Nitro

Right now all base details that show a supergroup logo (banners, floor tiling etc.) have changed to show the biohazard symbol and cannot be reverted or changed to anything else.


Also pre-existing VEATs cannot run any of the new Mercy Island missions via ouroboros as Operative Kuzmin simply directs them to speak to them to Alan Desslock and they are unable to start the arc.

There’s the issue Fort Darwin. Obviously Longbow are going to be taking it, but storywise it very quickly get retaken pretty quick by Arachos. So with our wacky persistent shared universe who’s going to be in control of Darwin?

Either way, I foresee King wandering around punching Longbow in the spine.

Hey, I think it’s worth mentioning that during the Ongoing Training arcs The Shining Stars do end up visiting Galaxy after the attack to do hero stuff, however, in this situation they probably got the go ahead from Manticore.

Since I’m here I might as well give my opinion. Right now I imagine the policy it to simply seal and abandon the entire zone and not allow anyone for the time being rather than trying to turn back the invaders. This is somewhat similar to Dark Astoria, where the authorities basically bugged out and sealed the zone. The reason the Shining Stars could enter is because Manticore was probably able to pull some strings.

I imagine there were some heroes who were in Galaxy during the attacks initially, but they would have probably been asked to help get the wounded out, secure landing zones for the helicopters and hold off the shivans until everyone could be evacuated and such like. Officially, no-one is supposed to be allowed back in until the authorities have finished assessing the situation and worked out a plan of action (or somesuch), but I imagine heroes with enough political clout might be able to get around this. Other heroes, meanwhile, are probably protesting and trying to get the zone opened up to allow them to take the fight to the invaders.

Yeah, I’m just appearing to say I’m busy with razing another SG from the dead (NHU), so unfortunately won't be able to get involved.

Plus I must follow the unwritten rule of ignoring all your suggestions, or risk getting blackballed by the URP cabal.

Oh, Venessa's in another magazine and...

...her name's spelt wrong and she's looking off camera.



Curses, foiled again.


Anyway, on a more serious note, I am very pleased to see the resurrection of Kapow, keep up the good work.

Arachnos Strikes Independence Port
Paragon Times, 11/7/2011 Morning Edition

A lazy Sunday afternoon in Independence Port was shattered yesterday when a group of four Arachnos Agents began cutting a swathe of devastation through the streets of Crey Cove. Despite the combined effort of the Police Department, Longbow and even Aurora Borealis, nothing could stop the group from fleeing the scene with an unknown value of stolen loot and leaving behind them trail property damage estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There has been, as of yet, been no official comment from the police or hero community, although a Longbow spokesperson did say they would do “whatever is necessary” to put a stop to Arachnos’s reign of terror in Paragon. Thankfully no civilians were killed during the attack.

This was an issue that came up a while ago, and is probably going to come up in the future as well, and now that things seem relatively settled with sever list merge, here it is.

Warburg has WMDs. It also has WMDs that our villains (and even heroes) can gain the launch codes for and use. How on earth does this work in a roleplaying setting? What would be the ramifications of someone, IC, firing of a nuclear warhead from Warburg inside Paragon (for example)? Nuclear weapons (and chemical ones) are… something of a big deal, to put it mildly. The destructive firepower Warburg potentially offers is something of a problem.


Here are my thoughts.

One issue we had when this issue was raised was whether the nukes were, in fact, actual nuclear weapons, on the basis they don’t really do the massive devastation real nukes do. Beyond simple balancing reasons, I’d say that doesn’t matter. The power is called [Nuclear Blast], and you can select the payload from that terminal with a big nuclear trefoil on it. I’m pretty sure, in game, it’s a nuke. A nuke that inexplicably doesn’t do much damage, but hey, this is a comic book world. I can use polonium irradiation to improve my health with Science! Besides, even if the [Nuclear Blast]s are not, in fact, nuclear blasts, you can’t really argue the same thing about the chemical weapons.

