South_NA

meh. New York, Philadelphia and So. Cal. Who really lives in those places?

"I'll feel pretty, oh so pretty, just pretty and witty and..."

"Would someone turn on a light, please?"

Cabal Enterprises
Cabal Enterprises specializes in the research and acquisition
of special antiquties, relics, and objects d'art.

While other divisions may secretly snicker at the new "gourd"
or "ring" that CE might go out of its way to procure, none
will question the power that some of the items that some of
these items embody. Cabal Enterprises is one of three divisions of the Conglomerate headquartered in the Rogue Islands.

"Any item desired, may be acquired"


History
Arthur Lewis was a 20 year old Union army recruit at the
battle of Gettysburg. That night after the first day of
battle, he lay dying in the fields near Cemetary Hill. From
the darkness, a figure approached and knelt down next to him.
With a touch from the figure, Arthur fell asleep.

Arthur awoke the next morning in a medical tent, completely
healed. Knowing that he should not have survived, he deserted
to find the secret of the miracle that allowed him to survive.

His research and travels took him around the world in the next
25 years.

In 1888, Arthur opened a small curio shop in London. This shop
specialized in items of the occult. Arthur was last heard from
in 1896 when he left his shop to a group of private investors.
Since then the small shop expanded to a major corporation
specializing in speculation of occult artifacts.

The Conglomerate

Here's mine:

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This is the only known picture of the revolutionary who calls herself Cymraes. She is flanked by the junior members of her cell of the Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional). Cymraes has one known relative, her sister, the hero known as Welsh. The two do not speak, but neither deny the relationship.


Cymraes moonlights from her revolutionary activities by being one of the heads of the [Name deleted for security reasons]. [Name deleted for security reasons] is the evidence/item retrieval arm of the Conglomerate. Initially starting out as a free-lancer to help subsidize the Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional), she rapidly rose through the [Name deleted for security reasons]'s ranks as her superiors either met with violent deaths or suddenly retired. Her policies as regards to item retrieval may best be summed up as "No evidence, no witnesses." This accounts for both the interest Interpol has in her and their complete failure to build any sort of case against her.


There is no information available about her cell members. Her cat accompanies her every where. This may be the only living thing that she shows any attachment to. She calls it "Pws" which is indicative of her complete reticence, perhaps.


The Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional) is a pseudo Marxist political party that split off from the Celtic Revolutionary Army Brigade over whether or not Mahatma Gandhi was Welsh, The provos maintaining that he was, the rest arguing that he was not. Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional) is headed by a cell that is known as the Permanent Executive Regime. The Permanent Executive Regime acts as both executive and judiciary for the policies of the Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional). Generally if a member or even an outsider is summoned to go to the Celtic Revolutionary Army (Provisional) Permanent Executive Regime then that person is usually in for it.


The photo referred to above is missing. There appear to be two paragraphs at the end of the brief that are also missing, as well as a cover sheet.

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This character will be on Infinity server.

((Some people think double parentheses mean out-of character comments, but I've always believed they indicate that the writer has "huge tracts of land".))

This is the start of a thread to aggregate (or agglomerate or even accumulate) biographies of your personal villains.

Feel free to post any villainous writing of a biographical nature.

That was added after Neem posted his guide. This guide is still a good guide. But if you want the most current and up to date information, try Blackest Night's. If you look in the "Guide to Guide's" thread you'll see that the individual guides have little green labels to the right of them that say things like I5, I4, I3, etc. the most recent issue is I5. A guide labeled I5 is current through that issue.

All Defender teams are serious fun. An all bubbler team may be too much of a good thing, but 2 or 3 bubblers on a team works out to turning that glass cannon of a blaster into Statesman's worst nightmare, the Tank-Mage. Which is not a bad thing, imo.

I've always appreciated being bubbled. FF is the defender's defender powerset.

Excellent story! Head and shoulders above most roleplaying posts.

Dark Defenders eat the Psychic Clockwork King for breakfast as long as they are close in level to the mission level. I'm not saying we can solo him, because of course no defender could ever solo an AV. Not ever under any circumstances could a defender solo an AV. But, we do very well indeed against him as does any team we're with.

Mew.

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Uhm, maybe I'm playing a different Dark Miasma set than other people, but the resistance to defense debuffs doesn't look like it has any effect on Dark Miasma's accuracy, damage, and damage resistance debuffs.

Also, aren't defender debuffs supposed to be unresistable in PVP? Why not test it and find out rather than assuming that you're gimped (assuming you have actual defense debuffs to be gimped).

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You realize you just contradicted yourself in re debuff resistance? I think Res Ipsa Loquitur definitely applies to your 'rebuttal'.

Reading skills are so needed these days. It seems to have eluded a few of my gentle readers that certain powers are more or less core to a powersets. The Dark and Rad anchor powers are generally considered to be core to their respective sets. Take them away and the other powers are somewhat small potatoes.

