Cape mission done, yet to do the tailor thing. Repurposed costume slot 2 as his "formal wear," will make 3 the Legendary variant when I get it.

I should really do the Positron task force at some point soon... anyone up for it?
--Sam
"Sanity, you're a madman!"

...I have no words.

--Sam
"So, foul gelatin, you would do battle with the nose of your birth?!"

...can go in this thread.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I was talking with Jimmy about his "VIIOR Avatar"
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: you were? when?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: This morning
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: and why don't I remember this?
[The Legendary] valles: Which's that?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You play Electroeagle don't you?
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: not I
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My bad.
[The Legendary] valles: Speaking of which...
[The Legendary] valles: ...how aware is Nogi of her ninja?
[The Legendary] Jimmy Amp: no worries... haven't slept in 36 hours or so
[The Legendary] valles: Emotional state?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well she's gotta have some equivalent to the "pet window"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Knowing when her pets are mezzed, damaged, buffed, etc.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So... lessee
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hive mind-ish
[The Legendary] valles: I'm planning to write Akai as knowing when Nogi's about to cap off about the Spines guy, so.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Semi autonomous drones with Nogi as the "queen mind"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Perfectly allowable.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even if Nogi were "natural" origin, it could be assumed her ninja know her well enough to look underneath the underneath and know what she's about to do
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Great! *blinkblink* ...could they survive without her? Assuming a power source.
[The Legendary] valles: A la FSN's Servants.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Presumably, so...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oho! For later when Nogi discovers her serial immortality.
[The Legendary] valles: I'd had a throwaway line to that effect, though I -hadn't- formed that connection.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or the relationships that may develop between her ninja and "real people"
[The Legendary] valles: It was... just something that followed from the assumptions I was making.
[The Legendary] valles: I figure that if Nogi -does- end up developing her own Epic Pool...
[The Legendary] valles: Brightsky'll ask for Akai.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm. More generally, I'm working from the assumptions that...
[The Legendary] valles: The kunoichi's bodies are physically real.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or close enough as makes no difference
[The Legendary] valles: That is, they have all the right biological and neurological functions to be real people.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Clarke's Law and its inverse
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...indistinguishable from a rigged demo
[The Legendary] Foxboy: HUH? That one eludes me.
[The Legendary] valles: The magic involved in sustaining them is all about connecting the departed spirit to the summoned meat.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I can't remember the whole thing ;.;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Got it
[The Legendary] valles: Psychologically...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or meat-like food substitute product
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Spam ninja?
[The Legendary] valles: ...the girls don't think of themselves - aren't, in a meaningful sense
[The Legendary] valles: ...enslaved.
[The Legendary] valles: They're -retired-.
[The Legendary] valles: They're quite capable of defining and working towards their own goals, but...
[The Legendary] valles: They've already -done- all that.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: They've been part and parcel of Nogi;s goals for so long her goals are their goals
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Actually the serial immortality is gonna SCARE the bejeebers out of the core of myself that's still there.
[The Legendary] valles: Not as bad as the girl that gets jumped to. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right but let's say that Nogi has a "nictuslike" incorp state.
[The Legendary] valles: I'm dead.
[The Legendary] valles: HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I'M DEAD!!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And... I AM not getting Judged for my life as my beliefs tell me. I am damned.
[The Legendary] valles: or, 'Waaaaahhh! Where'd the world goooo!!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: THAT one is gonna cause some difficulty.
[The Legendary] valles: 'cause the good girls go to heaven, but the bad girls go everywhere...'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Essentially V!Nogi will eventually find out why she didn't go to final judgement:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: She "aten't all the way daid"
[The Legendary] valles: *blinkblink*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Sorry my Discworld fennishness kicked in
[The Legendary] valles: Ah. She doesn't -really- die until some magical heavy zarks the ghost?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Pretty much
[The Legendary] valles: The thing that's gonna scare Brightsky shitless is...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I mean the "possessing ghost" isthe Natural state of a Nogitsune
[The Legendary] valles: ...I approach my emotions about the same way as a rigid Jedi.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And Sky wears her heart on her sleeve.
[The Legendary] valles: They are unambiguously The Enemy.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ohhhh.
[The Legendary] valles: So, not only is she emotive, but...
[The Legendary] valles: her temper.
[The Legendary] valles: Sky - canon Sky - is terrified of herself.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That's something that I hope Dead!Nogi can pull off: the moral search for a host.
[The Legendary] valles: She is just one step short of being an outright berserker....
[The Legendary] valles: ...and she knows it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right.
[The Legendary] valles: She -knows- that when she loses it, she'll hit whatever gets in her way.
[The Legendary] valles: Including civilians.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So a better written Skysaber Akane, eh?
