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I'm in a quandry. It's becoming increasingly right for my character to be martial arts rather than katanna. Essentially, he was left crippled after years of bastinado torture (hitting the feet with sticks). It makes sense to me that the incident not only healed his legs and feet but made them as hard as iron. If I have time I may reroll Bastinado and level him to 6. I'd rather do it now than regret it at lvl 20 or 30.

Hello yous,

Yes, we definitely need an SG costume at level 20. For me, whatever it ends up being, the costume should be based on Hyperion Star's outfit. As such the face should be hidden for two reasons - it keeps some ambiguity about who/what Hyperion Star was and from a story point of view it could be an effort by ourselves to plant doubt in the minds responsible for his death. When I made a toon called Hyperion Star to protect the name I used the tech helm with the large side antenae, metallic costume parts with the diablo design on the chest, and large gloves and boots with the sharp design. It made him look quite "spacey" which fits with the name.
I do like the costume posted above, but maybe without the spikes on the shoulderpads and/or the addition of a full face mask/helmet.

Will people be on tonight? I'll try and get on for 8pm.

Sorry I couldn't make it last night. I will try my best to be there next week to maintain Primal's half man, half cow quota.

I've set up a chat channel called Hyperion Hotline. I thought it would be a good way to stay in touch and organise things in game.

Hello you,

I have found a new recruit for Primal called Little Squeak. Are we still set for Monday? It would be nice to get a bigger team together, but having three/four people has been good the last few weeks.

Oh, just a quickie question. Last night, which character suggested we find Dr Vahlizok as he may have harvested bodies from the hospital incident?

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..someone out there is thinking the same thing as me - Wouldn't it be cool if we could have a small group of say 5 or 6 people, all starting together, having an entwining origin and developing through the levels, actually roleplaying the missions and developing relationships past the initial background until a true Supergroup is born with a real history and with real rp'd relationships...

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To stay true to the original post that got everyone's attention we should stick to playing the characters together whenever possible. That's certainly what I would favour, as I'm more keen on the character relationships and developing our own story than leveling.
What do others think?

Yes, it was good last night, we achieved alot in our three leves. Established the back story, kicked off the quest story arc, formed the SG and built a base. Not bad at all.
I'll post my bio and a little piece about the first meeting as soon as I can.
As for the basebuilding, myself excepted as I'm not really interested, I'm keen that everyone who wants to build and edit gets the chance.
Hope people liked the star symbol and orange and gold colours. Maybe at lvl 20 we could desgin an SG outfit, modelled on Hyperion Star's outfit perhaps, we would look quite striking.

I was wondering if we should start a Hyperion Watchmen thread to replace this?

Finally, to anyone casually reading this thread, although we have started we are in no way closed to new recruits. Come join us

Welcome aboard Gaz.

Yeah, 8pm tonight sounds good. Shall we start in the foyer of the hospital and go from there.
My toon is called Bastinado (kat/sr)

I think our symbol should be a star to represent Hyperion Star. Ideally a flaming star, I think there is a chest symbol that would do. Taking the flaming star a bit further our symbol could be a comet. This would also represent the theme of falling as the falling hero or star in one of the central themes of our origin.
I favour gold and deep orange for our SG colours too.
So I guess I'll meet you all later

Sorry, Gaz, I think I may have to back out of this with Clubber. It didn't really register how early we were starting and, as I'm starting a new job on Monday, I really need to try and put my company car back together today.
I'll probably be on later, but don't wait for me.
Sorry.

Ahoy hoy,

I'd like to join Union Overlords with my new mind/kin controller Ipso Facto please. Who should I find in game for an invite?

Sorry, I haven't posted my bio yet. I'm just trying to condense my ideas so I don't cripple the internet when I post it.
I've realised that Wednesday is Valentine's Day and wondered if people were still able to make it?
Unless the girl I like in the office finally notices me in the next two days - I'll be there.

About 7.30pm UK time.
Let's maybe have 7.30pm on Monday every week as a default time.

If we carry on like this, this SG will have 100 heroes played by five people!
If you're going with a defender, I could go back to my original choice of controller. But I do like my scrapper, although I think he is darker in tone that the rest of the characters. He will definitely be the lone wolf Batman/Wolverine of the team, but all SGs need one of those.

Just going back to the post I made about a Crey base/lab in one of the zones. It's actually in Nerva so it will be a while before we can return. However, it would make some nice screenshots for the website.
Are we still planning to meet on Monday evening?

Does anyone object to me not having a fire powerset? It would involve a major rethink.

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so, by the looks of it, the ATs are

Blaster
Blaster
Tanker
Scrapper

so far we have something to take the damage and three things to deal it, unless I'm missing something out at the moment

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We also have a controller.
Fire powers are pretty much out for a scrapper. Power-wise, my character was probably the least changed by the incident.

Hey Aero_

Yes, we're going with the science origin. I think we should wait until lvl 20 before having a official SG uniform, but we could wear SG colours until then. We can use one of our higher toons to create the SG then they can quit.
I like all the names you suggested. Hyperion Watchmen and Hyperion Legacy would get my vote.
Glad we have a tanker, I know any combo of ATs can work but it seems more supergroupy to have people with different roles to play.

The "watches from above" could prove good for our story.

On a side note, I have made a level one toon called Hyperion Star to protect the name.

Hi Gorbaz,

Is Moonfrost a tanker, blaster or controller?
I'm leaning towards my scrapper now.
Hopefully the other people who expressed an interest are still keen, it would be nice to have six or seven. But four will work well.

Nice, Acenra.

I've thought of an addition to the collective bio. The incident in which Hyperion Star has been covered up. After the initial news report - nothing. The PPD has records of the incident at the hospital but no account of the events leading up to it have been found. The weapon and Hyperion Star's body have also disappeared.
At the hospital, we are approached by a member of the medical staff who tells us that other survivors have died in the past year. eg. One sponateously combusted, one froze to death, one died from unexplained radiation sickness, another was entombed in stone. It seems that whatever infected us and gave us powers will also kill us. Maybe today, maybe a year from now. This would create an impetus not only to track down other survivors but to find the villain group responsible for unleashing the weapon in the hope a cure can be found. Rather than pursue our own investigations, it would make sense to band together, pool information, and investigate the various villain groups in Paragon City in the hope of finding a clue to our survival.
Objections?
(See what I did there?)

I thought we were rolling over to next week. Hope I haven't missed the first session, I'm up for doing it before next Wednesday if people want to.
I'll post my bio tomorrow if I get time to write it in work.

Sorry to hear that. I think this idea is far from flimsy. Coming together a year later to the source of their powers and then having to reveal themselves in the face of danger, may be a spontaneous event but the characters' motivations certainly aren't spontaneous. For me it's not about putting characters in a box, its about presenting opportunities for the characters to develop. I don't think I'm explaining myself very well and was about to start using the series Lost as an analogy, but I think we've collectively come up with a scenario that will result in some rich roleplay. We'll see.

Nice, Chove. We're ready then. Just need to set a time and date and we can begin.
Everyone doesn't have to be at the first meet I guess, part of our heroes' initial quest could be to track down other survivors and see if they have been blessed/cursed by the incident. This would also leave us open to people joining weeks or months down the line. Who knows, some of the survivors could be villains?
This is starting to excite me now.