YouKnowWho

Happy Birthday! (Befated)

Happy Birthday!

Hey, Dumpleberry I'll still be around somewhere on the internet. Like you can find me on my devart page. Should be a link to it in this thread:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ghlight=heroid

I haaaaaaaaaaate the tutorial in CO. It takes sooooooo long. Arrrrrgh!

Moggie!

I plan to spend the next couple of months rp'ing with my friends. I think that the last day (if nothing stops me from logging on for it) I'll park my namesake character, HEROID in Gemini Park to watch the sunset. I hope I won't be alone there.

There are some things that I never did in CoH, content I never experienced. I'm not complaining, just saying. I don't have any desire to go back and do these things because time is so short and in the moments I'm logged on I'd rather just run missions in-character with my friends, rp, and just chat with all the people I've come to love here.

But still, there are things I never did and these stand out among them. (I'm numbering them, but the numbers don't indicate anything other than helping me count them.):

1. I never got an Incarnate power.
I got the incarnate slot unlocked on my lizard-girl Anola but I never got enough salvage to give her any powers. Of all my characters, she really was the most unlikely (ICly) to become an incarnate anyway. It's just that she soloed Trap Door so easily...

2. I never did a Hamidon Raid.
At one time I wanted to try just to get the Hami-o's, but when I'd read the Hami Raid threads, it seemed like if you made a single mistake (like taunting the wrong thing at the wrong time) you could make the entire thing a waste of time. So, I stayed away from it. When IO's came out, it seemed like I didn't need the Hami-o's anymore anyway.

3. I never got an accolade power.
Serious. Never. I wasn't much of a badge collector. All the badges I got were by accident as I stumbled across them.

4. I guess this is the big one -- I never completed a real task force.
I'm not counting respec trials or Katie Hannon or Synapse when it was bugged. (You could run the tf in five minutes when it was bugged. It was my first experience with exploits. You could get from 1 to 20 in just a few minutes.) I started several, but was never able to finish one. (Shae Firewarder and Smersh used to try to get me through one, but it never seemed to work out.) Now, I proudly stand by my record of no-finishes and intend to go out still un-TF'd.

I'm sure there are a lot of other things I haven't done that I'm just not remembering right now (or might not even know about them). But I did so many other things in this game -- joined some incredible rp storylines and lived several virtual lives -- that my eight years with City of Heroes/Villains was not a waste of time. Indeed, it has been a wonderful, creative, rewarding time and I'll never forget it.

I'll never forget all of you.

Ireland Love (Maggie Love, the Maggie that Maggie's Rock is named after) wishes for me to pass this message along to Virtue.
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Maggie's Goodbye

How do you say goodbye to something you always thought would be there?
To something that saw you through your darkest days, and celebrated with you through your happiest?
To the place you met your best friend (I adore you, Kinsolving), and so many others who have changed your life forever?
To the place that helped make you the person you are today, and to the character you've loved, cherished and grown with for 8 years of your life?

CoH and Virtue were my first experience with RP. I still remember being shy and feeling so overwhelmed as I sat under the Atlas statue and watched the people around me interact.
Shy and overwhelmed until Loan Shark took me under his wing--And Maggie, my feisty Irish witch blossomed to life.

I wonder...Does anyone remember how Gemini Park came to be? You have Lord Paladin to thank for that.
The griefers under Atlas were getting so bad, and Dayn decided to take matters into his own hands.
He told everyone...EVERYONE, about Gemini Park. He brought Maggie there and I sat her on that rock. Ah, that damn rock. That beautiful, beloved rock.
Dayn then brought people from Atlas in waves, and Maggie would greet them from her rock.
Dozens and dozens and dozens. It was magical, wasn't it?

I know I'm going to forget people, and for that I'm sorry, but there are some people I would really like to thank and remember.

Ms. Independence, Capt. Valor, Phantom Soldier, Loan Shark. In the earliest days, it was you who helped welcome Maggie. Thank you.

Lord Paladin. My Dayn. You know what you mean to me. Thank you.

Bush (Shinsektor). You were my first experience with an actual story arc...and it was amazing. Thank you.

HEROID. Oh, the places we've seen together! The things we've been through! You accepted and loved both me, and my characters. You taught me how to tell a story. Thank you.

Smersh. No one had as much impact on Maggie as you did. Without you, Maggie wouldn't be Maggie. From under Atlas to Gemini to Maggie's Rock, Smersh was there, always standing stoically behind her, always with support. Thank you.

Kinsolving. My best friend. We've been to hell and back, haven't we? If not for this game, we'd never have met. My life is better because you're in it. Thank you.

