Long walk for a short cake
May. 23rd, 2010 03:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoFor those of you who don't know, I'm playing City of Heroes. It's a super hero online game, and they give you badges for doing things--I got a badge for reaching tenth level, I got a badge for patrolling the city a set number of hours, and I'm fairly certain there's a badge for flossing.
So earlier tonight one of my heroes (Chains of Love) is sneaking through a warehouse with some crates that explode if you punch them too much, and I got this peach of an idea. Punch a crate until it's on the verge of exploding. Go find a bad guy and slap him in the back of the head. Then run away, leading him back to the crate, which I blow up from a distance.
This was an awesome and clever plan, and it worked like a charm. Except for the part where CoL tripped over the crate, or got distracted by some bubble wrap, or stopped to text somebody, or something, I don't exactly know what. All I know is that suddenly she was getting the crap kicked out of her and I couldn't see what was going on or get myself oriented. And so I went to attack the bad guy, forgetting that the targeting system was locked onto the crate. Which was apparently sitting right next to me, because I went ass over teakettle and sprawled on the warehouse floor in the resulting explosion.
At which point, the game informed me that I'd won a new badge! I managed to blow myself into qualification for the Tough badge, which you get for taking a hundred thousand points of damage.
So earlier tonight one of my heroes (Chains of Love) is sneaking through a warehouse with some crates that explode if you punch them too much, and I got this peach of an idea. Punch a crate until it's on the verge of exploding. Go find a bad guy and slap him in the back of the head. Then run away, leading him back to the crate, which I blow up from a distance.
This was an awesome and clever plan, and it worked like a charm. Except for the part where CoL tripped over the crate, or got distracted by some bubble wrap, or stopped to text somebody, or something, I don't exactly know what. All I know is that suddenly she was getting the crap kicked out of her and I couldn't see what was going on or get myself oriented. And so I went to attack the bad guy, forgetting that the targeting system was locked onto the crate. Which was apparently sitting right next to me, because I went ass over teakettle and sprawled on the warehouse floor in the resulting explosion.
At which point, the game informed me that I'd won a new badge! I managed to blow myself into qualification for the Tough badge, which you get for taking a hundred thousand points of damage.