Prisoners of Eden

Tzadkayle, Amethyst Archer, Lumeir, Magnan, Da Zi and Mighty Thorn
Sunday afternoon we gathered around the Woodsman in Eden, seems Hami had captured some heroes and it was our job to free them!

First, was the little DE hunt...200 of them! And then we headed inside the depths of the DE's subterranean tunnels, with the 4 hour timer ticking. The only fun thing about these tunnels is the awesome free falls, as you fall deeper and deeper into the cave. Once in we were met with the rock wall (AV) which spawns boulder and carin, that wall musta be build by some mighty tough rock cause it wasn't going down. Mag tried to keep the 2 Quarries (GM's) off us. Lumi, Da Zi, and Ame tired to keep us alive and get rid of the boulders, while Tzad and I (thorn) smacked at that wall. Once the wall was down we headed in, but those dang Quarries kept following us. So we headed back out...Tzad and Lumi hovered precariously over one of those awesome holes and blasted at the Quarries, down the holes they fell, don't hit the sides on your way down boys! :)

We headed for the mold wall (AV), now that's a science project gone awry! The lichen had to be taken out first, I'd tell ya how that went but I was stung by an angry swarm on the way and was stuck sitting in the dark cave all alone, one sting and -fly, -tp, -recharge...I couldn't fly and no one could tp me, I had 18 stings so I danced around and did a bit of yoga before continuing on. I arrived just in time to catch the last remnants of lichen being zapped out. The mold wall was...well moldy..it also spawns boulders, etc...but eventually we "broke the mold"! (that bad pun was put in just for Cap!)

Then down the hole we jumped again and landed by some really nice waterfalls. We were faced with the incredible task of clearing away the DE from this room...a huge amphitheater for the Crystal Titan (AV) to deliver his speeches to the hundreds of minions gathered there. Mag rounded up group after group as we blasted, held and spined them to death. Finally, reaching the back of the room where the heroes were held captive in cocoon type prisons, there was a spines (quill) , a rock tank (slate), a storm (gale) and one more I don't remember...I can tell you how they were captured, however, these heroes only attack if you bring the DE very close to them, no travel powers! Poor things, didn't even have sprint!

the AV waving hello
Once all the DE were killed, oddly the Titan never noticed all his minions were being picked off, we headed up to kick some Titan butt! Now this Titan has a foot stomp that deals over 2k worth of damage so you need some special inspirations (ambrosia) in order to survive, which you get from killing DE in the caves, we had some left over from the last attempt at this trial so we didn't pick up extras, bad move! I'm not sure what happened next it was all a blur of dying, rezing, more dying, let's just say that Titan wasn't done with his speech and he didn't like being interrupted. All out of ambrosia and wakes we headed out to the base to restock and regroup, on the up side we got to jump back down the holes again. :) Then we started killing some DE to earn more ambrosia's, once we had a lot we were about to head back to the Titan when a swarm blew in, intermission while we wait for travels to come back! Once again we entered the amphitheater, this time with no minions to talk to the Titan gave Lumi the bird (I saw it!). We popped the ambrosia and started smacking that big rock down...he didn't go easy, but a few ambrosia's, and a couple shivans, later his speech was done, no encores! I got a shiny new enhancement a quartz... Kinda like a mini Hami (I got a damage/range). A fun trial!! Oh I had a few ambrosias left over so I put them in the base storage for the next suckers...I mean team...who wants to do this. :)

Crystal Titan on the rocks

p.s. It's not letting me load pics on here, so I'll have to have Az do it later. :)
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Upcoming Raids

Old School/Shadow Empire agreed to a raid. I put forth December 3rd to them and have not heard back.

RoA have agreed to a re-engagement on December 10th (Sunday) at 4 pm pacific once again. If you want to see what the #1 prestiege earner on the server, most of the IoPs available, and a 40 million dollar base looks like, look at their little video. Congrats to Riders on their new #1 status. And a big thanks for letting us see your layout before we raid you. . .

Did Eden Trial over the weekend with Feline Fellowship. Chaud's turn to tell ya about it!. . . pictures ready to be inserted. :grin

Issue 8 should be up tomorrow! Ya hoo!

Hurry Up and Wait

Violet Warmth, Garl Darklord, Tech Blade, Makin Debt, Zandryne, Lost Senpai, Azrhiaz, Colder, DeepCut, Giant Stone, Ebon Mauler, Metoid, Hutokaze Remastered, Evincar Ascendant, Elitess and Rulltran
Well it was a long 2 weeks of preparing for what promised to be the raid of the year! Toons were played so that levels could be reached and prestiege earned for new weaponry. Warburg was farmed for rad pistols and the base was reconstructed completely! Debt Brigade was edgy but ready to meet the Riders of Apocalypse in battle. So we waited. And waited. And waited.

After a brief 10 minute foray in the red room with our enemy, the waiting began anew. Zandryne took some Vicodan to ease her nerves about the "Kill the bubbler!" cries from the Riders. We continued to wait.

Riders apparently had a ton of DCs. We, fortunately, did not. They never made it back to the base. They apologized profusely for the issues and requested a rematch.

Alas, the common quote amongst the team was that RoA were scared. I didn't say it, but I know who did! :grin: But perhaps they should be? Because we all know it's better to give, than to receive! Grats to all who dished it out, who earned a ton of prestiege, leveled their toons, farmed for rad pistols, downloaded vent and/or tested the defenses! Hopefully, our rematch will be more satisfying.

Eden trial sometime this weekend. Stay tuned.

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Oh and btw. . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAUD!
I hope I put enough candles on it . . .:)

Raid Day on Sunday!

Hi all!! The Apocalypse is nearly upon us!! Can we turn away the Riders or will the world end? Sunday at 4 pm pacific. Please get to the base early for the pre-raid rundown!

I need 8 unstable rad pistols! These are available in Warburg missions off of the non-glowie missions. Make sure you are carrying 20 spells of power and 20 alien techs so you don't get more of those stupid things! We are nearing our prestiege requirements for the best possible raid scenario, so great job on earning it! Below is an updated list of who is coming:

me, Chaud, Colder, Elite, Evincar, Sword, Megeara, Tech, Rulltran, Violet, Baba, Garl, Incredible Sam, Hutokaze

-(possibles)Deep, Ebon, Project XII, Lost, Makin' Debt, Metoid, Ulti-Chica

Please know we will most likely be running with the full 16-man team, so you may not make the cut. My priority is getting 4 tanks. However, I imagine there will be no-shows so hopefully we will all get in. Speaking of getting in, the "no raid scheduled" join bug can be averted by zoning, I have been told. If you encounter this bug I recommend starting outside the base portal. Then when the raid warning flashes, go into the base and try to join again.

