I found this when I was going through some old disks of mine.
I guess someone out there might find this interesting.
This is the planning for the Retcon Hour crossover.
It gives you an example of what organized chaos looks like.
Looks like Martin was right about the Omaha Project.
*7/6/94 3:56 pm GMT-7 jmccoske at sedona.intel.com
A new week, a new update. It's that simple. Say hi to
Arthur and Mario who also have blindly volunteered. Without
further ado, I'll sum up the series and open the floor for
discussion.
LNH TP #4 -- me The kickoff, foreshadow Time Crapper/
RACCelestial Madonna
RETCON HOUR 0 -- posted, causing distress ;]
Pliable Lad 21-22 -- Mike Retcons ahoy for Pli and
company
RETCON HOUR 1 -- posted
SM & LIR 11 -- Badger Historical hysterix
RETCON HOUR 2 -- posted
Gen Y 7-8 -- Martin Retcons gummin' up the works
RETCON HOUR 3 -- posted
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Nicks of Time -- me&Tick Quest for the tiara of destiny, to
crown the RACCelestial MAdonna (solicited)
-- issues 1&2 this week -- delayed. Tick slow to get back
(he has #1)
Omaha Proj ?? -- Russ/Arthur OP timeline fluctuates
madly, maybe freeing spirits
(solicited)
CCjr & Coma Kid #1, UFORCE #10 -- Mongoose CCjr. gets
Ring of Retcon, loses ring to TC or wRM, chronal chaos
(solicited)
Errand Boy #6 -- Stirge IMPLO jumps in to run rampant
through the active titles.
Unlikely Aliens #5-(6) -- Scott Many many rampant
retcons ;]
System Corruptors -- Badger/Jeff Clean up Time
Crapper/Contraption Man plot set up for finale ***I think we
can use this as planned, plus RHAlpha, BADGE***
(solicited) -- explains how & why retcons galore
LNH CP 21 -- Badge/Jeff RACCelestial Madonna Pageant
(re-solicited) -- Ken had to bow out (say goodbye evrybody).
Something
about finding a job and starting real life. Sounds
depressing.
(Incidentally Mario, if you want to jump in here, there
could be
possibilities for Netrigan and the LNH gals vs. Ida)
<<round robin finish, LS or something>> all
wherein all plots are closed down in a 'write a section,
pass
it on motif' Working title Retcon Hour Omega I reccommend
Mongoose
be last in rotation -- he's got a good/clear idea on
wrap-up.
--
And now the traditional up-to-the-minute plot synopsis:
ReFoDis moves ACLNH to RACC overriding Universal Anchor
which
calls Time Crapper and Contraption Man to present who
procede to
retcon whole Myk-El thing repeatedly, trashing continuity in
the
process. Turns out CM is actually working for wReamicus
Maximus
who wanted to trash continuity all along.
Meanwhile, RACCelestial Madonna pageant kicks off lacking
crown but
DD&VG go back in time to prevent TC's creations the Time
Mime and
Kronos the Clown from stealing it from Net.ler, thus saving
the
pageant and the new madonna.
AND SM&LIR split into past & future where future group meet
post-Cry.Sig
Crapper who knows how RETCON Hour ends & wants to 'fix' it.
(Likely trying to Retcon Cry.Sig altogether to lose his
crappy complexion.)
SM&LIR(future) fall under post-C.S TC's influence, later to
battle LNH. > (specifically Kid Chivalry and Kid Anarky)
>AND Ring of RETCON falls into wRM/TC hands who runs rampant
thru the > Plurealities -- maybe tying in to Deadmeat Earth!
RAC.ctre formed to > fight moves.
ALSO IMPLO finds the LNH too cumbersum, cancells titles willy
nilly much to the joy of wRM. AND Tempest world on
collision
course w/ Looniverse Earth
(through some unspecified means) requires breakup of
PartyGame Hell
to fix. Lastly, Omaha Project gets shoved 4 months into the
future
(now) w/ repurcussions as their villains interact here.
