No, really I'm not.
Just got hung up in the midst of my Mom finding a place for my brothers and I to live.  We're going to be treating it as a bachelor pad that my folks will sublet to us.  And I've been ridiculously busy getting storage units emptied for the end of the month.  Not to mention that my latest job endeavor was killing me - delivering pizzas for Papa Johns (this one is a franchise store and not subject to John Schnatter's new 30-hour limit policy).  We were opening a new store and I racked up some serious overtime.
Now, if the landlord would be so kind as to hand over the freakin' mail key (stupid communal mailbox clusters) I can get Internet service started up.

City of Heroes servers shut down at 2:05AM CST on Dec 1, 2012, that 12:05AM PST. It was five minutes more than expected.
I thought I could handle this. I thought I could be okay.
I'm not.
I'm having a hard time writing this because I'm shaking so hard and I can't stop. I'm shaking and it feels like a part of me just died.

in a whimper.

Virtue crashed for the last time with Shadow Cyclops on the steps of City Hall in Atlas Park 7, BU-33CTP was in a store in Talos. So I ended up with my lowbie Mastermind Mr L on Justice and got booted in mid ghoul fight in Praetoria.

http://cit.cohtitan.com/sentinelplus/

Go to that link above - there is a version for both Regular and Beta Servers for Mac!

But be QUICK if you haven't taken advantage of it already! Today is the last day!

Is apparently better than we thought

Ice has been discovered on Mercury. And it happens to be covered in dark material.

Life on Mercury, perhaps?
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

A character idea I had yesterday when brooding about creating more characters with history for CI.

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»Life is too short to do it slowly!«
- Nina, 2020

»I cannot tell you about the data, its an OCP.«
- Nina about her personal computer.

Nina is a Catgirl who joined Catgirl Industries in 2016. The grey-black furred tabby cat is a common sight in CI’s small vehicle labs and was an important part in the Veritech Companion Drone project together with the Roughriders, which later lead to CI’s Space Drones and Space Exocomps.

Nina likes 'fast'... it doesn’t matter if its researching fast vehicles, working on fast vehicles or just flying fast. When not being busy with some vehicle, she can be found on the Exocomp riding track or on a random party she or another catgirl has organized. Her personal Exocomp ‘Dark Lightning’ is always well maintained and one of the fastest Exocomps known.

Nina does rarely talk about her past before joining Catgirl Industries and never when outsiders are present. While some Fen consider this a common wackiness, her friends know the real reason.

History

Russia

Nina Ustinyavna was born in the UdSSR in 1960 during the cold war. Her talents in mechanical and electrical engineering raised the attention of someone in the space program of the UdSSR, which allowed her to study aerospace engineering. But the chaos after the fall of the Warsaw Pact killed her dreams of working on a new generation of hardware, budget cuts and mismanagement downsized the Russian space program step by step until she lost her job early 2000.

Working in a company building traction engines for the next years, she got contacted by a Russian man in 2010 for a job interview. While the man didn’t wanted to disclose his origin, he promised her to work again in the space industry 'for the good of the Russian people'. As a test and to prove his interests, he gave Nina a set of basic plans for a reentry vehicle, asking her to solve a few problems with the heat shield system.

Nina quickly realized from the unrealistic specifications of the available materials that this wasn’t about the normal space industry she knew, but still started working on the problem with great enthusiasm. Three months later, after the man had paid her for a couple of suggestions on the heat shield, she was asked if she was interested to work on more of the same kind, not on Earth but in space itself. Nina agreed instantly.

Working for the bad guys

A week later Nina left Earth in a waved camping bus towards the asteroid belt. After being introduced to Handwavium and a few of the wonders it could supply, she quickly started to work.

Over the next year the slowly growing asteroid base became Nina’s home and 'mad science lab', where she helped with the construction of several waved transport vehicles and some preliminary designs for a space fighter. It didn’t took her long to recognize that her employees were not a ‘completely legal’ organization back in Russia, but she didn’t cared until things became darker.

Finding out that her new 'uplifted cat assistant' has originally been a human being became an eye-opener, just as the increasing stream of strange combat troops on the station. With people talking about a war outside and all visits to Earth canceled, she saw no real chance to get off the station and kept working.

In 2012 the 'management' of the station began openly talking about shutting her research down to concentrate their resources on fighting the Fen. This made Nina fear for her life the first time ever. When she heard that forces of the Fen were massing in the general area of her station, Nina decided to implement a crazy scheme to prevent being sent to the 'frontline'. She wrecked a part of stations computer and in the resulting chaos she ran herself through the catgirling machine in one of the labs and hid among a group of captive catgirls.

Two weeks later the station was liberated by Great Justice forces.

Notable Mundane Attributes:

• Its not rocket science... wait, it is! Former Hardtech Rocket Engineer.
  
• Multilingual. Speaks Russian, English and (since 2018) Japanese.
  
• Bad Memories. Feels uncomfortable being alone anywhere. Wakes up in the night from nightmares about her past, both before and after her 'escape'.
  
• Yes, thats sport. Enthusiastic Exocomp rider (all variants).
  

• Paranoia-Cat! Nina is part of the "Outrageous Contingency Plans" group, a small group of catgirls spending their free time brainstorming about big things that could go wrong and what to do about it.
  
• I am feeling old. While looking as young as all other catgirls out of the CGM, Nina sometimes fears that this only hides her true age.
  
