FloatingFatMan

Um, My heroes are already in SG's. I'm not going to drop those to join one just to arrange a PvP event, and I doubt anyone else will either. Unless you mean on test, in which case the same applies! My heroes are in SG's on test as I use them to test base functionality and am NOT giving up on all that lovely prestige they don't give away anymore!

I'll try to make it, but will probably be a bit late. RL first, afterall.

Running it on test defeats the whole point of taking RV back from the farmers though, surely?

And 6:30pm is WAY to early for me I'm afraid...

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Blaster: Debt or glory!

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Don't you mean "and"?

Or possibly "Glory through debt"?

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Well, a 3xLarge Rage+Aim+Build Up+Nova either kills everything in a glorious conflagration, or the blaster is a sticky mess on the rug...

Trust me, I have personal experience of this!

Blaster: Rez Plz!
WS: Today IS a good day to kill.

Blaster: Debt or glory!
WS: Purple!

Same here! I'm not much of a PvPer either, but if it helps you guys that love it, I'm happy to offer myself up for some action!

EDIT: Which server BTW? I have a 50 on Defiant AND Union...

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Oh, curious question: Does anyone else find there's a time of day they draw best at?

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When I'm on the phone. Honest.

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What?!? You mean... You're that good when you're not even concentrating on what you're doing?


I. Hate. You...








(Joke, honest!)

Personally, I think a talk show is better done "live" as it were... You'll get FAR better responses if people don't have time to think about it!

You can always post the logs of it up here as a show transcript.

Sounds like an interesting project! I wouldn't be against offering Miss Ellie up as guest material!

Mika Wakahisa reached out with the secateurs and snipped the rose stem, taking the damaged bloom and dropping it into the bucket with the others. Her grandpa’s garden had looked so beautiful once, but since those awful trolls had taken over much of Eastgate, it had suffered much from their random vandalism.

Snipping the last of the damaged roses carefully from the bush, she sat back with a sigh, and looked up as the sound of a loud crash, followed guttural voices came from the other side of the high wall.

“That funny! Do it more!” One of them said.

Another replied with a harsh laugh, “You want see more? Me take more ‘dine and show you more!”

Sounds of some scuffling came from behind the wall as Mika froze in fear, not daring to make a noise less she be heard. Then a sharp intake of breath came from the other side, followed by a bellow of rage.

“Graaargh!!! Me SHOW you more now!”

Suddenly, the garden wall shook as something heavy hit it with a loud thud. Several more thuds came in rapid succession, and the wall toppled; crushing the rose bushes as Mike scrambled backwards out of the way.

Behind the now wrecked wall, a group of 4 trolls were laughing and shoving each other at the damage they’d caused. Then one, larger than the others, spotted Mika!

“Hey! Cute little girl want to play with Ogre?” He growled.

The others saw Mika, and started to laugh, egging the ogre on as he stepped over the rubble, further crushing the ruined roses. Mika paled, and scrambled backwards, away from the troll, and finally managed to get to her feet and run as the troll reached out to grab her.

Narrowly missing his outstretched hand, she ran for the house; slamming the back door behind her and running upstairs to her small bedroom. As she hid under the bed, shaking with terror, a loud crash came from downstairs at the trolls burst into her home, and the sounds of roaring and smashing could be heard.

Outside, a bright red light pulsated through the sky as it approached Mika’s home. Reaching her bedroom window, it passed through the cracked and dirty glass and hovered over the bed where Mike lay, shaking in fear. The light grew brighter, flooding the room with a warm red glow, and the best burst apart into thousands of rose petals as the light sank into Mika’s chest.

Mika’s body grew still as the glow spread throughout her body, and slowly she floated up into the air, to hover upright, several inches above the petal covered floor. The room around her faded as the light grew ever brighter and her clothes faded into more rose petals which swirled around her slim figure until they formed into a bright red dress. Then a white puffy sleeved shirt and scarf with bright red edging formed. Her arms flicked out to the sides and bracelets inscribed with an etching of a rose appearing before waving her palms across her forehead, a golden tiara inset with a red gem, and a mask of the same colour appearing. Arcing back, a matching belt with a large jewel in appeared around her waist as her black hair turned a bright red. With a shimmering 'pop' she landed back in her bedroom.

Mika looked down at herself, confused and astounded, “Ano… How..?”

Another crash came from downstairs, and an angry look came over Mika’s face. Rushing to her door, she pulled it open and ran down the stairs, her red clad feet barely making a sound. Rushing into the kitchen, she saw the trolls standing in the middle of a pile of debris, the remains of her grandfathers kitchen.

“Stop foul monster! Begone from this home before I, Bara Hime, teach you the error of your ways!” The words came unbidden from her mouth as she glared at them from the doorway, hands on hips.

