Big_Lunk_EU

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So, what you're telling us is that Villain Epic ATs are actually a sexual disease?

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lvl 12 herpes lft?

I'm going to side with Syra on this one, because there is a good point in there.
It's not so much you HAVE to be an Arachnos employee, its that if you are not, you should think about the consequences of that.

If you are not an arachnos soldier, you would have to be ...
a) a former Arachnos soldier (but stay out of uniform)
b) a thief (and therefore should be a lot more secretive. no standing in Grandvil hall saying you stole your armour for the lulz)
c) publicly paying lip-service to Arachnos to gain the benefits (like arbiter Sand's "hail arachnos, blah blah blah" stuff)


the point syra is making is that if a character is publicly flaunting impersonating an Arachnos officer, or stealing from them, then the IC consequences of such would likely be being shot by Arachnos, or Arachnos supporters.

If you want to fudge the backstory, don't yell from the rooftops that you're stabbing the spiders in the back

((For those that didn't know, after many years of playing CoX, I'm leaving for greener (and bloodier) pastures.
I know what everyone says, "you'll be back", and yeah, I might be occasionally to check new content out, or participate in major game events (like the invasion was)

Anyway, I have a rather large pile of Influence sitting here, which has been collecting nicely after I got the finalised sets slotted in Lunk, and as I'm leaving, it's going to waste.

So, instead, I'm going to be doing something to encourage RP and whatnot

Clicky here for poster

Entries should be In Character, and along the lines of "I should receive the grant because...." as well as any information about the applicant.

Prizes will be 50million influence for the top, 25million for the 2 runners-up.
Application letters should be posted in this thread by next Saturday evening (17th of may)
Competition is open to all, as long as the character is a young person (although special circumstances may come into effect for the age group if the applicant is non-human)

Good luck to all those who take part))

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And it could be worse you could write with a phonetic Glaswegian accent.

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Or phonetic Geordie >_< (obvious dig at ginge there)

I tend to use ways similar to Z's, although i have also resorted to typing completely in that language, with a translation in Tells, when i have seen people near the conversation who metagame their way into "understanding" something marked as a foreign language.

I've also done it without the translation tells to [censored] someone off

"Every bl**dy day. Don't those mutated b*****ds have holidays?"

PHOOMP! A muzzle flash tears out from under Skyway City flyover, where Ben 'Big Lunk' Campbel sits hidden from the Rikti sensors overhead, taking a 'rest' with a spot of target practice, and thinking to himself.

"No little Riktlets snuggled up in their sleeping chamber waiting for S'nta k'laus on christmas eve?"

A moment passes before the burst of an incendiary shell crackles against a Rikti Bomber's armour, barely noticed by the pilots inside. The 'Click-Clack' of the anti-armour-rifle's bolt action echoes around the concrete supports.

"I suppose that's too human. No one wants to think of them as having families... children.... lives beyond trying to stamp us out..."

PHOOMP!

"...makes them easier to kill..."

Click-Clack... PHOOMP!
Click-Clack... PHOOMP!
Click-Clack...

"Probably the whole deal with the Omega Clearance. Distance the population's minds from their enemy, don't let them empathise, avoid support from in your own ranks."

Bellow, a blue spandex clad figure struggles to fight a Rikti soldier in a parking lot. Lunk lowers the rifle sights, taking aim.
PHOOMP!

The hero stands in shock, his blue clothing now a rather messy red, before yelling 'KILL STEALER!'

"What kind of hell hole is this for me to be trying to raise a family?"

Click-Clack... PHOOMP!

"Drugs, gangs, guns, high tech super powered aliens trying to assimilate us"

Click-Clack... PHOOMP!

"It's like shaft and StarTrek rolled into one big ugly ball"

Click-Clack... PHOOMP!

"Somewhere nice and quiet, in the middle of nowhere, with a few dogs, and a wide field. I'd of moved their years ago..."

Click-Clack... PHOOMP!

"...if I didn't LOVE this f***ing lifestyle!"
Click-Clack... PHOOMP!
Click-Clack... PHOOMP!
Click-Clack... PHOOMP!...

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It depends on what you call it...not all of it is RP...

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then what do you call it?

i would of though that "this new Wiki is all things Union Roleplay; an encyclopedic database for all your character profiles and stories!" in the main thread about it was a major give away.


Great to see Defiant do something similar, and i'd like to encourage Union to do something similar to Defiant, so we don't start getting NON-RP characters added to the RPer specific wiki

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Don't make your character the President of the United States.

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Rolando '08. Vote for Zorielle today for a better tomorrow.


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I remember talking to someone about something like this once. Its so much better that a char EARNS something IC, rather than being wrote into the position. The idea of a mayoral election in paragon cropped up to.

Rolando has my votes if there is :P

another one.... 2 week pregnancies.

sure, if its natural to your species to drop a sprog in 2 weeks. But the "oh, im pregnant... UNGH!.... its a boy!" in the space of a month makes me shake my head in disbelief.

