Capa_Devans

MoCuda Wed 20 Oct 10.15am est

1 Capa - my main
2 Badjac - brute
3 American Stone - blaster
4 Mr Henge - corr
5 Vivixen - brute
6 Prof Mal - MM
7 Lady Willow - emp/dark def
8 Anne Marie - Dark Dark def

Well a testament to the crowd here we started only a few minutes late and that was because I was rebooting due to lag.

Not the smoothest of runs mainly due to lag, some very odd spawns and - in my case - not enough caffeine. Unfortunately we had a death on the second mission where one got in a pincer between two Wardens.

So consensus was a restart once and go through to the end for merits win or lose on the next one.

Unfortunately at that point we lost Willow. We chilled in GV for a while (we thought she'd DC'd but it turned out that it was due to a drunk hitting her net). He's going to have more than a hangover if she catches him I think.

So we sent a tell to Jaffah who kindly agreed to join us. That mean we needed another buffer so Viv alted to a buffer. Yep. The brute goes corr. You KNOW this is going to end well, don't you?

This was the line up on run 2:
1 Capa - my main
2 Badjac - brute
3 American Stone - blaster * first run of Barracuda
4 Mr Henge - corr
5 Vivixen - corr
6 Prof Mal - MM
7 Jaffah - stone brute
8 Anne Marie - Dark Dark def

First couple of missions were a little rocky. The spawns were better but while five of us had run the other day, one of those had alted so the dynamic changed big style. No real major scares but just not gelling initially.

By mission two it was going better except for yours truly who was suffering the cat aggro from hell. However, I admit I can't blame them for my health nose diving into the red and I have no idea how I survived. I swear I could not see ANY health in my bar. But emptying an entire column of greens worked combined with SS my rear to safety. I'm guessing there were heals chucked at me too but it all happened so fast. I went from full health and strength of will to almost nothing in an instant. *shudder*. Longbow do nasty things because I checked and SoW was still up.

Anyway after that it got easier. Not the fastest group in the world; we did seem to be TF AFK for some reason and poor Anne DC'd on every mission exit I think onwards we did.

Some great traps made short work of the AVs on the final mission. Pretty much text book until Reichsman and then we got a little worried wondering if he'd do the same as yesterday. The plan was kill GW in the machine so we got temps as she died then run to the junction. Amazingly Reichs didn't spawn as fast as yesterday so we were good.

The ambushes were ... tiresome. Badjac and bots did the pulling and after what seemed like an eternity of ambush, bots/bad, ambush, ambush, ambush. It looked like it was time to whack Reichy.

And we did. Amusing moment: Badjac got stunned and backed off a little, and Jaffah took that moment to go get his temps. That left your friendly squishy stalker tanking Reichs for a few seconds. Um. Amazingly that went well. But next time ... let's not do that.

The rest of Reichsy was pretty much effortless. Few of us got stunned but I don't think anyone's health dipped much.

Result: Master of Barracuda SF.

Major thanks to all of the team who showed a lot of patience. Jaffa great of you to in at short notice well past bed time but worth it for the first Mo badge, eh? Great tanking by Bad there too. Awesome buffage from Mr H and viv. Mal; thanks for leading that, I learnt a LOT. And stone - first run of the Cuda and get a Mo. Woot. Glad you stuck with it Anne the DCs must have driven you batty especially on the final mission.

Congratulations guys, well done and thank you.

Is there enough interest for a MoCuda at10am EST Sat 23rd?

1) Capa - whatever probably tank but if so can't start it
2) Armeros - blaster
3) Willow - Emp
4) Jaffah - MM
5) waiting for tell back
6) waiting for tell back
7) Sinner - blaster
8) Dash no Chris - scrapper


ALT:
Badjac

Well done to all the entries; really nice reads there.

Congratulations to SterlingSteel and Backfire in particular.

Many thanks to PERC for running this. Much appreciated.

Many thanks for that. I'm a cheap skate but I'm also a base person of lesser repute so ... that won this time.

Well that was an interesting run.

We started off a little late (10.15am) but we had a really good run and the only one who was in ANY danger was me on mission two when I got hit by SOMETHING that dropped me into the red.

Other than that it was a very safe run and I thank Prof for doing the lead. I learnt a lot and shall crib shamelessly when I lead one.

Reichs spawned incredibly quickly and on top of us after the fourth AV that gave us no chance to react and killed a squishy. But the team was solid and frankly if the AV spawns on your head you are going to die; don't think even the brutes would live through Reichy spawning on their head.

Pre-arranged and pre-signed is the next run:

MoCuda Wed 20 Oct 10.15am est (notice it's a tad later than usual)

1 Capa - my main
2 Badjac - brute
3 American Stone - blaster
4 Mr Henge - corr
5 Vivixen - brute
6 Prof Mal - MM
7 Lady Willow - emp/dark def
8 Anne Marie - Dark Dark def

I can see if we can get enough interest for a Saturday morning run, Arm.

