Liz Bathory

Jack sipped his drink and sniffed... "Demons...", he said without looking up to see who entered. "I just don't like the brimstone and sulphur smell."

A black Rolls stopped in front of the bar. A large man in a leather jacket stepped out from behind the steering wheel. He was wearing dark glasses even though it was night. For a moment he lifted them to look into the bar and two yellow wolf-like eyes where seen. Walking around the Rolls he opened the second door.

A woman stepped out dressed in black pants and blood-red blouse. Her high heels made small clicks on the stone streets. "Please follow me Jack.", she said to the man in leather.

"Of course countess...", he answered. Next to the door was a big black stray dog. The dog growled at Jack when he passed. For a second Jack made a deep growl back like only an animal could. The dog spurted away of fear.

The countess walked up to wards the bar... "Inn-keeper... My name is the countess Erzsébet Báthory. I like to purchase some ingredients please. I have a rather extensive list. Could you prepare it for me and wrap it in plastic. The car you see. Here is the list." She placed a list on the counter written with black ink on parchment. "It includes two vats of blood. I hope you have it? And give me a bloody Mary mixed with the product while I am waiting."

Jack leaned on the bar. "And do me a Jack Daniels...", he growled.

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new arcs in my mind would be considered lower class

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*Smacks IM upside the head*

Go wash your mouth out with soap and water.

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New arcs in my mind will be the reason for renewing

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I think he is trying to point to the fact that new arc's are easy to make in-between but aren't a real new feature. You make a zone with a few arc's (Cimerora)... knowing you make some more arc's next issue aside of the real new things (dayjob system) youre making. The medium content will be stuff like QOL (Dual builds).

Still.. there is a LOT behind this issue and the big patch after they took over that isn't mentioned here. Small QOL things and behind-the-scenes changes that set the game up for future long-term updates.

Like the unexpected safe-function for Costumes... and the in-between update came with more channels and ordening of toons. We had name change possible... server transfers... spam blokkers...

I know this stuff isn't seen as extra content. But it is stuff that makes the game itself. These updates are very welcome and shouldn't be forgotten.

At first sight .. I am not a big fan of this kind of layout. It is bigger in fonts and more like an advertizing. I just prefer the look that we have now in eu.

But that's just my opinion.

- I miss the link (as flag) for eu... and I think all sites should ave all links to different languages. It will make the streamlining of downloading the correct updater a lot safer too.
- I noticed white font on light grey background in patch section for the dates. That is not easy readable.
- The game info section is improved a lot... I like it.
- The fansite/supergroup site page should show all sites incl the eu ones. The internet doesn't restrict that. It also should be divided by server.
- Big improvement on the video section btw...

for the moment...

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Her name has that many translations I'm surprised she hasn't turned up more!

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It has... and all different misspellings too.

Elizabeth looked back towards the two amoung them who where not magicians or witches. "Walter was the name..? As I understood dear sir. English I hear by you're accent. The name is countess Erzsébet Báthory. I must say I am glad someone with manners filled in the spot left by that idiot of a Hatesman."

She reached out her hand towards Walter.

"Please join us... both of you... A ritual like this needs strong minds to uphold our defences. trust us..."

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would like to point out that I checked most my pages, and nothing appears to be amiss. However, im not impressed with the fact that they were touched in the first place.

Also I have just noticed of a few of my story posts that names and wording in some speach has been altered/ messed up/ no longer makes sense. Meaning now im going to have to spent time to repair those pages, again I wonder why and fail to see why someone feels the urge to change other people's hard work or projects.

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I havent touched text inside stories etc. So that wasn't me. If you don't believe check the change history.

I am also not going in on any witch hunt or pointing of fingers. I apologised... the damage is repairable... This will be my last post (or check) of this thread.

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yet has not said sorry even once, if fact is still trying to justify it...

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Search for the word apologise on this page... It's there.

I did NOT meant to screw things up. If that's how everyone sees it. Then I am sorry and I apologise.

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Uh, not until this post it sn't, if fact there is just a lot of "this is why i did it and that's why it's not really wrong at all and you should all be actually great full"

you needed one post "sorry, i thought i was helping, my mistake" not any of this justification manure.

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Try the search function...

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yet has not said sorry even once, if fact is still trying to justify it...

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Search for the word apologise on this page... It's there.

I did NOT meant to screw things up. If that's how everyone sees it. Then I am sorry and I apologise.

