Or /coc/ thread if that's what you look for in the catalog.
Wiki:
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/The_/co/nservatory_Wiki
Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_kW_QkFSAeCjGVP51kVG6J10gR8YLStcNpzPh-ARC0/edit
Last weekend's thread:
>>83686509
Well I guess you'll have to look for "/coc/ thread" now since I was in such a hurry to make the thread I forgot the subject. It's because I'm making the thread late for various reasons.
"Weekend /co/ creation thread"
Last thread lasted for two weeks, here's a run down of it:
-Talking about space and what kind of stories we want to see in it
-The secret evil organization known as ONE
-Golden Girl's future costume as Golden Guardian (probably still a work in progress)
-Prose story of General Freedom chatting with Blue Blood for the first time
-Updates on the Lovely Ladybug Summer Special
-Trying to get an outline (the thing before the script) for BreastQuest issue 3 going
-Bunch of other new pics
Remember when we joked about "That Bad Thing That Happened" to Britain? That thing that caused its complete and utter collapse and devastation?
That sure was fun, right?
>>84054584
Is that Motion? The fact that /co/ actually made her is a tremendous bout of pure irony.
>tfw you were there during the original Motion creation threads
>tfw you used to think this website was worth a damn
>>84055052
No, that's Ladybug without her helmet on.
In other /coc/ related happenings, >>84053287 Premier Pulp is looking to make a come back.
Dimension H released a new mini in their The Colonists series.
>>84054754
I'm not convinced giving Golden Guardian a domino mask works. It doesn't mesh with the rest of the outfit.
>>84056250
Yeah, I prefer the maskless version myself.
>>84054761
Does make the /coc/-verse version of "Britain" seem much smaller, and it's now weird to think that Strummer is essentially a foreigner.
>>84056308
I want to just ignore the real world politics as much as possible in the /coc/ setting since they ruin everything.
>>84056250
I went with the last version that was posted, I did note it was still a work in progress.
Though I actually like the idea of her having a mask since I think it fits with her characterization of thinking things through and assuming people aren't blinded by comic logic.
>>84056308
There should really be a Welsh character.
Maybe bring in the concept of hireath to their personality, since it's something so complex but easy to understand.
>>84056773
Could be the motive of that brother from the last thread (maybe make them an uncle or father so they're a bit older?) who ended up falling in with a rebel cause in a parallel world.
Like he was searching for a place where he can be a warrior for glory and honor, fighting for something higher.
A world that matches his vision of a past that's like Time Table by Genesis.
>>84056773
Basement Wizard is Welsh.
>>84056773
>>84057066
Makes me think that the recurring aspect of this should be time, and the past. Making it an older relative that has been gone for many years is one aspect of this. Have it so the "sidekick" in in fact a creature made alive from one of their childhood drawings uncovered in the attic of a family home is an aspect of this as well. So when this point-of-view character catches up with this old relative they (and the sidekick) are hunting, they assaulted by both their own past (a childhood memory) and also the current era of a family left behind.
Making them Welsh is this as well, since Welsh (as a language) is one of the oldest in the British Isles still widely spoken.
Also that "longing for a time or place you can't return to" could also come up in how they kind of want to return home, but know that too much time has passed, as well as how different they are now.
>>84057639
Also all the time that this character is on the trail of the older relative, their own time is ticking away.
Is the archive dead? If so I think we lost the BQ #3 outline.
>>84055517
Thanks Anon. My best piece of advice for /co/ creators is to start small and have reasonable goals. The Ladybug comics have been successful because they took this approach.
>>84057763
They had to move.
http://cuckchan.org/co/thread/83686509/#83818127
>>84057745
>>84057639
Makes me think that following this character is like walking around Lady Alvane's house from the end of DFC, or chasing Hans in Syberia.
>>84057639
I like the direction that this is going.
Sounds like it would be too depressing though, and on the surface too similar to Erin.
>>84057763
I posted both BQ 2 and 3 outlines to the plus4chan BQ thread.
>>84058654
I'm still trying in the drawthreads to get someone to draw the next page (15) of script one.
No luck so far.
Once upon a time ago there was a plot where this guy was running for president.
Or did he become president in the Evilverse, kill Jetpack Viking, and let the creeping madness from the void into that dimension for them to consume it?
>>84056250
Really? I thought the mask was cool.
>>84061377
Last I saw there was an idea for like a half-helmet mask for her.
