Pious

Cheers Coile, I'll draw up an NPCbox with those fields and may even write up a guide to customizing a personalized InfoBox, its really quite simple. Expect these later this week.

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The nun looked closely at the shady photograph, wondering what sort of business a mercenary would want with the Priest. Cyber-telepathically, the cyborg, Sister Mary Stevens pages a text message to reverend Pious Hunter detailing the mercenary's request. "Come back tomorrow at dusk" she relayed, before turning away with a courteous bow "God be with you"

After the service, a young nun with strange eyes approaches the large man; a certain cautiousness about her. Still, she produced a smile. "Good afternoon, sir" she greeted, but did not offer a polite chance to respond, instead, rushing on with her request. "I have to admit, I recognize exactly who you are and would definitely like to know, precisely how I may be of... help this afternoon?" she smiled pretentiously.

Sister Mary Stevens

Moth Cathedral 22 of August, 1:43 am

The large Gothic architecture of Moth Cathedral sank deep into the mysterious fog of Dark Astoria, at this time of night, only the ghostly spirits of the fallen victims of the Rikti roamed the streets; yet Altair Stevens feared no evil. With the speed of the fastest train, she bolted through the streets and around the Cathedral. With great effort, she pushed the front doors open and squeezed her way in.

The interior was dimly lit by moonlight, shining through the large glass windows and reflecting off the polished marble surfaces. A cloaked man was knelt at the alter praying. However silently she moved, Altair’s footsteps echoed through the hall. She found her favourite seat near the choir stand and sank into herself, trying to stop the tears.

The cloaked man had either finished praying or heard her crying and cut short his words, but only moments after she’d taken her seat, he rose from his perch and calmly approached her.

“You’re crying” he said, standing over her but keeping comfortable distance. Altair looked up with tearful eyes and tried to word her thoughts but she couldn’t. “May I?” asked the man, who’s cloak, now revealed, was in fact a cassock; the religious clergy attire of a catholic priest. Altair nodded her head silently, giving him permission to read her mind telepathically. There was no distinct movement indicating the priest’s mental reading, but he’d suddenly chosen to close the gap between the girl and himself, and took a seat next to her.

“Sister Mary Stevens, you’re stronger than this. We cannot allow mere words to cause us heartache” said the priest.

“I know” Altair agreed, furiously wiping away her tears. “You try to forget the past” she continued “and just when everything is going great, the Devil places a thorn in your paw and this particular thorn was very sharp Father, sharp and prickly!”

The two briefly made eye contact and the priest smiled with his eyes, something that always made Altair smile back, regardless of how low she felt. A few moments of silence passed with neither uttering a word; both feeling quite comfortable in the tranquillity of the church.

“You shouldn’t go to that place” said the priest, referring to the Pocket D nightclub “it is a realm cast outside of our world and outside of my jurisdiction. The vampire, the werewolf and the demon you encountered are not yet our problem. I know you meant well questioning them and indeed the answers you bring are helpful in marking them as potential problems, for that I thank you, but again, it would have been best to stay out of the isolated realm.”

“I went in there to confront Doctor Mechano; you didn’t see his television broadcast but I did, he thinks you and him should fight on opposing sides of science versus religion” said Altair. “But I told him it’s a ridiculous idea; science is and always has been the pedestal of religion, and sometimes vice versa, regardless of conflicting ideas, that’s what you told me, right?”

“Yes” said the priest, with a slight nod. “Well said”

Another moment of silence ensued. Later, Altair sighed and removed her thick black woollen trenchcoat to reveal a well defined athletic frame, albeit fully covered in black clothing. She rests her jacket across her lap and turned to the priest.

“I’ll stay out of Pocket D” she muttered.

“Thank you Sister Mary” the priest replied.

“Can I stay the night, again? I love it in here” Altair asks, smiling and leaping to her feet.

“As a member of the convent, you’re welcome to stay here at any time and for as long as you wish Sister Mary”

“Thank you” she replied, making her way towards a door behind the choir stand. As she reached for the handle, she turns back around to face the priest. “Pious, this Sister Mary thing, can’t you just call me Altair?”

“Okay, deal” said the priest, smiling with his eyes. “But Altair…”

“Yes?” she answered.

“Don’t call me Pious, to you, its Father Michael”

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The Apocalypse 25th of August, 10:23pm

The Mansion of Lady Elizabeth Grey, Wimbledon, UK

A woman dressed in black sat by a roaring marble fireplace, a larger-than-life painting of her hangs vainly over the darkened room. Noiselessly, a man dressed in a cassock emerges from the shadows and kneels before the Lady like a warrior awaiting his knighthood.

“Good to see you Pious, however unfortunate the circumstances” said the lady, but Pious remained quiet. “It is all rather apocalyptic isn’t it… reverend, this daunting invasion”

“Yes. I suppose it is” replied Pious, still knelt, his head bent deep in the bright pink carpeting. “I assume you summoned me here for a reason?”

