Archive for the world of City Of Heroes

On leaping the walls and arresting the bad guys

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

The Super Strength thing really kicked in last week when me and my trainer finally worked out the kinks in my powers and I was able to do the whole “Leaping tall buildings” thing officially. The hardest part of the test was learning to steer in mid-air so I don’t land on any Zeroes. (Technically [...]

Colours of life

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

Colour is life. Life is colour. I am lifeblind. I saved Emma again last night. It wasn’t Emma, but it needed to have been. She was being sacrificed by the Circle of Thorns, so I broke up the party. It was the wrong colour. Circle of Thorns are green. Green is bad. I can see [...]

Day One

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

I’ve been a hero now for less than a day. I’ve arrested the hell out of forty minions of various types, broke up a conference of minor evil. For a while I teamed up with some low-levels like me to keep the streets clean. Scary stuff, more their english than anything else, I could barely [...]

Inadequate Hero

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

There’s something hideously unfair about this “Heroing” business. I mean, thanks to a Series of Unlikely and Confusing Events involving a pocket watch and an orbital laser guidance system I’m now somewhere in the region of seven feet tall, I can eat McTacos and lay in bed continuously for a decade and still look like [...]

Hello World

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

I think I’m losing track here, so I thought I should start a diary so that I don’t lose anything about this really weird shit. Obviously all this stems from a couple of weeks ago with the hypnosis experiment and how badly it went. You’d have thought hypnosis accidents – if they resulted in any [...]

I shouldn't write a diary

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

This diary doesn’t have enough colour in it. Nothing ever does.