So I'll just let these images stand in place of words until I have them.
( images herein )

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TL;DR: READ THE ABOVE ANYWAY, SLACKER.

You can only just barely see her pigtails sticking out from all the buffs, but here she is! Pollyanna Matronic! My bots/poison mastermind, my global's namesake and my very very first level 50.

( Yay! )

( My latest character to reach level 50 is also one of my oldest... )

So, I've been running Lady Winter and Baby New Year missions today, and while fighting Snaptooth and his killer snow goons, I finally (at long last, long after everyone had given up hope) got my Gravity/Empathy Controller Rowena up to 50!

No screen caps, sadly. Too slow on the Print Screen button.

after 466 hours "on patrol"

41 months of paid time

69 months of calendar time

I finally got Cordovan Sev, my fire/EM tanker, to 50. I can still call myself a 'casual player', right?

And: Thank y'all for the repeated "welcome back" comments, after I showed up in game all of a sudden. It felt very nice to be remembered.

The wedding proposal between Gaia Stormsoul and Strongwall defeated an incursion by the heretofore unknown "NCSoft" aspect of Rularuu today in Atlas Park (Virtue):
( Apologies to those who can't see images from my server. )

So, let me tell you all a little story, about a Mutation Claws/Regen Scrapper named Agamemnon Xanathos.

( There's the little fella )

This evening I got my second 50 after 75 months. Another scrapper, Itland (known from my global handle.)

( Mandatory self-congratulatory dingpic inside cut. )

So after

FIVE

YEARS

of off-and-on playing, Speed McGee is FINALLY a Hero of the City. DING FIFTY BABY!