NPC Faction Recruiting

[Player2]

I don't know about most of you, but not only do I try to work COH lore into my characters backstory, I enjoy creating characters that fit into the NPC groups.  For example, I have Longbow Mender, who is as his name implies a member of Longbow and Ouroboros.  I also made Freedom Corps Rookie, one of those stand around vendors of power enhancements who decided that she was ready to strike out in the field even though she wasn't approved to join Longbow.

 

 

So I was just wondering what kind of NPC-themed characters you've all made.

[Greycat]

I think Longbow's been a popular one. I've got one as well for a group (not that active.)

I've got my Thugs/Poison who's associated with the family, though "person in suit with hat" doesn't really scream that.

 

Other than VEATs (which... you don't really have to go out of your way to do, after all,) I don't think I have many tied to an NPC group.

[Psyonico]

I have several characters with ties to Nemesis and also a rarely played character tied to the Family.

[Legree]

I love how much character this game gives to even minor NPC factions, and as such I've had a lot of this type of character over the years.  A couple of my favourites:

 

For Longbow, Agent Wray - Beam Rifle/Devices Blaster - "We want you to test this new prototype weapon.  Just don't call it a disintegrator rifle - we get enough bad press as it is about the flamethrowers."

For Hellions/CoT - Tempter - a Girlfriend from Hell possessed by a demon of the Circle of Thorns during a fight in the Hollows.  Since they can't decide which kind of villainy to do - snatch purses or destroy the world - they'll be a hero instead since that way they can fight both Hellions and the Circle.  (Broadsword/Fire Armor Scrapper with a flamberge.)

 

[cranebump]

Gunbone (DP/Dark) was a former Skull Bone Daddy wannabe who submitted himself to cybernetic experimentation. He turned evidence against them a became a hero type once he found out he had a daughter and needed to set a decent example.

[DougGraves]

I have Trollkin Recruiter, Skull Girlfriend, Skull Bride, and a few other villain recruiters.

[Yomo Kimyata]

I apologize for reposting this so soon:

 

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by Yomo Kimyata

[Yomo Kimyata]

AAAAARRRGH!  So sorry, anyone know how to delete those extra images?

[cranebump]

8 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

AAAAARRRGH!  So sorry, anyone know how to delete those extra images?

Edit. Delete the extra attachments found below the message box, then save.

Edited January 24, 2021 by cranebump

[Player2]

4 hours ago, Psyonico said:

I have several characters with ties to Nemesis and also a rarely played character tied to the Family.

I also made a Nemesis... The Nemesis, in fact.  Sorta.

 

Kid Nemesis is the temporally displaced young version of Nemesis, and he's not exactly happy with how he's going to grow up so he's currently fighting his older self's minions (and other enemies) to make Paragon City a better place.  He's tiny at about 5 feet tall.

 

[Virtual Green]

An unhealthy ammount of my characters are lore or faction-related, I find it easier (and more fun RP-wise) to find ways to make my toons more linked to the world of the game.

A few examples below...

 

Arbalist (Beam/Devices) : Longbow special ops

 

 

Bowslinger (Arch/TA) : Superspy and ex-Wyvern operative

 

 

Capebuster (Beam/Traps) : Malta bounty hunter

 

 

 

Neon Dragon (DP/Martial) : Syndicate renegade and interdimensional assassin

 

 

And there are a lot more where those came from...

Edited January 24, 2021 by Virtual Green

[Greycat]

I *knew* I was forgetting one. Especially after seeing this.

11 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I apologize for reposting this so soon:

 

 

... One of my characters would like to have a word with yours.

 (My Hellion Keller's on Everlasting. Thugs/Thermal MM.)

 

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 She was a rarity in the Hellions - not only a woman (a human one, anyway) but a seer. She worked to warn her crew and guide them to mystic items of interest. One time, she looked too far. The result blinded her, physically, and yet opened her eyes to the life she was leading and where it would end. She quietly gathered some other disaffected gang members who wanted a new start and started to work against her old "friends."

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by Greycat

[Carnifax]

All those muscled out Supa-trolls in Skyway are definitely looking for a gay-friendly nightclub / warehouse rave to hit up, right? 

 

[TemporalVileTerror]

Gunner Prospero.

Arachnos has a number of Mad Scientists working for them.  It's a cut-throat industry, and sometimes you gotta take a gamble.  Like transplanting the brain of a upper-ten-percent qualification Wolf Spider soldier's brain in to the hollow cavity of a Supa Troll's skull, then regulating the body's biochemistry to keep the body alive and the brain functional.