10am EST Sat 23rd: anyone?
Interest:
Kazzon
dak

Want to thank Wrong_Number for a few things:

• The effort put into the arc. It is obviously a lot of work
• Being brave enough to throw the arc to wolves for feedback
• Being courteous in the face of criticism and taking at it was meant; constructively
• For the Hami-O that landed in my inbox last night.

Nice people like you W_N make up for all the idiots. Thank you.

Nice title, that does seem to fit better.

I'd like you to match 100 millions inf Guardian blue and a further 100 millions inf Guardian red, please. These are both for my solo SGs.

Yes I do need the biggest base plot thank you. Really. I do. I'm building a folley and a garage for the fliers blue side (theme a country estate) and a landing pad redside (theme a National Trust type attraction).

Thanks in advance but if you're out of cash, I'll catch you next time.

Stick Capa down as damage please.

Usual caveat about I'll put it on a calendar but feel free to send me a tell if it looks like I'm not around. Capa+timezones=suck.

My stalker lives and the tanks/brutes die.

Actually ... no, no I don't. I giggle like a little school girl.

Ah Vix no problem, we were just worried about you. Hope everything turns out ok.

We didn't get it today, we didn't get the Storm Aspect and we didn't really fancy killing the easy one. We've nailed this TF before so we KNOW we can do it again.

Whenever you're ready, give us a yell, you know I'll be there.

Vixen don't forget to let me know what you need. I'll bring any of my blue characters.

As you see we're full for this run and with some very familiar faces from the previous Early Bird runs.

Prof Mal has agreed to lead this run because he knows this and LRSF much better than I. Really grateful for him to that; I hate leading when I'm not totally sure of what is going on. I think our chances just went up.

MoCuda Tue 19 Oct 10am est

1 Capa - my main - alarm set and reminder tattood
2 Badjac - brute - confirmed
3 Sinner - blaster - message left
4 Vixen - ice/thermal corr - confirmed
5 Vivixen - brute - confirmed
6 Prof Mal - MM - confirmed
7 Lady Willow - emp/dark def - message left
8 Anne Marie - Dark Dark def - confirmed

ALT:
American Stone

Would anyone be interested in another MoCuda attempt on Friday 22nd Oct 10am EST? (And I realize that may depend on what happens this run.)

EDIT:
We have maint in the morning. It SHOULD be finished an hour before our start time but if it over runs badly then we will look at rescheduling if necessary.

Glad to see these starting up again.

One of my earliest and fondest memories was winning a consolation prize in a CC not too long after I joined the game. That was on Teagie, a tribute to my cats. Not the best costume I've ever done but I was proud of it.

I got a million inf and to me at that time (I was brassick I'd just started blue from redside) it was a LOT of money and very very welcome. (I think my lack of vet badges might have helped. )

Ok that looks like a reason interest.

I'm going on another one of Vixen Healer's/Lady Willow's successful Cathedral of Pain runs tonight and a MoLR so I can't today.

I'll set something up for next Saturday/Sunday. Maybe a Synapse or something redside?

Have fun CC.

Angelic Injustice

Well that's a start. I'll send out a few tells when the servers come up (someone feed the hamster please) but right now we're looking like:

MoCuda Tue 19 Oct 10am est

1 Capa - preferably my main but maybe my mm if nec
2 Badjac - brute
3 Sinner - blaster
4 Vixen - ice/thermal corr
5 Vivixen - brute
6 Prof Mal - MM
7 Lady Willow - emp/dark def
8 Anne Marie - Dark Dark def

Wootles

Happy birthday.

Just wondering if anyone would be interested in a semi-regular schedule for TFs for xp and not speeded/stealthed?

Was thinking Sundays but just gauging interest really. 50's would be welcome providing they understand we're pretty much walking through.

Any interest? If so, any preference to times/days and which SF/TFs?

Well done! Great achievements all round.

Would you be kind enough to shove Capa down as damage please (stalker)? 10pm my time should still be coherent at the end.

Long time no post.

Now that the Praet dust has settled, can I interest anyone on a MoCuda Tue 19 October 10am Eastern?

I'm going to confess that I don't know this TF really well but Blood Beret was kind enough to furnish me with a crib sheet.

So any interest?

Thanks to setting up Arm and to the rest of the team.

I just wish the Devs would let us use the base of team leaders. Doing this as a Rogue with the travel problems really does detract from the enjoyment of it.

It was oversubscribed too, had a lot of people who hadn't signed up on the forum, wanting in. Guess word has got out Vix and co know what they're doing.