Ghost

Last night in Pocket D…

Roselin Thorne was there, sitting on the rail beside War Witch, looking on. Some vaguely familiar person in a heroic costume (Britanic) walked up to her, warned her it was a long drop and a dangerous sitting place. Roselin just smiled and said she would be fine, and he jumped over the rail and was off.

After a while, Roselin moved closer and sat down in a booth, chatted to Sarah for a moment about Shydow, and her situation/complexities. But then he showed up with a rather lame excuse about why he was hours late… He had a fish that needed swimming lessons…

Rose observed for the most part, talking bits with Nick, mostly whispered.
Then Nick asked Rose about that job she might have for him, so they moved to a more private area to chat. Nick started off with some personal comments and questions, which Roselin answered to the best of her ability. They talked a bit more, also about the job Roselin had: namely finding a certain gem with probable magical powers. What Roselin didn’t mention was that it was for Feyth, enemy turned cautious ally due to outside contracting (should last to the end of the year). Nor did she mention Rose could break that millionaire’s barrier with this job. Neither did she mention she’s still not sure if she’ll complete the job. For now, she wants to know why Feyth wants it.

They talked about more things, mostly relationships and such, Nick and Zeyna… Sarah and Shydow, and Roselin and Sarah, or Sarah2, or Mary… Rose revealed that she was thinking of letting Mary down to be there for Sarah. They also talked about Sarah as a mother… that she wouldn’t be a good one as she would be too busy babying her children to give them some discipline/correction. (and there for it would be better for her that she’d be with some one where that isn’t possible – Nick said )

More evaluations of the Sarah/Shydow situations were discussed…
But were quickly aborted with the arrival of Sarah, apparently having left Shydow alone at her apartment to settle in a bit? Or maybe he had to go off on one of his jobs again. (honestly, he does more ‘jobs’ then most villains!)
And they chatted about things, mostly about things that embarrassed Sarah
Then Mary showed up, keeping sneakily aside so she wouldn’t scare Rose’s friends away. But Roselin went over and dragged her off for ‘the chat’… Mary seemed understanding, and was happy with Roselin’s wish to remain friends, and said she’d try and sit with her and her friends. So she did and the four of them sat … in silence for a while, lost in contemplation… before Mary made a comment and Rose made the attempt of a conversation…

During the conversation, Nick went to see Dinah (Alraune) and a bit later Sarah went off… it seemed that Nick told her what Roselin’s purpose of the chat with Mary was… It seemed like she was feeling guilty… for her decisions, decisions she made because she was insecure and didn’t want to hurt people.

Before long, Mary was bitter that Rose’s friend seemed to think they were to good for her, and eventually left so Rose’s friends could come back… which they didn’t really.

Instead Dinah came over to tell her Rose’s help and advice were greatly appreciated and effective. They chatted some more about things, including the diamond Dinah received.

Justice Goldsomething came to Dinah and complained about the new bartender girl asking $6 for a cola! Dinah was outraged, a cola wasn’t even $1! And she stayed for chatting (Good tactic, a reason to make an entry and continue socializing )
Sarah asked Rose for a brush, which she grew a spiked pod for, as Mary had dumped a glass of water on Sarah’s head… Sarah wanted to brush her hair, and went back to Nick who was sulking somewhere.

Justice was impressed and asked if Rose could do similar and grow a flower in under an hour… “an hour? That long?”
Rose grew a pink rose behind her own ear, Dinah a blue flower in her hand… both well under a minute much to Justice’s awe.
edit: When Justice asked about juicy gossip to share... Dinah mentioned that some one had women's underwear thrown at him, Isaac (but which one? ) was complaining he didn't get it... so Dinah launched boxers on a thorn at him

Eventually Nick and Sarah came back, and more chatting happened, with Dinah’s nature being discussed and …
At some point Rose fell asleep from emotional exhaustion, while she had to be at the shop the following morning again, so they shooed her off home.


edit: I'm sure I've missed a lot, set things in wrong order and what not...
it'll be up to others to correct at their discression

They're there


as for villains, there's a thread called RP Villians on Defiant

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Earlier on Monday:

Jan Boa, accompianed by bodyguard Cobra arrived at Garden Jeweller's in Port Oakes with a fire-proof safebox full of jewellery for Roselin Thorne to appraise and buy. Included among the box was some other pieces of Snake culture, that have been unconsecrated by Arachnos-sent theives and thus free for Jan to have. Jan sold several of the pieces to Roselin, along with some of the other jewellery she brought, which was payment from a job she was on.