[The Legendary] valles: I don't read Skysaber, but it sounds apropos. ^_^
[The Legendary] valles: And... 'To serve and protect'... that's her -life-.
[The Legendary] valles: Thats -why she feels she exists-.
[The Legendary] valles: ...compared to, I literally cannot remember the last time I sincerely lost my temper.
[The Legendary] valles: In a wierd way, I think each of us wants to be the other.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So a Yin and Yang balancing act.
[The Legendary] valles: ...in a washing machine.
[The Legendary] valles: Which is why, when Akai actually draws blood...
[The Legendary] valles: ...kaboom.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: On heavy load?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Still mezzed right?
[The Legendary] valles: Yep.
[The Legendary] valles: Sky's still mezzed - though thinking more in terms of 'I'm fine, -they're- being controlled'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Messy.
[The Legendary] valles: Uh-huh.
[The Legendary] valles: Akai spends a moment or two thinking, 'Eep.'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Like 'Why can't they see they're working with a VILLAIN?'
[The Legendary] valles: I actually do have her using the AV line.
[The Legendary] valles: She makes a beeline, Akai gets in the way...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The Holy [excrement] it's an AV!
[The Legendary] valles: They fight a bit...
[The Legendary] valles: Then everything goes all cold and shadowy.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Darkest night or Shadow fall?
[The Legendary] valles: Whichever one Nogi's going to be dropping - can't recall off the top of my head.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: OR the Howling Twilight
[The Legendary] valles: I figure she gets the entire battlefield with it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Howling Twilight for the mass res.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And disorient.
[The Legendary] valles: Aagh! Can't -see-!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Letting Shizuru get some mad containment action
[The Legendary] valles: Which would, I figure, include demezzing the Legendary who'd gotten got.
[The Legendary] valles: ...sky pulls up short, thinking, ohh... shit...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Some impassioned speech by one of the heroes counts as giving you a BF insp
[The Legendary] valles: Telepath vs. Telepath wouldn't cover it?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That works too.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right, Shi is a sonic she can do clarity
[The Legendary] valles: Or I could go with the original plan for how that happens...
[The Legendary] valles: chu! [3
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ah the Madmartigan tactic
[The Legendary] valles: Don't recognize the reference, but sure. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Willow?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Dingding!
[The Legendary] valles: I saw that... once... how long ago?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Val kilmer in a Celtic-inspired medieval starwars/snow white combo
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: You misplaced "starwars" and "celtic"
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Details!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] valles: Of course, this is -after- Akai tried to talk her out of it, thought she'd succeeded... and then barely missed getting kicked int he stomach.
[The Legendary] valles: Faking a ninja isn't going to happen, of course, but Sky tried.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Good thing she isn'ta pirate or it would have been to the death
[The Legendary] valles: Snrk.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...There will be so many Real Ultimate Power flipouts out there...
[The Legendary] valles: RUP?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Google it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Mostly from Nin/nin stalkers and kat/regen scrappers.
[The Legendary] valles: Okay, one sec.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Nin nin! [3
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...sorry, too much Disgaea
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Inconceivable!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No such thing!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: A *large amount* then
[The Legendary] valles: Oh, -those- guys.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people.
[The Legendary] valles: In a lot of ways, it's a real shame I've never been able to really get into Negima.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: It is.
[The Legendary] valles: I mean, deliberately transparent hot ninja Xellos babe.
[The Legendary] valles: It's perfect.
[The Legendary] valles: But the book just bores me to tears.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah well...
[The Legendary] valles: I'd've done a little teary face, but the game punches those into local for wierd reasons.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ;.;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No it doesn't
[The Legendary] valles: ...gah.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You need to put a space before the first ;
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (I can see Negima being called a lot of things, but boring? A first)
[The Legendary] valles: ...D'OH!
[The Legendary] valles: I had a thought about how to handle the big Legendary Discussion Scene.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...Yes?
[The Legendary] valles: Rather than show it...
[The Legendary] valles: ...show the TV interview(s) where the participants talk about it.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (And I think I can get the King over to the east coast without marooning him in his kingdom... excellent...)
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah, nice.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. Depends on who can do what Talk show host/reporter
[The Legendary] valles: It'd be much easier if we still had the logs of that argument I got into about what the govt would do...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well, let's see. How long would it take the so-alled "real govv't" to believe it was actually happening?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue the local is going to pass the buck and it goes all hte way up
[The Legendary] valles: At the national le-
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: I would guess... not long.
[The Legendary] valles: Hour or two, tops.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And this is pre-"Surge" right?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Vazhilok and Clockwork teamup in this mish. Makes sense, they have different recycling lists.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ^_^
[The Legendary] valles: Um... I need to pay closer attention to the news?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Oh man... were any *troops* playing CoH?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Oh dear.
[The Legendary] valles: Probably.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even worse good RP'ers playing CoV
[The Legendary] valles: Definitely.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: "Iraq is MINE!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No.
[The Legendary] valles: Merc MM.
[The Legendary] valles: In the military.
[The Legendary] valles: In Iraq.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *snerk*
[The Legendary] valles: Eep?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Say it with me: "COOOOBRAAAAAA!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yo, JOE!
[The Legendary] valles: LOL.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Female model... I Oncssssse wassss a man.....
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *dies*
[The Legendary] valles: Uh.... okay....
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Quote from the GI Joe movie
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Cobra.... LALALALALALALA!
[The Legendary] valles: ...That was even longer ago than Willow.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Cobra commander became a snake creature at Serpentor's whim
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Thoughtt hat was Golobulus
[The Legendary] valles: With... this... giant clamshell thing?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (The comic was SO much better.)
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yeah
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Either way is fine with me
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Exactly
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Mutation spores in the clam
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...that just doesn't sound right.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Another question how many Cease and desists for N00bs in the tutorial at the time of the event?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...A lot.
[The Legendary] valles: Um? Like, would-have-been-generics?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Lotta short hairy Canadians, eh?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...help me...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I do not want even my avatar to live in a world overrun with Logan
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Laughing that hard, Lurker?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yep
[The Legendary] valles: Their attempts to escape the legal action of the Marvel corporation would become known as...
[The Legendary] valles: ...the Logans' Run.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: OWWW!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *can no longer breathe*
[The Legendary] valles: Score!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I simultaneously LOVE and HATE that movie
[The Legendary] valles: Never seen it. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Book, better
[The Legendary] valles: Never read it. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The also-ran sci-fi movie of 1977
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Eh, I said "better," not "great"
[The Legendary] valles: Just -knowing that it existed- was enough. ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The chase scene in the finished Crazy Horse memorial...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: [-- real first name is Logan
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: --]Wolverine's isn't
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'm glad most of my "teasing years" were in Oklahoma rather than New England
[The Legendary] valles: Eh?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Otherwise I'd be stuck wiht "Airport" as my nickname
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ouch!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: SO glad my last name isn't O'Hare
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I need to use that now
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The name Logan O'Hare?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ues
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yes
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Iteven fits an Irishman
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Y'great gobshite! Say't agin an I'll cosh and pandy ye smartly, boyo!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I can't do Irish
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Just barely Scottish
[The Legendary] valles: Hmph. Well sure and you're a fool, then, or you'd not be sayin' somethin' so daft.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Believe it or notit took a british puppet show for me to get a "Modern" Irish accent down pat... oog I punned myself
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And that's only because I have some Scot ancestry
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...well, and some Irish, but a lot less
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I Cannae rrrrrrroll me arrrrrrrs prrrrrroperly.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Scot pirates!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Stage Scots is pretty close to stage Pirate
[The Legendary] valles: Sans rum.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Plus whiskey.
[The Legendary] valles: But... why is the -rum- gone...?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Horrible band name for Oh My Goddess just popped into my head
[The Legendary] valles: Oh?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Bob Whaley and the Marllers
[The Legendary] valles: *laughs*
[The Legendary] valles: Nice thing about playing an MM:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Another mini arc for VIIOR just came to mind
[The Legendary] valles: Plenty of time to chat.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I was just wondering what Redemption Song might do for Doug, and it snjowballed
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: A Schrodinger
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: 's Whale with a mini Marller backup group
[The Legendary] valles: Ooh, ooh, arc, arc!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Two Weeks Notice'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The last two weeks some of the Virtues have at their old jobs
[The Legendary] valles: Wherin many employers conclued that ... ooooooh. I like that better.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Clever
