Your New Year's Resolution: Move to the Rogue Isles

[Gulbasaur]

Tired of being beaten down? Looking for ways to get something better? 

 

Book your ticket to the Rogue Isles today!

 

Paragon City	The Rogue Isles
🤮 High levels of UV due to low cloud cover. Ages you terribly.    🤮 Council and Fifth Column members openly recruiting.    🤮 Longbow are an occupying force - don't stand up for that kind of behaviour.   🤮 Therapists and psychologists cost a fortune dealing with all that trauma!    🤮 City constantly under threat by psychics without proper support.	🥰 Cloud cover ensures UV protection. Much better for your skin.    🥰 Council and Fifth Column members openly shot on sight.    🥰 Arachnos diplomatic engagements will see you sent all over the world!   🥰 Free memory cleanses mean that trauma won't be a problem for long!    🥰 Psychics are guaranteed a job with Arachnos - who can refuse an opportunity like that?

 

So what are you waiting for? Join the Best Side. 

Edited December 26, 2021 by Gulbasaur

[The_Warpact]

I own several properties there already, taxes and Healthcare is cheaper too.

[Apparition]

I moved there in October 2005 and never left, although I do have a vacation home in Praetoria.

[A Cat]

11 minutes ago, Apparition said:

I moved there in October 2005 and never left, although I do have a vacation home in Praetoria.

I want to live in Praetoria but they keep nuking it wtf. 

[Six-Six]

A lot less Skulls in the Isles.
Better wildlife (snakes and arachnoids and of course spiders)
Circus is set up all year round in St. Martial... filled with scantily clad ladies... and gents from the Carnival
Cooler sounding badges
Nicer caves, really
overall atmosphere is not sickeningly bright and cheerful
Casinos
Ferries instead of Trams. much cooler and less cramped. ocean breeze is also a plus.
less people getting mugged
most places are Family-oriented... or owned... or controlled... or protected

 

[Zhym]

You know, I don’t think I’ve seen even a single purse stolen in the Rogue Isles.

 

And most of the contacts give four or five missions, tops, before giving you your reward.  Very respectful of your time!  Nothing like some of those hero-side contacts who think you have nothing to do but spend hours running mission after mission just clearing every last villain out of a building.  Janet Kellum and Indigo wouldn’t last 45 minutes with Efficiency Expert Pither.

Edited December 27, 2021 by Zhym

[Redletter]

Why would you EVER waste your time going ALLLLLLLL the way to the rogue isles when the secret to a happy life is so, SO much simpler than that! Just stop on by and watch allllll your worries disappear!

[Clave Dark 5]

Your New Year's Resolution: Move to the Rogue Isles

 

It would be just like them to dictate that to me.

[Six-Six]

6 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

It would be just like them to dictate that to me.

 

When we want your opinion, we'll give it to you. =D

[The_Warpact]

Just do it.

[Coyotedancer]

13 hours ago, Zhym said:

You know, I don’t think I’ve seen even a single purse stolen in the Rogue Isles.

 

Kai says, "That's because the muggers here have learned to be afraid. It's really hard to tell if a lady with a purse is just a civilian or if she's a Night Widow going shopping on her day off."

[Zhym]

11 minutes ago, Coyotedancer said:

 

Kai says, "That's because the muggers here have learned to be afraid. It's really hard to tell if a lady with a purse is just a civilian or if she's a Night Widow going shopping on her day off."

Also, with so many mad scientists and mad-scientist-wannabes running around the Rogue Isles, you never know what a "purse" may turn out to contain—or be.  Is it full of poisonous clockwork bees?  Is it a handy travel-sized trans-dimensional portal to a world full of hungry, cranky demons?  The result of experimentation in genetics, materials, and fashion trends that will eat anyone unlucky enough to open it?   I mean...probably not.  But why risk it?

Edited December 27, 2021 by Zhym

[Black Zot]

First point in the OP is invalid.  UV protection offered by cloud cover is trivial; you still need sunblock.

[Black Talon]

One point above all other serves as a Rogue Isles attraction: the architecture.  The place has such wonderful late-16th/early-18th century ambiance that I'd move there just to be able to wake up, look at the place and know that things had been designed with some sort of human input and intention rather than, "Make this a good place for the machines."  Bad guy habitation...well, I'm certain we can reconfigure the tourism office to make it appealing somehow...

[Zhym]

3 hours ago, Black Talon said:

Bad guy habitation...well, I'm certain we can reconfigure the tourism office to make it appealing somehow...

You mean the “colorful local characters?”  Tourists eat that stuff up!

[Gulbasaur]

13 hours ago, Zhym said:

Tourists eat that stuff up!

Reads from card. 

 

"Reports of tourists being eaten are gross exaggerations. Some of you may remember the unfortuna - " 

 

Rereads comment.