The trolls stopped their destruction, and turned to look at her, “Look!”, said one, “Pretty girly got dressed up for us!”

The Ogre laughed and lunged at Bara, hands outstretched to grab her.

Letting him grab her, the troll roared in victory as he lifted Bara into the air; held tight in his huge hands. The roared quickly turned into a scream of pain though, as suddenly, thorns burst from Bara’s skin; piercing the Ogres’ skin and making him drop her as he hugged his lacerated hands to himself.

Bara dropped to a crouch and grinned, “I warned to you leave, foul monster! Now taste the wrath of Gaia!”

With a yell, she sprang at the trolls; thorn covered fists and legs lashing out as the drove through the trolls in a whirlwind of red and white; shedding petals all over each time she struck.

It was over in seconds; Bara blew through the trolls, punching and slashing like a red tornado, before finally stopping and glaring at the beaten trolls. As one, they staggered to their feet; covered in cuts and scratches, picked up their leader and ran from the house.

“Let that be a lesson to you, foul monsters!” Barra called after them, “Know that this place is protected by the love of Gaia and the power of Bara Hime!

Turning back to the ruined kitchen, Bara sighed at the mess, and the red glow surrounded her again. When it faded seconds later, Bara was gone, transformed back to Mika.

She looked down at herself again in wonder, confused as to what had happened, then saw the mess before her. “Awww man! Granpa’s gonna be so mad!”

Hmm.. Might try and show up on my PB, Miss Ellie. Not done Hami on her as yet...

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Force Commander: Has 27 seperate senses such as his famed inertiasense and kinetivision.

Devs - GIVE US A PERCEPTION POOL POWER!

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Oh, that reminds me! Miss Ellie can also see peoples energy fields, or auras. Couple that with her sense of smell and it's VERY hard to hide from her or disguise yourself. If she meets a hero both in and out of costume, she almost certainly WILL know your secret ID. But she won't tell anyone!

Very nice Z. You're definately improving!

Miss Ellie is a blending of three beings. Her Peacebringer abilities are obvious, but she also has traits from the other parts of the blending too.

In her original form, before she was joined; Ellie was a mutant. Little was known of any powers she might have had, but she WAS known to have an aggressive immune system which rendered her naturally immune to pretty much all known sources of disease.

The feline adds extra sensory abilities which include highly enhanced hearing, smell and sight; as well as endowing her with excellent agility. However, the enhanced senses ALSO render her susceptible to extremes of sound, smell and sight; she's particularly vulnerable to ultrasonics. She also is able to extend her Kheldian energy field to emulate cat claws. These extend up to 6 inches from each fingertip and can cut through anything, even adamantium. She VERY rarely uses these as they are lethal.

She has recently been growing in ability as well. All Kheldians are known to possess the ability to shapeshift; but Ellie has learned to take this ability further. She can change not just her energy field so that she becomes an energy representation of a former host, but is actually able to biomorph her physical form. The true source of this ability is not known, whether it be a latent ability she always had that was awakened by her blending, or came about because of the blending; but she's learned to use it to great effect and can even effect a partial shift, using it as part of her new secret identity as KittyHawk to grow a pair of wings.

Each form, however, takes much practice and so far she has only perfected 3 other forms. A dolphin, a tiger and a hawk. She's regularly seen in either of these forms on the tropical island she calls home, but doesn't use them in the city.

I think he means he wants some good scenic shots for use in his pictures. The game is full of those...

And yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the TV reactor room...

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Hidden Healer

Telekenesis- can use to attack peoples minds or just to speak to them



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That's Telepathy. Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with the mind.

Doesn't see to work for me.. Just a little white box with an X...

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I'd nominate Catz, but it's already been done....!

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Same here!

(( This is connected to IC events from the following post in the IC Story Thread in the Roleplaying section, and mine which follows immediately after it. ))

Tiger’s Storm - Part One
Galaxy City, 2:30am, Monday 8th January

The muffled sounds of voices barely penetrated her consciousness as she floated somewhere between the light of life, and the darkness of death. Vague impressions of flashing lights, sirens, and a rocking motion as she was moved from that dark alley, flashed across her awareness with barely a flicker of recognition.

The weak and desperate voice of the young Peacebringer flickered through her mind, repeating what were almost her last words. “There's... a better way... you know it... I know it... many do."

Then came the memory of the excruciating pain that had ripped through her body as she’d rejected the very act that would keep her alive; forced herself to stop the flow of life force from her victim; and with that memory, her physical body spasmed from the remembered shock.

In the real world about her, medics yelped and jumped back as the body of the tiger they were working on arced back on the gurney, and began to thrash about as pain ripped through its tortured form.

“Look out for those claws!” One of them shouted, as a paw half the size of his head narrowly missed raking his face.

