The latest installment in Warriors of the Outer Rim: The Fulcrum of Fate, Part I!
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

www.cityofheroes.com/community/event_halloween2006.html
Even in a city where many citizens dress in unique costumes to battle real mystical threats, Halloween is a special time of year. While Paragon City's Halloween holiday was dampened last year by renewed hostilities from the Rogue Isles, this year's October events look to be even more promising than before, with record numbers of citizens all over the city ready to welcome trick-or-treaters of all ages.
However, a dark shadow has fallen over this year's festivities. Word has spread from the shadowed town of Croatoa that strange things are headed south to spoil the holiday with their own evil celebrations. With the location of the Malleus Mundi still a mystery following it's disappearance last year, it's feared that new creatures might appear on the city streets. There have already been rumors that the Unseelie court may be sending fiends to paragon City to join the Vampires and werewolves that stalk the night on All Hallows Eve. Now there have even been sightings that the fearsome giant Jack-in-Irons has been seen heading south to join the Pumpkin King.
To combat this dark tide, Croatoa's Ravenwing Cabal has offered to help by encouraging heroes not only to fight these dangers, but also to enjoy the holiday. Heroes are encouraged to look for Ravenwing Cabal member Annah in Croatoa to learn more once the Halloween festivities begin. There are even rumors that a rogue member of the Cabal called "Granny Beldam" has plans to offer the same encouragements to villains from somewhere in the Nerva Archipelago. It remains to be seen if the villains of the Rogue Isles will appreciate any festivity, despite Lord Recluse's orders for mandatory Halloween cheer among the populace.
"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will RogersGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

Although it's never been formalized, the current incarnation of the Legendary started out with three "leaders" with the rank of Legend: Evangelia, Lora'Lai, and Aegis Sanctuary. Now, with the kickage of Aegis from the group for nearly a year's inactivity, her space is open. Now we can simply ignore it and run with two leaders, but it seems to me that it would be better to replace her, and that the fair thing to do is open up the floor to nominations for her replacement.
Mind you, I'm doing this on the spur of the moment. I haven't talked to Logan about this, nor do I have a system for handling it worked up. But I'd at least like to place it before the group at large for discussion.
I don't think it's necessary that a nominee be of Commander rank, btw, as long as they've been good and supportive members of the group.
I'm going to pin this thread to the top of the forum until we determine something one way or another.
Have at it, folks!
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

They put it up a day early at the PlayNC store!
/secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/plaync_buy.pl"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will RogersGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

A week ago, I posted a notice in the General Discussion forum of the Teikoku Kagekidan: 1940 area, asking if the project were dead in the water.
I got no responses save for Chris Davies post today which said, essentially, "It's dead, Jim."
This is your last chance. Unless someone presents compelling reasons to the contrary, Teikoku Kagekidan: 1940 will be going the way of the dodo within 48 hours.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

...I knew I've been forgetting something. A couple nights ago, when I was about to collapse from need of sleep, Foxboy caught me and we set up a coalition between the Legendary and his SG... whose name I'm not clearly remembering. (For some reason "Writer's Group" springs to mind. Am I recalling that correctly? Please correct if I'm not.)
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

How about sometime this weekend we get together and run a Strike Force mission? Could be any of them, anytime Saturday or Sunday? What does everybody think?
TechHead is available.
Doug

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"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will RogersGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

Not sure whether to put it here or in the OMG thread, but here goes:
Just finished the TEnchi Muyo oav 3 special, a sort of coda to the third oav and even a prequel to the tenchi spin-off in the works, and it occured to me to ask if the Washu/Tsunami/Tokimi triad were a manifestation of the triple-goddess like belldandy urd skuld are.
what do you think, mr. bob?
-murmur

So I was musing on the recurring theme of Doug-as-teacher, and got to thinking about the dark side: where to drop the poor guy such that said role would be... difficult.
Just for starters, what about The Drifting Classroom, in which a populous elementary school is mysteriously marooned in the devastated ruins of distant-future Earth with less than one day's supply of food?
Or on a lighter note, Cromartie High, most of the cast of which sees absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about the student body including a gorilla, a robot, and Freddie Mercury?
Finally... South Park Elementary.
I know this has been briefly discussed elsewhere, but lately I've been wondering how the Loon would react to one particular student... Eric Cartman.
Forget Professor Chaos. Cartman IS a supervillain, a ten-year-old monster, a strategic and tactical genius who will go to extreme and horrific lengths to achieve incredibly stupid or utterly inane goals. What does Doug do when he discovers that one of his students led a neo-Nazi march? That he came within inches of reversing the outcome of the Civil War to win a bet? That he had another boy's parents killed, cooked them into chili, and had their son EAT them?
What... do you... do?

--Sam
"Oo -- evil thought!"