It'd be a like a hat with eye pieces attached to it that hide the top part of her face.
>>84061154
Normbot 20XX!!!what would his campaign slogan be?
>>84062971
"Everyday until you like it."
Who was his running mate? Samefag?
>>84054584
>/coc/
Corruption of Champions?
Takin some draw requests if anyone has any to spare on such a slow day.
>>84063474
/co/ creations.
We were using /coc/ years before Corruption of Champions started having threads with that combination of letters.
>>84063480
How about you take a shot at drawing Citronexus, the brother of Appladay, who can shoot citric acid from his mouth.
Most of Appladay's enemies have nothing in terms of drawings.
>>84063772
Shoot apple has nothing in terms of drawings
>>84062190
Sounds a lot like that terrible mask they've tried giving Carol Danvers as of late.
>>84063772
On it. Would he have more of a costume costume or a casual one like your image?
>>84064536
It'd probably be more professional looking since he's the adopted son of a mafia/gangster leader.
>>84064495
There's pretty much nothing for the Orchard of Evil. They're probably among the most interesting of or unexplored already named and established villains.
>>84064965
Gave it a shot. Usually don't get to design characters, pretty fun.
>>84065857
Neat.
The theme with this guy is he only became a super villain because his sister, Laryssa DeLemon (adopted) a.k.a. Lady Lemon, asked him to do it since Appladay is why their father ended up in jail.
drawfag here, what is the point of this thread again?
>>84066748
You ever had a story idea you think would be neat?
It's a thread about talking about that kind of thing and then building on it. A bunch of ideas have been around for years an have this whole shared setting going on with a bunch of pics and some comics.
>>84066748
Do you have any sexual fetishes? Well now you can create characters who appeal to your fetishes and trick drawfriends into drawing them.
Oh, you're already a drawfriend? Then I can't wait to trick you into drawing things that get me horny.
>>84067051
not all of them are tricked, some are fooled into thinking they're helping
>>84066484
Would Lady Lemon even have a costume, or would it just be a yellow business suit like her father's?
>>84064495
He has all of 2 solo pics and is also in some group pics, but that's it.
Also, time to find out if the thread is going to make it through the night.
>>84070443
let's see, Appleaday's powers are...
...shooting flaming apples from his mouth. Huh.
So he's one of those wacky comic relief superheroes?
>>84070581
He's sometimes paired with Bee's Knees, an acrobatic with stingers on his knees. It's been suggested the two of them live in the same city.
They're a "those two pals" kind of duo.
>>84070883
I see...
So his powers seem kind of niche. How is he not dead?
>>84070921
Weak rogues whose powers are pretty much just as silly.
>>84054761
it had to be comic-related though, like a group of heroes leaving the league to work for their government.
>>84062190
I'm not entirely sure a design like that fits, either. If she's going to have a mask (and honestly, my vote remains maskless), it should be something more like what a superheroine from around the Silver/Bronze Age transition would have.
I still keep thinking something Huntress-y, that extends off of her face.
Lemuria is real and it's owned by The Numbers! ONE possesses an ancient Archipelago that rose after the nuclear tests of the 50s and 60s. Now Numbers plot in ancient Lemurian halls and work on recoving Muan artifacts from the sunken cities of the lost Atlantean Empire!
Who is Number Two? Why does he own a secret island dedicated to breaking the wills of heros, villains, and international men of mystery? Will he ever live down the shame of losing #8?
Why does #3 seek alien technology? How does their cloaked sky fortress function? Will the soviet union ever detect their machinations or does the Kremlin dance to #3's sinister tune?
Does #4 have a plan or are they merely toying with NATO? Will the world's spy organizations ever catch up with his fiendish game or will he keep sending brave men and women to The Village?!
How is #5 alive? Is he really ten thousand years old or is this just a scam to gain the loyalty of an ancient cult? Can The Scarab ever hope to free Cairo of the nefarious grasp of #5 or is egypt doomed to suffer under the machinations of ONE.
Is #8 truly alive? Does he work from the shadows with CASTLE or is he just a story told in hushed corners?
Can CASTLE and Director Bahkan thwart ONE or is civilization doomed to cry ONE FOR ALL?!
>>84066748
people making stuff up, one part jokes, one part fetishes. one part "I think that's a cool idea so I'mma run with it"
>>84072382
I'd say a Carnivale Mask myself.
>>84073368
>ONE FOR ALL
crap.
that should say ALL FOR ONE
this is what I get for using that naming convention.
>>84073395
Hmm, would a mask like that white out her eyes, or would they stay visible?
>>84074492
depends, guys like GL tended to have their eyes visible from within the mask while guys like batman got lenses
could go either way
Oh man, I remember when Appladay came about. I made The Grape Of Wrath for this!
>>84070883
Neighboring cities.
>>84071036
I think his rogues are actually pretty strong.
I always thought Appladay would find new an exciting ways to use his weird power.
>>84054761
I'd say I would go like this.
At some point earth was invaded by an alien army (like in Independece day) after the main alien army was defeated by the justice coalition, the heroes fly to the main ship to destroy it but as it turns out, its filled with what you'd call "civilians", alien who can't fight and don't want to, they surrender.
The story behind the aliens is more complex than people thought, the aliens abandoned their dying planet to find another place to live. Their intention was to negotiate their stay with the next planet if necessary but people between them grew anxious, as it took very long to find the next planet and resources were getting less. What'll we do if there is another race on this planet? what if its inteligent? can we really trust them? can we really coexist? the fear grow between them about an enemy they've never seen, soon a group took over the mainship who decided to conquer the next planet instead of using diplomacy.
After some discussions and negotiations, the alien refugees were brought to earth to a secluded area(like District 9), the terms were that they'll stay there and would gradually be integrated in our sociaty. Many politicians wanted also take advantage of their knowledge, which is why the smartest of the aliens could leave the area. Years passed by and the aliens were allowed to leave the area under certain condicions also because their numbers were increasing and they needed more space.
>>84075674
There was an increasing anxiety in the area as the alien leaders selected by the UN, had little to no power outside the area eventhough the aliens still had valuable knowledge, there was still tension because of the invasion. At some point a group of aliens which also supported the Invasion plan decided to take down the leader and take control over the erea, the war between aliens escalated quickly. The war could've been avoided with an intervention but suddenly countries took different sides which caused tension between the countries. To avoid further conflicts and war, the nations decided to stay out of the conflict between aliens.
The war caused an increasing number of alien refugees, which every country wants to deal with in a different way, this tore britain apart from the EU as britain took the most damage during the invasion. The same for the Justice Coalition which heroes are from different countries and already had discussion because of the decision of taking the aliens in.
>>84070921
Because he can shoot flaming apples from his mouth, can you do that shit? No? Then shut your damn non-flaming-apple-spewing mouth!
>>84075829
If they're so smart why didn't they just commission a city to be built on the moon?
You have all this alien technology, you can get to space EASILY with it, you have all these smart aliens with their bullshit alien super SCIENCE, just trade the information for resources, build a goddamn city on the moon, and start from there.
I don't want to be beholden to any real world logic or politics with this. That shit gets tossed right out their airlock and into the Sun as soon as fantastic future magic-science bullshit technology gets thrown into the mix.
>>84076422
>If they're so smart why didn't they just commission a city to be built on the moon?
lack of resources, they also need an atmosphere similar to earth to live. About the technology, its so advanced, it takes its time for human scientist to understand and implement, also there are restrictions for aliens due to the invasion, politicians are just not gonna hand the ressources over, specially because they want the knowledge for cheap. The aliens are only getting some acceptance from the public after years and because of lefties taking the alien civilians side, because they dindu nuffin.
Taking ideas from reality doesn't mean you have to go full realism.
>>84076758
They still had a functioning huge ass space ship.
That didn't just disappear, land it on the moon, build a city from it.
And space travel = asteroid belt = UNLIMITED RESOURCES.
And since this all harkens back to the stupidly non-named incident that wrecked the UK, I always thought that was a magical melt down that had nothing to do with aliens, unless demons also fall under that umbrella term.
>>84056250
I think it needs to be a bit thicker.
Think NightwingSomeone ought to draw a GG body pillow
>>84077130
There are various reasons why there is life on earth unlike on the moon, like the atmosphere that protects you from extrem changes in temperature. Even if the Aliens were able to terraform another planet, terraforming just doesn't magically happens and it takes like forever and meanwhile they have to live somewhere, if they could live in any planet, they would've done so from the very beginning. They are dependent on earth and its resourcess.
There are also many different resources that you just don't get from asteroids like food, the alien had weapons but were running out of food.
>>84077347
If it eats it shits.
If it shits it can grow more food.
