Chrono-Bot

I've run into Ashe too. I'm not sure what his deal is.

I already worry enough that you guys don't like eachother.

I can't wait to have the same problem. I'm about to break my first 800mil. Ima hold so many costume contests.

if you mean to see them, they're actually located all over the game when it's not winter event time. Pyrolicious can be seen in the ski slopes having a drink, Todogut can be seen at Point Du Hoc waiting for a raid, Ascendant hangs out by Positron on the phone like he'd do on live, etc, etc. Some of them have bios too, if you click on them and write /info.

Ha, yeah. When I was making my farmer I leveled (mostly) through doing the farms as I leveled up to gain tickets and stuff and I spent a LOT of time dead, even at the lower settings. The more powers you pick up, the easier it'll go. By the time I was in my thirties I was going through at a pretty good clip!

I tend towards the light touch, but I can think of two major examples: Alce and the other Warriors have a lot of issues with B34T-D0WN - they have NOT forgotten what the Freakshow like to do to them for fun, to pick on the 'nerds'. Things get tense when B34T-D0WN comes by the warehouse to visit Quickfrost and other friends made in jail. B34T-D0WN herself is a human capybara, besides her love of exploding stuff, so she just hopes that by being herself the Warriors will calm down around her. Also that she towers over them, which keeps them from trying anything for now. Chrono-Bot's big violent moment was shortly after she arrived, a man claiming to be from DATA (which hasn't been confirmed) came up to her and told her she had to be disassembled so that her advanced tech from the year 3??? could contribute to advances for this time period. She kicked him in the soft parts as hard as she could. She hasn't been bothered since, which the more she learns about this time period, the more she suspects he was NOT a real government worker. They wouldn't have given up so easy.

Blazed's city appointed attorney suggested it to her. Blazed has never had an easy time controlling her powers - to the point where she has to check all her clothes for a fireproof label (little flame with a strike through it) before she buys - but heroes get training and help supplied by the alphabet agencies (GIFT, in Blazed's case) in exchange for their service to the city. Blazed hasn't actually ended her association with the Outcasts, she works smuggling artifacts for Quickfrost, but she still tries to stay out of trouble and is taking full advantage of what heroism offers her. Chrono-Bot was designed from the beginning to be willing to wade into danger for the sake of knowledge. They knew they were sending her to one of the eras of heroes, so she was given much more than simple survival coding to help her really explore this time period. For her own part, without curiosity she wouldn't do much heroism (or villainy) at all - everything she does, she does it to add to data. She has no noble higher calling. She's friendly enough people don't really pick up on that amorality. Beloved Emily doesn't know why she became a heroine, that knowledge died with her body, but whatever it was was compelling enough that she continues as a ghost, sometimes simply repeating actions she would have done in life to rescue people from muggers and in more lucid moments under her own direction. Whatever Emily was in life, it was someone who cared very deeply about the people of Paragon and she'll continue that in death. Icestreak just wanted to be someone cool, pun not intended. And it's hard to be cool when you're stealing someone's purse. But if you're wearing a costume? People look up to you then! And if Amped-Up could do it, why couldn't Icestreak? She just wishes Rock-On hadn't joined in too because Rock-On is just... embarrassing. The fact that Icestreak gets a bonus from Quickfrost for every cache of goods Icestreak comes across while going from heroing party to heroing party, well, that's icing on the cake. Alce wanted to be a hero. A PROPER hero, from the Greek epics. She wanted to do amazing deeds, conquer cities, destroy monsters. All of that. What she did was end up with the Warriors and realize she was basically trapped with a bunch of men who didn't bathe and talked more about honour than actually performed it. She didn't leave them, but after finding herself allied with heroes more than once she started realizing that maybe there was the nobility and honour she'd been seeking. As well as opportunities to become so much more. Lykossia's heroism came with the body he stole and everyone seems to have 'her' phone number and he hasn't figured out how to cut ties yet, so he has taken up the cape through sheer social ineptitude. It turns out he's pretty good at it, but 'Needlecraft's' old friends aren't sure why 'she' suddenly has powers from the netherworld as well as her plant powers.

