JessieTell

I wasn't able to drink last night...

I had to work a grave shift.

I'm in for what its worth, money is tight all around the board but I'd be willing to give what I have to keep this game running. I've already given what I've had for six+ years now, so whats a couple more months of giving away money?

I am... Absolutely speechless I've been playing with the Dodgers for what seems like forever, and I've been playing the game for even longer than that. I started out on Triumph what seems like forever ago, I was only 18, just out of high school. I remember screaming with joy the first time that I helped down Hamidon with my blaster. I remember the first time I came to virtue and met the Dodgers on my character, all the stories I've written with them and all the characters I've created with them are special to me. Not only that but their characters as well have also found a place in my heart.

I'm 26 years old now. This game has been with me through a move from California, getting a good paying job, getting a car, getting new friends in real life since I didn't have any high school friends. This game has been there for the ups and downs of my life... It helped me cope and escape when I was depressed and it allowed me to share my joy when I was happy.

I feel just completely flabbergasted, I'm not sure if I'm going to cry or get angry I'm just too shocked to actually feel anything at the moment. I know that this is going to stick with me all night. Heck this is gonna be a bit of a scar for the rest of my life, this is like if somebody had come along and smashed my Super Nintendo when I was six years old. I grew up gaming, City of Heroes really represented a new stage in my life to me and I'm not sure what its gonna be like on the road ahead.

I love you Virtue, you might not have been my first server but I like to think that you were. I've played with a lot of you over the years and though the game has had bugs and problems you've always been stand up guys and gals. This is the best community that I've been a part of, and I will never ever forget it.

I'll be here till the door closes.

Alright, sorry for the double post, I've sort of caught up and am going to address some things:

Naming Conventions - I think people have already gotten the idea. I know some people had some pre-made characters so I wasn't going to be super strict about this. But eventually I'd kinda like everyone to be sort of discernible by their name so yes if you're making a new character:

Cute Saint <Blank> is the Magical Girl

Star Knight <Blank> is the Knight (I was gonna do Stellar Knight but this works just as well.)

Fairy Court - I think the idea has some potential, though I'd like to go over this a little more before we do anything solid with it. I like adding in influences from Shakespearean work however I don't want to get too muddled with what our destiny is, I think the major thing with a Magical Girl trope is that most of the Destiny and the Magic element is left vague on purpose. I'll leave this open to discussion for the moment but I think we should consider some other options with the court like perhaps the Court is pulling the strings on our transformations rather than being directly reincarnated from them.

Again I'll be on tomorrow and tonight so if you're ready to go and you want to be invited in then drop me a tell @BiggerThanToast.

Cute Saints:

Aries - Me
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo - Lady Sunflash
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio - FlonnEtna
Sagittarius - Limedolly
Aquarius
Pisces

Star Knights:
Sun (Knight of Leo)
Chiron (Knight of Cancer)
Earth (Knight of Taurus)
Mercury (Knight of Gemini) - The Lone Hero
Venus (Knight of Libra)
Mars (Knight of Aries)
Jupiter (Knight of Sagittarius)
Saturn (Knight of Capricorn) - Square Woot
Uranus (Knight of Aquarius)
Neptune (Knight of Pisces) - Kaminaidunho
Pluto (Knight of Scorpio)
Ceres (Knight of Virgo)

Interest in spots:

Guys I'm still alive, and I'm trying to get the project underway. I will be online all day tomorrow if you want to send me a message even if I'm on an alt I will answer questions and pop over to Dominique to get you invited.

Everything is real rough right now so I'm looking for your guys help to smooth things out, I'm going to appoint people to officer so I'm not the only one inviting into the group. And then we'll have to come up with some sort of introductory story to do, base idea, and maybe a guildportal or something.

I just wanted to post to say I was alive, I'll be answering questions when I get a chance.

The 'Knight' characters are often more closely related to the Tokusatsu genre, so I wouldn't mind in that particular fashion. The only thing that I'm kinda buckling down on is that the nature has to be magical, but the style of the character or whatever the case is up to the person that is controlling that character. I'm certainly fine with a Kamen Rider type character taking on the role of a knight so long as he transforms magically rather with some space tech or something since the whole story behind the Zodiac Saints is a magical tale.

