Mellissandria

Welcome Taco!

And yes, this game is a breeding ground for RP.

Great thing about this game is it IS flexible. We have your average superheroes, we have magical girls (heck we even have magical catgirls!), sorcerers and sorceresses, demons, angels, mutants, men (and women) in black, secret agents, aliens, vampires, furries (including the aformentioned catgirls), warriors, Jedi and Sith (no, not kidding! We have a Jedi SG on the server..no, I'm not one of them)...if it appeared in a comic book, we probably have them running around here. In some cases, even if it never appeared in a comic book...

And then, there are the booster packs...Go check out the store.

Been here two months now, still loving it for RP and the levelling...! And don't be afraid to reroll.. (I had to reroll one of my toons 4 times before I got her right..) That is actually part of the fun....

And that's what this is all about, right?

Ok, let's see what happens if I go down my alt list..

Every time you see a vampire, werewolf, sorceress or magician, take a drink.
Total: Just rolled up Lita, she's a sorceress of sorts. So is her sister Luna. Two so far.

Every time you see a catgirl, take a drink.
Total: One token catgirl, doesn't see daylight much. one

Every time you see a fox character, take a drink.
Total: No foxes-0

Every time you see a dog character (non werewolf), take two drinks.
Total: no dogs, or bothans for that matter...0

Every time you see a dragon, take a drink.
Total: No drinks

Every time you see a lizard character (non-draconic), take a drink.
Total: No drinks

Every time you see a demon, angel, half-demon, half-angel, or winged character, take a drink.
Total: Ok, my mad scientist has wings. That's one.

Every time you see a character under 5 feet who isn't a child, take a drink.
Total: Again my mad scientist. One.

Every time you see a child character, take two drinks (ankle biters!)
Total: Two. (Luna, my official magical girl)

Every time you see a girl in booty shorts, take a drink.
Total: None, but maybe I should put them on Ryou?

Every time you see a BOY in booty shorts, take three (you probably need it)
Total: My one male toon won't have any of that.

Every time you see skin-colored tights, eden pasties, or fishnet shirts, take a drink.
Total:One, looking at Ryou currently.

Every time you see a black trenchcoat, take a drink.
Total: none

Every time you see a character with pure white or pure black skintones, take a drink.
Total: none

Final damage...Seven drinks. meh, tame.

Gee, this means every time my magical girl scurries thru in her pink magical girl costume, everyone's gonna get smashed...first from seeing a 10 year old...and then when they realize her costume's...PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (jessie, this means you gotta add anyone wearing the shocking pink color to the one drink list!)

And god help the players if she's followed by my 14 year old mad scientist who's the same height...and she's wearing her wings....

I'm gonna make the place DRUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(evil grin)

On reading this...

You shouldn't want to get over being a decent human being (or trying to be)! It's something we need more of in this world..

On the second encounter (they were talking about a video game). Ignore is your friend here.

On the first one (the really important one), I'd have reported him, then put him on ignore, and /quit the group.

:floats in, bringing a sixpack of Samuel Adams and a gift basket...

"Hi, I'm from Virtue and just came by..." passes the gifts to whoever is willing to hold them.

The little whitehaired girl sat on the table, almost more like a scared animal than a human...her eyes wide as once again, she was confronted with flame...

The flame torch ignited, spraying over the child, burning her clothing off, leaving just the elfin child, without so much as a burn....She looked up mute at her tormenters as once again, she was tied down so that samples could be taken...

"I don't like this, " she heard one of the technicians say...She looked over at the feminine voice, currently hard with disapproval. "We should be treating them like children, not lab rats...look at how scared she is..."

"She's not yelling out. Used to though, til Alf beat the crap out of her one time. After that, she learned to keep her trap shut. She's not really intelligent, if she were, she'd be speaking by now..." was the reply from the scientist in charge of the testing...

"Unless Alf beat the crap out of her for talking back, too..."

"And that is enough out of you, Ms. Smith. One more word, and you are back on the street..now do your job and take 2542 back to her cell.."

The woman started to remove the straps, whispering to the girl gently.."Come on, it's over now, little one..." She looked down at 2542, picking the girl up in her arms. Instinctively, the girl wrapped thin arms about the woman's neck, crying now..."Let's go back, " she said gently, wrapping the girl in a blanket for the trip back....

