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If you're assuming those are the only two types of players, then yes you have the wrong end of the stick. In fact, that's not a stick, that's an iron bar.

"Normal players" can get immersed in the game as well as, sometimes more than, any roleplayer. The story arcs are like reading books, and you don't need to be a roleplayer to read a book; not to mention, not having a set timeline of events for your character (i.e. allowing a greater deal of sway), can mean it's easier to become immersed in a storyline than if your character wouldn't be doing the tasks given to you, say.

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If you're not doing it in character aka playing it as an RPEr accepting its a comic universe and thus not like the real one.

How do you maintain immersion when meanwhile you're team mates are disscusing say Big Brother or current sporting events?

Unless you mean soloing through story arcs ((Something I do myself)) in which case why is the ability to change genders in fact it's not really genders is it, the ability to change body setting since it's male,huge and female rather than just male/female choices affecting you're imersion at all?

In fact would that not make it more imersive it'd allow for the transforming characters, anything from visionaries to Iron Man, from the Hulk to Bannana Man.

Also y'know shape shifting characters etc

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I think you missed the "some people".

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This may just me getting the wrong end of the stick but...

You've got people who accept this as a comic universe and thus accept things like death rays, gender changing and super animals etc as just being part of everyday stuff
((heavy or light Role Players))
Or

You've got people who just take it at face value and see it as being a game and thus don't get immersed in it any way?
((normal player))

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they first made spiderman, later on you got spiderwoman...in the same suet
also, if you look at camelion he uses shapeshifting and sex change fir getting in and out of highly securitive places without any problem, only with a spider sense like spiderman it's possible to sense him, but even then you first need to find him.

o and yes, there is absolutely no argument if not doing it.
there is lately a pretty simple thing in the MMO world, don't like it?, don't use it.

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It breaks immersion for some people.
It's all fine and dandy to say, "Don't like it? Don't use it.", but I sure hope our team of developers does'nt think like that, and I highly doubt that they do, or they'd lose alot of subscribers very fast.

Don't even think of saying, "there's no argument for why it should'nt be implemented", because you're wrong. And what you're saying is completely different, Spiderman and Spiderwoman are two different people, he didn't get his reproductive organs changed.

It would just (in my opinion), be far too strange.

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Guy Gardener the manliest of the green lanterns got changed into 'Gal' Gardner for ages.

Batman and superman recently got changed into the bodies of Powergirl and Huntress.

Being changed into things is like one of the classic things from comics.

Gender,species, items at some point any super hero from a pre-ninteies era will of been changed into at least one of the above.

And that's not counting the various multi verse versions etc

It's a major part of comics that I can't belive they've ignored.

Any major super hero has at some point been turned to the opposite gender and that includes Superman and Batman.

Ah cheers dropped slash out of it which I was only planning to use to secure more recharge bonus but that now comes from build up

