My partner's best friend, Chris just passed away about half an hour ago after nearly a year of fighting esophageal cancer. He had been surviving quite well under chemo, until about 3 weeks ago when he found out it had spread to his liver.
I only met Chris twice. Once at his wedding, where my partner was the best man. And once after traveling to visit him during the start of his chemo.
He was a crazy smart guy with a huge heart and took great care to give his wife and stepkids the best life he could muster.
My partner frequently talked about how much Chris and I were alike in our love of nerdom. When I mentioned how much I loved City of Heroes he very casually commented how he had been the one that posted the "Kill Skuls" comment. He had no idea it would become legend: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls that would become urban slang: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kill%20skuls and inspire a badge: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls_Badge
No one lives forever, but sometimes immortality comes in small and strange ways. To those who knew him directly they will remember what a wonderful guy he was. To anyone who loved City of Heroes, they will remember that one time he got invited by an illiterate leech.
[[EDIT: Fixing links to point to ParagonWiki. Wikia is full of ads and malware. ~Agge]]
Fare thee well, FirePlug. You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten.
The post, saved from the purge (http://web.archive.org/web/20120904172115/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=66448)
QuoteOne of my secondaries (or tertiaries, or quarternaries, or whatever) reached level 9 yesterday. He's an Illusion controller, and I gave him the AE blind power.
I REALLY wanted to try this in a group, but nobody from my SG was on, so I took the chance of clicking the "seek team" button.
I was invited by someone, and immediately saw the group msg "Kill Skuls". I took off across the zone to find the 5b4 team leader, when I saw someone else enter the team, and the leader again said "Kill Skuls".
He was all the way across the zone, so it took me a minute to get to him. I found him in a secluded lot, pressed up against the wall, just standing there.
I stood behind him for about three minutes. While I waited, I checked the missions, he had two "skul" missions, and seemed to be just standing there watching the numbers drop on them.
When I finally figured out that he had no intention of doing ANYTING himself, I did a "/G I should go kill skulls for YOUR missions while you sit in the middle of a lot with you thumb up your *^&%?", and quit the team
Why would anyone even bother to play this game if this is how they are going to do it?
The con men and the conned. I don't understand either one...
FirePlug
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Fire-Plug
Level 30 INV/SS Tank
Protector
Kill Skuls!
(https://paragonwiki.com/w/images//5/59/Badge_villain_skulls.png)
Sorry to hear that man. We'll all team up again someday.
How sad to hear. My condolences to his friends and family.
Quote from: Garble on July 31, 2014, 01:40:15 AM
My partner's best friend, Chris just passed away about half an hour ago after nearly a year of fighting esophageal cancer. He had been surviving quite well under chemo, until about 3 weeks ago when he found out it had spread to his liver.
I only met Chris twice. Once at his wedding, where my partner was the best man. And once after traveling to visit him during the start of his chemo.
He was a crazy smart guy with a huge heart and took great care to give his wife and stepkids the best life he could muster.
My partner frequently talked about how much Chris and I were alike in our love of nerdom. When I mentioned how much I loved City of Heroes he very casually commented how he had been the one that posted the "Kill Skuls" comment. He had no idea it would become legend: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls) that would become urban slang: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kill%20skuls (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kill%20skuls) and inspire a badge: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls_Badge (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls_Badge)
No one lives forever, but sometimes immortality comes in small and strange ways. To those who knew him directly they will remember what a wonderful guy he was. To anyone who loved City of Heroes, they will remember that one time he got invited by an illiterate leech.
[[EDIT: Fixing links to point to ParagonWiki. Wikia is full of ads and malware. ~Agge]]
That sucks. Sorry to hear that. :'( It is an odd sort of immortality to be sure.
He will be mentioned at the end of my show this Saturday on The Cape Radio in memory of all those we have lost.
/e holdtorch
Ashes to ashes,
Pheonyx
I feel for your loss. Reading things like this always reminds me we're all human and limited.
I hope your friend is in CoH, perhaps King Row, if I remember correctly. God Bless. :-*
I hate hearing about the community losing members.. We will mention this on my show tonight. :( RIP, good sir.
Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
/em Holdtorch
RIP FirePlug
:'(
RIP Fireplug and when the game come back on line I will go Kill Skulls in your honor
Until that time Rest
RIP Fireplug.
RIP Fireplug, may the community of city of heroes remember you for as long as it exists :)
I think I recognize that name too, not sure what server it was on because I played on every server, mainly on Justice, Freedom, and Defiant, but even it is still a tragedy happens to one from our community.
RIP fellow hero. My deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. You're in my thoughts and prayers.
Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
next year in paragon.
R.I.P. fellow hero.
Aw man... :'(
We'll all Go Hunt, Kill Skuls in his honor someday.
Fireplug?
Man! The next Skull I see...*POW!* RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
Another fallen hero. Sad...
Quote from: Graphite on August 01, 2014, 07:38:40 PM
Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
/em Holdtorch
RIP FirePlug
:'(
This.
My condolences and prayers to him and the family/friends.
Quote from: hejtmane on August 01, 2014, 07:39:57 PM
RIP Fireplug and when the game come back on line I will go Kill Skulls in your honor
Until that time Rest
This is a fine idea and well keeping in the tradition of what make CoH the game it was and will be again. I knew him not, but I will gladly "arrest" some for him.
FirePlug's legacy will live on every time we say "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls."