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Aether

11-03-2005, 04:09 AM

Here's a thread for us to talk about what went on on our Twisted Tuesdays.

Personally I'd just like to thank you guys for coming to each Twisted Tuesday making them such fun and something I look forward to.

Possible Idea: We can alternate each week on who takes note of the events of Twisted Tuesday, and that person can do a summary for those who weren't there. Otherwise, we can just have everyone who was there add whatever they thought was interesting.

Brief list of events for the Twisted Tuesday of 11/01/05

I showed up as Aether first and we played around with the costume colors a little. The team was blinded by my temporary color pick of bright blue and green.

Fought some freaks. Got to the boss.... the infamous PwNxx0rz! We pwnd him.

Noirbot showed up and made fun of Nyx's clothes, Suede's intelligence, and R4-CHEL for not being a real girl.

Everyone actually got a paycheck! (in the form of some L50ish SOs :))

Didn't tally it up but we earned thousands of prestige for the team!

Elemento

11-03-2005, 04:27 AM

Sorry I've been missing that as of late.:( Things get hectic especially at the start of the month. Think but not sure, Father Thomas missed that badge too on the Freak leader.

Aether

11-18-2005, 01:23 AM

This past Twisted Tuesday we (Suede, Squire Obsidian, Nyx, R4-CHEL and Noirbot) got together to do the Transcendence Trial. Went pretty well, (despite some issues with counting) and we had a good time.
I'd like to thank the 3 other heroes that helped us, but I can only remember Green Wiggly, 'cause her name is not really just 2 adjectives cause Wiggly is a noun for something....

Our next goal is to get through the Striga missions and do the task forces there.

Aether

12-20-2005, 01:04 AM

So is everyone free for a Twisted Tuesday tomorrow or are y'all busy with holiday stuff? I'll be free.

I was thinking we'd partake in the game holiday events (get everyone their hats, badges, etc) and then we can take it from there.

the_starcrosser

12-20-2005, 03:37 AM

I personally would LOVE partaking in the game holiday events. I won't be able to get online until 8:30 pacific at the earliest, but if anyone's still around then, I'd love to. Our store has late holiday hours this week, which makes suede cry little suedey tears. I would have mentioned the scheduling difficulties a lot earlier, but i'm not quite the most on-the-ball person. (Usually i'm more "under the ball" or "squashed on the side of the ball")
Nyx will also be late. :p

Elemento

12-20-2005, 12:38 PM

The Toy Collector Badge is the longest one to get. Gather up 100 nice presents and you get this badge accolade.
Boomer got it last night after 3 to 4 hours of running around Galaxy City.
The 12 characters I play mostly have all gotten their hats and the second holiday badge already.

Sometime we have to get our three firefighting badges and the two rave badges.

Father Thomas has a respec to do.

Aether

01-03-2006, 04:13 AM

We're going to be trying for the Respec trial at tomorrow's Twisted Tuesday.

the_starcrosser

01-03-2006, 05:32 AM

Woot! We'll be there with bells on, whatever that might have once meant. And no more "holiday schedule" at work. :thumbsup:

Aether

01-04-2006, 03:23 AM

Jade, Elemento and I are on now. Is anyone else coming to the respec?

the_starcrosser

01-04-2006, 03:38 AM

Yes! just got in.

Aether

01-10-2006, 11:21 PM

Going to try for the Respec again tonight. Please show up as early as you can so we can get it all organized.

Elemento

01-11-2006, 06:15 PM

(Apparently someone or something got into Noirbot's databanks with misinformation. He obviously was suffering from some virus and couldn't process clearly.
Evidence of this was his attempt at making a few dance moves in the reactor. Totally uncharacteristic of him.
The respec no matter which number it is, is successful only if levels aren't too far apart. We had that right. We even had the right amount of people minimum.
The other condition is that whoever starts the Trial needs to check their difficulty to see that it is the lowest possible which is heroic.
It does make a difference in the number of nme fought in the Trial. Instead of two bots for instance at the same place, there'd be only one or none. The higher the difficulty, the more nme encountered.
Not positive who programmed Noirbot last night but obviously a ploy to undermine our organization. There is talk only rumors of course that kickbacks from the Sky Raiders are floating around.

Jade_Dragon

01-17-2006, 08:14 PM

(4L4N M1DN1T3 had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all. Honest. It's just coincidence that I decided to bow out to do some levelling over on the villain side...)

(I'll be around for this Tuesday, unless you're planning the respec again. Alan's no closer to 24 than he was 2 weeks ago. :D)

the_starcrosser

01-18-2006, 03:44 AM

Comin' in hot as soon as the patch updates. Managed to get MOST of my debt worked off.... :3

Aether

01-18-2006, 05:48 PM

Sorry I didn't show up last night. I wasn't feeling well and I fell asleep. Have a bit of a fever, called in sick today. Maybe we can try again later this week.

the_starcrosser

01-19-2006, 05:30 AM

D: Oh noes! Feel better soon! Orange juice and chicken soup and lots of rest! :( No worries, we just sort of hung around, Nyx and i ran a mission or two. I got out of that last bit of debt.
Might actually be free saturday evening, for once, if anyone wants to do anything. :3

*Takes the squeaky-hammer of smiting to aether's germs*

Elemento

01-19-2006, 02:10 PM

I just soloed Tue. with FT. I told Suede that the Family is behind this insidious plot to undermine our organization.

First, someone managed to switch input data tapes on Noirbot and we all saw what happened last week from that. His wires were crossed like someone gave him a virus.

Second, Pepe was fed a wrong passport. Think that's how he got shipped to Virtue instead of Pinnacle.

Third, you're sick and we all know it couldn't be something Nyx placed in your food so it has to be the Family.
We all trust Nyx, don't we? O_o :look:

Ever since you took on Striga goons, we've been getting nasty e-mails at the base. Unfortunately we have been unable to trace them yet.

Aether

01-20-2006, 10:44 PM

Feeling a bit better today. Fever's gone, but my throat still hurts. I figure it must have been some infection in my throat, 'cause that was my only other symptom.

I'll probably be free this weekend. I doubt I'll be going anywhere, just gonna give myself some extra recupe time. If enough of us aren't busy we can try it again.

I had a feeling it might have been the Family behind all this. Once, just one time, I said that their spaghetti sauce didn't taste homemade and they've had it in for me ever since.

Elemento

01-20-2006, 11:55 PM

Beginning to think they also had Noirbot framed for those baby incidents with the Paragon Police.
It's just too pat a frame job not to notice that.
Hard part for us with Noirbot's prior history is to prove that. Need to find evidence.
Wish my runner was still in the game.

ooc:Razordragoon's character was like a courier for Father Thomas at the church.
I have not seen him in quite some time.

the_starcrosser

01-22-2006, 10:04 AM

eeeegh, sorry >_o i got caught up in an art project and despite my best plans, didn't get in.... hope somebody made it.

Gaia

01-22-2006, 10:36 AM

*waves to team from sick bed* achoo!

Elemento

01-22-2006, 06:01 PM

Starcrosser: Haven't seen Aether this weekend

Gaia: Hope you feel better. I hear the flu is still going around.

the_starcrosser

01-23-2006, 08:36 AM

:( Looks like everyone's been contaminated! *waits for the green glowing eyes* ... *grabs a baseball bat*.....
Hope you guys feel better soon! *hugs*

the_starcrosser

01-24-2006, 07:25 PM

We on for tonight? :) Or, do people need some recoup time....? 9_9 We could always just run missions if people aren't up for a TF tonight.

Nyx

01-25-2006, 07:09 AM

GRAH!!!

... *glances around*

I would like to issue an apology for the way I left the respec TF on Tuesday night. I'm sure I disappointed some people, and probably left a rather bad taste in the mouths of the heroes who joined us. I was frustrated beyond all belief, and while that's not really an excuse to go storming off, it is my reason for it.

I guess I'm just a little too accustomed to relative success in this game. I'm a good controller and know it -- I'm used to staying alive, keeping other people alive, and heck, sometimes even preventing the need for a healer, let alone a trip to the hospital or the use of an awaken. So you can imagine it grates on me to be unable to hit anything (except for the rare occassion which, amazingly, seems to get me a bit of aggro, which is unhealthy for me because I can't defend myself because -- oh yeah -- I can't HIT anything....), as well as being unable to help my team at all.

I didn't really enjoy having the others there either... besides that it screwed up the levels so that we couldn't find a suitable arrangement for everyone, it also messed up the team dynamic. I'm not saying we shouldn't ever pick up joiners. I'm just saying that wasn't our best pick up team. We had too many, I think, and of incompatible levels.

Note that this is not an apology for leaving the TF. I was no help to the team, and neither was my attitude toward the whole thing, and I'll be more pleasant to be around if I can stop accumulating debt so quickly and work it off. (I dislike debt. I simply don't have the mindset to just shrug and ignore it.) This is more an apology for being in a snit, and for probably taking the whole thing too seriously.

:rant:

Aether

01-25-2006, 05:21 PM

I was on the edge of frustration too Nyx, so don't sweat it too much. I was feeling pretty useless too and on top of that was getting nothing out of it. Hardly any fun, no xp, no prestige. Was starting to feel like a big waste of time.

I didn't realize the level spread amongst the members was so high when I agreed to merge with Zippa and co. They were pretty good players so that wasn't the prob, we were just facing mobs way too high for our avg.

I figure we need a week or so to do something else. Get out of debt, make a level or two and then we'll try again some time. I think we can do it with just us 4 (or 5 with Alan)

Jade_Dragon

01-25-2006, 11:41 PM

Well, I was just completely offline last night, I intended to try to make it, but things came up, and I didn't even get a chance to play at all. But Alan still can't make a respec TF until I can get him some more levels. :D

Elemento

01-26-2006, 12:10 AM

If someone would've only listened to me in the respec, but noooooooooooooooooo!!! :grumble:
The proper way of doing that was for exemplaring to take place. Had the lower levels exemplared the higher levels, the problem of no XP or prestige would've been moot.
We had plenty of lvl 24s. Problem was the big mouth on their team who kept insisting on SKing. :angry: :rant:
That wasn't the only problem. They had a 33 on their team. :mad:
Disparity in levels allows for disaster every time.

