Thinking about those hero portraits from last night reminded me that I have yet to mine my City of Heroes gaming for journal fodder. So here goes:

I may not have accomplished much this weekend, but I finally leveled all of my characters on the Protector server to 7 or above. For the longest time I had heroes languishing around 3, 4 and 5. No longer! Each hero has at least one Pool power and has left their starting zone for adventures in the (slightly) more dangerous parts of the world.

A player can have eight characters on a given server, and I’ve filled all eight slots on Protector (as well as a couple on Pinnacle). I know there are people who play one character almost exclusively, with an “alt” or two to relieve the boredom. I’m such a dilettante, though, that I get a kick out of playing any and all of my heroes. Why? Because I want to see what they can do! That’s the whole point, leveling up and trying out new things.

Heck, I’m already thinking that I don’t have enough different build types. I caught myself this morning wondering who I could blow out on Protector to make room for a new build… then realized “oh, duh, I can just build heroes on another server.”

So if you run into Arctic Ant, Woods Cutter, ProPaine, Rossum’s Fist, Spiny Echidna, Myne alMyne, NeutrinoStorm or Charger Man while playing on the Protector server, feel free to say hello. They’re all friendly, outgoing sorts of fellows…