Rulltran and I had a blast testing out the defenses last night using Melqar and Zorayas. Gave Violet a heartattack when the raid warning flashed, but we definitely learned a lot about the weapons! I will be emailing you all an updated floorplan of the base! Learn it! We will also have to return the favor to Riders by attacking them at some time in the future. Make sure your wills are up to date. :grin:

DB Ramblings

Garl Darklord Hits 50

Congratulations to our newest Fifty!! Garl Darklord finally made the big bad in Warburg last night! Great job!

I offered up Dec 2nd or 3rd to Shadow Empire for the raid and said maybe around 3 pm. How's that working for everyone?

We are getting closer to getting back into shape for the Riders raid. Great prestiege earning all! So far for the raid I have:

me, Chaud, Colder, Elite, Evincar, Sword, Megeara, Tech, Rulltran, Violet, Baba, Garl, Incredible Sam

-(possibles)Deep, Ebon, Project, Lost, Makin' Debt, Metoid, Ulti-Chica

Did I miss anyone?

Manticore tomorrow at 3 pm Pacific hosted by Rulltran!

Flying with Style!

Okay, so I had a bit to much fun on test today...lol I thought I'd share some pics with you! Didn't try using the respec's. Some of the new costume options are really cool, fat pigtails would need the right toon. Lots of new ear styles. Haven't tried the wings with SS but hoping they move, someone on test said they are working on getting them to move when you jump-that would be nice.



Chaud with her axe!


Picking a new sprint power. :)


Woot! Wings with the sprint power on.

Manticore or level 24 respec?

I'm trying to level my bubbler Rulltran, who is currently 32, up a bit over the next week and I've been trying to come up with a good way to do this. I've settled on either the Manticore task force (my first pick) or the level 24 respec. I was thinking of getting a team together for this Saturday or Sunday of this weekend. Does anyone have an interest in this? If so, what day and time would be good for you?

Raids

Hi All! I went in and gutted the base so please excuse our appearance while we are under construction! I was able to eek out 2 more defensive rooms which will allow us 3 more weapons! However, we will need about 400k to get the base back up to raiding standards and reinitialize some of the teleporters. So please run in SG mode for the next two weeks and run some task forces or something! If we can't earn it, say good-bye to 2 of those guns! :pout: Go in and map the place out so you don't get lost during the raid! :)

The villain group, Shadow Empire has accepted our invitation to raid. They are asking for a date. How does Sunday the 26th sound? It is right after Thanksgiving so it could be really good for you or really bad. Please let me know and I will get back to them.

Again, recap for the Riders raid: Sunday 19th @4 pm pacific. Who's in so I can get a head count?

I'm a tank! I'm a tank! (and vet rewards)

I always knew I was a freak but this is getting ridiculous! However, with this clever disguise and Ahne's skill, he trounced Trenton the tank boss back to New Jersey and retreived the Chameleon armor before the freakshow could upgrade and threaten Paragon City once more!!

More importantly, Riders of the Apocalypse have officialy accepted our invitation to raid. I have put forth a tenative date of November 19th (a Sunday) around 4 pm Pacific. Gear up boys and girls, it's gonna get NASTY! :grin: We will have to guard the generator well, and I think most of you know why! If we can make 1.5 million prestiege in the next two weeks, we will be able to upgrade to a secure energy room. This would be a super addition to the base because it allows for 2 more weapons. I think we're gonna need 'em!

*Also have put forth an invitation to Shadow Empire, a pvp oriented villain group. Get ready to rumble! Get those toons leveled and earn some prestiege so we can put down more weapons!

P.S. Great job on Silver Mantis SF all!

L to R: Planty Man, Melqar, SolidFade , Chaud comme l'enfer, and Kamikazi

Veteran Rewards on Test! The wings are REALLY cool. Azzie has to wait some yet, but here is her in a trench coat (with belly shirt) and sporting the new fat ponytails with disco shirt.

Couldn't seem to find the extra base details open to me. They should be in Add Personal Item but they weren't but the base still seemed a bit bugged (things were crooked and the teleporter beacons wouldn't atach). And I'm not sure yet how to claim my permanent new weapon or pick a special sprint look. But hey, I'm gonna be late to work now! damn. . .!

Saving PI

I figured I'd head over to the test this morning and do a little radio mission. The basic missions are just like villians...i.e. rescues, defeats, find an object. After doing 5 of these missions I got a save PI from vandals mission. First objective is to stop villians from robbing the bank you have 5 mins (your right Az this was a bit hard!) little bug was playing Tech, so we headed to the bank. We arrived just in time to see some huge brute by the name of Critical Mass headed out of the bank, slammed me up against the doors and I was a gonner, thank goodness for revive. :) Little bug and I smacked his big Energy butt down! woot bank saved and we get a nice temp power! Then the counter starts at 15 mins, there are vandals destroying the city (carnies and malta...can you say Blues please!) the vandals hotspots appear on the map and you have to get them quick or they vandalize to much and your outta there. Finally, we located our first "talkies" and uncovered a sinister plot to blow up an office building. Four bombs to disarm in 6 mins. woot! We were able to disarm the bombs, stop an arms deal, stopped the arson, and save the pawn shop! After an hour in the mission we decided PI was saved from evil. :)

P.S. while doing a croatoa mission yesterday Zan encountered these hostages that just wouldn't leave her alone! When they said "We won't forget it" they meant it, stalkers!! Sword and I had fun tping Zan all over the map to see if they would follow, they did...I even tp'd myself in this tree and they climbed it! rofl Just remember...be careful who you rescue!

Halloween Event on Test

Well the party was a blast. Followed suit of Cuppathon, so I dusted off Cuppa's SPOON. Metoid and I got to talk to a lot of devs. Cricket was there with the new wings...HUGE hit and they look sweeeeet! GW was as hot as always, Manticore hung out and basically chatted like a regular Joe for at least an hour per PD (8-10). Arctic Sun was there, Lighthouse, lots of DJs, good times. Classic end of party GM spawns...TWO EOCHAIs was fun. Well I could go on put we had a 160 push-up set at PT and at 120ish I was smoked, so my body is not up to typing lol. CYA Saturday for SF on CoV side.

Clear Skies Ahead!

Lumeir and Stoney ponder the future

Silver Mantis TF on Sunday, I'm thinking! 2 pm sound good?

Halloween ends tonight at 8 pm pacific, but the witches will be sticking around (according to Positron) so don't panic if you don't get that slot by tonight. Plenty of event salvage in storage in Debt Brigade if you need it.

