Costume Contest!! Design the SG Uniform!

Well Meg got the ball rolling on this one so here we go! Now that we are a top SG on Triumph, it's time to start representing ourselves around Paragon City. When we walk by, people will gape, tremble and admire us! "They belong to the Debt Brigade! I'm so jealous!" will surely follow your every move!

SG Uniform Contest Details
In the character creator (DO NOT ACTUALLY BUY THE COSTUME!!), please design an official uniform! Take a screen shot of the front and the back and make sure that the type and styles are noted. You wlll be choosing pieces for these areas:

Top
Bottom
Shoulders

The rest will be customizable by the toon. Therefore, you can choose your own style of boots, gloves, belt, headgear. Do not submit uniforms that have capes, auras, wings, trenchcoats. Just the basics as we will only be looking at the three main pieces. Do not use a character that look like yours! Anonymous please!

Requirements:
The costume must have our team colors of red and black.
The costume must include the DB logo.
The costume must be available to all players, so do not use options like Justice, Samurai, epaulets, santa hats etc. Make sure the option is available for both male and female toons.
You must have a toon in DB (or DBR) that has earned at least 1000 prestiege.

Limit of 3 submissions per person. Send pictures to this email and I will assemble them anonymously on a webpage for all to see, comment and vote on. In the event of a tie, the Grand Poo Bahs will make the final decision.

What You Win
The creator of the official SG uniform will win:

60 Days of Free Game Time (2 months worth! woot!)
-and-
One Million Influence (or Infamy if you prefer)
Serial codes will be sent via email so if you are not willing to give that out, you only get the influence!

Happy Creating All! Deadline for entries will be Valentine's Day (February 14th, 2007)

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BTW, the Debt Brigade Reserve is now up and running. To put your inactive, non prestiege earning toons in, contact @chaud woman, @azrhiaz, or @tech-blade to get invited. You will be coallied with DB and will have access to the inspir dispenser and all the TPers. You are welcome to move toons back into the main group at any time or for raids. Please remember our inactive kick policy is 30 days in DB, so if you are having to log a toon in do so, or move them into DBR (where there is no kick policy)

Retirement is fun!

I have some job interviews and then the Super Duper Bowl so I don't know if I will be on much this week. But in the mean time this card thingy is fun.

Chaud...I am working on your pic. Look up Adam Hughes for the style I am ripping off this time.

Coming soon!

The first annual Debt Brigade supergroup uniform fashion extravaganza!

Watch this space!

Meg

Ptah!

l to r: Tech-Blade, Avalance Lion, Garl Darklord, Amethyst Archer, Azrhiaz, Captain Thundar, Colder, and Chaud Woman

I hope everyone had a great double xp weekend! I'm sure levels were gained and sleep was lost :D

I went up a few on two alts so thanks to everyone who teamed with me!

Now, the DB really wanted to cap things off so we ran the Justin Augustine TF in Zulu. It was a blast! We cut through all the hunts rather easily being lvl 50 and all (good call by Azzie on printing out the maps...quit blacking out my Chantry map damn game!)

We tore through all the mobs pretty handily (mostly yellows and oranges) and I think we only had about 3 deaths total. I almost bit it when I just had to shoot at the crystal imprisoning Faatham. I'm proud to say that swallowing about 6 greens can help you survive a CoT onslaught :P

Sunday was also quite the day for milestones! Ebon Mauler and Slasheery hit 50, Tech earned 1 freakin' million prestiege, and the Justin TF was the last TF on Az's list!

Talk about a dedicated group! Gratz to everyone on their accomplishments and with Issue 9 coming soon, I'm sure there will be more to be had! Statesman's Task Force is calling out names...

Before I sign off, here's a special gift to everyone since we all love Zulu so much!


Dr. Freud, we thank you :P

Issue 9 Preview

Issue 9 Preview
Just a teaser but a few new changes hinted at for Hamidon! Get your HOs while we all still know how to beat the green goo!

