KelpPlankton

((I write about Kelp too much... and I'm gearing up for CoV... so, I thought to myself, who's theme should I write about? And then it hit me that I'd never introduced this character in a situation where Kelp wasn't involved before. And he needs that.))

"C'mon, lady. All we want is the cash, and you'll get your kid back, safe an' everything." The gunman, face obscured by a skull mask, held his pistol to the head of a five year old boy who remained utterly silent out of fear.

The woman standing across from the two of them in the dark alleyway froze. Normally, she would of likely paid the man... however, she had no money. And if she mentioned that, he would probably kill them both.

Something passed overhead, a flicker of shadow in the night. The gunman noticed, and looked nervous for a moment. He tightened his finger slightly on the trigger, and the child began to cry.

A hand reached out from the shadows, and grabbed the gunman's arm, twisting it in a way it didn't want to be twisted, and making it pop sickeningly. The hand, a black glove, burst into flames, scorching the flesh of the gunman's hand, and making him drop the gun. Another arm came from the shadows, and grabbed him by the neck, then the full figure emerged, a tall man with long, dark hair, clad in a red and black costume. He crushed the gunman's neck in his hands, and threw him to the ground. The skull mask slid off the gunman's face as a foot came down on his chest.

The man in red and black spoke, eyes sparking with fire for a moment. "Using a child to get to his mother is one of those things I'm afraid I can't stand." His foot pressed down hard, cracking several ribs in the gunman's ribcage while he emitted a yelp of pain.

The gunman gasped, begging that this man be like the other heroes and send him to the prison hospital to recover.

"I'm not a hero," the man in red and black said. "I just don't like you."

With a loud slam and a crunching noise, the gunman was embedded in the wall of the alleyway, blood running down to the pavement. The costumed man turned to face the woman and her child, who was clinging to her in fear. She stuttered out a thanks, and asked what the man's name was.

"I'd be the Poison Eel. And don't thank me. You shouldn't be raising a child on this island. I should of let him die so you'd of learned that lesson." He started to walk off, and the child began to cry again. Eel paused and looked at the scorched gun on the ground. He picked it up and tossed it to the mother. "If you don't leave, at least adapt."

Darkness swept up and over Poison Eel, and in a second, he was gone. The woman hugged her child close, finding that even in a land as chaotic and dark as the Rogue Isles there was a bit of light, even in villains a bit of kindness.

Poison Eel, archnemesis of Kelp Plankton, tool of the Tahnakshian magi, villain. Theme: Behind Blue Eyes.

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((Just wanted to say I'm having an immensely good time with this storyline, and reading the posts here. Looking forward to seeing how things end up!))

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((Seconded! Kinda regret having Kelp take a vacation specifically due to wanting to be involved in this, heh. But I'll have fun watching from afar on an alt or something. :P))

Jenny Device made us that spiffy pie emblem for Virtue.

I mean, that's hard to top.

Ha. Top. Pie. It's a joke. Get it? HAHAHA.
*shoots self*

There's a lotta things I could say 'bout Miss Abyss.

But I'm gonna say I love that sig quote.

I'm not letting people forget about this challenge!

And also:

Destructo +1.

My question, likely to not be answered:

What's the status on things like Atlantis and Camelot in the CoH universe? Did the generic, everyone-uses-these mythical cities and kingdoms get destroyed? Will we ever find out anything along these lines? Atlantis in particualr is of intrest to me. A simple 'yes, it was destroyed' 'no it never existed' or 'yes, it's still around' would even be nice.

Devilfish.

Kelp tugged on his metallic blue gloves, staring down into the water. “I know you’re out here, Lusca. I just want to talk. We’ll have a nice calm chat, figure out a way to send you home happily, and you won’t need to eat any more people, and… I’ll stop getting laughed at and mocked for this idea.”

The water swished around as per usual, the tide slamming an abandoned and damaged raft against the docks with a constant ‘thud thud thud’.

“…you’re not going to surface and talk with me, are you?” No reaction. Kelp sighed and floated down out of the air, taking a seat on the edge of the docks. “Okay, fine. I’ll just wait. I can wait. I’ve got plenty of time to wait. No need to rush at all, because I’m a patient person who can wait as long as waiting is needed. I’m so patient I could even wait to get the chance to wait. That’s how patient I am. I’m a waiter. Well, not a waiter, I mean, someone who waits. Bad word choice there.”