[The Legendary] Foxboy: See Ninja mastermind at a supermarket help desk
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'This one must not kill the customers"
[The Legendary] valles: Hee.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Flip out and greet people!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (coined by Chibi Konatsu)
[The Legendary] valles: Might it be best to use only rough approximations of real people?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'This one is Japanese and not Chinese...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well chain stores will have to be fictionalized
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Will they? We're not publishing, are we?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: If it's on the web? It's published or as good as.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So could count as badmouthing the company etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I'm pretty sure 7-11 doesn't care about fanfic...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Though one of my best bits includes a supervisor not believing that Nogi's ears are real
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh
[The Legendary] valles: Oooh.
[The Legendary] valles: Mebbe a five year old or two has the same problem?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And a nice Kansai war bride encountering a Kitsune for the first time since 1936
[The Legendary] valles: Or worse, doesn't?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...wait, what?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: 'Momma lookit her ears!'
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: What *is* the status of magic pre-Virtue, anyway?
[The Legendary] valles: 'Itaiiiiiiii... Please, Kodomo-chan, release this oNE!'
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Pretty much wiped out
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I figure Europe was zorched during WWI
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Zorched?
[The Legendary] valles: Probably shaky long before then.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I suspect I missed a lot of discussion
[The Legendary] valles: To keep from getting consistent results when tested.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Let's say that some of the Ley line kookswere SORT of right
[The Legendary] valles: You're not alone. ^_^
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The old flows of magic were along the lines connected by churches graveyards, etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: For example, has the Virtue thing actually *changed* the laws of physics? Are colliders turning up new kinds of particle]?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Ooh.
[The Legendary] valles: That would be -fun-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Newtonian physics are relatively unscathed.
[The Legendary] valles: The blood in Uni physics departments would get knee deep, but it'd be fun!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Let's jsut say that exotic radiation will be more common
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: See, I am just this nosy, so King-me will be asking himself all the hard questions
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Allowing for totally native supers down the line
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And concluding "On some level, this was a deliberate action."
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Someone DID this to us.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Which is true/
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Even if it was an accident
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Lessee. Falwell will get a few shots in on the Virtues before he dies.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Bleh.
[The Legendary] valles: Hah. Hahahaha.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Verisimilitude.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: How many of them will shoot back?
[The Legendary] valles: Bets someone ends up taking exception to his language?
[The Legendary] valles: In person?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: If it's Nogi, she might actually divine his time of Death
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And tell him?
[The Legendary] valles: That's twisted and perfect.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yikes.
[The Legendary] valles: Also, tell his insurance company.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ^_^ All of them ^_^
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...*owie*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. We may have a few suicides among the Virtues.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ESPECIALLY the "vampires"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: There was one like that in Ed Becerra's thing...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The convention...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yup
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Where I got the idea.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Steal shamelessly and from the best.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Also a couple of Buffy Fans might do in one of their friends who got "turned"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But then there's the vamps and infectious werewolves who *like* their state...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Could get *ugly*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Fortunately, the Virtuesthemselves are likely immune
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Could be worse. Could have been a populous WoW PVP server.
[The Legendary] valles: Eegh.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Yes MUCH worse
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Raidtards on the march...
[The Legendary] valles: And I just Killed DEATHSURGE! Woo!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *applause*
[The Legendary] valles: *bow*
[The Legendary] valles: Thought:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: The pocket D arc for VIIOR should coincide with the Valentine's event
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Pocket D arc?
[The Legendary] valles: You have cases where young kids had adult characters, like in Rev's bit.
[The Legendary] valles: You also have cases where people were _RPing_ kids.
[The Legendary] valles: ...age of majority laws.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right. And hte Pocket D arc is when someone gets the guts to use the Pocket D VIP pass