Secondly, these weapons have been used on US soil. In the description of Warburg it mentions the fact that Marshall Blitz launched warheads armed with various toxins at Paragon, which is why Longbow were given a Presidential mandate to go in and sort it out. We also have Lord Recluse telling the UN that he’ll deal with the situation. I can only conclude therefore that using such weapons isn’t as big a deal as it would be in the real world. Yes, it prompted a response, but it wasn’t the US and allies bombarding Warburg into the stone-age. They sent in Longbow and metahumans.

Yes, to some extent that could never happen, because if they’d done that, then there wouldn’t be the PVP zone where we could run around collecting nuclear weapons. But so what? Contrivance or not, we have to run with that the Canon tells us. We might as well ask why the US hasn’t done more about the Etoile Isles, given Arachnos has launched repeated attacks against the them. Or start complaining about the various other times narrative imperative has trumped realism.

So, in my humble opinion, yes, there are nukes and other fun toys in Warburg, and yes people can, and do, use them, and while this might elicit some response, it wouldn’t be as drastic as it would be in the real world. If you go round firing off a lot of these things you’ll probably garner some attention from Longbow and some of the premier super groups in the city but that would probably be about it. These are, however, only my opinions.

I await other people’s thoughts on the matter.

And to provide a summation of the event redside...

We once again had Venom demonstrating her (seemingly unique) organisational skills, as she put together several teams of metahumans and destined ones to help defend the Etoile Isles. While the Krimzon Guard may be more effective than your average Arachnos grunt, when it comes to facing down two dozen Goliath class warwalkers, you need metahumans, or Commander King, but she was unfortunately ordered not to assist against the invaders.

There was a briefing in the uh… briefing room, but given the intel consisted of “there’s going to be an attack” very little briefing actually occurred. Other than Venom mentioning that there would be a bounty on any Seers brought alive. Our hero-… er… protagonists decided that defending Cap would be most sensible, due to the PTS, and its general defensibility. Unfortunately for them, the Praetorians decided to attack St. Martial, sending a series of walker columns to attack the city. It seems these attacks were something of a diversion however, as the Praetorians set about deploying human forces in Cap au Diable, as well as some turret emplacements.

We never found out what these soldiers intended to do however, as we were able to divert forces to Cap to eliminate them. The invasion now across two fronts, we spent time flitting between Cap and St. Martial, dealing with the attacks as they came. Eventually however, the Praetorian’s objectives became clear. While our forces were bogged down fighting in Cap au Diable and St Martial, a Praetorian strike team managed to assault and take Double Down. If the Praetorians were able to hold the fort they would have a fortified staging ground for further attacked, and thus the forces of evil regrouped to destroy this beachhead.

Unfortunately, the Praetorians launched an attack on the PTS, another critical target, and our forces were somewhat reluctantly divided in an attempt to secure both targets. We were eventually successful, and with that the invaders back had been broken. There were some more skirmished, including another attempted attack on the PTS, but these were dealt with comparatively easily, until all that was left were a few pockets of resistance scatters across Cap au Diable and St. Martial. When the last of these was dealt with (a last desperate attack by the entire Praetorian Guard) the forces of evil finally went their separate ways.

Well, the meeting, as could perhaps be expected, started off as an exercise in futility and bickering. There were representatives from pretty much every major group in the city and no-one organising it. No-one really had anything to add beyond rampant speculation, and believe me, there was a lot of that. Nothing by way of organisation, but a lot of talking.

Fortunately, this changed when Arachnos decided to step in and take charge of the meeting. Really, it’s starting to get worrying at this point how competent the Krimzon Guard is being compared to the average hero. I am started to suspect they wear their underpants on the outside because they don’t know how to dress themselves properly. With Sorrow’s Kiss chairing the meeting stuff finally started to happen. Firstly, we went down all the groups and assessed their capabilities and ability to respond.