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

Twilighter: Level 50 Technology Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Broad Sword
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Hack <ul type="square">[*] (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40[*] (3) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40[*] (3) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance: Level 40[*] (5) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (5) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (15) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 1: High Pain Tolerance <ul type="square">[*] (A) Resist Damage IO: Level 40[*] (7) Resist Damage IO: Level 40[*] (7) Resist Damage IO: Level 40[*] (9) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 40[*] (9) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance: Level 40[*] (15) Healing IO: Level 40[/list]Level 2: Slice <ul type="square">[*] (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40[*] (11) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40[*] (11) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 40[*] (13) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (13) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 40[*] (17) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 4: Mind Over Body <ul type="square">[*] (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance: Level 40[*] (17) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40[*] (19) Resist Damage IO: Level 40[*] (48) Titanium Coating - Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 6: Fast Healing <ul type="square">[*] (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance: Level 40[*] (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 40[*] (21) Healing IO: Level 40[/list]Level 8: Swift <ul type="square">[*] (A) Run Speed IO: Level 40[/list]Level 10: Indomitable Will <ul type="square">[*] (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 40[*] (46) Defense Buff IO: Level 40[*] (50) Defense Buff IO: Level 40[*] (50) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40[/list]Level 12: Combat Jumping <ul type="square">[*] (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 40[/list]Level 14: Health <ul type="square">[*] (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance: Level 40[*] (21) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 40[*] (23) Healing IO: Level 40[/list]Level 16: Rise to the Challenge <ul type="square">[*] (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - Chance for Recharge Slow: Level 40[*] (23) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 40[*] (25) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance: Level 40[*] (25) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff: Level 40[*] (42) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge: Level 40[*] (43) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 18: Whirling Sword <ul type="square">[*] (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40[*] (27) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40[*] (27) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 40[*] (29) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (29) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 40[*] (31) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 20: Stamina <ul type="square">[*] (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod: Level 40[*] (31) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge: Level 40[*] (31) Endurance Modification IO: Level 40[/list]Level 22: Quick Recovery <ul type="square">[*] (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod: Level 40[*] (33) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge: Level 40[*] (33) Endurance Modification IO: Level 40[/list]Level 24: Super Jump <ul type="square">[*] (A) Jumping IO: Level 40[/list]Level 26: Disembowel <ul type="square">[*] (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40[*] (33) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40[*] (34) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance: Level 40[*] (34) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (34) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (36) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 28: Kick <ul type="square">[*] (A) Empty[/list]Level 30: Tough <ul type="square">[*] (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance: Level 40[*] (36) Resist Damage IO: Level 40[*] (36) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40[*] (46) Titanium Coating - Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 32: Head Splitter <ul type="square">[*] (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40[*] (37) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40[*] (37) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance: Level 40[*] (37) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge: Level 40[*] (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 40[*] (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 40[/list]Level 35: Weave <ul type="square">[*] (A) Serendipity - Defense: Level 40[*] (39) Serendipity - 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Currently level 43 looking at the final slog/ starting to add sets rather than just normal IO any advice welcome, mainly speccing for pve

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

Twilighter: Level 50 Technology Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Broad Sword
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed

Hero Profile:
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((Several news papers city wide, probably a few news reports as well))

Fast food under attack?

Today suspected terrorist attack on various fast food franchises across the city occurred. The Paragon Police Department were warned of the attacks by a man who only identified him self as Mean Cuisine.

Black smoke filled thirty locations across the city as the bombers threat was carried out. No incendiary or explosive devices were found at any of the locations, was this all just a prank or a test run for something bigger?


((mainly in newspapers in Steel Canyon may be mentioned else where))

Police Hunt Baron Eternity

After a vicious attack on a local hero and the destruction of several thousand dollars of property, the former Nazi super villain Baron Eternity escaped into the city sewer system. Police consider him at large and still in the Paragon City area.

Chapter Nine. Daring Deeds

Paragon city illustrious jewel in the crown of the United States, some people would say it’s the safest place on Earth others the most dangerous city in the world. For people such as myself it is definitely the latter, but what daring deeds would bring me to a city crawling with the type of people who live to take people like me down?

Assassination?
No

Planting mind control devices to drive the city into a frenzy of violence?
No

Holding the city to ransom in fear that I use my reverse gender ray on its citizens?
No

What brought me to this place were orders from that despicable little man Varrick. I was to come here to the homeland of so called heroes defeat one and take their cape back to the Rogue Islands, the methods and time frame would be of my choosing but of course I could not return to the Rogue Islands until I had completed the task.

“A test of your abilities” he’d called it.

Bah a task like this, as if it could test my abilities. Still it gave me an excuse to be away when no doubt he was viciously mauled and stung to death by the unfortunate escape of the Velcoa- Apoidea a delicious creature combining both dinosaur and bee DNA. I wondered if he’d even figure out that the pollen I had dusted him with in passing was what drew the creature to him. But I digress.

