TheDeepBlue

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Propaganda you say? Did you see the sign in the background?

Let's just see how big a success it was come Monday.

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LOL

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I wonder if ol' Emmert will actually be in front of the computer or if Statesman will just be an NPC. WOW that would be cool to open unlimited bottles of kick butt on the lead designer of CoH.

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You HAVE seen him deal over two thousand points of damage in one hit in the Vs. Tyrant mission, haven't you? We're talking about a guy who one-shots Rikti battle cruisers.

Don't think you're gonna be able to put a mez on this guy, either. XD

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Now, the real question is, who in their right [censored] mind would trust Azuria with a jar of that water? It isn't even in the vault.

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...not...The Same...WATER! Bleargahrghaghahrgh

Well of the Furies <> Fountain of Zeus

Bump.

The thing is, see, she just doesn't have much experience with this sort of thing, setting up ingame roleplaying. To tell the truth, I don't know much about the planning and methods of it myself. Thus, if anyone and everyone can just start posting tips and advice here, we'd thank you kindly.

Heck, maybe we'll even be able to make a guide out of this if there ends up being enough info!

Peac0xx0rs!

The young man lowered his arms and surveyed the "carnage." "Huh," he said to himself, "whaddya know, like dominoes."

Of course, he'd planned to get them all caught in the bottleneck in the first place, he just hadn't expected it to go so well. Deciding to clean up, he stuck a gauntlet out to one side this time and started curling that hand into fist.

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"Secondary threat detected,"

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He craned his neck far upwards, towards the ominious booming voice. Seeing the robotic colossus tower over him, he immediately whirled around and started backing up fast, apparently not caring if that's where the hovering (or not-hovering) agents were.

"Oh nonononononoNO, boots! Gogogo!"

-Unknown command.-

"You pieces of--!"

He'd been shot by giant robots before, even stepped on by giant robots. Those hadn't been the most pleasant of experiences, and he'd be darned if he was going to let it happen...

...again?

He watched in amazement as the attack built up, but never happened. The Crey colossus turned one hundred and eighty degrees, stomped off in a seemingly random direction and then scooped something up. It's claw abruptly turned into a big ball of ice.

So that's what its after...?

First thing was first, though. He would have to hurry to find out whatever was really going on, but he couldn't leave those agents at his back. Turning behind him, he made a fist with the same hand as before, and then almost immediately opened it again, swinging it in an arc in front of him through the bottleneck alleyway at the Crey agents, causing a torrent of energy to wash its way towards them.

The figure looked back down the clouded corridors, reading the number of agents left through a thermal filter on his goggles. He took out a good number of them with the rocket. He could probably get the rest of them right here.

Having placed an object about halfway up the wall a few yards away near the entrance of the corridors, he let the agents file all the way past him, then backed up past them almost to where he'd come in. Bending his knees and turning his back foot sideways, he spread his feet out into a stable fighting stance.

"Safeties off."

-Confirmed. Generators hot and armed.-

Pointing his right arm straight forward and grasping it with his left one, he stared down the outstretched limb like the barrel of a rifle, aimed straight at the back of the last, oblivious agent in the line. Smoothly, he curled the fingers of his hand from the last inwards to the first, ending with his thumb clasping into a fist. The gauntlet sheathed over his arm responded immediately, generating and concentrating energy into a floating, shimmering blue ball in front of his hand. He let the energy grow until his whole arm shook, as the gauntlet tried to contain the massive buildup.

And then he opened his fist wide.

The powerful recoil from the orb's launch flung his right arm upwards; his stance helped a lot, but his left arm was what it took to keep his right from gaining enough momentum to knock him on his butt. The ball of energy, meanwhile, streaked towards the Crey agent like a ruthless, vaporous blue comet.

The cylinder arced through the air, missing its target, and fell to the ground where it burst into a sticky, webby mess.

As the agents began filing into the alleyway on their jetpacks, they saw a larger cylinder slide across the ground from behind a corner where the alleyway branched, spinning as it slid and rapidly spewing a cloud of inky black smoke in every direction and into the air...

