Liz Bathory

Posted for @Chaos as he has a prob with an account on the forums...

Tower is not able to teleport in like GoD is... and will take some time to get there anyway

As backup to the evil ghost of Death can come up with I set an invulnerable force to Paragon City... with only one objective! Have fun with it as I will not be on for 2 days!

A small city trip Although a bit less destructive then the city trip Tower is having in a moment. Treat Impervium Tower as the Unionverse version of Marvel's Juggernaut please... a way to disable him will come in time.

Recap...
Drew and Darkheart are after Big Game now, Ghost of Death and Impervium Tower after Pious Hunter. Liz is planning to take out the leaders!

Elizabeth saw the Ghost of Death sink down into the bedrock that made the foundations of this part of Cap Au Diable. She trusted that Jemma had understood her completely. That it wasn’t her task to fight Pious Hunter directly, but to fool around with his head by attacking random Christian followers all over Paragon City. This would put a strain on his decisions and fighting ability. Just like what Drew was doing at the moment to Big Game. She had send Sarah ‘General’ Darkheart after him as backup too.

It would require raw power to take Pious Hunter down. And she knew just what to use. She passed the Blood Journals and took with her the newspaper clipping with the picture of Pious Hunter on it. With that the vampire-witch walked down the stairs and corridors of the lower dungeons to wards where the great power core stood. There in the corner almost hidden by the darkness stood her answer. The Impervium Tower had been there recharging and running internal diagnostics for a few weeks now. He was there when the ‘Open Season’ started… and during the assault of the Castle. It was time to put this engine of destruction to good use.



The metal shell almost one with the shadows stood silent as a statue… only the crackling of electricity was heard… and the soft humming of the core itself. Elizabeth looked up at its ‘face’… “Impervium Tower: Activate and status Report”, she said in a commanding tone. Deep within the dark openings of his invulnerable skull two lights burned up and a small movement became visible.

“Unit: Impervium Tower. Powering up. Stand-by… Current status: Working at 100% capacity.”, his metal ‘voice’ responded.

She was still uneasy in front of the power of modern day technology. But she knew that its power was great. And this contraption was as deadly as they come. Elizabeth picked up the newspaper clipping and held it up. Impervium tower projected a red scan beam taking the image in.

“Scanned: image… Finding match… Match found. Enemy listed as Pious Hunter, Reverent. Query: Objective?”

Elizabeth removed the clipping and looked straight up at the towering machine. “Impervium Tower: New Objective… ‘Destroy Pious Hunter! Don’t stop for anything! Don’t let you be stopped by anything or anyone! Last known location is Moth Cathedral, Paragon City, United States!”

A bright flash burned up in its eye sockets… “New objective: Saved.” Then he slowly started to walk… Elizabeth did a step aside to let him follow his pre-planned way out through the dungeons, through the deeper dungeons… using the hangar bay doors… She knew she just had send Armageddon upon her enemy and all around him. And a twinkle of joy could be seen in her eyes. He would go straight to Paragon City and probably walk towards Moth Cathedral using known maps, destroying all in its path.

The countess looked the Ghost of Death in her eyes... somehow she seemed on the level. Jemma didn't talk about what was obviously her powers becoming unstable... so it was not up to Elizabeth to bring it up. But it seemed linked to what she was seeing as 'her end...'.

This 'Open Season'... it is taking too long. My goal is to have the amound of hunters of our kind decimated by at least 60%, while at the same time giving a very visible warning to all who survive. I already asked you to keep your family away from the fight... If you cannot manage that, I have an alternate task for one as you who can cross dimensions and travel unseen.

Find the two who are a thorn in my side... Find Pious Hunter and the man known as Big Game. I think you might be able to handle Big Game... but do not attack Hunter alone. He has some 'holy' alliances now I do not understand completly yet. And that might be to strong for your abilities.

"Actually.. I already send Darkheart to find Big Game. Pious Hunter can be lured out in the open I guess. If you target the followers of God in Paragon City and leave a message for him... He will come look for you. You can use your own 'unique' touch.", she said with a wicked smile that slightly showed her fangs.

