JackZodiac

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I know the well of furies is a ancient well that holds part of the powers of the gods. 3 ancient goddesses called the furies were all sisters, they stole some of the gods powers and put them in the well. Now according to what that article said recluse and statesman drank from this well and got the powers of gods. Well each sister also put a tiny bit of thier memories in there. When the article said Stheno wanders the rouge isles, i got a pretty good idea of either who the half-breed baracuda lady is, or the identity of recluses sister. In the new coh magizine i (and im assuming everyone else) got in the mail, recluse says to statesman oh and my sister sends her regards. This could be Stheno/baracuda. any other thoughts?

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I wouldn't settle down on any one explanation just yet. Remember, this same well, in Greek mythology, was created by Pegasus stamping around, or it was created by the Moraie. Zeb and Jack's explanation could be anything at all. Either way, it's interesting as hell.

I [censored] knew it!

Go to Atlas Park, and go to the MAGI division. They have an urn full of water from the Well of Furies that no one at MAGI wants to play with. And that's something, when Azuria won't goof off with a magic "no-no".

1. The contacts won't buy stuff from me.

2. I love, absolutely love, the teleporters. Great idea, and I hope more people visit the zone because of it now.

3. The Nameless Mystic is Rularuu the Ravager.

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Without reading the rest of this thread, things I'd change about Defiance:

1. Make it kick in faster. Upon reaching 40%, before Defiance builds to +40%, you're already down to 30% health. The bonus should be immediate.

2. Give it to every archetype. This isn't something only blasters should benefit from, especially if the logic behind it is how heroes in comic books unleash hellish powers near death. That's almost like saying blasters are the only true heroes. Give this to every archetype in some form or another to balance us all out again. Tankers should recieve a regen bonus, scrappers a recharge bonus, controllers a hold bonus, and defenders a major buffing bonus. Kinda' like how when a popular hero dies in the heat of a battle, their friends become monstrously more powerful. I know, we have Vengeance for this, but who honestly takes it considering how slight the buffs from the rest of that pool are?

Also, I disagree with a lot of people on how well it affects blasters at what levels. In low levels, you lose life so slowly, it definitely helps. And that's good. It allows blasters to solo more effectively (like we needed it) before getting a plethora of attacks. But in the late game, with APPs, my blaster is capable of holding his Defiance inbetween 5% and 40% for a little while, and with Force of Nature, I can almost ensure having it for close to a full minute.

Definitely a beautiful new feature that a lot of people are missing out on.

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Pumpkin heads are cool for halloween week but they are
churlish and nonsensical for a persistent zone.

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Except for the fact that the zone itself is directly
related to the Malleus Mundi and the Halloween event
from a year ago.

And yeah, could Jo or someone delete that schmuck's post?

Nope, still not getting it. See, "Virginia's lost colony of Roanoke" makes sense, since the island colony was part of Virginia when its citizens disappeared. If they'd said "North Carolina's lost colony of Roanoke" they would've looked like buffoons, as North Carolina hadn't existed when the citizens of Roanoke mysteriously disappeared.

Now... I don't know. I might have some crazy reading impediment where I filter logic differently than the rest of you, but that makes sense to me. And it certainly doesn't warrant a couple of uneducated posters jumping the gun to berate the creative writing of a developer.

Feel free to unzip your fly again, though.

Looks like he and Gil did their research well enough. So well, in fact, they even duped some native North Carolinians. I daresay, they might have went so far as to use Google, or perhaps open some kind of text-book.

Eerie.

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The only reason I even made this board was to get my 1 star back.

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You do have one star.

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It's the idea. The concept. There used to be Nazis in Paragon City and now there aren't, and future players will never get to experience the joy of being up Nazis.

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The joy of being up Nazis?

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Freudian Slip?

I definitely meant beating up Nazis.

It's the idea. The concept. There used to be Nazis in Paragon City and now there aren't, and future players will never get to experience the joy of being up Nazis.

Future players will never know the history of the 5th Column. Future players will never know the greatness of the Council War. Future players will never know who Malaise really was. Future players will never know who Bastion really was.

Things change in this game that future players will never know about. It's the evolution of a fictional universe. And it's quite fitting considering it mirrors the comic book universes perfectly. Introducing a hazard zone and then "cleaning it up" in a year or so isn't far-fetched. They've talked about hazard zones being fixed before. If, one day, they decided to rebuild Baumtown, no future players would be able to experience the cool setting of Boomtown, but not rebuilding Baumtown would be a mistake in that it fits with the natural evolution of Paragon City.

Leaving a temporal anomaly alone without fixing it doesn't make sense.

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Oh, and I like the idea of a temporary hazard zone.

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Croatoa is temporary? Are you sure?

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Well, after my initial post, I actually read the article.

Bierce thinks that an anomaly like Croatoa could spread, taking over (erasing) Paragon City if heroes can't stop it. I'm sure, down the road (maybe Issue Eight or Nine) it'll be "fixed".

