The most overused and underused characters in CoX lore

THANK YOU! I was beginning to think I was the only one that remembered that.

Uh, that's what I said.

I certainly don't miss the blueshirt PPD-- they were constantly FLEEING IN TERROR and/or having their purses snatched back in the day. I think Wincott in the Hollows is one of the few remaining blueshirts still on duty, along with a handful (still getting beaten up by Prisoners) in Bricks.

But they built the AE building in Atlas on one of the most crime-ridden corners in the city... my fledgling first heroes arrested many bad guys there back in 2005. The crime rate had to have dropped a good bit just by cleaning up that corner to where no bad guys can walk there any longer.

Of course, even with improved PPD and Longbow roaming around Atlas Park, there is still plenty of crime to go around.

I think the PPD probably use them to fight the tougher criminal gangs - so low level Heroes do still have a role to play in helping the rank and file PPD members fight the low level street thugs.

She's still the last person in the chain of custody, so far as all the lost artifact storylines seem to record. You give the doodad to Azuria... and then maybe she gives it to Gregor, maybe she gives it right to the CoT, you don't know. What you do know is that she's the specific person you always hand the stuff over to, and she never even mentions Gregor.

They're an item, and she's just protecting him.

She tells you that the items were stolen from the Vault, not from her. SHE was not the last person in the chain of custody, Gregor was. She's just the one you're dealing with, and she doesn't mention him because, frankly, that's unimportant to the task at hand. The important thing is recovering the Wheel of Destruction or the Scroll of Tielekku.

The whole issue also has something to do with the fact that for a while, Galaxy City and the alternate starting contacts didn't even EXIST, but that's a different story.

That would be fun actually -- the door blowing inward and there is mirrorverse Fusionette, capable and level-headed, ready to lead you to safety!

Wouldn't Praetorian Fusionette be evil?

That would make her there to KILL YOU, and she'd be coldly efficient about it, too.

Or she'd be one of Tyrant's followers, and be in charge of security

I'm not actually sure how an NPC rescuing a player avatar would even work anyway - I know they could spawn, then find you, like an ambush homes in on you, and then they could do whtever they had to do to release you, like the way Lady Jane has a text and emote trigger once she reaches the chest in the Midnighter arc mission.
If you were in a normal cell, the door would have to be un-targetable, and also see-through in some way - maybe some kind of energy field - so you could see that the NPC had arrived.
I'm not sure you could have a set-up the way Statesman is trapped by Tyrant - unless they made some sort of really long duration hold or something.

Gregor gets a pass because he has the whole "Bad boy of magic" thing going for him. (I'm surprised they didn't give him a trenchcoat after those became available.)

And if Azuria is Gregor's superior, then she bears the brunt for the loss of the items. Something as important as the Wheel of Time should be given the highest priority for MAGI.


And to be fair, Skipper LaGrange mentions that he got the Ghost Detecting Wand out from under Azuria's nose so it's not like it's not canon that she has a habit of losing things.

(Full disclosure: In my AE Arc, I have some text where you find a magic charm that Azuria uses to defend herself. The charm is engraved with "If Found, Please return to Azuria, Magi, Atlas Park" on it.)

Well, not all Praetorians are morally mirrored. Calvin Scott's still good! Miss Liberty was still good!

... she's certainly good to her grandfather

Dominatrix's character bio is still SO wrong... so wrong...

...and yet, so very, right?

He's been head-hunted to design Cryptic's next MMO.

No, that's Ms. Liberty - Miss Liberty was Dominatrix's mother, who she killed.

I need some sort of flow chart to keep up with all the relationship aspects.

Brass is awesome!

Doom/Batman in 2012

The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!

And this reached its peak in the Envoy of Shadow arc.

Whose bright idea was it for the MAGI folk to store Akarist in one of their safehouses? Had he known that the safehouse was the vault, he probably would have politely declined their protection.

Yes, more Becky please. She was a total blast to fight alongside.


How about Col. Duray? Here we have the founder of one of the coolest tech-oriented villain groups, and as far as I know, no heroes ever get to bring him to justice. Instead, we get "Mr. I Love Me More than I Love Delilah" there in Faultline.

And I second, third, and fourth the request for more Marshall Brass. He is one of my favorite low level contacts in the Rogue Isles. How about more Willy Wheeler too? I could just see him recovering after his initial downfall, and becoming a useful amicable ally and higher level contact. After all, he is simply making his way, the only way he knows how. But that's just a little bit more than the Spiders allow.


How better to trap unsuspecting schmucks into losing their bodies to the Circle? Let them get their greedy paws on their ancient relics to draw them into their nightmare world.

Nemesis perhaps?

You are 2/3 right there. He is used in only 2 of the 3 holiday events. He appears nowhere during Halloween.

And one I would like to see more of is the Clockwork King. He is one of my favorite bad guys. How can one not like the steampunk look? In fact, the looks of two of my villains were Clockwork inspired...



First was Savage Simon, my SS/WP Brute:



He is an inventor and mad scientist (the latter only when he is off his medications though) who is fascinated with the Clockwork, and when he designed his battle armor, that was his inspiration. Unfortunately, during the Aeon Conspiracy caper, the Clockwork that were holding Aeon's workers hostage saw right through his disguise.


And then there is Rad-Bit, my Robots Mastermind...



Simon built him out of old Clockwork parts stored in the Zig's basement. Only thing missing was a proper Clockwork Winder. Seems the guards kept taking those to sell off at Wentworth's. Perhaps someday, Rad will be able to get a proper key on his back.