Watch, Listen and Read, the 24th to the 30th of October

Welcome to another Watch, Listen and Read post. Sorry about being a day late.

Monday

Watched: Last week’s episode of Merlin, Green Lantern, this week’s episode of the Gadget Show and episode 10 of Soul Eater.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Tuesday

Watched: Episode 9 of Code Geass R2, a Gadget Show web clip (Challenge Summer Special), episodes 11 and 12 of Soul Eater, episode 197 of the dubbed version of Naruto and episode 312 of One Piece.

Listened: Episode 296 of Anime Pulse and the first half of episode 34 of the One Piece Podcast.

Read: Amazing Spider-Man: You’re Hide and issue 1 of Daredevil and chapter 1 to 3 of issue 1 of Avengers Rebirth.

Wednesday

Watched: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Brought and Received: Picked up Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince of Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray? Wait until the next Neoscream’s Life post to learn way.

Thursday

Watched: Episode 13 of Soul Eater, episode 33 of Let’s Both Play Pokemon Emerald and episodes 22 and 23 (final) of Kurokami.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Friday

Watched: Nothing.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Saturday

Watched: Nothing.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Brought and Received: The complete series of Fate/Stay Night on DVD and the complete series of Highschool of the Dead on Blu-Ray.

Sunday

Watched: Episodes 1 and 2 of Fate/Stay Night and episode 3 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

This week’s video is the first opening to Fate/Stay Night. The song is called “disillusion” and it is done by Tainaka Sachi. Until next time, have fun.

Heroclix, The missing dial designs and special rules

Hi all, here is the second half of last week's the HeroClix post. A quick news update. Wizkids have reviled images of a new colossal figure out next year. One that I have been wanting to see for a long time. The Sentinel master him self Master Mold. Sadly they said it was too early for a dial. Also Darren text to say that there will be no Heroclix this week and at London EXPO I picked up a bunch of new HeroClix figures. I will try to state them in this week's HeroClix post.

Now here are the rules to last week's HeroClix game:

Bystanders and Objects
Normal amount of objects. (3 per player).
3D2 random bystander tokens each. (3 to 6 per player)
Bystander tokens are placed at random and will not move, but still block line of site, need to break away etc...
Bystander tokens can be attacked but it will get in a free preemptive strike first.
Once a bystander is KO'd used as follows, if the bystander is not picked up or used, the body decomposes at the end the current turn:

• The bystander can be used as an object for two combat attacks. The first attack it is treated as a Heavy Object and on the second it is treated as a Light Object. (Must have Super Strength and must be an infected character to do this).
• Throw the bystander as if you have a range of 8. It does 3 damage to the target and 2 damage to all adjacent figures (Must have Super Strength and must be an infected character to do this).
• Eat Brains: Give the character a free action for a Regeneration roll. (Infected character only).
• Life Juices: Give the character a free action for a Support action. (Infected character only).

The Infected

Characters with the Monster keyword starts the game as infected, infected characters cannot be infected again!

If a monster infected character damages a non infected character in close combat, the non infected character becomes newly infected!

Newly infected characters lose a clix of life at the start of every subsequent turn until KO'd.

Sometime they come Baacckkk!!!
What a character is KO'd all the applied (i.e. 4 damage on the last click means click through 3 clicks of KO's). If the clicks re-entered the start line, these clicks are classed as OKs. However sometimes they come back!
Characters with the monster keyword gets a free regeneration roll when KO'd, if a non KO click is showing after the roll, they rejoin the battle on that click.
Infected characters without the monster keyword gets a free support roll on themselves that automatically hit.  If a non KO click is showing after the roll, they rejoin the battle on that click and now has the Monster keyword.
A figure can come back an infinite amount of times dependent on the die roll it's best smash them fecking monsters to bits!

Victory
Victory points are only scored on characters that are KO'd at the end of the game including Bystanders. Last man standing wins.

And lastly here are the missing DreamClix dials from last week's HeroClix post. Just in time for Halloween.

Until next time, have fun.

Cosplay Deviants: Camille - BlackBird

Hi all. On Wednesday, Cosplay Deviants revisited one of their old sets. It was of Camille's first and only set (too my knowledge). In it she Cosplays as Raven from the Teen Titans. This was a great set one of my favourate sets. It would have been nice to have seem more from Camille. Never mind.

Now for the the DreamClix side to the post. As Camille has only done one set I will not be doing a Deviant card of her. (I will not do cards of Deviants that have done less then three sets.) Also I am not doing the character she cosplayed as due to the fact the it is a DC character and that there are figures of Raven already. So what will it be? As I just finish updating the DreamClix Dial Design page by finishing off posting all of the Deviant Cards, I best not do a random Deviant and as I will be posting the dials of the missing Dial Design from the HeroClix page soon (today or tomorrow) I will not be doing a dial design. So I will be doing a dial idea I was planning on doing on the HeroClix post, Chii from Chobits.

