Duck Dim Sum

Golden Energy Blasts for my Defender and blue Fire Blast and paler blue/whiter Electricity Manipulation for my Blaster.

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Yeah, but come on... do you REALLY think of those wussy little blades when you hear the word "broadsword?"

When *I* hear the word "broadsword" I think of a GIGANTIMONGOUS blade that is SO LARGE it could cleave orca whales in TWO!

Heck yeah.

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Traditionally, "broadsword" refers to average-size single-handed blades. It's only in this game that the word has the connotations of a greatsword or some other large weapon, because the legacy Broadsword is so large. It's the exception, not the rule.

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Either way she is still the worst npc in the game to ever have as a hostage/ally. Its like she is intentionally given AI to get you killed. So far I am like 5 for 20 on this arc on getting her out alive. Someday they will fix her.

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The easiest way I have found by far to keep her alive is to solo this mission. The one time I didn't manage to keep her alive solo was the one time I screwed up and got myself whacked. I'm like 0 for 20 when doing this with a team.

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This. The easiest way to manage Lady Jane is to solo the mission. I've never had her killed or been killed by her while solo - not even on the squishiest of ATs, pre-20. The one time I have failed the Lady Jane mission was on a team.

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I give up; what it is supposed to be the Riktified version of?

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Its a Rikti Roll

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Well now I can't read it without imagining a Rikti with a head of red hair. That's just...unseemly.

I give up; what it is supposed to be the Riktified version of?

On the plus side, Desdemona and Maelstrom both have very nice character writeups. If only we were given that much room.

The only thing that bugs me is...both Desdemona and her mother could summon and command demons, and all they did was rob banks? Slum on, villains. Then again, Recluse apparently does the same thing, so maybe it's a "When in Rome" thing.

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They're the same dog.

All I did was post the original url as a clickable link.

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Did it bump its head and lose a pound of weight between the pictures? Because the other one has a pointed head and looks so much thinner.

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New Puppy

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I still have to give it to this puppy, because it looks like my departed (but still most beloved) Bear.

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Well, they use it for their Sky Skiffs which doesn't need much room to take off.

Which beg the question, why even put in an airstrip in the first place for vechiles that doesn't even use it.

That space could be better used for something like moar turrents.

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Little do the Rogue Islanders know, it's not a traditional aircraft runway. The Sky Raiders use it to showcase their fashion design collections twice a year. Instead of human models, they use Hellfrost.

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I think someone's been skipping class to farm AE. >.>

But yeah, there's one in Croatoa and one in Founder's Falls. Not that 98% of the populace ever visits those two campuses.

Maybe part of the problem is that these universities have no sports and no mascots!

And what would Croatoa's mascot be? Would they schedule games against the Miskatonic University Fighting Cephalopods?


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Don't be silly. Everyone knows the Croatoa campus's biggest rival is Shiz University.

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The thread title sounds like an anime.

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Damn you, inspiration!

*goes off to write an arc filled with armored gun-toting busty catgirl nurses called "Combat Application Tourniquet"*

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I would of sworn in beta Calvin Scott TF was active. I forget why they removed it but it should be re-added. I also would of sworn Positron said he would bring it back.

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It was removed because Calvin Scott didn't exist in the real world, so there was no way to get the second mission. (or the first mission, but point is, at some point you had to talk to Scott, and his non-existance made it problematic.)

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Why not put Calvin Scott in Oroborous...? That way he can exist just like the other TF contacts in the zone.

-Rachel-

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There's actually no reason for Scott not to be put back in the real world. He's still alive, he's still Aurora's husband, as far as I know. He just wouldn't do anything, unless you started his TF through Ouroboros.

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Now I can't help imagining that Calvin Scott no longer gives his TF because Aurora tied him to the bed the second she got control of her body back. He's still there today.

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Well here you go

JJ

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Aw. Looks like it's about to cry. You could totally put him in an environmental ad in place of an American Indian.

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This is who I picture typing when B/I posts...

but...

This is the voice I hear >.<

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Dangit!!! Now you did it. I can't get that whine out of my hair...head.

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Don't be silly. RuPaul wouldn't be nearly as nasty. She's certainly arguably more mentally stable than most of the people here.

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You can never find it because it's a hoax. The Freedom Phalanx HQ is clearly hidden within the secret confines of the globe on the Atlas Statue.

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So (at least on Virtue) players are having cyber-oral sex on the roof of FPHQ? Lovely.

No and no. It's all spam; do away with it!

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Will you be my friend
:sniffles:

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See? See?!? What did I tell you? Disease! He has...what's the latest bug...swine flu! It's pig cooties!

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Is it really that difficult to make some friends in the game?

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Yes! You're all leprous freaks and weirdos! With cooties!

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First off, may I ask why you break up your posts like you do? A period works just as well (if not better) than a full enter.


