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5 hours ago, Milrop said:
It has been a busy couple weekends for us. I would like to bring a character for this.
The Great Dondini - Symphony / Sonic Assault Dominator.
I am not sure if Cece is going to make it. She is in California until the new year visiting her mother.
Glad to hear from you.... we were just wondering about you two recently! see one or both of you tomorrow 😄
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On 11/14/2023 at 7:20 PM, Jaxman100 said:
Oh I've been to Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve, Four Roses, Evan Williams experience in downtown, Angel's Envy. We hit a few places every time we pass through.
I have only ever drunk Woodford Reserve on planes! Also I think I bought a bottle once as a gift set that came with 2 old-fashioneds. I'm a sucker for barware! btw, you seem to know as much about bourbon as Fraulein!
On 11/15/2023 at 1:08 PM, TrixieKixx said:LOL...I accidentally took mine on a Hess TF last night. I may still bring her, but will look to see other options 🙂
Don't you hate it when you find yourself on a TF and don't know how you got there? haha! 😛
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On 11/15/2023 at 8:57 AM, FrauleinMental said:
I did go to Angel's Envy this trip as well. It seems like a good example of a new/modern distillery. I did the "bottle your own" experience last time I was there, in 2019, but they've definitely remodeled since then. Their bourbon selection is pretty limited, though, and a lot of the expressions they list on their website were limited runs that they don't make/sell any more. (The gift shop only offered their flagship bourbon/port cask, the rye/rum cask, and they're pushing pretty hard with the single barrel version.)
Last time I was at Buffalo Trace (2019), I got a bottle of Blanton's for $60. I haven't seen it for under $150 recently, it's rarely under $200, and the two bottles I saw at Justin's House of Bourbon were marked at $250 each. (But Justin's is overpriced, more of a place to experience than a place to buy from.)
Well you know a heck of a lot more about bourbons that I do! All I know is I pour it into a glass and it tastes good. 😄 Maybe that's why I go for the cheaper names... Evan Williams, Revel Stoke, Rebel Yell, etc., because I can't detect a good bourbon from a bad one. I did splurge on a bottle of Brothers Bond when it came out, because I'm a Vampire Diaries fan, so I couldn't resist. 😄
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4 hours ago, Jaxman100 said:
Oh I've been to Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve, Four Roses, Evan Williams experience in downtown, Angel's Envy. We hit a few places every time we pass through.
Very cool! Maybe I'll make a travel tour of distilleries around the country. Like some people do with stadiums. I've already started doing it with observatories. I need to become a travel agent! P.S. I'm an Evan Williams girl!
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1 hour ago, FrauleinMental said:
Had a nice little weekend trip to Bourbon Country, which is fitting for my pick for this week: Whiskey River - Mind/Psi Dominator.
I'm probably going to be online during Thanksgiving Break, but I'm all for keeping it informal.
I have fond memories of visiting the Jack Daniels distillery when I lived in the south. Where did you go? I realize Kentucky is Bourbon Country, but I guess I lump all of the southern states together. LOL (except Florida, which has more migrants/tourists than southerners!)
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21 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
11/18 - Ernesto Hess (Level 25-30 – Blue Side: Striga Isle) - "World Domination" All Dominator team; Costume to look like one of the evil genius masterminds from the movies...Black-White-Red colored costumes
11/25 - Thanksgiving Break *unless peeps will be around! If so, let me know and I'll change it.
Thanksgiving doesn't interfere in my Saturday on 11/25, so I'll be around. Count me in if we make a plan.
For the Hess TF, I made a new toon (my only living dominator), Glacial Harmony - Symphony/Icy Dominator
Looking forward to seeing all the pretty dom explosions!
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On 11/6/2023 at 7:30 PM, Jaxman100 said:
Not sure if i'll be in town this weekend. We had a death in the family so I haven't been home much the last few weeks.
I'm so sorry, Jax. I saw your messages in Theme Team chat after you had already left. Hugs to you and your family as you deal with this tragedy.
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Tarikoss SF - "Fatal Flowers" theme - Plant Control/Nature Affinity/Bio powersets
Saturday, 11/11/2023
I really had fun today among all the vines and spores and tangled masses of heroes we deftly defeated... hope everyone else did as well! Everyone who signed up was able to play, and we recruited Quest just before rolling. (I forgot to check his global name... anyone know who the player is?)
With the aid of tiny roots that Flora summoned to emerge from her fingertips, she was able to dictate in record time the pre-SF briefing
Now to frolic in the hills of Cap au Diable, practicing her powers while awaiting the rest of the Vegetation Troop
Our leader has arrived. Let the party begin. 🍃
Ima Wallflower, controller by @TrixieKixx has an exquisite look and compelling backstory
Flora Volta, controller by @Midnyte, feeling the effects of autumn already, as her anato-botanical physiology begins to mimic the colors of the nearby trees wherever she happens to be 🍂
@Burnt Umber brought a bio brute to the vegetation table with Marcor
In a super snazzy-scary vine-ish look, Red Vine by @Jaxman100
Winner of most giggle-worthy chat of the day, bio brute 'Shrooms by @Bananiac
"With so few words, he said so much."
And awaaaaaay we go!
Today was a lavish array of sights and sounds
Trixie, there you go with that flower arm again! Such flair. 😍
I just love this whole SF, and this mission is no exception.... very customizable on how you run it.
(Fight your way through... or everyone fly around scouting... or mixture of both. Many options.)
Flora's squishy-assed self pleading for someone to teleport her so she could safely rezzzzzzzzz (thank you, btw)
'Shrooms was a riot today!
And Red Vine brought the dry wit, as usual
We got him to rise!
And proceeded to keep him stormed, tangled, irradiated, thorned, shocked, and...most importantly, 'shroooooooomed!
After we spawned the zombie invasion in Port Oakes, we were compelled to go fend them off!
Trixie and I logged on alt-accounts to bulk up the team to spawn the EBs. It worked really well, as usual!But I was so busy alternating between both characters that I kinda forgot to take any pictures. 😮
I did find this one picture from my 2nd toon when she got there, but my screenshot UI was toggled off by mistake. Um, because, you know, ... zombieeeees.A little post-invasion coffee chat
(yikes, why does this suddenly feel creepy, as if they are *my* two alter-egos 😮)
Oh and then look... found this one in my phone. Had totally forgotten about it. 😄
Which is cool for 2 reasons. 1) so I can show you guys my set-up. And 2) because I was able to zoom in to get a roster of the invasion team 🆒 😄 btw, Dazed Dreamz is Trixie's alt acct and Arctic Rain is Midnyte's (mine 😏)
IIRC, Roughshod Rod was @Zeke-something I can't remember. I recognized the global name when I saw it, just from being on the same team/league sometimes.
~The End~
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On 10/29/2023 at 1:29 PM, TrixieKixx said:
11/11 - Virgil Tarikoss (Level 15-20 - Red Side: Cap au Diable) - "Fatal Flowers" - Plant / Nature / Flowers / Bio costumes and powers
Love this theme! It should be a fun one. I took inventory of my 100+ characters... some active, some name placeholders, and some powerset placeholders with no name yet! I discovered that across both accounts I have only TWO with Nature Affinity, both in their 30s, one MM and one corruptor. But amazingly, I have ZERO using Plant Control! So my goal is to make a new one for this. So I can be a female Bananiac when I grow up! 😄 (What is his secondary, btw?) I haven't decided on my secondary yet. Count me in with a plant controller, and I'll update once I've created her.
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Update: She's ready. Meet Flora Volta - Plant/Electric Controller
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6 hours ago, Bananiac said:
I am so glad you got enough people together to run this successfully! Still sorry to miss it, although we had great family fun at a local gaming convention!
Glad your clan had fun at your con.... that makes it worthwhile to miss our weekly event!
6 hours ago, Bananiac said:And great look on that little dragon lady from one of the I may say more "obscure" game systems! I love to see that this worked for you, and AD&D is shining through here easily.
