Take That you freakish lil Sky Raiders!

Finally! The nightmare ends!

satyr_mi and I finally finished the first Terra Volta respec trial. I was playing Hidden Justice (level 27 kin/psy defender). He was exemplared to me with Liquid Oxygen (level 32 ice/ice blaster). We had two other team members, both level 25 fire tankers. We got through the first two missions with a minimum of fuss. The actual reactor, however, was another story.

Fyre (I think her name was Fyre Maiden, but I don't remember) only had Super Speed as a travel power, and she had looooong loading times. So, it took us a good long while to get her to the reactor. Inertial Reduction for the win! We got in, went swimmingly through to the reactor. Got to the core. I died once, but got an awaken and was merilly going about my business. Final wave hits. Leader tank (Mathieren' or something like that, who liked to run ahead and had gotten on my nerves big time) was up on the catwalk tanking one group, Fyre, satyr_mi and I were trying to hold the core that got swarmed.

I died first. Everyone else died soon after. The core went down soon after that.

Okay, restart that reactor bit. No problem. Math dings 26 in the main room before the hallway! Excellent, this should go much easier. We get through, get to the core, this time, Math hopped down to the core soon after the final wave hit so that my buffing/healing would be better utilized. We're doing good.

Fyre faceplants. Oh shit. I faceplant. Oh shit. satyr_mi faceplants. OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT! There were at least two Jump Bots and two Sky Skiffs left, along with a couple minions and maybe a lieutenant.

Math goes into overdrive. I drop every luck and respite and willpower I have in my tray on him. He successuflly herds three baddies out of the core into the doorway and burns them to death. I'm monitoring the core from my faceplant and telling him what it's health is at. At 1/3 he runs in, tosses coolant, grabs a sky skiff and runs out the door. I'm watching the reactor go down further and further with a Jump Bot and a Sky Skiff pummeling it. I tell satyr_mi to hit the Hospital and fly back as fast as he can. Math runs in and tosses another coolant and takes the jump bot out with him. Sky Skiff is still merilly shooting the core. The jump bot, which was orange to me, takes a while to go down, and Math's HP kept falling way low, but he managed to get Healing Flames off in time. Math runs back in, tosses another coolant, then jumps the remaining Sky Skiff.

satyr_mi never made it to TV. Math took out the last sky skiff and Task Force Complete flashed accross the screen.

Thank fucking god.

Two blips of debt, two bubbles into 27, and I have my respec that I'll gleefully use when I hit 30.

Buffy on the brain

Between a co-worker talking about the Buffy RPG that he's running, and reading Whedonesque a lot recently, I have a very strong desire to sit down with my DVD player (and my PS2, because S6 disk 2 hates my DVD player) and watch a bunch of Buffy episodes. Preferrably very Willow-centric episodes. And Once More With Feeling.

And Chosen, hence the icon!