Tramontane
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Quote:Hey, there's me in the grey jacket.Originally Posted by Stogieman
Freitag was a busy little bee on Wednesday evening. He showed up in the D as a police cruiser, a swat van, and then this.....
He then showed up as a couple of different giant robots. I love when stuff like this happens.
Oh, after my last post, Freitag said everything my character touches is destroyed. It is now canon. -
Quote:No, I mean if I were queen of the multiverse, my stride would not involve a 45 degree pivot of my *** with every step.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You mean if you had superpowers you wouldn't walk around like you were queen of the multiverse?
Sounds good, except STEAMPUNK PACK.Quote:Originally Posted by Silver Gale
The only logic I can see there is "each bodytype should get a similar amount of stuff in each pack". So if female models are getting sexy witch leathers and male/huge models are getting badass occult coats, then everyone is getting about the same amount of stuff. But if you give the badass occult coats to the female models then suddenly the female models are getting two things, and that's unfair. And you can't give sexy witch leathers to the male and huge outfits, because that would be gay. So females only get the sexy witch leathers and nothing else. -
Quote:The number of ways this statement hurts my brain is staggering.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That's not prancing - that's just a feminine swagger - which would be the default way to walk if you had superpowers
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*Peers out of his library, looks around*
Hngg... meh... damn dog/cat war...
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Oh my god.
Apparently Snaerr, my main, is cursed to make Freitag blow up whenever they talk.
This... this is kind of awesome. -
Apparently you and I are the only ones, Quin.
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Quote:So every author in the world has a severely advanced case of borderline personality disorder, then?Originally Posted by Silas_Gray
In a manner of speaking, yes.
Our avatars reflect a piece of our personality and our souls (However small that piece may be.) Would you play a character that is in conflict with your ideals? The answer is no, some small part of you approves of what you avatar "does" otherwise you wouldn't play it. This is why I can never bring myself to be an openly evil character in an open-ended RPG, the idea of hurting people, killing them makes me ill. So no, I do not accept your argument Tramontane. Some part of you feels justified in your characters actions. The same goes for any "Racist Character."
If I were going to portray a klansman, I'd want to make really damn sure people understood it was just a character too.Quote:Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend
My point was more that it felt like they were being overly defensive about it by announcing it and having to place that disclaimer. -
Quote:I'm using the old ui, and usually I'm not even using the mouse when it happens.Originally Posted by _Klaw_
Are you using the new ui? Maybe you are accidentally clicking on the little red x.
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Wizard Dinosaurs shall rule the day! ALL SHALL TREMBLE!
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I just checked, there's currently no keybind set to leave team.
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At random points, for no apparent reason, I keep quitting the team.
It's caused issues multiple times where the entire team got messed up because of me getting kicked off and then reinvited.
Just now, I was helping a trial player out against Frostfire, and just after we unlocked the final door, I "quit" the team again. Since he was on a trial account, he couldn't re-invite me, I had to re-invite him, thus causing us both to get booted out and resetting the mission.
This has ceased to be a minor irritation and become a major problem. What in the paisley christ is going on here? -
Quote:See, that's silly to me.Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend
The tag that always raise my eyebrows is the ones saying something to the effect of "Character is an [BADWORD!], player is not" or "Character is racist, player is not." Etc.
It always feels like a suspiciously specific denial of your behavior, like you're using the character as an excuse to treat people in ways that in the real world would result in you having A) no friends and B) no teeth, and not expecting people in-game to, I don't know, punch you in the face or treat you like you're an [Censored by the Committee for the Protection of Wee Little Ears]. That you're doing this to people who routinely solve problems with massive amounts of violence is also a bit perplexing.
The more space people spend defending and explaining it (I once saw someone use half their bio space on the topic), the stronger I suspect that it's a player taking advantage of the fact that I do not yet own an Internet Strangling Machine. But that's my take on it.
I have characters who are A-holes. Selfish pricks, drunken misanthropes, judgmental bastards, and sanctimonious uptight pains in the neck.
The problem with this?
I also have characters who kill people by trade.
I even have characters who kill people for fun.
Is this to be taken as an indication that if I could do so in real life instead, I would? -
Quote:Mostly this.Originally Posted by Jophiel
I have no idea who the "popular" crowd on the server is even supposed to be and I do just fine.
I'm as socially adept as a rabid wombat and I'm as observant as a nearsighted schizophrenic. Usually I am so far removed from the notion of "Popularity" as to never see that it existed.
You know how I met the individuals I currently RP with?
Hanging out in Pocket D making conversation with random individuals. -
Quote:Nobody in CoH ever implied that I wasn't allowed to have an opinion as a result of my origin, alignment, archetype, or the level of my highest level character.Originally Posted by Arbiter_Shade
Really?
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Quote:Don't worry, he won't be a fishMalk.Originally Posted by OHakubi
You're the kind of person who plays God Hand on hard and does Tourist runs in Nethack for fun, aren't you.
FishMalks piss me off.
