The Incarnates: Icly or oocly?

I only plan on making my main hero and main villain into Incarnates. My main villain, Orochi Dragon (Ninjas/Poison MM) is already the head of a clan who worships Yamata No Orochi, so making him into an incarnate of the Eight-Headed Serpent would not be that big of a stretch concept-wise.

Trying to find a way to justify Spectreblade (Broadsword/Dark Armor Scrapper) being an incarnate is a bit tougher, as the source of his power is his possessed suit of armor that he inherited along with a bunch of other medieval artifacts. But as I did the arc and read this thread, I realized that "Incarnate" does not necessarily mean "Incarnate of a specific god". In fact, the Ramiel arc casts some doubt on the previous assertions in the lore that Statesman and Lord Recluse are really the embodiments of Zeus and Tartarus, respectively. (And on a side note, isn't Tartarus a place rather than a deity?) As the Well itself stated in the arc, its sources are many.

And then there's Hero1, whose link to the Well was the sword Excalibur. Which gave me the idea. Why not have Spectreblade come across a similarly empowered sword? Perhaps not on the same level as Excalibur, but still with a trace of Incarnate power. I could simply say that the armor was not the only magical artifact in the collection, and sword had also been lying in Spectreblade's collection of medieval doodads gathering dust until it was discovered, or that the artifact from the Ramiel arc was the sword.

Im making Fist an incarnate because dark armor sucks and needs all the help it can get.

So does Ascendant's tendency to RP his character as someone who is deflecting Meterors the size of Texas change because the game Engine did? Hope not, Jack as written has always been more powerful then the game let's him be. The Incarnate system, and the new innate powers, just let the game be closer to the imagination. Of course if you're running around lording over people....well whatever

Not sure if this thread will be of any help to you, even if it did get hijacked by Unionverse issues. Maybe it'll help with some ideas though:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=245155

God modders will always be lame jackholes regardless of if they are level 1 or 100.

Why let them ruin other peoples fun for fear of contempt from the peanut kingdom of slash-e-walllean?

As long as people are not trying to deus ex everything in RP, they can have whatever the hell back story they want for their $15 a month, and if they act like a jackhole that's when you call in reinforcements from the kingdom of slashignore.

Personally speaking I am far more concerned about the over abundant population of "RP'ers" who don't actually roleplay in game and after first introductions proceed to spam you with OOC tells about how great and amazing they are. Seriously, I don't care how detailed your virtueverse page is or if you have written a 50,000 word story in the RP forums if you are not going to interact with other players in character in game then you are not a Roleplayer... you're a fanfic writer with a really crappy illustrator and poor social skills.

I'm doing a mix of it. For the character that I took my forum name from, her armor has gotten some improved modular functionality. Massive Incarnate buffage accomplished without becoming a demigod.

But I'm also working in the villain morality mission where she meets her far future god-self, her armor must insure that future does not come to pass. Because the far future god-self has exceeded the AI's controls, but if it kills her, it kills the AI's host.

You can roll a level 1 mastermind and do the button-mashing non-RP part of the game like a mastermind, and then turn around and RP as a muscle-bound tanker. The plot is more important than powers,

Things I'm sick of: people looking down their noses at other people's RP. If you don't like someone using the incarnate system, or if you don't like people NOT using the incarnate system as YOU feel its intended then so what? I doubt that person cares what you think why should you care what they think? Get over it, its just a game, move on.

I plan on using the incarnate system to simply explain ongoing rp I've been doing since making the character. Basically Serena is harboring a completely unknown entitity in her being which she inherited from her mother shortly before her conception. This creature is not a god, a peacebringer or nictus of any kind. Its only purpose was to explain why Serena's powers are so different from her natural genetic history (father being a fire blaster, mothers family being several generations of faith healers) The creature has been manipulating her creation and her powers since birth and I have rp'd about it in game, on the forum and in my VV. Serena's long time wish and goal was to become "normal" and with the introduction of the incarnate system I am using her growing power as fluxes of an experiment gone awry and the going rogue pack to allow me to promote the story line of "evil seri" taken over by this entity. I don't expect others to know or care about my character, and frankly unless I have a vested interest in RP'ing with your toon I couldn't give a **** about anyone else and how they explain their toon being an incarnate.

To speak frankly I'm disappointed in the whole thing, the system, the story, all of it I am so underwhelmed I'm actually bored with city currently because of it. I was hoping we could feel epic again and now its turned into ITF, LGTF and Raid Farming, thats not epic thats Same-****-different-day.

Seraph is "On The Path" to absolution but I just don't Roleplay it openly and most people have no idea. I have plans as to how it'll evolve, being gifted the Flame of Wisdom by Athena (perfect weapon against Cthulu "It's darkest before dawn") but he doesn't go around toting about it. So it's more secretive, he doesn't know the extent it'll take him and more or less he treats the path just like any other relic investigation.

That being said, I choose to acknowledge the Task Force initiation for Incarnates so Seraph easily recognizes the man he was to be in the future as a near-god therefore connecting the dots rather quickly upon taking part in Apex and Tin Task Forces. It's a subtle feeling, he knows he's stronger upon revisiting Praetoria but he can't put his finger on it and every encounter makes him remember Ramiel's words and the vision he saw through the crystal of his future self.

Typically I don't RP on the mission about it. Haven't really met anybody that preferred it so it would be kind of... intangible for Seraph to constantly say "Yeah, I was in the neighborhood so thought I'd tag along." Which to me is kind of weak for a good start arch. I usually want reasons otherwise I RP Seraph as not even being there at that point in time while still helping the team oocly. Although it's probably because I just haven't found the right mix of allies to group with that is RP dedicated to doing missions, then I might change it up a little.

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Originally Posted by Lady_Cyrsei Things I'm sick of: people looking down their noses at other people's RP. If you don't like someone using the incarnate system, or if you don't like people NOT using the incarnate system as YOU feel its intended then so what? I doubt that person cares what you think why should you care what they think? Get over it, its just a game, move on.

I agree. It's easy to retcon ones self by simply remaining quiet on the RP and not criticizing another player just because they don't strike your fancy. But ridiculing them doesn't make you any better. Simple as that.

*Pets Nalrok's soft demonic underbelly*

SFW or not, I think we have all wanted to teabag Jack/Tyrant/Statesman at one point or another.