Bright

I dunno...
He doesn't sound like quite enough of a weasel.

Burkholder...

He would have to do Burkholder.

Spiffy! Thanks for hunting that down.

I really do want those wings... 'No clue who's going to wear them yet, but that's beside the point.

(Actually, I do have some idea... **eyes the "player character" version of Cardinal** Those things would look awfully snazzy with his red Electric effects.)

A little, yeah.... The underground looks like a gorgeous map. 'Hope we have time to get a good look at everything while we're running the trial, instead of having to rush past it all. It looks like a lot of detail went into it, and it would be a shame to have to ignore all that because we're on a short timer or something.

Interesting...

I swear there's a post in one of the early Freedom threads stating that multi-month subscriptions were likely to get the stipend points all at once (I want to say it was either a Z- or Posi-post, but I'm not sure about that and could well be misremembering who said it-), though a lot of other, general thread discussion has made it sound month-to-month since then.

I haven't seen anything that suggested the tokens would be given out all at once. The last time it was even mentioned as a possibility, people shot the idea down pretty quickly with reminders that the current Vet system doesn't work that way. (After all, I'd have my 60 month now if it did, rather than just the 48...)

I'm already on an annual renewal, ZM. I'm paid up 'til next June. XD

It'll be nice if they hand me a year's worth of tokens all at once, but from what's been said it doesn't seem that's the case. It sounds like people with multi-month subscriptions will still get them one at a time, on what would be our monthly "billing date" if we were still month-to-month...

The Paragon Points, on the other hand, may all show up at once. There have been statements made at various times that make it sound like it could go either way with them. I haven't seen anything that suggests we'll get all the vet-replacements in one lump sum for pre-paid time, though.

It would be nice, yeah... I want those wings ... But I really don't think it's going to work that way.

Me: Hey Shade! Sky says he's been captured by the Council again... He wants to know if you could, like, drop what you're doing and go rescue him or something.

Shade: *grumbles something about 'third time this week' and 'feeding the dork to Hamidon'*


I love this thing. XD

Know that feeling. I've never had any luck getting costume codes or any of that... But that bird-girl in my avatar pic? She needs a facepalm emote. Badly.

It's the only response she'll ever need when another one of those "Rescue Skydragon. Again. Because he's a dork." tip missions comes up.

Word.

I am curious who's going to get the ax... but no matter who the powers-that-be pick, I hope they at least do it well.

Yeah... 'Know that feeling, too. Most of my hero-side characters are involved with Vanguard. If you've run the War Zone arcs, you know how that goes. (I'll admit I was fond of Sefu, though. I make an exception for him.)

"Bimbo" is probably the kindest thing most of my Praetorians and red-side characters might call them. 'Not exactly a lot of love lost, there.

Whatever.
The blond bimbo standing around Atlas Park.

I never have been able to keep up with which one was Ms. and which one was Miss. Although you've got a point for red-siders either way...

I always say that as a writer, I'm a pretty good editor.

My attempts at character fiction are dire and I know it, but they're still a heck of a lot of fun to write and to my mind that's enough to justify doing it.

Even when these freakin' bird-brained weirdos of mine don't cooperate.

*eyes Surruna and one far-from-finished Whitmoore post*

<_<

Yeah.

My rogue Stalker, Grey Kestrel, has similar sentiments. Her species were created to be guardians and protectors, so some of that attitude is hard-wired instinct, but most of it is personal choice.

As an IC nod to her partner's day job (Cardinal is a Vault archivist-), she lives in Saint Martial. It's become every bit as much "her territory" as Paragon City is for the hero-side Elysion, and she defends it and it's human population every bit as ferociously as they defend Atlas, Talos or Peregrine Island. As you say, she's strong enough she doesn't need to let the weak become anyone else's prey.

'Thing is, that also extends to Arachnos' activities. If they're helping keep other threats at bay, that's fine and good... but she'll carve them up just as quickly as anyone else if they push it, so I can't exactly call her "patriotic" in the sense of supporting the de facto govenment of the Isles. She doesn't. She's more interested in looking out for her own.

Of course, who exactly constitutes "her own" is a whole different can of worms, and extends pretty far beyond the borders of Saint Martial. She'd get just as stabby over someone messing with Scir in Grandville as she would over the Praetorians dropping a Goliath on the Giza. Personal associations trump geographic location in some people's cases.

As for the rest? There's not an American in the bunch (Most of my crew are Shard-born, so not even from Primal Earth... much less Paragon City-), and if asked they would probably go with Vanguard's "we're citizens of the world" approach. Like Kestrel, though, they're all instinctively protective and highly territorial creatures. They guard the area and the human population around their homes very carefully. They don't care very much about nations or governments, but they're intensely interested in what's going on in their own territory. So, maybe patriots by Sam's definition, but not in the more traditional sense.

I wish.

Not so much, I suspect... At least, no odder than starting one in Praetoria as a Responsibility-track Loyalist or a Warden is now, anyway.

If you start out with the idea that the character is going to be on one side or the other concept-wise, where you begin playing them isn't the defining thing. It's the journey and the destination that matter, not the starting point. (Of course, I'm biased about the whole side-switching thing... I have several hero-side Stalkers now that all started out in Praetoria, and a fourth who was described and role-played as a rogue long before Going Rogue existed. My one and only Corruptor is slated to go full hero some time after he hits 40. )