Dr Archeville

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You wouldn't need Immunity to Snare: as spelled out in our House Rules, you can teleport out of a Grapple or Snare if you can make a DC 20 Concentration check.

Have you addressed any of the points I mentioned? (I.e., how the American military got their hands on so much mithril, why they're using it for this armor, et cetera; I'm not even sure mithril exists in the Freedom City setting, orichalcum is the go-to mystical metal for the setting.)

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The only edit I can make out is a change to his Complications. Did you change anything else, answer any of the questions we've posed? (It's a bit more useful if you tell us what you're editing, not just that you've made edits.) You should flesh out the Paraplegic complication, to specify that he's only paraplegic when not in his suit.

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Rav & Az are right. Complications are a setback, ones severe enough that, when the GM activates it, you get a Hero Point in return. Secret Identity is a prime example -- if someone threatens to expose your identity, that's a serious problem! (Having your secret love of 90210 is not really in the same league.) Having a severe phobia is also a good example, as they make fine obstacles for the hero to overcome; courage isn't not being afraid, it's acting despite being afraid. If he's unable to walk without the suit (or if the suit's severely damaged/depowered), that would also make for a decent Complication. "Physical Disability" is listed as a potential Drawback, but in this case, with the armor providing mobility, he'll be able to get around just fine in combat situations (when he'd be wearing the suit anyway!), and any situations where he'd need to walk but doesn't have the suit will be rare. Besides, it's often better to take Complications rather than Drawbacks: due to the Hero Point-generating nature of Complications, they are the gift that keeps on giving, as opposed to Drawbacks which just give a one-time bonus of extra power points.

If the armor's actually made of mithril, that implies (to me, at least) more a magical suit, not a technological one. (He was chosen due to some mystical bloodline? He's the sixth son of a seventh son?) At the very least, one would question where the American military got enough mithril to make (and presumably do repairs on) a full suit of armor, and if they had enough to plan on mass-producing the suits. Also, if I remember correctly from Agents of Freedom, UNISON typically doesn't have the ultra-tech stuff AEGIS (the S.H.I.E.L.D. expy) does. EDIT: Nevermind, I see the suit was made by the American Military, and after he tested it he was sent to work with UNISON. Also also, I went ahead and made some formatting changes for his powers.

I'd thought of that angle. My problem is figuring out why she switched, from tech to magic. And "her tech wasn't good enough, so she switched to using the magic of her ancestors" is rather problematic. Edit: trollthumper offered some fine advice: Character pic? Too steampunk-y? I'unno.

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Little physical documentation existed on the tribe, until recently, when renowned French photographer, Guillaume Herbaut, met the Asgarda back in 2004 in the midst of the Orange Revolution.

Computer's pretty much dead -- now it BSoD's wile trying to boot up! -- so online presence will continue to be spotty as I make do with my (very slow) laptop.

...and now my comp is randomly restarting itself. First time happened about 30 mins after booting up for the first time in my new place, second time happened after about 5 hours of being on and left untouched.

I'm (mostly) moved in, and have internet again! Huzzah! Dr Archeville goes back to unpacking

Ecalsneerg busts out the toolkit on the robot Protectron has 18 points unspent! Let's see what we can do with them. 4pp to bump up INT, from 20 to 24. [14pp left] 1pp to add 4 ranks of skills (2 ranks each of Medicine & Sense Motive). [13pp left] 4pp to add 2 ranks of Comprehend, to cover Electronics (speak to & understand). [9 left] 1pp to increase Enhanced STR from 18 to 19. [8 left] 2pp to increase Flight, from 2 to 3. [6 left] 3pp to increase Quickness, from 2 to 5. [3 left] 1pp to increase Mental Quickness, from 2 to 4. [2 left] -2pp to remove 2 ranks of Super-Senses [4 left] 4pp to add Super-Str 2 [0pp left] Ecalsneerg packs away the toolkit.