For those who care, the groups represented consisted of:

· New Heroes Union
· Court of the Blood Countess
· Unity Vigil
· The Corporation
· The Militia
· Liberty Force
· Solace colony
· Nighthunters
· Arbiter Thorn’s mercenary group
· Krimzon Guard
· PPD
· Arachnos
· Lockout

We then had Z describe the IDF forces. We then had… many ideas of how best to defend against them, and I’m just going to skip past all of them, except to point out that the Arbiter’s suggestion of using the WEB device did not go down well. Shockingly, it took rather a long time before someone suggested… you know… doing the same thing we do for all the other invasions. Namely, forming several groups and assign them to defend specific areas. They would be able to respond to any incursion and slow them down long enough for reinforcements from other zones to arrive. We then started breaking down who would do what, so I’m bringing out that list again.


· New Heroes Union – Apparently no-one loves the NHU, but given there seemed to be a major concern over Independence Port, they’ll probably go there or something.
· Court of the Blood Countess - Well, it wasn’t mentioned, but I guess they’ll be covering Cap Au Diable.
· Unity Vigil – Skyway City
· The Corporation – Again, not mentioned, but if I had to guess, I’d say Sharkhead.
· The Militia – Kings Row
· Liberty Force – Civilian defence, also Peregrine Island
· Solace colony – surveillance and first aid, also Astoria
· Nighthunters – Croatoa and Steel Canyon
· Arbiter Thorn’s mercenary group - Mercy
· Krimzon Guard – Again, not discussed, I guess the plan is to just drop King into hotspots when they develop.
· PPD – Guess, go on.
· Arachnos – I’m not even going to say.

Goodbye Royal, I, for one, will miss you, and hope you return at some point.

I will somewhat fondly remember the "good old days" With Nitro and EVIL.

Hey kids, it's Nitro here. For those of you who missed the briefing (and you know who you are) here's a transcript I've cone through it to remove any obvious typos and spelling mistakes, but that's about it.

I will be available.. I don't know who I'm going to bring though, given Venom is certainly not going to be visiting Praetoria.

As for the briefing tonight, I'd prefer it if we had a venue other than Pocket D, just because a nightclub doesn't seem the best place to have a military briefing, but an alternative would require either everyone having a redside version of their character or an all blueside version.

I'd prefer the redside, so I can use the shiny new briefing room the KG base (and another reason I'm keeping a secret) has, but I could probably whip something up with Kiken's base if we wanted to go blueside.

I will be available for all of those dates.

I can also help with the missions, as discussed.

Well, starting from the questions I can most easily answer. I envision Preatorian V has being a strong psychic, whether she has had the training to actually harness her latent abilities is another matter. Other than that she doesn’t really have any powers.

As for skills and talents, primal V is vaguely good at drawing, fairly athletic and quite bright. Otherwise it’s still pretty much a blank slate. Mostly because V doesn’t really have hobbies.

What I don’t want is another copy of V, so that probably rules out a stanch loyalist or Seer.

As for personality, or what passes for it, is almost entirely shaped by her metal blocks, ostensibly to keep her sane, but also serving the purpose of keeping her a loyal and willing member of Arachnos and almost devoid of any emotion. Any remaining personality traits, and there are some, are probably despite all this.

Hopes this helps, as I said I will post something regarding the primal version of the character.

Hello ladies, Gentleman and unspecified other denizens of the forums.

Some of you may know me as the person who plays Fateweaver Venom, aka “V”, and hangs around pocket D. Some of you may also know (or realise) that I don’t post on the forums, although I do tend to lurk on them. However, I have encountered a crisis that I feel warrants finally posting and kind of introducing myself.

To be brief, and avoid tl:dr, I’m stuck when it comes to a concept for Praetorian Venny, and have turned to the forums for possible ideas. Hopefully people will know or have encountered the primal version of the character, but if not, I’ll be following up with a potted character summary for those who I’ve never met and Americans. Until then, you’re welcome to check out the wiki page, located at:

http://union.virtueverse.com/index.php/Fateweaver_Venom