You know Nightshade... every time I read your name I read it as "Nightshade Lingerie".
I think this is the first time I noticed that it DIDN'T say that.
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Ah... the Dark Age of Supernames is to be blamed for that.
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Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
Is it really any worse than all these 'heroes' I see in Atlas with names like BLOODEATER, with bios that are far more bloodthirsty than anything I've seen on Redside?
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Originally Posted by Westley
You know Nightshade... every time I read your name I read it as "Nightshade Lingerie".
I think this is the first time I noticed that it DIDN'T say that. |
I have the terrible feeling that I'm going to think of this every time an Arbiter says "You're doing well, Character!"
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Boy Band/Sonic Mastermind
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Originally Posted by Smurch
Local toughs taking their neighborhood back from the REAL Badguys? Good guy gangs that are taking back the streets and helping their 'hood.
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I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Umm... the part where you're insulting intelligence... you might want to spell things correctly -- and I'm being generous here.
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I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
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I call foul. Everyone knows that people named BLOODEATER have no bios.| Is it really any worse than all these 'heroes' I see in Atlas with names like BLOODEATER, with bios that are far more bloodthirsty than anything I've seen on Redside? |
They are all men with mysterious pasts, presumably so the creator doesn't actually have to write anything about them.
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But how would we know that they have mysterious pasts, unless the bio says so? |
Originally Posted by Sister_Twelve
They are all men with mysterious pasts, presumably so the creator doesn't actually have to write anything about them.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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We don't know. The bio simply says nothing. Then some random player character near them mentions how mysterious their past is, at which point they either shoot 15 people, pull out a sword and stab 15 people, or produce blades from beneath their skin at some point on their body and slash 15 people to death with them.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
But how would we know that they have mysterious pasts, unless the bio says so?
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Many discussion threads ensue, all which mention the character's mysterious past, thereby solidifying the sheer mysteriousness of it all.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
But how would we know that they have mysterious pasts, unless the bio says so?
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But yeah, I can see a Heroic Thugs MM. :P
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is that perfect zinger I see in there?
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Originally Posted by Dispari
You could use mine instead! It was pretty popular when I first posted it.
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ok, regarding the detonation argument:
with free willed henchmen, why would they have the explosives rigged to them if they didn't expect them to be activated at som point? by definition, free-willed henchmen choose to work for you, and choose to fight for you in whatever way you end up asking them to. also, if they can set down the charge before running for it, then doesn't that mean there's some kind of warning before it blows?
besides, why even put a bomb on a perfectly good soldier, rather than just using a grenade? the whole thing has a feeling of said henchmen being a willing part of the plan.
and on the RP side, I greatly like the idea of RPing it as the henchmen doing it themselves, to the dismay of the mastermind.
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Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
How can you make a STALKER heroic!?!
I mean what could be MORE HEROIC than LITERALLY STABBING YOUR FOE IN THE BACK!? |
Or eliminating key people to stop atrocities or Evil from taking over.
Hmm .... Inglourious Basterds , perhaps???
and have we been given the go-ahead to say we are actually 'killing' our enemies? . . . even redside?
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I now see why people suggested substituting kittens and frogs earlier. Whilst it doesn't fit the concept of any of my MMs, it would have made this thread a lot shorter (and less aggressive).
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Originally Posted by DoctorParadox
ok, regarding the detonation argument:
with free willed henchmen, why would they have the explosives rigged to them if they didn't expect them to be activated at som point? by definition, free-willed henchmen choose to work for you, and choose to fight for you in whatever way you end up asking them to. also, if they can set down the charge before running for it, then doesn't that mean there's some kind of warning before it blows? besides, why even put a bomb on a perfectly good soldier, rather than just using a grenade? the whole thing has a feeling of said henchmen being a willing part of the plan. |
A serum based on the genetic disorder Riley Day Syndrome was developed and injected into my henchmen and the results are that they have total regeneration and total pain insensitivity. They feel no pain and heal completely from the most severe injuries in only a few minutes.
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Actually, I remember a post by... Manticore, maybe? that the reason the street crime is so rampant in Paragon is because there's such a safety net - yeah, you might get horribly murderized for trying to steal that purse, but the hospitals will patch you up just as well as they would any hero. Thus, with the risk of terminal consequences drastically reduced, it's no wonder so many of those criminals go right back out after breaking out of the Pyramid Sponge.
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Originally Posted by Westley
Only the heroes carry the bracelets that let them teleport to the hospitals upon defeat. The citizens do not have these.
I'm not sure what the story is for villains, or if it's even explained. |
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i can easily imagine kittens puking on enemies.
Of course we need quadrupedal skeletons in the game first. Catgirls would not be an acceptable substitute for actual kittens. Especially not the futa variety. |
/Blackadder the Fourth
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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.
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The futa mastermind set is only available on Virtue.
It's also preferable to the Futa Assault set.
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The Futa Assault set is only available on Freedom and can only be played in PvP zones.
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Originally Posted by LISAR
The futa mastermind set is only available on Virtue.
It's also preferable to the Futa Assault set. |
You know, one way to play a Mastermind (and, in particular, a Thugs Mastermind) and not break immersion is to play him/her as the antihero.
Yes, he'll fight crime, beat up criminals. But he'll do it for his own reasons, and sometimes reluctantly. He questions authority. He's not a hero. He tends to be larger than life. He's majorly flawed. But you can sympathize with him because of his flaws.
Popular antiheroes:
- Batman
- Sub-Mariner
- The Punisher
- Rorschach
Isn't Aquaman a fish mastermind?
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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I currently have a Magic Thugs/Traps (selected magic on accident and shrugged and fit it into the descrip later) who's backstory is that she's a cat-spirit in service to Bast, one of the Eyes of Ra (basically the same job as an avenging angel in Judeo-Christian belief....ie: city-to-salt type stuff). All her minions are her brothers come to Earth in disguises. The reason they never run out of ammo is because they use magic guns.|
Originally Posted by falloutsurvivor
we know that with going rogue we will be able to change faction.
but a thug mastermind HEROES? really? thug are criminal how will it fit with the lore ? |
She's supposed to be feeding Longbow information. They pay her via the occasional bank "robbery"....guess no one's noticed yet that they only take specific security deposit boxes
Thrythlind's Deviant Art Page
"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
My villain is going to be in Paragon City because he lost a bet and has to play nice for a month.
Next question. 
It occurs to me that if one has to choose between having ill-fitting hero Masterminds but not playing them and not having hero Masterminds at all... Then that would be a no-brainer, wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I rolled a hero MM a while ago, a Thugs/FF who claims to be a renegade Longbow agent but is actually still an agent and is working to convince street gang members to do some good in the Isles. Funnily enough I didn't roll her with GR in mind - more an experiment to see if I could level a villain up through regular content without fighting ANY Longbow. So far so good.
(I did consider /Traps, but couldn't quite justify Detonator. I figure with FF she's picked up one of the generators used by the Ballista...)