Ever heard of vertical farms? Sounds like those idiots who took over the ships, which I assume somehow were in space for a very long time, destroyed all of their sustainability systems.
Also, aliens wouldn't call it terraforming, they'd call it whatever-their-planet-was-called-forming.
Like hottaforming or something.
And building a city on the moon would work like this:
-Find a crater
-Dome the crater
-Fill the dome with atmosphere
-All that other tech you need (solar panels, water cycle, whatever)
That's the simplest way to put it. There would be layers to the city and it'd be all kinds of complex, but totally doable with the tech levels we're working with there.
And another thing, why would aliens need an atmosphere like Earth's? There's just too many problems with how complicated you want this to be.
There's no way to properly represent the complexity of the situation you want this to have unless the story is massive.
Next, there's already the technology for floating cities in low orbit and shit in the /coc/ setting, so why not build more of those if space is a problem?
It just feels like you want this to be chained to real world logic and politics without ever getting to exploring what would make it interesting.
>>84056250
I'm interested in how it might look if you gave her the domino mask but with empty white space in the place of eyes. Though it might come off as too retro.
>>84077890
She is meant to be a late-Silver/early-Bronze Age character. Retro's not necessarily a bad thing.
Its Summertime. Time for beach weather.
>>84078107
Time for the yearly Bloom outbreak.
>>84077286
>>84077890
I made an incredibly shitty edit to try out both of these ideas together. I think you might both be onto something.
>>84078875
I like that a lot. The size fits with the proportions of the finer features of the design (belt, logo, etc...)
>>84078107
>Puffy Nipples.
>>84078875
I would like to see her lower face covered in a mask, kinda like Elektra from Netflix's Daredevil
>>84079451
Why is Colette not wearing a top?
Its almost the fourth of July.
>>84079837
>>84079546
I think you'd need to add a third color to the costume to make that work.
zero motion-field, Motion created a technique, where she creates a field around her which absorbs kinetic energy.
>>84081120
Sounds like a mid to late story development.
Since it's summer, what kind of swimsuit do all the /coc/ characters wear?
>>84082982
>>84082982
>>84085036
Who's that qtpa2t
>>84082982
Colette is fairly innocent, so she would probably wear a one piece.
>>84085161
>Colette
>Ends up in bondage scenarios every other week
>Innocent.
>>84084029
can we get more Silver Queen being a badass/inspirational
like even just 'non-canon' drawings
>>84081120
>>84081854
I'd actually been playing with the idea of something like this. As her powers develop she becomes able to drain kinetic energy not just from objects she's directly touching, but from objects those objects are touching.
At a point, she's able to expand her sphere of influence to create layers of air that are being held in place, connected to her and ready to absorb energy. Any object in contact with that air can have its energy pulled from it before it ever even touches her, while at the same time the more air that object would be displacing, the more that air would also compress, effectively "hardening" to become cushions the object would have to pass through.
>>84086034
Sounds heart stopping for anyone close to her.
>>84086034
Oh, and if you're the anon drawing that Motion comic, think about trying to get it in Premier Pulp >>84053287
It worked for Ladybug, it could work for you if you ever want to talk to someone else with comic experience.
>>84085036
I am in LOVE with Mar.
The best /co/ creation.
>>84085093
I want to protect Marley.
>>84086875
She can protect herself. Probably needs a shoulder to cry on though.
>>84088412
I'll be the shoulder Marley needs.
>>84088412
>Padded superhero suit.
>>84088841
"Fuel tanks."
>>84082982
I suspect Briana would wear a bikini to show off them titties and THICC body.
>>84089338
>>84085909
I'd suggest her in an Action Comics #1 pose, lifting up a car.
>>84091884Marker Placed
Well, time to see if the thread will make it through the night.
>>84085065
Lovely Ladybug on the left, her roommate Lila on the right.
>>84094197
>>84093197
A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS!
>>84094197
>>84094211
Marley is so flat.
>>84085680
Whos the girl asking for the autograph?
>>84085093
Whos the chick with the octopus?
>>84094666
HOW FLAT IS SHE?
>>84094841
I dunno. Maybe small A-cup.
>>84094748
Diving Belle
>>84086034
with the right combination of actual science and real science, she could be the strongest character ever or have one devastating attack that would kill her as well.
>>84094684
Just a fan of /co/lette's.
>>84086034
>she
>>84095959
The top end for Motion's powers is incredibly high.
>>84094666
Satan, plz. Marley is the bestest, hugging her mean you're closer to her heart.
