Overheard when a player drew two copies of the "Arcane Tablets" unique item during a game of Arkham Horror:

Quote:What... take two and call Cthulhu in the morning?

As noted elsewhere, new Corr duo, GenerIO build, looking for set recommendations or GLARING FLAWS IN LOGIC.

Arctic's designed to multi-role a bit more then Blight, with the holds handy for playing Controller-lite, the Cold Domination bits to both debuff and buff
allies(in addition to the Leadership toggles) and as much damage to go with exploiting those debuffs as I can cram in. Patron Pool is thematic, because really,
I couldn't pass up the chance to get Hibernate on her.

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.401

http://www.cohplanner.com/


Click this DataLink to open the build!

Arctic Scimitar: Level 50 Technology Corruptor

Primary Power Set: Ice Blast

Secondary Power Set: Cold Domination

Power Pool: Leaping

Power Pool: Fitness

Power Pool: Leadership

Ancillary Pool: Leviathan Mastery

Villain Profile:

Level 1: Ice Bolt

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (3) Accuracy IO
  
• (13) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (17) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (3) Accuracy IO
  
• (5) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (19) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (5) Accuracy IO
  
• (9) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (17) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (7) Accuracy IO
  
• (7) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (50) Range IO
  
• (50) Range IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  
• (9) Defense Buff IO
  
• (15) Defense Buff IO
  
• (19) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Accuracy IO
  
• (11) Hold Duration IO
  
• (11) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (37) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (46) Accuracy IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  
• (13) Defense Buff IO
  
• (15) Defense Buff IO
  
• (23) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Jumping IO
  

• (A) Run Speed IO
  

• (A) Healing IO
  

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  
• (23) Defense Buff IO
  
• (25) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (40) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (43) Resist Damage IO
  
• (43) Resist Damage IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (27) Damage Increase IO
  
• (27) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (43) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (45) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (29) Accuracy IO
  
• (29) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (31) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (31) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (31) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Accuracy IO
  
• (33) Hold Duration IO
  
• (33) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (46) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (46) Accuracy IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (33) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (34) To Hit Debuff IO
  
• (34) Damage Increase IO
  
• (34) Damage Increase IO
  

• (A) Defense Debuff IO
  
• (36) Defense Debuff IO
  
• (36) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (36) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (37) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (37) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (39) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (39) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (39) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (40) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (40) Accuracy IO
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO
  
• (42) Resist Damage IO
  
• (42) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (42) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (45) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (45) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (48) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (48) Defense Buff IO
  
• (48) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (50) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

So, mostly because the more I play Madigan(a Fire/Kin Corr), the more I've fallen in love with the class, I now have a new pair of Corrs. The following is
a preliminary build in purely GenerIO state looking for potential set recommendations, or maybe even the occasional "Oh, you put that there? Seriously.
Just...just no." comments.

Blight's intended to be essentially a Blastruptor, hammering targets from range, with an emphasis on blowing shit up, and a secondary support status.
Notably avoiding Patron pools as they don't really fit her concept. With that out of the way, on with the show!

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.401

http://www.cohplanner.com/


Click this DataLink to open the build!

Blight Scimitar: Level 50 Technology Corruptor

Primary Power Set: Radiation Blast

Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission

Power Pool: Leaping

Power Pool: Fitness

Power Pool: Leadership

Villain Profile:

Level 1: Neutrino Bolt

• (A) Accuracy IO
  
• (3) Damage Increase IO
  
• (3) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (5) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (15) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Healing IO
  
• (5) Healing IO
  
• (7) Healing IO
  
• (7) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (9) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) To Hit Debuff IO
  
• (9) To Hit Debuff IO
  
• (11) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (11) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (43) Defense Debuff IO
  
• (43) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (13) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (13) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (15) Endurance Modification IO
  

• (A) Accuracy IO
  
• (17) Damage Increase IO
  
• (17) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (19) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (19) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Accuracy IO
  
• (23) Damage Increase IO
  
• (25) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (27) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (27) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (29) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Jumping IO
  

• (A) Run Speed IO
  

• (A) Healing IO
  

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (21) Endurance Modification IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (23) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (29) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (31) Slow IO
  
• (40) Slow IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (31) Accuracy IO
  
• (33) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (33) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (33) Disorient Duration IO
  
• (34) Disorient Duration IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (34) Accuracy IO
  
• (34) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (36) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (36) Defense Debuff IO
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (31) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO
  
• (36) Damage Increase IO
  
• (37) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (37) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (46) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (46) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) To Hit Buff IO
  
• (37) To Hit Buff IO
  
• (45) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (45) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (46) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (39) Endurance Modification IO
  
• (39) Hold Duration IO
  
• (39) Hold Duration IO
  
• (40) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (40) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (42) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (42) Defense Buff IO
  
• (42) Defense Buff IO
  
• (43) Defense Buff IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (45) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (48) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (48) To Hit Buff IO
  
• (48) To Hit Buff IO
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO
  
• (50) Defense Buff IO
  
• (50) To Hit Buff IO
  
• (50) To Hit Buff IO
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html

if anyone can figure out how to turn the whole site into a rar, I'd be grateful.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Because http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/0 ... gital.html]they aren't making it any more and I don't have any to spare.

Sorry about that, Paul Simon.

(So, what's this do to Doug's arsenal?)
--
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

This came up over on Usenet (alt.fan.bgcrisis, specifically...)

