What badge will this one give, since I can't tell which shard tf is which.
Protagonist might be intressed. 
I'm up for that either of me lvl 50's you can chose fire tank or blaster
let me know 
Thanks for the replies so far, this is the epic of all TF's, probably be a good 8 hours if we plan to take a couple of small breaks to keep us sane. So you have been warned, I do plan to do this all on the Saturday barring disaster. Thanks for the offer of alts Fire_B. Just to let you know we will be running this TF on heroic, I think anything else would be madness!!
If anyone signing up can say what AT they want to bring or if they have a selection then we can try and get a good balance.
The lowdown ...
Dr. Quarterfield (Lv 40-44, Eight Heroes Minimum, Estimated Time: Seven Hours Thirty Minutes)
[Portal Smasher badge]
It's the task force that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends... Well maybe not quite, but close. Dr. Quarterfield is the first of the four Shadow Shard task forces and, similar to Positron in the classic task forces, they chose to make the first one both the longest and the most tedious. You'll really want at least one team member with either Fly or Teleport plus Recall Friend to aid the team in traveling around Firebase Zulu. Travel in the Shard is always fairly difficult, and many people are not very well acquainted with the gravity geyser system. Additionally, at least four people must be present for the last few missions as several of them involve clicking on four glowies simultaneously. (UPDATE: I have a report that when someone did this task force with exactly four heroes, the simultaneous glowie missions actually "scaled down" to two simultaneous glowies. So if you run low on team members toward the end of this marathon, it may still be possible to complete it.)
The task force itself consists of no less than twenty two missions. Most of which are either defeat alls or are arranged so that you pretty much need to defeat all to get people to all the glowies you have to simultaneously click on. The missions tend to be fairly repetitive also, and at two points during the task force you actually receive four missions in a row with the same map and mission objective! Additionally, the second half of the task force involves frequent travel between Firebase Zulu and Paragon City. And the final mission is (get this) a defeat all... with no archvillain... in an Oranbega map. So the completion of the task force tends to involve the team madly scrambling around Oranbega trying to find which nook or cranny that last CoT or Rularuu mob is hiding in. Talk about anticlimactic! You'll be fighting Rularuu, Crey, Nemesis, and Circle of Thorns during this task force. Primarily the Rularuu and Crey.
Ack! I'll see if I can get Longbow Colonel from 39 to 40 tonight/tomorrow morning. If you are around, send me a tell so that I can team. Ill/Kin controller might be handy for you
No promises, as I'm not very far into 39, but I'll try...
Good luck on that, 39 is a VERY long level...
Anyway, having done this task-force a while back, I just wanna comment that somebody should arrange an insane 'Ironman TF Challenge', where you run Positron and Dr. Quaterfield, back-to-back, with no pauses other than the necessary bio-breaks...
Anyone who completes that without going insane is certainly deserving of a unique badge!
Wow...
The designer of this TF seriously has ran out of ideas, bet it's the same person who designed Citadel TF.
Cmon seriously, who comes up with these TF's? I don't mind 22 missions if they're fun, not copy and paste.
Anyhow, I need to consider this, I'm up for it for now, but I might change my mind.
Heh, I remember the first time we did this TF. I can't _swear_ that we were the first people in-game to do it (I'm going back to the beginning of May last year), but it took us 12 1/2 hours of grinding to get through it. All in one session, and it completed with a spawn inside a wall so we had to petition a GM to get the damn' thing finished properly...ahhh, those were the days
Only took 7 1/2 hours last time I did it - experience can make a heck of a difference 
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I think the title of the topic covers it, who is up for doing Shadow Shard #1 Saturday 8th at 2pm? It is the last TF that Callista needs. The team so far is
Callista: Lvl 50 Grav/Rad Controller
Plasmarch (possible): Lvl 50 BR/SR Scrapper
Storm Kitty (likely): Lvl 44 Storm/Elec Defender
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I'm doing the Sewer Trial at 2pm, otherwise I'd be there.
@Golden Girl
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I'd like to sign up for this marathon of a task force with my scrapper (kat/reg) please.
@SinghMC
got a bit of a problem... my dads just reminded me that were going to a wedding tomorrow 
so i hate to let ya down but i'm gonna have to drop out
I would do it, except Dr Who comes on at 7. If we take an hour break then, then count Seriphos in (level 41 DM/DA scrapper)
Right well so far the team building is ok, we may have to con someone into coming at the last minute but the team looks like so ...
We have confirmed:
Callista: Lvl 50 Grav/Rad Controller (with fly and TP)
SinghMC: Lvl 50 Kat/Regen Scrapper
Serios: Lvl 41 DM/DA Scrapper
Lord Montague: Lvl 44 Emp/Psy Defender
Possibles:
Storm Kitty: Lvl 44 Storm/Elec Defender ... Bizarely for a storm/elec is expecting major ligntning storms in their country and therefore might not make it because of that!!
Plasmarch: Lvl 50 Br/SR Scrapper ... If he can be out of bed in time
Azulia: Lvl 50 Ice/Storm Controller ... Depends on some cryptic 'other event' that may be going on this afternoon.
Protagonist: ... Depends on the day
Thos who can't come but would like to:
Fire_B: Who in all fairness seems he would much preffer to be on the TF than at a wedding. Lets hope it's not his wedding ...
Doc: Who had it pointed out to him he was posting on the WRONG SERVER message board :P
Can we meet at 1:50 at Dr Quarterfield in the shards for a start at 2. If serios wants to stop and watch Dr Who, depending if no one else wants to go it may be a good idea for us to carry on as much as possible or risk this running on really late.
I'm sorry I thought that the TF was cancelled due the wedding occasion, I'm really sorry about not showing up to tell I'm not coming, but I thought that the TF was cancelled. 
Well in my current condition I would've not been able to complete it, I'm sick at the moment (not sure why :S ) and the monstorous heat doesn't make it any better.
Brain melting ... Cannot continue .... need cab ...
We did it, it took 9 hours and 6 minutes, we actually really enjoyed it up until the last 3 missions where it started to drag ... a lot.
On the bright side we all got the badge, plus 2 people leveled, plus 4 other people got other badges from random stuff. Also 5 people off the team nipped off for an hour during the mission, 1 due to a broadband failure and 4 went to watch Dr Who.
Thanks again to:
Me!!
Psionic Healer
SinghMC
Story Kitty
Plasmarch
Seriphos
Lady Persephone
Lord Montague
Even though its the longest TF on the game, with this team it didn't seem long at all. Now all i gotta do is get the badges for the other SS TF's!
Thanks for the great TF Callista.
@SinghMC
Thanks for the great TF, it flew by (until the end, I loathe CoT with every bone in my body)
AND I got 8 bars of XP, dinged, and got the cash to get some new enhancements. yay! 
glad you all enjoyed it sorry i couldn't be there but i did really want to. the wedding was poor it was my uncles, ex-wifes, brothers, doughters, next door neighbour or somthing 
.... any way on the bright side i did get very very drunk
I think the title of the topic covers it, who is up for doing Shadow Shard #1 Saturday 8th at 2pm? It is the last TF that Callista needs. The team so far is
Callista: Lvl 50 Grav/Rad Controller
Plasmarch (possible): Lvl 50 BR/SR Scrapper
Storm Kitty (likely): Lvl 44 Storm/Elec Defender