Pogothulu

Maybe it's my eternal optimism, 'Ya gotta have hope" (Thank You Chris Claremont saying this in all those X-Men comic books I read that you wrote!)
But, I'm not killing any of mine off, don't get any ideas Puppeh!!
I'm not ending any storylines, just a 'we're going off to fight evil elsewhere for a bit. We'll be back soon' thing.

*nods solemnly*

Thank you for posting that. Great words there, everyone of them.

Oddly, I was thinking of doing something like this, well I started thinking about doing this two weeks ago. Since the 'end' is imminent, I figured maybe in a couple of weeks whoever is still left in game with a Sushi character can show up for one last rp-fling Sushi style.
Let me know what you guys think.

I mentioned this in another post, I'm trying to get Beefee Boi Jr to 50 and then do a ceremony with Beeg Beefee Boi present when he gets 'Hero of the City.
Maybe we can center it around that? He is now 26, 1/2 a bub to 27. will play a lot tomorrow and this weekend.

I can't end things either....I'll do a write-up soon enough on some of them. I just picture most of my heroes going off together as an SG and fighting evil elsewhere.

Well said, Paladin, well said. I think I've only had the honor of fighting by your side one time and that was waaaayy back during the Rularuu Invasion when they introduced the Shard. Wow...How long ago was that now? Plenty of time though to team again.

Good to hear another former Sushi doing well...I really would like to get a reunion together so spread the word! And I will try those AE missions later this week.

and that second video is awesome too!

I wanna make a video.....but don't know how...

I agree Rook. wow! and thank you for sharing that.

Ok this might be long, but it's a lot of memories and heart-felt emotions, and I don't care..After 8 years of playing I think I'm allowed. (I tried making paragraphs but it wound up looking the way it does, I'm sorry about that. But please read it anyway)

Wow..It's really here..this is it..I NEVER thought this day would ever happen...Just goes to show how life throws you a curve...
Like it did 8 years ago when a guy I used to work with at Verizon told me about this game. He knew I was into comic books and was trying, still am, to find an artist to draw my comic book scripts. I said I don't think i'd be into an online role-playing game. I was a longtime pen-and-paper rp'er ad my longtime group had a really bad falling out a few years earlier. But something, I don't know what, told me to try this game out. That was July 2004.
I thought it would be cool if I could make my favorite superhero character, Pogoman, one I created for Champions the pen-and-paper version back then. Lo and behold he looked exactly like a friend had drawn for me! And he had super reflexes and martial arts! This was turning out ok..So there I was, I went through outbreak, no problem.. I just thought it was so cool to watch my character do kicks I had only envisioned on paper. Then I went to Atlas Park. All the while, I had no idea why I had chosen Virtue as my server.
and then, my first mishap....I was stuck in the water around the statue of Atlas and couldn't figure out...how to jump...great. Pogoman can't jump out of a little bit of water..this was humiliating..I thought I'd ask in broadcast because my friend told me everyone is really helpful.. the first response was some guy asking 'Are you serious???' I was mortified and quickly logged off.
I waited 2 hours and logged back on. In the meantime I found the cheatsheet that told you what all the keys on the keyboard could do.
Hey, I was overly excited to try this game out and didnt realize the sheet had fallen under my chair. So, I was back in action. My first real ission..and..omg! the npc's were calling me by my name!! This was getting cooler by the moment.
To speed up a bit, I made some friends and got my first travel power, super jump, a few days later. I even upgraded the memory on my pc because it was
running too slow. I met a tanker named Grundos Madcow and joined his sg- Deadmen Walking..Funny, I haven't seen him in years, but cheerish our playing together as the "Devastating Duo". He taught me how to be an effective scrapper..(ok, before respecs came out I even 3-slotted brawl back then. lol)
Eventually we could respec and, yes, I no longer had brawl 3-slotted. And by christmas eve I had hit 50. We played and rp'd EVERY night.
I wound up becoming friends with members of another sg, the Virtue Honor Guard. Through interacting with them at my first hami raid, and subsequent raids, a few weeks later I joined their sg. In no time I had risen through the ranks to be one of the 3 co-leaders and recruiting officer. Later on I was put in charge of designing the base and designing our current sg uniforms. Our group would lead the Hammi raids back then and we had a rivalry with another sg- Evolution. It bordered on a sg war, but somehow we wouldn't cross that line.
After a while that group split up. Some members of VHG left because back then, nothing was coming out for end game content.
City of villians beta came and we all signed up and joined. it was definitely different and we had our fun playing villians. But the rest of the group wanted to play on Protector. I went with them, but something was missing for me. I came back and rejoined my fellow Virtueites and pretty much stayed on the blueside. if I ever made a villian from then on it was on Virtue.
Time passed and many alts, most made it to 50, later. I heard of this new group called "The Sushi Schoolgirl Squad." They were quite humorous and it sparked memories of watching Benny Hill when I was a kid. At the time I would also hear requests for 'Heavy RP SG's'.
I told some people that everytime I heard that I though of a supergroup full of Sumos. It all tied together and I created and unleashed onto Virtue the one and only, 'Numbah One Sumo Japan Yokozuna' himself, Beeg Beefee Boi. It was comedic RP gold. A badass tanker who could take it more than his opponents could dish out and herd with the very best of them and still be comic relief with his 'Engrish'.And, yes, he quickly was allowed into the Sushis. To this day, with all my alts. If I wasn't playing Pogoman, I had to be on
as Beeg Beefee Boi. No matter how bland an event was, he could make eveyone laugh. Man those were good times. As he was reaching 50
I saw the group dynamic changing as some people left. A few weeks later after he had hit 50, I though what could be funnier than him?
What if there was a mini version of him..Hence, the creation of his, unbeknownest to him, cloned son beefee Boi Jr.
Anyway through all this fun and massive hours of playing COH, I had gone through several bouts of pneumonia, a very bad knee that finally got
operated on, massive problems with my job and problems in my personal life that only by playing coh could I cope with it all. (Even now I have a very bad back and I am weeks away from having lap-band surgery and i turn to COH to get my mind off of it, at least for a little while.)
City of Heroes and Virtue became my home, the Virtueites my family. The last few years I had spent too much time away due to two carpal tunnel
surgeries. I want to thank all of you who, in your own way, helped me through it all. I don't know how I could've done it without you.
And, I can't leave this out, I joined up with a bunch of forum role-players in a little place we call 'The Rookery'. To each of them, they are my closest and dearest friends. The thought of not talking to any of them ever again brought tears to my eyes.
So many friends have moved on or left the game unexplicably, yet Virtue and CoH remained strong.
There are so many things I havent mentioned- all the Hammi raids, all the task forces, all the alts, and, more importantly, all the nights just sitting
around role-playing. I think those nights I remember the most. And, if this is the end, I will miss it greatly.
I think I'm babbling now, but I've had 8 full years, well the last 2 1/2 not so much as I said, but I was making a comeback, of wonderful playing with
so many good people. The rp community at first didn't take me in or accept me for some reason. I'd like to think I've become more than
welcomed by now. Ok, with that last sentence, tears are filling my eyes. In the end i just want to say:
Thank you City of Heroes and a bigger Thank You to Virtue for..everything. In the end it means more than the world to me and I really, really hate the thought of it disappearing just like that after the incredible long run we've had. Please, don't go..I don't know what could EVER fill the void.

