Themed TF/SF Saturdays

[Burnt Umber]

8 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:

With regard to Shardtober, perhaps a bit of discussion to help guide themes:

• In the Shard TFs we have four opportunities for Mirror Image or Variety Act badge runs.  It can be a little harder to nail down Mirror Image, so does anyone need that badge on a character?  (And what AT are they?)  On the other hand, I've mostly tried to stay away from AT/Power themes (and stick to costume themes) for the higher-level TFs, since people may want/need to level a new character to qualify.
• I love the Shard TFs, but they can be a bit lengthy.  Especially Dr Q, which requires some effort/planning to complete in under 2 hours.  Is this okay, or would you prefer to do the shorter ones?  So far, I've only put the Shard TFs on theme during the traditional Shardtober, so once per year.

 

I'm good on the Mirror Image or Variety Act badges for my actual badging characters.  And I'd prefer not to roll an all-new character just for Shardtober, so as long as we don't specify At/powers, I'm good.  I have a controller (Grav./Rad.), peacebringer, two blasters (Ele./En. and Storm/Ice), and a stalker (Kin./En. Aura) that I could bring.

 

I'm fine with the length and planning: in particular, I think it might help to have a more organized use of Team Teleport, Mission Teleport, and ATT/Incan. Destinty.

[Bananiac]

I am good with anything for Shardtober. I got plenty of high level toons that could üpossibly qualify for whatever you guys may throw at me 🙂

With the right amount of teleports spread across the team, these always went quite smoothly, I think. Especially if we got Umber as a Savant Of The Shard to guide us 😉 

 

So, ready and willing to go wherever this takes us.

 

That said, I won't be back in time for MC this weekend. Which is a shame, I always like running this with some kind of theme.

 

[Burnt Umber]

Hey all!  If anyone's available, I'll try doing a Labor Day run of Market Crash.  If anyone's around in game, come on out.

[TygerDarkstorm]

I forgot to get pics of the actual run, but I did take pics of everyone who joined that I'll post later. We had a fun Market Crash run. 🙂

Thanks for hosting Umber!

[FrauleinMental]

September themes:

• 6 Sep - “Darkstalkers” - Soul of the Woodsman (Numina, Level 35-40) - Any AT/powers, Shapeshifters (two costumes with different face/body types, start with one and switch to the second as we enter Eden; e.g., one vaguely human and one Monstrous)
• 13 Sep - “Scoutmaster Kahn” - Return of the Reichsman (Dr. Kahn, Level 45-50) - Any AT/Powers, Girl/Boy Scout costumes
• 20 Sep - “Nuclear Power” - Terra Volta Respec #1 (Jane Hallaway, Level 24-33) - Rad powers, radiation worker costumes (doctors, rad suits, etc.)
• 27 Sep - “Under the Mountain” - Beast of the Mountain (Virgil Tarikoss, Level 15-20) - Page 2 Power Sets (Pyrotechnic Control, Psi Armor, Energy Aura (Tankers), Regeneration (Tankers)); Lord of the Rings inspired powers and costumes

Signups for 6 Sep:

1. @FrauleinMental Madame Cherenkova - Rad/Marine Corruptor
2. @ZamuelNow Ebony Gyro - Elec/Elec Blaster
3. @Bananiac Nuclear Fuel Rod - Rad / Staff Tank

Edited Saturday at 03:56 PM by FrauleinMental

[TygerDarkstorm]

Our lineup from Saturday's Market Crash:

 

Edit: I feel like I'm missing someone. I think we had a 5th person, but I must not have gotten a pic of them.

Edited September 1 by TygerDarkstorm

[TygerDarkstorm]

8 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:

September themes:

• 6 Sep - “Darkstalkers” - Soul of the Woodsman (Numina, Level 35-40) - Any AT/powers, Shapeshifters (two costumes with different face/body types, start with one and switch to the second as we enter Eden; e.g., one vaguely human and one Monstrous)
• 13 Sep - “Scoutmaster Kahn” - Return of the Reichsman (Dr. Kahn, Level 45-50) - Any AT/Powers, Girl/Boy Scout costumes
• 20 Sep - “Nuclear Power” - Terra Volta Respec #1 (Jane Hallaway, Level 24-33) - Rad powers, radiation worker costumes (doctors, rad suits, etc.)
• 27 Sep - “Under the Mountain” - Beast of the Mountain (Virgil Tarikoss, Level 15-20) - Page 2 Power Sets (Pyrotechnic Control, Psi Armor, Energy Aura (Tankers), Regeneration (Tankers)); Lord of the Rings inspired powers and costumes

Signups for 6 Sep:

1. @FrauleinMental Madame Cherenkova - Rad/Marine Corruptor

I hope to be there on Cutsie Wutsie - Savage/Bio Brute

[ZamuelNow]

Tentatively put me on with Ebony Gyro - Elec/Elec Blaster.

[Bananiac]

On 9/1/2025 at 2:18 PM, FrauleinMental said:

September themes:

• 6 Sep - “Darkstalkers” - Soul of the Woodsman (Numina, Level 35-40) - Any AT/powers, Shapeshifters (two costumes with different face/body types, start with one and switch to the second as we enter Eden; e.g., one vaguely human and one Monstrous)
• 13 Sep - “Scoutmaster Kahn” - Return of the Reichsman (Dr. Kahn, Level 45-50) - Any AT/Powers, Girl/Boy Scout costumes
• 20 Sep - “Nuclear Power” - Terra Volta Respec #1 (Jane Hallaway, Level 24-33) - Rad powers, radiation worker costumes (doctors, rad suits, etc.)
• 27 Sep - “Under the Mountain” - Beast of the Mountain (Virgil Tarikoss, Level 15-20) - Page 2 Power Sets (Pyrotechnic Control, Psi Armor, Energy Aura (Tankers), Regeneration (Tankers)); Lord of the Rings inspired powers and costumes

Signups for 6 Sep:

1. @FrauleinMental Madame Cherenkova - Rad/Marine Corruptor
2. @TygerDarkstorm Cutsie Wutsie - Savage/Bio Brute
3. @ZamuelNow Ebony Gyro - Elec/Elec Blaster

 

I think I will be able to join tomorrow. Not sure about the rest of the september weekends, looks like every other saturday is already booked with some sort of action.

