No, it's cool. I appreciate the heads-up, it allows me to plan for your absence.
I'm sure you'd rather not be sick and able to play. Just take care of yourself, that's the important thing.
From the Adventure Log of Countess Clink Clank
Last night, the Professor lead us on a series of tasks for one Ernesto Hess of Striga Isle. Although the Baronne and Civil Twilight were unable to join us, we were able to secure the aid of Dr. Persons, PhD, FotM, a highly-educated individual who aided us with his mastery of flame and physics. (I understand the Baronne was researching how voudon may have evolved during the last centuary and planning a trip. Civil, in spite of her excuses, I suspect was perfecting her cake recipe, having determined the Paris Clockwork Cake Competition is still active and has, in fact, grown much more enlightened. While I'm sure my baking would still best hers, to say nothing of the mechanical aspects, if the Baronne should chose to enter I'm not sure I would be victorious).
At any rate, we fought to an easy victory over the rather ineffectual forces of the Council. The scope of their machinations and their giant clanks were breathtaking, however, no matter how I feel about their fighting abilities. I plan to make detailed notes on what we observed, to incorperate into my own works. At the end, we were forced to flee from a great explosion; the Professor and I escaped using some temporal manipulations, the others through sheer speed.
I look forward to our return to Croatoa on Tuesday, with perhaps just a brief side-trip to ensure the Baronne is on the same page as the rest of us.
Tonight we'll radio mission Blood to 30, then hit Croatoa for the final arcs. On Thursday, we Katie!
Now accepting suggestions for what we should do from levels 35 - 40. Planning on running the Praetorian Arcs at 40 and at 45, probably the Numina's TF at 38 or 39, but beyond that?
The trick is trying to get everyone directly onto arcs, without messing about with "Why yes, you SHOULD kill 50 malta just because" missions. The newer zones are great for that, but I've done a lot of Cimoria red-side and hesitate to run a level 35 ITF. Likewise, I've done the RWZ arcs before and while I adore ship raids, don't like to lead them on level 35s.
I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Cant we take scanner missions to clear those hunts, or are they neighborhood specific?
Paragon Unleashed, Unleash Yourself!
For the most part, you have to do them in the zone proper AND we could all net different hunts. Worst case scenario. Or, we could all luck out and get straight onto the arc.
Then at level 35, we will all be astounded by the further wonders of time travel.
I've never done any of the Shadow Shard TFs, and I'm guessing Spectre hasn't either. I'd enjoy any of those. Well, I'd enjoy seeing them- rumor has it that enjoyment of the content is a bit harder to come by. 
Eden Trial's a good way to spend half an evening, if we're still looking for almost 40 content, as is the Sewer Trial. I've only ever succeeded at the Sewer Trial once, and that was via several 50s unexemping and just laying waste. It'd be nice to do it for realz once.
I think we're very likely going to need to do at least a couple of the RWZ arcs if we want to maintain simultaneous story arcs. There just isn't much else guaranteed in that range.
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Shadow shard sounds cool ^_^
My understanding is that the Shard TFs aren't all that unfun per se, just long. But if our playtime is scheduled and consistant, length ceases to be a factor. We only get into trouble if someone waffles mid TF.
Paragon Unleashed, Unleash Yourself!
From the Adventure Log of Countess Clink Clank
Tonight, after warming up against the ubiquitous Freakshow, we returned to the haunted vale of Croatoa, to assist the restless dead Kelly Nemmers. But before we could begin our tasks for her, Aluriel spotted a giant! Even in our time giants were rare, so I was astonished to see one here in the New World. But, with the help of the master swordswoman Jeanette Idaho, we quickly bested the Jack of Irons (who, I later learned, is not one of the giants descended from the Fallen, but rather a fey.)
Afterwards, we turned our attention to assisting Miss Nemmers, stopping wars, saving an archer (who gifted us all with bows), saving fey from other fey, and being generally helpful. Then we undertook one mission for Buck Sallinger before retiring for the evening.
My mechanical augery device indicates Thursday will see us return to Croatoa, to finish assisting Mr. Sallinger and perhaps the Midnighter Percy Winkley. We may even explore how to make our auras visible. And the following Tuesday will see us on some sort of expended quest, the details of which remain unclear to me.
