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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 15, 2009 21:31:33 GMT
Our last real event of Season 1 will be October's PPV. Then we'll go dark whilst everyone gets to grips with the new game etc, might throw out a few PWN shows or 'off-season showcases'. But when thinking of 2010, there are certain things I want to have already set-in-place storyline wise before we get there, so that it doesn't appear that we are just making a bunch of changes out of the blue just because we're on a new game. Based on people's planned storyline ideas, and planned storyline losses, I'll put a preliminary Night of Legends I PPV card here: * TNB Legends Class of 2009 Awards Ceremony *
An In Character awards show to begin the night. Awards will be awarded (some the winners will be vote for by polls from the members) for different categories and achievements; culminating in the announcement of the Class of 2009 TNB Legends.Genesis vs Haven
Ryan Blaze vs Kincade
TNB Tag Team Titles:
Scott Manor/Partner vs Angel Fyre/Gabriel
TNB US vs TNB Amazon 4 Way Title Unification Match
Sara Stryder vs Alice Grey vs Megan Van Horn vs Lisa Vance.
TNB Undisputed Title:
The Avenger vs ?
(Mr. Showtime wants to face Avenger, but I believe Rosario has a rematch clause.)
* The Induction *
Our three voted Legends in the Class of 2009 fight against Genesis, Manor and Angel Fyre in a 6 Man Elimination Battle Royal to determine whom will be our TNB Legends champion in Season 2.Possible Other Segments: * Silvia Banks' debut? |
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 15, 2009 21:45:38 GMT
Amazon Division
The Amazon division is very slim, and it only looks to be getting slimmer. If I have all my facts straight, it has already recently lost, or will soon lose Angel Storm, Kaori Xaviera, Kaoru Xaviera, KC Anderson, Megan Van Horn, Rebecca Taylor and Shayne Pain. Many of the female presence in TNB aren't active singles wrestlers, but managers/support cast, or primarily tag team females. Even out of those that would be considered singles wrestlers, some aren't being actively roleplayed (like my own Lucy and Shayne Youngblood).
With all that being said, it doesn't have the body count to sustain two singles title belts. The unfairness of the current champion losing their belt is negated, as US Champion Jay/Sara Stryder has no problems running a unification storyline with Amazon Champion Kat/Megan Van Horn.
Given that it's mid September now, and there's not much time before Season's end, I've given these two the green light to run the unification storyline on the condition that it doesn't go out of it's way to exclude others. It makes more sense than just changing the womens division's belt lineup out of the blue with no storyline buildup, just because we're on a new game. And at least that way the division as a whole and certainly the new unified belt looks strong going into Season 2, having been held up mainly by two strong roleplayers, which is all I want for the division at the end of the day.
I assume that even though the women wrestlers will be able to fight in all match types except for First Blood in SVR2010, they're still going to be limited to the WWE Womens title, and if it's in the game also the WWE Divas title. But one of the mistakes that will be corrected as we move from SVR09 to SVR2010 is only only one Women's title. Should the WWE Divas title be present in the game, it will be added as a secondary women's belt, if the division ever becomes strong enough to support it.
TV Title, Violence Title & My characters largely down in PWN
I am going to be moving the vast majority of my characters down to PWN to leave roster slots open for people's characters in SVR2010. That, and to spend the time working on my character development accross all of my characters at my own pace, as PWN will have shows every two weeks instead of every week. I plan to have Lionheart send The Youngbloods (all four, Jason, Shawn, Lucy, Shayne) down to PWN as punishment for Shawn's unprovoked attacks on Angel Fyre, and Jason making his job a lot more difficult by making the FCC closely monitor TNB due to Jason's hardcore reputation. This means that Jason can remain face, and still war with his heel brother, blaming him for getting them both demoted. But Jason can also capitalize on being pushed down as he brings in the Violence Title, claiming he's 2X4TV, "Too Extreme For TV". After being initially established, the Violence title could then either remain a PWN title, or be moved up to TNB with or without Jason by some explanation. Maybe Sylas 'makes it so' by pulling on his creative control card...
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If staff decide that the normal TV title for the Males needs to be spiced up, this can be merged with the Violence title and replaced by the gimmick hardcore title: VDTV or XTV. (Violence Defined TV title or Xtreme TV title).
