{"id":85,"date":"2005-03-26T06:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/03\/positron-tf\/"},"modified":"2005-03-26T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T12:33:40","slug":"positron-tf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/positron-tf.html","title":{"rendered":"Positron TF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2005-03-26_positron.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/images\/2005-03-26_positron.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"301\" class=\"right\" title=\"Obligatory final snapshot\" \/>Went on our (Margie and my) first Task Force last night, Positron.  Pictured, left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Myself, as <strong>Psi-clone<\/strong> (Controller)\n<li>Lee, as <strong>Light-Bringer<\/strong> (Peacemaker)\n<li>Boulder Dude. as <strong>Mofo Firefly<\/strong> (Blaster)\n<li>(Positron, as The Control Voice)\n<li>Doyce, as <strong>Gilly<\/strong> (Tank)\n<li>Margie, as <strong>Amorpha<\/strong> (Scrapper)<\/ul>\n<p>Now that I think of it, I can&#8217;t recall Lee&#8217;s character name precisely, 3-odd hours later.  More on that below.<br \/>\nSo it was a pretty well-balanced team, and, all told, once we shook out, a pretty effective one.  Gilly died, um, four or five times, while I got my now-primary role as Empathy Guy (i.e., the team healer) down (and Gilly refined her Tank stuff for the group). Of course, I died in there once.  As did LB.  As did Mofo (though, to be fair, that was on the way to the first mish).  I think only Margie came through unscathed.<br \/>\nAnd, for all that, everybody dinged.  Indeed, PC was just barely at 15 when we started, dinged to 16 midway through, and was about 75% to 17 by the time the TF was over.<br \/>\n(I took Group Invis at the level, which, along with Deceive to soften them up &#8212; Murk Eidolons and exploding Embalmed Abominations were the most fun for softening &#8212; made me feel like I was carrying my own weight.  I&#8217;m really not a very good Defender.)<br \/>\nWe all got our complimentary SOs at the end, too.  I got a very nice lvl 18 accuracy; Margie, I think, got a recharge time.<br \/>\nThree of the group flew; Amorpha and Gilly had Superjump.  We did end up criss-crossing several zones, most particularly the Steel Canyon that Positron hangs in, but including Perez, Boomtown, and Skyways.  Oh, and the Hollows, once.  We fought Vahzilok, Clockworks, and Circle of Thorns (which is, by the end, part of the point of the TF) and in office buildings, caves, sewers, and &#8230; hmmmm, interesting hi-tech settings.<br \/>\nTechnology-wise it went pretty well.  Occasional lag.  Margie had horrible performance problems at the very beginning &#8212; which turned out to be her thrice-bedamned Norton AV kicking in for its inexpicable Friday Night Magic.  I discoed once (during the final photo shoot).  Everyone else was, I believe, pretty stable.<br \/>\nFun time, in sum.  A good group to work with, certainly, not to mention entertaining (I wish I&#8217;d kept a log of the dialog; Lee, in particular, is a hoot online).  And we ended at &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; well, we started at about 7:40, and we ended at &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; um, 3 a.m.<br \/>\nWhy, yes, that was only about three and a half hours before I began this post.  Welcome to the world of  having a four-year-old in the house &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went on our (Margie and my) first Task Force last night, Positron. Pictured, left to right: Myself, as Psi-clone (Controller) Lee, as Light-Bringer (Peacemaker) Boulder Dude. as Mofo Firefly (Blaster) (Positron, as The Control Voice) Doyce, as Gilly (Tank) Margie, as Amorpha (Scrapper) Now that I think of it, I can&#8217;t recall Lee&#8217;s character name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/03\/positron-tf.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Positron TF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}