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OOC Notes: The Shadow Shard? Well, aside from my reservations about undergoing the shard with crazy people, the Shard TFs require 8 people to start. So we'd either need to find someone willing to commit a charecter to multiple-evening TFs, or someone willing to help us start then quit (this seems more likely). If there are regular missions in the shard, I'd be more than willing to do those, as I haven't really explored the shard myself.
Edit: Looks like there are regular contacts within the shard, but none of them give story arcs End Edit
The Eden Trial I've done once. It was... odd. But Prof, if you want to take the lead on it, I'm game to try.
The Sewer Trial I'd like to do after we've outleveled it or are at the very cap. And maybe we should hit Bloody Bay en mass before hand, because I'd like shivens along.
I'm still looking for 35-40 level mission arcs, anything you've done and thought was awesome or read about in the wiki and wanted to try. Barring that, I'm likely to herd us all to Cimoria, maybe undergo a low-level ITF, help Ancient Positron (Did you know Fushionette is a direct descendent of Imperious?), things like that. I'll also herd us to the RWZ, just for consistancy of arcs.
And once we hit 40, we'll try and unlock Tina McIntyre and then Maria Jenkins at 45, because I think the Praetorian Arcs are rad, and also because I want us to en mass earn the harder badges required for accolades. And merits.
Blood, happy birthday.
Civil, I hope you're feeling better.
Suggestions for 35-39:[*]Gordon Stacy - even if you don't like Crey or care about the Revenant Hero arc, to unlock Tina MacIntyre for the Praetorian arc.[*]Anton Sampson - Nemesis... what could be more fun than taking on steam-powered villains?[*]Cadao Kestrel - Envoy of Shadows... everybody loves CoT, right? 
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I'd be happy to run us through Eden. It's an extremely different experience from most everything else in the game due to the unusual maps. DE out the wazoo plus giant monster boss-fights. Navigating the funky map is one of my weak points, tho. We may spend a little time lost here and there.
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Depending on when we level and what levels we are, there's my latest plan to 50:
-Finish Buck Sallinger arc today
-Percy the Midnighter arc today
-Cape/aura missions if time
-Katie Hannon next Tuesday
If we're not level 36 at the end of the Katie, we will then do the Manitcore TF the following evening while we have all seven people online, stealthing the snot out of it.
Now entering the uncertain future, since I can't be sure of levels/time:
-Cimoria: Ancient Positron
-Cimoria: ITF (optional, depending on team mood)
-Numina TF
-RWZ: First two arcs
-Anton Sampson
-Eden Trial at level 39
-Unlock Tina McIntyre at level 40
-Do Tina McIntytre arc
-More Cimoria
-More RWZ
-Maria Jenkins at level 45
-Shadow Shard Sampler
-LGTF
-Bonus round: STF with pick-up person
If we have evenings when one or two people aren't online, we'll flashback to the Citadel TF or do QoL things, like hunting monkeys on monkey island or masks in DA, things like that, or, depending on circumstances, retire for the evening.
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There, I went ahead and filled in the name for you.
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I may be 5-10 minutes late tonight. Our scout meeting is across town tonight instead of 2 blocks away, and we're prepping for an overnight hike this weekend. I'll be along as soon as I can, but it may be 9:05-9:10 instead of 9:00. Er, -3 hours PT, I'm on Eastern.
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Okay. We may start with the costume/aura mission, then, so you stay on the Croatoa arc with us.
Folks, meet me at the Tailor's in Independence Port. We'll do her hunt mission to unlock the slot, then we'll talk to the City Rep in Atlas for auras.
*sobs quietly*
The game hates me. Chat problems, dc's, odd perspectives. powers not working, inability to log back on... argh! Go one without me while I just go kick something in frustration.
Due to limited time remaining, we ended up just heading to Brickstown for a pair of scanner missions to level Baronne - with 3 missions left and the last mission having the 15 minute timer we wouldn't have finished the arc before 11, and we were wanting you the Countess to be along for it in any case.
Next session we should be able to finish the rest of the arc in the first hour, then do Katie.
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It's occurred to me that you villainsiders may not know where to go for lvl 35 SOs. Heroside, you have to hunt down a contact that makes you do a mission before opening up and selling to you. There's a different one for each origin, and they're scattered across Founder's and Brickstown. If you all haven't unlocked your contact, that might be something we could do before diving back into Croatoa next time. (Can you guess what I did today? First two don't count...)
In the olden days, they weren't on the map either, so count yourselves lucky you're not walking 5 miles uphill both ways to buy your enh. 
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
I'm really so sorry for this.