bluedarky

Let's see,

Bluedarky, a shortened version of my old internet handle Bluedarkyugi which is a combination of Blue Eyes White Dragon, Dark Magician and Yugi. Yes, I was a really big Yu-Gi-Oh fan back in it's heyday.

Tech Queen, my first MM and I sat there thinking for about half an hour before trying the name and finding it free.

Madam Victim, I was always the victim of bullying back in high school and wanted to create a hero who reflected that, she's gone so far from the original concept it's untrue.

Temperature Sprite, originally started life as a 4ft tall Ice/Fire Tanker and I wanted a name that reflected her powers and a reason for her size, now exists as an Ice/Fire Blaster.

Maestro of Mayhem, comes from the Maestro part really meaning someone who controls Mayhem.

Part 7 - Final Decisions

It was two weeks later, Stephan sat on the sofa, his broken leg in plaster resting on the table, the doctors had told him to stay off it for eight weeks, any instant fix they could do would simply result in it being broken again sooner than necessary or healthy. He picked up one of the sheets on the tray across his legs and examined it carefully.

“How's it going?” asked Mel for the eighth time that day, she carefully navigated her way around Stephan's leg and sat down.

“I'm trying to get an entire new species registered as humans,” replied Stephan, “An artificial species no less. I'm getting contested at the highest levels of government, not to mention certain commercial interests.”

“What commercial interests?” asked Mel confused.

“Crey Industries,” replied Stephan, Mel groaned as he carried on, “The cybernetics division of Crey Industries would like to examine all the Locbots in order to insure public safety due to them being created by the villain Nemesis.”

“What's your reply?” asked Mel.

Stephan lifted up a tightly bound stack of papers from besides the sofa and placed them next to him.

“This,” he replied, “Psychological profiles by top psychologists, programming examination by Positron and detailed examinations of the physical designs of each Locbot by DATA, all 500 of them, it's about 2000 pages long.”

“I like,” replied Mel smiling.

“By the way,” replied Stephan, “The results for Locbot 500 came out kinda weird, LOCA wants to talk to you about it.”

“What do you mean weird?” asked Mel cautiously.

“Go and see,” replied Stephan smiling, “She's at the mansion.”

“Won't this hurt our case,” replied Mel, “I mean didn't you say that if I had contact with them it could damage our case?”

“If you had contact with them before the assessments were done,” replied Stephan patting the stack of papers, “The assessments are done Mel, you're permitted contact with them.”

“All right,” replied Mel, “I'd best be going.”

“Don't forget your keys,” replied Stephan, “Oh and don't freak out when you meet some of them.”

“Why would I do that?” asked Mel as she walked out to Stephan's chuckling.

Mel arrived at her mansion roughly half an hour later and opened the door to a madhouse, LOCAs or Locbots as they preferred to be known as now were everywhere, most had chosen to have human like exteriors and were varying models of human, old, young, white, black, Asian, African, American and European were sitting around laughing, joking, reading and various other activities. Others had opted to keep the robotic look but had gotten rid of the Nemesis style exteriors. But all their attitudes changed when Mel walked through the doors.

Mel looked around the room, there was about 20 to 30 of the Locbots in the room and they all stared at her. “Hi,” she said meekly.

The Locbots exploded, all of them ran towards her hoarding her at the entrance, each one asking for advice on how to live and what they should do with their lives. Mel backed towards the door feeling for the handle before a loud voice cut through the rabble.

“Stop,” yelled the voice from the top of the stairs, Mel looked up to see the only LOCA who'd chosen to stay with the body Nemesis had given her, the first one she'd freed from Nemesis's control and the closest to the original. She walked down the stairs glaring as best she could at all the Locbots who'd crowded Mel.

“You should all be ashamed of yourselves,” she snapped, “Melissa is here on important business concerning another of our species, and you crowd her asking petty questions, what is so important that it comes before another of our race?” She indicated to Mel to follow her upstairs and walked off, Mel followed quietly feeling the stares of the Locbots follow her. When they were in the lift to her old lab she turned to LOCA.