>>84097726
It's a high optimism setting after all.
>>84097843
Then the end game bad guy for her must also be incredibly powerful, or numerous.
>>84098766
Is the Motion setting high optimism? There's gang wars and dead heroes before Motion even starts heroing.
/r/ Strummer doing this rant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqgkZDbe4Xk
>>84100326
You've got to have some darkness for the light to shine through. High optimism just means the setting presents the idea that all the bad things can be overcome, not that nothing bad ever happens.
>>84094841
All the flat
>>84101071
I'm curious if that Motion plot has had any further developments since the anon drawing the comic shared his ideas on the story he wants to do.
>>84054584
I'm afraid to post my ocs because
>>84094197
>>84104059
We need more high optimism undersea adventures with Belle and the gang.
>>84105576
We haven't talked about them in a while.
Maybe there should be a big incident that introduces the team to the public eye.
Like being the ones to put a stop to the Bloom.
>>84105993
Maybe there's a Bloom attack on a crowded beach at the height of swimming season.
>>84106211
How about it's the very first Bloom attack ever?
It starts with some zombified swimmers walking ashore as scouts for the queen and begins spreading like a plague.
>>84106848
What does the queen of the Bloom look like?
How do you deal with headcrab zombies in a high optimism setting? This sounds like quite the test for our aquatic teens. Maybe Jellybro speaks Bloom.
>>84107063
Queen Bloom is this big jellyfish here.
And Diving Belle is the same setting as Lovely Ladybug, and a big plot point in that with the current issues is this miracle cure-all that's currently being stolen.
>>84107132
This thing.
It's basically bacta in application as far as I can tell.
How you treat a bloom victim is to stick them in a vat of this stuff for a while.
>>84107256
That wouldn't heal the jellyfish too?
>>84107311
It would separate the jellyfish from the host.
You need someone on stand by to scoop them out of the soup when it happens.
>>84107341
And has the added benefit of providing a very healthy specimen of the parasite for research. Handy.
>>84107366
Yeah.
And I figure Jellybro's missing memories will be linked to the Bloom and their origins. There's probably someone behind all of it, though if they were consumed by the horde or not is a question of how the story goes.
>>84107341
I like the fact that a pool sifter is apparently a key medical instrument in this operation.
Didn't that issue say the miracle cure was in short supply and tightly controlled by the Justice Coalition, though? Will this encounter see some help for the ACOSF from the wider JC?
>>84108575
It's not in short supply, it's just locked in an exclusive contract with the U.S. military and used primarily by the JC.
Something Lilah deeply disapproves of.
>>84108818
If they're only producing enough for the JC it might be a bit tight to administer to a beach worth of people on short notice. But heroes persevere, I'm sure they'll find a way.
>>84109078
That doesn't mean they don't have a way to super mass produce it, there were probably other times where civilian casualties were high enough that they used it to help save everyone.
There's gotta be a protocol for it.
But that's for later in the story.
I figure the story starts with the AC(oSF) having just finished their training under Spear Head, are on their first solo assignment.
And that is lifeguard duty at the beach.
It's boring for most of them, but Belle is upbeat about it. This goes on for a few weeks without incident until something happens.
>>84109174
>>84109078
We've had the Fax Machine since the 1920s or so. But phone companies suppressed it so it didn't reach the consumer market once, you know, landlines and crap made using a fax machine desirable for the average consumer. Militaries were the only people who made excessive use of the things.
come the internet they finally relent and the fax machine enjoys ten or so years of use before E-mail and the rise of the smart phone render it utterly obsolete.
Presumably the drug can be mass produced but the US Military doesn't want it entering the common market. Our current military strategy basically revolves around producing weapons that either one shot enemy machines or maim their soldiers. A healed soldier is a threat so a miracle drug that heals any wound is a serious military asset.
regardless of how that would effect civilian life.
It's really not that strange of an idea for military higher ups to ask a political group to suppress a technology, even a mostly beneficial one, for the assumed threat it represents.
>>84109301
>We've had the Fax Machine since the 1920s or so.
For real? I'll be damned. I knew the internet was created for military applications but I didn't know fax machines were so old. The more you know.
>>84109301
No one was questioning that it'd be strange for the military to do that, all I'm saying is there's more tan likely a way to quickly mass produce it in the all to frequent event of catastrophic civilian casualties.
I'd like to believe that in our /coc/verse the politics wouldn't get in the way of saving lives.