Obviously, it's an RP piece written to capture their unique 'Engrish' that they popularized a while ago.
In the meantime, I've decided to play Beefee Boi Jr to level him to 50 before the big day. He started sat night at lvl 12 and is currently lvl 26. Once he gets to lvl 50, I'd like to rp a ceremony with Beeg Beefee Boi in attendance to watch his son train up and gain 'Hero of the City' honors.
Also, I was planning to do a thread to search for any of the Sushi Schoolgirls who might still be around and have a reunion party with lots of rp in their style of rp. However, I guess with the sad news that might be impossible..Or, perhaps it is advantageous to hurry this along.

E-mail with pic sent

I still need to do the Yin Tf, that new one in IP with the new ship there, and the underground itrial and the other itrials that came out after that one as well.

I never got the opportunity to rp with Maggie, but I went to a few events she was at. I never rp'd with the gemini park crowd.. I tried but was never embraced. So, I sat and watched all the wonderful rp'ing you all did. I remember 'Maggie's Rock' and hope you have pics of her sitting on it to look at in years to come.
It's a shame it's ending like this. I still hope and pray the situation reverses to our favor. But this isn't the place for that. Remember the good times.

Beeg Beefee Boi sat there in silence as the news was just reported on the imminent end.. tears started to fill his eyes
as thoughts entered his head. No more Paragon City..No more Virtue..No more Sushi School Girl Squad...Even though the
school had closed down a couple of years ago, there was till hope of it re-opening. At least a reunion of the School Girls
he was working on. And even moreso on his mind, how to tell Beefee Boi Jr., his son. If he'd tell him or just make something
up to keep the pain of all this from him. And then he thought, no he deserves to knw what's happening, but how to break it
to him. Tears started to fill his eyes when he heard a voice.

"Daddy....is this tloo?" Beefee Boi Jr, stood there, tears filling his eyes as well.

"Oh..Juniah...Come here..it wirr be ok..."

"How, daddy?? It arr coming to an end!" No more Sushis, Palagon city..No more..us..." He jumped into his daddy's lap, burying
his face in his dad's chest as tears poured down his cheeks.

Beefee fought back his own tears, trying to find the words to say to his son.
"It...it wirr be ok...We wirr be ok..."

