Bananiac

@TrixieKixx So if everything goes to plan, I will be showing up with MARILLION, which is one of my all-time favorite bands since my early highschool days. Still making marvellous music today, and I have the honor of having my name on the cover of the officially first ever crowd-funded project, which was their Anoraknophobia album in 2001. Go read up on it 😉 Thinking about a costume, I decided on the Jester who was a prominent theme on their very early album covers: It‘s a dressed up Bananiac, but I couldn’t bring myself to give him a sad face like in the picture above. My version is still smiling happily… or rather, madly… if I am honestl Plant / Rad Controller, for the… ahem… record.

I started a base and it is basically a big storage container. I am always amazed at the effort that people put into it. I am totally occupied with the Costume Creator, and now I started to Plan toons in MIDS. I am still afraid of the Base builder and what kind of rabbit hole opens there.... That being said, it was fun to roam around the Base. And thx for the goodies, @TraumaTrain!

Wow, you were farming that poor House pretty hard, Midnyte! 🙂 Not much left standing after you were done with it, eh? Nice shots, as usual. And thx to you guys for letting me slip in for a few runs before I had to jump.

Hi guys, I am in no particular need for specific badges, so not much advanced planning from my side. But If I have enough time today, I will run the following toons (which basically are the ones I enjoy playing most right now): Le Savant d'Ombre - Dark/Zombie MM Amber Elfling - Staff/SR Stalker Forlorne - Fire/Fire Blaster Demolishia - SS/Rad Brute Bananiac - Plant/Rad Controller Demolishia is the 1st 700mil Battlemonster that I built myself, and I am still validating this. She is quasi untouchable, but feels a little bit lacking on the damage side. I am playing her quite like a Tank right now. But the Powersets are awesome for her character 🥰 All the AoE, and Knockups gallore, so much fun!!!

Don't know yet if I will be there, Kids are planning a Halloween party and I may be busy prepping The House. Would love to join that for sure. Are you planning to stream again this weekend, Rich?

Hey @TrixieKixx, have I missed it or is the Dr Kane thread still pending? I will probably show up with Le Savant first, my Zombie/Dark MM. On any eventual 2nd run, I will just go with what I feel like playing. Also, I ... think... this weekend we will set back the clock for DST... but that should be saturday night, so Theme Team will still be at 1800 my time in the afternoon... Need to check that, not to miss the slot again like last time that happened 😆

That's awesome, @Midnyte! Congratulations for taking Indom, it was well overdue for one of your fabulous toons to take home a price. I must say I would have been totally clueless with that theme. Great job! 🏆🎯

Not be joining today. Good Hunting to you guys.

That all sounds spectacular, @TrixieKixx! Although I will have to think a bit about Thanksgiving dishes... there is no corresponding tradition here in the way there is in north america. Another idea for a future theme: I was looking at Iron Winter and his Bio, and having watched Black Widow yesterday, how about making a Cold War Soviet Hero/Villain Team? I have seen quite a few faboulous characters running around building on such a theme, and have also made a Tank myself built on that premise (staking a claim right now, if we would decide to go for it 😉 ) People, what do you think?

That's a great recap, @Midnyte! Thanks a lot for always taking the effort to do this. I currently do neither find the nerve nor the time to be funny and original about it, so apologies for taking a break. Work is sucking out a lot of my energy, but I am hoping to break free from that in a few months again...

Great thing! I am looking forward to re-view this! Will see if I can hop on the discord as well next time you do this. Maybe need to figure out some audio settings to make it work though. Seemed to be very low volume for some reason that I still haven't figured out.

It does not seem to be brewed by one of the 6 Munich breweries, so you won't find it anywhere at the actual, original Oktoberfest. But it is what you could name an Oktoberfest-style beer, being brewed as a special type of Märzen like the ones served at the Oktoberfest itself. That being said, you should just enjoy it like you want, and have your own little Oktoberfest with it! I am quite impressed with the variety and quality of beer that can be found now all across the US and North America since the Microbreweries and Craft Beer Companies ushered in a real renaissance of the American Beer. Hope you like it!

I will totally sign up for that, Rich! Not finding a lot of playtime right now, so I feel a bit out of touch with the game. Twitch may just fill that gap a bit...

@TrixieKixx Hey Trix, can I ask for a concession for saturday? Again not sure if i can be there in time tomorrow, but if I am, I would like to bring another controller to the action: Haunted Lilac (Dark/Rad). She's the only one I can field in Zombie Dress right now...