The 27s SKing wasn't all bad but when their 33 started SKing, everything went down the crapper. :waiting: :cuss:

Even I at lvl 27 had some problems. My Deceive which is usually right on, was missing on target. My Phantom Army sometimes was just standing around like mannequins looking at us battle. :grr:

Nyx

01-26-2006, 03:04 AM

Good to know I wasn't the only one having a hellish time of it.... :grr:

Aether

02-01-2006, 09:49 PM

Another Twisted Tuesday tonight. No hard plans, just not doing a TF :). Just some mission running and some RPing.

Edit: Holy crap, I'm a day behind. Did anyone show last night....
I'm a mess.

Nyx

02-02-2006, 04:16 AM

Just Suede and me. We ran a few mishes though. Fought some freaks and warriors, learned not to mess around in TV.

Elemento

02-02-2006, 07:29 PM

Not exactly. I was playing Pinnacle too not that anyone notices an old shadow. :)

Did notice you earlier in the day though on Tuesday playing your villain, Aether.

Aether

02-03-2006, 03:21 AM

Yup, played my villain and then signed off not even realizing it was Tuesday already.

I'd set something up for later this week/end but I don't think I'll have much time. Busy on Saturday, Super Bowl party on Sunday. Tomorrow might be free..?

Elemento

02-03-2006, 02:06 PM

Aether: I was at the Paragonian Knights one year anniversary as my Paragonian Knight last Sunday, and I made representation of SGI there. Grae Knight thanks go out to SGI.

Nyx: I contacted Ragnarok about his current situation and here is his reply.
Hey Dan,

I'm so glad that you are maintaining PAYROLL. My
computer is still on the fritz and unable to run. I'm
not planning on closing my account "EVER" so no
worries. I still plan on getting back into CoH's, I
just need a new computer. My old work horse of a
desktop just isn't working at all and stuck using my
roomates computer, only to check emails. I'm stil
trying to get around to purchasing a new one,
hopefully soon. Please keep PAYROLL going on Virtue
server. Let Ryder know that I'm still in the loop and
inform him of my current situation and to please
maintain tabs on me. I don't want to loose contact
with either of you two. You've been there since the
beginning. Let Nyx know to sit tight, like I said, my
computer isn't running at all. It's just not working
and it's very old-> Pentium III 600 and was on it's
last leg since CoH beta. I really pushed it to it's
limits, went through two video cards, a hard drive and
dropped a 256 stick of RAM like a bad habit in the
process. It's just done. It went to that big junk pile
in the sky. lol. Once I get a new system, I plan on
salvaging the hard drive so I don't loose any old deta
for the website, hense why I haven't been able to
update it.

Keep in touch.

Law

Nyx

02-07-2006, 05:25 AM

He lives!!

Aether

02-08-2006, 01:14 AM

Thanks for representing us at the anniversary, El. Good to have an SGI presence at those sorts of things.

The prodigal Ragnarok returns.

Twisted Tuesday tonight. Aren't you glad I remembered the day of the week?

Elemento

02-08-2006, 01:35 AM

Talked with Impadivus like real early this morning. :)

the_starcrosser

02-08-2006, 03:26 AM

Twisted Tuesday! Yeah, we were hoping you were all right Aeth :3 good to know it's just a brain slip and not the plague.
Be right in! ^_^

Edit: Huzzah! Good to know Rag's still in the spandex business. We'll keep his little shop of horrors running until then.
<_<....
>_>.....
He should join SGI! You know, when he gets back. "When the Ragnarok comes." That sounds vaguely ominous.

Aether

02-08-2006, 03:55 AM

so where is everyone?

the_starcrosser

02-08-2006, 04:02 AM

D: holy crap! I thought i had another week! Uhh...... right, well, looks like i'm having the same problem Nyx had a month (or so) ago.... my time card ran out! >_o I'll get another one tomorrow, but until then...... i hope you guys have fun without me! *cries*......

Nyx

03-08-2006, 03:48 AM

Er.... same deal with the post above... account expired. O_o I won't be on tonight, I guess.... >_<

Aether

03-22-2006, 02:14 AM

I'm back! And slightly better than ever! (well, tanner anyway)

Going to jump on for a bit, but I don't think I'll be able to play very long. I'm already super tired, but I want to squeeze in some super heroics before bed.

the_starcrosser

03-22-2006, 03:27 AM

Yay, you're back! :D
Last week Nyx and Midnight and i had a ball in Croatoa, street sweeping. I think we all leveled or something like that.
>_> feeling kind of rather sick today, but i shall be there! yar.

Elemento

03-22-2006, 10:01 PM

Well as I have stated, all my characters are at an impasse right now.

Father Thomas: Burkholder's Bane followed by Citadel
Gryphon Granite, Squire Obsidian, and Lt Col C McDuff all have the mask farming Spirit Warrior mission, Sister Psyche, and 1st Respec to do.

Aether

03-29-2006, 03:14 AM

didn't catch anyone on when I signed on last week, but I really wasn't on for very long and it was still early.

Hope you can all come by tonight, I'm on.

the_starcrosser

04-05-2006, 03:53 AM

Hangin' around, hope we can have some fun fightin' tonight. :3

Having a grand old time killing wookalopes - err, Tuatha de Danan.... On another note, we're thinking of planning a Lowbie Night one of these nights, the target level will be around 10 or a little lower, so if anyone's got any alts in that range or alt ideas they wanna start, that'd be a good time to get them together.
Aether's bringing up a strapping little tank, i've got an emp defender, nyx has a katana scrapper or something, and we're open to anythin' else. :D Anyone have ideas?

Jade_Dragon

04-05-2006, 07:58 PM

Aether's bringing up a strapping little tank, i've got an emp defender, nyx has a katana scrapper or something, and we're open to anythin' else. :D Anyone have ideas?

Pinnacle... hm... I think there's a copy of Bloodwolf hanging around there. Unfortunately, Pinnacle's Sandy switched to the villain side.

Most of my lowbies are all villains. :D (And I still want to get together with Noirbot and start a VG over there)

Aether

04-07-2006, 02:44 AM

I'm all for Lowbie night. Whenever you guys would like to do it either as an addition to our replacement for a Twisted Tuesday. We can have it as soon as next week if we get enough characters.

Jade, I still have to create the villain Noirbot. I just haven't gotten to it. So I'll let you know as soon as I do and we can start some villainous plotting.

Nyx

04-09-2006, 07:45 AM

How lowbie are we talking? I've got one other character on Pinnacle, and she's level 7.

Jade_Dragon

04-11-2006, 05:45 PM

Jade, I still have to create the villain Noirbot. I just haven't gotten to it. So I'll let you know as soon as I do and we can start some villainous plotting.

That's right, you created villain Noirbot in Beta. I hadn't realized you didn't carry him over into the release.

It's all right, there's no hurry. Until we get more folks into CoV we don't need an SG for them, I just wanted to make sure it's around when they do. I don't even know if I can come up with a good name for it. :D

BTW, unless I have a brain hiccup and forget it's Tuesday again, I should be around for the Twisted Tuesday tonight.

the_starcrosser

04-12-2006, 03:36 AM

Tuesday! tuesday! :] Lowbies or - Highbies...? - Either one is good with me. >_> and no, still don't have CoV, m'self.

Elemento

04-12-2006, 05:07 PM

Father Thomas: Burkholder's Bane followed by Citadel
Gryphon Granite has the mask farming Spirit Warrior mission, Sister Psyche, and 1st Respec to do.
Squire Obsidian and Lt Col C McDuff have Sister Psyche and 1st Respec.

Okay updated status but still blocked.

I sent Aether an e-mail in-game to let him know I paid the rent.

Also welcome when you see this person ingame a new Shade to our SG.
The name is: Repent And Blij I think. Heh heh, last part escapes me now. You will be able to meet this person on Tuesdays.

Aether

04-12-2006, 05:32 PM

Sorry I got caught up doing other things last night and lost track of time. By the time I realized It was too late and I was dead tire. Free any other nights this week? We'll give our lowbies a shot.

You don't really have to worry too much about rent Elemento. As far as I know the worst thing that happens is if you don't pay after a long time they lock you out, which you can fix by just paying the rent once.

Jade_Dragon

04-12-2006, 06:11 PM

Well, it turns out I don't have a version of Bloodwolf on Pinnacle after all. I must have deleted him because I couldn't get the name Bloodwolf, only Blood Wolf. (I know that because I did get Sandy, and I was never able to get both Sandy and Bloodwolf on the same server. On Justice, where I got Bloodwolf, she is Sandy Jensen)

Anyway, that means I'll have to start a new character as a lowbie. Right now, Rachel is my lowbie, and she's 21. :D (But we did get to level her a bit last night)

Aether

04-14-2006, 01:30 AM

hmm... I think I may even wait until issue 7 hits before I make Nori, those electricity power sets may fit him nicely.

Jade_Dragon

04-14-2006, 05:15 PM

hmm... I think I may even wait until issue 7 hits before I make Nori, those electricity power sets may fit him nicely.

Well, we're all used to him as Inv/SS, but you may be right. :D

the_starcrosser

04-18-2006, 06:35 PM

Yeah, any timeframe on when #7 comes to town? Should be interesting.... :d

I've got Radio Ghost if we want to do a lowbie run, otherwise, good ol' suede is up and at 'em.

Aether

04-18-2006, 07:55 PM

Let's go ahead and do Lowbie night tonight.
If you don't have a low character, feel free to make one.

Jade_Dragon

04-18-2006, 07:59 PM

Yeah, any timeframe on when #7 comes to town? Should be interesting.... :d

It's not on Test yet (AFAIK) so it will probably still be a while. Not too long, I hope.

Now I got to come up with a character, though... :think:

the_starcrosser

04-19-2006, 03:50 AM

Heh, don't work too hard.... we can always RSK, especially if you have debt. Or maybe if you have an old idea floating around somewhere! :D

Jade_Dragon

04-19-2006, 06:31 PM

Well, as you now know, I went with a D&D character. I'm going to have to work his ferrets in there somewhere, maybe I'll get Challenge for pulling (Taunt doesn't make a good pull) and say it's the ferrets stealing something and running back with it.

