RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Writer's Block JLR Talk Thread

Remember a couple of pages back, I said that I was going to retire Brit (the character) from the JLR, but wanted to bring in a new character, so Brit (the poster), could still take part in JLR adventures.

Well here he is. Introdcing....

The Ice Cream Man

History:
Ice cream vendor, John "Scoop" Brooker, had been selling ice cream for years, when a crime syndicate moved into town, demanding "protection" money. John refused to pay the heavies.

As he was about to close up shop one night, five men entered the store, once more demanding money. Scoop refused again, so the five thugs attacked him and trashed the store, leaving Scoop's broken body in the freezer.

The cold was not going to kill him, as the thugs had switched the freezer off. But Scoop couldn't move, because of his broken limbs. He lay there in the dark, the melting ice cream oozing into his wounds, stinging like crazy. He feebly called for help, but it wasn't until the next morning, that the alarm was raised and Scoop was rushed to hospital.

After months in hospital, and countless operations, Scoop was released. Though the doctor's prognosis of repairing John's shattered leg was poor, he was determined to mend his shattered life and headed straight back to his store.

It was only 9.30 in the morning and 22 degrees celsius, but he felt like he was melting. He decided it must be the effect of his trauma and thought nothing more of it.

He started cleaning the store up, sweeping up glass and mopping melted ice cream, when the heavies returned. In his weakened condition Scoop was not going to last a minute.

One of the thugs threw a punch, but rather than the sickening thud, the thug's fist went straight through John's stomach. Everyone (including John) reeled in shock. John thought he was going to be sick, as the thug's arm was still sticking through his torso.

John, pushed the thug away. Now it was the thug's turn to feel sick, as they watched the hole in John's body repair itself, his body oozing like a thick liquid.

John took the initiative and threw a punch, to his amazement, as his fist moved through the air, it became ice-cold, changed into hard chunky chock-chip ice cream and grew bigger! The first thug went down - his nose broken.

A second thug pulled a knife and lunged at Scoop. Instinctively, Scoop went to dodge the attack, but rather than his whole body moving, just his midriff moved making his body look like a bent pipe. Scoop lashed out against the thug, a stream of boysenberry ripple blasted the thug sending him careering into the wall.

The third and forth thugs attacked. Scoop had dropped his walking stick earlier, he wished he had a baseball bat handy, suddenly rainbow swirl ice cream came out of his hand, morphing itself into the form of a baseball bat. Two more thugs went down.

The fifth and final thug, lost his nerve and made a run for it. Scoop raced after him, hand outstretched ready to grab the criminal. Strawberry ice cream shot out from his hand, making the criminal slip over. Scoop having got an idea from the base-ball bat earlier, crated an ice-cream cage to trap the thug, before he could get up again.

After the adrenaline rush, Scoop looked around at the carnage, then looked at himself in the mirror. Somehow Scoop had been transformed into a living ice cream man. His body was now a combination of a variety of ice cream flavors. And his body wasn't hurting anymore! Scoop took a few deep breaths and was able to transform his body back into human form, unfortuantely, his leg also returned to its original crippled state.

Scoop called the police and made up a story about a mysterious ice cream man who saved him.

Scoop vowed to drive the underworld criminals from his town. Calling himself The Ice Cream Man, he helped other shop owners against the "protection" rackets and shutdown the other operations run by the criminals. Though he has yet to find out who is the "Mr. Big" of the criminal organisation.

Because of the amount of time he focuses in battling the criminal underworld, John sold his ice cream store. He tends to spend most of his time in his Ice Cream Man form, as he doesn't feel the pain from his injuries, which still affects John in human form.


Powers:
The Ice Cream Man can transform his body into a variety of ice-cream flavors. He can also control his body's consistency from melted to rock-hard, giving him the ability to shape shift, move through small openings or hit someone with incredible strength.

Ice Cream Man can also create constructs from any flavor ice cream. These include, baseball bats, ice cream sleds, cages, barriers and other items.


Weaknesses:
The Ice Cream Man tends to melt in hot environments and around flame.

John "Scoop" Brooker in his human form, still walks with a limp and requires a walking stick. However in his Ice Cream Man form, he does not require a walking aid.


Weapons:
His ice cream constructs are enough.


So, can he take part in the membership drive?

No. I've grown attached to the character of Brit.

Oh yeah.

The first 1000

or

Who the hell is responsible for all this?

or

JLR Talk Thread stats

Some interesting facts:

1. 28 poster identities contributed to the first 1000 posts of the JLR Talk Thread. (see below)

2. dun_like_dinner started this thread on 7 Feb 2003

3. Cowgirl Jack was the first poster to make 25 posts (incidently celebrating her 100th RKMB post)

4. Ace was the last of the DCMB crowd to contribute to the Talk Thread. Joining in on page 6.

5. AGW was the first to make 40 posts, but restarted his post count when he changed ID's to Wednesday. At that stage CJ had only increased her post count by 3 to 28.

6. Jack Mehoff accepts membership offer. Suggests he will join in the CSF adventure. 1 July 2003.

7. Britannica is the first poster to make 50 individual posts (unless you add up AGW, Superfly Sr. and Wednesday (total 81), then he wasn’t).