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Supergroups were created to be subcategories so that characters would auto link to them just by having the tag in their character profile. Someone with [Category:CourtOfTheBloodCountess] for example, would auto appear as Articles under the Court of the Blood Countess Category page, which was pointed to as a redirect from the Court of the Blood Countess article page.

You've created tons of subcategories when they were fine as articles.

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But you state here youreself they where meant to be sub-categories.

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A page will become either a category or a sub-category depending on the link you use to make it from. The category links below the pages will make a full category. While the ones in the text will make a sub-category. if you need the same page accessable from boths links you need a redirector for one of them.

Raising the question... When is a page a sub-category of a category?

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No, a page within a category is, 99% of the time, an ARTICLE, not a sub category. You're nesting things that don't NEED to be nested, and causing circular referrals.

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And what about the ones that where sub-categories? Are they in truth any different as supergroup the the Unity Vigil.

You state youreself it will be 99%. It was devided 50% 50%.

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... for that I apologise.

What makes ...

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and again... I did not meant to screw things up.

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I am a bit of a data freak... have build many data bases and websites.

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And I'm a programmer, and I know to understand my data before applying blanket changes. The system was flexible, and you've made everything nice an unified, but removed the flexibility.

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Yes... I did so unintentionally. But would it be a total disaster if all pages where setup the same way. There where never rules applied... only templates. But I guess you're right. flexibility can't hurt either. I was never flexible enough then.

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I gave Pocket D the Category:Business. Is that wrong? A nightclub/Disco is a business. it makes money. Not only a location.


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It can be both. I believe the Barrington Club was marked as both. See, flexible.

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And it was both after my change.. I added business...

I am a bit of a data freak... have build many data bases and websites. It is just the way I think.

You all have seen my pages I guess. They are build the same way... with the same layout. It was not meant as malevolent... and the remark earlier about expecting that from me was totally uncalled for.

I did what I thought was right. And I haven't changed anything that was completly wrong. For instance... I gave Pocket D the Category:Business. Is that wrong? A nightclub/Disco is a business. it makes money. Not only a location.

Anyway. This is the second time I placed a lot of time and efford in it. From the first time a lot of good changes stayed. I don't mean to do any harm. take it from me (also seeying how much time went into it) there will NOT be a third time.

Ok... before you bite my head off... This is what I thought I was doing...

I noticed all categories and sub-categories looked to me like a total mess. Its either a category or a sub-category. You shouldn't have both. There where remarks from me and Ammon stating so. And they where already old.

I chatted to Pious and asked him what it should be. As he thought it had to be sub-categories. So that pages linked went automatically under it. I just went ahead and changed that. First for my pages... then as I had some spare time to more. It gave a structured look and feel. And NO DATA was changed at ALL! As this is a wiki changes are stated and can be rolled back. It rather impossible to call or mail every owner you know. Or I would have done so.

I found some obvious locations that where also businesses as they made money. That is the only thing I added in categorie. That I didn't place a discussion remark for.

Now I know I made some logo's. I gave a remark that it was just something I made up. If the owner wouldn't like... It's one click to removing it. This is a wiki after all. If good intended additions aren't welcome... then it will not happen again. I spend a lot of time in doing what I thought best.

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... He's been messing with the sexuality pages. Again. Some kind of fixation, Liz?

At least you didn't change Storm Sapphire's sexuality to Transsexual again. Thank goodness for small blessings.

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I havent touched this category at all. And haven't added any to this category either. The truth. Have you been looking at very old changes too?

This is a wiki. And I did some without serious data change. Sure there are pages linking to themselves. As all got the same treat ment.. but almost all pages where st up different. And I haven't touch data of the page.

Anyway... no harm or anything was intended. I don't spend a lot of time on something to annoy people. It will NOT happen again. Ever!!!

"Bloody mayhem of course!", Elizabeth answered with a devious smile showing her fangs clearly and an ecstatic look in her eyes. "I myself have used these souls ages ago to re-animate my loyal servants... and I guess these dead beings serving Alex's household are brought about almost the same way. Would it be possible on a scale like this?"

She put down her glass and looked at Romanov... "Is that the kind of distraction you had in mind Alex!?"

Bathory Erzsebet Magic Necro/Dark Mastermind I wanted to make a perfect sadistic villain. So I looked into history for advice. A vampire would be nice. And I came up with Elizabeth Bathory. That name was obviously taken. I met the guy who helped his friend make this toon, but never the toon itself.

Looking into it further I found the only document in history she ever signed. In Hungarian the last name comes first. And this is the original spelling.