Chii was found by Hideki one night in a pile of trash as he makes his way home from work. He takes her to his apartment and tries to figure out how to activate her. A typical persocom (abbreviated from "personal computer") has its power switch in or behind its ears, but Chi's is located in a very unorthodox place: her crotch. Realizing this, Hideki overcomes his moral objections and manages to activate her. She has difficulty communicating with him at first; the only word that she is able to say being "chi", but slowly she learns how to speak. She is initially fearful that Hideki will discard her because of this, but he reassures her that he would never throw her away. When Hideki decides to give her a name, he remembers the only word that she can say and decides to call her "Chii". Chii remembers nothing of her past life and is unable to perform simple tasks, so Hideki takes it upon himself to teach her and take care of her. Mimicking Hideki and several other outside influences, Chii proceeds to start learning about the environment around her. She makes many humorous mistakes in the process, including her imitation of a pornographic pose from one of Hideki's magazines, and calling everyone and everything "Hideki" (Hideki had attempted to teach her his name by telling her his name as he pointed at himself, but she believed that he meant that Hideki was what one said when one pointed). She should "Chii Hug" (Change), "Unorthodox Persocom" (Probability Control) and a special called "Legendary Chobits".
Legendary Chobits: Chii can use Mind Control as if she has a range of 12 and three targets, but she can only use it on characters with the Robot keyword.
She should have about six or seven clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 6, Attack 8, Defense 17, Damage 1 and Range 0. She should have the "Persocom" TA and the keyword Robot.

The Persocom team ability: Give this character a power action, they can use Perplex.

Until next time, have fun.

DreamClix Endless Updates, the 24th to the 30th of October

Hi all, WOW busy week. There has was twice as manly updates than normal to the DreamClix Dial Designs page this week. I have redone the CosmicBreak Team Abilities, added the Cosplay Deviant Cards too the page, added a new Deviant Card of Noel, added a brand new Team Ability called MFC and amended the Death Note errors. Here is Noel's Deviant Card.

CDC-010
Deviant Card: Noel.
Team Ability: Cosplay Deviants and MFC.
Extra Keywords: Cosplay and MFC.
Special Abilities: Adjacent friendly characters without the Cosplay keyword gains +1 to their Attack value. Adjacent friendly characters with the Cosplay keyword gains +1 to their Defense value.
Cost: ?. This is halved if character is called ever Maka Albarn, Hikari Konohana, Oerba Dia Vanille, Angewomon, Rebecca Miyamoto, Saria, Yuiko Hawatari, Hinata Hyuuga, Lillinette, Lady, Alice or Black Canary.

The MFC Team Ability: A character with the Cosplay Deviants team ability has Earth Bound and Incapacitate.

I did Noel as she has retired from Cosplay Deviants so there is no other way to do her than on these updates. Next week's update should be the missing Death Note dials, a new Death Note dial, amending Dragon Ball dial, missing Dragon Ball dials, a new Dragon Ball dial and a Dragon Ball card (Feat or ATA or Object). Until next time, have fun.

HeroClix, the 27th of October, Halloween Chaos

Welcome to another week of HeroClix. The previews for this week were Matt Murdock, two Daredevil, Red King, Hercules and Amadeus Cho from the Incredible Hulk set; and Boromir, Faramir and the Frodo and Sam duo figure from the Lord of the Rings set. A new players guide was released. There were several new Addition Team Ability for the Captain America set, a heavy change to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Team Ability and several errata.

This week's game was a Halloween special. 500 points. Three actions. No Inside Information or Monster Hunter. Characters with the Monster keyword will gain secret bonus. I will post the special rules to the event at a later date. I was first thinking on go for an Indy monster team, as Marvel monsters are very common. However apart from the Hellboy figures, only the Dark Judges from Judge Dredd have the Monster keyword and the Judges's defense values were crap. So I decided to go DC. My team ended up being:

Kid Devil (Arkham Asylum) 55
Doomsday (Justice League) 261
Yellow Lantern (Arkham Asylum) 65
Tornado Tyrant (LE, Collateral Damage) 92
Man-Bat (Rookie, Hyper-Time) 23
=496 point and no re-rolls.

I was going to go for Veteran Man-Bat, but sadly it was not classed as themed as I needed six members for a theme team, so I went for Rookie instead. As there was not Adrian this week (and next week), it was a three way battle. Darren's team was a Marvel Monster team heavily using the Marvel Zombies who were:

Capwolf (Captain America) 100 + Vampirism (Feat) 12 = 112
Iron Man (Mutants and Monster) 70
Giant-Man (Mutants and Monsters) 97
Colonel America (Super Nova) 55
Wolverine (Super Nova) 50
Hulk (Super Nova) 100 + Protected (Feat) 8 = 108
=492 points and two re-rolls.