>>84109669
I'm sure they can scramble some sort of relief. Even if they can't cure all the victims right away they can put them in tanks until they can gear up their cure production.
Actually that could be a good seed for a future plot. Something goes wrong at the Bloom tank at /co/ntainment or whoever handles that crap.
>>84110663
Absolutely.
But how do the AC(oSF) handle the initial outbreak?
I think Jellybro and Diving Belle would end up going after the source of it.
>>84110892
Jellybro and Levi are immune.
Belle and Reef can protect themselves.
Reef could create things to hold them while Levi, Jelly and Belle shepherd them in.
>>84110892
Maybe Belle would try to find the queen so Jellybro and/or Bloop can reason with her. Gotta pursue that nonviolent solution.
>>84109601
I might be off by a couple decades and I'm too lazy to check wikipedia but the invention of the fax machine predates the internet by a frankly shocking margin if you think of its impact on society and brief moment of relevance for the consumer market.
think about your phone, it's basically just a tiny radio. Land Lines put a lot of the processing power in large companies. Smart Phones have signal managing packages and so on. If you can take radio waves and turn them into sound it's not that great a stretch to turn them into visual imagery, even before the invention of the television. If phone companies hadn't surppressed the technology during the 40s or 50s you could've seen Fax Machines being used to send books to people's homes or for short messages, a kind of weird primitive internet.
go figure.
>>84110663
>>84109669
I'd include exactly that sort of thing but I want to write 60s/70s spy thriller nonsense personally.
anyways disaster relief should be fairly easy to arrange, especially with people who can manipulate robots on a large scale who could collect and treat the injured via telepresence and so on.
>>84110944
Reef can grow coral from his body, but can he grow it from anything else?
Like throw a small rock up in the air and have a large boulder of coral fall back down to the ground?
>>84111037
I think there might be a mad scientists behind it, once they're dealt with, the Queen might call the whole thing off and wander the seas.
>>84111113
>60s/70s spy thriller nonsense personally
Are you the guy posting the AGENTS OF ONE stuff? I liked that.
Recluse is an international agent operating in that era, Mantis dabbles his feet in those waters. Maybe they'd run up against those deadly foes.
>>84111143
A disproportionately large number of our evil mad scientists are sea bound so that's entirely probable. Within that same issue the miracle cure is discussed there's a woman with a mobile undersea laboratory.
>>84111299
that's my nonsense yes, Iron Cross too if anyone cares. I'll probably write something substantial after I have an afternoon to glance at the wiki and pick out relevent /co/ creations to throw in alongside supporting characters, organizations and so on.
>>84111331
That woman was arrested a long time ago, and her trial was the first televised super villain trial.
Her research could be involved with the Bloom though.
>>84067051
I can get behind the idea of drawing a character created by somebody else, like who should I draw?
>>84111554
what do yuou WANT to draw?
>>84111491
I seem to recall she had at least one protege, though, and others could have moved in. An undersea fortress doesn't just disappear, after all.
Or, she could have escaped once or twice. It's not out of the ordinary for supervillains.
>>84111598
I like drawing cute girls of all kinds ans sizes and I'm not opposed to drawing dudes as long as is not something generic like ''lol, huge tits and dresses like a even sluttier vampirella and is always bending over!!''
Like something a little bit more creative than that, more ''pin up sexy'' and less ''spreading her/his asshole in front of the camara'' sexy.
Also character descriptions that don't last 4 fucking paragraphs with tons of small details... fucking roll players...
>>84109174
So the AC(oSF) are on another boring day of lifeguard duty. There are no sharks because Levi can make them not come close to shore with whatever her anatomy consists of.
Reef is reading a paper (because I hate the idea of him looking at a smartphone) and there's another article about more people disappearing from ships in the area. He scoffs and says that's the sort of thing they should be involved with.
Belle chimes in with boundless optimism that if they make a good impression on the public, they'll get better missions in the future. Caliber also adds that Reef was singing a different tune when he was posing for those beach girls the other day.
Then they hear screams from the beach and take off down there, some guy is rising from the water who looks like >>84106848 and Jellybro is doing his best to keep him from hurting himself or others since he's started swinging around wildly as soon as he got on dry land.
Reef encases him in coral and they as Jellybro if he knows him. He just shrugs "I dunno this this guy." Belle makes the call to close the beach on the chance there's more of these things. Reef and Caliber take the man to a hospital to get him looked at while Belle and Jellybro head out into the ocean to meet up with Levi and see if she's noticed anything strange happening.
