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Originally Posted by 2short2care

I have cleared away all his minions and when he spawns a batterling I kill that too, I have used all kinds of inspirations (reds, lucks, oranges, greens, blues you name it) I just couldn't kill him, but that didn't stop him from killing my pb toon a dozen times.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I haven't finished the arc yet, but there's something... Odd about the Numina pinup on the loading screen. Now, this might sound like open criticism, but I'm just trying to express what throws me off about it. Feel free to correct me on any and all counts.

The first thing I notice is that her face actually looks decent. No O-face in sight. I can respect this greatly. She does have something of a large nose, but that's really not the point. It does seem odd that her lipstick comes FAR below her lower lip almost until it meets her chin, but I don't really know the specifics of female makeup, so maybe that's done to make her lips seem fuller. How DO you put makeup on a ghost, anyway?

I really like her hair. It's both sensual and reserved, which is quite hard to pull off in artwork, but what is that vertical "rim" at the back of her head intended to represent? Is her hair from the left somehow twisted and wrapped over the top of her head and coming down on the right? If that's the case, then why is it as long as her hair on the left? Wouldn't you need a very uneven haircut to pull that off?

The next thing I notice is that her right hand REALLY stands out. I'm not sure what it is, maybe the way the bottom of the palm juts out makes her hand too big for her tiny wrist, or maybe her fingers are a bit too long. I can't quite say. What I CAN say, however, is that her index finger seems unnaturally short, much shorter than her ring finger. Now, I do know that some people's ring finger is longer than their index finger, but I'm not sure if it's usual for it to be longer by THIS much.

I immediately start comparing it to her left hand holding the skull, which appears larger larger than her right, despite being in the foreground. Maybe it's just me, though, I can't be sure. I really have no complaints about the left hand, other than that her index finger feels like it shouldn't be visible, obscured by the skull if she was supposed to have an even spread of her fingers. Certainly it should have been obscured by her middle finger. In fact, if you go by where the picture suggests her index finger knuckle would be, then she has a HUGE gap between her index finger and her thumb, clear on the other side of the skull. Upon reflection, he pinky looks as long as her ring finger on that same left hand.

What really catches my eye even more, though, is... Why does Numina have fingernails on her gloves? And I'm not talking about pointed fingers as though the hands beneath the gloves had long nails, I mean she has actual pink fingernails AN TOP of her gloves. It's like she isn't wearing gloves at all, but instead has her forearms and hands body-painted pink. That can't be right, though, because her right wrist shows fabric wrinkles, and I can't see a reason why she'd paint her hands. They're not very obvious on her right hand, but that has fingernails, too, just not as long as on the left hand. Surprisingly, this reminds me of Wagner's artwork, a little bit.

Then I notice that... Wow, she has large breasts. Not a bad thing. Not a bad thing. I like it. But as I'm looking at them, I start to notice that her right shoulder seems to be very far away from her rib cage. At first I thought it was just because her hair hides part of her neck so things just look off-centre, but that's not it. The middle of her throat goes over her centreline, which her clavicles radiate away from. However, whereas on her left shoulder the clavicle goes over the actual shoulder (which I'm not sure it should, but I don't know enough about anatomy), on her right shoulder the clavicle seems to end a good inch before her shoulder even begins, which is odd considering what the clavicle is supposed to link up with. Now, at first glance it looks like part of the collar bone may be hidden by her hair, but if her right clavicle did go all the way up to her shoulder, it would be much longer than her left one. And, yes, I know her torso is at an angle, but that rotation should have retained the length of her bones. I don't know, it just feels like her right shoulder is jutting way out.

And while I'm looking at her neck and collar bone area, I start to wonder... Is her outfit made of sticky tape on the inside? I though Numina wore sort of a long sleeveless coat, so why am I seeing her clavicle bones through it to begin with? Why is it dipping down into the indentations of her body and between her breasts to begin with? It feels like that coat is made of shopping bag nylon or something equally as thin, while I would have expected a coat to be made of a thicker material, especially with that high collar. I know that in comic books, you essentially draw naked people then trace tights over them, but I honestly thought that Numina wore a coat?

