{"id":104,"date":"2005-04-07T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/04\/truly-ooly\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:04:18","slug":"truly-ooly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/truly-ooly.html","title":{"rendered":"Truly-ooly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margie was busy watching <i>Iron Chef<\/i>, and I discovered that I was able to get past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/mtarchive\/008616.html\">Comcast-induced connectivity problems<\/a> this evening, so I fired up <b>Truly Unstable<\/b>, my Rad\/Rad Defender (lvl 9) and had at it.<br \/>\nHeaded off to the Hollows, got an invite to a Team, and trundled off to it.<br \/>\nBad.  Very, very bad.  Lots of &#8220;bad guys, charge!&#8221; and &#8220;hey, let&#8217;s split up and clear this level&#8221; and &#8230;<br \/>\nWell, I did a lot healing and debuffing, but when the second mish started, the first encounter had a passle of oranges and a purple Caliban (for me &#8212; and I was one of the highest-level guys in the group).  It could have been managed, with care, but &#8220;care&#8221; was not a watchword of the group.  &#8220;Charge!&#8221; piecemeal &#8230; <em>fighting &#8230; small successes &#8230; crap, tank down before I could &#8230; retreat &#8230; team mates behind me &#8230; do they need my &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oh.  Hello, Mr. Carpet.<\/em><br \/>\nMargie was ready to play, so I took the opportunity to bid good night, and we headed out together, with her playing <b>Carilian<\/b> (Fire\/Rad Controller, 8).  We kicked around Kings Row for a bit, then spotted BD playing Dubh Bas (Dark Defender).<br \/>\nWe headed off to the Hollows, since we had some missions there, and &#8230; well, for a team of Squishies (Ctrl\/Def\/Def), we (a) had a lot of fun, and (b) were remarkably effective.  I don&#8217;t think it really took us any longer to do the door mish, or handle street gangs, than if we&#8217;d had crunchies with us.  If only people wouldn&#8217;t kill my Radiation Infected targets &#8230;<br \/>\nMargie dinged up, and I&#8217;m about half an hour away from doing so.  Cool stuff.<br \/>\nTU is a fun character.  Short, armored, body and brain being slowly eaten away by radiation, and just as likely to fantasize that he&#8217;s a medieval knight as to make some quip about a TV show, he&#8217;s a nice, loopy PC to run.<br \/>\nAs a team, our only deaths were BD and myself, whilst running over to a door mish in the Hollows, all separate, and &#8230; <i>oh, crap, Pumicites, I&#8217;d better try to (crash, bang, smash) &#8230; (beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep &#8230;)<\/i>  Worked through that debt pretty quickly, though.<br \/>\nFun time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margie was busy watching Iron Chef, and I discovered that I was able to get past the Comcast-induced connectivity problems this evening, so I fired up Truly Unstable, my Rad\/Rad Defender (lvl 9) and had at it. Headed off to the Hollows, got an invite to a Team, and trundled off to it. Bad. Very, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/truly-ooly.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truly-ooly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}