Time for a Freakshow beatdown...

That's right, OM and I are putting out the call for another Friday Night Task Force. This time, it's the good old Sister Psyche TF, featuring a lot of
Freakshow in the 20-25 range. I'll be bringing Purrfect Archer, Lady of the Peace, or Major Starlight, OM is bringing Edge Sabre due to his need to get
Utena the TF Commander Accolade... who else is interested?

Jeph Antilles

Description: He's about 5'11", with an average build. Has longish dishwater blond hair colored hair and a
clean face. He normally wears jeans with some geek shirt or another under an overly baggy leather jacket that's seen a lot of miles, as well as wireframe
glasses. He sometimes runs either overly excited or angry, depending on the stimulus of the time, when he's not neutral.

Notable Mundane Attributes:

Close to the Vest: A penchant for 'playing it safe', or at least as safe as you can when dealing with
Handwavium technology.

High Society: Likes to interact with everybody.

'Wavium Abilities: None.

Quirks:

Get a Life: Occasionally gets in over his head in social situations, also known to be socially inept.

Excitable Boy: Known to get over excited in certain situations, sometimes bordering on manic with sufficient
stimulation.

Why Can't We Get Along?: Considers some of the more vocal and active conflicts between factions to be somewhat
incomprehensible, not to mention aggravating.

Faction: No primary, but is known to assist many of the existing factions when asked.

Preferred Transport: Starbug 1.

Known Associates:

Myk-El Miller: First mate on board his personal vehicle, Starbug 1. His best friend from the 'Danelaw, and
accidental Fenspace refugee. He is fen, but coming into space was not his first choice.

Nene Romanova: Jeph's personal assistant android, based on the blond from the Bubblegum Crisis television anime.
Exceedingly computer savvy, exceptionally bubbly when the mood strikes. She had a thing for Jeph, despite him being the closest thing to a parent she has.

R2-G0: Plucky red and white astromech droid. Based on the R2 series from Star Wars, 'Geo' is even more
technically minded than Nene, although rather strong willed and unwilling to spare anyone's feelings with his honest, intelligent opinions. Fortunately, he
doesn't speak in anything other than droidspeak, but Jeph seems to be able to understand him perfectly.

Vehicle: Starbug 1

Base Hull: Custom (three deck mining hauler)

Drive Type: Speed (gravity drive)

Drive Rating: .05c

Owner of Record: Jeph Antilles

Flag of Record: Jupiter Mining Corporation

Home Port: Jupiter (Serenity Valley, Ganymede)

Purpose: Personal transport/cargo hauler

Launched: October 2008

Crew: Jeph Antilles (Commander, pilot)

Myk-El Miller (Co Pilot)

Nene Romanova (Communications, Engineer)

R2-G0 (Support Droid)

Faction: None

Status: Active

Auxiliary Craft: Cerulean Edge ('waved Saturn SL), Skyjumper ('waved Mini Cooper S)

History:

The last big 'wavium project Jeph had before he was forced into exile from the 'Danelaw, it started life as a handful of scraps and three large
industrial tanks. The ship was designed after the (in)famous vehicle from the old Red Dwarf show, which shows in its quirks. The ship made a hurried departure
from Earth in October 2008, caught up in the hysteria from the launch of Ptichka during a test flight.

Quirks:

Just Let Your Hands Work The Controls As If You Were Straight:

The first launch from any hangar facility will result in Starbug clipping the edge of the doorway. Starbug will suffer no damage, and neither will any
facility.

Smoke Me A Kipper:

At least once a week the kitchen food recycling facility must be used to make a vindaloo dish. Should this not be done, any further food will be bland and
unsatisfying until a vindaloo dish is made.

A Long Afternoon Slob:

No matter how much effort is applied, one of the cockpit seats will always have bits of nut shell, masticated toenail clippings, and other such debris working
its way out of the crevasses.

Known Crew Quirks:

Myk is not a willing passenger, having been on board during the abortive test flight. However, he's taken as well as most fen to life in space.

Trivia:

Starbug 1 is based on the version of Starbug that appeared in the 6th series of Red Dwarf, since this provides the best internal setup for long hauls.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Sorry guys. I just can't deal with the stress involved in being continually disconnected. Pardon me while I go scream bloody murder at the tech support
office again.

Quote: Once things get to the manufacturing stage (i.e. got the prototypes sorted), A.C. normally licenses the designs/tech. You want to build them, you pay.

I'm not sure if I got the recommendation from one of the threads here, or if I followed a link from a fic that was, but I can't seem to refind it.

It's a Harry Potter fic, starting from the scene in the graveyard of V's resurrection. V already knows the entire prophecy, and to ensure his
immortality, shoves Harry through a dimensional rift to a parallel universe, where everyone is the opposite gender from Harry's home universe, except for
Luna. I don't remember much else of the plot, unfortunately.