“Yes, boy” she replied patronisingly. “The Rikti, under the command of their war leader Hro'Dtohz, grow desperate; our forces have destabilized their new gateway to the Rikti home world, but already they look for methods to recover from this set-back. As the Dark Watcher informed us, the Rikti Lineage of War believe they can utilize latent human psychic energies to re-stabilize their portals and has so captured one of the most potent psychics on earth; Miss Penelope Yin”

“I’ll track her, I’ll find her and I’ll bring her to you” said Pious, following the lady’s pause.

“No, I can’t risk you going alone. I’m putting together a team. Go now, I’ll be in touch”

“As you wish” said the priest, rising to his feet and turning towards the door.

“By the way, how is my old knight in shining amour?” she asked.

The priest appeared startled but quickly composed himself. “My father is doing just fine” he said, before disappearing into the shadows.

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((woot! go on pete, getinthere!))

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1- Below Average ( A chav's fighting skills are below average)
2- average
3- Above average ( Tim Drake as Robin has above average Martial Arts skills)
4- Olympic level ( Green Arrow has olympic level archer skills)
5- Peak human level ( Captian america is the peak of human development)
6- Enhanced Human (Spider-man has enhanced human strength in the ten ton range)
7- Super Human ( Wolverine can regenerate at superhuman levels)
8- Legendary ( Professor X's mental powers are legendary)
9- Monstrous ( The Hulks strength and durability is monstrous)
10- Demi god, Godly ( Zeus is godly)

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No. Not everyone is familiar with the Marvel Universe and this is after all, the Union Universe, I think the current list is working fine.

Written up an NPC profile for Sir Micheal Wayne! Man, I have my work cut out; I have only done 2% of all information I need to upload, from PC's to past plots, to Militia, to the Gang... man, its gonna take me a month. Hehe, doubt I'll even have time to play the game (not until they give us name changes anyway, they're taking long but I'm patient... so far). How you guy doing with uploads anyway, done everything?

A 'newspapers' subcategory in the 'items' category is a good idea.

I didn't write up an NPCbox because theres really no way to standardize an NPC, by fields in a templatebox. Some NPC's have AT and powersets etc because they are superheroes that just aren't played out beyond plot-tools like Dragonfly. Some NPC's are ordinary civilians like Sir Micheal Wayne and yes, for him a CharacterBox won't work. Basically, I think we'll need several types of boxes each with specific fields ommited if we're going to do it that way. Personally, I would suggest people write NPC or PC boxes to their preference, but I don't know if its worth the hassle?

I smell a never-ending plot Liz. The Council of X and the Court may be hearing of the Priest all too soon.

((Ah, so now (after printing) you want to know about Micheal Wayne and his methods, well its inappropriate for this thread; I shall PM you with the answers to your questions shortly. I think I've made my point clear enough here and so will make no further posts concerning the matter, in the hope of avoiding further bickering. Thanx))

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Basically, this is a request to the creative designers in our little roleplaying community. Currently, I have Hero1 standing proud for Union, but I'm sure you guys can design a better banner, so have a go at it. The byte-size doesn't really matter but it needs to be 1082(w)x142(h) in pixels to sit nicely on the average monitor (sorry if you have a small monitor, it still looks sort of okay). The chosen design will be decided by public vote. Deadline for entries; 20th August (six days is enough, its just a banner). Voting begins the day after entry deadlines, the 21st. Deadline for votes; 24th August. The image can be of anything at all, so long as it relates to the Union Universe.

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There has only been one new idea for a banner, are there any others, want us to extend the deadline? Zortel, did you have a few ideas? Should we toggle through banners as we do with featured articles and news?

Wow... ...

((Dude, I know the media in Paragon City is hardly ever accurate, but not a single word in your above article makes sense. If you had done some background research, or contacted Militia leaders for information, you would know that there was never any IC connection between Micheal Wayne and the public, let alone between him and the Agency; he has always been a distant man with little affiliation with the Militia. I suggest you adjust a few paragraphs in your article and I heartedly advice the community to IC-ly discard Kara Trent's news reporting as nothing but jargon; otherwise you will be left confused both IC and OOC. Thank you.))

ROFL! The things you lot come up with, its a right laugh! All hail Terrance and the army of toasters!

"Ready... Aim... Toast!"

"Eat that! And that!"

woot!

Beat ya to it Z

Mechano! New Mafia was involved in that plot too, you've left us out! Don't make me come down to Croydon

Hi Coile, more questions!! Not sure what you mean though; if its a supergroup Plot Profile then I'd write it as Silent Tempest/Hand of Andros and if its a community Plot Profile then the title might be Hand of Andros.

Disambiguation pages; good question. Just like it has been done on this page, you can write up a normal article called Nadia (disambiguation) which lists all what the name may refer to. And then offer a link to the disambiguation page on each of those reference pages. Also, you can use the #REDIRECT [[&lt;enterpagehere&gt;]] code to direct incorrect page searches to its correct location by making the incorrect or inaccurate page and applying the code to it instead of an article.

