{"id":918,"date":"2007-08-28T23:22:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/08\/and-occasionally-everything-clicks\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T05:22:58","slug":"and-occasionally-everything-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/08\/and-occasionally-everything-clicks.html","title":{"rendered":"And, occasionally, everything clicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was running a random solo alt this evenimg &#8212; Miss Crackle, a Lvl 11 Elec\/Energy Blaster &#8212; after karate.&nbsp; There&#8217;s something marvelously mindless and non-committal and unstressful about just playing alts and joining PUGs &#8230; it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;matter,&#8221; and therefore one can just relax and take things as they come.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d about given up on anyone answering the LFT, and was headed to Steel to run the University stuff, when I got a tell inviting me to a team, and picked it up. And had one of those nice experiences that actually makes up for the 60% of PUGs that are mediocre and the 35% that are just plain wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp; The team &#8212; two blasters, two scrappers, two defenders &#8212; just clicked, and we rolled through various Hollows missions, culminating in running Frostfire.&nbsp; And it was all skittles and beer and occasional <em>OMG we&#8217;re all going to die!<\/em> and successes galore, until &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Freaking &#8220;City of Heroes has encountered a problem, so sorry &#8230; Verifying Files &#8230;&#8221; just two mobs away from the FF room<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.&nbsp; Still fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was running a random solo alt this evenimg &#8212; Miss Crackle, a Lvl 11 Elec\/Energy Blaster &#8212; after karate.&nbsp; There&#8217;s something marvelously mindless and non-committal and unstressful about just playing alts and joining PUGs &#8230; it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;matter,&#8221; and therefore one can just relax and take things as they come. I&#8217;d about given up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/08\/and-occasionally-everything-clicks.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And, occasionally, everything clicks&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}