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Of course, I suppose the easy solution would be to just stop posting the results so late (or move the deadline earlier). I believe I missed Lousy Day's vote which bumps Airhead into 4th place with 8 points.

A quick inspirational piece for you. It wasn't the inspiration for the theme this month, but after I decided on it, I quickly remembered a series of commissions Caemgen had done from Geekboy that happen to fit this theme (and I hope Caemgen doesn't mind me sharing it again here).



And just a mini-heads up. I have the next 3 month's themes planned out right now. Next month will be another twist similar to the secret message month, June will be a more standard theme, and July will be another slight twist month. I hope I've come up with some unique and challenging themes for the coming months and I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

Ok, the votes have been secretly tallied (hopefully correctly as I'm again doing this very late at night again. I'm sure CR will quickly correct any mistakes I might make) and the results are in.

Edit: The one part of this I seem to have the most trouble with for some reason - missed something or other, it has been corrected.



1st place: Tartyrsause with 21 points
2nd place: Christopher Robin with 12 points
3rd place: Henri with 10 points
4th place: Airhead with 8 points
5th place(tie): Darth Delicious with 7 points
5th place(tie): Defiance Jones with 7 points
7th place: Battlewraith with 1 point

Points standings:



Christopher Robin has 61 points
Henri has 57 points
Battlewraith has 51 points
Airhead has 50 points
Defiance Jones has 44 points
Tartyrsause has 39 points
Darth Delicious has 36 points
Lousy Day has 37 points
Techbot Alpha has 34 points

Had a successful (as in went to the end, though failed) Lambda trial. My first ever so not sure how much of this is standard operation.

Full team, formed beforehand.
Upon starting trial, had an LFG popup saying [enter] or [??I forget, abandon or quit??] I clicked [enter] after 15-20 seconds.
Saw a spam full of everyone quitting team in my chat window.
Loading screen for Lambda popped up.
Everyone zoned successfully.
Had one member crash, and rejoined League successfully upon re-entering game.

Finally got my wife to look through these.

1. Darth Delicious
2. Tartyrsause
3. Defiance Jones

So on my Fire/Fire tanker with no Psi protection and little Ice protection, if the Devs come out with a single trial that has an abundance of Psi and Ice damage, they made my character completely useless and I should stop playing the game.

Oh wait, there's still several TFs, a different trial, and plenty of arc content to do. My mistake.

Here's a question: Is this happening only on max member teams, or on teams with less than the maximum members?

That's great, I always find your lists amusing, but this one made me literally laugh out loud right around the "Are you left handed or right handed?" question.

This week's mission, should you choose to accept it:

Find a 4-star arc you haven't played (Arrow Rose's list is a good place to start) ideally with less than 100 plays. If you liked it, give it 5 stars, and share what you thought of it.

Actually, due to the forum login bug, I think it's a fair practice to extend the voting two more days, hopefully things will be resolved by then. The new deadline is Wednesday the 6th midnight Eastern.

Wow, even I missed the voting deadline, I was thinking it was tonight instead of last night. Oops ;^_^

And my next video is coming along nicely. Hopefully I'll be able to write/record the review soon. But for now, here's the playthrough for The Rogue Vahzilok.

And if you haven't caught it, I got a hold of LaserJesus and I will eventually be able to finish all the trailers for this year's Player's Choice Awards. Looking forward to trying out two more different styles of trailers for the next two arcs. Then maybe I'll get around to doing my own arcs.

Oh, and also those of you subscribing to my YouTube channel, thanks a lot. Though I am a little curious who some of you translate to for those who don't have the same City of Heroes and YouTube username.

Another older update, a chibi sketch of my Brute on Liberty with his pumpkinhead costume. She was offering free sketches, and of course I can't resist some free arts. Hopefully I'll get the chance to color it sometime.

I'll also offer up one of mine I got a while back from Lady Judgement. Not sure the best way to go about it.



color refs are in my sig - Burnt Matchstick, Dominator link.

Another piece for my Tanker on Pinnacle, I went back to this character again for my first commission... with real money this time instead of just inf. Foo advertised some "quick colors" and I decided to go ahead and jump on it. The concept was all mine, and after a couple tweaks it turned out pretty well - Anne showing off her welding skills:

By the way, I don't think I've said this yet, but this has been an amazing month for me to watch. I'm very glad that everyone stepped up to the challenge and brought their "A" game in the process. It's amazing that with all the entries, not a single puzzle was the same type.

There were some similar ones, like DD, Henri, and I all used alphabet substitutions, but we all used different ones. Tartyr's and Defiance Jones's were the simplest, but Tartyr's fooled more than one person. Battlewraith's completely baffled me and everyone else, but as a huge fan of Mad Magazine back in the day I can't believe I didn't see it. (although I think I may have figured it out given enough time, at least I'd like to think so) CR's is a tough one when you don't know what you're looking for, especially when the words aren't english, I think it would have been easier if one of the three were spelled correctly left to right, as long as you knew the reference. And Airhead's is one of the most interesting and complex puzzles, yet I think also quite solvable with enough effort.