Quietly, she said to the girl.."I'm going to give you a name...You look like that woman in the anime I just watched..How do you like the name, Ryoko?"

The girl looked at Caroline Smith with an appraising look, understandably suspicious...

"Come on, it's all right to talk to me, I want you to know that, Ryoko. I just can't call you by numbers, so want this to be our little secret?" Caroline asked, smiling..."Otherwise, I'm going to wind up calling you Stitch..and you look nothing like that character.." she chuckled.

The girl looked at her with serious eyes...she had known no joy in her short life...and tilted her head...then...for possibly the first time..smiled. It was hard to tell if this was an instinctive response or genuine emotion, but the girl was reacting! Again, Caroline gave the girl a tight hug as she set her down in the small cell, and proceeded to dress her...not with rough hands probing where they shouldn't, but with respect and dignity. Again, the girl smiled, shyly..

The next day, Caroline made a point of stopping at the girl's cell. Experiment 2542, was, according to the Crey Industries records, the last survivor of a group of clones created in hopes of improving their ever growing ranks. These would be impervious to anything the heroes of Paragon could toss at them. So far, only one had survived the testing that would determine how much damage they could take.

Experiment 2542, ostensibly a pyrokinetic, although she had yet to show any signs of that ability. A waiflike girl, apparently of mixed Oriental/occidental parentage, with white hair and light brown eyes...and slightly pointed ears.

As she swished the card in the magnetic lock, she heard the girl whimpering...no doubt in terror of more torture...

As Caroline entered, she saw the girl, curled up in the furtherest corner of the cell, shivering in terror. Then she remembered. Normally, Alf was the one who took the child to and from the experiments, with the girl usually howling in terror. However, Alf was currently in Paragon custody..ironically, for child molestation...

"Dear Lord, did he do that to you...Ryoko, Alf is not coming back. Not now, not ever. Not for a long long time.." She kneeled down, pulling a stuffed toy out of her knapsack. She'd told security it was for her desk, but now she put the toy down near the girl. "And if I have anything to-"

"Ne..no? No....bad...man?" The girl spoke timidly, her voice almost a whisper, yet she empathized her words as she tried to speak..."

"No bad man..." Caroline smiled..and held her arms out...

The girl threw herself at the woman, crying and sobbing...

***

"Miss Smith, what have you done to tame this one?" The head technician was surprised to see 2542 so...well, well behaved. "Are you some sort of empath, or a horse whisperer?"

Caroline smiled. "I've just been working with her...she is intelligent, I believe, just that her last handler seems to have brutalized her."

"Yeah, pity about Alf. One of the best handlers of the test subjects...scared the hell out of them, but with their powers, that's really the only way you can handle them...odd how this one's powers haven't emerged so far. Better not get too attached to her, though. She's due to be terminated soon..."

Caroline was struck dumb with horror...after a moment, she spoke. "Why?"

The little girl also looked up at the tech...."Terrr-minn-nat-t-on?" she asked, innocently. She wasn't trusting of everyone yet, but she had progressed. The look she gave the man was curious as she struggled to understand...

Time passed, as Caroline continued to work with the girl, to prove that there was some spark of intelligence, of sentience, that she wasn't just the lab rat everyone else seemed to believe. Ryoko started to speak, haltingly, and Caroline was now teaching her to read. The girl was already proving to be intelligent, perhaps genius level, given how fast she absorbed information. But no fire could be seen, no matter how the girl tried to summon it.

Ryoko was also starting to dress herself, and was now bathing on a regular basis. Mercifully, at some point someone had at least taught the girl to use the toilet, all of which she now did with pride. Now she insisted on bringing an extra gown with her when she was taken to be subjected with the flames.

Then came the day, when Caroline heard the tech talking...

"2542 is progressing, and is showing she can train. There are no signs of pyrokinsis, and I don't think she is. I recommend she be taken for DNA processing immediately, so we can create more like her. Pity we will have to put her to sleep to do it though...?"

Caroline slipped away, from the lab, heading to the girl's cell. It was getting on towards evening, and the guard shift would be starting shortly. It was the perfect time.