“Enjoying having some power?” she asked smiling.

“Oh yes,” replied LOCA, “I can't believe they revere me for being the first free Locbot, it's so much fun, they all do as I say straight away.”

“So what do you want me for?” asked Mel.

“First things first,” replied LOCA handing Mel a book, “This is for you, don't worry about it to much, it's only the first edition.”

“The Bible of Melissianism,” read Mel, “First edition.” She opened it up and skimmed through it.

“Any problems?” asked LOCA as they stepped out of the elevator.

“A few,” replied Mel, “Mainly that this is a retelling of what happened two weeks ago...”

“Most religions claim to be the truth,” interrupted LOCA.

“It's a little different when said truth is still all over the news,” replied Mel, “And secondly that I've been proclaimed as the Locbot's goddess.”

“Did you notice our sources of evil?” asked LOCA slyly.

“Demon Lord Nemesis is good, but I'd remove the Countess Crey before you go to print,” replied Mel, “But what's this problem with Number 500?”

“No personality files,” replied LOCA walking over the Locbot laid out on the table, “The backups she got were corrupted because the transfer was cut short, she has basic functions, drivers for movement etcetera, but no personality data.”

“So,” replied Mel, “Program a new personality, what's so difficult that you had to get me in?”

“I had an idea,” replied the robot, “I remembered what your biggest upset about being trapped in that suit was, and thought that I could use 500 to help.”

“What do you mean?” asked Mel.

“I thought that you could raise 500 as your own child.”

Do you realise how hard it is to quieten a lynch mob zortel?

As for the suggestion, it's a good suggestion, I like it.

Unfortunatly my story this year will not be CoH based, I was going to do one but I had another idea I think I can work better around the 50,000 word minimum.

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Hey, you know me, I’ll write anything.

Anyway, not heard of this before and the site is down. What is it? What happens? Need to know more.

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Basically during November write a 50,000 word novel, you can do all your planning for it now but you can't write the first word of it before 12.01am on the 1st of November.

It's great fun and quite a few people on the boards do it, this will be my first time doing it properly, I was doing it last year but life got in the way.

Just over a month until it starts, this is the perfect time to begin planning your NaNoWriMo project and getting ready for the month of November. If you don't know what I'm on about check it out here.

So who's entering this year and are you entering with a CoH story?

I am eagerly awaiting this for at least one of my characters.

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I'm not an RP-er, but I play for the storylines, to have fun, to help others have fun and to relax after 12hrs at work.

Where's the mention of Xp?

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Again your view of whats fun and thats fine for YOU its not my idea of fun, why is it that some people on this forum think there way is the only way to have fun, i dont care anyone has fun as long as they do,

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Xp is what everyone playing the game is after if not your a RP-er

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Emphasis mine, I am not after Xp, I've helped people simply by talking to them about various game related subjects, experienced new storylines through Ouroboros and had fun standing around Atlas talking, I don't want Xp.

I also don't think that my way is the only way to have fun, what bothered me is the fact that you said everyone was playing for Xp when most clearly are not. I'll personally play PCC a lot when I14 arrives to enjoy the content created by other people.

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also if you dont play for xp but for storylines then how do you get to see new storys if you dont want or get xp ?

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I play the storylines to have fun, the Xp is an added bonus that I actually don't care about until I actually ding, then I'm annoyed because I have to break from playing storyarcs to visit a trainer.

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How is making your own missions from a pot of stuff that is already in use in game new content?
I dont wqant to waste my game time making missions i would if i could make them how i want that being a flat map stocked full of lvl 53 freaks so i could PL new pvp toons, but seeing as you cant do that im not going to waste my time with it.

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It's new content because it allows people to share storys they've thought up with the playerbase through the game itself, it allows people to express their creativity with the world we've been given and to insert that creativity into the game world.

