Sargatanas

Hi All

Thanks to everyone who was able to join us last night. I was great fun, especially the bit when we had three teams assembled together in the sewers flattening on mass everything in our path. For those of you who couldn't make it yesterday please join us next Tuesday for part II of the mayhem.

Most of us are now around level 10 or 11 so can SK lower SG members if required. The plan for next Tuesday is to meet up around 8:00pm GMT in the Hollows next to David Wincott (by the Altas entrance to the zone). I’ll start the evening by dishing out some influence to those who want it to help slot up their powers. The teams will then assemble and we’ll continue our way through the Hollows story arc and give Frostfire a good kicking. It would be fun to do this mission on invincible to see just how tuff this jive turkey really is! We’ll probably hit level 15 so could then maybe move onto to do the Skyway safeguard, start the Faultline arc or the Synapse TF.

As an aside, Fulgor has the Atlas safeguard mission ready to go if anyone wants the exploration badge and the raptor pack temp travel power. I may logon sometime this week to quickly get the King Row safeguard lined up for those who want to do it since I expect we will quickly out level this as we smash our way through the Hollows. If anyone else wants to get this mission please do so.

For those of you who will be joining us for the first time you will need to get your toons to a minimum of level 5 to be able to enter the Hollows hazard zone. You’ve got a few days to do this so hopefully you’ll manage to achieve this. If anyone has any other demonic themed toons with appropriate powersets who want to join the fun let myself @sargatanas, @xtream or @demonic judgement know.

The SG seems to have already amassed a good chunk of prestige which xtream is using to build our sinister lair. We've set up some coalitions so have access to teleporters in other SG bases. Any suggestion on the base layout/content please let @xtream know. Sexy red bedrooms, a disco and a kinky torture chamber definitely get my vote

This brings me onto the topic of the SG set-up and ranks which needs to be agreed. At present most of the SG are the lowliest rank which in future will be reserved for new recruits we’ve never played with before who won't initially have access to base storage. Everyone needs to be promoted and the SG settings tweaked. Boy Wonder put forward a suggestion earlier in the thread, but does anyone else have thoughts on this. We could do this a number of ways such as promotion is based on the amount of prestige earned, or the level of a toon, or each archetype (tanks, scrappers, controller, defender, blaster) in the SG has a leader or collectively we are all leaders etc. etc. Let me know you’re thoughts on this.

Once again thanks to everyone for the fun last night and if anyone else wants to join in or existing members of the SG have other mates who might be interested let us know.

The plan is to meet in Atlas Park by Ms Liberty around 8:00pm GMT, although some will be arriving later due to RL stuff around 8:30pm.

Hi Defcon

Fingers crossed that you manage to get your PC up and running for tomorrow evening. If you don't no worries, you can join us next week and hopefully by then we'll be in the position to SK you if you haven't managed to level your toon in advance of the next theme team session.

If you have the spare toon slots roll a defender and a blaster, although I don't see why you can't play your preferred choice.

Hi all

OK, I went mad…... I bought 5 toon slots which I assigned to defiant and then proceeded to create a fire/war mace (bone wielding) tank, a broadsword/(pretty burning) shield scrapper, a mind/thermal controller, kinetics/ice defender, and an archery/fire (bat demon) blaster. I’m planning to play the tank unless we have any major deficiencies in the teams, speaking of which the SG roster is now as follows:

@Sargatanas probably playing a fire/war mace tank (or broadsword/shield scrapper, or mind/thermal controller, or kinetics/ice defender, or archery/fire blaster if required)
@Gully RX probably playing a tank
@Xtream a cold demon of some kind!
@Demonic Judgement probably playing a fire/fire blaster
@Chick Chilli playing a mind/kinetics controller
@Mr TPF
@Evangel playing a broad sword/shield scrapper
@Dr.Arcanum
@Defcon Kid
@Protector X playing dual blades/fire scrapper or ice/kin controller if required
@Cunundrum playing an ice/thermal controller
@Juniper playing a cold/ice defender
@Craguelque probably playing a fire/mental blaster
@Fulgor playing a dark/dark defender
@Greylight probably playing a dark/SR scrapper or ice/? controller if required
@Sombra
@Treagy playing an ice/dark tank
@Boy Wonder playing a dark/ice defender
@Aveli
@One from the North
@Captain Solaris
@mereman playing a dark/dark defender
@Icenii
@Whitely
@uther dracus playing an ice/storm controller

To summarise we have 3 tanks, 3 scrappers, 3 controllers, 4 defenders, 2 blasters, & 9 unknowns, plus many of you have offered to play an alternative toon if required. I’m surprised we don’t have a fire troller in the SG yet. Maybe someone who hasn’t decided what they want to play could roll one of those.