ETA: Killerkitty, your links fill me with joy. Even though the "gnawed" page on your Malkavian link doesn't work anymore. -
I am now filled with a perverse desire to roll a WoD style Vampire character that /isn't/ completely ridiculous, out of tune with the lore, or otherwise essentially playing the wrong damn game.
Malkavian. I'm thinking Dual Pistols/Mental Manipulation. Who's with me? -
Quote:I... um... didn't?Originally Posted by Fedor
How did you recognize me in my awesome disguise anyways Tramontane?
WHy, who are you, strange and bizarre little sacklike individual who looks so little like Fedor because he is clearly not because I've never seen you before in my life and certainly don't know anything I'm not telling you.
I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.
*Shiftyglance left*
*Shiftyglance right*
*Points* LOOK, A DISTRACTION!
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Quote:Personally, I do similar things.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
There was a long and rambly intro to this that I ended up not posting, but that basically explained this is a guide for the specific situation of fishing for some new RP in the D.
You've only got 1024 characters to make a first impression. There's no point in wasting those characters writing out "he is secretly a ninja/a vampire/heir to the throne of Ruritania, BUT DON'T YOU DARE KNOW THAT."
Then again, I put it there for the exceptions. I have a character who runs around in Arbiter armor calling herself an Arbiter. Sounds well and good, there's loads of PC Arbiters in this game.
Except she's not an Arbiter, she's a pretentious upstart Recluse hasn't bothered to eliminate yet because she's still useful. Anybody in Arachnos might know this and think less of her for it. Anybody who actually studied the ranks of Arachnos members might also be aware, or anybody with close Arachnos contacts might be able to discover it. Arachnos soldiers might even attempt to eliminate her, on Recluse's orders. It's really their call, isn't it?
My main, on the other hand, would look at her and just think she was an Arbiter of Arachnos.
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Quote:Sir, I resent this implication that simply because of my elemental affinity I am somehow untrustworthy!Originally Posted by Fedor
So you admit to being a slippery character then?
*Assumes a triumphant pose in front of an American flag as "Pomp and Circumstance" begins playing in the background*
For too long, those with an icy affinity have been looked down upon by our culture! For too long, they have been the subject of one terrible pun after another from an uncaring, unthinking world!
I dream of an age when we are seen, not for our ice, but for our souls, which are pristine, shiny, and have a peculiar air bubble in the middle owing to the bizarre fluid dynamics of freezing water.
I dream of an age when no more will we hear references to being "Slippery," no more will we hear the jeers of an unthinking world telling us to "Cool down" or "Chill out" or any of a thousand other cold, brutal puns like lashes at our backs.
I dream of an age when the ice man and the sack man can be as brothers to one another, when we care more about the love in our hearts than the temperature of our skin!
When we can stand together as one and shout to the heavens, "Snow at last, snow at last, thank God almighty, there is snow at last!"
*Triumphant crescendo as he poses dramatically in front of the flag*
... Ahem. Also, I have no idea what happened to the coffeemaker.
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I'm not made of ice, I just have an ice theme.
An ice schtick, if you like.
A general ice raison d'etre. -
I'll never recommend a non-Kheldian Kheldian, as they're a pet peeve of mine, but as you can see that is an option.
However, as was recommended earlier in the thread, Radiation works very well. In fact, since actual light shares some characteristics with radiation, it really works pretty well.
When I wanted to create such a character, I went with a Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast defender, both with a white primary and a pale yellow secondary.
If you're looking for something perhaps a bit more smitey and biblical, you could replace Radiation Blast with Energy Blast, which is fairly knockback intensive (Depending how attractive that is to you, as I know Knockback has become rather demonized in this game.)
Or you could even get a little more aggressive, and change it to a Fire Blast/Radiation Emission Corruptor. You could even give up the support, go for overwhelming offense, and take a Fire Blast/Energy Manipulation or a Radiation Blast/Energy Emission. Makes for a good avenging angel concept. -
Quote:I accuse you of trolling by accusing somebody of accusing somebody of accusing somebody of trolling.Originally Posted by MOUT__
What about accusing someone of accusing someone of trolling?
(Please note... I am just asking hypothetically. I am in no way accusing anyone of accusing anyone of accusing anyone of trolling.)
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Quote:Mine was for an IC reason, since right now she's parading around in Arbiter garb pretending to be an Arbiter and Recluse hasn't swatted her down for her impudence yet.Originally Posted by Vypress
I stuck to the lore for naming my SoAs, though I used less-common 'titles' since 'Arbiter' and 'Operative' are so ubiquitous.
That said, I'm strongly considering paying for a name change, simply because A- the arbiter thing isn't a strong portion of her identity, and B- it /is/ crazy ubiquitous.
Also, I named my Crab "Huntsman Lyme" and then realized Huntsmen were Bane Spiders. Eff Em Ell. XD -
Quote:On the one hand, this is so awesome the words don't exist to adequately define how awesome it is.Originally Posted by Grae Knight
Ghost Widow used to role-play with people as well. Here is a screenshot from a wedding ceremony I officiated in the Rogue Isles that she crashed.
On the other hand, I'll never be able to use a redname NPC in a character's backstory ever again for fear I might interact with them. D: