Scythus

Originally Posted by Xiang Shao

Who?

Originally Posted by Jake_Summers

I'm pretty happy with the new costumes for the skulls. Makes them look unique. And sometimes when you're a two bit thug getting into death magic, you end up with silly club hair. It's a danger of the profession.

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Oh god, please no. I'd really hate for this game to diverge so completely from super-hero stories into more broad Fantasy and Sci-fi stories and leave the idea of costumed crime fighting behind entirely.

It's one thing to have the option to fight gods at the end game, its another thing to only be able to fight gods.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

All Skulls should use the Huge model, but each time we defeat one, there's a smaller one inside, and then a smaller one inside, and then a smaller one inside.

Originally Posted by Thessalia

As someone else pointed out in response to Nalrok only seeing the white Skulls, this seems to be the random number generator at work rather than anything else.

Originally Posted by Fista

Some one refresh my memory... Was there this much blood and thunder over the Circle revamp?

Originally Posted by Mad Grim

As for the look of the leaders... that isn't a retcon. IIRC te leaders had never made an actual appearance before, so it isn't a change. They are just adding their looks in.

Originally Posted by _eeek_

Just as a minor point, Slovakia is not in Eastern Europe, it's in Central Europe. Austria is it's western border, as a point of reference.

Originally Posted by Kederren

Caribean Voodoo Cult.

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

*like*

These look great, and far superior to the old SKull apprearances. Likelike like. Now please revamp the Family, they need some new Gucci suits or something.....

Originally Posted by Xzero45

What else did you expect? No one's putting you down for having an opinion. Everyone's entitled to one. Including the other people in here that are posting their own opinion on the subject. This just happens to be a case where the majority disagrees with your own opinion.

Come on, man.

Originally Posted by gameboy1234

I feel like they're gangers, they aren't really suppose to look "good." Also, they're a level 5-10 enemy, I don't want Paragon to spend a lot of time on them, nor do I think Paragon wants either.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

I like the new skulls a lot. But I like the new CoT too, so maybe I'm the wrong one to ask.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

But not that many. The Reichsman thing is really confusing though since Reichsman was still born a U.S. citizen unless Marcus Cole became THAT naturalized.

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

That story has a way of reminding me of a real-life experience I once had, driving randomly out in the countryside some 40 miles or so out of Seattle. The area is the foothills of the Cascades, where Interstate-90 crosses over Snoqualmie Pass and leads down the evergreen slopes of the mountains to the Issaquah plateau and on down to Lake Washington. (Geez, I'm starting to imagine how a Lovecraftian pastiche of this would sound, LMAO.)

My wife and I had taken some random roads out of Issasquah and out into the forest lands where the long roads were surrounded by nothing but forest and the occasional run-down gas station or convenience store. We became rather lost and attempted to retrace our route back to civilization when we made what felt at the time like a startling discovery.

The car came out of the forest into a cul-de-sac, with around six houses on it, no different in appearance than the sort of cul-de-sac you'd find in an ordinary suburban neighborhood, except that it was literally out in the middle of nowhere and there was no other neighborhood within miles of the place. It was unmarked and unnamed.

We drove into it, and a handful of youngsters, ages 8-12 probably, stopped what they were doing to watch us. A few adults likewise came out of their houses and stared as we slowly drove in, drove around the "sac" and then drove out again. There was an unmistakable air of hostility in those glances, and somehow a feeling of something... "unwholesome" is a dramatic word but that's how it struck me.

This is the point where a Lovecraftian protagonist would have stopped for directions or begging a gallon of gasoline and found himself in the middle of something dark and unexpected. As it was, we drove on out without stopping or asking directions and we managed to find our way back to the main highway before the tank reached empty.

It turned out that it was not just me that was creeped out. My wife told me afterwards that she was pretty unsettled by the whole experience and that she too had felt that there was something not quite normal out there in that neighborhood in the woods. Not for any good reason, mind you. Maybe the unexpected transposition of suburban and deep rural combined with the obvious distrust of the inhabitants was all it took to engender feelings of surreality and "discombobulation". I don't know. I just know that I've never felt the urge to go looking for that place again, despite knowing intellectually that it was probably just a normal, if strangely placed, neighborhood of parents who would be shirking their duties if they were NOT suspicious of random people driving out of the forest and into their territory.

Not exactly life imitating art but certainly it taught me that you don't have to look into exotic locales in order to find the weird and the unexpected.

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

Yeah, that was pretty ugly. I've never read "Herbert West" for no particularly good reason, so I'd never seen that before. I'll have to take a look at the essay you were quoting there, it looks interesting.

Originally Posted by Venture

Ghosts are Magic. Natural origin is right out. The concept is absurd. People in First Ward aren't surprised to find out the Apparitions aren't Natural, they're surprised to find out they aren't Magic. That's because they're not ghosts, just entities with similar properties.

The origin story described is basically the same as Ghost Widow's; returning from death after a traumatic event. Ghost Widow is Magic origin. QED.