So many good things mentioned already... I recap some I like the most as I was thinking about them anyway. And add some peeves that wherent anywhere in here...

- /e facepalm
- /e female sit emotes updated (can be with male emotes)
- /e lie down emotes (COV was 16 year and older... please let us be grown ups and allow this)

Setting and saving some basic settings in the costume creator...

- Basic Fly
- Basic Stance
- Basic Run

Add alternative animations to the travel powers. This will allow for easy extra travel powers that are already possible in Champions Online. We already have some of the tech available... I give some excamples...

- Fly
- Fly +combat fire aura
- Fly ice sled animation with breaking down ice
- Fly hoverboard animation
- Fly Rocketpack animation

- Teleport
- Teleport Rikti animation
- Teleport Smoke animation
- Teleport Arm console animation

- Super speed
- Super speed iceslide animation
- Super speed skate animation
- Super speed skateboard animation

Aside of this color customisation for the powerpools ofcourse is a must-have...

The NPC's should all do more what people usually do in a city. Line, parks, shopping etc. Off all posts in this and other 'All Things Art' Threats we can see that the players want more realism in the city. The civies are just to fake!

There is a perfect solution for this. A solution that would also make the life of the animator easier I think. A solution that would be an upgrade like Ultra Mode itself though. But I wanted to mention it anyway.

http://www.naturalmotion.com/euphoria.htm



this would bring pure life to the city in its whole. For all NPC's... for all enemies...

In the middle of the battle it seemed like a small star... a white hole where all ghost where fleeying away from and demons fell. The main portal was still being bombarded with light by Suraya. She had noticed that this was the way to go... she saw the portal give in some... And didn't dare holding back now.

The Desert Princess was sitting on one knee in front of the portal generating more light than she had done in ages. The portal already started to close down... its dark tendrils shriveling into nothingness. A small stream of blood came from her nose. The strain became visible...

Then the portal collapsed in a bang! And with it her light died out. Exhausted she looked around her seeing bodies of demons... ectoplasmatic residue and more in her immediate surroundings. She was looking for her husband.

ok.. Flight booked and hotel booked.. and payed too..

Now you cannot get away from me anymore...

Welcome.... Welcome...

Suraya looked over what now seemed a complete battlefield. For a second she was lyable to engage the demon leading them as he stood right in front of the Worn Cover. But as he jumped away she knew trouble would come to one of her team members.

She created a huge flash disorienting all around her... then realised that whomever it was the demon went for... Blade, or maybe Adam... he would probably be able to hold his own. But the reinforcements kept coming as long as the gate would stay open. And the enemy was indeed legion. The gate! The gate has to be shut down..!

She created a small desert storm out of sheer heat clearing her path to where the gate should be. And rose a bit higher... There it was. Dark energies oozing away from the 'centre' of it. All the way still spawning more demons, ghosts and succubi. She made herself invisible again and went straight for it. Just above the gate she re-created her phantom army and released the phantasmic body of Meymaneh. The Djinn screamed out and then saw the enemies. With a loud laughter he started ripping through them. Enjoying every minute... every second of carnage. Normally this would shock Suraya to the bone, even after centuries. But this time, this time she wanted revenge! A spell of heat re-inforced the djinn's form and she gave her attention to the portal.

Obviously it was constructed and fed by energies most faul. Dark like tar. She blinded the senses of a ghost who just came through the portal and the creature moved straight up with a loud scream.

If the portal was feeding of dark energies maybe it would spend those energies faster if light energy would be fed to it? And that she could do! She concentrated and then exploded in a light brighter then a star! Almost all of it was instantly absorbed by the dark gate... the rest blinded those close by. The shock forced her to land...

Then she did the same trick again... trying to keep the light on for a longer time. She never used this much power so close upon the last time... and the strain was incredible. But the portal seemed to need more... more! Slowly she builded up the light intensity. The portal still sucked up most of it but now she kept in on. Succubi who looked at her dropped in agony as their eyes where burned out... ghost flew away as their ethereal bodies where almost consumed... Some mages noticed the effect in time but where unable to react as they where frantically holding their arms in front of their eyes.

It can.. but it is possible that it will be a bit hard getting some of these critter files together. Luckily I already have most of the Court.

The Castle in missions is a bit tricky and requeres some thought in which map to pick.

The mansion part should be a square map that is not too big... The main dungeon can be a COT map preferrably square too... The dungeon sections could be Cimeroran caves.

It will be a bit touch for him to be there alone while the rest isnt seeing it :P But ok....

I need him to respond or ignore Liz her remark before we can go on on open season btw.

ps.

Great art...
Greater writing...

Love this event..

Will bring my laptop too. That will help some others.

There isn't remark here that doesn't ring some truth in... I am happy with over 90% of the suggestions... And hope that at least some of it reaches in the game. Major reworking of the zones is so needed!

Now.. how can I add new stuff in here that hasn't been said already!?

and then it struck me...

Traffic
We not only need more variation. We need simply MORE!

Skyway has freeways... if any freeway would be so empty traffic jams wouldn't excist. There is a minimal amound of cars for a city the size of Paragon. And we should at least come a bit closer to that number.

Night lights and signs are already mentioned. As is street name signs. What about making the verhicles more solid? I remember that Positron once said that he himself tried to stand on the Blip! A lot of us have... Make verhicle roofs possible to stand upon. The blip, cars, metro etc.

And ofcourse make all npc walking or riding around skid of US. Or better still try an AI where they actually will try to avoid hitting us! I wouldn't like to walk against a flaming demon or such!

Destructable instance furniture
Instances are what the name says.. an instance. This means that the tech that is in the bank missions redside to destroy stuff in the surroundings can be implemented in any instance.

The mission inside the casino..? Make all tables etc destroyable! And use this tech on a lot of instances.

Simply remove the randomness of mission doors and link missions to doors to synchronise door/loadscreens/instance. Then slowly remake the instance to fit inside the building the door was picked from. Even the non-rp er will notice the immersian skyrocket compaired to what we have now.

Warehouses where the crates can be blown away by a missing fire blast... doors that are closed but have to be broken/blasted open etc.

End remark
The City needs to be possible to live... What I mean in this is that the best city is a city that has everything a real city needs to make sure its civileans can survive there.

No city can go without groceries, shops, gasstations, schools, public transportation, public library, children, green, entertainment (cinema's, theatre, sports). Simply think what you need to live somewhere. And give that a place in the game.

Use the add tech to rotate banners for musicals and movies etc. The tech is there and the add will not come of the ground. So use it for ingame. Then again... lower some add prices maybe. It would be cool to have a cinema that features the latest block busting movies every week! Rotating by default for all servers. I do not believe the EU would have problems seeying US stuff in cinema's and shops. We really can accept that this world is in the US!

Suraya followed her husband and reinforced him with her fiery magic. Then send out an Fata Morgana army... made of solid light... that went and scattered some of the Circlle! She looked down and followed the route they where taken... "We are way to close to the Worn Cover!", she yelled out.

Far away from Paragon City underneath the eery building covering the dungeon maze that made up the home of the Court of the Blood Countess Elizabeth stood in front of her black crystal mirror. She was sending spell after spell towards it... then changed her tone and waved across the mirror.

In Paragon's Steel Canyon a black reflection in midair appeared close to Tezkarial. The vampire witch her voice sounded... "Tezkarial! Status report! Me and several of the Circles mages are reinforcing the portal. But I am not sure how well it will hold."

Behind Elizabeth Vladimir walked in... almost without sound. But her vampiric enhanced hearing heard him enter anyway. "Mistress...", the lich said in his raspy voice. Very carefully in the hope that he wouldn't disturb her too much.

Without looking back to him she threw in another spell of dark energy that hit the mirror... it's power send to feed the portal. "Almost done! And it better be important sack of sorcerous bones!", she replied in haste.

25-26 sep... - check
birmingham + plane connection... - check
hotels close by... - check
money... - check

count me in!

Vladminir kept motionless... his eyes seemingly looking straight through the guest. "Then you talk to the countess...", he answered with a rasping voice.