FloatingFatMan

I tend to agree... The problems with this new software far outweight the timeouts and invalid form errors on the old one. In fact, I'm still getting timeouts anyway...

Fail, tbh.

Sorry guys, but the cocktail waitresses are currently rather busy in the EU lounge. You can have them back once we're done with them. Say, about 6 months?

In the meantime, have a Donk!

Pfft. I haven't done ANY of those. I'm FAR too leet to worry about such trivialities.

I'd say I'd miss you, Mumsie. But seeing as we have each other on MSN, I won't!

Hope you enjoy the break away from CoH though. Did me the world of good, even though it was only for a few weeks. Best of luck with Max!

Black on dark blue. You trying to make people go blind?

If I wanted to spend my time crunching numbers, I'd play Spreadsheets in Space, eerr.. EVE.. Which oddly enough, I have been doing for the last month or so.

But I got bored and stopped.

When a game become work, it's no longer fun for me. I just choose what fits the concept, as that's where the fun is for me.

WAY too much in my mains genesis to post here. I start a story of it once for the NaNoDraMo competition, in the form of a diary, but never actually finished it.

Can summarise it though!

Ellie Smith was taking her cat Mogs, to the vet one day when there was an accident at a construction site. Several tons of girders fell from a crane and crushed her mini, one of them ramming straight through her torso, a fatal wound.

In her last few seconds of life, an alien energy being (a Kheldian), offered her a chance at life, and having no choice, she accepted. The alien bonded with her and repaired her injuries, saving her life, but something went wrong with the bonding process. Something about her immune system rejected the bonding, and weakened from the effort of healing her, it was forced to split itself and bond partly with her and partly with her cat. In this state, the bonding obviously was incomplete and unstable.

Several weeks later, her abilities began to manifest themselves, and she was sent for testing. On finding out that she was inhabited by an alien, her father went ballistic, accusing her of being a "filthy alien bodysnatcher" and demanded it get out and return Ellie's body to them.

Ellie ran away from home, taking Mogs with her, and spent the next 3 years wandering the world. At one point, near death in the middle of the Ghobi Desert, she had a near death experience where the alien within her was able to communicate with her. It once again gave her the choice of accepting what she was, or breaking the bond (which, due to the damaged bonding, would kill both of them). She decided to accept her new existence and they moved on.

Eventually, after several adventures, and truly seeing for herself the horrors that man inflicts on man, she arrived in Paragon City, made friends, and started to make a new life for herself.

Then she met a Warshade scientist by the name of Voyd. He claimed that he could help Ellie, who was having several problems due to the unstable bond with her, the Kheldian, and her cat. She agreed, and he blended all three of them into a single entity, unable to ever seperate and survive, but whole and stable. She took on several traits associated with cats, ears, tail and teeth, as well as a rather long tongue, and also inherited the enhanced senses of a cat.

Unfortunately, Voyd wasn't all he appeared to be, and for his own purposes, he also implanted a Nictus shard in her core matrix. This began to manifest as unusually powerful bursts of power and aggression, as well as blackouts. Unfortunately, one of these blackouts occured when she was searching for a missing schoolbus of kids, reported taken by some Vahzilok into the sewers. All of the children were killed during this blackout, and Ellie was arrested and tried for their murder.

The trial was long and unpleasant, but the end result was that they were able to prove she'd been manipulated and wasn't responsible for her actions. She was given over as a ward to the leader of a senior supergroup. Thing's carried on as normal for quite some time, until the shard began to assert itself again. Now more mature, it was able to control Ellie for longer periods of time, until eventually, one of her closest friends was forced to ram a magical blade through her heart, killing her instantly. The remnants of the Nictus energy within fled her body and joined with a tiger in a passing circus in order to survive. Ellie was healed by the same people forced to kill her, but the Nictus, in a parting shot, had scrambled her neurons, leaving the recovered Ellie little more than a severely handicapped child.

In time, Kheldian science was able to rebuild her damaged mind and restore her to full health, but they decided that she was too vulnerable to control, so for both her safety, and the safety of those around her, a psychic shield was placed in her mind, removing her from the psychic band completely, a psi-blank. To telepaths, it appears as if she's just not there.

The experience with the Nictus shard, however, had a permanent affect on her powers, making then significantly stronger than average Kheldians, and also allowing her to access the abilities she normally only has when shape shifted. She also is able to alter her actual physical makup and biomorph her body completely, far beyond the basic "energy copy" shapeshifting abilities of the average Kheldian.

Now, after several years in Paragon, she's semi-retired from heroing and lives on a tropical island in the south pacific with her partner and close friends.