>All parallel Earths start collapsing together/dissapperaing
as a result of > Ring of Retcon, ala Crisis. CCjr. and key
heroes use power of memory > to buy time and stall retcons
enough to defeat all by ...
All closes up when DD&VG return to present, crown RACC
Madonna
who w/ Myk-El/CM retcons end up defeating TC/wRM -- also
Errand
boy/Implo resolved and TempestEarth pushed back (perhaps revealing
why it's called DeadmeatEarth. (Special Badger Addition:
Becomes
rather...Barren, let's just say. This will begin in SM #12)
All continuity fixed (except Pli who somehow figures into
the final
battle and can't be re-retconned for fear of undoing LNH
victory)
(also excepting Myk-El whose creator is in on it)
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ISSUES: (new rollup of suggestions and my takes on them)
BADGE: Retcon Hour Alpha could prob'ly be rolled in with Sys
Corruptors
I'll have a big chunk o' stuff Friday (Myk-El, CM, TC, wRM)
I reccommend you talk to Mongoose -- he's already planning
to crash a few Earths together so maybe you two could tie it
together
(Also, how about Rac.ctre as your Big Space guys's name?)
BADGE: Re our co-projects -- RHA/SYSC: SysC finished this
week, I'll fward it,
LNHCP 21 (Pageant), not started yet, essentially involves
Nix O' Time
returning Tiara of Destiny & crowning while Ida et al
terro-rize the
female heroes. I've chosen a winner, but I'm open to input
;]
A Message from STIRGE: Could everyone please write a short
bit in an issue of their series(on-going series only, please)
where IMPLO shows up and cancels the series, by killing them,
or retconning them out of existence, or whatever. Pick the
method that best suits you.
Physically, IMPLO is about 7' tall, very bulky, and covered head-to-
toe in a blue-and-green metallic costume. His eyes
are standard white-with-no-pupils and are the only
discernable features on his face. He won't say anything to
your characters, except maybe "Cancelled," in cold, robotic
tone. You can have your character or group fight him, or be
taken by surprise, or whatever, but they won't be able to
defeat him.
>> I see this as a cheesey way to boost sales. We all have
cover blurbs
>> 'Collector's Item Last Issue' then proceed to have
followon issues
>> after IMPLO defeated at RH end. Give him your support!
ARVELKS: [thoughts on Slobbering Grue vs Heckfire Club,
Ur-Grue xovers]
Go for it. Just coord w/ Martin/Scott. (personally I'd
like to see
the latter)
[Dekay and Diskolor return]
Never thought I'd say this but I think we've got enough villains
now.
;]
[Time Whino, Chuggernaut vs. RACCelestial Madonna and Frat
Boy/Token]
Of course now that I've said that, I love this idea. Time
Mime and
Kronos the Clown are anti-Pageant, so Time Whino could be
created
simultaneously. Frat Boy and Token Girl are perfect
opposition.
Let's develope this for LNH CP #21
[finale ideas, 'trial of Fanfic']
I think Mongoose has a clean ending we should go with.
These ideas are
robust enough to think about another, future arc (see Badge
for the next
mega-xover) though.
[Time Mime usage]
He's Tick's, but coord through me. Shouldn't be a prob,
especially if
Time Whino is involved ;]
MARTIN: [What's with all these special issues? Stick with
known series dammit]
I'm now leaning towards agreement, only so we can roll this
in with
Stirge's IMPLO and cancel them as we go. ;]
[Nix O' Time as LNH CP21-22]
My main reason for not doing this would be that with Tick's
irregular
contact we might screw up the IMPLO thing. IMPLO can't
touch LS's,
so NOT is immune and hence can't muck it up.
[Omaha is going to be tough to include.]
Agreed, but if Russ knows what he's doing, I'll cut him some
slack.
[LNH CP a good forum for Pagent, other NWC material.]
