Angry_Angel

Grats, Mischief!

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Ha! I wanted to give you a fresh start .. so I added a point of rep. Is it geeky that it made me smile seeing your red jellybean turn green with one click?

Who was I kidding?

My intentions fell to time for just -one- character. My main had powersets adjusted on all five costume slots, her fifth costume refashioned, a respec, IO purchases, challenge levels set, and three new badges verified. Whee.. I'll be working on one character a day for the next 32 days. Add in leveling, teaming, and badging.. I'll be pretty darn busy until GR or Christmas, whichever comes first.

Get well soon, Posi & Co. Thank you for taking care of us. Now take a week off and take care of yourselves. <hugs>

- Now that stone is more attractive, a stone tank (lava) and earth controller (crystal/sonic). Viva la pretty options.

- Making a team of 8 using me, myself and I.

- Ooo.. I have four level 45's now (and a 43 - she was distracted by Icon). They all have Tina. Evenings! Level 14-45 teams. Hot dog.

- Breakfast. But not a hot dog. Something eggier like eggs and toast. Mmm.. over-easy.

Edit/add: <elbows> Bad Xan! You're always awake. <hugs> Go make us some fruit drinks, cabana boy. After this, we're watching the Twilight sequal trailer twelve times together and cooing at the screen. :P Do eet.

Anxiously awaiting i16.

- Currently at 667 on Una, my spines/sr scrapper.

- ..whilst my slightly inebriated rad/rad corr, Exotica, is sitting on the stoop of this club's service entrance, decked in her swiss-army dress*, blissfully curled around a railing and snore-snoozing loud enough to interrupt the heroes meeting inside.

From outside, looking in, so shiny! Who knew it wasn't a dayjob location?! Bah. At 592 right now, Ex will pick up another 4 when i16 hits. So close!

*crushed black silk works for boardroom meetings, funerals, yachting, congressional hearings, and laundry day. In case of a raid, please no one step on her on the way out. It's vintage GiBanshee.

1. Chains, single strand or multi, around the neck.
2. Neck cover. If the same color as the top, it makes a nice mock turtleneck. If a contrasting color, and especially under a textured top, it gives the illusion of a shirt layered underneath. If used with a solid colored scarf, it makes an elegant wrap.
3. Face 14. What Eis calls "the stern blue eyes".
4. Stillettos and glam hair.

Were you gone? I didn't even notice.

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Spines is great but you can't beat teh monkeys!

Unfortunately, never found a proper way to screenshot the character creation screen without laying MSPaint over it. So I captured about 10 seconds of my three favorites on FRAPs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_WXqd1Oo4

Hmm.. logged in. No Flea. I see a Kegan though.

< sick

I'm logging into the mall in an hour anyway. Then dinner. Then possibly District 9... still have not seen it.

Anyone here the gambling sort?

So.. what are the odds they'd skip open beta and gift us i16 on Tuesday, Sept 1?

That still me gives plenty o' time to daydream about GR this fall season.

With the help of forums folks and the Cape Radio, our supergroup has set up more immersive events in the D before. And while most of our planning details are not practical for daily roleplay, perhaps some of it can be of help. We ran the casino tables for only one evening (as part of a larger event for a video release) but across two instances using uniformed dealers, emotes for gambling, and "holders" for rewards on both factionsides.

The dealers, bartenders, bookies, and waitresses: Though costume contests were held for guests, only the volunteers came in uniform. For me, setting a theme is everything. Also, we knew there would be a bit of confusion with guests who wished to help out and would jump inside the velvet roped tables to gamble with others (it was a matter of guests knowing where they could expect pay-outs and prizes from pre-enlisted roleplay-friendly volunteers). Female characters (table dealers, waitresses) dressed in various jeweltone shades of the similiar specifications and gentlemen (table dealers and bookies) were free to dress in anything resembling a mobster. If I recall, the DJ had a sharp dinner tuxedo.

For daily roleplay, I imagine having the last costume slot set aside for a white dinner tux, mob look, or cocktail waitress would help others see you through a crowd of various civvy-clad bodies.