My plan was simple, I spent two days touring the various fast food restaurants of Paragon City and in each one I placed a micro-bomb a tiny highly packed explosive device barely bigger than a pin, smoke devices of course as other than Varrick I had no plans of causing fatalities. I dread to think what the shear amount of fried chicken and reclaimed meat would of done to a person of normal physiology, I made sure to change my appearance from place to place, master of disguise is just one of my many talents. Super genius remember?

The plan was simple I’d already picked chosen the hero I was to trounce some little no body who protected one neighbour hood with a zealots fury, what possessed a man to dress in tights and declare a few blocks of the city a no-crime zone I do not know. Some personal tragedy perhaps.

Still it matters not his reasons this neighbour hood provided the required twenty three point five seconds delay between emergency medi-port and response from the PP-D. So I waited there mentally counting down until the wave of smoke bombs would break out across the city, at that moment I struck costumed armour covering my body as I brandished a recently purchased crow bar.
Now normally I am against such low brow displays of strength but I needed response and fast taking the crow bar I rapidly smashed a few store windows, a car or two and a bus shelter, with surprising speed a staff like object knocked the bar from my hands, dropping to the pavement was the local hero from the way he moved I estimated he’d had a lot of martial arts training. No doubt the one and only master of some exotic form of kung fu or ninjitsu.

“Oh did I wake you?” I quipped

He didn’t reply no doubt the serious quiet type, always thinking about the tragedy that created him, made him dedicate his life to protecting others.

We fought there a few quick kicks and punches traded testing each others limits, I outmatched him easily, after all he’s only human while I am, well me!

It was simple to remove his cape in passing.

“What?” his voice was deeper than it should have been given his build and ethnicity obviously an act used to scare criminals.

“Oh when you get to the hospital tell them to put it on Baron Eternity’s tab!” I said clicking a panel on my belt.

The trash and discarded boxes in the alleyways moved as my Witless Minions powered up, laser fire criss-crossed through my opponents body as they cut him down, his body faded as the emergency medi-port dragged him to safety. The next stage of the plan was simple I tossed down a large scale smoke bomb and slunked into the alleyways as the street filled with a clinging black smog, my armour shifted form and I was standing in street clothes like any normal citizen of Paragon City. While I was doing this my minions had ripped open a man hole cover and dived in to the sewer below, let them think I had escaped down there.

I practised my best gawking look as police cars roared down the streets, no doubt they had figured that the bombings across the city were no more than a malicious prank. Cape rolled up in my pocket I headed into to the more built up areas of the city, there were still hours to pass before my ride back to the Rogue Islands was set to leave, ideally I wondered if any of the fast food restaurants would be open the demon hot sauce wings weren’t that bad really.

I returned to the base of the Dusk Spiders to discover a bustle of activity while not expecting it to be empty I had expected a certain lowering of activity levels after the demise of Varrick. Soon I was called to the commanding officers quarters and there sat behind a desk was Varrick with that intolerable smug smirk on his face.

“I see you’ve returned and successfully too.” He said fingers folded ad arms resting on the desk.

God how I hate this man, one of these days I’ll rub that smile off his face even if I have to launch him into the sun to do so.

“Oh incidentally it appears a strange creature entered the air ducts and tragically killed a pair of my fellow Commanders.” He smiled a little too knowingly for my liking

“I have commandeered their troops and added them to the Dusk Spiders, quicker than waiting for replacements to be trained up” again the knowing smirk.

I swear one of these days I will kill that man.

Deep within the earth the machine Battle Unit Omega stalked towards it objective, through a complex maze of pipes and access points. Super heated steam vented in its path filling the air with thick toxic fumes, the machine continued onwards, such things were the concerns of the weak, those destined to serve in the new world order.

Deeper still it traveled through toxic filth and stagnant poisoned water, until it reached a point where it paused. The pipes and machinery in the walls of the tunnel had up until till this point been works of brass and bronze beautiful in their construction and flawless in their purpose. But here they changed the gleaming brass replaced with dull thick lead shielding.

