TheSummerEvening

Ow. My Sanity.

I support this action freely.

<_< *hopes no one notices this was already my Plant/Earth dom's backstory...*

What all of this will inevitably lead to.

HA HA, Iroquois joke.

I'm taking a break from a few other things to get a novel sequel in order. I'm doing character sketches to work some plot elements out. In the novel, a spirit doctor arrives in a town suffering from a mysterious ailment that her colleagues have failed to relieve, and she becomes sealed in as various cults and agencies move through town, threatening to collapse what little civilization already lives there. The milieu is sort of an overt fantasy raygun gothic with tribal and heavily animistic overtones.

This is The Adjuster, a demon concerned with the jungle and the landscape; it's her job to reclaim abandoned buildings, towns, and technologies for the land.

During a town-sing or town-making ceremony, shamans and singers pace around the area to be claimed, while monsters attack them. Defenders both try to keep monsters inside the boundary to be while protecting the singers; if the shamans finish their circuit, the monsters inside the boundary turn into domesticated animals, and the rest rush into the jungle to become the things in the night just outside the town walls. When a town is fading back to the jungle, though, the domesticated animals lapse into their feral natures as food becomes scarce.

The Adjuster is the final blow, arriving in town as the last people die, extracting permission from the last human to reclaim the town, and the jungle bursts through the walls and devours the buildings and skeletons, using a waiting list of displaced forests, plains, and deserts seeking new homes to proclaim what the coming environment will be.

In the novel storyline, she shows up to the town with a spirit of the wandering forest as the sickness spreads, and is a signal that all is not well for the people there.

Also shown is the zeerust/streamline moderne/raygun gothic inspired media player she's always listening to.

I've been doing sketch requests for CoH stuff for the past couple of days, and thought I should throw some of them down here.

First, my main, Summer Evening, a plant/rad controller, looking much more like my initial sketches now that the mutant pack is out...



And my rifle/devices blaster, who may change based on what's been happening in RPs, Namagi.



Ok! Now for the requests...

This is quick throwdown of USAngel, a martial arts scrapper in Namagi's SG:



And a very quick sketch of Malfaz, for Electric-Knight. A better one is probably coming.

Now here's the question. Are we talking all-in-good-fun comic book NA stuff here, or the newage stuff that would make me want to punch my monitor?

However! This is a neat idea. Half of my characters would benefit from a "Tribal" themed booster, and I would love to see feathers, bead caps, braids (it would be freaking awesome if they could use the cape technology for it, so the braids could be all floppy), and dreadlocks that don't look horrible, not to mention some more tribal shield options, one-arm tattoos (some tribes put tattoos on the person's dominant arm, to prevent "counterfeiting"), scarring, some longer dresses, and freaking antler headwear.

You know what else I want to see? Those wacky diaphanous robes that the oracles have in Cimerora, done up as loincloth parts, both long and short.

Edit: Macuahitl as a sword option, dammit.

Claws are fine and all, but can we get some spikes too?

Here's my plant/rad troller from Omega Lambda 93-4, otherwise known as Hive World, where telepathic mutants appeared two million years earlier in human evolution, and where the entire ecosystem has been subverted into a "hive" of massive proportion.

She's finally getting her coral armor and bacterial endosymbiotes to go with her pheromonally controlled bees.

I know we see requests for asymmetrical pieces bandied about, but some tentacles would seriously be nice.

I love the new sets; the glowing eyes on the organic head are a nice touch. It goes great with my plant controller's coral/Hamidon theme.



Can't wait for this to hit live. I love the new costume emotes, too.

I always figured names and Super Groups, security level, and so on always appeared over a player's head or were easily accessible, for a few reasons.

1. Everyone who fights crime in the city is registered and has to follow the same laws as police officers. In the milieu, if you are not registered, you cannot use the hospital teleporters! Same with the Rogue Isles, but there it's Arachnos that has a file on you, since all those teleporters are owned and controlled by Arachnos. In addition, we know for a fact that they can detect power use almost anywhere in the city and suppress powers in specially prepared rooms. Since everyone is registered (everyone who is under the citizen crime fighting act, anyway), it means they have a unique name in the database. They may have registered under a secondary identity or whatever, but if you're not registered with the act, you can't get into half the places heroes go, and Arachnos appears to be the same way.

2. The Police Radio appears to use a holographic/augmented reality display. New heroes can quickly find their way around the city with a map, and information on enemies is quickly and easily available to you when you encounter them. Paragon is the City of Tomorrow, and it's full of supergeniuses. I've assumed that the HUD interface and the tagged names on everyone were the wireless network in the city calling to the database of registered heroes, so the name over their head is whatever it is they filled in on the Citizen Crime Fighting Act sheet.

3. Following this, I figure most people have RFID tags in their clothes (Citizen Crime Fighters have their ID card that grants them clearance, which probably also has an RFID on it (making it easy to find if you lose it!)), that's how you can see the names of citizens, rapidly find contacts, and assess the limits of how much power you're allowed to use inside city limits and how much lenience they're willing to grant you (i.e., your security level). This means that in character, you can greet someone by their heroin' name, check your mission details, your map waypoints, and just about anything else (in fact, this looks like the way computing technology is going in real life, so it's not too far a stretch to have it in the wacky techno-topia future land that is Paragon). Which means that when you sign up under the act, you get a set of contacts or goggles or glasses slips that let you see the AR objects.

It may be a bit complicated, but that's why I assume everything I do is in character, even "knowing" someone's registered name before I talk to them.