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Post by Sylas Styles on Sept 15, 2009 21:47:23 GMT
I've got plans in my head that revolve around Sylas, and his presence beyond 2009. I won't reveal it here, but rather keep it to myself, and shared with you Karl, so it's a surprise all around.
Ofcourse I've got my feud in place to de-mask "Emerald", and go into 2010 as my only male caw.
This opens the door for me to continue Josilyn's story involvement, and quest to redeem herself along side of Blaze, Haven & "Emerald". As well as bringing in another female to add to the division. Likely names that could be TNB bound are..
- KITSU (always a favorite of mine to RP)
- Ryanne (last name to come soon. I'll be posting pics of her in the creations section after this post)
- Sireena (a tie in from the Sylas story, as well as ties to Dragon if he comes in 2010)
- Autumn (Always good to have a beth phoenix type women, who can bully the women around as a heel, or help out the smaller women as a face)
and, the door is always open for a Shayne Pain return to the main roster, if I'm happy with how she turns out in 2010.
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 15, 2009 22:05:04 GMT
Tag Team Division
I don't have any suggestions on how to up the activity in this severely lacking division, but I can share one planned storyline of mine, and one thing I'd like to see.
As Leon wants his Avenger character to go back into singles, I plan to see out the year by having my character GABRIEL taunt him and forced-tag partner Angel Fyre. Eventually, this will lead to Angel Fyre attacking Avenger and booting him out of their tag team either when they win the Tag Team titles together, or on the last show of the year, October's PPV. Avenger will promptly be replaced with GABRIEL, who is a merger of his and Fyre's personalities, the youngest of the three brothers (actually four brothers, I think, if we're also counting Sebastian Crowe who turned up in red and white at the end of TNB1 during the Ultimate Alliance storyline). If I remember correctly I think Leon said he would be making Christian MoneyMaker into mainly Avenger's manager as a face duo, but MoneyMaker could still act as an authority figure if we needed someone for a storyline.
Do we have any characters out there belonging to TNB members that are known as being from other companies? I think something that could really give the Tag division a shot in the arm would be a 'Radicalz' storyline. A couple of tag teams associated with elsewhere come in as TNB wrestlers, but just dominate and always look out for themselves. Give the division an adrenalin rush, so to speak.
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Post by Sylas Styles on Sept 15, 2009 22:19:17 GMT
Everything looks, and sounds good to me in theory. Can't see any problems surfacing from any of it.
I know both the Womens & Diva title are in the game (seen screen shots of them).
As for other tag teams outside of TNB coming in. The only feds I'm currently following are XWA, AWF & OCW.
XWA - I don't know if any of the teams would willingly come over and leave XWA.
AWF - There aren't many tag teams there, if any. More so stables that work together, made of singles wrestlers.
OCW - Ya.. not gonna go there. I know 2 guys who would be great for us, but they aren't going to go into 3 feds, as the handlers committed to 2 feds together (AWF/OCW) Those names being "Renegade" and "Warren Peace" aka "The Kings Of Hardcore". But like I said... OCW has it's beef with you (Karl) and you know how Chupa deals with his feuds.. everyone has to agree with him, and his opinion -_-
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 15, 2009 22:27:59 GMT
Any thoughts on the Violence/TV ideas?
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Post by Sylas Styles on Sept 15, 2009 22:32:07 GMT
As I said, works for me, see no problems in the way you put it forward.