Finally, her eyes. They're pretty, but what is she looking at? At first I thought she was looking at the magical skull she's holding in the "oh Yorick poor Yorick" stance, but no. The way her head is tilted up, the skull is actually below her full forward line of sight, so her eyes would have to dip down in their sockets, but instead they're as far up as they can go without opening the eyelids wider, which makes her gaze actually point straight up into the sky. It almost feels like she's looking at the moon, but that can't be as the moon is in the background. Then I thought she may be looking at something forming from the pink ectoplasm that the skull is evaporating, but it would have to be just out of frame, so... Can that be it?

Also... Where is Numina's back? The panel is sort of leaning towards her back, which makes her look like she's leaning back and holding the skull up in the same fashion that a doctor would look at an x-ray against a ceiling light, but then it occurs to me that I should be able to see part of her back or at lest part of her side below and behind her right arm. The only explanation for why that's invisible that I can think of is if her torso really does end where her coat sleeve suggests it should and that her large breasts just make her torso look much bigger than it is, but that means her right arm is REALLY sticking out.

Finally - and this may be a stupid question to ask, but which set of her teeth are we seeing in her mouth? Looking at where her mouth is in relation to her jaw actually suggests they should be her upper teeth, but then doesn't that make her mouth shifted somewhat high up on her face, or does it just suggest she has a very sturdy lower jaw? Those can't be her lower teeth, as it seems a bit too high on her own skull for it to be them, and it would make her face kind of... Weird if they were. The reason I'm asking is the way her lower lip droops forward and down, we may actually be seeing both rows of teeth where they interlock with each other. That's pure curiosity on my part.

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Again, I don't want to come off as bashing on the artwork. Compared to Tutorial Sister Psyche, Numina is AMAZING. But there are just some things about that pic I can't quite grasp visually. As I said, it's very possible I just don't understand how things should be proportioned and directed, so if you can correct my misconception, I welcome the clarifications.

Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose

I'm for allowing premiums to have communications, but freebies, no. It doesn't matter if you haven't seen an e-mail or tell from rmters, but they will view Freedom as a new launching point. That being said, being able to reply to a tell, fine, but not send. I do not want to go back to reporting every other tell. My ignore list is still full from last time.

Originally Posted by randomhero6

ok its not an av and it wasnt solo but it was a damn good time in terms of volume of carnage. was in the second mish of an ITF and we were deep in the caves and found ourselves a room with 2 crystal... in tp'd the stone tank and started going to work as i strode into battle thats when i noticed the 2 scrappers empowered by fulcrum shift branch off into the room.. the whole room came down on us right intime for the first crystal to explode triggering ambush one which quickly off'ed our kin and FA scrapper. seeing all this i just my eyes grew wide and i smiled. it felt kinda like a timed mission.. with the timer being the stone tanker's hp bar so i went to work as quickly as i could flowing in and out of forms while i watched names in my team bar turn up red one after the other.. i unleashed as much hell as i could. unchain essence here eclipse there quasar over here dwarf mire viod judgment over there .. crap stone tanks health is lowering .. quick mire and fill up with stygian jump to nova blast away bright orange numbers in the 300's all over the place stone tanks health at a 1/4 dove back in for another eclipse popped some vengeance on the FA scrapper just for some good measure.. i just kept going a log cabin of baddies built up around the tank just as he expired but there was still the remainder of the eb's and everything else the cave could throw at us so i kept plugged away exploasion after explosion... my health got a little low .. popped nebulous and ducked behind a corner tp'd tank real quick tp'd back into the fray unchained essence again right as they took my life.. but wait .. stygian return quasar quick blue and styg return and im right back in it by the time the tank got unstunned from the awaken there was what remained of an eb after unstoppable... a quick gravity well and there i stood amongst a sea of romans while others started to rez.... then i got the tell from my sg-mate .. "dude your unstoppable"

i immeadiately went outside smoked a cigarette and went back to playing the game with a new outlook..

special thanks to the stone tank for his inital role as unmovable stone pillar, and to FA scrappers for always allowing me to use vengence every time its up. i used every ws power i had with the exception of orbiting death i think..
thank you warshades for giving me one of the best times in this game.

Originally Posted by Stone Daemon

Seeing as how the one peacebringer in that video stayed on the fringe of combat (I'm not even really sure she was attacking), I'm not sure what you're trying to say?

Originally Posted by Stone Daemon

Nicely done! Did you tank in human form, or Dwarf, or...?

Originally Posted by Stone Daemon

Can your peacebringer do this?