Included amongst the jewellery was a lovely white gold set in a floral design, including a broach, necklace, bracelets, rings and earings. Roselin snapped these up quickly, and after some discussion, Jan and Cobra walked away from the store with US$50,000 and an $80 silver signet ring for Cobra.

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She knows a collector that she can sell those snake pieces to for a bit more then the 50k... and she knows a collector that... thanks to creative accounting, doesn't have to pay for the flowery set... herself!

Last night at Pocket D:

Roselin said hi to Nick and his new friend Zian. Got zooomed around by Sarah2... Roselin wasn't happy to notice a repeat behavior, and dragged her off to try and find/talk some sense.. in vain of course...

Nick found them and they chatted a bit about various things, including Sarah2's condition, Sarah1's condition that contributed to that... Rose's situation and Nick being a great friend and good person...

Roselin then took Sarah2 home to make sure she didn't get in to any more trouble...

Isaac the bartender at Pocket D's mutterings at odd occasions:
"I've got the wrong job... what does that Roselin chick do or got that she gets women's underwear thrown at her..?"

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The horns.. don't look 3d enough, really... no idea how that can be done better, though!

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^_^I didn't want to make them in 3d But white and black are my allies for the shadow LOL

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I meant that they look like they stay in front of the face... perhaps the upper white curve could go over the edge?


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Also, the wings... they look a bit too busy in most areas...

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Right, and that's the effect i wanted to have. But, on the right shoulder, i could have put more effect I didn't see it... sic!

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Alright, fair enough

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And other then that... jawdroppingly good!
Could I nudge you to two stickies in this section? (even if one is a contest that's run it's prize course ...)

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Sorry but i don't know what jawdroppingly mean Can you explain it please ?
(And, i think that i can't participate in this section... Only in the french section i suppose.

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Of course.. it's so good it made my jaw drop, making me gawk in awe.

And since you're already posting in here, of course you can join in here

Woa!

The horns.. don't look 3d enough, really... no idea how that can be done better, though!

Also, the wings... they look a bit too busy in most areas... There are a few areas where they look nice and cellular, like about her right shoulder (on the left side of the picture)

And other then that... jawdroppingly good!
Could I nudge you to two stickies in this section? (even if one is a contest that's run it's prize course ...)

Nice!

Love the feel of it...
Although I was expecting an obituary... (Rest In Peace)

Earlier that day, Roselin met with Sarah 1 and 2, having cooked them a fine meal and chatting a bit about the curious turn of the 'hunter' Feyth turning 'protector'...

Then she got them both to dress up (no, not that kin.. I'll shut up now) in their original suits to pose for the camera.

One was sellected and sent to various adresses in Paragon, the result is found here

Neat!

I love how you've blended the back ground in to the picture!

((Posting on behalf of the lovely Zortel!))

Last night at Pocket D:

Alraune turned up for her part-shift, serving drinks up and talking to Lae'ori (The Fisherwoman), Detective Benedict and others, getting into a chat with Lae'Ori and a tall blue female demon about jobs and mating, and chats with Detective Benedict on humanity and various things. David Pyrons, in a generous mood set up a bar tab for the night for all drinks, and the bar quickly got very crowded, so Alraune had to tell people to move away from the bar if they weren't ordering. She also is getting good with remembering peoples drinks, getting Alexanda Cain a bottle of Millers and Justice Goldheart a glass of carrot juice upon seeing them.

Her shift soon coming to an end in time for some training, Alraune hopped over the counter, bid goodbye to the Detective and Lae'ori and headed out to learn how to work other various parts of the Pocket D facility.

Jan Boa turned up and ordered a drink, with Cobra, one of her henchmen, going over to leer over the Detective and Lae'ori. Sending him off back to Boa Personel Services base of operations, she proceeded to chat with the pair about her line of work and services, giving out buisness cards and saying goodbye to Blaze(Detective) when she left, and heading over to the other bar for a drink with Lae'ori.

Jan met up with acquaintance Roselin Thorne and was introduced to Caged Eagle, and started to talk buisness with Roselin. Jan was paid for a job in jewellery and was looking to fence it, and seeing as Roselin is a jeweller, a meeting was arranged for Roselin to get first pick on any good pieces she had.

