Primal

If you spell out "relationship", you lose the all-important ability to make related puns. Abandon ship, Die for our ship, Cargo ship, Toy ship.

I don't dual-box or anything like that, but I do have an entire family as characters. The DeMarco family consists of:

- Mad Bomber DeMarco (Deanna, daughter) - Ice/Devices Blaster
- Sister Scylla (Adrian, daughter) - BS/Regen Scrapper
- Damien D Blaze (Damien DeMarco, son)) - Fire/Willpower Scrapper
- Bane Spider Minchew (Anna DeMarco, mother) - [take a wild guess]
- Fortunata Hamilton (David DeMarco, father) - [actually he's only level 5 right now]

The two parents are hiding in the ranks of Arachnos with assumed names. (Yes, I'm aware that this doesn't work within canon. I don't care. Both of them will go hero in GR if that's allowed.) Damien hides his family name in his middle initial due to this, and also because he's afraid of getting associated with his older sisters, both of whom actually began their "careers" as baddies before getting forced into hero-dom.

Otherwise:

My namesake had a sister, but she got killed by the CoT. Once GR comes out I plan to have an alternate-universe version of her, and this time the sister will live. I haven't really decided what the specifics of AT or sets will be, waiting to see what exactly GR will bring.

I have two more characters who are sisters as well, Majasusi (Claws/Will Scrapper) and Katili (Night Widow). They are very much on opposite sides of the law and will stay that way.

Ason Svivati (currently a Stone/Elec Brute) and Masrefah (Mind/Fire Dom) were part of the same sex/demonology cult a few centuries ago. They've known each other, if you catch my drift, but got into a power struggle and are now bitter rivals. Long story short.

I've bought all the booster and supplemental type stuff as well, but I haven't bought them out of duty or just because. So far, all of them have had something I really liked.

Somebody better deal. Because I'm $40 behind and I want my pants back. My luck's bound to turn around soon!

Now deal. It's drafty in here.

Gah, did this have to be posted at lunch time? I've been thinking about pizza since that other thread, and was planning on having some today, but now I'm just kinda nauseous.

Nah, I'm in SW GA. There are undoubtedly many such examples all around the country though.

I'm going to make a Captain Codfish right now.

Well, I'm actually not, but still, it has a nice sound. Add a little blue to the Energy Blasts, maybe, it could work.

Celestial Highness
Lord of the Celestial
Celestial Vizier
Count Celestial
Lord d'Celestial

Celestial Lord [name]

Edited: Ooh, Seastar, that's a good one. Although it does call Aquaman to mind, but aren't they trying to make him more of a badass now? By adding powers or saying he has Super Strength, something.

I used to preface all reps with "Primal says:", but I've stopped giving reps at all now. Opting out of the game means not playing, period. If I have some praise or condemnation to hand out I can do it in the thread or via PM. Or just sig it, if it was really good.

Seriously, somebody say something awesome and profound so I can add it, give me an excuse to stop watching Boxxy.

That picture will haunt my dreams.

I've mentioned before how much a city I live near resembles Kings Row in its downtown. The buildings here aren't quite as tall, topping out around 10 stories or so only, but otherwise it's not far off. There's no inspiration there either way really, it's just that both areas happen to be ex-industrial areas that are now just run-down, with a bit of revitalization here and there.

Actually OP's pictures make me think more of Fallout 3 than Co*.

It all comes down to how each player sees it. If they bother to at all, of course, I daresay there are plenty of people who just grab whatever powers they want and use them without a care.

I have plenty of Natural human characters whose more-unrealistic powers I handwave as either being "reality but quicker" or as good ol' "unexplained inner potential". Regeneration, for example, is just the natural human healing, only we're not actually laid up in a hospital waiting for it. Super Speed is just taking the fact that I need to be across town and speeding that process along, and so on. For the second handwave pretty much anything goes.

If nothing else works, you can go the route of taking the origin that covers the majority of your character's powers, even though they rely on, say, Magic, for a few. Heck, this is true in canon with Manticore, who's a Natural by and large, but uses on a bit of Tech to travel, what with tapping into a teleportation network (a handwave if ever there was one, lol). Batman is a hell of a fighter, but gadgets and science help him out. I have a Claws/Will Scrapper who's Natural, but whether she admits it or not her (storyline-discarded) magical shadow-shielding ability helps a bit, which I show in-game by giving a couple of defense powers a slight purple tinge.

Ninja Run is a power I'd use for a Natural under the "sped-up reality" excuse. It beats taking the time to walk over there and manually climb to the roof.

This thread makes me think of that one Garfield (animated version) episode. He's met a group of people who all agree on everything, and finally after getting fed up he offers pizza. Immediately they all start fighting about the toppings. He's not surprised in the slightest.

My favorite pizza would be a double-decker or stuffed crust, with sausage, black olives, and mushrooms.

My preferred RP is in the course of a regular mission, as opposed to standing around in Pocket D or under Atlas. And I'm only the audience, playing the strong silent type, because I'm really terrible at RP apart from appreciating it.

Sure, she looks cute, but she's as likely to go back in time to erase you from existence, or worse, make you read slash.

I'm too lazy to post here. ...Hmm, I might be doing it wrong, as the kids say these days.

Good stuff OP, quite useful. I still maintain that NR hits a sweet spot: not quite as good as SJ or SS, but a combination of both and nice for those non-super characters. Just what a Natural power ought to be.

As I said before Sam, there ARE distinct advantages to having the "true" travel powers over the Ninja Run. For one thing, NR cannot be enhanced in any way, even for end redux or a spiffy IO. SS and SJ can. SS has a VERY useful secondary Stealth effect, SJ has immensely more vertical mobility. Ninja Run is at best a halfass mash of SJ and SS, which just so happens to be what some people need.

And as I hasten to yet again add, the GvE jump pack is anything but merely cosmetic. I paid for that, dunno about anyone else.

That Jinx game is not a "thing" where I'm from, and I'm in the southern US. Never heard of it before today. Anyway, didn't Halle Berry play a character named Jinx in a bad James Bond movie?

Also: The worst name I've ever actually seen on a player is something I can't repeat here, at least without using a bunch of *s. I reported it, as did some of the other players standing around gaping.

Done. I have far too many ninja-themed and -inspired characters not to pick this up, not to mention my many other Natural characters who it'll fit well. Very nice.

If the leader leaves, and someone else takes up point, I hang around usually. When no one wants the star, that means the group has run its course and it's time I said my goodbyes as well.

I can't stand leading teams. Makes me nervous, puts the pressure on me to do well.

Would dearly love that Knife of Artemis. Unlockable or handed out, either way is cool.