A slow month, but not terribly bad. And we've got some new players in! All but those in red have been updated; if you have questions please PM me. Arranged by Player, it looks like this: The Absurdist Asad: 3pp Aoiroo Catalyst: 1pp Changeling: 0pp Philotherian: 1pp Silhouette: 1pp Arichamus El Heraldo: 4pp King of Suits: 1pp Red Moon: 1pp Wave-Eye: 4pp AvengerAssembled Citizen: 3pp Comrade Frost: 2pp Edge: 2pp and is now [maxed] Harrier: 3pp and can now be up to PL 15 :clap: Azuth65 Silver Spider: 2pp Siphon: 0pp Wisp: 2pp Bishop The Marshal: Blue Rose Kit: 1pp and can now be up to PL 8 :clap: Stormbreaker: 1pp Cubist Jubatus: 3pp Dariusprime Fulcrum: 1pp Darksider42 Lady Winter: 1pp Rift/Riff: 1pp Dr Archeville Dead Head: 1pp Doktor Archeville [maxed]: 1pp Protectron: 1pp Ecalsneerg Arrowhawk: 0pp Equinox: 1pp Geckoman: 2pp Scholar: 0pp Electra Fleur de Joie [maxed]: 2pp Miss Americana [maxed]: 2pp Papercut: 4pp Wander [maxed]: 2pp Fox Dragonfly: 1pp Gaian Knight: 1pp Wraith: 2pp Gizmo Ghost Girl: 4pp Jack of all Blades [maxed]: 4pp Midnight (II) [maxed]: 1pp Wail: 2pp and can now be up to PL 15 :clap: HG Morrison Omen: 1pp JackgarPrime Victory: 1pp KnightDisciple Cobalt Templar: 1pp Gabriel: 3pp Max Tenebrous: 1pp Quinn Crow: 2pp Overclock: 1pp Raveled Blue Jay: 3pp and can now be up to PL 11 :clap: Glowstar: 1pp Ironclad: 1pp Starlight: 1pp Scuffles Glow: 1pp Semi-Autogyro Myrmidon: 1pp Shofet The Penitent: SleepyCharlatan The Controller: Sorus Sage: 2pp Willow: 1pp SpicyWaffle The Bee-Keeper (III): Supercape Lord Steam: 1pp Rene de Saens: 4pp Supercape [maxed]: 4pp Synth: 1pp Thaumonuclear Atomic Bob: 3pp Thunder King Crimson Tiger: 2pp Voltage: 1pp TiffanyKorta Blodeuwedd: 3pp Revenant: 3pp Young Britannia: 1pp trollthumper Cannonade: 2pp Nick Cimitiere: 2pp Temperance: 2pp and can now be up to PL 9 :clap: Vahnyu Net Fly: 1pp The 50+ Posts per Club Month Arichamus (GM Work) The 100+ Posts per Month Club :iiam:

Still need thread lists for Bishop Ecalsneerg Electra Gizmo Quinn Scuffles Shofet SleepyCharlatan SpicyWaffle Vahnyu

I don't think it's overheating, but the tower has been making lot of noticeable 'grinding' sounds over the past few months. I've taken the panel off and looked inside, nothing seemed loose or damaged.

I'm moving next Tuesday (October 9th). A Time Warner minion should be by the next day to hook up my cable & internet, so with luck I'll only be offline for two days.

So I tried playing Minecraft the other day, while having a Chat window open. (I'm on an HP Pavilion a6200n running Windows Vista, it's 5 years old.) My computer didn't like that. It crashed after about 5 minutes. No BSoD, it just shut down. A few days later, I tried Minecraft again, single player mode. Worked okay for about an hour, then the whole screen went 'fuzzy', persisting even when the game was shut down. Had to reboot the comp to make the odd visual effect go away. Next day, tried playing, after about 30 mins I got an error message. "Your Java virtual machine has run out of memory." So I had to shut down the game. Last night, I tried playing again, 5 minutes in I got a BSoD. Rebooted, waited about 30 minutes, tried again, got another BSoD after about 5 minutes of play.

Dead Head Call, Raise, or Fold (1) 1 post = 1pp Doktor Archeville [maxed] Lord of the Manor (2) Money, Money, Money (2) 4 posts = 1pp + Ref = 2pp Protectron 0 posts = 0pp GM and NPC None

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The super-revenant shook his head, "seen lots of possessions in my time, an' this had lots of the earmarks of one. But," he scratched his chin in thought, "all the cases I know where possession was tied to some object -- like a bit of jewelry or a mask -- the objects stays behind once the possession's ended. It's usually where the possessin' spirit goes back to once it's kicked out of its host. If the object's gone with the spirit, then-" "Waitasec," he muttered as he looked over the three bodies, "they didn't put those masks on, did they? I saw 'em reach into their jackets as I was shamblin' up, but it looked like they was goin' fer guns, not masks." He knelt by one and started going through his pockets, "maybe somethin' on 'im they used to call up the spirit, a runestone or somethin'... an' maybe they didn't know just what it was they'd be callin' up, based on how a-feared they seemed when those spirits did manifest."

Re: Caps Breaking I have always been aware that this could be a concern, and all I can offer is my word that I will never use a combination of effects that would allow Dok to break past his PL 15 caps (and more often than not keep him at PL 12). Re: Utility Coat I admit I left the ranks as they were b/c that's where Shaen (whose build I'd copied) had put them. If you'd rather see them knocked down to rank 4 or 5, to be more in-line with Equipment from the books, I'd be fine with that. (The whole purpose of his Utility Belt/Coat was to give him a bit more variety, and is far from being central to him.) For the two you point out: the goo grenades represent a nonlethal sticky/restraining foam; Real World problems mostly center around using them from flamethrower-like guns (clogging, improper aiming), which a thrown grenade would avoid, while other issues (accidentally blocking mouth & nose and thus suffocating the target, the foam or the solvents used to dissolve it having toxic effects) are ones I'd like to think Dok could work out. The fear gas... is straight from Shaen's build, but psychochemical weapons do have some real-world precedents. Also, in PM you'd questioned why he had Hide in Plain Sight with his Concealment. The reason for it (and the Enhanced Skill/Stealth, which I limited to what a PL 12 char could have) is to represent how advanced his "stealth system" is: even "standard" methods of piercing cloaks like his don't automatically work. (In a rules sense, it's so a 2pp Vision Penetrates Concealment can't automatically trump his 8pp worth of Concealment; the seeker would still need to make a Notice check vs. his Stealth.)