Michael's team was a non theme Marvel team who were:

Else Bloodstone (Giant Size X-Men) 73

Red Guardian (Captain America) 47

Moonstone (Hammer of Thor) 76
Howard the Duck (Secret Invasion) 35
Scarlet Witch (Avengers) 72
Ben Grimm (LE, Fantastic Forces) 123
Mystique (Rookie, Universe) 34
Black Panther (Rookie, Universe) 27
=487 points and no re-rolls.

This event was crazy. The amount of 1 and 6 rolled on Regeneration and Support was crazy. Sadly I was the first knock out. It ended up as a burial between zombie Hulk and Donald Duck, so I mean Howard the Duck, who killed must of Darren's team. For a 35 point character he ruled the battlefield.

Next week well be a Fireworks Special. 400 points, at least two characters must have Energy Explosion somewhere on their dial.

Now for DreamClix. Sadly I did not get the time to do an extra size DreamClix side to the post this week like I was planning. For some reason I just did not have the time. Anyway this week I will be doing ideas for Mifune, a Mummy generic and Anubis from Soul Eater; and Pepo Pucci and Nemlim from CosmicBreak. Sadly there will be no will be no dial designs in this post. I will ever try to do them on Sunday or do them on next week's post with the rest.

First is Mifune from Soul Eater. He is a recurred human character who seems to be of normal human birth (not witch / weapon / kishin / shinigami). He has not demonstratedany ability as a Meister, rather as a samurai who wields multiple normal weapons, nor has he wields a Daemon Weapon; yet he seems to have knowledge about them, as he was able to appreciate Tsubaki's abilities. Mifune has been hired by gangsters and unsavory types in general repeatedly for his skills as a bodyguard. Despite being a stern character, he has a defining soft spot for children and is hesitant, if not utterly unwilling to hurt them. The only known exception is Black Star, and that was to protect a younger child, Angela, and even then he holds back most instances during their battles. He should a trait called "Blades to Protect Children", Charge, Furry, Force Blast, Combat Reflexes and Willpower.

Blades to Protect Children: Mifune can use Blades. Characters with the Kid keyword gain a +2 to their defense valve and characters with the Teen keyword gain a +1 to their defense valve if not already modified by this effect.

He should have about seven clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 8, Attack 11, Defense 17, Damage 3 and Range 0. He should not have a TA and his keywords should be Warrior and Witches.

Next is a Mummy generic from Soul Eater. These are the mummified people of Pharaoh Anubis who were resurrected by the necromancer witch Samantha. They should have Toughness and a trait called "Hordes".

Hordes: This character can use Defend, but can only share their defense value with characters with the Monster keyword.

They should have about four clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 5, Attack 9, Defense 16, Damage 2 and Range 0. They should not have a TA and their keywords should be Evil Human and Monster.

Next is Anubis from Soul Eater. He is the evil spirit of an ancient Pharaoh inhabiting the Pyramid of Anubis. He was resurrected by the necromancer witch Samantha, but devoured her out of anger for trifling with the souls of his people. He captured the weapons Liz And Party Thompson, who had collected his people's souls in the absence of their Meister partner, Death the Kid. By the time Kid returnedx the Pharaoh attacked him from his sarcophagus. Kid did nothing to defend himself, as his obsession with symmetry prevented him from destroying the Pharaoh's perfectly symmetrical coffin. After brutally beating Kid, the Pharaoh emerged from his sarcophagus to finish him off personally, revealing his true, mummified, and horrendously asymmetrical form. Seeing this, Kid immediately recovered obliterated the Pharaoh, leaving nothing but the decorative circle on his forehead, which was the only symmetrical part of his body. The basic dial idea for his the later half of the dial being a reduced version of the Halloween Mummy and the first half being with a staring click based on him in his sarcophagus. On the sarcophagus clicks he should have Impervious and a special called "Mummy Waving".

Mummy Waping: Anubis can use Incapacitate and Sharp Shotter. Replace his range value with a value of 5. Give Anubis a power action, he can make two Range Attack actions as free actions.

His TA should be the Mystics one and his keywords should be Evil Human, Monster and Ruler. The next Soul Eater dial idea should be Shinigami.

Next is Pepo Pucci from CosmicBreak. She is a playful magical girl roaming the universe in search of sweets. If you have none, she will steal items instead. This is actually a customary practice on her home plant. She is a small support type Moe. She should have Energy Explosion, Toughness and a special called "Trick or Treat".

Trick or Treat: After dealing damage to a character from a close combat attack, place a light object adjacent to the target.

