Kelvinbridge

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If you want to know what's what and who's who in the Union RP-verse, check out the nifty Wiki resource, Handbook of the Union Universe.

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Bear in mind that it doesn't have all the whats or all the whos.

There is no obligation to complete a wiki entry to be an RPer on CoX.

I guess the usefulness depends on how much you use the emote animations...

I'm mean the /e nod animation is pretty missable, much more obvious to put /e nods and get it showing up in the chat box...

Course, having to write out very long statements kinda reduces the spontaneity slightly...

My will has broken, plus I'm bored and sticky in Cyprus...

So, here goes, after all this long time (since March 05), some little titbits of infomation for the people...

Global Name: @Kelvinbridge
Server: Cheese & Union, CoH & CoV
RP Characters: <ul type="square">[*]Spearmint (Hero)[*]Half N Half (Villian)[*]Iceflame (Villian)[*]Mikhail Romanov (Hero)[*]Dark Argent (Villain)[*]Cajun (Hero)[*]The Scotbots (Scotbots)[/list]Type of RP: To be found mainly at GG and in Pocket D, serial plot avoider, not missions
Can Be Contacted: Forum PM, carrier pigeon, semaphore, in-game tell, telegraph...
Times on: Generally appear around 8:30 UK time, and stay on far too long.
Time Zone: British Summer Time (that's what BST stands for, standard time is GMT) from April to October, GMT for the dark months.

Like others have said, the linkification of characters is down to personal taste... I don't have any explicit links (certainly none that I remember, if someone knows otherwise, please do tell...) but I do sometimes have characters express a knowledge of another.

The only example I can think of is between HnH and Iceflame who have met 'off screen' to conduct a business transaction but aren't really linked.

I did for a while have Spear's sister hanging around, but quickly decided I didnt like playing her so shipped her back to Canuckland faster than you can say "eh"...

If anyone can find a link between the SCC droids and any of my characters, I'll give you a fantastic prize... Some nice men in white coats will come and pick you up from your house, give you a fabulously stylish jacket with extra long sleeves, and then take you to a marvellous hotel with charming rubber wallpaper...

Going totally off track here...

Anyways. Linking characters is not a requisite of having lots of characters. But should you want to, just think of any of the mulitude of possible linking relationships you can have in real life and apply which ever one suits best.




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I'd really like to have a try at this...

The way I'm thinking is that the cards would have to actually be dealt physically by someone acting as dealer (I nominate meself...) and each player notified through a tell what they've been dealt.

All the rest can be played out in local.

So...

I'd be looking for people to be the actual players to complement my dealer... If you're interested, please say!

Oh, and I'm thinking Texas Hold'Em for the poker variant to be played.

((Hope the emphasis and slight rewording makes that clear now!))

End of EVIL!

In a surprise move, the assets of the troubled mercenary operations group known as the European Villainous Immorality League (better known as EVIL) have been eagerly snapped up by Canadian venture capitalist company Dion Holdings Inc. in a rumoured $90million deal with former chairman Ben 'Big Lunk' Campbel.

A spokesperson for Dion Holdings Inc. told this paper "The $90million price tag was an absolute bargain for these assets. Mr Campbel has been a pleasure to do business with. As for our plans, well, we are shutting down EVIL as a business. All property and personnel are being transfered to Dion Holdings Inc. with immediate effect. I'm afraid I can't tell you any more details."

The spokesperson refused to be drawn on ending this long-established company, and only chose to say that there would not be any "compulsory" redundancies amongst EVIL's staff.


((Now the OOC stuff... EVIL has been taken over by Dion Holdings Inc. and to public knowledge EVIL has been disbanded from 9/9/07. Only current members of EVIL know that it continues to exist.))

Update on European Villainous Immorality League...

