Lazarus

I wouldn't touch this this a ten foot pole.

Good thing Essex is willing to.

Fr/Action - Revolver, Kathode's main theme.

I think of everything I've lost and the anger burns inside.
There's just one reason left to live, to avenge my wounded pride.
The sirens scream around me, and the pavement glistens black.
The cold steel is firmly in my grip, I'm never turning back.

Revolver in my hand and a target in my sights.
The time for retribution, after all those sleepless nights.
I am the judge and jury, if only for a day.
The time is now for action before the moment slips away.

8kHz Mono - Heavy Water, main theme for Cobalt Stinger.

Don't see that it's just me?
I am just what I am.
Trying to control the energy inside of me.

Don't you push me, don't you dare.
I can go up in flames.
My finger's on the trigger, now it's a countdown.
To a chain reaction.

Don't you try to stop me as I exorcise my soul.
Drinking heavy water.
Won't let anybody stand between me and my goal.
Drinking heavy Water.

Everything I'm carrying deep inside of me.
Is piling up to a critical mass, awaiting detonation.

Don't you push me, don't you dare.
I can go up in flames.
My finger's on the trigger, now it's a countdown.
To a chain reaction.

Don't you try to stop me as I exorcise my soul.
Drinking heavy water.
Won't let anybody stand between me and my goal.
Drinking heavy Water.

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Laz, we meant no disrespect. I'd have figured a thread called "Hurt and Heal the Role Players" would have piqued your itnerest...

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You thought very wrong. I won't be checking back again, so return to your fun, [censored].

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I guess no one really likes to lose. >.>

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I never asked to be a part of this.

Perhaps I should just make a thread where I randomly kill off your characters and see how you enjoy it.

Screw all of you.

/takes off and nukes the thread from orbit.

What the [censored] is this [censored]?

Kathode sighed as she saw that it was Rosiland. "Figures it'd be you."

She continued to talk as she straighted her leather jacket and brushed the dog hair off of her black miniskirt. "I'm off on my own. Anna's out on a date with you know who and last I saw she had that red dress on. I don't know where Cobalt ran off to."

"Anyway, what was up with that other dog? Do you were-creatures always swing towards both species that you resemble?" The catgirl asked devilish smile.

Without waiting for an answer she continued on. "I was heading to the D myself. I figure with all the guys who have that catgirl fetish at least a few of them are bound to be cute and available. Thanks to you though I gotta change again."

Kathode pulled out the remote for the base teleporter but then another evil grin appeared on her face. "You wanna step in for a bit? I'm sure Cobalt would like you to meet her new pet."

((Hope you don't mind...))

As Rosie bounded away around a corner to escape the other dog she managed to knock a pedestrians legs right out from under her and send both into a tumbling pile.

"AAAAHHH!" Kathode shouted as some stupid Border Collie smashed right into her. She saw the Great Dane approaching as well and pointed her finger at it, a small bolt of red lightning hit him on the nose and sending him away whinng with his tail between his legs.

"Away you! She's not interested!" Kathode took a look at the Border Collie and finally noticed the smell. "Awww, this outfit was clean too. Get off me you dirty mutt!"

Standing up, she noticed something familiar below the scent of garbage and looked more closely as the dog. "Don't I know you?" She asked.

Cobalt Stinger would blur the line between Corruptor, Dominator, and Mastermind.

Primary: Radiation Assault

Neutron Bolt - Similar to Neutrino Bolt, a low damage blast from hand blaster with fast recharge. High DPS, low endurance attack. Reduces defense.

Proton Punch - Melee attack doing moderate energy/smashing damage with high chance of knockback. Reduces defense. (Power Thrust animation)

Particle Cascade - Widely spread energy beam from hand blaster that deals knockback over a narrow cone. Reduces defense. (Similar to Electron Haze)

Atom Smasher - Melee overhead attack doing high energy/smashing damage with chance to disorient. Reduces defense. (Bonesmasher animation)

Neutron Burst - High damage, slow recharge short range energy attack from hand blaster with high chance to disorient and reduces defense. (Basically Cosmic Burst)

Particle Beam - Sniper attack using energy rifle. High energy/smashing damage and reduces defense.

