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Today was the first of a couple of housekeeping days at the office. The Roomie came in to work with me today and we basically spent the entire day chucking crap I’ve been hoarding since before the stations moved into their current digs.
Yes, I even threw out the old SyQuest EZ135. I agonized over that decision, however. I’m really going to miss that old beast. (And by “miss” I mean “think about it wistfully but never actually want to use it.”)
We hauled out boxes of old CDs, floppies, manuals and odd computer-related detritus. I managed to cut my finger and wrench my elbow quite painfully, which just goes to show that I’m out of shape. But we knew that, eh?
Tomorrow we’ll finish dumping the junk, and hopefully also get some other administrivia and organizational bits done…
So where do tired heroes go when they want a good place to sit and eat?
I swear I’m not making this up…
One of the engineers clipped a comic strip out of the newspaper for me, and I liked it so much I decided to share it with all of you…
(If it’s no longer the 13th of December when you follow the link, go find the 12/13/04 comic.)
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…
It’s all his fault, you know. He just had to go and tell me about the Hero Generator. Ah, well.
So here’s a silly rendition of Andrew Wolfe in some kind of outlandish fantasy setting. He’s normally a snappier dresser, I assure you. Sometimes one’s purpose determines one’s presentation.
And then there’s Marc Rembrandt, my role-play character. The Generator didn’t have a very good match for his neckwear, so I had to make do.
You could do better, I suppose? Go on, show me what you’ve got.
