Children

Whachoo talkin' 'bout Willis? There's El Super Mexicano, the Infront Steakhouse, and that hotdog stand somewhere. What more could you need to eat?

Don't forget Coal Burger and Heisten Fizz. And Paragon Pizza Pie. And City of Gyros (my favorite).

Actually, I made a fairly tragic character that is a 'child'. She was a crazy 11ish-year old girl growing up in Kings Row. Her favorite books were by H.P. Lovecraft and his ilk, to get away from her low-life mother and living in abject poverty.

She finally decided to take action, after all there were real super-heroes and villains with magical powers. So she managed to get some of the Tsoo's mystical ink and poisoned herself trying to tatoo a symbol to call Chtullu into this world and activated her mutation.

But she had seen her sudden growth into an adult 8' woman as divine proof that she had been heard and was to shepherd Earth into the abyss. So she cobbled a costume before her mother got done with her latest trick and went out into Kings Row to start destroying everything.

And got promptly arrested by Apex and thrown into the Zig. They thought she was pretty crazy, but she made it all the way to the top in the Rogue Isles before Apex finally discovered what had happened from her mother.

Now she's reformed and a heorine, though having to adjust to her meds.

Good lord yes! We don't know where those children have been - they may have cooties.

My favorite is the Hungry Dragon. My MA scrapper loves their Kung POW! Chicken.

I'm sure not *all* of them are girls.

!!! Well I'm sure the rest of them are stinky and big dodo heads...

Bill Cosby...did he take the children?

I want to create "Pygmy woman" who's power is to throw small sausages at foes!!!

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

ok, that guy LOVES standing in lines... bureaucracy must be his fetish.

The story takes an entirely different turn if you know the whole thing. NewSouth Books is printing the alternate version so that students in schools which have banned Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn (the altered edition contains both stories, and Tom Sawyer is edited in two spots, as well) may have the opportunity to study it.

It's not the publisher that's trying to be PC, the publisher is trying to get the book into schools that are being PC.

Which does nothing to disprove that Political Correctness is rapidly outliving it's usefulness.
Much like Unions and Affirmative Action.
They were helpful concepts, until taken too far.

I can totally understand why there are no children in this game. Because society as a whole, is pretty stupid, and if you give them something like playable children, or even NPC children, in an MMO, they WILL do very stupid and perverted things with them. I am ok with the height slider and the other sliders to make my child heroes and villains, though the chest slider for the girl models is annoying, I wind up with little girls who seem to have hit puberty really early.

Tell that to my hero and villain kids. Apparently Recluse gets how those words can be taken out of context, he more than likely does not care what the world thinks, he already is a successful supervillain with a HUGE rep sheet, adding more crimes to it, whether he committed them or not, does not matter to him.

If it turns out a very powerful child can bring about his New World Order, then he will gladly accept some false charges to do it. Its not like he will be arrested for them anyway.

You found the secret identity of Captain Viagra.

Actually it's the civilian disguise of Priapus, God of Virility. He transforms into his godly form by slamming his 'staff' against the ground and calling out, "I. Am. SORRRRE!"




There was one time decades ago when a comic book writer witnessed Priapus transforming with a bad head cold. With his congestion it sounded like "I. AM. THORRRR!" And thus the writer was inspired.

Hopefully, having read the bowlderized PC version of both magnificent tales, students will hie themselves to the public library to read the books in their original form. I myself grew up in the deep American South, and reading "Huck Finn" in the original helped me realize that judging people by the colour of their skins was idiotic. Just as Mr. Twain intended...

Is his secret identity name Smiling Bob?

Where are you getting this from? (Really, I'd like to know, always fun discovering wildly-conflicting lore.)

Those areas are devastated, in many cases irradiated (or otherwise completely uninhabitable), and in other cases completely overrun by villain groups--in case you ever wondered where the never-ending supply of villains comes from. When the stories talk about how "hard hit" Paragon was in the invasion, they mean it. The city and its surrounding areas didn't get "just kind of hit in a few spots, with swaths of untouched suburbs in-between". Quite the opposite.

Which leads to the concept of Hazard Zones. Typically, these outlaying zones are the most hotly contested, and they're where the various villain groups are most deeply entrenched. This is why you don't see civilians wondering around them. They're categorized as "Hazard" zones because the heroes and authorities haven't yet managed to take them back under the rule of law. Lore-wise, though, these Hazard zones are probably very nice compared to many of the areas in-between the war walls.

So it follows, we could open up more Hazard zones farther beyond, if only we could make headway and clean up our present ones.

Interesting point, here, and hotly discussed on the RP board a while ago:

There is actually no such thing as a "Hero license", according to the lore of the game.

There is registration under the CCFA, whereby a civilian informs the state of an intention to undertake state-sanctioned police actions against criminals, following law-enforcement procedures, and thus unable to be personally held responsible by the criminals for those lawful actions, and the hero gets a little card that says "I registered, My Name is Underpants Man" or whatever, but there is no testing, no licensing process. Presumably, any civilian may choose to thus register.

Edit: (I will point out now that I was one of the crowd who thought there actually was a license, and tried to argue it. We failed, because the lore is remarkably clear, never using the term "Hero License" but clearly using "Hero Registration" or "FBSA Registration".)

Agreed.