{"id":1742,"date":"2010-09-14T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:00:01","slug":"cox-no-more-mr-nice-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/09\/cox-no-more-mr-nice-guys.html","title":{"rendered":"CoX: No more Mr. Nice Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Or Ms. Nice Guys, since so far our Praetorians have all been female.<\/p>\n

Last night we wrapped up the Responsibility Loyalist <\/strong><\/em>arc with Ms. Crackle <\/strong>and Positive Force<\/strong>.\u00a0 The last mish with Inspector Kang felt a bit short (or shorter than I expected), before heading off to be a Praetorian Ambassador of Good Will to the folks on Primal Earth.<\/p>\n

(It is interesting the differences and parallels in the motivations for sending Responsibility Loyalists vs. Warden Resistance<\/strong><\/em> toons over to Primal Earth, not to mention variations in the “what you can expect” briefings you get before you go.)<\/p>\n

The send-off at the portal is similar — chatting with some (surviving) former colleagues and comrades before deciding on whether to head to Paragon City or Rogue Isles.\u00a0 For both of the “good guy” (caring about the People) series we run, the strong suggestion has been Paragon; I’m presuming the opposite will be true for “bad guy” (out for our jollies) folks we run for the next two series.<\/p>\n

The Responsibility Loyalist arc ends with an interesting conversation (no spoilers) that highlights the limitations of CoX’s new (very cool) multi-path dialog trees.\u00a0 By simulating what responses you’re giving (even if providing you with multiple scripted answers to give), the sense of “railroading” dialog sometimes seems even greater than just clicking on an Accept button. I didn’t feel that any of the dialog I was choosing between in that final exchange was what Ms. Crackle would have said.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s another pair back in Paragon City.\u00a0 We’ve been adding them to our SG already there (one reason we chose the Victory server), even though that makes them “Animaniacs” (sigh), but it does give them a base.\u00a0 And if the Loyalists and the Resistance end up running across each other, they’ve agreed to look in the opposite directions.\u00a0 After all, it’s all for the People of Praetoria.<\/p>\n

Next up, our Crusader Resistance <\/strong><\/em>pair (otherwise known as “Anarchy for Fun and Channeling of Anger”).\u00a0 I’ve rolled up yet another rendition of Eliza Dee <\/strong>(my Power Girl \/ Galatea knock-off, 4th edition), a Super-Strength \/ Willpower Brute.\u00a0 Margie put together Fragile Package <\/strong>(mysterious Clockwork figure), a Rad\/Kin Corruptor.\u00a0 While it’s obviously way too early to really tell, the first few mishes we finally ran (after much costume work) went pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n

(It’s also a nice change of pace for us.\u00a0 I’m usually the ranged\/support toon — Controller, Blaster, Defender, etc. — with Margie giving or taking the up-close punches.\u00a0 We’re changing that around a bit with this pair.\u00a0 We’ll see how that works.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or Ms. Nice Guys, since so far our Praetorians have all been female. Last night we wrapped up the Responsibility Loyalist arc with Ms. Crackle and Positive Force.\u00a0 The last mish with Inspector Kang felt a bit short (or shorter than I expected), before heading off to be a Praetorian Ambassador of Good Will to … Continue reading “CoX: No more Mr. Nice Guys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design","category-city-of-heroes","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}