That got their attention. Now--

The hover squad's return fire started peppering the young man's general location, causing him to quickly step backward by reflex. One of the energy blasts caught him in the shoulder, spinning him around and knocking him to the ground. The cloaking device flickered for a moment, revealing a caped hero dressed almost head to toe in white and dark blue, features obsured by the tac goggles over his face.

"Ow..."

The cloak stopped flickering, and the humanoid ripple quickly regained his footing and darted into an alleyway across the street, hoping it would branch into others. He took a brief moment before entering to turn at the waist and chuck a cylinder at the flying corporate monkey who winged him.

Thirty feet away from, and on the opposite side of the Crey security van, a transparent, human-shaped ripple in the air took a quick look over the situation. Judging by the numbers, the corporate goons wanted something bad, and he had the feeling that the op wasn't legit...like a whole bunch of their other ones.

The figure took a knee and shouldered an equally-invisible tube weapon, pointing it at the center of the squad of hovering units from some distance behind. Those were new. It must've been something Crey picked up when they bought out Lockhart. Without their air cover, though, the powered armor on the ground wouldn't be nearly as confident in their advance.

He hoped.

"Microwave round."

-Round loaded. Confirming target lock...Confirmed.-

A very visible two-foot gout of flame erupted out of the back of the LRM Launcher as the young man squeezed the firing pin, sending a metallic object streaking towards the group of Crey operatives. The state-of-the-art projectile was non-lethal, of course, but if it did its job properly it would feel rather unpleasant...

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However, many of the sites I checked, do say it was "Croatoan" (and also "C R O"), although some do, instead, say it was "Croatan." So, I suppose that's a victory for you... The shame Gilgamesh must face for missing one letter!

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Oh no! It's the Brigid debacle all over again! I mean, Brighid! Terror and calamity! Molehills turn into mountains! The end is near!

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Without getting into details, ALL CoT Thorn Casters have been reworked. The amount of control powers these minions have will be severely reduced or outright removed. Expect other related changes with all Thorn Casters.

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Hmm...

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It said that she was built by Positron (which is correct, I think) but then it claims that she's also Positron's sidekick. Meanwhile, it does in fact mention Citadel(!) later on. Weird. I guess they had trouble fitting in Valkyrie?

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Valkyrie might not have found her spear at that time, when they were all still at LVL 2.

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Yeah, we really do...

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And top hats! And falling leaf auras!

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Also note that one of Statesman's greatest nemesis is... ahem... Nemesis, the 'Persian Prince of Automatons'.

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Prussian.

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IMHO, the art in the game is one of the best things about CoH. It is not too 'shiny' or 'real' looking - and it shouldn't be.

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So, some of the cement-block sculpture in Skyway should look like a bunch of legos, then?

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The heroes of Paragon have had many alliances with heroes of other countries in times of war and peace.

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Seriously! I mean, Hero 1 was freaking British, people! But I've never seen anyone make a fish and chips joke! XD

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So, if Statesman is a Greek God or Titan

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I would say he's more of a diety's avatar rather than being a quote/unquote "god" himself.

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what does that make Recluse? Is Recluse Chronos?

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I don't think that quite fits. If anything, Recluse might be related to Hades. 'course, that's not a perfect fit either, but I refuse to try and fight against comic book logic as it always wins in the end.

Aye, Mr. Issue 5 Costume Jet Li guy. XD

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Archery for a Defender? I thought it was going to be a Blaster powerset.

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Blasters already have a swiss army-knife set. Two, actually. Defenders don't.

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To counter what another poster said, I don't think you COULD do this with a bunch of Tech origins.

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...not until Malta starts equipping their Kronos Titans with bio-feedback cannons. Or, better yet, not until they start fracking with the War Walls so that they're emitting bio-feedback waves all throughout the city.

Another thing that can happen at a potential build site is that Oscillators will be hovering in the air all around an electrical tower, and some of them will actually be zapping it with electrical bolts.

Just FYI.

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That's exactly what I was looking for and couldn't think of. Thanks for setting it forth it so clearly.

Upsen.

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You're welcome.

Well, I like to think of it like this:

Say "its."

Now, get rid of the 'i' in "its." You're left with the 'ts' sound, which is what you use in 'tsoo' and 'tsunami.'