Zortel

Cool PD article, though some of the stuff I think we can remove, like the Cuppathon, the Silver Age party (which I think was US only, can't recall, I know Cuppathon was) and the Test Server PD event, seeing as they aren't really Union PD relevant. (Or EU relevant in some cases.)

Announcements - 03/09/07

<ul type="square"> Sep 3rd 'In the Magazines' is Capes - Death of a Superteam by Crimson Archer.
Sep 3rd 'Featured Hero' is Anathema.
Sep 3rd 'Featured Villain' is Roselin Thorne.[/list]

The Paragon Metro's take on the story.

I'll be there.

Well, I won't, but Zortel will. I just hope I can stop hiccuping in time.

I'm working on Version 2 of this at the moment. Bigger, better, and with more info than before!

Of course it is! Thanks for asking, but if you're a Union RP'er and want to add an article, go right ahead!

28/08/07

Phew! What a day... it's just gone half five and I just got back from Unity Tower... it's been real busy, y'know?

I like, had a medical today, that was carried out at the tower. The good news is that my um... little incident with Dyne all those years ago, well, like, two and a half, but still, hasn't done any damage to my body and I'm all okay... My scar from that Rikti warblade that I got back during the invasion seems a little less prominent too, but Zorielle said that it'd like, still be there, even if it faded a little.

Just like, need to hope anyone I go out with likes scars, heh.

Zorielle said my physical results were very good, though I could probably like, do with a bit less junk food in my diet, and she's like, gonna get Jess to teach me how to cook. That's Jessiac Kade, she's one of the nicest people I've ever met, always happy and smiling, and she's like, the worlds greatest cook. Ever! She's like, really special... I saw her lift a truck up before like it was a cardboard box! And she... umm, well, hugs her kitchen utensils, and says it like, makes them cook better which is why her food tastes great.

Hope she's not gonna get me to hug any forks or knives!

Speaking of food, I like, got some new wafflemix and stuff for in case Kara comes around again. She's like, the first person to stop over here, and I'd like for her and others to stop again...

Wonder if I could like, get Nick round here for a sleepover? Get some movies and snacks and the like, maybe some games..

Anyway, like, where was I?

Oh yeah, anyway, after that, Zorielle gave my DNA a bit of a tune-up using one of her machines, I've seen her use it on her daughter, Hannah before, so it was perfectly safe. I like, feel stronger and a bit more in control of my powers already! Oh, yeah, Hannah is Zorielle's adopted daughter, she's a mutant like me, just she uses electricity, and can like, communicate mentally with computers. She's a really good hacker! She's been in Juvvie, and helped me when I went for my parole meeting.

After that, I dropped by the library and got some cookery books, and I'm like, gonna read through them later.

Then after I signed for some people who were visiting the FBSA offices in Paragon, I got my uniform on and went on patrol! BODICIA, that's the AI that runs Unity Tower and the Vigilants who guard it, sent me info on some Council guys up to no good! I dropped by, kicked their [censored] and rescued the people they had kidnapped to try and brainwash and get them to do stuff and all.

Then I head on my commslink that the Tsoo had stolen this special scroll that had like, the mystic powers of a dragon in! So I got looking about and found their base. Had a few total close calls with their weapons, but I was packing more firepower.

... Yeah, I know, bad joke.

I found the scroll, which belonged to a heroine known as Flamestrike who lost her life in the first war, and brought it back to her family where it was stolen from! Go me!

Anyway, like I was saying yesterday, Crimson Archer... or Jay. He's cool... I like, really admire him for being on the front of Paragon Pride. Made me feel better to know there were others out there, yeah, that sounds silly, but... y'know.

Plus I admire him for another reason too, I mean, I'm human, but a mutant too, and from what I know, he's just... human. And yet, he's still out there risking his life, with just a bow and some arrows. That's way cool.

I've got his number... maybe I should call him and just... y'know, chat? His friend, Jon, was quite cool too. I got his number as well. Right, guess I should get dinner going, so it's a wrap for this entry!

27/08/07

God I needed that sleep, y'know? Had a nice long lie in, and now... well, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with the rest of the day. Probaly tidy my appartrment a bit, get the shopping done and watch some TV. Oh, and add an entry to this.

