Fushicho

I believe the scene she describes was from Superman I, and that was in fact Christopher Reeves looking for a phone booth and not finding one, which WAS amusing.

Here are my arcs in the format you requested. Since it deals with Soviets in a non-negative light, it may not be everyone's cup of tea.

Arc Name: Soviet Earth (Part I)
Arc ID: 25630
Author: @Fushicho
Number of Missions: 3
Level Range: 40-54
Description: A 5th Column plot to regain ascendance by using portal technology backfires for everyone. Or does it? WARNING: Most of the custom mobs have willpower as their defense set. If you are a psi user or rely on stealth, you will hate life.

Arc Name: Soviet Earth (Part II)
Arc ID: 1898
Author: @Fushicho
Number of Missions: 2
Level Range: 1-54
Description: Help solidify the alliance between our world and Soviet Earth by helping them eradicate the 5th Column and Council.

Arc Name: Soviet Earth (Part III)
Arc ID: 54547
Author: @Fushicho
Number of Missions: 5
Level Range: 40-54 (except mission 2 being 10-16 due to temporal scaling)
Description: Someone or something is messing with the Soviet Earth time line. Help Ouroboros rectify it. Although it can be played as stand-alone, it assumes you have played the other arcs and makes minor references to them.

If anyone has time, I would love to hear what the forum folk have to say about my trilogy:

Soviet Earth 1: 25630
Soviet Earth 2: 1898
Soviet Earth 3: 54547

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[Broadcast]Electric mag: lvl 3 elec brute looking for mission team
[Broadcast]Halufo: Electric brute? You copied my idea!!
[Broadcast]Electric mag: lol
[Broadcast]Kill-awatt: no, you copied my idea!
[Broadcast]Stupid Test Brute: No, you copied mine!
[Broadcast]Yosef: you all copied meeeeeeeeeee
[Broadcast]Killawhat: Hey, I was here first!
[Broadcast]Circuitbreaker: I was the first elec brute.
[Broadcast]Bionic Man: well almost every 1 copied every 1 else so shut up and test em

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we'll have to have a pow wow around here (complete with Tee Pee's and Peace Pipes, hopefully) to figure out what to do.

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In Austin? Not hard to arrange at all...

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Most of the posts regarding ED I have seen are at least 60% against it, if not more. Is there anything being done about it?

James

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A lot of knee-slapping, pointing and laughing I would gather.

OOO! A fire! *grabs the gasoline*

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and frying my brain staring at spreadsheets to try to come up with a simpler method of knowing how much damage a power will do (which, coincidentally, is the same method that the game engine uses to calculate the actual damage values).

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This SO explains the lag.

Is your current SG about as active as Dick Cheney's sex life?

Dark Experiments is putting together the stragglers from otherwise dead supergroups.

We play mainly on European time although we have a few members that play on american times). We have loosened our criteria to the following:

-Must be over 18 and have an iron stomach. We don't want to "tone it down" because little Timmy isn't allowed to hear "car talk" (I am quoting someone from a recent pickup team).

-Don't be an (unfunny) assh...er...please be nice. Don't KS or grief etc.

That's pretty much it. RP or non-RP, either way is fine.

If interested add @fushicho and @arakhna to your global friends list. I can't tell you who my main is because I'll come down with a case of altitis when Issue 5 is up and running.

Due to a SNAFU, our wepage got accidentally deleted along with some embarrassing pictures our founder had on his HDD. Beer + webcam = bad bad bad idea.

We do have a forum HERE

See you soon.

Sure I can understand this. Customer service proaly has a zillion things to do as it is.

Here's one concern I have though: The Calvin Scott task force. If I could do it again I would but the poor boy is gone so there's no way to. I did this TF and kinda liked it and would have liked to have something to show for it and even re-read what's an important pard of CoH continuity (it explains why sister psyche "doesn't look the same" as before etc...

My best ideas come in the form of really intense nightmares. Invariably, the things I create form them tend to give other people nightmares as well (usually stories) which makes me kinda proud.

