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Speaking of things we missed - did I blink and miss it, or did they never show how Ben got free from under that tree that fell on him?

What I don't get is, if it's rude to ask to join someone's team, isn't it equally rude to ask someone to join your team?

I would totally watch a sequel to Lost featuring Ben and Hugo protecting the island!

Lved the finale. I would've liked some more answers about the nature, purpose, or origin of the island, but I'm OK with some things remaining unsaid.

I loved what the "sideways" reality turned out to be, but I have at least one problem with it. If the sideways reality was all about the souls, spirits, etc. of the losties finding each other, what was the deal with sunken island in the first episode of the season? Was that metaphorical - did it represent the fact that they all buried the sins of their pasts? Or did it mean that sometime in the far distant future, after Hugo and Ben's time on the island, it really did sink?

Either way, I now wish they'd never shown it. If it was a metaphor, it was unnecessary, and a just tease for something that never really meant anything and never came to fruition. If it was the latter, then I call BS because from what we saw of the island shaking itself apart, the Darmha compound never would've still been standing.

The other thing the ending makes me think about regarding the sideways reality is, where there ever any scenes in which one of the people at the church at the end did not appear? If not, that would be awesome. Since that reality was merely a construct of their souls, spirits, subconciousnesses, whatever, there really shouldn't have been any scenes they were not in. I don't think that's the case though. Aside from the aforementioned underwater island scene, I think there was a scene with Keamy and his sidekick in the hotel hallway looking for Jin and Sun. If there were scenes without the main characters, I can live with it, but I think it would have been much cooler if there weren't any. The sunken island bugs me though.

A character I came up with after listening to some 80s music on my iPod on a long drive one weekend...

To the OP - sorry you had trouble with the mission.

To everyone else - thank you for making me really want to play my ice/ice blaster again!

Started looking for them in RV, realized capturing pillboxes wasn't as hard as I thought, and started doing that instead of looking for Toxic Tarantulas.

Shannon would be happy to be the tank next week, Dread. She's one of the few heroes who admires Fusionette's straightforward approach, and she's tired of Mag constantly stealing her aggro.

Quick update folks.

Mag, Dread and Shannon helped out Jim Tremblor and his trouble-prone girlfriend Fusionette last night. He mentioned Penny Nin needed some help also, but we haven't gone to see her yet.

I think Mag and Dread hit 20 last night, and I ran Shannon through a couple left over missions this morning to catch her up (and to get sweet, sweet stamina).

You don't have to invest extra money for costumes, but there have been some Booster Packs - six in all I think - that you could purchase if you wanted to. The Booster Packs - Natural, Science, Technology, Magic, Wedding, and Valkyrie - include costume pieces that are not otherwise available, as well as some bonus powers and emotes that are not otherwise available.

There are also some costume pieces available only through various editions of the game - Good vs. Evil, City of Heroes Collector's Edition, and City of Villains Collector's Edition.

None of these bonuses are necessary to play the game at all, but if you really become enamored of it, you'll probably end up buying some of them.

Have fun, and welcome to the game!

I'll bow out if you have an eighth person interested. As mentioned, three static teams is probably too many for me anyway. Good luck!

Hey guys, if you get enough interest to fill an 8-person team, I will gracefully bow out. As I mentioned last night, 2 static teams a week (Blue Shield and Gold Corp) are probably my limit. If you need help getting the ball rolling, I'll definitely be your eighth, but if you don't need me, don't feel bad about me not joining.

Put me down as a Blaster. I don't have a concept fleshed out yet, but the character will likely be either Ice/Ice or Fire/Ice depending on what kind of cool names I can find free (ETA: no pun intended).

Looks like Dragon*Con is the same weekend as PAX, so that's probably out, which is a shame since that would be perfect.

If that's the case, I'd vote for Gen Con (early August), Origins (late June), or the Chicago Comicon (mid August) in that order. Although, an appearance in TX would be completely justified as well.

Don't you lose rep by being defeated? If so, a bunch of badge toons taking turns beating each other are never going to get anywhere, or are going to get there very slowly.

By contrast, I recently got Forward Observer with the help of only one other player. We each had 4 toons that could get into a PvP zone in addition to our badge toons. We took turns cycling through those four toons and letting the other player's badge toon defeat them.

In this way we were each able to earn 40 rep over the course of 2 hours. With the 2 rep degradation per day, it took us three nights at 2 hrs per night to get both Disruptor and Forward Observer.