City of Heroes... playing cards :)

I don't know how recent this is but I just found it and I thought it was cool. It's a CCG generator so.. if you've ever wanted a collectable card of yourself.

http://www.cohccg.com/cardbuilder

And for kicks.. guess who? :) (Apologies for the cruddy resolution - had to shrink to fit)

Grats and Stuff

Congrats on Megeara for finally turning 50! Our spiffy ice/mace tank has at last reached the big FIVE-OH! Great job!


Weekend events! Saturday evening we are thinking of running the Lord Recluse Strike Force. Level 45-50 villains. If you plan on coming, make sure you get a shivan! Also please post of whether you are just interested in running it (non optimal team) or you want to beat it. If so, we'll have to go to the boards and recruit a rad and/or a kinetic corrupter.

Sunday afternoon, say around 2pm pacific, Justin Augustine TF in Zulu! This one will probably be full but we'll play it by ear and see who shows up! It's the very last taskforce for many of us, so let's make it a good one! Should take about 3 hours.

I think the patch is hitting today since servers went down this morning for maintenance. So yay, first secure plot, here we come!!

Who can help me get Ahne's money off him before I remake him?

The News You've All Been Waiting For

Gather your teams and get ready! Shape up your soloing prowess! Get those eager lackeys and sidekicks in line! It's time to clean up and cash in!

Another Double Experience Weekend looms on the horizon! Mark January 26th to the 28th on your calendar because you won't want to miss it! All weekend long, experience, infamy/influence and prestige rewards will be doubled! It's time to level up!

Program to watch CoH videos YOU record

Man, City of Villians has the coolest toys for your toons! What does this picture and comment have to do with client demos? NOTHING! So lets get on with my post...

http://www.net-marks.com/software/tweakcoh

OK the link is for a client demo launcher. What is a client demo launcher? It is a nice easy tool to open up videos you can record during CoX gameplay. How do you make a video during gameplay? To record a demo you must first be logged into the game with a character. When you are ready to begin recording use the the following slash command:
/demorecord
Where is the name of the demo you are recording. When you are done recording use the following slash command:
/demostop
This will stop recording and close out your demo, . Your demo, , will then appear in the selection pulldown on the "Demos" tab in this program and, once selected, you can click "Play Demo" to play it. You can use the various demo settings to change playback from fullscreen to windowed, change its resolutiuon, change its frame rate, disable text, or dump screenshots during playback. If you'd like to be able to play demo files by double clicking them in Windows Explorer, you can use the Set File Association button to use the current Demo settings (except for dump to files) to create a File Association for .cohdemo files. Please note a reboot/restart/relogin of Windows may be required for this to work.

Now for the bummer, we can't upload the recorded demos in this blog, but if you want one of a a sewer trial I was on or copies of others I have, email me and I will send it to you. The actual files of the demos must be saved in a folder called client demos in the CoH folder in your C: drive.

Good News in Latest Patch

Rent has FINALLY been overhauled!

Base Rent Overhaul
Base Rent is now calculated solely on your plot size. The larger the plot, the larger the rent. Secure plots also pay more rent, due to the number of defenses they are allowed to have. When they are re-introduced, Items of Power will reduce the amount of Rent due.

Existing supergroups will see this change take place immediately, but it is not retroactive. No supergroups will be receiving refunds for rent already paid.

So instead of paying 300,000 in rent, we will be paying 43,000!! Wow! What a difference!! Death Brigade will pay NOTHING in rent! Even when we finally get a secure plot, we'll be paying a lot less than we have been. Yay!

The patch is currently on test. There are also some changes in animations and other stuff you may be interested in, so read the patch notes here.

The Freaks are in the House

Second respec trial on Sunday 1/7 @ 4 pm pacific! Lvl 34-43. We have three spots occupied currently, with 5 left! Come on, you all love a good freakfest don't ya?

Oooohhhh! And I just read Double XP is being put back on the test server so get ready for another Double XP marathon coming soon!! Who is everyone going to get BURNT out on this time? (yes, I think I've played Burnt twice since the last event! lol)

Oh and congratulations to our latest 50, Cowboy Scrapper!

