Flea_Mark_Evil

Thing that got me was the email they sent out regarding Blade and Soul....or Bull and....I digress.

I'm on CO myself at the moment. It grows on you, bit by bit. The biggest hurdle is the art style and the sliders can make most of the difference there. I will have to catch you over that side.

Global in CO for those wondering?

@ventflea

Not enough shimmying.

Wait.

Did I say that? :P

Moar progress! Moar!

I've changed 2 SG bases in their entirety to nothing but toilet doors after they repeatedly spam invited me.

I'm the one who's responsible for the Gold-spammer response of 'But can you **** a walrus?' - I've been told this is now doing the rounds in Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, WoW and a few other MMOs. It started here folks. It started with me. Sorry.

I'm the one responsible for bubbling Lusca's head with a Power Boosted Detention Field a few times in the past.

I actually enjoyed PvP in the past.

When The Ocho came as a Community Rep my first response to him was 'Tits or GTFO'. He then spammed my PM inbox with pictures of the aptly named bird. Lots of them. Even website links. I loled.

I think I'm the only one who has every ICly done the following in CoH - answered a question on a Virtue Sushi Squad event about nailing the lovely lady - with a hammer and nails and some wood in the shape of a cross. There was an awkward silence afterwards.

Also, the only one who has referred to Ghost Widow and the Widows in general as psycho feminist *******. And got away with it.

I once ASed an AFK GM in Warburg. He teleported me to Atlas Park, let me die to drones and TPed me back. It was funny.

I used to love with arena matches bugged out and loaded you into some poor level 1's mission. I will confess I had no shame in murdering them.

I am the grandfather of Spine/SRs in PvP. Before me there were none. Then they became FOTM. My bad.

Hey! Look! Another generic Asian-style fantasy MMO! Yes, I really want that.

Wait.....no.

Dem headwings.

Posting here for folks who may have access issues that you forgot.

EatMe - Nurse White
Crysei - Rose Maiden

Dunno if you remember them. Vent folks a long time ago.

Hello darkness my old friend...I've come to talk to you again...

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence. This music will be for the final 'walk' around the city.

This is the saddest music in history.

Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah soundtrack - Requiem. To be played in the last few minutes before the servers go down.

...But before it gets to that time...

We will fight.

Auron's Theme
One Piece Soundtrack- Overtaken

This is music to fight to. To send petitions to. To rally to.

We're one week down. We've close to 11 weeks left to have an impact.

I still have never gotten to do a fething Cathedral of Pain trial. On any character. Ever.

I also have yet to get a version of Despair to 50. Yay me.

Not going to happen. I'll list why.

No Void, No Crysei, No Iceciro, No Pratz, No Deightine and my Sushi is long, long gone.

Basically the entire founding core of the Sushi Squad are gone sir and not coming back.

Maggie better be about.

Her grumpy bug of a brother demands it be so.

As a wargamer and 40k and Fantasy rumour watcher....

I've enough salt to cause genocide to at least four species of slugs.

But this is heartening. Hopefully the more we spread this the louder our voices will become. I've noticed that when other MMOs closed and died off there was nowhere near this amount of noise.

Hello darkness my old friend...I've come to talk to you again...

This is hard on all of us.And for once we're all agreeing with Golden Girl.

Let us know if there is anything that can be possibly be done to save this. I know people are mass emailing everyone and their dog, mass mailing NCSoft, signing petitions...and just fighting to survive.

First of all, I must apologise. Apologise for taking so long to post something for myself, yet posting on the behalf of others still. This is something I had to think about. This is something I had to somewhat carefully weigh up, for it is a matter of importance. And for those that know me, you know I had this odd quirk of using music in things and my tastes are quite esoteric. So, throughout this post there will be some links to some music on Youtube that I find particularly appropriate for the situation as it may be.

First of all, where to start? Like many of us the news of City Of's impending demise came far, far too soon and seemed to be far, far too sudden. We'd all known it would come some day and I suspect that we'd all have rather had 6 months winding down, with the devs running 'Farewell' events so that City Of's legacy ended in glory and was a positive memory, rather than the whimper that will come when the servers are switched off for the final time in November.

And this hurts. This hurts far, far too much. Because no matter how I look at it? City Of became a sort of second home for me. The playerbase became a second family. Some of the best friends I have came from this game. And this game was the light at the end of the tunnel during the darkest moments of my life. The people I met on this game were there for me, on Ventrilo as my life fell apart. [b]Ara[b], Void and Sorah...for those moments you will forever have my thanks.