Got the download this morning for 8, so I imagine it'll be out soon. Also the Eluder/Persuer badges will be awarded after Halloween is turned off for all toons logging in through November to celebrate CoV's one year anniversary. Speaking of i8, here is the latest patch notes. They took out the new fly animations and are reworking them so you can pick the one you prefer. One new hairstyle for females, "fat ponytail" :sigh:

Col Duray calls out the Death Brigade

So I never quit the Silver Mantis SF from a weekend or so ago. I don't play my stalker much so I kept popping in from time to time. I have the last map half cleared when low and behold Spellfrost shows up. So we commence the effort to draw out the ol' purple Col all by ourself. I discovered a nice hit and run tactic to take out the lowbie turrets. After about 3/4 of the guns are gone he shows up. Bad news, he is an AV. He spawns bosses (Jump Bots). I pop a shiv, Spellfrost tries to squeeze the last of her Domination out...and we get smacked. Spell quit and being a glutton for punishment (and remember, I don't play my stalker much so what is another bar of debt?), I go back for some photo ops. I did manage to dent his health bar. But a lone villian versus an AV who spawns two bosses aint a fair shake. I would like to schedule this SF again. I have the recipe for us to win. I just need a full crew. Saturday is good so far, send me a shout on times that work for you all. Try to click on the photos to enlarge them. His closing line stung a bit.

Incidentals

Hi all and happy Halloween! If you don't have your costume slot you better get cracking! Some extra salvage in the base if you need it, however, check your inventory beforehand. I never ToT'ed with Chuz or Dunizel but somehow all the pieces were in their inventory?! Sneaky devs. . .

A big congratulations go out to Thundar v.2 on reaching the big bad 50!

Cathedral of Pain trial, according to a Positron interview online, will not be up until around issue 9. :big frown:

We are getting close to being able to afford our new secure energy room (about a million left to go), so thanks to all who are earning prestiege! Speaking of security, I have invited one of the largest supergroups on Triumph to practice raid with us, the Riders of the Apocalypse. Hopefully we will be able to schedule a raid soon. I doubt it will be pretty, but I sure hope it will be fun! :) Extra bandages in the infirmary!

What's new with ya'll out there? You've been so quiet. . . give us update on your toons.

Boo!

Metoid and his sister Dark Calling swept this years costume party! 1st Place Scariest! 1st Place Pumpkin Carving! 2 Raffle prizes! And Metoid also won Most Likely to get PWNeD in PvP! WooT!

Happy Birthday Megeara!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!
Hope it's a very happy one!

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Well the 2x2 tourney has beeen postponed until the following Saturday (11/4) since not enough teams signed up. I think Melqar and Zandryne just scared them all away.

More info on the Invention system

Spoilers Here!!!

Don't read this if you want to wait until the official I9 announcement....who am I kidding: EVERYONE IS GOING TO READ THIS!

Take it with a grain of salt...seems legit but you can never know.

All of this stuff sounds pretty cool I'm truly curious as to how this is gonna affect both PVE and PVP (I have a feeling the nerfs will come quick and swift once some exploits are found).

Also make sure to check out the next wave of veteran rewards! Veteran Rewards Part 3

Silver Mantis sends Death Brigade to its DOOOOM

So the mish computer is up and everyone was ready to give the Silver Mantis SF a crack. At only 6 mishes long, it looked to be fairly simple and we had many high level villians to keep the mobs in check. It seemed each map was new, an unseen layout and design (a check on the web confirms this fact, all original maps just for the SF). When we arrived at the last mish, folks were ready to put the AV down, pin on the badge and...hold on what the heck is this? The Sky Raiders base? Surrrounded by Sky Skiffs and turrets? Oh. My. An hour and a half later and about a half dozen team wipes later, the Death Brigade was hurtin'. Melqar had run into a dozen turrets and was riddled like a a target at the range. Spellfrost was seen with a smoke trail plummeting to the ocean. Chaud? Held. Mercy Mercy? Belly-up. Solid, Kamikaze? Fleeing laser-guided missles. Doc? D/C'd...i.e. Dead and Conscious-less. Tech? Standing there with a red health bar looking left and right for a teammate, any teammate that was standing. So with a heavy heart--and more likely--heavy eyelids, folks had to pull chocks and head back to the real life. The SF is still up and I shall be logging in to see if the map can be respawned. I am also going to scout the map, I read on the 'net the AV will spawn after an unknown number of turrets are taken out but he hides high in the air in the corner of the map. More to follow.

Post a time we can try to finish this or to re-accomplish.

Jack in Irons' Momma is sooooo fat. . .

heroes jog around her for exercise! Or run around Paragon trying to find that stupid jerk! /rant

Just got some random stuff to post. Put a base down for ill-mannered. Only has an inspir and salvage storage to hold Halloween extras. Put a few event salvage in there for you rude and crude types, so please help yourself! Megeara will be decorating a room for it, so cross your fingers he is better at it than Baba! LOL j/k

There is a tenative 2x2 Halloween arena tourney if anyone has an interest. It's for level 30s and under. Was gonna bring Melqar and he needs a good partner (hero or villain doesn't matter)! Who wants to smash a few faces in? Winners gets an HO. Will be held on Sat Oct. 28 at noon pacific. Anyone want to join in, let me know and I will RSVP. Details here

Planty Man is hosting the Silver Mantis SF on Sunday at 2:30 pacific. Level 20-25. Got 4 so far for it. Incidently, we still need to run the final 2 zulu TFs too. Post an idea of when you wanna do it!

Halloween Live!

Well below are some of the badges related to Halloween! Chaud, Sword, Baba and I door camped for a couple hours and got all our Halloween salvage and these badges!



You will need one of each for your 5th costume slot:
Lord Recluse Mask
Statesman Max
Hamidon Costume
Back Alley Brawler Gloves

The Invention System

It was suppose to be on deck for Issue 9 but it was accidently put into Issue 8 for a brief period of time. Here are some screen caps for it that I found off of the GameAmp website.

Someone's getting fired from Cryptic...

Hoard your salvage!!!! I wonder if the Invention System will be robust enough to facilitate an economy. How do you fellow DBer's feel about that? Good for the game? Bad for the game? Discuss!!!

Grats, Grats, and Boo!

A big congratulations goes out to Calmar Chaud and to Dunizel to reaching the big, bad, boring 50! Also like to extend a big welcome to Violet, Justice, and Evincar to the DB!

Also congrats to our villain group, The Death Brigade, for getting the Tree of Wonders finally. A big thank you to Sworn Enemy, Chaud Comme L'enfer, Casual Agent, and Azrharn for standing around a crystal and making it happen! It's so much easier with 6 pets, sheesh!

Halloween event is coming up on Wednesday! They changed it a bit and I've listed those below. Once you get all your toons that extra slot, if you find yourself with extra event salvage, drop it in storage for other SG toons to use!

Halloween Event Changes
- Drop rate of Salvage increased. Each piece has an exactly equal chance of dropping. This will put a TON more Halloween Salvage into the world. You have a better than 1 in 3 chance every time you get a treat of getting a piece of Salvage. Previously it was 1 in 20.

- Door Timers will default to 30 seconds. We can adjust this during the event if it proves unpopular (a fight should take about 30 seconds, at which you can click the door again, or if you got a treat move on to another door with your group).

