Torroes_Prime

Like the title says:

Someone was going to do it....

I wanted to have all of them blow up using the self-destruct FX from the cyborg pack, but apparently it doesn't work with NPCs.

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Ok, just about ready. Um... one question tho, where do we get the opening NCSoft graphic for the beginning?

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ya just looking for the NCsoft company logo? I'll have to double check but I think there's one in the Fansite kite.

Damn baller! That was kick [censored]!

okay, I'm gonna keep asking for people to issue 4 until friday 18th. Then I'll figure out who I'm gonna use. I'm not saying I'm not gonna use any everyone else that auditions, just that I'm not going to use them right away for issue 4. As I said, I want to make this a fan base comic, and so I will try to work in as many characters and stories as are viable.

And so begins a new struggle:
The Debate of a Bag of Hammers Vs. Bag of Lugnuts. Which one is the proper phrase?

That was good.

hmmm, yes please do post the back story. If nothing else it can give me ideas for stuff later on.

Ya know what, I'm just ask that anyone that is interested in "auditioning" there character for this part, just post their back story (or summery if more then 1 typed page) here. THat way I won't have to keep saying "Yes, please send me a copy of your characters back story"

if you would please send her back story, that'd be great. I'm not saying to using the character at this point, it's just from the brief bio you just posted, she sounds too grounded and smart to try something as incredibly stupid/gutsy/psycho as attempting to arrest Torroes in the middle of warzone with only a hand full of operatives to assist.

Hey all,
A while back I started work on a comic book that I had hoped (and still hope) would become a fan base project. By that I mean it has the main characters from CoX such as Sister Psyche, Manticore, Statesman ect but also a good number of fan made characters. In short, the story is such that the fan made characters are on the same level as the main characters. Below is additional information. But the actual reason for this post is not to simply introduce the project.
I am posting asking for others to join me on this project. I don’t want this to be City of Heroes Starring Torroes Prime’s crew with the occasional guest shot by others. I want to involve other people, I want their stories to be in this. So, I’m asking for anyone who is interested in joining in on my project.
Right now, I’m looking for 1 character to fill into a specific spot, but that doesn’t mean I’m not looking for other characters later on. While I have some story arcs mapped out, that doesn’t mean I won’t look at others.
Here’s what I’m looking for right now: A hero that is one (or more if possible) of the following 3 things:
1) A member of Longbow
2) Excessively pro-Longbow, like to the point of they might as well BE a member of Longbow
3) Someone who works closely enough with Longbow, that they believe capturing one of their most
wanted list toppers will help them out in the long run.

Here are links to Issues 1-3 of City of Heroes Invasion. You can check ‘em out and get an idea of what I’m doing.
City of Heroes Invasion #1
City of Heroes Invasion #2
City of Heroes Invasion #3

For Issue 4, here are my thoughts and plans. The issue will take place at the same time as Issue 2 and 3, but from another teams perspective. That team is performing a recon through Steel City attempting to catalogue Rikti positions and forces. While on recon, the team encounters Torroes Prime’s team. They attempt to engage TP’s team, with the intention of capturing Torroes himself. Well, that’s not gonna happen. The Longbow team has neither the man power, nor the fire power to capture Torroes. In either event, it becomes mute, as the Rikti Attack and both teams must work together in order to survive and later tend to their wounded. From there that will lead into another issue, were both teams team up, and ultimately return to the Rouge Isles and link with other survivors who are working with Torroes.