I'm an angry *******, so I have got a LOT of pet hates.

Punctuation can get on my nerves, how a sentence is laid out can change the meaning entirely. The most annoying for me is names.
"Yes Bob I do like Mudkips" = wrong
"Yes, Bob, I do like Mudkips." = right


Smilies are annoying too. same reasons as everyone points out. they break the 4th wall for me.

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That they don't PvP.

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I've had some very good PvP battles IC. In Character smacktalk is fun.
Plus the run-downs of the fight that RPers give fill in a lot of creative gaps, and contain more than "i pwned him".


Spelling and casing don't bother me at all, its usually because the person writing them is more interested in the words than the little things like "is it ei or ie?"
"though"/"tho" annoys me though

just a small quick one today

Grav Mistress (one of many)

Until I can work out which parts of the cossie are what on the other guy , here's a W.I.P of Infurnus on his own

One down

I'll have a crack at the other one later in the week.

Might as well get these in one place.
Big respect to the DWT artists, who make so many great sketches in such a short time. It really is a pleasure to colour those guy's work.


Holly Steel

Angels Echo

More to be added as they're done.
Feel free to drop a request in you want your own sketch coloured

ooh ooh over here! I'm bored out of my mind and looking for something to do!

i can colour in varying degree of detail or style, depending on the "feel" of the picture. Also, being a dab hand with the old graphics editing, i can clean and enhance the image beforehand.
a small taster can be found here

Drop me a PM if your interested.
and of course the offer is open to anyone else who needs some colours done. Just PM the line-art and a good screen-shot for colour reference, and i'll put it in the pile.

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2.) Someone who who is utterly incapable of picking up on sarcasm

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which is incredibly easy to explain IC with partial brain damage to the frontal lobe.

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This is Roleplaying.

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and these guys roxxors teh PVP!


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Awwww what's up? Truth hurts a lot?

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and that just goes to show me that your original post was just an attempt at trolling

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This is Roleplaying.

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and these guys roxxors teh PVP!



that guy is 1 part RPer, 10 parts delusional nutjob.
most real RPers are the other way around

pointless just about covers it.
acting as the character, and the character being a 'real' (in game universe terms) entity, not a player behind them.

best way to put it is the occasional moronic comment you see made to RPers: "lol y u all talk leik npcs???!"

i realy have nothing to add, as its all been covered already... but...


Blah blah blah characters blah blah blah blah lower fantasy blah blah blah generic avatars suck blah blah for destroying the warcraft franchise for me, blizzard can take a long hard suck of my blah blah blah

Rogue Isles Protector

Arachnos strike teams are said to be gearing up for action after the latest wave of predictions from Fortunatas.
Although Arachnos representatives are keeping fairly tight lipped about details of the predictions, they have stated that it concerns meta-human individuals of a greater power than is normally encountered by Arachnos, and therefore should be subverted to their cause lest they become a threat to them and the way of life of all citizens of the Etoile isles.

This reporter for one, has complete confidence in them eliminating this threat, and wishes luck to our troops in the field on completing their goal.

Missing Persons

Saria Lansing.
Female.
5'5" tall, blue hair, blue eyes, appears to be late teens/early twenties.

last seen exiting Pocket D's night club, on the 7th of march 2008, in the company of a tall humanoid robot, at 7pm approx.

Anyone who has information on her whereabouts should contact the Paragon Police Department.

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Something that really helped me stick with my characters (as much as I have anyway) was to have a long term plan for them.

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and man, does it feel good when you attain those goals
<waves Lunk's reinstated hero licence, respect, reputation as a soldier/war hero, and family>

what if it wasn't an opinion on the rikti, and these people claimed that it was the truth.... such as a hero or villain from another planet who was attacked by the rikti as cut through the galaxy on their way to attack earth?

because... you know... i seen that in a bio before.....

I would say it was less a case of wrong AT than not simply putting "((charector is realy a nictus))" in their bio.

perhaps they had yet to reach 50, and wanted a placeholder for their concept. a dark defender would of fitted better perhaps, but a dark/dark scrapper would do for the time being.

of course the glaring problem i see in it is "nictus". Nicti(?) are inherently evil. Race=kheldian, class=Nictus, alignment=eating babies.
if your a good "nictus" then your a warshade (a reformed nictus) thats cannon.
saying your a good nictus would be like saying a "good nazi".


But on the subject of cannon Vs fudge; cannon overrules fudge for me. yes we may be better at writing it, but cannon backstory is the core and not to be fudged over.
of course theres also what i like to call unofficial cannon: the fudge that the majority agree on.
such as....
Zortel owns a huge company.
Coile is the biggest perv in paragon ( )
Sword of redemption/Doctor mechano makes the ever popular talkie-toaster
Lunk is big and scary.

none of that touches official cannon like some such as "Captain Uberwurst is head of longbow" would, so fills up those little gaps between.