Luminara

61 degrees Fahrenheit. 1/4 mile through mud to the road. 30 minutes to the nearest dollar store (grocery stores are farther, pharmacies are an hour and then some). Rain could start again at any moment. And I'm on a 150cc motorcycle. Going for a ride. If anyone hears a piteous wail that sounds sort of like an ambulance giving birth to a randy squirrel, don't worry, it's just me passing through.

I saw that at a friend's house when I was cat-sitting last week. He has a bottle of it next to the back door. Neither does a wood stove. Can't warm up my hands without intensifying the itch.

No, but I had my hands in a stronger acid yesterday. Sterilizing planting trays. I've got enough raw spots to dissuade me from using acid again today.

No, no no no, use the information provided in the thread to fix the unqueue/cancel function so it can be used properly. The targeting system is crap, having the ability to unqueue a queued attack without clearing the target is important.

I've got a valley full of jewelweed. It doesn't help. Calamine lotion? Useless. Oatmeal? Sticky and useless. Hydrocortisone ointment sort of works, but not for long. Scratching is orgasmic, but futile (and it makes my hands and fingers swell, which makes the itching worse, and the swelling and raw spots are painful). It's been raining for the last three days. It's overcast but not raining right now. I think I'm going to risk the 30 minute ride on my motorcycle to get some more hydrocortisone. And maybe a 5 gallon bucket of Gojo... soap and a scrubbing pad did diddly squat to prevent the rash. Or maybe some sulfuric acid. No skin, no itch!

Hey, wait a moment... Not one person has mentioned making or playing The Power Creep. There's usually half a dozen people jumping to create a new character inspired by a forum comment, and The Power Creep would actually be a good one. But no-one's on it? Did I wake up in the Bizarro Lumiverse? Again?

Hm... no. None of my characters can even sew. I can offer them directions to the nearest Icon/Facemaker, though. I'm reasonably certain they have Council outfits in stock.

when you have a poison ivy rash on your hands. I washed thoroughly after pulling it up, and it still got me. It's between my fingers. It's on my palms. It's on my damn palms! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's only enforced on the default costume slot. All other slots are open to all other costume options, with the caveat that the Arachnos costume pieces are only available on the default slot. Slot 1 - Arachnos. Slots 2-10 - Everything else.

Two enormous gelatinous blobs, side by side, jiggling incessantly, bouncing, quivering... I wonder how many instances of the map would exist before the servers exploded.

After eight years on the original servers and a year plus here, no-one should be surprised when players find ways to do previously unimaginable things, with or without IO sets or Incarnate abilities. The ability isn't coming from trinkets and doodads, it's coming from knowledge of game mechanics and figuring out how to leverage them to the players' advantage.

I need to hang out with BAB more.

I want to farm potatoes. Potatoes can grow in buckets. Potatoes can grow in trash bags. Potatoes can grow in water. Potatoes can be placed on top of a straw bale, lightly covered with more straw, and the damn things will grow. Potatoes grow anywhere, in absolutely any medium, except Co*. This is the one place where I can't farm potatoes. This needs to be changed forthwith and posthaste in order to increase my fun index to an appropriate ratio. TATER FARMING PLZKTHX!

What a bunch of sense. No shame on you, bringing your "logic" here! Don't you stop that, Mister Man, or I won't send you to your room.

See? I was right, it's global chat.

They're waiting for the next version of Windows Android. Duh.

It's been happening to me, too, on Everlasting, not beta. Found that it was the cancel power function (default bind Z). It cancels a queued power (red ring around the power icon in the tray), but it's also canceling powers set to auto-fire. Doesn't occur when using the Escape key, which defaults to clearing the target window and canceling a queued power. The auto is left intact when pressing Escape. Auto-fire is shut off when Z is pressed.

Looks one of the global channels. Okay, all of the global channels.

