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Thread: ||||| The Riflemen Hall |||||
*walks in and collapses in a recliner*
Stupid snipe keepswalking away, and I still can't get more than 1 shot into him before he does.
*notices Onichi looking for his conditioner*
While you're at it Onichi, look around for my scale oil, I need to lube up again. I keep getting stuck on branches while hunting that snipe.
Let me start with that I somehow don't understand that friggin forum server here, but I obviously am not the only one 
Quoting WayneInAustin:
When i mentally picture the Rifleman's Hall, I picture a large, lodge-like structure with a huge room dimly lit bya huge fireplace and bunches of big comfortable chairs. In the chairs sit all manner of riflemen, each one with their favorite weapon across their lap and their favorite drink in their hand, swapping stories and jokes. I could see all of us gathered around your chair for that story!
You forgot to add the plumes of smoke billowing from the medically approved pipes 
cheers,
Tzimovo/Chimaera (ex TKM, ex Master Marksman, Master Sniper)
Ewene/Bugfin (*Holovictim*)
Message Edited by DVader539 on 02-26-2004 06:33 PM
WayneInAustin:
Interesting description - upon seeing the title of the thread I Immediately envisioned the Inn in which Sean Connery's character v is approached in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Very similar to your description if I do say.
Oh, and Vader - 
Message Edited by BadKarma777 on 02-26-2004 07:29 PM
As a quick P.S.
We don't have these private lodges with big comfy chairs in any of the other professions.
Now I KNOW I'm staying. =)
/lights pipe
Cheers~
Somebody take the pipe away from DV. He's been over-indulging again.
DVader539 wrote:
Funny, I picture streams of electrical impulses arranged in a way to convey coding on an electronic screenwhich transmits the coding by means of photons to an biological nervous center that decodes the characters and uses the information included, along with chemically and holographicly stored thoughts from a past time to interpret a virtual structure of comfortable construct. But that's just me...
WayneInAustin wrote:
Hmmm... this all seems so familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.... Anyone up for a toga party?
As a new "up-and-comer" I thought I'd share something that happened to me last night and this seemed like the right place to do it. =)
I had been grinding the 125K between Rifles 4 and Novice by pulling Banthas from their herd. For those looking for some good xp, run up to about 50 M (I am using an E11) and throw a mind bleed on 'em (using Mind Shot 1), /peace and then back out to about 70 M.
After the first tick of damage, they get really mad and charge you - but they come ALONE! =) Needless to say, it's great fun AND great xp. Also, if you Kite them for a ways they seem to tire out or something- not quite sure, but they almost always (for me anyway) slow to a walk after about 50 -60 meters or so. Makes it really easy to finish up in a hurry.
Aaaaaanyway:
So there I was, out in the dunes all by my lonesome, about 1K SE of the Krayt Graveyard. I had been pulling Bantha Bulls and Matriarchs one at a time for probably 1/2 an hour or so when it happened.
Suddenly, as my quarry is about to drop - I notice a red dot on my radar, about 50 meters behind me. I figure it's another pesky Dragonette or Dune Lizard - and I have very little patience for those stupid overgrown Rills as it is. Not about to let my target go, I continued firing.
Suddenly, this little red icon pops up over the Bantha's head. "That's funny," I though to myself, "that looked just like the Brawler Intimidate Icon?!" The Bantha turned and began to run, which got me to thinking - "Maybe I better run too!"
System Message - *A Creature Has Detected You Despite Your Attempts At Camouflage*
Fearing the worst, I turned and there it was - An Ancient Krayt Dragon. The first one I have EVER seen (in "person") in all my time in this game. It was utterly magnificent! Enormous falls short of describing this walking calamity! As big as four or five houses. It was.... awesome.
Before I could even press the burstrun hotkey...
System Message - *You have been incapacitated by Ancient Krayt Dragon*
"Yeah," I said aloud, "big shocker there." =)
Oh but wait - it gets better.
The Bantha bit it right after I did, so at least I got the experience - the Krayt just wandered off. Or so I thought.
