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The Mentor Project
You did great, Belle. My only bit of advice is to keep explaining what you plan to do. There are always new people on these, and they need the instructions, and some vets can use a refresher every so often.
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."
Thank you, everyone who came tonight and helped out! Wow, I really appreciate everyone's help, especially the people who stuck with me through the first few trials when I was still figuring out the best way to get everyone in the right place at the right time! Several people sent me messages during and after the trials, and I tried a few different things to try to figure out which was easiest as leader and which seemed to work best for the teams. Everybody was just amazing!
I think we did five or six of the Behavioral Adjustment Facility trials. Not only did we succeed at every one, but we also stopped all of the prisoners in all but one. Two slipped past us at one point, but still, that's an AWESOME record! And on one run, the teams even humored me and we tried for the Gotta Keep 'Em Separated badge--and we GOT it! It was a little questionable for a minute, when we didn't time defeating Siege and Nightstar quite right, but all three teams dug really deep and with a couple of minutes or so to spare, we succeeded on the second try!
All in all, it was a very exciting day, and I cannot tell you all how much I appreciate you helping me out and being so patient and understanding with me as I worked on some macros, mistimed some of them, played around with slightly different ways of doing it, and just doing an all-around fantastic job!
So the plan now is that since I think I can lead a team in the technical capacity of succeeded at the trial, I want to start helping people, especially people who are new to the trials, in learning about them and succeeding at them. For veterans--and I know there are a lot of you who have run these trials a lot more than I have!--I want to start having more trials where we do stuff like go for hard badges to get. If we don't succeed, then we don't succeed, but it will be fun to try! I'm also going to try to learn more about the Lambda trial (maybe tomorrow) and the Keyes trial (maybe in a week or two), so that I can run them too, and help heroes who are new to those trials succeed!
Again, thank you all, it was really exciting and a lot of fun!
Yay, Infinity Taxis!!!
Try my City without Taxis story (1679) if you get a chance and let me know what you think!
Hey everyone! I'd really like to learn to lead some of the trials. I've been on some of them and I've learned a lot, and I'd like to try use what I've learned to start running them.
So tonight at 5:00pm (Eastern, of course--Paragon City time!), Polly and Heather are going to try to make it to the Rikti War Zone with me and we'll get a league together to try going on some trials with me leading. If you want to come along, please do, but please keep in mind that I'm still learning, so things might be a little more confusing than normal when going with people who run them a lot. Also please keep in mind that I might not run them exactly how you're used to doing them, so please be patient and understanding!
After we're done, if you have any suggestions on how I might be able to run them better, definitely let me know!
If everything goes well, I'll try to run some at least two or three times a week, including running them sometimes to help new people get badges. Maybe in a couple of weeks or so, I can even try running the Keyes trial! I know a lot of people avoid it, but I'm sure if we run it enough and study it, we can get it down just as well as a lot of people have the other two down now!
Anyway, if you want to come, just be in the Rikti War Zone around the Lady Grey at 5:00pm this afternoon and let me know!
Yay, Infinity Taxis!!!
Try my City without Taxis story (1679) if you get a chance and let me know what you think!