My Second Life (With Capes)

Living virtually in a super hero world.

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Double trouble

I created a character with a build I saw, but I already had that build on another character so I deleted it. 

Panzerstrike, a respec’ed tank, made it to 40 this week and got deleted the same day. It was frustrating and irritating because the cooldown on powers was insanely long, and I didn’t feel like outfitting him with Intelligence gear to make it better. 

RP: Mike this week apologized to the kids for being a jerk, and the group has hired a psychologist (played by me, totally above my pay grade) to help some of the kids get through their issues. I am so screwed if I play this character.

Plans: Maybe get Cybermancer to buy that club. Have Mike ask Scott if he can take Pillar to New York.

Stories: Jules sees Lenormand, the shrink. That’s going to be tough; I’ve been doing some research online about it, and because I can’t figure out things on the fly psychologically, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that with the character, either.

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Another 40

I respec’ed Earthfire because he kept on dying, so I changed him to Crimson  Cyborg and got through the last couple of levels without a problem.

Changed Fallen into a man who’s going to work with Scott.  2nd Amendment.

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Beyond 2xp

Although it’s been two weeks since 2xp, I still have a ton of toons with 2xp on them.  So far, I’ve gotten 4 40′s out of this, 2 within sight of 40, and 3 a few alerts away from 40.

Supervillain Onslaught is very underwhelming.  First of all, it’s PVP.  If I wanted PVP, I would play PVP.  It’s not that entertaining.  I avoid them.  I wish they would do City of Villains, let us create villains - but they don’t want to go down that road.  No wonder this game’s shitty.

Without the RP, I’d quit.

The 40′s are Tink (my only girl), Hazard, Power Shift 2.0 (who was a PITA), Freedom, and Elemental Mage.  Fletcher (arrows) and Ben (was Krim until I found out that in the Champions Lore, that’s a demon) are 39.

I created a whole bunch of new toons: Mindlord, Mike’s new nemesis; Stormland, a young temptation for Scott; Marquis de Robien, a vampire; Shock Jock, lightning; Monmount, a detective; Wardog, ex-military; Malachite, healer; Hadrian, tank; Cherokee, I forget.  

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And just when I was bored. they offered double XP.  For the whole week!

I have a few builds that I wanted to try.  I just had to think up character concepts for them.

I’ve got an aristocratic vampire, two teens who are mutants, one detective, one telepath stolen from City of Villains (Mindlord.  Maybe he’ll be Mike’s next nemesis?), and one “light artillery”.

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40′s and counting

Another 40, Emerald Mage, using a build by Cyro.  He puts out some pretty decent damage, so I might keep him as a post-apocalypse player.  

Another 40 is on his way, Freedom, a build of my own.  He has too many guns, to be honest, so can’t solo for shit.  I’ve pretty much exclusively run him through alerts on and off since April, and now he’s 39.  I plan to play him until he hits 40, and then park him.

Next on the list will probably be Darkestar, to get him into VB.  If I run him through alerts this weekend, he might get the 15 levels needed.  Ha ha.

Unfortunately I’m offline Saturday because of other commitments.

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Respec’d and Deleted

For 2xp, I have left:

Dreamweaver - 21 (a narcoleptic speaker to the Egyptian gods.)

Gray - 19 (a priest on Westside given dark and light powers to choose which to keep)

Combat Medic - 18 (Support)

Darkestar - 17 (Reboot of Starcrowe)

An American Hero - 15 (Strongman)

Megabot - 15 (Bot with power armor)

Equinox - 15 (No idea.)

Mindblade - 13 (Ability to create chi blades)

Deleted:  Zin, Molon Labe, Sonic Boom Jr.

Respec’ed a 40 to play with Scott.

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2xp ... again.

After double xp, I got two other 40′s, Firefighter and Sigyl.  Firefighter is melee and fire; Sigyl is using electricity mostly and Primal Sigils which spits out lightning.  Sigyl does awesome damage, and I’m going to build him up a lot more.  Firefighter doesn’t do too bad, but nothing like Sigyl.

