Organica

If it tells you it's been used... well okay.

If it tells you it's not valid... try it again. Several times if need be. The first free code I found was "invalid" on at least three tries, and then suddenly was good. ^_^

I can say that the bottom 100+ codes are probably all used, I had to work my way up from the bottom of the NA list quite a ways before I found a couple of free codes.

90 Days to the Apocalypse -- Day 10/11


I bought an iPad over the weekend so I have to confess, I spent most of my time yesterday after work playing around on that. I logged in for a short time later in the evening and bid on some of the last IOs needed for Liberty or Debt's build, and said hi to a couple of people, but nothing much was happening.

Tonight I logged in earlier and joined a speed Manti with friends. I brought Liberty or Debt, and was happily not the only energy blaster on the team. We had only one melee (scrapper) to complain about knockback, but luckily we had stone control holds to prevent knockback, and a kin to let me nova as often as possible. Getting Liberty or Debt to 50 and doing the respect and build was totally worth it, even if I only play her this one time. But I expect to play her more than that in the next couple of months.

Right after that we ran a Moonfire which is the WST, and I brought Princess Ozma for that one. I used an XP booster, and with the xp bonus at the end I made it to 46 and am now halfway to 47! I should be able to hit 50 by the end of the week or Saturday at the latest.

That was my evening tonight. Two TFs, one level, not too shabby.

No pictures... so here's the bios for my twin sister goddesses Megamisama (street justice) and Magami Hime (titan weapons):

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90 Days to the Apocalypse -- Day 9


Not too much to say about what I did today in-game.

First, since I had grabbed an Ouro mission with Princess Ozma the day before in order to hold a torch up in Atlas Park for a long time without auto-logging, I decided to complete that Ouro arc. This was "A Madman's Council" which leads to the unlocking of the Hess Task Force, so I hadn't exactly picked a mission at random. It's a fast arc and unlock.



(You can tell the arc has just ended because everything's gone all sepia-toned.)

Anyway, I'll have to try and run a Hess this week I suppose.

Freaky ran a Sara Moore TF Sat evening which I wasn't able to join, and this morning he wanted to run Justin Augustine. He was working his way through all of the shard TFs. Now, JA is what I consider the worst task force in the game -- most people have hatred for Citadel or Synapse, and Doc Q is famous for being the longest, most-drawn-out series of generic maps in existence, but what JA has over all of them is a bunch of hunts. Over and over and over. There are about 3 actual door missions in the TF, but JA is, to me, the #1 example of the "I'm too lazy to create an actual task force, I'll just throw stuff together and call it good" Task Force.

But I was willing to help Freaky do it anyway. Only it was too early in the morning so nobody else joined, and he said he'd try later. Woo, bad TF averted!

My big plan for the day was to PL one of my old blasters to 50. Liberty or Debt is a fun character that I've had forever, and has been 45 for a while. I came up with a build for her a couple of months ago but hadn't implemented it (she still didn't even have inherent fitness yet -- sooo many characters to respec, and I hate recpec'ing). So I fired up the laptop and soon was PLing away, and got her to 47. Then I spent maybe 2 hours doing the respec and digging up all of the IOs needed for the new build. While I was doing my respec, Freaky came back and started up his Justin Augustine TF. He sent me a tell asking if I wanted to join but I didn't get it until the respec was done, and he'd already started by then. Bad TF averted again!

I took a long break from the game, When I came back, Freaky and my other friends were already running the last shard TF, Faathim the Kind. Ah well. I went back to the PL thing and got my blaster to 50. Along the way I got complimented on her costume and bio, and tipped 5 million influence because someone enjoyed it so much. So here it is:



I got to 50 and ran the Alpha Unlock mission, and that was my evening. Oh, and I got two purple recipes in the process too -- both times right after I'd deleted some generic recipes because my inventory was full.

Not probably the best example of how to spend your last days in CoH, but I'm hoping to play Liberty or Debt a few times with the new build so it should be worth it.

I took one of AP6 with names showing.

Oh look, the first picture is AP6 because I see Princess Ozma in it!

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90 Days to the Apocalypse -- Day 8

Last week Freaky promised to run a Shard TF marathon on Saturday. So first up this morning: Doctor Quaterfield, the task force tour de force! 22 mind-numbing missions against Rularuu, Crey, and Nemesis! Multiple in-mission ambushes! Simultaneous 4-computer clicks! Defeat alls! Missions jump from Firebase Zulu to Paragon city and back three times! And then to crown it all off, a "mop up" mission hunting Rularuu on a large Oranbega map, with Circle of Thorns thrown in for good measure! Who could resist?