[The Legendary] valles: Consent, responsiblity, custody, etc.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Another question to ask oneself... were the characters *cloned* from their world, or *transferred and merged?*
[The Legendary] valles: I've been assuming 'cloned'
[The Legendary] valles: -then- merged.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Personally I prefer "cloned" but the question is valid for character angst.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But people who don't know can be worried...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If I get rid of the King, does that set him loose on his world again?
[The Legendary] valles: Brightsky's attitude towards that question will be pretty much...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue if in a later arc Nogi!Me encounters Nogi!Prime
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Could be amusing or not pretty at all.
[The Legendary] valles: 'Neither of the people who made me did this on purpose, and neither of them would want me to worry about it. So. I won't worry.'
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh.
[The Legendary] valles: Anyway, I figure that the law -should- decide to count a person as -either- their real or character age, -whichever is younger-.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I would have hoped that they'd take actual maturity level into account. Oh well...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or perhaps apply the emancipated minor rules in cases wehre body and mind mismatch
[The Legendary] valles: How on -earth- do you -determine- something like that?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: For more liberal places.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Good question
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Besides, assuming someone was "minored" that might make them wards of the state if the don't have relatives willing to take them in
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If you can prove your identity and are acting your age...
[The Legendary] valles: Really, that suggestion is just an excuse to toss V!Sky and O!Sky into the same freshman dorm room.
[The Legendary] valles: Sometime way later.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And V!Nogi as guest professor in Comparative Thaumatology.
[The Legendary] valles: From which Comedy Ensues.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No, no. Hijinks.
[The Legendary] valles: ...QB would -spaz-.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Heh.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: As would Crey.
[The Legendary] valles: I think Crey would spaz just on general principles....
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nogi's current body might be considered stolen property aftre all
[The Legendary] valles: ...an entire new world full of markets and victims...
[The Legendary] valles: ...all of them -Preconditioned to hate the brand name-!
[The Legendary] valles: It's not -fair-!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: *ha!*
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ooog. Rikti invasion on hte Heels of Nemesis....
[The Legendary] valles: In -our- -world-?!
[The Legendary] valles: ...woah.
[The Legendary] valles: That's kinda scary, yeah.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Mebbe. but MUCH later on
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ouchie
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: So what *does* the Pocket D pass do?
[The Legendary] valles: I want to see some V-Earth native organization knock Arachnos back on its heels, though.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...That'd be a nice trick.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: For one thing a lot of the portals from *A* Paragon City wid up in a state park in Rhode Island
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Uh-oh...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Protected Salt-water marsh
[The Legendary] Foxboy: IIRC
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Is there even room in Rhode Island for anything that isn't Paragon City?
[The Legendary] valles: They've placed it to real geography?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Croatoa would be like on the Connecticut/RI/Mass. border.
[The Legendary] valles: Probably not...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heck, I'll go google for a map.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: No but the closes match to the Geography I found was a state park in western Rhode Island
[The Legendary] valles: IIRC, Paragon's supposed to be the largest city in its world...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Random Factoid: The Circle of Thorns has almost NO interest in V!Earth
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: No Mu, No Oranbega, different Gods if any
[The Legendary] valles: Oranbega never existed, and datamagic has -fuck all- to do with what they practice.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Right
[The Legendary] valles: ....wait.
[The Legendary] valles: Datamagic.
[The Legendary] valles: ...nanoha.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: run away!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: (I think I see it. There's a river almost the right shape.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: You know...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: nvm i lost my train of thought
[The Legendary] valles: Creating an Intelligent Device or something clsoe to it would be an absolutely logical thing to do.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Okay. Datamagic might be V!Earth's "Breakthrough!"
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: So... people from V-Paragon will be able to get to V!Earth from Pocket D?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hmmmm.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Trying to figure out what you meant
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'm guessing that DJZero can get people "home" from the Pocket D
[The Legendary] valles: Two questions:
[The Legendary] valles: Breakthrough?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Issue 9
[The Legendary] valles: And, what the heck -is- DJZ, anyway?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Inventions system
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: DJ Zero runs the Pocket D
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: He has dimensional travel powers
[The Legendary] Foxboy: DJ Zero is a Mxyzptlk-type actually for CoH
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Ah, didn't know that
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or REALLLY powerful mutant
[The Legendary] valles: ...y'know, I kinda wish it were possible to attack people in Pocket D.
