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I would like to offer up "Salvage Rights" Arc #366579 for review. The blurb is... "Go to the RWZ and help the Vanguard stop the scavenging of Rikti technology." Unfortunately It has kind of languished in limbo ever since I foolishly unpublished it and then republished it, so i'd really appreciate any publicity. Also should you want any further info (also spoilers) on the arc it has it's own wikipage which is linked in my sig.
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I absolutely love this suggestion. I really want the Nemesis weapons for my main, but limited gametime means farming Fake Nemesis is a long drawn out process. Not only that because Nemesis are late in the game. I could never have their gear on newer toons. Craftable costume pieces (and temp powers for that matter) was a huge part of the market and the invention system in the early days, but hasn't really recieved much love since then. Implementing this idea would certainly change all that.
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"Oh my God! Sandra did you see that?"
"See what Trace?"
"Big Game! He just stormed out of D's and I swear he had tears in his eyes."
"Tears! Aw C'mon Trace you know 'Game. He couldn't be more insensitive unless he wore two condoms during sex."
"Im telling you I saw tears."
"Well maybe he put some moves on some girl who responded with a knee in the groin?"
"I dunno San he wasn't exactly walking funny..."
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Conversation overheard between Pocket D regulars Sandra and Tracey in the early hours of this morning. -
For myself picking a single custom enemy is difficult but if I had to narrow it down to one group I'd have to say mine is Eso-Tech. This techno-magical research and development group started as a roleplay background concept but has slowly been developing into a MA custom enemy group. Im especially pleased with the look of the critters, especially the Keepers who make up the group's basic minion class. My only regret is that I have not yet created an arc that fully utilises the group, although it does make an appearance in Hunting Hyeanas Arc #369433.
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"Hey Barney check that out!"
"What?"
"Over there on the Jelly Fish Dream."
"He he! Ain't that the girl from that magazine who's 'sposed to be interviewing Big Game?"
"Yeah, and by the state of her hair and clothing it looks like they ran into some rough weather out on the drink."
"He he! Pretty strange that seeing as the sea has been dead calm all week..."
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Conversation overheard between two fishermen at Darwin's Landing shortly before they burst into fits of laughter. -
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She whispered to Brickhouse, "you did great...you know you do a really good Statesman impression...sound just like him...perhaps you should look into getting into the acting gig...alright now shake his hand and you're free to go, I promise..."
The boy looked up with unbridelled excitement at Brickhouse, a look of sheer happiness on his face.
Finally! Just shake the kid's hand and haul butt!
"Put it there Citizen." Brickhouse said as he extended his hand for the kid to shake.
"Now, somewhere evil is afoot and I must away!"
Pulling his hand away and swiftly turning around Brickhouse Inwardly cringed at the thought of the awful dialog he just inflicted on everybody.
Now, LET'S GET OUT OF HERE! -
Quote:How the hell did I get railroaded into doing this? I bet even Catwalk isn't having as many problems with that Captain Hollywood jerk. I swear this scheme of Doctrine's better be worth all this cr@p.
"Can I have that photo, the one with you and him lifting the truck in one hand and shaking hands with the other?"
Amy chuckled, "Sure thing..."
She looked to Brickhouse and whispered, "don't worry, I'll support the weight of the car in my hand, just do your best to look like you're holding it up...once you've smiled, had your photo taken, shaken his hand, you're free to make your excuse about 'being needed elsewhere' and then you can leave..."
She moved to one side of the pickup truck, "alright sir, get into position, I know this is going to be easy for you, so I'll try to hold up my end..."
Brickhouse looked down at the expectant eyes of the kid in the chair and was suddenly hit with that seldom felt emotion called guilt.
"Ok Citizen. Let's get you that photo."
First giving Amy a slight nod to indicate he was ready, he then bent down to start lifting the truck.
What I wouldn't give for some sort of distraction right now... -
Quote:Awww c'mon gimme a break! all I want to do is get out of here. Why'd the hell couldn't Partisan just get someone like Loot or Doctrine to come with Catwalk in the first place?