Resist would have been a good idea... or at least, a resist- based brute instead of a defense-based one; rularuu shred defense toons (Nemesis tend to as well actually). But ah well, I want to level Princess Ozma, so a defense based brute it was!

We had 4 brutes, a scrapper, one nature affinity troller, a warshade... another support toon I think. It was actually a similar team to the MLTF of the night before, though not all the same people.



Aside from its insanely long size, there's very little that distinguishes a Doc Q TF. Eventually you reach a series of four missions near the end that are in a white crey lab tile set, you don't see these maps very often. Also along the way you get to defeat bosses with names like Doctor Salad, and that seems really interesting because the TF is so mind-numbingly repetetive.

At one point I said I couldn't imagine doing this TF without the team transport power... but of course I've done it many times without that.

Anyway we were rolling right along and all the while, people were lining up in Atlas Park to hold torches and protest the ending of the game. And at some point, the server couldn't take it anymore, and I saw this:



Virtue was down for about ten minutes or so. The brute in the picture with me, Redeemed Clock Royal, never returned, so we were down to seven for the last few missions.



There was an awful lot of dying along the way, but we finally made it to the last mission. As promised, rularuu on an oranbega map! No AV to be seen anywhere. Boy, what an epic way to end such an epic task force, right? Right?

As if all of this wasn't enough, there were tornado warnings in the Northeast (where some of the team mates were) and then one of our team members started getting brownouts in the final mission, then DC'd and was gone for nearly five minutes. We cleared the last room, but missed one lone brute in another room. Violet returned, so we held off killing the last brute... then Violet DC'd again, but came back much quicker. As soon as she zoned in we finished it.



Look Ma! No defeats! (We probably had 75 or more, actually.) Doc Q is never a quick TF, but 2 hours 30 minutes is a really good time, and 3 hours would be average. We weren't all that fast but the crashing of the server added at least a half hour to our end time.

I got Princess Ozma to 45 though, halfway to 46 even. Afterwards I went to AP6 and held up a torch. I won't be able to play for the rest of the day, but I stopped in Ouro to start an ouro arc so I could leave Ozma in AP for a long time. Last I heard, there were 29 AP instances on Virtue, and Virtue was full.

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90 Days to the Apocalypse -- Day 7


There weren't a lot of people online tonight it seemed. I started the night by spending a bunch of my tokens on super packs. I had 10 tokens saved up on Aug 31st, I've now spent 8 of them on super packs because I really don't know what else to do with them. Anyway, by the time I was done opening all of that, I had 6 catalysts, so I used them to upgrade the brute ATOs on Huntress Midnight. This gave me over 50% smashing/lethal defense on an electric armor brute. ^_^ (This is my only character that will ever have catalyzed ATOs I think.)

Freaky eventually formed a speed Miss Liberty TF. and I decided to bring Huntress Midnight and see how her improved defense held up. We had three brutes, a scrapper, a stalker, a blaster, a warshade... only one support AT of any kind, and he abruptly quit without warning in the third mission. After that, we no longer had anything resembling a speed TF. Some of the team members were not 50, those that were, weren't necessarily incarnated or well IO'd. Freaky was, and my toon was IO'd to the gills but only had a T1 alpha. Throughout most of the TF though, I felt like one of the most powerful people on the team, which probably wasn't a good sign. But it was nice after being clearly the weakest person on the Tin Mage the night before.

When we got to the last mission though, all of that changed. We tried to pull Mako to the corner, but then Black Scorpion came over, and then all of them showed up. Multiple team wipes followed. So much for me being a tough brute with massive defense -- defense ain't everything. At one point I grew frustrated, and realizing I had 35 shards and 3 notices of the well on me, I decided to craft my T3 alpha. But I had to exit the mission because my teammates were still fighting, and that counts as me being in combat apparently. And, naturally, backin IP there was a zombie invasion. Somehow I managed to be out of combat just long enough to slot my T3 though, and buy some quick inspirations (we were all out of them after multiple team wipes).

Having a level shift helped me a bit, and I'd bought some Ultimate inspirations as well (what else is my money good for anyway?) But I still died a couple more times before we cleared the four amigos.