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This is basically, a what-if story line. It’s not an alternate dimension or anything like that. So the Pretorians are still there, all the major characters are there, but they’re not the same as the appear in the game. Here’s what’s happened:

Like in the game, the Rikti have returned in an invasion insited by Nemesis. Vanguard is still at the head of the defense. However, unlike in the game, the invasion is being secretly assisted by another party that even Nemesis doesn’t know about. Prior to the invasion, an elevated security operation was undertaken by Longbow with in the Rouge Isles. This security operation was carried to the scale of a small scale war, and devastated both Longbow and the combined forces of the Rouge Isles. That happened scant months before the second Rikti Invasion. Real convenient huh? That 2 of the 3 major forces that could oppose a Rikti invasion get cut down right before they show up.
Then, when the Rikti did actually invade, they knew exactly where and how to hit the Vanguard to inflict maximum damage. IN short, Longbow’s hurting, the Rouge Isles are a mess, Vanguard has basically been cut off at the knees, and Recluse has vanished into Recluse’s victory. However, following the invasion itself, nearly all inter-dimensional travel shut down. So Recluse is lost, Arachnos as fractured and for all practical purposes no-longer exists. Mako and Scorpion have both taken assets and split off from the main body, no one knows what the heck happened to Ghost widow, while Scirocco is heading a division attempting to open the portals again and retrieve Lord Recluse.
All the turmoil isn’t limited just to Vanguard and the Rouge Isles though. Paragon City was hit the hardest of anywhere by the invasion. The Freedom Phalanx has splintered, while the Vindicators have been scattered. One new innovation the Rikti was using this time, is a magic/mental power dampening field. Many of the more powerful psychics and mystics have been hurt by it’s effects, such as Sister Psyche who is in a coma, while by comparison Mirrorspirit is at roughly half power and Infernal must exert much more effort to keep his demons under control.


So that’s basically the run down on it. I’ve been fortunate enough to get the help of Sin_stalker on this project, but I would like to involve other players in this. While between Sin and myself, we could easily populate the comic and come up with some very interesting and entertaining story arcs, I would like to make this a Fan project with many players characters having their own moments in the spot light. So, just to restate what I’m looking for right now:
I need a hero side character, who is close enough to Longbow to know their most wanted list and see value in attempting to apprehend one of those most wanted. If you have any questions, post ‘em here. If you want to volunteer, lemme know here. Just post a little info on your character, and tell me what server the toon is on. Thanks all.

Basically anytime on the fourth is good for me. I'm availible the 5th after about 9pm. After that I do not know yet. Will post when I find out.

I'm game:

Name: Torroes Prime
Global: @torroes Prime
Level: 50
Power Set: Super Strength & Invul.

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If Torroes is broken, you should really break him. Make him morose, perhaps a drunk to dull the pain. Maybe someone needs him and his special skills, but he turns them down. "I can't do that, not since -. Find someone else."

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Hmm, that point actually a direct conflict with Torroes' character. he's always forced himself to be pro-active, even to the point of being self-destructive. So, he wouldn't shy away from a fight or operation of any sort. Quit the opposite, he would practically volunteer.
Actually, opinion question: How would you read those kind of actions? Always heading into the fiercest fights, the hardest missions, taking on the strongest of the enemy availible at the time. How would that read in terms of being broken ?

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That works, too. Depressed to the point of taking nearly suicidal risks. Although you have to kind of steer clear of comparisons to Riggs from Lethal Weapon, since that was his MO, too.

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hmmmm, another movie I need to pull out to watch and reference.......

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If Torroes is broken, you should really break him. Make him morose, perhaps a drunk to dull the pain. Maybe someone needs him and his special skills, but he turns them down. "I can't do that, not since -. Find someone else."

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Hmm, that point actually a direct conflict with Torroes' character. he's always forced himself to be pro-active, even to the point of being self-destructive. So, he wouldn't shy away from a fight or operation of any sort. Quit the opposite, he would practically volunteer.
Actually, opinion question: How would you read those kind of actions? Always heading into the fiercest fights, the hardest missions, taking on the strongest of the enemy availible at the time. How would that read in terms of being broken ?

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That works, too. Depressed to the point of taking nearly suicidal risks. Although you have to kind of steer clear of comparisons to Riggs from Lethal Weapon, since that was his MO, too.

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BTW: How many quote of quote responses do you think we can get in this topic, Ironik?

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Eleventy billion.

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That doesnt sound like a real number...

I mean who ever heard of billion anyway?

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I guess we all have now.