* Supergroup Name: Time Brigade
* Website (if any): http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Time-Brigade/
* Leader or Recruiting Officers: Time Ranger, Time Hunter, Time Rebuke
* Preferred Method of contact: PM any of us, or in-game email Time Ranger
* Guild Description: See Below

The group for members of the Time Brigade, a City of Heroes supergroup
made up of visitors form the amazing year 400 Billion.

All members share the same powesets, basic physical build and costume,
although there is leeway in certain details to maintain some individuality
(and, frankly, so we can tell each other apart!)

Please note that except where otherwise noted below, the costume
options are strict and non-negotiable.

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Character Specs for CoH:
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skin color: Optional

Characters must be female, minimum height, minimum waist, tallest
legs, try not to make the boobies look like flotation devices.

Name should start with "The Time" and some sort of pseudo-military
second part.

I'm the Time Ranger, Time Hunter, Time Pilot, Time Tracker, Time
Keeper are all good names. Time Tortoise, Time Bimbo, and Time
Cabbage ... not so much.

Power sets are dark/electricity defenders ONLY. Ancilliary powers
and pool powers are completely up to the individual.

Your origin can be any of the five available.

-+- HEAD -+-
Half Helmets

->Chiseled
->Face 11 (none)
->Cone Helmet (none) 1st row, 2nd column (darkest gray)
->Helmet visor 2 (black, 2nd row, 7th column)
->detail 2: none
->Helmet Detail: crest 2 (1st row, 5th column, black)
->Helmet detail 2: comm 3 (black, 5th column)

-+- UPPER BODY -+-
Robotic Arm 3

-> Chest: tech 1 (1st row, 2nd column, optional secondary color. I
have aquamarine and helena has cobalt blue)

->Shoulders: tech 2 (1st row, 3rd column, black)
->Right Arm: robotic 4, all black
->Chest Detail: symbol 4, black, 1st row, second column)
->Left Glove: Robotic 1, glove 2. All black also.
->Belt: Jewel. Black, optional (as long as it doesn't clash with
anything )

-+- LOWER BODY -+-
Bottoms

->Tech 1 (none) (1st row, second column)

Boots
->Smooth armored 2 (none) (1st row, second column)

PLEASE note that the first costume slot must follow these guidelines precisely. There will be deviations on the 3nd and subsequent slots, which we will all vote on when the time comes.

There are 6 time brigadiers active right now. We play mostly on saturdays, mostly so the lower level brigadiers can catch up in levels. Come embrace the beauty of 2 pet types and 4 possible holds.

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The movie The 13th Warrior and more so the book it is based on, Eaters of the Dead actually render a relatively accurate picture of the Norse and dispel the odd prejudice -- though I can't of course verify the Neanderthal part.

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GAH!

Ok Eaters of the Dead is based (in fact the first couple of chapters are pretty much verbatim copies) of a handful of scrolls from Ibn al Fahladan's (sp?) journal. The rest is all Chrighton, which is not bad at all. (Ok. It's all Crighton readapting Beowulf which is an interesting enough idea). The movie, while one of my favorites, is not faithful to the novel and much less to the culture. The costumes are pretty inaccurate throughout. There's a guy in a kilt for gods' sakes!

The term "Viking" comes form many sources. There was a man named Viking who was a pirate. It was also the name of a river and it was used as a verb as well. Liken them to Bikers. Bikers are a group within Western society, just as Vikings were a group within Norse society (usually men with no inheritance on account of being 7th or 8th sons who had to turn to tradin' and raidin' to make a name for themselves). By no means were all Norsemen Vikings and the two terms need to be separated. Picture how irritating it would be if a thousand years form now, people referred to all Westerners as "Bikers". Not to mention confusing.

Lastly, Norsemen weren't exclusively Danish. Denmark, Sweden and Norway have all taken turns owning each other, and Iceland was a colony formed in large part by refugees fleeing form Harald Fair Hair.

Maybe this has already been touched upon, but it's late and I don't want to go through 20 pages. I do apologize.