Oh, and I like the idea of a temporary hazard zone. Gives the game that living feeling, like the story's really evolving (which we've only seen thrice now).

Oh! That's a Redcap. A Brownie, kinda'. I see.

Damn you, Jackson Turner! You've ruined all ideas I've had for the Malleus Mundi!

So you probably pass out giggling watching FOX News, huh?

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Wicca is very old but extinct.

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Nope. The religions that Wicca uses for its principals may be extinct, but Wicca itself is one of the newest religions and thriving in today's society.

That and it's impossible to become completely immaterial anymore. And I don't think many governments would allow the practice of any kind of ritual sacrifice as legal, despite it being a religious activity.

But yes, Gardener pretty much "stewed" a new religion from what he could find on ancient religions, "spiced" it up with some Hindu, Buddhism and Crowley, and presented it as a religion. And yet, people (Wiccans) still claim it's ancient or "the oldest" religion.

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And the Occult means Wicca along with Satanism, Old true Pagan Witchcraft and predates the 1950s.

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"Occult" means anything relating to the supernatural. And Wicca is not "old true Pagan witchcraft," and does not predate the 1950s. And Satanism is such a broad term for a religion that one could argue it's either no older than the 1960s, or no older than the early 1900s. Any ancient religion referred to as Satanism (and there are many) is only referred to as such because, like the term Pagan, it covers anything that isn't Christian.

Ah, see I thought that books on witchcraft were banned. Even still, the man who prompted a revival of Pagan practices, Gardener, did so in the 1950s. Unfortunately, he did it by creating his own religion out of bits and pieces of ancient religions instead of reviving the ancient religions themselves.

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Actually that is more the roaring 1920s then 1950s.

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Paganism? No, no... The early twentieth century was still a ridiculously Christian era. In the 1950s, England lifted a ban on books concerning Pagan religions and practices, which is what prompted Gardener to introduce Wicca to the world, opening the door for a Neo-Pagan movement.

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You know, as a member of the Church of Automata, I am highly offended by the way this game - indeed, fiction in general - protrays robots. I worship and work with our benevolent mechanical overlords, and I find their frequent portrayal as heartless engines of destruction (Zenith Mechs, Zeus Titans, Siege, Clockwork, the Mega Mech) more then a little disturbing. Thanks to games like this, when most people think of robots they think of homicidal killing machines barely under human subjugation. The urban myths that have arisen thanks to this stereotype makes things very hard for the acolytes of the Chuch of Automata.

I think we should show our helpful cybernetic masters in a more positive light, focusing more on heroes like Citadel and Luminary. Or have the Cronos Titan give out a handful of deathless steel wildflowers to heroes as thanks for helping out. Perhaps an entire zone dedicated to happy, singing robots that only want to help, as my religion teaches. After all, my religion is tens of minutes old and based on a wide array of holy short stories, shouldn't my feelings and those of my fellow CoA acolytes (over 2!) be taken into account? We need to break the popular bias that robots are heartless maniacal forces of pure doom.

On the other hand, I am quite pleased to see more nature spirits condemned as evil ravening bloodied demons. Soon, people will finally turn away from Crone Nature and embrace the cold hard logic of the robots. Embrace the future! Embrace the robots!

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Five stars!

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99.999% of American children are abused by their parents and those parents are in fact predominatly Christian.

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While I'm sure you pulled that number out of thin air, or were joking, you are right in the fact that the majority of child abuse and spousal abuse cases occur in Christian households.

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The 1950s were in no way hedonistic.

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I won't pretend I'm from the Fifties, but I will defend that the sweep of hedonism took America during the 1950s and 1960s. The idea of the "nuclear family" spawned at this time too, sure; but it was the Fifties that have birth to the wife-swapping, feel-good generation, and also the modern revival of Pagan practice.

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It'd be like someone finding it offensive if they created a giant monster named Cthulu.

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OMG. I worship Cthulhu. You called him a monster. I have been disrespectz0red. You insult my relidgin.

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La! La! Cthulu Fhatagn! Er, uh...

Eat me!

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It is only a few years since the 'satanic panic' where TV and newspapers spread the idea that we were all child abusers.

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A few years? That was in the Eighties. And the primary target were Satanists, not Pagans in general, and certainly not Druids (who probably fly so far below Christian radar no one knows what they are). It was a new decade where people started realizing problems like child abuse and spousal abuse and they foolishly assumed that all Satanists were evil thanks to that dumb [censored] Canadian [censored]. People were finally owning up to the wave of hedonism from the Fifties. Unfortunately Satanists caught a bad rep because of all the misinformation. But Druids?

Ask the average person on the street what a druid is. If any one out of ten people would associate druids with child abuse or human sacrifice I'd be surprised as hell. If one out of five people even knew what a druid was I'd be even more surprised.

City of Heroes portraying the Tuatha De Danaan as giants (not monsters) fighting the Fomorians and Fir Bolg (who are also misrepresented slightly) is a work of fiction, which is exactly what they were to begin with. It'd be like someone finding it offensive if they created a giant monster named Cthulu.