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If Torroes is broken, you should really break him. Make him morose, perhaps a drunk to dull the pain. Maybe someone needs him and his special skills, but he turns them down. "I can't do that, not since -. Find someone else."

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Hmm, that point actually a direct conflict with Torroes' character. he's always forced himself to be pro-active, even to the point of being self-destructive. So, he wouldn't shy away from a fight or operation of any sort. Quit the opposite, he would practically volunteer.
Actually, opinion question: How would you read those kind of actions? Always heading into the fiercest fights, the hardest missions, taking on the strongest of the enemy availible at the time. How would that read in terms of being broken ?

BTW: How many quote of quote responses do you think we can get in this topic, Ironik?

okay, so shorter tails. Basically have the tail pointing to the character, not necessarily going to the characters mouth? is that basically what that translates to?

Now you said I didn't have has bad a problem with the zooms, which would imply that most of the frames had a good composure, but there were a couple that didn't. Am I right about that? and if so can you point to a specific frame(s) so I can see what you're referring to when you reference it?

Thanks for the praise, it's always welcome. But couple questions. More points of clearification for myself really.

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The paragraph you have in your OP lays out an interesting premise

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in my what?

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I'm not crazy about the Project Psi story, to be honest. It reads like an imitation of River Tam from Firefly.

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Difficult? Hell yeah.

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But if you can tell that story, one about people being forced to compromise their morals for the greater good, while making it cool, you'll have achieved something ineffably cool.

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Maybe I will need to elaborate some, but that's exactly what has already happened story wise. Fergusson has compromised his values when he allowed Longbow to use a child in their expiraments. Torroes was then forced to kill the child. Hence the "Monster of your creation" line from Torroes.
The key point in the Project Psi wasn't the project, or the team. It was the fact that Longbow used a child as a weapon of sorts. I'm not actually sure how to put this into the comic, outside of just stating (which sounds rather bland to me), but the fact that Torroes was forced to kill a child literally broke him. he doesn't hate Longbow, or even Fergusson. He loaths himself for what Fergusson's mistake forced him to do. If you've got a thought on how to display that a comic, without just straight up stating it (and with in the limits of what the Game Engin will render) please drop me a line.

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Stylistically, there are some things I'd lose, such as the boxes directing people to read things that are simple restatements of what you just said. An example would be, "That was my com... father, Torroes Prime [See: Torroes Prime]. See, we had just beaten the Project Psi team [See: Project Psi]..." After a while it becomes humorous and slightly annoying, since there aren't any hyperlinks, and anyone who wants to read the further background of your tale is going to naturally seek out the other broadsheets.

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Fair point. To be honest, the characters and event entries were meant more as a means for myself to keep stuff straight, but somewhere along the line they just kinda took on a life of their own. So end result of trying to make something into something it wasn't meant to be I guess.

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The paragraph you have in your OP lays out an interesting premise. What you need to do is find a cool and compelling way to present that story. Show bitter enemies fighting. Then show a threat to both of them. Then have them reluctantly team up. Then have one betray the other. (Given your premise, make it the hero, but you must give him a reason other than "I'm a hero.") Have that betrayal endanger the world. Then solve that problem without resorting to a deus ex machina.

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1) I want to avoid the entire moniker of 'hero' and 'villian'. I know, it's kinda nit-picky thing but I hate using those titles. They automatically paint one as good and one as bad. So if ya don't mind, can you use like character names or generalites or something, Like persan A and Person B maybe?
2) as for the Hero betrayal and all that, hehehe well lets just say that's already in the story. I just haven't made enough of the comic to display it.

