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My backstory... completely robotic.  "Okay.  I'm a robot.  Who's a medic.  Okay.  Medical Robot.  Okay.  Hmmm... What ology sounds cool and / or is terribly offensive?" and we went from there.
 
MaryJane was alot easier.  "Rednecks?  Hey.  Buckcherry is on.  Well.. that solves that!"	
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I try to do it organically.  Three things have to balance out: history, present, and personality.  Any of those three things you want to add something to, you square it with the other two.  I'll use a previous character as an example...
 
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My backstory... completely robotic.  "Okay.  I'm a robot.  Who's a medic.  Okay.  Medical Robot.  Okay.  Hmmm... What ology sounds cool and / or is terribly offensive?" and we went from there.
 
MaryJane was alot easier.  "Rednecks?  Hey.  Buckcherry is on.  Well.. that solves that!"
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My backstory... completely robotic.  "Okay.  I'm a robot.  Who's a medic.  Okay.  Medical Robot.  Okay.  Hmmm... What ology sounds cool and / or is terribly offensive?" and we went from there.
 
MaryJane was alot easier.  "Rednecks?  Hey.  Buckcherry is on.  Well.. that solves that!"
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That makes the most sense to me. I am a very analytical kind of person. Or as my hubby says, I think too much :)
 
So if I wanted to make a back story for my character, I may want to start with those three but add in some of the games lore?
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So, I was thinking of making a joke about this day being a sad day because of something, but I remembered something else much much horrible happened on a 9/11, so instead of saying something unfunny, I'm just gonna make it quick:
 
 
#RidleyForSmash
#KrystalForSmash
#RidleyForMK8DLC
#KrystalForMK8DLC
#LoppForMK8DLC
 
 
*goes to cry on Myala's shoulder*	
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Ok, so yours was 'born' from that the guild wanted but changed to whatever you came up with due to the guild being busy? Do you start a back story prior to a game's release?
 
Do you play all your games like this? Getting your character's story from the game story and lore?
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Ok, so yours was 'born' from that the guild wanted but changed to whatever you came up with due to the guild being busy? Do you start a back story prior to a game's release?
 
Do you play all your games like this? Getting your character's story from the game story and lore?
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Buckcherry is on?
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That makes the most sense to me. I am a very analytical kind of person. Or as my hubby says, I think too much :)
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*Snip
 
Once I have the character created (hours later...lol), then the character's story develops as I play. I don't really create a back story for my characters, as I usually look at my characters as extensions of my own personality, rather than their own beings, but they usually do evolve as I learn the game's lore.
 
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Chua finally finished attunement!
Now Chua can start exploring Genetic Archives:
 	
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Chua finally finished attunement!
Now Chua can start exploring Genetic Archives:
 
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			Grats fellow Chua! Now go kill the Phagelord and mount her head on your wall! For science!The more I log on my Dominion character, the more depressing it gets. So lonely. No will to level an Exile Esper either because A Helping Hand is still bugged. Maybe after it gets fixed in 2-3 weeks? I know I would not be left in the dust because Rocio <3	
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Grats fellow Chua! Now go kill the Phagelord and mount her head on your wall! For science!
 
The more I log on my Dominion character, the more depressing it gets. So lonely. No will to level an Exile Esper either because A Helping Hand is still bugged. Maybe after it gets fixed in 2-3 weeks? I know I would not be left in the dust because Rocio <3
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			I know about the workaround but I have no idea if it still applies. More importantly, if it does still apply, I have to find someone willing to sacrifice himself for me.	
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			What is Helping Hands? I never had a problem with that quest.	
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Late for coffee, I was at work for most of the day.  
 
In any case, I'm glad people remember.  I was - well, old enough *not* to be in school at the time, but on my way to a work meeting when the first plane hit.  The meeting organizer was really mad when after someone came in and told us about the second, we all pretty much got up and walked out of the meeting to watch tv.  I lived in Boston at the time, but was commuting fairly regularly down I-95 to visit friends and family on weekends - and for weeks afterwards, you'd still see the smoke and the ruins of the towers.  I can't remember how long it actually was, but - I couldn't conceive of anything burning that long.
 
