I’m baaaaack …

After (1) illness, (2) job brouhaha, (3) NaNoWriMo, and (4) a week-long business trip …

… I’m actually back in the game (so to speak).  Just in time, of course, for (5) Christmas shopping, (6) Christmas carding, and (7) Christmas vacationing.  So we’ll see.

Meantime, I haven’t gotten onto CoX or CO yet … but if I were at liberty to describe what I’m doing … which, in theory, I’m not … since hypothetically anything I might say about things I can’t say anything about might violate an NDA that, of course, I can’t confirm that I’ve agreed to, even though it’s regarding something where no man has ever gamed before.

Ahem.

It’s all Margie’s fault.  But I had a lot of fun for the 15 minutes I was on until the hypothetical event limit was reached.  We’ll see.  (And since I saw a lot of folks logging in and out, we’ll see you, too.)

Heroic Tweets for 2009-11-10

  • Champions Online Dev Diary – Systems Balancing, Pt 2. | Ten Ton Hammer – More crunchy numbers – fascinating! #Champ http://bit.ly/3gRdwZ #
  • Walk for your lives! – #CoH Forums – What roots and what doesn't – not new but a nice reminder. http://bit.ly/3tgFzV #
  • How much is riding on #CoH: Going Rogue? – Massively : Are NCSoft West / Paragon at risk? Prolly not, say I. http://bit.ly/IRoqG #
  • Vicarious Existence article that kicked off the gloom-doom fest on NCSoftW? Don't fully buy it, but not a financier. http://bit.ly/3LaJeU #
  • NCsoft responds to #CoH speculation – Massively : They deny it, natch. Bottom line – enough revenue for the staffing? http://bit.ly/1viktF #
  • A heroic million inhabit #Champs – Massively : Would be more if we had more slots, ahem. http://bit.ly/K2fJw #

Yes, I am still playing …

I did hop ontp CO briefly the other day — and found myself stuck with Psiclone (Lvl 12)  in Canada with the choices of (a) doing Lvl 13 mishes, (b) trying to redo the Lvl 12 “two people recommended” mish that I’d died in last time., or (c) taking out 100 Viper agents.

Sigh.

Hopped over to the Desert. Which, after much searching for missions, I determined meant going wading in the radioactivity pools, one of my least favorite areas to date. 

So I signed on as Force of Will, did some research and respec on her TK Blades setup, and ran her from 7-8 in a short interval (even, as noted below, Vanquishing Ferd), before having to sign off for dinner.

 

 

My gameplay of late has been restrained, and will be for a while. The flu knocked me out pretty much all last week. But at present, the biggest time competitor is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in which I try to write a 50K novel in 30 days.

But even if that’s keeping me from playing CO and CoX, there’s a tie-in: my novel stars my perennial CoX main (and CO toon as well), the ever-popular Psiclone (spelled in Cox with a hyphen due to duplicate naming).

I’m covering that over in my Doing Write blog, which has a link to the work-in-progress in case you want to see what sort of crappy fan-fic I can write when I put my mind to it. 😉

Heroic Tweets for 2009-11-01

  • Twenty Sided » Heroes of Champions Online IV – Mega-kudos for an Agatha Clay gadgeteer. http://bit.ly/3bhoLR #
  • Twenty Sided » A Star is Born:Let’s Play Champions Online Pt. 6 – Let's stop that NO ORDINARY STORM! http://bit.ly/2iFgYj #
  • Force of Will has completed "Vanquished Ferd". #
  • First Annual Architect Awards Winners! | @ #CoH – I'm lagging these for future gameplay. http://bit.ly/4cawrP #

CoX: Boo!

We signed onto City of Heroes this afternoon — me, for the first time in a few weeks. The Halloween event is in full swing, of course.

We brought on Fazenda and Araware — two of our oldest toons — and managed to ding 30 in a few hours of Trick-or-Treating and Zombie-bashing.

We also tried out the Halloween Event — banners and fiends and XP, oh my! It wasn’t clear what we were supposed to do with the Deadly Apocalypse thingie. Paragonwiki has more details — it’s complicated, but kind of cool once the details are spelled out. We’ll see if we do something with it next time around.

Heroic Tweets for 2009-10-22

  • In what level range would you like to see new content? | #Champs Official Site http://bit.ly/2ScYhc – I vote, selfishly, more low-lvl stuff. #
  • Wentworth's Store at Hero-Con 2009! | City of Heroes http://bit.ly/4eaMLb – Okay, I'd buy a #CoH shot glass. #
  • Twenty Sided » A Star is Born:Let’s Play #Champs Pt. 5 http://bit.ly/FAzNI – Yay! More Star On Chest! Now in Post-Tutorial Glory! #