She was my first toon already with an SG in mind... so at lvl 10 The Court of the Blood Countess was born.

When I needed Elizabeth to visit Paragon City she had to have a human disguise. Much like Dracula used when he visited London. I played around with the name and made Elizabeth Thabyro Magic Dark/Dark Defender. She essential has the same powers, as she is meant to be the same person.

Selwyn Strange Magic Force Field/Energy Defender I am creator and moderator of www.drstrange.nl, and as such a huge Dr. Strange fan. This is my way to rebuild his powers as close as I could get them. In time he drifted away from being a ripp-off to his own character, but the powersets are still the closest thing ever to the Sorcerer Supreme.

Nightseye Magic Dark/SprRefl Scrapper Just came back from the musical CATS and really liked to make a catlady at that point. I looked into history for inspiration and came up with an immortal avatar of the cat-goddess Bast. Egyptean cats are grey. She is an immortal ancient egyptean that can transform into a catlike being.

Shannon O'Banshee Magic Sonic/Kin Corruptor I really wanted to try out kinetics. But what being could control speed or time. I figured it could be like speeding up time. The realm of Fae is suppossed to have a different time-stream. And as such I could try out a reaaaly small toon. Went for the smallest possible. And came out with this Fae/Banshee.

Small, fast, annoying...

Jack Wulf Magic Dark/Regen Stalker This is my werewolf. He has a human and Werewolf shape. The howling emote was a 'gift from above for him. The name just seemed to fit.

Lilith Desdemonia Magic Fore/Fire Dominator My demoness. I wanted to make one and ended up with a redskinned, burned winged demon escaped (or more exiled) from the depths of Hell. Still only lvl 14. Fire Dominators aren't easy to level.

Uebermensch Magic Superstr/Inv Tanker My supposed Superman clone and member of my Patriotic Hero SG. So I used Niesche's version of the Uebermensch and the writing that is used when the umlaut is not available. Like in our toon names. Just was lucky it wasn't taken.

Dutch Storm Magic Storm/Electr Defender Can't make a patriotic German toon and not make one from the country I am from. inspired by the weather at the time (Dutch weather sucks) I came up with storm for her. She was almost drowned in the big flood of Holland in '53 and saved by the teutonic gods. Raised on Asgaerd and granted storm powers by Donar and Wodan themselves.

Yim Wing-Chun Natural MarArts/SuprRefl Scrapper This is the person that, according to legend, created the Kung-fu style Wing-Chun. I have trained Wing-Chun for years and wanted a Martial Arts scrapper that reflected the style as good as possible. Obvious chinese An ancient chinese super hero. Fighting a demon sorcerer she got trapped in the far future.

I mimicked the style by adding some fist hits (boxing), Sands of mu for the fast repetering fist hit... and did not take the fancy jump kicks as long as she can go without.

Tarana Natural Superstr/WillPwr Brute I once had a D&D character named Tara. Real foul girl. Took what she wanted, and killed where she wanted.

Tara was taken... Tarana is a perfect alternative. Taranis is the celtic god of thunder. This is a take on that name. She is a killer... fist for hire... and thief. She hates super powered people and especially the ones born with it.

Nancy Mesmer Mutant Psi/Mind Dominator For roleplay in The Cadre I needed a stripper to work in the club. A mutant psi would be perfect in that role. As she could influence her audience in other ways then just with her body.

As she was a stripper I looked at Nancy Callahan from Sin City. The last name comes from Mesmer. The historic person that 'invented' mesmerism... or hypnosis.

Dr. Eugene Silver Natural Bots/Device Mastermind Wanting to try out Robots I came up with an older scientist gone wrong. He was caught in an accident and is now partly cyborg. That is not where his powers are though.

He is a robotic genius and build these bots and inventions to help out The Cadre. As his name is Silver' he finds some personal joy in naming his Robots like metals.

Elphaba Thropp Magic Fire/Dark Corruptor What can I say! I just had finished the novell 'Wicked'. A prequal/remake/different angle look on the Wizard of OZ. This is the real name of the Wicked Witch of the West. As a villain she misses the brimmed hat. Why is there no witch hat on villains?

Cher Nobyl Mutant Fire/Rad Controller Made for the Omega Task force in Birmingham. And as such part of the International Hero Idols team. This concept won first price there in the creative categgory.

She came from the ukraine... and was born during the Tsjernobyl disaster. this mutated her into becoming a living nuclear reactor.