Looking forward to meeting your diabolical creations tomorrow evening

Hi Boy_Wonder

I've registered SG using a temporary toon (Dreddnaught) who will quit once we've got it established and up and running. We need to agree how the SG rankings/rights will operate. I suggest we discuss and agree this next time we're all online or via a thread on the SG forum which Ramon_Daark is developing.

Hi Uther_Dracus, long time no team. Sure I'd be more than happy for you to join us. See you in Atlas Park tomorrow evening for some demonic mayhem.

lol, what dedication to the cause!

Might it have been easier to delete and recreate the toon

Hi All

Thanks for the updates on what toons you are planning to play which is summarised below:

@Sargatanas probably playing a fire/fire or dark/fire tank
@Gully RX probably playing a tank
@Xtream a cold demon of some kind!
@Demonic Judgement probably playing a fire/fire blaster
@Chick Chilli
@Mr TPF
@Evangel playing a broad sword/shield scrapper
@Dr.Arcanum
@Defcon Kid
@Protector X playing dual blades/fire scrapper or ice/kin controller if required
@Cunundrum
@Juniper
@Craguelque probably playing a fire/mental blaster
@Fulgor playing a dark/dark defender
@Greylight probably playing a dark/SR scrapper or ice/? controller if required
@Sombra
@Treagy playing an ice/dark tank
@Boy Wonder playing a dark/ice defender
@Aveli
@One from the North
@Captain Solaris
@mereman playing either a dark/dark defender or a fire/ice blaster
@Icenii
@Whitely

So far it looks like we have 3 tanks, 3 scrappers, 2 blasters and 3 defenders, although some of you have kindly offered to play controllers or a blaster if required for team balancing.

Please provide feedback to Ramon Daark on the SG forum setup so we can get that finalised and operational.

Yeah, no problem if you want to play two (or more) toons in the SG since it keeps options open for team nights if we are lacking controllers, defenders etc. I think I may create a dark/dark defender as a secondary toon myself.

Hi Crag, good to see you on the forums at last. Fire mental sounds like a good combination. It wasn't a powerset approved at the meet up last night, since it was only proposed today, but unless anyone objects I'd go for it.

Hi Grey Light. Super Reflexes wasn't a defence set we discussed, but I don't have any objection to you using it since Demons could be agile. Go for it unless someone else pipes up with an objection.

Hi Mereman,

I'm not sure if we've teamed in the past, but you are more than welcome to join us.

In addition to yourself we also have two other recruits @Whitely & @ Icenii who will be joining us next Tuesday.

Apologies that this post is on a public forum, but if you are interested in joining us let me know. Ramon Daark (@Evangel) has kindly offered to set up a dedicated SG forum forum which we will start to use as soon as this is complete. Pat on the back for Mr TPF for providing me with a transcript of what was discussed last night while I intermittently DC'd

Thanks to all of you who turned up for the meeting in Pocket D last night or have let me know that you want to participate in this 'project'. To summarise what was discussed the original idea was to create a themed team/SG with people who I either regularly team with or have enjoyed teaming with in the past. It was agreed we will create a 'demonic' themed SG, Muhahahaha. The background to this is that all the toons have been summoned from the netherworld to Paragon City by Infernal (the guy who lazes around in Founders Falls) to act as his minions and do his bidding. Hey we're evil baby, but we're doing good! The original idea was to restrict it to fire, dark and ice powersets and the associated powers of thermal radiation and storm. The discussion last night broadened this to include shields and choppy/bashy weapons and kinetics. It was agreed that all toons should be created with the following powersets:

* Tankers must have a primary powerset of either Fiery Aura, Dark Armour, Ice Armour or Shield Defence and a secondary powerset of Fiery Melee, Dark Melee, Ice Melee, Battle Axe, War Mace or Dual Blades.