[The Legendary] valles: Not, I hasten to add, to damage them, merely to attack.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Storywise, you can but you'll get banned depending on the severity.
[The Legendary] valles: ...leading immediately to your being dumped where you were when you entered, with a load of debt for your trouble.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm. First arrival to Pocket D from V!Earth might have to stay a bit longer than they wanted to while DJ Zero sets up the portal connections
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And might have to deal with a lot of questions about why he's dressed up like person X
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hmmm. I'm trying to think of "celebrity" level Virtues... like Ascendant
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...yeah, I can't reconcile this geography with real RI at all
[The Legendary] Foxboy: It's too big, yeah.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: And no part of the coast does anything *remotely* like it even if I assume the compass points are wrong
[The Legendary] valles: As long as the surrounding states are correspondingly smaller...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Heh
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Did you see the state park in the west?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Becasue ther is MORE tectonic activity in COH!RI than real
[The Legendary] Foxboy: So more varied coastlines...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I did find a few golf courses and a very small state park
[The Legendary] valles: Not neccessarily -natural- tectonic activity, either.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The closest match is in an area with some golf courses and small towns
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Potowomut River almost looks like whatever the Independence Port body of water is called
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Oh... OW
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Hm?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: If there are connections... if the Mirror Kingdom is connected to both...
[The Legendary] valles: Six shadows.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: The REAL King of 3 Shadows will be pissed!
[The Legendary] valles: Not, in an of itself, such a bad thing. Merely inconvenient.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Fortunately, transit via the two mirror kingdoms is harderthan between MK and Earth whatever
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Can be spun that way
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I was thinking there was only the *one*
[The Legendary] valles: Fox, you weren't here for my earlier...
[The Legendary] valles: ...commentary about how Sky's defensive powers work, were you?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nope or if I was I was SF-ing
[The Legendary] valles: In short, she can painlessly deflect anything she sees coming.
[The Legendary] valles: But, to have the unconcious 'go away!' reflex that stops most damage she'd receive...
[The Legendary] valles: ...she needs to feel it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: ... Street sweeping is the way to go for salvage it seems]
[The Legendary] valles: This means that, one, Sky ends up with a lot of superficial bleeding.
[The Legendary] valles: And two, medkits mean than she's usually in better shape than her clothes.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Ah, just like "empowered" by Adam Warren... sorta.
[The Legendary] valles: Dunno it.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Wait didn't we discussthis vis-a-vis Icon versu JCPenney?
[The Legendary] valles: ...don't think so.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: That COH costume "slots" are more durable than "normal clothes"
[The Legendary] valles: I didn't realize she'd suffere the Fairchild Effect until -after- I'd worked out the logic of it, actually.
[The Legendary] valles: Yes, but, unconcious deflection relies on the pain trigger.
[The Legendary] valles: Its like how the 'pull your hand back' reaction....
[The Legendary] valles: ...to a 'yow that's hot' stimulus doesn't even need to reach the brain before the muscles go into action.
[The Legendary] valles: Hm.
[The Legendary] valles: Her outfit's probably pretty durable vs. most things.
[The Legendary] valles: ...subject to Theiss Theory.
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Incidentally, y'want this chatlog saved and posted?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Might be a good idea.
[The Legendary] valles: ...sure, go ahead.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Perhaps a seperate thread like VIIOR Chatlogs?
[The Legendary] valles: I don't think I blurted anything -too- embarrasing....
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Alright, I'll handle that before logging off
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Nogi's not powerful at all, she just soloed three 50 bosses! Whooo!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Sweet!
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Losing her Oni TWICE early in the fight!
[The Legendary] valles: Heh. You have to wonder how many -other- topped out 50s were on that night...
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Scary Akai and Kuroi is RIGHT!
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Yee.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I'd like to make the assumption that theres MAYBE 5 others
[The Legendary] Foxboy: And GW and GM_Emily
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: I'd *like* that, sure...
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: But how *likely* is it?
[The Legendary] valles: After accounting for whatever differences are made by character concept, etc.
[The Legendary] valles: A stock 50 is just a stock 50.
[The Legendary] valles: Breaking that barrier requires something underlying the mechanics.
[The Legendary] Foxboy: I can handwave and say they were on Alts, nw Khelds or switching characters/servers
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker:
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Or even testing respecs on Test
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: ...Khelds in a world with *no Nictus*.
[The Legendary] valles: Happy space squids?
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Which reminds me, there should be recipes for temp power quantum weapons
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Well, except for the angsty Power gamers who became Khelds
[The Legendary] Evil Midnight Lurker: Of course
[The Legendary] valles: Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Anyone seen it? I've watched the first two eps so far and am wondering if it's worth watching the rest.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

