Saturday, January 15, 2005
Avast, ye criminals!
Aight. So I'm back in Paragon, and things have changed a little. Bunch of new features, little interface doohickeys, most of which are pretty handy. They've allowed high-level heroes to team with low-level ones, like reverse sidekicking, and all the XP you gain there goes into debt, which is handy. Apparantly there's a Lord of Winter or something in town, so snowball fights are in. You can now gather badges and additional titles, so high-level heroes look even more awesome. (Think: The Mystical Amazing Dr. Strange, Master of the Uncanny.)
It's good to be back.
My new character, having discovered that a) Pianoforte is still around as I left here, and b) I can't use that name on the Virtue server, (whether because there's another Pianoforte there, or because my character is still around, I don't know) I rolled up a new gal: Bonny Ann. As in the pirate. It took a little bit to figure out how to get a dark magic-based ninja-type into the pirate mold, but here's what I came up with.
See, in my world, Bonny Ann (no relation to Anne Bonny*) was the pirate. She took down all the big ones, from Edward Teach the black-bearded one to Bill Kidd to Hank Morgan. She was skilled to the extent that she considered using a sword a handicap, and honed her martial abilities to near perfection. After amassing a mountain of treasure and running out of colonies and other pirates to pillage, Ann eventually learned of the dark arts and managed to transport her ship and crew to Neverland. Yeah, the one with Hook and Tinkerbell - let me finish. Having a brand new world to plunder, she deposed Capt. Hook, seized his ship and crew and eventually had Neverland in her gloved fist. In her final duel with Peter Pan, self-appointed chamption of childhood, she was taken by surprise by a previously-unknown pixie. This wasn't Tinkerbell - Bonny had put Tink to death as soon as possible to rob Pan of his flight - but this faerie was packing. One pixie-dust overdose later, and Bonny was put through one of the most horrible acid trips in existence. She emerged a new woman, having seen the hell she was responsible for through the veil of madness. She fled Neverland immediately, and arrived in Paragon City. (Time doesn't pass out past the second star to the right, remember?) Now she seeks to mend her ways, helping the citizens of this new world.
* So I got it backwards. Sue me.
So all that was simply to justify why my pirate:
So whaddaya think? Comic gold, or not worthy of a bad Howard the Duck crossover? ¶ 8:37 p.m.
Aight. So I'm back in Paragon, and things have changed a little. Bunch of new features, little interface doohickeys, most of which are pretty handy. They've allowed high-level heroes to team with low-level ones, like reverse sidekicking, and all the XP you gain there goes into debt, which is handy. Apparantly there's a Lord of Winter or something in town, so snowball fights are in. You can now gather badges and additional titles, so high-level heroes look even more awesome. (Think: The Mystical Amazing Dr. Strange, Master of the Uncanny.)
It's good to be back.
My new character, having discovered that a) Pianoforte is still around as I left here, and b) I can't use that name on the Virtue server, (whether because there's another Pianoforte there, or because my character is still around, I don't know) I rolled up a new gal: Bonny Ann. As in the pirate. It took a little bit to figure out how to get a dark magic-based ninja-type into the pirate mold, but here's what I came up with.
See, in my world, Bonny Ann (no relation to Anne Bonny*) was the pirate. She took down all the big ones, from Edward Teach the black-bearded one to Bill Kidd to Hank Morgan. She was skilled to the extent that she considered using a sword a handicap, and honed her martial abilities to near perfection. After amassing a mountain of treasure and running out of colonies and other pirates to pillage, Ann eventually learned of the dark arts and managed to transport her ship and crew to Neverland. Yeah, the one with Hook and Tinkerbell - let me finish. Having a brand new world to plunder, she deposed Capt. Hook, seized his ship and crew and eventually had Neverland in her gloved fist. In her final duel with Peter Pan, self-appointed chamption of childhood, she was taken by surprise by a previously-unknown pixie. This wasn't Tinkerbell - Bonny had put Tink to death as soon as possible to rob Pan of his flight - but this faerie was packing. One pixie-dust overdose later, and Bonny was put through one of the most horrible acid trips in existence. She emerged a new woman, having seen the hell she was responsible for through the veil of madness. She fled Neverland immediately, and arrived in Paragon City. (Time doesn't pass out past the second star to the right, remember?) Now she seeks to mend her ways, helping the citizens of this new world.
* So I got it backwards. Sue me.
So all that was simply to justify why my pirate:
- fights with a sword;
- has dark magic powers;
- can fly. (I really want a flying character, and after a pixie-dust overload, who wouldn't be able to defy gravity?)
So whaddaya think? Comic gold, or not worthy of a bad Howard the Duck crossover? ¶ 8:37 p.m.