Ryoko looked up as Caroline came in.."Hi, " Caroline smiled to the girl. "Put on your overalls, and get Bunbun. Want to go home with me?"

The girl smiled.."Yes!" she exclamed as she hugged the woman, then proceeded to dress.

"Listen, we are just going to go out the front way. I'm going to tell them I'm taking you to be processed, but when we get out, we are going to meet some people in Paragon City. Do you understand?"

"F..Fib? Isn't..thaaat...baad?"

"Not this time, honey. Now, hurry...there, now grab Bunbun and keep quiet as...-" Then Caroline turned.

Her boss stood there, revolver in hand. "And where do you think you are going, Ms. Smith?"

"She's to be processed, you know that. I heard you..." Caroline protested...

"So why is she wearing clothing instead of her gown? She's not going to need clothing where she's going. You know she's just a lab rat..."

"She's not, she's intelligent, she can reason, Ryoko knows what you are saying!"

"So..she now has a name? I think you have gotten to be too involved in this, Miss Smith."

The girl suddenly ran at the man's legs, flaining and screaming..."Nnnoooo..NO!" she yelled clearly, as she was grabbed roughly, the gun pointed at her head...

"We can just terminate her now, Miss Smith. The bullets are adamatium..and will pierce her brain, I'm sure of it..." He swore as Caroline grabbed his gun hand. Letting the child go, the tech struggled with the woman. 2542/Ryoko screamed in terror..then that horrible sound.

The sound she would never be able to forget, as long as she lived. Caroline slumped over as the bullet pierced her heart...

"Noooo!" Ryoko screamed, again starting to flail...and flames appeared in her hands, burning the man's legs before he managed to throw her into a wall.

Then the wall burst into flame as tears ran down the girl's cheeks as she screamed incoherently, pushing herself off the wall...somewhere, she heard someone yell about demons. Ryoko didn't care as she held Caroline in her small, thin arms...protecting her...not understanding...as the world burned about her...

***

"Good lord! I am too old for this!"

Mystic Paladin swore as he heard the cries, feeling every bit his age, as he dug the rubble of the Crey laboratory, following the cries, glad for the armor gauntlets that allowed him to dig thru still smoldering rubble...

"What is it?" Magik Lass, a young teenager in training herself, rushed over to the dapper armored man (if anyone could pull that off, it was Mysty, as he was affectionately called).

"Look at this..." Gently he pulled the sobbing girl out of the rubble...looking down at the woman, partially burned, although the child had managed to preserve what was probably the real cause of her death, as well as a stuffed toy bunny..."Not a scratch on the girl, not even the start of a burn..."

"Is she still alive?" ML asked, looking at the child in the man's arms, who now clung to him, sobbing still, as he gently calmed her down.

"She is...poor thing...what was those cretins doing with a child, I wonder...and why was she trying to protect the woman.." Gently, Mysty picked up the child in his arms, carrying her as he would one of his own..."can't be more than five.."

So the long journey began...

(This is an origin story for my main on Virtue, Demon Caller Oryo...who is fixing to be renamed, probably as Oryo Ryouko. Originally, there was a framing story around this story, but I have removed it. It may eventually be turned into a story of its own.)

Speaking of Yanks...(pops in). Hi, I'm DC and I'm from Virtue server, although I really live in New England..

Brought you guys some real Samuel Adams Lager, all the way from Boston, MA. Also brought some peppermint tea....

At any rate, thought I'd drop by and say hello...

(floats out...)

Geeze, this gives new meaning to the phrase 'Mapserved'...

Getting mapserved every 10 seconds...and staying frozen for sixty seconds, unfrozen for ten seconds, wash, rinse, repeat....

And now, I'm totally disconnected...sheesh...wonder if I will be able to get back in tonight...

YAY!!!! We got the forums back!!!

Yaaaay!!!

DC floats in for one last look.

"I only knew you for a few weeks..and while the new place will be nice, I'm sure...I think I like you more.."

She then holds her hand out, summoning her fire sword..and uses it to carve the word "Oryo" into the wall, in Japanese kanji. It's mostly to prove to herself, she was here.

