{"id":775,"date":"2006-12-03T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/12\/like-fontaine-and-lunt\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T00:43:07","slug":"like-fontaine-and-lunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/12\/like-fontaine-and-lunt.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Like Fontaine and Lunt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" title=\"Rita and Runt\" height=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/2006-12-03_ritarunt.jpg\" width=\"338\" \/>So this morning, all the West Cost servers were down. Or, rather, the connections between the login servers and them were down. So &#8230; no Champion &#8230; no Virtue &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Screwed around a little while with <strong>Molly Magpie<\/strong> (a test Grav\/FF controller), then when Margie came down she decided we&#8217;d follow up with a pet idea of hers &#8212; Duo Scrappers. <\/p>\n<p>Enter <strong>Rita the Cat<\/strong> and <strong>Runt the Dog<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rita_and_Runt\" target=\"_blank\">Rita and Runt<\/a> are escaped mutates from Crey (those wacky Crey scientists are good for blaming everything on), making their way in a world they&#8217;ve never seen. Both Scrappers, both \/Regen (&#8220;No Waiting!&#8221;). Rita is Claws and Runt is Dark. Together, They Fight Crime! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" title=\"Rita &amp; Runt\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/rita-runt.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/>Well, that was just too much fun. Over the course of the day (minus a quick Safeguard mish with Mal and Co. playing <strong>Cetus<\/strong> and <strong>Lunulata<\/strong>), we plowed through pretty much everything. For the first time &#8230; ever, I think, we duoed through the Hollows, tearing up the missions, up to and including Frostfire (we won, natch), ending in time for dinner<br \/>\nat SL 9. <\/p>\n<p>(FF was particularly exciting since <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=technical&amp;Number=7123924&amp;bodyprev=#Post7123924\" target=\"_blank\">the ice was invisible<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What a hoot. Sort of like being brutes &#8212; you just launch into the orange mobs and love it.  (Katherine amused herself, meanwhile, with a new Pink Winged Demon on Test, playing at Father Time&#8217;s chalet.  Didn&#8217;t realize you could log an account into both Test and Live at the same time &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>An unproductive weekend, objectively, but a lot of fun, and very relaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning, all the West Cost servers were down. Or, rather, the connections between the login servers and them were down. So &#8230; no Champion &#8230; no Virtue &#8230; Screwed around a little while with Molly Magpie (a test Grav\/FF controller), then when Margie came down she decided we&#8217;d follow up with a pet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/12\/like-fontaine-and-lunt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Like Fontaine and Lunt&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}