Coyotedancer

Tavaris has A Thing. XD That's the Sanctum of Shadows' "lighthouse" beacon.

It's one of the long cape options, iirc... And it has a two color striped pattern. Making both colors the same will give you a solid-colored scarf.

There can NEVER be too many screens. Ever. XD

Screens for the Screen Gods! I sometimes feel sorry for the very last goon in any given fight... Tavaris and his friends all converge on the only target left. Anybody want a cheap "fixer-upper" in Saint Martial? It's got a great view of the Giza. You know your homework assignment is serious when you have to go get help from Akarist to complete it. o_0 As the RP channel regulars have found out over the last week or two, my Death Mage really hates wailers. He can't stand the little monsters and he's just about *had it* with the things infesting Saint Martial. He's so determined to get rid of them at this point... … that he's even willing to work with the Mu! That's saying a lot for an Oranbegan. "I think I'm going to need a larger box for this one..." Meanwhile... Kai and her friends Kit and B discuss the subject of zombies. And clones. And zombie clones.

Mystical types are welcome to use Tavaris' Sanctum of Shadows once it's finished. (SANCTUM-2764) The entry portal is supposed to be in the wooded, northern part of Saint Martial, but the main base itself is... Elsewhere. A dimension that Tav calls the Midnight Sea; a place "beyond the Far Horizons". The location is heavily warded against demonic entities and scrying magics, but it was once a sort of informal retreat and gathering place for many of Tavaris and Sarhadi's Oranbegan associates, so finding mention of it in ancient texts or details about its location wouldn't be at all unreasonable for a Midnighter, an arcane historian or the like. Re-incorporated Oranbegans might even remember visiting the place back in the days before the war. The owners always enjoyed having guests. Call this thing an old Death Mage's "summer lake-house". XD ** I'm currently at about 65% completion on this base. The main structures and landscape features are in place, but a lot of the plant life, environmental detailing, furnishings and such still need to be done. I'll update this post when it's "ready for prime time". Until then, consider it a "renovation in progress". It did just spend fifteen thousand years abandoned, after all. Even a place made of magic is going to need some work after that.

** An overheard conversation between two truck drivers at a diner in Independence Port** "I hate working delivery in this town, Mack. Nothin's ever simple. Just *once* I'd like to get'a pick-up call for somethin' like a load of rutabegas, or a bunch of office chairs. You know... Regular stuff. Normal stuff... Not this 'mad science' crap." "What? You have to haul another barrel of Hamidon snot for Longbow or somethin'?" "Oh god, no. I told Lou if he ever did THAT to me again I'd run over him… This time it was a box for some cape named Proud-somethin'... or Pride-somethin'... Whatever... 'Pick up down on Pier 23 from one of the steamers comin' out of the Etoiles." "That doesn't sound too bad..." "The box was howling, Mack. I swear on my mother's grave, it was gibbering and howling... That box? That box was possessed or somethin'. I'm tellin' you... I hate doing deliveries in this town." ((As promised. One box of wailers. XD))

I already did. XD 'Haven't had time to look at my Screens folder since, though... No telling what's lurking in there now.

Nope. I had three characters back in the day who I considered "mains" (Palrah, Grey Kestrel and Nemissary), but I'm not rebuilding any of them. I decided to start fresh.

Another Everlasting player here, and this bug has been hitting me pretty regularly. About half the time I enter an instanced mission or my base, Global channels just completely stop working. I can't post messages to them myself, and don't see anything posted to them by others.

Tavaris is wearing "Professor"... His apprentice Kaikara currently has "Trickster".

One weirdness in the video... At the time he made it, that "Apply to Room" process with making one column and then filling the room wasn't working. He was having to do each square individually. He fixed that in one of the recent patches, so "Apply to Room" should work now.

Some things just default to their "inactive" appearance when you're in editing mode, I suspect... I had it happen earlier with the Ouro crystal.

You can... It's just not easy to explain in text. (Watching the base video Leo did about a week ago will help a LOT, since you can actually see the process in action- ) Make a base with a huge room. Pick a square in that room. Fill it in completely, floor to ceiling (People call doing that "making a column") Still highlighting that filled square, use the button in the Room Style box called "Apply to Room" That'll fill in the entire huge room and give a top level working surface. Turn room clipping on Select your portal object from the base entrance room Using the Shift key, raise it to the level of your newly-completed working surface and place it anywhere you want. You can then go back and "fill in" the little entrance room too, if you want. Just like you did the huge room. With your surface done, you can now start placing items up there. When you zone into the base, you'll be up on that level.