Nothing happened. Kelp jumped to his feet and pointed at the water. “This isn’t cool, you know! Making me, the only person who wants to help you, wait like this. It’s downright rude, even for a giant man-eating octopus!” He tapped his foot. “You know what? I’m leaving. I’m gonna leave now. And they’ll all kill you or something. And it’ll only be your fault, because you didn’t let me help you. Bye.” Kelp took to the air, flew about fifteen feet, then turned around and swooped down to the water’s surface.

“Come on, you can tell me why you’re eating people! Is there baby Luscas? Are you just hungry? Is there nothing else to eat? Do they make fun of you and call you fat? WHY ARE YOU EATING PEOPLE?!” Kelp caught his breath after yelling far too loudly. Nothing happened. He sat on the water’s surface, since, well, he can solidify it to be able to sit on it.

Suddenly, the water began to swirl around and the head of a giant octopus slowly arose from the depths of the bay. Kelp stood up and took to the air once more, getting close up to Lusca and patting it on its head. “There there. I’ll help you get back home safe-“ He was cut off by a massive explosion that knocked him away, and he looked on as a swarm of heroes rushed towards the aquatic beast.

“KILL IT AND WE GET A BADGE!” one of them screamed as he leaped, sword first, into the top of Lusca’s head, stabbing her repeatedly. Fire flew, darkness descended upon her, the swelling forces of gravity and energy held her in place and tore her skin apart. Kelp stared, mouth agape and eyes wide as the group of heroes attacking the poor beast grew larger and larger. They completely destroyed her tentacles, one at a time, and then concentrated on Lusca’s head. Blood flowed everywhere, staining the water. The creature cried out in pain and agony as its disabled limbs flailed around in a pathetic looking attempt at fighting back against the aggressors.

After taking enough of a beating, Lusca sank deep down into the depths of the bay once more. Her blood slowly stopped floating to the surface, and Kelp sighed sadly, knowing that he’d never be able to help it.

One of the heroes approached Kelp and threw a badge to him, one that was blue and had a small octopus symbol on it. “Here man, you did great luring that thing out for us! Thanks! You earned every bit of this!”

Kelp stared down at the badge in his hand. He tucked it in his belt and walked away. “I wasn’t trying to lure her out to kill her. I wanted to talk to her and stop this violence. But it’s pretty damn obvious to me now that most heroes in this city don’t even think about taking nonviolent routes when something needs to be done.” He stumbled a bit. “…why’d they have to name this badge Devilfish, anyway? A name that fits me so well, for an act I didn’t even want to participate in. Yeesh.”

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HEROID is that rarest of origins... Tech/Magic.


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((Ha! I knew Kelp wasn't the only one with that origin around... now we just need to start a petition to get it added to the game... or... something... >_&gt)

Supergroup Name: Young Phalanx

Website(if any): http://phalanx.dragon-fire.net

Leader or Recruiting Officers: Stateslad, Back Yard Boom, P-Tron, Mark 20X6, Dove-Song

Prefered Method of Contact: Website or in game

Guild Description: This is an RPing supergroup. We will try to remain IC when possible.

The Young Phalanx, founded by Stateslad and P-Tron, are the next generation of the Freedom Phalanx. Sure, while there are plenty of people out there who are, in fact, Freedom Phalanx reserve members, Paragon City responds best to its icons. One day, those heroes will find themselves unable to serve as such icons any longer, and the Young Phalanx will fill their shoes.

Mostly, our heroes are teen-versions of NPCs. Think the Teen Titans to an extent, except for the CoH universe. Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, etc, as well as other members that don't have any connection to other heroes at all. Instead of DC heroes, though, we have CoH ones. Stateslad to Statesman, P-Tron to Positron, etc. As stated before, we DO allow teenage characters that are NOT based on NPC heroes into the group now.

As long as you roleplay and have a teenage character, odds are, you're easily in.

Other than the theme, there are no real rules to the SG. Level all you want, do missions, roleplay, play however often you like. The SG isn't designed for mains but rather for alts, to have a little fun when you have time [though making it your main is not discouraged =)].

Yaaaaay.

Thanks for the bonus Archvillains, Flagg. Here's to a whole 'nother year of 'em.

*a voice that sounds almost exactly like Dr. Vahz, but far more pathetic and wimpy*
Uhm, ah, ahem. H-hello there. My name is Professor Vahzilok. I'm, ah, from, the, erm, ah, Praetorian Earth.

