It's been a long road...

I started playing on October 28th 2004.

On day 1, I rolled two characters. An energy/energy blaster who has been rerolled so many times, that I've ran out of fingers and toes to count them on and a Rad/Rad Defender named Truth-Bot.

A short while later(*grumbles about the fact that he has 6 months more Vet rewards than me, despite joining later*), my friend Days_ joined the game and rolled a Fire/Forcefield Controller named Bethelemus.

After a few levels, these two paired up and have been inseperable ever since.

Goodness it was slow. They only ever duoed (until recently) and this was pre Containment, pre IO set boosts. We were so slow at levelling and our chronic (currently uncured) altitis kept us from playing these guys as often as we'd have liked.

There was no way they were ever being deleted - they're one of only two characters we've each got the Celebrant badge on (we transferred them over to the EU when COV launched).

So,as I said, it was slow going. We didn't touch them for nearly 2 years. Then, on May 2006, my wife bushbaby started playing and she rolled a fire/fire blaster, who added a much needed touch of damage to proceedings and got us through the late 30s and the 40s.

Earlier today, Days_ and I, got our oldest and dearest characters to 50.
Mixed feelings about the whole thing, but mostly joy and relief. Never thought we'd make it at times!

So, I'd just like to say thank you to Days_ for being himself (ie always plays as a Tank regardless of AT) and thank you to bushbaby for getting us there.

Now Truth-Bot and Beth just need to get bushbaby's fire blaster up to 50 (only 5 more bars to go!)

Some congratulatory pictures.
Truth-Bot dinging:



Bethelemus dinging (from a distance):



Bethelemus dinging (close up):



The trio in Atlas:



Right, now to get around to rolling a Dual Blades scrapper at last before TA Corruptors keep from any other character for a good while.

Well done MA

...Just dont ask what out Troller was doing waaaay overe there while we were fighting the massed hordes of banished pantheon!

It was indeed a long road. Many many respecs, many costume changes and so many alts getting in the way.

No containment

Perma-hasten

non-perma hasten

containment

IO's

back to perma-hasten.

It has been fun! Now to see if I can play a blaster as a tank (or something)


And bushbaby; you know what I was doing there... posing!

my two boys - I'm so proud

Congrats

1-50 in over 4.5 years?!?!?!

I hate you bloody powerlevellers.




Big gratz to both you and Days_.

I know there are extra sparks, but I thought the pillar of light was standard when you level?

And, just to keep this fair, here's bushbaby's oldest character dinging 50!

hehe

And here's the close up!

Big gratz Bushbaby!

But I notice how that Aardvark/Days PL'ing is infectious - you only took just over 3 years. At this rate people will be doing 1-50 in under 24months before you can say supercalifornialisticdoubleXPloition, and that's when I know the game's gone mad.

I...

I... just love this thread so damn much.

Heroes, Villains ♦ Reviews ♦ Retrospect

Big Gratz~!

gratz, I suppose, but I'm highly disappointed this isn't the singalong thread the title implied.

you obviously don't have faith of the he-aaaart. I'm disappointed.

on the plus side, and more seriously (can anything be more serious than the Enterprise theme tune?) it's good to see that other people have problems lvling alts, and I'm somewhat happy that the 2 50s I have didn't take that long added together, despite me thinking I was taking ages. hope you both enjoyed the journey, now bust them out for some TFs every now and again!

First of all Grats to you.

But I now know that my wife and me rushed to much we made 50 as a duo in just over a year.

That was my wife's first 50. But I have 4 Blue and 2 Red side

Not to mention 3 more getting close

Thats Great to see, Gratz to you all, gives me a nice warm feeling inside lol

Well done