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Motioning for Simon to follow her, the officer on guard led him to the office serving as the base of operations for the crime scene. There Daryl was explaining to Midnight Max what they had found or more precisely...

“That's precisely the problem Miss Max... we haven't found anything. No signs of forced entry or exit, no sign of the murder weapon. What we have here is what fiction writes like to call a closed room murder.” leaning on the desk he takes out a packet of cigarettes, lighting one and offering the others to Midnight Max

“Of course given the sheer amount of different powers out there a closed rooms not as closed as you'd think”

There was a knock at the door a brief discussion then Simon was lead in.

“Miss Max, This is Mister Zeta a private investigator please try to get along I'll inform you of what we've found later Mister Zeta”

“So continuing on we've got no murder weapon, but we know it's something razor sharp and extremely durable. You see it cut through bone as well as flesh, but we haven't found any shards of it around.”

“Secondly unless were dealing with some for of invisible whack job, the murderer has some how escaped from this place without opening the doors. We're still compiling the data from the security computers but they locked the doors for the night and there is no record of them opening until the cleaners came in.”

“Any questions Miss Max? Mister Zeta?”

The female officer nodded, leading Midnight Max through the gore splattered crime scene, here and there the CSI were busy cataloguing and taking away the lumps of flesh which had once been seven people. A digital display flashed, alternating between the messages “1/12/****” and “Christmas is ******* better prepare!”, part of the display made unlegiable by the thick coating of splashed blood.

The officer lead Max to an office, briefly knocking before she went in coming out a red faced with embarrassment she shuffled off towards the entrance of the building. A burly man left the office, strong jawed and bushy haired his general dishevelled appearance giving the impression that his job brought lots of pressure, blocking the office door he looks Midnight Max up and down.

“Name's Daryl Howie, your nose isn't big enough to be a reporter and your heads on to straight to be some random rubber necker. But please if your a registered hero, can you show your I.D before entering a crime scene? Saves some random newbie getting chewed out for not checking” a faint smile rises on his lips as if remembering his newbie days.

“Right, the autopsy reports haven't been written yet but were looking at seven homicides, seven brutal ones. In the space of ten seconds seven people were sliced into over one hundred and fifty pieces.... that we've found” motioning her to follow him, he walked into the office.

Offering her a coffee, he pours one for him self sipping noisily before telling the CSI member to play the CCTV footage ((Same as in first post)).

“Okay it's the standard rules feel free to look around, don't get in the way of the crime scene guys.” a sudden amused look crosses his face “Oh if your going to do any of that necromancy stuff, wait until my guys have left before you do it, okay?”

“Last time some one summoned up Casper and company about half the team suffered emotional trauma. So any questions?”

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I don't understand. You declare all money you make and the government taxes these earnings. A company (or person) selling virtual items for large overall sums is making money, which should be declared. And then taxed. And if you don't tell your government where this big pile of money is coming from, it's tax evasion, and they take all your big pile.

Why do we need different and special rules? We've got them already. Get cracking on catching the people earning and not declaring instead. Like they said, it's easy to track it. Easier than a small army of rogue builders who when questioned all didn't see nuffin' guv'nor, anyway.

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I think that's the point, people haven't been declaring the money they make from games.

Average Joe Blogs as well as the companies.

OOC: Time for some open RP again. Huzzah!
This is more designed for the investigative characters rather than the reactive you're Batman/Question/Rorsch style characters, rather than your Spiderman/Superman characters.

Anything your character wants to investigate either say in the post or send a tell and I'll prepare the information

Jump on point is mainly though connections with the PPD, who also put the word out through various detective organisations


''Uncle Harry's'' Galaxy City 11AM 25th of November

Detective Daryl Howie had been a member of the Homicide Division of the Paragon City Police Department for years, but some times even as jaded as he'd become, sometimes even he was shaken by a crime scene, this was one of those occasions.

“Christ on a bike” he muttered, stepping under the crime scene.

“Got a bloody one Daryl” a woman said

Allison Lucia a member of the CSI team, they'd worked together ever since Daryl had joined the homicide division.