Yup. And it very well may stretch into a special length.
And I hope
everyone knows Ken envisioned LNH CP as a System Corruptors
for NWCs --
ie anyone can write an issue or five.
[I'm not a liberal dammit!]
Maybe, but you're no Drizzt either. ;]
[Ken's LNHCP12? Is it dead?]
Dunno, I think Ken still logs in on weekends, but very
sporadically.
[Retcon Omega also another series]
Maybe, but if IMPLO cancels everything else, we might _have_
to go
oneshot.
SCOTT: [Unlikely Aliens retcons]
Sound ideal. Forge ahead! (Though I would change the
'holes in time
and space' to just chronal inconsistancies and retcon
madness.)a
MONGOOSE: to avoid confusion, here's his proposal. My
suggested tweakings in
ALL CAPS (quiet!)
CCjr. will be having the ring of Retcon, which is given to
him in Coma& CHamp #1. He won't even think about using it
until well into the crossover- U-Force 10, where he meets up
with U-Force. He's going to screw it up, and lose the ring to
the Time Crapper, who will then become really nastily
powerful. Powerful enough that no force in the universe can
stop him.
USE wREAMICUS MAXIMUS GETTING RING INSTEAD.
The Crapper, who is really peeved that there are so many
earhts he has to keep track of, decides to retcon everything
so that there was only One earth that all characters came
from. (Sort of like collapsing Earth-1, -2, etc. in
_Crisis_.) HE strats retocnningaway, and earths start
blipping from the Plurealities.
HAVE wRM COLLAPSE PLURAL EARTHS, INCLUDING DEADMEAT EARTH,
TYING IN W/ BADGE AND SPE.NET.CTRE/RAC.CTRE
Then he tries to retcon Nightbeast. But since the Rathani
(a Racconoid tribe) never evolved as a semi-sentient race on
Earth Looniverse, he has to come up wit h a new origin. So,
he tries to retcon NB to being a transformed human.
Nightbeast, in an amazing show of spritiual strength,
resists. The Crapper starts panicking, and trying all other
retconns he can think of: Mutant, boiengineered creature,
alien- nothing works. Finally, the light clicks on in CCjr.'s
head. Nightbeast can resist the Crapper and his retocnning
because his memories and attackment to his origin (ehich is a
brutal, nasty affair) are too strong. "Memories are the Only
thing that can stop a retcon! The only thing that can
preserve the past!" He Tells all the LNHErs to think of the
past... and it works! The Crapper cannot erase memories, nor
can he change the value and power of old stories (real-life
moral here.).
I'D RATHER SEE MYK-EL IN THIS ROLE, SINCE HIS CORRUPTION IS
CENTRAL TO THE PLOT. YOUR ENDING ALLOWS AN EASY OUT FOR THOSE WHO
PREFER DVANDOM'S MYK-EL TO WREAM'S MYK-EL AND VICE
VERSA. I CAN HELP W/ THE MYK-EL ANGLE IF NEEDED (MIKE KELLEY
ALREADY OK'D HIS USE)
At this point, the retconning stymied, the Heroes launch a
pyshical assault on the baddies- and win. Pli could die here,
and soemone could probably write the fight scene- I'm horrid
with those... At the end, the bad guys are defeated ; CCjr.
gains mega-power for just long enough to fix *some*
continuity and ret- con (in a *positive* way) the LNH
Universe. HE manages to restore the multiple earths.. unless
the authors don;t want them restored. Then, he colapses .
FRom this point on, everyone starts heading home...CCJr. End
up with a big speech on how 'Retcons and coninuity are not
what are *trulY* important.. memories and stories are."
Close curtain.
OF Cousre, this would need heavy revamping to fit other
characters. I'm pretty sure that the Madonna can act as a
inspirational tool, Swordy can deliver some of the final physical
blows, and any other charachters can be a part of
the fight.
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Later, JJMcC