Aim - Go Figure

Neutron Bomb - Unchanged

Ion Barrage - Basically an energy damage version of Full Auto using the particle beam rifle.

Secondary: Traps (Modified)

Web Grenade - Unchanged

Caltrops - Unchanged

Acid Grenade - Reduces defense and resistance of a single target and deals minor toxic DoT.

Acid Mortar - Now mounted on a mobile platform looking like a little four-legged spider but can be destroyed.

Force Field Generator - Can be controlled to move independently of her.

Poison Gas Trap - Can be remotely detonated.

Seeker Drones - Blades hovering robots act as bodyguards, attacking enemies who come near thier owner.

Trip Mine - Can be remotely detonated.

Gremlins - Summons three small spider-like robots who climb onto mobile enemy targets and detonate at points of weakness. Deals moderate fire/smashing damage and reduces defense.

Power Pools:
Teleportation - Entire Pool
Fitness - Swift, Health, Stamina
Medicine - Aid Other, Aid Self

Someone actually wants to move slower?

Triumph has a lot less players in general, but the proportion of idiots is about the same.

Now stop resurrecting old threads already.

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Start reading the open RP's and think, "Can my character add something?" If yes, and it looks fun, join!

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Make sure that you ask first. Quite a few of those Open-RPs are no longer fully open, but since we cannot go back and edit posts made months ago the thread title cannot be changed to reflect it.

Can I be mean for you Prodiguy? I'm so good at being mean.

Your main Hero... (Iron Samurai)

1) Discovers that a teenager with no combat training and a few low-level powers is attempting to follow in their footsteps with a similar outfit and name.
1c: It's a free country.
(Hopefully he won't get in my way, like Buddy did to Mr. Incredible.)

2) A villain confronts you in the middle of a large crowd of civilians.
2a: You try to defeat him so quickly he has no time to endanger anyone.
(Running could be worse, what if instead of chasing me he takes the crowd hostage and starts killing them at random until I return to fight him?)

3) You are on patrol when you hear what sounds like a domestic disturbance from a nearby residence. Screams, crying children, physical combat.
3a: You walk on. Can't stop for what might be a loud tv every time you go down the street.
(Plus I'm a superhero. I'm too busy stopping some monster from rampaging through the city or madmen sabotaging the nuclear power plant. I may sound elitist, but stopping domestic disturbances is beneath me.)

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Your main villain... (Anna Nethema)

1) Has just gotten his hands on a live nuclear weapon. The problems are the fact that the weapon is literally in his hands, and a veritable horde of good guys are seconds from arriving and beating him down. Most importantly, no quick easy means of escape are available.
1c: Give it up. Next time, Gadget!
(It's a weapon of mass destruction with who knows how much range. Anna isn't into mass murder.)

2) You arrive at your latest caper ready to obtain something useful to your purposes. But a hero and villain are already clashing over the goods!
2b: Collect the McGuffin, and quietly escape. You can always deal with them later. Or not, whatever.
(Why work harder than you have to?)

3) The Rikti offer you governorship of earth if you help them complete their master plan. Their plan seems likely to work with your help.
3a: You warn the earth of the plan at the risk of your own life. Better to reign in Hell...
(She's still human for the most part and wouldn't betray her own species for wealth.)

((I don't know if everyone is just waiting for the end first or what, but it's kind of wierd getting so many views every time I post an update but no comments. Feels like playing for an audience that just sits there and stares at you without booing or applauding.))

witch is y he pwnz u and ur m0th3r

“The boys in R&D outdid themselves with this one.” Kathode heard someone say as she began to awaken. She could feel that she was being carried, by what felt like a pair of hands grasping each arm, whilst her feet dragged on the floor. One hand released her right arm and she felt someone stroking her tail. “I wonder if she’s this fuzzy everywhere.” The same voice said again as the hand ran up under her tail and groped her rear.

