Trainers and Contacts Need Emotes Too!

So one of the newer twitches in the game have been the introduction of more variety in the enemy emotes when you come across them… most of them are appropriate and some of them are funny.. the Circle of Thorns Lasher (who is armless) holding aloft the torch is my personal favorite…

But I don’t think we should stop there.. we need emotes for our Trainers, Task/Strike Force granters and Contacts! They deserve more to do than just stand there all day…

Here are a few suggestions:

• Doc Delilah: She should be trying to buy a bikini and asking my character for their opinion on various styles as she models them. Why? Ummm… Oh hey! Is that Elvis?

• Agent G: Should have a cheerleader squad behind him who would yell “Gimme a G! What’s that spell?!” Then look confused, because it really doesn’t spell anything. But they all just shrug it off and jump up and down waving their pompoms until it starts all over again.

• War Witch(in Pocket D): Don’t just HOLD that drink! Take a gulp now and then… and as time goes by she will start hiccoughing until finally she does the Stunned emote and walks over to flirt with the nearest bartender. Then she vomits and it starts all over again.

• Ms. Liberty: With the advent of the AE and resulting chaos of farmers and power levelers in Atlas Park there is only one possible emote for Ms. Liberty… When she has 8 or more heroes asking for training at the same time.. she should begin to sob uncontrollably.

• Mirror Spirit: Should do everything you do.

• ForeShadow: Should do everything you do… before you do it.

• Shop Attendants(all): These guys don’t act like any non-commissioned retail employee I’ve ever met. To make them more realistic they should subtly look away as you enter the store then walk in the opposite direction as though they have something else to do when you approach. If they work on commission then 10 of them should attack en masse as soon as you get a toe in the door demanding to know if you need help.

• Positron (I’m torn on this one… so… Option 1): After spending so long in his containment suit without being able to get free.. Posi will occasionally take the suit completely off and go through an emote of rubbing sun tanning oil on his body as he stands there wearing nothing but a speedo. During this procedure Valkyrie will laugh at him… when he offers the oil bottle to her and points at himself.. she will take the bottle and chuck it at his head.

• Positron(Option 2): Inevitably it takes a long time to get a Posi team going (which is nothing compared to how long the Task Force itself is); so Posi will help you pass the time by telling you stories of his own younger hero days… and tell you… and tell you… and tell you… All while going through the oration emote. The stories will appear in chat bubbles above his head and are set on a loop. Think of an old senile grandpa talking about the “good ol’ days.” During this one Valkyrie will do a nodding off to sleep then wake up violently emote.

• Manticore: He will sneak glances over at Swan every few minutes then jerk his head back to look at a neutral point again. Occasionally she will catch him peeking and he will do the whistling innocently emote. About once per day (or so) a projected image of Sister Psyche will appear before him with a very angry expression; Manticore will fly up into the air and land hard. He will then behave himself for about an hour before the whole process starts again.

• The Tower Room in Grandville: Scirocco will watch Ghost Widow while his henchmen behind him lean over and whisper or nudge him every so often. He will shake his head and scowl at them. Every so often he will finally give in to peer pressure and walk over to her. He will spout one of the pick-up lines from the guy in Pocket D (his mentor) at which point Widow will trap him in her spinning hold while everyone in the room (including Scirocco’s supporters) will laugh their hind ends off. He will retreat in humiliation and the process will begin again.

• The Tower Room in Grandville 2: Captain Mako will act normally most of the time but after a while will start rubbing his stomach as though it’s bothering him. This will happen more and more often until finally he turns around and grabs the nearest henchmen. A cloud of smoke with flailing claws and red spurts of liquid will envelop them. When it clears the henchmen will be missing except for a few scattered bones and Mako will be picking his teeth. The remaining henchmen will drag someone new in to take the missing guy’s place. The poor sap will spend 15 minutes doing the cower emote behind Mako.

• The Tower Room in Grandville 3: Black Scorpion will have a serious case of Tourrets. He will twitch every so often quite violently. At random times he will scream out unrelated and completely off the wall things: “Die Rabbit DIE!!”, “Not the tofu!”, “Napalm laxative!”

• Mynx: The usual kitty collection; licking the back of her wrist and dragging it over her head, jumping up and swatting madly at a butterfly that’s just out of reach, crouching on the ground and swatting a ball of yarn between her hands. There will also be one that will ONLY happen when she is approached from behind at a distance and no one is in front of her to see. She will be laying on the ground with one foot/leg sticking straight up in the air. Her head will be down near the base of that leg and moving up and down. She will immediately stop when the person gets close enough to see more detail. We have to maintain the teen rating somehow here folks.

• Synapse: He will occasionally take out a cell phone after a ring sound effect. Chat bubbles will say things like “Eggs and some milk? Okay” or “Dry cleaners…? AGAIN? How many times does spandex need to be pressed?!” He will then flash away in a brilliant burst of speed and arrive back about 2.5 seconds later. Once in a great while he will get a call and his chat bubble will say “Oh, hey there pretty lady. What? You’re wearing what now? Where? Oh my!” Once more he flashes away in a brilliant flash of speed. This time when he comes back (15 seconds later); he’s smoking a cigarette.