She should have about five clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 9, Attack 9, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 8 with two targets. She should have the Unions TA and her keywords should be Artillery, Moe, Support, Robot and Unions. Yes, she does not have a trait and she has both the Artillery and Support keywords. The trait and Support keyword is because she is a Support type without any supporting abilities and the Artillery keyword is because all her weapons are anti Land types.

Lastly it is Nemlim from CosmicBreak. She is a blood sucking girl from the Vampyre Star Syste, who's star emits no light. When Pepo came looking for candy, Nemlim fell for her and has been following her around ever since. She should have the Duo symbol due to her wonder bits, the LND trait, Flurry, Toughness and Combat Reflexes. She should have about five clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 9, Attack 10, Defense 17, Damage 3 and Range 4 with two targets. She should have the Unions TA and her keywords should be Land, Moe, Robot and Unions. The next CosmicBreak idea should be Blocky.

Well that is it for this week. DreamClix next week will be will be a fireworks night special mainly focusing on the Shiba clan from Bleach. Until next time, have fun.

Cosplay Deviants: Jsica - SeeD

Hi all, sorry about the wait, the set that was posted on Cosplay Deviants last Saturday was the long waited new set from Jsica. In it she cosplays as a female version of Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. This was a was a great set. the only thing I did not like was the the scare on Jsica's face, but it is in character. Now I have no clue on any other sets from her that are awaiting posting or being done by her, but when I know I will yet you all know.

On other Cosplay Deviants news, something I heard while ago but never reported was confirmed, well confirmed to me as I finally checked about it. Noel has left Cosplay Deviants to set up her own site. Good luck to her.

And Now too the HeroClix side, as have done Jsica's card and her first cosplay in both idea and design, I will be doing a dial idea for Squall Leonhart and as I have not been that doing a meanly reviews on set lately I will throw in a Deviant card, however it will be of a none Deviant.

First off Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. Squall Leonhart is the primary protagonist of Final Fantasy VIII. A young and aloof SeeD mercenary for much of the game, others view Squall as a cold and focused person. The game's events cause Squall to question the way he has chosen to live his life, and he matures into a heroic and caring swordsman. Squall's weapon, the gunblade, is one of the most iconic weapons of the Final Fantasy series. He is a gunblade specialist and is one of the few people to have mastered the notoriously difficult weapon, along with Seifer. He should have a special called "Loner", Change, Blades, Toughness, Willpower, Range Combat Expert and Defend.
Loner: If there are no friendly characters within eight squares of Squall, he gains a +1 to his Attack value.
He should have about seven clicks of health and starting combat values of Movement 8, Attack 10, Defense 17, Damage 3 and Range 6 with one target. He should have the Final Fantasy TA and his keywords should be Final Fantasy VIII, SeeD and Soldier.

Lastly is the Deviant card design for a non Deviant, Piano Squall. Sorry had to do him if I am doing Squall Leonhart. Michael “Piano Squall” Gluck performs video game/anime music piano concerts to fundraise for charity. He gained the name Piano Squall as he normally cosplay as Squall Leonhart when he performs in conventions. This card will be placed in Other when it is listed on the DreamClix Dial Designs page and not Cosplay Deviants.

Deviant Card: Piano Squall.
Team Ability: None.
Extra Keywords: Cosplay and Celebrity.
Special Abilities: Give this character a power action and chose Attack or Defense. All friendly characters within eight squares of him gains +1 chosen combat value the beginning of your next turn.
Cost: ?. This card can only be played on characters called Squall Leonhart.

Until next time, have fun.

Neoscream's Life, the 17th to the 23th of October

Mialy

Welcome to another week of my life, now back on the tabet. The week before last revealed teaser trailers for two Transformers games out next year, but what did last week bring.

On Monday I worked from 10AM to 5PM. Sometime during the day I received a text from Darren H. On it he said to make and bring a 1,200 points Named theme team to HeroClix just in case the brothers can not make it this week. In the evening I posted a review post of the Saturday before last Cosplay Deviants set. Sadly I will not be doing the two for last week due to time.

On Tuesday morning there was no Blaire due to the fact that Cudda was sick. She said they will be on tomorrow. Before going to work I posted last week's Neoscream's Life post. I worked from 10:30AM to 3:30PM. I did a bit of work on a new story I have been working on called Mecha Knights. This was going to be a place holder name, but after a search online I can not see why it can not be a the real name. I will try to do some designs of characters and mechas and post them at a later date. In the evening I built two 1,200 points team building for HeroClix.

Rouche

There was no Blaire on Wednesday morning as Cudda was still sick. I worked from 10:30AM to 2PM. As I was leave I was told I was now working Thursday which I was noted as off work all week. Well it's more hours. I DID a bit of work on the story I have been working on. As my dad was working late due to preparing for a refit, my and my mum ordered pizza. As I was now working six days this week, I did the mid week update to the DreamClix page.