OK, looks like I will be there after all. Sending Mr Ponzi Scheme (Mace/ Elec Brute). This is actually my marketeer toon, I don't play him actively. But he features Brains! 🙂

Can't make any promises... sorry....

@TrixieKixx Hey Trixx, I am not sure what our family plans are for saturday, so make me a conditional again for now. I'd love to take part, tho, as I have been the one pushing for this theme 🙂 It is also something to look forward to, which helps to keep me upright right now... I prepped my toon Dark Anaesthetist now and transmogrified him into a representation of a faboulous bavarian masterpiece, the Augustiner Dark! Best thing: I would say even the powersets fit the theme appropriately with Mind Control / Empathy! Hope to see you all there for a nice "Oans! Zwoa! Gsuffa!" - One! Two! Drink!🍻

"This is Halloween! Everybody make a Scream!"

So we are really doing it! 🙂 I don't know how much each of you know about this, besides that it's an excellent excuse to drink voracious amounts of excellent german beer out of ridicoulously large glasses. So this paragraph from Wikipedia sums it up really well, to give you some context. And maybe some inspiration about possible costumes. The Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst]) is the world's largest Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair). It is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from mid- or late September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million people from around the world attending the event every year. Locally, it is called d’Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event. During the event, large quantities of Oktoberfest Beer are consumed. During the 16-day festival in 2013, for example, 7.7 million litres (66,000 US bbl; 1,700,000 imp gal) were served. Visitors also enjoy numerous attractions, such as amusement rides, sidestalls, and games. There is also a wide variety of traditional foods available. The Munich Oktoberfest originally took place in the 16-day period leading up to the first Sunday in October. In 1994, this longstanding schedule was modified in response to German reunification. As such, if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or the 2nd, then the festival would run until 3 October (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival now runs for 17 days when the first Sunday is 2 October and 18 days when it is 1 October. There are currently fourteen large tents and twenty small tents at the Oktoberfest. The tents are wooden[54] non-permanent structures which are constructed for and only used during the festival. Talking about beer, here are some facts about the brewery privileges associated with the Oktoberfest: Only beer conforming to the Reinheitsgebot, and brewed within the city limits of Munich, can be served at the Munich Oktoberfest. Beers meeting these criteria are designated Oktoberfest Beer although the name 'Oktoberfest beer' also denotes two distinct beer styles: a traditional Märzen lager and a paler Festbier that is now more commonly served at Oktoberfest itself. The breweries that can produce Oktoberfest beer under the aforementioned criteria are: Augustiner-Bräu Hacker-Pschorr-Bräu Löwenbräu Paulaner Spatenbräu Hofbräu-München And yes, the Hofbräu also relates to the brewery running the famous Munich Hofbräu Haus. Typical food that is served at most of the tents: - Backhendl (Roast Chicken) - Schweinsbraten (Roast Pork) - Kaiserschmarrn (this is not translatable really) - Schweinshaxe (Roast Pork Knuckle) - Brotzeitbrettl (a wooden board stacked with sausage, ham, bacon, cheese, onions, pickles and radish, served with slices of bread) So maybe that gives you a few ideas. For the record: last year and this year the Oktoberfest was cancelled due to obvious reasons...

Sorry, wasn't able to go. This sounded really interesting, but life is having its own ideas right now...

Can't make any promises, and if I can make it, I may have to drop out early if it takes too long. We'll see...

Screen2gif is my goto tool for things like that. 👍

Okay, I made up my mind. Sign me up with Fire Foxx, Fire/MA Blaster. Was reading something on reddit about Martial Arts and remembered how much fun that is as a secondary on a blaster! And if we are gonna do a 2nd run, I will have Monsoonia ready for that, my Storm / Water Defender. This should be fun!

@TrixieKixx I naturally got a few choices to choose from, but not sure what qualifies... How about a Centaur character, would that be considered beastly enough? Archery / Energy Sentinel... Reptiloids? Storm / Water Defender Could always go for my Foxy Fire / MA Blaster Oh my, they are ALL so much fun to play, I wish I could bring them all.... Edit: Just found even another Centauresque Character, Archery / Storm Corrupter, that has been waiting for a run-in for so long I totally forgot about him. But right now I would actually lean towards the Defender, she is quite a treat!

Super cool pics there, @Midnyte! Nice assortment of hot bikini babes, we should do this more often! 🙂 How did you do that pose lying on the side? That looks almost artful in its arrangement! I only have taken pictures that look like yours, so not much to add from my side. Just one thing that is fitting to this event: Nothing beats taking a relaxing dip into the pool after a hard days work of smashing things!