Kiken

That. Was. AWESOME!

Levantera and Borea. Because, you know...twins.

Kiken was my first, conceived even before beta. He was just a kid from Tokyo with some tricked out mutant reflexes who liked getting into fights. His father took a transfer to America to get him away from the bad company he was falling into, and it was there that he figured out if you put on a costume and only picked on bad guys, you could get into as many fights as you liked. His timing sucked, though, as he put on his mask just in time for the Rikti to invade.
He banded together with a random group of other heroes who after the war stuck together to become the Paragons of Justice and slowly learned to become a real hero. He was my main through all my time on the US servers, and my first 50. He went into semi-retirement when I transferred to the EU, but various new builds have been made when power sets were proliferated or created.

Iron Anderson was my first real alt to stick on the EU servers. He was intended for RP right from the start, but the advent of IO builds meant that he ended up nearly as incredibly tough as his concept. Jake Anderson was the result of one of the many super-soldier programs launched during WW2. Bullet-proof, strong enough to pound through tank armour, he served with Captain Volcano in the Pacific. After the war he was stationed with the Occupying Forces in Japan for several years before returning to America.
There he eventually slipped into a life of crime, growing stronger and more experienced as time passed, to eventually become the hired muscle of choice for mad criminal masterminds through the 60s and 70s. He soon found that his aging had been reduced too, by something like half, so he had a long career ahead of him. Anything can grow stale after enough time, however, and eventually he came to feel that the disadvantages of a life always on the run outweighed the fun he was having. And so he decided to go straight, did some time and hit the streets a reformed man. More-or-less.
Which is where he was when I began playing him. RP-wise he hung around the bar, telling tall stories of his life beating up "White masks" and the crazy people he'd worked for. Eventually he ended up married, with two adopted daughters and the owner of a small but flourishing construction company. (Anderson Construction. One thing not getting i24 has killed is my chance to claim it was canon ) He would claim to not miss the old days, but he would get his fix of action by occasionally helping out a couple of heroes.

Lightning Kiss was intended to be purely a throw-away character RP-wise, somebody to break out when I wanted a little break from being all manly with Jake. As such, Claire Hamilton had only a very limited background and very simple personality. Somehow, however, she ended up growing through interaction with others into something much more complex and eventually replaced Jake as my main. She went from a spoiled idle rich Daddy's girl flirting with anything with a pulse to a slightly-less-spoiled happily married responsible(ish) Vanguard soldier. Who hosts great parties. Claire really is an example of one of those characters that created themselves with very little deliberate input from me. And it helps that Elec/Elec Doms can be pretty awesome.

I have 2 accounts, one of which was due on 1st September and one on 2nd. So far both are still VIP.

What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

I hate the crash in Rage. I hate anything that forces me to stop playing the game for 10 seconds and sit there twiddling my thumbs. Any change they made that removed the damage crash I would be in favour of.

Everybody knows it was all about the Shabon Spray.

I'd buy that for a dollar

Vanguard. Portal Corp. Freedom Corp. Various Departments of the US Government (including the FBSA, NSA and DoD). Leading Super Groups.

A very detailed report on the dimension designated Eka Upsilon 5 2 was sent to all of these and more by Susan Bright, psionics instructor to the New Vigilantes. Included in the report are translations of incriminating documents stolen during an earlier raid on the dimension (as well as copies of the Russian originals). More importantly, also included are details of a large low-level psionic field covering possibly the entire world and acting as a behaviour modifying field. In addition, energy fluctuations within the field are shown to be near identical to those associated with the Carnival of Shadows on Primal Earth, and interpreted as being the same form of energy stealing from living humans.

In addition to what has been said, I believe that when CoH launched it had a slightly higher average age of players. It also had a lot of people who weren't gamers but comic fans. And others who liked the fact that there was no PvP, crafting or need to grind for good 'gear'. The tone was set right from the start, and given that a lot players stay for a long time in CoH, it was maintained.

Nope. I still tend to play every single alt I have like a Scrapper. Regardless of AT.

I'm starting a book on how long it will take Esc to do his first cover set

They didn't even mention that at one point in Warrior, Guy Gardner was a girl...

Adding a fee to /ah wouldn't get me into WW. It would just niggle me every time I had to pay for the reward I'd been given for sticking with the game for so long.

A much better idea if you want to get people into WW is, as somebody suggested earlier, add crafting tables. That would make WW a one-stop-shop. Roll Merits, buy Salvage, Craft IOs, put them on the Market. With the added bonus that it would make things more convenient for everybody, not annoying for the subset with /ah.

Because the Zen of Scrapperlock is purer than the chasing of Fury.

Hey Kiddo

Last Night

There were shenanigans in First Ward. Vyera (or was it Venom?) met with a member of the authorities and handed him important information about known felons. The meeting was interrupted by more criminals, Venom (or was it Vyera?) told her companion to retreat but bravely remained to help defend the local representative of law and order. Help was had from an undercover agent and reinforcements arrived in the shape of a Praetorian Jake. Who quickly got into a smackdown with Caleb. Unfortunately, this ended in a rather undignified way when Caleb got help.

Meanwhile Vyera (or was it Venom?) had retreated injured to the D.U.S.T. compound. Which was broken into by the pursuing criminals. The troops managed to put up just enough fight for Venom's (or was it Vyera's?) companion to get her out the back way. Although not without leaving behind a rather incriminating article of clothing...