MorganaFiolett

Screenshot here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...tchleather.jpg

Only had a quick shuftie, but I didn't spot any matching pieces.

Edit: Here's a couple more, black and white looks clearer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...chleather2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...chleather3.jpg

I have "no blind invites" on all of my characters just to make sure that I'm ignored by people who share the OP's mindset. I don't want to play with people like that. I want to play with people who are capable of sending a polite and informative tell first.

Edit- Aside from anything else, I like a bit of banter when I do team. The people who send blind invites without sending a tell are more likely to be the kind of uncommunicative team that I don't enjoy.

I think that's a current bug with loading costumes, the best thing you can do is load the costume just to use it as a reference; you then have to manually change every single piece to match (if you miss any it won't work) before continuing. Otherwise, there'll be no change and you'll have lost inf/costume token.

Loading does work for character creation though.

Does anybody know what happens with levelling pacts if one account goes inactive (i.e. unpaid)? Does the inactive character still get their split of the XP earned by the active character when their account is reactivated and they log back in? Or does the pact break?

I have two characters based on Celtic goddesses- Brigid and Andraste.

With Brigid, the concept is that she's actually an ancient being who encountered some early Celts and coincidentally exhibited the traits (as well as the name) of one of their deities; thus they assumed she was that deity. So she was worshipped as a goddess for a while. Then, she became a nun (which she was rather good at) and because of her long-lived nature had to fake her death, and so she ended up being called a saint, by the same name as the deity.

But is she actually the original deity? Probably not. She's not immortal, just by dint of her people's lineage exceptionally long-lived, if she spends enough time sleeping, which she's mostly done for the last fifteen centuries. She's quite happy to not be seen as a goddess or a saint any more.

With Andraste, she's supposed to believe that she's the magical avatar of the Celtic warrior goddess, and that her sword contains the embodiment of the goddess Morrigan. IC, all that the authorities can establish about the sword is that it is magical. It's entirely possible (and I'm playing this open, when I rp her) that she is actually just a wee bit mad (and influenced by certain mind-altering substances) and the sword doesn't really speak to her at all. So she's based on a goddess, but not actually a goddess.

Hopefully, both of these get-arounds are sufficient to avoid any of the main problems caused by playing gods in a game like this.

I currently have 51 characters on Union and 30 on Defiant. That said, my two level 50 characters- Ibuprofen and The Sweetest- are both on Defiant.

I also use Zukunft and Vigilance for placeholders on my favourite names and possible future character concepts.

Friday night:

In a hotel in the heart of Paragon City, a humble receptionist collapsed into her chair, exhausted. They didn't usually get this busy, but in the last week they'd suddenly had people from just about all over the world booking for this weekend, all of them saying something about a charity gig, and almost all of them had arrived today. A whole floor had been booked by a group from England, some kind of fan club apparently, while most of the hotel was full of ... well... quite scary looking people really. Fortunately they had all been surprisingly well spoken and polite.

With a sigh, she pressed a button to switch the sign out front to "No vacancies" and settled down on the internet to find out what and where this gig was, and if tickets were still available.

Ibuprofen tried to stifle a yawn as the phone rang for what seemed like the millionth time that morning.

"Yes. No, it's not a joke. Yes, it really is THE Sidereal Din. Yes, seriously. Okay. Thanks for calling."

She put the phone down and sighed, before turning to her computer and putting a post on the official site's main page. "Please let them stop calling me," she muttered as she uploaded it.

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Morgana Fiolett was on the phone when her fiance Sirius came home with the poster. He spread it out on the table and waited patiently for her to look down.

"Yeah. Oh sure, I mean obviously I'd love to play Glastonbury. Okay. Well send through the details then, and I'll get back to you."

She looked down at the poster and pouted slightly.

"It's gonna be nice to play back home again," she said to Sirius.

"Where everybody knows your name, huh?" he replied, giving her a hug.

Morgana stared. "Nutjob," she muttered. "Stark raving bonkers."

Morgana blushed brightly. "I'm, uh.. I... Well I'm no more use here than a civilian I guess... Probably less help too..."

She glanced down at her miniskirt, briefly wondering how much damage an exploding car would do and if she would survive long enough to worry about the smallpox if she didn't get out of here.

"Live to fight another day, they say, don't they?" She smiled nervously at The Walking Shadow.

Morgana was relieved by the arrival of the other heroes, although a bit nervous about the possible side effects of her panicked shout, and edged away from the car. She was reluctant to leave outright, but was painfully aware that she had no armour and couldn't remember how to fly.

Besides... these people obviously had it all under control... they obviously had better connections and she knew several of them had better security clearance.

She edged away from the car, wondering how much time was left before it blew and if she could actually run fast enough...

