Ritki Assault = Raw Chaos

So, the kids went to bed last night, Amy went to the grocery store, and I jumped online briefly to see what Issue 10 is all about.

Warnings were plastered in red all over the chat windows about an impending Ritki assault in King's Row, so I high-tailed it over there to see what was what. Apparently, others had the same idea, and the area outside the train station was packed with people spamming "LFT for Ritki" and "LF Bomb Team" on the local and broadcast channels. Finally someone had the bright idea to make a stand at Blue Steel in the center of KR. I went down there along with a stream of other heroes and wound up on a team with 4 other L50's (one of whom SK'd me). After a few minutes of milling about, the Ritki suddenly started teleporting in. At first it wasn't so bad, but more and more and more of them kept warping in. Along with that, heroes from all over the zone found out that the stand was being made at Blue Steel started flying/running/leaping into the fray.

It was lagggggggg city. We probably had 50-60 heroes all in a swirling melee with Ritki all over that platform around the giant coin in the middle of Kings Row. I'd click powers and wait 3-5 seconds for them to fire. It was like watching a slideshow at times. But, it was very cool. If the lag were better, it had all the makings of one of those epic fights that you see in X-Men or the movies with heroes and villains flying everywhere. Also, I had a bitch of a time targeting anything, as stuff was warping in and being taken out so quickly that movement (with the lag factor) was extremely challenging. Sometimes I got there and attacked, sometimes I overshot the target, sometimes they were "arrested" by the time I got there. Utter chaos, I tell ya.

Anyway, it was fun, but not too risky. Maybe with less people it would have been more challenging, but I barely got scratched and I only saw one person go down in the entire fight... We should try it sometime... : )

Cheers!