Had some one managed to work their way through the maze to reach here the heart of the machine they would seal their own fate. Here the air became alive with an invisible field of death, enough even to give the machine pause. The machine stepped forward and immediately it burned with a blue aura of flame. Sparks arced from its form to earth in the lead shielded pipe work.

{Hatesman: Would Not: Approve} it thought

{Hatesman: Needs Not: To Know} it replied

The machine walked forward it’s sparking and burning armoured frame lighting up the darkness here deep within the earth. It came finally to the heart of the device, the secret behind the Throne Of Bedlam a massive door of iron sheathed in lead, this door it opened the screech of protest as the door dragged through the sludge and rock debris that had formed around it.

Here lay the heart of the throne or to be more precise its brain. The machine stepped inside as gears pulled the door closed behind it. The slamming of the door echoed around the room and as it shut the machine no longer burned. It walked forward sizzling slime falling from its feet with each loud step.

In the centre of the room a figure lay suspended by a mass of bronze spikes cruelly entering into its bodies. The figure was of a man or at least it had been Mark Smith a young family man with nothing special about him. Not powerful enough or brave enough to be a hero or villain he’d been destined to simply raise his kids as best he could and get on with his life. That is until Battle Unit Omega had found him, dragged him away and enhanced what little powers he had. Through surgery and mutagens they’d reduced him to the barest amount of organs required for life, they’d removed his skull so that they could pump mutagenic chemicals directly into his brain swelling it causing his psionic abilities to increase exponentially. It was to administer more of these chemicals that the machine had ventured so far into the earth.

A few days previously the machine had been ordered to assist another member of the TLF, the mercenary ninja known as Twilight Shinobi. The ninja had been seeking away to regain the powers locked away by an unknown adversary the ninja had learned of powerful crystals guarded by a cadre of mages.

While the effects of the crystals on the ninja was unknown to Battle Unit Omega the machine had discovered that the crystals when added to the blood stream of a psionic humanoid increased their abilities at a cost of mutating their body. Approaching the tortured figure the machine injected the new mutagen into its body.

‘Jussst let me dieeeee’ the figure breathed brokenly

‘Do Not: Despair: Upon Activation: You Will No Longer: Function’ the machine assured him as it walked away, task done.

Else Where

The machine girl walked toward an unknown destination, the heaviness of her footsteps conflicting with the slightness of her frame. The bronze like armour she wore reflecting the street lights dully, the pitted and scarred metal giving testament to past battles.

The machine felt it self drawn to the street it now walked along, why was beyond its calculations, the GPS showed no points of particular interest, along this route but still it felt itself drawn. It arrived at a public park and quickly climbed the fence to gain access, why it climbed rather than flew or melted it’s way through the iron bars again was beyond its calculative abilities. Something called it to this place ordered it climb the fence, something with a greater grip on the machine than its own code.

The machine felt the compulsion leave it as it arrived at a children’s play park, though the night robbed it of bright colours the machine saw it as bright as day. Oddly despite the nights chill the machine began to feel warm as if it was a summers day. It heard voices, children playing and looked around but there was nothing in scanner range, and then it happened a flood of sight and sound.

The machine stood now talking to two other children, though the machine had never encountered them some how it knew their names. Thomas and Sally, it knew too that it considered these two children its best friends. More images surfaced and with them half conversations and songs, games played in the park and promises made and broken.

More images came now of a man, tall and wiry and promises of candy and toys. The scene changed and now the machine was watching as the man cut into Sally whose shrieks cut off with a bloody gurgle. The man moved closers whispering and moving the knife in small circle in front of the machines view.

The scene shifted again and this time the man was gasping eyes bulging as the machines fingers wrapped around his neck, oddly the machines arms were wrapped in flames and the machines biological side twitched as the smell of burning flesh trigged a gag reflex.

As quickly as they had come the visions left and the machine girl stood alone in the park.

[Primary Node: Respond: Status Query?]