After about a minute of incap, I get up and throw a stim on to recoop and get back to business. Ran a quick recon to make sure the area was clear and headed back to where my Banthas were.
Gone.
Nothing - nada - zilch - zip - zero.
I was ticked to say the very least. Not only had that Dragon capped me, but now he'd cost me my little goldmine of xp as well.
"So," I told myself, "go find another lair."
As I headed across the dunes, I thought I saw some kind of fire in the air. Curiosity being what it is, I set out to find out WTH was going on.
As I crested the next dune, my radar became clouded with blue dots, and there - in the middle, was my Krayt Buddy.
My pusle quickened as I realized this would be a great way to cap off that pesky pistol XP (mastering marksman) without drawing an aggro from the beast. After all - it surely wouldn't come after me with my pesky little Scout Blaster when there's obviously a commando right in his face with a flamethrower right?!
Wrong!!!
I pulled some of the best pistol damage I have ever pulled from a (non-uber) pistol during that fight, AVERAGING about 800 per hit! For only having a mid range pistol and Pistols 3 I thought that was pretty good! Apparently so did the Krayt.
Not once, not twice, but THREE times that sucker turned away from the onslaught of players to attack... you guessed it, little 'ole me!
Once I made it into someone's house. =) Once he only got about half way to me before someone else must've put a serious hurting on him, and the third time he incapped me... again.
It was sheer chaos and insanity. Players were running about stimming other players to get them back into the fight and sometimes getting capped themselves in the process!
After more than 15 minutes of fighting (he was at half when I showed up), the giant beast fell into the desert sands.
I got a whopping 17 points of pistol xp for the effort - which might have angered me considering my damage output was the best it's ever been on this character, except for one minor detail...
THAT WAS THE MOST FUN I HAVE EVER HAD IN THIS GAME!
It was just awesome. When everything was over I had to go outside and smoke a cigarette. It was that d@mn cool.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. =)
DVader539 wrote:
*Still indulged*
Dude, I'm telling you, we live in a world of information! There's no real! There's no mass! There's no height, depth, or width! There isn't even time! It's all just a holographicly arranged set of information that we inturpret as a world!
*munches on red pills*
That would explain the black cat I keep seeing on the landing on the stairs half way up to the roof of the Hall.
DVader539 wrote:
*Still indulged*
Dude, I'm telling you, we live in a world of information! There's no real! There's no mass! There's no height, depth, or width! There isn't even time! It's all just a holographicly arranged set of information that we inturpret as a world!
*munches on red pills*
Dvader you need to lay off the drugs you are starting to scare the noob.....100100010001110110011001 1001110011101011111100
beamstalk wrote:
DVader539 wrote:
*Still indulged*
Dude, I'm telling you, we live in a world of information! There's no real! There's no mass! There's no height, depth, or width! There isn't even time! It's all just a holographicly arranged set of information that we inturpret as a world!
*munches on red pills*
Dvader you need to lay off the drugs you are starting to scare the noob.....100100010001110110011001 1001110011101011111100
*grabs remote and starts to flip through channels on the Hall TV*
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10100000101010101010001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110001
00000101010101010001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110111101
00101010101010001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110001110011
01010000010101010101000101110101011111010101110101101010100101010101010110100100101001111000
01010101010100010111010101111101010111010110101010010101010101011010010010100111100010111101
00000101010101010001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110101011
01000001010101010100010111010101111101010111010110101010010101010101011010010010100111100010
10101010101000101110101011111010101110101101010100101010101010110100100101001111011101010110
00010101010101000101110101011111010101110101101010100101010101010110100100101001111000111001
10101010101000101110101011111010101110101101010100101010101010110100100101001111010101001010
01010101010100010111010101111101010111010110101010010101010101011010010010100111100011001010
11010100000101010101010001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110
10001011101010111110101011101011010101001010101010101101001001010011110001111011010101010101
*clicks previous channel*
Sorry.
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*snaps out of it*
Whoa...
Message Edited by DVader539 on 02-27-2004 09:47 AM
Message Edited by DVader539 on 02-27-2004 09:48 AM
You guys keep fiddling around with the binary and agents are going to raid the hall...
Oh wait.