{"id":523,"date":"2005-10-06T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2005-10-06T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:47:27","slug":"when-we-last-left-our-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/when-we-last-left-our-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"When we last left our heroes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lesse, what all&#8217;s been going on:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Hang Time &#038; Scorpia<\/b> wrapped up the Destiny Denied storyline last week and weekend with a daring <s>ass-kicking<\/s> rescue, followed by a wedding on Saturday.  Also (finally) resigned Hang Time from his role as prefect in the Phalanx &#8212; something that was once useful but is now a pointless redundancy.  Still lots and lots to do with both of those characters, once they&#8217;re back from the honeymoon.<br \/>\n<b>Hype and Syn<\/b> dinged 46 and are still working through some of their 40-45 contacts (Tina&#8217;s finally given Hype the Praetorian Arc, and &#8220;Mulder&#8221; (Janet Kellum&#8217;s (aka: Scully&#8217;s) partner whose name I never remember) led the duo straight to Nemesis Rex last night &#8212; we duo&#8217;d his tin butt (took 37 minutes \ud83d\ude42 and reaped much Nemesis Candy.  Fun to take down an AV with just the two of them, but c&#8217;mon &#8212; it&#8217;s Nemesis &#8212; probably one of the easiest AV&#8217;s in the game &#8212; slow attacks, no areas, and mostly smash-lethal &#8212; Syn&#8217;s comment in the middle was &#8220;You&#8217;re right, he is lame &#8212; I&#8217;m standing right next to you all through this and c&#8217;mon, how many AV&#8217;s or even minions can I do that with at this level?&#8221;  Word.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re going to try duoing Countess Crey next, I think &#8212; she&#8217;s pretty squishy &#8212; should be doable.<br \/>\nStorywise, Hype and Syn have a really fun thing that&#8217;s been building up since Noelle&#8217;s welcome home party &#8212; their telepathy &#8216;filter&#8217; or &#8216;curtain&#8217; is basically completely non-functional at this point, and they&#8217;re both getting EVERYTHING from each other&#8217;s head, all the time &#8212; missions at least provide enough single-track &#8216;combat noise&#8217; distractions to keep them from dissolving, and it&#8217;s a lot of fun &#8212; especially combined the whole quietly-engaged-and-Ashe-is-waiting-for-marriage thing to just add to the wacky fun.  We&#8217;ve worked out where this is going to go next, and I&#8217;ve got a few fun things to do with Hype to make things even worse. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nVery very much a less public couple that HT and Scorp, even in the sense of writing about them on the Forums (ironic, since &#8230; well, it&#8217;s ironic for a lot of reasons, but mostly because HT and Scorp have had a lot of stuff that had to be left out) &#8212; from the very beginning, these two were really meant for when we&#8217;re feeling more exclusive than inclusive &#8212; we team up with other folks, but that&#8217;s always the exception to the rule &#8212; we&#8217;ll play with a team for a couple hours, than make our excuses and take off back to scenes or the comfort of the Unstoppable Invincible Ass Kicking Duo.<br \/>\n<b>Epitaph<\/b> dinged 18 and picked up his Next Big Punch.  Lots of fun, and worked out a really fun and entertaining IC &#8216;bit&#8217; for when he first used it &#8212; I just&#8230; really really like playing this guy, and I like the story he&#8217;s got going, both on the &#8216;supers&#8217; and &#8216;personal level.<br \/>\nAfter some other crap going on this and last week, IC and OOC, just&#8230; no desire to play <b>Strat<\/b> at all, except for a couple fun scenes with Scorp.<br \/>\n<b>Centreshot<\/b> finally got a little play-time-love this last weekend, teaming up with Timbre and a handful of lower-level Storm Knights alts to kick some ass &#8212; I think it was two Trick Arrow\/Archery Defenders, one Sonic Defender, Earth Controller, Fire\/Elec Blaster, and Archery blaster.<br \/>\nSo many holds. So many Immobilizes&#8230; so many slows&#8230;  MASSES of baddies out at arrow shot range, unable to get to us, slogging through quicksand and firestorms&#8230; it was quite quite impressive.  Centreshot dinged 9 and 10.  Good stuff.<br \/>\nFinally, worked out a Champion-shard version of Marek Tolbathy, aka <b>Pummelcite<\/b> &#8212; a magic-origin Stone tanker that I&#8217;d like to get into the Storm Knights to replace my now-retired Hang-bot 3100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesse, what all&#8217;s been going on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}