{"id":5724,"date":"2009-10-26T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2009-10-26T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:30:52","slug":"heroes-of-champions-online-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5724","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Champions Online IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/co_agatha.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='co_agatha.jpg' title='co_agatha.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Yay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeniusonline.com\/comic.php\">Girl Genius<\/a>!  Bonus points for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Asprin\">Myth Inc<\/a> nod in her Supergroup affiliation.  If her title could somehow refer to some Sci-Fi she&#8217;d be a nerd trifecta!<\/p>\n<p>This person stuck pretty close to the character concept, using only gadget-based powers.  That&#8217;s pretty admirable in this game, considering how wildly out of balance the powers are.  <\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/co_mayor.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='co_mayor.jpg' title='co_mayor.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t be the mayor.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawntionary.com\/chainmailbikini\/2009\/10\/26\/11\/\">You have no pants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/co_incognito.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='co_incognito.jpg' title='co_incognito.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I like how this guy looks like a Dr. Kleiner + <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herb_Tarlek#Characters\">Herb Tarlec<\/a> robot.  The name makes for a pretty good joke. &#8220;Yeah.  We&#8217;ll put a jacket and glasses on him. Nobody will notice he&#8217;s a robot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/co_ravenspeaker.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='co_ravenspeaker.jpg' title='co_ravenspeaker.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Man, the stupid and ugly character concepts some people come up with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait.  He&#8217;s one of the central characters of the setting.<\/p>\n<p>Nevermind then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay Girl Genius! Bonus points for the Myth Inc nod in her Supergroup affiliation. If her title could somehow refer to some Sci-Fi she&#8217;d be a nerd trifecta! This person stuck pretty close to the character concept, using only gadget-based powers. That&#8217;s pretty admirable in this game, considering how wildly out of balance the powers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}