After months of cajoling, complaining and wheedling Lady Nogitsune was finally able to gather together enough villains of sufficient threat levels to accept a job from Ice Mistral.
Not that she would stoop to such tactics, for they are beneath her. There are you happy Mace? Can I continue dictating this? Thank you. Now where was I, ah yes.
Lady Nogitsune was joined by fellow member of the Infamous, Hexane and the masterminds Lead Poisoning (our own Render) and Jesibell. The massed force of Ninja, Mercenaries and Thugs accepted the job, but little did they know that Ice Mistral had learned Strike Force planning from the capes in Paragon, and that their missions would take them to every corner of the Rogue Isles.
And yes it was an all MM Strike Force, where everyone knew what they were doing, more or less. The best analogies involve hot chainsaws and butter.

Hexane and Jesibell waiting for their teamates in Sharkhead.

Hexane, Jesibell and Nogi-sama waiting for Lead Poisoning before confronting the Thorns in Primeva.

Nogi-sama signals an advance as the Thorn's line crumbles.

Hexane vs the Circle of Thorns.

That's a lot of Tsoo

But we've got a lot of cannon fodd.. er loyal henchmen ourselves.

That really is a lot of Tsoo, better do something about it.

That's better.

Now there's not so many Tsoo.

Good Fluffy hold the Tsoo still for mommy.

The minions advance through the Tsoo's cargo ship.

Artistic shot of the Tsoo being annihilated.

Not so many Tsoo anymore.

The last of the Tsoo fall beneath our onslaught.

Waiting for Nogi-sama so we can enter the penultimate mission.

Hidden behind the mass of minions is a group of Carnies making a desperate last stand.

The Strike Force assembles to attack the Thorns for one last time.

The Thorn's last redoubt is stormed under.

Oh that poor Behemoth... no wait... that's a good thing.

The inner sanctum of the Thorns, where we met our great nemesis, topography.

It was a long way down.

It is over, and the surviving minions are gathered together.

The victors.

A second team shot at the end.

And the last team shot.

Narcissism.
Sorry about there not being a lot of shots of Lead Poisoning, Render. Most of the ones with him in them didn't turn out very well.
--
"The SCA has superior armor, close-in weapons, and experience; the RCMP
have superior ranged weapons, including tear gas, water cannons and the
threat of real guns." -- Dan Ritter

Well, after... I'm not sure how long, but it's been quite a while, I've posted the current draft of Deja Vu 01 at
fiction.skyefire.org/fict...vu_01.html
I'm psyching myself up to posting it to the FFML as well.
I can't even find the topic where I posted Chapter 0, the original spamfic --might've been lost to the Great EZboard Hack Attack-- but it's also there at
fiction.skyefire.org/fict..._vu_0.html
Now, gimme another two years or so, and I might actually finalize this chapter and get started on Ch2...

