Short answer. I'm sure someone will be willing to fill in the details.
VIIOR is 'Virtue Is Its Own Reward', a sort of meta-story angle conceived by Foxboy. Various people have chipped in to write bits pertaining to their own characters. The gist of it is, at such-and-such a date (I forget, somewhen in January 2007 I think), everyone logged into Virtue server at a particular hour...
...got merged with the character they were playing at the time. In the real world, I mean. With unpredictable results; some folks have ended up essentially as themselves, just in a new spandex-clad body (which would include every player who doesn't RP). Others have been completely buried by their RP persona, as CrimsonKMR did with Corrupted Flame. I will note, in particular, Foxboy wrote a piece establishing that Ghost Widow made the transition as well - initially this was cast as a particular fictional GM, though we later amended that when it became known Ghost Widow is played on the servers by the actual developer that bears her name.
So it's at once a way of taking a CoH character into the real world, talking about how a confused real world analogue needs to deal with all these crazy supers suddenly popping up from nowhere, and perhaps a little of crisis trauma and how you are relating to the situation. There's sort of a quasi-insert dynamic there, of course.
-- Acyl
VIIOR is 'Virtue Is Its Own Reward', a sort of meta-story angle conceived by Foxboy. Various people have chipped in to write bits pertaining to their own characters. The gist of it is, at such-and-such a date (I forget, somewhen in January 2007 I think), everyone logged into Virtue server at a particular hour...
...got merged with the character they were playing at the time. In the real world, I mean. With unpredictable results; some folks have ended up essentially as themselves, just in a new spandex-clad body (which would include every player who doesn't RP). Others have been completely buried by their RP persona, as CrimsonKMR did with Corrupted Flame. I will note, in particular, Foxboy wrote a piece establishing that Ghost Widow made the transition as well - initially this was cast as a particular fictional GM, though we later amended that when it became known Ghost Widow is played on the servers by the actual developer that bears her name.
So it's at once a way of taking a CoH character into the real world, talking about how a confused real world analogue needs to deal with all these crazy supers suddenly popping up from nowhere, and perhaps a little of crisis trauma and how you are relating to the situation. There's sort of a quasi-insert dynamic there, of course.
-- Acyl