CoX Takes a Disturbing Turn

The 2006 Winter Event has begun on City of Heroes and City of Villains. In an entertaining turn of events, a ski resort has been opened up outside of Pocket D where heroes and villains alike can hit the slopes or relax in the chalet in front of a roaring fire with a hot cup of tea. They can also team up and get a new mission from Father Time, the goal of which is to rescue this freak of nature, Baby New Year, from our old friend Snaptooth. I've run this mission six or seven times so far (there are four different badges you can get as a reward, two confer costume pieces, and two give you temp powers). It's rather a fun mission, taking place in a wintry Croatoa, where you can fight Snow Beasts on ice. But it always ends the same way, with all the team members running back to the mission entrance pursued by this horribly disproportionate and oddly ambulatory baby. The goal of the mission is to rescue him and lead him out, but it always winds up looking more like we're fleeing in terror from this horror from beyond. I mean look at him! He's got a gigantic man-head, firmly mounded on obscenely broad shoulders with no intervening neck. His arms, legs, and chest are grossly overdeveloped. When he runs after you, those stumpy little legs are a blur of motion, as he moves at the same basic movement rate as a player, but is a quarter the height. The height is the worst of all. He is half the size of the shortest possible character, as you can see from the picture to the right. Both Doctor Inertia and Soul Tenant are average height, between 5' and 5'6", and this little demon barely reaches their knees. He's shorter than Rikti monkeys, were they to stand up straight. He freaks me out, big time, but I know I'm going to go right back to rescuing him every night I log in until January to get those badges on as many characters as I can.