The dinner had gone perfectly. They'd had delicate French cuisine with portions just the right size. The soft candlelight at the table had danced in their eyes as they gazed at each other. They'd decided to go to his place for "coffee."
Oren sat patiently on the edge of the bed, silk sheets caressing the backs of his thighs. Soft modern jazz played on his stereo, providing what he hoped was a romantic mood. His uniform lay in a heap tangled with Min's jacket on his oversized wingback chair. He watched the bathroom door, waiting for her to come out. The breath caught in his throat as the doorknob turned.
She stood revealed in a dark green lace thing that accentuated her modest but still lovely curves. Her hair was down from its customary pigtails and cascaded down her back as a crimson halo. She glided gracefully over to him in a slink so sexy that Bella Fuego and Jackie Frost would weep in jealousy. He swallowed nervously as she hopped in his lap and kissed him. He reached up to caress her face...
... and she shattered into a thousand pieces. He leapt back from where he'd been sitting, and his bed burst into splinters and shreds of cloth intermixed with feathers and springs. He flung his arms out to catch his balance and smashed the wall into rubble. He fearfully looked down on the pieces of the girl he loved. Fragments of porcelain lay scattered about, half of her face still intact. A hurt expression flitted across the eye and her beautiful mouth.
"I thought you loved me, Oren," she said sadly.
He woke with a gasp, sending the sheets flying from his Promethium-reinforced bed as he sat bolt upright. Sweat laced with the stink of adrenaline ran in rivulets across his wide chest. A bewildered look crossed his face as he oriented himself. 'The same nightmare,' he thought and wept into his hands.
''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

For fanfic updates since the othr thread has 22 pages
''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

Why don't we have a Great Lakes Legendary on some server?

12/15/06
To: Douglas Sangnoir
From: Mikhael Mitvol
Regards: Suit changes.
Since you expressed some interest in the changes I've made to the suit and the thinking behind them, thought I would send you these notes I made. If you have any other questions, ask away.
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Since I brought myself and suit here to America, have been exposed to a much wider slice of the whole Superhero community here in Paragon City than existed back in the Motherland. Very interesting and enlightening.
In past, when in the employ of the Soviet (later Russian) military, upgrades to Stalnoy Volk suit had to be approved, which didn't happen often, given dwindling resources. Got bad enough that I was afraid that someday soon, they maybe decommission suit entirely! Contributed greatly to my decision to emigrate. Without suit, cannot walk!
Now, will be able to continue using suit and helping people. And maybe make some improvements? So many tech heroes here in Paragon. Compare notes, yes?
Stalnoy Volk V 1.0
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Am no supergenius, but familiar enough with the powersuit to work on it and even manage upgrades. Have been keeping up with the techbase in Paragon and considering improvements for suit.
Started with Supergroup colors. Applied clearcoat of electro-activated paint. Stuff comes standard and is used by almost all powersuit heroes in Paragon. Allows techno-armor heroes to change over to Supergroup colors at moments notice. (Heard Looney Toons used stuff on bike at some point in past. Ha! Bike has "secret I.D." as well!)
Stalnoy Volk V 1.0 in Supergroup colors.
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Satisfied with how that turned out. Got me thinking. Started looking into various materials and hit upon coating that increases armor's resistance to most forms of energy by at least 12%. Little more flashy than used to. But why not? Not like I will stand out after all!
Stalnoy Volk V 1.2
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Had unfortunate incident recently involving power feed to left gauntlet. Damn Freakshow slicers! Started getting more serious about design improvements. Never liked that main weapon array powerfeed went through cable going outside armor. But it was design flaw I'd resigned myself to back in Russia, since unlikely to be fixed. But now have more freedom to make changes. Should have done this sooner, really! Consulted with some other powersuit heroes and redesigned power feeds so that multiple lines run inside the armor, and made new armor sheaths for the upper arms.
Stalnoy Volk V 1.3
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No more slicing of powerfeeds. That's good. But having been through a few patrols and missions, noticed a drop in efficiency and power. Couldn't get as much range as before, and even up close not hitting quite as hard. No big difference, but don't like taking two steps back to take step forward!
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After some testing, decided problem was old capacitors in the gauntlets. Have been getting as much power as I had because generator was dumping it more quickly through old heavy duty cables and could dump a little extra to make up for the slack. But new multiple-line powerfeed wasn't allowing the "slop" to get by.
Have decided that the entire weapons array needs redesign. May as well do whole thing at once. Have discovered completely different projection style on Heronet tech chatboards. Energy blast output through ports on palms instead of around outer gauntlet edge. Is good design. Will streamline armor on arms. And hands still maintain flexibility. Must send letter of compliment to Stark Industries.
Stalnoy Volk V 1.4
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Redesigned powersupply and chestplate. New overlapping segments more flexible and easier to move in. Decreased weight as well, both in armor and power supply. Fit in new heat dispersion system as well. Productive week!
This may be last upgrade for old suit, though. Need to integrate systems better. Old linkages and joints needing more and more maintenence in order to get out in field. Might need to change entire frame. Will think on this later.
Stalnoy Volk V 1.5
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After a month of research, decided to build new Stalnoy Volk suit from ground up, incorporating all previous system upgrades and adding in new redesigns. Powertrain and sensor systems have been upgraded. Applied lessons learned on arms to slimming down leg armor and incorporating new segmentation. Air filter systems on helmet improved as well. This is Stalnoy Volk armor Version 2.0!
Stalnoy Volk V 2.0
((This is what comes of being bored and puttering around on the costume creator. I'm not going to make all those seperate little changes for the 3rd costume slot. But I thought I'd give a preview and show how the evolution would go. ))-Logan
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"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
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The King has hit level 10, and The Mirror Kingdom now formally exists.
I'll be on again later this morning, probably (in 5 or 6 hours, say, after some actual sleep), and sometime after 6 PST, and more on Wednesday. I've got the Shadows friended, so if you're on then I'll send you an invite; if you want to bring a mirror demon character in, either friend King of 3 Shadows and send me a tell when I'm about, or post the character's name here for me to friend, or both. Try to come up with weird names, like something out of Exalted's Yozi or Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
The rank structure is brutally simple:
King of Three Shadows
Shadow of the King
Mirror Scourge
Mirror Demon
Mirror Goblin
Only three second-rank members, and all those positions have been filled, so unless one of us decides to drop out all subsequent inductees are limited to Scourge level.
For the rank-and-file demons, I suggest an achievement-based promotion system: everybody starts at Goblin, gets promoted to Demon at 21st level, then to Scourge at 41st level.
Logically speaking, everyone in the group should have a Magic origin. If this is how it works out, don't bother dropping non-magic enhancements in base storage (when we get any), just sell 'em. If you're so inclined, buy some extra enhancements with the Infamy that results and throw those on the pile.
20,000 prestige in the bank already. Might not be too long before we actually have a base...
--Sam
"Paragon City. A more wretched hive of love and justice you will never find in this world." --The King, in a grumpy mood

