One crazy ride


Arcaine

 

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Sorry for typos and such this all is typed through a veil of tears.

Hey everyone, I know I havent been posting often recently and there is a good reason for it. I'll get to that later. I just wanted to reflect on everything that happened in the almost 9 years I have played.

The first day I ever saw CoH was on a visit to my sisters house. She was in the beta and allowed me, what I now consider a great honor, a peek at the game and to play it. On my visit I was able to play all the way to level 14 on a Energy/Energy blaster. That was it I was hooked.

I went home and per-ordered the game.

Back then I had a dial up bit I couldnt think of not having the game so I contacted the studio and asked if they could send me a copy of the game on disk so I could install it without having to download the client. A few days later I had the two disks and the game installed. (Matt and Melissa both kind enough to sign those yesterday) With the game installed I played out the rest of beta.

The Rikti invasion on the final day of beta my computer couldnt handle all the graphics so I never saw the ships hovering above. I played some in Atlas until it became so laggy I almost crashed. I moved over to Galaxy city and stood atop the City building there. Someone sent me an invite and I joined there team. We began talking and he told me that he was one of the devs for the game who was off that day and on looking at his powers he had them all. I was so amazed. Thank you unknown dev in GC in the invasion you probably will never read this but I thought you were the coolest person I ever met for just being so real about everything.

The game launched and I made my character again a Dark Melee/Regen scrapper. I played with my sister and many of her friends but I am a avid player and not being employed gave me time to shoot ahead of everyone. I played many alts. One day I made Blazing Tiger and joined "Kitties on the Prowl" SG. Right from the start everyone was nice to me and I made a lot of friends in the SG.

About a year of SG drama later I was leading the SG with many of the others gone to other places. Snipe Hami raids, Puppy dumpsters, I was there for it all. Issue 1 brought us Badges and I was inl ove all over again.

I badged....and badged...and then badged some more. My love for this game never stopping. Then it happened.

Issue 19 was on beta and my friend told me they had seen a post on the Paragon site for QA. I thought to myself "I know the game why not?" So I applied. My resume was pretty much a sheet of paper that said I played some games. On beta I sent a tell to Alpha Wolf saying I had submitted my resume and asking if there was any chance he could pass it along to whoever worked in QA. He told me he was the person that it would go to. A few days later they called me and said they wanted to interview me.

HOLY PANCAKE!

On that day I went in and I was so nervous I thought I was never going to get the job with how I had interviewed. The drive home had me very depressed. I got home and as I closed my door my phone rang. I answered it and it was Paragon HR saying they wanted to offer me a job.

HOLY PANCAKE! again!

For the past two years I have worked for Paragon Studios and they are like a family to me. I love them all so much and we all shared many tears today. The past almost 9 years has tuely been a crazy ride and I want you to know I love you all!

Ill probably edit this later when I am able to but this was something I needed to type.


Virtue
--Blazing Tiger-- 50 Invulrn/Fire Tank
<<Virtues Tankiest Kitty>>
Try my Arcs: #4892 and #112548
@Blazing Tiger and @Aqua Fox

 

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*hugs* I'll always remember you for the Master Saturday STF runs.


Live arcs: 517377 and 517381
Virtue: Quickshot. Swiftwind. Aliuneidis. Gizmodeus. Dasher. Fiver. Inuit Acer. Daniel Darke. Cerebral Flame. El Halcon.
Intel Core2Duo 2.4 Ghz 4 GB RAM**NVIDIA Geforce 9600 GT set to 1280 x 1024**Windows Vista 32 bit

 

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*hug*


 

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You worked at Paragon!? OMGNOWAI!11

I'm gunna miss those tiger striped pajamas.


Toons i'm most seen playing: Hero : xanthicsnow, Pyro Quiver, Californian. Villain: Nox Carbine

 

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Glad we got to run around a few times back in the day.


Arcaine, Penumbra-Edge, Penumbra Edge, Paragons Scrap, Umbral Assassin, Repulse Shock, Clopin, Dynamo Charge, Storm Jammer, Deceptive Fallout
@Arcaine/@ArcaineDos
Teen Squadron ftw
Arc's a Deviant!