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 The Big Apple, 3 AM. Traffic lights wink on and off over the darkened and quiet streets of the Bronx. A lone figure moves through the streets, holding her jacket shut against the cold. She looks about nervously, trying to dig her keys from her purse as she walks towards her car, her shoes clacking on the pavement. She stops and turns, hearing a noise, and within moments an arm is thrown around her neck, and a hand shoved over her mouth. She tries to cry out as she's dragged into the alley, thrashing and kicking. There is a whisper of metal and a faint glint of light from the blade of a knife, and a low voice threatens the woman for her purse; a second man emerges, not quite as stocky as his friend but armed. She glances around, wide-eyed, to see several men chuckling and emerging from their hiding spots, all armed with various cheap weapons; bats, golf clubs, an entire sporting store in one gang's hands. The woman looks horrified and struggles to drop her purse, but the man with the knife continues to advance. Everything else happens in a flash. Her captor's arm disappears from her neck, and she staggers, feeling he's no longer behind her. The world spins as she is thrown away and caught by another set of arms, and set down on the pavement. One by one, the lights overhead shatter mysteriously, leaving only the moon, blocked by the skyline of New York, as illumination. Three other shadowy figures emerge like lightning from the shadows, and in a flurry of movement send the gang sprawling. Another figure leaps over her, and for a fleeting moment, she can't help but think she saw a turtle shell before she simply faints. When she comes to, it's to the lights of several police cruisers. She is swaddled in sheet in the alley, and she groans as she sits up to look around. Scattered around the alley, shoved into trash cans and dumpsters and generally incapacitated, lie the gang that had tried to mug her. An officer takes a knee by her, asking her how she is and if she can tell him what happened, and she looks at him, dumbfounded. She isn't sure how to explain any of it. Above them, a figure watches. It smiles, satisfied, and makes a gesture with its hand. Within moments, three other near identical figures follow the first, leaping across the alleyway with ease. Their bandanas trail in the wind as they head off, to continue to make their city a better place. We live together, we train together, we fight together, we stand for good together... we are ninjas. We strike hard, defend and protect and fade into the night and there ain't no bad guy or monster that's gonna ever change that. That's what's important and that's why we will always be... brothers. -----  Welcome, to a flagrant misuse of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying to play as idiots in the TMNT world! I've always been a huge fan of the Turtles since I was a little kid and I still have a large collection of their comics, but for anyone that didn't follow it, they went through a lot of rather insane bullshit. From intergalactic wrestling matches to dealing with Hong Kong assassins after mystical artifacts and back around to idiot Foot Clan ninjas in their long johns, the Turtles did everything under the sun, and they did it with an arrayed cast of humanoid animals, both mutant and alien. Most of them were just for badly set up puns, like Napoleon Bonafrog the cajun toad, but some, like Old Scratch, the tom cat that lost his eye to Splinter pre-mutation, were fairly menacing villains. They’ve saved the day with martial arts, technology, and at one point, Mikey touching a magical wish granting amulet before Shredder and wasting the omnipotent power to get himself a slice of pizza. With that in mind, I'm looking for a team of FIVE players, either playing one of the original Turtles, one of their allies (or foes!) be they human or animal, or anything you can think of. The main reason I'm using MHR is because it feels like such a much more fluid system than the Palladium one, but since I also own that book like the sucker that I am, I can also offer to roll you a random mutant you can be, and let you stat it up in MHR. I’m going to ask that no one really take any d12’s in their stats unless they’re dropping something low to match it, or it suits whatever character they are; Rocksteady have a d12 strength and a d6 or d8 speed or agility makes a lot of sense, for example, or really any mutant from a huge loving animal like a rhino. Feel free to make a brand new character with which to beat up street things, rock men from another dimension, and the various other bullshit the turtles had to deal with. Even if you don't make a unique guy, give me an insight into who you are, why you do what you do, and what you think of New York, the enemies you face, and even the turtles themselves. I intend to cheese the multiverse poo poo pretty hard so if you want to be the Shredder from another dimension where the turtles are the bad guys, then by all means. Come up with milestones, and I'll be sure to have some New York and scene specific ones as well. If you're looking for inspiration, the Lost Datafiles of Marvel has two posts with suggested profiles for the four turtles right here in this thread. You don't have to use those strictly if you don't want, but they're there to give an idea. I'm going to leave the recruit open until Sunday, July 19th, so let's kick shell! Or whatever catchphrase you wanna use. EDIT: Here is the MHR Combat Cheat Sheet and here is the general cheat sheet. They'll help. John Dyne fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 14, 2015 05:34
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Love MHR, loved the TMNT cartoon as a kid, so definitely interested in this. I'll take a random mutant roll, since that sounds fun.