Um... like my job. Yeah, in order to help with my income, Zorielle's set it up so I'm like, a translator for people who have to sign in ASL, so I'm on call for that from 9-5, sometimes I get a call later on and it'll be an emergency, but I'm happy to help out there. I mean, it's good to help out with stuff, y'know?

And I guess I'll talk about my friends a bit more too...

First one has to be Nick... or Nightschild, as I think his codename or whatever is. He's.. well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a total crush on him... he's really cool and confident, and part of me wants to be more like him... the other part wants to go out with him but... we'll, he's straight, and I think I'd prefer us to more remain friends... now if only he'd like, not wear that tight fitting Vanguard armour! Especially as he said he doesn't wear anything underneath it...

Talk about getting a guy distracted with just one little comment! He's like... half demon or something, Inc.. Incub...something like that, and it's really embaressing cause he can like, tell if I'm checking him or anyone else out or not. He's probably one of my best friends though, and before I came out, he was trying to help me get more confident with girls.

Speaking of girls, there's like, two major ones in my life.

Firstly is Natalie, well, I always call her Nat. Or Summerberry... kind of a little thing we have. If I was like... well, into girls, I'm sure she and I would be going out. She's still interested in me, even though she knows... I just don't want to like, pull away from her and have her feeling more lonely. She helped teach me to dance and stuff, and use my powers a bit better and tap into my 'hidden potential'. Yeah, she's like, got fire abilities too, but she's not a mutant, I don't think.

But yeah... she has a crush on me, and like, maybe in trying to cheer her up and take her out and stuff I've just made that worse... trust me to screw up, heh.

The other girl is... well, Kara's an odd one. She's a mutant too, I think she can like, manipulate kinetic energy or something... and she's very... well, pink. Excitable. Scantily clad. She like, the other one who helped me come out... I kind of walked her home and she invited me in, and we like, got chatting and stuff, and it just came out. She puts up a front of being a bit of a ... well, y'know, one of those easy girls, but I like, know the truth.

Now if only she'd stop saying that we slept together and running up to kiss me! Poor Nat almost had a heart attack when that happened! We like, shared a bed! And that's it! And she's like, trying to set me up with The Crimson Archer, that guy who was on the cover of Paragon Pride... well, he -is- kinda hot... but...

Hey, I forgot I had these CD's... will have a look through and sort them out later. I'm still like, putting the finishing touches to my appartment, it's between Skyway City and Atlas Park, really nice neighbourhood, and I get the sun on my bedroom window in the morning to wake me up.

Anyway... last friend I'll mention today, cause I think my bagels are almost toasted is Soren. He's from the Isles, but he's always friendly to me, and even got me champagne when I was parolled! He's.. well, he's one of the biggest guys I've ever seen, even bigger than Mr. Campbel... no! Not like that, y'know, tall! And muscular! He's [censored] too, and gave me some really good advice, just like Crimson Archer did...

*Ding!*

Well, I'll like, talk about him and the others later on. Bagel's ready! This is like, where I really hope I have spreadable cheese still!

See ya!

((Got a little bored late at night, so... here's the inner thoughts and monologues the Unity Vigil's very own teen sensation.))

26/08/07

So... umm... hey me, or whoever'll like, be listening to this thing. Guess I should like... umm, what do you do with a voice diary?

I guess I'll start off with me, then...

My name's Ryan Andrews. I'm 17, a guy, duh, and... well, several other things too. I'll like, get to that later. I'm American, I also like, know American Sign Language, I work as a translator, thanks to Zorielle... gah, getting myself muddled up here.

Alright, I'm like, a mutant. Y'know, like in those comic books, except... not. I'm a Pyrokinetic, I've been told. I think I get what that means, but simply, I can like, create fire. And I'm also like, Pyromorphic... so I can shape it too, not just my own fire, but others too. Pretty snazzy, huh?

And I'm part of a group of heroes, who like, do stuff for the city. They're called the Unity Vigil, and I'm like, one of their newest members. I just got inducted a couple of weeks back to being a full member. Before I was like, only a junior one. Cause I was on probation.