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I hope this doesn't come across as rude.. your story ideas are really good, but the grammar is kicking me in the face, so you should be a little more careful with it =)

GJ otherwise =)

[/ QUOTE ] Well it is rude! nah! I’m just messing. I asked for the feed back, if I can't handle it I shouldn't ask for it. Yeah, grammar is a huge weakness for me, and spelling for that matter. Plus I think the dictionary my copy of Word uses is Bad or something. I've had several issues with it in recent weeks (God I hope I don't need to reformat my system again). Don't suppose you'd be interested in signing on as an editor, would ya?

hey all, about a year ago I started work on what I hoped (and still hope) would become a fan base project involving more then just my little grouping of friends and players. Basically I started work on a comic series, dealing with the second Rikti invasion (this was before I10 dropped, or was even announced) Well, I'm still working on it and still looking for interested parties who are interested in joining in. After numerous re-names, I'm currently calling it City of Legends. As far as story goes, this is a basically a What-if kinda thing. as in, what if the Rikti Invasion was being influenced and supported by more parties then just Nemisis? what if it was a much larger invasion this time? What is there's another power working behind the scenes manipulating things to his own end? Heroes may no longer be heroes, villians may no longer villians, the innocent must now fight to survive, former enemies must work side by side to survive. That's the general premise. If you're interested in working with me on it, throw me a line and we can chat.

Now, on to the reason for this post: I've made a short 8 page (plus cover) mini-story that takes place about two years following the initial invasion. a large group of both supers and non-supers have left the rouge isles and ultimately joined up with Vanguard. While that in itself is simple enough, as I said enemies must now become friends, and old wounds are re-opened. So, I'm posting a link to the PDF (U will need Adobe Reader to read it) and asking for feed back, comments, suggestions, criticisms, whatever on it.

City of Legends: Fergusson's Lament

As a side project, I've begun work on a "Lexicon" that covers the various wars, the characters, and notable events that feed into this universe. I've post links to the entries for the relevent characters [With the exception of Pet, since her background is basically given in the story] for this comic. Be warned, the images are rather large. I would suggest Downloading them and then viewing them.

City of Legends Lexicon: Project PSI

City of Legends Lexicon: Edward Fergusson

City of Legends Lexicon: Long Bow Wars

City of Legends Lexicon: Torroes Prime

Oh, not a "I look good" pic, but one I figure folks will get a laugh out of:

It wasn't me, it was the one armed..... okay the no armed man.

This is actually a 2 pic piece that I made for a comic I made a while back:

Image 1:
Torroes Prime finishes the fight

Image 2:
Who's next?

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I think they're all great, but I love mine the most. Thank you Torroes, this is some heavy cool.

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Not exactly an unbiased oppinion, but a welcome one none the less.

hey all, following my last posting several of you have contacted me inquiring as if I can make a wall-paper of one or more your toons. Well, I haven't finished all of them yet, but I figure you all would like to see what I've done with other people's toons for wall-papers. So here's the link with the new images up:

MGC Consumer Services: City of Heroes Wall papers

As with the last time, comments, critique, critisisms and suggestions are both welcomed and encouraged.

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You need to put this just above the player's name:

0 100 NEW Player

Then remove the PLAYER notation above the puddle.

Also, I noticed your first set of coordinates for your player is missing a PYR line.

Other than that, you should be fine - then again, I'm exhausted and may be missing something.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Okay. I must have misunderstood something somewhere along the line. I want the NPC_puddle to be the player, cause the game engin renderes based on what the player can see, right? So I want the engin to render based on the POV of the camera (Hence the Puddle tracking with the camera being designated as the player). Or am I totally off base with my understanding here?

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The POV is all controlled by the CAM commands (CAM POS & CAM PYR). What entity/character you designate as the player doesn't matter with regards to your POV.

Unnecessary detail:

The one exception to this is that the POV of the entity designated as the Player does control the render distance, so if you have your Player in one corner of the map and your camera in another, that can cause problems, but as long as the camera is fairly close to whatever you've designated as the Player, you should be fine.

I suspect that's what is going on here. You're Player code is a little off, so it probably isn't reading the location of the Player correctly, leading to things not showing up because your CAM is outside the render distance.

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So how can I go about checking that possibility?

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You need to put this just above the player's name:

0 100 NEW Player

Then remove the PLAYER notation above the puddle.

Also, I noticed your first set of coordinates for your player is missing a PYR line.