“How bad is it Al?” he asked looking round.

It was meant to be a sight to thrill children, every year this toy store was home to one of the best festive displays and Santa's grotto in the city. Not this year though, the animatronic bears lay broken, lights smashed the fake snow dyed pinkish with drying blood. Here and there were cards, marking something the CSI team had found important.

“Bad, real bad. We've got six corpses.... that is six we've found heads for so far we've found close to a hundred assorted body parts” Allison answered her face pale, but her voice was clinical. Professional as ever.

Daryl pointed up at the ceiling, a lone security camera slowly turned.

“We got any footage from it?” he asked

“For what good it is yeah” Allison answered him, motioning for him to follow, she lead him to the security room “Ted play back the footage”

On the monitor the footage plays.

Seven people are chatting happily, behind them a clock counts down to midnight a display reading 30/11/2008, as the clock strikes midnight the footage glitches, snow filling the picture ten seconds pass and the picture returns. Blood shows up black in the monotone recording, here and there scraps of flesh are quiver in the fake snow.

“Nothing else shows up unusual?” Daryl asked hopefuly

“Nada, cleaners turn up at eight AM and reported it” Ted answered intently watching the screen

“We might need some help with this one....” Daryl said shaking his head

“You mean?” Allison asked

“Yeah seven people in ten seconds.... we're dealing with some sort of homicidal metahuman”

It may be the way he appears to be on some sort of combat drug?

Edited.

Retcon using his mutant ability to sneak into a enemy base, changing time so he's never spotted.

thread needs more queen

Captain Meteor reminiscing about how times have changed without him and considering leaving the world again as he drunkenly rambles and complains to an old buddy.


Rocket Man - the best version ever

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Uhh what are you talking about that has relation to my post? But I agree...

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Just that it doesn't need to be a zone wide event, more like the burning building or troll raid.

In fact exactly like the troll raids, it happens in certain areas mobs duff each other up?

As for why I quoted you, no idea was probably drunk.

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Confront is part of a scrappers primary, where as taunt is a tankers secondary. Any power in either primary or secondary is in the way of something else.

On heroes I kind of like the idea of being in a team and everyones healthbars being everyones responsibility.

I first logged into the game as a controller to find there was a better one called a tanker. Some people have no idea of taunt controls true worth and I am counting the 'years' that'll go by before they catch on.

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*Nods!*

Taunt control as in 'They are focused on me, I'm taking piddly damage it's as if they are doing nothing at all' or as in 'Agrro on tank one, now on tank two, tank one, tank two' with the mob spending all it's time either doing crappy ranged attacks or running into and out of melee as it's taunted between the two?

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Take up roleplaying. Suddenly you know the names and dates of these quaint, American festivals.

The devs at NCNC will get absolutely nothing done for most of next week. Thanksgiving is really pretty much bigger than Christmas, despite being a pretty recent invention, and at one point being decried as racist. Interestingly, it seems to hook up fairly well with a European (Dutch that I know of) festival which happens around December 5th. Can't help but wonder whether the Puritans took it over with them.

Anyway, America shuts down next week Wednesday and doesn't emerge until Tuesday, and then they seem to wonder why we shut down for the week over Christmas. Hey ho.

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Ahhh!

But many MMO's launch content patches or events just before Thanksgiving so as to keep their players interested when everything else has shut down for the week.

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Well WoW, LOTR & Conan all released their patches last week (although Conans Funcom are European) so they've over a week to monitor and fix any issues.

Any smaller margin than that is too risky IMO. Even a week and a half is rather close for my liking.

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Honestly I was expecting it to arrive same time as the Lich King TBH, not that I really want to play any of the new sets... well maybe a Fire/Pain corr

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Take up roleplaying. Suddenly you know the names and dates of these quaint, American festivals.

The devs at NCNC will get absolutely nothing done for most of next week. Thanksgiving is really pretty much bigger than Christmas, despite being a pretty recent invention, and at one point being decried as racist. Interestingly, it seems to hook up fairly well with a European (Dutch that I know of) festival which happens around December 5th. Can't help but wonder whether the Puritans took it over with them.