The story starts like that.
>>84111656
If you're talking about Harpoonist, then no, he was not her protege, he was her pet project in messing with the meta gene.
I think her underwater mobile base was confiscated and stuff in there before Carver Medical.
Just sort've spitballing.
>>84111725
Reef and Caliber get the guy to a hospital, and they've never seen anything like it. The jellyfish is fused with this guy's head, its tendrils are all up in his nervous system. As far as they can tell the man is fully conscious, but has no control over his body. They put him in quarantine as they wait for a specialist to arrive.
Reef and Caliber had back to the beach to make sure no one else is getting into the water.
Diving Belle and Jellybro have found Levi, she's in her giant form and fighting a a swarm of jellyfish that keep latching onto her, but then fall off shortly thereafter. The jellyfish begin swarming Diving Belle and Jellybro as well, but then ignore Jellybro. They can't get to Diving Belle because of her suit and she starts creating currents to force the swarms to disperse. Levi fills them in that the swarm came from the northwest.
Back on the beach, more people fused with jellyfish begin lumbering onto shore, there's an army of them. Caliber is evacuating the beaches while Reef does his best not to hurt any of the jelly zombies since there's still people in there who can feel everything happening to them. Reef starts making walls and encloses them, then channels to corral the horde. He's in full coral armor to avoid possible infection.
Diving Belle's group moves in the direction the swarms came from and finds thousands of jellyfish, as well as captive people being forcefully exposed to them. Below them there's an army of zombies slowly making their way to shore.
>>84111758
No I remember a "professor Barracuda" or something. I could be misremembering.
>>84112099
I don't recall that one, but it could just be something I missed.
Anyway, I'm thinking the person behind the Bloom should be someone new or someone who was minor before.
>>84111725
Sounds good. Can the kids really call for a beach to be closed on their own authority?
Also, can the jelly zombies breathe underwater?
>>84112252
Maybe even automated systems in the lab run rampant?
>>84112307
Well they are the lifeguards on duty, and there is an active threat to the populace, so yes.
And I'm going to say that when the jellyfish fuses with a person, that person can now breath underwater because of the jellyfish.
Hmm... an automated program created the Bloom.
A good stinger would be Belle asking who turned the computer back on.
>>84112378
>A good stinger would be Belle asking who turned the computer back on.
Spooky.
Mind controlling jellyfish that act as rebreathers sound like shock troops to me. Smacks of military development.
>>84111708
how about a Number from ONE? Skintight bodysuit, face obscuring mask, prominently displayed number, alternatively a henchman?
double alternative, trawl the wiki for whatever interests you
>>84111708
Well, we have quite the selection.
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/The_/co/nservatory_Wiki
I personally would nominate Diving Belle, if only for the relevancy to the discussion.
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/Diving_Belle
>>84112477
Gotta get to the stinger before we can have it though.
>>84111984
It looks like an old sea lab is the source of the jellyfish. There's a much larger one in a cage being shocked repeatedly right above the "production line".
First priority is saving the people who are still captive and have yet to be infected. Belle creates a sea current for Levi to ride on in her smaller form at high speed before transforming back into her giant monster form and grabbing the entrance to where the people are being forced out, clamping it shut.
Back on land, there are just too many jelly zombies, it's only a matter of time before they make it into town. Reef is holding them off the best her can, but the jelly zombies are starting to learn to climb over his walls.
Caliber grabs her sonic surfboard and acts as bait, luring the hordes back into the sea. Reef follow them. While the zombies are after Caliber, Reef goes below them and make a coral platform, lifting them out of the water as a cage forms around them. They now have a huge number of trapped zombies, but more are coming so there's very little time for high-fives.
Back on the seafloor, Jellybro has been getting odd impressions, sort've like memories, he asks Belle to give him a ride to the sea base with a current since he thinks he knows a way to get in there. After Jellybro is in, Belle begins making a wall of ice to keep the marching zombies from advancing any further.
Levi joins Jellybro inside the base (protocol dictates never to go it alone). While in there, Jellybro feels lightheaded, way more so then usual. His head feels like there's a thorn being pulled out of his skull, like there's a compass needle poking him in the brain telling him which way to go. They find themselves in what seems to be an observation deck that's right next to the caged giant jellyfish. The security finally kicks in when he touches the glass.
I'm out of space.
>>84112789
Antiquated automations like flying buzz saws with guns are released. Levi makes quick work of them while Jellybro is still staring at the queen jellyfish. Levi finally shakes him out of it and Jellybro directs them to a control room. The whole place is empty, there are notes on the wall with the word "Bloom research" written all over them. The notes are old, the paper they're written on has yellowed with age. Levi contacts Belle with their findings, it seems this is a lab dedicated to creating an artificial hive-mind using jellyfish, the clear option is the eliminate the queen to sever the link.
Belle and Jellybro are against this though, Levi decides to go along with their plan to free the queen on the grounds that she could always kill it later if it became a problem. Back outside, the cage opens and the enraged Bloom queen emerges, lashing out in all directions with no clear focus. Jellybro tries communicating with it, but all he's getting are strong feelings of hate emanating from it, though none of them are directed at them.
The Queen looks like it's going to attack them, but then it swims off in a huff, it breaks the hive-mind when it does so, for whatever reason.
The zombies are now aimless and mostly harmless.
Back on dry land, there's media coverage on the beach now as Reef and Caliber handle the last of the zombies on their end into a coral cage. Suddenly Levi rises from the water causes shock and almost panic from the civilians until Reef tells them to relax, that's their teammate, Levi has a huge hall of jelly zombies.
Belle briefs Reef and Caliber on what happened and notes they still don't know who turned the lab back on.
Then I figure it would go into another issue where they begin trying to cure the Bloom infected people and the Bloom queen might reestablish her link with them.
>>84112950
So next issue would be trying to remove the Bloom, the JC proper getting involved (maybe pats on the head all around, good job aqua guys or something instead of the usual "this is everything you did wrong" speech the big two always preach), trying to secure enough of that miracle cure to restore all the people, and tracking down the queen Bloom.
I think the only person who might catch flack is Belle for letting the queen go, but if she hadn't let it go, then it would've become more enraged and the hive-mind would be all the stronger.
Well, things to think about later if this thread is still up tomorrow.
>>84112789
>>84112950
Seems pretty on point. The confrontation with the queen could probably use a little spicing up.
Can Belle do ice? That seems like a pretty advanced waterbender move.
>>84113131
She's been training with her team with her grandad for months by this point.
I think she'd have picked up some new tricks by then.
If ice is too much, then a wall of water currents.
Bumb
>>84114586
I'll do that too.
Threads are sinking super fast today.
>>84120796
Noice
>>84054761
>>84056308
It just makes me want to make every English character non-white and/or non-English, just to fuck the racists up.
>>84121064
Cuck
>>84121064
Quiet you.
>>84120796
BURNING!
>>84122042
Gonna have to think up his introduction to the story at some point.
>>84120796
This is probably my favorite short comic to come out of this thread.
>>84120832
>>84124149
It's an older comic, drawn within the past year.
It's nice people are noticing it this time since it didn't get much attention when it was first posted.
>>84124387
I meant "this thread" in the sense of /coc/ at large. The thread has been focused on things other than the /co/verse for some time so it's not very surprising it might have been overlooked.
>>84124704
Attention goes where the art is happening usually, which is why it was odd for it to be overlooked.
>>84123796
>>84127154
Could be that the man from before the oil spill is who reactivated the lab to drive down the property value of the beach so he could buy it and stick off shore oil rigs nearby.
>>84127848
How did Slick get Slicked, anyway?
>>84127969
It was an explosion at an oil rig, I believe. It released some entity that had been trapped in the oil, which it used as a conduit to bind to Slick.
It destroyed his body, except his skeleton, as seen in >>84127154 At first the entity was in control of the oil, until it was defeated by the Aqua Coalition. Slick was able to wile control from it in its weakened state, but it runs the risk of taking over and becoming a worse monster than even Slick is.
>>84127154
>>84127848
Are those really proto-CEO Slick? Not that great, familia.
>>84129398
Not quite. >>84127154 is part of the process where he was transformed, never something intended to be his final appearance.
It took a little while before he settled on >>84123796
>>84129398
That's what iterative design is for, famalamadingdong.
>>84113131
So how would you recommend spicing that up?
I will give this thread one last bump tonight.
>>84134596
Well let's see. It would probably be good to have a bit of a battle before the mysterious disengagement. Perhaps something that pushes Levi almost into going lethal, but with it fleeing just before she can. Also I think it would be good to know what makes it flee, if not necessarily why.
