Baba's cool pic entry

Here is my photo for the cool pics, a shot of a nice battle in north Croatoa. Lets see some of your best pics! Well later all, cya in a week or so. Baba

AVs head out in fear of Debt Brigaders

Set 'em up and knock 'em down. The Debt Brigade was out in full force offering up some of the more vile AVs in the back alleys, sewers, offices, and streets of Paragon. Nosferatu, Diabolique, Malaise--the list was long and the debt, at times, ran high. Main toons, alts, and a few friends and guests showed up to haul them in for crimes against humanity. Yup, AV Saturday had its moments such as this fine scene captured in this photo. It depicts a hard working Tech-Blade chiseling away at Nosferatu, while Silver Age Baba (aka Red Booty) supervises. "Good job Tech-Blade, " Red Booty was heard barking, "watch your posture!" A good mentor always looks for improvements. A good sidekick never posts pictures and goofs on them. Well folks thanks for showing up in droves. It was great fun as always. Thanks to my great mentor Tech for keeping me alive, especially when I was afk and on auto-pilot where rumor has it the SG noted I was a better player.

I have some temporary duty to conduct field training to prep one of our units for Iraq, so I will be out of pocket for a week or so. Until then, stay clean.

Baba "Red Booty" Kanoosh

PS Statesman was invited to this blog. He will be here in 10 minutes.

Our Cool Photo Contest

Note from left to right in Silver Age event--Elitess, Cap, Baba, and Wonder eerr Chaud Woman. Since the event tonight hosted by the Dev's was, well was ok, and that was about it--Debt Brigade cool picture contest is on! So post the best you got by 15 May and we shall see who rules the kodachrome of our SG! Individual entrees begin on 29 April!

Party time!

So for the anniversary there's a party at Pocket D! Baba, Afro, Elitess, Earths Stone and I have come so far! Got some cool pics. Ü


Guess you can't guess who I came dressed as?? lol Then Afro, Baba and I got to see Mynx! Here's me next to her...cool!


Afro received an award for her costume...a cool Silver Age Champ title! (she sucks! lol) Anyway, if you haven't come yet...DO! We're having fun lagging with the masses.

Arch Villains and then some

Weekend fun! Baba Kanoosh has been kind enough to host our AV mission Saturday event! As you all know from the informative Miss Chaud's latest post, praetorian AV's are very important to getting your Portal Jockey accolade (add 5% extra to health and 5 more endurance points). The sooner you can get this, the sooner you'll live longer! (unlike Baba in PvP)

If we get bored of AVs, I may suggest doing the level 44-50 respec out of the Rikti Crash site as I'd like to get Az's build back to where it was (since I seemed to screw it up somehow! lol) Depends on time contraints I suppose. Or we can always go back to a PvP zone and take vengeance on every villain for every Assassin Strike ever struck! Baba, unbeknownest to himself, is very valuable as part of team (so long as he stands near the back...) ::smile:: That singularity in and of itself can stop a stalker cold.

In the Heart of the Rikti Crash Site

War in Warburg

Even though I missed out on the Numina TF on Saturday, I got in some PVP action in on Sunday. Az and I headed out to Warburg to see of some nukes and everything went off pretty smoothly. We even got to take down a Mastermind and and Gravity/FF Controller!

The mish itself wasn't too bad. The only thing was that I kept outrunning my stupid scientist! Turn off Sprint when you havet escort someone!! For a nuclear rocket propulsion expert, they sure have problems rounding corners and jumping over things. I'm sure Tech would have no problem with the escort since he drives a truck for a living. You need to make really wide turns when you have one of those guys following you :P

I ended up getting the Chemical rocket...I can't to unload that on some hapless AV :D

I tried to fight my friend Sunny Delight while we were there but we both kept getting attacked by others. Can't two friends fight in peace?!?! :P

We ended up hooking up with other SGers afterwards and ran a mish or two. Good times everyone! I can't believe Az launched her rocket without me :P

Are you a Portal Jockey?

Portal Jockey has been the accolade most on my mind lately! There's a long list of requirements to earn this one and I thought I'd share it. Had I kept track of my AV's it would have saved me from having to repeat a bunch of them. Ü So here's the list....


Multidimensional
Type: Exploration Complete Hydra Dimension Portal Mission


Shrouded
Type: Exploration Disrupt Nightstar's Ritual OR Go to Black Swan's dimension


Scholastic
Type: History Locate 3 Dimensional Barrier plaques


Dimensional Warder
Type: Achievement Defeat all Praetorian Leaders (except Tyrant)


Praetorians:
Anti-Matter
Battle Maiden
Black Swan
Bobcat
Chimera
Diabolique
Dominatrix
Infernal
Malaise
Marauder
Mother Mayhem
Neuron
Nightstar
Shadowhunter
Siege

Good luck with your badges! Az and I finally earned this one yesterday, Congrats Az!!