After that, we had more trouble with the flyer. It was over Recluse, and when we tried to pull it someone held it. Then I aggro'd some ground guys who grounded me, so I had to fight them... what a mess. Then when we charged in to take on the red tower, there was miscommunication and our taunter Freaky was back clearing up some of the other guys still, so Recluse started slaughtering everyone. I flew up and taunted him, and about that time Freaky came and said he had Recluse now, but I suspected that he didn't, and yep, Recluse followed me. I waited, and then was told "everyone should be on the tower!" So I went over there... but Freaky still didn't have Recluse, who ran over and started slaughtering the team again. After another minute I gave up and went back to hover-taunting Recluse myself, and kept at it until the towers were down. By which point the flyer was back, but we just pulled Recluse to the cubby hole and fought him there.

Total time for our so-called "speed" TF: 1 hour 53 minutes.

Ah well, even a TF that almost falls apart seems like a good deal when you know it might be your last one ever. And after all, we did finish it.

That's really great to hear, CelestialDragon!

In point of fact I've published two short-short stories in my journal so far. I've been doing 3 types of posts to the journal -- "90 Day" posts that I also post here, "Characters" posts which I assume are more of interest to me than anyone, but I'm slowly listing all of my characters with pictures/bios and a bit about them, and "Grandpa Anarchy Tales", which are a series of silly short stories I did on one of my oldest characters. I have about 8 of them, and several more planned -- I haven't written a new one in more than a year but I'm hoping to write several in the next month or two.

I was thinking of posting them on the boards too, but I didn't want to clutter up this journal with them, so I haven't gotten around to it just yet.

I may still go for an archive of my other marketing journals -- we'll see. ^_^

Much fun!

Thanks guys. ^_^

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90 Days to the Apocalypse -- Day 6

I didn't do that much last night. I took more pictures of characters and wrote up another article on some of them for my journal. While I was doing that, I missed out on a Tin Mage and two ITFs run by friends. I guess I should play when I get home, and do my character archiving stuff later.

Anyway with two different ITFs going most of my friends were busy and I wasn't, so I logged off and watched some Darkwing Duck (picked that up at Half Price Books recently )

Later at night I logged back in and was able to join a speed Tin Mage. I think my friends actually ran several since it was the WST. Without really thinking about it I brought Jennie Nova, and it was only when we were halfway through that I realized she doesn't have anything in her alpha slot. But on the plus side, the team was destroying everything quickly so I was mostly there as a buffer/debuffer/healer, and I also had some Ultimate inspirations so I did use those at least. :/ But I felt kinda dumb for bringing one of my only non-alpha'd 50's.

Not that it really mattered, we obliterated everything. Or they did while I tagged along.

I also ran SSA 2.1 last night on Princess Ozma, which was fun but I didn't take any pictures. Makes me kind of sad to see "Part 1 of 5" though.

Anyway, with no pictures to post here's one of my better bios instead, for Tiffany Blackheart:

Main account: 19 on Virtue, 1 on Freedom, 1 on Victory, 1 on Union, 1 on Exalted. 24 total, working on 2 more.

Second account: 13 on Virtue, 1 on Freedom, 1 on Justice, 1 on Exalted. 16 total.

Third account: 1 on Virtue.

Fourth account: 1 on Virtue. Working on 2 more, maybe.

Total 50's: 42

Breakdown:

1 Mastermind
1 Stalker
1 Kheld
2 Soldiers of Arachnos
2 Controllers
2 Dominators
2 Tankers
2 Blasters
4 Corruptors
5 Defenders
7 Brutes
12 Scrappers

...which doesn't add up to 42. Hmm... probably missed a corruptor or defender somewhere.

I took some picture of my space beam babe Jennie Nova no that same map just last night:





Definitely an awesome map, if you have a space themed character and haven't run SSA 1.7 yet, you should. It starts in RWZ, this is 4 missions in so it takes a bit to get there, and there are elite bosses to beat up on the way, but for me the payoff was taking pictures after. ^_^

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90 Days to the Apocalypse - Day 5

Well, my only real goal for this evening was to take more pictures of my characters, and especially, get a picture of Jennie Nova in space.

To do that I had to run through SSA 1.7 again. Having done it the previous night, I went much faster this time through. The best result is below.

Other than that I said hi to people. I missed out on a speed Khan that Freaky formed while I was still running my SSA. I logged in to about seven or eight other characters and took screen shots of them as well. For any that don't have a bio, I'm writing one on the spot, even if it's just a couple of lines. But I did a more elaborate one for Jennie.

And that was my evening as far as City of Heroes went.

