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DF, you can use that to your advantage.
Frex, a "smart" villain would CHOOSE Ottawa because it IS in Canada and less likely to have the "perceived" threat of a major US city. As
in, a dismissive Yank who buys the "bad press" from Al Yankovic's "Canadian Idiot" Green Day parody.
We of the Yank persuasion who read this aren't going to get het up about some idiot American "villain" because, well there are enough
"smart" Americans among the forumite authors that we GOTTA let the idiots have their screen time.
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Okay, I've been working on the future team of senshi and have come up with a couple "theming" ideas. The first is that (somehow) I'll be
naming them after various mecha shows, though precisely how that's going to work out I haven't yet determined. The second is that they're all going
to be equipped with some kind of hand weapon -- which means that the tanker will probably have the hammer secondary (since I think that works better for the
setting than the axe). Wands and exotic designs are coming to mind for the other three.
I also have two questions for the collective:
1) Has anyone other than I realized that Ouroboros has scavengeable med systems? Whoever gets Oro will also have a monopoly on rez tubes.
2) Speaking of Oro, has anyone already claimed first dibs for a character to be the first to get there? I've got a plotline that can lead logically to Eva
trying her five porters (well, four, as there's no point in Assembling The Team), but if someone else has plans, I can divert things at this point.
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I've got Misty "claiming" Ouroboros. Just gotta get my vignette beyond Inari and L-Misty sniping each other in a convo.
Lemme get my scene set up so I can introduce y'all to the "VIIOR native" Mender Shiyoko/Shoko.
FWIW, Shoko will be friendly enough and perhaps a little off-putting with HOW friendly she is...
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08-31-2009, 07:17 PM
Hey Bob, have considered playing on a variation of Evangelia, playing on the root word (in English) of Evangelism; as a metaphor to a non-religous context.
You could then play with existing themes, keeping the handweapons and armoured schoolgirl theme.
Eva seems to be primarily focussed on the theme of love, and other chivalric virtues could be worked in - I will be abusing Latin shamelessly.
Veneratia (Honor)
Forituda (Courage)
Equistas (Justice)
Ultionis (Revenge) - Okay not a chivalrous virtue, but useful for the bad girl role
Callida (Cunning)
Armour can be varied by region or time period and themed to the weapon choice.
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Whoa, Shayne, that's a much better idea than mine. Consider that taken. Quote:but useful for the bad girl role
Oh, of course, we have to have the black senshi, the outrider. Maybe I'll play with the idea that since Eva used to be the bad girl, it's the extreme good girl who goes outrider. You know, the Dark Mercury thing.
Thanks!
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You could also have the outrider be an archer as well, Bob. Another thing to set her apart from the rest of the team.
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Hm, yeah, might work nicely -- and be very unlike the usual magical girl.
I'm settling on powersets, btw. In addition to Evangelia there will be (so far)
Invuln/hammer tanker
Storm/Elec defender
I haven't decided what to do with the blaster (the outrider will be a second blaster), although I'm awfully tempted to go wildly off-genre and give her
dual pistols.
And I'm still pondering the controller. I've played controllers least of all, I think, so I have the least experience with designing them.
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Okay, Nice bit there, Sweno! I think we have a slowdown mainly due to folks waiting on slowpoke li'l ol' me to get caught up?
I'll endeavor to get it taken care of. *nod*
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I've got the Sunday "coming out" event the character has to deal with. I'm borrowing heavily from concepts used by Caidin, which work well
for a person with a bad self-identity problem.
But the real question is how Canadian police and the military react to Supers in Ottawa? I mean, after Shane's very public handling of the Mastermind, and
revelations of another super somewhere in the backwoods, it's going to be pretty obvious that Ottawa can't just point at the shenanigans elsewhere in
the world and laugh. It's happening there too. The city's very conservative, and has several major national defense institutions headquartered there.
Any super attempting to do pro-bono hero work is likely to be having a talk with a strike team from JTF2 or CSIS much
faster than they were expecting. And I'm sort of trying to figure out how they'd react.
Since you're in charge of those kinds of details, I'm hoping to throw this whole mess of vipers in your lap, Fox, and let you decide that one. 
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If I decide I have the time and creativity to bring Numero Catorce into this little soiree, this is where he'll be.
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Hm. I'm now tempted to involve cosplay in the first ninja get-together, after realizing how well our cast fits a certain set of types...
