opnet [OpNet] How did you become a nova?

[Blue Cherry]

Just a short history of how you became a nova,and how you think this changed who you are.

Me, I wanted to be a nova, thought over why I want to be a nova.Well, I came up with the simple plan, bang a noova...So,I went into one my bank accounts, headed to Sin city,got me a really looker and went for a ride. I believe that it changed me in a great many ways.Ironically I crave sex less now than I used to.

[Interceptor]

Basically I was heading for a job interview with an advertising company when I stumbled into a fight between some T2M Novas and another Nova, I can't reveal that Nova's affiliation due to pending litigation. Anyway that Nova tried using me as a shield and in teh excitement and adrenaline rush I erupted and broke free, flew up about 20 meters and blasted the Hell out of him with these beams that were shooting out of my hands and eyes. It didn't stop him completely, he was like the proverbial brick shithouse, but it definitely had some effect on him.

Everyone was pretty surprised by the whole thing, and the T2M novas brought him down. I went to the Chicago MR facility and when I graduated opened a company.

[Jager]

I have no memories of not being a nova, but I erupted in a traffic accident. I really don't see the window dressing around the eruption to be that important. That's like going to Giza and commenting on the quality of the sand.

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

I lost my temper when my computer's mouse stopped working.

The most important ways it has changed my life is I now have a working pair of lungs, and I'm smarter.

[ronin]

Somebody decided they didn't like me enough to try and bury a half-dozen .45 slugs in my chest. It didn't work very well.

[Singularity]

I was standing next to the wrong coke furnace at the wrong time.

[Wakinyan]

It's not really something I wish to discuss..

[Ghostwriter]

My husband beating the living crap out of me finished mine.

[Vincent Carver]

I was buried alive...sort of.

[April Rice]

Car crash. I guess it probably affected my powers, with the force field and all. I don't think the crash really changed me as a person, though.

[Sakurako Hino]

*sigh*

If you must know...

It was a schoolyard fight that almost went too far. I guess almost taking a header into a dumpster full of jagged and shattered construction material should do the trick if you're latent...

Just nobody else try to do it, okay? It won't work.

[Preston]

I was burned alive.

[Vincent Carver]

Hey you too? Maybe we should start a club or something.

[Sekhmet]

Our gods were pleased with us.

We became greater than we were and were granted dominion.

[Neil Preston]

I went to the funeral of a nova I never met, but he still had an immeasurable impact on my life.

I don't I can say this enough:

"Thank you, Vile Bill."

[Wakinyan]

Neil you became a saver of lives because you went to the funeral of a taker of lives??

There is some sort of universal symmety to that.

[Neil Preston]

Well, the guy left me a million dollars and a complete collection of Playboys (which I donated to the Harvard Library), and we had never even spoken. It was the very least I could do. I still make the yearly pilgrimage to his grave.

[ronin]

Many of us do, Neil.

[Sphere]

Stabbed with a shiv, got angry. Bye, bye Dartmoor.

[Charr]

The sole survivor of a dying planet in a distant galaxy I was rocketed to Earth to bring the knowledge of good, evil and proper manners to the primates infesting the biosphere. Basically a missionary thing only without venereal diseases.

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[Zed]

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Originally posted by Charr:
The sole survivor of a dying planet in a distant galaxy I was rocketed to Earth to bring the knowledge of good, evil and proper manners to the primates infesting the biosphere. Basically a missionary thing only without venereal diseases.

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That had to have been one fugly planet.

[Charr]

You bet your ass it was. The sunsets were lovely when the UV rays hit the sulphate layers just right though.

[Stephanie 'Holocaust' Hu Zhan]

Thanks to the therapy sessions that the Utopia people have mandated for me (that's right, therapy, so what? ), I'm finally getting to a point where I can start to deal with the events that lead up to my eruption.

Without getting into so many details it becomes uncomfortable (it really easily could ), someone I trusted got close and tried to hurt me. I erupted...well...I guess I erupted right around the time he got his hand in my pants.

Anyway. It's not a happy subject, but I think it's important to talk about. And now that the legal issue is mostly over, I can start to.

