Cass and Fyre. And Lorelei.

So what have I been doing with all this free gaming time? Besides PuG Statesman TFs. And PuG Terra Volta trials. That one did go a little better than the STF. I took Scarlette on it, for one thing, and it's pretty tough for her to die. She's /regen, and as sickeningly over-powered as any other regen scrapper in the game. Maybe slightly less because I refused to make her uber by not taking the fitness pools.

Cass, on the other hand, is MA/Inv. Invulnerable kinda sucks. Maybe I get that opinion because the performance I have to compare it to is her duo partner, Vagabond Blade, who is BS/Regen. Invulnerable has a power called Invincible that has a taunt aura. With it on, Cass can jump into a group of grays, something ten levels lower, and they'll immediately start attacking her. Running into a group in a mission, the mobs will attack Cass, and all but ignore Vagz, who's hacking away at them. Cass's health will drop to yellow, Vagz's barely moves. Is it the powersets, or the fact that Cass is getting hit more? Probably both. Although, clicking Unstoppable, and Cass can scrap and tank almost anything. For two and a half minutes, then there's a hard crash that drops health and endurance to as red as it can get. I'm cautious with the timing, so I haven't run into many problems with it. Although, being cautious, I don't use it very often. Usually, if it looks like she's going to die, or if we grab more than I think we can handle. I'd like to get more familiar with it, so I can use it a little more often. She got 47 the other day, and I took Hasten, so Unstoppable will be available more often. That wasn't the reason, but it is a result. We'll see if I take advantage of it.

Character-wise, she can be hard to play. She's not a nice person. She's not especially mean, either. She doesn't believe in social pleasantries, or small talk. She doesn't understand them. She tells it how it is, and she doesn't care if you like it or not. As far as missions go, she doesn't care for the reason behind it. She has a job to do, and she'll do it. These days, it's for Hero Corps, and she might feel better about that than when it was for Crey or the Circle of Thorns, as she alluded to with Vagz and Penitency the other day, or she may not. She talked to Pen a bit about the situation the other day, and I'm certain that's most words she's ever strung together. For Cass, she must feel strongly about it.

Fyre, on the other hand, probably talks too much for her own good. Because of her distrustful nature, a lot of that is small talk, or at least no personal revelations. She and Will do a lot of talking like that, or even "talking about nothing." They both have things they don't want to talk about, maybe even don't want to think about. Fyre is even more close-mouthed than he is, and that seems to puzzle him. She tends to let some things out in tiny, unrelated pieces. Occasionally, though, the dam bursts and it all comes out at once. Due to a version of one of those bursts, Will now knows why she's in the Isles. Sort of. He doesn't know exactly who sent her there, but I wouldn't be too surprised if he figured that part out on his own, or at least suspects it.

She can also be tactless. She likes to try to understand things and people, probably so they don't hold any nasty surprises for her, so she'll ask questions until she figures things out. Will's reaction to Isabel the Knife confused Fyre. Isabel is a madam (or a brothel owner, or however exactly they describe it in the game), who made Will very, very nervous. Will was a cop, and he's been a mercenary for several years. Surely he's run into hookers before? And people much more intimidating than a madam. Fyre let it go at first because she didn't want to embarrass Will in front of Ges. When the subject came up again, Fyre pestered Will until he revealed that even thinking about "that" made him think about his dead wife. Oh. So, now Fyre's pretty much afraid to talk to Will. Lately, after their most recent talks, she'd figured they were at least becoming friends, but now she's concerned that she'll say something stupid again, so she's practically afraid to be in his presence at all.

Lorelei is about half a level from 32 and her Phantasm. I made Lorelei a long time ago. She was meant to be a partner to E's warshade, Derick Darklight, who recently was deleted. (RIP Derick). That duo got shoved to the side in favor of the original Fyre and E, and I thought the ill/rad powerset was meh, and I couldn't stand playing damage-less controllers. Then I watched ill/rad E2 rip through groups while Fyre and Mason watched, and later pwn PB Mason in the arena. Let's say it resparked my interest. Even the past couple of levels, I've seen the change. She solos on rugged. It's slow, but nothing ever touches her. Of course, once she has her Phantasm, I'll probably get bored with it again, because there's not too much else to strive for. Maybe Fallout and Teleport. We'll see, I guess.