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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2013, 07:09:08 AM »
One of Virtue's Finest. I never grouped with, or met him, but my partner in Vidding did. My condolences to the family and friends. Awesome "K" I'm sure feels the same way.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2013, 07:11:47 AM »
This was a shock.

Something else he did was make a comic out of CoH, titled Quiver. It was really good. I was always kinda hoping he would continue it. Just in case anyone wants it:

http://cohcomicindex.com/comics/quiver/Quiver-01.pdf

He was talented and intelligent.
He will be missed.


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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2013, 07:37:55 AM »
For those who are looking for the costume, this is the version that works with the i24 beta client:

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2013, 07:45:19 AM »
I (and not for the first time since shutdown) am pining for the ability to play through the Saul Rubenstein Discount Task Force. Such a pinnacle of our community and sorely missed already.
I have a video of one of my characters playing the Saul Rubenstein's Discount Task Force in AE, from start to finish, pausing at every dialog screen so that it can be read, recorded in the best resolution my (brand new at the time) custom-made gaming PC could handle.  It's among 2TB worth of video I haven't yet sorted and uploaded to YouTube for the CoH community.  Hopefully next year I will finally have some time to find it and upload it.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2013, 07:53:40 AM »
I have a video of one of my characters playing the Saul Rubenstein's Discount Task Force in AE, from start to finish, pausing at every dialog screen so that it can be read, recorded in the best resolution my (brand new at the time) custom-made gaming PC could handle.  It's among 2TB worth of video I haven't yet sorted and uploaded to YouTube for the CoH community.  Hopefully next year I will finally have some time to find it and upload it.

I would love to see that. Never heard of it before, otherwise I would have tried it before shut down.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2013, 07:56:46 AM »
In CoH's last few months, I made it a point to try to meet and spend time (and RP) with a few people I'd always heard so much about (kind of a super hero bucket list thing); sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't, but Ascendant was more than obliging. We befriended each other and the first few times we hung out, he played Ascendant and I played Captain-Electric and the super hero improv comedy that ensued really seemed to entertain people. I thought it was funny that both our characters had a long-established end-goal in mind, to solve the problem of entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe. You don't meet other people with that goal every day!

Later, he let me meet a few of his other characters, and vice versa. As it turned out, Ascendant was an excellent RPer, and a versatile one. If you wanted to play super heroes like straight out of the comic books, super heroic or villainous, he had a character for it.

One night I showed up in Pocket D; Ascendant was upstairs at the bar and everyone was being goofy, when he started sending me tells, just chatting about movies and TV shows and stuff. Normal stuff. We chatted for a few hours, and I had that kind of thing that Tony mentioned above, feeling stupidly giddy about an MMO celebrity, and just trying to play it normal. "OK, I'm chatting with Ascendant about stuff. Totally normal."

Over the following weeks, I got to know him a little bit, on a superficial level at least. I often wondered who this guy really was (I never knew his real name until reading Tony's post). It became apparent that Ascendant had an encyclopedia for a brain and an uncanny knack for seeing straight through plot lines and plot devices. I wouldn't have been surprised if he turned out to be some famous writer. You know, the way he stood out so well, and was so entertaining with his character? That wasn't just because he'd luckily hit on some iconic nerve with that character and Saul and the phone call macros. No matter what character he used, he was really darn good at drawing people in, making them feel good, and sharing stories with them.

In the course of going through my super bucket list, I'll tell ya, I met quite a few personalities who seemed to have gained some manner of celebrity through the size and sheer determination of their egos. But the thing I discovered that made Ascendant "worth all the press" was that he didn't put himself in the center of the room--we did; but for his part, he spent a lot of time shining the spotlight on the people around him, lifting them up as much as he could, and displaying as much embarrassment as he could when people groveled.

As much as it's generally accepted to exaggerate someone's kinder qualities in the wake of their passing, there's simply no need to in Ascendant's case. He was one of the nicest, most humble people I ever met in Paragon City.

Well, except in the case of his main villain, Doctor Crom--you needed to watch yourself around him.  ;)

I wasn't going to mention this, but the last time I hung out with Ascendant, he was playing Doctor Crom. He was very fond of that character. A truly evil villain, you can read about him on Ascendant's Virtueverse page. I was playing Bane-Spider, my Arachnos agent. It was very close to CoH's closing date. Slowly, the group we had been RPing with had tapered off for bedtime, and at the end, tired and bleary-eyed, Doctor Crom and Bane Spider bid their farewell for the evening too--by hurling villainous commentary at one another, of course. And of course, I had no idea that it would be our last conversation. Two villains, parting ways in an empty interdimensional night club. Much like this whole shutdown situation with City of Heroes, it doesn't feel like the right ending note to our short-lived friendship. I'm sure that if Ascendant were here, he'd lighten things up, with a friendly remark or a well-timed joke. But I echo the sentiment that he was part of the city; and just like the city, I'll always feel like we shouldn't have lost him in the first place.

/em holdtorch

I hope Ascendant gets his memorial. Doctor Crom, too.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2013, 08:39:36 AM by Captain Electric »

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2013, 08:03:35 AM »

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2013, 08:04:10 AM »
I never knew Ascendant, nor even spoke to him. I used to "overhear" these conversations of his on a fairly regular basis, but I never managed to catch them completely from beginning to end. That is until he finally started a thread on the forums and published his scripts.

For me, Ascendant was every bit as much a part of City of Heroes as Longbow or the contacts that I talked to. What he did really brought Paragon City alive for me.