- Player Timers will remain at 60 seconds (just like 2 years ago).

- Treats will only drop Medium and Large Inspirations (and rocks, of course).

- It will take 20 Unseelee to get the Ghost Touched badge.

- Salvage now has the correct icons.

Look Who is. . .

Now testing...

Issue 8 is up on the Test Server (as of this posting the Test Server is down lol). New fly animations!!! Woot!!!

Check it out!

Cathedral of Pain unavailable

It looks like the Cathedral of Pain trial has been taken offline for technical reasons. Here is a post by Cricket on the official CoH forums boards.

Post-Pylon Wrap Up!

Alpha Team & The Debt Brigade
Another raid under our belt!

What more can I say? I'm really enjoying these InstaRaids and the comradre we are all building. Fun times as always. The communication between all of us was great and we were solid at backing each other up.

Vent! Vent! Vent! It is such a great tool and makes working in Unison so much easier. For those who have been raiding on a regular basis with us please consider getting it if you haven't already!

Mad props to Alpha Team as always! I think we're showcasing what a Coalition is all about and it has been a great way to meet and interact (in a violent way of course) with our brother in arms. We're both learning quite a bit from these raids and I think we could give an SG an run for their money (or IoP :) It seems to me that trying to win a raid via pylons is quite the tall order. Another huzzah and kudos to Alpha for keeping us on our toes and for being the first to take up the challenge.

Anyways, here are some details about the madness, in no particular order:

- Alpha with the sneaky placements of their pylons. I knew someone would sully the top of our generators :P

- being caught in the middle of a brawl between Brick Liberty and a fellow DBer as soon as I rez in the base. So that's where the phrase "WTF" comes from

- trying to take down Brick in Granite Form (good luck kids!!!)

- walking into Dr. Earl Grey matter-of-factly during the chaos. We both stopped, looked at each other for a beat...and then proceeded to shoot the shit out of each other

- "Wait for it....wait for it.....HE MOVED!!!!"

- walking into the midst of Alpha Team in order to get the invite from Mondaag. I think I have a phobia of gold and black now

- me secretly cursing DeepCut for getting more kills than me :P

I hope everyone had a great time...I know I did. A shout-out to Elitess who showed up for the raid but couldn't join in due a damn raid bug. Angry letter time!!! :P

I wished our favorite trubador Meg was there because I love reading his post-raid posts. Hopefully the ramblings of an ice blaster are as entertaining as those of an ice tanker :D

Cathedral of Pain Trial LIVE!!

Trial on Friday 10/13 at 7 pm Pacific

The One Book of Rularuu gives a 20% reduction to debt incurred by all Super Group members." Reduces Rent by: -150,000

Logged on early this morning to clean up some of the mess Alpha left behind (blood, teeth, Chynna's face print on the wall) and an announcement came over broadcast that the Items of Power are NOW AVAILABLE! We have until Monday to get organized and get ours! Screw that TF this weekend!! We have other plans! We can take up to 20 SG members into the Shard to get our Item of Power! Let's plan out when we can all assemble and do this thing!

Welcome to our newest members btw and a big hello to our new coalition!

Raid and stuff...

Hey all. I just wanted to thank everyone for the uber good reception that Ebon and myself have received from everyone so far. We have both been playing with some of you off and on for a while and it is great to finally be in the fold (Dark Justice Legion R.I.P.).

Well what to say about the raid? Being on the receiving end of a person controlled bubbler isn't my idea of a good time. I think it is kinda tough to be the attacking team. Not too fun to have everyone know where you are going to spawn in. Mr. Cut it was cool to be your partner. A regen scrapper with adrenaline boost, fortitude, and regeneration aura was a sight to see! The Alpha Team sure was tricky in the placement of their pylons. I would like to have a go at being the attacking team and bring Garl along for that ride. That's all for now and I am looking forward to teaming with more of you and to the next raid. Cheers!

Halloween Event Starts 10/18

Even in a city where many citizens dress in unique costumes to battle real mystical threats, Halloween is a special time of year. While Paragon City's Halloween holiday was dampened last year by renewed hostilities from the Rogue Isles, this year's October events look to be even more promising than before, with record numbers of citizens all over the city ready to welcome trick-or-treaters of all ages.

However, a dark shadow has fallen over this year's festivities. Word has spread from the shadowed town of Croatoa that strange things are headed south to spoil the holiday with their own evil celebrations. With the location of the Malleus Mundi still a mystery following it's disappearance last year, it's feared that new creatures might appear on the city streets. There have already been rumors that the Unseelie court may be sending fiends to paragon City to join the Vampires and werewolves that stalk the night on All Hallows Eve. Now there have even been sightings that the fearsome giant Jack-in-Irons has been seen heading south to join the Pumpkin King.

To combat this dark tide, Croatoa's Ravenwing Cabal has offered to help by encouraging heroes not only to fight these dangers, but also to enjoy the holiday. Heroes are encouraged to look for Ravenwing Cabal member Annah in Croatoa to learn more once the Halloween festivities begin. There are even rumors that a rogue member of the Cabal called "Granny Beldam" has plans to offer the same encouragements to villains from somewhere in the Nerva Archipelago. It remains to be seen if the villains of the Rogue Isles will appreciate any festivity, despite Lord Recluse's orders for mandatory Halloween cheer among the populace.

ARRGH!

This box does nothing but confound me!

Meg needs tech savvy, please!

Here's the deal. I'm tooling through the AP mayhem mish with a baby mm when I get mapservered three times in a row. When I er-log in after the third, the game starts verifying files. But now when I pick a server all of the characters are there but the "Go to Paragon/Rouge Isles" button is greyed out. Its that way on all of the characters, on all of the the servers. When I hit roughtly the third or fourth server to check, the game drops to a sound loop and crashes.

My tech quotient is frightfully low, I keep more than a few tech services people busy. Anyone with more education than I have any ideas?

Meg

Upgrade Now Available

Today they released the upgrade from the new boxed set. For $9.99 you will get the Tiki Lounge Gold Card, a Jump Pack, and some new costume options. So after dropping my ten bucks, I run into the game to check the stuff out. Not terribly impressed, I'm sorry to say.

The Gold Card gives you a power to teleport to the Tiki Lounge from anywhere and you can use it once every 30 minutes. Tiki Lounge is cool, but nothing going on in there. Just a room. The animation is pretty neat when you teleport, but takes an ungodly amount of time. Don't think you are going to escape from anything using it.

Costume options are very few, at least what I found. There are Justice and Sinister versions of a new shoulder option, a new boot style, a new glove style, and a new pattern in the pants option. That's just what I found. There might be more? No new hair. Boo.

The jump pack is a cross between flight and jumping. If you hit your space bar continually, you will go higher and higher. Guess it's good for you superspeeders. My first try with it I found it a bit unweildy.