[Status: Anomaly Detected: Frame Returning To Base,]

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funnily enough... kryptonite only works on Kryptonians

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Actually it's lethal to humans too, just ask Lex 'Perhaps where a ring made of raduioactive rock is a bad idea' Luthor

However to quote Jamie 'the scarab kept suggesting different weapons real end of the world WMD stuff'

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If I didn't have him beaten in the pic, Michelle would have beaten ME in reality, and I'm just too pretty

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Bah beating in real life is nothing compared to puting a false hood to paper!

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This was done for a good friend of mine who I often come to blows with about comics.

Spidergirl vs. Blue Beetle

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WHAT?

Blue beetle can take a bloody Kryptonian!

He has weapons capable of combating the wrath of god.


He's also a much more entertaining and likable character!

Chapter Eight. The Belly of the Beast.


If I have but one failing it is my impatience. Not that I can not wait should waiting be required, but do to the urgency of my task and my own natural inquisitive nature I instinctively seek a faster method, a better method to reach my goals. Which has lead to current servitude. To understand why I greatest of minds have been forced to serve under the banner of Arachnos you need to understand Dark Matter.

Dark Matter is as the name suggests matter that is dark, not black in colour as that would be black matter, pure darkness. It’s created though the alchemical process of condensing various types of darkness, the night sky and the dusty silent oppressive gloom of the grave for example. Binding it to a vial you spend decades to form the matter drawing in the darkness and condensing it forming it into something tangible. Of course even for a master alchemist it takes a decade to distil even an ounce of dark matter. But then not every master alchemist is also a brilliant genius of a scientist.

Hence my use of a chronal accelerator or three to create pockets of accelerated time where ten years pass in a single day. Of course entering one of these bubbles of time would kill most normal humans as between one step and the next they dehydrate and die of thirst. Still even though I placed them in locations that are seldom visited by humans, one can’t make am omelette with out breaking a few eggs. Unfortunately tampering with the time stream is something Arachnos keep a close eye out for, and so it was that upon returning from some pitiful act of villainy (Stealing a shipment of MMO time cards to sell on to companies in Asia, it was an easy way to make a few hundred dollars) that I discovered I was no longer hidden from the site of Arachnos.

As usual I returned to my darkened basement lab, turning on the TV and starting the shower running before turning on the lights. Don’t ask me why I have these habits perhaps they are merely born of the quirky nature of being a super genius, of having the ability to look at the universe and understand and truly understand how it works. Still habits are hard to kill and until now this particular one hasn’t seemed worth the effort so I’ll let it stay, call it a personality point or something.

But as always I digress, so there I am the TV playing away to itself casting dancing shadows around the apartment as it changed from scene to scene, the shower slowly heating to the appropriate temperature, and slowly I become aware of a presence. Now as I’ve stated before every single one of my senses have been enhanced to way beyond the level of even a peak human so to be able to conceal his presence from me for this long I was not dealing with any ordinary foe.

Turning I saw sat on my rather comfortable reading chair a figure dressed in the armour of an Arachnos Huntsman.

“My my you have been sloppy” he said
“I take it you have reason for your intrusion.” I replied barely managing to keep my cool

Careless? Careless? I should of atomised him and damned the consequences.

But still I had too in part agree, my impatience to master the power of dark matter had driven me to this confrontation, I would have to be more careful after all a genius can catch up with a super genius when he’s having a bad day.

The rustling of pages quietened by anger I off course recognised that had this very leather bound volume in his grasp. It was then I began considering my actions, having prepared for the shower he had seen the face that lies below my armoured form and what is more having red my journal he knew of actions I’d preformed against Arachnos, actions that would have me hunted down.

But no rather than order my death and there in the small room receive his own in exchange, he offered me a job, I say offered but there was no real bargaining in the offer, he had me over a metaphorical barrel and what’s more he knew it. Still the offer of resources and work space was fortuitous as I was rapidly reaching the limits of what could be adapted from radio shack technology, and all that it would cost me was a “modicum of loyalty” to this huntsman.