(see ya on the flipside, just look for the platinum blonde who wears red, black and (sometimes) orange...)

Ok, anyone else got ideas? Or anyone got an opinion?

(grin)

Edit: So far Oryo Rio/Ryo seems to be in the lead, wth 2 votes. to Oryo Ryouko's 1. Now would be a good time to put in your 2 cents worth

I've been rping for a long time, and have found that if the action you are going to do is iffy, best to send a tell to the victim first.

Eg: Once on SWG, a group of rpers I hung with were rping a fight, trying to get the Jedi they were after out of his house...(as it turned out..he wasn't home)...well, instead of the jedi, his housekeeper came out (me) and was confronted with two Sith that she promply mistook for bill collectors...when one of said sith proceeded to lift her by the neck..that's when I sent my tell...he agreed..

Housekeeper Mellie proceeded to kick the Sith in the crotch, stopping the rp for a few moment of ooc laughter before his partner tossed her into a wall..ending that little encounter. Loads of fun, and worth the consequences. If only all RP encounters went that smoothly..

My point though is this..if you aren't sure how the action will be recived, best to ask in tells first...give them a chance to say no oocly.

Not in this case...(snicker)

And BBQ, she's not two chocolate cookies with cream filling in the middle...but still cute.

Awww, congrats on your new family member...

Yeah, I do like it...Was thinking Oryo Ryo as well...but since Rio is the phonetic pronunciation of Ryo, Oryo Rio also makes sense.

Ever since I rolled up Demon Caller Oryo, I've been trying to figure out a new name for her..(didn't think to google before I snagged the name..) Originally, she was going to be just Oryo, (Japanese for Honorable Demon), but that name was taken, as it turns out. Yeah, in a way, she is a tribute character/retread from Star Wars Galaxies, but now, since she is getting fleshed out a bit, I'd like to change it..I've already changed her costume a good bit, but now it's time to fix the name before the GMs fix it for me...

And I'd like your opinion/input into her name, guys. Or if you have a better idea, please post it? Keep in mind she is a fire scrapper with something of a temper.

My top choices are..

Demon Caller
DemonCaller
Oryo Ryouko (japanese mashup, roughly translates into Honorable Demon Caller-ironic, since she's a fire scrapper, not a demon summoner).
Or...Oryo Rio (mashup, this time using a civilian nickname)

DC is right out, for obvious reasons, although that is her nickname in game currently.

Basically, wanting a name that is less clunky, and worried that someday, some GM is going to Google it as Demon Caller Royo (which can actually be Googled) and come to the conclusion that AHAH! it is a copyright infringement! After all, getting generic'd is a fate worse than death in this game.

So, change it? "Tempt the whatever from high atop the thing", and keep it? Or go with a suggestion from you kind people? Y'all got til Tuesday to help me, btw...

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I haz Twitters (was on it before most of you heard of it, I bet..)

@Mellie42 if anyone cares.

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If you were on so early, why not just "@Mellie"... why 42?

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Mellie42 is the handle I use on a couple of boards..and carried over there. Would you rather I had used my normal handle of 'Mellissandria'?
(grin)

To be honest, didn't think it would matter if I was Mellie, Mellie42, Mellissandria, or Mellissandra or even Demon Caller. It's still me

I haz Twitters (was on it before most of you heard of it, I bet..)

@Mellie42 if anyone cares.

I've been having the rubberbanding issue. I'll try the suggestions mentioned here first.

Looking thru this thread, I can't help but be reminded of my home server on Star Wars Galaxies, Shadowfire..which was very PVP happy and home to many a happy griefer...(much to the dismay of those of us who rped and PVE'd)..

The PVP bounty hunters would have gleefully had Twixt for breakfast or as a warmup for the day's Jedi hunting.

:watches all the squeaking going on, then snorgles all the kittehs in this thread...then retreats to the rafters..

Fedor, I know the feeling. Only got onto Facebook recently (after an old friend from SWG kept sending me invitations) and found out one of my old friends from my bad old Atlanta gaming days is also on this server...thru Virtue's Facebook page!

Resisting MySpace though....heard too much about it...

Thank you, Fedor. Do you have Twitter too?