{"id":598,"date":"2006-06-08T06:28:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/06\/mayhem\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T06:28:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:28:24","slug":"mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/06\/mayhem.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margie was burning a couple of freespecs last night (prior to new ones being issued today), and she was doing it with Blue Point <\/strong>(47) and Amorpha <\/strong>(50), so it took her a while. I amused myself with Lynn<\/strong>, and was pleased that I could handle clusters of 3-4 orange CoT without much in the way of white knuckling. She may be on her way toward being and A.F.R. …
\nAfter that was all done, we hopped over to CoV, pulling out Mister Ravenous <\/strong>and Charity at Home<\/strong>. I continued to have toon-switching crashes (with subsequent file verifications), as well as the irksome “Lose global chat while zoning” Known Issue during the evening. (Had that with Lynn and Mr. R — in one case, it actually trashed the channel selections for one of my tabs. Might be worthwhile checking that for all my channel-based tabs.)
\nStill, eventually ended up on a team with Venenata and Barbarity, later with Mastadon Rex (“City of Brutes!”), and saw a couple of other folks on (a lot more people than the previous evening). That led, in turn, to my First Mayhem Mission, featuring a bank robbery in Skyway City.
\nA few observations:<\/p>\n

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  1. Fun! A roller coaster ride of things to Smash.\n
  2. Way too many cops. Didn’t get to smash enough things because of all the yellow and orange SWAT teams and Longbow types around. Yeesh. I mean, why don’t we see that sort of presence in Skyway most of the time?
    \nIndeed, we had a slew of character deaths and rezzes and the like.<\/p>\n
  3. We had problems with keeping the team together, not helped by Mr. R going to smash a truck, only to find it was the way he’d arrived and zoning out for a minute. *sigh* But lesson learned: stick together!\n
  4. Interesting tension between “smashing things buys you time” for the timed mission (taking down a group of cops gives you 30 seconds for “resisting arrest”) and wanting to get straight to the mission (because, damn, there were plenty of cops inside).\n
  5. Of course, if you go to hospital, you end up in jail. Which was fun, but time-consuming.\n
  6. Lots of patrols\/ambushes, esp. inside the bank. This was like a heist mission on steroids.\n
  7. The super-hero to defeat wasn’t all that tough. A red AI spines scrapper. Ho-hum. We smashed.<\/ol>\n

    Ultimately, we failed the mish (we got in, got the money, took down the hero, but didn’t either exit or zone out before the timer completed). Ah, well. Still, hella fun, and I look forward to more.
    \nThe Prima PDF guide for I7, btw, has maps for the Mayhem Missions. Worth peering at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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