"[censored]!” She uttered groggily as she tried to pull away but found that her arms and legs had been shackled together. Her eyes opened and hurt in the bright light of the room.

“Cut that out!” Said a voice ahead of her. “She’s waking up, get another sedative.” Her vision began to clear and she could see the new speaker, a Crey technician standing beside a restraining chair set in the middle of a mass of machinery. She didn’t know what it was and that only made it more frightening.

A third voice answered to her left. “Start putting her in the chair, I’ll get it.” She looked up to see a guard walking away towards a tray of syringes on a wheeled cart nearby. On her other right was the touchy-feeling guy, who spun her around and shoved her down into the chair. When he placed a hand over her chest to hold her down she tried to writhe loose and spit in his face.

“Feisty little [censored].” He said as he slapped her across the face with his free hand. The sedatives were still wearing off and she just didn’t have enough strength to get out from under his hand.

A chime came from the door and the technician went to answer it. The door opened and there was no one there. A gust of air passed by him, he thought that the corridor was a bit drafty and closed the door.

“Alright, got it.” Said the guard who was fetching the correct syringe. “Hurry up, we need to get her out of the cuffs and into the restraints. Easier if she isn’t struggling.” Said the one holding her down. “Ah, you like when they fight back anyways.” The other replied.

He was about to answer when there was a sickening sound and a blade suddenly came out through the front of the his chest. Kathode looked on in a mix of horror and fascination as the blade retracted and he then fell limply to the floor, revealing the creature standing behind him. She didn’t stand very tall, no more than Kathode did and was dressed in a matte black material that might have been Kevlar. A mask covered the mouth and goggles were pulled down over the eyes, her red hair done up in a pair of pigtails that stuck up and out to the sides. Her feet were like that of an animal, with large claws and walking on her toes. From the back sprouted a reptilian tail. The parts that were not covered revealed obsidian black skin that shimmered as if scaled. In her hands she clutched a sword.

The other guard dropped the syringe and raised his machine gun to fire at her. With no one restraining her now, Kathode slid her body out of the chair and onto the floor in time to see the lizardgirl disappear into thin air. The machine gun went off and filled the space above with bullets, some of which struck the technician who was still standing by the door.

The technician dropped and the guard made a panicked run for the door. The lizardgirl appeared again and her blade lashed out like lightning as he passed her position. He suddenly stopped running and fell, his head separating from his body as he hit the floor.

The technician was still alive and crawling towards the panic alarm button on the wall. He screamed as she stepped over him and rammed the sword down through his back.

Kathode tried to wiggle away as she approached her. She could feel her powers beginning to return and was hoping to release an electrical blast from her body when the lizardgirl was close enough. Instead she stopped, sheathed her sword, and then took the key ring from the dead guard who had been holding her down before, looked at it quizzically and then held it towards her like and offering while tilting her head to one side in a birdlike manner.

“The small one is for the cuffs.” Kathode said after a pause. After a moment her shackles were unlocked and she got up on her feet by pulling herself up with the armrest of the chair.

“Okay, who the hell are you and why did you rescue me?” Kathode asked her.

((Yay, a comment. Finally. Second page too.))

“Don’t open that.” The Agent told the researcher who was examining Cobalt’s backpack. “Someone got curious upstairs and stuck their hand in it while we were loading the girl onto the stretcher. They got him down in the infirmary right now, trying to get some kind of bear-trap device off of his wrist. He might lose the hand for all I could tell while they were hauling him away screaming.”

The researcher set the backpack down gently under the scanning device and went to the nearby terminal. While he worked in vain to see into the object another researcher was looking over and inside an item of clothing. It was Cobalt’s bodysuit.