8. Wednesday is the first individual poster to make 100 posts (141 with other identities)

9. The JLR nearly has it's first ***Off Topic*** story in the Talk Thread with the introduction of Trinamus.

10. The Franta deffinately provides the Talk Thread's first ***Off Topic*** by posting pictures of Llance

11. Hybrid makes his first appearance on the Talk Thread - 28 November 2003 - still no CSF.


The posters (and number of posts):

• britneyspearsatemyshorts - 1
  
• Fluke - 1
  
• I’m Not Mister Mxypltk - 1
  
• Mr. Misinformation - 1
  
• PJP - 1
  
• The Time Trust - 1
  
• Centurian - 2
  
• The Narrator - 2
  
• TheTimeTrust - 3
  
• Jack Mehoff - 4
  
• Kristogar Velo - 5
  
• Grimm - 7
  
• Midnight Spectre 2.0 - 7
  
• Superfly Sr. - 7
  
• dun_like-dinner - 8
  
• Harpy - 8
  
• Hybrid - 8
  
• The Franta - 8
  
• Trinamus - 13
  
• La Machine - 14
  
• (young) Nightwing - 20
  
• Registered Member #552 - 21
  
• Ace - 51
  
• AGW - 57
  
• Cowgirl Jack - 83
  
• Chant - 140
  
• Wednesday - 257
  
• Britannica - 269

Multiple identies:

• TTT/T T T - 4
  
• Jack/Hybrid - 12
  
• (y)NW/MS2.0 - 27
  
• CJ/Harpy - 91
  
• Brit/Mr. Misinformation - 270
  
• AGW/Superfly Sr./Wed - 321

So what do these figures indicate?

We spend waaaay too much time on here.

well, I've decided, I don't think I'll be posting anythin' anytime soon, seeing as I don't know what to write for the CSF story (Barely understand a word of whats goin' on )

And I want to get ahead with my Future Times story, so as I can post them more regularly.

Dunno when that will be, but that's basically how it's goin' ta be from my side.

Hope no one gets dissapointed

I'm disappointed.

Double-sized.

HEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!

Don't make me feel guilty

I'm disappointed..

ALRIGHT ALREADY!!!!!!

I'll write somethin' for yer stoopid story

But it ain't gonna be today, or tomorrow!

Promises...

Hey Brit, I like the character you made but I think he should have a better name. Ice-Cream Man sounds to plain. Maybe something like Doubledip or Scooper or something.

SCREW YOU ALL!!!

Well Scoop, is his nick-name, so I guess if you want to...

Neapolitan is too limiting, after all he does encompass the whole varity of ice cream flavors. How about Transneapolitan?

Or Ice Cream Sundae?

But not Tutti-Frutti

The Transneapolitan.

Then again, I also liked Any Given Wednesday.

Hi, I'm Alex Hender… I mean, hi, I'm Centurian, from Meadsville, PA

About a month ago, I was in my local gaming store, Dragon Rampant, when a strange man walked up to me and offered me some percentile dice.

I was very suspicious and told him that I didn't need any more.

He told me, I would want these ones, and he guaranteed impressive results. He pressed the dice into my hands and literally disappeared into the shadows.

I put the dice in my pocket and went straight home. When I got to my room, I absently took the dice from my pocket and threw them on my bedside table.

There was a loud boom and I was sort of transformed into Thorfen, a Dwarvan Fighter-Thief.

It was weird. I wasn't exactly Thorfen, I guess I was replaced by him instead. I seem to remember being able to communicate with him, but he didn't want to listen to me, he said he was hungry. He made a huge mess in the kitchen.

After about 3 hours, Thorfen disappeared and I reappeared in my home. It was lucky I just had enough time to clean up, before mom got back from work.

The next day after school, I went to the park to try the dice again. If the dwarf was coming back, I didn't want to be at home. Though when I rolled the dice, I wasn't replaced by Thorfen, I was replaced by Alovaren an Elvin Archer.

After a bit more testing, I discovered, that the dice replaced me with different fantasy adventurers or creatures, depending on the dice role. I called myself Centurian, because I guess, I can randomly call upon 100 different beings. These characters exchange places with me for 3 hours, before I return.

I haven't had the opportunity to find out about all the adventurers or creatures that will be summoned by specific rolls, yet. But I’m filling in the blanks as I roll them up.

The good news, is that I can communicate with these adventurers and have been able to influence their actions - a bit. But they don't always listen to me. Another problem is that I have no control over who will replace me. The rolls are completely random.

Hope you accept my membership.

Centurian

That power might work against the JLR!

Interesting.....

Wow, a very complex character you have there, Centurian, but sounds very interesting. (actually, I'm just upset, I didn't come up with a character like that. )

Welcome aboard, Centurian. Feel free to post to the CSF adventure.

You too Hybrid

and Chant

and Ace

and CJ

and Midnight Spectre

and RM552

and....

and.... anyone

Where is that Kristogar Velo?

Ugh. I need to let go of this solo operative status.

The weekend has been crazy. I literally saved 3 people during a riot last night. I'll have a full report on that(and other events) Tuesday. I'll post the riot segment here and the full story in the Deep Thoughts forum.

Midnight!

What are you doing in the middle of a riot?

We want details man!!!

Anyhoo, obviously you survived (hopefully intact).

Hope everything is OK?

Details.

hey peoples. been gone for about a week on vacation in the bahamas. lotta fun. hot sun, hot women, and cold beers.

Ahhhh......

so i haven't had time yet to write my part for the story but i'll get to it ASAP.

I just discovered this shit. It seems really fun and Ive never done anything like it. Ill take my first stab and see how popping my round robbin cherry goes.

Sorry didnt mean to disrupt the flow of the riot topic. Just explored this section of the MB's and entered my first submission to one of the JLR's thread stories. Hope I didnt write anyone too out of character as I skimmed the personalities on some of the other stories and I'm relatively noobie on rob's boards and super fucking noobed in the heros headquarters.

Hope everythings ok concerning the riot.

<-- my head's huge, yo!

Midnight's going on a midnight cruise. Heh.