Lady Arete

Great, We will begin assembling for the spawning around 6.30pm BST.
See you all there.
Lets get this big blob away from Paragon city

"Archmage" for the Lady
and
"Beautiful" (or nature lover) for my Cyrene

Also.. Before I get too tired.
I'll be putting up a EoE (Essence of the Earth) farm in Peregrine Island on Thursday 2'nd and Friday the 3'rd.. at 7pm BST.
So prepare to get some EoE's.
(These are vital for our tanks/melee'ers during the battle vs the yellow mitos.)

See you soon.

Also.. On the raid, if you come before we start (aka in time with spawning process).. then hey.. your in time and get a spot. Either in primary teams or the Aux team.
Thanks for the reminder TechSoldierAlpha... I might expect several Villain archtypes on the blue side now... hmm ponder ponder. (gah i'll ponder while i sleep).

I read a little about the plot that FFM posted in regard too.
I have not read all, I asked some members of my sg ooc like and well...

What I'm sitting left with is that the Character Bath is screwed, she is as good as dead/not existing at all. This goes for everyone that follows her.
Cause I agree with FFM. Killing 1000 children and who knows how many adults is a major event that would have repercussions globally. Like 9/11. The world media would go crazy, the government would have to act. No matter what, Bath would now be like a terrorist. Every hero in Paragon, Longbow and police unit, would be after her and they would find Castle Bathory and reduce it and the responsible to cinders.
This with the world and medias blessing.

Nice initiative, but too many deaths to be believable. And thus loosing the immersion, cause if the worlds heroes and government do nothing... its just not believable.

Had it been a city block, hey... tragedy, terrible tragedy. But it would not have needed to involve every character that we have in the game. It could be ignored by most players as there are other things that happen.
But
1000 children?... That means every player, every character.. this cannot be ignored.

Even other villains would jump on the oppertunity to take down a rival (Bathory), sure there might be some rivalry between heroes and villain, but hey.. it would be for who gets to Bathory first. (and how can I benefit most towards this?) And with Mass media coverage outside castle Bathory to see this epic battle. (World vs Bathory).
Not even a Bookie would give the responsible a snowballs chance in a very warm place.

So, again, nice initiative... but too many casualties.
(Not read the entire story progression, but from what I have understood from players that has followed the story... my impression is that if the character Bathory is not defeated/killed it will not be believable. Sorry no Zig for Bathory, its Kill on sight)

Done Tartyr. Updated my first post in this thread with the character in question.

Certainly Tartyrsause (would love free art)

Here is a screenshot of my character in question .

Right. I went for a little gadget (note operative word "little"), kind of merge the magic and tech thing with my entry. Thus I've included two very similar outfits.
Both to get a sort of Iconic Hero look. One with more colors (and maybe more iconic), the other to try and give the outfit a bit more... (maybe) befitting the name.

What designates the outfit as magic is the Ankh and the magic pattern on the boots. I used energy shield to give the shield a more magic feel. I decided against both more elemental or shadow shield... even though the bio did mention something about shadow... (I felt anyway to display shadow powers through a shield was wrong... for me)
Also I did not add an aura, it felt a bit wrong for this costume. However a glowing eye aura could work if it is not too strong (to prevent seeing two eyes).
Note: The shield was originally not as blue as it is now. My graphics is set for very bright, but when ever i do "Prt Scr", the screenshot gets very dark. So I adjusted the colors via another program and sadly the shield got way too much adjusted. It has more of a weak blue color with white secondary color.





Hope you at the end of the competition has found a look that you like (of several)

Is it ok to go wild on different colors Shadow? Or do you favor the black/grey/white?
I did get an idea for your char, but before I post I got to know about them colors. :P

Thanks for the review of the costume. Guess I was not lucky with the combination of the colors (I just dislike having only two colors on a character). *shrugs* Time to do things better with a new make over

And congratulations Goblin Queen.

I'm up for more Tsumiju.
Next time though I'd like to add. Everyone who joins in, bring your shivans.
If all spawn a shivan (24 total) on the last 3 minions hopefully we will have enough Rad power to wear Rularuu down. And in case we do not bring him down asap, have the debuffers of more -regen hit those buffs before shields are up.

You have to stop Paladin from being assembled. That gives you the badge. If you only defeat an existing Paladin, then you simply get merits.
So, make certain your logged in to your servers badge collecting channel, and have your hero happenings channel up and running. Then when there is some "strange clockwork activity in Kings Row", get there and stop that spawning. I took the message from memory, but if it mentions King's Row... then a Paladin is about to be constructed, so stop it.

Sarge decided he wanted to give another player the chance of leading Hamidon tank team, so I hope your feeling up for it Night.

