Manofmanychars

Hey, it's the guy with the beta slot (almost 100% sure, since been here since day one), I was wondering if I could say vague things like "CoV beta is so much fun." I like to gloat, but I'll just completely steer clear of these boards if that sort of thing is taboo, too. This is my first game beta, if you haven't guessed. Also, is it total months, or does it have to be an uninterrupted period of time? It lets me gauge how many people will be with me in beta (more if total, less otherwise).

MORE SECRETS?! AHHHH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, IT'S A CONSPIRACY. BTW, thanks, Clint, I probably would've gotten my *ss tossed out of beta after the first day if it weren't for you. You're my fave CoV poster (ScionofSatan is my fave CoH poster, due to an eloquent post concerning I5, and Jack's "vision"). Now, I hope you remember, I'm only talking about non-red posters, as Lord_Recluse r0x0rz j00r b0x0rz.

How do you know about our missions?! Who told you?! Who do you work for?! You can't catch a dead man! (shoots himself) Dammit, I've got invuln, looks like I have to wait for I5 before I can die... (looks at watch) is I5 out yet, I have a lot of paranoid to be today, and don't need to be wasting time waiting to shoot myself for the sake of a joke. BTW, I was going to ask this sooner, but if CoV forums don't open during beta, could you keep this thread stickied so beta-ers can post stuff about the game here?

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I know I'm gonna buy COV but i'm very impatient and the bugs find me (it seems) so i'd make a good bug hunter (psst hear that devs? the bugs find me )

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Ok, now I'm calling The Question, the Lone Gunmen, and F.B.I. agents Moulder and Scully.

(OOC: well, open RPs have characters created by the people involved take part in adventures created by the person that opened the thread, but usually has a character of his own. Now, I assume Wyglaf is the character you intend to use, if not, please clarify, I'll post my character after you've decided on one to use for the RP, just in case you didn't know how it works.)

Well, here's a tip for mutants, mutagens make mutants, too. My controller was mutated by the Lost's wierd mutagen, so he's mutant. Yes, I copyrighted that idea, so don't even think about it. But some sort of mutation that doesn't happen at birth may be the way to go for you.

The Contaminant: Weird Science

Knuckles: The theme song from "The Sopranos"

The Detective: That music that plays at the beginning of EVERY 1930's detective movie

Briar: That Old Black Magic (it was in the Jerry Lewis version of "The Nutty Professor")

Haywire: The music playing in Kirby Super Star when you fight the boss called Computer Virus. If you've heard it, you'd know why.

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From PMs to CuppaJo - Your birthday as listed in your PlayNC account. You promised/verified it was all true when you signed up.

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That's it, I'm getting my tinfoil hat.

any RPers on Protector? hello? (echoes) guess not...

Tim Blake, AKA Haywire, lives in an average apartment in Galaxy City, close to the industrial district, where he can keep an eye on the Clockwork.

Joey "Knuckles" Vespucci lives in a penthouse apartment near Freedom Corps HQ in Galaxy City. The apartment is paid for by "care packages" sent by his "family" from his hometown of Boston. (he may be ex-mafia, but I like to establish the fact that he has NO connection with the Paragon City version)

Dirk Jones, AKA The Detective, lives in his office in King's Row. The muted colors often make his office look sepiatoned, and it isn't far from where the Lost congregate.

Dr. Nicolas Johnson, AKA The Contaminant, lives in a small apartment, sized for a scientist. It has become cluttered with various files relating to the shady dealings of Crey Industries in recent months. His apartment is in Atlas Park, not far from city hall.

Pierce Chadswell, AKA Briar, lives in a pocket dimension that he may enter anywhere. It is filled with spellbooks, mystical relics, and household neccessities.

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Hmm, COH+separate game-COV+separate game = pay fees for both

No brainer here and for those that don't like, cancel the YMCA or fitness center membership your not using anyway.

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Someone never read the primer. It has been established again and again that we will NOT pay fees for both if we have both. The devs said a $3-5 increase to pay for the extra GMs and other employees they have to hire to maintain COV, and make new updates for it. The increased fee is to pay for increased expenses. they could cut the fee somewhat if they didn't make the big updates free. Would you like them to be sold seperately, a la Everquest, shelling out another $50 every month? Sorry, I think I just started ranting about all the complaints about the increased fee.

instead of a full powerset for growing/shrinking, why not make it a power pool. since bigger characters take bigger steps, growth could work as a travel power. the first two powers would be the actual size-based powers, the third would be a permanent power that buffed you differently, depending in which form you have on at the time (in addition to the normal buffs), and the fourth would be a melee attack that had a different animation and effect depending on current size (example: when big, it's a giant punch w/ knock back, but when small, a flurry attack with stun). both the auto power and attack power would require size change to work. giantism would only be possible if there was room, otherwise, it won't activate.