Shout out fer some support

Every once and awhile you need some help, a force to guide you in the right direction. You can get cool missions but only if you know when they are coming. The forums page helps, as do websites such as:

http://www.nofuture.org.uk/coh/ (down right now but will be back up soon--we hope)

www.vidiotmaps.com

www.badge-whore.com

...They can help you pick the story arc, AV, or badge mish you are longing for. Chaud, you had one the other night please post it if you get the chance. If anyone else has some good links, please post them. Until then, this is Baba Kanoosh saying, "Stay off Stateman's cape when he is working!"

Icky Malta

What's up with Tech and all these Malta missions, sigh! Last night we had a bit of fun doing some close examination of the floor in a Malta building, we also took out Anti-Matter and some really flirty Carnies! Joining me from the DB were Tech-Blade, Ngine, Elitess, Colder and Afro (with a special guest appearance from Cap). It's always fun to run missions with friends, even when the missions are yucky. Took these pic's of our very own Ngine last night, isn't he so handsome!

Weekend Events

Numina Taskforce on Saturday 4/22 @ 11 am Pacific One of the best ones! Min 34 Cap 38. I will be running this one with healer Dunizel! Invis/TP and healing to boot! Gotta love me!

Then on Sunday we'll be taking over Warburg Debt Brigade style, again at 11 am Pacific! Come launch some rockets and take down a few loser stalker types!

Deep in the cavern!

Pictured...Sword of Artemis, Azrhiaz, Colder, Chaud Woman, Tech-Blade and Baba Kanoosh (as Santa)

So we headed off for the Cavern trial part two...this time the outcome was very different! With Az using her awesome invis/tp skills (I shined off the tp trophy and it's on it's way Az) and Baba staying out of the lava, we were able to run through the Cavern at lightning speed. So...what was a group of super heroes to do? Take on Sister Psyche, of course!!

Sister Psyche was a lot of freaks, boss Axel F. had recently gone solo from Guns n' Roses and entertained us with a few bars of his latest song. A few of the freaks had loud speakers surrounding their heads, playing old 80's tunes. Everytime someone went AFK Baba decided to pull a group, he could be heard saying "I love to die" through the echoing sewers. With the missions being back and forth between Talos and Kings Row, Pocket D became our favorite shortcut. This Tf ended with Clamor, a female freak AV! We toasted her like marshmallows over an open fire.

All in all another rewarding TF day.

Cap was here!

I was here!

Need a pic for me bio

This post is mainly so I can have a cool picture whenever I make another post. But I will take advantage of it to say thanks to Az for accidently inviting me to this SG. It was a while ago and I was slumming around Steel when I got this invite for a team. Then I got an invite for a SG, which I said what the hell, I am new to this game and haven't really checked out this SG thing. Az went on to tell me the invite was meant for someone else but I was welcome to stay. I have a few other toons and they are in randow scatterings of groups but none as helpful as ours. Well, my wife has a good crew in SG, one of our coalition members. That said my wife just reminded me she needs to log on so off I go.

I am SO impressed!

Task Force Granite Standing Victorious

Great job on Citadel TF guys!! It was a sunny day in Paragon when Citadel begged us to help him put a stop to the Zenith Mech Man dilemma. Hearing of the danger, Tech-Blade hurridly thundered home in his big rig to join us. So the six of us set out on the dark and dirty trail of the Council plan. As the day wore on however, the dark clouds roiled in as Colder kept DC'ing and Afrodiety mysteriously disappeared. I think she wound up bound and gagged in the Council jail as we were not able to contact her again. I hope when she gains consciousness she contacts us to let us know she is okay. Then new DBer, PB Doc had hair issues and we were down to but four.

Fortunately for us, we had invis and recall and were able to zip through a number of the missions in super stealth mode. Colder's computer seemed to stabilize and the Council became the dirt beneath our shoes as we tore through their ranks. Elite bosses fell like the leaves in fall, dead and lifeless before us. And when at long last we reached arch villain Vandal, through my superior sniping skills we whittled them down until only he was left. Colder put him on ice and between Chaud's lethal kicks and Tech's katana, that was all she wrote kids. Toasted.

Be warned villains all! We have heard it rumored there's a small boy being held in the caves of the Hollows. Cavern of Transcendence Trial pt 2! We will rescue him on April 15th at 11 am Pacific time. Level 12+. We need a minimum of 8 heroes and it will take approximately 1.5 hours.

Baba Kanoosh--Sexiest Brigader of them all?

You decide but votes are piling in quickly--this toon is SMOKIN!!!