"How daddy? How? It arr coming to an end!"

"No, son, risten to me. we wirr move flom heah. Palagon city might not be heah soon, but we wirr go on! We wirr move somewhere erse.
the Sushis..we wirr makee sure thye wirr be ok too. I have rookeed into this befaw just in case..Ok i was velly bawed one night. Anyway
we wirr go on. I plomise."

"But how daddy how?? It wirr be rikee we nevah existed. Arr of it wirr disappeah! We nevah would have existed..No daddy..no me..no
Sushis..none of it daddy.. I don't want to disappeah! I ruvee you and evellyone!" Tears that were temporarily stopped started to pour
out of Junior's eyes again.

"Juniah..Rissen preese..It wirr be ok..We can stirr fightu fah Glate Justice now..and in a few weeks we wirr move away befah it too rate.
I PLOMISE! We stirr have time to say goodbye to evellyone. And leemembah what Doctah Suess said in the book I gavee you?
what him say about being sad?"

Junior wiped away the tears from his eyes.." Wait I knowee this!..oh, I can't leemembah..."

Beefee looked him straight in the eyes, gave his son a big smile and said "Don't cly because it's ovah. Smire because it happened."

Junior's tears started to subside.."But daddy, I stirr velly sad..."

"It ok...Cly fah a ritter bit, but then smire and think about arr the good times we had heah. Arr the adventuhs we had, the times with
the Sushis..AND we stirr havee time! So, go up to bed now, get good nightu sreepees and tomollow a new day and new adventuhs to be had!"
With his father's kind words, he looked up and smiled..

"Yes daddy. I wirr smire about arr the wonderfurr adventuhs we had and can stirr have! and tonight, I wirr dleem about the Sushis!
But first..." He jumped off his dad's lap and ran to the computer and went to a message board. He typed the following:

"To arr my flends in Palagon City, I ruvee you arr and sankee you fah the wondahfurr times me and daddy had heah! Leemembah what
doctah Suess said: “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." I wirr be out on the stleets of Palagon tomollow.
Preesee join me in what time the city has reft.
P.S. My daddy ruvee you arr too, and leemembah arr the wondahfurr adventuhs he has had too!"

Beeg beefee Boi walked over and watched what his son typed. Junior looked up at his dad, and his dad smiled and nodded.
Junior hit the 'enter' key and the message was put on the messge boards for all to read. "Velly good juniah. I velly
ploud of you. Now to bed."
He picked up junior and junior held his dad tightly. He rested his head on Beeg Beefee's shoulders and a big smile was
on his face as he whispered "Daddy? I velly ploud of you too."
Beeg beefee Boi laid jr. down in his bed and covered him with his blanket. Jr..drifted off to sleep as his father walked to the hallway,
watched his son drift off to sleep after the light was shut off.
He said softly, "Yes son, life is furr of adventuhs. Smire at them arr because they happened. It is ok to cly when you think back on
them, but arrways leemembah to smire because they happened. Good night.

um....can i haz yur stuff?


had to ask.

I never put any of my toons on the UHTTVU...Now I feel very saddened I never did. I don't want to lose touch with the community...

That's awesome. I hope I merit a spot somewhere..Even though we haven't chatted in some time.

I'm still in teary-eyed denial..
This was my first MMO..I've tried others but I found them all lacking..
I LOVE superheroes and that's why I tried this and fell in love with it the moment I started playing it!
I don't know what I'll do...I'm hearing from you guys CO and DCUO are severly lacking...
SWTOR? I heard they've had a massive dropoff in customers..
The last 2 to 2 1/2 years I haven't been able to play much until now because I needed and had carpal tunnel surgeries on both hands. I promised after this past 2xp weekend I was going to play more...so much for that..
I have a stack of xbox 360 games I've bought and haven't gotten too..maybe a pile of books I've yet to touch...
any suggestions for mmo's?

And, here's the thing...I'm REALLY going to miss all the chat channels!!
I mean is there a place we can all chat online after this is, sadly, over?

My Plant/NA, The Walking Burm just hit 23..I wish someone would do/post a SO/basic IO build lol..Maybe I'll give it a shot and post a trial build here.

Awesome party yesterday! i was there for the first couple of hours, then the last few hours..TY for all the 'happy birthdays' and holding off on my song request until I got back last night, Shecky. You and Attercap always do an amazing job with it! Thank you, and your efforts are, as always, most appreciated.

Hppy Birthday, JT! Drinks all around!

Now now Puppeh..I'm SURE they intend to play The Beach boys.

As per your request, Shecky, I have found this thread and shall post here what I posted elsewhere.


Since my birthday (real birthday) is Friday August 24th, any chance of a double request from the Friday birthday boy for the party?
Was thinking two from led Zeppelin- The Ocean & Kashmir if possible and keeping with the beach theme.

I think this thread was a fluke.