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Jul 14, 2015 06:49
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Submitting a Metalhead.
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Astus posted:Love MHR, loved the TMNT cartoon as a kid, so definitely interested in this. I'll take a random mutant roll, since that sounds fun. So, here's how the chart in TMNT and Other Strangeness works. This being Palladium charts we're talking about, there's like six loving rolls. The first roll determines your origins, where your animal comes from. The second is the actual type of animal you are. Third is how you were mutated, and then from there on it's determining how educated you are, your relationships, etc etc. I'll only do the three rolls to determine origin, animal, and how you were mutated; feel free to ignore any of the three and build off how you like. I'll include the charts themselves so you can peruse them for inspiration. Linked the chart because it's huge. Astus http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4830233/ 29, 58, and 48. You are an urban pet rodent, accidentally mutated. Basically, Splinter, but a gerbil.  Fuckin' Mouse Guard dude.
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Jul 14, 2015 15:42
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Hahaha gently caress it why not I like goofy kung fu poo poo roll me up something Dyne-o.
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I'm a little iffy, since I wasn't the biggest fan of MHR in your Civil War game, but I can't pass up a random animal mutation roll. Show me my spirit animal, and I may be inspired.
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ArbTA http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4830951/ 62, 96, 50 You're a deer that was accidentally mutated and now you fight crime, probably with firearms cause come on, a deer with a rifle.  Werix http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4830954/ 67, 10, 45 You were a coyote that was accidentally exposed to mutagen and now you practice shamanism to protect the wilds or maybe you wrestle poo poo.  Remember, TMNT had pretty much everything. Cybernetics, laser weapons, fire arms, actual magic; you don't just have to be a karate animal! John Dyne fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 04:43
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I'll take a random roll to determine if I get anything better than Slammu, Whale Wrassler. A whale who is a wrestler, not a dude who wrestles whales. Those are both valid TMNT characters actually fuuuuuck.
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Jul 15, 2015 15:33
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I'll take a random roll and hope I end up as chill as Ray Fillet.
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Jul 15, 2015 15:53
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Inkspot http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831065/ 87, 96, 47 You are a buffalo from a zoo that was accidentally mutated. Image search suggests you would be a noir detective.  Mr. Maltose http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831066// 74, 37, 95 You are a wild wolverine that was deliberately mutated. You are the original Marvel version of Weapon X.  I don't know if this is an actual wolverine but it came up on google search so blame the internet.
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Mr. Maltose posted:I'll take a random roll to determine if I get anything better than Slammu, Whale Wrassler. A whale who is a wrestler, not a dude who wrestles whales. Those are both valid TMNT characters actually fuuuuuck. You can't cross Street Sharks and TMNT it's against 90's Code
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Jul 15, 2015 16:24
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Blockhouse posted:You can't cross Street Sharks and TMNT it's against 90's Code I'm just going to point out that was BIG SLAMMU, who was a Whale Shark which is completely different.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:33
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Changed my mind, random looks way more fun. Hit me! The weirder the animal, the better.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:34
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Mr. Maltose posted:I'm just going to point out that was BIG SLAMMU, who was a Whale Shark which is completely different. Different enough to stand up in court?!