I went from free/premium to VIP with box codes (Architect Edition, CoV Collector's Edition, Going Rogue) on a couple of my extra accounts, and gave one of the codes to someone else on the forums and it worked for him too. All codes were applied Friday night I believe, but I assume it would still work.

In July I started with a brand new account and got to 50 with a fully IO'd build in 31 days. It would be a bit harder if the entire game had to start over -- but not that much harder. ^_^

Let's just say if you have billions of influence, and 12 hours left to play on Nov 30th, you might possibly buy generic IOs for hundreds of millions or potentially even a billion, just so you don't have to stop and craft anything. What else would you spend it on in the last 12 hours? The closer you get to the end, the less your influence is worth and the more valuable your remaining time is.

I'm not promising anyone will sell generic IOs for hundreds of millions, but then again, it could happen.

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90 Days to the Apocalypse - Day 4 (Tuesday 9/4)



Tonight was my time to finish my run through the SSA #1 Who Will Die arc. Even though i only started on this project 4 days ago, it's been one of those things where my character has grown in power as I get closer to the end. At 42 and well IO'd, Princess Ozma is already a very tough brute and a good fun character to play.

I worked my way through SSA 1.6 with Penelope Yin tagging along. I just have to say, that final mission -- escort someone through not one, but TWO Oranbega maps, then fight your way back to the beginning through rualruu, then you fail in your objective (which was preordained and you pretty much already knew that) but you still have to go back to the end of the two maps just so you can find out what you already know....

What Dev came up with that one?

Anyway, I moved on to SSA 1.7 which I'd never run before, but it is an awful lot of fun, and of course the famous fight out in space in the final mission -- I took a lot of pictures. I need to run my space-themed characters Jennie Nova and Dilithium Flower through that too this week so I can take pictures of them out in space. And then there's the news conference after -- that's a very nice touch. I was nice and didn't throw Manticore under the bus, but only because I'm nice.

If you haven't run SSA 1.7 yet, you really owe it to yourself to do so while you still can, for the unique mission maps, if nothing else.

My friends wanted to run something but it was late, so it had to be something short. So we ran a Penelope Yin TF. That's 30 minutes well spent!

I really feel like my opportunities to do things like this are slowly slipping away. It's not clear how many of my friends will still be around in a week or two weeks, or in mid October. So every chance I get to run a task force with them is good, because it might possibly be my last chance. So yeah -- had fun again tonight, hope to do it tomorrow.

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90 Days to the Apocalypse - Day 3 (Monday 9/3)



This morning some friends wanted to run another ITF, so of course I joined. That got Princess Ozma to 41. Things are moving along nicely!

After that they wanted to run a speed LGTF so I had to switch. I wanted to play Jennie Nova, my beam rifle/radiation corruptor and one of my most recent 50's, but there were two other rad and I figured we'd want holds for the hami part of the TF, so I switchted to Ash Valentine, my fire/dark dom who I got to 50 this Spring. I don't know why, but I don't like playing the character very much. She's a perma-dom with great damage and sofcapped for smashing/lethal defense, can hold or confuse anything, but I don't know, the character doesn't appeal to me for some reason. But she was the right person to hold those green mitos, that was for sure.

I always get a little nervous on LGTF speed runs, because I haven't done them enough to be super familiar with what needs to be done. I mean, I know that you sped to the end of the first mission and then teleport people back for the fight with the Clockwork King, but I've never been the one to go fight in the end room so I don't know if there's any trick to it. And I've never been the one to go rescue the two people that you then let die in the middle mission. But oh well, I'm good at knowing when to wait at the door I guess.

After that, we ran a STF/MLTF, and I did switch to Jennie Nova. This is a character I made when beam rifle came out, but only got really serious about leveling in June because it seemed like a /rad corruptor would be a godsend on all of those Really Hard Way Magi runs people were doing at the time. But in July I did my Zero to Awesome 2 project, and while I did manage to get Jennie to 50 in July, I hadn't done a thing with her since. So it was nice to run her through a TF. I had fun playing her today, and that's exactly the point -- I want to use the last 3 months of the game to have fun with all of the great characters I've already made, and playing with my friends while I still can.

These could very well be my last runs for the Miss Liberty Task Force and Lady Gray Task Force. I don't run either a whole bunch. As for the MLTF, at least I'm pretty familiar with that one and mostly know what's expected of me on a speed run.



