Getting home from my busy afternoon meant declaring some time off and vegging out. Or at least trying to. Both Karas had much more active lifestyles, and very
different ideas of what constituted "after hours" activity. Paragon Kara was working her way into Icon's good graces by putting in some time
there. She'd developed a flair for creative costuming, and often helped others put new outfits together. The coupons and discounts didn't hurt either.
The original Kara was a lawyer who became a fashion designer specializing in lingerie and naughty housewear. Given that she was part of a semi-illegal SHIELD
cell for a while, that was necessary to generate income while they were hopping around fixing things. After everything settled out, she'd gone on to become
a full-time agent of the aforementioned organization, receiving among other things, full training in the kinds of things an independent agent needed to know.
All sorts of things I tried not to remember too clearly if I could avoid it (I couldn't, but I could lie to myself about it real well.)
What limited me was my conscience, and the lack of the kind of resources the first girl could have called on. So, most of her money making schemes were either
right out, or strictly emergency use only. And there weren't any emergencies just yet. Paragon Kara used the nebulous money system maintained by the city
known as "influence" which sounded really creepy when you thought about it. But it had a number value, and represented her buying power with the Hero
ID she'd been issued. It also linked to her Influence account, which could buy her things that just simply weren't for sale the normal way. If you
didn't have Influence, you couldn't buy these things. A nice and simple way to guarantee a closed system that supported the heroes in the middle of a
conventional city inhabited by everyone else.
Kara had been earning money the normal way of course by working at Icon's. But that didn't help me here. And like me, I suppose, she didn't believe
in carrying paper money around. Too many muggers, I guess.
I checked the DW forums. There were a few posts, mostly hinting at the same stuff. Some of it was pretty blatant actually, if you assumed they'd also been
affected. I wasn't sure how I'd go about broaching the subject to the others, but at least some of them would understand what was happening to us. Then
of course, I logged on to City of Heroes.
Virtue server was grayed out, but I had other servers. Protector had been my main for the longest time, so I had a lot of characters there. I was working on a
couple on Infinity server for the Tuesday night Marvel IST game, so I messed around on Infinity for a while leveling up a character there. I kept an eye on the
Legendary chatter while doing so however. I figured if anyone had been affected, the game chatter would be the logical place for it to come out.
While on, I checked out the DW post about wizard of speed and time. And I found myself wondering if the guy had worn a
mask or not. If not, he probably swallowed a lot of bugs...
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
different ideas of what constituted "after hours" activity. Paragon Kara was working her way into Icon's good graces by putting in some time
there. She'd developed a flair for creative costuming, and often helped others put new outfits together. The coupons and discounts didn't hurt either.
The original Kara was a lawyer who became a fashion designer specializing in lingerie and naughty housewear. Given that she was part of a semi-illegal SHIELD
cell for a while, that was necessary to generate income while they were hopping around fixing things. After everything settled out, she'd gone on to become
a full-time agent of the aforementioned organization, receiving among other things, full training in the kinds of things an independent agent needed to know.
All sorts of things I tried not to remember too clearly if I could avoid it (I couldn't, but I could lie to myself about it real well.)
What limited me was my conscience, and the lack of the kind of resources the first girl could have called on. So, most of her money making schemes were either
right out, or strictly emergency use only. And there weren't any emergencies just yet. Paragon Kara used the nebulous money system maintained by the city
known as "influence" which sounded really creepy when you thought about it. But it had a number value, and represented her buying power with the Hero
ID she'd been issued. It also linked to her Influence account, which could buy her things that just simply weren't for sale the normal way. If you
didn't have Influence, you couldn't buy these things. A nice and simple way to guarantee a closed system that supported the heroes in the middle of a
conventional city inhabited by everyone else.
Kara had been earning money the normal way of course by working at Icon's. But that didn't help me here. And like me, I suppose, she didn't believe
in carrying paper money around. Too many muggers, I guess.
I checked the DW forums. There were a few posts, mostly hinting at the same stuff. Some of it was pretty blatant actually, if you assumed they'd also been
affected. I wasn't sure how I'd go about broaching the subject to the others, but at least some of them would understand what was happening to us. Then
of course, I logged on to City of Heroes.
Virtue server was grayed out, but I had other servers. Protector had been my main for the longest time, so I had a lot of characters there. I was working on a
couple on Infinity server for the Tuesday night Marvel IST game, so I messed around on Infinity for a while leveling up a character there. I kept an eye on the
Legendary chatter while doing so however. I figured if anyone had been affected, the game chatter would be the logical place for it to come out.
While on, I checked out the DW post about wizard of speed and time. And I found myself wondering if the guy had worn a
mask or not. If not, he probably swallowed a lot of bugs...
---
Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.