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Fuzz http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831071/ 41,30,59 You are a pig from a farm that was accidentally mutated. You could be a competent private detective, whose partner is a horrible person that can't get their poo poo together. 
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Jul 15, 2015 16:39
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serious post: I've been reading like fifty million usagi yojimbo comics lately he counts for this right
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At the risk of taking this even farther down the turbo-nerd road, which of the many and varied TURTLE CONTINUITIES should we be considering because there are way different folks mutating dudes in IDW world compared to the Archie-verse.
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Blockhouse posted:serious post: I've been reading like fifty million usagi yojimbo comics lately he counts for this right Hell yeah, Usagi Yojimbo and TMNT had crossovers all the fuckin' time. His rhino homeboy Gen is the best. Mr. Maltose posted:At the risk of taking this even farther down the turbo-nerd road, which of the many and varied TURTLE CONTINUITIES should we be considering because there are way different folks mutating dudes in IDW world compared to the Archie-verse. Whichever you like; hell, if I don't know 'em, I can consider 'em a new character and not give a poo poo. If you wanna be mutated by being a dog who ate the Sorcerer Supreme's homework, by all means, go for it. Alien species from another world? Do it up. Have fun with it, the turtles were loving insane as it was with all the poo poo that's gone on. I will admit I momentarily confused Image and IDW so my reaction was initially a little more negative, cause the Image comics were turds, but I hear the IDW ones are pretty decent. I haven't read much of the turtle stuff after the year 2000, but I have seen some of the new show and it's not bad. Also, if anyone needs ideas, help, or just to shoot the poo poo, I am usually sitting in #acolyte on synirc.net John Dyne fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 16:44
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Random mutant roll please
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FireSight http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831095/ 50, 94, 51 You are a goddamned farm turkey that was accidentally mutated. I couldn't find a good picture so here's this. 
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Jul 15, 2015 18:06
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Aww man, I hate pigs. Going back with Casey Jones, I guess. 
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Jul 15, 2015 18:43
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Dump some ooze on me, I wanna be a random mutant!
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Jul 15, 2015 19:23
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I'm interested as a huge fan of the original Turtles comic and RPG, though right now Gen Con is bearing down on me, so we'll see if I can find the time to mutate some poor animal... or... something. Yeah, the comics were weird.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I'm interested as a huge fan of the original Turtles comic and RPG, though right now Gen Con is bearing down on me, so we'll see if I can find the time to mutate some poor animal... or... something. Hello fellow gen con goon. Even with it bearing down I'm still going to make trickster coyote. e: here is said Coyote Trickster Trickster comes from a long line or ordinary rear end coyotes in the Southwestern United States. However, at some point in his lineage Trickster's family took to living out in the deserts that nuclear testing was conducted on. Not only that, but the desert is littered with old bunkers where the government did all types of experiments. Really it was perfect, the government could do its experimentation, and then detonate a nuke near by, and none would know the wiser; who is going to go digging for old government bunkers in an irradiated desert? The answer to that is a bunch of dumb ordinary rear end coyotes. Trickster resembled an ordinary rear end coyote when he was born, but that didn't last long. Soon he resembled some half coyote, half toddler, and was shunned by his small family. Kicked out of the bunker, he rightfully should have died in the middle of the desert, but as fate would have it, an old Navajo Medicine Man stumbled upon the infant. Now the medicine man thought the mutant was literally Coyote, the Trickster, and brought the boy in like anyone would upon meeting an infant god. Now the Medicine Man didn't know Trickster was a mutated freak, and neither did Trickster, so for all intents and purposes he was raised as Trickster, a god who would explore the world lying, deceiving, tricking and laughing at people. Trickster had most of his fun finding stranded hikers or lost Illegal Immigrants and just loving with them. Offering them bad food, leading them around in circles, leading them to believe