That's a pretty sweet costume. I was wondering if, when we get a second slot at lvl 20 we could design a "set uniform" similar (not the costume but the idea) to that which the Super Union SG does. Your costume posted above, for example? I have to say I love the contrast in the colour scheme - maybe we could have these as the SG colours as my main costume is the same as the SGs at the mo! 
Hello yous,
Yes, we definitely need an SG costume at level 20. For me, whatever it ends up being, the costume should be based on Hyperion Star's outfit. As such the face should be hidden for two reasons - it keeps some ambiguity about who/what Hyperion Star was and from a story point of view it could be an effort by ourselves to plant doubt in the minds responsible for his death. When I made a toon called Hyperion Star to protect the name I used the tech helm with the large side antenae, metallic costume parts with the diablo design on the chest, and large gloves and boots with the sharp design. It made him look quite "spacey" which fits with the name.
I do like the costume posted above, but maybe without the spikes on the shoulderpads and/or the addition of a full face mask/helmet.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
I'm in a quandry. It's becoming increasingly right for my character to be martial arts rather than katanna. Essentially, he was left crippled after years of bastinado torture (hitting the feet with sticks). It makes sense to me that the incident not only healed his legs and feet but made them as hard as iron. If I have time I may reroll Bastinado and level him to 6. I'd rather do it now than regret it at lvl 20 or 30.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
How about if we came up with a specific design that everyone takes as their costume, ie everyone use "x" head "y" chest and "z" pants etc, right down to the last detail, perhaps with a unique something, like head detail 1 for example, plus absolute key features like johnnys fists would be OK, but essentially all wearing exactly the same? Maybe we could do something like a unique 2nd colour for the belt to distinguish between each other, like in the x-men movies where everyone wears the same uniform, but with a different coloured piping? I think it would look awesome for group photos and teaming.
Like you said, I quite like the idea of an anonymous face element. Personally I prefer a mask to a helmet, but it's a team decision in the end!!
I've always loved the ampules belt, this would look cool in different colours: Bastinado's would be black, Johnny's red, Solar's orange etc.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
Yeh, that would be cool - and a nice subtle way, other than character size/height/sex etc to distinguish between us.
hi guys
I'm working on a mission computer for the base, so I need five more Tech material (any kind, doesn't matter) or the salvage for it. Even though we wont be able to use it effectivley until higher levels, I would think that it would be a nice addition to the base.
Interesting ideas for the costumes there guys! I can easilly whip up costume designs as I've got plenty of free tailor sessions left with Dr Mechanibus (My villainous, villainous villain!), and it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to take a screenshot and upload it to the net. I too thaught that, yes, certain sections of the costume could be "swappable" with defining characteristics of the existing characters. At a guess, I would put those as:
Jhonny's gloves
Bastinado's eyepiece
Solar Flare's head
Carter's hairstyle
Unfortunatly, I can't figure out what Psyte's defining feature is, other than his stining wit, and High Burn's defining feature is, well, she's a girl.
If a redo of Bastinado is wanted, I'm always happy to lend a hand if I'm about, and we'll just have to see what sort of salvage is thrown up withour SG adventures for that big viewscreen.
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed it, but I put up an IC section in the form of a journal entry thingie
http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...ge=1#Post800124
No way could Suzi think of attending the memorial service. While there was no way of forgetting the whole incident, there was no reason to make a show of remembering. Even in such a decision, her mind flashed back to the awful event, and she sobbed...
There had been dim sounds like a far off drumming back at the flat. Then strange faces had wavered into her dimming vision. She wanted to sleep but they kept disturbing her, dim booming voices, and perhaps some shaking. She had no idea how long this lasted, but sleep came at last.
No pain. No regrets. Peace.
Then pain and shock and bright light. She could see now the instant - the shock on the face of someone holding two metal things to her chest as the world jolted and a force ripped across everything. Something... no, everything, was seriously wrong as catastrophy struck...
Shaking uncontrollably, Suzi snapped back to the present. The hell with the memorial service. Too much. Too soon. Especially since she was perhaps one of the dead being remembered - at least if any had known she'd gotten to the hospital, for none had noticed her leave it in the aftermath and shock.
The world may well think that sweet goth-chick Suzi White is dead. Suzi herself is certain of it. Now she's just some pale thing, afraid to look in a mirror for what she'll see, hiding from daylight.
Like a frikken vampyr.
White Vampyr, that should be her name now...
http://www.savecoh.com/
Ahoy hoy, Ammon, welcome to the Hyperion Watchmen.