Costumes to be delivered by Ninja Delivery Service:
Misty: Pinstripe suit, pair of revolvers
Sachie: Tights and gi, red hair dye
Inari: Elegant violet gown, naginata
Misao: Pink and red kimono and hakama, katana
All we need is someone who looks good in glasses and a cheongsam... 
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Quote: ECSNorway wrote:
Hm. I'm now tempted to involve cosplay in the first ninja get-together, after realizing how well our cast fits a certain set of types...
Costumes to be delivered by Ninja Delivery Service:
Misty: Pinstripe suit, pair of revolvers
Sachie: Tights and gi, red hair dye
Inari: Elegant violet gown, naginata
Misao: Pink and red kimono and hakama, katana
All we need is someone who looks good in glasses and a cheongsam...
Catering by Ninja Burger?
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Okay, I'm lost. *clueless*
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Well, plans appear to have been made at some point for a major Thing at Dragon*Con or another major convention...
And I realized just how closely several of our 'types' fit certain characters. For at least cosplay purposes.
Misao - Sakura Shinguuji
Sachie - Kanna Kirishima
Inari - Sumire Kanzaki
Misty - Maria Tachibana
Now all we need is a Kohran and an Iris... kage-bunshin will have to suffice at first.
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Right. It's Otakon 2009. Happens the week after the Event. I know that Misty and Inari meet the rest in Cosplay as Misty from Pokemon and a Glaceon.
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Dressing up is quite with in Rina's abilites, and given the (usual) Hanagawa proportions, she'd likely look good in anything.
I'm still around, even if I am biding my time on this thread. I'm sadly lacking creativity to come up with a totally separate plot for my characters.
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A potential, basic plot for you, Ankh: Going from *you* to "typical Hanagawa" and having to deal with family and friends' reactions, not to
mention nosy neighbors. At least until you master/use the shape shifting/disguise techniques.
Nosy neighbors: Hey, who is THAT going into Ankh's house/apartment/whatever? I've never seen HER before... *dials phone* Hello, 911? I think
there's someone breaking into my neighbor's house?
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oh DOG MANDIT.
I just finished bashing together a bit, I hit 'post', and it poofed. RAAAGH.
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Knowing me, I'd definitely put off saying hi to the family as long as I could. It's not likely they'd assume anything happened, as I was/still am
not really 'on' CoH.
As for friends and nosy neighbors: None (That would notice), and perhaps, respectively. I'll figure something out, probably, though working with the
meeting is likely the first thing to happen.
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Rev, every time I read a combat scene from you I end up thinking the same thing, and making a note to ask about it, and forgetting to do so when next I see you
online.
So I'm doing it here. 
Do you, or have you, practiced any of the martial arts besides swordwork (I seem to recall you teach swords, but the rest I'm unsure on)? Your
descriptions make me think Yes, but it could just be a matter of you having a vivid imagination and a well-thumbed library of books, too.
At any rate, nice work.
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Yeah Rev, You make really -good- combat scenes, I always love reading them when you post them since I can really get a clear picture of whats goin on by your
descriptions so kudo's to that.
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So Rina gets her choice of Kohran, Iris, or in extremis Soletta.... Hm. We need the uniforms, too.
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Fighting
10-01-2009, 12:00 AM
Hey Sofa.,
I teach medieval broadsword and kenjutsu. This includes a lot of additional techniques, including locks, strikes, takedowns and pressure point control
tactics. I don't teach people to look good while Tarantino has three cameras on them; I work with shortcuts, fast, brutal, techniques and no sense of fair
play whatsoever**. While swordplay is my passion (Not in a Boy Stauton sort of way - tenuous Canadian literary reference), I have been knocking about, and
getting knocked about in various martial arts all my life.
Everything used in that last fight I have taught or demonstrated. Including the tactical option to block fingers and the very ugly take down where you drop
someone on their own weapon.
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Ah, yep, that clarifies things for me
I studied karate (shuri-ryu) for several years, plus have picked up a smattering of aikido, judo, and earned myself a permanent discoloration (nasty bruise)
from an escrima practitioner when we were sparring and, admittedly, getting stupid. Some of the techniques you portray in text seemed *very* familiar, and not
in the "Oh, look, Hollywood got it wrong again" way.
Curiousity satisfied, feline still alive. Thanks, Rev.
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Rev's fight scenes make my fight scenes feel small and inadequate. And now you know why I don't try (much) to write hand-to-hand combat
Good job bringing a very visceral flavor to the combat
I look forward to more.
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