Anyway, America shuts down next week Wednesday and doesn't emerge until Tuesday, and then they seem to wonder why we shut down for the week over Christmas. Hey ho.

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Ahhh!

But many MMO's launch content patches or events just before Thanksgiving so as to keep their players interested when everything else has shut down for the week.

Watching the weather report Twilighter felt a little bit better about being grounded.

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Make more of the Skulls, Outcasts, Trolls and Hellions by setting them against each other in massive gang riots.

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I paticulary dislike this idea. There's already enough invasions as it is. Many people are annoied at GG for the Rikti and Zombie invasions, and just generally getting to where you wanna go is really hard during Rikti/Zombie invasion. The idea was novel at first now it's just plain annoying.

Maybe if the gang riots were mission-based, yes.

Also the other suggestion have their flaws already pointed out. Don't take it harshly, when someone dismisses your suggestion it only makes you make better suggestions in then future.

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Vill side isn't as full of irritating hunt missions as Hero side.

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1) Nobody wants to see that - hairy chests went out of style a few decades ago.

2) For comedic purposes (and hairy chests are comical) Monstrous Fur works well enough. Austin Powers material there.

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Tell that Wolverine

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Snikt...

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Bub....

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1) Nobody wants to see that - hairy chests went out of style a few decades ago.

2) For comedic purposes (and hairy chests are comical) Monstrous Fur works well enough. Austin Powers material there.

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Tell that Wolverine

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possibly gaining extra players from the US servers.

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Why would any US players ever choose to play in the EU?!

In MMOs, players tend to consentrate on the more populated servers, and in this case the EU servers would seem even more deserted to US players since thier peak time falls in the dead of night in the EU.

Add into that the effect of transatlantic lag on performance.

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None regular time players?

Night shift workers etc?

those whose playtime happens to fall during the peak hours for European servers?

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The song? Original Sin by Jim Steinman.

At the close, she wanders slowly to the door, watching the lone survivor struggle with the latch. She pulls out one of her guns.

"There'll be hell to pay some day...put it all on the bill."

*BANG*

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That song is really addictive to listen to.

Because I can't resist and lunch is taking longer to heat up than expected.

Scene- Retcon and R.A.P.I.E.R fighting against Arachnos troops
Song- Such an awesome movie

Hides from Crazy Dragon!

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::Groans::

Mission avoid the cheese section of my play list. /FAILED/

Scene: Twilighter is trying to cheer Leah Anima up.
Song: Run With Us - Lisa Lougheed

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God is that the tune from the racoons?!?!

Man that was probably the best saturday morning tunes I heard as a child...god that has dredged up memories ...am I that old?

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Yep the ending from the Racoons why don't modern day shows have such cool openings and endings?

One more. For the road so to speak.

Scene- Twilighter working in the white cats Lab, on something no doubt frowned on by the American science community, something that'll probably get stopped by Momma Leandrea

Song- Science Genius Girl - Freezepop

I so should stop this and get back to work.

Scene- Mr Sword, Twilighter's Demon blade encouraging her in her training/fighting.
Song- Push It To The Limit - Paul Engemann

Scene- Tomb explaining her plans to the gathered minions.
Song- Flying Teapot- Emily Bindiger

Such a nice way to say that your going to let everyone else in the world die.

::Groans::

Mission avoid the cheese section of my play list. /FAILED/

Scene: Twilighter is trying to cheer Leah Anima up.
Song: Run With Us - Lisa Lougheed

The Scene- Assault Spider Omega is asked why the Dusk Spiders are attacking.
The Song- Gamma Ray - New World Order

Ugh why do I have the feeling this thread will distract me all day?

The Scene : Deep within the bowels of a circle of thorns base, Battle Unit Omega is slaughtering its way towards it's goal.
The Song- Church of the Machine - Symphony X


Tries desperately to avoid the 80's and 90's section of play list.

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Jeremy Kyle on acid

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Now that is an awesome char concept.