The gambling: We set up emote games per table. Best of three for dice rolls or rock paper scissors. The main gambling table had folks simultaneously raising numbered cards; those matching the host dealer would win. We had 2-3 'bunnies' at the slot machines. They'd roll dice to match so that the guest could see his results. [.. pausing to recall details, this was two years ago, I'll pull up my event album. How geeky is that? ] Oh and the bookies would call for bets to placed on the cage monkey fights. You can get one or two good fights from the monkeys. There was also a PvP hour, costume hour, etc so it was a themed night of which the gambling itself was the focus.

Dual faction payout: We had both hero and villain dealers without limitation on who could run a table or event. If a hero walked up and won at the roulette table, the villain dealer was able to pm a nearby hero co-host or one of the general floor managers (an overall event organizer) to pay out. We often save up for a year to give out various prizes. From having 1-300 HO's, costume salvage sets, Christmas present inspirations, etc. Things easily available in stock for both sides. I imagine any amount of influence/infamy would work as well.





Oh look.. bunnies.



Man.. looking at these and the other event albums makes me want to run another.

[or the alternatively titled: "Who wants an all-Warshade VG? thread ]

...and all I can think about is Going Rogue. Specifically:

- come what may, which if my existing characters will remain villains/remain heroes
- of those who switch, how will they react to their new homes in the City/Isles.. is Exotica doomed to live in a halfway house run by the Flanders?
- which of my characters am I willing to reroll so as to be birthed in the new GR starting zones.. there are new starting zone(s), yes?
- will we have a grace period in which we are neither villain nor hero? And if so, will that mean I can't join my existing SGs or VGs? Will we have to make a new lair? Can we just move into one of the old MTV Real World houses or get the crappy Road Rules camper?
- will Nick's Weenie Stand go under if I stop eating there?
- do I get to keep my cool Arachnos brand uniforms or are they confiscated? Damn, I love my waistcapes sooo so very much.

My corrupter just spent 21 days washing the windshields of Arachnos flyers with her tee-shirt so she could get her darn Pilot's badge. I can't even imagine what kind of shenanigans will be expected of her in Atlas. How will your characters deal with GR?

Congratulations, BookKeeper! Always good to hear of more villains plugging away at teh shiny trophies.. seems few of us compared to the Dudley Do Right badgers.

How to find other PvP'rs in Bloody Bay, by Angry_Angel (age 8):

1. Join a public badge channel and announce, "Hey. I'm working on [insert zone appropriate badge or temp power here]. Just solo for fun. Wheee. >o-o<."

2. Join kickball and just pretend it's inside Bloody Bay.

3. Rub ketchup on your leg.

Also, if you wish, pm me your global. I'll pass it to a friend's PvP channel.

Congratulations to you and the Avante Guard. Well done.

Great thing about Virtue, we have a friendly population which will gather with very little notice to run raids back to back. I've seen as many as six raids on a Saturday.. and this morning at 4 am (CST) we ran two on two teams. Granted there were more deaths than usual under those circumstance but it was also a blast for a wee hours Sunday morning mourning.

The repairmen are bugged; they're now set to challenge level: "mighty damn efficient nuisances". It's not enough to render the task force as impossible but can be annoying at the end of a long day. Some team leads are relying on bubblers to keep them at bay.

Who wants to see two Supermans in the same universe? And yes, I know, the name Superman would be generic'd in this game. I'm referring to a lofty make-believe realm, one in which the headlines read, "Superman saves the Day! Again!" A city populated with, say, five.. give or take two. Was it the dark brooding Superman with sultry Twilight-esque eyes, the bubbly blonde aspiring broadway dancer, or the slightly deranged furry version who speaks in 133t and always asks you for a PL? Oh, I shouldn't cross my analogy back to game.. sorry. It's just easier for my brain to digest Superman and Bizarro rather than Superman@Superman and Superman@Bizzaro.

At any rate, that.. above, I could easily see the sum of our characters' identities reduced to the global tag and playernotes becoming the fattest file on drive. And while I realize, in part, that's how the real world works... "Man, John is such a dick." "Ahh, I think he's nice. " "Nice? The guy just XYZ." "John in accounting?" "No, the guy who pushes the mail cart." "Ohhhhss. John Larson." "Yeah, that ************." .. In my world, I like knowing your characters by their unique, iconic names. I can't see that conversation happening as often if the mailroom guy was named Tharzor.

Happy 21st, Fourth! Cheers.

WARNING. SPOILER. LIKE IT MATTERS. REALLY. HONESTLY.