Perhaps he's not an avatar of any god at all. Maybe the gods turned him into the incarnation of an ideal. Statesman could be "Justice Incarnate", "Heroism Incarnate", "Patriotism Incarnate", or even plain "America Incarnate". Reichsman and Tyrant "Power Incarnate" or "Tyranny Incarnate" and Lord Recluse "Megalomania Incarnate" "Egotism Incarnate" or even "Freaky-Spider-Thingy Incarnate".

I also like the idea that in order to maintain cosmic balance, Recluse and States were originally the same human being, but each facet of his duality was split and Incarnated. This could all be some Taoist lesson seemingly gone too far (hence the whole "going to the East" thing).

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While there were indeed viking raiders during the 8th-11th century the majority of their trips abroad were mainly for trade. Viking traders sailing as far as Constantinopel (modern day Istanbul) to trade fur, amber and other goods for the goods of the continent (such as silk and jewelry).

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Further than that even. There's ample evidence of trade with Arabia as well. And of course the runic graffitti found in a few places in Greece (which is closer to scandinavia than present-day Turkey, but I always get a kick out of the visual).

Of course they did once surround Miklagard (Constantinople) and had to be bribed out of completely leveling the place, which would have seriously changed the way history unfolded. You have to differentiate between Norsemen and the sub-group within that culture that were called "Vikings" who were pirates and traders mostly depending on whim. Vikings were not the "creme de la creme" of Norse society and were, in fact, encouraged to basically go off and be violent bastards in someone else's country.

So yes, many Norse ships were just trading vessels. Viking ships were more like more like a pack of Hell's Angels riding through town. They could start a lot of trouble, or maybe today they just want a beer and a place to crash.

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When it comes to "relishing battle" they did it mostly on the home court and the constant feuding between the various "clans" didn't really cease until the establishment of a strong central power, which for example in sweden wasn't until the early 16th century with Gustav Vasa.

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Don't forget Harald Fair Hair. He unified these "clans" (I prefer to think of them as small pseudo-kingdoms) as well and long before that, mainly through brute force. He's the main reason Iceland got as many colonists as it did (they were fleeing him at the time). And as far as relishing battle, yeah they (Vikings, that is. Not talking about Norsemen in general) did. Just look through Egil's saga, which reads more like someone's police file than an actual story. You can't come up with a concept like Holmgang and not relish fighting.

Also, let's not forget they constantly fought with Finns, Slavs, etc. so I must disagree on that point at least. Unless you want to lump Estonia, Russia, etc as Scandinavian clans

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(Talos) Phoenix is obviously a mythic reference, and a good one for a hospital.

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Also a constellation in the southern hemisphere (IIRC)

I was logged on as Psythe and the game assigned me the chat handle "Arakhna".

It took me a minute but I realized that Arakhna isn't a character in the account I was playing in, but in our second account!

Weird.

How about the arena records a demofile of each fight and we can buy the "tapes" with influnce and watch them as a regular demofile?

Just realized:

Bone Daddy isn't just a Skul (kill...kill...KILL!!!ONE!!) boss but a movie as well. One of the few that actually gets to me might I add.

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What I love about the "Guns Ammo" shop in KR is it's located directly across the street from a bar...

...bad city planning, perhaps?

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You've never been to Texas have you.

Or should I say "Y'ain't been to Texas, I reckon *spit*"

I am greatly saddened nobody has talked about the most blatant one:

The Conjuntion Junction badge in TV, which comes form the Schoolhouse mini-cartoon "Conjunction Junction (What's your Function?)"

Or maybe I'm just old.

Hide Park: This I believe is an Austin reference since there's a Hyde park there (North Lamar if I remember correctly).

Remember the old "Guns Ammo" sign in KR (it was changed radically in I3)? There's a store in Austin with the same exact sign in South Congress.

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States, it has been the experience of a great many players (mentioned on other threads) that *multiple* unnamed bosses show up on missions that they entered alone.


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I'll check this!

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I'll even tell you one. It's low level so just about all my alts have done it.

The damnable "unlucky pete" mission has a ton of bosses for no reason.

Because "La Falange de la Libertad" will raise a few eyebrows in post-Franco Spain XD