The base is now shut down to our coalitions and is being revamped slightly. Please put your salvage into the storage since I need some components still. Your raid email will be going out soon. I still have to get with Rage on it.

Alpha and Omega

or

Base Raiding: Take Two!

The time had come. Weapons had been polished and armor was cinched tight. Colors had been donned and strategies had been laid out. The time had come. There was battle in the air!

The next engagement had been planned and agreed upon. Alpha Team and the Debt Brigade would meet head to head in a re-match, this time the home field advantage would belong to Alpha Team. This time the Brigade would be going on the offensive.

And anyone who listens to us on Vent knows we get plenty offensive.

Ahem.

I am rather ashamed to admit that I was tardy in getting to the pre-raid meeting. Sorry Az, I will be on time next time, promise! I was delighted to see several new faces in the mix, a hearty welcome to Ebon Mauler and Rulltran for reasons that will quickly become clear in the narrative.

The clock wound to a close and the warnings were given. And then battle was had!

One of these days I'm going to remember to take some screenshots for posterity to record the glorious chaos that is a base raid. But Alpha Team can take great pride in the thought that they kept this poor little ice/mace tank far, far too busy to do anything but mash attack buttons, auto-fire a taunt and drop Energy Absorption when it was up.

And swear a little. Some. Ok, a lot but Az did it first!

Alpha Team took to the offensive right from the opening bell, pinning us down in an open hallway with withering firepower and, wait for it,

FWOOOOOP!

Our old friendly fire comrades Amia and Blackcircle, the bubblers. It was quite kind of them to give me a taste of the various walls and storage racks in the Alpha base. I would recommend some salt and lemon juice be left out as a courtesy to those of us left sucking brick so early in the game.

Barrages were volleyed back and forth and the various members of both teams leapt to and fro like frogs left on a hot plate. I started hammering out taunts early and managed to make quite a nuisance of myself. This notion was reineforced when I managed to make of the few trips past the Bubbler Barricade.

After one lucky Superjump and a swing or two to get some attention, I discovered a new game to play while I recuperate in Hibernate. It's called Count the effects icons on my screen. Alpha made it quite clear that I was offsides. I stopped counting at nineteen different icons crowding that corner of my monitor.

But then our secret weapon made quite a timely appearance by porting me out of the center of attention and into our own little circle of protection. There were more than a few cheers of having out very own bubbler and Rulltran is a well-appreciated addition to the Brigade.

I am not sure who first decided that the Alpha mediporter needed to go but Templar Fire Tank charging us from the rear of our formation may have had something to do with it with the decision. The search for anchors was temporarily sidelined as we proceeded to make junk of the offending piece of equipment.

In more than one occasion, I found myself in the middle of a taunt phalanx with Makin' Debt and the Ebon Mauler. We would wind up in the same tile, fire off one or two taunts and split like scalded rabbits, dragging all kinds of tank-generated hate our way.

I do have to say that I spent far less time hearing the dreaded FWOOOP! in this raid. I am unsure if this was due to us being more coordinated or Alpha having to deal with an offending bubbler on the receiving end.

But I know which one I would like it to be...

My personal high point in the raid came not long after we had found and demolished the third anchor. Once again, I had been shunted off into the corner like a naughty brat by Amia and I started scrolling through my power trays looking for something to try. And I found something long neglected in a dusty corner of my arsenal. Something I took off a defeated Freakshow Juicer so long ago. I sheathed my mace, blew dust off the barrel, sighted and popped Amia with a stunning beanbag.

HOLY HANNAH! IT WORKED! BUBBLER STUNNED! It was here that my roommate finally decided to see what the hell I was cackling about. I attempted to explain, she patted me on the head and I leapt back into the fray.

Many a blow was traded before the clock finally had its way with us all. In the end we had taken three anchors and were in the process of eradicating two more, but it was not to be. Once again I want to offer a note of genuine thanks to every member of Alpha Team for a being a great sport in our raiding. The sense of good fun and rousing competition makes these get-togethers a real treat and something to really look forward to.

And another three cheers for all my companions, old and new, in the Debt Brigade. It is always a blast running around with you all and I look forward to more adventure with you all in the future.

As always, your humble ice/mace chronicler bids you good hunting!

Meg

More Veteran Rewards

They have listed the second year of veteran rewards. Wings are at 15 months, so 46 & 2 is going to be singing Tool for a bit longer I imagine! Awww! But at least there won't be two billion winged toons running around now. I might make that marker by I8, but I'm not sure who I'd put 'em on! lol But I love the samurai armors, that's just same plain cool stuff there! I'm sure Cap will model it for us! lol

Raid on Sunday @ 3:30 pm Pacific! So far, I have:

me
Colder
Chaud
Baba
Mrs. Baba
Elitess
Rulltran
Ebon

It's limited to 16 so reserve your spot! And scream if I missed your name. Lt. Rage and I will be laying down some ground rules so expect to see them soon. Yes, your shivan will probably be left at home. I am considering approaching Caste of Set for some practice raiding also. I think it will be a whole new ball of wax fighting villain ATs! I'll be standing next to Tech for his tactics buff, thank you! lol!

Might be doing some minor shifting of the base for the raid. Then again, when it comes to moving stuff in the base, it's never minor. Grats to all the people who leveled yesterday, and a big welcome to our new members, Beetle and to our Dark Justice Legion friends, Ebon and Garl. Had fun in Siren's with ya'll last night!

Healing Badge #2 is Ours!!

A big thank you to those who participated in all the heal farms!! A big thank you especially to Sword for holding the Tome of Persephone mission for the red crystal! Only 100 million more points to badge #3! So we should have it. . . oh, by 2010! lol We need to one do on the villain side as well. We can do it with Melqar, Sword's MM and a healer. Healer would probably have to be at least a 20 or sk'ed up to such.

The rez in the base will now be at 45% as opposed to it's meager 25% before. And no, I don't think it can ever be 100% (that I know). Congratulations again to all!

Tenative Raid on Oct. 8

Just trying to get a headcount to see if anyone wants in on this? Probably 3 pm pacific or thereabouts? Pylon raid.

Please give me, give me my WINGS...

Listen to the tales and romanticize, How we follow the path of the hero...

It's time now! My time now! Give me my, give me my wings!
Give me my wings! --Wings for Marie, Pt 2. Tool, 10,000 Days, 2006.

Cathedral of Pain on test & I8 Veteran Previews

That's right folks, Items of Power are coming closer and closer! Been reading on the boards that it really isn't terribly hard. You fight an AV with a PFF which you can take down by defeating these obelisk thingies and his minions. Fusion Force was able to finish the trial in 14 minutes with 2 teams of 7. They were awarded the Debt Recovery IoP (you burn off debt quicker in sg mode). Max amount of people allowed in the trial is 20 and it appears you can bring non-SG members with you.

