a youtube series of our cause would be sensational. i love the idea, and think its brilliant.

just know that i will have nothing to do with a networked rlsh. not unless i have no other option

Noted.

I've said this so many times now I've begun saying it my sleep. No one owns the RLSH concept. No one can tell any one else what they can and can not do with it. There is no standard RLSH, no agreed upon rules, no profit limits, or direction that can't be taken. Eon, if you can manage to make a decent living while being an RLSH, God, Allah, Buddha, and Stan Lee be with you. If you create a show that is a huge hit and you have to create your own super villain to make it interesting, awesome. I will absolutely leach off your success to help my own causes.

Patchwork, if you're more worried about your rep and how anti-establishment you appear than you are about how many people you can help, I suggest you sell your house and car, put on a potato sack for a costume, start dumpster diving for your daily bread, and start devoting 24 hours a day every day to being an on duty RLSh because if you don't and instead you are spending some of your resources on yourself, you are technically, selling out anyway.

gadgetastic, i get you point, but you forget our purpose.

if it was simply about helping people as much as possible then why would we wear masks?

we are here to make role models, to show that one entity can do so much good.

if you make a mockery of the appearance of that entity then you ruin every rlsh's work

are you willing to risk that?

gadget i just posted that i was a freegan, only a minuet before your post, that is hilarious

im the king of lowering expenses, im patchwork

btw are those kangaroo legs in that pic? fiberglass compression model?

yea helix i know, i just have a way of stepping out and looking at the bigger picture of the big picture, i may be one of the youngest hero's but i like to think im very mature

You don't have to be super serious about it all the time -- it doesn't make people think this is ridiculous to have fun with it. Quite the contrary, actually.

What comes across as ridiculous to people is acting deadly serious and being obviously not well-prepared or delusional.

IMO, anyway.

There's definitely room for a variety of approaches.

i know i'm often way to serious, please keep in mind that i have never met another rlsh. i'm on my own little island.

have patience with me

I've only met one, myself. It's tough doing this alone, but we play the hand we're dealt I guess. I'm working on future meetings. I learned a lot!!!

Trying to get a gathering of gadgeteers, team techs, and mad scientists together but as is often the case with RLSh and related characters, travel expenses are a major stumbling block.

do i count as a gadgeteer?

and i would love meeting other gadgeteers

For the record, most of us don't wear masks. It's really a personal choice either way.

A lot of RLSH have psuedo-RLSH day jobs, like cops, firefighters, paramedics, activists, etc. So it's not a massive stretch that they combine the two. It'd be a popular sensation, I don't know which team would be best for this. NYI is a little too underground to do YouTube videos regularly, and I'm not sure if any other team really has the following. The Alternates seem on the ropes, Team Justice is all over the state, Rain City Superhero Movement is pretty much toast and XJL wouldn't really have broad support unless you started getting more hits.

There's something we've been doing with the Initiative teams called the Unlimited Program. Essentially, I formed a mission training program that covers 12 missions, starting with the most basic and working up toward how-to's for breaking up fights, bait patrols, trauma emergencies, disaster relief and riot scenarios.

If the Unlimited Program were expanded to several team, each team could complete the challenge and film it. You could edit the footage of these teams together to create an episode that compares and contrasts methods and team dynamics.

I'm aware of it, actually. I've been hanging out with Rock N Roll and Nightbug for a while now and finally decided recently that not "officially" joining the CAI was just getting to be ridiculous. So I joined.

what is the cai?

Wow, glad to hear that. It's great to have you on that team, they are both fantastic.

(CAI = California Initiative, a branch of the Initiative alongside the New York Initiative and the Virginia Initiative)

i see.