Street Justice/Electric Armor scrapper - third Sister. I wanted something like the scaling +Res in SR, because I was watching the Rocky films when I was thinking about this character, but I don't want SR (not a fan of click status protections). A straight Resistance set with the scaling +Res unique IO seemed to be a reasonable compromise. I also wanted to step away from weapon-based sets for a change of pace, and Street Justice looks like it'll fit my tastes. Plus, I can throw Cross Punch in seamlessly and it'll work visually with the rest of the attacks. The Amazonian adventure continues as The Penitent Woman (still working on the name) wanders aimlessly following the disbandment of the Sisters after Legionette ran away and Antianeira left to search for her. Robotics/Radiation Emission mastermind - I played a Bots/TA to 50 on the original servers, but I stuck to my preference of not taking travel powers, so I missed out on having flying robots. I've also never used the rocket boots costume part. That's really all the reason behind this character. I want rocket boots and flying rocket-booted robots. And I wanted a sentient hyper-optimized data access network, but settled for an operational platform (heuristic experiential learning intelligence, aware). Illusion Control/Trick Arrow - A former actress who uses stage magic and a prop archery kit she "borrowed" from a movie set's technical effects department. Mystic Flight for wire work. Phantom Army set to clone the character, the clones being her body double, her stand-in and her terribly mistreated personal assistant made up to look like her. Phantasm is her co-star, but she's got first billing. She does all of her own stunts, folks! She's the Star of the Show!

Looks like the chest slider was bumped up, too, so it's a D-cupquake. Or is it an E-cupquake? So hard to tell this graphic engine. Anyway, the layered references are nice. Or, I could say... nice puns, babe. It's a shame there's no butt slider. NicePuns/HotPuns would be a good duo character for someone to play with Cupquake.

I use a phone to go online, and it stays plugged in, sitting in a window where it has slightly better signal strength. So by the time I can normally reach it to take a better picture, one which shows the size difference, they've separated. But May is smaller than she looks in the picture I posted. She is growing fast, though. I can already see the difference between how she looked a week ago and how she looks now. It's amazing what being fed, safe, comfortable and cared for can do for an animal. The animals most in need of love are the ones who seem to appreciate being loved the most. That's been my experience, anyway. And my life is empty without a cat. I need a companion, and I can't have a human companion, but a cat fills the void admirably. Jessica was born to live with me, though. Cats typically hide when they enter a foreign environment. Jessica was excited to be here. Purring, tail erect, inspecting everything, indicating approval, and she didn't hide. She was overjoyed to be in my cabin. She... knew she was home, that's the best way I can express it. I honestly don't believe she could have lived anywhere else, or with anyone else. She and I connected the moment I held her for the first time. May reacted like an ordinary cat when I brought her home, but she didn't stay hidden for long. Or very well. The purring made it obvious where she was.

I wouldn't know healthy from unhealthy. It's been 20ish years. Maybe I should abstain from role playing, too. 😮

Jessica, the tortie on the left, and May, the kitten I rescued a little over a week ago. The picture distorts their respective sizes. May is barely 1/3 the size of Jessica. They decided they were going to be friends a couple of days ago. Fortunately. Both were strays. I took Jessica in about a year ago. I was completely happy with just her, but May needed a home, too, and I've always felt that Jessica would be happier with a little buddy to play with, so I coaxed May out from under the house where she'd been living (that took about ten days) and brought her home.

No, I don't mean ERP. No, I don't need an example in this thread. Or my Inbox. Or in-game. Or in person. I don't talk much in the game. I don't have any global channels in my tabs, and since I'm playing in the middle of the night, there aren't as many people around as there would otherwise be, so I'm generally left to my own amusement. But I do, very rarely, receive a /tell. And the latest one had me wondering about this topic. The character I was playing when the /tell came in was my sentinel, one of the trio of Sisters I've been working on. The badge I selected for this character, was Silent Sentinel. It was appropriate for the internal story I've developed for her, and since I'm always alone, it was doubly appropriate. Being silent is part and parcel of playing solo, after all. So when I saw that /tell, I actually had to pause and figure out if I should respond, and if so, should it be role-played (which would've been an uncommunicative ellipses), or an actual reply. My real world sensibility and manners won the momentary internal battle and I responded politely. So when do you break character? What's your self-imposed limitation? Do you just use whatever chat formatting is generally accepted as speaking out of character on your server (or in your social circle), or do you remain in character at all times? If you're only speaking with people you know well, perhaps even people you know in reality, do you stay in character then, or do you talk with them like you would at work or at the PTA meeting or wherever? Or do you create your characters to reflect you, thereby allowing you to always be in character without actually role playing? What if you've had a bad day? What if you're having the best day of your life and want to scream your triumphs to the world? Do you have personal rules for role playing, or do you just go with the flow?