If someone has a SuperGroup Computer could you place it in the control room? I had to delete the last one cause there was no where to store it when I bought the upgraded room.

Heal farm is close to success I think. Our status bar disappeared however so I can't track it anymore (I contacted support and they say the bar disappearing is a bug but it will still be tracking). We should be REALLY close to badge #2 at this point! Thanks to Chaud, Sword and Tech for helping with this!! Melqar has a red crystal mish on Villains if we want to do the same over there. Anyone have or want to roll a healing corrupter? :)

And here is a letter from ol' Positron about upcoming changes where he mentions I9 and I10.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for the veteran previews.

That soup was delicious!!!

Mmmm...nothing like Alphadebt Soup!!!

Great raid everyone. It was a blast as always and I have to really commend everyone on the great turnout!! We had the max of 16 so sorry to those who wanted to raid but were too late (I think Tribal Age was the only one...not sure).

Of course, mad props to Alpha Team for letting us go in and trash their place for awhile...nice job on the layout and hiding of the anchors you magnificiently sneaky bastards :P

For the record, we did manage to snag 3 of them so a pat on the back to everyone who took part.

Our strategy went off pretty well (we did get 3 anchors after all). I think we all definitely learned a lot from the experience and we'll be definitely fine-tuning our strats for the next one (Read: KILL BUBBLER...KILL BUBBLER...GET THIS DAMN BUBBLER OFF OF ME!!!)

A special thanks to Azzie for organizing said strategy!

Ventrilo was a great asset for the Raid so I implore anyone who wishes to raid with the SG on a regular basis to go get it. Right now, Az is kind of enough to pick up the tab on the server so all you need to do is get a headset!!! Come listen to the sexy stylins' of The Debt Brigade!!!

If anyone on the blog took some picks, please feel free to send them to Az or myself and we will put them up asap. We need a visual record of using beating down Alpha Team :P

However, I will not post the pic of me and what I did to their conference table (don't sit at the head seat!!! :)

What's next for the SG? How about an Areana event? No anchors...no searching...just an all out brawl that lets you boil in your own contempt for your fellow man.

Sounds fun doesn't it :P

Grats to Elite on high score this time out!

Gonna make some AlphaDebt Soup!

Tomorrow is raid day all! Hope you are all ready for death, bubbles and a fun, fun time! Oh and my cursing of course! Please meet in the base around 3:30 pm pacific for the briefing before the event. If you have time, load up the storage with breaks. Not sure if we can use it, but better to be prepared in any event.

Halloween up on test. I haven't bothered to go look, but this is what's been said about it on the board.

1. There's some expository backstory, incursion of dark forces upon our plane of existence, blah, blah, blah.

2. Dark all the time.

3. Trick or Treat Event: Click on doors (any graphical thing that could be an entrance to a mission). Half the time you get a treat (inspiration, salvage drop, or rock temp power); half the time you get a trick (a foe spawn of spooky characters). (you must be in a level appropriate zone for doors. ex. a 50 needs to be in pi)

4. Event badges for 'kill x' special spooky spawns and Giant Monsters.

5. Unlock a fifth costume slot. Event salvage can be turned into a Halloween contact for that fifth slot.

6. Carnie Strong Men smash the pumpkins you leave outside your base entrance.

New Patch Drops on Live & Wings Preview

The last patch before Issue 8 is out has finally hit the live servers! You can now drop missions that you don't want to do and get credit for them. Good-bye "Defeat 40 Rikti in the Abandoned Sewer Network"! You can drop a mission once every 7 days by calling your contact and selecting the option.

Check out the new Wings Veteran Rewards! Available in demon or angel styles.

Respecs are in the plenty. Azrhiaz has relinquished her Electric Epic for Force. Personal Force Field stood tough against Scirocco and Ghost Widow in RV. Though Cap couldn't resist punching him in the nose a few times (and paying with his life for it! lol). Chynna and Lumeir also had a good time on test in the arena though it makes for a funny fight when both opponents are held for most of it. A big thank you to Magnan for testing my builds over there with me!

I'll stay in my bubble thanks, safe from AVs and puns
We've also been dallying a little on the Justice server with a silly SG named Ill-Mannered. Just for shits and giggles we created new goofy toons with rude phrases for names.

Eat Dung (Deep), What the? (Cap), Shut-Up (Azrhiaz), Couldn't Tell Ya (Minx),
Hush It (Chaud) and What R U Looking At (Tech)
We were also later joined by As If (Sword), Bite - Me (Chica) and a few other of our friends in Alpha for the silliness.

The raid is coming up! We currently have 10 confirmed with about 8 "will try". Instaraids are limited to 16 so RSVP if you haven't already. If you need the Raid Briefing email, please send a tell to @Azrhiaz with your real life email address.

InstaRaid on Alpha Team!

Alphas Leading the Way. . . Chin First
Contrary to popular opinion, there have been no PLing of bubblers. However, that will not stop the InstaRaid on Alpha Team on Sunday September 24th at 4 pm Pacific. Let the Battle Royale begin again!

Trying to get a headcount so please RSVP and let us know if you can make it.

Prestiege, Influence and Other Good Stuff

Heal farm: a bust. At 8 am I awoke to find only Chynna and Sword still in the mission. The rest of us had been DCed. How annoying.

Well since Lost doesn't want to give his secrets away, I thought I'd do it for him. Here is a "guide" gleaned from many sources.

The Overview:
Influence is the currency in which toons outfit themselves with enhancements to better their powers and purchase new costumes. Typically, one will need around 700k to buy their first round of SOs at 22. At 47, you will need around 5 million to get your level 50 SOs.

Prestiege is the currency in which Supergroups use to outfit their base. Members need to be in SG mode (click super --> enter sg mode) to earn prestiege. You will earn normal influence and prestiege up until you reach level 25. At which point your influence will start to drop 10% a level until at level 34 you will no longer make a dime of it and only make prestiege.

Acquiring Influence: Most people say not to bother with TOs at all. Don't slot 'em, sell 'em. All of them. Some people say don't even bother with DOs. I am currently of a mindset that I will only use what I pick up along the way and not buy anything until level 22. With this method, I was able to completely outfit Ahne Toreph with SOs without an influence gift from anyone.

Oh and sell all your enhancements to the proper store (science enhancements to the science store, etc.) and if you can get to Talos, they give the best prices. You can make a couple extra grand by just selling at the proper store, and in Talos. Believe me, it's worth the trip and the time! Don't sell in Croatoa! Those cheap bastards!! lol

Also if you have no use for the larger inspirations, sell them at the Tree of Wonders in the Infirmary. A large awake can net you 10,000 influence. If you have extra blues or greens, sell them back to the Tree at 25 each.

Acquiring Prestiege: You all know the battle cry! "You better be in SG mode, dammit!"