Meanwhile, as soon as Morgana had hung up on her, Andraste had informed the police of the approximate location of the car, so that they could coordinate an evacuation.

Morgana Fiolett walked out of Pandora's Box with her arms full of goods, looking around her nervously. Since her accident back in May, she wasn't so confident in areas like Steel Canyon, and when her phone rang it made her jump and almost made her drop her shopping.

"Hello?" she said as she answered it.

"Yo Mo, you still in Steel?" It was her friend Andraste.

"Yeah, just left Pandora's" she replied, walking down the street.

"Get out, quick. Some nutjob has left a car there full of explosives and smallpox or something, gonna go off in like, ten minutes."

Morgana stared at the parked car in front of her, her senses tingling "Oh shi... I'll call you back," she said, flipping the phone shut. She thought for a second- who could she call quickly enough?

A thought occurred to her. She took a deep breath. Turning away from the car, she raised her magically enhanced voice she shouted as loud as she could.

"CALLING ANY HEROES! THE CAR'S HERE!!"

And me.

I traded in three sets of Halloween salvage tonight on Union. Not with the main intention of testing this, but because I've been busy all November and am only just now coming back to the game to use all the salvage I acquired.

The first one at 8pm- it was apparently night-time at the time (according to somebody on a global channel who noticed when I mentioned it) but I'd only just logged in so no idea when the last invasion was. Instant zombies, the second I clicked.

Second one, an hour later (but apparently not night-time- I still wasn't paying attention) - no zombies.

Half an hour later- definitely in-game night time- no zombies.

Jury's still out I guess!

Morgana looked up as Sirius came home, his arms full of groceries.

"Oh!" She jumped up to help him. "Crikey, I thought you were only going to pick up milk!"

He shrugged as they dumped the shopping on the table. "They had a lot of offers on. Oh yeah, I saw this, too. Thought it might be something you'd be interested in?"

He fished a rolled up piece of paper out from underneath a bunch of bananas and passed it to her.

She unrolled it. "Charity gig eh? Well... I suppose."

"What do you mean, suppose?"

She shrugged. "I dunno. Am I ready for a comeback show? The album was hard enough..."

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her head. "You'll be great. Besides, it's the US, and it's charity, so.. less pressure, right?"

She sighed. He was probably right. Besides, perhaps getting on stage again would be good for her recovery. She picked up the phone and started dialling.

((Morgana Fiolett- Solo artist, uses session musicians for live shows.
Genre: Alternative hippy rock. A bit "All About Eve"-ey, bit "My Bloody Valentine", hint of Ladytron.))


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Ibuprofen saw the charity gig poster in her favourite café when she stopped to pick up her morning coffee.

She thought about it while she sipped her tall caramel macchiato, double shot, and took out her phone as she left the café.

"Hello, can I speak to Joey Stahl please? My name is Helena, I represent Sidereal Din. I saw your poster and would like to express their interest."

((Just as an addendum to Vox's )

Morgana Fiolett is a singer, probably far better known in the UK than in the US, but with a few albums to her name. She's an alternative type singer, rocky but ethereal. Since she lost her memory in May and hasn't been able to work as a hero for a while (read, got retconned and is staying low-level to go into a levelling pact), she has been working on her music again, so is probably trying to bring a new "comeback" album out in time for the festive season... She'd probably jump at the chance!


Also, I had a thought, you could use non-musical stars as compéres. Glitterfrost (half of the once-world-famous stage magic duo "The Iceman and Glitterfrost", now a fairly well-known hero who has been making a stage comeback on the side) would be happy to make herself available.
Carmen Belasco (runner-up in the "Paragon's Next Top Model" reality show and now the hero Carmen Chameleon) might also be an option, although she's quite low in the list of Paragon City celebrities and might take a little persuasion due to her now-lizardy features.

Nice! (Now I really want I13 to come out so that I can put her in a levelling pact and carry on playing her!)

Awwww... me likes!

I think that having been a permanent resident of the US for that long, she would have been entitled to apply for citizenship when she was 18, so it'd essentially be up to you whether she did or not.

Those are all just awesomesauce. If you need more characters to draw, I have a few...

I would love to see your interpretation of either (or both if that's not too cheeky?) of my nominal "main" characters:

Morgana Fiolett (who is a magic sonic blaster, pagan and singer, always in purple!)
or Ibuprofen petite nurse, groupie of Vox Doom's and dedicated empath. (I'd cast Scarlett Johannsson as her if I was doing a film, if that's any help? Also, she doesn't wear the surgical mask any more.)

I love the Clik Trax picture, if only she could have that bra in-game...

Hmm. I think I could maybe spare one, so I'd accept but it would take a long time to decide!

Dunno about anybody else, but I started this already- One thousand words before bedtime!

Why should we have to?