Diablo Memories

[cb-13]

Many years ago as a novice pubie, I joined a public game name "Groo" . Met a warrior there who used no magic or magic armour. He did have some magic tho....and turned me on to his web site. Long live the Asylum!!

[KingOfPain]

WTF!

Where the hell have you been hiding? And how the fuck are you?


KoP

[ShadowHM]

Many years ago as a novice pubie, I joined a public game name "Groo" . Met a warrior there who used no magic or magic armour. He did have some magic tho....and turned me on to his web site. Long live the Asylum!!

*jaw drops and hits the floor*

Long live the wookie with the curly beard !

And ditto on KoP's questions!

[Sirian]

My first encounter with Succubi ... memories.

Occhi

Oh mam. That's just awful. AWFUL!

[Cyrene]

*********KOP

Apparently, Cy didn't appreciate jump frog warriors and took no measure to avoid friendly fire. (Me think he even sprayed me on purpose many times. What an arse.) But he was blunt while civil, and I was tolerant (LoL, nudge Cy) and things worked out.




LOL.



Oh, I was infamous for TK 8-). Woody refused to even go into the dungeons with me unless I swapped to S/S and promised to stay that way .



A single arrow when nothing much was going on was always intentional, as long as you had a shield—I always liked to check out my hit vs other’s block—KOP and Charis suffered most of the “pings”. More than one in a quiet time was accidental and usually meant I was dragging the shift key when I clicked (this was before my n52 pad was even a gleam in a designer’s eye—Diablo would rock with my n52). OTOH, I just can’t do ANYTHING about arrows already in the air when someone moves, and, at the distances I liked to fight at, that could be a few. BUT—yeah, I had an attitude about “If I set up, hit shift, and establish a clean line of fire into a monster, people wandering (or hopping) into my line of fire are generally going to get a few extra pings.”

I also always fixated on the target across the screen and it could take a LONG time for me to notice someone had moved into the line of fire.

I also NEVER learned to account for fireball splash off of a wall and the effect it had on friends. Oddly, it seemed to be Nystul I always fried with that one.

We won’t even mention my barlog-panic-chain reflex.

In short, for the folks that weren’t around—I was responsible for a whole lot of TK’s in D1. More accurately, as I first stated, infamous.

Memories?

Eaglewerks! Accept no substitute!

Landru, and the Diablo forum folks who though he was a person.

The early Asylum, and Woody and Hairy PK’ing folks with cursed gear.

Armin setting me off on one of my rants in a DSF post, and the result being a new variant!—The Patron of Wirt (Armin, me, Werner and Wormy). That was fun.

Charis blindsiding the Asylum with a whole new depth to variants. Including me. I must have read the specs on an Amazon 50 times going “huh?” before I dove in, and, in the end, ended up being thought of only in terms of my AMZ, so much so that, to avoid confusion, I started posting under “Cyrene” and naming all my characters with “Cy” in them (another nod to Charis, who put his board handle in his chars somehow so we all knew who he was all the time—I still do this—all my D2 chars had “Cy” in them, all my PlanetSide chars were “Cats”, all my L2 and Guild War Chars are “Miss”, all my EQ2 chars were French cats…)

Charis and KOP introducing me to Iron man. Oooooh, the patience they showed. Sadly, it was years after the fact that I figured out the reason for the game name we always used…

Firewall lessons.

Meeting and playing with Friar, Gumby, and Kshira.

Cybot in the NudeBeach! Channel splits!

Posting detailed instructions on caves exploits after real life issues made me a caves veteran for months on end since I couldn’t sleep, anyways.

Ahh, the good old days.

All in all, when I think back on it, what comes to mind first is the ENDLESS patience KOP and Charis spent on me trying to develop a Rogue to finish off their world-class warrior/mage duo.

--Cy



---ps, I’m skipping a a couple of enormous blow-ups I was also responsible for in the hopes that everyone forgot 8-0

[Scrape]

Meeting and playing with Friar, Gumby, and Kshira.

Ah, more good stuff, all.

I have not seen any of those three in a while. I think Kshira was one of the players that had a perfect obsidian ring of the zodiac or something similar.

[KingOfPain]

I also NEVER learned to account for fireball splash off of a wall and the effect it had on friends. Oddly, it seemed to be Nystul I always fried with that one.

Don't worry, it's not your fault. I mean, if he wants to exploit the monster ai and make the best of certain dungeon layout he'd better be willing to pay the price for splash damage, friendly or not

Posting detailed instructions on caves exploits after real life issues made me a caves veteran for months on end since I couldn’t sleep, anyways.

OMG, what horrors. I couldn't believe you can actually see and play with the amount of gamma you were using.

...all my L2 and Guild War Chars are “Miss”...

Don't make any male toons, please!

Heh, I just remembered one of Charis' favorite lines when he asks me a question, especially in Ironman games, "Don't answer right now!", to prevent another KoP's infamous typing death

PS: now I know why you changed sigs

Run, Forest, Run! Charis is coming out with another variant - 50 pages of rules......


KoP