MirrorKnight Hiroshi just received the mission today and Tuesday, I'll run it. Anyone intersted please send a global tell to @Kitsunebito
''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

In advance of seeing who, if anyone, is online when I finally go into the game tonight, I want to let folks know that Eva's gotten the end-of-arc mission for the Croatoa Redcap plotline -- that's the one where you rescue the three mystics who then have to be defended from wave upon wave of redcaps while they complete a ritual to save Salamanca. I've helped out on it once before some months ago, and it's nasty, so I was hoping I might be able to recruit a SG team and schedule a date/time to do it.
Anyone interested?
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

On the same limited-duration server as usual.
First, Belldandy and Chihiro, in decidedly-not-usual-for-them outfits.
Second, Paradox's Slumber Party From Heck, but a wonderful situation for almost anyone else...
Edit: Dead links removed.
-Rob Kelk
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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

"login server unavailable" my ass.
*sigh* Well, the research I've been doing all day leaves me thinking that this problem is going to be either tied up in how the University handles its T1 or some bizzare gremlin in the bowels of CoH that'll go away on its own in time.
Gragh. If I'm lucky, there'll be other people complaining about this, but otherwise I'm going to have to make the call tomorrow.
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

Hero Slain!
byline by
David L. Lindquist
Responding to a call, police discover the body of Brooks
McCain, AKA Arrows Mccain, lying along the side of road
in the Platinum Lake District of Steel Canyon. Cause of
death was massive trama and electrical damage
commonly associated with 'The Outcasts' gang. While
under normal conditions, this would have activated the
mediport but in this case it failed. Officials are
investigating.
Brooks 'Arrows' McCain was born in Baton Rouge, La.
Son of the Industrialist Nathan McCain and Julia La
Fontaine McCain, he graduated with top honor at
Ridgemore Private School. An aspiring olympic archer,
his career was cut short due to the discovery that
his mother was involved in the Illegal arms trade. He
settled into a life as a Business executive when tradgey
struck again with the car accident that slew his parents
and the federal goverment seizing their assets in a
criminal investigation. Though cleared of any charged,
he seemingly vanished until he registered and was approved
to work as a hero in Paragon City. Soon afterwards he was
accepted in the supergroup 'The Legendary' where he served
until his death. Representatives of the Supergroup could not
be reached for comment at this time.
Services will be held in Baton rouge, La where he will be
enturned in his family crypt. As per instructions left when
he registered, any donations may be sent to the 'Paragon
City reclaimation fund' or the "Olympic recovery
commision'. Brooks McCain was 32.
((This is mostly due to the fact that I needed room
on virtue server and he was the one I could afford to
lose. I'd also lost interest in him a while ago and never
got it back. Do what you will with this.. if anything at
all. Have fun.))