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It is the same man, Statesman is immortal. Look for more details about his origin, his powers and how he is tied to Lord Recluse this fall in the upcoming novel: The Web of Arachnos.

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And now we know Statesman is immortal Dorian Grey anyone?!

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In, "The Portrait of Dorian Grey," the portrait did NOT make him immortal, but hid his misdeeds. You see, when it was written, it was a common belief that you could see the sins someone has done on their face (insert joke here). Try not to get all of your literary information from, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Yes I know this is a two month late post, but I only started reading this thread today.

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Here's a question...what will the server names be? I doubt Freedom and Justice will do for a villain, but then again, if I am to meet up with a Hero, certainly there must be a link between each....anything stated yet? (maybe each name will have a () with the corresponding server?

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This one I might know. All server names for CoV will probably be antonyms of the CoH servers. It's only a guess, but it makes the most sense I've heard.

I know, I just wanted to vent a bit. At least the people remember it. As I said, it's been continued on the thread, "The New Recruits." I still miss the Academy, but I guess I'll have to move on. I need to get some more magnetic poetry (I just throw it at the fridge, and make an idea out of what comes up, that's how I got the idea for the academy. That and watching the movie, "Police Academy"). Hell, one character could've easily passed for Hightower, but I'm just rambling now. Time to brainstorm (sounds of a light drizzle coming from poster's head).

I've kept this bottled up for several months now, and whenever I'm here looking for some interesting fanfiction or such, I'm reminded of how one small problem practically ended my interest in open RPing. You see, I came up with a concept that caught on relatively quickly. It was fun, for a while. Then, in an attempt to get people to portray their characters in a way not usally seen WITHOUT just relying on deus ex machina, I conferred an air of omnipotence (I understand the irony). Now, instead of just saying their problems in a rational, civilized manner, they yelled and stormed out. In fact, one person, who shall remain nameless, was rather vague in his/her exit, and I got yelled at for referring to her afterwards. So, instead of fixing the problem, or even trying to, I decided to contain the damage, and killed the thread like the Old Yeller it was. Later, the story was revived in a new, still active thread, by one of the old members of the first thread. I promptly joined, and inevitably somebody got offended. Now, instead of coming to me with the problem, they complain to the one heading the thread. Then, they all take turns individually yelling at me. Now, being asked by one person to change something is fine. But, to be yelled at, nay, insulted by almost everyone else on the thread, is something no man short of Mohandas Ghandi (Mahatma was a title, his first name was Mohandas.) would stand for. So, I left as tastefully as possible, as opposed to fixing the problem and remaining the thread's "[censored]." I could have just said I was leaving, but no, I wrote a nice, tragic, and poignant end to my characters' lives. The only mention of it by the others was one of the posters subtley complaining about how a villain I'd created in the first thread resembled his character (although, I think he just never bothered to read the first thread, since he was new). In conclusion, all of this anger and annoyance could have been prevented if people could just state problems calmly and to the offender, instead of flaming him while complaining to whoever started the thread. It's amazing, but people sometimes listen.

just a few comments/questions:

1. I've been subscribed since day one, w00t, as it were.
2. for NPC villains, I'd wager the Council will show its ugly, smelly, filthy face
3. about masterminds: if you mix+match primary and secondary powers, it could be possible to make the ultimate minions: PIRATE NINJAS! Take this story as an example:

It's a dark moonless night in Tokyo, you're on your way to visit your aged grandmother. Your parents always told you not to venture out this late but you never listened, what harm could possibly come to you? You turn down an unlight back street just as a cold wind blows by. You suddenly feel unseen eyes peering at you from just beyond the darkness, and that's when you hear it; "Yar." Then the glint of a steel hook. Your last thought before the cool metal slides between your ribs is "Pirate ninjas? The hell?"

That was an excerpt from "Twinkin' Out with Red Mage" at Nuklearpower.com, check the place out, it's one of the best sites ever, and it's full of things you can easily use as references in your posts. I'm not affiliated with the site, I just thought this would fit, and am writing this part in the hopes that lawninja won't come to kill me with litigation. Anyway, to continue:

4. Having seen how informed Clintonian is, I fell like a bit of a loser, unless he's been playing since beta, then it's okay, because he'll have been playing longer than me, otherwise, I feel lame for not looking for all of this myself.