Also, I have tested them out. Really. A lot, even. When you actually get your Dark/Dark to 50, let's talk. Feel free to play him in the Arena on Test. Let me know what you find out. I'd love to hear of viable tactics for a D3 in PvP. Because without them, it's looking as though 3 new zones are going to be worthless to me.

Oh, Bakka, I am so with you on this. Rads and Darks and even the new Trick Arrow defenders are yet more nerfed for PvP. I had given up totally in the Arena until a friend gave me some tips on how to stay mildly viable. This tears it. What is the point of our debuffs anywhere near PvP?

My holds have been nerfed, my anchor has been gimped and now my debuffs are crippled. And for what reason? Because the whiniest bunch of losers in the game (scrappers and tankers) didn't like being held, debuffed and gelded like the weaklings they actually are. So to 'even' the playing field all that has been left is raw damage and raw defense. Thank you ever so much.

The best time I had on Test was when the Arena first debued and players could experience what each others powersets actually do. A lot of clueless morons found that they could not fight a human player the same way they fought NPC's. They pitched, they moaned and they whined. And I have been nerfed to extinction. I used to get tells after Arena matches from people who finally understood what a Dark/Dark defender could do and why it was nice to have one around. Now the Arena leads to a discounting and an under-appreciation of defenders because our powers (unless you're a pure empath) are nowhere near as effective in PvP.

If you find you can't handle being debuffed, I suggest that you learn to play better. If you don't like being held, deal with it.

My experince of the Arena can be summed as this. The meatshields uniformly fail to do their jobs. The defenders are universally the targets of every one else, because we are the most vulnerable. It is the job of the Tanker and to a lesser degree the scrapper to absorb damage, but this they almost never do.

But I'm not bitter. Not at all.

I rather like your guide. Very common sensical, which makes it very much needed.

Welsh

Saeth verch Bwa was born to a passionate Cymraeg Nationalist family. An only child, she grew skilled in all of the abilities valued by her people. She was selected to read her masterpiece poem at the National Eisteddfod in 200x. On her way there, she was ambushed and assaulted by the evil Lord Gordon-Blair. Using the 'Complete Works of Dylan Thomas' as a weapon, she fought off his advances. While they were both trying to recover their breaths, he shot her with his most diabolical device, the Saesnag Ray. The evil beam stripped away almost all of her language skills, her ability to harmonize, her cooking skills with mild onions, her magical ability to create and recite poetry and to mine coal. Ok, so perhaps the latter was of not much use, but nonetheless he had no right to deprive her of it as it was part of her heritage.

Since that awful day, Saeth has forsworn poetry and has developed her skills with a part of her heritage the evil English aristocrat could not remove, archery. She still tries to use her native language as much as possible, but is painfully aware that her mutations and declensions are wonky, she's lost almost all of her vocabulary and she can't conjugate to save her life anymore.

South "Not in the face!" she's a blaster

South Freedom "That's naughty! Stop that!"

Cat Aclysm "For Great Justice! Rowr Fffft!"

ExCatholic Girl "Sending you to Catholic school!"

Pixielicious "Fear my pixie wrath!"

Catty Wompus "Look! An obvious distraction!"

Mother Blessed "Silence"

Welsh "Disbuddwch Saes Ci!"

MiniMaid "Let's clean up this mess!"

Fay Splant "Aiieeee!" ice/mace tanker

that's all I can remember

5 stars for you!

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Question 1: What's your favorite color (remember, I'm referring to your hero(es).

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South Freedom: Right now, it's deep Hunter Green, but it changes, you know? I keep going back to grey as it brings out the pallor of my skin, but it is really, really stereotypical.

As long as we are doing Mary Sues:

My Day


I was walking down the streets of Paragon City one day when I came across a bunch of rough looking boys harassing a senior citizen.

Trollkin Gunner: "Gosh darn it, it's South Freedom. I guess we had better stop harassing this senior citizen and straighten up our lives."

Trollkin: Gunner: "Well, shoot. I better go apply for that job at Major Flanders now. I guess our fun is over."

Me (South Freedom): "Not true boys. There are plenty of fun things to do that are productive and legal as well. There's a sock hop at the gym tomorrow night. You boys would be very welcome to come."

Jutal: "Will you be there, South Freedom?"

Me (South Freedom): "Of course."

Jutal: "Jeepers, that'll be swell then. We'll all be there on time and looking sharp."

I went a little further and ran into my old pediatrician, Dr. Vahzilok.

Me (South Freedom): "Hi there Dr. V! How are you doing?"

Dr. Vahzilok: "I'm a little down, South Freedom. I've been trying hard to stop people from dying and I can't seem to get it right."

Me (South Freedom): "Interfering with life and death is not a good idea Dr. V. Death is a natural process and when scientists interfere with natural processes it inevitably turns them into arch-villains who have secret lairs in sewers. Besides, death isn't so bad. I'm undead, but being undead doesn't mean unfun!"

Dr. Vahzilok: "South Freedom, you are so cute and perky that I just can't argue with you. Of course, you are right again. I will give up my hideout and go back to handing out lollipops to toddlers. Thank you, South Freedom."

I will post more of my adventures later, if people want that.