Yeah, I'm one of those kids who hung around with a bad crowd. Got me sent to Juvvie, where I then got on the MYRS program. That's like... uhh... 'Metahuman Youth Reformation Scheme', but basically they like, help young mutants like me make something decent of themselves, and I guess it's like, done it's job for me. They like, put a chip in your neck, called a Behavioural Reinforcement Modification Chip. Or something like that. It like, monitors you, can stop you from swearing, or even take your powers away. Scary, huh? Mine's out now, luckily. Was getting a little uncomfortable there.

I'm... well, like an orphan too. My parents died when I was 12... they were like, deaf, both of them, so that's where I picked ASL up from. And my little brother died 2 years later... due to me, and 'Dyne. But... I'll like, get to that in another entry, if I can like remember to keep this thing updated! Hahahah...

Gonna try real hard though to keep this thing up to date. Promise. I dunno why... I just want to record some of this stuff down, y'know?

The most recent thing to develop about me is that... well, I'm one of those guys who, y'know, likes other guys.

'Likes' likes.

My friends have all been cool about it though, as have my workmates... who're like, my friends anyway, so I didn't really need to add that bit. They're like, supportive and stuff. Some of them are even trying to find a boyfriend for me, which is nice I guess but... well, I don't want to like, rush things.

Man, I'm yawning like a good'un here... should probably turn in soon, it's been a long day, but I'll just like, make a few more entries. Like, about my friends.

There's Cauter, for a start. Or Lance. He's cool, he's my main mentor at the Unity Vigil. Mutant, like me, he can like, make chemicals that burn in his body, and he's got this way cool suit that lets him ignite that and gives him firey abilities. He's a nice guy, smart, kind, caring... seems a little under his girlfriends thumb, if y'know what I mean, but Lyn... well, Lyn's like that. She's like, 8 foot tall, and really muscular... I've met her a few times, she seems nice though, if scary looking.

Like I said, Lance is my mentor, he trains me in my powers and tactics and the like, goes on patrol with me, that sort of thing.

Then there's Mike, my other mentor. Or Storm Sapphire. Well, really, his name's like, Michael, and he's a police officer and a Peacebringer. Y'know, one of those Kheldian bonded people. With the Awakened Division or something, but he's in the Unity Vigil too. He's a cool guy, and his girlfriend Eloise is really sweet. He's not very cop-ish when I talk to him, well, the bad kind anyway, he's a good cop, and it's like, really hard to believe that he used to be a woman. I can remember seeing her... well, him now, presenting the weather in the mornings.

Zorielle, or Zortel, she's like, the leader of the Unity Vigil... she's motherly most of the time, and one of the smartest women I know, but she can be a bit scarey, y'know? She's just like, got that vibe about her that I wouldn't want to cross her. Still, she's always nice to me, and helped me get my new apartment and job.

Damn, I really need to get to bed now... spent most of the day with Cauter on patrol in Faultline... and then I bought this voice diary thing. Other than that, not much happened today... so like... um, night? I'm gonna crash on my bed and get a nice lie in, I don't need to be out helping keep the city safe or translating for deaf peopel tomorrow, so can relax... and get this filled in more.

So, till next time!

Lunk could ask Zortel who could ask Cindersnap to ask Nick. :P Or Zortel could just ask Nick herself.

That'd work. Perhaps replace all the individual description categories with just Description, for people to enter their own information into. So instead of Height: Weight: Et cetra, you have Description:?

Gonna be a delay on the newspaper box, sorry Coile. I'm trying, but I can't seem to muster the focus needed to work on the Wiki at the moment. Still up for answering questins though.

RE: Attribute box/power levels - I still don't use the system and don't plan to, quantifying powers so in such areas isn't my thing. Especially as it's based in mostly in game terms. Makes me want to get out dice and roll opposed checks for Melee vs Defense.

Like I said, look at the Nightsparrow's Scrapbook page on the Wiki to see what I mean.

http://union.virtueverse.com/index.p...%27s_Scrapbook

All external links, listed in order, with a description.

Basically, it'll work like this.