I got an eidolon character. She was like '[censor] me up and give me some of those dark/dark powers' and Vahz was like 'okay so this is some prime hero kidney'

All of my Outcasts are looking at eachother awkwardly right now. When Lykossia was nine and still alive back in the civilization of Oranbega, he learned an explosive spell from his magic tutor. He was a brat as a child so the very first thing he did was make his older brother's dinner explode in his face that night. He was forbidden from lessons from the next week, among other punishments. Chrono-Bot grew up in the substrate she was generated in and was fully mature (in the year 3???) before being placed in her electropunk body, but the body isn't that old so I'm going to say that the time she wandered into the Rogue Isles and the [redacted] that happened next count as childhood crimes. Great research for her though! B43T-D0WN stole a piercing gun when she was 17 and now she's a Freakshow so I think we can trace a direct crime line here.

Neither Lykossia or Kaloses have had an easy time adjusting to a physical form with needs after being ghosts for so long and do not want to discuss it. There's too many choices for 'most embarrassing'. But for Lykossia it was probably the first time he tried coffee and the blurry next five hours. Back when Quickfrost was a newb Outcast, she was having her first big fight with a hero (some level 2 who's never been heard from since for reasons unrelated to Quickfrost) and she slipped on her own ice patch. In front of all the other, more experienced Outcasts. She had to work pretty hard to earn their respect after that. Blazed met a guy who said he was going to show her a water park and then it got... more than she was expecting and she had to run away. She feels so embarrassed it didn't occur to her what he was really after. Chrono-Bot doesn't feel embarrassment, which honestly would have been a very useful feature for them to include in her programming. She does feel horror and disgust, but mostly aimed at Paragon's sewage system and her own lack of waterproofing. She did feel something... akin to it the first time she encountered the ocean, ran into it, and had to spend the next week in rice.

mine is!

I've come back to this topic more seriously and I'm gonna say that my characters tend to be at the bottom of their fields/area of work and never at the top but still there to make friends and connections as they work their way through the world. Less Tony Starks, more Squirrel Girls. So I've got middle-range prestige gang members, a living time machine drone who is doing the bidding of her builders, etc, etc. Even the highest ranking one, Lykossia, is basically middle manager level for the circle of thorns. But they're pretty much all team players! They'll never be the head honchos but they don't really want to be either. I keep being put in positions of power in my life and I think I'm living out my dream of just being left to amble along without much real responsibility beyond what they take onto themselves through my characters. Also most of them are women but I'm not sure why the reason for that beyond I think my concepts are more interesting with women characters than men.

The same shoes. *grumbles and goes into the costume creator to change ANOTHER COSTUME*

Quickfrost would spend it on her business. Wages, better security, nicer warehouse. 3 million doesn't really go that far all said but it'd be a nice windfall and she cares about her group. She would also splurge on that calculator she's been eyeing. Chronic Burn-Out can recite the specs in Quickfrost's voice, Just starting with "Printing Calculator with Double Check Function, Tax Calculation and Currency Conversion!" sets off the rest of the girls into peals of laughter. Blazed would buy a spa day and then have a breakdown about what to do with the rest. Alce, and probably the other Warriors too, would probably exchange the money for items that are worth something on their own and stow them away for a rainy day. Myrine would see about getting a glass eye. A nice one. Lykossia would have no idea what he'd found and be promptly tricked out of it and never realize what he'd lost. Chrono-Bot would get someone to explain it to her fully, every detail, then give it to the explainer as payment for helping add to her data collection. Money doesn't mean anything to her and she wants for nothing now that she's stolen those flamethrower parts off that Warhulk.

Nice! I love beam rifle and devices is fun! And I like your concept!

In the tips missions, Frostfire implies that the Outcasts have disbanded after he got taken down so I've run with my Outcast girls having moved on since then to their own ventures - referring to the Outcasts mugging people in Steel Canyon as 'holdouts' to an over and done with gang.

