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This right here, my bird-brains would say, is why it's always a good idea to have back-up. Being able to call in a couple of friends means not having to leave half of the job undone. The only real question is which bit they'd handle themselves...

Most would go after their family, all things being equal.

They're a pretty tightly-knit group, though, and as a species the Elysion definitely have a lot of that "Mess with one of us and you're messing with ALL of us"-thing in the way they interact with each other. So, it wouldn't be out of the question for any of them to trust other flight members with the task if they felt like they had a better chance of handling the nemesis.

Their response to the goon would be the same no matter what, though. "Of course you know that this means war." They're not terribly forgiving creatures, and threatening a mate, sibling or child would make them very, very grumpy.

The more interesting character to put through a situation like this would actually be my rogue... Unlike the hero-side Elysion, Kestrel doesn't have the rest of the bird-brains to help her. She and her partner are, for the most part, completely on their own. She's very protective of Cardinal... Her first instinct would be to go after him, no matter what her nemesis was threatening to do to the rest of the world. But I'm not so sure she'd act on that instinct. It would depend entirely on exactly what the nemesis was likely to do vs. what they were threatening, and what she thought her odds were of being able to stop them from making TOO terrible a mess if she came back and kicked their butt at a later point.

Either way, that nemesis had best be ready to deal with some serious wrath and hell-fire for even trying a stunt like that. Like I said... 'not the most forgiving creatures in the world, my birds, and unlike those hero-side goodie-goodies who tend to operate inside the bounds of human law, Kes doesn't pull punches. She'd have their head on a plate and their soul fed to a demon before she was done. You mess with anything of hers at your peril.

I've started up a Ninja MM, a Dark Corr and an Electric Dom within the last few months... They're each a whole different world from my usual tanks, scraps and stalkers. Fun, yes. But very, very different.

The mastermind in particular has been an interesting challenge, since I have to have her close enough to the fight to keep her minions bubbled, while still staying out of the way enough not to get clobbered. It really goes against my melee-player instincts to wade in and not wail on everything myself.

That is kind-of annoying...

I wanted to do a "surfer-dude" outfit for my slacker ax-tank, but ended up scrapping the idea pretty quickly. The parts to do it just weren't there.

Now that I've had a bit more time to play, this is the other fellow I had in mind when I bought the pack.

Steam Monk, my rather goofy mechanical martial artist.



He needed a "flight varient" involving something other than rocket boots. XD

I just got the thing, so I haven't had much time to play around with it yet... But I bought it with a couple of specific characters in mind. This fellow is one of them:



That's Adammas ('Addie' to his friends over on Union-), my stalker mage. He's using a pale grey/white combat version of the body-n-chest Victorian Deco aura as an "armor charm". I'll have to get a screenie of that later.

I love it.

Neither of mine are particularly great... but my Peacebringer probably takes some kind of cake in the "goofiest name/what the hell were you thinking?" catagory.

His name is Mist in Moonlight.

It's as cheesie as all hell and I know it, but it's a combination of the original names of the two halves... A bright-phase Elysion warrior named Shining Mist, who I'd originally planned to make a MA scrapper, and a Kheldian linguist called Moonlight Poet, who was born from a conversation about aliens with day jobs that I'd had with a friend. He's a fun guy... He'll happily debate alternate, minimalist readings and the visual symbolism of e.e. cummings' poetry with you while viciously scattering villains' protons halfway into next week.

My Warshade is pretty pedestrian in comparison. She's Alshain; named after a bianry star. The two partners in that pair are a Striga-born, Goth-girl barrista named Alicia and Aquila, formerly the alien half of a Galaxy archon... Al and the Archon (His name was Carlo-) were childhood friends who had remained close, even after he got recruited into the Council. Her influence on him had a lot to do with Aquila reconsidering the whole "mind-controlling nictus-gig" in the first place, and fusing with her after Carlo's death was the final push it took for him to go completely over to the Warshades' side.

Unlike Mist, who's in the 'One Person'-camp, I still tend to think of Alshain as "them"... two distinct individuals... rather than one combined entity. In human form , she's very much Al. In nova or dwarf form, he's all Aquila.

I tranferred one of my completed characters over to Freedom for the event, so Solace of Silence (lvl 50 KinMelee scrap-) will be there representing the Elysion bird-things. 'Should be a lag-a-rific good time.

My FF defender is my primary MSR character... I take a certain pride in being able to keep everyone involved shielded on our raids.

While this AoE buffing things will certainly make it much, much easier to keep everyone who hangs around in the bowl with the squishies bubbled, it's going to put me back in pre-league-interface hell when it comes to keeping shields on the "away teams" who are up on the rim (or beyond-) most of the time. The only way I'll be able to keep up with who got bubbles and who missed out when the AoE went off is by trying to eyeball it... or keeping buff bars up on the whole darn league.

That's going to be a mess.

Atlas on Liberty was awful... You could hardly move for the lag.

I gave up trying after about five minutes and went to try it out on the red side in Saint Martial and *that* was much, much better. Granted, there were less than 30 of us in that zone taking part, which lead to its own complications, but at least we could use our powers.

I'm not sure how the people who stayed in Atlas put up with it. o_0

Those are gorgeous work, Ominous... Seriously. Thanks for making and posting them.

(And if you're still looking for entities in need of a theme, I'd love to hear what you'd make for Faathim. The big guy really ought to have something of his own.)

For some reason KinMelee just seems to do that sometimes... (My KM scrap is actually worse about missing time after time after time on a regular basis than either of my stalkers or my tank, but they've all definitely had bouts of it, too, and more often than my other melee types.) The amount of Acc you have slotted and the level of the goons don't seem to make much of a difference, either. My scrap is well into ludicrous territory and he still can't hit the broad side of a barn some days. o_0

The power set itself doesn't seem to have a lower than average chance of hitting as far as I can tell... so maybe the Random Number Fairy just hates KMs or something. Gotta be the sound effects.

I'll admit it... When the iTrials came out, I did start with my favorite stalker, scrap and tank. They had first dibs on my attention, because they're the ones I have the most fun playing. But once they were done? It's been "equal opportunity trialing" over here... I've finished Tier 3s on three of my Defenders (FF, Trick Arrow and Rad) as well as one Blaster (DP) and my Peacebringer. If my Dark corruptor and Mind/Psi dom were 50, they'd be right up there, too.

But... yeah. My melees are my favorites. So they got to go first.

I know I'm not alone in that.

Ha! Another collector of little resin minions! (We are legion? I know at least four or five of us who are also City folk. I'm Brightfires on DoA.)

You're right about there being a fair few steampunk fans among the doll crew, though... I think they're still outnumbered by the goths and the lolitas, but not by much. 'Only one steampunk fellow in my own collection (That would be Tammis, my CP Jess-), but I'm always a little behind the times.