Thanks. I knew it at the time that Intellivision was obscure. All my friends had Atari, somehow I had the alternative. (Alternative should be my middle name... it seems everything I've done or believed in life so far has been the alternative version.) I had fun looking up stuff about Intellivision, and evidently I wasn't the only one on the planet who had one! 😄
The world map showed the mountain range to make your way through to the final mountain. Each mountain was entered as a level to clear before continuing. It was so much fun for me to research this game that I played 40 years ago! 😄 (and now I can hear the theme music in my head)
I got the 1983 version that bundled Burger Time with the console. Some say it's a better version than the arcade version. I had fun with it and got pretty good at it. Snafu was another I liked a lot.
Well thanks for the trip down memory lane! Now back to our modern 2-decade-old CoX! 😄
6 hours ago, Bananiac said:That being said, let me add my contribution here, just because I think it would have fit in nicely:
Lady Bayonetta, Dual Pistols/Ninjitsu Blaster - she is one hell of a 1-Woman-Army!
She looks like fun, hope to meet her soon!
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Abandoned Sewers Trial - Video Game Characters - Any AT
Saturday, 11/4/2023
Four players signed up
We recruited two more (then one had to leave before starting) ---> me <---
Potato Dumpling, cutie-pie tanker dressed as Princess Zelda....
and a big welcome back to our hostess with the mostest, @TrixieKixx
Cosmique, dazzling peacebringer by @FrauleinMental dressed as SHODAN
(Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network) from System Shock
@Burnt Umber created dominator, Queen of the Blades, representing
Sarah Kerrigan/Queen of Blades from StarCraft
@Midnyte's Cloudy Mountain, corruptor, in homage to all the little 2D dragons
battled in Advanced D&D: Cloudy Mountain on Intellivision II console
@Tsoo appeared with his army, mastermind Tsooper Soldiers
Recruiting for more
Cloudy Mountain must leave and bids farewell to the five who remain
34 1/2 minutes later... voilà! I am super happy this was a success!
An hour later...
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On 10/31/2023 at 2:14 PM, Midnyte said:
Fun theme! Nothing pops right into my head for character. In the '90s I played FPSs like Wolfenstein, Doom, Heretic. All the Sierra adventure games, Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc. Oh and Leisure Suit Larry?! Side-scrolling 2D games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem. No female icons there, but I'll come up with something. 😄 The character I want to bring is Crystal Moonstone - Stone/Stone Scrapper.
@TrixieKixx, For the Abandoned Sewer Trial, I changed my toon to ranged so she could have dragon wings.... because I remembered how much I loved "Advanced D&D: Cloudy Mountain" for Intellivision II when I was in college (mid '80s), so I made a dragon named Cloudy Mountain - Water/Pain Corruptor
I may be able to meet up at our 11:45 EDT gathering time for pictures and possibly start the trial, and then play as far into as I can before I have to leave.
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Hey Themers, I will miss the event today too as I am needed elsewhere, unexpectedly.
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22 minutes ago, TrixieKixx said:
Thanks, @Bananiac! We had an amazing time on our Wine River Cruise...so much so that we've booked another one for the end of July/beginning of August 2025 on the Rhine River! And, we will have stops in Germany 🙂 Here's a description of our itinerary 😄
Woohoo..... I sense a Themer Meetup could become of this 😄 I have not been to Germany since 1987! When the wall was still up dividing West and East! I do have a trip planned in 2025 to Leeds Castle in England for my nephew's wedding, and after that I will take off on adventures still unknown. I'll have to check what month that is.
But that's 2025. Hopefully we can do Themer Meetup #3 in 2024 somewhere, somehow. My high school friend lives in Palm Springs and we're thinking of doing an Alaskan cruise for our 60th birthdays next year!
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On 10/29/2023 at 1:29 PM, TrixieKixx said:
11/4 - Mairenn MacGregor (Level 38-50 – Blue Side – Atlas Park) - "A Night at The Arcade" Your favorite, iconic video game character from any other pc/console/arcade game from your childhood or other game you play today - Any AT
Fun theme! Nothing pops right into my head for character. In the '90s I played FPSs like Wolfenstein, Doom, Heretic. All the Sierra adventure games, Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc. Oh and Leisure Suit Larry?! Side-scrolling 2D games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem. No female icons there, but I'll come up with something. 😄 The character I want to bring is Crystal Moonstone - Stone/Stone Scrapper.