[Redback]

Something to do with my tour guides in a South American Jungle turning out to be Rebels with a plan to Kidnap me and hold me to ransom, I ran. ran straight into a cave with a huge spider problem. They eat me alive, the next thing I remember is being covered in my suit and being very angry. Wiped out the rebel village...I wiped them out all of them (pardon the pun).

How has it affected me? That would be telling, but I love raw meat the more alive the better.

[Machina]

What, has the taint spread to your fucking brains? Some random fucking clown on an OpNet forum asks you how you erupted and all of a sudden it's storytime with the aberrants? Get your heads and your asses wired to-fucking-gether.

You want to know how I erupted? The answer to that question is

NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.

Fucking asshat.

[Great Monster C]

Machina, if it is none of our business (and I agree, it isn't) why bother posting at all except to try to cement some sad attempt at getting yourself declared the hardest, meanest and most angst-ridden among us?

[Stigmata]

Maybe they're just trying to get to know one another? I don't see why that's such a bad thing. Most erruptions aren't exactly secret, you can research most of them with little effort.

[Machina]

It's not quite that simple, fuzzy. I only wish I could be that vapid and transparent; it'd make my life so much fucking easier.

The reason I felt the need to speak up on the matter is because I don't think anybody else should be so forthcoming with this information, either, and that by making some of these details public, all you do is paint a target on your fucking forehead. Think of it as a cautionary detail for the chimp-brains.

[Archon]

I felt disgusting as a baseline, and completely powerless to be anything but a pawn. And i was sure practicing a half gainer from the top of the space needle would be better than living with no control over my life.

so, i took one small step for man, and one giant leap into the party that the Galatea is throwing.

i still haven't figured out how it's changed me.

[Preston]

So, you were really trying to kill yourself, and not actively effecting your eruption?

[Archon]

yeah. pretty much.

imagine my surprise when i get to walk with my heroes.

[Archon]

who do you serve and protect Preston?

[Preston]

I am the Captain of the Nova Enforcement Division of the Greater Boston Metropolitan Police Department. I have been a police officer for over twenty years (yes, I'm old).

[Snake Jenkins]

Michaelites strap a baseline to a dentist's chair and grab a drill, thinking he's a nova.

Some fireworks later, Michaelites ended up far holier than they'd expected.

[Sakurako Hino]

*laugh*

Now that's a good entry into our world.

Congrats on showing them "the light".

[DigiGeist]

Ooh, bloodlust.

I'm away a few months, and what happens, our little girl starts up a Geryon fanclub.

No, just kidding.

It just feels so odd seeing her so... aggressive.

Okay Okay, I'll drop it

Back on topic. How did I ge into "the club"? Well, does getting a few .44 slugs in the chest causing critical bloodloss count?

Of course, the doctors classified me legally dead... Thus my name. I should be a ghost after all.

[Alex Craft]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure what triggered my eruption. Somewhere along the commute from home to work, I just popped a node - nothing remarkable at all. Maybe there was some oddball quantum fluctuation, maybe it'd been building quietly for a while, or maybe getting hypnotized by the road can cause an eruption. Go figure.

As for how that's changed me? Between being nearly invulnerable to all harm, mentally several steps beyond the human limit, and usually somewhat squirrelly I've become a jack-of-all-trades with what some would call a death wish (if i weren't, as mentioned, virtually invulnerable) and a tendency to be a bit of a trouble-maker. (c:

Of course, I doubt that any of us can really accurately describe how we're different since eruption. Since we are on the inside of whatever changes took place, we lack the perspective necessary to judge.

[Singularity]

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Originally posted by Alex Craft:
Of course, I doubt that any of us can really accurately describe how we're different since eruption. Since we are on the inside of whatever changes took place, we lack the perspective necessary to judge.

Quite true and a fact that disturbs me time to time.

[ronin]

I disagree. During the rare occassions I go dormant, I have a very good perspective on what precisely I'm missing out on. I can only comprehend the barest shade of what I had only moments before, but switching back and forth can give you the perspective I think you're looking for. At least it's the closest you're ever likely to get.

[H. 'Machine' Mann]

Let's simply say it was a stressful day at work for a rather demanding employer and leave it at that.