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Post by Silvia Banks-Juarez on Sept 16, 2009 1:27:23 GMT
Yah for storyline discussions! ;D My two cents... Women's division: I seriously think that if this unification storyline is going to happen, we should consider re-naming the division. I'm sorry but (and I don't want to sound presumptuous) I can't take the division seriously when we refer to our female competitors as "Amazons". Either we should call them the women's division or something that can coincide with what TNB is supposed to represent. I think the fact that people "need" a name for the division is silly but I guess it's a pattern learned from the fed's of yesteryear, therefore I'm willing to accept something relevant and that won't make our female characters the butt of jokes... (which I'm sure are inevitable). We need to break down what TNB is, and see WHERE our women division is going. By which I mean, are we going to push them as legitimate competitors, eyecandy, a lil' of both? Frankly, I think a happy medium would be good. When 187 mentioned the name TNBombshells for name suggestions way back in some suggestion thread, that name stood out to me. It practically speaks for itself. It actually FITS the wide spectrum of female personalities and gimmicks that were, are, and will be for this division. Now, how we would make this work, in such a dramatic shift, would be to have someone take the reigns and turn things on their head. And the fact that this is RELEVANT to the power struggle storyline which I think is still in the works (?) is just the icing on the cake. Also, let it be known that this would also fit the unification storyline that I personally believe couldn't have any two better RPers in the forefront as the driving force for said storyline in Addy and Jay.  As for my take on the other divisions... Tag Team: Yes, we seriously need to get people interested in this division. I actually want to see more two different person RPers in a team rather than one RPer controlling two people. But, I'm not against it either, if said team has lasting power. I'd be willing to bring in CMI to help stir things up, but I don't want it to be seen as a conflict of interest by other people. Perhaps one of my other unknown teams in my home fed could possibly work too. What we need is the perfect antagonist(s) to push the worth of the TNB World Tag Team Championships. And cue Karl for calling for a "Radicalz" type kick in the rear.  Great minds think alike. All we need is to find that team(s). Not sure about recruiting teams, but I suppose I can look into it especially since I did A LOT of recruiting for GCW in text-based feds across the net... PWN: More people. I wholeheartedly believe that Shane Andrews is more than qualified to run things there and help push people to both improve and be a constant reminder for people that their goal in PWN is TNB. Storylines are <3!  |
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 16, 2009 1:45:40 GMT
We'll be using the WWE Women's title before we do the WWE Divas title, which of couse, has WOMEN'S plastered on the front of it, but I too like TNBombshells. I also think that since 99% of the roster do not want to go integender, then as long as the Women's title is considered it's equal - there should be no problem returning to the World Heavyweight Title as the 4th Generation TNB Undisputed Title (and have that as the replacement for the 'Gladiators' title).
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 16, 2009 2:08:29 GMT
Getting Avenger Back On Track; Laying the seeds for the Gladiators title removal.
... Apparently I was wrong. It wasn't Leon's idea to have MM be Avenger's manager, it was just something I'd fancied up myself. To flesh out that idea's explanation, and also the idea about replacing the Gladiator's title a bit more:
We know that MoneyMaker has been a hard ass to Avenger recently, forcing him to team with Fyre, for example. Once Gabriel kicks Avenger out, Avenger could be feeling 'lost'. MoneyMaker continues to be the 'Head of the Gladiators Division', but begins taking on a more 'mentor' role towards The Avenger. MM could say he made Avenger team with Fyre because he hoped Fyre's arrogance would rub off on Avenger and he'd get that fire in his belly again, something like that. Cue Avenger and MM's relationship evolves again, as Avenger works his way back to the top.
Maybe Avenger could even wear less facepaint to show an evolution of himself? Just something to reignite the character in other people's mind and make them sit up and take notice.
MoneyMaker could remind this 'feeling lost' Avenger that he is still the TNB Champion, and thus this seems like a good way to get Avenger back up there in people's minds, and back into the singles division with a bang. This could be Avenger's build towards the end of Season 1; and at the October PPV Avenger faces the Gladiators champion for that belt. Then regardless of weather Avenger wins his title shot at the Gladiator title or not, at the October PPV, MoneyMaker/Lionheart/Avenger will make the announcement that the Gladiators title will be replaced by the TNB Undisputed title in Season 2.... before Sylas comes out and flexes his control muscles by keeping their title change decision, but firing MoneyMaker from his staff position as 'Head of the Males Division'.
During Season 2 this MM/Avenger relationship allows Leon to really re-explore and expand on Avenger, to freshen him up if you will. And it alleviates some pressure on MM as a 'staff character', because he'll return as Avenger's full time manager, and I think those two can certainly bounce off each other. I mean, who would know more secrets about Avenger's past than MM (other than Angel Fyre or Gabriel). MM could, if we ever need him to play a staff role again, even if it's a one-off deal, be revealed as the majority shareholder of TNB stock.