You know. Evil is good, good is evil. Stuff... like that, uhm.

I just wanted to say that, uh, Dr. Vahz is... a... bad... person. And. Erm. Please don't kill me too badly.

Oh, I also prefer team NOOB over team LEET, the League of Extremely Evil Teammates. They're stupid, but, uhm, they have really big guns that hurt a lot. And I don't even have a cool people-suit-thing. Because, you know. I'm a good guy. Not... allowed to... uh... wear people.

If you don't mind, I'm going to hang up now. Because Dirge is trying to destroy all of my serum stuff that I need to keep drinking or else I die a very painful death.

Oh! A question, right.

Uhm.

Does it hurt as much when Statesman punches you in the face as when Tyrant punches me in my face? Because it reminds me of the feeling like having my brain smashed out by a lemon wrapped around a gold brick. Which is kind of when it's so painful that it's kind of... a little... enjoyable, and.

Yeah.

Pleasedon'thuntmedownandkillme.
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((...it's P-Tab time.))

The tiny, little, supposed to be dead, blue and white android known as P-Tab chewed his way out of the metal box holding him in the closet. He had been listening to the radio. They wanted him to call in! And there were clocks!

P-Tab used his internal phone system to send in a call as best he could.

"HI! I'm a robot, do you like robots, because I like robots, I also like pizza, pizza is good, and I heard there's a clock at the radio station, clocks are neat, they tell time, and time is useful because if there wasn't any time the pizza would never get here because then they wouldn't have to listen to the 30 minute rule and then the robots would be sad because there's no pizza because there's no time and they'd all cry robot tears, which are made of water and sometimes oil but also sometimes acid, but the acid tears hurt, and the water ones short-circut the robots, so it's not a very good thing for a robot to cry or else they'll be sad."

Several seconds of silence followed.

"What do you think of the economic state of Japan, when taking into account the pizza places, robots, and clocks within that country? And where's my other shoe?"

...I've got to wonder how much funnier this is to those who know who those characters are...

Hint: That whole thing took place 20 years from now. Eh-heh.

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FYI - I'm a HUGE kaiju fan (giant monsters).

I collect all the figs, the theatrical posters, etc.

I've got Godzillas from the past two movies all around my office. And a Godzilla: Final Wars mousepad (theatre only).

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Then pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase let this mean that giant monster and robot fights/playable characters are at least an idea on a stickynote somewhere down the line... >.>

I'm fine with people not typing well, as long as they put forth the effort...

AKA, people who use one letter instead of three, uh, I want to stab in the face. 'U' isn't a lot less work to type than 'you' is.

But, hey, misspellings and poor punctuation are fine by me. Just not AOLer speak. I think a lot of people use this standard, but... I can't speak for everyone, obviously.

Uh.... is it.... Blyde? >.>

Would it be a good idea to make a temporary supergroup fro each server on test? That way you could easily see:

Ascendant
<Virtue>

And things like that in-game. Saves you the trouble of asking OOC what server they're from... but I don't know if that's the plan or not, just throwing the idea in.

And if this goes well... I'm up for more crossovers in the future. And when CoV hits, fighting other character's nemesi(nemesises? nemesees?) from another server will be pretty darn cool.

Heh... been hoping someone would do something like this. When universes clash! Or somesuch. ^_^

Name: Kelp Plankton
Server: Virtue
Security Level: 35
Archetype: Blaster

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Personaly I'm not a role player and will never be one either. I don't mind role players in most games but in this one it just really annoys me because it just a bunch of guys with medieval armor talking in Shakespearian language (which is ALWAYS butchered because they don't know how to truly speak it). What I wanna know is that why someone doesn't role play as a gangster or a soldier. Enough of this crap, lets get some true role playing or none at all.

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Uh, actually, I've never seen a group like that for the entire time I've RPed in CoH, since launch.

The closest I know of is a half-elf who is obsessed with pop-culture references. Not very close at all.

Kelp looks just plain awful without his cape... It's something I've noticed about a lot of the scrawnier characters. They just seem to need a cape to make them look like they can take a beating. And I've no clue why...

Most of the costumes I make, regardless of if I mean for them to or not, look better with a cape. It's just how my hero designs work. Capes are always part of them in my head...

Always good to see new faces around the server.

But your name makes me think of the Ninja Turtles...

Hope to see you around.

My character on Pinnacle, The BlueScreen says "Time to crash!"

Other than that, I can't come up with any good ones...