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“It’s clearly outmatched, I doubt Mechano is callous enough to just sacrifice one of his creations in this manner.” Said Mister Rogers

“He’s likely to have some sort of evac method for the girl, we just need to give them time to use it.” The hologram gave Molly a celluloid smile, familiar to most American childhoods.

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." The hologram said reassuringly.

Different set of equipment that conflict with each other? Say the Gauntlets of Gaia and the helm of Vulcanus, can't be worn within an hour of each other.

A serum that changes their meta-human abilities, with different chemicals creating a different power set?

Having to ask for a particular set of powers from some higher being, who gets very cranky if bugged too often?

The dial from Dial H for Hero?

Could even go for a timer being there on switching and using power sets, like Mol Diver, or some of the more recent Sentai series.

You see that wasn't the impression I got from it, I got the impression that the warring factions were led by Fake Nemesis each thinking they were the real one, meanwhile the real one watches amused while drinking a sherry watching as an elite force rises from the veterans of these Nemesis wars and then snarfing them for his private army.

Are you sure there were no other sources of damage? A minion or LT attack at the same time? You were at 100% HP when the fight began?

I'm pretty sure all attacks in the game are incapable of reducing a players HP by 100%

I think the same mechanic is why you can plummet and drop down to 1hp, but never be killed no matter how long the fall is.

I suspect this is more to balance Giant Monsters, how unfair would it to be one shotted by a giant monster as you're loading out a mission?

I thought all those other Earths were just one massive inter dimensional empire, all ruled by one singular 'real' Nemesis.

Or a mercenary.

Nemesis is from Primal Earth?

I thought he was from other dimension, where he'd taken over the Earth?

Ate my post again ¬_¬

Thugs aren't that powerful on their own, it's their Masterminds secondary that makes them powerful.

They'd obviously have experience fighting Meta-humans since they aren't dead, crippled or in prison, in a world with Meta-human gangs that would be attempting to take their turf, that's not counting the local deadly flora and fauna like the snakes.

So we've got a bunch of people who have experience fighting dirty against 'stronger' targets, backed up by support from gadgets or some other source.

Starting to sound a lot like Malta, who are one of the high threat groups in the game.

As for the kneeling thing I'd say there are more than enough CoX canon technoligies to allow for some one to heal over time, heck if we are going for the flesh wound idea, then they could be kneeling down while rummaging through a first aid box for some iodine and bandages.

Psionics I don't mind the idea of, some subset of human or an entirely different species that can breed with normal humans, only those with pure enough blood gaining powers and thus being such a rare thing through history.

According to some one else, the events in Crotoa were caused by the Banished Panthelon who are likely to have their own power source, rather than the one massively toned down by the box.

Scaldi, Abelard and Sister Psyche could not be mutants though, as Sister Psyche claims to be a Psionic, rather than a mutant.

Nemesis and the Banished Panthelon are what I'd class as inter dimensional beings, so why would they be affected by the box?

Perhaps there wasn't even a box on Nemesis's home Earth?

Do the CoT predate the Greek era though, or is that unknown?

Warshades are alien, so why would they be affected by an event on Earth?

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Back to the game play versus mechanics thing, if they wanted guns to be dangerous they could of made it so that only boss level characters use them, then a few hits would finish anything that's not resilient power set.

Of course IC you could just say the bullets that didn't trigger your medi-port were just flesh wounds or really close misses.

Second attempt, please don't eat my post Mister Board.

Anyway.

Nega has a lot of rules and weakness's that I planed while the character was still in the 'maybe' stage, what these weakness's are... well they'd need to be revealed through RP as I'm loathe to give out IC information OOC.

Amy Zon knows of them.

Thebe might have figured some of them out.

Still couldn't one hit you, player characters can not be one hit.
It's possible that some how you could be hit hard enough that the D.O.T component of an attack could take you down, but that mechanically counts as two hits.

In an in character sense, I've always explained it as the medical systems stabilizing a person prior to teleporting them.

Of course that's just my opinion on the IC/GP mesh, others are likely to disagree.


The mobs there are based on ancient Irish folklore, so it's conceivable that they were around prior to the creation of the box.

I'm not sure of the lore for that zone, so I don't know how long the Red Caps and Witches have been fighting, just that they recruited two sides of a mythical war to aid them.

Likewise I'm uncertain if the pumpkin and moosemen war is a new occurrence in the CoH time line, or if it was still occurring before world war one.

To be older than Statesman, Lady Grey only had to be like ten or twenty years older than Marcus Cole when he was a soldier. She definitely needs more explanation though.

Stupid board ate my other post, will respond to this one first.

I actually really like OTOH arc, sure it's used to explain the rather BS powerset proliferation things, but it does make a kind of sense.

A little of the power was there and it affects every one in the world, sure when the box was closed we didn't get Statesman level heroes, or Positron level geniuses, but we did get people eventing electricity or people like John Henry folk lore heroes who were just a little stronger, tougher, smarter or more stubborn than others around them.

Then this power is unleashed and the scales go up, people who would of become a folk lore legend can now bench press buses, a man who might once of invented a light bulb instead creates a flying suit with laser blasters attached to it.

That said I also like the theory that mutants exist because when we split the atom we broke something very important with reality.

Isn't all Role play essentially an ego trip?

A chance to be something more than we are in our everyday lives, if there wasn't an aspect of ego fulfillment in it we'd all be role playing characters who are essentially 'us' in Paragon city, a bunch of students and office workers.


Gameplay mechanics prevent one shotting, hence it can't one shot.
Aside from that it was decommissioned and burnt up in the atmosphere after a series of RP missions, quite some time ago.


You see that I didn't know, all the really 'old' threats in game were around from the time before the Greek gods, or are extra-dimensional.