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Post by Silvia Banks-Juarez on Sept 16, 2009 2:25:52 GMT
We'll be using the WWE Women's title before we do the WWE Divas title, which of couse, has WOMEN'S plastered on the front of it, but I too like TNBombshells. I also think that since 99% of the roster do not want to go integender, then as long as the Women's title is considered it's equal - there should be no problem returning to the World Heavyweight Title as the 4th Generation TNB Undisputed Title (and have that as the replacement for the 'Gladiators' title). Yes, si, oui. etc. We just have to make this happen. |
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Post by Silvia Banks-Juarez on Sept 16, 2009 2:28:01 GMT
Getting Avenger Back On Track; Laying the seeds for the Gladiators title removal.... Apparently I was wrong. It wasn't Leon's idea to have MM be Avenger's manager, it was just something I'd fancied up myself. To flesh out that idea's explanation, and also the idea about replacing the Gladiator's title a bit more: We know that MoneyMaker has been a hard ass to Avenger recently, forcing him to team with Fyre, for example. Once Gabriel kicks Avenger out, Avenger could be feeling 'lost'. MoneyMaker continues to be the 'Head of the Gladiators Division', but begins taking on a more 'mentor' role towards The Avenger. MM could say he made Avenger team with Fyre because he hoped Fyre's arrogance would rub off on Avenger and he'd get that fire in his belly again, something like that. Cue Avenger and MM's relationship evolves again, as Avenger works his way back to the top. Maybe Avenger could even wear less facepaint to show an evolution of himself? Just something to reignite the character in other people's mind and make them sit up and take notice. MoneyMaker could remind this 'feeling lost' Avenger that he is still the TNB Champion, and thus this seems like a good way to get Avenger back up there in people's minds, and back into the singles division with a bang. This could be Avenger's build towards the end of Season 1; and at the October PPV Avenger faces the Gladiators champion for that belt. Then regardless of weather Avenger wins his title shot at the Gladiator title or not, at the October PPV, MoneyMaker/Lionheart/Avenger will make the announcement that the Gladiators title will be replaced by the TNB Undisputed title in Season 2.... before Sylas comes out and flexes his control muscles by keeping their title change decision, but firing MoneyMaker from his staff position as 'Head of the Males Division'. During Season 2 this MM/Avenger relationship allows Leon to really re-explore and expand on Avenger, to freshen him up if you will. And it alleviates some pressure on MM as a 'staff character', because he'll return as Avenger's full time manager, and I think those two can certainly bounce off each other. I mean, who would know more secrets about Avenger's past than MM (other than Angel Fyre or Gabriel). MM could, if we ever need him to play a staff role again, even if it's a one-off deal, be revealed as the majority shareholder of TNB stock. *Likes this...* |
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 27, 2009 0:55:58 GMT
As I'm sat here simming this Steel City ShowDown PPV, Avenger has just won the TNB Gladiators title from Tommy Rosario. Shall we go ahead with the title change to TNB Undisputed Title and Sylas' firing of MoneyMaker now at this PPV?
I figured that this way we're not mirroring the title situations by replacing the Gladiators title and unifying the two women's titles together at the same time at the October PPV..
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Post by Christian MoneyMaker on Sept 27, 2009 1:00:01 GMT
I say fire Moneymaker. That way it gives Styles some play and really gets things going as we end this season. Plus it gives Moneymaker what he really needs to do and that is to align with Avenger. Basically a father figure for him anyway.
As far as the title switch or name switch? I say you can do that as well but will that mean Avenger bringing the title in and exchanging it for the new one? If so that could be interesting with Lionheart and Styles in the ring with the Avenger and his new so called Manager in Moneymaker. Could be a little fireworks and good storylines could develop.
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 27, 2009 1:06:42 GMT
Yep, all sounds good to me.
MM can get fired at the PPV - then at next week's Showdown Avenger brings back the TNB Undisputed Title with Lionheart, as MM and Sylas are also in the ring...wow I don't think none of those 4 guys are gonna have a nice word to say about each other... gonna be sweet.
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Great minds think alike. All we need is to find that team(s). Not sure about recruiting teams, but I suppose I can look into it especially since I did A LOT of recruiting for GCW in text-based feds across the net...