On Thursday Blaire was finally online. Cudda was still sick, but well enough to play a joke on Blaire. Dog napping one of her dogs, Kola. Also after a long time Buddie her other dog appeared on cam. I was beginning to worry about him. As I was chatting with Blaire and collecting three long HeroClix teams, I was too busy this morning to play on any of my Facebook games. I worked from 11AM to 3PM. When I started work I found I now have off Friday. Ok I wish they did not change my hours the day before. In the evening I had HeroClix like normal. I ended up going to bed about 1AM due to doing bits and bobs.

Now for this week's CosmicBreak update news. Thursday's update bought us two new Halloween moes, Pepo Pucci and Nemlim. I should be doing dial ideas for both of the and a Chibi version of Pepo Pucci in this week's HeroClix post.

Friday was a off work. I finish off day posted the HeroClix post. Sadly all day I suffered from a nasty head ache.

On Saturday at coffee were Richard and Darren H who were both nearly half an hour late. We chatted about work leave and computer games. I also told them that I will not be at coffee next week as I am off to London for London EXPO. I have not been able to go for a long time. I trier to remember to take pictures and may be some videos for the blog, oh and hopefully some anime news too. After coffee I worked from 12PM to 4PM. After work I update the DreamClix Dial Designs page.

Blaire and Buddie on Thursday 

Sunday was a day off like normal and the start of my eight day holiday from work. It was chaos searching online for bus routes due to the changes to the Milton Keynes bus time tables on Sundays. Luckily I founded the route I needed and then the GPS on the tablet. In role-play we first battled a pair of Doppelganger and a nasty trap with a Mimic posing as a door at the bottom of a slop hallway with a tumbling Gelatinous Cube heading towards the party. In the evening I posted two posts. The first was a post about the week's updates on the DreamClix Dial Designs page and the other one was the week's Watch, Listen and Read post. I will do a review post of Saturday's Cosplay Deviants set, just did not get a round to write it yet.

Here is a list of post that will be posted during the coming week. Please note that things may change due to charges in work or time.

Wednesday the 26th of October: "Cosplay Deviants" review post.

Friday the 28th of October: "HeroClix Extended".
Sunday the 30th of October: Start of eight day off work, "DreamClix Dial Designs", "Watch, Listen and Read" and "Cosplay Deviants" review post.
Tuesday the 1st of November: "Neoscream's Life".

As I am off work this week there will be four updates to the DreamClix Dial Designs page, the DreamClix side to the HeroClix post will be larger and there might be an extra post on Sunday about London EXPO. Well until next time, have fun.

Watch, Listen and Read, the 17th to the 23rd of October

Maii de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!

Welcome to another Watch, Listen and Read post.

Monday

Watched: This week’s episode of The Gadget Show live and episodes 80 to 82 of the dubbed version of Bleach.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Tuesday

Watched: Episode 83 of the dubbed version of Bleach, a Gadget Show web clip (Rollercoaster Challenge) and episode 7 of Code Geass R2, episode 33 of the Gadget Show Web TV and episode 265 of the subtitled version of Bleach.

Listened: Episode 295 of Anime Pulse.

Read: Nothing.

Wednesday

Watched: Last week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, episode 310 of One Piece, episodes 3 and 4 of Transformers: Prime miniseries and episode 84 of the dubbed version of Bleach.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

Thursday

Watched: Episode 2 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Chapter 12 of One Piece.

Friday

Watched: Episode 175 of the subtitled version of Naruto: Shippuuden, a Gadget Show web clip (Wall of Fame – Sunglasses), episodes 27 to 29 Lets Both Play Pokemon Emerald, episode 5 of Transformers: Prime miniseries, episode 1 of Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!, part of this week’s episode of WWE Raw and episode 311 of One Piece.

Listened: Episodes 31 to 33 of the One Piece podcast and episode 125 of Manga Pulse.

Read: Issue 4 of Spider-Island: I Lover New York City.

Saturday

Watched: The second half of this week’s episode of WWE Raw, this week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, episodes 31 and 32 of Lets Both Play Pokemon Emerald, a Gadget Show web clip (Top 5 - Travel Speakers) and episode 13 of After War Gundam X.

Listened: Episode 126 of Manga Pulse.

Read: Preview of Castle: Richard castle in Deadly Storm, issue 21 of Wolverine: Origins, Spider-Man: A Meal to Die For and Captain America: A Little Hope.

Sunday

Watched: Planet of the Apes 1968 version and Captain America: The First Avenger.

Listened: Nothing.

Read: Nothing.

This week’s video is the ending to Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. The song is called “Kimi no Naka No Eiyu” and it is done by Minami Kuribayashi. Until next time, have fun.