I really like the sound of this character and feel she will round off the SG. We have a nice spread of character types and well as archetypes and I think this is going to continue to be fun.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
Thanks, Romanov.
I forgot to mention, OOC, that White Vampyr is a Defender (Kinetic/Dark).
http://www.savecoh.com/
Oooh nice! And welcome to the team, chum!
Everyone on tonight? Re: your comment Acenra - I have a Tech part you can have - great mind and all that - I was thinking of doing the same thing! 
I'll be there. About 8pm?
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
Yup. I might have a go at creating a "for your consideration" SG uniform tonight - got plenty of slots free (11 actually!) at the moment!
Yup. I might have a go at creating a "for your consideration" SG uniform tonight - got plenty of slots free (11 actually!) at the moment!
Ah, cool beans Aero! I may see what I can come up with in terms of more "for your consideration" level 20 costumes myself! Having a level 40+ character with free tailor sessions tends to halp out 8D
I levelled Bast up to level 8 and in the process earned us the King's Row and Perez Park beacons with the help of a nice chap called Wing Blade.
I will be posting a bio and some journal entries asap providing nothing distracts me. There showing 1988 episodes of Antiques Roadshow on one of the satellite channels you say?
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
((Finally, here is Bastinados biography up until the day of the incident at the hospital. Sorry its so lengthy. This is handwritten on a piece of paper in my safe in the SG base. Only James Carter has the combination and he has been asked only to open it and read this letter on the event of Bastinados death. None of the other characters, Carter included, will know this information, Bastinado should be as mysterious as ever. However, if you want to make discoveries about him and rp the consequences let me know how you inted to do it and Ill drip feed stuff. Lastly, there are some pics at the bottom to accompany the bio.))
Mr Carter,
If you have opened my safe to retrieve this document, I am dead. Inside my safe you will find all the material I have gathered about the incident at Rivera Hospital and my subsequent investigations both before and after the formation of the Hyperion Watchmen.
Below is a brief account of how I came to be at Rivera Hospital one year ago. I hope it goes some way to explain why I have never revealed my identity or face to my fellow Watchmen.
As White Vampyr guessed, I was once a soldier. The commander of an elite group that served our governments interests where they did not officially have interests.
Our final assignment was some ten years ago now. We were tasked with terminating the supply of heroin out of a small country in eastern Asia. We took out some small time suppliers but never got close to the man at the top of the chain - a man we knew only as Magan. Months passed, we fell increasingly off the radar, our tactics often as ruthless as the criminals we hoped to stop. For my part I increasingly became enamoured with my new home, studying its history and culture as well as learning its unique martial arts. I even fell in love, made a home with a girl called Kyung-soon.
Then, one morning, we had the information we had been waiting for. Magan would be at an opium farm in the mountains that afternoon. I sent a message to our superiors. Our orders were to eliminate Magan and be rendezvous with a helicopter three kilometres north of the farm. Kyung-soon was at the market, I left without saying goodbye. Of all the bad things I have done in my life; I believe that is the only one I truly regret.
We took the farm hard and fast. I put a gun to their leaders head. He grinned as he told me the truth - he was not Magan, but his son. I knew that we had played our hand - I put a bullet in his head, set fire to the farm and led my men to the rendezvous.
We waited. And waited. One hour past the rendezvous time and the helicopter still hadnt arrived. Then we heard the low rumble of engines. Not a helicopter, three Humvees and a swarm of motorcycles. And in the mountains, enemies we could not see. They knew our position and our numbers, we had no option but to surrender. Once they had us restrained they executed each of my men. I closed my eyes, thought of Kyung-soon, and waited for the bullet. Instead they pushed me into the back of one of the hummers. The dark shape in the back of one of the other vehicles was the closest I came, before or since, to seeing Magan.
Eight years. Eight years I was kept a prisoner, masked with rough iron plates across my eyes and mouth. Each day without fail I was tortured and humiliated. I had been trained to resist, but even I could not beat the bastinado. They would beat my feet with sticks everyday, until after days, months, years, my mind was as broken as my body. The bastinado taught me more about the infliction of pain than the army ever could.
As suddenly as it was unexpected, US forces arrived where I was being kept prisoner. As they led me out, my weakened eyes hardly able to see in the blazing light, I saw that many of the buildings had been destroyed. I overheard talk of heroes attacking the base, but to this day I have found no official records of what happened or whether Megan was captured, killed or if he managed to escape.
