Everyone else, meet at alex's house because he obviously has the most supplies and junk
Alex is a she, and she's already going to join them in the next update when we move out to the elven forest.
You seem to have missed the point then, the fact that you started the adventure off with a wall full of firearms is a worrying indication. MSMM was about HIGH ADVENTURE and IMAGINATION, not TACTICOOL GUNZ. Combat was not a major part of the story and characters were introduced as the plot progressed instead of being crammed down your throat before it even gets going.
I have no issues with you making a forum adventure like this, but setting it in the same "world" as Menen's Search for etc. while getting rid of everything that made MSMM interesting is just insulting to the original, and it looks like you're simply stealing the other setting because you lack the creativity to create your own.
1. Combat requires a weapon. Everyone has only one weapon so far. There hasen't even BEEN any combat yet and even then it's only a 'part of life' kinda thing which doesn't affect the storyline much other then being cool with jumps and flips and stuff.
2. Only 3 of 6 characters have been introduced so far. The next 3 are introduced quite a bit later, and this is not a 1 person adventure. It's ment to introduce the characters at the beginning because they are MAIN characters and is oriented around multiple characters and the power of teamwork and whatnot.
3. I've hardly even started this, and everyone is only getting prepared for the interesting stuff to come. There will be more locations and such.
4. I have created my own settings for stuff (District 507, Universia, other stuff I haven't talked about much) but they're all depressing and full of fridge horror which is a large part of my settings. MSMM had a humorus setting so I thought, "why not use it?".
Plus originaly it wasn't ment to be a huge part of the story but I got a little carried away. After the elf forest we'll switch to a new map or something with new places because I'm not sure I like all this either and I would prefer original locations.
And with the tacticool firearms thing, none of the characters except for Alex were ment to have a firearm in the original plan, and even then Alex would rarely use it. It's what the users here chose for their weapons, not me.
So just bear with me and everything will smooth out, this is my first adventure and I'm trying to hammer out the dents and make something original, funny and cool.