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Community => City of Heroes => Topic started by: Garble on July 31, 2014, 01:40:15 AM
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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]]
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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)
One 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)
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Sorry to hear that man. We'll all team up again someday.
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How sad to hear. My condolences to his friends and family.
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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.
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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
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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. :-*
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I hate hearing about the community losing members.. We will mention this on my show tonight. :( RIP, good sir.
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Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
/em Holdtorch
RIP FirePlug
:'(
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RIP Fireplug and when the game come back on line I will go Kill Skulls in your honor
Until that time Rest
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RIP Fireplug.
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RIP Fireplug, may the community of city of heroes remember you for as long as it exists :)
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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.
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RIP fellow hero. My deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. You're in my thoughts and prayers.
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Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
next year in paragon.
R.I.P. fellow hero.
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Aw man... :'(
We'll all Go Hunt, Kill Skuls in his honor someday.
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Fireplug?
Man! The next Skull I see...*POW!* RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
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Another fallen hero. Sad...
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Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
/em Holdtorch
RIP FirePlug
:'(
This.
My condolences and prayers to him and the family/friends.
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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.
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FirePlug's legacy will live on every time we say "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls."