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Here's a Summary of what happened Blueside on Defiant:

I logged in only about 5-10 minutes before the scheduled event. I made my way from Cimm to Talos, because I needed to be somewhere it was easy to travel from... and really? Talos has about everything except a RWZ.

So, I see the Red admin messages from Mako threatening Talos and Peregrine. Since the character I was using was a lvl 50 (just barely) Khel... I opted for the less crowded PI (we're talking I was stuck in Mapserver lock hell trying to get from the Auction house to the TUNNEL to PI.) Plus? The Admins (Hit Streak and Freitag) asked that 40+ players go to PI, to alleviate congestion and such.

When I got to PI, the Arachnos fliers were already going along the shorelines dropping off a combination of Souped up Bane Spider Commandos and a couple of really tough kinds of Coralax (Sentinels and Guardians are what I remember.) Everything ranged from level 40 to level 54. Depending on the levels of the nearby heroes.

By the time Captain Mako appeared (and I did see him on the beach and attacked him a time or two,) most everyone was Incarnate Level (or there by teaming and Leaguing,) and so were our opponents.

Yes, really, I saw and punned with Mako during the fight. Someone insulted his Mama at one point too.

There were waves of Fliers, then mostly the Coralax for a bit. Then? Mako taunted us with something scarier. And there appears LUSCA! (Looking RIGHT at me, man.) With each tentacle guarded by more of the souped up Coralax.

Mako again taunted us by informing us this Lusca was somehow scarier than the Hydra. I got the impression, and completely swore in my head about it, for every tentacle we attacked, two or three more would spring up. I was right.

Somebody mentioned the lack of XP. I can say that if you die, as long as you significantly contribute (or your team/league does) to defeating both Lusca tentacles and Coralax, you'll get debt repayment. And I was getting drops (most notably inspirations) for defeats as well.

I'd noticed during the fight that a lot of people had golden titles that mentioned swimming with sharks.

After we killed the final tentacle, and cleaned up the beach of Coralax we were invited to head to Pocket D. My computer? Froze. What? I was fine during the invasion and the battering of attacks, but multiple people teleporting out to Pocket D froze my machine. So I did a hard reboot, and logged in... joining the party already in progress.

I hung around until the bitter end... dancing amongst the crowd, formed a Drum Circle, genuinely enjoyed my first party with the Devs. Hit Streak and Freitag were highly amusing, calm in the face of player outrage, and had I blast scaring people with my talk about knitting (because I finished up a hat for Christmas gifting while in Pocket D today.)

Fun. Debt Collecting for Squishes. Devs were very Punny during the initial live server run.

Okay... I am officially freaked out. It's 0651, on double XP weekend... and according to the server status page, everything's down. Which means, an hour into Double XP people can't play!

Whee! What a *fun* way to start Double XP weekend (and therefore Captain Mako week.)


As to stay on recent thread topic... I think that the times are for an actual Dev playing Mako, doing something TRULY dastardly (as only a villain can,) while the rest of the week we'll have an abundance of sharks in all the waterways, that'll attack us and likely eat us, like Jaws.

Ummm, neither actually.

powexec_toggle_on (or off) is the correct form of that usage. And you're turning the white dawrf power off in your examples, not on like you want.