AzureSkyCiel

The truth of those fires is: Someone left the coffee makers and hotplates running for too long.

So, this guy but with fire, huh?

"When everyone can solo, no one will."
-Syn- Venture

I dunno, I was able to enjoy fireball since he helped give some decent background exposition. I mean yeah it's kind of pointless and a throwback to issue 1 style contacts, but at the same time it was a little fascinating to find out the inner workings of the Animus.

Now the truly pointless is the Drudge repeatable and the Black Knight repeatable..

No real story there just: "these guys have @#$%ed with our @#$% for the last time."

I'd honestly say that's a problem with the people you team with more than Incarnate powers themselves. Admittedly, altering Incarnate powers would DISCOURAGE jerks like that.

To say the least, sorry to hear that happened to you, or to anyone.

I mean whenever I'm on a team, he have use judgement just to soften up mobs (since we're usually on higher settings and even a tier 4 judgment doesn't one shot them) and then everyone else rushes in and wastes anything left over. Then again, everyone I know also tends to pick radial paths than core.

Actually, to play on the "Yin Yang" thing... "Yin" in the "Yin Yang" daoist concept is the "Shadow side" it is the Masculine, the Manifest, and the overt to "Yang's" feminine, the unseen, and subtle...

So perhaps her hero name could be "Psychic Manifest"? Afterall, one of the big themes of her has been rising up and becoming a very overt force of psychic power. A contrast to Sister Psyche before her who was a controller that works in subtle details, or a contrast to Manicore who's nature is working in subtly and unseen aspects.

He is, well, he's paramilitary. He works with the Vanguard with Fusionette, but he has pretty much no costume.

So out of the Faultline trio, Jim Temblor has a hero name but no costume, Penny Yin has a costume but no hero name, and Fusionette is apparently the one one who's given any real thought to being a hero because she's the only one with a decent name and a costume.

(I now actually wanna see Penny, Faultline, and Fusionette all work together on something.)

Kind of makes me wonder: if you take a Praetorian through it, do they get the same things? It would be a longshot, but I kind of would love to see a Praetorian character's actions reflected in who is standing around outside the building.

Though if we were to take it up to 11, not just your Praetorian arc choices would hold sway over who's there, but your mortalities would also alter the map. If you were a Warden or Responsibilities who became a hero, you got an Imperial City with minimal damage and everyone making a stand together outside Praetor Sinclair's tower.
If you were a Powers loyalist or Crusader Resistance who became a villain, you come to an Imperial City that's practically in ruins and instead of the nice, clean gather, you could see riots in the streets and chaos everywhere.
A possible third route/rendition could have been done for Wardens and Responsibilities who went villain and Powers and Crusaders who went hero coming to an Imperial City that's moderately damaged, and there's a few random rioters around but you see redeemed PPD AND Resistance helping to get them back under control.

To first give a serious response: while I don't think it should take Incarnate things to make judgements useful, nor do I think Incarnate stuff needs to be nerfed outside of Incarnate content (seriously, Bill, why are our characters trying to become more powerful if we end up weak unless we're in some "magical incarnate allowance field"?), I do strongly support the idea of a blaster nuke crash reduction or elimination.

Now on the note of Steelclaw leaving the forums, I will say this much: "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? I DON'T MIND THE END OF LISTS IF STEELCLAW IS TIRED, BUT TO BE DRIVEN OFF AND DESPIRITED. THAT CROSSES THE LINE!"

Uhhh... Venture, while the whole world didn't do it, the United States kind of jumped the shark on reason well before Tyrant came into the picture when they thought electing General MacArthur was a good idea.

This was something I kept trying to explain to Golden Girl about Praetorian America vs. Praetoria vs. Primal or even our own America: Despite what that bum in the sewers talked about, we only have his word and to be frank, when before things went to hell we were under an administration by a man who's name is synonymous with telling women to stay in the kitchen, Christians are the only good people in the world and everyone else is filthy Commies, gay people are evil, and the best and only way to deal with Commies is drop nukes on them until they go away I end up wondering if Praetoria under Cole or the US under MacArthur was really much different?

Sadly, it may well turn out like that since Positron did say "The Incarnate System doesn't end", then again, the earlier development cycles included regular updates for AE, attention spent on PVP, and attention given to bases and we've seen where that's gone.

On that note though, my own hope is that while I don't mind the Incarnate paths continuing, I hope once the Battalion is over, a lot more time ends up spent on providing a wider array of content not exactly linked to some world ending threat.

Have us join Odin and heroes of myth in the fields of Valhalla, let us finally free Croatoa from the influence of the Red Caps summoning the entirety of the Unseelie Fair Folk to battle us, send us to accompany Ra to carry the sun through it's Journey into the Underworld where we battle Apep. And this is the magic only stuff.

Kinda weird, no?

I'm also pretty sure Res and defense were never given purples to avoid giving players ridiculous levels of survivability (like that ship hasn't sailed) or possibly because it might just look awkward to them. Like imagine slotting a purple defense set into say... Focused Senses. Now one of your positionals is almost comically disproportionate to others.

YOU'RE an evil person, a complete monster, and there's nothing in your posts that have ever rehabilitated you in anyway.

(because, seriously, no offense but with some of your statements, I do wonder why you play this game when it only upsets you or under performs to your expectations everytime?)

They achieved that peace by similar methods, namely a magical geas on all people of that world to a vow of non-violent magic under pain of death. Admittedly, because they're apparently still immortal, quite a few are still around to express why this was a better idea. Plus we see them doing much better than the other CoT.

I do say that he needs to put on his Emperor costume and sing the Candy Man Can to orphans as community service for his actions.

Really?



You really mean that?



You really think that floaty back pieces is "stupid" for "mystical" costume pieces?



Well you go ahead and believe that, in the meantime, this character of mine has a few choice words for you. The first begins with the letter 'F' and the second word ends with the letter 'U'.

So do as he says and "F'tghan Ls'schu".

Actually its four ghosts.

As you go you must pick up little power pills to keep your speed just faster than them. Occasionally you might get a power glowie that will remove the ghosts' invulnerability and grant you instant-kill damage against them.

35, Golden Girl. Night Ward only goes from 30-35. Small level range but given how leveling slows a bit by then it's much more sensible than First Ward's originally planned 20-25.

Also, First and Night Ward hold no relevance to previous loyalties in Praetoria. Loyalists have to fight IDF and DUST, meanwhile Resistance end up fighting... Resistance as Calvin Scott goes into full blown villainy. ("What's that? The Forlorn want to make their own way in life instead of being strapped with bombs and sent to blow up hospitals? KILL THEM TO THE LAST FOR THIS SLIGHT AGAINST US!")