Placta

Barring unforeseen difficulties, I'll be there.

As has been said, we got all three badges with no problems. (Actually, I think we got Synchronized too, so all four badges. ) Great job, everyone, and thanks to everyone who came out.

Half an hour to go.

24 hours to go. See you all in Pocket D. I still haven't decided which character to bring yet, but you should know it's me

Happy New Year, Champion! Hope your holidays were good to you.

With successful runs for all the Keyes badges in the books, I'd like to continue doing team-oriented badges on Sunday afternoons. If you've got a request, feel free to send me a tell or e-mail in game (@Placta) or a PM on the forums and I'll do my best to work it in. (My supergroups, both blue and red, are me, so I can't lead a CoP; but I would step aside for someone else to lead one. Also, I'm much more limited, resource- and experience-wise, on redside; for instance, I've never led a successful Barracuda SF, although last time I tried we didn't even have level-shift Alphas so it's probably gotten easier.)

So, to kick off the new year, by request from Cutlass, I'll be hosting a MoLambda run this Sunday. We'll be focusing on the three badges for not using temp powers on Marauder:

Well Stocked: Get all the grenades and don't use them against Marauder. Don't get any acids, during the sabotage phase or the final fight.
Antacid: Get all the acids and don't use them against Marauder. Don't get any grenades, during the sabotage phase or the final fight.
Lambda Looter: Get all the acids and grenades and don't use them against Marauder.

The main challenge for these badges is defeating Marauder without pacifying him or stopping the flood of reinforcements. And yes, we have to do it three times with a different collection of temp powers we're ignoring.

I'm going to ask that everyone have as many level shifts as possible; +3s strongly preferred.

We'll meet in Pocket D.

Sunday, January 8, 3:30 PM EST.

Future Plans (subject to change): Jan 15: Underground Bomb Run.

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I usually turn mine into threads, either for the character that gets them or for whatever character is next on the incarnate block. My latest character to start the trials did so with all five slots unlocked, uncommon abilities in each slot (except Alpha, which had a rare), about half of which came from gifts from my other characters and half of which came from accumulating Notices by being my one character with access to high-level redside content and helping friends with red WSTs.

Sometimes, with characters getting close to finishing incarnating, I'll start hoarding them to turn into rare/VR components, but I generally don't have much of a problem with that and end up burning them off for threads anyway.

This came up last year; apparently something in the Winter Event code prevents the fires from happening. (Troll Raves also, I believe.)

I'll admit to being pretty giddy when I double-checked and saw the congratulations message for the Green Stuff badge. Especially since there was a point where we thought we'd failed, but apparently the person in the beam was already dead. Or maybe the game decided to make up for screwing us over a few weeks ago.

Either way, I'll take it

For the record: We started this on September 25 and went every week, so we did thirteen runs. Thanks to everyone who participated.

And thanks to everyone for the congratulations. (And Sov, I'm now only missing two badges that I can currently get – News Flash and MoTPN. Getting them gets me to 1299.)

WE DID IT! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Thank you to the fantastic group of regular attendees: Amy, Koriel, Steel and Ima, Spatch, Cutlass, Eva, Tenjoy, and Jitsy* for coming out week after week, and grats on the badges.

I'm going to take a break from Sunday stuff for Christmas and New Year's, then probably launch something new on the 8th.

I love this server.

* If I missed someone, I'm sorry.

I've been in Pocket D the last half hour doing the ski runs (reminding myself that no matter how many times I fail a badge, I'll get it eventually, heh), and it's deserted. So I think we can just form up in the center rather than the Monkey Fight Club after all. Again, if we do run into problems we can go somewhere else.

I'll be back in Pocket D in about 25 minutes to start forming.

This is tomorrow, about 24 hours from now.

After consideration, I think it's best to stay in Pocket D, only in the Monkey Fight Club area rather than the central area. If it does turn out that we can't coexist with the Winter Event in the same zone, we can go somewhere else then and I'll bump this thread with the new location.

Hardest: Keyes for sure. I've been doing Sunday runs for three months now, and we still haven't gotten Avoids the Green Stuff, although we've come very close the last three Sundays, and I still believe we were robbed that one time. [Edit 12/18: Post this, get it the next Sunday.]

Easiest: Once you're able to handle the final fight against BM, Apex is really easy. Imperious is pretty easy, too, as long as you don't get careless.

Fun teaming with you, Shin. Thanks for leading trials, and see you around.

As expected, the Winter Event went live today. (Well, I expected it after maintenance Thursday, but the point stands.) That means Pocket D will no longer be a nice quiet place for us to gather.

So between that and wanting some separation from normal Incarnate trials (ruling out the Vanguard Base), we need a new gathering spot. It needs to be co-op and have easy access to an inspiration vendor; a tailor (or at least a trainer) is a nice plus.

I've thought of three ideas: RWZ AE, Cimerora, and the Survivor compound in First Ward. If you have other suggestions, or feedback on these, please let me know. I'll choose a final spot by Saturday's heads-up post.

Today, I ran IVy's arc in Neutropolis. During the first mission of the arc, she is kidnapped by unknown parties. In the final real mission, you rescue her, then talk to Neuron, then go back to her.

Only, I got to where the marker told me to go, and she wasn't there. I don't think she gives a phone number until the end of her arc; I was too distracted by the fact that she wasn't standing where the marker pointed discombobulated me. Assuming I wasn't just crazy and calling her wasn't an option, I was unable to complete the arc.

After logging off and back on, she had reappeared where the marker had been pointing, and I was able to complete the arc and move on to the next contact.