Finally!

I know it's been a few days since we completed it but it took me that many days to wash the stink off of me :P

For those of you not in the know, we finally completed the damn sewer trial! With some creative sidekicking and exing, we finally managed to send that giant glob of green goo (phew!) back to where it came from!!!

The generators were giving us some trouble at first with their damn regeneratiion and timing of the particle shot but in the end we managed to get the timing down and take Globby down.

We were worried that it was all gonna for naught because the mish was telling us there was still some Rikti left from the stairs (we assumed anyways.) I never wanted to see that big blue "exit" button so badly in my life!!!! After some wandering, cursing, and random killing we managed to somehow finish the mish and collect our shiny new badges!!!

Burn in hell Sewer Trial!!!

Don't cross the streams!!!

I think we've done it!

We have! We have! We decided on The Debt Brigade Reserve as a name for our sister SG. Calmar Chaud is heading it up. This SG will be for inactives, bankroll toons, or for overflow of new members if DB fills up. We still need prestiege earners, so start recruiting if you see a player you think might fit in! Even if they are in an SG, ask anyway. We all know *ours is better! :)So if you have toons you don't use that much anymore in the main SG or want to make influence on, you can move them over there. You'll have access via coalition to all DB's teleporters and inspir dispenser. We will work on getting a bare bones base going for DBR as soon as possible.

I have also met a Triumph VG on the boards that would like to do some raids with us. They are "The Hellfire Brotherhood". So we may get a little mayhem coming our way! I will keep you updated as to when the fun will happen! I thought it also might be fun to do a little Death Brigade vs. Debt Brigade one of these days. I know Baba's very anxious to see how badly plant/thorn fares in PvP. :grin:

Sewer trial tomorrow 2 pm pacific. Gonna try and run Eden tonight at 8 pm pacific. Winter event comes back to live on Monday! Chili Penguin needs his Santa Hat! We will also be holding an official DB uniform contest in the near future. Fusion Force and Alpha Team do such a nice job of representing, I thought it might be fun for us to do the same. And can you say "Big fat prizes"?

Check these out

My daughter joined our SG (woot!) and when I can pry her from her main (Dark Calling, Champion server), she is Yomiko Readman, a spiffy scrapper. Check out her artwork, she studies the manga styles. I will have her send an invite to get on the blog.

It's Official!

Jack in Irons wears a black thong!! Chuz kicked his *ahem* butt yesterday and since everyone was clamoring for another picture of his bootie, I thought I'd help ya'll out since he died in a um, perfect position!

Reminder! Sewer trial Sunday 1/7 @ 2pm Pacific! Where's the love on helping Chaud pick a name for the splinter group? It's WAY too hard to pick one all by our lonesomes! :)

These are the finalists:
Debt Brigade Max
Debt Brigade Elite
The Debt Brigade Reserve
Please vote in the comments of which you prefer!

KATIE HANNON TASK FORCE TONIGHT (MAYBE)

Winter Lord wants you to join Katie Hannon tf tonight at 8pm pst.(Maybe delayed for various reasons)

Otherwise Jack will not share his beer with Eochai!!!! Poor, poor Eochai.... =(

So join me, Deep as Millie Volt, Azrhiaz, and Captain Thundar in this epic journey.

Only 5 spaces left.

PST Millie Volt, Chuz, or Captain Thundar

Founders Falls Freaks For Frequent Freezes From Frigid Felons

...And the Debt Brigade had the cure. Another Winter Event has come and gone, and we were there to represent, have fun, and off course, collect some debt. Winter Lord met his match with just one team, we had some outside help (it was needed) and Az was needing another Snow Beast before it was done. Well folks see you at Valentines Event :-).

Happy New Year!

It was a weekend of giant monsters and TFs. Boy, I need a nap now.

But! we will be running Sewer Trial AGAIN on Sunday Jan 7th @2 pm pacific.

What's YOUR resolution? In RL and ingame?