A change of ownership has resulted in the EVIL name no longer being seen or known in public, having been taken over by Dion Holdings Inc., and as far as anyone is aware EVIL has ceased to exist. However the organisiation is still very much around, just changed in form and function. This has also meant a change in the recruitment practices and a new forum (as the old one is borked, big time...)

So... New Forum...

IC recruitment is now sorta 'tap the shoulder of likely candidates and have a quiet word' in a sort of old fashioned spy-recruiting way... So we do need you to express the OOC desire to have a character join through the forum, and we'll get back to you about it...

Just to reiterate: In game as far as anyone is concerned, from 9/9/07, EVIL does not exist unless you are a member at that time, or have been informed of the continued existence by a member.

I realise there's a lot of OOC twiddling to make things work IC, but hey, that's life.

I'm going to ask both of you blokes as nicely as possible to stop.

There are a lot of things I would really, really like to say but I'm holding myself back on. So I'll just say this:

Echo, you state that what is on the EVIL forum is offensive to many people, yet provide two links to the forum in the same paragraph... Seems you're trying to get people to look at it... Drop the martyr act.

Lunk, make this the last public act of the saga. Time to move on. Next time you get angered by someone, perhaps allow sometime for calming down before posting on forums. Deep breaths and so on...

((The full page spread is headed with the European Villianous Immorality League's logo))

"To our valued clients, and prospective clients:

Much has been made over recent days of apparent troubles pulling apart our organisation, we would like to take this opportunity to present the entire story.

We have recently moved to dismiss several employees for attempts to launch a hostile internal takeover attempt. The removal of these elements allows EVIL to close a sorry and troubled chapter of its history and move on to a brighter future free from the petty squabbles and jealousy of certain now ex-employees.

The company now stands to gain immeasurably from the removal of the bad blood, and can now progress with internal reviews to provide a more focused and friendly service."

Gotta ask... Does this idea have legs...? Cuz I'm kinda buzzed up about it but it just seems to be falling to the side...

However monkey bar has people passing through to use the arena, and those tables are right at the door...

I'd be more than happy to act as an impartial dealer...! Texas Hold'em would seem the easiest to do, as, as has been pointed out, the players each only get two cards. The rest are laid down by the dealer.

I'm guessing this will take place in PD... Might I suggest the Villains side bar to hopefully reduce interference?

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Edit: Beaten by FFM! Bah! *cries*

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You enjoyed it last time!

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I just said that to make you stop...




Just remembered something I was talking about last night... It's something I did a long time ago, probably floating on here somewhere but...

3 Simple Guidelines for RP in CoX:

1: It should be fun for you.

2: Don't godmode

3: Barring the two previous points, there is no "right way" to play.



EDIT: Oh, and Rule 0: Tools shall die a most painful death.

SECOND EDIT: Just realised, I don't think we've said that most of the RP stuff happens on Union...! Important point that!

The RP takes place all over the shop... Depends on what you fancy doing really! Some people play in character all the time (which probably freaks out non-RPers), others will RP in missions, there's RP supergroups too... And then there is Pocket D and Galaxy Girl (and there may be other spots, but I don't know) for so-called "public" RP...

For starting up? Um... Weel, it's however you want to do it, if you want to start off as a green fan-girl sidekick, do that!

As for becoming too caught up in the RP to level, I think I can say with authority that does happen... *cough* 2 and a half years to get my main to level 28 *cough*

If you want to have the superhero/secret identity thing, you can certainly do that... Although practically it's kinda hard without either waiting to level 20 or using 2 character slots...

Hero vs Villain RP, I'm not too sure about... The only place where both can be is pretty much Pocket D and that's not really a "versus" environment... Though I suppose you could use the Pocket D Arena for that... RPing in the PvP zones, not recommended.

It's everyone for themselves choosing what they want to do. People do run stories, but because of the diversity of the methods of play, there's no exact overwhelming cohesion.

Certainly my view is that no story should be compulsory (except those that the devs put into the game) and participation should always be voluntary.

Hope some of this helps, and welcome on board.



