Rock_Powerfist

bye mate you will be missed , i hope RL resovles itself and you can come back soon .

sorry to see your still suffering , keep warm and get well soon , BTW , just in case Jean-Luc trys breaking any more glasses after leaving the club ..Miss krone is keeping a ear out for the police sirens...
hope you feel better soonist....

ouch .. i know a number of people who have had that and it sounds nasty .. get well ASAP ..

i would raise a glass to you health in the club tonight , but it would not be the same without Jean-Luc .....unless some of your staff can IC your illness so we can send our best wishes to you ...

otherwise im currently unbooked for thursday if you want to see how you are then ....?

1.Get well soon .....
2. happy to help .. what help do you need ?
3.what style of carnivale do you plan ?

Item From the Paragon Sunday Post

Bad Karma week for MAGI ?

In a week of incressing gang violence news has reached your reporter that MAGI ,based in City Hall , has suffered the kiddnapping of two of its most popluar figures .
Firstly Yanamahri , by the vile Hellions and then Corrine the fortune teller by the Circle of Thorns ...oddly neither foresaw these events.
Dispite the gallent action of some of the cities heroes , currently unnamed by MAGI ,in staging rescues of both ladies , we have learnt that they have both suffered major mental truama from the events and are currently confined to a private clinic for treatment.
MAGI officals refuse to comment on any possible link betwwen the two kidnappings , but it is clear that MAGI is significantly weaken by these events.

Firstly a plea ...
Get your plot back on track ASAP .. reading the thread was simple the best RP posting for a age , with the juciest plot possiblities ... you owe it to us lesser RP mortals to bring you golden child of a plot to our RP world.

Please feel free to godmode any version of the world you like to fit in with your plot ...after all those who are not invold will simple ignore you ..and those who want to become invold well readly agree to abide by your plot rules and the happenings with in your plot ... if you want to take over north korea or mordor or atlantis do so take owner ship of the plot .. i can tell you no one who wants in will object.

OK thats the mister nice guy bit done now the threat ...

the LoRD plot is too good to let die , so if you lot cant run it i will seek out other who will agree to hijack it .. we will become the Henchmen of the LoRDs and will pinch your plot leaving your characters to be the figureheads of the LoRDs as plot monkies to spawn plot lines for us Henchmen and opposing Heroes to RP out ...

no i know for certain that this would never , ever do any sort of justice ( no pun) to what you have started ..
so unless you what to witness the cruddy workmanship of lesser roleplayers such as i , with very bad quality caricatures of you beloved villians , get back to you evil best and give us more ..you have been warned

be very carefull im just insane enough to do ...... get back to those keyboards now !

yes i full echo Mr_Erth ..the LoRD is a must read ...

as said pity that its a closed meeting .. please LoRD bring it out to the rest of us .. ill even let you win the odd fight ..

where do you want us to ost write ups Netherwitch ? will here do ?

firstly a big thanks for all your hard work reopening the club ...im just pixxxd off i had to leave early , as it was just getting to the good food ,and everyone wsa starting to relax and chat ..
secondly though difficult i do think finding a regular night is important , as it it keeps things focused , and makes it easy to remember ..personal wednesday is best currently .. but im willing to be try to change stuff to fit in ..

go for it ,i do find that there are very few evil villians about .. most seem to be organised crime type villians , or the odd monster type , no real nasty types ... it should make a refreshing change .
Personaly i have found trying to play evil type villians very hardwork as most people dont want to be in the same road as them for long..

i can do thursdays ....
as to a location to meet ..what about the uni in steel , the upper libaray always seems free of people ,
then the first gathering can be some public meeting about the arcane in todays world by some boring old prof , then events can unfold from there ..

i do think Netherwitch has touched on part of the problem .. we are all , to a greater or lesser extent protective of our creations .. we made our shinny heros / shady villians , and we have a image of them fixed in our minds ..
thus when a RP situation tries to forces us beyond that innitial image we react against it ,
One, because we dont want that image shattered after all the effort we put into making it ,
Two , that good old human fear of the unknown ,
and Three the feeling of lose of ownership as someone else's plot take over your creation .

this is all normal human behaviour ..
The issue , when playing the "evil" villian , is that the change to our image will take us down the path to the darker aspects of the villians nature ... the one we dont feel happy about .. we move from the comic book villian , to the reality of what a villian would really do , just how nasty will the ego manic sociopathic mutant hating super powered madman go to further his aims ?

And of course the counter side .. will the golden haired paragon of goodness save the world by killing 20 people if there is no other way to do it ?

Plots forcing us to change our image of our characters will always be difficult .. but they are the most fun .. as long as we can realise its not a attack on our character its evolution in the RP world.

It seem clear we have a number of varing factors that we put together when RP a "evil" villian
1. our personal view of what is true evil ..our personal moral mindset .. we all differ
2.how we feel that we role play .. ie wearing the char as a hat /suit or "being" that char mind melding ...
3.how we expect other to veiw our RP persentation ..this may be shaped by point 1 , and our RP skills and passing on emotions and telltale's
4. how far we are willing to bend the game enviroment to fit our RP .. i mean we could RP hero v villians in a simple chat room , no need for avatars at all ..
5. how much we consider the RP enviroment to be a REAL world . if we consider it total fantacy then there is no moral problem whiping out the whole hafling race to gain control of the one ring(TM) ....but if we view the RP world as a reflection of our own .. how do we feel about robbing banks and killing human being .. even NPC ones ?

As to taking over the world .. well i always reflect on te fact that only a madman would want the world and all its problems .. and then go off and play a nice vampire dask/dark brute .. i mean with the classic evening dress and opera cape i get into all the best parties ..

i think you just made my point we play the hyenas as people doing a job , not as evil killers , and the way we play them they are much nicer people than many of the hero's the stalker the streets killing the bad guys . THe hyensa kill to earn a living , not to promote evil ....However from a moral point of view what they do is evil .. taking a life for profit , harming others for selfbenifit ...if we anaylse what they are doing they are immoral if not truely evil ...but easy to RL .. heck the hyenas is a hunting club .....

while i do agree being a villian is a act it is hopefully a act further removed from our normal thoughts deeds and life styles , than being good and heroic .. it takes a bigger amount of acting to carry it off . and requires that acting from all in the RP event .

but i disagree with point 3). i think the Hyenas are evil , ok they may look like a group of merc 's carring out hunts for some one .. but what they hunt is not some food animal , its living ,thinking , feeling creature that are being hunted for profit , ... and its not ivory being sort to make art objects , but organs and stuff to be used in "strange " experiments which are clearly not for the greater good of the general population . They work from the classic evil corporation .. by choice .. they could do other things ... they kill people for cash ..
But as they are not seen as foaming at the mouth rabid mass murders they are more acceptable .... most plot lines will be of the hunt down thew winter lord GM's .. not harvest spleens fron 20 longbow female operatives ... we play the hyenas as rouges , mercs et al not serial killers .... one cos its more fun to play that way .. two its way to heavy to play it the other way and three it allows more "understood" more "comfortable" scope for RP ...

im not sure that keeping villian and private life seperate deal with the issue , a villian with a secret ID , is a part time villian , or is more the mafia style crimelord .. they are lawbreaker not hard core totally commited evil baddies... i have a villian charchater that simple avoids the good evil question by not being the human / earth background .. his moral code is based on different rules .. he is a villian bercause thats how the CoX world judges him ..But trying to RP he comes up against this social interaction issue , other RPer dont "like" his views / actions and hes very hard to keep in a RP situatuion .. because even the RPed villians are played by people with our RL moral code hardwired in .. we end up feeling uncomfortable ...((hopefully because we are all well adjusted normal people ..and not pyscho's))
This is why we play our big baddies as over the top villians .. we can use the gimmikes and hooks to impart our evilness to others with out having to go into uncofortable details ...

i find part of the issue is , and i think this is why i agree with Hatesmans bit about villians becoming "dark heros" is that heroes are reactive .. they have their everyday lives to lead , THEN once the crime starts they can jump into Hero mode ..with Villians one would expect them to be proactive which mean they are in Villian mode nearly all of the time , people trying for world domination , cant just " go on patrol " in the evenings .So your Psychopathic/ Sociopathic/ Megalomaniacle character need a lot more work RPing as they have to drive the whole event along , and again echoing hatesman they dont work the "normal " way in social situations , creating yet more need for proactive RP . They are , by their nature , outsides with a distinct world view.. again more RPing work to do .............. its not easy being bad you know ...

This look like what i have been searchingfor , please sign me up

Characters:
Archibald Vyllain ( 20 MM thug/Poi)Scrapper)
Server: Union
Villian.. has union universe handbook entry.
Global: @Kornak
Current Story Arcs: none
hes my main villain char currently
also
Ravenna IKrone (lvl 12 MM necro /ff) semi invold in ongoing plot .. which may incresse her play time

Apocalypse clown (24 controller mind/storm)

my main hero , currently resting as i play my villain.

Thomas Henchman ( The Politician) watched with interest .. at the poor speach .. sack your write sir he stinks ..but a public health matter .. there may be a use for this virus , those buildings in Kings Row need clearing out of squatters and the PPD need the practice .. and once clear operation VIP can be sped up ...

well to answer your last questionn first .. how to solo at 16 .. slowly ...and by slottinjg Fossilize with 2 Dam's as this is the killing power.. i agree later go to slotting as you had , but at low level you need to be able to kill...if you have vertern melee attack reward use this on fossilized foes to kill fasy otherwise brawl to spped up killing ... just that and stone cages to keel others at bay and thats it for solo at 16 .. it way better to grp if you can .. even a duo is much faster to xp .


quicksand lasts ages so it is worth slotting a lot .. If you use it a lot .. thats down to play style ...i do so i did

lighting storm .. i always stick a Acc in if it can take it .. i think hitting is the most important .. and it saves end if you are killing the mob faster overall .. presonal taste.

not taken Ice storm ...

your overall build is similar to mine .. except steamynmist .. i took as soon as .. and loved it the stealth helps getting places , getting past foes you dont want to waste time on killing .. ie when soloing .. helps with travel at low level and if slottted does give worth while def and resists .. and fitted with my toon

otherwise looks good
happy hunting