Back in the day, I had a ghost. Ashton Fletcher... the spirit of the young sailor you meet in the Library of Souls arc... newly freed from his soul crystal prison, but too curious about the modern world and its heroes to move on. I had a great time with him, though I didn't get to do as much roleplaying with the character as I would have liked. Ashton was an exception, though. For the most part, I've just tended to take the "other path". I make Lore-related, but not strictly Lore-based, characters. My other much-beloved rogue Oranbegans, like the Nemissary, for instance. They were Circle mages, but not the specific ones you'd run into on a mission into the lost city. I think there's more freedom to experiment and explore doing that... Although it's likely to make serious "Lore Purists" angry when you start pushing the boundaries of what the old devs wrote, even if only in relatively small ways. So... there are risks. You have to know going in that someday *someone* is going to react poorly to your Oranbegan Chronomancer or your female Madness Mage because OMG!TheDevsNeverWroteThatSoItsBadWrongTerribleForYouTo!! No one ever gave me the proverbial hairy eyeball over Ashton, but that's probably because he was a very minor, "throw away" NPC. Those aren't really high enough profile for anyone to have formed strong opinions about them. Sometimes obscurity, when picking a Lore character to "adopt", is your friend. XD

As a writer... I'm a damned good editor. (In other words, I stink like a week old gym sock. Those are two very different skill sets. XD) That said, if I *did* have any talent in that direction, I'd build a slice-of-life style anime/manga series for my Oranbegans. It would be 99% humor and shenanigans and minor disasters and the occasional small-scale personal drama... Just with a strange group of fifteen-thousand year-old body-snatching ghosts and their friends trying to deal with a modern, superhero-infested City that most of them don't really "get" quite as well as they think they do.

** A teenaged girl with dark hair and small, round glasses sits at a table on the dock next to Nick's Weenies, talking on her phone between bites of an overloaded ChiliWeenie ** "No. B... I'm serious! They *all* looked just alike. I mean... alike-alike. Not just, you know, like five brothers or something... but TOTALY IDENITICAL. They were all even dressed the same! "I know, right? It was freaky! But they were about to be eaten by wailers, so I had to-... Ugh! I know! Those blinky little eyes... Sooo creepy... But, I swear. Clones. They had to be..."

Do I detect the presence of a fellow Songweaver player? Hail, daeva. XD If I were trying to recreate that kind of character here, I would probably go with a Kinetic as others have already suggested. If only because the set is a pretty good counterpart to the Aion Songweavers' ability to give their team-mates both traditional healing and the mana boost (HP and END, in City terms-). As for the attack side... Sonic is a definite stylistic possibility and debuffs are always a nice addition, plus it matches well with the whole caster-class "I'm going to slap you from WAAAAY over here!" playstyle. Add an Epic or Patron pool that gives you a DoT hold or imob to recreate rooting someone and you'll have that covered, too. Alas, there's no way for your City Songweaver to turn anyone into a dancing penguin... Not unless we can talk the devs into making us a stigma stone PvP set that procs people into Rikti monkeys doing boogie emotes, anyway. XD

I'm using the thicker wooden docks from about half-way down the Landscape tab... But then, I'm building a pavilion-style thing out on open water. For a more enclosed space, like a regular building, I'd go for the thinner dock parts nearer the beginning of the list.

Never once have I managed to get inside the train cars... I'm going to have to keep trying. I want screens of the inside of the train, too, darnit! XD

Always waiting on that next call from Saul... XD

Not to mention a return to the "raiding rules" would kill a lot of the improvements that have been made to item placement and such absolutely dead... I don't think having raids back would be worth rolling back all of those changes.

I'm a "mostly solo" player, so I can answer question #2 from a lot of personal experience... It's absolutely soloable with almost anything. Some ATs are just faster at it or have an easier time. Personally, in the past I've had the most fun soloing with Stalkers, Scraps, Masterminds and Brutes. The New-to-the-Reborn-City AT called Sentinels are also very solo-friendly. I've been running a Fire/Bio and a Dark /Bio and have had a great time with both.

Anyone who's run into me over on Titan knows that I take screenshots... Lots and LOTS of screenshots.... An utterly ridiculous number of screenshots. We don't have a Blogs or Where-I-Play section on these forums yet, but General seemed as good a place as any to start a new scrapbook thread for the good ones I've grabbed since returning to the game. Because you know I've been taking new screens. It's what I do. And I know you guys do it, too. XD Like so many of us, Anut (Claws Stalker) has spent a bit of time underground... If games have taught us anything over the years, it's that the most direct path to saving the world ALWAYS leads directly through the sewers. And then there was that one time we all fell through the world. I blame Nemesis. The mortal apprentice of a rogue Oranbegan mage, Kaikara (KM Stalker) is determined to prove to her teacher's former associates that she won't ever be an easy sacrifice. Scenic Saint Martial "Okay, when I said this place bites I really, really didn't think that was going to be, like, literal..." And while his apprentice is off getting into trouble in dangerous-looking caves, Tavaris the semi-reformed Death Mage (Dark Sentinel) confronts the source of Aeon City's shocking static cling problem.

I never took part in Final Fight, but I did spend a little time with the Whitmoore crew near the end... After running for so long, it was hard to join as a newcomer, but I did have some fun trying to figure out where Surruna (Who really did deserve the title of "Shyest Hero in Paragon City"-) might fit into a group like that.

I've had great fun with my Fire/ and Dark/ Sentinels, and I've rapidly become a full-on BioArmor fan-girl. My KM/Bio Stalker is growing up to be a monster.