Godspeed Ascendant. May you find a better manager in that Paragon City in the sky.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2013, 09:21:03 AM »
I'm just so, so sorry to hear this. I achieved one of my COH dreams in AP33, and was present for an Ascendant phone call - the one to NC Soft. I was pretty much like a giddy schoolgirl the whole time.

It's so sad. My thoughts are with everyone who knew him.
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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2013, 10:06:08 AM »
Oh... oh, this makes my heart hurt all over again.

I can still remember the first time I caught one of his phone calls. I couldn't stop talking to my husband about how hilarious it was! So long ago, this was, goodness, so very long ago, right at the very beginning of his rise to fame - around the time people were noticing it and right before the first post about it on the forums. I think I even posted in that thread, with an "OMG I saw that too! It was great!" or some such fangirly nonsense.

In all the months my husband played, he never managed to bump into Ascendant's act, but I kept catching tail ends of the legendary phone calls, and they made me grin every time.

You will always be a bright memory for me, Tre. You were honestly and truly super.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2013, 10:22:06 AM »
 :'(
I just got in from a long day (it's 6Am here)...
Just learned of this sad news.

I only got to meet him a few times, in-game, and only exchanged a few words with him, unfortunately.
We spent a tiny amount of time together after the shutdown announcement, but nothing personal. I was just thrilled to have my main meet his, in character... and to chat briefly out of character. We were both very much in shock about the news.

After the shutdown, I actually had a chance to talk in a group of people, with him included... and I really got to see (more so) that he was a very friendly, intelligent and considerate person.
I was hopeful that we might hit it off a tiny bit and I'd possibly have more interactions with him.

The first time I heard of Ascendant, one of my SG members was screaming in our global chat that ASCENDANT IS IN ATLAS PARK!! TALKING ON THE PHONE!!!! NOW WAY!!! COME QUICK!!


Hahaha... I later learned who he was and all the history involved.


When I ran into him after the shutdown announcement... I caught his phonecall performance to NCSoft... It hit me so hard.


So, yes, he was a true CoH celebrity, no question there... even to the Developers and the game itself. :)
That really only matters because of one thing... he became a celebrity by entertaining us. Not by being paid and all that, like most entertainment celebrities.
He absolutely sought to give us even more enjoyment from our CoH experience.

Anyway, I don't have much else to say or much to speak from.

As much as he meant to us and our community, I can only imagine who he was amongst his friends and his family.
My heart goes out to all those affected, save but a tiny piece for my own sadness in his passing.

Thank you, Tre.
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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #31 on: June 20, 2013, 10:33:32 AM »
I believe I found a picture of him here:

http://www.meetup.com/TheGamers/members/77412372/

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #32 on: June 20, 2013, 10:42:30 AM »
I feel bad for being so ignorant of the game I love so much.

I always assumed the NPCs asking about Ascendant were talking about that Council enemy, not a player.

Still, a terrible loss. 2013 is not a good year for these sorts of things.
All that I'm after is a life filled with laughter

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2013, 11:22:01 AM »
Ran into Ascendant a few times on Virtue, and in every case he was great fun to talk to and hang out with. Just an all around great, likable guy.

When we get our home back in whatever fashion, I expect something there for Ascendant, he should always be in CoH in some way.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #34 on: June 20, 2013, 11:43:37 AM »
I remember him showing up at my first Golden Age Festival on Virtue, and Chernobyl Cheerleader walked up to him in awe (much like myself). I even got the autographed picture. He had a talent everyone could recognize, and I could only wish I could be half as good as.

I'm still having a hard time believing this.  :(

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #35 on: June 20, 2013, 12:34:15 PM »
Aw man, it was people like him that made the game come alive.
Such sad news.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #36 on: June 20, 2013, 01:21:09 PM »
Any member of our great community passing is a tremendous loss.
Always, friend!

/em holdtorch

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #37 on: June 20, 2013, 01:33:54 PM »
I met him as the Rikti invaded. It was the last day of CoH Beta, and the Motherships came down. And one guy stood up and gave a speech. I thought he was a dev at first. And we stuck together the whole evening. And we fought them from the tram, and we fought them on the sides of Steel Canyon, and we fell back, block by block, to the hospital, fighting them in the lobby and the medical room. And we pushed them back together, and made it back to the tram, and moved on to clear King's Row.

He was always able... well. You know who he was. He was Ascendant, and he was a friend, and I miss him very much.


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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #38 on: June 20, 2013, 01:42:29 PM »
/e HoldTorch for our honored dead.

Someday I hope to play under that "Ascendant Ancestor" statue, and a story will be told to all who would listen. 
Bonus points if it somehow has blockier textures than the rest of the game around it.

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Re: /e HoldTorch for one of our own: Ascendant
« Reply #39 on: June 20, 2013, 02:02:11 PM »
It's the flipside of the coin that having such a wonderful and long standing community that we will also have to endure the grief when one of us is lost. They will of course live on in our fondest memories.

I think it was my fourth day in Paragon city when I was headed to KR via the Atlas Tram and there he was, already into his "phone call" to Uncle Saul. It took a little while to realize he was another player and not some bit of comedic genius on behalf of the devs. We spoke a few words when he was done and I don't need to repeat what a genuine and nice guy he truly was.

I added him to my friends list and for years it would always make me smile to see his name popup in my list. We never got to interact much but I did stop and encourage others to listen in every time I caught his "phone call".

Rest in peace.