Star Ranger 4

Heh. and there was the time that severl of that same supergroup, (and related global channel) inspired me to write This:

Purrfect Mess, Sgt., P.P.D. Special Investigaions Division, knew the importance of the paperwork she was filling out. It was just that in her current mood she'd rather be doing just about anything else. Ivan, her pet Flytrap tried to cuddle up to her, either for her body heat or sensitive to her mood, but it was more of a distraction than a comfort at the moment, so she shoo'd him back under the sunlamp of her cubicle and tried, again, to finish the current report on her desk when *YET ANOTHER* interuption shattered her concentration.




"GYAAaAAAaaaAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" That would be her rookie noticing the present that had been left outside the precint house this morning. Mess pushed and leaned back in her office chair so she could glare at the younger officer past the edge of the cubicle divider.


Jeannette "GaravorNette", was starring in horror; Mess had to supress a chuckle at the sight of a 7 foot tall green skinned 'Nette freaking out at the sight of a shrub. To be fair, though, it wasn't exactly an ORDINARY shrub, but it wasn't exactly like it was about to spring to life the way Devouring Earth Blackroses did either. G'nette, catching the movement from the corner of her eyes, turned to Mess and stammered "PLEASE tell me thats one of yours, Sarge!?"


"Sorry Rookie, but I don't do Topiary, and even if I did I wouldn't dip it in chocolate. Oh, and it had a card with it..." Darn but it was hard not to break out in laughter at the expression on G'nette's face as she unfolded the metal sign and read it.


"Grendal luv G'nette" sighed the object of his affection. "Great. I bust the guy who deposed him and now the resurgent leader of the Trolls thinks I'm the smashiest thing since 'Dyne. AND he feels compelled to give me this, probobly because its so close to Valentines." The this in that last statement clearly referred to the object that had triggered the whole interuption in the first place.


It was a topiary shrub, shaped like a teddy bear, then dipped in chocolate. It was, in a very troll like way, almost logical. Gurlz luv flowerz. Shrub = flowerz. Flowerz look like teddy bear! Perfect! Don't gurlz like chocolate too? So, dip flowers in chocolate! Grendal Smartezt troll evar!!! Hur hur hur!!!!


"Fortunately for you, you can't keep it. It'd look to much like a bribe," Mess assured. "So, take it down to Trace, maybe they can find something to link him to something we can bust him for. They'll stick it in evidence and eventually we can just burn it with other siezed organic materials."


G'nette nodded, accepting both the suggestion and the evidence gloves that Mess handed her. G'nette gingerly picked up the pot of evidence, then damn near dropped it as PSI's Chief Medical Officer and Coroner Transfusionette came around the corner. The CMO looked at the shrub, then up at G'nette, then back to the shrub before engaging in a very Spock-like eyebrow lift.


"I need to see you once your... done with whatever it is your.... doing with that."


"Sure, T'nette!!! Geez, is it that time of the month again already??"


"Mm Hmm," agreed the CMO, and Mess could see her working down the same logic tree first Mess and then G'nette had before shaking her head and heading back the way she had came.


"Kay, I'll be there in a minute!" G'nette assured the retreating figure before heading off herself. Mess savored the sudden quiet, before gently pushing Ivan, who had started to try and cuddle up to her again, away and rolling her desk chair back to her paperwork.

Your best bet would be to continue with it, but to strip out all references to CoX. Make the 'offical' setting somewhere else, make your own versions of charecters similar but clearly different to people like Posi, and let us take the risks by setting the game directly in paragon.

Do be aware that I am NOT an accredited lawywer, but even google starts you out with:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyrigh...pter9/9-a.html
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Com...of-the/128756/
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/int.../fair_use.html

Shortest form? Without specific rights from the current holder to the rights, what your doing here does NOT fall under fair use. Citing lack of moneytary gain nor citing creative commons also will not shield you.

I'll give you that one Positive. Also the reason I've not given up hope. Just like not believeing the enemy is really dead until you have its.

ewe. gross. never mind

Myself? probobly not actually. the game is fun, but its the community that made it. without that it would just be another gridiny RPG

Me three. I've done everything I believe has any chance of working, both in game and in RL; only thing left now is to enjoy what we have while we still have it.

Because 1) they thought we'd just roll over and take it

2) they feel we dont have the right to know

and

3) they would not reverse that position now or loose face. and to Koreans I *belive* (but am not postive) that face is every bit as Important as it is to the Japanese and Chinese

Its more than that. I dont think Andy/Zwill is the type who could just sit there and watch us act like immature trolls when he knows its his job to try and ride herd on us. Its just not.

Its an example of the dedication to duty that if I was able to hire him as Community manager for my MMO it would be a slam dunk.

"Belford is available? He applied? HECK YES. Call the other applicants and tell them sorry, the job has been filled"

Its just that sort of thing that when I decided to try for the "dress like a dev" (by which I 'creatively interpreted' as "Dev=Employed by Pargon studios" I knew EXACTLY who to be:

Cookies might be perhaps a better choice.

And yes, it should be the Seattle office. any NC offices in northern california would be more likely to directly be assoiciated with Paragon studios.

Still, its a crazy enough idea IT JUST MIGHT WORK... if enough had the money to try. For some reason I can almost see them not closing us down to prevent us from swamping them in baked goods / giving them diabetes / who knows what else!

Cool... Untucked shirts. Now if we could only get a flowered print texture for them as well. (cause, IRL I have a real weakness for Hawaiian style shirts and would love a way to make my in game namesake wear em too)

Bwaaa??? No more Avatea? *insert sad face here*

Hmm. Probably the way to interpret all of this is that he was so respected even his enemies have shown up, under truce, to pay tribute to the fallen.

That said, I know of at least one spirit for whom Metronome did what he wanted to do for Praetorial Penny Yin (IE was placed in a clockwork body, Metronome hoped to learn how to make Clockwork that could handle magic ala the Tin Mage), so one can / maybe should interpret it as something similar?

OOC, though, the one comment I have is in the arrangement of the Pall bearers. As Spirits, War Witch and Numina would have been better placed as the two center bearers, as BAB and Citadel could easily have taken up the load their lack of physical bodies create. Libby should be the one 'in the place of honor' right behind the casket as the sole remaining member of the family Line with Desdemona (who starts as a rogue, at best, after all and doesnt emerge as any sort of heroic type until the start of the Incarnate content) relegated to Libby's position in the back with the Vindicators. Of course, its already released now which of course means that for all our opinions, its not changeing.