* Scrappers must have a primary powerset of either Fiery Melee, Dark Melee, Broad Sword or Dual Blades and a secondary powerset of Fiery Aura, Dark Armour or Shield Defence.

Note: If shields or weapon powersets are chosen the item must look appropriate to the theme i.e. fire, ice, dark or medieval appearance shield. Technological, modern looking riot shields etc. should be used.

* Controllers must have a primary powerset of either Fire Control or Ice Control and a secondary powerset of Thermal Radiation, Storm Summoning or Kinetics. Kinetic was added since the activation, appearance and affect of these powers are justifiably magical in nature.

* Blasters must have a primary powerset of either Fire Blast, Ice Blast and a secondary powerset of Fire Manipulation or Ice Manipulation.

* Defenders must have a primary powerset of either Dark Miasma, Cold Domination, Storm Summoning or Kinetics and a secondary powerset of Dark Blast, or Ice Blast.

After the meeting completed I had some further thoughts on the above and would also like to propose the following additional powersets for consideration in the theme. I appreciate this will broaden things further, but I would like to think that the core/common powers selected will be fire, dark, ice and weapon/shield based powersets:

* Tankers and Scrappers could also have the option to select Invulnerability as a primary powerset since the CoT Behemoth have this as defence. Tanks could also have access to Super Strength if desired since demons can be strong powerful beings - Raaar, bash!!!

* Controllers should have the option to select Mind Control as a primary powerset since the terrify, domination and confuse powers etc. fit a demonic theme nicely and are used by CoT Succubus. Plant control is a possibility since this was ported from villains and has a definite evil look to it, but I'm happy for this to be dropped from the 'approved' powersets.

* Blasters could have the option to select the Mental Manipulation powerset. Again this could be justifiable since demons can be manipulative beings who like to mess with ya mind! Since scrapper and tanks are getting access to weapons, Archery as primary powerset could be justified provided the bow looks arcane i.e. not a compound tech bow with laser sights etc. I don't however support the idea of allowing Trick Archery since this has too many tech like powers.

* Defenders could also have access to Archery as secondary powerset as noted above for blasters.

Let me know your thoughts on these additional powerset suggestions.

All toons MUST be of a magic origin and will belong to the Infernal Justice SG. It would be appreciated if toons are played in SG mode at least until level 35 so we can amass as much prestige as possible for the base. Although not discussed last night IMHO the base should be built using the arcane tile sets. All toons should be demonic in appearance with red, black, green etc coloured skin, and may have bestial heads, horns, wings, cloven feet, bone armour, chains, spiky bits etc. all the usual clichés. When we get a second costume slot at level 20 we will adopt an SG uniform which can be selected while teaming together. This does not have to be too restrictive since it shouldn't cover the head and there can be sleeveless, trouser less options for those who may want to have monstrous legs or wear fishnet stockings etc. I'll post some screenshots as possible ideas over the coming week. If anyone else has proposed SG uniform ideas post them on this thread and we'll put them to the vote to see which one we want to adopt.

The plan is for the theme teams to meet every Tuesday evening around 8:00pm - 8:30pm UK time. The toons will team together weekly and the goal is to have fun. It would be good if we can try and keep the toons in the same approximate level range so they can do TFs and stuff together as we progress up towards 50. Each Tuesday we'll play as long as people want to so if players drop out during the night we can merge the teams together. If someone missed a team night or falls a few levels behind they can play their toon outside of the theme team so as to earn some XP to enable them to catch up with the main group. One of the things which got support was that we could plan for the teams to run the same story arcs and TFs so we can have races and have a bit of banter between ourselves and do GM hunts and saucer raids etc. As mentioned last night I organised a few TF races last year which many of you took part in which turned out to be a lot of fun.