5. I hope it's possible to customize minion costumes and other aesthetic details. That would be nice, because pirate ninjas need hook hands, eyepatches, and pirate hats on top of their ninja head wraps (or whatever they are)

6. To answer the question of the guy that interviewed Mr. Hensley as to whether any NPC heroes will be going evil, Malaise is evil again, whether or not he'll be in COV is yet to be seen (to see how Malaise got evil, refer to the Paragon Times about Sister Psyche's return to her body)

that's all, sorry for wasting all this space with my ramblings.

Ultradude, longing for the mass murder of the early posts of this thread, builds an atomic mallet the size of Wisconsin, and smashes everyone. He then trips, falls, and gets smashed by his own mallet. He respawns and kills the mallet, and the decides a good old-fashioned machine gun-based killing spree is in order, so he pulls one out of his pocket and shoots anyone he sees. Then, he gets gunned down in the street and Sonny has to take over the family, but gets killed at a toll booth, so Michael has to take over. I kill Ultradude for creating a crappy segue into a crappy reference to "The Godfather." Then I give a formal apology to the readers, as I kill Ultradude again.

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Question 1: What's your favorite color (remember, I'm referring to your hero(es).

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Hi again, just thought that the day before the new question, I'd give my own characters' opinions:

Briar: (British accent) I suppose you'd think I liked black or red, because of my costume, and the red magic runes covering it. Well, you're wrong. I happen to like navy blue, the colors of my costume were suggested to me by Serge, that's all.

Knuckles: (south Bronx accent) 'Ey, what, am I s'posed ta let youse know 'bout my poysonal life now? When a' youse gonna leave me alone. Fine, I like yellow, a'right? I ain't some kinda pansy, I just like yellow. Youse tell anyone 'bout this, and you'll be wearin' cement shoes, capiche?

The Contaminant: Radiation green, duh. Just because I've got a PhD in every field of science doesn't mean I can't have a favorite color that even a two-year-old could figure out.

The Detective: I like the shade of blue that that car I threw at that Hellion was. Telekinesis has never been so pleasing to my eyes.

Tim: Well, since there's two people here, I know his is the bronze color of Clockwork, and mine is peach. By the way, if you ever wanna look me up in a heroing capacity, ask for the Mad Clockwork I'm attached to: Haywire.

Haywire: I'm not mad, Tim, just insane.

Tim: I'm still curious as to what sort of glitch made that defeated prince form his gears around and through me. Well, I probably would've been crushed to death otherwise, seeing as how it fell on me, but I degress, go away.

(all of my characters are on Protector, if you want to play some time, but not this week, as I'll be busy watching E3 on G4TechTV. Stay tuned for tommorow's new question.)

I'm starting a series of polls, not of the players, but instead of the heroes of Paragon City. This is an oppurtunity to think about aspects of your hero that you never considered. Every week, I'll add a new question. You may answer any question on the list, but please quote the question you're answering, so others don't get confused. I'll start with an easy question.

Question 1: What's your favorite color (remember, I'm referring to your hero(es).

awwww, I missed the fun, I had questions, comments, and death threats to send in... oh, well. I hope someone does this sort of thing again sometime.

Ultradude, having just finished reading a book on originality, decided to test his new ideas out. "Here's some ice cream for ya!" he yelled, as he shot her with a Crey ice pistol, then removing her frozen limbs and mixing them with cream and sugar to make ice cream, he then puts hot fudge on the Krystal Psion-flavored ice cream and gives it to her. He forces her to eat it so fast that she dies from acute brainfreeze. Then the word conceptual tries to eat him again, but Ultradude smashes it with a giant novelty hammer, killing it. He then placed land mines in the places he was pretty sure the others were going to respawn, but accidentally stepped on an extra one he left in a random location. He wound up respawning on each of his land mines in sequence. Killing him about ten times. Each time he died, the recently respawned conceptual would eat the corpse and die from indigestion.

Ok, this thread is funny, so I'm gonna bump it. Anyway, Statesman DID mention the 5th AT, therefore making it a battle beteen Facemaker and killer mimes. In all seriousness, there's no way Icon would serve villains, so one point to facemaker. BUT, somebody pointed out that Carnival of Shadows isn't far off, so one point for mimes. BUT, the Carnival of Shadows is probably so similar, that mimes will never come into existance in the game, to prevent redundancy. Therefore, Facemaker is the new, poorly named, tailor. Although, Serge sounds like a reject from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", so I guess all tailors have dumb names.

Just then, Ultradude, having no conceptual originality of his own, conjured up all the previous methods of murder in the thread and combined them in new ways. Like making the moon explode and shoot out enraged kittens made of molten death cheese. Needless to say, nobody survived. Not even Ultradude.

(OOC: Whoa, I'm giving stars for that one, Sweet....)