Collective Group Hug, Bracing For Impact

[Electric-Knight]

Hey, is it okay if I create this thread... will you all come and huddle up close and be there for me and everyone else.
I'm okay and I'm going to handle this thing fine, but... Yeah, here's an understatement... I'm really not looking forward to this shutdown.

I've not given up hope for a return... I'm still just not looking forward to this. ;)

So... anyone and everyone else in that same boat... huddle up. We can do it. ;)

[Electric-Knight]

I do feel a bit like I'm waiting for a bus in Paragon City.
https://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/ygmypay/EKBusStop01AX800-1.jpg

[Colette]

I'll be in Gemini Park, waiting for the grand reopening.

[Kaiser Tarantula]

I'm going to climb to the highest point in Grandville on the Beta server.  And at the moment the servers are slated to shut down, I'm going to hurl every last vehement, violent, virulent invective I can formulate.

My goals of conquering the world might be foiled, but they'll have to drag me away screaming in a straitjacket to get me to leave.

[Rae]

I'm parking ness at AP33 with her torch.

I don't think I'll be there, my heart can't stand it.

[emu265]

Just hug it out.

[Coulomb]

I'm perched next to Lord Recluse, trying to make small talk.  I'd imagine by now he's wishing the Battalion would get here already and shut me up...

[Lily Barclay]

Parked Jay in city hall where he applied for his hero license. I think Lily is still parked in the hive after her first/last time tanking Hami, which is where I want her.

[Flashtoo]

I have two versions of Edmund, so one of them will be doin his job in the Midnighter Club library while the other stands in AP33 with a torch.

[Nafaustu]

This is so sad.   Every character I had sufficently developed is logged somewhere that is important to them.   Refracted is in Moth cemetary in DA, Victoria is at the rally point in DA helping refugees, Solancia is on Talos where she escaped Cole's tyranny, Fuyusaki is amongst the webbing in Grandville glaring defiantly at the sky...

But Danielle, that's me, is here.   Nafaustu as I will be playing after work, but right now i thank you very much for this post, because I totally need the hug.   Right back at y'all.

[Ironwolf]

I will be in the middle of some huge mob of some sort with Spike the Guppy slashing everything in sight until someone poleaxes me and the system wide failure of medical transporters occurs.

[Surelle]

...I've not given up hope for a return... I'm still just not looking forward to this. ;)

So... anyone and everyone else in that same boat... huddle up. We can do it. ;)

I'm with you on every point.  I've not given up totally either if every possibility is taken into consideration, regardless of what NCSoft would prefer or not, :P  but this still is going to hurt tonight.

But my daughter and I will be there, with bells on, healin', wheelin' and dealin' and or tankin' and spankin' Riktis just the same, until the final gun goes off!

See y'all there!

[SithRose]

You held all my true companions
You were all that mattered
You were all my friends and family
Then our world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your song again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you must help us to do
All that we dreamed we could
Caped heroes and scheming villains
Strong and superhuman, seemed for us the best companions
We had learned to fly.

Too many years fighting back fears
Why can't NCSoft just try?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say, "Goodbye"
Heroes remained, taught us to live
Gave us the strength to try
So many memories, so many silent tears
We never called them wasted years
Help me say, "Goodbye"
Help me say, "Goodbye"

[MishaFox]

*hugs for everyone
I have NOT given up on saving CoH!

[Electric-Knight]

This song is not entirely appropriate, I wrote it about very different things, and I do feel like there's plenty to celebrate and all...
But, I have to be honest and say that it is repeating within me over and over right now.

Maybe some others will find it somewhat comforting to have something to relate to?
http://soundcloud.com/paul-damon-thomas/shroud-only-pain

[Randomvector]

On Guardian we are going to be having one last RWZ Saucer raid. Starting at 11:30 pst so we can be in the bowl fighting the Rikti when the lights go dark.

Go not quiet into that good night, Rage Rage against the fading of the light and all that good stuff.

Then after I cry and sleep I start on my letters to Disney.

[Adelante]

I'm getting ready to leave for work when I realized, totally out of the blue, that my favorite character *EVER*, Buttercupocalypse, had been left redside on Freedom.  At the time (shortly after GR came out) it was just to get the other side's power pools.  But then my friends and I made new characters on Virtue and that became my primary server.  I made a grown-up version of Buttercupocalypse using her 'real' name, Beyn Winters, and have been playing that character there.  But damn if I was going to leave ol' B-Cup sittin' in Red.

I bought the alignment change token with my leftover points and promptly found myself in Atlas Park again.  I recounted the short little story in broadcast.  One person asked who I was talking to, and I got a private message to "Fuck off".

Some things in this game never change, eh?  I guess that's comforting in a way.  I'd post this in the Rude Tells thread, but I doubt anyone'd see it (and it isn't really funny in any sort of way) before the forums go out.

[Woodnimph]

/em hug

This is going to be hard.

[dwturducken]

There are plenty of people to share it with, today. AP 1 & 33 are full, ATM.

[Ichaerus]

I'll be returning to Nova Praetoria, since that's where I entered this world.  I'll most likely be alone, to gaze over everything before I rip open a dimensional portal to hop into, to avoid annihilation.  I truly did love this world, and all the beings that brought joy, anger, amusement, bewildering moments, and great memories.