{"id":60,"date":"2005-03-09T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/03\/short-cuts-make-long-delays\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:42:54","slug":"short-cuts-make-long-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/short-cuts-make-long-delays.html","title":{"rendered":"Short cuts make long delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margie and I were pairing up with Kazima\/Honeygun again last evening, looking for some good catharsis after a long day for the both of us.
\nWe had a mish down in the south end of Atlas Park (one of the final Atlas missions, since we’re both up at 9, and we’re trying to clear out the mission screen). When we were done, Margie suggested, we could wrap up a Hollows mish she still had, which was way on the south end, by the southwest entrance from Skyway City, which happens to have a nearby entrance from the south end of Atlas.
\nWell, looked good to us. Last thing we wanted to do was schlep all the way back up Atlas, enter the Hollows by the “usual” Wincott door, then schlep all the way south in the Hollows. Been there, ran that.
\nHeh.
\nSkyway City is not scary to Velvet. She’s 16th now. No prob.
\nBut to a couple of “youngsters,” all those level 10-16 mobs look awfully orange-red-purple-purple-purple<\/em>. And it’s not exactly the easiest shard to get around in. It was a looooong trip cutting that short corner.
\nOnce into the Hollows, though, it was relatively straightforward. The mish entrance was only a 100+ yards away. Of course, we had to get through a couple of CoT circles to get there, but they weren’t too <\/em>bad. Got in, did the mish (Jewel of Hera), got out.
\nHmmm. Man, that was a pain going through Skyway. Let’s just do what we should have done in the first place and take the long route through the Hollows up north to the Wincott gate. I mean, it can’t be any harder than the NW-SE corridor there we usually end up taking …<\/em>
\nExcept, of course, that CoT are like prairie dogs there, frequent and vigilant. And Margie stumbled into a pair of very nasty mages (the book-reading kind), fought rather than fled, and I was trying to support her from the ridge and y’don’t do too well against yellows when you’re asleep\/held\/stunned half the time, and …
\n… and then she was dead, and I was staggering away …
\n“I have a rez, if you want.”
\n“Don’t bother. They’re just standing over my body, healing each other.”
\n“Great.”
\n“I could go back to the hospital, which would get me out of here, but that would leave you by yourself.”
\n“Go.”
\nSo I got to make the rest of the run (well, rather, the creep, peek, dash, stagger, stumble, crap-they-just-spawned-there<\/em>, run, dash, flee) back up to Wincott, having discovered that more powerful nasties had moved in behind us closer to the south entrance. Great.
\nMaybe we’ll tackle something a bit less, ah, logistically difficult next time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margie and I were pairing up with Kazima\/Honeygun again last evening, looking for some good catharsis after a long day for the both of us. We had a mish down in the south end of Atlas Park (one of the final Atlas missions, since we’re both up at 9, and we’re trying to clear out … Continue reading “Short cuts make long delays”<\/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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}