I created four characters, two for RP, two for testing out.  I respec’ed three characters because I can’t figure out Night Warrior to save my life.  One character I changed to claws/fire because I couldn’t find the AOE tanker that I meant to have him be.  I noticed, though, that he sucked solo.

My character list looks something like this now:

Raige  35

Fisticuffs  32

Freedom  32

Elemental  Mage  31

Earthfire  31

Krim  30

Power  Shift 2.0  30

Aquarius  30

Fletcher  30

Azure  Badger  29

Tink  29

Heavy  Fuel  28

Blazes!  24

Boomer  20

Dreamweaver  20

Vulkan  18

Gray  18

Molon  Labe  18

Chryofire  15

An Amer.  Hero  15

Darkestar  14

Equinox  14

combat  Medic  14

Megabot  14

Sonic  Boom Jr  13

Zin  12

Mindblade  11

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Most recent toons

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Happy birthday Grim, who turned 30 on April 15!

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Character List (4/10)

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Warloch

Warloch’s shitty solo.  Another respec?  Or am I even going to keep this guy?

I don’t want to RP this fella, because after I wrote up his character backstory, I found that he had so much baggage that even though he’s a “bottom”, he’s too high maintenance.  So I’ll probably keep him as 40-filler until I find a different build.

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Played Gray (who is NOT even near 50 Shades).  He’s a gay Unitarian Universalist minister.  He has dark powers given to him by a demon, and light powers given to him by an angel, and he eventually will have to chose which is more powerful and useful and he would become that creature’s servant until the end of his life (God gave free will.  Angels and demons don’t.)  

What he’s trying to do is live out his life as long as he can without making a decision.  He instead asks for more and power different powers to try - some he gets to keep, some are temporary.

I have to work on these newbies’ backstories now.  My usual play partner is going to be gone for a week.  

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Post 2xp (one of many)

Holder crossed into 40 Friday night.  Not sure how he’s going to hold together solo (I see what you did there).  Might change him into all DP, but that will crush the theme.

Saturday I created lowbies.  

1) Vulcan (changed now to Vulkan) - he’s a technomancer but doesn’t realize it; he works “magic” with computers but he thinks it’s science.  Going to use him to help Scott out of his situation.

2) Blazes! - I couldn’t put in the exclamation point, but it’s there in his bio.  A kid (17) who is a walking accelerant.  Fire blaster.  Taken from a build called “Everthing’s On Fire!”.

3) White Vampire.  Scourge plus. The only thing I got was that he was one of the French Prince’s best friend and he’s a vampire of what I can figure out about the White Court (hattip: Dresden Files).

4) Dreamweaver. TK plus.  An Egyptian Seer who is a tutor of Caroline.

5) Gray.  Dark and Light “tank”.  He’s a priest with some dark powers and some light powers that he tries to use for good in general.

Haven’t RP’ed any of these guys yet - except Vulkan, who also has a story, and Blazes! who now has a story.

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Sidewinder hit 34 at the last minute last night.

Grim is going to kill off Zaphriel.  Fold and Casey had a fun time all night...and then Fold and Mike did.  

Ah, I miss Casey.

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3 more

Finished Lor at 27.  Redid my organization in list form and found that one of my favorites, Chance, is pretty high up there with 2xp to go.  ONly an hour and a half, but still.

I pulled out a notebook for him but before I could even get anything started, I wasted the hour and got him to 36 before the 2xp ran out.

Next on the list is Sidewinder, at 32.  Air/lightning and boy, is he tough to play.  I have four attacks that are worth their salt, and the rest are just aggro-makers.  Sidewinder doesn’t need a notebook since I’ve written his story in NaNoWriMo last year.

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Lor is in MC because he believes that humans can learn from him.  He’s a Blade Shaman, connected to his blades (to any blades, for that matter).  

Playing him is beautiful to watch.  The wings are so pretty, and when he fights, he fills the screen.

He’s 26 now.

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Pulled out a notebook and started writing about Lor.  

He’s married (with two wives) and has children.  I still don’t know why he’s in MC and doing heroic things.  Does he fall in love with a “Walker”?  Is something taken from him and he’s trying to find it?  I’ll write it out and see what happens.

Lor is now 24.