That's enough for now. If you have your own ideas throw 'em in! I may add more of my own later.

SO awesome, as always.

And yet, for some reason, these two cracked me up the most:

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw • Mirror Spirit: Should do everything you do. • ForeShadow: Should do everything you do before you do it.

I do agree it'd be nice if the contacts didn't stand there like statues sometimes lol. I want a trainer dancing to a boombox. Possibly Blue Steel. :P

Wonderful.

I wonder what Back Alley Brawler and Ravenstorm will do...

Some are daft...some are priceless ^^
I particularly liked Mako's one, and Mynx. Very appropriate.
And I know how those shop attendants feel

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I like these ideas. ^_^

Contacts reacting to player interaction would be nice too (client-side of course.) Things like the explain and lecture emote.

But what I really want is for the contact and player to use the cellphone emote when they make a long-distance interaction.

Imagine them doing that while standing next to each other.

It has been brought to my attention that my list is incomplete... so here are a few more:

• Back Alley Brawler: After 10 minutes of standing in Galaxy City without a person around him for training he will begin to do occasional Sigh emotes. Ten minutes after that he will pull out a harmonica and begin to play a sad Blues song upon it. 30 minutes of harmonica playing later he will break down and start crying. When someone interrupts the crying with a request for training BABs will grab them up in a huge bear hug and laugh with pure joy for 2 minutes before finally letting them down and training them up.

• Blue Steel: First the police drones surrounding this area should all be removed. From this point on if any villain approaches the training area Blue Steel will gesture and one of the following random effects will occur: A) The villain will scream as a hole opens beneath them, demonic hands appear and jerk him down into the netherworld.. one demon pops out and pays homage to Steel begging him to never return to hell to destroy them in exchange for this service… B) The villain is surrounded by a halo of light… they get a beatific expression then do a costume change emote into a Longbow or PPD uniform… C) They spot Blue Steel and run to him… doing the We’re Not Worthy emote for 24 real time.. so there will always be a large crowd around him doing so… D) Enemy turns into a pig… runs squealing.. is trapped by a falling cage… a privacy screen appears around the cage… sounds of chain saws and shadows move on screen… man walks from behind screen and hands a small something to Steel saying “Here’s your ham sandwich sir”

• Castle: Sitting at a table with a chess board set up atop it. Various other heroes can be brought in to play him or it can be a random person. Castle cheats throughout.. telling the other player “Hey! Is that a Rikti Invasion?!” and switching the positions of pieces.. asking passing player heroes for advice on what move he should make, etc… when (inevitably) he loses he sets fire to the board and pieces in a huge explosion… his chat bubbles filled with nothing but #%$(*# symbols.. the hero he was playing will leave in disgust.. a little while later another one passes by and the process starts all over again

• Infernal: Mostly conversation, as every 10 minutes or so a small demon will run from some distant point to stand next to him. You only hear Infernal’s side of the conversation however. “I left the stove on this morning? Did you shut it off? Of course you didn’t… Why don’t you try that?” …. “Morty called you a bad word? Did you ask him to stop? Oh my. Well, get a plunger and see if you can get his head out of the toilet… NO I don’t think he needs to apologize first…” …. “No, I don’t think hellfire is a good way to remove stubborn stains from the carpet… What do you mean you wish I’d said that earlier?”

• Luminary: Hers will also be pretty much exclusively chat bubble action. She surfs the web as she stands waiting for customers. “That’s odd… It says it’s detected a virus on my system… but I just DID diagnostics this morning.” … “Someone named Tiffany sent me a message? Click the link… ACK! Visual memory erase! VISUAL MEMORY ERASE!” …. “Note to self: Only use Rooster and Cat as search words… do NOT use alternatives on the world wide web.” And… finally… every so often she will hiccough and a beam will project a small hologram of a female in a white dress… the female will say “Help me Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope…” over and over… Luminary will thunk herself in the side of the head and mutter “I have GOT to track down that danged file and delete it someday.”

• Proximo: Will randomly start posing down and doing flex routines. Ladies will gather around him which he will ignore, despite their holding up 10s in the Judge emote. A man in leather skirt will walk by and Proximo will wolf whistle.. the man will promptly run screaming.. Proximo sulks for an hour then the process restarts.

• Ravenstorm: Throughout the day he will randomly scream “Eureka!” and surround himself with an impenetrable shield of dark energy. It will be impossible to speak to him during this time. After about 4 or 5 minutes the shield will explode outwards with terrific force doing major knockback but no damage to those around him. He will mutter “too much sulfur… gotta remember that next time.. Waaaaay too much sulfur..” for several minutes before calming down to normal behavior.

I would LOVE to see this happen! I laughed so hard I fell down when I first read it (note to self: GET OUT MORE!)

Can you do the Villain-side contacts now?





Don't make me beg....




Okay, you asked for it... plz? plz? plz? *repeats 10,000 times, each time increasing slightly in pitch until you can no longer hear it*