Dutch_Barbarian

Good ones matey.

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Excellent character development! I read this story last week and wondered what could be next - this could go on for a while and if you keep writing them like this, I'd delight in reading all of em!

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Thanks for the compliment and I'm still trying to think of a story for a third one (maybe more even). I do have something in mind but noting final.

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That last part kinda makes me wanna RP my character into replying - Excellent stuff!

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That's not a bad idea actually, maybe a start of a new thread or incorporated in this story.
You could send me a PM with the response of your character and I can work it in maybe. (Along with powers/description/character) Tho teaming with someone gives me more of a character sense. (The people I described are SG mates)

I invite others to do the same off course I would love to work on that.

My LVL 50 Katana/Regen Character Dutch Barbarian Still needs that badge, I'm up for it send a tell to @Dutch Barbarian to contact me tomorrow.

I'll try to make it.

Dutch Barbarian katana/Regen scrapper with taunt and Group fly if needed.

Thank you for the compliments. Here is part two. I'm still thinking about third part.

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“What a waste.” Was the first thing I thought after those faithful first hours, walking amongst the ruins of a collapsed building. My costume was torn and I lost most of my cape hours ago. The perfect white and gold of my supergroup was stained and smudged. My sword was covered in blood and was becoming dull. And I already changed my designer glasses a few minutes ago.

The hours before were a big blur of memories…

Me slashing a few Rikti troopers while executing a flawless circle, a dark nova performed by Puma wiping out several more groups of beasts. Tech Tower laughing, brandishing his axe and walking leisurely into the next group, shrugging of multiple hits. Myself blowing up the new gun sword of a Rikti boss, blasting him away and a few others with him. The feeling of one of Pumas’ heals after I jumped in to a group capable of doing damage even my healing factor couldn’t cure that moment. The chaos of bombs dropping around us, destroying everything around. Red Vision's illusion fooling a whole troop of those monsters, while others took them out.

Watching several heroes charging into the ranks of Rikti, blasting, holding, burning and slamming them down in a strange sort of ordered chaos. The sight of several tanks of the military and Vanguard being blown up underneath me. Watching soldiers die and heroes fall, filling me with grief. Listening to a battle report from the Arachnos. Even there the tyrant’s soldiers and villains where fighting for there lives. A skyscraper being blasted while several heroes were evacuating the collapsing building and the surrounding ones. Panicked civilians running while being chased by a score of Rikti Soldiers, only to be stopped by a few young braves. The not so gentle touch of a exploding Rikti drop ship right in my face, thinking, “What else is new?”

I still heard the blasts and fighting in the distance, while I was walking in a zone temporarily clear of invaders. I saw soldiers, civilians and even supers hiding and resting underneath the bridge nearby. A few familiar faces were with them. I saw several medics going around lending their aid. I checked my body and saw that most wounds were already healed. One of the kids walked towards me, with big blue blurry eyes she looked at me and handed me a bottle of water, which I gratefully accepted. The kid said: “Mister hero sir, are you gona stop the baddies?” I stared into the distance and answered: “I don’t know kid, but I damn well do my best.” Then I yelled: “All right, any heroes want to take on the Rikti again? The fight is not over. It’s time we take our city back and this time, we make sure it stays ours!” Most of the soldiers and heroes cheered. A couple joined me and when we took off, I looked back and saw the kid still standing there with new hope in her eyes. I promised myself I wouldn’t forget the kid and look her up when this was over. The city needed saving and the heroes were the last line of defence…

-Memories of the Second Rikti Invasion. Day 1. By Dutch Barbarian.

Note: The story below was a thing of my own imagination and my imagination alone, based on the story of the website. And I'll be posting more if I find the time. Without further blah blah from me, here is the story.



It was a normal day, as far as normal superhuman days go. I just came back from a mission in a Nemesis controlled dimension helping the local resistance. My sabre was dirty and my costume was stained too. Under the oil and dirt of a days hard fighting, I decided to take a shower at the Ascended base. After which I started to work on some new ideas. I found a few bits and pieces here and there. I could possibly use a new vibration cell in my sabre to increase the damage or a small radiation implant to improve my healing factor. I couldn’t decide at the time. I was just about to slip into my labcoat, when the base shook and actually tilted. That was impossible, the base is build in a pocket dimension and nothing could affect it. “Unless…”, I thought, “a massive dimensional shift… The last time that happened… That couldn’t be true.” I went to the observation room and checked the supercomputer and the monitors that were streaming the news. Every alarm was flashing red and howling now. The monitors were showing multiple buildings under fire. Several news networks were already in panic mode. I saw the Freedom Phalanx and hundreds of other heroes already fighting. Several reports of my Supergroup mates were coming in, most of them very scrambled. One of the screens showed the familiar axe of Tech Tower coming down hard. Another screen showed the well known clouds of darkness of Death Kiss consuming his foes. On a monitor on the left I saw even the Rogue Isles burning. Europe, Asia, Africa and the other continents were also fighting hard, all the world was at the highest Threat level. My heart longed to use a portal to Europe and defend my home country. But I made that choice a long time ago. One of the monitors switched to the medical room camera of our own base and the medpad was flashing. Puma came out all bloody and wounded. She only concentrated for a second and most of her wounds were gone. She tapped her communicator “D get your butt out of the lab and go fight”. She was already running to the base portal. I grabbed my best weapon regretting I couldn’t make the last adjustment I wanted to make just a moment ago. I ran to the portal and jumped through. A few seconds later I arrived in the chaos. I gritted my teeth.

