Champion - You're ALL Invited!

Never Trust a Carnie!

Was fun until I lost connection

Thanks all

Si

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Si /50 Blaster Fire Pure..

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well real life got in the way of me fighting a lot of the carnies after the masacure but I did get to go after a few of them.

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Lead Squirrel at Dr. E Spider robotic site #643

Nothing saids its your spot like an ourob. Portal dropped on the ground.

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Leader of Renaissance de la Veritas
Moderator of ChampioNexus
Amygdala's Guide to the Cathedral of Pain Trial

Thanks y'all for trying something different. The anticipation and chat with Wonko was fun.

Wonko had a good time too. -Wonko the Strong

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Stupid work. Glad y'all had a good time though!

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@Celestial Lord and @Celestial Lord Too

This was mad fun, and Wonko let know to check the forums next week for GR tidbits (while on Justice).

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Nice event. I love killing Carnies. More please!

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I had a great time...


NEXT!

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So here's what I found went down.

It seemed to be a mystic based event so I brought in my only magic origin character on the server that turned out to be a villain.
Villains were to meet up at the Magic Vendor in Cap Au Diable and they did.
The event was announced on the Admin channel in bold red letters - so far so good.
A Carnie strongman arrived with an orange name - which I can't recall - and ranted at the group for about a half hour in local.
We were told to turn off stealth powers.
Eventually, it was announced that we were going to a party.
First my team fractures. Odd I think. Only I and about 3 others are on the team remain (I'm assuming all the higher level characters were yanked from the team, but I didn't think to check at the time)
We break up and reform.
Pretty soon, we are carted off to the Oroborus in a piece-meal fashion.
Soon we are all there running around with heroes and a bunch of Carnie....with all of our powers grayed out.
/team This looks like it can turn very bad very quickly.
So there is dancing and fun to be had until we are turned upon by the Carnie.
Remember how all our powers were grayed out - yeah, they are still all grayed out.
Unarmored and unable to return fire we are decimated. Perhaps a few that were lurking around the corners of the closed Ouroborus building escaped.
I was knocked over the rail and, as my defeated corpse fell to it's death, my powers returned to normal. My whole team is deathheads in the team window.
Falling into the pool in the middle of the Ouroboros base, I lay there for a bit. I have three options; keep laying there, use an awaken, or click on they shiny red "go to hospital button".
I go with the second option, and, before my character can even straiten to a full standing position and just as I'm firing off a break-free, may character is returned to their watery grave. Ack. I say.
People are mumbling in broadcast about tp'ing people - I'm not on their team so I'm sunk.
It's not looking any better. Maybe I should have tried to target the carnies (they were probably level 54's - see next post in Justice forums). Instead I clicked on the shiny red button - there are hospital bays in the O, but no - I'm sent back to Cap Au Diable.
And there I sit, my level 10 self, thinking - well, I did have the forethought to run up on the arm of the sundial and get the badge. Usually you can't get to the O before level 25, but I was there - and I snagged the badge. On some slim chance, maybe it will let me back in...nope ... have to be level 25.
Well, it figures.
/hc The jokes on us I guess.
/hc Well, thanks for the event. I can't get back into Ouroboros because I'm level 10.
Apparently, the Carnie host in the zone is inviting people to the zone to get mauled by the Carnie again but it will take time for him to transfer characters back. Well, that was enough for me.

I log and head for Justice for round two - at least, now I have some idea of what is going on an I can prepare.

[continued in Justice forum]
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Critique ::
Some how I don't understand the fun of being pwn'd by the DEVs.
It wasn't even a fair fight. We didn't have powers until after we were wiped out. We weren't warned that this was going to be an event that really required us to be +25 and probably level 50 to really stand much of a chance.
The invite welcomes everyone. It doesn't say that we needed to be members of a level 50 team or over level 25 characters with an O-bus ticket.
It might as well have been setting off a nuke a Girl Scout cookie stand.
At least, it was announced in game on the Admin channel.
But then again, I was one of those without powers that was being beset upon by a massive number of Carnie (that were probably level 54).
I guess that's why over-all it was a waste of time and no fun.
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Conclusion
I like DEV run events.
I think that they are good for the spirit of the community.
I don't think this one was handled well.
They need to be announced on the server Admin channel; it was done on Champion.
Regardless of my dislikes, I would like to see more DEV run events. I have no doubt in my mind that they will improve with each event.

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A few shots from yesterday....magic store was insane. No lag for me though.



Sausage sword...heh

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From what I can understand, there was some bug with the Ouroboros thing. Not 100% sure what it was, but I would say that it was related to our powers not turning on and/or the hospital not working. After a few minutes we were kicked out of Ouros and told to head back to the magic store where the Carnie slaughter ensued.

Just wanted to clear up any misgivings.

Also:

The magic shop was a little cramped to fight in.

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