Eric, Billy, Terra. Maggie's very first children. I love you as much as she does. Thank you.

Killer Whale. It was because of you that I decided I needed a 'hook' to break into the RP. I settled on a character with an Irish accent. Little did I know how far that 'hook' would take me in 8 years. Thank you.

The members of the KGBSS8 and Freedom Factor. My first SG experiences. You're all amazing RPers and people. Thank you.

Troubadour. Your RP amazed me every single time we spoke. You changed my life. Thank you.

The members of my SG, Maggie's Rock. You all....You all are amazing. Every single one of you. You took my dream and brought it to life...and then you made it even better than I ever could have imagined. You made a base a school, you made the students come to life. I laughed (Fletcher, Lynn), I cried (Oh, so many times!), I got angry (Fletcher :P )... I felt all the feels with you all. I love you. Thank you.

I've been teary since hearing this horrible news.
I feel like a piece of me is being taken away and there's nothing I can do to save it.

And yes, you can count on Maggie being there on that last day. On her rock, where she belongs. Until the lights go out.


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If you have any thing you want me to pass along to her, just post it here.

Megajoule, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your stories. You are a talented person and I hope you take all your wonderful ideas and bring them to life somewhere else.

I'm glad I ran into you the night the announcement was made. I was feeling silly for sitting there crying at my keyboard. You (and a few others) let me know that I was not alone.

I'll miss you. I'll miss your reasonableness and insight. I'll miss the stories on the forums. I'll miss coming off the tram and seeing Miss Megajoule passing me as she goes to another zone and thinking to myself, "Wow, that was Miss Megajoule!" We didn't rp much, but your presence was still a big part of my CoH experience.

I'll miss you and a whole lot of other great people I've met here.

I agree with VoodooGirl. In a virtual environment you can explore sides of yourself that you otherwise can't, and that's a good thing. Kudos to you for getting in touch with something you found inside you.

For myself, my confession? After HEROID's story kinda ended I rolled and rp'd a series of teen characters, some male, some female, but I did it because my teen years in real life were so unhappy. City of Heroes -- and in particular the folks in Maggie's Rock and Westbrook Academy -- let me be a teenager again.

With Alias Smith I dealt with the anger and abandonment issues I had as a youth.

With Rogue Atom I dealt with the crushing shyness I had when I was in high school and the feeling I had then that I didn't belong. Tami was a girl who could overcome her shyness and make a lot of friends, even be popular.

With Wyatt Wyborn I was able to face the powerlessness and low self-esteem I felt when I was young. Wyatt became both powerful and a little full of himself also.

I'm going to miss my characters. I'm going to miss your characters. I'm going to miss the freedom to explore my own life while living a virtual life with all of you.

I might give CO a look. I haven't played it since shortly after beta.

But, as I shared with Sorah...

I just got back to work after 2 ½ years of unemployment. When I first got laid off I started to cancel my sub because I didn’t think we could afford it (this was before ftp), but my wife made me keep it. She said I’d need it. And she was right. CoH helped keep me sane. It kept me from feeling like a loser because no matter how down I got about my real-life situation, when I logged on to the game, my friends were always happy to see me. I felt like I had a place where I was still valuable, where people still respected me and liked me.

CoH was so much more than a game. I'm not sure it can be replaced.

Paladin, you have been awesome for the whole 8 years I've played. You were the Guardian of Steel Canyon even way, way after you outleveled the zone. You were, like Ascendant, more than just a player-character -- you were part of the game itself. On the boards you have been a voice for tolerance and fairness. You're just all class.

Whatever comes next, I wish you the best.

I'm honored.

Actually, I have been very honored to have had the chance to watch you grow as a person and as an artist. We never rp'd together, but the chats we've had ooc, seeing each other's perspectives on life, were special. (By the way -- your life has been way cooler and more exciting than mine so you got the short end of the deal.)

I'm going to keep following your devart page. I hope I keep seeing more great stuff posted there for years to come.

And I'm a sad, sad man too. CoH was more than a game. Friends like you made sure of that.

*hugs*

Long story short, this forum account actually belongs to the wife of someone I know irl, but neither he nor she are going to using this account anymore, and since I let my paid account lapse and am otherwise locked out of the forums, my friend was nice enough to let me have their forum account since they were paid up.

So... YouKnowWho = Heroid.

A friend has talked me into keeping YouKnowWho because then I can go by YKDub which sounds stupid but I kinda like it.

But thanks for the replies all!

Is there a way to change your forum name? Because I kinda inherited this one and I hate it. My husband gave me this account when he quit playing and this is the forum name he registered under.