Sewer Trial

Gonna try for this one Sunday December 31st at 2 pm. Will probably run it twice so if you have 38-41s and 50s who'd like the badge, we'll swap out.

The polls are now open....

The DB has been full for a while now. Leaving Az with the task of kicking toons who haven't been on in the last month or who don't earn prestige. :( So we've been talking and I am thinking of starting a "sister sg" to DB. We can put toons in there who are stagnate, like Calmar Chaud...I don't play her now she's retired, she's just taking up a spot in DB that could be used for a prestige earner. Or maybe you have a toon that you like to earn money on (we all need money), then you could put them in this sg and bankroll your prestige earners in DB. Also, it would be nice to add a few more AT to DB that could help in raids...trollers, bubblers, etc. This second sg wouldn't need a big base as we could use our coals for tpers. So what do you think? Here's the biggest question....what do we call it??

So far, here are the contenders....
Max Debt Brigade
Maxed Debt Brigade
Debt Brigade Maxed
Debt Brigade Maximum

Any other suggestions? Put in your vote now!

I'll probably create the new sg at the end of next week, give you all time to decide. :)

The Longest TF Ever (well, not really)

Tech-Blade, Chaud Woman, Azrhiaz, Tzadkayle, Avalanche Lion, Heavens Flicker and Protectin Force
This TF was really kind of a last minute deal and frankly I was suprised it all came together so well. We had no problems getting our 8 minimum and we seemed to cut through the missions like a hot knife through butter.

We started with 6 and a tell on Triumph Watch brought us two more and a bunch of others we had to turn away (this surprised me). So off we went, into the shard and started many hunts and a bunch of kill-alls in the caves of the Rularuu. Some of us were a bit rusty and died enough to keep things interesting. However, we really hit a stride and sailed through this very long taskforce in about 5.75 hours. We stealthed what we could, using PFF and invis to click glowies in the thick of things, and having a great tank and a damage-heavy team with shiny bubbles all around really helped. Nukes were abundant (Tzadi *was on the team after all) and we made a nice chunk of prestiege (about 75k) for the SG.

Speaking of the SG, Grand Poo Bah Chaud will be announcing something very shortly in regards to it!

And we will also be scheduling that damned Sewer Trial again in the very near future! We may be running it twice so those helping us with their 38s will be able to get the badge on their 50s. So if you have any interest, post a comment saying so!

Happy New Year all!

Dr, Quarterfield TF today at 2 pm

Sorry for the late post but my power went out last night and didn't come on until just now. For all of us people on vacation or without a job, let's run the longest TF ever made! Dr. Quarterfield in Zulu!! Level 40-44. Will take approximately 7 hours!! Maybe we'll break this up over two days since I have a belated birthday drink coming to me tonight!

Mission Breakdown

1. Fight Rularuu around Foxtrot -> defeat 50 Rularuu (FBZ)
2. Rescue exploration team -> 7 hostages to rescue. (FBZ)
3. Examine creatures at Bravo -> defeat 50 Rularuu (FBZ)
4. Defeat Rularuu at X-Ray -> defeat 50 Rularuu (FBZ)
5. Rescue the Explorers -> 9 hostages to rescue. (FBZ)
6. Defeat Rularuu, Crey -> defeat 25 Rularuu, 25 Crey (FBZ)
7. Defeat crey leader and guards -> 5 hostages (FBZ)
8. Fight Crey around Zulu -> defeat 50 Crey (FBZ)
9. Defeat Crey base leaders (FBZ) -> just take down the named boss.
10. Defeat all Crey at base (FBZ) -> there are glowies in the mission, but it is not necessary to complete mission. They are simultaneous click.