DreamClix Endless Updates, the 18th to the 23rd of October

Hi all, updated the DreamClix Dial Design page twice this week. Only be posting CosmicBreak stuff this week. The only new new stuff up is the Rabby dial design and the feat card for Comic Break (check the page for the feat).

Next week I should be doing a major redo of the Unions TA for CosmicBreak, the start of Cosplay Deviants and Death Note on four updates to the page. Until time, have fun.

PS. I knew that several of the TAs have been re-worded in the new Player Guide and the S.H.I.E.L.D. has been changed for the better. I have added the TAs that I need to change onto the list of updates. Sadly this means the Bleach and Code Geass TAs will most likely be updated next year.

HeroClix, the 20th of October, An Army of Shadowcats

Welcome to another week of HeroClix. Sadly there was not HeroClix this week, so the Dynamic Duo is pushed back until next week. The previews for this week were White Tiger, Tiger Shark, John Jameson and Man-Wolf from the Incredible Hulk set; and Saruman and Ugluk from the Lord of the Rings set. Also an image of Ka-Zar and Shanna from the Incredible Hulk set. The dial tops do reveal that Ka-Zar has the duo ability duo to Xavier and has a range of 5 while Shanna has a trait and range 0.

This week's game was finally Dynamic Duo. 500 points. No Feat and Additional Team Abilities. Two of the characters must know each other quite well. The duo I went for was Shadowcat and Spider-Man, as in the Ultimate Comics they were a couple for a while and still are close friends. As a backup I picked several other duos based on Spider-Man and Cyclops. Can you see them:

Shadowcat (Experience, Sinister) 54
Spider-Man (Secret Invasion) 50
Mary Jane Watson (Web of Spider-Man) 15
Spider-Girl (Secret Invasion) 77
Cyclops (Giant Size X-Men) 110
Jean Grey (Rookie, Universe) 31
Emma Frost (Giant Size X-Men) 81
Domino (Giant Size X-Men) 69
=487 point and no re-rolls.

On the first round I was up against Adrian. He was using a X-Men theme team who were:

Kitty Pryde (Captain America) 111
Beast (Giant Size X-Men) 95
Colossus (Mutations and Monsters) 158
Iceman (Mutations and Monsters) 60
Storm (Danger Room) 40
Wolverine (Experience, Universe) 41
=505 points and four re-rolls.

In this game I had wait for him to move his forces to me. As I could not get more then one person into range. At the end of the game I had not lost a single figure, while only Kitty Pryde and Wolverine were the only ones left standing of Adrian's team by time. A victory to me. On the second round I was up against Darren. He was using an Excalibur theme team who were:

Cypher (Giant Size X-Men) 38
Psylocke (Giant Size X-Men) 74
Lockheed (Giant Size X-Men) 47
Juggernaut (Giant Size X-Men) 193
Shadowcat (Veteran, Sinister) 66
Nightcrawler (Web of Spider-Man) 86
=504 points and four re-rolls.

God this was nasty. Nightcrawler's high defense and Juggernaut's immunity to Psychic Blast was a pain. I did give his team a bloody nose, time was called as Juggernaut stairs down up on Jean Grey and Shadowcat. I lost this one. On the third and final round I was up against Michael. He was using a Detective theme team who were:

The Question (Arkham Asylum) 37
Crispus Allen (Arkham Asylum) 197
Edward Nigma (Arkham Asylum) 60
Oracle (Batman Alpha) 50
Batman (Justice League) 75
Nightwing (Crisis) 79

=498 point and two re-rolls.

This was a total nightmare, most of the time I needed to roll a ten or more the hit anything. The double Preplex and triple Outwit was a nightmare too. By time I had only KO'd his Batman while Michael KO'd half my team.

Next week well be a Halloween special. 500 points. Three actions. No Inside Information or Monster Hunter. Characters with the Monster keyword will gain secret bonus.

Now for DreamClix. I will be doing ideas for a Mummy for the special Halloween side; a Gangster generic from Soul Eater; a new recruit generic from Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex; Fullbody from One Piece; and Naomi Misora from Death Note. But first here are the Dial designs from Count Dracula for the Halloween special; Lupit, Manananggal and Manananggal's Legs from the Blade anime; and Wootree from CosmicBreak.

Next is the Mummy for the special Halloween side. An ancient mummifed Egyptian priest or Pharaoh that has be reanimated by ancient magic and curses. It should have Poison, a special called "The Mummy's Curse", Indomitable and Toughness.
The Mummy's Curse: Mummy can use Incapacitate as if it has a range of 10. If the target is dealt or would have been dealt pushing damage, heal the Mummy one click.
It should have about eight clicks of health and its starting combat values should be Movement 5, Attack 10, Defense 17, Damage 3 and Range 0. Its TA should be the Mystics one and its keywords should be Monster, Mystical and Ruler. Next Halloween special idea is a secret.