So yes, I'm fine with you joining Lone.

Alright I've generated enough interest that I can safely say that I'm willing to start this up. So I've gone ahead and actually made a group to that effect called the Zodiac Saints.

We'll have to figure out what roles we want to take and all before we commit to roleplay. Of course like any good Magic girl anime people can come in and leave at any time for other girls to take the roles and not really upset the narrative too much.

If you guys need to message me my global is @Biggerthantoast.

Of course could also just PM me on here.

Without further ado, the list, still in construction:

Cute Saints:

Aries - Me
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio - FlonnEtna
Sagittarius - Limedolly
Aquarius
Pisces

Star Knights:
Sun (Knight of Leo)
Moon (Knight of Cancer)
Earth (Knight of Taurus)
Mercury (Knight of Gemini)
Venus (Knight of Libra)
Mars (Knight of Aries)
Jupiter (Knight of Sagittarius)
Saturn (Knight of Capricorn)
Uranus (Knight of Aquarius)
Neptune (Knight of Pisces)
Pluto (Knight of Scorpio)
Ceres (Knight of Virgo)

Interest in spots:
Lady Sunflash: Leo or Pisces
Square Woot: One of the Knights

Welcome back to the game.

Premium is all you need to join an SG.

Most of your questions were answered but:
1. There are a bunch of supergroups out there that you could join that would be willing to take a newb. The only thing is that with Virtue you kinda have to decide if you want to deal with a bunch of Roleplayers or not. There are groups out there that are strictly casual groups with no emphasis on roleplay but for every one of those groups there's at least four that are roleplay sgs. My suggestion is to look at the Supergroup Registry that's stickied at the top of the page. People post ads for their supergroup with any information that you might want including ways to contact them.

As for the giant monsters, there a couple of things you could do concerning this. Most of the end game content is raids and tfs and stuff like that, usually on this forum people will post scheduled raids that you can be a part of. Just be on the lookout for those kinds of posts. If you're just looking for giant monsters like Lusca or whomever then I suggest looking at the global channels in game and seeing if you can't find a raid or team oriented channel. I find that's the best way to get the attention of players when I want to do something.

So a while ago (Around the time the Science Pack came out and I could make drastic changes to a characters body type.) I created a magical girl that at the time was just sort of a test of the capabilities of the costume creator and if I could accurately make a male character that transforms into a female character look similar in appearance. As time has gone on and with the 'secret leak' of the staff set that is coming soon I've decided that its about time I flesh out the Magical Girl concept a little more. So I've taken a look at my character Cute Saint Dominique in a more critiquing light and I think I've come up with a good sort of back story not just to the character, but to the 'Magical Girls of Paragon' sort of ideal.

So first off I guess a little about the character himself, and sort of why he would fit into the Magical Girl theme. In general Dominique is sort of a wimp of a character, before his mother died she was the one to name him Dominique which subsequently made him the target of childhood ridicule as he grew up. Living with a single father he never really had much interaction with his father who really didn't want anything to do with Dominique, and basically because of the kids taunting the boy sort of became what they expected him to be and unconsciously drifted toward a more androgynous appearance. Despite though he seems to be pretty aggressive and impulsive about proving his masculinity. Secretly Dominique dreamed of becoming a superhero himself since then he could prove that he wasn't just a wimp. Possibly because of his nature he was chosen by a magical item that shared a bit of his own nature.

This is where the transformation comes in, Dominique was sort of called to a magical coin that contained a coin with the mark of Aries engraved into it. Once he held the coin it triggered his transformation into Cute Saint Aries, basically a magical girl themed after the Western Astrology.

In this I'd like the theme of this particular magical girl team to fall along the ideal of the the twelve zodiacs. I don't want to get too heavily into what constitutes a character that would be considered a match for a particular part of the zodiac other than they attribute some of the themes that that particular sign sort of conveys. In the case of Aries the sign conveys expressiveness or impulsiveness which is kind of what I wanted Dominique to be as a character. Also I wanted to point out that the characters would not necessarily have to be male in their original form, I don't want this to become some sort of like weird cross dressy transgendery sort of SG (No offense to Transgender Cross Dressy sorts of people.) I just thought that Dominique mad a better male in his normal form than a female changing into Cute Saint Aries.

