CoJ Brunch-n-Brawl

Though the “Working Lunch” adventures of the CoJ today — as organized by Margie as of yesterday afternoon — was slow in starting, we eventually had a great group and some fun times.
Dubh Bas was there, so we brought in Kazima and Torchielle. Other CoJ present were Girl Five, Tanker-belle, and Strete. We also had guest appearances from Empty Suit and Black Mynx.
Though we started out in the Hollows on the (perennial) Frostfire mish (that makes BD 49-and-2, I think), most of the time we were over in Kings Row, doing missions there against Vahz and Clocks and Hellions.
Both Kazima and Torchielle dinged (I think everyone who was along for most of the day did so). There was a lot of “rusty with this character, sorry, trying to remember the best tactics to use” around the group, since most of us were running alts that had been in storage for a while. Margie’s going to post separately about Kazima’s tactics.
For Torchielle, I was in hog heaven — lots of big groups of baddies (mostly conning from green to white), held in a nice tight cluster by a couple of tanks. I only rarely felt in too much danger, even after all of our Defenders left. I had much fun simply pouring flames of destruction onto groups and watching tons of damage numbers float upwards (including DoT).
On the way out of one KR mish, I was jumping to the next and saw a bunch of player reticles on an odd street corner. I dropped down — and saw a bunch of folks fighting with a giant clockwork … Paladin. Giant Monster. I’d read about it. Told the team. Broadcast on Coalition Chat. Started chucking fireballs …
And took the worst screen shot evah. Proof off to the right. I was trying to do too many things and having too may keyboard/finger problems. Bleah.
The battle probably took about a minute or two before he got dragged down hard. Didn’t get the badge, but did get about 300-odd XP (not shabby at 18th level) and had a blast (so to speak).
The whole party thing was a lot of fun, and kudos to Margie for organizing it.