Next is a Gangster generic from Soul Eater. These are Alcapone's grunts. They should have Energy Explosion and a minion power called "Alcapone's Orders".
Alcapone's Orders: If there is a character called Alcapone within eight squares of this character, this character can select one extra target with Energy Explosion and can use Toughness.
They should have about four clicks of health and its starting combat values should be Movement 7, Attack 9, Defense 16, Damage 2 and Range 6 with one target (which goes up to two with the minion ability). They should not have a TA and their keywords should be Evil Human. Next Soul Eater idea should be Mifune.

Next is a new recruit generic from Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. I was originally going to do Azuma and Yano as ever a duo figure or two different characters. However I decided to do them as a new recruit generic as you did see Batou training groups of recruits. They should have two minion powers, "Batou's Training" and "The Major's Command", as well as Running Shot.
Batou's Training: If there is a character called Batou within eight squares of this character, this character can use Willpower.
The Major's Command: If there is a character called The Major within eight squares of this character, this character can use the Section 9 team ability.
They should have about four clicks of health and its starting combat values should be Movement 8, Attack 9, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 6 with one target. They should not have a TA and their keywords should be Section 9 and Soldier. Next Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex idea should be Proto.

Next is Fullbody from One Piece. Fullbody is a Lieutenan in the Marines. He was at first show to be in command of his gone show. In the Baratie restaurant, Sanji ruins his date with a woman named Moodie. Fullbody put a fly in the soup to get back at him. Sanji's continuing smug attitude leads Fullbody to smash the table at which he is sitting on prompting a fight with Sanji. He is later shown to have lost, held dangling from his neck and lecturedon wasting food. He later reappears in the show in Alabasta with the now former pirate Jango as his partner under the command of Hina. He should have Close Combat Expert and Toughness. He should have about four clicks of health and its starting combat values should be Movement 8, Attack 9, Defense 16, Damage 2 and Range 0. His TA should be the Marine one and his keyword should be Marines. Next One Piece idea should be the next member of the Straw Hat Crew, Sanji.

Lastly is Naomi Misora from Death Note. Naomi is the fiancé of Raye Penber. After the death of Raye, Naomi begins her own investigation into his death and comes to conclude that Kira is responsible. When Light Yagami over hears Naomi's plan to give her theory to the Fire Investigation Team, he quickly decides to eliminate her. Years before the main events in Death Note, Naomi had worked with L in an investigation. She should have a trait called "Life Partner", Perplex and Outwit.

Life Partner: If there is a friendly character called Raye Penber within eight squares of Naomi Misora, both Naomi Misora and Raye Penber gains a +1 to their Defense values. If a friendly character called Raye Penber has been KO'd, Naomi Misora ignores hindering terrain for line of sight for the rest of the game.

She should have about four clicks of health and its starting combat values should be Movement 8, Attack 9, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 6 with one target. She should not have a TA and her keyword should be Detective. Next Death Note idea should be a Yotsuba Group Member generic.

Well this is it for this week. DreamClix next week will be will be extended to fifteen ideas/designs instead of ten as I am off work next week. Until next time, have fun.

Neoscream's Life, the 10th to the 16th of October

Ouka

Welcome to another week of my life, now back on the tabet. The week before last was a lack of hours at work and the start of a bunch on new games, but what did last week bring.

On Monday morning before work I attempted to battle the first gym leader in Pokémon Rijon Adventures. Sadly I failed. His Vaporeon is a bit too nasty. I worked from 10:30AM to 3:45PM. When I got home I posted last week's Watch, Listen and Read post and did a bit of training on Pokémon. I decided to change Diglett for Slowpoke. As Slowpoke was level 5 I had a lot of training to do. On the Gadget Show this week they announced the dates for the Gadget Show Live 2012. I must check with my mate if they want to go. Before going to bed I battled the gym leader again and won this time.

On Tuesday morning I posted last week's Neoscream's Life post. I worked from 10:45AM to 2:30PM. When I got I played some more Pokémon. I catched a Cubone, called it Sixshot and replace Jackal (the Bellsprout) with Sixshot. In the evening Blaire came online and was later joined by Pudda, I mean Cudda. When I went to bed it took me about an hour to get to sleep even tho all day I was tired.

Blaire on Tuesday

On Wednesday morning I could not sleep as well. Great sleeping problems and there is a big managers' meeting tomorrow. I worked from 11AM to 4:45PM. When I got home I play so more Pokémon and found a jamming bug outside the Day Care. See picture. I tried battling the second gym leader but failed. I received a text from Darren S also, saying that then is no HeroClix this week.

