{"id":442,"date":"2006-02-03T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/02\/knights-night\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T06:21:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T12:21:33","slug":"knights-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/02\/knights-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Knights night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night was the first (monthly?) Knights Night, a Storm Knights gathering, organized by Mal. We had an amazing turn-out — at least a dozen on at one point, and some beyond that, too. Fazenda <\/strong>and Araware <\/strong>got on earlier than I’d expected, did some initial teaming in Skyway; shifted over to a team with Baron Rufus and Silver-Streak, et al., fighting Nemmies and Rikti via Portal Corp (and let me tell you — negotiating through PI at level 16 is a hoot); nearly went to the new dance club; ended up going back to Portal Corp to help Pummelcite’s team take down Psychic Babbage …
\n\"2006-02-02_sk-babbage.jpg\"… which last was, nearly, a cakewalk. No deaths. No serious injuries. We had more trouble and took more time getting to the dude than actually taking him down. Mal spent more time Deceiving his attendant clocks and getting them to fight one another than we did in finally wiping out Psychic Babbage.
\nThat was helped by having a lot of Controllers — the managed to lock down PB in ice for a while, and Mal even managed to Deceive him briefly — plus three bubblers of various sorts, plus a couple of folks with healing, plus plenty of damage-dealers, plus a strong tank build in Pummelcite. (The pic shows, by the way, from L-R, Starrboy, Kessa, Araware, Fazenda, Mal, Puck Bunny and Noelle Frost — Pummy is on the opposite side of the frozen PB, keeping his attention.)
\nBoth Araware and Fazenda did end up eating dirt some four times over the course of the evening, most often in conjunction with being out of SK range whilst in PI or beyond the Portal. Way too easy to get one-shotted. In at least one case, everyone in the group went down.
\nIt was interesting shifting, in-between battles and missions, between “energy blaster” mode and “heal spammer mode. Tried to use Faz’s “witty banter” keys, which was fun, and I think I managed to contribute pretty well. Early-on tuning of the energy blasts to avoid untoward knockback were countered by ending up on an early team that was riddled with energy blasters — Kessa (NRG\/NRG) and another EMP\/NRG Defender. Almost seems to be a requirement for the Knights …
\nIt was great seeing the turn-out, and heartened me considerably.
\nSince the SKs are still in CC with at least some of the CU teams, I did end up hearing more chatter there — and got some nice examples of exactly the sort of thing I don’t miss having during my game sessions. I leave that to the SK management, though — I can put up with it on rare occasions. \ud83d\ude42
\nDidn’t get into the Pocket-D club, but it’s going to be convenient having something that bridges Talos, FF, and Kings Row. We already “borrow” the FP porters to get to some of the hazard zones. Between that and Pocket-D, transport time should be even further reduced.
\nA good evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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