"Fear and Loathing in Paragon City"
By
Amrat,
Posted on: 2006-10-15 19:09 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
We had two Emp Defenders, seventy-five Prestige, five Presents left over from the last Christmas event, a Jump Pack half-full of Time Remaining, and a whole multi-colored collection of Lucks, Sturdies, Insights, Ranges... Also, a Ribosome, a Microfilament, a Nucleolus, a L52 Endoplasm, and two dozen Lysosomes. Not that we needed all that for the Quarterfield TF, but once you get into a serious powergaming SG, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the AR Blaster. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Trip Mine binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
There was only one way back to Paragon City - Issue 8 - just a flat out, high-speed burn through Skyway and Talos and Indy Port; then onto the Hollows Freeway straight into frantic oblivion...safety...obscurity...just another hero in the City of Heroes. We'd gone in search of Level 51; it had been a lame debt-around, a waste of time.
There was no point in looking back - hell no, not today, thank you kindly. My tray was filled with inspirations. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Cupajo - a man on the move, and just nerfed enought to be totally confident...
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." - Quentin Crisp
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken
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"Just admiring the shape of your Kill Skuls"
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Sir, you have bested me.
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Not at all. I think when you finally got me to make my HST inspired character in game you won.
Archer T. Jones
((No, that's not the name over his head. I couldn't pull a Raoul Duke if it was. 
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Not at all. I think when you finally got me to make my HST inspired character in game you won.
Archer T. Jones
((No, that's not the name over his head. I couldn't pull a Raoul Duke if it was. ))
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Too bad the costume generator doesn't have the hat and the cigarette holder.
Nope, but I don't want him to be HST.
The personality is a mix of war-correspondant and gonzo journalist.
I did manage the cargo vest thogh. Military vest turned light khaki. Looks nice.
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Nope, but I don't want him to be HST.
The personality is a mix of war-correspondant and gonzo journalist.
I did manage the cargo vest thogh. Military vest turned light khaki. Looks nice.
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I have to ask. What powers did you give him?
Emp/Psy, but I rolled him at sometime between 1 and 2AM.
Those are the only powers I can really think of that will work though. ((*hates the super soaker of doom*))
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Emp/Psy, but I rolled him at sometime between 1 and 2AM.
Those are the only powers I can really think of that will work though. ((*hates the super soaker of doom*))
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That was great. You guys really made my day.
"Few villains understand the psychology of dealing with a patrolling Paragon hero. Your normal villain will panic and immediately surrender over to the side of the mayhem mission. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the hero-heart. Make the punk chase you into a safe-guard mission. He will follow."
cheers,
JS / Arctic Sun
All of these posts made me go back and read Jabberwocky in Toontown...
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
I saw the best AT's of my generation destroyed by the nerf-bat, looking for respecs,
dragging themselves through bump-mapped streets looking for mobs,
horn-headed hipsters with forked tails and shoulder-cats, burning with
auras that cause fear not aggro,
who tired and debt-ridden climbed the tops of Kings Row tenements contemplating powerlevelling,
who dreamed and schemed of the distant, misty image of the optimum build,
who were banned from the forums for calling the devs a pack of ruthless liars,
who lurked in dark corners with the hero builder, or dreamed of toggle-binds,
who got banned from the server for trying to create nude costumes,
who breathed fire at just the wrong time, causing the team to wipe,
who dreamed of p-v-p, and kill-stealing, and training and gaming the game,
in hazard zones and timed missions, darkened streets or twisting forests, deep crevases in the dirt or broken buildings against the sky,
single origin enhancements, only three to max, tankers have an over-nerfed primary and blasters a crappy innate,
the devs screw doms, controllers taste good this month and trenchcoats are coming soon,
the submarines will take you to Paragon City, cars to break and banks to rob in a flat-coke evening behind incandescent monitors, listening to the digital score in 24-bit surround,
who talked continuously on broadcast about mobs in Perez Park and stupid hero names,
forgotten armies of good-natured tankers jumping into the thick, forgetting the devs nerfed herding,
chatterchatter blargle yammer, oop sorry mt,
