UPS (Untwinked Pwn Squad) Session #3

[Socialism]

UPS CTA (Call To Arms) in 6.5 hours! See you all at op xbananax!

[bigD72]

I finished catching up today, got some NICE drops.

I'll be there for the beginning but I'll have to leave a little early for a dinner/social engagement.

*edit - the new banner is SOOOOO annoying.

[bigD72]

Well, crap...reservations got changed unbeknownst to me, so I'm going to miss AGAIN :cry:. I'm really sooooo sorry. I will be 100% sure to play next week and try as hard as possible to make all future times, atleast my character will be useful next time with some BO action.

[Zarban]

You looking for new people for next session?

[MrZip]

is this starting in 15min?

[Socialism]

>>> IMPORTANT <<<

STANDINGS (this is where you should be up to for next session, 23/08/06)
Level: 23
Act: 3
Last Quest: Duriel
Last Waypoint: The Canyon of the Magi

Remember! New time is 6:00PM EST to around 9:00PM EST, Tuesdays.
Be there or be square; please try to show up on time!


>>> NOT SO IMPORTANT <<<

OVERVIEW
Latecomers and no-showers once again help us lose faith in mankind; charged strike is overpowered.

TODAY'S RANKS
*Mirager - UPS-Delivery
*Jafrick - UPS-FreezerBurn / UPS-ColdWar (rebuild!)
*Kretschmer - UPS-Doenitz
*MrZip - UPS-Zip <-- NEWEST MEMBER! MVP for waking up at 7 am.

Somewhat honorable mention:
*Brodley_HC - UPS-Brodley <-- showed up an hour late and wasn't caught up (level 13)

STORY
EMPTIED Lost City and Claw Viper Temple. We iced Fangskin and smashed an altar. Much fun was had by Zip, who smeared fecal matter all over the shattered remains of the once-holy shrine. Jafrick showed up an hour late so we did his Viper AGAIN. Then Brodley showed up and was all: "Funny story... I'm a nooblet." He took off to MF. Ran an Arcane fork, lucked out on the second. Juved 2x vs Summoner, who was a badass mofo and a half. Duriel wasn't VERY rough, but cannot be frozen would have helped a TON.

NOTES
- Zip's our session MVP for being online, attentive, and contributing to the "we cube gems/amulets/rings" fund (*FillerChars). CBS are devastating.

- Kretschmer pops corpses JUST FOR FUN. Serious. No monsters around; SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT. Save/exited once we hit the Palace WP -- I think his mom came into the room while he was taking suggestive photos of himself for myspace or something.

- Jafrick is incompetent, was supposed to be A) rebuilt B) on time. Neither was the case. At least now he's getting rebuilt, because I ran/am running a chant game for catch-up.

- Brodley is doing the same thing as Jafrick, except a bit more competently (arguable).

- Naphtali needs to learn who wear the pants in this relationship.

- Sweetleads was online but unresponsive. Jerkface.

- Charged Strike is way overpowered and way mana-consumey.

Adieu.

- Shon

P.S. I might be doing the voiceover for a cartoon!
P.P.S. Let me know if you want me to e-mail you my 8mb video audition for Discovery Travel and Living's 5takes show. It's my first ever video and I'm really proud of it.

[Socialism]

No qualms with Zarban joining in and catching up for next session (4). Today's run was a bit slow with all the complications (read: lates/no-showers), half of these goobers don't turn up to sessions!

We JUST entered A3 (haven't left town yet), so be caught up to there and ~level 23/24. I can enchant you, just PM/message me (*Mirager or *Flicker).

Rules: Play nice, play coop, people > itamz, no twinking, no cheats (that's right, no maphack). Preferable if you're not a staple superbuild type character, i.e. hammerdin. I should be one to talk, I'm making a lightning Javazon- -- but I did it cause I'd never actually built one before.

See you next week, or earlier if you need enchanting.

Worktime!