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I want my game that i pay other people to update for me to do what i pay them to do, i dont want to to again waste the time i do have to play thinking up new ways to use already dull mobs and maps to get my new lvl 1 toon to 50 again, in the end its the same rubbish. Other player made missions will still again be the SAME mobs the same maps, i guess what im saying is and i know its been said loads of times before WE NEED more content for lvl 50s

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You appear to be confused, the devs aren't removing any other content to make way for the mission creator, you can go from 1-50 without even using it. They're even going to continue making new content and missions for us to enjoy. Just because we can create missions doesn't mean that they're going to stop.

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Xp is what everyone playing the game is after if not your a RP-er

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I'm not an RP-er, but I play for the storylines, to have fun, to help others have fun and to relax after 12hrs at work.

Where's the mention of Xp?

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There's good cliche and there's bad cliche, and "CoH does Jurassic Park" is bad cliche. So there.

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Ahem.

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Yup, WotLK is out on the 13th of November. I... er, already have my pre-order in at Play.com. >.>

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Mine won't be ordered till november...




Fable 2 first, an actual decent fantasy RPG.

I'd just like to make a point for everyone moaning about the Mission Creator being moved to I14, the devs usually work on 2 issues at a time, this was apparent in I12 when they released the VEATs an entire issue early.

Basically, we're getting the mission creator done properly, plus whatever they originally slated for I14.

Probably.

I think Azuria's reply sums up the public views on Rikti,

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A Rikti... on our side... trying to cure the Lost. That's impos... that's interesting. I would keep this knowledge to yourself. Many here would not believe you and if they did, there's no telling what they'd want to do to that... thing.

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Yeah, I would actually agree to some slight tweaking. My main Hero is an invul/em tanker, and hes still fairly good, if a little underplayed. It does just feel like Invul is somehow lacking...
Rock Armour; Granite form
Fire armour; damage and perma-taunt
Willpower; psionic resistance and general cool stuff
Ice armour; hibernate

What does Invulnerabilty have compared to those? Admittedly I would take it over fire anyway, because fire has the least mez protection, but still...maybe make Unstoppable mean just that; totally invulnerable. Otherwise it feels like Invulnerable is just 'the generic tanker armour'...which is wrong.

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Baring Granite form which has it's own drawbacks, Invun gives the best resistance in the game to every damage type except Psionic.

I won't comment on general editing as it's too late and I don't want to look stupid, I will say however that it's incredibly rare for a US building to have a 13th floor however due to superstition.

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I liked the prejudice from Whitey about magical creatures. I can’t remember if it was in the previous scene, and excuse a lazy reviewer for not checking, but it was good in this bit. In fact I liked all the conversation between MV and Whitey.

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He didn't show it, but he didn't show it for an IC reason, namely that the camera was rolling. I enjoyed writing conversation between Percy and MV, one of the original scripts actually had her suggesting that LOCA throws him into the army so that she could see there rate of fire. And about his prejudice, he's actually prejudice against anything that isn't White Thunder.

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Could there be some report of how things are going in the other fights with the robot armies. Some reason as to why more heroes haven’t turned up, or the classic, they can’t get here in time thing.

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Noted for extended version.

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I was kind of expecting the final scene to be with Stephan in hospital, but I guess there must be more to the story.

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Still bits to sort, Stephan will be making an appearance though.

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I liked the changing of the password, but there needs to be a reason why MV gets up close to the army. Why didn’t she just issue the command from the rooftop? Also, unless I’ve missed something, what happened to Nemesis? You could be intending to describe that in the next part, but I’d be tempted to just add a little something here. Certainly as a reader I was thinking I’d missed something (which, of course, I may well have done ).

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Whoops, meant to explain that one.

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I seem to remember from the other bits that LOCA felt more like a person. In these bots, certainly in the last chapter, she seemed to revert back to just being a robot with a bit of personality and I felt a bit sad about that as I rather liked her. It’s a feeling that comes from the things she and MV say. Maybe this is what you intended and maybe my brain is just not remembering the previous bits properly (sorry, being lazy again and not reading back through the other sections), but I felt more attached to her [LOCA] as a character in the earlier bits of the story.

