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| We've struck farming gold! |
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Posted by: OpMegs - 09-13-2008, 11:21 AM - Forum: The Legendary
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Many thanks to Uni, whose PUGing credentials and contacts have alerted us to the perfect Redside farm. The final mission of the "Defeat Stheno" arc
spawns not several, but HUNDREDS of boss level Snakes to slaughter for fun and profit.
As an example, both Purrfect Nemesis and Inferno Scimitar shot from level 6 to level 12 in a grand total of two runs(albeit the second at Ruthless with 8 ).
It's a bit twitchy(you can't aggro the AV, at all, or you have to reset), but the snakes come to you, which is a definite improvement, I think. Only
downside is you can't kill Stheno, so whoever gets the farm needs to be willing not to complete that arc.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
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| Healers vs. the AMA |
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Posted by: Inquisitive Raven - 09-13-2008, 09:07 AM - Forum: IST/Supers
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According to the IST sourcebook, the AMA went after any healers who weren't licensed doctors and many who were until
public outcry caused them to change their policies. I'm thinking of running a campaign centered around a group of super emergency responders who are among
those trying to change things and was wondering when the policy change took place. Did you actually have a time frame in mind, or should I just go ahead and
create my own time line in that area.
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| Win PPD Hardsuit Costumes at SIRadio.fm |
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Posted by: Ankhani - 09-12-2008, 11:34 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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City of Heroes and SIRadio.fm are hosting a contest where they will be giving away the (apparently much coveted) PPD Hardsuit Costume codes.
(full details)
The contest is simple. Just send an email to jules@siradio.fm with a rant/essay/poem/lecture/etc. (it mentions using character bios in addition) on why you should get one of the codes. Only restriction is to have "No crude language or situations" in said writing. Everything must be in by Thursday, September 18th at 6pm EST. The winners will be announced (Presumably on their stream) at 'Unmasked' on Friday, September 19th, at 10pm EST.
Good luck if you all intend on going for this.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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| Friday Night TF: LGTF the Sequel (Alternatively, Son of LGTF, LGTF's Revenge...etc. etc.) |
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Posted by: OpMegs - 09-12-2008, 10:56 AM - Forum: The Legendary
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So, like anyone on the Legendary channel at the time knows, I've yet to actually *complete* an LGTF. I got in one! Once. And then I dropped TF. Yeah.
Someone should put up a sign on the base portal.
Anyway! Putting out a call for a grand, Rikti stomping, Merit earning, Revelations of the Apocalypse referencing good time.
Anyone at or over level 35 qualifies, blue or redside. We love our redsiders, really, we do. They encourage multilingual understanding. Which is to say about
half the time, half the team has no idea what the other half is saying. But it's exotic!
Kinetics boosts, snark, and end drain will be provided by the staff.
Start time is flexible, but we'll try to start around 8PM EST. Past this point, when we have enough warm bodies( 8 ) to start off.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
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| [RFC] Jessica 'Jess' Ayanami |
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Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 09-12-2008, 05:42 AM - Forum: Fenspace
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For a while now I've been thinking about how I'm going to be staffing such a large installation as The Roughrider base on 36 Atalante. Intitially, I
had been inspired by Dee, one of the AIs of the VVS. While the idea had merit, I didn't want to look like I was carbon-copying the idea. Then, I thought,
"What if it was a biomod?" After all, with handwavium, nearly anything is possible...
Jess was a girl that despised being part of a wealthy family living along the Golden Coast. Sure, the vacations were fantastic and she did love her parents
very much, but the lifestyle just was not her speed.
Like many fen, Jess loved anime and especially loved to cosplay as Rei Ayanami of Neon Genesis Evangelion. When she got the first chance, she handwaved her
car, a surprisingly mundane Dodge Neon, and high-tailed it to Kandor. One she was in the company of the fen, she began to experiment with Handwavium as an
occupation and cosplay as a hobby, with Rei still being her perinial favorite.
Eventually, she began an experiment to create a new strain of handwavium - one that would enable the mass-production of bio-androids to provide staff for large
operations. At one point in the process, she forgot she was supposed to be at a cosplay competition and was going as... You guessed it, Rei Ayanami, and she
pulled out all the stops this time. Of course, Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Some sloppy house-keeping had been the
cause of the mis-step that landed her in the vat full of her experimental handwavium. With no one around to provide assistance, the Handwavium was left to its
own devices and the next day, Jess woke up nearly smothered in... Herself?
