Psycho_Gecko

Hey, she's got to have some method of sneaking them into places, though it's really just a rather tight costume made of a very strong material that makes it look quite wicked.

Black widow silk.

Just crawling on people is a very basic use of her power. Especially since she can sense where bugs are and can keep track of people that way as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that she can easily "bug" a place that way.

To find out more, go read it!

Now, I may not be so proficient a wordsmith as that there crawdad dun et up our flag, but I've come to recommend a web serial to y'all.

Now, those of you who know me (all 8 of you) know I'm a villain of discriminating tastes (Somebody pass the Heinz FANCY ketchup, please), so I hope it means something when I say that this is a webserial that has raised the bar. Granted, that's a bar most of you don't see because you may not be into twice-weekly ongoing stories.

Worm is the story of Taylor Hebert, a teenage girl with a gift. She can control bugs. Sounds innocent and harmless enough, I'm sure. But Taylor is a great character. She's smart, shy, nerdy, and knows how to put a serious hurting on the A listers. Think a darker take on Squirrel Girl, but without nuts.

She's the star of the story, but she earns it, written as a 3 dimensional person, rather than the flat caricatures seen in some mainstream literature today. Even her enemies get that treatment, as every chapter features at least one interlude that provides the perspective of another character, rounding them out and sometimes vindicating them.

The characters aren't the story's only strong suit. The action scenes are well-written and won't leave you imaginin a teenage girl contorting into all kinds of strange poses in the middle of a fight. For some of you, that may be a negative.

I would add that the community of the serial is an additional selling point. Debates, and even arguments, do occur, but you'll often find them to be entertaining and a welcome addition to the story as well.

If you enjoy a good superhero or supervillain story that takes a walk on the cynical side while an intelligent mindsight discusses the nature of superheroics and supervillainy even as she throws herself into it, I would recommend Worm to you.

Also, if you just want to read a cool superhuman story, go for it.

Worm, at http://parahumans.wordpress.com/

Worm, at wordpress. Action! Superpowers! Cusswords! Gratuitous bada$$ery (That word allowed here? I don't know, but it is allowed there!)

I actually managed to get online and play last night. At the time, they had taken down the markets and possible AE, so it could have been related to those. I'm not sure if I will be able to continue playing after they put everything back up, though.

I'm not sure what router they have here. It's college wireless and it's one of the things I'll miss about this place. Has anyone talked to tech support about this, besides the /bug thing?

Has it gotten better for anyone else? Hasn't for me so far.

It is constantly disconnecting you from the mapserver, isn't it? I've been having the same problem. Had it in Test server, figured it was just something there, since I could then go to live and it would work fine. Now, though, people are claiming maybe it's my connection (which it isn't, see "going on live server and it working fine") or my computer (New as of Christmas). I am glad to see I'm not alone.

The game has become unplayable.

I'm still having connection problems. My computer worked perfectly fine with the game prior to Issue 17. When I17 went into open beta, I had connection problems, being unable to stay connected to the mapserver. If I was lucky, the intervals between these connection problems was in the minutes range. At it's worst, and normal, it was near constant, making the game unplayable. I thought maybe it was just a test server issue, since I could go onto live and things would work fine again, but now that Issue 17 is live, I'm having the same problems with the live servers.

This computer is new, just got it at Christmas, and now this game is unplayable.

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Psycho Gecko, aka Psychonomus Gex, aka Revolver Gecko, aka Captain Gecko, aka Tater Salad
Global Contact: @Psycho Gecko
Level of Classification: Threat Level 50, Stalker
Origin: Tech, the dark part of the soul which delights in the maddeningly insane and pink fluffy bunnies
Super Rank & Super Group: Jon Stewart(current rank system term for leader) and lead spellchecker of Shadowknights of the Rouge Isles