Etrian Odyssey can be described, in its simplest form, as an old-school dungeon romp. You start out in a base town, with various shops. From there, you create a party of 5 character from 7 classes (with 2 more unlockable) and go exploring. The classes what you expect, albeit with unusual names - among the basic 7 there's 3 front-line fighters, a couple mixed front/back fighters, and two back-liners. Once you have your party, you're given a basic mission to introduce you to some gameplay elements, and let go.
Upon entering the dungeon, you get a glimpse at what to expect for the rest of the game. The game is essentially a tile-based 3D explorer, allowing you to go step-turn-step-step-etc. The top screen gives you the graphical view, which for the DS, are honestly beautiful. The bottom screen gives you the map, which is where the uniqueness lies.
As you walk, you fill in the floor of a map. But to put in details, like doors, walls, treasure chests, warps, item collection points, etc., you have to draw them yourself. Doing so is the basis of your first mission, just to give you some experience.
Combat in the game is about what you'd expect - pseudo-random encounters (there's a little meter that tells you when to expect one) that bring you to a combat interface. You queue up your actions, and then allow them to execute. Next turn you queue up again.
And this is where the game gets *hard*. The difficulty curve on combat is steep - the critters on each level are anywhere from 2-3x tougher than the ones on the level above, and it's easy to get in over your head, especially with the special combats (called FOEs) that can be ridiculously tough. In fact, when getting to level 3, they even warn you that you can (and sometimes should!) avoid FOEs entirely, because they might be too tough for you - thankfully you can see them on the map. That can be really troublesome, because when you get into combat the FOEs can move in the open map after each turn, which means you might end up with one interrupting a random encounter if you're not careful.

Difficulty aside, Entrian Odyssey is deep, challenging, and incredibly fun. It's one of those Atlus masterpieces you'll regret not picking up earlier when it becomes an impossible-to-find gem.

Chris's Score: 9/10--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

I found a fic a short while ago where Jack ends up getting custody of Luna Lovegood. Apparently he was in England during Voldie's last reign, and happened to have a one night stand with Luna's mom. (Who happened to be insane, and a Malfoy - go fig.)
Anyone know it? I'm trying to add it to my watch list.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

I'm beginning to burn out a bit on COH. So I may not be on quite so much for a little while. I want to participate in Task Forces and other events, so if you could announce those in the forums and I have a character available, I can make note and help out. But my day-to-day play won't be as intensive. You'll still see me from time to time. But not ALL the time, like it has been recently. ^_^
Re-activated my World of Warcraft account and will be playing that for awhile. If you're interested, almost all my characters are currently on Zul'jin server. Including my lvl 62 Warrior, Melita.
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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www.sunsetgames.co.jp/rpg...aidrpg.htm
"A humorous Japanese-language RPG about women cleaning the house of a master where wacky events occur. There is no physical combat system, but there is a conflict system where the loser accumulates Stress points. When a maid has greater Stress than her Spirit rating, she has a Stress Explosion. Maids also gain points of Favor from the master, which can be used to boost rolls, reduce Stress, to raise attributes, or invoke random events. There are three charts of random events for Outer Space, Modern, and Fantasy -- including many game-changing events. There are two supplements: Koi Suru Maid RPG and Yume Miru Maid RPG. Koi Soru Maid RPG has an introduction and errata, rules for playing a head maid or butler, rules for generating a master, tables for designing a mansion, rules for "romance and enticement," comforting (to reduce someone else's Stress), costume changes (a table of 36 alternate costumes, each with a Favor cost and special rules), items (in a D666 table of 216 of them!), and a total of 13 different random event tables. Yume Miru Maid RPG is mostly a scenario collection, but it also has rules for complexes and apprentices, tables for two new settings (Old West and Old Edo), a second table of costume changes (including plugsuits, Gundam uniforms, and hero suits), and a weather table.- totally no combat "