Pious

I just typed up a page full of drama. Tried to click post and the little one dropped a mouse on the keyboard that refreshed the screen. Text gone. I'm going to bed for now and will try again in the morning. Sorry to now be holding up the RP.

Is the blood being spouted part of the Antivampire Blood Virus sampled earlier by Tomb? And what -does- happen if it's vaporised into the air? 80% chance of cancer in infected humans? How wide would the infected zone be? Also, I'm now documenting Open Season RP by chapter in an attempt to help keep it listed and organised on Unionwiki. Edit away where needed and join in the effort to tidy it all up if you want. Open Season Chapter 20: Attack on St. John's School.

Pious's medicom activated and he later awoke to find himself mended under the Rikti-tech healing circles in Talos Island hospital. He jumped off the resting bed with a start, flashbacks of his death haunting him. The ordeal of being magically poisoned and shot to death. The punishment endured at the hands of the German supersoldier. The front doors of the clinic flung open as a delirious Pious Hunter rushed out, gasping for air.

"Alright this thing is serious" thought Pious, via his amulet. "From out here it looks like Freedom Corps and the PCPD are already mobilising. I'll try to contact our allies but we'll need a plan. Any ideas?" Pious pulled out his cellphone and dialled the Foundry, Dunelm and Wolves. "This is Pious Hunter please respond."

We're gonna need half the City of Heroes to bring down that modified Giant Monster aren't we? Got our work cut out I reckon. NH, Foundry, Dunelm anyone?

Damsel and I are planning on coming but she's more likely only to do the meet and greet then shoot off into town with the little one. I'll be bringing my PC too I think. All I have to do now is secure that weekend off work, plan the coach/train routes, book a hotel room and set aside some spending moneys. 'Family weekend in the Midlands' was my winning argument so I'm more likely to be absent in the evenings, which means no night-time gaming for me. Thanks for organising this Kallandra. I missed the Omega Sektor meets so this will be an exciting first and a great opportunity to great you wonderful people in person.

Now to fish out that Priest/Peter ID card Mother's Love made for me.

Adam Moore has struck the Castle and seems set to fight Bathory in a one-man war to the death. It's all a little unexpected and rather abrupt, but in my opinion, a positive surprise. But at the rate this is going, should we not consider how this second assault on Castle Bathory will impact the overall plot? Game?

Blade, is it okay if I post a reply to that? Nighthunters should at least come for his body.

The assailant may be stealthed but daggers are usually visible objects. With superspeed and heightened response, a hero could typically save a target from the impact of a thrown knife, but never mind. I don't think its an issue worth a debate and I'd rather we get on with this so I've removed the part about the super soldiers helping Misty. I think its fair to say the sub-plots are done so I'll be leaving now until Liz and Big Game decide when to start the finale, or whatever it is.

Jeez. Well then I've either failed to get my point across with poor choice of words or you've misread my post or both. Easier done then in fewer sentences; the Priest will not fight. He'll let others who can win that fight do the fighting, (in this case the Dunelm Group) otherwise he'll just find a way to avoid it; Jemma.

Don't worry about it Eleven. Eric and I bicker like this all the time, nothing serious. It's just usually on MSN or via PM's. Maybe we should keep it that way.

Pious watched the theatrical smoke-works and fire-play of the ninja as he fled the scene. Pious knew Adam could easily absorb the impacts of grenades.

"You all did well helping to reclaim Gimry Ridge today" Pious began, addressing the four Nighthunter judicators Blade, Misty, Storm and Suraya, as well as the military heroes he recognise as the newly formed global demon-hunting army regiment, the Priest Corps, made up mostly of his twin brothers. "However" he continued, "I fear this is only the start of a string of possible attacks on the Worn Cover. I wouldn't be too surprised if MAGI decides to have the whole building relocated somewhere less populated. I'd say property damage today alone has crossed the two-million mark. That's unfortunately going to be on us. So what do you say we rejoin Freedom Corps and start cleaning up this mess? We can look into the Circle of Thorns and whoever else is behind this at a later time."

Factor in also the fear most of humanity has over Artificial Intelligence. Even in today's real-world, computers are smarter than us and more capable than us. Would government truly accept to share human rights with Artificial Intelligence, or grant them equal status? I don't know. That's where your imagination comes in and is the beauty of science fiction. I like your idea. Let the AI's go fight for the rights to live! I know my main hero, a Christian, would object to machine gaining power equal to or over man. He makes it his job to go about finding and 'taking care' of these types of 'monsters' among others. Now the machines want to add morality conflicts to his conscience? Yeah, he would be a good adversary for this AI-centric SG.

Edit: Thought I better re-word this now that I'm back from work. Hopefully my point is now a little bit clearer. See Alpha's quote for the original post if you wish.

You confuse me sometimes Liz. You and all these planning. When it comes to Forum RP, some things just happen naturally. Lets talk about the characters Pious and Tower for a moment. Tower is a violent and unstoppable machine made of the strongest metal. Pious is a non-violent angelic spirit with elemental powers. Tower attacking Pious would possibly just result in Tower being teleported away until Dunelm Group can come and deal with it.

It's simple; Pious is a religious pacifist. He would only throw a punch if there was no better/other option. You know that. So he would never truly recognise Tower or any other machine as an actual credible threat when its just a lifeless object, unlike a person (who has human and moral rights). You want to give Priest a real fight? For drama? Or whatever other reason that I don't actually understand? Then maybe pull a Kahn? Back in that fight, Pious had no other choice but to place himself as a shield and try to stop Kahn fulfilling his threat to kill more Longbow.

Even in-game that was a one-way fight for Kahn, he was going to be the one who wins the fight no matter what other power Pious brought to the table. But it could also have been a draw. I could have had Pious use granite armour and keep healing until everyone got bored, or have him use his gravity control skills and teleport/wormhole Kahn until Pious makes a mistake or fails. (This would have been the strategy of choice with Impervium Tower had Jemma not done it first). Anyway, I didn't do that because Pious was psychologically faulted; he knew deep down that he was guilty as charged and deserved every blow he received from Kahn, so he just took it instead of trying to defend himself, or going for a draw.

You say the Impervium Tower plot is a mess but I thought it only just started? You and Eleven planned a big towering fight but it seems to me both the Ghost of Death and the Priest were in no mood to fight anything. Jemma sent the threat away or trapped it somewhere. Problem postponed. And now Dunelm Group are taking steps to 'solve' it. Its not my fault if RP doesn't always play out as you want it to. We all try to stay true to our characters and so they will always do whatever it is that they do, and what Pious does best is peace-talk his enemies to boredom so it's highly unlikely that you'll get a fist-fight out of him.

"Yeah, that's his picture" said the Priest, glancing at the PDA. "Don't look so concerned, he's already been rid of. Far gone now, likely back to the Rogue Isles."

"Leon... Tasker" said the Priest. "Thanks for coming Dunelm, but as I told the police and Freedom Corp back-up squads, threat's been contained. I'm a priest and bringing light to the unsaved is my job. But for all my virtues, both demon and man often want me dead. Impervium Tower was sent to kill me, most likely by the Countess Elizabeth Bathory who keeps him, but she inevitably failed as evil always does. I'm sure you'll agree?"