[GodObelisk]

Interested in the UPS thing...
Just a quick question on the timezone issue... I'm in GMT+8.

6pm EST - 9pm EST
convert....
3pm (GMT+8) - 6pm (GMT+8) ?? :scratch: Is this correct???

[bigD72]

>>> IMPORTANT <<<
- Naphtali needs to learn who wear the pants in this relationship.

I think I got that down with the lady, it's with the parents I can't control, I have to be as nice/responsible/etc... as possible to them. If they ever found out what I do to their daughter...:rolleyes:

[Socialism]

Yeah, cause, you know, they've never reproduced or anything. I'm sure they think you two just hold hands and make eskimo kisses at each other all day.

Dork!

Obelisk -- what country/city are you in? That's easier than playing with your indecipherable numberwork!

I'm in Malaysia, which is GMT +8 (to my knowledge) and it's a 12 hour time difference. 9am there is 9pm here.

[GodObelisk]

Obelisk -- what country/city are you in? That's easier than playing with your indecipherable numberwork!

I'm in Malaysia, which is GMT +8 (to my knowledge) and it's a 12 hour time difference. 9am there is 9pm here.

I'm stuck in Singapore.. which holds the same time difference as Malaysia.
Meaning it would be 6am-9am for me :shocked: Couldn't make it for this timing.

Nevertheless i still read your progress.... Nice work :innocent:

[Socialism]

No pain no gain, pal! Wake up early once a week!

[GodObelisk]

No pain no gain, pal! Wake up early once a week!

The issue is not with waking up early... I leave for work at 7.45am

[MrZip]

go into work late one day a week! no pain no gain! :grin: (actually it would be pretty cool to have three people from asia)

[Lemerok]

This seems fun. :) I would like to join, though I play on europe with my other chars. So i would need a fast boost in sc to make a hc char. Then I could catch up :)

If anyone could help me with that in the weekend it would be nice.
Pm or write here, I think I will make account: Lemerok , if it is available.

[Socialism]

Hey Lemerok, you're absolutely welcome to join.

I'll be around this weekend and can chant. I think if you can make HC anywhere, you can make HC chars EVERYWHERE.

Edit: I'm *Flicker or the channel bot in OP XBANANAX. Feel free to whisper either (you probably won't get a response from the channel bot.)

*Mirager is my UPS account.

[Socialism]

New thinking: If this group REALLY really expands? And we just keep taking new joiners? We can do first-come-first serve. Doubtful.

But it might happen.

[Lemerok]

Hey Lemerok, you're absolutely welcome to join.

I'll be around this weekend and can chant. I think if you can make HC anywhere, you can make HC chars EVERYWHERE.

Edit: I'm *Flicker or the channel bot in OP XBANANAX. Feel free to whisper either (you probably won't get a response from the channel bot.)

*Mirager is my UPS account.

Ok nice, then I will make some fun char I haven't tried yet and get it to lvl 23. :)

EST/EDT? = UTC-4? Im in UTC+2 (sweden) so that should make this from 24-03 if Im correct. Stupid timezones. :smiley:

[Socialism]

Correct.

Watch out for TPPKS. If you are playing right now I can pop a chanter in game for you, but I'm at work so will be rather... eh... not-attention-paying

[Lemerok]

Im also at work atm, can see if you are online later tonight. If not I can contact you during the weekend.

Now I just have to figure out what to play. :)

Think I will try a fireclaw-bear. :scratch:

[GodObelisk]

go into work late one day a week! no pain no gain! :grin: (actually it would be pretty cool to have three people from asia)

That would be VERY late into work. This pain would probably cost me my livehood :cry:

[Socialism]

Man I get to work ~9:00 - 9:30 AM every morning... what exactly do you do?

I'm in advertising

[bigD72]

Yeah, cause, you know, they've never reproduced or anything. I'm sure they think you two just hold hands and make eskimo kisses at each other all day.

Dork!

