Random Updates

Real life has been hectic the past few days, to say the least, so updating the blog has not been at the top the priorities, though previous to the... hecticness, I had a post planned. This isn't that post, because I can't remember a bit of it. So how about some random updates instead?

My reverse-altitis is cured. Obsydian Fyre (level 43 Warshade) is no more. Also, Ellianne Sylvanie (level 25 archery/energy blaster) is gone. In their places are Jez Cavell (level 19 DB/WP scrapper) and Harmony Hex (level 10 sonic/sonic defender).

Jez is named after a famous woman in "espionage," Edith Cavell, a British nurse during World War I who helped Allied soldiers escape German occupied Belgium. Jez Cavell is, of course, not her real name. She's not shy about that fact, but she hasn't revealed any of her past or even her purpose for being in Paragon. I have a short introductory story in mind, but I haven't had the time or the level of concentration needed to work on it. Hopefully, things will calm down and I'll get to it. Her partner is Blood Crucible (a.k.a. $target), Vagz's DB/WP. Play-wise, they're going to be awesome in one more level, when Quick Recovery comes into play. Character-wise, they don't necessarily get along. There's probably no real reason why they would work together. That may be easing up some, though it might be too soon to tell. Jez is not happy-go-lucky. Not in the least. She is sarcastic, bitter, gritty, and burned-out. She's seen and done a lot of less than pleasant things. She doesn't like or trust magic, partly because she doesn't understand it. She can be very cool and professional when the situation calls for it, and she has no problem with lying when necessary.

Harmony has very little background, other than with all the scrappers and tanks running around with i11, I wanted to play something different. Even though Mo's secondary is sonic, that set may as well not even be there at this point (level 28), and I haven't had much of a chance to play with the sonic primary before. Harmony is a college student, who is heroing on the side, without the knowledge of her parents, who both have powers. That's about it, other than I'm attempting to play her as happy and perky, though she's mostly been on non-RP-PuGs, so I haven't done much with that, and it's fine with me if that trend keeps up.

I've been PuGing blaster-Fyre for influence, and now to play with the Defiance changes. And, I've never made a secret of the fact that I have fun just blowing s**t up. *shrug* Some things are just that simple.

Poor red-side Will and Fyre. They've been completely neglected since i11. They probably needed the break, though. Things have been intense since it was discovered that Styrm is loose, and since they've moved on to Grandville and the situation has become more dangerous. Fyre tried to pull a Lassie on Will (You know, where Lassie's temporary companion pretends to be angry with her so she'll leave and continue her search for her real owner? Or was that Benji? Whichever. Also seen in movies where someone has to set the wild animal free even though it's become a tame pet.). After a disastrous Arachnoid mission, she told him he was going to become a liability, and he couldn't keep up with the tougher demands of the more dangerous things that would be asked of them in Grandville. When that didn't make much of a dent, she attempted to add that she was just tired of him and didn't want him around anymore. She was incredibly transparent, and Will didn't buy it for a minute. She does want him safe, though, and if that meant that she'd never see him again, she'd take the deal. She cares about Will even more than she's let on, I think. Her personality even changes when it's just the two of them. She's softer, quieter, more patient. He's definitely a calming influence on her. A permanent loss of Will would most certainly be a bad thing for her. But probably a very good thing for the demon and Katherine.

With the trip to see Masonry at the asylum, Fyre had asked Will to go with her. Not for protection, but specifically to keep her from killing Masonry. Instead of making her angry, though, Mason succeeded only in letting her see how pathetic he really was (is). She hadn't though of him much before, and she never thought of him much after. The last thing she said to him, "I hope you live a long, long life, Masonry. And every minute you live, I hope you remember everything you've done, and think about what you could have had, if you didn't ruin it," was pretty much her last word on the subject of Masonry. However, now that we know he's been resurrected (which, I lost the bet. I had two months or more before he lived again, in the pool. Darn.), if and/or when Fyre finds out that he's made an attempt at hurting E, she's going to have... things to think about, let's say.