Hi again.

Steve -- You're doing pretty well for a first-timer then. As far as first or third person, in general, it's best to choose one and stick to it. It tends to break up the flow of the story for readers when you swap between them. In a shared story like this with multiple writers, I'd say it's generally better for everyone to stick to third person. Again, it helps the flow of things -- someone reading it would just read along as if a single outside narrator were telling the story the whole time, rather than 'hopping back and forth' in perspective from character to character.

In general, don't hesitate to ask questions if you have any, and please don't feel bad if we ask questions or give criticism here -- though if I do, I'll certainly try to keep it constructive! It's all for fun in the end, though if we can polish our writing skills too, all the better. (And feel free to offer constructive criticism of my writing too, if you like.)

X -- Hmm. The techie always gets tagged to do bomb removal. It's not really her thing, but if Andromeda has a look at it, she should be able to make sense of the electronics, aye. Don't know if you recall the -last- time Andromeda had bomb-disposal duty though. (It was a short-lived forum RP on the old LoT forums with other CO characters. The building went into the ocean, but that was a very different situation. I'm sure this will turn out better.) ;-)

-pops in-

Hey all! Just joined the site 'cause the RP aspect of it but I'm sure I'll end up playing this game when it's good to go in 2015. Figure I'll throw in Alexias, demi-god daughter of Bastet. I'm not even done her character sheet yet or anything in the Backstory section, though she's an old character of mine I'd like to use for here. I figure she'll be closer in powers to the Halle Barry 'Catwoman'. She was originally for a series of novels I wanted to do. I figure it'd be neat if she could turn into an over-sized black panther...I'm just going to roll with the character and see where it goes. Ability to communicate with felines and get them to aid her was originally one of the things she could do as well--big or small. Then you have the stronger than normal, agility, retractable claws and fangs, night vision, super hearing and smell...haven't decided if I should do the whole 'Thor' immortality thing, or merely make her really hard to kill, like a vampire, or like Wolverine with the whole 'heal factor'. Decisions, decisions...

I haven't decided on an age, does your character have a backstory sheet or anything? I really couldn't decide if I wanted her to be younger in age or older. Looks wise, maybe about 23...or I could make her fresh outta' the box at 18 or so. Again with the decisions, heh heh.

Steve -- nothing too terrible. Missed a typo on Flashpoint's name -- 'Flashback.' You got it right later in the post though, so I'm sure it was just a slip of the fingers.

X -- While Andromeda got the Beatles reference IC, she may have missed Paul Revere, being Scottish. If Paul's ox was blue, he could be a lumberjack too -- but that's another reference Andromeda wouldn't know, so I'll content myself with mentioning it here OOC.

One thing of note: No one's perfect (and likewise, no equipment is either), so Andromeda must've missed it this time, but the suit's got an exceptional sensor suite, so it would be rather odd for her to miss things like a secondary detonator very often. Just don't want to see it become a trend, as the odds are heavily in her favor for detecting that sort of thing.

A little about the Andromeda power-suit in a nutshell (all of this is OOC, but may be useful so you have an idea what it does): Andromeda (the lady in the suit -- we'll just call her that for now) was originally designing it as a powered exoskeleton for manned exploration in space -- it's made to be self-sustaining, has full life-support for the astronaut (pilot) inside and an extensive suite of sensors that can pick up energy readings, EM-emissions/radiation, chemical traces, amino acids, water concentrations, magnetic fields, light amplication (or blocking, in case of direct light from the sun, etc.), themographic imaging, has a densitometer -- basically a comprehensive field array of scanning equipment. It's got a crazy amount of sensor equipment for a combat suit, because it didn't actually start out to be a combat suit. (The onboard computer is also very good at computing force vectors for navigation -- ballistic trajectories, gravitational forces, and so forth for travel.)

Somewhere along the way, the ESA dropped funding ("Impractical" they said, "Even the yanks at NASA have shelved manned exploration for now."). Very much wrapped up in her creation, Andromeda sought other funding to continue the project. Her new backers turned out to be on the shady side, though she didn't know that at the time. (Admittedly, she was eager to continue her work, and a bit naive -- had she checked into them more thoroughly, perhaps she would've found out, but that's not how things went.)

The new investors started pushing for additions -- like defensive systems -- essentially, they sought to weaponize the suit, and though they started out making 'reasonable-sounding' requests, they became demands in time, and the nature of her new backers became clear to Andromeda. Suffice to say that, in the end, she left with the suit and they're not terribly happy with that. That's the main reason she left Scotland and came to the States and Titan City. (But again, that's all OOC info -- no one but Andromeda herself (and her mysterious investors) know these details yet.)

The suit is fairly well-suited for combat. Andromeda's personal goal was ultimately to make a suit capable of exploring on Venus. If you've read anything at all about Venus -- well, that's a very tall order. It may not be up to that standard just yet, but it's quite tough. One of the key systems for sustainability as well as exploration is what she calls the 'salvage swarm.' It's basically a highly versatile nanobot swarm. The swarm is capable of sampling and identifying substances, as well as collecting substances specified by it's programming and returning said substances to the suit. This can also be used to collect energy (solar, thermal, etc.), which is what was happening in the case of extinguishing the fire -- the swarm absorbed all the heat from the flames (very quickly and efficiently) and returned the energy to the suit which processed it to charge it's own systems. The salvage of matter is basically a matter of molecular disassembly and reassembly -- the swarm also acts as nanoassemblers to effect repairs on the suit. There are, of course, prohibitions against salvaging from living beings.

And, of course, it has actual weapons systems now. Plasma beams built into the forearms and a sort of micro-missile system -- it's actually more like tiny photon torps (ala Star Trek) -- but that's more than enough details for now. ;)

Again, this is all OOC information, but hopefully it'll be a help as far as expectations when writing.

An enthusiastic greeting from one feline being to another, at any rate. :-)

I'd wait to see what Xselcier says to be certain. He's the creator/GM for the thread. I know he'd said we're getting close to capacity as things were getting a bit chaotic back there for a bit. Not sure what the official word is. I know I tend to get a bit lost in the shuffle and drift off when the group grows really large. Though folks do come and go, and it sounds like Gideon/Shepard is off for a bit now.

Which is to say, a domestic cat-sized cat, or a more humanoid-sized, anthropomorphic (at least to some extent) cat? (I was envisioning the latter, as certainly any in-game character from CoH or any other MMO would be humanoid of necessity.)