The Course of Superhero Romance... (Discussions)

Oooooohhh!!

This is gonna be GOOD.

And yes, it does look a bit ... slender.. for a Rikti. But then again, we're all used to mages that *cough* seem to bare more skin than they cover.

"Self: don; robe and hat: wizard."

heeeee!!!

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"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."

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I like the new guy and can't wait to see the next chapter.

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Oh, so you visualize what your reading to eh? I thought I was alone.

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Absolutely, a story this good is very easy to visualize at that.

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*cackles* Good show! This looks to be a lot more interesting than a fight with the Honoree!

The picture was very good too, though it reminded me a lot of the new Dark Templar from Starcraft 2. Who drew it?

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That would be me. And no, I've never even seen Starcraft 2.

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Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.

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*cackles* Good show! This looks to be a lot more interesting than a fight with the Honoree!

The picture was very good too, though it reminded me a lot of the new Dark Templar from Starcraft 2. Who drew it?

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That would be me. And no, I've never even seen Starcraft 2.

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Star Craft 2 -- Dark Templar

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Eh, I suppose Av'Adn looks as much like a Dark Templar as any other Rikti does.

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Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!!

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!!

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Is that a good reaction or a bad reaction?

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BTW, I am glad that a lot of folks seem to be enjoying the arrival of Av'Adn. If you'd like me to post a bit more about him here that you won't find mentioned in the story proper, let me know and I will.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!!

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Is that a good reaction or a bad reaction?

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BTW, I am glad that a lot of folks seem to be enjoying the arrival of Av'Adn. If you'd like me to post a bit more about him here that you won't find mentioned in the story proper, let me know and I will.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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YES!!

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Yeah, tell us all you want about him. (Make it good enough for the devs to maybe incorporate him too =p)

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A bit of background, then, on the character Av'Adn. (This is not story-related stuff, because that will come out over the next chapter or so, and then more later in the story.)

First off, the character itself came about (as do so many things) via conversations with John (aka Bloodspeaker). Once I knew they weren't going QUITE through the LGTF, I needed something more impressive, different, something that would make readers go, "Oh, CRAP!"

Now, as a lot of you know by now, the LGTF is very strongly based off the Book of Revelation. (The Seer, the Dragon, the Beast and the Sea, the Four Riders of the Apocalypse, etc.) So what else could I bring through here?

Easy - we have seven seals, seven angels pouring bowls of plagues, etc. So, while I thought of bringing in seven Rikti, I couldn't quite nail down seven powersets that would work.

So instead, I went for the four elements - fire, earth, wind/electricity, and water/ice (four elements referred to in the first four of seven trumpets sounding).

The fifth trumpet heralds the opening of the great pit, so as the portal is opened, and the Rikti come through, they are led out from the abyss by what is referred to in the Bible as "the Destroyer" - Abaddon (or Avaddon in Hebrew). The name also refers to the Angel of Death, or the Angel of the Apocalypse, and has also come to mean 'the place of destruction'.

Abaddon... Avaddon... Av'Adn.

And as the angel of death, he is wielding, of course, a scythe. As for his powersets... you'll see soon enough.

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What can I say? I liked the Revelation motif enough to take it one step farther (not to mention I did a strong emphasis in Biblical Studies/World Religions when I was in college).

Can you just imagine this as an extension of the LGTF?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

PS - Sorry, Hitsu, I don't know if the devs will consider this 'good enough' for them to add it.

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lol, its all good. But if that was an extension of the LGTF, it would be more worth it =p

In all fairness though, use that "at Hero-Con" status to work on something that the devs will actually look at though. And it could involve your new guy. =p

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I'd love to see this as an addition to the LGTF.

PAY ATTENTION DEVS!!

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so would i. i would love this as a arc it would be sweet,

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In all fairness though, use that "at Hero-Con" status to work on something that the devs will actually look at though. And it could involve your new guy. =p

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Except for the fact that virtually all of the rednames have stopped talking to me since, ironically, right after HeroCon.

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I'd love to see this as an addition to the LGTF.
PAY ATTENTION DEVS!!

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See above.

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On the bright side, while running around briefly in-game as Agent Takimura (with the Star Patrol's newest recruit, Shady Leo), I got an in-game tell from someone who was asking what I was an agent of. I replied, "Star Patrol," we chatted a bit, and it turns out this person was a fan of the story.

Then I told him/her I was the author.

And OMG, much squeeing. It just made my night. It's a great feeling to have folks fangirling over me. Especially since I'm really not anything special.

