Anyone here ever faced The Envoy of Shadow? Yes? Good.
Help me take him down.
I find myself in the middle of his story arc, and faced with the necessity of defeating him twice. But as those of us who have seen him before know.... that's not easy.
So I'm putting out a call for help, time and day to be determined (but hopefully this next week in the evening hours USA). Characters on Virtue, around levels 34-38. Anyone of mind to aid, please give me a shout out.Without a word...

Because I was being silly, I posted the following question to my LiveJournal:
If pirates and ninjas are diametrically opposed, could you power a starship off of them?
Feel free to discuss, or go read my weird friends' responses.Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
http://www.lrgames.com
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http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

Seen on The Register: Portable bots get cattleprod zapguns, hover capability
I suppose this stuff's right out for Fenspace, right?

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

There's a 20% of all regularly-priced in-stock titles at RightStuf, until the 4th. Details here.
(I won't be taking advantage of it - I'm still waiting on my 25-DVDs-for-$100 order to ship, so that hasn't been paid for yet. They're still waiting for one DVD from the manufacturer... go figure.)

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H...ed&search=
Is this some abuse of power?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

I'm sure we can find reasons to yell at each other on this one...
Also, while I was doing a google search, it gave me this...

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Ontario Now Seattle parent 'vindicated' by Supreme Court school ruling - 11 hours ago
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling rejecting Seattle's assignment program and ... The girl wound up commuting across town to attend Ingraham High School in the ...

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Growing impatient with the slow pace of the American Shonen Jump, I downloaded and read through the entire scanslated series to date.
One thought trumps all my other reactions: The Kyuubi is the only manga character I've ever seen who has the Power Kirby.
--Sam
"I'm taking off the kid gloves, and putting on the very mad gloves."

As I was attempting to set up some skits involving my mastermind, her robots, and a (unfortunately imaginary) block of Muenster cheese, it occurred to me that I was wasting a lot of time.
Writing the script? Easy! (Possibly not funny, but easy). Getting it into CoH? Er.. not so much.
I got to thinking. As anyone can attest, this is a bad thing. After a bit of doodling on scrap paper, I realized that a utility could be written that does not (as far as I can tell) violate the EULA, but which automates much of the headache in creating bind chains, and would allow you to create virtually unlimited chains. You can do that already, of course, but that takes work, and it's easy for me at least to mess up.
My thought is a simple app that maintains 'scripts' for your characters. A script is nothing more than a series of slash commands -- talking, using powers, whatever you can currently do by typing it in the window -- laid out in organized fashion. For example:
1: powexec_name recall friend$$local Minion, don't try to run from me!2: petsay minion "em batsmashreact"
In game, these two commands would, via bind chains, use only one key. Press it the first time, you Recall Friend on your targeted minion and say "Minion, don't try to run from me!". Click where you want the poor sap to appear, then hit the key again, and this time your poor underling cowers in fear as he magically appears where you clicked.
(Okay, lame example, but you get my point.)
All the housekeeping of setting up the files needed to make bind chains work would be done by the utility. Select a character, select a 'script', and presto! you're set as far as CoH is concerned. (Okay, so, you need to 'set up' CoH to point at the first file in the set, but a copy-and-paste line could be provided for that).
It may be that my Google-fu is weak, but I haven't found any mention of such an app yet. Is this something worth pursuing? I don't mean from a financial standpoint, obviously. Would anyone besides my admittedly-geeky self find use for such a beast?
(For the record: yes, I could build such a thing, and may do so regardless of what anyone here says, but I'm wondering if anyone else would get enjoyment out of it )

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Kon Kon Kokon is a new arrival on American Shores by Koge Donbo, best know for DiGi Charat and Kamichama Karin. It is a romantic comedy in a similar vein to Aa! Megami-sama!
Ren Hinonishi, ace student and closet Japanese Mythology otaku just wants to be popular and cool in the suburban scholl he transfered to out of the mountains. He is desperately trying to impress the girl he has a crush on, Himeka.
He and his best friend, Himeka's cousin Kazune just got perfect scores on a recent test, when a strange Miko (the eponymous Kokon) bursts into the classroom and declares to Ren, "I've come to repay you!"
Ren later discovers that Kokon is a kyuubi kitsune (hence my interest ^^) that he had encountered unkowingly back home in the mountains. Hijinks and other mythological critters begin to show up. Sadly, Ren is trying to rein in his otakudom to be "cool" for Himeka...
Really cute character designs, as expected of Koge-Donbo.
Published by Broccoli Books link
Catalog number BBKKON01
ISBN-13: 978-1-5974-1065-6
ISBN-10: 1-59741-065-9
US cover Price $9.99
Rated E (Everyone)
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Looks like we're taking advantage of the move of "cranky" to Politics to try and hammer out the "What's the real deal about Haruhi anyway?" question - since it seems that setting up the flame-shielding might be appropriate, and it looks like there are some increasingly ugly cracks in the "CADU" philosophy. Those who wish to weigh in should probably wander on over and weigh in. Those who wish to avoid the potential unpleasantness - well, we'll try to come back with an answer everyone can live with.