Soul Train

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  1. 1600x1200, Windowed

    I try to keep things relatively consistent. I usually put seldom-used-yet-still-useful stuff on higher-numbered trays, and then make a macro to switch to those trays when needed (like for all the teleporters we have now, although on Samedi I haven't gotten 'round to doing that yet).

    Other than that, it's a fairly standard layout. Global channels always go to a separate window, as do private messages.

    And no giggling on the prices I'm paying for salvage. :P
  2. Not that I expect to make it in, buuuuut....

    Baroness Samedi - (Costume Reference)

    Jean-Marie Bautiste was always meant to be a priestess of voudoun, and was groomed for the role from a very young age. When she reached puberty at 15 and her body blossomed from a girl to a woman, in a 3-day rite, she was 'introduced' to Papa Legba, the Loa of Death and Transition. She came out of the frenzied dance/ritual an extremely fit, sexually charged dervish, yet within her eyes shone something powerful and dark. From that day on, she was able to predict when others would fall sick or die, and also 'boost' fertility of women in her village. It was said that if "Maiden Samedi" spent a night with a couple, they would conceive.

    During one of many of Haiti's civil wars, word came down from Papa Doc Duvalier that the "Maiden Samedi" needed to disappear, as he couldn't adopt the role of "Baron Samedi" with a real houdoun doing a better job of it. The task was given to one of his young recruits, who wooed her, courted her, married her... then shot her point blank in the face with a .22 derringer that he'd concealed in his tuxedo cummerbund. The shot went slightly wide, and struck Jean-Marie in the right temple, scarring her face and shattering the bone, but not penetrating. She dropped as if poleaxed, and the would-be killer bolted.

    Jean-Marie woke up from the week-long coma a changed woman. No longer cheerful and friendly, an iron mask covering her shattered cheekbone, she had been consumed by the Samedi persona, cruel and sadistic... and wielding magics that up to that point had only been spoken of in legends.

    Her husband was the first to fall to her Touch of Death, his face frozen in an expression of eternal terror. Several other victims followed, until an entire squad of Tonton Macoute was dispatched to kill the woman. They found instead a casket with Samedi's body, already cold and prepped for burial.

    They didn't realize, she only LOOKED dead....

    A month later, a woman claiming to be "Mary Baptist" rented a room in the French quarter of New Orleans. She had an anodized stainless steel plate covering the right side of her face, and was said to be dour and unfriendly, but an excellent soothsayer. She made a decent living selling 'love potions' and other voodoo paraphernalia, but then was discovered to be blackmailing several of her clients. Arrested and tried for larceny, fraud, and extortion, she was under escort to the Louisiana State Prison, when she escaped, her guards all dead of what appeared to be fright.

    Several more appearances followed, in Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, then Paragon City. A run-in with a hero in Paragon landed her in the Zig, where she was placed in a warded cell (and forced to wear clothing with anti-magical runes sewn in). She languished there for ten years, completely blind, until the very first Arachnos 'breakout' occurred and her wards were broken.
  3. Soul Train

    98 Sketches!

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    Thanks again for all your support. Gramps is out of the hospital, and doing better.

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    Power of positive karma and goodwill WINS AGAIN. Good to hear, man, hope he stays healthy.
  4. Welcome Sunstorm!!


    Swing by the Art forum and introduce yourself. Perhaps someone will do up an avatar for ya.
  5. Detail of the Soul Train Calendar, by John Becaro

    The full piece is NSFW, but the portrait portion alone is ... well I don't have the words.

  6. Group Name: Commedia dell'Arte
    Server: Virtue
    Side: RED
    Approximate Size/Cost: No idea, not the builder (that would be @Spectral Daisy)
    Anything else pertinent: One of the better "RP" themed bases, and amazingly, done without stacking.
  7. Soul Train

    98 Sketches!

    Hope your grandfather is OK Alex.
  8. Oooooohhh!!! Yeah I wanna read it too!
  9. Happy Birthday Khepera sweetie...
  10. Status Reports
    Star Strider Force
    Name: Soul Train
    Global Contact: @SoulTrain
    Reporting on Assignment: Virtue (Patrol)
    Level of Alien Threat : Low

    Report Details:

    LOC: Atlas Plaza
    TIME: 1320 Local

    Rikti attacking a fashion show/competition. Most participants undergunned or ill-trained. Competition disrupted. Rikti forces routed a good number of the fledgling heroes in the area. Several fashion models injured and mediported to the nearby hospital. Organizers observed cowering inside the basement of City Hall.

    Analysis of Current Situation:

    Security of large gatherings in the Atlas Plaza area is woefully lacking. However, stationing Vanguard or Longbow units around the premises would sour the 'flavor' of the Plaza.

    Suggestion of Action:

    Suggest that plain-clothes agents dressed as 'tourists' circulate among the new heroes, ready to spring into action should another sneak attack occur. Also, 'seeding' future fashion competitions with established war veterans would help curtail the panic that ensues when alien forces launch a sneak attack on unarmed fashion models and designers.

    Stiletto-Heeled Enforcers stands ready to implement this plan, if adopted.
  11. Soul Train

    98 Sketches!

    Ooo... Firebrandi looks hawt. And Peace looks way trippy. XD
  12. I look at it as something akin to the Trill of the Star Trek milieu. The symbiote uses the host as a physical vehicle, and in return grants the host access to all the symbiote's abilities. Because it a merging of minds as well as physical/energy states, you can have everything from 'two personas in one body' to a new entity that incorporates both of the originals.

    In some of the story arcs you meet with humans who have been 'split' from their Kheld symbiotes, and they do feel as if they're incomplete, like part of their 'selves' were missing.

    My Peacebringer is rather unorthodox, in that she's RP'd as the merging happening during a nasty industrial accident - the host was destroyed/recreated at a quantum level, and the Kheld consciousness was virtually obliterated, eventually 'regrowing' within the host subconscious over the course of six years.

    The Warshade is much simpler. Original host/Nictus pair had a change of heart, turned state's evidence against the group they were allied with (Council), and ended up getting fatally wounded during the deposition. The Nictus reached out to the only other human in the room, an injured court reporter, to become the new host, and rather than make it a temporary arrangement, she welcomed it, becoming a true Warshade in the process.
  13. That does bode ill, doesn't it?

    Still, Ex Libris is still here, and she's aweso... oh. Right. Don't want to jinx anything.

    Godspeed, Alex.
  14. RE: Confidential Message

    No worries, Ajax, we'll show 'em what for.

    Star Strider Forces Registry
    Name: SoulTrain
    Global Contact: @SoulTrain
    Level of Classification: 50
    Origin: Science
    Super Rank & Super Group: Lead Commanderette, Stiletto-Heeled Enforcers
  15. John did a gift-art of Soul, both as a sample for his new calendar commissions and as a thank-you.

    Soul Portrait

    And yes, you can get to the actual pinup calendar in two clicks....
  16. Soul Train

    New Nike IX Art

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    Oooh, I think that's my favorite one of your pieces yet.

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    Hehehe... Now try it in color!

    I'm thrilled. I'm looking into getting a second piece from him .

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    *is dazzled* Ooooooooooohhhh!!!!
  17. *shrugs* She's an ancient Mesopotamian goddess, I doubt that's a problem for her, really.
  18. Soul Train

    98 Sketches!

    Happy Birthday, Alex's grandpa!! what a milestone.

    If you'd like, here's Soul Train's Peacebringer aspect, known as PeaceTrain... she actually harbored the Kheldian for years in a form of stasis, until they'd both recovered from the accident that had merged them, and a Tantric meditative exercise brought Soul's awareness to a cusp that revealed the "Other" within her.
  19. Yes, Joie, you can restore the history if you want.