Long walk for a short cake

[cyrano]

For 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.

Comments

[senatorhatty.livejournal.com]

it occurs to me that badges are the CoH equivalent of the stickers they give kids in school.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yeah. Combined with Pokemon for the ob/comp "Gotta Catch Em All" kids.