He's also going to have Stealth (got level 6 so I went ahead and got it) which should be interesting for a Tanker. I'll probably turn it on while scouting around and then turn it off while fighting. Which I don't usually do with stealth characters.

Elemento

04-19-2006, 09:15 PM

Update
Father Thomas is lookin for anyone with the Burkholder TF, then will be doing Citadel, followed by Moonfire
Gryphon is up for the 1st Respec and has the Spirit Warrior mission on hold for Banisher farming.
Squire and McDuff both have Psyche TF to do and then 1st Respec

Aether

04-26-2006, 02:22 AM

Another lowbie night, or back to the old crew?

Nyx

04-26-2006, 03:28 AM

I vote old crew... we can switch off.

Jade_Dragon

04-26-2006, 05:25 PM

Sorry I wasn't able to stay around last night, but it was well after midnight when I finally got the system up and running. I was hoping I might be able to get through with it and get back on line, but I didn't want to just slap everything together, I wanted to get the whole system running.

The good news is, I was REALLY impressed by the way CoH looked with the new graphics card. I've got some great stories about my troubles and travails with setting up the new system, but I'll post that in another thread. Don't want to clutter up this one. :D

Aether

05-10-2006, 03:30 AM

I've recently reinstalled windows so I have reinstall CoV and patch up, so I'll just be a little late

the_starcrosser

05-10-2006, 04:16 AM

We'll be hangin' around, come on down when ya can :3

Jade_Dragon

05-10-2006, 06:54 PM

Sorry I missed it, but I wasn't online at all last night. I even forgot Inuyasha was on. My mind was just off in orbit or something...

the_starcrosser

05-17-2006, 03:18 AM

shoobie doo wah, investigation time!
*investigates a baddie's head with her boot at full force* <_< whaaaat?

Aether

05-25-2006, 12:02 AM

Sorry I missed you guys last night, I was busy with some other things.

I did get around to playing during the Recluse's Victory event going on in the Training Room today though.

At first I was a little reluctant 'cause I'm not very into PVP, but I'll tell you I had a lot of fun. There really weren't a lot of jerks it seemed. Whenever I had a good long battle with someone I'd congratulate them no matter which one of us won. It's a Hero vs Villain zone so there is oppurtunity for RP and at least there are some people you can trust. There were some good fights and I'll tell you that controllers are something to fear, especially in pairs, and if a blaster wanders by it's all over for you. I also had a couple of drawn out battles with a Tank, which I was only able to take 'cause I had my Heavy with me.

The zone is really something else. If you haven't heard about it, the objective is to capture a number of "pillboxes" or fortresses. Each fortress has 4 turrets guarding them. So you have to defeat those turrets, which also usually entails fighting off some other players too. Then you go to a control panel in the middle and click away and now your side controls that pillbox. And as long as you're near the control panel you can control all the turrets yourself as pets.

Another major feature of the zone are the "Heavies." These are robots that you can claim as your own pet. I'm not sure if I discovered all of their launching pads but each side gets about 3-4 of them. The control for them is exactly like the controls a Mastermind has for his henchmen, if you've played on of them. The only difference is that the Heavies are of an "Elite Boss" level, so they can take and dish out a lot of damage. I never had one of mine destroyed except when I died, at which point you lose control over them and then they respawn back at their pads. The bad part is that only a limited few can have Heavies, because once someone liberates one from a pad, it won't respawn until it's destroyed or the operator gets defeated.

The artwork for the zone changes depending upon which side is controlling more pillboxes. I didn't really get to see it fully in action because there seemed to be a lot more villains in the zone I was playing than heroes (I too was a villain). The neutral look is of a bit dilapidated Atlas Park, it's similar to the one we now but a bit more run down. When the villains start winning it gets drearier and drearier, with Atlas being replaced by a huge Lord Recluse. Like so:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c256/naisvb/CoH/RecluseMed.jpg

I'd imagine it gets all shiny and happy times when the heroes win. I think I'll probably join in the fun with a hero later today. Any character you create on test today gets leveled up to L40 for testing purposes. You just have to talk to the trainers in the base you start off in when you enter the game.he only zone available on test right now is Recluse's Victory.

Anyway, if anyone wants to give it a shot, give me a holler. My global name on the test server is also @Aether. It may be a little tricky getting to play together since last I saw there were about 20 seperate instances of the zone, but we could work something out.

If you guys want to have another play time maybe Thursday or Saturday night I'm down with that too, let me know.

Jade_Dragon

05-25-2006, 12:09 AM

I will probably give it a try tonight, if I can get in with any of the other Guruites. Which side I choose will probably depend on who is winning, if the heroes are in control, Bloodwolf will have to go in there and "bring things back into balance". :D If it is still as you reported, however, and the villains are outnumbering the heroes, Bloodwolf will take the heroes' side.

Then again, I want to bring my other characters in as well. For one thing, I've been wanting to turn Blue Diamond loose in a PvP zone for a while. :D

Anyway, if you're online, I'll try and get in contact with you. I think my global on Test is @Sandy, however. I'm not sure why it gave me that name and not Jade Dragon, but for some reason, I can't change it, either.

Elemento

05-30-2006, 02:32 PM

Update:
Got tired of lookin for someone so Father Thomas did the arc and has the Hess TF.
Both Squire Obsidian and Lt Col C McDuff have the 1st Respec Trial.
Gryphon is hangin onto that farming mission where we can get our Banisher badge.

Aether

05-31-2006, 03:17 AM

Since I missed last week I lost track, is this Lowbie night or Normie night?

Elemento

06-01-2006, 11:24 PM

Finished off Burkholder for Father Thomas.
Father Thomas is on Moonfire TF currently.

Formed a couple coalitions with SGI. One is with a fellow guru here, Razoras.
His SG is comprised now of only three members. It's called The Super Secret Squirrel Brigade.
The other SG are The Immortals of Paragon led by Odacer the Immortal.

It was getting hard to find people for help with trials or task forces til I found this group. Most teams you get on you end up outleveling your story arcs if you team too much. I being a casual player like to do my story arcs with all my characters. I only request help with trials, task forces, and the occasional elite boss.

Having other SGs to communicate with I feel is an opportunity to meet more people on Pinnacle.

Elemento

06-05-2006, 08:14 PM

Since the last maintenance by Cryptic, our global channel got wiped. Today's news is that they have now pushed it up as a critical issue.
Please see me for a re-invite to the channel.
Have already gotten a hold of Liv and Jade Dragon.

Latest update is only that the colonel got his respec done which leaves only Squire to do that.

the_starcrosser

06-07-2006, 03:56 AM

Woot... patching.... behold, i7! .... i'll be a few minutes. >_<

Jade_Dragon

06-07-2006, 11:28 PM

Sorry for bowing out so suddenly, but my mom was calling me. :D And then I got caught up in what Cartoon Network was doing (Neon Genesis Evangelion and then Paranoia Agent, which is pretty much the two shows you can count on to grab all my attention) so by the time I got back to the game it was way too late and everyone was gone.

So catch you all next week. We're definately want to start thinking about what we want to do with our villain characters, and I want to look at our SG base, too. There are a whole lot of new toys in I7 to play with. :D

the_starcrosser

06-08-2006, 03:27 AM

Jade_Dragon

06-08-2006, 05:58 PM

MMmm happy toys O_o...

<_< One question - i made sure not to create a new account, i put CoV under my usual NCsoft account. Then it asked to create a login name. So i did that. Now i can't tell if it's showing as two different accounts under the "Big Account" or not.... and is it supposed to ask me for payment before i can play, if i'm already paying for CoH? Did i manage to make the mistake i was trying to avoid the whole time? I hope not. Bleh.

It shouldn't have asked you for a login name. Email customer support and ask them to make sure that you haven't created two different accounts for CoH and CoV, and if you have, combine them.

You should have clicked on the "Upgrade" button that appears next to your CoH account. If you did that, then it must have glitched or something.

the_starcrosser

06-08-2006, 07:23 PM

Beh. Thanks! I'll email 'em.

Edit:
Hmm. They're not making it easy to find customer suport email... Do i need to post on the knowledgebase board to get them to email me?

Re-edit: Yup, okay. Hopefully they'll be able to switch it. *crosses fingers and waits*

Aether

06-15-2006, 02:05 AM

So everyone still good with play time and/or festivities this evening?

I'll be online in a few minutes, so whenver you choose to show up is fine. Hope to see you there.

the_starcrosser

06-15-2006, 06:40 AM

Woot! Cheers to another good year!
One of these days we'll have to block out some time for a task force :3

the_starcrosser

06-20-2006, 12:13 AM

How would people feel about doing another wednesday night this week, either as well as or in place of tuesday night? I won't be able to make tuesday again >:[ I don't know if it's going to just this week, or week after next as well, but i don't want to confuse any o' y'all too much. Ah well, we'll have fun :d

Aether

06-21-2006, 01:38 AM

I'm cool with doing a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday. There was something else I wanted to get done tonight anyway. See ya tomorrow then!

the_starcrosser

06-22-2006, 03:23 AM

Woot :D

Aether

06-28-2006, 01:11 AM

Are we back on Tuesdays or still Wednesday?

I fell asleep last Wednesday. Then I was out of town for pretty much the rest of the week.

the_starcrosser

06-28-2006, 03:45 AM

Tuesday~! Sorry for the mixups ^_^ Hopefully should be back on schedule now, though i'm not sure about next week for m'self....
*does a soft-shoe dance with a bowler hat and cane*

Addendum: That is, if my stoopid downloader will stop seizing up midway and finish the stooopid file! *beats the computer with her head* Seriously, you evil machine.

Aether

06-28-2006, 04:15 AM

Okay, I'm on!
Go Team Shades!

Aether

07-10-2006, 12:44 AM

Gonna be on vacation for 2 weeks starting on Tuesday. I'll be off in Florida. So have a good time without me at the next couple of Twisted Tuesdays!

the_starcrosser

07-17-2006, 05:43 AM

*dumps sunblock on aether* Hope you're doin' great out there, don't get eaten by sharks >_o

Due to schedules of persons, i might not be able to make it on Tuesday this week. I'll try to be on on Wednesday, if anyone will be around. :3 ..... >_> That is, if i can ever find a time card. Stoopid stores everywhere are out! *kicks the commercial consumer system* Hey, i wanna give you money! Gimme some product!