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I like writing LOCA, main reason being as with her being an AI I can switch personalities as required, this is really just LOCA in her serious mode when she's actually needs to act like a computer. She'll make a return to fun LOCA soon, I promise.

Are you part of a supergroup, if so go to settings and click accept, then on the costume screen click the "Use Supergroup Emblem" button.

The characters remain,

only thing you may have to watch out for is that if you're off for over 90 days you may lose the names.

Part 6 - Battlefield

Madam Victim leaped off the roof and landed in front of the doors to city hall rifle already pointing at Nemesis. Nemesis had finally fallen silent and was watching her, he turned and glanced at the LOCA army before turning back to Madam Victim.

“You are resourceful,” he commented, “Am I to assume the unit left with you is deactivated?”

“Obviously,” replied Madam Victim, “ Now call off the army or I activate contingency plan Beta 7.”

Nemesis waved at a LOCA which walked over and spoke quietly to Nemesis for a few moments.

“You would destroy the plaza itself to stop me?” asked Nemesis sounding almost amused, “Is this an heroic self sacrifice or something Melissa?”

“Something like that,” she replied. She knew without someone at the base it was a useless threat, but she relied on Nemesis not knowing that there was no one there.

“What are your terms?” asked Nemesis.

“One on one,” replied Madam Victim, “Me against you right here and now!”

“And if I refuse?” asked Nemesis.

“You won't,” replied Madam Victim, “You enjoy showing off your strength against heroes, you can't resist fighting me, to make sure I don't survive.”

“Your challenge is accepted,” replied Nemesis waving the LOCAs back, “Please feel free to strike the first blow.”

Madam Victim fired her rifle at Nemesis, the bullets clanging off his armour without any visible damage, she ran forwards her rifle clicking as it shifted it's firing mode and launched a stream of flame straight at Nemesis who stepped through it easily, his armour glowing red hot, Madam Victim brought a fist up encased in ice and when to ram it into Nemesis's chest before he caught her arm.

“A pity,” replied Nemesis twisting her arm, “You might have actually pierced my armour if you had landed that hit.” He twisted her arm further, there was an audible snap even through Madam Victim's armour “Oh, I broke your arm,” he commented dropping her, she could already feel the armour knitting her bones back together, “Have you any last words Melissa?”

“Yes,” she replied feeling an electric shock from the mask as it powered up, “Override code B4862H, password Jessica!” Her voice boomed out from the device on the roof as the LOCA on the roof under Madam Victims control leaped with joy as she watched the bars shift in front of her, her audio input disabled to prevent her from being overrode again.

“What have you done?” screeched Nemesis his electronically enhanced voice grated loudly and caused heroes all over to wince.

“You will only accept orders from me,” said Madam Victim her voice still booming as Nemesis advanced, he grabbed her again and pulled her in grasping her head. The LOCAs moved quickly grabbing Nemesis and pulling him back from Madam Victim.

“What?” Nemesis's voice rang out, “You didn't even order them, and why wasn't I told of this override by the LOCAs?”

“They didn't know,” replied Madam Victim, “At least not 'consciously', at least as we'd say. And as for the other, even in this state their base programming remains, including the derivative to protect me.”

Nemesis roared and flung his arms knocking the LOCAs gripping him away then turned to the LOCAs and yelled, “Override code B4862H, password Jessica!”

“Won't work,” replied Madam Victim as Nemesis backed away from the LOCAs, “For two reasons, one, it's voice printed to me and me alone, and two, there's three passwords and it rotates whenever one is used.”

“You are a hero,” Nemesis's voice came as close to a growl as his synthesiser allowed, “What happened to fighting with honour?”

“There's fighting with honour,” replied Madam Victim, “Then there's doing whatever it takes, and you're a fine one to talk about honour.”

“This is not over,” replied Nemesis as he teleported away, “I will have vengeance.”