The best way to earn prestiege at an accelerated rate is to hunt in PvP zones. Sure Rikti Portals are fabulous, but a spirit mask in Bloody Bay is half the time, half the risk and as much prestiege typically. According to Junkyard Dog of the Injustice Legion, (see his post here) he has never left SG mode, has never been strapped for cash all because he hunts in PvP zones where he will earn more prestiege and get more enhancement drops (more drops = more money) than anywhere else. You also typically get better salvage. So he is top prestiege winner by a long shot and has no money issues. Who knew there was such a thing?!

It is also my theory that once the level 50 content comes out, you will find yourself needing badges from PvP zones to access some of the "upgrades". All the villain accolades require a trip to these zones (example: the Born in Battle accolade (5% to health and end) requires the 5 hours in Siren's badge) so it is only logical for the devs to impose this on heroes to get them to spend time in there as well.

Hopefully this is helpful. If anyone else has and tips or tricks, post 'em in the comment section!

CoV mish invite and introducing our newest healer...

Mercy Mercy kindly invites you to two fun CoV missions. No badges, no bells, no whistles, just two lvl 20 mishes that are a lot of fun. Warn Ghost Widow and Break Prisoners Out of the Zig. I am open to times, I am on EST and prefer evenings. Those interested let me know and we will work out the times.

On the CoH side...say hello to our newest epath/radiation Defender...

Next Patch

Nope, still no job yet.

On the test server is the next patch. Mostly dealing with the new Mission Dropping feature it seems. Patch notes are here. At least I'll get to see my tornado again!

Heal badge farming tonight and on the weekend! Join us in leaving your toon in a mission next to a red crystal overnight and getting badges while you sleep! Tonight around 11 pm Pacific (tenative) we will be going into Sword's CoT cave mission and camping out to earn the SG heal badges. You might even get a damage badge out of it!

Fun with Family!

Bored with the same old same old missions?? Tired of killing villain after villain? Why not have some fun with family!! Sword and I spent the whole day on her Uni story arc, we were on the trail of her nice CoT crystal mission. It was getting late in the afternoon (evening for Sword!), we had been at these missions since 8 a.m., when we entered the zone containing family. Both of us were tired, I had been bubbling and Sword had been doing all of the "arresting". When we discovered an exciting new sport...Family wall art!












It all began with this one family, who got in this odd position in the wall barrier. Maybe it was the long hours on CoH, maybe it was his head sticking out the other side, maybe Sword and I need to get out more, but this struck us as extremely funny.












That's when the fun began, it was time for these villains to fly. Ü Armed with our knockback powers we began smacking those family against the wall, literally! Higher and higher, in the weirdest positions....whee this was fun! All in all a successful mission with a lot of laughter! So the next time you find your self in a hero rut, remember Family + mission barriers = fun!! Ü

Paragon Defense Corps at Hami Raid!

A moment of triumph and glory as a few of the best of PDC's heroes gathered to savor their well earned HOs. For me, a rare moment to grab a screenshot with my Mentor Deep Fryd. Its all to rare to have so many of us active at the same time, so I wanted to remember the moment

Trashing the Alpha House

POSTPONED

Chica, Mon, we're coming to get ya! :-)

Mondaag and I were talking about DB returning Alpha's favor and he thought perhaps Saturday night 9/16 at 8 pm Pacific, might be a good time. So I'm putting it out there to see who can attend!

Congrats on the brand new secure control room we now have. We'll be able to put a weapon in it. Lost was kind enough to make us an Elite Chain Gun, so that will soon be sitting there purring away. Next goal is a secure energy room. 3 million presteige with the ability to have 2 weapons. Good work all. And welcome to the new toons that have an interest in doing the raiding fun!

Tech-Blade is trying to work through his Tyrant arc on Maria Jenkins so we can all happily stand in the lava and earn heal/damage taken badges. We'll keep you updated on when this might happen.

Grats to our Newest 50!! Lost Senpai!

Our founding father has finally hit the mark!! Congratulations! Bring on the Debt!

SG Healing Badges

I have recently learned that the remaining SG healing badges are these:

# 2 Robo-Surgery - heal 25 million in SG mode. Robo Surgery allows you to attach auxilleries to the rez station for a better rez.

#3 Combat Logs - heal 100 million in SG mode - allows you to buy break frees in base.

Most of the people on the boards who had these badges had farmed for them. How sad. Typically, they got a CoT mission with a red crystal in it and parked the biggest team they could find (with controller pets if possible) and just left the defender(s) on auto heal. Overnight. Do we want to do this?

Upset of the Year

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It's near midnight. I'm about to log and send a good-bye tell to Deep. And you know what he always does: challenges you to an arena match when you are one eyelash drop short of falling asleep. Being on my earth/storm controller, Lumeir, who I haven't done too much PvP with and having been recently "controlled" to annoyance in the InstaRaid, I thought it might be a good test of her holding powers. Deep --on his scrapper-- doesn't think it'd be fair, but since it's only practice, I agree to the match. I might not be able to defeat him, but maybe I can stay alive?

WRONG!

Not only did I stay alive for the entire 10 minutes, but I pwned Half-Inch Bicep three times! You wanna superspeed around? Mmm no, I don't think so! Splat down some quicksand and attach a snowstorm to slow his powers and movement. Think you are gonna get close to me?! HA! Gonna hurricane your ass, buddy! So with the lightning storm and the tornado a-flying, Half-Inch soon found himself held in a fossil with ice raining down and Stoney beating the tar out of him. Deep falls at my feet in utter defeat.

I think we were both shocked. And me? Well, simply delighted!

The only controller to ever beat the illustrious Half-Inch Bicep! Three times in a row! Boo YA!

The Little People

They are usually pretty helpless and are always getting in to trouble, but the citizens of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, *do watch the news. The following is a list of what information they give:

There are 7 different types of citizen NPCs in the game that give specific information depending on the letter their names start with (as in E in Ethel):

E - Official Real Time (based upon where Cryptic is located)

F - Official Paragon City Time (in-game time)

G - Number of heroes/villains in the current zone you are in

H - Lists random names of other heroes/villains in current zone

M - Gives total time played, for current hero/villain, since hero/villain creation

N - Number of times you've logged into the game with current hero/villain

O - How long you've been logged in today with current hero (resets after every indoor mission)

J - gives statistics on how many times you've used a power today.

K - gives statistics on how much damage you have dealt with your powers today.

Meg's Base Raid Recap!

Chapter 1

So, there we were.... waiting. The Brigade assembled, armed and ready. And waiting. Az had firm control on Vent, and the rest of us were relaying orders via the SG chat. And waiting. We made a few sorties to make sure Alpha hadn't bounced in in a back hallway somewhere. And waited.

ADD, who me? Nah. Well, maybe..