One of my recurring character themes is making new members for the gangs of city of heroes! So here's some groupshots: Outcasts: Chronic Burn-Out Bone-Chiller Amped-Up Zippzapp (big) Quakeslam (small) Quickfrost Blazed Shockclash Rock-On (deliberately obscured, sorry about that) Icestreak Warriors: Artemis the Archer Myrine Alce Odyssia

Absolutely amazing! Those who died, I salute you

Quickfrost would open it immediately, she doesn't trust it not to be something that would disrupt what she's building with the other former Outcasts. And if she needed to act on it. Chrono-Bot would be curious if it was really for her and open it to do research. She tends to shut down wherever she figures she'd be safe while she recharges so waking up with a letter near her would be pretty novel! Lykossia and Kaloses would subject it to various magical treatments to make its true message from the Circle reveal itself before discovering it was from a neighbour telling them that there was going to be an apartment block potluck and would they like to bring a dessert? (Lykossia would immediately get onto youtube 'top ten potluck dishes' to learn how to cook while Kaloses just goes out to buy a pie for when that all goes wrong) Agent Ozis would collect the money from inside and quietly divert another inspection away from Dr. Harcus' lab.

Lykossia's difficult situation is hiding his nature. He's unable to divest himself from his host body's life, which means he's constantly having to learn how to perform how she would have lived her life. This means learning upkeep with youtube and trying desperately to figure out pop culture references and what's going on around him. And he's nearly blown his cover so many times anytime insults Oranbega. Or the time someone overheard him mutter 'and that's what you get for taking the last of the coffee' at Rollister that one time in a fight. Blazed is bad at social situations. She recently thought she'd met a nice guy to hang out with who wanted a *lot* more. She got out of it, but it's made her feel nervous about anyone walking up to say hi since. She thinks she keeps seeing the girl who was also involved, but isn't sure, and doesn't know how to ask her if everything turned out okay.

Mine aren't really into romance - they've got a lot going on that occupies WAY more of their time and also most come from a situation where they just spent years dealing with complete dopes (Outcasts, Warriors) that's sort of put them off it in regards to men, and they're only really starting to meet people outside of themselves now that they've finished their various jail sentences. But overall, they wanna get through their own stuff first. Chrono-Bot was not programmed for what you humans call 'love'. Actually she was, but her system keeps registering it as a virus and deleting it. I will say Blazed goes a little dizzy in the head every time she sees a lady with some nice biceps though.

*bump back* I love them. Lykossia is especially fun with his complete inability to keep his mouth shut when people diss the layout of Oranbega. They should meet yours sometime!

Quickfrost is usually looking for ways to improve I&E Services, which could be anything from a new book on accounting tips to bugbombing the warehouse to kill the red cap that haunts it. She's put more of herself in her business than anything else she's ever done. Chrono-Bot is usually researching or recharging when she's not doing direct study of our time with various superheroes (or villains). She has to learn fully about the past before she goes and buries herself in the desert to be found in her own time when her battery wears out, after all. Alternate answer: She's cleaning out her joints after another horrible sewers experience. Or she's lying in a bed of rice for similar reasons. Blazed is trying to relax. Anything to relax. Trying to find a hobby. Trying to nap. Trying a new meditation app. Sometimes she tries going to a club but that doesn't make her relax anymore. Dr. Harcus is shit-talking Crey on her anonymous social media account. "Try and fire me," she thinks. Zippzapp is working off her day with weights. Or designing a new tattoo. Both let her unwind. Beloved Emily haunts the city and stands facing corners in peoples darkened rooms. It's her idea of fun.

An amazing amount of mine came from the idea 'so what if I do a girl version of this in-game mob?' and then I had to come up with a reason for them all to be in the same SG (they met in jail and hang out like a gang member Drones Club) and others are like 'what if... sentient time machine? Who probably Knows Too Much and Too Little about the past at the same time?' That's really neat about the character sheet too!

Blazed was late moving crates full of stupid illicit magic stuff at work and she's tired and she's sorry and something's on fire now. Others are more chill than the fire blaster. Chrono-Bot is, ironically, super bad at telling time and is always late.