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For Kestrel and Surruna (DB stalkers), it's definitely Crey... There's old animosity between the two of them and certain segments of the company's R&D division. That's particularly true of any Crey they find in the Shard.

The bird-things in general will always go after other Rularuu, anywhere they find them. That's a combination of the duty they were given by their creator (More or less "protect the humans from others of our kind"-) and sheer territoriality... And lunch. They consider natterlings tasty.

My Peacebringers hunt Voids. That's very much an "Oh, you did NOT just fire that thing at me!"-kind of situation. They don't take kindly to Quantums either, for similar reasons, and any Galaxy they come across is likely to find himself on the 'you get fried first'-list, too.

Whisper and Anteros (Praetorian Carnie stalkers-) have it in for the Talons of Vengence because of that business with the Carnival of War in First Ward. Semnai (former Seer psi blaster) goes after her sisters.

A lot of my crew now have a serious beef with Mot (and by association, his minions-) for one reason or another...

For Chanter (Dark corr), it's on behalf of Dark Astoria's spirit population. He may be a rogue, and one of Ghost Widow's cronies, but he still hates to see mostly-helpless ghosts devoured and abused.

The Nemissary (Dark defender) and his Unquiet Bride (Necro MM) aren't too pleased with that situation, either. Like Chanter, the Bride is concerned for the dead. Nem is an Oranbegan Death Mage... "semi-reformed" or not, he takes direct attacks on the city and the Circle's disembodied members seriously.

Kephren (my siren) is just ticked over what the creep did to Marcus... She was fond of the guy.

Okay, that looks really nice... 'Gorgeous effects.
The "punch the ground and get some gysers" animation is particularly cool.

I'm not sure I need a water blaster of my own, but still... it's pretty.

Hyperbole or not, it's a pretty poor idea.

Kestrel is still a few threads shy of being able to side-grade her VR bit and build her T4, but once she has them... She'll have a Support Core. Even at T3, it's been a nice buff for her Adept "sidekick" and her chompy Rularuu pets. I also built her a T3 Partial Core Assault just to tinker around with.

I'll also be going for a Core Support for my Ninja MM... T3, most likely.

Palrah currently has a T3 Partial Radial Melee. 'Not sure if I'll T4 his or not.

I have no clue what I'm going to pick for Ash and Silver (scrappers), or Sola (Peacebringer).

I doubt I'll even do Hybrid for any of the others. At least not as long as Mag is the only way to get the required iXP.

I have three Peacebringers (a human/nova bi-form, a human/dwarf bi-form and a human-only) and one Warshade (tri-form) in my crew.

Of the four, two of the PBs (the bi-forms) are 50+3 full Incarnates who are played regularly, mostly in iTrials. The human/nova, Anima Sola, is actually my prefered character for running Underground. PB number 3 is a solo-only character on Exalted, so he's a little behind the other two at 26, but he'll catch up eventually. They're very much *my* characters. Being Kheldian fusions in no way hampered my ability to make them, or my Warshade, my own.

My one 'Shade... She's not played like the PBs are, though. Alshain's in the mid-20's and has more or less been completely abandoned. I haven't played her in close to a year.

I'm very fond of my Peacebringers. I "get" the way they work, I do pretty well with them, I like the look of their powers and I love their sound-effects.

I never really got the hang of playing a Warshade. I didn't like the powers as much, or the look, and the lack of flight in human form annoyed the crap out of me.

I have no doubt at all that in a couple of weeks, the Usual Suspects on my home server will have this trial down just like we do all the others... but it's going to be a pretty painful few weeks while we figure out the best way to handle parts of it, and random pick-up groups may still have problems even after that if they're not made up of experienced people with a lot of fully-shifted characters.

You can call the trial face-roll easy all you want, but the truth of the matter is that the Tyrant fight can be a serious bear if you're not set up to handle it. It's not impossible , but let's not pretend it's going to be a cake-walk for every group that goes in there, either.

Cool beans. I /bugged it in-game, too.

Freak olympics, or whatever it's called. I ran that once, way back, when I was leveling Palrah and haven't seen it since.

