Chad Gulzow-Man

I posted this in a thread about our favorite bugs over the course of the game, but it belongs here, too.

OH, I just remembered an old favorite. In times past, one could form a team and start a mission, and once everyone was inside, you could disband and invite OTHER people from outside the mission. But if you'll indulge me for a bit, I have a story to tell about this...

I once held a "Create your Praetorian counterpart" event for my SG. (Side note: We used to have "field trip" events to other servers, to show others how awesome and friendly we are on Victory. This particular story takes place on the Liberty server.)

One day in September 2006, a swarm of twenty or so low-level villains trekked across Mercy Island and into Port Oakes, beating the bejeezus out of everything that crossed their path and led by Null Gulzow-Man*, Devastation X**, Stained Glass Harlot*** and Lord Ouroboros****. They (by which I mean "we") then all piled into a single mission door in batches of 6 or so, much to onlookers' curiosity.

What was actually going on is that I, as the mission owner, took the three other characters named above inside, then they manually quit the team. I then invited everyone else in, a few at a time, who in turn disbanded and joined up with the officers above. I think we ended up with three teams of 6 and a team of 5, all inside the "Stone Cold" badge mission.

We DESTROYED the Council inside. It was glorious. And everybody involved earned the badge once the mission was completed.

Afterwards, we did some more street sweeping and held a costume contest in Pocket D (I actually bought a real-life teeshirt for the contest's winner and had it shipped to him!).

For years afterwards, people would bring up that event. It was probably the most fun I've had the entire time playing, which is not a phrase to be taken lightly.



Also, our villain group nearly doubled in membership and activity as a result of the event; many of our SG members didn't have a taste for villainy until they'd been inspired to create an evil mirror universe counterpart of their primary heroes.

* Praetorian version of Chad Gulzow-Man (aka, me)
** Praetorian version of Destination X (my at-the-time girlfriend)
*** Praetorian version of Stained Glass Scarlet, aka Eric Nelson, leader of the Legion of Valor
**** Praetorian version of Palindrome, EN's best friend and right-hand man

EDIT: Found an image with at least 17 semi-visible player characters in that mish:

I only have one bucket list item that will require a number of people: the Triple Threat badge from the Magisterium Trial. It's the only badge that Chad Gulzow-Man has left to collect.

Other than that, I'd really like to do a final run of my MA arc (the one in my sig) with Eric Nelson; anyone else who's interested is welcome to join.



Beyond that, I plan to at least TRY to finish every story arc in the game between Chad, Evil G and Null G. I'm about 2/3 done with the 1-20 Praetorian stuff on Null G, but surprisingly have quite a bit left on Chad and most of the 40-50 villain content left on Evil G. (I'll likely be soloing these.)



I really want to get Chad's Street Justice-using alter-ego, The Face-Puncher, to 50. I was planning to solo him there, but now I think I'd rather do it with other peeps, as available.

The CoH Titan group is looking to do something along these lines.

More info will be made available once they've got some concrete options, but for now, just know that the vast majority of us feel the same way--we want to save this game in any format possible, but the more intact (including development staff) the better.

Nothing TOO fancy, but back when the Faultline revamp first hit, I found a hole in one of the crevices that allowed me to fly under the map, then up along the outside of the War Walls. I showed it to a couple friends, and we had some fun messing with people by pounding on the outside of the walls, begging to be let back in.

Don't give up all hope. It's completely possible that, since NCSoft won't accept payments for CoH at this time, they'll basically give EVERYONE VIP status until the servers are shut off.

We'll know more for sure in the coming weeks, once they begin making announcements.

Your hyperbole only fuels us further. There is no escape now! *_*




Seriously though, chill out. Nobody's attacking you.

Zwill confirmed that it's just a rumor.

Angry_Citizen, I will miss your hyperbole. ;_;

One thing that I've been recalling constantly over the last few days is how I chewed out some random dude on Christmas day 2005. He was trying to find Hellions in Port Oakes for a street hunt mission, and I'd just begun to thaw from the initial shock of finding out my grandmother had passed away that morning. Anyway, I ripped into the poor dude because he kept asking over and over where the Hellions were (I'd told him twice before, and he got lost). I still feel awful about it.

That, and the day I left for my grandma's funeral, I kill-stole a Sally to get the Believer badge while there were like 3 dudes parked around her. (They didn't respond when I asked to join their team.)

I'm kind of a jerk sometimes.