I now work in DC, teaching at a government college.  I have friends and coworkers in my building who lost friends at the Pentagon that day, and every year we have a moment of silence at the exact time.  Every year when I drive past the Pentagon on my way home, there's a large flag hung.  Today on the 14th Street bridge, it was covered in small little flags.
 
My husband (who I hadn't then met) lived in NYC, and like many others enlisted for the Army.  He began basic training for Infantry when he was 30 - trust me, basic for Infantry's hard enough when you're 18 or 22, let alone 30!  But he made it, and we actually had to cut our wedding plans off and elope when his unit got an early deployment date to go to Afghanistan.  (Fun fact: Yours Truly was married in a Fayetteville jail....How's *that* for a Johnny Cash song?)  So my first year of marriage was spent long-distance, hoping and praying he'd come home safe.  One night, after a big combat firefight somewhere near where he was stationed (thanks, never-ending news cycle!) I saw a car pull into my driveway, and sit out there for a few minutes with its headlights on.  I was a mess - gasping, desperately thinking, No, please no....turns out it was a lost person turning around, and not the Chaplain and another officer coming to tell me that my husband had been KIA.
 
He did make it home safely (I'm pleased to report), but many in his group didn't.  Some have since chosen tragically to end their lives even after getting home - the adjustment can be very difficult for a lot of folks.  There have been many people lost, on all sides, and many lives changed forever.  But there were - I believe - good things too.  He still tells fond stories of walking little girls to school for the first time in their lives, or of the excitement when the population had their first vote and how many people were running around with inked thumbs in the air.
 
I hope nobody construed this as political - that wasn't my intention!  I tried very hard to keep it politically neutral and not takes sides on right or wrong, war, politics, any of it. Heck, I don't even know which side to choose!  Hubby's ex-Army, I'm a professor, you might call us a "mixed marriage" when it comes to politics. :D  My hope - especially since it sounds like a lot of folks were pretty young when this happened - is to maybe personalize it a bit more with the experiences of people whose lives were both directly and indirecty affected by the events of that day.
 
It's a day that changed a lot of lives, my own included, and one I'll certainly always remember.
 
(I have, however, been taunting my husband mercilessly since this afternoon when - in spite of his service and all - he admitted to me he was walking past Capitol Hill and wondered why the flags were at half mast this morning....*headdesk*  Most of my work afternoon was sending him various /facepalm images.  A picture really IS worth a thousand words!)	
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What is Helping Hands? I never had a problem with that quest.
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It is a quest in Galeras where you have to heal wounded soldiers on the battlefield. They are bugged though ; you do not get credit when healing them.
 
Got my Esper alt on the Exiles to Northern Wilds. Waiting by the Exo-Lab for a scientist to come around and open the door. I dislike moving on from the starting zones without 100% completion. I could be there a while...
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I've done that quest thrice through now.  I haven't had a problem.  Are you using the correct item?  The critically wounded ones don't need the salve, they need paddles.  The others don't need paddles, they need salve.  If this is the right quest I'm thinking of.
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 Wrong quest but same area. The broken quest is the one where you are on the battlefield with the wounded soldiers and Dominion enemy units.
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			I am on Evindra. The old workaround required someone else who is on the quest. You would group up, get the other person to start channeling the "help" on a wounded soldier and you would start channeling soon after. Once the channeling ended, you would get credit but the other person would not.	
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I am on Evindra. The old workaround required someone else who is on the quest. You would group up, get the other person to start channeling the "help" on a wounded soldier and you would start channeling soon after. Once the channeling ended, you would get credit but the other person would not.
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			Just a sec, they fixed Helping hands,either two or three times now. Before that last time I was one of those stuck and the grouping thing didn't work.	
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			I know it broke once, they fixed it, it broke again, they fixed it and it apparently broke again.	
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I really should have been in bed hours ago.
 
Anyway, flydeck is up and about as far as I'm going to be able to push it tonight.  Meeting is still tomorrow at 9pm for anyone who is a member or wants to join the guild.
 
For now, I've got to crash.	
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