Amy spotted Brickhouse, "HEY YOU, OVER HERE!"
Wanting to do nothing more than to get to an exit, Brickhouse tried to push his way through the crowd. Unfortunately the sheer numbers seemed to block his every movement, and although he had the physical strength to barrel his way through he realised that would only draw even more unwanted attention. In the end he resigned himself to dealing with another unwanted interuption. Briefly gritting his teeth he turned and forced another smile.
"Um... Hi. Can I help you?" -
Quote:"Um.. Yeah, good fun. Umm... You're gonna have to excuse me. I got um Comics and stuff to look at."
"And don't worry so much, really, you look amazing. I'm sure the guys at your work would only be having a field day because they really couldn't pull off the spandex look." As though on cue an overweight 'Synapse' and 'Positron' (complete with 'armour' made from shiny lycra almost splitting at the seams) wandered past. "It's all fun though right? There's so much serious out there, it's nice to escape into a world of bright and showy from time to time"
Brickhouse once again forced an uneasy smile and quickly pushed his way into the crowd hoping to do a quick circuit of the convention before making his escape from the convention in a manner as inconspicuous as possible. -
Quote:At this point Brickhouse imagined he was blushing as red as that on his costume. One small mercy was that he could see Catwalk had already duped Captain Hollywood into leaving with her, so atleat the mission was a success. Now all he had to do was make good his escape.
"If I run the shot in the magazine do you want your name adding, or any comments? or would you prefer to keep the mystery?" she questioned, just about managing to tear her eyes away from his chest and up and into his eyes.
"Name!... Umm... How about we go for that mystery option. The guys at work would have a field day if they see the pictures and realise it's me." -
Quote:I don't £*$%ing believe it. Of all the people who could possibly want a picture it would have to be someone from a magazine that does nothing but glorify superpowered freaks. I can't really say no or im just going to raise suspicions... Man the rest of the Blackshirts are gonna rip into me for this!
"I'm Sara Saxon, of Kapow!" She pointed to her badge with a slightly apologetic smile for her upcoming question "I was wondering if I could get a few shots of you for the mag. Your costume is just amazing and you pull it off really well!"
"Um... er... Yeah, sure! How about this..."
Inwardly dying of embarrassment, the Statesman uniformed Brickhouse went into a number of incredibly corny heroic poses. -
Quote:Oh no! She ain't talking to me is she? Brickhouse thought to himself as a young lady carrying a camera called in his direction.Originally Posted by Bunny
Sara's eyes lit up as she spotted a man dressed as Statesman who unlike the scores of other 'Phalanx members' at the con actually had the physique to carry it off. Moving swiftly she weaved between the fanboys and girls to catch up with the man who made an incredibly passable States.
"Hey!" The photographer called out in the hopes of grabbing his attention, she had no idea who the metafan was but she knew she needed to get a photo, if not for the magazine, then for the girls in the office at least.
He then took a quick glance towards Catwalk who was still caught up seducing the egotistical Captain Hollywood with her insincere flirting. Focused on her own mission she was in no position to help Brickhouse leaving him to deal with this annoyance on his own.
As the young woman approached he forced a nervous smile, and for reasons not even he could explain pushed his chest out and rested his fists on his hips in a semi-heroic pose.
"Uh... you talking to me... er Citizen?" -
Shortly after at table 17c
"Look you little punk go hassle Back Alley Brawler or something. I didn't come all the way from the West coast to be heckled by annoying little runts like you."
"Well that ain't very nice. Just thought you'd appreciate a little constructive criticism. Your attitude stinks almost as bad as your movies."
"Why you littl..."
"Ohhh Captain Hollywood. It's really you!"
"What the?"
Captain Hollywood turned away from the scruffy looking ten year old that had been annoying him for the last twenty minutes to face the cute blond in the Miss Liberty costume that had just come up to his table.
"Here kid, have an autograph." Captain Hollywood said as he shoved a signed picture into the kid's hand before unceremoniously pushing him into the crowd.
"Well you obviously are not the real Miss Liberty, because im pretty sure she never looked that good."
"Oh you're a real charmer hun!" the blond replied with a giggle.
"Sooo, you're a bit of a fan huh?"
"Your biggest." She replied as she drew herself even closer to him.
the girl started to stroke her finger up and down his muscular chest, occasionally tracing around the gold stars on his red costume.
"In fact I was kind of hoping that seeing as I am your biggest fan you might reward me with a private screening or something."
Captain Hollywood's eyes lit up behind his mirrored glasses as he quickly turned behind him.
"Hey Steve watch the booth will'ya I gotta go give an interview..." -
Elswhere engulfed within the noisy surging crowd of excited convention goers whispered a pair of costumed meta-fans?...
"Damn it Catwalk! I look stupid, feel stupid,... this... this IS STUPID!. Why the hell couldn't we just bomb the place, and have done with it?"
An attractive woman wearing a fairly good replica of Miss Liberty's costume turned to face the moaning muscular man in the incredibly tight Statesman spandex.
"Quit your whining Brickhouse. Be thankful you don't have a host of spotty faced geeks drooling all over your feet."
"im just saying why can't we just blow up these snot-nosed sycophantic fan-bois with the rest of the capes. It's not like they don't deserve it too."
"Partisan already went through that. Security on these events is a lot tighter than it visibly appears. Although it would be immensely satisfying to off the bully-bait along with the capes the risk far outweighs the benefit. Besides our mission is important to Doctrine's Ugly Truth project. Once that's up and running it has the potential of being far more damaging to the super-powered freaks than any bomb."
"Ok, ok I get it. So where is this loser we're looking for and are you sure he's going to be here?"
"Totally sure. He got a mention both in the program and on the web site. Besides his production company are desperate for the publicity. The sort of garbage his studio churns out only appeals to the sort of girl-shy nerds that attend these things."
The pair expertly weaved their way through the crowds hunting their quarry.
"There!"
"Huh! That's Captain Hollywood? You sure we shouldn't just try some other cape? Y'know one of the local ones. I mean until you and Doctrine mentioned him I never even heard of the guy."
"Don't you ever listen to anything Brickhouse? It's because he is pretty obscure on the East Coast we chose him. Back on the West Coast he does a bit of heroing to try boost his own profile as well as create publicity for the sort of B movie garbage his studio inflicts on the rest of the world. Sure he might not be well known here in Paragon but people have heard of him. Creating a scandal around a real hero will have far more effect than if we just created a hero of our own. His obscurity here is what's going to help our scam work. Far less likely someone is going to notice something is amiss."
"You sure you can sucker this guy?"
"Totally. I met the creep once when I was modelling in LA. He's all ego and libido. This guy is so far up his own @ss that he'd have to open his mouth just to wipe it. One look at me making goo-goo eyes at him and I'll have him eating out of the palm of my hand."
"Still, you still gotta let the guy get close to you. I dunno if I could pretend to get that friendly with one of these freaks."
"Oh don't worry Brickhouse, you're not his type anyway. Don't worry about me. If modelling taught me anything it's that you don't get anything you want without sacrifice. Now stand back and let me do my job..." -
£%&*ing Amazing!!!
I really wish they had not stopped doing the Creative Genius awards because this is more than deserving of winning one. -
Like it says in the title I suggest that fires are made available as an enemy group for the Mission Architect system. Why? Well there are already targetable fires in the game anyway so (in my uneducated opinion) it shouldn't be too difficult to code them for the MA. I can see a simple fire having some nice potential in the MA. Such as...
...as a main objective. Put out fires (assuming you have ice powers or fire extinguisher temp power).
...adding character or extra challenge to an existing map.
...adding extra dimension to other objectives. ie setting bombs which then causes the fires to spawn.
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"I really don't get that guy."
"huh?"
"Him, over there. Y'know Britanic. I mean he's here as a civilian structural engineering consultant, upgrading all the forts and stuff, right? He's not even serving as a frontline combat operative, yet he still bunks with the rest of the grunts."
"So what?"
"Well the guy is loaded, 'sposed to have a fantastic penthouse in Founders Falls, and is married to that White Vampyr. Y'know that hero chick who used to be a rockstar."
"Well it's obvious then isn't it?"
"It is?"
"Trouble in paradise, buddy!"
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Conversation between two Vanguard Soldiers in the mess hall of the Vanguard Compound, RWZ. -
Quote:Well it's all a part of the 'Support Your Local RP Community' program...
Seriously, I love you guys. It really is an encouragement and makes me smile when others give their input on things like this and Kapow!
Wait there's no such thing! Why Not? C'mon guys pull out your fingers and get posting!!
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((Hmmm, serious?.. Yeah I can do that.))
How about a 'Gone But Not Forgotten' award? Obviously nominating Father Pious Hunter immediately springs to mind but there are plenty others who rightly deserve our rememberance. Heck even that wierd deviant Coile occassionally did his bit for all of us before he finally bought the farm!
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((I have already posted this on the wiki, but thought i'd also post it here to give a little inspiration for the sort of stuff I believe Chaos Bunny is looking for...))
''You have soooo got to do a 'Heroic Hunk' and a 'Bodacious Bad Boy Body' award. Best of all me and my good friend Tracey will happily volunteer to judge them XD''
Santastic@paragonwebnet.org
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''How about a 'Most Likely To Swap Spandex For a Bright Orange Jumpuit' award? After all sooner or later all that power is going to go some Capes heads and you know they're going to cross the line.''
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I love fun stuff like this!
A couple of questions though... Where would you like suggestions for categories? Here, or on the wiki's discussion page? Also are suggestions to be made IC or OOC?
I for one am looking forward to Big Game picking up 'Best Dressed Villain'... HEY! stop snickering you lot!!! -
((It is indeed a pity that you chose not to continue this thread as i had hoped to contribute.
Although the Priest and Britanic crossed paths on only a few occassions a couple of those meetings were massive events in Britanic's life such as the Pocket D Council of War's mission to use MMB's(Still don't know why we dont have a wiki page for that) to strike against the Rikti homeworld, and of course the Priest presiding over Britanic's wedding to White Vampyr. It seemed fitting that Britanic would of attended to pay his respects.
Best of luck for the future P.)) -
Quote:I totally agree with Ravenswing here. With ambitious projects like this it's very easy to get caught up into thinking you're obligated to keep putting out material. Take some of the pressure off by letting the community help you. After all in the end you have editorial control, and can decide what best complements your work.
We've had stuff like this before, and you can get people to contribute. I suggest that you take all the help you can get, otherwise it can start to feel like a chore.
A great example of such a project made up from material drawn from multiple sources is the sorely missed Nightsparrow's Scrapbook. As you can see it's mostly material from all across the community lovingly brought together and crafted into something greater than the sum of it's parts.
In a similar vein im sure Kapow would be a great forum for creativity such as guest articles, gossip, IC advertising, etc.
Of course in the end Kapow is your baby, and however you decide to go about doing future issues is ultimately down to you. I wish you the greatest success with this project, and eagerly await further publications.
PS. While the magazine itself is very impressive I feel that I should also draw attention to Kapow's blog part of the wiki page as this is IC gold! -
Taking a break is not only good to recharge the creative juices, but does wonders for helping you realise what you love about the game. Believe me, having taken several breaks myself, you soon starrt missing things and eventually drift back onto the scene.
So for the moment I will say goodbye, but I am pretty sure I will be seeing you again in the future!
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With my return to the game im in the process of updating wiki pages, specifically Eso-Tech, Humanity First, the Hyenas, and the Informer.
One project not of my own that I am currently taking a keen interest in is Chaos Bunny's Kapow magazine. I especially urge you to check out the IC blog on that page as it's a fantastic addition to the developing background story for the current Rogue War III plot.