he was there to help, and everything in between. All that matters is a good laugh, and no cost was too high for a chuckle. One day the Old Navajo Medicine Man passed away, and Trickster mourned for nearly a month. After mourning, he needed to find some good fun to cheer him up. The same old scared hikers just didn't do it anymore. Eventually word reached him of the city of New York. Of men made of pizza, brain creatures in torsos, and a group of four warrior turtles. Such a place sounded oh so fun. Name: Trickster Affiliations: Solo d10 Buddy d8 Team d6 Distinctions Trickster That's damned funny right there! Small Desert coyote in the Big City Power Sets Mutant Coyote: Enhanced Reflexes-d8 Enhanced Speed-d8 Enhanced Stamina-d8 Enhanced Str- d8 SFX: Versatile Replace any Mutant Coyote Power with 2d6 on your next roll. SFX: Invulnerable: Spend 1pp to ignore physical stress or trauma unless from a magic attack. Limit Exhausted Shut down any Mutant Coyote Power and gain 1 PP.Take action vs Doom pool to recover. Trickster "God" Enhanced Senses: d8 Humiliate Opponent: d10 Leaping (movement): d8 SFX: Did you really need that? Spend one PP to borrow the highest Die in the doom pool as an asset for your next action, then step back and return the doom die. SFX: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any Trickster "God" power. You must keep the result, even if lower than the original Limit: Laughed out Shut Highest rated power 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity during a transition scene. Specialties Psych Master d10 Covert Expert d8 Menace Expert d8 Acrobatics Expert d8 Milestones Laughing "God" 1 exp: When you proclaim to someone that you are in fact the god of trickery. 3 exp: When you use HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! and get a better result. 10 exp: When You remain flippant in the face of personal tragedy, or you abandon your flippancy to rescue or save someone or something precious to you. Trickster 1 exp: When you choose a Villain or NPC to be the target of your trickery. 3 exp: When you intentionally engage in an action that sabotages the chosen individual. 10 exp: When at a critical moment you engage in an action that causes the chosen individual to take d10 or more Trauma. Werix fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Fuzz posted:Aww man, I hate pigs. Going back with Casey Jones, I guess. Hey, you can make whatever you want! Don't like pigs, then change it to a porcupine. No one is stuck with what I roll! It's just for fun and for ideas. RandallODimm http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831256/ 31. 17, 29. You're a domesticated dog from the city that was accidentally exposed to mutagens! I wanted to reference the Dog Police band but here's a better image. 
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 Seriously though time to make a drug sniffing dog who sniffed some heavy poo poo. RandallODim fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Metalhead Unsatisfied with the low-tech simplicity of his bo staff, Donatello resolved to create a new weapon from salvaged Krang technology, and so Metalhead was born. Originally a simple automaton controlled remotely by Donatello, Metalhead's shortcomings became apparent when it was hijacked by Krang and almost destroyed the Turtles. Afterward, Donatello decided an upgrade was in order, and uploaded a rudimentary intelligence created out of the personalities of the four brothers. Now, Metalhead is its own person, through it still suffers from some problems due to its four conflicting personalities. Distinctions Krang Tech Artificial Intelligence Built From Scrap Affiliations Team D10 Solo D8 Buddy D6 METAL HEAD, METAL BODY Durability D10 Psychic Resistance D10 Strength D10 Stamina D8 Weapon D8 SFX: Invulnerable: Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma results unless caused by electric attacks. SFX: Heavy Handed: Add a die from the doom pool to one or more attack actions. Step up the doom pool die by +1 for each action; return it to the doom pool when you’re done. Limit: Collateral Damage: Both 1 and 2 on your dice count as opportunities when using a METAL HEAD, METAL BODY power. Specialties Combat Expert Tech Expert Vehicle Expert Milestones Bull in a China Shop 1 XP when you first use your Heavy Handed SFX in a scene. 3 XP when you help another hero but put someone else in danger. 10 XP when your actions fail and make things worse or you save the day without any collateral damage. Emotional Instability 1 XP when you first take Emotional damage in a scene. 3 XP when you first add your Emotional stress die to one of your own action rolls in a scene. 10 XP when you either sacrifice yourself for your allies or fight until you’re the last hero to fall. MaliciousOnion fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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Okay Trickster's story cracked me up, that's incredibly TMNT and suits the world perfectly. Metalhead looks good, too. Astus is an old pro at this system and is apparently going to help me make sure everyone is set up right. 