Have fun, Themers..... Last day of Halloween event if you want to scoop up any last-minute badges/rewards! Here is a scary costume to get you in the mood. 😄
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Ice Mistral SF - "It's raining cats and dogs" - Any AT
Saturday, 10/28/2023
We had 4 who signed up and 4 who arrived (the same four 😉)
Cel shading on this time for a more cartoony feel 😄
Fill-in leader, @FrauleinMental presented as the fierce feline stalker, Liminal Pain
@Burnt Umber's Pepsis Regina, a tragic little wolf monster who packs a major domination
Lone Wolfette, rarely-played stalker by @Midnyte
(My only claws character. Created for a cat theme a while ago. Repurposed into a wolf for this. I'm just not diggin' the stalker AT. I've always had trouble enjoying the playstyle. So I may roll a claws scrapper and see how I like the powerset on an AT that I already know I like. I have never leveled claws high enough to know if it's enjoyable at 50 and beyond)
A feline shapeshifting witch who masters over fierce beasts, Wyldebeasts Witch, mastermind by @Bananiac
Awaiting the beastly witch
Umber and I kept ourselves amused by exchanging holiday gifts
The kitties and puppies are becoming more beastly...
... and sleepy
She has arrived!
All the beasts have gathered
And now the fun begins 😄
We found the famous hole!
Comic rendering looks pretty cool here as we leap into the hole together. Zoom in on the Witch's wolves 😂
Their teeny figures are adorable!
Beautiful, but deadly
We are familiar with rushing Mage Archus on this SF... but that's when we're 6 or 8 strong. We were four, but we were mighty and only team-wiped once! When he did the mid-battle summoning.
Liminal Pain summoned her spider friend to help us out. Oh, and don't you love that shot of Witch's, Wylde Vinja... love that pose!
And here comes the white one, Wylde Verissa, again with the howling. 😄 Oh my, I just love it.
See what I mean, that Wylde Verissa.... she's a troublemaker! But she does good work. 😄
We did really well for a small team with such limited variety of archetypes. It was positively beastly in all ways. Including Ban's dark heal that saved my ass more than a few times!
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12 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:
I'll give it a go, since I now have a qualifying character. 🙂
10/28 - Ice Mistral (Level 35-40 - Red Side - St. Martial) - "It's raining Cats and Dogs" Costume needs to have wolf/cat/feral pieces and theme, powersets should be the usual suspects: claws, savage, beasts MM, maybe spines or staff.
Sounds great, thanks so much for offering to be our gamemaster!
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Add me to the sheet with my Claws/Regen Stalker whose name/persona is still TBD. Will update here once I get that created. I'm dusting off her cobwebs as we speak. 😄 She's not even 35 yet, but I'll get there by Saturday. Now that she has risen from dormancy, I'm going to be playing her in Halloween event. 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️👾🧟♀️
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1 minute ago, TrixieKixx said:
Yes...for 10/28...Ban accidentally had 10/21 listed twice!
Fraulein pointed that out, so we were aware of it, but it never got changed. Are you back as our fearless leader? 😄
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On 10/10/2023 at 6:01 AM, Bananiac said:
Here is the overview about our October Themes:
10/21 - Ice Mistral (Level 35-40 - Red Side - St. Martial) - "It's raining Cats and Dogs" Costume needs to have wolf/cat/feral pieces and theme, powersets should be the usual suspects: claws, savage, beasts MM, maybe spines or staff.
10/28 - TBD
Any suggestions for the last week?
Are we doing this theme and TF next week 10/28?
I updated the MOTD with it. Now we just need a sign-up sheet by whomever wants to run it for us. 🙂
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Imperious TF - Not-Water Water Blast powerset - Any AT
Saturday, 10/21/2023
We had 7 sign up, but @Jaxman100 couldn't make it. But look who showed up as a surprise.... @TrixieKixx back from vacation! Then we were able to recruit 1 more from LFG to make a full team. Thanks for joining us @Vallis!
Pre-TF briefing... ✔️
Theme Team Secretary reporting for duty
On temporary assignment as Themer Leader, @Bananiac with blaster, Shamal Djinn, on his fancy magic carpet ride
Our favorite viperfish, Chauliodus Abyssus, corruptor by @Burnt Umber
(The question remains.... what is Chau fishing for???)
