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Part 3 and 4 definitely aren't teasers for the new series.

I think the way the relationship is portrayed varies depending on which writer is doing the missions. My most recent exposure to the Clockwork King was from the SSAs, and it seemed very... yeah.

Anyway, it could go either way, diminutives are used as terms of endearment, and this game had Tyrant/Dominatrix so it wouldn't be the weirdest thing that happened.

Penny Yin's Psionic Crush is powerful... but not as powerful as the one the Clockwork King has for her. Could she ever love him for who he is, with bolts, rust and all? That's the major cause of Psionic Torment for him. He hopes the sight of his towering form gets her Psionic Pulse quickening... and prays that they never Psionic Drift apart.

Okay, I'm not even going to touch 'Impenetrable Mind' and 'Psionic Thrust'. That's just no good.

I kind of imagine the Battalion to be either:

A - Somewhat akin to the Shi'ar Empire/Imperial Guard from Marvel as seen in X-Men: The Animated Series

or

B - Tiny yet huge-brained psychic foetuses inside power armour/death mechs/artillery units. (Or, alternatively, shrimps inside power armour. So we can call them the Tempura Batterlion.)

So, with a damage proc like... Malice of the Corruptor's Recharge/Chance for Negative Damage, on my Water/Nature character:

If I slot it in Whirpool, it will have the chance to go off twice, once when cast, and then ten seconds in, and then that's it because it has a 15 second duration (according to Mids, may just be for the -def though.) Is this a chance to go off for all in the whirlpool, or just one?

Would it be better if I slotted it in an AoE power like Water Burst or Steam Spray, or more consistent in a longer recharging single target power like Water Jet?

A lot of the stuff that I'd like to see that some people would consider 'anime' or 'manga' is more Japanese that we've gained exposure to through the export of such mediums.

I for one would love to see traditional Japanese theatre masks and head types in game. Oni (which we have already as found on the Ninja Mastermind's third pet), Tengu, Kappa, and other types of Yokai. Noh masks are also visually distinctive, and face masks done in the style of Kabuki characters is also very eye-catching.

Some people may say 'where would these masks fit into CoH?' Well, Paragon City is a cosmopolitan place, and player characters could originate from anywhere to arrive there.

Of course, there's also the work of certain designers that catch people's eyes. I'd love to have the type of cloaks and coats seen in the character designs of Takahiro Komori, from the overcoats and greatcoats seen in Cowboy Bebop, to the fantasy cloaks seen in Scrapped Princess.

If we did get it, and I hope we do, I'd like to see the possibility of having more than one colour scheme. I think it's most likely we'd see Grey (Which would suit martial artist and dancercise instructor Dale Drake), but I've got characters that'd suit a Black Wolf transformation too (Thule battlemage and US government agent Nachtbrecher), and White (blood mage and animal tamer Haemokin).

I wonder what Greg Land's expression was when he heard the news.

Wait, he only has one.

Don't forget, Synapse, Masterminds need Cold Domination too!

Damn, the new Skulls look terrible...

...ly awesome. I don't even mind the Club hair.

Unless you go with the idea that the spirit isn't at peace and that they have unfinished business, unfulfilled desires and regret that stops them from passing over peacefully.

That seems like a very natural thing.

I want more slots. I'm very close to running out on Union, and the thing is:

A: I don't want to play on another server. I've been on Union since February 2005, it's my home server and it's where I've made great memories.

B: If I move characters off the server I risk losing the name which is often a huge part of the character, and I lose their SG Base if they're in a solitary SG.

C: I have a secondary account, but playing that lacks all of the reward tokens, costume sets and power sets I've earned and purchased over the years on my main account, and two subs just doesn't make sense for me.

D: More character slots means me giving the devs more money because I can go 'I'll get that powerset now and make a new toon'.

If they provide more character slots, I'll get them toot sweet. If they're going to keep bringing out new sets, they've got to offer more slots.

Steel Canyon needs big glass and steel walkways looming overhead, running between the buildings and around them like arteries. Neon signs and monolithic LCD displays beaming hot, delicious advertising and brand appeal up the towering skyscrapers. A sandwich, the lower slice of bread darkened and beset by clumps of mould and decay growing in the darkness, out of sight of law and order, a middle section full of bright lights showing the products and services you want to own and welcoming doorways beckoning in shoppers to spend their hard earned dollars, topped by an almost ethereal layer of bread where the rich dine and sup expensive coffee, and return to their penthouse suites with the occasional descent down to 'nature', parks in the surrounding area of the canyon which lack the chaos of nature for an almost plastic dream of strictly ordered and committee approved 'scenic beauty'.

Sky Raiders make their mark early, swooping low to break into high tech facilities lower areas or soaring high to plague the lockboxes and safes of the city-living wealthy. In the dark below the elemental powers of the Outcasts crackled, unbridled and raw.

Or something like that.

Throw Sand, huh?

Any relation to Pocket Sand?