 

I will update later which toon I will bring...

 

Edit: Nuclear Fuel Rod - Rad / Staff Tank

 

Edited Saturday at 03:29 PM by Bananiac

[Burnt Umber]

Unfortunately, some family is coming into town tomorrow so I won't be available either.  Best of luck, and I look forward to the pictures.

[TygerDarkstorm]

My apologies, but I actually won't be there tomorrow either. I'm going to go spend the day with my mom and daughter.

[FrauleinMental]

On 9/1/2025 at 7:18 AM, FrauleinMental said:

Pics for 6 Sep - “Darkstalkers” - Soul of the Woodsman (Numina, Level 35-40) - Any AT/powers, Shapeshifters (two costumes with different face/body types, start with one and switch to the second as we enter Eden; e.g., one vaguely human and one Monstrous)

Original lineup:

1. @FrauleinMental Madame Cherenkova - Rad/Marine Corruptor
2. @ZamuelNow Ebony Gyro - Elec/Elec Blaster
3. @Bananiac Nuclear Fuel Rod - Rad / Staff Tank

 

Here's our original lineup.

 

We recruited several more--thanks for coming out!

 

Versus Jurassik.

 

[FrauleinMental]

September themes:

• 6 Sep - “Darkstalkers” - Soul of the Woodsman (Numina, Level 35-40) - Any AT/powers, Shapeshifters (two costumes with different face/body types, start with one and switch to the second as we enter Eden; e.g., one vaguely human and one Monstrous)
• 13 Sep - “Scoutmaster Kahn” - Return of the Reichsman (Dr. Kahn, Level 45-50) - Any AT/Powers, Girl/Boy Scout costumes
• 20 Sep - “Nuclear Power” - Terra Volta Respec #1 (Jane Hallaway, Level 24-33) - Rad powers, radiation worker costumes (doctors, rad suits, etc.)
• 27 Sep - “Under the Mountain” - Beast of the Mountain (Virgil Tarikoss, Level 15-20) - Page 2 Power Sets (Pyrotechnic Control, Psi Armor, Energy Aura (Tankers), Regeneration (Tankers)); Lord of the Rings inspired powers and costumes

Signups for 13 Sep:

1. @FrauleinMental Cheerleader Blondie - Regen/Psi Tank
2. @TygerDarkstorm Polly Shockit - Electric/Electric Corruptor
3. @Burnt Umber Backstreet Justice - StJ/WP Scrapper

Edited Monday at 10:38 AM by FrauleinMental

[TygerDarkstorm]

Is Kahn the TF that's like 3 hours long?

[FrauleinMental]

39 minutes ago, TygerDarkstorm said:

Is Kahn the TF that's like 3 hours long?

No, it's relatively short unless you're doing a Master run.  It's the one with all the 5th Column ambushes while you fight Reichsman and 4 other AVs who activate sequentially as Reichsman's HP drops.

[TygerDarkstorm]

2 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:

No, it's relatively short unless you're doing a Master run.  It's the one with all the 5th Column ambushes while you fight Reichsman and 4 other AVs who activate sequentially as Reichsman's HP drops.

Oh okay cool; I think I confused Kahn with Quarterfield--it's one I've never done before I don't think. I will try to be there on Adraxia - Mercs/Traps MM

[Burnt Umber]

13 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:

13 Sep - “Scoutmaster Kahn” - Return of the Reichsman (Dr. Kahn, Level 45-50) - Any AT/Powers, Girl/Boy Scout costumes

 

I'll try to be there, ready to start selling popcorn, with Backstreet Justice - StJ/WP Scrapper.

[FrauleinMental]

8 hours ago, TygerDarkstorm said:

Oh okay cool; I think I confused Kahn with Quarterfield--it's one I've never done before I don't think.

 

Dr Kahn is the blueside version of Barracuda.  Theme Team completion time in March was 1:03:32.

 

Dr Q is the notorious one--it generally took about 8 hours on Live, long before the proliferation of transport powers.  On HC, it can be speedrun in 90 minutes but our last Theme Team run (last Shardtober) took 2:47:41.  I soloed it in July in 3:09:07.

[Jaxman100]

Part of the issue with Dr Q. is people don't do it often enough to know where to do the hunts exactly, when to team teleport, or if the missions are defeat alls. Also the more players you have the more bosses, the more stuns and monsters shielding.... 

It's not hard its just long and gets longer the more casual you approach it. 

[TygerDarkstorm]

On 9/6/2025 at 9:30 PM, TygerDarkstorm said:

Oh okay cool; I think I confused Kahn with Quarterfield--it's one I've never done before I don't think. I will try to be there on Adraxia - Mercs/Traps MM

So I went to prep this toon to be ready for next weekend, only to discover that somehow she made it to level 50 with pretty much nothing slotted. It's super weird for me because I generally have at least basic IOs and SOs going. Since I won't have time to mess with her to that level this week, I will instead bring Polly Shockit - Electric/Electric Corruptor

 

Btw, as a Girl Scout troop leader; I love the theme! 😄 

Edited Monday at 04:10 AM by TygerDarkstorm