Melancton

In my case, it was in the Hollows, and my attempt at pulling a Troll instead brought around 9 of them, and they were going to dance on my rookie head.

Suddenly an ice slick appeared under my adversaries and they began to flop like fish. I got hit with some form of heal. It had come out of nowhere. I defeated the mobs and thanked my benefactor for saving my bacon (and not costing me any XP in doing so.) He wished me good luck and went on his way. It was a neat feeling. That was almost five years ago, and I have been on both sides of that story many times since. What a great game!

It is part of what makes us so charming.

If we like you or dislike you, it is usually pretty evident pretty quickly.

Example: We DON'T like the Rikti tourists in Paragon City.

What a cool concept! Well done!

As for me, several of my heroes have responded to a summons from my first hero, Melancton. Seems that the Circle of Thorns are another part of an organization that was suppressed after a war lasting a generation on Melancton's homeworld. The war has shifted fronts to Earth.

Another group are all aliens from the same system. They did not know each other before being pulled through a rift in space and time to Earth. I came up with an elaborate time conundrum for them in 2005, which was pretty neat until the Menders showed up and started introducing all manner of potential paradoxes in the time stream, not to mention making my cool plot-line suddenly seem derivative. *Heavy Sigh*

A third group are residents of Paragon City from Baumton. They have come to know each other as survivors of the May 23, 2002 massacre that devastated their neighborhoods and killed everyone else they knew.

As others have noted, any SG members will know each other that way, although unfortunately, they cannot act as a group together. Boy, if I could do a PUG with 8 of my own heroes, we could rock the house... but that is another topic, I suppose.

By "caging," is everyone referring to "holding" or is there something else I do not know about?

No good; when Elmer Fudd reached that conclusion, his MEDICAL bills skyrocketed.

Of course, I suppose that depends on WHICH rabbit you are trying to make into stew, but just sayin'.

Hear, hear.

I cannot bring myself to play a villain, period. Don't like to adopt that mindset.

GR may see me finally get to play a MasterMind, which looks like fun.

What we would like and what is feasible given your constraints may be two different issues! You will probably be given a request that is the video equivalent of a cure for cancer, given how well you do already.

This video was fantastic, but let me elaborate. Michelle, you have a gift in the way you assemble these videos in your use of TIMING.

What is more, you can bat from either side of the plate. You excel at DRAMATIC Timing (the Midnight Hour video being a fine example) and, as this video demonstrates, COMEDIC Timing. You not only play up archetypal behavior in the Male/Female arena, you have a deft hand at repetition for comedic effect.

You used a song that was well-suited for the video; personally, that is what counts, not whether I would want to hear it another 1,000 times. You were able to emphasize the point (the avatar may not look much like the player, but who will ever know?) will a fine eye for the funny aspects.

There were many nice touches in the magazine cover, the to-do list, the synchronized dancing/movements and the reactions of the gals. That takes skillz, and you haz them.

And it all boils down to: A good-looking female avatar will draw the attention of the men. To quote Hobbes from the very first Calvin and Hobbes strip, "We're kind of stupid that way."

Bravo! Bravo!

If being defeated by Squirrel Girl did not make Doctor Doom toss in the towel, nothing will.

No, Calvin is the one standing next to the tiger.

Calvin, Hobbes and the Duplicator

The hair is a dead giveaway, too.

Getting back to the subject at hand, check out the hair on THIS guy for MY theory about the identity of Nemesis:

Calvin, Hobbes and the Duplicator

No wonder they are everywhere!

The Humans Are Dead

LOL for the reference.

But of course, Bastion had to pick a new name for himself, too. So now he is Citadel.

*applause*

Steelclaw, you simply have a gift. Bravo.

It seems the Smiling Kitteh defies the emperor... and is fattening up his mouse, to boot.

I had to smile. I was thinking the same thing.

It CAN be tough at times to get a team. (You KNOW it is a tough night when even the Blasters turn you down .) But there are a lot of folks on the forum who would log on to help you out if they have a hero on your server. It is what heroes do.

Let me note that in the letters left by the Omega team, many mentioned Hero1 approaching them and, in essence, being persuaded by his "pitch." And surely it fell to Statesman to rally the troops for the "Alpha Gambit."

So I am again struck by the contrast between Statesman as he is presented in the background materials for CoH, namely an inspirational leader who was willingly followed into battle by 800 heroes who did not survive, and the utter [fill in your favorite profane expressions here] in the CoH comics (save the depiction by Troy Hickman and a few other instances.) Making Statesman a [same stuff here] made for a convenient plot device, but let's face it: nobody would have stayed a member of the Freedom Phalanx with a leader like THAT, much less followed him to almost certain death.

Your overarching point, however, is a good one: the Alpha team certainly knew they were not headed to a Sunday Picnic, either, and credit ought to be given where it is due for them as well.

Once upon a time, we had four Siamese cats and a grey tabby who was raised by the clan. They were all looking out the screen door when an Intruder Cat showed up in the front yard. All five cats tuned up to tell IC that he was Most Certainly Not Welcome. While this went on, we got a tape player going and recorded a couple minutes worth.

A few years later, I played it on my big sound system. One of the cats who now lived with me came BOLTING down the hallway with his tail all Bottle-Brushy with a "WHO SAID THAT?!?" demeanor. It was quite funny. You gotta love the kittehs.

Apparently I had a recording of the Taunt power from the Cat powerset. Times five.

What is REALLY bad is when the head of a huge mob of angry bad guys comes up holding a dead Fire Imp and asks, "Does this belong to you?"

I have just passed 34 with my Illusion Controller, and Phantasm seems to be a great pet. I do enjoy the Decoy, too.

And since Power Customization came along, it is fun when there are multiple groups of multi-colored Decoys out in the fray.