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My impression was that the magic and traditions they're based in are related to Eastern European legends and traditions, though probably a mishmash of other stuff too.

Ran it on Virtue last night.

Honestly, while I enjoyed the fighting stuff of the event, the Community Reps really hurt it a lot. The constant Red Text chatter was mostly inane babble totally unrelated to the event, or insane ramblings by Mako... who apparently now likes LOLcat humor and tired jokes about My Little Ponies that people have been telling over and over and over for over six months now. It wasn't funny. Telling the same joke for the 500th time or going "Bronie!" isn't humor, nor does telling that same joke enough times make it suddenly amusing.

It felt like... well, very Barrens Chat, to be honest. Or like the bizarre Broadcast chatter you hear in Pocket D or Atlas Park on Virtue. Or parts of 4chan. I expected Captain Mako to be there as Captain Mako, not... well, Zwillinger and Black Pebble mostly yammering at each other and making everyone in Virtue listen, unable to escape their terrible jokes for hours on end.

Heck, I don't think anyone actually saw Captain Mako. We never battled him. He made no appearances. Kind of a let down there.

There's this real feeling that official events, rather than being events, are devolving into a bunch of stupid internet humor with some stuff. If we're going to do events, why not make the effort of playing it straight? I'm fine with more lighthearted events or some comedy, but this is ridiculous. I mean, if this was what the event planner's idea of dialogue and story was? Good grief.

Playing Mako like this, with the overused memes and Bronie jokes, lessens the tension and threat, is out of character for a supervillain like this, and is just dumb. If Mako had been played straight, as this rather bloodthirsty pirate sharkman who's gone off the deep end because the television (or The Television) is making sharks look all cuddly and hurting his street cred, and wants to remind people what he is? That'd be fine! It all works in-character for him to be cheesed off and pulling this stuff.

You lost all that the moment you use the word "Bronie." And it went downhill from there.

So, yeah. Please, don't do events like that again if you're planning on making them like this. This is doubly true if you're running it on Virtue. You know we're an RP server. Wanna pull these jokes on Freedom? Knock yourself out. But spamming away with bad jokes is bad treatment of the RP community.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that even when the Fear is broken, a Feared enemy still has reduced DPS. After all, they only get one attack or action before the Fear kicks back in. I find it helps make a decent damage mitigator. At least, that's been my experience.

Accents and dialect styles that reflect a certain ethnic/linguistic background, like Slavic, are really hard to do right. Doubly so in writing. Part of this is because what everyone thinks many accents sound like is actually absolutely nothing like what they actually do.

I can see the upper echelons of the Skulls having more Slavic accents though, as a lot of them are probably from the group's early days. Old veterans and stuff from when it was the brothers and their buddies.

As for the costume, I like it. I don't mind the club hair being used as much here. They made it one color. The guy just has this mop of hair. I can live with it.

Yeah. That bit of police chatter, like a lot of stock sound effects, has been in use for a long time. This particular one is from Sim City 3000 and is just about everywhere. There are others that have been in use since the 1930s.

I was hoping people could give me some advice on picking my incarnate powers for my Dark/Time/Mind controller. While I've settled on my Alpha, Judgement, and Lore, I'm not sure what to grab for Interface and Hybrid.

I keep hearing "Reactive Radial" for Interface, but here's the thing: I'm a Dark Controller. Fearsome Stare is a major source of my crowd control. If everything is hit with DoTs, I can kiss a big source of my crowd control goodbye. It basically nerfs me for a piddling amount of extra damage that's not enough to really matter, since my damage is already very low.

This is primarily meant as a support character. Damage is quite low, but can easily contain and lock down and weaken very large spawns or AVs while buffing and healing teammates. I've found dark/time to be a monster at that kind of stuff.

Just could use some advice on Interface and Hybrid slots. For Interface, I'm debating Reactive Core or possibly Diamagnetic Core, just to pile on even more -ToHit and -Regen to every attack. No clue on Hybrid. Suggestions?

If need be, I can make my own chainsaw sound effects. Like I did when I played Doom without sound as a kid.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

... so, who else is thinking of making a katana chainsaw stalker? >.>

Are there plans for the Chainsaw to be ported to Broadsword, Katana, and Dual Blades the same way the beam swords in the Mecha costume set were?

Agreed. Most of Kings Row dates back to the 1930s or earlier, while this is a new building. You get this effect a lot in cities. New structures really stand out. London is a great example.

Would be really nice if we could go inside, though.

Really depends how it's done. Might be kind of like the sequence in First Ward when we're going through the memories of one of the Apparitions. That was a fairly disturbing sequence. Just a series of scenes, with you in a different "costume" as time goes by, as Hamidon mutates from Dr. Hamidon Pasilima, eco-terrorist and scientist, into the monstrous Hamidon. Maybe include Tanya Tyler as well.

I'm idly wondering who the Personal Story Arc will focus on for the Number Six arc where we fight Praetorian Hamidon. See the story and view of Hamidon himself?

Characters are server-side. But any saved costumes, chat logs, AE arcs, player notes, etc, are stored player-side. So back them up to a thumb drive or something. They're mostly a bunch of .txt files.

My sense is that they'd planned to have it down this week for some maintenance, and that got delayed... so it threw their plans a little out of whack. It happens. Not really worth getting upset over.

This all sounds really interesting. Us taking it to the Praetorian Hamidon, new 7-20 and 30-50 content, fun stuff. And, y'know, power customization.

That's pretty doable already in-game. Biker Jacket, Roman or Circle of Thorn 2 shoulder bits, tank top or t-shirt, emo hair, use a lot of grey and black, and use something like Goth to color around the eyes. Don't really see it as something new there.