When life gives you lemons...

I've never been all that happy with the overplot of City of Villains. Arachnos is a pretty lame villain organization if you ask me: They're basically just the Council with a Venom fetish, and the Council is itself a somewhat lacking redeco of the Fifth Column, so there you go. All villain characters being obliged to have ties to that pack of losers sort of soured the deal for me from eight o'clock Day One. So when the word came down that the villain epic ATs would be even more obligatorily entwined with the Arachnos plotline, I thought, I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Do you know who I am?!

... excuse me. What I mean is, I wasn't impressed. At that point I decided it didn't matter that I was never likely to get a villain to 50, because I wouldn't be missing anything I gave a damn about anyway.

Cut to a bit ago, when I returned to the game after a long absence to discover that the villain epics had been tweaked so they were unlocking at level 20. Hm. Still nothing interesting there...

... and then it came to me. Arachnos is a ridiculous organization. As a world-bestriding terrorist/criminal threat it ranks somewhere up there with Cobra and the Harley-Davidson Owners' Group. I have an easier time taking Nemesis seriously.

So clearly what my Arachnos Soldier needs to be is someone doing a job even other members of Arachnos would think was simultaneously absurd and annoying.



Safety Officer Steve's is a never-ending battle for truth, injustice, and filling out the proper risk assessment forms.

--CP

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Hah, nice. I've got a somewhat similar character, an Arachnos Widow whose work in Arachnos is towards the government of the Rogue Isles. Undersecretary Liv is second in command of the Arachnos-run Rogue Isles Department of Education. I don't think there's much of a school system in the Rogue Isles, but she wants to be an arbiter with a cushy job. Though she has full combat training from Arachnos, she doesn't spend much time on the front lines. She's well described as an 'evil librarian'.

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Proud member of Everyday Heroes (Infinity Heroes), Dream Stalkers (Infinity Villains), Devil Never Cry (Freedom Heroes), Enclave of EVIL (Pinnacle Villains), Phobia (Infinity Villains), Les Enfant Terribles (Freedom Villains), Gravy Train (Virtue Heroes), and more!

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Love Safety Officer Steve and Undersecretary Live--post a pic of her. They could be the new Arachnos power couple.

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I like Arachnos.

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...make a hilarious character?

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Character index

Now I know why Arachnos can build giant buildings out of solid metal but can't pick up the frickin' trash lying in the streets of the Rogue Isles: there's only one guy tasked with picking up all of it.

Great character.

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"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"

Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers

A CoH Comic: Kid Eros in "One Light"

Ahh, Photon; if you want to give that char a bit more of an Arachnos styling, you can try rerolling him as Safety Operative Steve...

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61866 - A Series of Unfortunate Kidnappings - More than a coincidence?
2260 - The Burning of Hearts - A green-eyed monster holds the match.
379248 - The Spider Without Fangs - NEW - Some lessons learned (more or less.)

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Proud member of Everyday Heroes (Infinity Heroes), Dream Stalkers (Infinity Villains), Devil Never Cry (Freedom Heroes), Enclave of EVIL (Pinnacle Villains), Phobia (Infinity Villains), Les Enfant Terribles (Freedom Villains), Gravy Train (Virtue Heroes), and more!

Full, detailed character list

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61866 - A Series of Unfortunate Kidnappings - More than a coincidence?
2260 - The Burning of Hearts - A green-eyed monster holds the match.
379248 - The Spider Without Fangs - NEW - Some lessons learned (more or less.)

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Last I heard, "Arbiter" has been locked out anyway (as in, the game will not currently accept a name with that in it).

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My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City

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When life gives yah lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your dang lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down...with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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When life gives you lemons... f the lemons and bail.

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Hey sometimes lemons are all you need.

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