• Where is my cat? She never learned what happened to her catgirl lab assistant which was ‘taken away’ months before the end of the war.
  
• Oh, I know this one. Has a good knowledge of Boskonian spaceship designs up to 2014.
  

Okay goons, so I herd you like Trekkies? Here's a framework, start hanging stuff off it. If I'm the only one who has Ideas about this I shall be very cross indeed.

I'm going through stuff and finding things that aren't likely to be used soon, if at all.  Some of them are amusing or revealing enough that I'd like to share them, so... have some fragments.

I'll add to this as I continue sorting and organizing my 800+ files of notes and random documents.

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"I call it Terrencium-239," Katy said proudly, eyes shining, as they watched another wave of deadly radiation blasts hammer at the unyielding surface of her latest creation.

"Terrencium?"  Eva raised an eyebrow, while next to her, Terrence Knight fidgeted uncomfortably.

"It's based off a theoretical model I developed after seeing the latest scans of Terr in action," Katy said.  "Two-three-nine is the revision number.  I'm really proud of this batch.  Two-three-eight was... explosive."

Eva and Terr both took a step back from the observation window.


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She had to finish the job.  Kill Leon McNichol.

The door slammed back open, and the gleaming form of MACH-II plowed through.  Behind him, the catgirl struggled to get through, spitting mad and trying to squeeze past his immense body, which stood blocking the doorway.

"THIS UNIT IS RESPONDING TO A DISTRESS BEACON!" it thundered.  "DO NOT INTERFERE."

"Override!" Naoko snapped.  "Authorize my voiceprint: 'Prometheus'.  Acknowledge!"

MACH cocked his head, staring at her -- almost thoughtfully, she would have said, if it hadn't been a Crey medic-bot.

"UNDERSTOOD," MACH said at last.


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"I really do appreciate your help, Sylia," Leon noted as Sylia dropped the bag into a drawer behind the counter.  "Perhaps I could take you to dinner tonight to express my thanks?"

Sylia shook her head, a small smile on her face.  "Thank you, but I'm afraid I already have plans."

"Well, tomorrow night, then."

A quiet throat-clearing got his attention.  He turned his head to see Priss leaning against the frame in the archway leading to the back of the store.  "She's with me, Leon," the singer noted good-naturedly.

Leon winced.  "Oh."

Sylia covered a laugh with her hand.

"Well, Nene said you were with someone," Leon noted as he tried to gather the tattered remnants of his suave image, "but she never told me who."

"Well, now you know."  Priss was grinning.

"I'll, ah, just be on my way, then," Leon said.

"Goodbye, Leon," Sylia said with amusement in her tone.

"Shoo!" Priss added.

Leon fled.




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

Just got this from the Titan forums: 

Quote:Posting this kind of buried in this thread on purpose, because while I do want it to be seen, I don't want it to be extremely widespread as it could cause a bit of chaos.
If you want your character to revisit some old memories before logging out (or being kicked off for some of us), here's how to get there.
NOTE: This is technically an exploit. It's mostly harmless in the grand scheme of things, though with some creativity you can get anywhere in the game with it, including lots of places you're not "supposed" to be. A few of us have been using it for a couple months to map out some of the "lost" zones, but if you're extremely paranoid, you've been warned.
You'll need to get Long Range Teleport, either with a respec or with an alternate build. If you only have one place to go, you can use a Wentworth's/Black Market Teleporter temp power instead. Base Teleporter does NOT work.
1. Activate Long Range Teleport. When the destination window pops up, do not click anything.
2. Copy and paste one of the following into your chat box and hit enter:
Paragon Dance Party
Code: [/url]
/enter_door_teleport LinkFrom_City_02_01 68
Old Faultline
Code: [url=][Select]
/enter_door_teleport LinkFrom_City_02_02 19
Rikti Crash Site
Code: [/url]
/enter_door_teleport LinkFrom_City_05_01 60
Galaxy City *(the real one, not the Echo)
Code: [url=][Select]
/enter_door_teleport NewPlayer 29
Outbreak
Code: [/url]
/enter_door_teleport NewPlayer 24
Breakout
Code: [url=][Select]
/enter_door_teleport NewPlayer 70
3. Party like it's 2004!

Since it came up in the X-Wing thread...

There seems to be some discontent that some of the factions and places aren't detailed as much as people might want them to be. There are two reasons for this: first, to allow room for writers to expand the setting; and second, because nobody (including the people displaying discontent - and that includes me) have come up with anything.

Do we want particular people to be responsible for shared elements of the setting, coming up with suggestions for the entire Collective to discuss? In the case of the Senshi, that's worked reasonably well with Cobalt and myself at the helm. In the case of the Browncoats, it wasn't necessary - we (mostly Mal) just tossed things into the pot until we got to the current level of detail.

If we do want people to be responsible for detailing factions and places, how do we figure out who gets the jobs? And what happens when people drift away from Fenspace? And how much detail should we expect one person to come up with, especially for something that isn't that person's particular corner of Fenspace? And how long do we want to give people to do this work, remembering that this is supposed to be a hobby? (How long has that list of stub pages been on my talk page, again? How long has it been since the last chapter of LoGG?)

If people like this idea anyway, I can put together a chart and post it somewhere on the FenWiki, then let folks "sign up" for the sections they want to address... but I'm not going to waste the effort if nobody else thinks this is a good idea.
--
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