{"id":1948,"date":"2008-10-19T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2008-10-20T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T12:59:12","slug":"city-of-heroestrick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"City of Heroes:Trick or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN! Fullmetal Jackie joined in this battle after I got done taking pictures, and we managed to fight it to a standstill for about five minutes until some more heroes showed up. We couldn’t actually make headway until we had some large-scale teamwork going.<\/td><\/tr>
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN! Fullmetal Jackie joined in this battle after I got done taking pictures, and we managed to fight it to a standstill for about five minutes until some more heroes showed up. We couldn’t actually make headway until we had some large-scale teamwork going.<\/td><\/tr><\/table>Saturday night. It’s getting late. The clock has just ticked past midnight. I’ve been leveling my new character (scrapper White Legend – the most fearsomely unoriginal Kung-Fu master ever!) for about six hours and it’s time to close the game, check the comments on my website, and head for bed.<\/p>\n

As we exit the last mission a zombie crawls out of the ground and attacks us. Everyone suddenly gets excited. Oh boy! It’s the Halloween event! Zombie attacks! Giant monsters! Trick-or-Treating!<\/em><\/p>\n

Giant Monsters are about thirty feet tall. They take about twenty or so heroes to bring down. <\/p>\n

Zombie attacks move from one zone of the game to the next. Sort of fun at first, although as the attack drags on it gets kind of laggy. There are badges and awards to earn for fighting them, though. <\/p>\n

Trick or Treat is both absurd and brilliant. You run around the city and click on any doors you find. Sometimes you’ll get a Treat – a special costume that lets you dress up as one of the NPCs in the game, or a unique item. But most of the time you just get tricked, and monsters pour out of the door. Zombies, witches, vampires, werewolves, and pumpkin head guys. Again, there are awards and badges to earn for fighting these things. <\/p>\n

Three hours later<\/strong> I’ve collected dozens of costumes and many bits of unique salvage, which I use to unlock an extra costume slot. The rest of the salvage is worth a fortune on the auction house. I go from having 50k influence to having just over a million. Not bad for level 19. I’ve unlocked about a half dozen badges (less than half of them) and I’ve played myself into some sort of delirious, confused, carpal-tunnel-infused dream state.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN! Fullmetal Jackie joined in this battle after I got done taking pictures, and we managed to fight it to a standstill for about five minutes until some more heroes showed up. We couldn’t actually make headway until we had some large-scale teamwork going.Saturday night. It’s getting late. The clock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}