I've listed below those who have stated interest in joining the theme team/SG along with possible archetypes/powersets you may want to play:

@Sargatanas probably playing a fire/fire or dark/fire tank
@Gully RX probably playing a tank
@Xtream
@Demonic Judgement probably playing a fire/fire blaster
@Chick Chilli
@Mr TPF
@Evangel
@Dr.Arcanum
@Defcon Kid
@Protector X possibly an ice/kin controller
@Cunundrum
@Juniper
@Craguelque probably playing a fire/fire blaster
@Fulgor playing a dark/dark defender
@Greylight
@Sombra
@Treagy
@Boy Wonder
@Aveli
@One from the North
@Captain Solaris

Apologies to those of you I may have missed off the above list. Please post up what you're proposing to play so we can get a view of what archetype mix we're going to have. By next Tuesday I'm hopeful that we should have enough players to make 3 full teams maybe more. Next Tuesday we'll all meet in Atlas Park by Ms. Liberty so we can intimidate the locals. The three or more team leaders will then take it in turns on picking team mates so as to ensure we have balanced teams. Teams do not have to remain the same each week so you will get the opportunity to play with other members of the SG. Once the teams are formed I suggest we head off to the sewers and destroy everything in our path, Muhahahaha. Once we get to level 5 we can then do some radio missions in King Row and progress onto the Hollows story arc. This is likely to take a couple of weeks of team sessions. We could then split into lots of small teams of 3 or 4 and have a Positron TF race if everyone's up for it, although this is likely to be a late night session since this can be a long (and painful) experience

Anyway once again thanks for your involvement in this.

All the best

Sarg

Hi Nakai. If you delayed the the start time of this to 8:00pm I'd join you with Zenon, my fire/storm troller. If you're able to do this you can count me in

Gratz on another lvl 50 matey. You will be a loss to defiant <sobs>. We've done oodles of TFs together over the past 12+ months which have been good fun and rewarding

If you're not up to anything this evening I'm running the Beast Beneath the Mountain SF and have a place on the team for you

Does this mean that I can't tempt you with a Synapse TF this evening for a nice shiny badge and 45 merits?

If not perhaps you'd be up for the Beast Beneath the Mountain SF tomorrow evening (see my PM for details).

Well done matey. I need to blow the dust off my level 41 necro/dark MM and complete the 'final push' to lvl 50 to unlock those shiny VEATS.

Hopefully team with you again soon

Yeah, thanks all for a great team. Quickest run I've done this trial in.

Thanks to all of you who also joined us for the Eden trial afterward

No problem, have fun in a Galaxy far, far, away.....

Juniper is 1st reserve for the Manticore TF this evening so he will fill your place on the team tonight.

I'll assume you can't make the Numina TF on Friday too so will offer your place on the team up for grabs unless you want to join us for this?

Hi Ramon_Daark

It's your lucky day you're on the team. Cya in Atlas Park tomorrow evening @ 8:30pm UK time. Do you know what alt you will be playing?

Updated team roster below:

1). Me (lvl 38 DB/WP scrapper)
2). Defcon kid (lvl 50 empath/? defender)
3). Clawd (lvl 50 ill/empath troller)
4). Demonic Judgement (lvl 50 SS/Inv tank)
5). Gully TT (various possible ATs)
6). Tommy_Saf (lvl 50 empath/EM defender)
7). Ramon_Daark (alt TBD)
8). Xtream (various possible ATs)

Hi Nightmarer,

Thanks for letting me know that you won't be able to make the Sewer Trial tomorrow evening. I'll offer your place on the team to Ramon_Daark.

Will you be joining us for the Manticore TF tonight?

Thanks for the info Nine_Claws, I'll update the team roster.

Out of interest Clawd, is your signature a line from that head busting anime classic Fist of the North Star?

Nice one

No problem and thanks for tanking for us. I think we had about 14 mins left on the clock when we finally completed the trial so it was starting to get tight, but we got there in the end Hopefully cya round in Paragon City soon

For those of you signed up to do the 3rd run of the Sewer trial this coming Tuesday, the team is as follows:

1). Me (lvl 38 DB/WP scrapper)
2). Defcon kid (lvl 50 empath/? defender)
3). Clawd (lvl 50 ill/empath troller)
4). Demonic Judgement (lvl 50 SS/Inv tank)
5). Gully TT (various possible ATs)
6). Tommy_Saf (lvl 50 empath/? defender)
7). Nightmarer (lvl 50 DM/SR scrapper)
8). Xtream (various possible ATs)

Cya all in Atlas around 8:30pm (UK time)

All the best

Sarg