Continuing my series of City of Heroes characters, server by server …
Our toons on Exalted were a more recent phenomenon, with the server opened up for play for VIP members only with the introduction of CoH’s Free-to-Play option. We weren’t interested it for the hoity-toity VIP exclusivity so much as it was another server to populate, especially with a variety of new power sets that came out in the last year of the game.
I think we also pushed a bunch of toons onto this server before they turned off new Level Pacts being created. (LPs were one of the greatest concepts in CoH, and I was very disappointed they never got them turned back on).
One problem with Exalted was that it was introduced late enough, and our character there young enough that I don’t have much in the way of photos of them. And Margie didn’t get more than just a couple of characters snapshotted during our last week. Darn.
I had a half-dozen Jack Byzantine variations scattered across the servers. Not to be confused with John Constantine, the rain-coated smoking magician usually was a Mastermind, especially in this last edition (up to lvl 21) as a Demons MM. Margie’s counterpart was Brimstone Bound, a Brute.
The Grey Haunt was another one I had multiple versions of, the ghost from the 1930s who is out to seek revenge as a Mind Controller (or sometimes Illusion Controller), instilling fear in the hears of others. Air/Wind secondary, as I recall. This one reached 20. He ran with Imperial Jade, a Brute.
We managed to not get pictures of either of Margie’s characters.
Morgaine Darkchilde was just an excuse to create a buxom witch with the new Dark Blast power. Plus the name was fun. She made it to 18, along with her partner, Electric Lass, a Tank.
Golden God was sort of scary fun. He was a scrapper using the short-lived Titan Weapon skill set. He was another scrapper+scrapper combo, working with Golden Temptation. They made it up to 15. We don’t have a picture of her, unfortunately.
Rifleman was was modeled after Chuck Conner’s TV character of the same name, crossed with a Cowboys-and-Aliens twist, as some interesting gauntlets provided an alien Energy Rifle (blaster, 12). ER was an interesting combo power set. I wish I’d had more of a chance to play with it. He didn’t bat an eye running with Troll Babe, a Brute. And, again, no pictures.
In the 10-and-under set, Bacchante used the new Water Blaster power, combined with power customization, to make it look like she was a Wine blaster. I believe she was paired with Margie’s (unpictured) Minutiae (a Defender).
I also had another version of Velvet, going full-out for the trailer trash look (though reminding me here of Tandy from Strangers in Paradise). She was a SS/Willpower Scrapper, this time out, which was a lot more fun. To go with her was Agent Psiren.
And there’s another version of Tyger-Tyger, the burning-bright fire/fire scrapper. Alas, he was a Red-side character, so unlikely to ever advance anywhere. Ran with El Cid, a controller. They made it to 8.
Unified Fieldman used the steampunk costumes to good effect. He was a Grav/Time controller, which seemed appropriately physical, but never got out of Praetoria. Ran with Divine Retribution, a scrapper, up to 7
Call o’ the Wild was a beast elemental (and Wolves MM). Ran with Chaotic Order, a scrapper.
Last there is Calling Time, one of Margie’s toons (Lvl 12 Defender, obviously with the Time power set).
Some of these may have eventually become big successes, but that clearly hadn’t been thrashed out yet.
Honorable Mention on this server to Shadow Moll (perfect name for a Dark scrapper who had the power “Shadow Maul”) and, along the same lines, another version of Lynne Calodo as a solo Dark/Inv scrapper.