Jan freaked Roselin out a little with her snakelike torso when stretching, and got chatting to Lae'ori again, pondering a buisness dealing with her. Jan soon bid her farewells as she had an early job in the morning, giving her card out to some others, and recieved a certain kind of card from Lae'ori that was less than conventional! It seems Lae'ori's lips secrete an oil which allows her to form a telepathic link, so she kissed her fingers and planted them on Jan's lips.

Alraune returned from training, and seeing as the new barmaid was doing okay, went over to chat to one of the other bartenders, Lae'ori and others. Nightschild turned up to chat to Roselin and Caged Eagle, and Dinah (Alraune's real name), asked him how he was and brought him a Jack Daniels. Seems she has a bit of a softspot for the young half-demon boy!

Roselin soon left, and Dinah bid her farewell and to come back soon, before cursing that she was still in barmaid mode. Chatting to Lae'ori some more, they discussed jobs, ecology, how Dinah herself became a plant girl, love, relationships, dancing and made a few jokes about a debate between a vampire and some kind of vampire/demon hunter arguing over at the other bar.

Alraune headed off to collect her bag (and I helped someone out on the V-Day mission), and came back, continuing the chat before Alraune decided to head home. Lae'ori wished to make a contact link with Dinah, and kissed her fingertips, before grinning and just giving Dinah a kiss. The barmaid didn't seem to mind, saying it was a rather unique way of establishing contact and headed of home.

((Thanks to ShadowGhost for posting this, seeing as College has clamped down on me accessing the forums. Going to try and find a fix somehow!))

indeed, the only way to make screenshots from the costume editor is to [Print Screen] and paste it in Paint or some such.

Where as pressing [Print Screen] ingame should make a screenshot to the screenshots folder of your game folder

Last night...


Roselin arrived at PD with Sarah(1) and noticed the upstairs hero bar was... swamped!
As Rose made her way around the crowd to the other bar, she glimpsed Shydow in the corner of her eye and paused. Sarah was still standing at the top of the stairs, and Rose gave them some room. Shydow wanted to talk, in private... Which Rose barely overheard due to the noise, but as they walked over to a quieter bar or.. 'the quiet bar', Rose went over to around the wall where she could still hear them...

To Rose's ear, it sounded like Shydow was either a bit dense or distracted by Sarah's body(language) or perhaps even observant enough but focused on his own gains to let Sarah's hessitation and doubts get too much in the way...
Or the more likely story being that he doesn't know Sarah.. at all.
(( Sorry, IC observations! ))

As they were interrupted by some latino dude, Shydow took off on that job he's been postponing for Sarah (hey, he's learning!) and Rose came out of hiding, but kept her distance.

Some guy came along and talked a bit with Rose and offered her a drink, which she accepted, but then declined when he didn't know/tell what the drink was and ordered a white wine.

Chatting with Sarah and Carlo (the latino), then also with Jan Boa and her friend a name Rose will probably get wrong more times then she does Jan's (Jane isn't right...) who seemed to like salt water (Lae'ori)

Sarah was quiet and even spaced out (no blond jokes!) at times, but insisted that she was fine.
Not believing but respecting her choice to not wanting to talk... Rose arranged to leave for an early evening... the previous ones ended rather late

Yes

Control is control, whether magic or tech
same for energy.

Only thing is, tech add-ons need tech primary, magic ones need magic ones.

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Dont suppose it was you who I met down in the basement at the Brighton meet were we spoke breifly was it?

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Yes, I was in the basement, with FFM sitting between you and me most of the time.

I was the one that looked a bit like this (that's also an art request to stay OT )
only a bit more .. muscular *shifty eyes* you agree, right?

Alright, after much deliberation (and a lot of vodka consummation ) we have decided on the winners.

We have judged all the entries on the following points:[*] Originality[*] Interaction[*] Pose[*] Artistic skill[*] Finish[*] And finally: "feel"

Let me tell you it was close! Luckily we used this points system otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to get through this with so little bruises…


Any way, the moment you have all been waiting for!

*drum roll*

In third place: Catz with her great composition of Grav and Ellie!

The second place and runner up: Soulasylum with her: Gravity of Love

But first place goes to...
Swissy !!! with his nicely separated wallpapers: 1400 x 900 (638 kb) and 1280 x 960 (682 kb)

These three will be PMed for arranging the getting the prizes to them as fast as possible.