“All right you Rikti Scum! My name is Dutch Barbarian and you picked the wrong day to mess with this city! Taste my steel, aaaarg!!”

The last thing I remember from those first few hours was flying in headfirst into the nearest group of Rikti with the blasts of several heroes, including Pumas’ darkness rays, at my back, with a slight smile on my face.

-Memories of the Second Rikti Invasion. Day 1. By Dutch Barbarian.

The song is quite good, I could dance to it.
Nice could be used with a movie

Wow, looking good.

Oooh a hard one. Contoller maybe? or Blaster? Both can be hard to lvl (almost no defences, actualy no defences at all) but can be played very well solo and in teams. For a Troller I'd say a Grav/something Blasters urr, hard to choose but if you want to solo effectively I'd say a secondary power sets with some good punches.

Nice sketchy thingy catz, I'd give anything to even have half your talent

Funny

Cool mate, I have vacation next week so I'll be on in the mornings more I think (excluding the days my parents are home, So I can team with you more. (evenings for you and all )
Glad to hear that your comp is coming , maybe we can do some bagde hunting and take a chance at the GMs Bagders forward!

Sorry for the late message I aint gona be there I have a report due tomorow lots of stuff to do man. Catch ya in the weekends if I can busy busy busy

Great going MrX. Gratz!!! I'll send you the screenie

Tip on using rain of fire, be sure to use in combo with movement inhibitors, like Tarpatch and such. Hasn't failed an another group I'm in yet.

A good background helps in certain situations, but as Stase an d Weas said, RPing is much more. I think thinking on your feet would also help. If you can do that it's a step in the right direction. Also a lot of info comes at you when Rping don't be afraid to write it down (espes when loads of characters are chatting and you have trouble reading the chat bar)

Writing stories, one of the hard things to do of being a RPer.

I suggest you think about a couple of things.

1. Origin:
Magical is good, but it needs explaining, What kind of spirit? Coming from Earth or a diffrent dimension? A return Hero perhaps, resurrected by magic and bound to someone. A Dual personalty, but with the resurected spirit in charge. A "sleeper" destant for great things and recently resurrected?

2 Conections:
What kind of conections does your spirit have to this city/planet? Does he have family here. Perhaps even bound to the sword itself picked up by a adventurer or a random person. Maybe a family member resurected him?

3. Goals:
What does he want in this world? Revenge? Justice? Countering a thread that traveled to the future?.

4. Personalty:
Is he or she a kind spirit or a hostile one?
Single minded or not? Does he or she have quirks? Is spirit kind to others or is he/she grumpy about the state of the world. That kind of thing.

I hope this gives you some tips and these where some ideas from the top of my head. Think about these 4 things and you'll write a story, start somewhere with one of these things and let your imagination do the rest.

Hope this helps, because the best stories you can write about your character are the ones you write yourself, cause you have to play it not me and everyone has his/her own playstile.
Edit: O yeah before I forget mistakes are made by the best, to learn is to make mistakes, don't worry to experiment, it takes experience to be good.
(disclaimer: I am not the best of Rpers I just read a lot about it, )

Not to rain on your stamina parade, I just notice that some toons need it and some toons don't.
A famous (and very familiar example for me atleast ) Regen, it doesn't need stamina and it never will, My MM, never had stamina and I manage perfectly. True sometimes it's anoying if there are a couple of big spawns but still. Stamina is only needed for those who take there time in here very seriously.

Everyone can manage without it, if you take a slower pace. (and if you have a resident kinetics in the team you realy don't need it). I realize this opinoin houlds now ground on the toggle heavy people, Who need to run as much as posible. But even then I found that poping a blue now and again works too.

Bottomline: Everyone has his/her own playing stile, I choose more powers over 3 powers that are needed to get stamina. And for RPG toons, it's even easier take the powers for story reasons, not for "powerplay" (a balanced build would help though, but I choose my powers by gut and preffrence hasn't failed me yet)

((I suggest training in the arenas, PvP was to chaotic, but we could do with some training, call the arenas Simulation room and we got a suitable IC point))

Extrisity hacked into the hosital network just to get the latest update, after his initial freeze up, he was [censored]. "The New Mafia will pay for this, shooting teammates is not acceptable." He began accessing the Miltia mainframe to look at the data on the new mafia. "I'll find you, if it's the last thing I do"

((I must have missed the post from Force))

((A bit of OCC here, but a jury in Paragon City for heroes consists of heroes too, as in a Jury of peers. This fact has been demonstrated in the Top Cow comics, though I understand the shooting of a jury member as a plot point, it's highly unlikely situation, none the less I'll consent to the plot, just wanted to inform you a bit, back to the story))

Extrisity, watching the courthouse from a nearby building, using his scanners to watch the entrance and surrounding area's, couldn't believe what he was hearing over the com, he saw a few PCPD's running around and a few civilians running out of the building which where stopped by the PD's. He couldn’t believe it, a jury member shot and Dragonfly too? Sure she was mentally slightly unstable but she didn’t disserve this. He just froze in shock, unable to act fast, as he usually did.

Rest assured your not the only one.. It's all your fault Derek

Darn I realy have to get into this thing again. I was playing a SF with some SG friends of mine. A sort of send off for now cause one of them is moving to Ausie a well that probaly means I have time next week tho.

Ex out.

Congrats to you Silver Weasel, I think I dinged my first (and only 50) with you on team, so big congrats.

Greetings Dutch

Hello guys, I"m again not gona make it tonight, real life has his toll, I haven't played CoH in a week that busy I'm
for now consider me inactive
Greetings Extrisity/Dutch