...not even one comment yet on the bad puns...???
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Its all about timing.
when you add major events like i16, throw in the first major competition in the super hero mmo genre, and a drop or two of feleciadrama, things are bound to be pushed to the back.
Dont fear, when signups are posted, and as October draws near, the server will take notice of your puns; and let out a collective "wtf".
Hang in there, WItty
I'm trying to see how many Merits I can get on my namesake before breaking down; I might join Dr. Q or Auggy when it's set up.
Go Wittums!
Questions about the game, either side? /t @Neuronia or @Neuronium, with your queries!
168760: A Death in the Gish. 3 missions, 1-14. Easy to solo.
Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
Great campaign, Witty! The pics are terrific.
I'll be spending some time at Shardtoberfest and look forward to it. 
Shardtoberfest is, I believe, the one where everyone eats oversized pretzels and drinks lukewarm lager. Tsk. SHARDTOBER IS FOR THE RUM, BABY!
I kinda like this poster, mostly because the colors came out so nice:
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Can't wait for Shartober to arrive! (I especially love the eye-ball picture).
Phantom Flight / Villainous Llewthorous
@TFury
@T.Fury
Shardtober: Because merits >> candy.
Shardtober: Not quite Lobster Knife Fight awesome... but close.
http://www.inquisitr.com/9025/lobster-knife-fight/
Shardtober: Witty's closing the PvP zones down until you do.
Shardtober: Its srs bsns.
Tanker Tuesday #72 Oct 5 @Champion
"I am not sure if my portrayal of being insane is accurate, but damn its fun all the same."
For those who already know... the month draws near...
For those newly arrived to the eternal struggle in Paragon City... let you now be told that the shadows in October shudder... and bend... and blink... and in that second you see the sunless abyss gazing back at you, it becomes SHARDTOBER...
Seriously? Shardtober is a month-long event I suggested years ago in an attempt to get people to team up and run what was then the rarely-played Shard Realm Task Forces. The Shard TFs (Dr. Quaterfield, Sara Moore, Justin Augustine, Faathim the Kind) were for the high-level heroes (40 and up for the first two, 44 and up for the last two) but were difficult to organize due to 1) needing a full team of 8 players, an act akin to herding cats and 2) what was then incredible amounts of time needed to play them (Dr. Q at its fastest back then - before the phone calls were moved up to the 1/3 tier and before Ouro portals made it faster to get back to the city zones for certain missions - was about 8 hours... you needed practically a whole day to run that one TF. It's much better now (fastest was clocked at 5 hours)).
The plan has been, now is, and always will be to post sign-up sheets on the Forums here the week of each planned Shardtober weekend. Dr. Q's sign-up sheet will appear the last week of September leading up to the Oct. 3-4 weekend. There will be at least one TF planned each Saturday and Sunday. I hope to be there for each Sunday this year: I would like to have someone volunteer to manage the Saturday run.
One Shardtober run each weekend for the first four weekends of October. Requirements are primarily that your character(s) be above Level 40 for the Dr. Q and Sara Moore TFs. You will need to be Levels 44 and up for Augustine and Faathim TFs. Past that, the Archetypes needed are purely up to the players: I do suggest that the Second and Fourth TFs get at least one Tanker and one Defender/Controller with DeBuff powersets (not to SPOIL much, but those two TFs have GODS! to defeat). It would also help for players to have Flight or Teleport powers, and one player definitely to have Recall Friend to assist moving about the Shard Realms. Just in case, there are Jetpack vendors in the zones so you can buy a Temp flight power as needed.
One more thing: getting into the hidden base in the Cascades zone for the Sara Moore TF. For those wanting to play Shardtober but haven't visited the Shard realms yet, I encourage to head to Firebase Zulu (via the middle Portal Corp. building in Peregrine Island) and run the Gen. Hammond contact until you unlock the Dr. Boyd contact. Then go run the Dr. Boyd contact: his opening storyarc will unlock the secret base for you.
Did I miss anything? Oh, usually by the third weekend, the Game Devs will have the Holloween event going on in full swing. If you need to, the doors in Firebase Zulu will work for Trick or Treating. For Holloween itself (Saturday Oct. 31st) we should be done with the event and RL matters (BAGS OF CANDY!) of course so there's no TF planned that eve.
Come battle the shadows. Save the city from dark gods. Oh, and earn badges and custom weapons.
Shardtober. Soon. I promise.
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