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It's free-verse poetry. Duh! Try reading it again, but aloud and with a Pure Moods CD playing in the background.

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Yup, you better get up to level 20. I haven't heard of any other way to get a costume.

Five times in a row.

In one thread.

Nope, not at all.

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Why, there is, in fact, a way to get another costume slot even from level one, let me explain...

Be a Soldier of Arachnos or a Widow Villain Epic ArcheType.


Hah!

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Yes. It's not automatically granted when you roll the character.

The other day, I managed to pick up "Slapchop" for an Axe/Shield Brute.

Also in my stable: Danger Zone, Saint Elmo's Fire, Lodestar, Identity Thief, Laserfist, Mistress Distress, Divo, Sister Avalon, Chthonian, Maboroshi, Nightbeast, En Masse, Snake Charmer, Chillax, Nebular, Sidereal, Grand Mal, Heatproof, Lightweight, and Metalhunter.

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You don't have to have been conducting any scientific inquiry or involved with any experiments for it to be Science origin. Walking down the street and getting splashed with toxic waste from a passing truck would be Science origin.

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That would be a scientific accident, sitting in the sun and yelling at kids would not

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It would if he sat in the sun and absorbed enough UV radiation to mutate him.

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The difference between Mutation and Science is that Science is outside effects acting upon you to change you while Mutation is having the change itself be native to you. It's an issue of whether the change to your DNA or whatever was after you were born or before. Captain America is Science because the Super Soldier Serum made him awesome like that (combined with a hefty dose of personal training). So is Spider Man. The X-Men are Mutants because, even if they grew up in a completely different universe where nothing happened to them, they'd still have their powers because they were born into them.

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I'm well aware of the difference; I'm even advocating it in several other threads. Substitute the word "alter" for "mutate" in my last post for clarification of a way to suggest a Science origin for the character in question. It was supposed to effectively read, "It would be a Scientific accident (and therefore, Science origin) if [the character] had absorbed enough UV radiation to artificially mutate him." That is not meant to suggest that a character mutated by a Science experiment is Mutant origin, which by my standards is incorrect.

Suggestions made by me and others of how this character could be true Mutation origin are further upthread.

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You don't have to have been conducting any scientific inquiry or involved with any experiments for it to be Science origin. Walking down the street and getting splashed with toxic waste from a passing truck would be Science origin.

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That would be a scientific accident, sitting in the sun and yelling at kids would not

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It would if he sat in the sun and absorbed enough UV radiation to mutate him.

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Incidentally, there's an X-Man called Lifeguard whose power was to manifest whatever powers were necessary to save a life.

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IIRC she was actually a half-human, half-alien hybrid and not a mutant. Also, that was during a really unfortunate period of bad ideas for the series, and should not be looked at as any decent source of inspiration.

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If it were a serious character bio, I'd say Science all the way; he ostensibly got the super aspects of his abilities from being irradiated. He's only Mutation if those were latent powers derived from inborn mutant genes.

But if it's entirely meant as a joke character, you can say Natural and it wouldn't be an issue.

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I'd lean more toward natural or Mutation over science, there was no sort of scientific inquiry or process, his powers appeared through natural behavior, the question is was that because of an inherent mutation or not.

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It is a serious character which is why I'm asking... I actually started him as mutation and immediately thought "this isn't right..." Mutation seems to be purely something that was there at birth, and would therefore not be susceptible to his environment.

In part, he is natural since his powers were derived from his day to day, but they were enhanced to heroic abilities. Since part of his abilities include firing radiation from his hands I'm thinking "natural" probably doesn't cut it.

Thank you for your input!

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Mutation could well be there from birth - just not apparent until exposed/trained/used.

"The Lifeguard's abilities stem from a mutation that just wasn't evident initially - the ability to store and redirect energy. Sure, maybe he stayed hyper from being over-sugared longer than some kids. His high school football coach had even joked they could only use him on sunny days, not knowing just how true that was. The job as a lifeguard brought it all to the open, though.

"Merely a month and he was yelling louder than solely a pair of healthy, well-used lungs could explain. If he needed to make himself heard, he had the energy from being in the sun all day long to do so. The short-lived (one hour) reign of terror of what could have been another Lusca, where he found himself directing energy to stun, then destroy the creature, convinced him he had a new career..."

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Latent mutations can also surface under intense stress - like the kind you're under when you're running in slow-motion trying to rescue someone from David Hasselhoff in orange trunks or whatever.

Still, the OP has the same Mutation definition I do: it's in the genes you're born with. Your powers can be activated by some external event, but they don't directly come from an external event. Otherwise, you've got a Science hero.

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You don't have to have been conducting any scientific inquiry or involved with any experiments for it to be Science origin. Walking down the street and getting splashed with toxic waste from a passing truck would be Science origin.


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What he said.