“Interesting, definitely synthetic material and very strong. Doesn’t look like Kevlar though, has a rather leathery outer texture.” He dictated to the camera that was looking over him and the table he was working at. “Flexible and elastic, forms to fit the body. You said this was skintight?” He asked the Agent.

“Yeah, like a second skin.” She replied. “Not surprising she’d cover up so much, she was rather messed up underneath.”

The researcher ignored that comment. He’d see for himself later when they finished the body scan they were running right now. He began examining the outfit with various instruments.

“Interior of garment appears to contain a network of fibers not related to its structure. These may be part of a sensor system, as they connect to metallic structures on the interior that may be electrical connections. These connectors are located primarily on the back where they would be over the wearer’s spine.”

Meanwhile, in another nearby lab a pair of scientists were watching over the terminals for the scanning equipment that hung over the table on which Cobalt was currently laid out. Before they tried to scan her with the suit on but found that it was absorbing much of the electromagnetic energy the scanners were emitting, necessitating it be removed and taken away for study. She was still deeply unconscious.

“I have seen some extensive cyborgization before but this is nearly a work of art.” One of them said to the other. “Power and data cables running through much of the body and some small enough to run directly along the nerves. Her right eye is cybernetic along with much of her left arm. The machinery in the brain is extremely complex and looks most definitely to be nanotech.”

“We still cannot scan inside that object in her chest.” The other said, pointing to a bright but sharply defined area just behind and below her heart. “It’s reflecting the x-rays and the ultrasound. Everything appears to be connected to it in some way, like an artificial organ of some kind.”

“Perhaps it is a second heart.” The first one mused. “The cybernetics cannot run on the normal organs so they need their own support system. It will be interesting when we take a look inside.”

“We can’t do any exploration until we get a total memory download first.” The other scientist reminded him. “They’re still working on that other one they caught.”

“True.” He said with a hint of annoyance. ”What is taking them so long?”

If you get lucky and the person you have to lead out is the kind who fights beside you, then the commands to target_friend_next and such will work as they'll be considered an Ally by the game.

“Negative, still searching.” Replied the leader of a group of Riot Guards several floors below. They where sweeping the corridor using infrared goggles, which they believed would reveal the camouflaged creature. It may very well have worked if only they had the sense to look upwards.

Naga crouched on top of a setup of pipes and conduits that hung below the high ceiling of the corridor, directly above the search team. She waited for them to move on before leaving her hiding spot. While the team who had ambushed Cobalt tried to jam her communications abilities she had still managed to broadcast most of everything to the radio Naga possessed. Now she had to decide whom to rescue first, Cobalt or Kathode.

Probably been said already, but I'd like to see...

Medium Generator
Category: Main Power
Customizable? N
Type: Purchased
Description: Produces 500 power for a cost of approximately 100,000 Prestige. Good for bases which need more than the Combo Power and Control Unit provides but cannot afford or do not need the power provided by the Regular Generator.

Well my base is finally semi-functional and underwent a lot of redecorating. Here's a little tour of the Smash Ops lair on Virtue villainside.

You can see quite a bit of it from the Entry Way. (1)(2)

The base has a rather open layout and you can reach many of the rooms from the Oversight Center. (1)(2)(3) Here we have the meeting table and some chairs for lounging about with plenty of books and a computer. Over to the side is where the combo power-control unit is. Someday that spot will probably hold the inspiration collector.

Next to the Oversight Center and Entry Way is the Control Room, (1) which has the mainframe, mission computer, and a small medical area for show.

Continuing around the base in a clockwise direction we come to the Power Room (1). This lab room contains the inspiration collector for now, but some day it will hold a regular generator when we can more easily afford it. I wish the devs would put in a cheaper generator to go between the regular one and the combo unit, because 125 power is barely enough but 1000 power is overkill for our needs.

The raised area there in the Workshop (1) is where the worktable would go. Right now there isn't one in place as there was not enough power to keep the telepad and mission computer running. Over in the corner is an empowerment station.

Lastly we arrive at the Teleport Chamber, (1) which contains one telepad linked to Mercy Island and St. Martial. Since Mercy Island is the only zone not connected to the main ferry and has no Pocket D access then it was a logical choice. St. Martial is there since Grandville would be too dangerous to teleport into much of the time.

It's small but it's cozy. Here's an overhead view of the entire base.

Cobalt’s video feed was suddenly cut. She doubted that the camera had become damaged in the fight as she tried to connect to others and got nothing. It didn’t take long for the meaning of it to dawn on her.

The server room she was in had two doors, two directions she could flee in but also two in which they could come in. The ceiling above was painted concrete instead of suspended tiles and the air ducts were too small even for her to crawl into. The raised floor of the room was too narrow as well and sealed around the walls anyway, an ultrasound scan revealed. A quick check revealed than a teleportation-inhibiting field was in effect. She cursed herself for being this careless.

They were going to come in and she could already detect motion in the hall outside both doors from the octospider bots clinging to them for that purpose. She sent them a mental command and they scampered on their flexible metal-wire legs out to the edges, proceeding to weld the steel doors to their frames. It wouldn’t slow down Crey Security by much but would still buy some crucial seconds of time. She reached into her bottomless backpack and pulled out the tools of her trade. Quickly she inserted noise-dampening plugs into her ears; it was going to get loud.

The door that hadn’t been barricaded in time tore open first with a Crey Guard stepping inside as it swung open. He scanned the room quickly and could not see her yet, likely hiding amongst the racks of equipment. He signaled with his hand to those in the hallway and several others came into the room behind him. One stepped on a loose floor tile and froze when he heard a click sound.

Suddenly a thick green gas was spraying out of the floor and the Guards, lacking gas masks, were quickly being overcome by the noxious vapors. As they tried to back out one was suddenly struck in the chest by an energy blast coming from the back of the room and was knocked to the floor. Those who were still in control of their stomachs for the moment started firing back in the direction from which the beam had come, their rubber bullets being easily deflected by Cobalt’s force field. She fired a few more shots then rolled back behind cover, tossing a grenade at them, which exploded and covered the men with sticky fibers.

The other men out in the hall were having difficulty entering with these incapacitated and immobilized guards blocking the doorway. However, on the other side of the room an explosive charge went off and took that door right off of its frame. Inward stepped two armored units, a Crey Protector and Crisis Unit. The Protector activated his force field to cover himself and the Crisis Unit, who brandished a grenade launcher, while he aimed his own Cryo Rifle around the room.

Around from behind a rack of servers came a small robot with a mortar on its back, which began launching globs of corrosive at the two armored units. The objects had enough mass to pass through the force field and landed on their armor, immediately burning away at it. The Crisis Unit quickly selected a concussive grenade and fired at the robot, sending it flying into the air as well as tearing the equipment rack from its floor and ceiling mountings. The poison gas was beginning to clear as the ventilation system attempted to cycle the air at full power.

“Give it up little girl, you’re not getting out of this room.” Shouted the Agent who was taking over behind the first door. She was answered swiftly when the part of the door above her head was suddenly reduced to molten shrapnel by the energy of Cobalt’s particle beam. “[censored]! Let her have it!” The Agent screamed as she dove back into the corridor.

The two armored units began firing into the room, tearing down anything that could be used as cover. As the Protector took as step closer another loose floor tile clicked, this time being a trip mine. The man was sent straight up into the ceiling, surviving only because of his suit holding him in one piece. Another Crisis Unit arrived and the two began launching canister after canister of sleep gas into the room. A few more proton blasts fired out at them, then nothing more.

The containment team came in, this time equipped with gas masks and equipment for detecting traps. They found Cobalt unconscious from the gas at one of the back corners of the room, underneath a maintenance worktable.

“Alright, take her down to the labs to join the kitty.” The Agent in charge ordered them, then spoke into her radio. “Did you find the lizard yet?”

((Aren't parallel universes fun? ))