Today’s Tabula Rasa play session was more enjoyable than the previous. My character has moved onto the next map where there are higher level characters and folks seem to be a bit more behaved. General chat was also significantly cleaner today, but I suspect that’s because today is Monday and most of the emos couldn’t get online.

The game play hasn’t really changed, but it’s become more difficult and, at times, a bit more intense. I had another moment of “wha..? cool!” today as friendly NPCs were drop-shipped into the area that I was running through. I have no idea why they came into the area. I’m sure that it’s a regular occurrence - just another scripted spawn - but it was a nice surprise.

At the time I was running through the area in an attempt to get a crate of bane goodies, but I was having a heck of a time reaching the crate. There was a small army of various bane critters in the area and running through it created a small light show as energy weapons hit me and my character’s reflective armor bounced some of it back. The view was messy, and there was really no way to get through in one piece.

So when a small army of friendlies arrived via drop ships (which teleport the NPCs down in a way significantly similar to Wraith ships in Stargate: Atlantis) and began taking on the small army of bane… well, it was a good moment. I spent several minutes taking out bane along side the NPCs. Those NPCs were not your usual weaklings either. Some of them were Rangers with net guns, which will be my character’s next weapon set.

My chara has a touch more than two levels to go before hitting level 15 for the third tier. Then it’ll be cloak armor goodness and net gun funsies for all.

Sadly, tomorrow will be spent making a few drawings for class and I don’t know if I’ll have time to work on progressing the character.

A random screenshot from today, shrunk from its original size.

I really like the style of this NPC’s clothing, especially because we players can’t have straight white or black colored armor. bah!

Yes, I should have removed the UI. Whatever. Deal with it. :-p

Later all.

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