every mind consumed for days and weeks with missions on invinc, turn down the particle count or crash to desk,
taking minutes to scan all files, team has dropped you when you log back in, alone in Striga and the werewolves catch your scent,
wandering around a town of bricks wondering where you are, should have set "team teleport" to "prompt,"
cigar face detail #2, smoking bad but Nick Fury cool, winter event is curiously lacking snow,
study up on each player guide, from AT to bind to PvP, argue over issue 3 read each opinion on ED,
search the Hollows looking for Defenders, healer plz, kthxbye,
(kinetics ok too,)
tankers lonesome till you fight AVs, doms just lonesome, what's that language, hey they have european servers you know,
disappear into the caves to fight the circle of thorns, or lava-men, trolls, the occasional hellions and skulls,
into the sewers in atlas, out of the sewers in kings row, investigating the devs with big anime eyes sexy in their asian togs and posting incomprehensible rants,
burning the retinas with disturbing avatars,
distributing the latest calculations of damage ratings and aggro measurements, weeping while devs ignore the facts and figures and only say "we think this class is balanced perfectly,"
and I'd like to keep going but hey, Ginsberg wrote his on drugs, I'm sober and I just got off work,
so I'll have to leave it here and say "enough."
Scrapper Jack (SJ/WP Brute), Sky Commando (WP/SJ Tanker), Curveball (Rad/DP Defender), and a bunch more.
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Emp/Psy, but I rolled him at sometime between 1 and 2AM.
Those are the only powers I can really think of that will work though. ((*hates the super soaker of doom*))
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WHEEEEE!!!!!!!!
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?Lady-Dee: Hey my fat keeps me warm in the winter and shady in the summer.
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Emp/Psy, but I rolled him at sometime between 1 and 2AM.
Those are the only powers I can really think of that will work though. ((*hates the super soaker of doom*))
[/ QUOTE ] Surprised you didn't make him an illusion controller. Share the random freaky hallucinations with everyone!
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Like I said, I didn't want to make a Hunter S. clone
That and, by his own statement, if he had done even close to the amount of drugs he listed in his writing he'd have been dead.
Tagging for awesomenes of thread.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Trip Mine binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
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This thread has made me laugh, and laugh hard. I have a low level villain on Pinnacle I named Doc Gonzo as a tribute, although he's really more like a cross between HST and Yage-era WSB. I got the Foster Grants and combover, though!
@Glass Goblin - Writer, brainstormer, storyteller, hero
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes, just for one day
I'm still stuck on the line about the exemplar taking his shirt off. Like straight out of Galaxy Quest.
--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
Greatest post ever! =)
Long live Hunter S. Thompson forever!
Minimal_Rose: I relate to your sentiment about Thompson being one of the last great heroes . . . . so many people have just seen the movies (some just Fear and Loathing) and not read his outstanding writing. Why "The Great Shark Hunt" is laying not 5 feet away from me waiting for me to go on my lunchbreak...
Tagging this one for favorites and now I have to start thinking of a Thompson-inspired character . . . . maybe a AR or Archery primary and Devices secondary blaster AT . . . to bad the game doesn't have some of the explosives he had on the Owl Farm. =)
Grey Ghost Music
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We were somewhere around King's Row on the edge of the sewers when the inspirations began to take hold.
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You play in that state too huh? I thought it was just me...
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Trip Mine binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
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As a player of an AR/Dev, I have to say:
It's true. *sob* It's all true.
My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City
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I saw the best AT's of my generation destroyed by the nerf-bat, looking for respecs,
dragging themselves through bump-mapped streets looking for mobs,
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*applause* Brilliant.
I'm just a holy fool, oh baby it's so cruel
Thessalia, by Darkchildx2k
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The only thing that really worried me was the AR Blaster. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Trip Mine binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
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That's just pure awesome.
Much bittersweet awesomeness. I miss him.
"What kind of world are we living in when Hunter S. Thompson kills himself quickly?"
The robot revolt begins!
I miss Archer T Jones.
Great post thanks for the laughs boring here at work