Dear Positron: Eat a dick. Love and kisses, Task Force Ion.

[serinde]

Last night's lesson: You can get a Task Force if you're level 10. But you shouldn't.

We gathered 2 level 12s and a mix of 10s and 11s, and we went to Steel Canyon (with minor shenanigans en route, as it's a dangerous place), and presented ourselves before Positron, all shiny-eyed and eager. And lo, he did dub us Task Force Ion, and he did grant us a mission to beat the crap out of an Eidolon called "Epidural" (!?!) way out in Boomtown. To Boomtown we went, navigating our way through the mounds of burned buildings and around the mobs of irritable high-level villains, and jumped we into the sewer where the zombie hordes were found.

And behold, terror did spread across the land, even as puddles did spread across the floor, for the first group of enemies inside was a pack of eight or so level 16 Abominations, which were purple in the sight of even Task Force Ion's leader. The group took counsel, each with another, wondering aloud if Positron truly intended to send us to our doom; and in the midst of the discussion did Badgerperson pounce forward into the mob, and died gloriously in under two seconds. And the wrath of the Abominations fell upon the heads of Task Force Ion, and quickly thereafter did Crimson Rage fall, and so too Doctor Reality, who was also then in the middle of a dead-fleshly gangrape or at least that's what the screenshot looked like; and the rest of the task force fled, and stood not upon the order of their going.

Other events of the evening:

* Aberrant Rectors are now familiarly known as "rectums", and therefore cause lots of butt jokes.

* New term, "dog-fart levelup". As coined by 8782, on a mission about four levels below most of us, when he leveled in the middle of it. Upon expressions of surprise from all sides, considering what a cakewalk it was and how little XP was being generated, quotha: "I was so close, I could've farted on a passing dog and leveled up."

* New term, "salad fork", as in "fuck this with a". For missions that are just too annoying to live. Coined in response to spending half an hour running around Perez Park trying to find a particular door, while trying to avoid getting into fights every 50 feet. And failing at both of those.

Comments

[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

Ahh, it appears we were a 'larger' group. Also, it appears that if any of us go over level 15, we won't be able to get missions from him. So everyone needs to level to 15, then we can do the mission. :)

http://cityofheroes.gameamp.com/coh/viewTaskForces/5.php

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

That isn't true. The TF I was on, most of us were over level 15.

[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

WHich TF series tho? It appears that the series we were on were levels 10 - 15.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Positron. That's why I said, it isn't so.

[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

I guess that webpage is wrong, or it was tweaked after that page was created.

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. I know what you mean about being sent to one's doom.

Lektronic is like level 5 and he's being sent to Eastgate. Um.. yeah... Ok.. now if only I can find the fsck'ing light rail.. :-/

Something tells me I'll be in so much XP debt it won't be funny.