 

"Forget what you have just heard. Yes, we are proud to celebrate diversity in the Rogue Isles. All are welcome, be they conventional human, silocone-based,  undead, mutated or interdimensional. Or robots. We like robots. And spider women. Robots, spider women, the undead... "

Edited December 28, 2021 by Gulbasaur

[Black Talon]

All of these are what I would consider valid points, were the Rogue Isles to make the transition from directed, detailed fantasy to reality.  And in all truth, I do think that the Rogue Isles Department of Tourism would have to put some serious work into enticing people - especially Paragon City inhabitants, who are the only ones who have a stable depth of income to rely on - to actually spend time and money in a place where being turned into a human sacrifice is an ongoing chance that veers from moderate to overwhelming, depending on the day.  I do have a fair background in formal economics, and one of the key points to establishing a workable, ongoing economic system, besides opportunity, is stability.  The only determined stability in the Rogue Isles is daily instability; in the smuggler-based American Colonies and the post-Civil War Old West there was still the limitation of human capability: no superpowers determining who's the toughest here, just the biggest gang and guns.  I honestly think that Lord Recluse would have to be dedicating some serious thought toward how to establish and foster a system of consistent trade for his kingdom, reaching from top to bottom, left to right and inside out, because otherwise he's looking at the place he's worked on so hard turning into a Hobbesian nightmare where he might - might - end up the one standing on top of a mountain of dead bodies.  And where's your fortune going to come from after that, friend...?  Ah, right, invading Paragon City.

[Zhym]

43 minutes ago, Gulbasaur said:

"Forget what you have just heard. Yes, we are proud to celebrate diversity in the Rogue Isles. All are welcome, be they conventional human, silocone-based,  undead, mutated or interdimensional. Or robots. We like robots. And spider women. Robots, spider women, the undead... "

But not snakes.  Snakes can just eff right off.

[Gulbasaur]

1 hour ago, Zhym said:

But not snakes.  Snakes can just eff right off.

Longbow's illegal occupation of Mercy Island is making it harder and harder to deal with the Snake problem, it's true. 
 

Consider writing a strongly worded letter to Ms Liberty to stop interfering in the affairs of a sovereign nation and allow the Rogue Isles authorities to divert more funds into dealing with them. Longbow are a drain on all our resources. 

[Shenanigunner]

On 12/27/2021 at 5:30 AM, Clave Dark 5 said:

It would be just like them to dictate that to me.

 

I was waiting for the "quit telling us how to play the game" complaints.

[Zhym]

24 minutes ago, Gulbasaur said:

Consider writing a strongly worded letter to Ms Liberty to stop interfering in the affairs of a sovereign nation and allow the Rogue Isles authorities to divert more funds into dealing with them. Longbow are a drain on all our resources. 

I hear that Lord Recluse is recruiting some of the Isles' more notable citizens to "negotiate" with Ms. Liberty directly. 

Edited December 28, 2021 by Zhym

[Redletter]

14 hours ago, Zhym said:

I hear that Lord Recluse is recruiting some of the Isles' more notable citizens to "negotiate" with Ms. Liberty directly. 

 

I wanna directly negotiate with Libby's notables...

 

Ya know, for a lady who spends all her time kicking you in the teeth, she's got some weak looking legs...

[Black Talon]

Appearance is no indicator of inherent strength; I think we all know at least one person whose strength is way, way disproportionate to their physical stature.  Some people are just gifted with that stuff.  Plus, this is comic book world - Peter Parker was still a skinny buck-o'-five kid when he got the ability to toss a limo across the street, at least as Steve Ditko illustrated him.  I'd give Ms Liberty a pass on this one, and if the lady wants to get together for a workout where she can demonstrate her ability to hack-squat a few thousand pounds, followed by a nice burger at the local Shake Shack, hey, let's go for it...be nice to hear some stories about how Statesman gave super-villain memorabilia as birthday gifts before Ms Liberty - all of sixteen years old - blew the birthday cake out the window and gave her mother the, "Sorry, Mom," with a regretful shrug.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Black Talon

[A Cat]

10 hours ago, Redletter said:

Ya know, for a lady who spends all her time kicking you in the teeth, she's got some weak looking legs...

 

She's MA, not SS. 

[Redletter]

20 hours ago, Black Talon said:

Appearance is no indicator of inherent strength; I think we all know at least one person whose strength is way, way disproportionate to their physical stature.  Some people are just gifted with that stuff.  Plus, this is comic book world - Peter Parker was still a skinny buck-o'-five kid when he got the ability to toss a limo across the street, at least as Steve Ditko illustrated him.  I'd give Ms Liberty a pass on this one, and if the lady wants to get together for a workout where she can demonstrate her ability to hack-squat a few thousand pounds, followed by a nice burger at the local Shake Shack, hey, let's go for it...be nice to hear some stories about how Statesman gave super-villain memorabilia as birthday gifts before Ms Liberty - all of sixteen years old - blew the birthday cake out the window and gave her mother the, "Sorry, Mom," with a regretful shrug.

 

19 hours ago, A Cat said:

 

She's MA, not SS. 

Fellas it was joke