The Congratulations on 50 Thread

Yea purple was not the greatest choice after all......even though it is my favorite color.

Conga Rats to the new fidys. Got side-tracked on my controller but will get back to leveling her soon.

It was a chore at times, but I reached four plateaus today.

Diplomatic Immunity is my first level 50 Controller. That makes a full page of level 50s on Champion, which includes at least one of every Hero archetype, both Kheldians, and both Soldiers.

That makes 20 overall, if you believe in other servers. <.<

Dinged 50 with Officer McGrath, my Shield/Stone tanker.

Kudos U

Years and years ago, when I was just becoming a teenager, I got a pen-and-paper superhero game called 'Villains & Vigilantes', and I made my first superhero, Lascota. I mutated his name from the fashion company Lacoste, after seeing their name on a tennis match; I was looking for something 'vaguely African'. Lascota, as it turns out, is a real name, and ver' Francais!

I gave this initial version of Lascota weapons and really cheesily stacked powers. Lots of speed, wall-crawling, senses, and awareness. Probably very Jedi-riffed, without looking, sounding, or smelling like something "Darth". The concept was kid-Flash crossed with kid-Wolverine crossed with kid-Spider-Man. With a Jack Russell Terrier thrown in for good measure.

As the years go by, the comic book industry grows up with The Dark Knight Returns (and Elementals Volume 2 Issue 15). Lascota's mythology is updated and changed. I see him as invisible, too, but not super-strong. When I thought of him, I now imagined him as a little unbalanced, completely unable to socialize because of his dependency on Invisibility, and perhaps aging too fast due to his advanced speed.



Five + years ago, my buddy Jason invites me to play City of Heroes, an MMO he RAVES about. I join (on the release of Issue 2), make the Martial Arts/Regen Scrapper fellow you see above on Victory, and have a ball. But something's missing. Later, I make a Super Reflexes version that I play all the time, but I find myself wanting to use weapons. I consider making him a stalker, and when Dual Blades and Willpower comes out, I consider making him one of those. Goes nowhere over years.



Fast-forward to the day Going Rogue is announced. I make a renewed effort at a Dual Blades/Willpower Stalker. Managed to get him to 42 before Going Rogue was released. Late last night, running on a BMT of Champion team doing Maria Jenkins via Oro, I hit 50 just a few minutes after my team and I dent Tyrant's head but good.

I just wanted to thank my buddy Bob, my Earthguard SG mates, and all of my allies and all of the people who took a hand in to helping me get this childhood dream properly realized.

Well, at least until CoX2 includes wall-walking...

Great story and congratulations.

V&V? Really? Might have just as well played Tunnels and Trolls.

I didn't play either o' those systems, but I did have a small stint in Silver Age Sentinels.

S I M P my Ill/rad hit 50 2 missions after the Shard run with the Stone Templars.

Hit 50 on my Fire/Dark Corr about a week ago and hit 50 today on my Crab. Both io'd out and ready to go

Congratz to both. Ok slacker, when will you solo the STF?

Got my first Controller to 50, Redemptive Soul.

Now need to finish the stoney and them work on my Dom.

Dinged #194... Earth/fire Dom.
closing in on 200

200! I was happy about getting close to double digets (as in 10.)

(And then I took grief because I can't solo the new incarnate arc on my emp.)

Good luck to you Bud

Are we still doing this? I've gotten behind.

My new signature character, Aneko (DM/Nin Stalker), is 50. Also Akuma Midnight (KM/WP Brute) and Strigoi Viu (Dark/Dark/Dark Corruptor). I think that gets me caught up.

Two villain archetypes left for the full set. I'm working on it. <.<

OK 1st 50 of mine for 2011, Megalomaniac Slacker - fire/kin Corr. Current status Rogue for my SF/TF adiction.