Jade_Dragon

07-18-2006, 05:04 PM

I will check in tonight, but if no one's around I'll try again Wednesday. Don't forget also Double XP Weekend this weekend. You all may have your own plans, though, and in all honesty Alan and Rache aren't top of my list to level. We might see if we can catch up some of our villains, though...

Aether

07-26-2006, 01:48 AM

Just got back today. Had a great time. I'll probably be sleeping though instead of playing tonight. Tomorrow night should be good if anyone wants to get together, if not some other night this week.

the_starcrosser

07-26-2006, 03:32 AM

Glad you're back, Fearless! :D You'll have to tell us all about it. Get fried? I'm sure we can do wednesday too, we could use the workout! A few of us were bouncing around over the weekend, too. :d

Elemento

07-26-2006, 06:54 AM

Was on tonight. Only no one else was on the server. Jade Dragon was on another server.
I paid the month overdue rent. Had to cause the portal wouldn't let me in.
I placed four new objects in the base: Mainframe; Basic & Advanced Worktables; and a Salvage Rack. We can now convert that heavy salvage in our hip pockets. :P

Any arcane will have to be shelved in the salvage rack til we can get forges.

the_starcrosser

07-26-2006, 08:17 AM

Nyx, Shardre, and i were the only ones on that i could tell >_o must have missed you. We got a lot done, i think, and we'll be back on tomorrow for more - maybe a little later than usual, though.

I've got CoV, so i could theoretically get in the base, if i knew where or how. Still earning prestige, but it doesn't seem like much when you can't see what it's for. ^_^

Aether

07-27-2006, 03:45 AM

I'm on now if anyone's interested.

I'm upset that I missed the double XP weekend... :(

the_starcrosser

08-01-2006, 06:31 PM

*hugs Aeth* 0_0 maybe they'll have another one!

>_> Wooooo twisted tuesday wooo! See youse guys tonight.

Aether

08-02-2006, 01:32 AM

Do you want to use our "lowbies" tonight or should we continue the push to level 30?

Nyx

08-02-2006, 03:10 AM

We're sooooo close.... Suede and I have only two and a half bars to 30... I'm just DYING to get there...

the_starcrosser

08-02-2006, 03:29 AM

I'm just DYING to get there...
^_^ Really? that could be arranged...... *evil cackle*

Gaia

08-02-2006, 05:52 AM

The only characters doing any dying around here are Dusty and Doc. *this message brought to you by the dirt bag and his mystical pal*

the_starcrosser

08-02-2006, 07:08 PM

"BREATHE, darnit!" *does CPR on a pile of sand* ..... "Oh, wait, wrong pile of sand. Doc, help me look!" *sifts around looking for the real one*

e_e We need to have dusty along sometime.... either majorly SKed, or with the lowbie group..... did you ever find a build you liked? The controller was working pretty well...

*noogies Hector*

Jade_Dragon

08-02-2006, 09:03 PM

Well, I did manage to get Alan Midnight to 26 last night, after the gang broke up. It's not as hard to get 2 bars at 26 as at 29. :D So I went to level up and found that once again I have no idea what to pick. Ignite, (yet another dropped weapon along with my Caltrops) Assault, (so I can pick up Tactics later, and help you guys with my superhuman perception and memory recall :D) or maybe some other power that I might have talked about earlier and forgotten now? What do you think?

([edit] My previous suggestions were Intimidate (picking up Challenge first) and Beanbag. I still don't like Beanbag any more than I did last time, and there is also Weave -- I do have Boxing and Tough now -- but then Manuevers would probably help the team more)

(I guess again it comes down to do I want to spend the Endurance on Leadership when I already have enough trouble with End use, or just go with Ignite. One or the other)

Aether

08-02-2006, 10:05 PM

Jade_Dragon

08-02-2006, 11:16 PM

I think the leadership can wait until later, particularly when you can pump more END SOs into them so it's not so bad a burden. So I'd recommend going with Ignite for now, if there's nothing else you're considering.

Ignite it is then. Well, maybe I'll wait for a few more replies, but sounds like it's going to be Ignite. If we get together another group tonight, I'll bring along Rache instead.

the_starcrosser

08-03-2006, 03:43 AM

Eventually, leadership will definitely help, but don't break your end on it right now...
If the endurance drain gets better later, then definitely pick it up.

*hates running out of end.... that shield-crashing noise... means pain is imminent.*

Jade_Dragon

08-08-2006, 06:53 PM

BTW, I don't know if I will make it tonight. I've got a bunch of stuff that may be keeping me busy, so I'll try to make it, but if I can't go ahead and start without me. Or whatever. :D

the_starcrosser

08-09-2006, 03:28 AM

:3 We'll keep an eye out for ya - if you can come, awesome, if not, we'll still hope for ya. ^_^ *thumbsup*

the_starcrosser

08-09-2006, 07:51 PM

Shardre reached 30 last night, and we ran costume missions. Aegis Ember joined us, and we kicked Crey BOOTY (purple L36's, at that). It was awesome.

<_< Figured out why my lag was so bad. Computer was downloading updates on itself. *shakes fist* Pick some other night to do that!

Jade_Dragon

08-09-2006, 08:27 PM

Well, I wasn't able to get away, but I should be all right for next week. I'll see if I can catch Rache up a bit, she's 23 now and I'd like to get her to 24. I don't want her to fall TOO far behind Alan, although a little bit is okay.

Besides, her defense isn't really going to be complete until I can get to 28 and get Invincibility. I'm not getting there in a week, though. :D

Aether

08-10-2006, 05:09 AM

wasn't feeling too well last night. Sorry for not being there.

Nyx

08-10-2006, 05:25 AM

No worries boss man. Just don't be too shocked by everyone's new outfits next time.

Aether

08-10-2006, 08:24 PM

I'll be on this afternoon to early evening if anyone would like to team up.

Jade_Dragon

08-10-2006, 08:29 PM

No worries boss man. Just don't be too shocked by everyone's new outfits next time.

Oo! Are your new outfits that shocking? Now I've got to see them... :D

Aether

08-15-2006, 01:38 AM

I'm having relatives in from Canada tomorrow and they're spending the night. I'll try to sneak away for Twisted Tuesday but if I don't show up, that's why. I think at the very least I'll be able to get in an hour or so.

Nyx

08-15-2006, 03:57 AM

Good to know. I think we're just running aura mishes for the most part anyway.

Aether

08-16-2006, 01:25 AM

I should be able to make it for a while. I'll probably sign on in a little and run some missions to clear out some of my older contacts.

Nyx

08-16-2006, 07:00 AM

Duuuuuuuuude we beat the puuuuuuuumpkiiiiiiiiinsss...... O_o O_o O_o

Jade_Dragon

08-16-2006, 05:55 PM

Mmm, nicely baked pumpkin pie. You just have to pick the Caltrops out of it...

I'm still not sure about Ignite. I had almost worked my way up to getting Weave, since Alan's shtick is supposed to be his superior perception given to him by his implant. But I think Ignite worked okay, and will probably be better once it's slotted with some damage.

I was REALLY slow throwing the Caltrops, though, which under the circumstances wasn't a good thing. I'm hoping I get used to the new keybind arrangement, but I don't know if I shouldn't have taken Weave after all...

Nyx

08-17-2006, 03:11 AM

the_starcrosser

08-17-2006, 04:15 AM

If you don't end up liking Ignite, you can always respec for Weave, or pick it up next time... have any free respecs left?

Heh! I think we worked really well. If anyone's willing to do it again sometime, we can try switching it up if anyone gets bored.... but seemed like great teamwork all around.

Aether

08-17-2006, 09:10 PM

Agreed. We got the plans worked out nicely and quickly became a pumpkin mashing machine. I wouldn't be totally against trying it again but I do think the mission lasts longer than it needs to.

I rearranged the SGI base a bit to include the new rooms and items they added. It was a big help and I was able to keep everything we had as well as release some 600000 influence. That along with the 25% prestige earning increase and we should be on our way to having a fun,usable base.

I also used a combo of Aether's and Wolf's salvage to make a telepad which I'll be putting in the base as soon as I build a Teleporter room. We already have some beacons too so we can pick a convenient zone to link the pad to.

Jade_Dragon

08-17-2006, 09:31 PM

Oh my holds timing was horrible half the time, you just don't know because you were stuck back at the gate... Suede and Wolf took out most of the stragglers who got past me.... which was probably around half to a third of them.

Well, the point was to take out most of them before they got to me. Ensuring that any that DID get past were baked potatoes... er, pumpkins.

It was the two or three times that a whole group suddenly activated and charged at me that it was clear just how well you guys were doing holding them back. I was barely able to hold them with Caltrops, and resorted to just repeatedly firing knockbacks into the groups near the gate, hoping to keep knocking them away from it.

I can guess that without a strict strategy, 30 can get past you in just the blink of any eye. So it's no wonder it's an unpopular mission. :D

Jade_Dragon

08-17-2006, 09:36 PM

I also used a combo of Aether's and Wolf's salvage to make a telepad which I'll be putting in the base as soon as I build a Teleporter room. We already have some beacons too so we can pick a convenient zone to link the pad to.

Yay! I've been looking forward to seeing a telepad.

Which reminds me, we need to either make it so Freelance can put stuff into storage, or bump Rache up to the next level. Not Shade, but the Lieutenant level, which I think you haven't named yet. You might even do the same with the other Freelancers. Rache has plenty of Salvage she can put in the storage, though, as does Alan. (He can store it, since he's a Shade, but I've been holding onto it for the moment)

Rache also has an Enhancement I'd like to store in the base, as well as one I'd like to pass to her from Alan.

Jade_Dragon

08-17-2006, 09:42 PM

If you don't end up liking Ignite, you can always respec for Weave, or pick it up next time... have any free respecs left?

As a matter of fact I do, but I'm going to give Ignite a chance first. I could use the additional damage, but it really concerns me that I have to fire it off so often. One more attack in my sequence really isn't going to increase my damage if it means I could have made another attack in that time.