Someone who goes by the handle "antagonist" posted to one of the threads about the current live-action BGC movie:

Quote:They're looking for a director right now. I really hope Uwe Boll's schedule is full so he can't ruin this movie.

Quote:You'd rather maybe they get Woody Allen? Or McG?

Are there any series of current fansubs worth watching? I've had to luck finding anything that tickles my fancy.

...Of The Fallen.

Pretty awesome movie - you'll be rooted to your seat for all 2.5 hours of the film.

One thing that bugs the hell out of me, though. They clearly show CVN-74 essentially geting 1HK'd by the Fallen and his cronies
(something that made the voices in my head howl in outrage). And then we see CVN-74 in good order out in the Red Sea. WTF!?

Other than that, the only other thing is how little time we get with some of our Autobot friends. I mean, Soundwave got more friggin' screen time
and he spent the entire sprockin' movie in orbit!



Seriously, I would not have minded waiting a little longer for a serial, LOTR style, if it meant actually building characters other than Spike and Makaela.
And not just the Autobots - we see that Makaela's father is finally out of prison and all he gets is One. Lousy. Line. They made an awesome movie, no
doubt, but it had potential to be an awesomely epic story.

SCIMITAR STORIES


Girl's Night Out




by Sofaspud and OpMegs


The hideout -- or The Lair, as Nena Romanova somewhat playfully termed it -- wasn't particularly hardened against attack. In Katherine Madigan's
estimation, it didn't need to be. Hardened against visual and acoustic surveillance, check; against someone busting down the door? Why bother? Any of
her girls could handle a random intruder, and if it was a determined attack, that meant they'd been discovered and she'd rather they abandon the place
and find another instead of calling more attention to themselves with a massive firefight in the middle of an otherwise-quiet office building.

Since it was -meant- to be abandoned at a moment's notice, that meant she had provided little in the way of creature comforts. Some of the Scimitars
didn't need or want them; Galatea, for example, was equally neutral when surrounded by fancy furniture as when she was curled up on a dirty cot. She
didn't -care-. Fate was similar, though she at least obviously cared about one more than the other. It was the other three -- Jen, Robin, and Nena -- who
preferred and actively sought out quality-of-life improvements.

Like the 120-inch flatscreen display that Robin and Jen had hauled up eight flights of fire escape, while Nena cheerfully annihilated the memories of everyone
in sight who might have noted the strange procession. And, being Nena, some who hadn't, but who she felt like messing with anyway.

Or the satellite reciever, acquired by Jen one night when she couldn't sleep and reprogrammed by Robin -- who, for her part, wasn't quite sure when
she'd picked up -that- skillset, but she wasn't complaining -- to allow full access to every channel, all the time. At no cost, of course.

Or the ever-growing pile of stuffed animals that threatened to spill out of Nena's room in a plushie tide of destruction whenever the door was opened. The
others weren't even sure if the girl had a bed in there anymore, or if she simply burrowed into the stuffies and slept surrounded by button eyes all night
long. After Nena had approached Madigan one day asking how best to clean bloodstains out of plushie fur, nobody bothered asking where she was getting them
all.

Despite the unusual arrangements -- by any normal standard, at any rate -- it was as much a home as some of the girls had ever known.

On this particular Friday afternoon, it was fast becoming intolerable.

"I'm bored," Jennifer announced for at least the twentieth time that day. She lay on her back on the couch, her feet hanging over the back and
her head dangling over the front, watching from her upside-down perspective as Robin annihilated wave after wave of attackers on a video game.

"Me too," Nena put in, entering the room and brushing what looked like ash from her shoulders.

"So am I," Robin said absently, her eyes focused on the screen. "But Miss Madigan hasn't given us orders yet."

Nena snorted. "So what? That just means we don't have to work right now. We can still go -do- something."

"Yeah," Jen agreed. "Anything would be better than -this-." She concentrated briefly, scowling at the lone fly buzzing around the
ceiling. A faint hum sounded and the fly was wreathed momentarily in blue light, before turning into a streak in midair.

Splat.

Jen giggled as Robin sighed and paused her game so she could clean off the screen.

"Well, what do you suggest, then?" Robin asked as she returned to her seat. "The only movie theater I know of around here hasn't changed
reels since the 80's."

"We could find some guys," Nena said thoughtfully. Jen raised her head and looked at the other girl, while Robin settled for raising an eyebrow at
Nena. With Robin's attention distracted, the character on the screen let out a piteous wail as he was skewered half a dozen times in quick succession.

"What?" Nena asked at their looks.

"You only want them for their minds," Robin quipped, shutting off the game.

"Your point?" Nena replied with a grin.

"Hey, I heard there's a new bar that opened up last week," Jen put in. "Supposed to have live music, strong drinks, and it's Mook
protected, so it'll probably still be there."

"I don't know..." Robin mused. "What if Miss Madigan calls us?"

"Then I sober us up real quick and we go do whatever it is she wants." Jen shrugged.

"Yeah!" Nena agreed. "And afterwards we can see how much it takes to get Maddy plastered."

"... Maddy?"

"Oh, hush."

"Can we even -get- drunk?"

"Only one way to find out!"

Fate, seated in the armchair at the far end of the room with a book in her lap, lifted one hand in absent goodbye without looking up as the others left.

Warning: Sad stuff behind the link.