Siberian Sentry Technological Ice/Energy Blaster This is my armored hero. Like Iron Man he is a scientist that builded an armor to protect his people at home. He is russian... The armor is able to generate extreme cold and regulate it s own powere levels and energy.

Fujiwara Masato Natural NinjaBlade/Ninj Stalker my Ninja of a yakuza clan that serves Elizabeth in game. Her human assasins. This is to be my major stalker in time. When I can get to levelling him proper that is.

Japanese with the body tattoo's as expected from a Yakuza.

Marie Laveau Magic Necro/Poison Mastermind The Voodoo queen of New Orleans. Straight from history and legend (look her up if you want). She was a perfect character for this powerset and I just couldn't believe the name was free!

[censored] with a black dress... but able to go almost nude with bloody ritual marks all over her body.

GI Camouflage Magic SuperStr/Invul Tanker build to become a ghost Vietnam Marine. Will get stealth and phase and fly in time. Based on the song 'Camouflage'. The song discribed a supernatural Marine that comes back from the dead to rescue a marine in distress.

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Talking about Elizabeth... in the current LoRD roleplay thread she is one of the reasons we have these zombies running about. Should she go out and fight them? hmm... killing renegades with Bathory Erzsebet (Necro/Dark Mastermind) can be fun...

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hmm.. more like a challenge Just realised they are ressistent to dark damage. Making it a lot harder for her to kill or debuff them.

Not that she can't manage though.

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thats good but the amount of time to get all badges seems stupid.

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This system was never meant to be used as a way to collect all these badges. You should in role only have a max of two jobs... or actually one job specialised with a second.

And that is easily managable.

Slowly but emitting huge confidence Selwyn Strange entered the Midnight Hall. He was obviously not the first to arrive. Some of the mages he recognized from reputation alone. Especially the representatives like the one from the Sisterhood... as they where easily recognizable. He himself was a representative for the ancient Celtic magic once used by Merlynn himself.

Selwyn stroked his small beard while picking a chair directly opposite of the man who had called in the gathering. He had heard of Dante Carver ofcourse... but never met him. But then again he was often operating from the British Isles as those where directly linked to the old magic.

It was highly likely all of the gathered mystics here had felt the same disturbing in the barriers separating the Nether realm from this reality... as he had done.

The disturbance had caused him to move to Paragon for a longer period of time. So he bought a house in the region of Croatoa feeling the place radiated the same energy as that Stonehenge had. And as such made a perfect Sanctum Sanctorum.

He waved his hand and a glass of wine was lifted... and floated to wards his hand. It was now a matter of patience until the gathering was complete.

Nightseye (Dark/SR Scrapper) and Selwyn Strange (FF/Energy Defender) both have killed of a lot, receaving all 4 badges.

As necro mm I can tell you that a good fire blaster should be the way too go. Knowing their vulnerabilities to fire. I think I try my hand on Lilith Desdemonia (Fire/Fire Dominator) and Cher Noby (Fire/Rad Controller). Should be fun.

Talking about Elizabeth... in the current LoRD roleplay thread she is one of the reasons we have these zombies running about. Should she go out and fight them? hmm... killing renegades with Bathory Erzsebet (Necro/Dark Mastermind) can be fun...

I hate to rebuild due to cheaper cost But maybe I should do witch some of my bases.

Anyway.. I have one SG that started out like a good idea.. it died out though.. not enough time to uphold them all. So I merged/transfered etc. Now this one is the sole base for the toon that was originally its leader.

Made the base rentless again.. by removing some rooms. And kicked all non logging toons leaving only me. No alts, no rent... fully working base. All tp... energy and control in place. For rp function I will try to make a bedroom in there (we need the stuff for things like that)... and I ned some new good coalitions for fun.

Selwyn Strange can help out here... Sorcerer.

So like a real dayjob you return to these spots for loggout every time. If you game for 4-5 hours with a toon. it will give you 20 hours each day of being logged out. So on a well played toon you will need about 36 days to learn one job.

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I am missing some awesome dayjobs I would have liked for some of my toons. No Golden Giza......

Oh well still enough to be excited about.

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There is an archelogist badge.. but no info on where or what...

Argh.. my Werewolf would be best as smuggler if I go for the RP side... but he is regen and all extra regen is good. So he should go for Pain Specialist.

Decisions.. ah...

Elizabeth will be pain specialist (torture) and midnighter (witch) ... that will give her Alchemist - Ally Heal

Now that is a good one for a mm