I had a very busy last day on the game, almost too busy. There were some things I wanted to do that I still managed not to get done, but I accomplished most of what I set out to do.
I spent most of the final day as as my newest level 50 "I L L Y R I A", over on Virtue. After midnight EST as the 29th turned into the 30th, I was part of a successful TPN trial, followed by successful BAF and Lambda Trials. The BAF got me a Very Rare that I needed to get my Interface slot to T-4. Following that I hopped over to AP33 to see the crowd gathered on the steps, including the ever-present and indefatigable Captain Bacon. From there I headed to Perez Park and began to lay waste to the assembled mobs of Skulls there. I quickly got the "Bonecrusher" Badge, and before signing out I got myself 10 Skulls away from the "Kill Skuls" badge.
By this point it was after 4am, and I was tired. So I logged out there in Perez, went to bed, got up and started again at around 11am. I immediately logged on, wiped out a final mob of Skulls for the badge, and from there I went to PI and called for players to join me for PI radio missions and quick XP. I quickly filled the team, and for the next 2 hours I we started clearing out the PI radio missions easily, and eventually switched up to doing Tips missions. Anytime I lost a player, I would call for more and would quickly get the replacements needed to keep the team at a full 8 players. During this time I got 1 level 49 player to 50, and had a wonderful time all-around with players like Blight Dire, Karina Valentine, Lady Kimiko, Kinetic Motion, Cyndi's Last Defendr, Circutron 3000, and Brick Shield.
From there I went to the Victory server to get shots of my characters there in their multiple costumes on their Character ID page. Unfortunately, PSP crashed and I lost about 70 screenshots, so I had to scramble after that, and ended up setting for shots of single costumes instead for most of them.
That done, I went back to Virtue, where I joined Xian Talon, Sway Archer, and Evil Brain Eraser for an Eden trial which we completed successfully, and after that I joined a group to take down Lusca in IP and soon after saw War Witch in AP 3, and then joined a MoM Trial that failed. I followed that with a mission in DA, and planned to join an UG Trial, and that's when the first big server-crash took Virtue down. After getting logged back in, a second crash took Virtue down again, and then I realized that my plan to end the game with "I L L Y R I A" was in possible jeopardy. So, I moved my first 50 "Avatar of RA/Ra's Avatar" back to Pinnacle where he had originated as a backup measure.
From there I captured more images of my alts on Virtue, breezed through a demo-recorded street-sweep and tour of Atlas Park as "I L L Y R I A", and spent some time in the "Matrix Room" as "Pete P. Powers", before leaving Virtue to say final goodbyes on Victory, Pinnacle, and Champion, where I did more screen-captures and fly-by demo-recordings. That done, and with only 28 minutes or so remaining before the world went dark, I again returned to Virtue briefly, until cast-off by another major server crash.
With 8 minutes to spare, I tried to return, but the delay proved to great to risk for long. I backed up, logged onto Pinnacle to spend the last minutes as "Avatar of RA". And as I said in another thread, this was, perhaps, the most fitting of ends for myself as Paragon bid us its big goodbye. At 12:59 PST I hit "self destruction" on the Atlas city-hall steps, and then, as a reflection of my hopes for a possible future with this game in it, I hit "Rise of the Phoenix", and stood once more...until the server shut down for the final time.