Oh, and hope you're not allergic to half-alien lesbian catgirls... Seriously, really hope you're not...


Edit: Beaten by FFM! Bah! *cries*

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like Up-n-Away

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The only important thing to know about Up-n-Away: Don't eat the salad.


I'll be curious if anyone will attempt to make an entry for the Scotbots... I won't be doing it (tell you anything about the whys, wherefores and WTFs of the Scotbots? Nae chance pal!) Curious to see how far off the mark people go.

Just making sure!

Y'know how it is sometimes on here, ideas come up and people do expect everyone to take part...

And you did ask for complications!

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Strictly IC knowledge, you know, stuff like character profiles that can be found in official records, past plots, present plots, community-wide plots, villaingroups, herogroups, known clubs, bars, past events, current events; literally a place to store all IC information from our little RP community.

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Um, isn't that technically what this part of the boards is for?

Don't forget that any attempt to collate all the RP information is only as complete as far as the knowledge of those that contribute to it. For example, I go to Galaxy Girl, but I don't contribute to the wiki. I don't often say much about what happens to my characters on these boards. I'm sure there's a whole load of RPers out there that don't even frequent the boards...

Now before I get told that I'm negative/elitist/horrible/stamping down on ideas/evil etc., I'd like to say that I'm NOT saying "you can't do this", nor am I saying "you shouldn't do this". What I am saying is that if you do decide to do this, don't expect everyone to: A) contribute or B) be aware of the information on it.

I'm sure they'd be very interested in some of the technology inside the Scotbot... The very thing that makes it work to be exact.

The case for preservation, a statement from SCC:
'While the possible annihilation of the human race was, uh, would be, an unfortunate possible setback for the expansion of SCC operations in sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, we have chosen to probably use the GX Series to maybe explore possible other fledgling markets. Also we can now definitively announce the possible plans for a new hyperspace expressway for the ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha sector...'



I shall watch, listen and consider before I decide exactly what to do with regard to RP.

Of my active characters: Spear, Yukon and Ontario would go back to Canada. Mikhail Romanov would be inclined to return to Russia. For any of those 4 to do otherwise would be against character.

The Scotbot would be withdrawn to prevent its destruction or the possibility of the technology being stolen.

It's not that I'm not necessarily open to new ways of RP, just had I wanted to be in a war game, I'd have bought a war game.

Looks like I10 is the deathnell for the line of Scotbots...

And like I said earlier, I know I'm not going to be able to ignore this. I'm just not going to enjoy it. Might even reduce my RP choices to zero... C'est la vie. Come back just in time to leave again.

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I can see it now, a small army of Rikti buried under millions of newly-created kittens.

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GX-Neo's systems have been patched to prevent the bug that caused the overzealous giving away of kittens. However this has brought to light a new problem with monkeys, sometimes undead.

The Scotbot would have to go because of what it is. It'd be unworkable in the situation. It's a comedy character containing two over-the-top devices, the IID and a large H-Bomb. Not exactly going to be able to accurately depict the effect of causing the bomb to go off... And it can't use the IID to turn all the invaders into soap bubbles, because that's outwith my control...


Yes, I am a nay-sayer! I've tried to avoid plots since the RHU, and the 'Heroes for People' thing when I last left just hammered that determination further...

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Jeez... managed to stay off of this for this long...
(been RPing in CoH since August 2005)

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Not managed to stay off it as long as I have... And I'm still no putting down anything!

Oh wonderful. Looks like I'm not going to be able to ignore this like I did the Requiem thing...

Certainly the point people have made about important services being withdrawn is important, the Scotbot will need to be recalled to protect SCC's assets...

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Welcome back. Did you get any presents? Souvenirs?

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A rash and a strange burning sensation when I urinate...


On other matters, as I've been away for so very long, my global friends list has vanished completely... I'll need those that have not already done so to remove me from your so I can re-add youto mine... The joys.