The Double XP XPeriment 2: Rise of the Mechanosaurs!

This Double XP Weekend, a bunch of LiveJournalers are making a dedicated team run from level 1 to level 50, once again! After the success of the Candy Monsters experiment two Double XP Weekends ago, we've decided to do it again, this time as ROBOT DINOSAURS.

We have eight players willing to dedicate themselves and their weekend to driving a team from 1 to 50. We will be running regular missions and task forces, with papers only when we are completely out of other missions, and will completely avoid the AE "cheat." We will be playing Friday evening, along with all day Saturday and Sunday, following the traditional weekend format.

This project will start in Praetoria (because of our mixed team) and then move on to the Rogue Isles as part of The Pandemonium Posse on Champion server.

Toward the goal of sharing our fun with this community (and the world!), many of us have set up Twitter accounts that you can follow as we go along. A lot of us will even be "role-tweeting," posting as our Mechanosaur characters.

Our lineup:

Pyrodactyl (Fire/Dark Corruptor) http://twitter.com/pyrodactyl
Archeraeopteryx (Archery/Trick Arrow Corruptor) http://twitter.com/Archeraeopteryx
Velocireactor (Fire/Rad Corruptor)
Deinotherm (Electric/Thermal Controller) http://twitter.com/Deinotherm
Electriceratops (Electric/Sonic Controller) http://twitter.com/Electriceratops (That's me!)
Leviathanatos (Ice/Super Strength Tank) http://twitter.com/leviathanatos
Pteranodrone (Electric/Energy Blaster) http://twitter.com/P_Drone
Anklyothor (Mace/Shield Brute)

This list will be updated when more of us set up our Twitter accounts.

Also, I would like to share these:

ELECTRIKE IS PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS! (Art by @Liz)


Click to embiggen.

That's missing Pyrodactyl, but has quick screenies of the rest of the Mechanosaurs, in their full robotic dinosaur glory.

For those that would like to follow us, but don't want to actually follow all of those Twitter accounts, simply search for the #2xXP hastag.

very impressive designs. 3 thumbs up..when did i grow that other thumb?

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

You guys are on Champion? *thumbsup*

I need to see these costumes up close. Ten for ten with bonus gold stars on the theme and colors already.

I remember seeing Pyrodactyl around in Champion yesterday or Friday!

Whicked with an h

Yeah. Those names/costumes are completely awesome. Kudos and woots to the newts.

We made it with just a little time to spare! The Mechanosaurs all went from 1 to 50 in 29 hours of play time, spread over three days. As of 10:10pm Pacific Sunday, the last pair (we were all pacted) hit 50, after starting at 4:45pm Pacific Friday.

Cool beans.

Did anyone else see the costume and names and think "80's Saturday morning kids Cartoon"?

It's like they're fans of this long lost cartoon that only had 13 episodes during the mid-80's (which actually...was a lot of them, Visionaries (knights of the magical light!) only had 13 or so Episodes).

I can totally picture those characters fighting off an evil robot dinosaur overlord while saying things like 'Radical' and 'Gnarly'.

Now all they need is a catchphrase.

Here's my favorite screenshot of the weekend, featuring the Mechanosaurs vs. Calistyx: http://twitpic.com/3uzdwn/full

Not pictured: Deinotherm (the photographer), and Velocireactor (hidden in FX, though you can estimate where she is by the blue rad effects).

We did mostly SFs after getting out of Praetoria (we went from 1-22 Friday evening, in roughly 5 hours). We finished Beast Beneath the Mountain, Silver Mantis, Imperious, and all of the Mako patron arc.

Most awesome bit this weekend? Lord Recluse, in the final mission of the patron arc, was worth, on average, 1,000,000 XP.

Ok now you did it - I must create a Dinomech.

The full list of everything we did:

Friday night:
- Loyalist Arcs in Praetoria - Praetor White, Mr. G, Dr. Hetzfeld, Transmuter

Saturday:
- Beast Beneath the Mountain (Tarikoss SF)
- Pirates of the Sky (Silver Mantis SF)
- Two tip missions
- Temple of the Waters (Renault SF)
- Five tip missions (a couple people had missed the earlier 2)
- Rikti War Zone Arcs (Levantera's arcs only)
- The Crystal of Serafina (Ice Mistral SF)

Sunday:
- The 5th Column Overthrow (Mender Lazarus SF)
- Patron Arcs (Mako's first two arcs)
- Imperious Task Force
- Patron Arcs (Mako's last two arcs)
-- On the final mission where you fight Lord Recluse, we did not cooperative complete them. Instead we killed Recluse all 8 times, which netted us around a million xp a pop. I think we got over two levels from just that.

And we wrapped it up and all dinged 50 in the first mission of the Lady Grey Task Force. Rather than finish the TF, we decided to drop it and get some sleep. We'll do the Alpha unlock arc before anything else, and come back for Lady Grey another time.

Along the way we also took down Deathsurge, a couple Winter Lords, and Ghost of Scrapyard three or four times. There was also a Zombie Invasion in Sharkhead that we had fun with, which has a little funny story of it's own, but that's for another time.

I had a LOT of fun doing this again. Despite some connection difficulties with one of our members who toughed it out as much as he could, and despite my having a nasty cold (still do!) through most of it, it was great! It was much smoother this time than it was for Candy Monsters back in August 2009 (which was also fun but brutal), and I look forward to doing it again next year. thanks to everyone who participated - you guys are the best. /e thumbs up

(Editted to put the pics in another post, to make the above text more readable)

Here are the few screenshots I took throughout the event:

Posing for the camera at the start of the event, Friday night.


Archeraeopteryx, my Archery/Trick Arrow corruptor:


We got stomped by the ambush at the end of the Ice Mistral SF, but not until we'd defeated Archus and completed the mission.


(removed the last one because there was some language in chat not good for the forums - will edit and repost later)

This is the single coolest thing in City since the City of Heroes soft drink thread. Congratulations gang, this is just FANTASTIC. More pictures!!

Your team really needs its own theme song

Perhaps a suitably cheesy 80's cartoon catchphrase like "Mechanosaurs MECHANIZE!" or something like that to go with the 80's cartoon intro?