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hit me with a random thingy, friendo
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Give me a random mutant monstrosity, Dyne.
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willus http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831356/ 52, 65, 66 You are a raccoon that was deliberately submitted to experimentation. You are a professional hitman with connections to a plant that you take everywhere.  Epicurius http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831359/ 98, 6, 32 You are a lion from the zoo that was accidentally mutated. You are the chosimba one. 
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Back in the mid-to-late-'80s, I enjoyed the hell out of TMNT (the RPG and comic, that is -- the animated cartoon, not so much). So, Dyne: gimme an adolescent radioactive black belt hamster, or whatever other random critter pops up from your rolling. If I don't like it, I'll just resurrect a character of mine that I remember fondly from nearly three decades ago: a human-sized cardinal that flew around dive-bombing bad guys while wielding a couple of big fuckoff axes.
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John Dyne posted:willus Willus, you should literally just App Rocket Raccoon. There has to be a datafile for him already made, he is a Marvel Character after all.
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TychoBrahesNose http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4831391/ 76, 34, 99. You are a pheasant that was deliberately mutated. Really, can't come up with a better joke than that.  WHICH ONE IS THE PHEASANT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A PHEASANT IS
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 Golden Pheasant
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Is the other one a silver pheasant then?
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After a lot of comic reading and considering stats, I came up with this. I feel like the Milestones may be a little half-assed so I'm open to suggestions. Miyamoto Usagi  Distinctions Wandering Ronin Rabbit Out Of Time Honor Above All Affiliations Solo: D10 Buddy: D8 Team: D6 KATSUICHI'S TRAINING Enhanced Reflexes D8 Enhanced Senses D8 Enhanced Stamina D8 SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a Katsuichi's Training power, you may move your physical stress die to the doom pool and step up the Katsuichi's Training power for this action. Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any Katsuichi's Training power to gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity to recover or during a Transition Scene. DAISHO Enhanced Durability D8 Weapon D8 SFX: Master Swordsman. On a successful reaction against a close combat action, convert your opponent’s effect die into a Daisho stunt or step up a Daisho power until used in an action. If your opponent’s action succeeds, spend 1 PP to use this SFX. SFX: Two-Sword Technique. On your next action or reaction, replace a Weapon die with 2d6. SFX: RYAAAAAA! Step back the highest die in your attack action pool to add a d6 and step up physical stress inflicted. Limit: Gear. Shutdown a Daisho power to gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. the doom pool to recover. Specialties Acrobatics Expert D8 Combat Master D10 Menace Expert D8 Psych Expert D8 Milestones Bushido 1 XP when you discuss the tenants of bushido and honor 3 XP when you take action that your honor demands, even at the risk of yourself or others 10 XP when you sacrifice a life for honor or give up the way of the samurai for good Samurai Tourist 1 XP when you compare New York to your home reality 3 XP when you first suffer Stress from a modern or futuristic technology source in a scene 10 XP when you either turn your back forever on the "modern" world or integrate into it fully
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Your milestones look good. I still have issues with my "laughing god" milestones and am open to suggestions on the 3 & 10 exp ones. I think my trickster milestones seem fine, though they are going to piss off someone.
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Since it's Saturday and I only have the three apps, I'm gonna go ahead and extend the close date to Wednesday, July 22nd. This should give everyone plenty of time to finish up and give new people a chance to get involved.
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