Other than that, you should be fine - then again, I'm exhausted and may be missing something.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Okay. I must have misunderstood something somewhere along the line. I want the NPC_puddle to be the player, cause the game engin renderes based on what the player can see, right? So I want the engin to render based on the POV of the camera (Hence the Puddle tracking with the camera being designated as the player). Or am I totally off base with my understanding here?

Hey all, I'm working with the demo editor to generate a demo file of a toon marching down the street (I'll be adding the army accompanying him later) with the camera ahead of him, facing back so that it's tracking shot with the toon center frame. Well, I got the camera working. Just I can't get the toon to show up. I was hoping someone would be kind enough to look at the info and see what I jacked up on it. Thanks to all. The demo file is displayed below:
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1 0 Version 2
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0 CAM PYR .024 1.406 0
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0 100 PARTSNAME Tight !x_male_hips_eagle_armor_mask !Hips_V_Pattern_Tribal_Paint_01 000000 ffffff
0 100 PARTSNAME Tight !x_male_chest_eagle_armor_mask !Chest_V_Pattern_Tribal_Paint_01 000000 ffffff
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_HEAD.GEO/GEO_Head_V_Asym_Masked V_Mask_Skull !Face_V_Mask_Angry_01 ffffff 000000
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_GLOVE.GEO/GEO_Larm*_Vangaurd_01 !X_Vanguard_Glove none 000000 ffffff
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_BOOT.GEO/GEO_Lleg*_Rocket_01 !X_male_boot_rocket_01 none 000000 ffffff 000000 000000 AnimatedCharacterParts/RocketBoots.fx
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_BELT.GEO/GEO_Belt_Vangaurd_02 !X_Vanguard_Belt none ffffff 000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 737373 ffffff
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_EMBLEM.GEO/GEO_Emblem_Vangaurd_02 !X_Vanguard_Belt none ffffff 000000
0 100 PARTSNAME V_MALE_SPADR.GEO/GEO_Spadr_Justice02 !x_male_spadr_eagle_armor_mask !spadr_v_eagle01_dual 000000 ffffff
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 000000 000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none !X_Wings_Tech_01 none 000000 ffffff 000000 000000 GENERIC/FX_wings_TECH.fx
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none ff894c 000000 3fbeff 00ff95 Auras/Male/Fire/FireHead
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 100 POS -1345.6 -.5 576.9
0 100 MOV DRILL_MARCH
0 2 PLAYER
0 2 NEW NPC_puddle
0 2 PYR -.024 1.406 0
0 2 POS 1313.8 5.8 575.9
0 CAM POS -1313.8 5.8 575.9
0 CAM PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 2 POS -1313.8 5.8 575.9
0 2 PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 100 POS -1345.6 -0.5 576.9
0 100 PYR 0.0 1.689 0.0
33 CAM POS -1313.331334 5.8 575.9
0 CAM PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 2 POS -1313.331334 5.8 575.9
0 2 PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 100 POS -1345.131334 -0.5 576.899444
0 100 PYR 0.0 1.689 0.0
33 CAM POS -1312.862667 5.8 575.9
0 CAM PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 2 POS -1312.862667 5.8 575.9
0 2 PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 100 POS -1344.662667 -0.5 576.898888
0 100 PYR 0.0 1.689 0.0
33 CAM POS -1312.394 5.8 575.9
0 CAM PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 2 POS -1312.394 5.8 575.9
0 2 PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 100 POS -1344.194 -0.5 576.898333
0 100 PYR 0.0 1.689 0.0
33 CAM POS -1311.925334 5.8 575.9
0 CAM PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 2 POS -1311.925334 5.8 575.9
0 2 PYR -0.024 1.406 0.0
0 100 POS -1343.725334 -0.5 576.897777
0 100 PYR 0.0 1.689 0.0
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Everything below this is simply the chaning POS data. So thoughts? What am I doing wrong?

"Join Torroes as he fights for Truth, justice and.... [Screeching halt] Wait, he's a brute!"

Torroes Prime