The Handwavium had done more or less as she thought it would and when provided with a single model that it saw as unfinished, perfected it and made as many
copies as it could (the handwavium strain came with all the basic chemical building blocks that was needed). In short, Jessica had one-hundered copies of
herself as Rei Ayanami.
Confusion came quick as the copies of herself did everything that she did. Since the handwavium had Rei as a template, all the copies were tied together in
some hither-to-unknown form of telepathy. As she tried to sort -that- out, she soon discovered that the temporary hair die and contact lenses were no longer
temporary.
It took a few weeks and the help of many, both from professionals and from her friends, before she got herself sorted out. Seeing the dangerous nature of such
a handwavium strain, she discontinued her research into the matter and focused instead on providing her services as temporary staffing. However, once
Operation: Great Justice got underway, she soon decided that her abilities would be best put to use among one of the Factions better suited against the
Boskonian Threat, but lacking in manpower for their facilities. It didn't take long for her to leanr about the Roughriders as Benjamin had come to Kandor
to recruit in person.
Jessica 'Jess' Ayanami
Biomod: 101 "Rei Clones''
Quirks:
- Teamwork among a group of clones is best achieved when they're wearing a uniform of any sort, but for absolute top performance a
'plug suit' or a Japanese school uniform is best suited.
- Intense physical and emotional reactions can disrupt her multitasking capabilities. Needless to say that certain nocturnal activities have
caused some remarkable disruptions on the job.
Trivia:- Capable of AI-like processing capabilities by using all the available processing power of her 'clones.'
- In order to keep medical records of the clones, they're all numbered from zero to one-hundred.
- Serves as The Roughriders' Honor Guard with coordination that rivals the US Marine Corp's Silent Drill Platoon.
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| [RFC] The ReAnimator |
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Posted by: Shay Guy - 09-11-2008, 07:22 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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Figured I'd throw this one out here after I had the idea of implementing it in Fenspace.
The ReAnimator
The ReAnimator - self-named because "it sounds about ten times cooler than just 'Animator'" - is a Wavetech computer/animation studio created
by a True Neutral who prefers to go by "Mekboy" from his computer, DVD player, and various peripherals. Upon the addition of handwavium to the
combination, it metamorphosed into a rather ugly cybernetic/organic hybrid with a computer screen and a mouth as its most noticeable attributes.
Experimentally, Mekboy offered it his Negima! DVD set, which it promptly ate, then plugged itself into an Internet jack. Shortly afterward, it also ate
Mekboy's first few volumes of the Negima! manga, and became silent.
Some days later, it spat out a DVD which Mekboy discovered to contain a high-resolution video file: the first episode of a new Negima! series. As it turned
out, the ReAnimator had decided that it could do better than XEBEC had in adapting the manga. And indeed, the next few episodes it produced over the next month
were highly faithful to Akamatsu's manga, superbly animated, and well voiced, with the curious quirk that there was no music - apparently it lacked the
skill to compose any. Undaunted, Mekboy assembled a team of musicians and sound editors to make up for this deficiency, and eventually - with Akamatsu's
agreement - released what, indeed, most fen have taken to calling NDR, for "Negima Done RIGHT."
After the full run of Akamatsu's manga had been adapted, the ReAnimator took to adapting Ranma ½, calling the animation and characterization in Studio
Deen's anime "craptacular" and posting a 3,000-word essay online on "Why Stopping in the Middle is Bad." For personal amusement, it has
also created several music videos and distributed them freely online. These include "Bell B. Dandy," in which the goddess Belldandy gives an
enthusiastic performance of Johnny B. Goode, "Kanon Rock," in which the cast of Kanon performs JerryC's hit rendition of a classical piece, and
"Kumikyoku," a spectacularly animated and choreographed rendition of the eleven-minute medley circulated on the video sharing site Nico Nico Douga.
Reportedly, discussions are also underway to produce adaptations of Animorphs and Megatokyo.
The ReAnimator can purportedly be a very temperamental and demanding creator; one assistant described headquarters as the only place in Fenspace that serves
DVDs with chocolate sauce. Particularly infamous are its arguments with Benjamin Hutchins over the production and creative control of an Undocumented Features
series. All attempts at producing a new ReAnimator without the original's problems have dramatically failed. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most
profitable media producers in Fenspace.
Well, then...any thoughts? Comments? Flames? Pie?
Pronounced "shy guy."
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