time travelers in Los Angeles attempting to fix the future, and weirding everyone out. They must acquire some kind of MacGuffin, or stop some disaster.

PART TWO
With the mission more or less in hand, the time travelers will travel to the future – and this time, they will be bringing a motley of past people with them, to experience the rotten world of tomorrow. Why? Because they need help doing some kind of thing, most likely dicking with a time machine in a way that will properly reset the timeline instead of creating an offshoot.

So they are basically fighting to make their timeline no longer exist.

At any rate, they need backup. Time will move along in both timelines more or less linearly, though there can be some variation for convenience. How this part ends really depends on you.


So what we need to do here is PLAN. Who wants in? Who wants to timetravel? Who wants to be villains?

Use the comments below to decide. The plot will start mid November and will proceed indefinitely, since the rest of the world will be able to continue on regardless.

This was long in the coming but I've been having troubling RPing in general it seems.

I'll be bowing out of CH with all my characters: that'd be Disciple, Matilda and Mulan. I'm sorry to the people I had plots with but I guess it's just time to throw in the towel and allow someone else to come in and hopefully put these characters to better use.

It was really fun while I was here and I'm glad to meet the people that I did. Hope you all have a grand time <3