On Thursday morning Blaire was online with Cudda again. I worked from 10AM to 4:45PM with managers from over stores getting in foot. When I got home I did a bit of training on Pokémon and got the dial designs ready for tomorrow's HeroClix posts.

Now for this week's CosmicBreak update news. There is a new chibi called Pepo-chan who is the Halloween based character I saw last week. She is the first of another Chibi Collection Campaign.

Pepo-chan

Blaire was online again on Friday morning. When I checked my phone for messages I found I had a text from Darren S from yesterday at about 10:30AM. As it was due to the brothers not coming again he wanted to see if I was up for a 1,200 points Teen Titans vs Legion of Super-Heroes. How did I miss that message I do not know as I normal check the phone on my lunch break and when I finished work. If I did get the message I probably would had said no as it was a bit too short notice to build a 1,200 points team. I did a quick search on the app store on my tablet before work and finally found a Marvel Comics application where I can buy and read Marvel comics on my tablet. At long last. They cost $1.99 (about £1.25) a comic over a year old or between $2.99 and $4.99 for a comic out this year. There is also a several free comics too which I downloaded. While on the way to work I posted the text version on the HeroClix post from the tablet. I worked from 11:30AM to 3PM. When I got home I added the pictures and dials to the HeroClix post, as well ad adding a little extra news. While searching the web I found that next year the will be two new Transformers game. There is Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the sequel to Transformers: War for Cybertron; and Transformers: Universe, a free browser based Transformers MMO. I posted a teaser trailer to Transformers: Universe on my blog. I battled the second gym leader again in Pokémon RijonAdventures, however again I failed. On Facebook I also started another game, Toyz and Zombies.

Regina Winberrl

On Saturday at coffee were Richard, Darren H, Simon, Lucy and her daughter. It was good to see Simon and Lucy  as we rarely get to see much of Simon these days. We will hopefully see them again in a fortnight's time for Halloween. I worked from 12PM to 3:30PM. When I got home after work I worked to the update the DreamClix Dial Designs as I had not done a mid week one yet. I also decided to do Sunday's update too as I was already updating the page.

On Sunday morning I posted an DreamClix Dial Designs Update post about the double update I did yesterday. Before going to Richard's for role-play I popped the local shop to get two packs of Cherry Bakewells as Richard text a request for them as he forgot to get them. You can not have role-play without Cherry Bakewells. At role-play the dealt with a party of sixteen kobold and then a group of ten orcs. We ended the session with the party resting by a trapdoor. When I got home I found a teaser trailer to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron which I then posted on my blog. On it shows Grimlock transforming from a robot to a T-Rex. It was a bit odd as this is before Earth and too early beast alt forms (not beast like robot forms). However it is still cool and there has get to be a new reason in the story line of the game. Maybe the Dinobots, had returned from a scouting mission of prehistoric Earth and had taken dinosaur forms during the mission. Anyway, before going to bed I posted up the week's Watch, Listen and Read post.

Here is a list of post that will be posted during the coming week. Please note that things may change due to charges in work or time.

Wednesday the 19th of October: "Cosplay Deviants" review post.

Friday the 21st of October: "HeroClix".

Saturday the 22nd of October: "Cosplay Deviants" review post.
Sunday the 23rd of October: Start of eight day off work, "DreamClix Dial Designs" page update news and "Watch, Listen and Read".
Tuesday the 25th of October: "Neoscream's Life".

Well until next time, have fun.

Cosplay Deviants: Ivy - Warp Zone

Hi all, sorry for the long wait for this post. On Saturday the 8th of October, Cosplay Deviants new set Warp Zone featured the deviant Ivy cosplaying as a female version of Mario Mario (yes his first name and surname are the same) from Super Mario Brother. The custom looked great for a female version the the Brooklyn plummer and the setting in was taken in was perfect of Mario. Go to the Cosplay Deviants site to see more on the set and other sets. There is a link to the site on the right side and the bottom for my blog.

Now for the DreamClix side. I was at first thinking of doing a dial idea of Mario instead of a Deviant Card for Ivy. However, after a lot of thinking I would have to do a lot of ideas then just one for him so I decided not to Mario. I might instead start a Mario Brothers set in the future. But any way here is Ivy's card:

Deviant Card: Ivy
Team Ability: Cosplay Deviants.
Extra Keywords: Cosplay.
Special Abilities: Give this character a power action, all friendly characters adjacent to them gains +1 to their attack value until the end of your turn.
Give this character an epic action, all friendly characters adjacent to them gains +1 to their attack and defense values until the start of your next turn.
Cost: ?. This is halved if character is called ever Mario Mario, Velma Eugenia Dinkley, Saya Otonashi or Yomiko Readman. Until, next time have fun.