And on top of the puzzles, I think the art shined through this month as well. DD and Henri came through with some of the best I've seen from them to date. Tartyrsause gave me the best laugh in a long time, I can't tell you how much I love all the in-jokes combined (at my... expense? enjoyment? either way). Even unfinished, I think Defiance Jones has a great start there, and I hope I get to see the finished piece. And Airhead managed to take his own style and make it feel almost like a old-fashioned engraved piece, only in full color.

And as I've gone on and on about all these pieces, I honestly can't decide on a 1-2-3 ranking and will not be voting myself (although I will probably get my wife to make the decision for me). Thank you all again for participating this month.

Oh yeah, and congrats to Airhead for getting the most right: 4. He got Henri, Darth Delicious, Defiance Jones, and mine.

Big hint on the most difficult to guess, and yet one of the more well done puzzles. Mad Fold-in

I enjoyed Hulu's 1996 version. It had been done before by a site a year or two ago, but I still enjoyed it.

YouTube's 1911 version was rather "eh".

deviantArt was surprising, it was just a little weird face icon that peeked out from the middle of the page and then went away.

Tonight we ran a Squidly Manticore with 4 Kheldians. Was great fun even if I over-booked and ran with more of my LiveJournal channel friends than 606 channel friends.



Nox Engine, PrettyLittleDeadGirl, Burnt Matchstick (front), Queen of Misery (top), Neith Athena (Jinken), gone 2 moon (crouching front), Lux Eternae (SpaceNut, top), Ilario Scoldi (Oathbound)

Pic with names

Extending the secret message guessing contest one more day. I know more than 2 people can enter this. At the very least, send in your most creative/funny guesses.

I had a lot of fun with the theme last month, I've already got a plan for something along those lines, but I thought I'd first go back to a slightly more normal theme. With all this talk of Incarnates and end game, personally I think our heroes and villains just need a little time off. What do they do in their downtime. Work a regular job using their secret identity? Or do they vacation to their home hell dimension?

April's Theme is Off Duty

Rules


All types of visual art are acceptable for this month's theme. Screenshot manipulations, sketches, graphic design, etc. So long as they incorporate this month's theme into the work.

1. Use City of Heroes/Villains Characters- This is, afterall, a CoX Fan Art competition, so I expect you guys to keep that in mind. If there's nothing relating to City of Heroes/Villains in your entry, you will be disqualified.

2. Keep It PG-13- All entries this month must be postable to these boards without a 2 click.

3. Deadlines- All entries MUST be submitted by Wednesday April 27th by Midnight Eastern US time. Anyone participating who DOES NOT have an active account on these boards may note me via deviantArt at Bubbawheat. Voting will begin by Thursday, April 28th, held here on the CoH boards. The pieces that I put up for a vote have been personally verified by me, so if you disagree with their qualifications, please take it up with me rather than the artists.

4. There will be no eliminations until June. Each month artists will accumulate points that will be used to help avoid elimination, or grant other benefits.

8. Points- Entry points: Artists gain 10 points each month where they submit a piece.
Early bird points: Artists gain an additional 2 points each month where they submit a "finished" piece before the 15th of the month. Finished pieces can still be modified, but any major additions after the 15th will negate the early bird points. Major additions include adding color, or adding an elaborate background.
Place points: After voting, each artist will gain points based on how they place in the final standings. 1st place gains 10 points (plus 2 bonus points for winning), 2nd gains 9, 3rd gains 8, etc. Ties each gain the amount of points for that place. Places after 10th gain 0 points.


9. Prizes- The artist with the most votes each month will receive 10 million inf sent to them through in game E-mail. The overall winner of the year will receive 50 million. Thanks to Draggynn for his donation to the prize fund.

10. Uses for points: These may be adjusted slightly before June:
5 points: Head Start - find out the next month's theme in advance.
15 points: A Little More Time - Allows an entry to be submitted and/or modified up to 2 days after the deadline. No adjustments will be made for any votes already cast if applicable.
30 points: Overruled! - If your piece is judged as not being within theme, you can overrule the judgement and have your piece placed in the voting thread anyway (This cannot overrule rules #1 or #2)
40 points: Immunity - Grants you immunity from elimination for that month - must be declared before voting begins, and can be declared in private. The top 3 based on votes cannot be eliminated due to a large number of immunity buys.
70 points: Saved - Also grants you immunity from elimination for that month but can be declared after voting is over. You can also declare it before voting begins to avoid elimination due to non-entry.

Come on people, best guess so far only has 4 out of 8. And don't forget the "most creative" runner up prizes. Bring on the guessing!

RWZ AE building so heroes and villains can come. Any level is ok.