Maybe I need to think about Assault and Manuevers again. It's the lack of a damage buff like Aim that Ignite is supposed to make up for. Quite frankly, at this point I'm leaving it like it is because I haven't the foggiest idea what I really want to do...

the_starcrosser

08-30-2006, 03:40 AM

Shoom! Twisteeeeeeed Tuesday. ^_^

Great job with the pumpkins last week. 0_o

And also there's the first part(s) of an RP in our forumabobber if anyone wants to take a look. :3

Nyx

08-30-2006, 07:22 AM

I hate redcaps. I've never seen ANYTHING so resistant to my holds. Even ghosts weren't this bad.

Jade_Dragon

08-30-2006, 10:37 PM

Well, maybe next time I'll remember to turn Tough on. But then, if I'd been spending the Endurance for it, I probably wouldn't have had it to attack. So in the end, I think it was all okay.

I did like my new keybind that I mentioned, and it was working well. I basically Alt-click to drop Caltrops, and when I picked up Ignite I worried over whether to replace it as the Alt-click power. Then last night I came up with a bind that will switch between Caltrops and Ignite when I press \. So all that time I was switching between Caltrops and Ignite and throwing them both as the situation called for it. I think it worked out well.

I still don't know, though. When time came to level, I thought I might put more damage in Ignite, but it's really more a barrier, like Caltrops. So I put the slots in Flamethrower instead, and left Ignite with one slot, again like Caltrops. I'm afraid it's just not the substitution for Aim/Build Up I thought it was intended to be. Instead, it seems to be the Caltrops for those who don't have Caltrops. And I have Caltrops...

Jade_Dragon

09-01-2006, 09:06 PM

Just thought I'd drop in here with a short story, I was considering which I am going to take at level 26 with R4-CHL, Focus or Eviscerate, and the thought suddenly occured to me, "Wait, I don't really use Slash that much. Most of my attack chain is build around Follow Up, Strike, and Spin. Slash does about the same damage as Strike and Spin, and the Def debuff isn't really that useful. So why don't I respec out of Slash, and pick up Focus?"

Unfortunately, as I started to try out the respec, I realized there was a flaw in this plan: At level 2, when I previously picked up Slash, I have only Swipe, Slash, and Temp Invulnerability open. Strike and Resist Physical were already taken, at level 1. Swipe wouldn't be any better than Slash, overall, so that leaves TI.

The problem is, I designed Rachel around the concept of not having TI. Dull Pain (repair circuits) and Invincibility (agility) were supposed to be her primary defense, she isn't "really" Invulnerable. More like SR with heal. If I'd been stopped at level 4 instead of 2 everything would be all right, as that's when I took Dull Pain. I don't want to drop Dull Pain for TI, though, as that's essentially Blue Diamond's build, and I wanted Rachel to be DIFFERENT from him, so she wouldn't just play the same.

I think I'll leave things as-is, after all, there's 25 levels left, and Rache will be turning into a damage monster soon enough. 28 is set aside for Invincibility, finally, but there is both 26 and 30, and 32 when Shockwave opens up. I think I will go with Eviscerate at 26, it does more damage and hits more targets than Focus, besides. I can wait until 30 or 32 to get a ranged attack.

I thought I would post this in case someone wanted to comment, though. Maybe Shardre, having a lot of ranged attacks as well, has some insight into where that might be useful. Or, maybe I want to stay away from ranged attacks in order to be more unique. The martial artists in the SG have single target damage covered, Shardre and Rache I guess are our AoE specialists. And as I said, Eviscerate isn't ranged, but it is a melee cone.

Aether

09-06-2006, 02:58 AM

I really haven't played claw scrappers enough to give you much helpful advice Jade. Your reasoning sounds good so I think just stick with what you got until you learn otherwise.

Everyone still up for trying the Katie Hannon TF tonight? Let's try to get things together quickly after signing so we're ready to go. We still have some missions to go and we might need to pick up extra teammates if there's not enough of us.

Fantasmo

09-06-2006, 01:49 PM

I had an awesome time last night teaming with you guys! :cool:
Everyone was very friendly and you guys are great players!

I will be posting an application real soon for the Green Gaze.

Jade_Dragon

09-06-2006, 05:07 PM

Glad to have you on board, Fantasmo. I think Green Gaze could fit in with the SG concept, even as-is, for one thing the name and your macro certainly suggest a character that is perceptive and watchful, a guardian or sentinel type. Maybe some of the other guys have some suggestions too. (He was telling me he was thinking of redesigning the costume, before you guys showed up)

Next week, we'll have to introduce you to Alan. BTW, although I don't have any origin stories for him posted here, the original story on which he and Rache were based is here (http://www.phan.org/ryley/alan/door01.htm).

Anyway, I'm glad I caught you guys, I had actually forgotten it was Tuesday, and was trying to level up Rache to 26 in advance of our meet up. :D I was also trying to get a simultaneous mission out of the way, which is when Green Gaze caught up with me. So if you guys hadn't shown up when you did, I might have just finished the mission and logged out. I hadn't actually planned to be up that long. But it was a blast, as usual, even if I kept getting my robotic butt kicked. :D

I picked up Eviscerate, and even tried it out a few times, the damage isn't fantastic, but it IS a pretty wide arc, so I think that will increase Rachel's AoE damage. There were a couple of times there when I was surrounded when I said "I wish Alan was here, he could AoE these guys." :D I think I've been underestimating her damage because of our level difference, and likely my perception that Alan's damage is low is the same thing.

Anyway, I am still toying with the idea of respec'ing into Focus, but really, that means a LOT of trouble since a respec always means reordering all of my macros which get messed up by a respec. And as many macros as I have that can take a while. Rachel is still awfully fragile, and maybe TI would help with that, but I think I'm going to stick with my plan of getting to 28 and Invincibility. It shouldn't be that important a power, but it is, and that's what the devs decided on, and I'm going to go with it.

the_starcrosser

09-09-2006, 09:28 AM

Glad gaze could join us! :D Good looking application, too - we'll have to come up with some nifty introduction stuff!

:] We're glad you caught us too, that was great having everyone there - sorry we kept you up, but we enjoyed hijacking you!

o__o can't offer much advice in the Respec area... Rach will probably do a whole lotta megadamage once she catches up (it's harder when you're trying to balance two chars at the same level), but until then, you can always keep adjusting things XD

0_0 and once the weekend of craziness is over, i wanna go read the origins things again, never finished em the first time i think.

Oh, and great posts! Was surprised to see Daressey being played, but pretty good so far ^_^ *salute*

Jade_Dragon

09-09-2006, 07:12 PM

Glad gaze could join us! o__o can't offer much advice in the Respec area... Rach will probably do a whole lotta megadamage once she catches up (it's harder when you're trying to balance two chars at the same level), but until then, you can always keep adjusting things XD

Well, in some of my solo missions I'm starting to realize what a damage monster she already is. I will definately try to push her and Alan to 28 so they can catch up. But if they trail a few levels behind the rest of you it's no big deal, neither of them are really about mega damage, more of a balance between damage and defending the team. Which in Rachel's case will become a lot easier when she gets Invincibility. (And I built BD's concept around it as well, so I know it's going to help)

Eviscerate is a little weak right now, but with a bit of slotting at 27 it should be okay. And when I slot Invincibility at 29 and 31 she should be pretty close to where I want it.

Oh, and great posts! Was surprised to see Daressey being played, but pretty good so far ^_^ *salute*

Yeah, this should probably go in the other thread, but I "borrowed" Darnessy for three reasons:

1) I wanted someone to give the proper lustful response to Rachel being stripped, and he's already demonstrated he's a pervert, in his treatment of Suede. :D

2) He had been the one to discuss with Johnson whether or not anyone from SGI would come looking for them, so he followed on naturally from that conversation.

and 3) I didn't want to introduce a whole new "doctor" into the mix and complicate the plot. Although I did drop in Dr. Beckett as a name, if not in person. (I'm hoping somebody gets that reference, BTW. :D)

[edit] Oh, yeah, and I double checked the name, and yeah, I did spell it wrong. Sorry about that. :D

the_starcrosser

09-13-2006, 06:58 AM

:D First of all, Welcome on board, Green Gaze! Prepare for long nights of trekking through dark and gritty streets and dank sewers for little pay except the bittersweet taste of truth and justice.... and the not so sweet taste of 'bell peppers and beef', senza beef. Congrats!

Second, Redcaps suck. IMHO, at least. But we'll give it another shot.
Once we've got everyone up to 30, we'll be able to get the TF. In the meantime, big missions like that can be great for the XP needed to boost the others - just hopefully without entire squadrons of purple bosses.

Third, the Shades of Crey schemes are going nicely. If anyone wants to join Alan Midnight on the outside for the rescue attempt and attack on the Crey lab, that'd be awesome. Suede, Nyx, Shardre, and Rachel will be on the inside. All those lovely maidens in distress! ^_^

Also, Aether, it looks like the only way we can demote Nyx and I is to stay offline for 40 days. That can be done, though you'll have to let us know when, maybe we can play lowbies for a while, perhaps after the TF stuff?

Aether

09-14-2006, 12:40 AM

Fantasmo

09-14-2006, 12:59 AM

First of all, Welcome on board, Green Gaze! Prepare for long nights of trekking through dark and gritty streets and dank sewers for little pay except the bittersweet taste of truth and justice.... and the not so sweet taste of 'bell peppers and beef', senza beef. Congrats!

Thank you Star!
I've had a really good time the last two weeks teaming with you guys. It is a lot of fun and I'm glad I'm part of the team now!

The dark and gritty streets sound great and I love the taste of truth and justice, muhahaha!

Nyx

09-14-2006, 03:30 AM

Redcaps really are annoying. I'm not liking that trick of them going underground and popping up bosses. I think otherwise we could handle the spawn sizes. I can knock the difficulty down a peg and we'd still get pretty good xp.

You can adjust the auto-demote to 15 days at the minimum. But I don't want you not to play for 2 weeks, so don't sweat it.

