The Masked Shrike

Happy belated birthday, DE. Gaming and TV sound like a good day to me!

Bacon cake, nice.

Happy birthday, Kheldarn! Hope it was decadent and delicious.

Oh hey, thank you all so much for the good wishes! What a lovely surprise. That drawing is simply swell, Christopher Robin. I love it! Thank you. (My other favorite birthday gifts were PinUp's knives and mask, which I someday plan to display with a recreation of her outfit. The Aussie did good.)

I do still play CoH, but I admit, I've been playing hooky in Middle-Earth. Otherwise spending time trying to make sense of wedding, immigration and household-moving details. But still hanging in there with CoH and my art addiction. This game means too much to me; I will be here until they unplug the servers.

I hope everyone here is doing well, having fun and getting a lot of good art.

Hope your birthday was decadent and fun and filled with cake and presents and such delights.

Attending the Golden Age Festival as PinUp Girl, a newly-minted member of the Gods of the Golden Age SG, and meeting a wonderful character named Proud Citizen, who was hoping to join the Gods too. Having the two of them marry in-character at the next Golden Age Festival--knowing that we, their players, will be getting married IRL later this year.

Standing in Atlas as a brand new player watching all the heroes running and flying around, thinking how cool it was, then getting a tell complimenting my character concept from a level 50 who took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. His player is still a friend these several years later (hoping to see him at the wedding, too!)

I'll be here until the servers are shut down. CoH means a lot to me.

I need those raid badges, so I will try to be there. Thanks for starting these again, I have hope of getting the badges now.

43 here. Most of my CoH friends are around my age. I love that this game appeals to such a wide range of people.

Me. I find the whole crafting/invention/salvage/recipe/market thing to be unbearably tedious. I'm just as happy running on regular old SOs.

Greys are such wonderful dogs. What a sweetie he is! That adorable face!

I miss my greys. Truly the most sweet-natured dogs I've had the privilege to know. They fold up smaller than you'd think (enough to sneak over and curl up on my pillow when I'd get up in the night) and they are certainly '40 mph couch potatoes' as the nickname goes.

Congrats to you and it's so great Buddy found a forever home.

Thank you guys so much (and thanks to my awesome fiance), as now Scarlet has the badge, yay! I praise you with great praise.

I'd be more than happy to show up on another server or wherever and help out if other folks want to work on this. If you just need a filler, I can do that!

OK, I am going to try and be there. Character will be Scarlet Spectress. Who do we look for as a contact, what character, CaptA?

Gah! This is great and I would go but it's pen and paper game night. Sorry guys. I hope it's a rousing success though! Awesome job setting it up.

Edit: Good idea Kheldarn. Maybe those of us who miss out tonight can try and organize another meetup. I'm willing to temporarily transfer for a badge, I've done it before.

I'd be totally in for a Swiss Draw badge get-together. I'll never get that badge (and the accolade) otherwise, so I'm all for it.

Ooh, an art thread. Some gorgeous artwork in this thread. Totally love that custom action figure, Scarlet, wow.

Here are a couple of my Victoryites.

Scarlet Specter by Graver:



Scarlet Specter by CelticBolt:



Ms. Afterburner by Graver:



And way too many more in my DA gallery. I love collecting art even more than collecting badges.

Star Strider Forces Registry:
Name - PinUp Girl
Global Contact - @Masked Shrike
Level of Classification- 50 Scrapper
Origin - Natural
Super Group & Rank - Gods of the Golden Age, member

Ah, I'm in need of this one myself and have been wondering--does the badge award to everyone on the team, or just the character that wrote the mission?

I'm thankful that this game has brought me hours of good times. It's brought me good friends I'd never have known otherwise. And it's brought me the love of my life, whom I will be marrying next holiday season. Thanks, City of Heroes.

Now have some pie.

I love this. I think I especially love the little hearts on her garters, and her cheerful expression. It must be fun being a scary but hot pirate.

I also like all the ninjas you've added in there.

Wow! She's like a heavy metal album cover about to explode into awesomeness.

Enjoy your hiatus--sometimes taking a break is just the best thing to do. We all need a rest sometimes.

Maybe I'll see you over there.

Both fabulous. Loving the Jester especially, but I have to concur, the colors on both are amazing. As are the expressions. The character's personality comes out clearly in each of your works.

Great work, LJ--I think this is one of your best ever. And I love the character design. The colors are beautiful and the pose is graceful. It's win all around.

(I seem to have a thing for archery characters)

Aw, who knew two demons could be so sweet together?

Lovely piece, great work Foo, and congrats to the lucky Vex and Gray for getting such neat art!

Love all of these. Especially that last one, thanks for sharing it, Kheldarn. That's awesome, right there.

I hope Dark Ether will be inspired to create more, too, I always looked forward to those!