You NOW earn Dr. Q's phone number to call him.
11. Defeat all Crey at base (FBZ) -> glowies in mish unnecessary.
12. Defeat all Crey at base (FBZ)-> glowies in mish, not necessary.
13. Defeat Crey boss leaders -> search for clues (FBZ)
There are 3 glowies in the mission. 2 are connected by simultaneous clicks, the solo one has the clue.
14. Defeat Crey base leaders -> 8 samples, search for clues (FF)
15. Defeat all enemies in base -> find information, contain creatures (Bricks)
find a glowie for the info, and destroy an object to contain the creatures. Rularuu and Crey in mish.
16. Defeat Negotiators -> find information. (PI) Nemesis and Crey. info is a glowie.
17. Defeat all Nemesis Army in Base (FBZ)
18. Defeat Nemesis Base leaders -> locate information, contain creatures (FBZ)
similar to mission 15. there is no named boss, just take out final floor.
19. Defeat Portal base boss -> 2 portal computers (FBZ)
the computers are simul-click. get those and named boss at end.
20. Defeat all Crey -> 2 portal computers (FBZ)
similar to mission 19, now only kill all. computers are simul-click.
21. Defeat Portal base boss -> 4 portal computers (FF)
now 4 computers to click at once, and boss room.
22. Defeat Portal base boss -> 4 Portal computers, 2 Rularuu portals (FBZ)
the computers are simul again, and there are 2 more portal objects to destroy, along with boss and room.
23. Defeat Portal base boss -> 4 portal computers (Skyway)
simul-click again, and boss and room. ALMOST THERE.
24. Defeat all Escaped Rularuu -> 2 Rularuu portals (Talos)
Have fun in this. Circle of Thorns and Rularuu in a CoT map. kill all.

I hope you realize that once you've done this once, you'll never do it again :D

My team, with 2 teleporters, and no full team wipes, took 7 hours. You'll want to do this when you can devote a full day to the game.

Reward: +3 SO random, Portal Smasher badge (accomplishment)

Merry Xmas to all and to Az a good night!

Happy birthday Az! I am on the road then so I wanted to get this posted for you...Good timing on picking you next for the drawing hobby. I hope to be home soon! Until then 1 mil influence to the first blog poster to name the famous actress I used for this sketch of Az. I like stealing Alex Ross' style...use real people. OK who is next?

PS Here is a pic of Makin Debt and I on our worldly travels this week. Hope all had a great holiday this year.

Happy (Early) Birthday Azzie!!!

I'm two days early but I wanted to make this post because I'll be away from my comp for the next few days.

December 27th marks the birth of one of our very own Grand Pooh Bah's! The original....the great....Azrhiaz!!! :cues trumpets and the release of white doves:

Have a great birthday Az!

Happy Holidays!

I just wanted to take the time to wish all DBers (and honorary DBers) a very happy and safe holiday! Thank you for making this game so much fun and for being so valuable a part of the SG!!

I've removed a bunch of inactives from the member roster so if one of your alts was one of them, let me know and we'll get them back in. We have some spaces to fill now so get to recruiting! Keep in mind, we have plenty of scrappers and khelds already! Tanks and trollers would be most welcome. Or a few more blasters since Colder and I get lonely sometimes.

As Colder mentioned, the blog has been converted and is causing issues for some. If you are having trouble with getting back into the contributor list, let us know and we'll resend an invite.

Here is a thread from the board about Wentworth's. Colder made a very good prediction on the "loot" theory. And it sounds like it will be even harder to keep people in SG mode since auctions will be using your influence. I'm all for upgrades and fun, but they really need to reconfigure the prestiege system if they want to keep both financial systems going. It will be interesting to see what kind of stuff can be crafted and how sought after they might be. What are *your thoughts on it?

Again, a very happy holiday and joyous New Year to all! Anyone have any CoX or SG wishes?

Blogger + Google = F's things up!

I guess Blogger and Google decided to have an unholy union and mess everything up.

For any of you who have been having problems with the blog, you need to login to your account and merge it with a google account. It's easy...you just basically need to pop in a valid email (just use the one that got you onto blogger in the first place) and the rest basically takes care of itself. That way, you can get back on the contributors list.

Supposedly we get new nifty features with this "merge" but I haven't had time to check it out yet.

My apologies to anyone who has been running into problems with the blog lately.

I got a fever...

...and the only prescription is more GMs/AVs.