If we can knock the bosses down to reds, I'll have a MUCH easier time holding them, and that will be better for EVERYONE involved. I can hold anything but purples with relative consistency, it seems.

the_starcrosser

09-14-2006, 03:45 AM

Thank you Star!
I've had a really good time the last two weeks teaming with you guys. It is a lot of fun and I'm glad I'm part of the team now! :)

The dark and gritty streets sound great and I love the taste of truth and justice, muhahaha!
Glad to have ya, Fantasmo! (*starts singing the Fanta jingle*)

You can adjust the auto-demote to 15 days at the minimum. But I don't want you not to play for 2 weeks, so don't sweat it.
Actually, that might work. One of these weeks we could just have a lowbie day. If we decided in advance and set the auto demote down, then we could resume the week after that with regularly scheduled heroes... Perhaps on a wednesday instead of a tuesday that second week. *shrug* Either that or we could try messaging some GMs.

Note: Crappit, i went to quote fantasmo and managed to change his post! Sorry. Does that come with being a Mod on this section of forum? :0

Gaia

09-14-2006, 04:09 AM

Redcaps really are annoying. I'm not liking that trick of them going underground and popping up bosses.

The only one allowed to do such a thing should be Dusty. *nods*

I'm sorry about last night. I just was not having much fun :( It kind of continued over the course of the evening sadly. Hopefully I'll be better next time around.

Evion

09-14-2006, 06:56 AM

*snugs Gaia* Was good to have you for a while anyways. And we just were not having a good night, I'm afraid!

Ah well, hopefully next week we can do some missions without deaths! :D

And whoever keeps swiping the milk from the base fridge, quit that! Shardre needs her calcium! >_> She's gonna start writing her name on those gallon jugs one of these days...

Also! Anyone interested in joining the Shades of Crey stuff is quite welcome! We'd love to have more people on the outside for the rescue! :D

Frost Sampson

09-14-2006, 06:46 PM

*peeks in, looks around and waves*

:)

I brought donuts. *points*

the_starcrosser

09-14-2006, 07:37 PM

Suede: I only drink the chocolate milk, don't lookit me! >_>;;

*peeks in, looks around and waves*

:)

I brought donuts. *points*
Frosty! *Tackles and duct tapes to the office chair* Come on in! :D

Nyx

09-14-2006, 07:40 PM

He should apply!

Frost Sampson

09-14-2006, 09:23 PM

Gah! You'll make me drop the...

*ish tackled and taped down*

Well....I heard you guys have lotsa scrappers already...

>.>

<.<

Erm....hi hi. :cool:

the_starcrosser

09-15-2006, 01:38 AM

XD We have scrappers out the wazzoo. But i'm SURE nyx won't mind another body to patch up! Heehehehee....

Right now we've got mostly scrappers, a blaster, and Nyx our handy controller (who does double duty as healing). When Gaia can be on, she's got a controller and defender, i think, but we need to get her levelified. *power flex*

Our scrappers are... two martial arts, a spines, a claws, and a broadsword. Am i forgetting any?

Edit: Oh, and most of us in the higher levels have alternate, low level characters, which include an emp defender, a katana scrapper, a couple of tanks, and... i think a blaster?

Elemento

09-15-2006, 09:34 AM

My characters here include a controller (Ill/Kin), scrapper (Kat/SR), & tank (Stone/Inv)

My two low level toons are waitin on Issue 8. It's a costume thing ;)

Jade_Dragon

09-15-2006, 06:18 PM

Well, we're pretty Scrapper-heavy, but that's to be expected with our concept. They don't call them "two fisted detectives" for nothing. :D

We've been short a Tanker since we lost our Noirbot, but really, any AT would be fine. Even another Blaster, since I only play Alan every other meet up.

Jade_Dragon

09-15-2006, 06:25 PM

My two low level toons are waitin on Issue 8. It's a costume thing ;)

When Issue 8 gets here, Alan is SO getting his trenchcoat. :D

Loopy Loup Garou is also waiting to see if Claws comes available for Brutes. I've stopped him at 14, so for now I'm keeping him around as a teammate for low level Gurus. It may be Issue 10 or 12 before anything happens in that area, tho...

Frost Sampson

09-15-2006, 06:27 PM

Hehe....well nothing's set in stone or anything...but I'm bouncing between a scrapper and a blaster :)

the_starcrosser

09-16-2006, 07:25 AM

^_^ Either one would be good, though i'd say we could *really* use either a blaster or a tanker. Anything "film noir detective" or able to work with the theme is good, though! *chews on frosty*

Frost Sampson

09-16-2006, 08:07 AM

Starrrryyyyyyyy.....stop biting meeeeeeee

*falls over*

Anywho...I'd love to play an ice/energy blaster (uber build!) but i'm not sure on a backstory/origin/etc......

Other than that there's always Nyx's brother-in-law :D whom I've already rolled up on Pinnacle.

Evion

09-18-2006, 04:42 AM

*Wonders if Frost tastes frosty* >.>

A blaster would be quite nifty, I'm betting! My little Arthur's an Energy/Energy type, but he's only level 11 at best. :D

And at this point, ANY new members are welcome!

*offers her jar of chocolate frosting*

the_starcrosser

09-18-2006, 07:27 AM

Jade_Dragon

09-18-2006, 04:19 PM

And now that I'm thinking about it, I will likely be unable to make it this Tuesday. Although I think it's Rachel's turn this week anyway.

the_starcrosser

09-18-2006, 08:12 PM

Aww, sorry to hear, Jade - maybe we could do some on wednesday, too, or switch it.

Frost Sampson

09-19-2006, 12:55 AM

Frosting for frosty Frost? XD

Hmm. Brother in law. Don't remember him...

And we could definitely use another blaster. :D Ice blast/energy melee or Energy blast/Ice manipulation? (i like the hold on ice manip) Alan Midnight is superb with his rifle, but we can always use backup.

Time to play degrees of separation! :D

*clears throat*

Nyx is married to Ragnarok.

Loki is the father of Ragnarok (of sorts).

Einmyria is the daughter of Loki.

Bren (Saber) and Ein have a daughter together :)

Sooooo....that makes him Nyx's brother in law....kinda.

Nyx

09-19-2006, 03:12 AM

Time to play degrees of separation! :D

*clears throat*

Nyx is married to Ragnarok.

Loki is the father of Ragnarok (of sorts).

Einmyria is the daughter of Loki.

Bren (Saber) and Ein have a daughter together :)

Sooooo....that makes him Nyx's brother in law....kinda.

A marvelous recital. I have, of course, multiple versions of what happens to all these characters, and I think in the Shades of Crey RP, Nyx is still single and unattached..

Frost Sampson

09-19-2006, 03:20 AM

OOps...I thought she and Rag were an item.

Nyx

09-19-2006, 07:05 AM

Hence this being one of those multiple versions.

the_starcrosser

09-19-2006, 07:28 AM

Nyx

09-19-2006, 07:54 AM

Waaaiiiit Ein and Saber had a KID? 0_o

We... had a few RPs. >.> Don't eat me... >_<

the_starcrosser

09-19-2006, 07:59 AM

*shrug* Hey, i don't mind. Just surprised. XD I don't remember Eisa hearin' about her sister or anythin'.

Frost Sampson

09-19-2006, 03:21 PM

Well....I don't think it ever actually got posted anywhere....it happened (or was going to happen) a few posts further than where the RP I did on the forums with Saber (a LONG time ago) stopped. Afterall, very few babies are made AND born in a hospital.

*runs*

the_starcrosser

09-20-2006, 04:00 AM

So, i go to log on when i get back home, and it says my account's expired.... hopefully i'll be able to pick one up tomorrow, but in the meantime, sorry i can't be there.. <:[
Then again, that might increase your chance of survival! XD hehehhh.

Jade_Dragon

09-20-2006, 04:18 AM

Well, I won't be able to be on tomorrow either, so good luck if you guys do get together.

the_starcrosser

09-27-2006, 03:30 AM

~It's tuesday, it's tuesday, it's twisted twisted tuesday~

Think we'll be able to get some of those redcap missions, perhaps?

Jade_Dragon

09-27-2006, 06:50 PM

I just wanted to say I had a splitting headache, so by the time I left at midnight I couldn't take it any more. Although needing to be at work in the morning was true, too.

I think the main thing that bothered me, though, was that after all that we weren't able to finish the mission. I'd been fine with it, if it weren't for whatever glitch. AFAIK, mission targets never show up in the prison cells, they are isolated on the far end of the map for a reason, so you have to backtrack to save teammates if they die. So I think we got got by a bug. And that bugs me. :D

Anyway, I REALLY want to level up Rache for Invincibility, so I'll work on that, and hopefully next week we'll have happier missions.

Aether

09-27-2006, 10:17 PM

Jade_Dragon

09-27-2006, 10:28 PM

There have been rare occassions where there are hostages in a prison area. Doesn't happen often, but it happened to me once or twice. We did complete the mish after resetting it at a lower diff level. From now on I'll just keep the standard difficulty level for when we group, at least until we're all the same level.

Well, I think we would have done fine if we were more conscientious with our pulling. But even that was made more difficult with all the lag we were having. Suede was getting the worst of it, but there were a couple of times it hit me, too.

Gaia

09-28-2006, 12:19 AM

Jade_Dragon

09-29-2006, 04:55 PM

Yay! I got Rachel to 28 and I am much happier! :D Hello, you cool purple beams of Invincibility, you!

I have yet to test it out in combat, but I'm guessing her tanking abilities have just increased dramatically, even more so when I get some Enhancements in it. It's about time she started being able to be the distraction she is supposed to be. :D

Of course Alan is behind now, so he'll probably be up for the next Twisted Tuesday, and maybe even the one after that.

Elemento

10-09-2006, 07:30 PM

Next week Wednesday the 18th, the Halloween Event starts up and I was thinking we could all get together for that. All my toons on Pinnacle need the badges. ;)
Now there are 8 badges to go for.

the_starcrosser

10-11-2006, 05:01 AM

Oy! I completely forgot about it being Twisted Tuesday. I'm soooo sorry. I'm just trying so hard to get Empy to 40 and beyond (39.5 now) that I'm practically neglecting all other characters. Forgive me *puppy dog eyes*
XD No worries! We'll keep catching you up whenever you can. *gives biscuit*

Heh, poor JD :3 It's tough juggling two, but you're pullin' em both along great. Dunno even which of the two i like better, theyre both really fun.

