{"id":831,"date":"2007-02-05T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/02\/masterminds\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:23:21","slug":"masterminds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/02\/masterminds.html","title":{"rendered":"Masterminds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" title=\"Gifted Kid and Special Educator\" height=\"502\" alt=\"Masterminds!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/2007-02-04_mms.jpg\" width=\"418\" \/>My own experience with Masterminds has been fairly limited but not all that great &#8212; <strong>Mr. Thorne<\/strong> was more of a concept character, and I ended up really disliking both Mercs and (again) Dark &#8212; but Margie has done quite a bit of soloing with them, so we decided to give it a whirl with a duo.<\/p>\n<p>Great fun.<\/p>\n<p>I played The Gifted Kid (Robots\/FF), the young evil genius who got bullied a lot until, well, he killed them all, bwah-ha-ha.  Margie did Special Educator (Thugs\/Dark), whose goal is to teach her boys some very special lessons &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Together, they commit crime!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Managed to get both of them up to over 14 over the course of the weekend.  Neither of us died once, I don&#8217;t believe (though I have never gone into so many missions that had mobs posted on the door), and, in fact, we didn&#8217;t really have too many troubles with anyone (which makes me think we need to bump up the difficulty).  <\/p>\n<p>For me, I enjoyed Force Fields because, well, at this level most of what I do is stand around, manage the targeting and position of the &#8216;bots, and spam off Force Bolts to keep the boss on his butt.  Only rarely do I get targeted, which is hard to object to, and the boys throw out plenty of firepower (when focused) to keep things moving along nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>Though let me say &#8212; Lab Coat has got to be the clippiest piece of clothing out there.  Hands, butt, even chest symbol clip through it.  Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own experience with Masterminds has been fairly limited but not all that great &#8212; Mr. Thorne was more of a concept character, and I ended up really disliking both Mercs and (again) Dark &#8212; but Margie has done quite a bit of soloing with them, so we decided to give it a whirl with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/02\/masterminds.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Masterminds!&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}