ACME Infirmary
San Francisco, California
The infirmary was quiet when Xander arrived, the low hum of equipment the only sound beneath the bright lights. The place always felt a little too clean, the air carrying a faint antiseptic scent that made every footstep seem louder than it was...
Jade Ezell's House
*Someone ringing her doorbell and Jade opens the door and there was a brown-haired, brown-eyed tall man with a nice suit along with two other men*
Jade: *to the tall man* Can I help you?
Chief Wells: You're Jade Ezell, are you?
Jade: I'm her and you are...
Chief Wells: Max...
(note to self: TECS will allow me six pages.) Note: This is intended as a one off story with several parts. We are using Carmen from WOEICS and Chase from games.)
I dedicate this story to my late mother. You encouraged me to dream boldly, always ask questions, and treat others with kindness...
((Feel free to add at any point throughout this topic any pranks you feel are office appropriate, and if you use someone else's name, get permission if you please))
About four months after starting at the Agency, I decided to prank a random agent. Once I figured out who it would be, I got a bag...
((OOC: Anyone from ACME can add to this, just try to stick to the rules about including someone else’s name and the other posting guidelines. This is purely experimental, and if it takes off, maybe it could be a bigger thing; and, if not, no big deal.))
((Also OOC: The WiFi I’m connected...
(Character is transitioning from the old version 20 years ago to one more believable)
Background:
Grew up in a normal family in a normal city in Missouri, USA. Quickly acquired a penchant for oddness and left home early, legally changing her name from Megan Anderson. Worked her way through...
This was the original 16-story ACME building, prior to its theft. The compound includes the 3-story ACME Medical Center (AMC) with helipad and ACME campus in the distance. Across the bay is Alameda Airfield.
Starting with a random idea in site chat, this is a character-based Ask Me Anything.
Anyone, any character, can start one.
I'm posting the background from Chase's profile. I've built this character for the past decade, about time to test if the info makes sense.
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BACKGROUND (Currently...
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
Unrelated question....are political questions allowed? Also really confused why people keep calling the U.S. a democracy when we are supposed to be a Republic....
Unrelated question....are political questions allowed? Also really confused why people keep calling the U.S. a democracy when we are supposed to be a Republic....
Define "political questions". Also, we are a constitutional Republic with Democratically elected representation. I will argue until my dying day that the greatest thing the Founding Fathers created was the Electoral College