@Elemento: YEAH! We should totally do the event! :D they're awesome!

Jade_Dragon

10-11-2006, 07:31 PM

Yeah, I will probably try and get Alan to 28 before next Tuesday, so I can go ahead and bring Rache in. That's twice in a row for Alan, and I want to give them both a chance.

It's a hassle relying on a sidekick all the time, but hey, it's not as bad as poor Dusty. Level 8. :D I did try to back him up one time, but it's like trying to stop the inevitable. Then when he fell, I realized I had no cover that I could duck behind. I darted around the field for a while, but that's when we all dropped, almost.

I'm seriously considering getting Medicine at this point. Weave is in character, but it's not that good a power, and Ignite is just not doing it for me. At 28 I will get Trip Mine, which should be better for setting up blockades than Ignite. And while it means taking a lot of powers, it might be nice to have another rez on the team.

Jade_Dragon

10-13-2006, 07:55 PM

Well, I got 28, and I'm not impressed by Trip Mine, either. It's all right when used with Caltrops, but when a foe runs past it at full speed, there is enough hesitation before the mine goes off that it rarely does any damage. And unlike Caltrops and Ignite, it has no flee effect that makes the foes run away from me. Or anyone else I'm trying to protect...

It can certainly be useful for setting up traps, and with both Cloak and Smoke Grenade I should be able to get in close enough to set them. The question is, would the team be willing to wait while I went in and set up some traps? Considering the speed with which we usually clear a mission, not to mention that we have plenty of damage dealers, I don't think Trip Mine is going to see much use.

The only advantage to Trip Mine is that once planted, they last a LONG time, so I can plant a whole minefield. And with Caltrops dropped on top of them, anything lured into the field will be moving slow enough to be caught in the blast. I'm afraid I'm going to have to slot the Power to heavily for it to be usable though. At least with Ignite, even though it doesn't last very long, I can leave it single slotted and spend my slots elsewhere.

I'm seriously considering dropping Ignite and Trip Mine and picking up Aid Self and Aid Other. Or even Stimulant, given that Nyx was complaining of being held all the time. While Defiance is nice, lately I've noticed that I'm getting hit a lot, and Nyx just can't keep a close enough eye on me to keep me healed all the time without endangering everyone else.

Nyx

10-14-2006, 01:59 AM

Jade_Dragon

10-14-2006, 03:10 AM

All I can say is, aid self/other is REALLY handy, because you guys hardly wait to kill the baddies, which doesn't often give me a chance to cast transfusion.

And I'm rarely in melee range anyway. :D

I think I'm definately going with Stimulant and Aid Self. It's sad, really, because it just panders to min/maxing, but it's really the best powers I can pick under the circumstances.

Nyx

10-14-2006, 03:17 AM

And I'm rarely in melee range anyway. :D

Well, DELIBERATELY, anyway...

the_starcrosser

10-14-2006, 06:52 AM

*snrk*

the_starcrosser

10-15-2006, 06:49 AM

So, Frost Sampson and i have an idea for his character. :d

Nyx

10-15-2006, 07:32 AM

Do tell?

Frost Sampson

10-15-2006, 07:49 PM

Wellllllll.....I was talkin to the Starry one last night and pitched the idea that maybe my blaster that I was debating, could've possibly been in the Crey lab that you three so lovingly will demolish...

SOoooooo.....Starry suggested that it could be possible that my hero is one of the many aliens whom Crey has claimed and captured. Her idea (which I -really- really like) is that he was a police officer/guardian type person who was transporting a dangerous creature (the creature being where the DNA that gets injected into Suede comes from) when the ship crashed on Earth.

This is all still a rough idea though of course :)

Nyx

10-16-2006, 01:34 AM

Wait, so is he a guard/officer or an alien?

Frost Sampson

10-16-2006, 02:31 AM

Erm....sorry, bad explanation I guess. The proposed idea was that he was guarding/transporting the alien, thus making him a guard of the alien.

Nyx

10-16-2006, 02:51 AM

Ok, got it. And got imprisoned like said alien within the Crey compound, most likely for later use as a test subject.

the_starcrosser

10-17-2006, 12:18 AM

:d Aye. He might have been an alien patrol officer/ranger who got stuck with the job of piloting a hazardous-containment ship through "rural space" (which happens to go past little podunk Earth) .... maybe gets shot down after getting too close to a Rikti battle or armed satellite defense or something...
Crey sniffs around after the crash looking for rikti technology, carts him and the cargo and ship off...
Only, the cargo is the prisoner or creature that they extract the DNA from, perhaps.

And it's just one idea, depending on what icecube here wants to come up with. :d We just thought it'd be a way to integrate a new character with a reason for being there and a reason for staying with the group.

Aether

10-17-2006, 09:14 PM

Twisted Tuesday tonight.

Also, when do we want to get together for the Halloween Event. It starts tomorrow.

It'd be nice to schedule another AIM meeting, too.

the_starcrosser

10-18-2006, 05:39 AM

Thanks for the fun, Aeth! We'll see ya next week.

As for the Halloween event, it'd be great to get it as soon as we can. I'll be gone all tomorrow, though. Might be gone thursday evening, and definitely gone friday, but sat.... wait, might be a Lan party saturday. Graaah. *eats schedule* >__<

Well, i'd be free sunday after 8:00 eastern. :\

Edit: if there's not a LAN on sat, i'd definitely be up for it then.

Jade_Dragon

10-19-2006, 05:38 PM

I'm keepin' an eye out for you guys, but I will probably be on Virtue for most of the event, with a few timeouts on Triumph, Infinity, and Guardian. (Freedom's already taken care of) If you guys want to get together on Pinnacle, though, just name a time, or if you see me online drop me a tell.

Remember also we can collect the salvage and then use it later. Or even give it to some of the SG members that weren't able to make it. I don't know how many extras we're planning to collect, but I was going to try and get as many as I can, and we can put them away in the base.

Aether

10-20-2006, 02:36 AM

Jade_Dragon

10-20-2006, 07:28 PM

I'll be on a bit tonight. Mostly on Pinnacle but switching amongst my heroes and villains.

I'm planning on collecting as much salvage as I can without going crazy. It'll be good for giving to the rest of the team as well as other characters they have that they'd like to have an extra slot for.

What's wierd is, I got at least four of everything on Freedom two nights ago, but then I went hunting with Experiment OEBR1 (a Virtue villain) last night. I managed to get one set for him fairly quickly, but then I continued to ToT the rest of the night and got like nine Hamidon costumes AND NOTHING ELSE. :D I think I got like one set of the gloves and Recluse's mask, but couldn't put together another full set. It was all Hamidon costumes.

I'll try again tonight and hopefully it will balance out. That was just wierd, though. :D

Aether

10-20-2006, 09:05 PM

The salvage is supposed to be random, but I do find I tend to get one piece more than the others. I too got a lot more Hami's last night than anything else. When I did it with Sciomancer I was getting everything but hamidon costumes.

Was lucky enough to get the Jack in Irons badge last night. He spawned two times in a row on Perigrine. I helped hunt out with a whole bunch of Eochai's too.

I'm finding the Unseelie Court badge a bit of a pain to get. These are a new enemy group who only spawn with Jack/Eochai. Usually by the time you find one of them someone else has gotten there first to wipe them all out. I think I got something like 3 or 4 last night amongst some 12 or so Jack/Eochai spawnings. 20 Unseelies get you a badge.
I'll probably try again later today and hopefully find some less populated areas.

Jade_Dragon

10-22-2006, 07:21 PM

You coulda started another thread, I think that would have been okay. Especially if you're doing a whole bunch of them. :D Definate a cool picture tho.

Aether

10-23-2006, 12:26 AM

Great looking picture Nyx! And it's huge! I'm always so jealous of you artistic types.

Aether does indeed have blue eyes. It's not one of those things I even think about that much, was just an arbitrary decision I made a good while ago.

A new thread would have been okay, don't be afraid to start one if you'd like to post more. It'd be nice to coallate our artwork in one place. It'd also make it easy to move it to the website gallery once I get that deal up.

Nyx

10-23-2006, 01:48 AM

Ya know, I don't even know why I didn't think of another thread... O_o

Jade_Dragon

10-23-2006, 04:25 AM

A new thread would have been okay, don't be afraid to start one if you'd like to post more. It'd be nice to coallate our artwork in one place. It'd also make it easy to move it to the website gallery once I get that deal up.

I want to post a screenshot of Alan, too, for the gallery and his bio page.

So, anyway, once I actually get around to doing that, I'll post it here... :D

the_starcrosser

10-24-2006, 07:58 AM

Jade_Dragon

10-24-2006, 05:12 PM

Tomorrroowwww is tuesday, tuesday, tomorrow.

:d Nyx and shardre and i did some trick'or'treating on sunday, do you all want to do some more tomorrow night, or something else?

Btw... once you get all the costume pieces.... what do you DO with them? it makes a costume slot?

On the hero side, you take it to Croatoa. There is a witch lady named Amma-something to the right side of the monorail, on the ground. Give her the salvage, and she will give you a costume slot.

Villain side the witch lady is Granny Bedlam (got to be inspired by Granny Goodness from DC :D) and she's in Nerva Archipelago. She's on a small island straight north of the Natural Store. It happens to be the island you exit your base on, which is convenient, but the base ENTRANCE is in a different place, so you can't just set a marker there and go to it. She's a bit hard to find.

I would be happy to do some Trick or Treating, although if we don't do any tonight, I will probably do some with Alan after I get through with some of my other characters. I'll collect as much as I can so those of you who still need the salvage will have some. Ditto on the villain side, since AFAIK we can still turn in the salvage well after the event is over.

Aether

10-25-2006, 01:52 AM

I'd like to do Trick or Treating. If we get all the badges/salvage that everyone wants we can go do something else.