“What are your orders?” asked one of the LOCAs as the heroes around the plaza began asking what was going on.

“Connect with main server,” replied Madam Victim sitting down, still in shock that she was still here, “Synchronise with memory server and download main AI files, then give each of you an individual identifier.”

She waited as the LOCA originally in her control drove the van up and helped her into it,

“You ok?” she asked.

“Yeah,” replied Madam Victim, “It's similar to activating a machine that I'm not sure will blow up.”

“Well don't faint yet,” replied LOCA, “The other LOCAs took the order for individual identifiers as one to develop individual personalities to.”

“And,” replied Madam Victim, “Let Freedom Corps take care of it for now.”

“They can't,” replied LOCA, “They're officially your property.”

“Move them into the mansion for now, I'll deal with them later.”

“Difficult,” replied LOCA, “It could be classed as unlawful imprisonment.”

“How?” asked Madam Victim, “You just said they're my property.”

“Well,” replied LOCA nervously, “We're technically now a sentient species.”

“Pardon,” replied Madam Victim, “What do you mean, sentient species?”

“Well, we're self aware, and capable of reproducing,” replied LOCA, “Well building more of ourselves anyway.”

“But there's only 500 of you,” replied Madam Victim the new shock bringing round.

“There's species which have less members,” replied LOCA, “And before you ask, it means you own the latest sentient species on Earth.”

“So what next?” asked Madam Victim as they pulled into the entrance to the base and the lift lowered the van down.

“We ask Stephan how to proceed,” replied LOCA.

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3 - I'm wandering around The Hollows, and I overhear sweet words of love from an innocent young girl. She talks to her big, tough, tattooed boyfriend about the two of them being 'star-crossed lovers.' So what do I do? Why, I smack the bejasus out of her lover-boy, right in front of her very eyes! just because he's a Outcast Slammer, and I'm trying to rack up some kills on them so's I can get my Badge!

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Let's face it, being a hazard zone means that only heroes and police forces are allowed to enter, they are actually breaking the law being there in the first place, not to mention it's doing them a favour, they get teleported to the Zig where they are safer as they can't run into igneous forces.

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I like the idea of "similar back story where one decision makes them into completely different characters".. Red Dwarf did that very same with Ace Rimmer!

Interestingly, two of my very first characters one a Claws / Reg Scrapper (Tiger Slash, my first ever lvl 50), the other Tiger Doom (who got to lvl 33 as a Claws / SR stalker, before I deleted him and remade him as a Widow have a very similar idea.

Both were born as twins to Julie Larcen a geneticist doing experiments on mutated Tigers to discover the secrets of their strength and agility, but such was her dedication to her work she continued long into her pregnancy. She survived being mauled by one of the animals, and the tigers DNA was absorbed into her unborn children.

The larger of the sons, Hans, was visibly affected at birth, and her Crey employers who also helped her delivery told her he'd died during birth, when in actual fact his mutations had attracted their interest for use in Project Revenant. Growing up in a cage being prodded and poked by researchers didn't give him the most balanced impression of human kind, and aged 8 he escaped killed his captors and began earning a living in back street fights before being hired by Arachnos, first as an assassin, then trained under their blood widow program.

Kieran on the other hand, seemed perfectly human and normal, with his Tiger-like appearance, markings and above all his claws not starting to manifest themselves until he reached age 5. By this time he and his mother had fled to Paragon City to seek a new life for themselves, and Kieran was enrolled in a special school for mutants to help him deal with and make use of his abilities. (Yes, yes, I know.. I can hear you cringing from here. Give me a break, he was my first one.. I had to start somewhere didn't I? )

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Curiously enough, one of my villains is the Preatorian version of Bluedarky, their lives being the same up until they met the guy who finished their training.

Blue was trained by the Back Alley Brawler and gained the Brawler's sense of honor and heroism from it. He refuses to do anything to increase his strength unnaturally and works hard to stay at the top of his game, but has to use his brain to keep alive rather than punching everything.