When it pays off, you get a new type of Super (Supa) Soldier!

But when you use about one hundred Wolf Spiders and it only results in one viable specimen, and they're not even really -that- much of a super soldier . . . well, you get the funding for your project axed.

And probably your face too.

 

But hey!  At least the soldier is still kicking around, right?  And what's a Mad Scientist without a legacy after their untimely demise?

[Coyotedancer]

*looks around at her entire crew of creepy, body-snatching Oranbegan ghosts*

 

Nope.

Never done it.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

🤣

[Player2]

6 hours ago, Virtual Green said:

An unhealthy ammount of my characters are lore or faction-related, I find it easier (and more fun RP-wise) to find ways to make my toons more linked to the world of the game.

A few examples below...

 

Bowslinger (Arch/TA) : Superspy and ex-Wyvern operative

 

 

 

 

And there are a lot more where those came from...

Pretty sure I've seen Bowslinger before, because I'm remembering thinking this is an awesome character design and concept.

The others are great, too.

 

And there's no such thing as an "unhealthy" amount of characters, lore-related or otherwise.

[Player2]

My foray into Trolls territory was a mixed bag... literally.

 

A boss in the Skulls gang, struggling to makes something of himself and stand out from the rest... he got his hands on some Superadine and it wound up transforming him into... looks like a Troll, but still hits with all the negative energies of a Skull...  but ultimately accepted by neither faction, and so struck out on his own under Arachnos's "Destined One" program in hopes of proving to be that one villain who will go the distance as Deathtroll.

 

[dtjunkie]

I love using the NPC factions for my toons. Here's some of mine:

[catsi563]

lets see I have Grahn a former arachnos spy who was caught in one of Positrons experiments and turned into a city wrecking monster before being  mostly depowered and put in the zig in cold storage

Dark Shrike is a former Longbow agent who went freelance hero

 

 

Black mask is a legacy hero whose grandfather worked with the original Freedom Phalanx

 

 

Panda is an escaped Arachnos assassin who became a hero

 

Bale Fire comes from a world of magic where the circle of thorns were techno terrorists

 

Edited January 25, 2021 by catsi563

[Virtual Green]

1 hour ago, Player2 said:

Pretty sure I've seen Bowslinger before, because I'm remembering thinking this is an awesome character design and concept.

The others are great, too.

 

And there's no such thing as an "unhealthy" amount of characters, lore-related or otherwise.

I've posted him a few times before, so I'm not surprised! I'm a sucker for archers, which explains why he's one of my favorite toons.

 

IMHO, it's unhealthy because I tend to have a harder time making completely original characters (not linked to the game's lore), but I don't mind it so much.

 

Anyway, here are some other examples of this terrible disease :

 

The Automator : Nemesis cyborg and battlefield general

 

 

Blitzfist (Electricty/Shield Stalker) : former Crey agent, now an amoral corporate speedster

 

 

Crystal Kill : Oranbegan alchemist who found a way to weaponize Oranbegan crystals

 

 

Equinox Kid : Outcast mutant fighting for his neighborhood

 

 

Gamma Death (Rad/Rad Brute) : a Freakshow thug who gained radioactive powers following a botched attack on Terra Volta

 

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by Virtual Green

[CursedSorcerer]

 

Hailfire: Praetorian counterpart of Frostfire. Originally believed Emperor Marcus Cole to be a hero, but learned the truth.

 

 

 

 

Clockwork 666: A Praetorian Clockwork who somehow got corrupted.

 

 

Revenant Walker: (Originally was going to be called Revenant but the name was taken on Reunion.) Former Skull, who was convinced by his girlfriend to leave the gang.

 

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by CursedSorcerer

[Pengy]

6 hours ago, Player2 said:

My foray into Trolls territory was a mixed bag... literally.

 

A boss in the Skulls gang, struggling to makes something of himself and stand out from the rest... he got his hands on some Superadine and it wound up transforming him into... looks like a Troll, but still hits with all the negative energies of a Skull...  but ultimately accepted by neither faction, and so struck out on his own under Arachnos's "Destined One" program in hopes of proving to be that one villain who will go the distance as Deathtroll.

 

 

Me too.

 

[Myrmidon]

I mostly us NPC groups as the emphasis of character backgrounds, which works out quite well.

[Yomo Kimyata]

I guess this one is *kind* of a Praetorian Clockwork tribute...

 

[Heraclea]