Jade_Dragon

10-25-2006, 06:20 PM

Well, I did a little Trick or Treating after we broke up last night but I only got two of the four items, and I think a couple of extra Statesman Masks. But I will probably return to it tonight, although I still have some other characters on other servers I need to finish up with as well.

More importantly, though, I stopped by the base to drop off Rachel's salvage, and went ahead and "processed" quite a bit of what was already there. (i.e. turned it into Tech Power and Hardware) We're REALLY close to getting a Turbine Generator, although we need a rare Tier II component that we still need some salvage for. (The most likely thing for us to find is a Broken Crey Pistol)

I don't know if we want to actually USE a Turbine Generator yet, though, as we'll need a Energy Room to put it in, and possibly a Mainframe if we decide to take the Combo Control/Generator out. Right now we seem to have enough energy, although if we want an Expert Worktable we'll need more than the Combo Generator.

What I think we need, though, are some Empowerment Stations. I think we have enough salvage to upgrade to the Level II Tech Empowerment Station. (There's an option to build one in the Level I Station) We also have a lot of Arcane Salvage I can't process because our Workstations are all Tech. You can process Salvage at an Empowerment Station too, and you only need one of them while with Workstations you need two. So it's actually better to have Empowerment Stations instead of Workstations unless there is something specific you want to build.

Maybe I'll start a new thread on this... Hm...

Aether

11-01-2006, 06:05 AM

I hope you got the invite 4L4N, I think you did. Right after I got a LCTMS and then when I went to log back in it showed pinnacle as grey. Did the server go down?

Anyway, feel free to play around with the rank names. I think you should have enough rank for invites.

Jade_Dragon

11-01-2006, 05:56 PM

Yeah, Pinnacle crashed the moment I went into the SG permissions and started to look them over. I played around on Guardian for a while (with Gaia and the other folks who were playing their zombified heroes) but even some time later, after we quit, Pinnacle still wasn't back up. So things are pretty much as we left them.

4L4N did get into the Supergroup however, and he is leader, plus your demotion of your character worked too. (I'm not sure how you did that -- I always thought you couldn't demote yourself) I'll probably look over SGI's permissions and set up Deep Six's the exact same way. I may make a few minor tweaks if there's anything I see I want to change, but probably I won't.

Then I'll set up a small base and put a Salvage storage bin in it so I can store the Halloween stuff I collected. Depending on if any of you did any ToTing villain side or what we can trade, we'll have some extra costumes for when we start creating more villains for the SG.

Oh, and I do like the rank names, although I may think about some other ideas. We might want to have three people of rank one and three of rank two, like we were thinking. So we might consider names like "Upper Triumverate" and "Lower Triumverate", or something.

(The ranks, for those who don't know, are Six One, Six Two and so on to Six Five. There are only five ranks, so we neatly avoid the awkward "Six Six". :D And my first thought was "Ah... Seven of Nine...")

Aether

11-02-2006, 01:11 AM

Don't ask my how I demoted myself because I didn't actually do anything. Leave it to me to find a way to demote myself. I first did it with Aether, while simultaneously giving Noirbot the highest rank, even though Noirbot couldn't possibly have been on at the same time as I. There's gotta be some bugs in the rank code, but I can't find a way to reproduce it.

The ranks are just something i cooked up real quick. To me it seemed that they'd just have number levels instead of names. It was also a call back to The Prisoner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/) as the main character was Number Six. It is a bit awkward how it's implemented now though.

Jade_Dragon

11-02-2006, 07:14 PM

Ah, the Prisoner. One of my favorites, too. :D

I assumed that the way you got demoted was you weren't online for too long, and were auto-demoted. There's a permission you can set for that. You couldn't have been demoted when you had just logged on, though, so that doesn't make any sense. (Unless it had been a long time since you created the SG. And even if then, how would it demote you if you were the only person in the group?)

Anyway, as I mentioned elsewhere, I wasn't able to get online at all last night. I will try and get on this evening and finish setting up the SG. If anybody sees me online and wants to get invited, just let me know.

Aether

11-24-2006, 12:20 AM

Firstly, Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you all had a great one and hopefully didn't eat as much as I did. Oof. Unless it made you happy, then good for you.

Elemento and I were talking about initiating our foray into missed Task Forces. We'd like to start off with the Ernesto Hess Task Force.

This task force is started in Striga. It must be started by a character who has done all story arcs in that zone. Elemento should be able to take care of that req. The level range is 25-30, takes 6 heroes minimum and is estimated to take 2 hours. Those of us higher than the range will be exemplar'd down to 30

I'd like to get together sometime next week. It can be part of our Twisted Tuesday if we get it started early enough, and continue it the next week if we don't finish. If there's a night where we can all stay long enough to do the whole thing, that'd be cool too. I'd like to get commitments for who will be there. I'd like not to have to find too many pick-ups, so hopefully we can get 5 of us at least.

For those within the range, like Alan/Rachel, this'll be a good way to get at least a level or so. A badge, prestige and debt reduction (if applicable) for all.

Definites so far:
Lt Col McDuff
Wolf's Grin.
Nyx
Alan Midnight
Suede (though I haven't heard from her, she shows up just about every week)

Nyx

11-24-2006, 04:59 AM

In. But you know that. ;)

Elemento

11-25-2006, 10:00 AM

Yes McDuff will be ready for whenever we all can get this organized.

Aether

11-28-2006, 04:57 PM

We all still on for the TF tonight?
Try to get there by 10:30 and meet in Striga. Make sure you have all the inspirations you need, since you can't hit up contacts during a TF. I'll stock the SGI office with some inspirations (particularly awakens) for emergencies.

From what I hear this is one of the better Task Forces so I'm looking forward to a good time.

Jade_Dragon

11-28-2006, 07:15 PM

I'll be in, although I'm planning on trying to spend some time prior to us meeting up to try out the new I8 features.

The good news is, you'll all get to see Alan in his new trenchcoat! :D

the_starcrosser

11-29-2006, 03:34 AM

I'm definitely in! ..... as soon as the patch finishes applying. >_< I thought i'd get a head start on it and ask my dear mother to start the patch for me before i got off work, but it still isn't finished.... 15 minutes to go!

Edit:
And when we're done, i can go git me a trenchcoat and a rikti monkey and good lord knows what other shiny presents under my digital tree ^___^

Aether

11-29-2006, 04:32 AM

Elemento! Where you at?

Elemento

11-29-2006, 04:19 PM

I have to apologize to everyone about last night. I had to take my daughter places and when I got back home, I was totally collapsed.
I passed out literally and when I got on about 11:30PM CST, nobody was around.
Again with Issue 8 going live and my decrepit body giving up on me, I was just not in a great condition. :(

McDuff does have Hess ready though.

Aether

11-30-2006, 01:55 AM

No worries Elemento. Was just curious what was up.

If we were to try to start the TF again some day this week which day would be good? That way we can finish it up next Twisted Tuesday.

the_starcrosser

11-30-2006, 08:09 PM

((Saturday/Sunday evening might work okay for me - and maybe nyx))

Elemento

12-01-2006, 06:36 PM

Saturday evening is fine for me. Sunday evening if it's after 9PM CST

Most of Sunday afternoon & then at 8PM CST, I'm in SG meetings

Jade_Dragon

12-01-2006, 07:41 PM

I don't really have a lot of time this weekend, but I'll try to make it if I can. Maybe for part of it...

Aether

12-02-2006, 02:22 AM

Saturday's looking pretty full, unless we start late, like past 11:00 Eastern.
I'll try to keep Sunday free, but I can't stay up as late Sun evening.

Elemento

12-02-2006, 08:06 PM

I can be here today 11 PM EST. It's fine with me but not sure about the rest of you. If not this weekend, we can schedule for Twisted Tuesday. Say about 9 PM EST.

the_starcrosser

12-03-2006, 04:44 AM

I can be there tomorrow (sunday) by 9 eastern, or there's always tuesday, whatever works out for everyone. *thumbs up*

Aether

12-03-2006, 04:48 AM

I'm here now if we can get enough of us rounded up quick enough.

Otherwise I'd say tomorrow night. 9 eastern is okay with me too. The latest I could stay up would be 12 EST

Aether

12-04-2006, 12:37 AM

How's it looking for tonight? I'd say aim for 9 Eastern. El said he'd be on around 10, which is fine we'll just get everything ready before then. Don't even know if we'll have 6 heroes.

the_starcrosser

12-04-2006, 02:21 AM

Locked and loading in, cap'n!

Jade_Dragon

12-04-2006, 08:30 PM

Sorry I wasn't able to make it, but it was just one of those weekends. 10,000 things to do and only got done 5000 of them. I will also be going onto night shifts again in a couple of weeks, so I probably won't be able to make Tuesdays for that week either. Then again, you guys might have Christmas plans...

I'm hoping to make it for this Tuesday, though. At this point it looks like nothing crazy is going to come up.

Aether

12-05-2006, 11:39 PM

Going to try to get a TF together again tonight. Be there as early as you can after 10 PM Eastern. We'll need 6 heroes to start Ernesto Hess.

If we can't get 6, we can do Sister Psyche with 5.

the_starcrosser

12-06-2006, 03:28 AM

Booting up and logging in. :3 Let's rock.

Jade_Dragon

12-06-2006, 07:43 PM

I must say, my favorite bit last night was when Nyx said, "When he gets into the orange, I'm pulling him back," and then I went into the orange. :D But of course I would have replied, but I was too busy fighting. :D

I may define a new macro though. I have one I call "Hold", which is actually the negation of "Run". A lot of times I've been faceplanted because I had the situation in hand, but needed support, and when the healer or bubbler or whatever got out of range, I dropped. So I wanted one for "hold your ground!", not calling back those who had to retreat, of course, but the rest of us buy time until they can recover and come back.

A "No, I'm doing fine, I'm staying right here" would be more generic, though. And cover both TP situations and retreats. And like what happened when we were attacked from behind, and I burned my tray and opened fire on the group to keep them off Nyx. Of course, I've got "Incoming" for that, but it might be useful to know that I'm not in as much trouble as it looks.

Sandy could use that, too, I notice with her there's a tendency for Tankers to come running up when they think she's in trouble, only to have her drop the guy with her Telsa Cage/Fire Sword combo before they can even get there. :D