In completely unrelated news, I found a techno version of "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff that I had been searching for for over three years. So I am so tempted to use this as the mental fight music for Hro'Dtohz vs Av'Adn.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Oh, if I'd known you were looking for that.. oh, wait. No, what I have is O Brumbratta.

Nevermind....

But right under it (she notices, as she goes to close the player), I have O Fortuna/28 REMIX, Techno mix from Apotheosis.

Let me know if you're interested in either.

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Star Patrol is a real SG? cool i didnt know that

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Yep. We are based on the Justice Server (as is our related VG, the Nova Dominion). For more information about joining the Patrol, visit the Star Patrol website. The Nova Dominion doesn't have a site yet, but both groups are fairly active, and we are known to coordinate events for the members (for example, GM hunts, Task Forces/Strike Forces, badge hunts, story-related events, etc).

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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ok, they just emailed what my problem was so now I don't have to just lurk. Agent Jo'Kar here (current 11 pb) Yes I met she who writes as if gifted by the gods and if I squeee'd (wont admit I did but wont deny either) then most of you will understand why. Lady, I have read the classics, most of the great science fiction from the 60's to now, most of the great action/spy stuff from the same time frame and when you say you are not special I scoff ( ha!) You tell one heck of a story! Many try, you deliver. Special, yes! Matter closed!! When Jo'kar can stand proud next to the rest of your sg I will give you a tell and see what can be done about having him sign up. Til then this rabid fanBOY will watch and wait and read everything you write and hope you continue for a long time to come.

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well, as long as we're sharing stories of Fanning over Dark:

I have begun development of a fan-made comic dealing with a third invasion of the Rikti. Not wanting to make this comic just a "Torroes Prime" story, I'm always looking for ways to incorporate other people's characters and ideas into the story. At one point I had put out a thing on the boards asking if anyone was interested in submitting a character for use in the story in a given circumstance that I had posted. I already knew of Dark's Video work (and I must add had been unfathomably impressed by it, so I was already a Fan of her work in that regaurd), though I must admit I only knew the name "samuraiko" and had never previously encountered Dark on the forums. So when I had Dark_respite auditioning Sorina Tavarisch for the role, it didn't really strike any particular cord for me (Please don't ask how I missed making the connection). Until my own stupidity from the prior 3-4 years caught up with me, and I collapsed from a variety of relatively minor medical issues at work (Thanking every deity out there I missed collapsing on top of the grill!!) So I was hospitalized for about 4 days. With nothing else do, I asked my parents to bring me my laptop and I spent most of those four days surfing the forums. That was then that I ran across "The Course of Superhero Romance". It seemed interesting enough that I started reading (the 40+ page count didn't mean much to me since I wasn't going anywhere). well, to make a long story short, when she brought in her character the name rang a bell in my memory and I confirmed it in my messages. The doctors were promptly required to wire my jaw back together following it shattering on the floor. Ultimatly I decided to not use Tavarisch for the part in my comic. Now hold on, hold on! Before you get all huffy at me lemme explain!
The sheer volumes of effort I had seen Dark pour into creating her characters deserved far more then simply "A throw away bit-piece that may or may not become something more". I had decided to incorporate Sorina more fully into the back ground of the third invasion, and thus she would become a leading character in the story line. To that end, I re-worked the back ground to incorporate more about the second invasion (the current RWZ arcs) and speccifically noted that Sorina Tavarisch was involved in many key operations of them.

So yeah, not really where that puts me on the Fandom scale but there it is.

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Yeah well I play D&D with her so :P

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and your point? Look Scoots, I am not going to get into a contest of "who's the bigger fan-boi/gurl". It likely a contest that would end badly for all parties involved.

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Now that Open Beta has begun, there are four arcs created by yours truly. They are:

"Dyne of the Times"
"Hell Hath No Fury" (this, btw, is the MistWalkers' arc)
"Positron Gets Some!"
"Lights... Camera... MAYHEM!"

Enjoy!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Now that Open Beta has begun, there are four arcs created by yours truly. They are:

"Dyne of the Times"
"Hell Hath No Fury" (this, btw, is the MistWalkers' arc)
"Positron Gets Some!"
"Lights... Camera... MAYHEM!"

Enjoy!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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*Ears perk up!*

What? You made?

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Damn it, download faster!!!!!!!!!

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Lights... Camera... Mayhem! is already Dev Choice! Way to go Dark

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Lights... Camera... Mayhem! is already Dev Choice! Way to go Dark

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Played it, loved it!!

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