Obelisk -- what country/city are you in? That's easier than playing with your indecipherable numberwork!

I'm in Malaysia, which is GMT +8 (to my knowledge) and it's a 12 hour time difference. 9am there is 9pm here.
Some say ignorance is bliss, I say denial is bliss.

[GodObelisk]

Man I get to work ~9:00 - 9:30 AM every morning... what exactly do you do?

I'm in advertising

In engineering... SIM cards/ Credit cards
Fixed 8:30am~5:30pm daily

-gobly

[STINGER]

I work 7 am-4:45 minimum.......

[Hp_Sauce]

The crew I work with works 8am-430pm

I generally roll in around 9am, or 10, sometimes 10:30-11ish. I almost always leave ontime (430), but sometimes I leave at 230pm, or 3, or 330. Whatever

Actually, I didn't show up at all on monday or tuesday this week and last week.

What a good job!

-hps

[LuckyDwarf]

Lucky sauce. :(

Lucky

[GodObelisk]

The crew I work with works 8am-430pm

I generally roll in around 9am, or 10, sometimes 10:30-11ish. I almost always leave ontime (430), but sometimes I leave at 230pm, or 3, or 330. Whatever

Actually, I didn't show up at all on monday or tuesday this week and last week.

What a good job!

-hps
I second that

-gobly

[Socialism]

Ugh. I hate you guys. I leave around 8/9 PM if I'm lucky, 12-3 AM if I'm not.


...I'm not very lucky.

[bigD72]

Ugh. I hate you guys. I leave around 8/9 PM if I'm lucky, 12-3 AM if I'm not.


...I'm not very lucky.
I thought you were an intern (not really an intern, but not a full salary employee.)

[Socialism]

That doesn't mean they don't grind my *** to the bone. Tomorrow's my last day as "management trainee" - trying to convince exec creative director to offer me a job.

[bigD72]

That doesn't mean they don't grind my *** to the bone. Tomorrow's my last day as "management trainee" - trying to convince exec creative director to offer me a job.
So, what kind of hours have you put in? Friggin workaholic.

[Socialism]

I don't need your abuse!

Okay all you slack-jawed slackers... here's the CALL TO ARMS for ENCHANTED LEVELING this weekend (in general and if you need to catch up).

I will be around EARLY MORNING / NIGHT my time, which probably means evenings and mornings your time. Goobers.

*Flicker/*Mirager -- find me in op xbananax or just add/whisper etc.

Peace and light.

[bigD72]

I don't need your abuse!

Okay all you slack-jawed slackers... here's the CALL TO ARMS for ENCHANTED LEVELING this weekend (in general and if you need to catch up).

I will be around EARLY MORNING / NIGHT my time, which probably means evenings and mornings your time. Goobers.

*Flicker/*Mirager -- find me in op xbananax or just add/whisper etc.

Peace and light.
I thought we were going to throw down on some quests? Possibly make a final decision about the duo?

[Socialism]

Yeah, for sure, that too! But that doesn't mean I can't chant goobers.

[Socialism]

I hope everyone's caught up and ready for session #4!!!

Again, please try to make it/be on time, as at least 2 of us have precious little time and are sacrificing pre-work sleep really early in the morning to game with you fellas.

Take care, hope you had a good weekend.

[jafrick]

I am caught up(although only lvl 21)

We now apparently have 2 HF pallies due to a lack of critical reading skills on someone's part *cough * *cough* so the monsters will just be really really reaaaaaaaally really cold.


really cold.

[Socialism]

Do we? What the damn.

[GildedAdonis]

I don't really see how I failed to read, as I just went through this thread and saw nothing either mentioning your typing, or any request not to double up on aura's. I went back 6 pages additionally to fine session report #'s 2 and 1, but saw nothing, so unless I am totally blind, I'm not feeling too guilty.

[Socialism]

Feel guilty! Rah rah rah!

Session 1
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=481711

Session 2
http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=4695799&postcount=63

Session 3
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=487674