The glowing Celestial Valkyrja, blaster by @Princess Cecilia
Mesocyclone, blaster by @Milrop
@FrauleinMental with none other than Coffee Ring!
Corruptor, Liquid Gold, by @Midnyte
Welcome back, @TrixieKixx! With blaster, Tennessee Whiskey
Last-minute recruit... blaster, Fross-T by @Vallis
We await the potential new arrivals
Recruiting
We have a winner!
All are happy to welcome aboard!
And look who shows up last minute, none other than Trixie herself after several weeks away on vacation!
And away we go...
::goosebumps:: don't you just hear the music? 😊
So many fantastical whirlypools!
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On 10/16/2023 at 5:08 AM, Bananiac said:
10/21 - Imperious Task Force (Level 35-50 - Cimerora (which is both sides, right?) - "It's water but it's not" - 1 Powerset must be Water Blast, but make it look like it's something else - Any AT (hope everyone has a high enough Level WB toon? If not, there's still time to get one to level 35 😉)
I have an exactly level 35 toon to bring tomorrow for her first ITF 😄
Liquid Gold - Water Blast/Pain Domination Corruptor- 1
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20 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:
This was a lot of fun - everyone played so well! I forgot how teaming can make content I normally solo a lot easier. Thank you!
So glad you joined us. Yes, we are an experienced lot. 🙂 (P.S. I love your animated avatar!)
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Halloween Event 2023
Saturday, 10/15/2023
We had a great showing for today's treat-filled adventures.... multiple runs of Dr. Kane's House of Horror, trick-or-treating in Kallisti Wharf, Eochai, Jack in Irons, and a banner event. Here is an array of some of the teams, costumes, characters, and fun that was had today (not to mention all the XP, rewards, and badges!).
The total count of Dr. Kane runs was probably somewhere around 6, running two teams of four simultaneously. These are the three I participated in
Theme Team MOTD for this week
It wouldn't be Halloween without Mr. O'Hallows making his annual appearance, contest winner by @Bananiac
Also in attendance today @Milrop, @Burnt Umber, @Jaxman100, @FrauleinMental, @Princess Cecilia, and a special appearance from @Glacier Peak! We've missed you, dude!
Themer old favorite, Coffee Ring by @FrauleinMental
In Dr. Kane's trial the first order of business is to deal with The Black Whip, then Experiment Number Nine, the timed 99 zombies, and finally The Abomination
"Trick or Treat!" in Kallisti Wharf, league run efficiently by @Jaxman100
We were lucky enough to score a banner event
@Glacier Peak and I thought this was a cool costume power.... only the upper half of the body (is this a faction in the game?) the sonic buff showed "legs" but without, it's completely legless and looked ever weirder with the void skiff!
Some ToT action
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13 hours ago, Bananiac said:
I just realized that I totally forgot to change my Bio here 🙂
This is from a toon that was originally named "Kapitan Soviet", which I then repurposed to make him not Russion but Ukrainian after the events of last year. And now this looks a little odd 🙂
I've done that too, more times than I can count. Forgetting to check the bio and realizing it's from a completely different character concept. 😂
(P.S. It would be super simple for me to update your photo if you send me a replacement shot)
Themed TF/SF Saturdays
in Indomitable
Posted · Edited by Midnyte
Ernesto Hess TF - World Domination Evil Genius theme - All dominator
Saturday, 11/18/2023
Unfortunately, @Bananiac could not join us today even though this was his theme idea.
Whispered Rumors, dominator by @TrixieKixx
Whiskey River, dominator by @FrauleinMental
Great Dondini, dominator by @Milrop
Last minute add-on and therefore not in costume but we were happy to have her domination skills!
Casualty of War, dominator by @Princess Cecilia
Glacial Harmony, dominator by @Midnyte
Baroness Masham, dominator by @Burnt Umber
Our occasional Themer, @Lividus, with dominator, I R I S
May the games begin!
I don't know what power @FrauleinMental uses to make this pose, but I like it 😄
Whispered Rumors is very talented... she leveled while afk 😄
Time to find Archon Burkholder and lure him to the exit door
Except that he got stuck at the bottom!
Which is okay because we are adaptable
Such elegance from The Great Dondini
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