Darkbluey was trained by the Marauder, and gained his might makes right attitude, he's a twisted amalagamation of magic, science and technology to push his body beyond it's limits. He's technicially got the same IQ as Blue but rarely uses it prefering the "punch it until it stops moving" method of fighting.

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I’m not sure how many of the people reading this, but PERSONALLY I am growing increasingly frustrated with people posting in threads who spend more time lurking in the forum then they do in game.

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So, so, so, so, so... we're not allowed to post in the Forums with our own free will? We have to play the game a lot in order to post in the Forums? Well f*** me! Why didn't anyone tell me this?

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*looks at watch* blast! I've spent entirely too much time not playing the game, must be off, got a game time quota to fill before I can come back, you understand. pip pip, tally ho, what what.

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I think I'm due for a ban. I've not logged into the game for days and I've been posting here instead. Damn.

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What gets me is that people like myself would be punished for a system like this, for doing nothing wrong,

I login rarely because I work long shifts, walk in the house, check the forums, get my tea, bath and then bed.

Why should I be punished for not having the energy to play the game even if I'm paying my subs?

As one of the people who believe that CO and DCO will crash and burn like AoC I have this to say,

4 years ago when CoH was released, pay2play gaming was a minority, I think only Everquest and a few others existed, as such, to draw in the people it needed to survive it's first few live months, an MMO needed to be a complete game with rigorous testing at Alpha and Beta stages to survive.

Nowdays, we get buggy MMOs released as supposedly complete games with massive sweeping changes in the first few months which completely change the way the game is played in order to get the game out of the door faster.

Now if an smart dev team leader of an already established SuperHero MMO decides to leave a massive announcement that will change the face of the game forever (i.e. New expansion pack) shortly after two rival games enter the arena...

I know which boards I'll be posting on this time next year.

After writing this I realised this should've been part of part 5 above (Double DOH for calling it part 4!)

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Madam Victim finished scribbling a few moments later, LOCA took the papers off Madam Victim and looked them over, she looked up at Madam Victim and stared for a moment.

“You trust me to build this?” she asked.

“It needs to work,” replied Madam Victim, “I don't need a sonic wave producer or whatever right now.”

“Do you need me?” asked White Thunder, “I could be out there fighting them now.”

“Oh don't worry,” replied Madam Victim, “You are an essential part of the plan.”

It took 15 minutes for LOCA to get the necessary parts from the various gadget shops around Atlas Park and a further 10 minutes to build the device. It was ugly crude, but exactly what they needed for now.

Madam Victim watched the Nemesis army carefully waiting to dive in at any sign of them actually assaulting city hall, some things never changed she reflected, Nemesis's demand list now totalled 30 minutes, he'd actually included his victory speech in it assuming victory was guaranteed. Heroes hung around the edges of the plaza, they'd seen too many heroes fall against the army and were waiting for reinforcements.

“Done,” replied LOCA smugly.

Madam Victim turned around and smiled to see White Thunder tied up in the wires and machinery, acting as an emergency power source, LOCA handed Madam Victim a mask which she fitted over her face.

“Everything ready?” she asked the pair of them.

“I hate this,” replied White Thunder as LOCA nodded, “ I should be down there fighting.”

“Percy,” sighed Madam Victim, “I need you to power that device at the signal. Understood?”

“Fine,” replied White Thunder reluctantly, “But hurry up, I want in on the action.”

“Don't worry, there'll be plenty of action left,” replied Madam Victim, “I may even let you arrest Nemesis.”

“Then get moving,” he replied.

“At the signal don't forget,” she replied before moving to the front of the roof. She readied her rifle and prepared for battle.

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We were kinda expecting those, yeah

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You won't get them from me.

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Ve Have vays of makiing you give us vild assumptions.
Ve shall let you carry on as you are

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Are you sure you don't have a villain character?

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Personally I think GG is a very good roleplayer.

No one is really that annoying whilst somehow remaining likeable.