Ms. Mesmer

Shortly after the Captain Universe arc that coincided with Acts of Vengeance, where Peter had his power level amped-up to a point where he could go one-on-one with Magneto and the Tri-Sentinel, there was an arc where a lab accident stripped him of his powers. He continued to wear the suit, and fumbled through enough to get them back. This was also the arc where Black Cat first lost the luck powers that she had been given when they were dating.

Donna Troy was also one of the depowered heroes who became a Darkstar for a while.

Oh, I thought you meant the storylines from the two previous zones, my misunderstanding. There are plenty of them in the other paths' Neutropolis arcs, though I forget which ones exactly.

For those who don't remember, I have three links that show the evolution of Ms. Liberty's family tree.

Her bio from just before launch.

A clarification (later partially de-retconned when her original first name was reasserted by the Freedom Phalanx book) by Manticore.

The moment of realization of the squick factor, from the implications of the Web of Arachnos story.

There are two possibilities here.

In one, Ms. Liberty was always meant to be Statesman's granddaughter, but it was a big secret that was meant to be a reveal for when Recluse was introduced, in order to give Statesman and Recluse some personal connection, but her backstory got complicated by, for whatever reason, the level 45-50 mission writers apparently not knowing what really should have been in the vaunted Story Bible, or just not paying attention to it.

In the other, Ms. Liberty was meant to be the heir to a dynasty of patriotic female heroes who had merely been Statesman's sidekicks over the decades, but someone caught onto the names used for older members of that line and decided that they would be great to use for Statesman's wife/Recluse's sister and her descendants by Statesman. The transitive property made Ms. Liberty Statesman's granddaughter, which was fine, but it continued on to make Dominatrix Tyrant's granddaughter, which is so far beyond fine that you can't see fine from there.

Both are possible. Both require people writing over established canon. Both require people not really thinking things through with the threads that are still there from what is arguably the story that most defines the final tier of a Hero in Paragon's career, where you rescue the biggest name there is, cementing your place among the legends of the city. In short, both have a stink of unprofessional behavior for a writer.

Just so you know, the revamped version is called A Hero's Epic and is not 36 merits. The new total is ~25 merits. It also no longer contains all but one of the AVs required for Dimensional Warder. Not only is it still missing Anti-Matter, but Siege has also been removed from it. From now on, you will need to either find Siege in the revamped standalone mission from Maria, or run the old A Hero's Hero arc in Ouroboros.

Oh, heck, put me down for a slot. I'll bring my Rad/Psi for some support. I'm fairly certain I can pick up a bub between now and then.

An update on this. I haven't been able to get any Seers in Tina's new arc or in the new version of the Agent badge mission to count. That is one flaky badge.

You have presented probably the most concise and accurate description of both of these terms and how they relate to this game that I have ever seen here. I'd give you Rep if we still had it.

It was still the case late last week when I ran that arc the last time. For a while there, the Seers stopped counting, too, but that appears to have been fixed.

To expand on this, Classical Latin pronunciation of Caesar was essentially Ky-zawr. I'm using that to avoid confusion with an umlaut, and to keep consistency with the vowel followed by an H denoting the short form, as opposed to what one of my elementary school teachers called "the doctor's A." Romans pronounced the letter C as a K, always. It is mostly due to British interest in Latin scholarship that we get See-zur, and Sih-seh-ro for that matter.

This is a group that, for the first nine years of its existence, had a mascot named Snapper. It's sort of a grand, goofy comic book tradition.

Just as an aside about that article, the complaints about lack of natural light are a bit humorous. Del Norte County gets, on average, 70 inches of precipitation, nearly all of it as rain, per year. That place would be pretty bleak even if there were windows everywhere.

Edit: And this isn't just for violent criminals and drug offenders. This is the cell of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatck, who is currently imprisoned for failure to pay his restitution stemming from his plea deal on perjury and obstruction of justice.

It's probably even closer to Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme limited series. Building off of the history of an alternate Earth that had been visited by heroes from the main Marvel Earth, which had no less than three incidents where the planet was taken over (at least one of which involved a limited nuclear exchange, if memory serves) in the very recent past. The titular Justice League analogues decide to take charge and create a Utopia, using whatever means are at their disposal. It's a great read, if you haven't already been exposed to it.

Strangely enough, given the article that inspired this thread, the Batman analogue resigns from the group in protest over the lengths that they are willing to go to in the construction of their Utopia.

Stepping out into the prison yard in Breakout can produce enough to flood a 128K download connection solo. Dark Astoria, some places in Striga, and a good chunk of Warburg will definitely push a dial-up user off.

When I finally got broadband, I was astounded by the number I got in the received line in my netgraph in the Breakout prison yard. It wasn't always like that. Somebody decided that relative positions really mattered a lot in early 2007, possibly to make sure that the proper people got credit for defeats for drops, and increased the frequency of positional data being sent. At least that's my pet theory that seems to account for the circumstances where data traffic goes through the roof.

As opposed to an ancient arbitrary convention, like the one that you linked.

If you go down even farther on that page, you'll see that other cultures reckon seasons at the halfway points between the solstices and equinoxes. There is no such thing as a definitive reckoning of seasons, it largely depended on the latitude at which the defining culture lived.