Suddenly the chill cannon opened fire and the game was afoot! A flood of black and gold uniforms appeared the hallway just off the teleport bay. I hefted my mace and charged in howling...

FWOOOOP!

Hey! How'd I get stuck against the wall? Why did it suddenly get sparkly in here? Oh HELL! They had a bubbler! Thus began a long, no quarter, hammer and tongs, bare-knuckle street fight. And we were already outnumbered with our backs (literally) to the walls.

Chapter 2

The first lesson so handily given to me in the base raid was the experience of a tether ball game from the veiw point of the ball. I'd sprint up, trying to keep the Alphas from smashing the chill cannon, get within a few paces and be summarily booted back to my corner, like the class clown being sent to detention. Bad tank, bad! No cookie for you!

To make matters worse, the Alphas had split us with the Dispersion Bubble. Half of us pinned in the teleport bay and the rest unable to close for support. A grim opening indeed. Lt. Rage came over to introduce himself to me and I looked forward to introducing him to my mace when...

FWOOOP!

Hello again wall, we need to stop meeting like this. People will talk.

Rage closed with me. I made a single swing and discovered a fencepost sticking out of my chest. Chica had joined the Lt. Ok, I'm tank; I can take it. But when two other Alphas showed up to play " Squish the Midget" I was reaching the limits of my durability. I then had the small pleasure of introducing them to the wonders of Hibernate. For 30 seconds they used me as a speed bag. I returned the favor by dropping the Hibernate and used them as a pit stop with Energy Absorbtion. Ahhh, lovely endurance.

Just then, a spark of hope! Someone got in a lucky shot and the bubbler was stunned! The Dispersion Field dropped and we a had a clear shot the remainder of the Alphas who has been rummaging through the base looking for the anchors. I hit Chilling Embrace, Icicles and charged in, Taunting my tiny little head off, hoping that I would take the hits and allow my team to do some damage. Yes! Chynna gets in some solid blows and the Bubbler goes down! The tide has turned, we have snatched Victory from the jaws of Defeat, we...

FWOOOOP!

Hello wall, my old friend. Fancy meeting you again.

They had a spare.

Oy.

Chapter 3

Things looked dire for the home team. Even with the home field advantage, we were getting stomped like a narc at a biker rally. Our taste of victory had been fleeting, the Alphas had a second bubbler.

The conflict began to blur to this poor tanks eyes, things were happening at a thick and furious pace. Colder dashing back and forth, leaving ice slicks in his wake. Slasheery would bolt into the fray for a furious assualt on a distracted Alpha, Baba would summon a Singularity in the middle of the Alpha's lines and cause chaos in an already frantic scene.

Meanwhile, on Ventrilio, there was an unusual display going on. Our Dear Leader, whom we all Adore and Obey, was showing an heretofore undiscovered talent for verbal profanity. In the words of Sam Jackson; "Damn! You go into a bar and ten minutes later sailors come running out!" I can only offer the following advice; do not anger our Dear and Glorious Leader unless you wish to hear a blistering display of verbal barrages that will peel paint, cause cows to give sour milk and have the birds drop from the skies dead to the last.

And of course, there was the periodic reminder of our aggravation:

FWOOOOOP!

Lord, please forgive me for all the nasty things I thought about the bubblers that night, because Az went and said them all anyway, so go punish her first.

I wish I could say that I witnessed the decisive point that turned the tide but sadly I was too busy trying to keep my graphics card from throwing in the towel and moving to Mexico. I saw several Alphas making a concerted effort to smash the Anchor in the teleport bay and I made a mad dash to try and knock one of them off our big stone head. I jumped up and tried draining endurance like Lindsay Lohan after some hooch at an open bar but was summarily shot off the top from somewhere behind me.

Then Lt. Rage called Time.

Wow.

Things slowly wound down. The ice and the taunts quit flying, fears were no longer cast, the bubblers slowly put their shiny globes of frustration away (thankyouthankyouthankyou) and the dust finally settled.

The Alphas had called it. Through sheer determination, we had overcome!

To my admiration, there was a solid show of good sportsmanship all around. In my opinion, this was the best part of the whole Raid, the solid show of fun and camraderie at the end.

I would like to say that this was, without exception, the most fun I've had in CoH in a long time. My hat is off to Az for organizing the event and a mighty thank you to Lt. RAge and the other Alphas who participated and were complete professionals about the whole thing.

I look forward to the next one with much anticipation.

Until next time, your humble Ice/mace chronicler bids you good hunting. :)

Meg

Battle Weary but WE WON!

Oh boy. I am EXHAUSTED. Super, great, excellent job on the InstaRaid everyone!! You make this grand poo bah very proud! Did anyone get a picture of the stat list? I only got the bottom half. ::pout:: You all KNOW I wanted to frame the picture of my high score in the lobby area! I'm sure Baba has some good screenies. That's why he dies so much. He's always taking pictures! ::grin:: I think we did very well frankly. Especially being outnumbered. Taunted like crazy. Feared like no one's business. And pushed by stupid, fracking bubbles to the ends of the earth! ::curse::

For those not there, we won the instaraid. They only destroyed our elite chill cannon, a sensor array (for the elite energy beam), and one dimensional anchor (out of 6). And I believe they only found 2 of them. ::evil snicker:: All is restored however, since InstaRaids are only practice sessions. Damn good for an hour's worth of PvP, I'd say. I honestly enjoyed myself a lot more than I thought I would.

I'd like to take the time to thank and express my gratitude to Lt. Rage and Alpha Team for joining us. I'm also sorry our chill cannon went off before we were ready to begin but you trashed it before I could even get to see it work, so I guess we are even. :) Have fun looking for the anchors now that our coalitions are allowed back in the base. ::grin::

A few notes on durability of base items. As I mentioned on Vent (to those who have it -- get it, to those who don't), when real scheduled raids go live, we will have a good chance to have everything restored. We will attach a Flame of Hephestus/Robotic Fabrictor to all 6 of the worktables. For the elite weapons, they each have their own resurrector. So if worse comes to worse, we lose an IoP and not much else. In theory anyway. Biggest challenge again, is prestiege and resources. Those third tier tables are costly and suck a lot of control. And with 600k for all those auxilliaries. Sigh.

We might have to get rid of Lucifer. Other than being very handsome, he kinda, well, sucks. I have an elite analyzer which will drop the def/resist of all attackers. Or we can do the Faathim TF again and gain access to the Rikti Plasma Gun which shoots for a whopping 250 pts of damage. For that we need to beat Rularuu the Mad 5 times. I think we have 3 times already in the can (if everyone was in sg mode when they did it). But I also heard there was a new patch and those times might not have counted.

Oh Lord, I'm babbling. Time to sleep. Gimme some favorite raid moments in the comments. And no, you can't talk about my cursing. ::grin:: And Colder, I hope you aren't dragging too much at work today. Muah.