I was flown home with two dozen other prisoners. But during the flight, two soldiers approached me and manacled my hands and legs. When we landed I was separated from the other prisoners and taken to a cell. I dont know what they members of the Paragon Police Department who were sent to transport me were told, but they took it upon themselves to continue my education in pain as if I was the worst kind of criminal and their badges stood for nothing. And one cell or another was my home for the next year. I was never given a full explanation of why I was being held, just that I had killed the wrong person and could be kept indefinitely under new anti-terrorism laws. Every few months, sometimes weeks, I would be transported to a new prison. But they didnt been walls and bars to keep me prisoner as my health was deteriorating rapidly. My feet and legs had become infected, I was in constant pain. Gradually the infection spread to my blood and my eyes. Finally, it was decided that I needed more specialist medical treatment and I was transported from my latest home, the Zig, to Rivera Hospital.
And you, Mr Carter, no as much or as little as I do about what happened then. I was handcuffed to a bed with two prison guards watching over me. I had been told to prepare for the worst, that I would have to give up my legs and eyes to have any hope of survival. I wasnt given the option of choosing not to survive. And then it happened. First the noise, then a light that filled every inch of the hospital. But it was more than a light, I could feel its warmth all around me, inside me, changing me. Not just my body but my essence, what some would call my soul. As the light faded I was trembling. But it wasnt me, the whole building was shaking. The two guards were sprawled on the floor. I inched to the edge of them bed and braced myself to support my own weight for the first time in months. There was no pain. I took the key off one of the guards and uncuffed myself before walking into the chaos of the hospital corridor. Then I saw the light again, and every ounce of me wanted to head towards it. In another room I saw the figure laid out on an operating table, the light all around made it impossible to see. But I instinctively knew. Others have spoken of seeing a hero - I saw an angel. I tried to move closer but he said just two words to me. Save them.
I looked down the corridor. Two young children were screaming as the walls and ceiling crumbled around them. I ran, scooping them up in my warms as bricks and rubble fell behind me. I was trapped between the rubble and the exterior wall. I did the only thing I could think to do, I kicked the wall. To my surprise it cracked as if it had been hit with a lump hammer. I kicked again, and again, until the wall shattered. I jumped to the ground, expecting my legs to break beneath me, but I was fine. I let the children go, catching a glimpse of myself in the wing mirror of one of the cars in the parking lot. My eyes were glowing brilliant white.
And that is my story Mr Carter. I hope you understand my need to keep my identity secret, I am not sure how the other Watchmen would react to having a criminal leading them into battle. Please keep my secret. I ask one more thing of you. Sell everything I have and send the money to Kyung-soon. Tell her that there was not a day in the last 10 years that I didnt think of her.
Captain David Jacob Reuther
(Bastinado)
Bastinado in prison
Bastinado as soldier
Bastinado with the Hyperion Watchmen
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
Rom, thats the most in depth Bio I've read. One could say it amazing.
Love the pics to 
I really need to get around to writing mine at some point.
Ta, Gaz
Thought I'd throw my suggestion for the SG costume out there too. This is how I originally pictured Hyperion Star and subsequently the SG costume.
For your consideration
The cape would be an optional full cape and the outfit would include the SG emblem and the ampules on the belt in each character's own colour.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
Ok guys! I've gone and set up a basic website for us to use. I know there was talk last night of various other people doing various other sites, but I figured I'd get one up and running for us
http://watchmen.forumer.com
=^.^=
I've posted the first entry in Bastinado's Journal on our other thread. This is an effort to start to drive the plot. I've spoken with a few people about the cause of the incident and we have a volunteer to ultimately play our villain. If nobody objects I'll lead the plot to this conclusion, obviously the actions of each player will affect how that conlusion pans out.
I'll incorporate Johnny's findings and Psyte has given me an idea about what he plans to do.
@Romanov
Nadja Romanov, Lily Pink, Little Death - The Cadre
Estoque, Bastinado, Spidermonkey, Chic Doyle - The Militia
Miss Teen, Dead Reckoner, Dee Dee Diablo, Kaneko
ok, dunno if anyone else has gone ahead and done this, but here's my idea for a Hyperion Watchmen costume
Hyperion Watchman scheme #1
I've used the "sightless" full mask in place of a regular face, because everyone has their own head to put in. The colours are put to a greater extreme than those in the SG colours just so you can see the patterning. The SG colours will, of course, take pecidence. And, of course, any defining feature of your characters can be used in place of the costume ones