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I'm gonna have to back outta this TF after all... I just realized that it's 6 AM and I've been up all night. No way I'm gonna be up for a TF at 10:30.

Sorry.

I dunno, I kinda' like it...

Oh, and for your entertainment, here's the tiebreaker question (minus the flaw that Kinetic Star pointed out)... I ask those present at the contest NOT to say the answer here... let the forumites try to figure it out by themselves...

One fine morning, a hunter departed from his camp, and walked due south with his trusty rifle on his shoulder. After a mile, he stumbled and skinned his knee, but being a tough hunter, he just cursed loudly for a bit and walked onward. After another mile or so, he spotted a bear and took aim – but only then realized that he hadn’t taken the safety off! The bear caught his scent and fled to the east, with the hunter in pursuit. After a mile, he caught up with it and fired a shot, but the bear was only wounded, and managed to drag itself another mile eastwards before the hunter managed to get in the killing shot. Delighted with his catch, he dragged the carcass two miles due north to his camp, only to discover that in his absence, another bear had trashed it!

Now tell me this – what color was the bear who trashed his camp?

Okay, the competition is finished - quite entertaining! I'm posting the results here, but I'm afraid I forgot to note down the full names of all the contestants, so feel free to correct me if you see this...

Kinetic Star: 4 points
Distru: 4 points
NullPointer: 4 points
Physco: 3 points
Paragon: 2 points
Hell Ram, Blue, StarFlux and Herulus all got 1 point

The final tie between Distru, Null, and Kinetic was determined with a tough tiebreaker question... nobody actually got it right, but Kinetic spotted a flaw in the riddle, and was awarded the victory for this.

A final Bonus Question for 3 million inf was posed, but he failed to answer it correctly - thus, his final gain came to 2.399.996. Not a bad number, even for a 50.

Concidering that this competition was quite a success, there may be another... at some point in the future. I'd need to collect some more riddles, though, since I pretty much used up my entire repetoir on this contest.

One hour 'till the riddles begin...

Here's a classic to get your minds moving in the right direction:

What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

Damn jocks and your football... well, if you're gonna change it, better get the new time out FAST...

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The level 2 empowerment station is available at the bottom of the level 1 station list of things as an option to build and the level 3 one is available on the level 2 station.

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Hmmm, sounds expensive... can anybody tell me what the level 2 and 3 buff-stations costs in terms of prestige?

You sure? I STILL don't seem to be on it...

Ahem... yes, that was clearly a test to see how quickly you'd notice...

Well, I'd say there's enough interested people to go ahead with it. Friday the 23rd, 6 PM BST/19:00 CET, under Atlas. Gawkers and cheering fans are welcome.

Keep in mind, though, that I'm not gonna make it easy. If you're hoping for riddles that start with "What is white when it goes up..." you're in the wrong league. On the other hand, I won't use 'silly' riddles along the lines of "What is yellow, flies, and goes 'Clack, clack, clack, clack'?"

These will be old-school riddles that can be figured out if you're swift of thought and mind...


Oh, and as for the rewards... though it'll be mainly symbolic, there will be 99.999 Inf for every correct answer, and a bonus of 2.000.000 for whoever has the most correct answers at the end of the event...

There has been plenty of costume-competitions under Atlas... and our daily work is a contest of strength with the various villains around us. So maybe you're good-looking and powerful... but are you smart?

If so, now is the time to show it - on friday the 22nd, I intend to host a contest of wits - a contest of riddles. Fools need not apply. Let those who believe themselves to be smart, clever, or wise, attempt to answer my riddles... millions of influence will be on stake, as well as the honor of being the smartest among heroes...

Who would be interested in participating in this contest? Mind, if there is little interest, I won't go ahead... one can hardly have a contest without contestants.

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Say "yo!" if interested in joining us for Synapse TF - Saturday 24th June, 10:30am!


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Yo. With my level 28 Blaster. I don't remember if Synapse is 20-25 or 25-30, but either way, I want the Military Epaulets on that character (when they get 'round to releasing them...) to finish her main costume - and that means hittin' all the TF's.

One question, though - are any of the people signed up so far Rads? They haven't nerfed the AV's yet, and the Clockwork King is a tough nut to crack even at the best of times. Without some serious -regen, we're gonna get pwned by the brain-in-a-jar.

Get to da choppah!

Okay, then - what about Sunday Night at 10 PM BST/23:00 CET?

Everybody okay with that?

Just got the Spirit Warrior mission on my Defender - on the off-chance that anybody might have missed it and is interested in getting it, I thought I'd post it here... gonna leave it 'round for a few days.

How do you unlock the level 2-3 ones? Only the Level 1 empowerment stations are accessible from the Base Builder, and I can't find any on the Forges, either... do you need some particular badges, or what?

Certainly... even if everybody shows up (which, in my experience, is highly unlikely), there's still 3 slots left...

There are more of us than I'd thought... heh. Of course, several of them belongs to the same person - just look at the sheer number of Cheesies! :P

Heh, you guys are lucky - I'd just decided that since nobody was interested, I might as well do it myself...

Okay, let's see... setting it for Saturday would risk somebody not reading it in time, so...

Sunday at 2 PM BST/15:00 CET.

Be there, or be... badgeless. :P

(If more than one of you can't make it, I'll change it, but better get back to me in a hurry, then.)

You're missing BlackDragon, Broadsword/Dark Armor/Darkness Mastery Scrapper.

...for free! Since Soul Taker seems to be so wanted these days, I'm gonna throw the mission open to anybody who wants the badge - just sign up, the more the merrier!

IIRC, pet movement-speeds have been increased in I7... if that affects flying-speed as well, it should make Group Fly a better option. I still wish thoe meatheads would learn to follow me close enough to stay inside the AoE of Group Fly and similar powers, though... would make that follow-goto trick unnecessary.

Incidentally, i don't suppose there's a way to tell your minions to head for a map-point? Having to constantly click in front of me to keep moving reminds me a bit too much of Teleport...

I hope this doesn't end up being as chaotic as Kin's Army... maybe we could call ourselves "Venture's Exterminators", or something?

Yeah, most of us got 'em all in the end... Scirocco turned out to be the main challenge, since he was hard to spawn - and then some jerk hacker went and too kanother pillbox, so we had to defeat him with a 5-minute counter ticking down to his disapperance, AND GW+Cap Mako running around killing people. Damn sight too close, but we made it.

Just a FYI: I had just over half a million debt when we finally finished. Exhalted, here I come...

Oh, and y'know... Black Scorpion and Lord Recluse must be REAL happy we're done - those two sure got beat up a lot of times. :P

Count me in with BlackDragon. Where are we running - Warburg missions? Should be the best place with a large team...

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When the first 4 pillboxes are taken AV's should spawn. I havent been able to find methods to make sure who/how many will spawn.

After that we'll move onto a 5th pillbox, spawn the remaining AV's, repeat the process and then be home in time for tea and cake.


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Feel free to correct me if I'm off my rocket, but doesn't the first set of AV's spawn when you've taken THREE pillboxes? When you've taken 5, you've basically won.