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<ul type="square">[*]All stories have now been moved to one section as requested and discussed; Category:Fiction[*]Three plot sections and category now open, with cheat sheet, a guide and templatebox. Use accordingly.[*]Item section and category now open, with cheat sheet, a guide and templatebox. Have fun![*]NP Character section and category now open, using a similar cheat sheet and template as Characters.[*]Main Page has been updated with links to all new categories and has also been tweaked a little to accommodate text and images (hopefully) without spanning out of small screen or juxtaposing across extra large screens. As always, feedback, comments and help requests on a postcard. Thank you.[/list]

((Similarly to Thugs Mansion, this thread is an in-character roleplaying thread to be used by anyone involved in plots concerning The Priest or Moth Cathedral.))

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Chapter 01: Rikti War Council: Big Lunk recruits the Priest. A certain Mr Campbell visits the church to find the Priest and bring him onto an anti-Rikti strike team. During their rendezvous, him and the Priest are attacked by the Princes of Hell and must fight off a gang of venomous Mercy Snakes. Occurs August 07.

Chapter 02: The Exorcism of Edward Johnson. In this dark hour, Doctor Edward 'Mechano' Johnson, tries to gain control over the demons within him, under the baptism of the Priest, but will the Princes of Hell intervene, will his soul remain forever damned to darkness. Occurs in September 2007.

Chapter 03: The Faceless Angel. A faceless creature finds his way to the cathedral, seeking spiritual deliverance from his condition. He asks the Priest to help him remember who and what he once was before his unfortunate incident with the Rikti army all those years ago. Follow the drama and prepare for a shocking twist. Also starring Doctor Edward Johnson. Occurs in September 2007.

Chapter 04: Shemyazaz the Nephilim. The Priest's ancestral past comes knocking in the form of a fallen angel known as Shemyazaz, who demands to see our hero's demon father, Nokteel. Also starring Doctor Edward Johnson and Kabaiel. Occurs in September 2007.

Chapter 05: Priest and the Nomad. A cyborg from the future, called Zero arrives at the cathedral with a message for the Priest but is confronted by church guardian Doctor Edward Johnson. Also starring the courageous Damsel. Occurs in January 2008.

Chapter 06: Open Season: Impervium Tower attacks the Priest. The arrival of the Blood Countess's most wicked servant, the Ghost of Death heralds the devastating approach of the Impervium Tower, a mechanical monstrosity sent to assassinate the Priest, leader of the demon hunting supergroup the Nighthunters. Also starring Leon Tasker, Eleven, Bishop and the Dunelm Group. Occurs in August 2010.

Chapter 07: Awakening of the Priest. After a deadly rematch with battle-hardened friend Ray Hammerfall lands the Priest in the hands of an old foe; Lord Memphis, a rescue operation successfully sees him returned, albeit comatose and unresponsive for over three months. May's Easter period sees the arrival of a heavenly angel sent down to awaken the Priest in time for the oncoming Praetorian Invasion. Starring Damsel, Hazel, Storm and future Nighthunters 'The Centurion', Glittergirl and Price aka Slingshot. Also featuring Priestess and the cross-dimensional Soldiers of the Most High. Occurs in April 2011.

Chapter 08: Hell comes to Dark Astoria. Just hours before his heroic return to the Nighthunter's team, the Priest is visited by Ray Hammerfall who brings with him a tail of police sirens. Matters worsen as the Princes of Hell once again attack Moth Cathedral, bent on destroying the Priest once and for all. Also starring Patsy Crusher, Synchronaut Sarkh, Centurion and the Shadow. Guest appearances from the Priest Corps and Archangel Evea. Occurs June 2011.

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Coile, I'll bring this up in the meeting, but thought I'd discuss it here first; what if we renamed Character, Supergroup and Community stories as Character Plots, Supergroup Plots and Community Plots (then write up a brief guide and cheat sheet along the lines of what you've suggested) and then transfer all the current creative writings to a single section called Fiction.

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Here is a head-start mate; a Handbook of the Union Universe!

Good point. A subcategory could always be set up to be tagged to all NPC profiles, like [[Category:NPCharacter]]. We could then link that subcategory to the Character category list. Also, I believe Z is actually thinking of setting up some smaller Character Boxes.

Coile, we did initially consider having plot profiles separate to story profiles, but if you think about it, plots are just developing stories. Past plots like Riot in the Row, Tempest Virus Scare etc would (I think, and let me know if you disagree) belong under community stories. If needed, we can write up a Guide for story profiles which would include a cheat sheet to standardize the overall template.

Archer, character profiles are for both PC's and NPC's *wink*. As for artifacts and item profiling, I too like the sound of that; it'll most likely be one of the new sections coming next week.

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Oh, and thank you for that post Blackdove, much needed and much appreciated.

The guys on Virtue servers really like our version of the wiki, so we're doing something right! See this thread! Keep up the great character inputs guys, provide constructive feedbacks, keep up the good behaviour and together, our wiki will grow as a great source of information! Long live the Union!