Hey There

External Since: Apr 24, 2007 Posts: 203

On Mar 26, 9:33 pm, "Mark" <bongof... RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:
> Hey There
>
> Well I'm back to D2/LoD again after a foray into, gasp, other games.
>
> Played Travian for a while. A very fun game. But it's quite insidious. It
> starts off as simple and quite slow, but it grows and takes up more and more
> of your time. Till it pushes out all your other gaming time and starts
> taking time away from real world activities. I was running an alliance with
> almost 200 members. We were late starters to the world so we were far out
> classed by the major powers of the world. But the world was so evenly
> divided that we were in a power position. I ended up spending the vast
> majority of my time running the alliance and playing world politics, and
> didn't have time to actually play my cities and properly manage my armies.
> And RL was being neglected. So I transferred my account to someone else in
> the alliance and walked away clod turkey. Overall it was a VERY good time,
> but just too much of a time commitment to continue.
>
> I then moved to Civilization III. An old game, but I had never tried the Civ
> series. It is another good game. A turn based simulation rather than a Real
> Time Simulation like Starcraft/Warcraft. But it's more diplomacy and
> culturally driven than a pure wargame, so it's not exactly my cup of tea. I
> like a more hardcore wargame. But I still enjoy it. I just play a Communist
> government and wage constant war.
>
> So I came back to a comfortable old friend. And I was quite happily amazed
> to see that I could recover all my expired characters. Something new? It's
> wonderful because I had just re-established the basics in the new ladder
> before I wandered off. I have a MF Sorc to run Hell Mephy for items, a
> Trapper to run Keys, a Skellimancer to turn Keys into Organs, a Smiter to
> hunt Clones and run UT, and the usual slaves; Chanter and BO Barb. So with
> all the basics I get to come back and play fun toons. So I started a Bowler.
> I played one with Spook and Cinna last ladder, and he was a blast, so I want
> to try to Guardian one now. I blasted him through Normal and started to
> actually play him in NM. A1 went well, no real problems. The little monsters
> take multiple hits from my Boulders and generally die with 1 or 2. Bigger
> monsters take more, but with a merc and Grizzly to keep them busy it's no
> problem. I'm sure by late NM early Hell it's going to get tough, but that's
> what I'm looking for.
>
> So it's good to be back to D2/LoD, and it's good to see most of the usual
> suspects still posting here. If anyone is playing EHCL, give me a yell and
> I'll keep an eye out for you. I've run into Art a few times already.
>
> Regards-
> Mark
> Bongo Fury

BONGO!!!

Okay so on the course of your journeys through other games when are
you going to peruse through the one I and my wife and Nik, yes Nik,
are playing.

Nik is running dungeons with me and my wife.

There is still a possibility that nobody from D2 has played in here
with Nik other than my wife and I.

100 free cracked sashes in a Horadric cube to the first one who does.

And I'm not sure how you are running into Art, he is over in my neck
of the woods a lot. Well maybe he has two PCs up and running next to
each other and has figured out a lefty/righty procedure for running
Nilly in D2 and farming Primal Earth in WoW.

Hey great to see you!

OH! OH! OH!

Orion

External Since: Apr 24, 2007 Posts: 203

On Apr 3, 12:38 pm, "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnel....RemoveThis@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> Orion Ryder <orionry....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote innews:258d8873-c8b0-42b0-a80f-21c7c32ef97f@m71g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
>
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> > On Mar 26, 9:33 pm, "Mark" <bongof....RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Hey There
>
> > BONGO!!!
>
> > Okay so on the course of your journeys through other games when are
> > you going to peruse through the one I and my wife and Nik, yes Nik,
> > are playing.
>
> > Nik is running dungeons with me and my wife.
>
> > There is still a possibility that nobody from D2 has played in here
> > with Nik other than my wife and I.
>
> > Orion
>
> If I recall correctly Nik was on your lap the first time you and I killed
> Baal together in HC, and on several occasions thereafter. Whether that
> counts as playing with him or not, I'm not sure!
>
> Hey, Orion!
>
> Mark.
>
> *TymmeRMortis
> *AveAtqueVale
> --
> While I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making
> the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short
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Hey there Tymme,

Yeah Nik was there when I killed HC Diablo for the first time and you
had EmmaPeel laying down the traps whilest my zealing paladin was
wahcking away at him when he was not retreating for a brief moment and
quaffing down a purple. Now that was one of the most intense battles
in my life.

Many played with Nik watching D2 and once I let Nik take the reins
when Rob and I were doing UberTristram in SC, once Meph was down.

I was referring to all the refuges who left Lut Gholien for Azeroth.
I'm not sure if any of the refuges had played yet in the new world
where Nik and I and the Mrs run around.

Ald might get a chance to be the first from D2 or maybe Kasmir or
Whitedog. We shall see.

Hey you must be getting ready to fire up your hog and cruise the
highways and byways soon, eh?

Nice chatting with you.

Give 'em hell!

Orion