I still need a leader for the Lockdown team (Holder team) and a member of the Aux team would be good.
Team Lockdown's job is simply keep those pesky green mitos held and do what you can towards the raid force's success.
Team Auxiliary's job is to lead those players that do not get into the main team to where they can be used best. If they are alot of ranged attacks.. then helping the Ranged attack team to fight. If they are mostly melee.. well help with attacking and killing the Yellows...etc etc. This team is the team that is assembled last, it is diverse, it is maybe the easiest (or hardest) team to control. But it is an important one.

So if anyone new or a vet wants to take the helm of a team, please do say so.

EoE's will be hunted for after the weekend. I'll put a notification of it on "Union Raids" channel, and "Union Taskforce". (And mention it on Sals)

Very nicely done Foo.
My favorites are Terratonic, Alice and Sara and Timewarp.
Terratonic seems to have a classic pin-up stance and I just liked the image.
Alice and Sera has a looking through the mirrorworld look. Its something happening there.
Timewarp, also a pin-up stance, but she is also alive there.

Hmm
Alot of weird battles it would be.
Fenian vs Lady Arete (two sorceresses)
But if they team up I wonder who they should fight against...

A battle that would be fun watching would be Amerikatt vs Sapphic Neko. (The Cat and the Catgirl)

Guess also a battle with Lady Arete vs Sapphic Neko would end with Sapphic loosing some threads quickly (due to fire and if Sapphic has made certain that Serge has not made them fire resistant).
(Not sure if I ever should let Sapphic Neko near my more innocent Cyrene)

Caemgen vs Juggertha (for a Big guy vs another Big guy.

Wishing you good luck.

Excellent
Getting leaders here, Need a few more.
Yes please Siggy (and Tamedragon, I've not seen a reply yet from Sarge.., but it is good to see that you'll bring a granite. Maybe it will be you...? )

I'm up for another run with my blaster Lady Arete (fire/fire).

Hope so TameDragon, but have yet to get all team leaders.

Here is my take on him.
Decided to keep as close to his original colors as possible. I picked Valkyrie cloak not out of choice, but because it was the only one available since I was creating a new character. Not that the Valkyrie cape did not fit ;P
Not that the Cape does not fit...

Welcome back ya all.

Heh, I can imagine that Loup.

Thats is VERY nice Master.

Hmm wanna share the secret on how they did it?

The Scientists of Paragon City looked at their records together with the PPD findings and a few Hero reports.
They did not like what they saw.
Some time before the Heroes had been called in to defeat the monstrous being simply dubbed: The Hamidon.
The sightings and reports gave a new indication that this being would once more rise to threaten the city again. They gave a nod to the PPD Representative and he gave a sigh.
'Right... Time to warn the heroes.'
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This Message is sent to Heroes that listen in on the Police Radio:
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Heroes are needed for the 4'th September. We suspect the entity known as the Hamidon of the Devouring Earth will have reshaped by this time.
We will need heroes to defeat h... It once more.

Message ends.
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That is right, the 4'th of September (about 2 weeks from now) we will once again be going up on the big blob called the Hamidon in the Hive.
Please report for spawn duty before 7pm BST as I hope we will be able to start at this time. The more that reports and are in the zone when we start the better (cause we will be able to start earlier).

If we need more EoE's I'll host a few Hunts the 2'd week.

Please read the Hamidon Guide that is Sticky on this forum to update yourself on the battleplan.

Raid Leader: Lady Arete with Cyrene
Hamidon Main Tank team: Nightshade
West Mito Tank team: Lightnia with Scarr
East Mito Tank team: Siggy
Yellow Mito Kill team (melee): Verto
Ranged Damage: Brimstone Girl
Lockdown/Holder team: vacant
Aux Team: Vacant

edit: arrg.. Summer has eroded names from my head...

Anyone know how long the shield of Rularuu stays off, until its back up again and the cube minions are attacking us?

One thing as an Idea I would like to try is having more Darkies.. (I do remember they have -regen debuff in their Howling Twilight) and any other with -regen debuffs.. cast their debuff.. JUST before that Shield comes back up and the enemy spawns.
That should prevent him from regenerating fully while we take out them Cube minions before we have a go at him ... again.

Also.. to counter that nasty Hurricane that reduces ToHit... Leadership pool.

Thus I think I envision it like this:
1. Defeat Cube spawns- Rularuu shield is down.
2. If we stand near center, quickly a few of us uses the Bio nuke, while others launch the nuclear and chemical and shivans.. Rads do their thing, so do sonic.. All pound him hard.
3. Seconds pass and soon the shield is up and the cube spawns will spawn again. Just before they do the ones with -Regen debuffs throws them on him (not everyone since we might need a few for the next round)..
4. shields are back up, we pound them Cube spawns asap.
5. Shields are down and hopefully Rularuu is not at full health. Launch the nukes and keep pounding him as we did in 2.

I hope the Devs NEVER will make it a Mo-CoP Trial. IF they do plan to do it, may it be just before the game gets shelved. Cause no.. no please for all that is good... Don't even consider it!

A normal TF.. sure you have only 8 people to worry about. In a Raid with up to 24 people? No.. no no (repeat this word alot).