This wouldn't just cover the Magical Girls either, the reason I chose the Zodiac was that it presented a couple of other options for character to interact with each other. Basically the magical girl theme doesn't just cover the girls but the 'knights' as well or the people that are assigned as their guardians. In this case the Zodiac would be overlooked by the Planets. For instance Mars is the planet that overlooks Aries. In this case I would be using the completely modern version of the zodiac which would include Ceres the dwarf planet in our solar system as the over looker of Virgo. This would effectively give us 11 gaurdians to the twelve zodiacs.

While I figured that the zodiacs would be 'Cute Saint so-and-so' I don't know what exactly I'm going to call the guardians yet. That would be something I'd have to leave up to discussion.

So there would be a couple of things to look at in consideration of the theme of the characters which I've supplied links for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_astrology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl

Generally I think the hardest part is going to be coming up with a sort of character concept for all the Zodiacs. In this I would like to think that we can play a little loose and fast with the powers that would be linked to the Zodiac. Of course this would fit in well with Magical Girls in general who mostly have very vague powers in the first place. As well since this is Paragon City I have no problem with the powers being 'combat based.' In that the power grants the user an ability that directly effects combat. Of course this would be up to the person that decides to make the magical girl in question.

For instance I've decided that the Cute Saint Aries being the ram could represent a sort of stubbornness, so I've envisioned her as a Tanker sort of character who can take a lot of hits and keep on coming. Right now she does have a mace as her power set but I am going to change that once the staff power set comes around. Others could be as simple or contrived as you'd want them to be, Sagittarius might simply be an Archer, but by the same token her eager nature might also land her the Kinetic power set. Taurus being ferociously loyal might do something like take the Shield power set (So they can charge as a bull.) Or they might do something more along the lines of force fields if they feel they can justify it.

These are just ideas for the time being, I wanted to see if I could garner some interest in the hopes that more people would be interested in making Magical Girls, making this into some sort of thing.

Lets see, Birthday Speech:

I've been part of the Dodgers for about two and a half years, I can safely say that I've been ingrained into the society that we've built up around each other and that I often think about the Dodgers at least once or twice a day even if I don't have the time to log in every single day. I guess there have been enough stories about how the Dodgers changed our lives, but its really quite like that. We may be small but we're very tight knit, we're committed to making every one of our characters the star of their stories as well as making our own characters the stars.

I've been at this too long to really remember why I got involved so I don't really have a story. I can just say that in all my years roleplaying, playing video games online and generally being part of the internet population I've never met a group of people who make me care about them so much. I really do consider everyone in this group to be my friend, and I'm always happy to accept other people into the fold. I always enjoy the stories that we make together and I look forward to making more in the future.

The very fact that the Dodgers have been around for three years is amazing to me, we're practically ancient now.

Lets do three more years.

Happy Birthday Dodgers.

-Jessie

Um, so I was creating a new character with weapons and stuff and when I clicked over to the weapons tab it didn't play the battle animation to pull out said weapon. I tried going over to the Combat Auras section too and same story...

I haven't tried it on any existing characters, nor have I read around for similar porblems, sorry. D:

I voted for teh classy nudity. :3

Also in the immortal word of Keanu Reaves:

Dude...

A Smut Sale!

You people should feel ashamed of yourselves!

*Passes money through the back door.*

Awesome... Makes me want to go set stuff on fire...

If you don't hear back from me check the evening news. D:

Damn... Five slots, I have to decide quick.

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merry geezer day Flame. ~

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Hey I'm only 23 damnit! That still young...

I'm still young... yeah... not getting old... /e commence fetal postion

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HAHAHAHA! Oldddd...

OH SHI- I'm turning 23 next month!

Got room in that fetal position for one more? D:

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Oh god my eyes!

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Haha, is it really bad of me that I read that first as "Oh my god yes!" ??

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Thats what I intended to type but I was blinded by sexy. (I can only type this so long as I don't look at the picture again.)

Oh god my eyes!