Can anyone point me toward it?
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Honou Productions.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_update13.html

http://boards.cityofheroe...21&page=0&fpart=1

Quote: There are plenty of other features in Issue 13: Architect as
well, like the new powersets, including the much requested "Villainous Version of Empathy" called Pain Domination. We're also adding
some great new missions to Issue 12's Roman Zone "Cimerora," as well as a brand new reward system that will hopefully see the end of
"necessary" Task Force farming trying to get that one specific Recipe you have been dying to get. The Issue 13 Feature List explains more about
that. We'll be announcing more specifics of each of these features between now and the beta testing for Issue 13.

Quote: Next I want to talk about Day Jobs.

Quote: I should probably take this moment to talk about what the Mission Architect is not meant for. It is not meant for "easy
leveling" or "badging" or "farming".

Quote: In the end, we have a system that we believe is the best suited for what Mission Architect was made for, and is not abusable.

Quote: Finally, I want to tell you about two "Booster Packs" that will be available in a month or so. Many players have requested the
ability to buy the 30 day temporary jetpack that comes with the new City of Heroes Game Cards. Once the retailer exclusive period ends next month, we are
making the same jetpack available for purchase for $4.99 (which is the cost difference between the one month game time and the $20 Game Card price). We are
also excited to launch our Super Booster I: Cyborg Pack for $9.99. This pack has an awesome set of costume pieces, emotes, auras and a power. We'll be
sharing all of the details shortly.

Quote: New Powersets

• Shields - Heft a Shield for Heroic of Villainous Ends! This new powerset brings a classic power to City of Heroes: Shields! Now, you
  can arm Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers with a powerful shield to protect themselves and their allies.
  
  
• Pain Domination - Villains can now bend the power of pain to serve their own ends! Those playing a Corruptor or Mastermind have access
  to this new powerset. The antithesis of the Hero healing powerset "Empathy," Pain Domination brings parity between Heroes and Villains with a
  distinctively evil flair.
  

New Cimerora Missions

New Hero and Villain story arcs expand upon the history and lore, and delve into the players and politics of Cimerora.

The Merit Rewards System

A new game system that allows players to earn tokens by completing Trials, Task Forces, Strike Forces, Raids, etc. The most challenging and time consuming
tasks grant the most reward tokens, which can be redeemed throughout Hero and Villain zones for recipes, enhancements, salvage, costume pieces, badges,
inspirations and other game items.

Other features

New Invention Origin Sets, new Costume Sets, a Patron Power Respec, Zone Refinements, and more!

Boom de-yada

A CoX video based on a Discovery Channel commercial.

Pretty Well done.
''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

And came across this troper entry.

To summarize, holy crap on a flaming autopiloted pogo stick, Bob!
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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
waste."

http://sourceforge.net/pr...files.php?group_id=131496

http://www.tracer.plus.com/PiggViewer-v1.61.zip

two different .pigg viewers. Use at own risk, of course..
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

I have this idea in my head, and wanted to get it out - that, and I wanted to see what people thought of it.

Current standards with handwavium is one biomod only, and as a general limit that's a good thing. However, I imagine the Jason is tinkering with finding
ways around this; it would be far too helpful in his profession to be able to keep changing things. I think I might have an idea for how to do it, but I wanted
to see what people thought. As is, it's safest for plants. The Jason wouldn't want to use it on a person unless it was a life-or-death situation, such
as a critically-injured, already-biomodded person. In fact, this would probably be the one way that people would find out the Jason HAD figured something out.

As to the idea...cells are most vulnerable to being affected by outside influences when they're undergoing mitosis/meiosis. That's why radiation
therapy works, in general terms. The cancer cells are undergoing uncontrolled rapid reproduction, and thus are more likely to be affected by the radiation than
normal, healthy cells, since more of the cancer cells will be in the vulnerable stage at any given moment. Given that premise...I wondered what would happen if
you sped up the cells that are handwaved. In other words, use the Expresso strain of handwavium to metabolically supercharge handwaved cells...and then hit
them with another dose of guacamole, or honey, or whatever you want to try. Again, this would put a fair amount of stress on a body, which is why the Jason
wouldn't want to use it on a person unless necessary. But for his usual plant-based mods, it would be highly useful. In fact, if people are Ok with it,
I'd like to say that he was tinkering/experimenting with such on Yggdrasil. I'd like to use the idea to explain some of her more interesting
quirks, and why she's a bit different from the others of her type. So...thoughts?

*grin* If people like the idea, I might have the Jason actually carry around a small vial of an expresso/golden apple cider mix. Emergency medicine at its
finest. Probably the vilest combination of tastes you could imagine, but if you're dying, beggars can't be choosers. I leave that idea open in case
anybody ever wants to use it in a story, if the board agrees on this and wants the knowledge to eventually get out.