Citadel TF Saturday 4/8 11 am Pacific

Hey we made some good prestiege last night in the Crash Site! 10 grand and that was with Colder out of SG mode for part of it! I'm thinking maybe we should hunt in there more often! I'm bringing more breaks next time though! lol And hooray that we finally got Chaud's Infernal mish out of the way!!

Anyway, Citadel TF on Saturday! We should all be respec'ed by then which is good because a lot of the missions are "kill dumbass and guards" types. Level 25-31. Enemy: Council. It will be fun to do some of the higher level TFs from issue 5 now too! But FIRST! we are going to do that stupid Cavern of Transcendence trial! So many TFs, so little time!

Cheers!

I Spent it All!!

Muah ha ha!

So where is all the prestiege you ask? Our next goal was to place the turbine generator for 1.5 million prestiege. It will not fit in the basic energy room so I had to spend 750k for the next size. We now have enough space to build a pen for Chaud's pet rikti monkies in the new energy room. Or maybe host an aerobics class in there?

I have also discovered the advanced database I have will not attach to the mainframe, only to the super computer (1.5 mill to buy), so we probably can just place normal databases down for now to control stuff (100k per device, limit 5). Do we want to get the bigger workshops after the generator so we can place all 3 of a particular type of table down?

We also need to start listing what we have all built (or would like to). Currently, I have:

• turbine generator
• advanced database
• snow turret (defensive for slowing people down I think)
• and 2 arcane control elements (that are useless since we have a tech based control room! lol)

Again, GREAT job by everyone on the last TF. What shall we do next?

Respec!

The Respec went extremely well. I guess all those months of in-fighting and name calling really built up team unity because we cleared through the respec quite effortlessly. We had five SGer's and a friend of mine, King of Pyres, join in on the radioactive fun. Tech-Blade, Chaud Woman, Azrhiaz, Baba Kanoosh, King of Pyres, and myself all decided to get irradiated Saturday morn/afternoon. Afro was suppose to make it but got occupied so the MVP goes to Baba for his heals.

I took the respec and got around to using it earlier today. Here's what I've gained/dropped:

Dropped: Combat Jumping, Ice Storm, Shiver, Cold Mastery (Flash Freeze)
Gained: Stealth, Invisibility, Freezing Touch, Munitions Mastery (Cryo Freeze Ray)

I also made sure I took Fly at 14. Even though the Postitron TF is out of the way I want my travel power as early as possible in case we some som low lvl shennanigans.

So now I have 4 holds (one melee) which I'm excited as heck about. Both Ice sets give you a nice pseudo-control aspect which I love. Sure, Freezing Touch is melee, but I've heard a good tip about leaving it on auto-fire so as soon as a goon comes up to you (which they invariably do), you have a nice way to counter them.

A part of me wanted to keep Cold Mastery because of my ice theme, but I found Flash Freeze not that effective. The other 3 didn't seem that interesting either. I went with Munitions Mastery beacause a) another single target hold....ice no less :D b) Body Armor isn't a bad option for a squishy like me and c) I finally get a snipe move with LRM Missle!

I'm not crazy with carrying around that junkyard supersoaker but I decided to be practical this time around.

Finally, everyone has been dogging me to talk about our official SG mascots. Thanks to a mission that involved rescuing 3 Rikti Monkeys, we now have our newest in-joke. Meet Pogo, who is also standing in for Mr. Wiggles and Chippers (they went down faster than a Regen Scrapper). You 3 better be in SG mode ;P

One Big Happy Family

It was a sunny morning for the Debt Brigade and a few other well known friends. Shown here are Chaud Woman, Dirka Dirka, Da Fonz, Tech-Blade (me), Colder, Elitess, Azrhiaz, and Too Cool For School.

We came together on this day to battle the Nemesis...Again. This time in an alternate dimension accessible via the portals found in Portal Corp of Peregrine Island.

This was your typical Nemesis battle ranging from jaegars to Fake Nemesis (Fakes as we've nicknamed them). Today was especially brutal as we came up against a lot of Warhulks as well, which is where I'm gonna take this story.

Chaud Woman has been heard saying "As a scrapper I'm either alive or dead" and today she, along with me (Tech-Blade) found that out. You see when Warhulka are defeated, they explode with tremendous force. Anyone standing near takes enormous damage. Our healers couldn't keep up with us. Dirka Dirka kept yelling, "Stay Back, they explode". Group after group, blasters we're doing most of the damage. Whenever any of us scrappers tried to do our job when got pummeled. Lots of debt accumulation on this adventure.

To make a long story short we finally got through this and saved all the hostages. Well its already been a long morning, with the clock changing an hour ahead. Feels like I've given an hour of my life away. Remember we do have a TF scheduled for this morning at 11am pacific Daylight time. Hope to see you there.

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