You have Category:Items. Then in there is the Newspapers Category. Click on there and it'll show The Paragon Metro, Paragon City Post, the Inquirer, The Paragon Times, et cetera. Click on one of them to to go to that newspaper's page, where there'll then be a list, like is done with Nightsparrow's Scrapbook.

Currently working on the newspaper box (At last, yes :P)

Had some people requesting that the level and AT is removed from the NPC box, which makes sense to me, and also been asked if an 'article' category under Items for news articles that aren't part of any of the IC newspapers thare are often used would be good.

A few other things I was pondering, but that's it for now, getting my motivation back for working on the wiki.

Banners are on a backburner for me. Can always toggle through them weekly.

Damn you, Pious. I'll beat you next time.

*Checks to do list*
Newspaper template. Just need to wait for my Wiki-fu to recharge some first, its been a little flat lately :S

1: You could use Hand_of_Andros(Group) for the first. Or Category:Hand_of_Andros, like I've done for the MYRS project, then set up a redirect for it at the page Hand of Andros(Group). There might be an easier way to do it, but those are the two that are apparenty for me at the moment.

2. Oooh... tough one, I think I read how to do it, but... it currently eludes me. I'll check the main wiki later (as in, Wikipedia) to find out.

Sorry SG, I tried but... not even I can be a Jill of All Trades, and I just got severely confuzzled by Video Editing. :&lt;

Ah yes, I knew something slipped my mind. Newspaper Cheat Sheet/template. Easily workable, I can get a start on that sometime soon.

Good idea on the NPC categories. I should probably shunt Xortel over to there. If you check her page, it has her level listed down as --, mostly because she doesn't exist on my accounts at the moment, the same with several other characters.

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As for spelling errors, it is no worse than quite a few unionwiki pages, or general posting on these forums. I honestly think picking on someone's grammar just looks petty. If you want corrections to that page, you could use the talk page, I am sure?

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Look, my point was that Liz was talking about there are so many pages with spelling errors in the context of editing pages and removing errors when Liz has made numerous typos and probably isn't the best person to be changing things like that!

Oh [censored] it, I'm having nothing to do with you lot, you take minor comments like that, which Liz hadn't even commented or and doesn't even seem bothered by, and blow them way out of proportion.

Not having anything to do with your drama.

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Yeah, I mean, why would you want to associate with people who get in a huff over insignificant little things like a box that can be filled in or not in a template.

Oh wait.

Disregard!

I think that's one to look up! Cause I don't have a clue!

The Donation page is a holdover from MediaWiki software. I have no clue how one would go about removing that, and I don't really want to tamper with it. RE: Dead links. Dead links are fine for the moment. Those little red blocks of text are a PAINFUL reminder for someone to link their character in or what not. Filling them in just for the sake of them not being dead seems a little, eh, and harder to then pinpoint what needs to be done.

Re: Blackdove

It's nothing definate yet, just up for discussion. Yes, those things might have been a little over-reaction to the little spat we've had which is well on its ways to being fixed and polished, it's just things to consider though.

And possibly things to stop me getting a headache. Which Sod's Law will dictate that I'll get either way, so it's migraine minimization. :P

As I think some people missed this, there is a Nationality section on the character sheets, and an ethnicity section. Zortel's for instance is American and Hispanic-American, respectively.

Hm, lost my train of thought for a moment, I'm sure someone will jog my memory though.

Zortel - Lost, confused and looking for a good home.

Alright.

My vote is on removing sexuality and just having that in the Character Box, and then having 3 entries in the category box:

Male, Female, Other

Other is broad enough to cover a wide scope of things, without the need for several categories to cover all the logical ones.

What say others on this?

((Also, I admit and apologise that my discussion on my talk page midday yesterday was a little harried and disjointed, and I apologise for that and any confusion caused. &gt;.&lt)

As for Re: Why it was there in the first place. As I think I mentioned elsewhere, it was on the American site, and I must admit, I used that search category on the other site, just wondering about the scope and numbers of heroes that side of the boarder. Just as I did a search for archer characters, or businesswomen. I'm like that. :P

The section potentially seems more trouble than it's worth though, so I'm all for getting rid of that area of categories.

Oh yeah, I missed it out somewhere, but we now have over 100 character profiles. Woo!