We will see how long my goals align with those of Arachnos and those of this Commander Varrick.

After all this world is a very dangerous place no telling when you may accidentally get your self tragically vaporised.

A lesser being would of felt frustration but emotions were entirely alien to the machine.

Still things were not going as calculated, every time it seemed its foe would fall that the machine would claim victory the anomaly occurred and before it’s sensors cleared its foe would of healed himself recovered enough to continue the fight.

It’s own anomaly was having tremendous effect upon it’s own frame, the heat and pressure of warping reality of using space itself as armour would of killed a lesser being, even the machine could not entirely escape the effects, heat was building with in its gears and with no way of venting it would wreck the machines ability to move.

Quickly it calculated how long was left until it would be forced to end the effect. One way or another this battle would be settled in the next minute…

Charity was an unknown term to the mechanoid soldier known to the world at large as Battle Unit Omega, it had to ask O.R.A.C.L.E the meaning of the word after a note of challenged had been delivered to one of the machines ‘human’ aliases.

Declaring that Dr Edward Johnson under the name of Sword Of Redemption wished to face it in combat. The machine could not fathom why some one who claimed to desire the machines destruction would engage it in none lethal combat. Still the machine calculated this to be the best opportunity to test out certain theories and modifications it had made to its primary combat frame.

It stood now in the ring as pyrotechnics filled the air, charity as had been explained to it was nothing more than a way for the wealthy to feel like they are helping the poorer masses, a way of easing a guilty conscience before returning to a life of luxury. Charity like justice was just another concept created by biological life to cause themselves release of pleasant sensation causing chemicals.

Charity was pointless.

Still the machine stood win or lose it had come her to discover the secret of the anomaly that occurred around Sword Of Redemption, in combat the machines targeting would freeze it’s systems would lock for several seconds rendering it incapable of movement.

Working on the theory that the anomaly was some form of special distortion, the machine warped space around it phasing slightly out of physical space ‘causing it to partially disappear only the violent charge as real and Omega space clashed burned in the air, like a crimson thundercloud the machine charged its opponent.

Sooner or later it calculated it would find the secret behind Sword Of Redemption’s ability, find it and counter it.

After all impressive as his tricks are he’s only flesh, and flesh will fail.

Only the machine is eternal.

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Tyger &amp; Damsel in uniform and also, Pious.

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Slightly more tan than the version me and hates went for easily changeable ^_^

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Just thought....

Is there a uniform?

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At the moment me and Haes are wearing a sort of back story Army gear/uniform, suppose when we have a proper RAPIER uniform everyone can make new cossies after all we get five slots :P

Empath/Psychic Defender.

Rick Riffington was just your average slightly psychic soldier.

Until enrolling on the ‘Minutemen Program’, a project designed to grant precognition to soldiers.

In Ricks case the project failed to grant visions of the future instead he found he was able to affect the past, to erase events that occurred sixty seconds previously around him.

Capable of reviving his fellow soldiers by simply changing the past so that bullets didn’t actually hit them he earned the code name ‘Retcon’ and the rank of Captain



Basically the best way I could come up with military empathy Xd

Chapter seven. With a mind if not a soul.

I have been called erotic by many people and while that has very little to do with this chapter, I just thought I’d throw it out there.

In case any one was interested, that’s all.

Many people have claimed I am erratic when it comes to my science, my plans and various plots. This is untrue, what one may call the erratic jumping and dropping of plans, days spent creating new technologies all span from my drive for completion take my latest (at time of writing of course) endeavour.

Basking in the halogen glow of my slightly more improved lab and living space in a rented basement of some dirty run down apartment complex. I still hadn’t moved out even now my cash flow had increased, simply so that I could accelerate my technological experiments. Experiments like the fibrous tufts now taking shape below my watchful gaze, each strand a complete micro energy converter, pulling in the back ground radiation of the world, the solar energy of the day light hours and even the ambient radiation emitted by certain meta-humans. In turn the strands would convert gathered energy into a form useable by whatever machine I decided to use the strands for.