Though I know I have upset many with my moods, my erratic behaviour and my habit to lash out at those closest to me I am truly thankful for those who have stuck by me through thick and thin. Those who remain friends, despite odd periods of silence. The old guard who remembered what RP was like before the more recent periods of inactivity and had sought to bring it back in the past year. But now? Now it seems moot. Now it seems as though it was for nothing.

I have no doubt that this decision came from the upper echelons, beyond NCSoft's US branch and from the root of their Korean base. I have no doubt that City was always walking on glass since it failed to take off in the Eastern market where this sort of genre is nowhere near as popular or strong. But that doesn't help this enormous sense of loss. It doesn't help the feeling that the past seven or eight years were for nothing.

It doesn't help me realising that I only just managed to face my greatest problem and turn my life around in the past six months, again with the help of others on here - Ferret, Crux and Red-Fukn-Havok just to have it all die off in the next three months. It's not fair. It's not right.

But this is fate.

So I come to realise. Hope is not lost. This is no longer about struggling to survive. This is no longer about the plots that will go unfinished. I recently 'rebooted' the character I had become known for, to get away from the troubles of the past and restore the concept to what it once was. I decided to try a solo SG as a different sort of approach for RP and eventually to branch it out into the theme of Redemption. I had wanted to start getting in touch with several villain players and lost heroes, to see if they wanted in. To see if we could bring the old guard back in one way or the other.

This is about Defiance. This is about how we will make our memories in the three months we have. This is about bringing those plots forward, finishing them off, strengthening the bonds of friendship and surviving in spite of some corporation's plans to treat us as liquid assets to feed into other failing projects by taking from us the one thing we loved.

So I'm not going to just bow down and surrender. I'm not just going to lay down and die. I will continue. The Last Hunter will continue. And I hope to God other SGs do the same. We need to work together. We need to make these final days memorable because NCSoft sure as hell won't. We're not going to have the eventual six month wind down with a grand finale. Not made for us at least. But that is something we can do for ourselves. We can fight. And we can make those memories as a way of saying thank you to the developers who gave us this world to play in.

We have three months. And by God I'd love for this server to get its sense of community back and produce something marvellous. But as I've said with the Last Hunter...I can't do this on my own.

Only we can make this memory to last.

***

And afterwards...?

We will continue. I know that a lot of groups are discussing where they are going to go and what is going to happen next.

Those who wish to keep in touch?

Skype: ahrimanomega
AIM: darkstarsabre
YIM: blackheart_chaos
Steam: ahrimanomega

This says it all really. This says it all.

Want me to send you the new revamp for Flea that took place and only finally got sorted recently? Along with my ideas for concept and everything...just to get derped on.

God I'm gonna miss you. Even if we did fall out a while back, you Sorah, as well as Ara and Void were the people who kept me sane when my world fell apart properly. And that means something.

Welp. Tried CO. Managed to make Flea on it.

Still had the Cel-shaded graphics crap. Still find it way too cumbersome and clumsy to be enjoyable D:

Drinking? No. But gorging.

And thinking of a post to write and post up. Something that just summarises everything. Something that does justice to all these years with all these friends. I'm thinking of making some sort of playlist to hold out with til the end.

I'm thinking of defiance in my final days.

This will be our music.

And I will damn well play it on the 'Final Day', whenever that comes about.

I woke up this morning hoping all of last night had been one wierd dream.

It wasn't.

Let's see....

WAR was killed off so thoroughly it's not funny. My RP community there is long gone.

EVE holds no interest for me.

DCUO isn't going to last. Also, it's so limited it's not even funny.

I may muck about with CO but I can't see it keeping me there.

NCSoft titles are a sore spot for everyone at the moment. I wonder if they even realise how hard this is going to hit their numbers for things like GW2?

40k MMO was panned and they've decided to make it yet another Space Marine. Meh.

I would say that there's a very strong place on the market for a Pirate MMO at the moment. Largely because I've been watching far too much One Piece.

And Virtue?

This is our music.

From Lady Cyrsei player of Rose Maiden

It is a pleasure and an honor to have known and played for so many years with all of you. Like a dysfunctional family (and is there any other kind) we had our ups, our downs, our fights, and our triumphs. We have weathered many a storm and stood shoulder to shoulder together against and with the fray, and while I have not been among your number for a year the stories, characters and people of this community brought together by a humble spandex game will live fondly in my heart and memory forever more.

So here's to you Virtue, Here's to you Artists corner, here is to you City of Heroes you our stories not find their end but rather another beginning.

"In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends." ~Dr. Manhattan, The Watchmen
http://youtu.be/XIJzmOsqZp8