I spent some time PLing Forest Goddess from 32 to 36. That's enough of that. Later in the evening I spent time taking pictures of more of my characters, and then I ran Princess Ozma through SSA1.5, where Statesman dies. I also joined a Maria Jenkins team for one mission, and by the end I hit 42. The death of Statesman and ensuing fight was epic as usual. I've run through it only a few times on a handful of characters -- I don't know why, but I've done the first 3-4 parts of Who Will Die on a whole lot of characters, but 4 and 5 only on a few, and I've never done part 7.

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90 Days to the Apocalypse - Day 2


I got up early again and got to work on my brute Princess Ozma. I ran the third SSA arc, 3.1 that starts in Founder's Falls. After that friends wanted to run an early morning ITF, and even though I'd just run one the night before, I joined. Nothing like an ITF for getting experience, and it seems to be the one thing my friends want to do in these last weeks of gaming. I popped an XP booster and by the time we were done, Princess Ozma was 39.





After that I spent a bit of time PLing Forest Goddess, from 28 to 32. I want to get her to 35 as well, so I can join ITFs with her too. Anyway I'm not going to PL my wal all the way to 50, but pushing them into the mid 30's sounded like a good idea at the time.

I spent some time taking pictures of my characters -- I did some of that on Saturday too. It's an ongoing project, I've got three months but I don't want to wait until the last minute, and I also don't want to try and do all of it at once.




I spent some time IOing out Forest Goddess and then ran SSA1.4. That was it for me gaming on Sunday, I went out to dinner with an old friend and we saw a movie (Madagascar 3 at the cheap theater). It was good to get out of the house and do something else besides dwell on the ending of CoH, but the sad thing was I missed the usual Sunday afternoon CoP raid. I even forgot to ask how it went.

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90 Days Until the Aocalypse - Day 1

Saturday I got up early. logged on, and ran five tips plus the morality mission to confirm hero status for Princess Ozma. I wasn't sure why I was doing so, except that it was something I'd started Friday morning so I decided to finish it. But afterwards I decided that Princess Ozma would be the character that I used to play through all of the SSA arcs one last time.

I have a plan to get at least Princess Ozma (staff melee/energy brute) and Forest Goddess (nature affinity/water blast defender) to 50. Those are four sets that I've never played at 50, and two characters I happen to like a lot. And I decided, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to need to work fast. We may have three months but there's no telling what state the game might be in only a month from now, or how many players will still be around.

So I spent day 1 of my last 90 days... farming. PLing, using the Council Earth map that I've used for the last year or two. But really, I kind of like being overpowered and able to jump into large groups of enemies and then anihilate them, and it's not something I'll likely be doing in any other MMO, so it was fun to do it one more time.

Princess Ozma was 29 when I started, and I took her to 35. From there I spent some time IOing her out. Then some friends wanted to run an ITF, so I ran over to Night Ward, got my Midnight Club badge, and joined. And things went very well, I had fun. ^_^

I also spent the morning running Signature Story Arc 1.1 (twice, for the hero merits) and in the evening SSA 1.2.

Later in the day Exxxcaliber ran a Hami Raid in The Hive. There were people there who had never been on a raid before, or even been in the Hive before. This also went pretty well. I used Nina Ballerina, my flying Martial Arts/Willpower scrapper who is alway my go-to girl for Hami raids.

That was about what I accomplished on my first day after the big announcement. I spent a lot of time reading the forums and being sad.

I've been thinking of keeping a journal of my last 90 days in City of Heroes since Saturday morning. I wasn't sure about doing it because the boards may or may not be around much longer, but once I saw that Nethergoat was moving his journal to Blogspot, I thought, hey why don't I do the same? And as it turns out I already had a Blogspot journal, I'd just never done anything with it.

Find this post at: http://postalvalhalla.blogspot.com/2...pse-day-0.html

Anyway, my journal will not have any stories of kids driving the characters around, I'm sorry to say. But writing stuff like this is one way for me to refocus and not dwell on the sad news that all of this will soon be gone.

So here we go:

90 Day Until the Apocalypse -- Day 0

On the day before the announcement of the apocalypse I felt very tired and I went to bed very early. I therefore woke up very early. With time on my hands I logged into City of Heroes and proceeded to run five hero tip missions, with the idea of running another five on Saturday and confirming hero status on my character Princess Ozma, which would allow me to start running the Signature Story Arc missions.

