Lazarillo

As it's been explained to me, it stems from the fact that the Arch-Villain equivalent, "Hero", didn't exist until City of Villains came out, and the "Rescue Statesman" mission is hella older than that. States was the only ally NPC meant to be that powerful, so he just got stuck with that classification, and it was never fixed later when the alternative became available.

I've also heard it used as evidence that we're actually rescuing Tyrant in disguise, though. Which'd kinda be awesome.

I'd planned to focus on getting my Peacebringer to from the mid-40s up to 50, just to say I have one of every AT. Didn't get around to it.

I'd also planned to work on my namesake character, who's still hanging back at 33, and could have used the love. Didn't get to that, either.

I started playing a Claws/Ninja Stalker who I'd gotten to level 8 previously, and got completely carried away seeing how high I could get him in one double XP weekend. Ended up focusing on him completely, and in 2 nights, 2 days, got him from 8 all the way to 32, entirely solo, now that I think about it, too. It wasn't the most amazing 2XP weekend I've had, but in a way, it feels like one of the biggest achievements.

Picked it up this weekend, good stuff. The store owner mentioned he'd enjoyed it, too, but when I mentioned Common Grounds, he hadn't heard of it, so I took a moment to advertise. He usually recommends stuff to me, felt good to reverse-evangelize.

Personally, I don't dislike the music in the first place. Some of it's kinda "eh", but overall, I think it's pretty enjoyable to listen to. That said, I play with it off entirely because it's used so poorly. You enter a neighborhood, it plays for a minute or two, then shuts off. It doesn't even change when you're moving around a changing neighborhoods anymore as a cool little signal like it used to.

It's all or nothing for me. If the game's going to have music, it needs to use it pretty much constantly. Otherwise, if I want ambient music, it's easier just to have my mp3 player running in the background.

I enjoy writing bios for my characters, even if I'm not very talented and they don't tend to come out all that great. The closest thing I can say I've had to a real stroke of inspiration is for my Crab Spider, Technician Savage:

This is only the second time I've managed to catch this show. And if the rest are more like this, I need to put more effort into seeing more.

I repeatedly miss-see some of the tentacles at the bottom of GG's Hami as wheels. It totally looks like a Hami-mobile, as a result. Which is actually pretty awesome.

Hey, I got one. Guess I better make an appropriate character now, or suffer the wrath of those who missed it?

Well once we finish fixing Trapdoor (still a patch or two away, after they remove the lava, and make the Bifurcations EBs, too), is it reasonable to expect that Honoree and Holtz won't be pullable without attracting all the Rikti in their room, too? And we should make all the portals untouchable so that they'll keep spawning.

Maybe when we're done, we can then ensure that three even-con minions are a challenge.

Okay, so maybe all that was a bit more bitter than I really feel, but it's nonetheless disappointing to see this sort of philosophy in the way missions are designed. The thing is, I don't seem to have nearly the trouble with Trapdoor as some do, but I am a bit worried that this sets a bad precedent. Wait, scratch that, removing certain powers from the CoP was setting the precedent. What this does is codify that bad precedent.