And this is where some people would say signs of my erratic nature would show.

Looking at the strands of fibre I suddenly realised how similar to hair they looked and wondered if I could create a power system to fit in the cranium of an android. So I did. Now having what was basically the back end of an androids head and its wig, left me still feeling as though the job was undone, so I created the head of a Gynoid (that’s a robot that looks like a female human). But then it struck me that the head alone looked again unfinished so I constructed the rest of ‘her’ body, noting that the ‘strand’ technology gave off tremendous amounts of power I of course built in ways for ‘her’ to use this power.

So there I was three days later than I thought the experiment would take, what had started out as a simple energy conversion fibre weave was now the hair of an energy manipulating Gynoid. Still even with its perfect form it was still not finished, for one thing it needed clothes for another it needed an A.I.

Now to construct an A.I is much like raising a child assuming of course that by raising a child you’re directly sticking obstacles into its mind and then killing off any versions of said child that dealt with the object in an undesired way. So perhaps not like raising a child at all. Much attention to detail went into the construction of ‘her’ AI and many cups of coffee. There typing away constructing things directly in machine code where higher levels would not suffice.

Finally there I was with a fully functional combat Gynoid who I must mention was capable of vaporising everything within fifty yards should ‘she’ ever activate her self destruct device. Of course a hundred things I could do with ‘her’ here in the Rogue Islands came to mind, more than half of them were things of a none smutty nature.

The one that piqued my scientific interest was this one. I would ship her to Paragon City and have her slowly integrate herself with the hero community, an atomic wolf in spandex sheep’s clothing. I programmed ‘her’ after all to be quite cute and naïve, traits that should endear her to the, certain facts were already built into ‘her’, ‘she’d’ believe her self to be the master piece work of some dead robotics professor a good man if slightly doddery who passed away before activating her. Years later she awakened and found her self to be in Paragon City, with the core drive to help others guiding her actions.

Of course she’d also communicate with myself keeping me informed of all she had learned . This was something she’d never be aware of certain black boxed systems shielded from her own awareness.

Part of me wondered as I bundled ‘her’ up in a packaging crate and called UPS, would we ever meet face to face, would her programming to do good one day draw her to combat my own plans. Only time would tell what happened to my little nuclear doll.

Rapid Assault, Protection, Investigation, Evacuation and Rescue

R.A.P.I.E.R

International Neo-human Defense and Interception Guard Organization.

I.N.D.I.G.O

I prefer the acronym method for naming such organizations my self XD

Simple this is different because.

1. Veteran rewards technically do cost money.

2. Veteran rewards do not solely depend upon you having a participating video game store in your country.

3. They have already given the helmets to any one with a 50 villian already.

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What a coincidence, I was just designing such a team. Maybe this can work out Pointless, if we all join heads.

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o.0 Cool.

And yeah, Cactus, peeps have already compared the idea to S.H.I.E.L.D., Spectrum (minus the Mysterons?), that sort of thing... I suppose the idea has a tiny bit of OutTrigger's InterForce as well. :\

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It's the flying base, makes comparisons obvious, but if your not going to have a flying base why even bother XD

A sort of dammed if you do dammed if you don't situation

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What a coincidence, I was just designing such a team. Maybe this can work out Pointless, if we all join heads.

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But then you'd be a monstrous creature with loads of bodies all connected by one massive conjoined head!

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GG's just being open minded
though I agree to some extent and I love the idea however wouldnt that make the costume peice less unique like the Vet wings?

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It's already common, you can use them as long as its on your first slot and your a VEAT.

The Americans got a choice between three helmets depending on where they preordered the game.

We got the wolf spider helm, if we did.

A sort of none UN S.H.I.E.L.D, a new version of Hero Corps?

Or something more covert like the Outsiders?

You've also got stuff like N.E.X.T.W.A.V.E which was S.H.I.E.L.D if it was backed by a corperation much like Crey only with more cool things like rocket powered death crabs.