Later at lunch I logged into the City of Heroes web site and saw that they'd released a bunch of costume codes (which allow you to look like different NPCs). I applied one of the Talon Mistress codes to one of my CoH accounts and I was happy. I usually miss such giveaways, I'm not very interested in clawing my way past other players to try to be first in a free-for-all, so I don't watch Twitter or Facebook religiously or wait in Pocket D for hours when they're doing giveaways. I have a few of these NPC codes, and that's generally been enough to keep me satisfied, I never felt like I had to get them all.

Anyway, I was in a good mood. It was the Friday before a 3 day weekend, and I'd recently updated my list of CoH goals so that I knew which characters I wanted to work on and who needed what task force to earn the Task Force Commander badge, and so on. I was ready to have a good weekend.

And then, I logged on later in the day during my break and saw that the game was being closed.

I have friends who played Earth & Beyond, so I know a bit of what this is like. Obviously I knew that City of Heroes was an old game and wouldn't go on forever. But in the last year they've added so much stuff, the game has felt revitalized and active. There were a lot of cool things coming down the pipes in the next few months -- several new costume sets, at least four awesome ones that I very much wanted to get my hands on, and new AT powers, new pool power customization and cool new pool powers, a whole slew of changes to the game that was going to make things even better.

So it was a bit of a shock -- enough that people instantly began spinning conspiracy theories, and repeating them over and over. You repeat idle speculation enough times and it becomes hard fact. But all you really need to know is that NCSoft is a big company that makes most of its money from other games -- Lineage, Guild Wars, Aion -- and it has lost a lot of money recently. Like, six million in one quarter. City of Heroes didn't lose that money for them, but it was the smallest game in their stable, one of the oldest with the least prospect of making big money. And, apparently, although it's done really well in the last year, it wasn't doing so well very recently, with people trying out other games like Star Wars: The Old Republic and The Secret World. Also, Funcom had been very disappointed with sales of The Secret World and has decided to back off from the MMO market, and even World of Warcraft has lost a million players in the last year, so there's an idea out there that MMOs are a thing of the past, not a thing of the future. They're a dying breed, or so it seems.

And Paragon Studios was developing a new one, which I'm sure would have required more investment from NCSoft. So, basically, they cut Paragon Studios free. You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why

Anyway, I was very depressed the rest of the evening. I spent a lot of time reading sad and frantic posts on the message boards. I logged into the game and talked to friends, but I didn't play much. Really, I expect that this will be a good thing for me in the long run, I'm too addicted to the game and play far too much. But it's a sad thing to realize that you won't be able to log in and say hi to old friends and run an Imperius Task Force, and that all of that cool stuff that was coming will never arrive, and that all of your plans for the game and the characters you wanted to work on will be impossible to fulfill.

Anyway I do plan to stick with the game until it closes on Nov 30th, and thus I thought I'd try and document the journey, because I like to do that sort of thing. I have this blog here on Google's Blogger that I've never used, so this is what I intend to use it for.

How are you able to search back that far? When I do a search on my name it limits it to 20 pages, and that only goes back to 2009.

Never mind, I got it. Search the entire forum, show 1 year and older, by date in ascending order. It still doesn't seem like it's in order but anyway, I came up with this post in a thread from November 2004 congratulating the Dev team on revamping some of the "old" lowbie missions like Lou's Garage.

It's scary to think that that was less than a year after the game launched. I can still remember being excited about the newer maps for some of those missions.

I don't know if I want to back up those threads... it would be a lot of work, and they were so very specific to how to do things in the game, I'm not sure they make great reading material outside of that.

I haven't really started my "End of the World" Journal yet, but I've started posting at http://postalvalhalla.blogspot.com/ I'm going to post pictures of my characters... and some stories that I wrote a while back.

Get Princess Ozma to 50 (staff/enegy brute). This will happen, she's 39 now.
Get Forest Goddess to 50 (nature affinit/water blast). This will happen, she's 32.
Probably get a few others to 50 -- Eternal Sweeper, and maybe Cupcake Overdrive or Death Ace.
Play Earthdreamer (plant/nature affinity) and Dog Aggro (beastmaster mm) at least a bit.
Pictures of all of my characters. Already working on it.

After that...

Play through Night Ward Arcs.
Play through SSA1.7 and all of SSA2.
Possibly run through Praetoria on a new toon. I never actually made it all the way through before.
Hamidon Seed raid in First Ward, I haven't done that yet.
Have not run Minds of Mayhem of Diliemma Diabloique yet.
Run LRSF, not sure I've ever done that, or at least not more than once.