Working quickly, the medics managed to strap the animal to the gurney more securely, and one of them grabbed a hypodermic, intending to tranquilise the tiger. One of his collegues glances at him, “You really think that will work on this… thing?”

“Who knows, but gotta be worth a try, right? If we don’t quiet it down, we’ll never get it to the facility.”

The first medic nodded, “Give it a shot then, but go for intramuscular; you’ll never find a damn vein in this thing!”

The medic with the hypo nodded, and choosing a random spot on the tiger’s neck, jabbed the needle into it, injecting a huge dose of sedatives. A few moments later, the animals thrashing slowed to a stop as the powerful medications take effect.

A woman dressed in dark leathers, and with blackly glowing eyes, approached them. “She’s stable?”

“Yes ma’am, we’ve had to tranquilise her though.”

The woman nodded, and turned to head into the Freedom Corps building nearby, “Bring her.”

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Hours later, a clang of a cage door closing caused the almost black tiger to awake with a start. It lay there for several minutes, before painfully heaving itself onto it’s paws. Panting for breath, it took in its surroundings.

A cage, perhaps 10 meters square, with the floor covered in straw. To one side, a metal trough filled with water, and smaller bowl next to it, containing a chuck of red flesh. Moving almost painfully, the tiger walked to the trough and drank deeply; unaware of the darkly dressed woman watching her from just outside the cage.

The woman watched the tiger, pity in her glowing eyes. “So much pain in you, sister… So much torment. It’s incredible that you’re still alive after all you went through.”

The tiger looked up from it’s drink, and turned to look at the woman; a faint glow barely visible in its eyes.

“We will help you, sister. You’ve taken an important first step in returning to the path of justice. We can’t let your act of mercy go to waste.”

The tiger watched the woman as she spoke, its weakness clear in its body language as it slowly dropped to the ground, to watch her from a prone position on the floor.

Behind the woman, a door opened, and two men entered the room. One appeared to be a doctor; his white lab coat and clipboard giving some indication of his profession. The other was a powerfully built figure in a bright red and yellow costume. A bright glow of energy poured from his eyes as he approached the watcher.

“She’s alive?” The mans voice was deep, with a cultured American accent.

The woman nodded, “For now, though I couldn’t begin to tell you how. I’ve never heard of one of my kind being able to stop a transfer the way she did. If Song hadn’t seen it for herself, I’d never have believed it.”

The man stepped up to the bars, watching the tiger closely, “I know her… progenitor. Quite well, in fact.”

“So I understand. Is it true, what I heard about her?”

“That she was once part of one my kind? Yes. Curious, isn’t it? Perhaps that’s what made her turn back.”

The woman glanced up at him, “Perhaps. Her situation is certainly unique. A Nictus, bonded with an animal… She must have been desperate to do such a thing.”

The man nodded, “She was. Remind me to send you the file sometime; it makes quite interesting reading. Doctor Michaels, what’s your prognosis?”

The doctor cleared his throat, “Well sir; we’ve managed to stabilise her for now, but from what we’ve been able to tell, unless she gets a fresh influx of life force, she isn’t likely to live more than a day, two at most.”

The woman raised an eyebrow, “She’s unable to generate her own whilst in the hosts natural state?”

“Normally ma’am, I’d say yes. But reversing her system the way she apparently did… Well, our instruments indicate that there’s been some damage to the symbiote. She will need regular transfers of life force to keep her alive whilst she heals. After that, well…” The doctor shrugged, “Our instruments indicate that in this form she’s little more than the tiger she appears to be. To function at a level commensurate with ours, she needs to take on a more suitable form, and that places a huge drain on her body. To counteract that, she’s going to need a new host.”

The man nodded, “I see, thank you doctor.” Looking back at the woman, he asked, “Do you have any likely candidates?”

Shaking her head, the woman replied, “None that would be willing to take her on. She’s too… Raw…”

“Then for now, we’ll keep her alive with donations, fed from storage crystals.”

The woman frowned, “That’s not much of an existence for her.”

Eyes glowing brighter; the man replied. “At least its life, which is more than she expected to have.” With that, he turned and left the room; leaving the woman staring through the bars at the creature which called itself Tiger Dark.

Oh I wouldn't say it's poo... It looks quite good.

But.. Umm. Where's his neck?

Aww.. Sad to see you go Animal, but hope you enjoy wherever you end up!

Oh.. And you'll be back! They ALWAYS come back!

I think it looks great Z, and as I said on MSN, she looks a bit like you!

One of these days, I'll get my old artpad out... But I have no scanner...

Have fun Carni! See you around Aprilish!

Firstly, welcome back!! As a friend of Z's, both OOC and IC, I've heard a fair bit about Jen!!

Second, VERY interesting summary! A fair bit that that I hadn't known so it was a really interesting read!

Third, welcome back!!