I am heading out and about on vacation and thus may have limited time in the next week or so. BUT this Saturday I would like to whoop it up against someone, anyone, someone scream!

So 4pm PST, someone call out who we want to stomp and I will be there. Me? I got a hankering for some RV AVs again, though willing to do just about any group event high or low. Sound off!

RoA Base Raid

Yet another raid for Debt Brigade has come and passed. We stood valiantly against Riders of Apocalypse and kept our base from being shut down. They still had some disconnection problems on their end but it was not as bad as the first attempt. Which means, we had some fight action!

I spent most of my time bubbling and trying to detoggle certain tough tankers, aka Ton of Bricks. I invented many names for Ton of Bricks during the raid, none of which I can repeat without verifying everyone's age beforehand. :)

Somehow I racked up 3 kills, which is just plain weird for my FF/Rad defender. I can only assume I stole some kills from a fellow SG member. My apologies if that was the case.

Zandryne seemed to be a favorite target of theirs, big surprise there, poor bubblers. Congratulations to Colder for the most victories in DB! Also, I have to give some recognition to Back Track from RoA for getting a whopping 17 victories to 4 defeats.

RoA apparently had some difficulty locating our generator despite spawning very close to it, hehe. Nice job on the base layout Az!

Az started a thread thanking RoA for the raid on the official CoH forum board. It can be found here. Several RoA members make some comments in the thread and it sounds like a good time was had by both sides, which I always think is the most important thing. It was a fun raid and good job to everyone. Next, we get to raid their base...

Here's a screenshot of the score provided by Az:

Repel Ball

Well was getting ready to go to bed and get all rested for the first day of my new job tomorrow (I'll be working night shifts at a vfx co. on Pirates of the Carribean 3) I checked the boards and found this hilarious game: repel ball!

Teams are lvl 3 kins with the repel power. Team makes a large room in their base and intiate a raid. Then they go to town on a level one MM pet. Look at the video and you will surely get a good belly laugh! repel ball video

Here's the thread that discusses it. Very fun times it seems!

Fun with Adobe

My daughter has a Wacom tablet, which is a graphic artists' tool for use with photo editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop. She has been showing me some of the capabilities and I wanted to tinker around. That coupled with the fact I needed to test the scanner of our new printer, I decided to draw a real quick sketch of Colder. Then I added some effects, and for fun threw in a cut out of an actual screenshot of a CoT mage, added even more effects, and well here it is. Lots of fun and if I had time and training, a potentially amazing cool for things to come. I will make a serious effort to do another drawing, probably just a pencil sketch--I was thinking of hooking up the leader in all the mayhem we go through--and sometimes cause. I recently found the art of Alex Ross (look him up you comic book nerds you know you want to :-), and was inspired by his amazing style. So maybe a portrait of Az in his stylings? We shall see.

Glitches for EVERYONE! Well...almost everyone.

As i changed my costume with sg colors i was in nova form and when i got out I was in human for to myself.If you do it in tanker nova hitting buttons like o,a,s,and d all have emotes.As seen if 1st picture all you do is the tank nova then go to sg colors hit cancel and jump and it will automaticaly give you the sheild and baton.Once ypu hit the group you lose them.

Woot!!

Death Brigade has a 50, Chaud comme l'enfer!! Thanks to everyone whose played with her along the way, special thanks to those of you who helped her get her last couple bars last night...Az, Deep, Tzad, Mag and Da Zi! :) Even though she's 50 don't expect her to get soft, evil is in her blood. lol

Winter Event

There's nothing more fun than a holiday event on CoH (unless it's a raid of course) and here is a thread describing what is now on test. Give out some presents and don't forget that we need to save Baby New Year!

Please RSVP for the raid December 10th @ 4pm Pacific time with the Riders!! So far I have: me, Chaud, Sword, Colder, Cap, Rulltran, Baba, Lost, Oathdog, Shatter-Storm, Chica
Maybes: Deep, Ebon, Giant Stone

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. :)
-added for ya :)

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: