"Well, that was embarrassing."

A long, long time ago. My rad defender just got mutation, a rez power, and was flying back from a mission in Kings Row and I spotted a downed hero in the little clearing with the big rock next to the tram station so I decided I wanted to rez him and as I came in to land next to him I suddenly fell face first into the grass next to him. So I popped a rez and was quickly put back down a second time. Yea debt. This was when debt hurt, a lot.

Confused I looked around and in the tall grass was a Malta Auto Turret. Soon the bodies started to pile up and a crowd of low level characters gathered just outside of agro range of the gun trying various ways to try and take out the gun (blasters sniping, buffed up tanks trying to go toe to toe while being healed from afar). Eventually calls out to a high level group who may have been the Malta's original target came by and quickly dispatched

Master of "Forgot my Toggles" Task Force

We were preparing for a Lamda the other night and someone hits me with mystic fortune. I return the favor, or thought I did. What I actually hit was my teleport to mission door, which took me to the far side of Grandville. Must pay more attention.....

Not long after I started playing, I was in a PUG going through an office map. The leader decided he wanted to change the difficulty, and told everyone to exit. Everyone else dashed for the door, but I somehow got turned around, and for the life of me, could not figure out how to get to the exit. I was running around in circles, while team chat filled up with polite but firm "Please exit so we can reset" messages. Too embarrassed to admit my dilemma, I finally just said, "Sorry, gotta go!" and quit the team.

I have dashed headlong into battle thinking the team was behind me only to be left alone way too often. One friend commented 'Oh no! They pulled Comicsluvr!'

It's a common joke with us.

I frequently form teams, and will sometimes send tells to people asking if they'd like to join. When I'm doing this, I usually just type it once, then copy/paste to each additional person since it's just a generic invite like "want to join level 45 mission team?".

On rare occasions, I'll forget to hit copy before pasting, and send someone whatever random thing I had copied last. Usually it's just random, but harmless, junk.

A week or so ago though, the text that I accidentally pasted and sent was part of a fairly steamy e-mail I had been sending my wife earlier that night. Oops!

Earlier today I was trying to replicate something I like to call "The Captain Epic Moment" whereby one activates Self Destruct when you're only a few xp from leveling. The resultant explosion kills almost everything around you, you level and rez.

Unfortunately as I was about to do this, my teammate aggros the spawn just as I clicked the button. I explode without killing a single mob.

Thankfully I rezzed about 30 seconds later due to my team xp filling the last bar. But still, that was a long, embarrassing 30 seconds.

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

I also remember in the early days of the game hanging in Steel by Posi and somebody said "Hey look Treants. Why are they conning purple?" Then someone aggroed them.

And that's how I was first introduced to the Devouring Earth. And more debt.

So I'm on a team of four players who know each other RL. I'm playing an Ice/Kin Corruptor, and we're doing the Hero Morality mission of the team's Nin/Nin stalker at +1x8. The one where the mission holder's doppelganger comes and fights you.

When we get set up for the doppelganger, we duck into a small office room to filter the spawns through the doorway. I'm still playing with the powers at this point, but I've selected Repel, and this looks like one of the situations where it could be useful to keep enemy spawns out the door. So I turn it on.

Our Dark tanker and stalker are is out in front, stacked up beside the door, I'm right behind them, and our Darkfender is off to the left. The doppelganger arrives, the battle starts, and suddenly... everyone goes flying away from me. Not the enemy, my team.

That's right, the Nin stalker doppelganger had Smoke Bomb, Confused my fluffy butt, and caused my teammates to go flying into the walls of an enclosed space, repeatedly. It turns out neither Dark nor Nin give you Repel protection.

Of course, by the time I'd figured out what the hell was going on, we'd all but wiped. And I couldn't stop giggling about it.

Father Xmas:In the early days my friend and I were in Steel, and we went "What are those things?"
... "Did we just get our ***** kicked by a mushroom?"

Postagulous et al: We refer to forgetting your toggles as a "no pants moment." ("Ever have that no pants dream and it wasn't a dream?")

Running a Lambda the other day. I'm usually on the team that does the labs, this time however, I was on the warehouse team. So, I figured "Hey-ho, I get Pacification 'nades". All goes well and we clear the warehouse, so we head down to the labs to help the other team.

During the fight with Marauder, when the time comes to pacify him I click the little icon in my tray only to see 'Invalid Target' pop up. I quickly check the power and it turns out I was carrying an Acid 'nade. Of course during the time I was faffing about with my power tray I failed to notice the big red words on my screen NOVA FIST. Suffice to say I was rezzing at the hospital shortly after.

----- Union's finest underachiever -----
Farewell CITY of HEROES
The First, the Last, the One.
Union: @ominousvoice2059

I think my worst was in a mish I stopped and then found I couldn't move - tried everything including asking teammates for help for about 5 minutes. None of them picked up on that I had hit Rest!

Also on a lvl 9 in the Hollows far side of the Zone and decided to use the Atlas Express to get back so turned off my toggles and charged into the first purple mob I saw - lvl 14 or 15 - then the next .... and the next. - They just couldn't hit me! - In the end I had to run all the way back running through about a dozen purple mobs, got back to Wincott and got next mish - One mob later - levelled up and promptly faceplanted on a blue mob.

I've also witnessed a few others - In Mercy on my Main 50 for a Rikti raid when they were new - finished it and then entered one of my Snake mishes only to be followed by a couple of the lowbies from the team from the Raid (lvl 4 or 5 iirc) who then proceeded to attack the Snake boss in front of them without checking its level - remember this predated autoexemp - I was amazed that they actually managed to get some damage on the lvl 52 Boss.

Probably the most embarrassing I've seen was someone lagging out tping on a lvl 50 and falling into a mob of level 1s who then proceeded to get the last 1hp of damage needed.

One of my most embarrassing moments was when I was on a full team of 8. We were in the high 30s and had a mission in the old Hollows. We exited our mission and were chatting idly while the team lead was grabbing the next mission. While we were at the door a lowbie team exited the same door. Suddenly a high level Nemesis ambush appears with all their lovely AoEs. They were targetting us, but of course flattened the lowbie team in about 5 seconds flat. The lowbies stayed there, since this was before they added a hospital to the Hollows, and I awkwardly go "Oops, sorry about that." in Local. I felt responsible for their deaths even though there was really nothing we could've reasonably done to avoid it.