My mom is pretty much a life-long Superman fan-girl, so I grew up with comic books around the house. I can't remember what the first issue I ever read was, but I'm certain Clark Kent was involved somehow.

My own "first loves" so to speak... the first titles I bought for myself... were Doctor Strange, Thor and Arion. I also started reading West Coast Avengers pretty early on in its run.

+1 to pretty much everything Tax said...

While I am on sometimes during the day, I have absolutely zero interest in task forces (or teaming in general-) on that scale. I've just never been a fan of the "6 to 8 player team" thing and probably never will be, no matter who's forming the group... I may run one once in a blue moon just to get a particular badge title or costume unlock, but by and large I'll take solo/duoing or a big, multi-team league over that stuff any day.

So, no. If you toss a post out there on LB about forming a TF, 99% of the time I'm not going to reply to it, ask to join the team or even express any interest in it at all. It's just not my thing. Also, my play time isn't unlimited and to be completely frank about it, I'd rather spend what time I have doing what *I* enjoy most, not what someone else thinks is a more proper and more... what? socially-responsible? community-focused? team-oriented?... use of my time.

My altitis is minor compared to most of the true altoholics... I only have about 50 characters all together on my main account and three on my preemie secondary.

About half of that total are 50's now, and all but few of those "finished" toons are completely IO-ed full Incarnates. Many of the remaining non-50's are somewhere between 35 and 47... I have very few real lowbies any more, with most of my "under-30's" being the completely solo-played characters on Exalted and Union that I only tinker with once in a blue moon .

So, what changed? Why haven't I been making alts as much as I used to, back in the days when Steam Monk, Star Dasher and the other 30- and 40-somethings were new? Like a couple of other people have already said up-thread, it's mostly the Incarnate system.

Since it was added, I've had a hard time really considering a character "done" at flat-50, and already taking close to two dozen different ones through the trial grind... while still facing the prospect of doing about two dozen more at some point ... has pretty much made me pause and think twice every time I start to add another member to the crew.

The other consideration is that I already HAVE (or have tried and rejected-) most of the power-set combinations I wanted to play with. Some of the new sets have interested me, and some haven't... but there just aren't as many "Hey, what about a-" moments as there were when I first started to play.

That whole eventually-gotta-do-the-Incarnate-grind-with-them thing has also made me a lot quicker to abandon and/or delete toons that don't catch my fancy. I no longer have the desire to give those guys the second chance I've given some of the others in the past. These days, if I hate them at 30 they're unlikely to stick around, because I can't help but think about how much "fun" they'll be on BAF or speed-LAM number 212. That culling combined with the slow-down in making new toons has really kept the current "lowbie count" in check.

But I *do* play Masterminds... My Ninja/FF mastermind, Hanano, is actually one of my favorite City characters. I play her pretty often.

She and her Bots/Time partner, Suspended, like to go out and duo Giant Monsters.

Han is a 50+3 full Incarnate at this point. I also have a Necro/Thermal (The Unquiet Bride) at 50, plus a mid-level Demons/Thermal (Deirdre) and a lowbie Beast/FF (Nuwisha).

I was fairly surprised to get both Hadrian and Juno's names on Liberty, as well as Karasu and Suzume's.

And then there's my brass-covered, robotic martial artist... How in the world did everyone else miss picking up the name Steam Monk?

I like Vanguard mechs for Mothership raids, and all of my characters tend to keep a few shivans around for tougher-than-expected fights... A few also carry envenomed daggers and recovery serums for the same purpose.

A couple have used the day job rez on league-mates during iTrials and ship raids...

Many have the Wedding Ring and Wolf Whistle temps, but I rarely remember they're there...

A few have Eye of the Magus and Geas of the Kind Ones, and I *do* get a fair bit of use out of those...

Kestrel and Chanter both have the Signature Summon temp power (Scirocco for her, Ghost Widow for him), but that's as much a character/RP thing as a game-play thing. I've only used them once or twice, and even then it was mosly just for the fun of it...

I've never made much use of things like the trick-or-treat rocks, winter snowballs, Chance's chain-gun or Vernon's bees...