Special thanks goes to all those that shown an interest, those that participated and Bridger for the sticky

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((The corpse of Nick and Zeyna's relationship isn't even cold yet and already the vultures begin to circle... As someone pretty new to the CoX RPing community, I have to wonder, is this normal? ))

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You need ask?
Vultures were already circling many a relationship before those became carcasses.
(and in some cases, circling already starts before a relationship..)


Last night...

Sarah2 invited Roselin over for a tour of the Giza.
A short tour was given, they chatted for a while, had a drink in the strip bar (lacking strippers at that hour )
Then they had much fun with betting at blackjack (mostly the between them side bets, which Sarah won all the way up to the 'double or nothing' bet which Roselin won)

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DEAR GOD THE PICTURES ARE AMAZING!!!

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Do you envy us?

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I'm inclined to agree with Stalingrad that a bit more of an explanation of Godmodding might be a good thing, though your description is concise and to the point.

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We could of course add more thorough explinations of such complex things like godmodding.

Only problem there is that like many such issues, it comes down to personal preference, style and 'consensus'. It'll be impossible to get everyone to agree on the finer details.

Seeing some art request threads in the list... most for one person/alt... I found myself finding it a bit rude to post my request in those threads...
And so I thought others might feel the same.

And to stop hordes of individual threads from popping up... I thought it might be a good idea to make one for everyone.


So here goes...


Anyone want to give a shot at these characters?

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An easy/cheap way to get a little boost in the power & control department.

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I understood this as getting a boost to power & control for an excisting base...

woa!

Great muscle lines, good patern work!
Great hands! (I hear they're evil to draw) although the left isn't perfect (still great)
The foot feels a tad small.

ink and colour it!

And so the window for submitting entries has closed.

Feel free to post more they'll still be greatly apreciated, but they won't be eligable for the prize.

Thank you all for your submissions so far, in my oppinion, you ALL deserve prizes.. how ever, sadly we can't even give you a 'I entered a competition and all I got was this tshirt' tshirt...

FFM and I will start the imensely difficult task of judging the entries and pick the top 3...
It will be hard to do! I doubt we'll be able to announce the winners before the weekend.

Hmmm indeed... though on small problem one might encounter there.. it needs to be in the 3x3 oversight room.
I don't know about you, but by the time I'm hurting for control (as energy I've found in abundance with just the generator) I'm a bit strapped for room.

Rose had such a fun day yesterday...

First she woke up with a hangover, finding out that she (beyond a doubt) did something she wouldn't likely do if she was sober, though doesn't really regret it.

Then as her workday drew to an end.. her communicator flared to life. Mary, got in to a fight and by the sounds of it was likely dead.
As fast as she could, she headed to Paragon (where she knew Mary was) and backtracked her through hospitals to a skyscraper.
Mary was quite shaken by the fight, and what was said before it. She seemed to think all in her life was a lie..
Probably in an effort to find out if Rose was one too, she jumped off the building.
Rose jumped after her, to fly down and catch her, as to Rose's knowledge, Mary had no means of surviving the fall.
Rose was wrong as Mary's new armoured suit was not only heavy, but also had it's own rocket boosters which she used to avoid becoming a pancake. (oh, she was spouting some rather hurtful things too...)
Roselin, however wasn't as lucky. Though she pulled up, her reaction was too late and she hit the pavement rather hardly, rolling for several yards before coming to a stop with plenty bones broken, and only an arachnos teleporter that doesn't work in Paragon City...

Mary was rather shaken up by this too, and took drastic measures to get Rose to a hospital, but broke her out before she could be arrested (or healed) and used a reclimator in Pocket D.

They talked a bit, patching up and such.

Then Nick came over for a chat to Rose, he wasn't happy... Mary left to let them talk.
Sarah2 later dropped by, being rather drunk, though hadn't been drinking enough... Sarah1...
deep joy... Nick went to check on Sarah1, Rose kept an eye on Sarah2 (and held her hair back as she vomitted with Sarah1)

Afterwards Sarah2 and Rose talked about more about personal problems...

DEEP joy...

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Forgot about this topic, thought it had died as I have a tendancy to miss the stickies

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You have until Wednesday...


GET BUSY!!