Midnight Rider Solos VP lol!

[~Scarlet~]

I have had this bug lately, bored, idea's running around my little head about soloing. Needed a challenge. Been vping and cfoing the last week as I pretty much depleted my unites and SOS's doing 2 man coins and A DA's with Scarlet. I had NO desire to solo so I wasted a good majority of them!

Got lucky this morning and got 3 toon-up unites, 2 max and 1 40. I had an 80 and 2 10 already. I only had 2 bessies, 2 flippys, 1 franz, but had a bunch of Moe's and LOM's, and Clara which I wasn't really relying on, oh and 1 madam chuckle which I had wanted to exchange for a daffy, but no luck.

So I came back here and started looking at what other people ACTUALLY used for their solo's... I was itching to go.

I had 5 petes, a bunch of gag up squirt's, throws and a couple gag up all's so figured maybe I could rely on good fashioned gags for what I was lacking in SOS's. I was determined not to use any level 7's (because Calvin says that's cheating lol) so they were out.

I rebooted, fed and scratched my doodle and decided I was going to give it a go.

The cogs actually were a blast. The only SOS I used was a pete to restock at the end and that horrid madam chuckle. My lovely doodle did a fantastic job and kept me tooned the rest of the time.

I started using as much squirt as possible knowing I was probably going to use a gag up. I got lucky and squirted and dropped my way through the first half of the cogs. Once I gagged up squirt I switched to throw and once again when I had done all I could do with the throw I had I used a gag up throw. When I ran out of cakes and was very low on lure I called pete who only gave me one blue magnet!!!!!!

I kept 2 or 3 small cogs with me most of the way. Amazingly the cog half of the battle finished much sooner than I expected. I ended up with 4 small cogs so I lured them. Having just called pete only a few cogs ago my gags were pretty full so I doodled till I was full and then used up seltzer bottles and fruit pies to free up some room for lure. Since I had 3 gag up lures and 5 LOM's I was not overly concerned about wasting so I gagged up my lure, got some blue magnets (just in case) and killed the last cog.

Unites used:
Gag up squirt
Gag up throw
Gag up lure

SOS Used:
Pete
Madam Chuckle (ugh)

The skele's were actually a lot of fun too. What a challenge trying to figure out the best way to get rid of them and take the least damage. Once again I relied a lot on the gags I came with combined with, 1 gag up throw, some SOS's and it was done before I knew it! My great little doodle helped keep me tooned along with one max toonup and 1 flippy. I really did not take as much damage as I thought I would! Maybe I got lucky. I got a couple lines of 8's which I fogged, lured tooned and fogged again. Easy. I tried to hit a lone 12 then drop a piano on him. That worked pretty well too. My birthday cake is organic so that took care of 8 or 9 11's.

Unites Used:

Max toonup
Gag up throw

SOS Used:
1 Franz
1 LOM
1 Flippy
1 Pete
2 Mo Zart
1 Bessie

and a ton of doodle calls

Now we come to pies, well anyone who knows me knows I have a severe gear avoidance issue, so this is the part I was worried about. I have also been lagging terrible in the vp lately which doesn't help. I had been vping all week trying to really practice keeping far enough back that I had room to move forward when gears were being thrown at me. Did that practice pay off, well maybe lol. I had a terrible time getting him down the ramp and at one point he started going back up and he got MAD!

I tried changing views so I could see him better but that messed me up even more lol, missed a few jumps, got creamed, but got him down the ramp finally. At that point I used a toon up unite since I had extra and was seriously starting to freak... once he was down the first ramp I got out of that horrid view and it was pretty much smooth sailing from there. I got out of there with 54 lp's (woot).

Overall it was a lot of fun and a great challenge. Did I need more practice at pies, yep, but I didn't care, I wanted to go Special thanks to Calvin who spent a lot of time giving me tips and encouragment. Also a big thanks to Kev and Mary (and Calvin again) for our little training run lol, that was fun

Here's some pic's if anyone wants to take a peek. I had a TON of screenshots of the battles (was calm, cool and collected there) but when it came to pie's, I was loosing it and only a few times thought to press f9!

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/0-bye.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/1-solo.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/2-pete.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/3-doodle.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/4-halfway.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/5-mozart.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/6-bessie.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/6-pete.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/7-LOM.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/8-flippy.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/9-done.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/10-ramp.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/11-pad.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/12-edge.jpg

http://www.extremethemes.net/tt/13-dance.jpg

[Mid Knight]

Wow! Way to go Gail! Sorry I havent been on Mid Knight Jr lately!! Been busy ya kno! Also, im grounded from computer for who knows how long! lol Anyways, Way to go on Solo! Guess ill c ya around!

-MiM!C

[Sunlyt]

Congratulations on soloing VP

[Blinky Trickyspinner]

That was fun to read It looks like your Moe Zart back-fired on you, using him on level 12's, ouch, that probably cost you a unite

Congrats!

[jkid]

Owoooo!! I wanted to be the next to solo VP!!


Ah well, you were better than me and TOTALLY deserved it. I liked reading what happened in there. And I will definitely check out this thread for what you used when I am looking for more Unites/SOS strategies.

Great job!

[~Scarlet~]

Originally Posted by Blinky Trickyspinner

That was fun to read It looks like your Moe Zart back-fired on you, using him on level 12's, ouch, that probably cost you a unite

Congrats!

lol, yea... I was in a bit of a bind there with all those 12's. Up until that point they had been mixed in with smaller cogs (lucky again). If I had tried to take them out one at a time they would have come unlured and I would have got hit anyhow. Since I hadn't used a toonup unite yet, and was a little impatient to get rid of them, and knew I was getting close to the end, I decided to just damage them all and the use one of my max toonups. Worked well because I used the unite after the 3rd cog hit me and the 4th missed

Keem... grounded! lol... not good!

[DJ Max]

Biggest congratulations!!!

What an awsome accomplishment glad it was fun and went smooth for you !

WTG!

[Ethan12]

it was ok. but u used a lotta sos toons but congrats!

[Princess Pearl Sparkleswirl]

I didn't know you were actually planning on doing it!! You go girl!! Sounds like it was lots of fun! The training session that we had was lots of fun and it helped me alot. Guess you don't need anymore! Congrats again!!
Mary

[~Scarlet~]

Originally Posted by Princess Pearl Sparkleswirl

I didn't know you were actually planning on doing it!! You go girl!! Sounds like it was lots of fun! The training session that we had was lots of fun and it helped me alot. Guess you don't need anymore! Congrats again!!
Mary

It was a lot of fun and I got it out of my system I didn't really want to say anything in case I chickened out. Pies scared me to death though lol... well, you know

[cheese n quackers]

congrats gail!!!! =D great job! you rock!

[Midnite Purr]

Congratulations!!! I really admire your guts to just go for it. I still can't do the close stunning, I can't imagine doing the pie part by myself like that. Now that you have done it, it must be a total relief to know that no matter who you VP with , you will be able to win.

[Good ol' Lefty]

Congratz on such a hard accomplishment! I had no idea you were gunna solo. I hope you had the same rush I first had when I did it. Feels like a rollacoaster eh?

[Crazy Sourgoober]

WOO HOO!!! YAY GAIL!!!

I love it go while im at school!!! Im so happy for you. That is so exciting im sitting on the edge of my seat reading your thread!! Sorry about earlier i was in such a rush! WOW you solod? YOU ROCK!!!!!! I just cant believe it. Oh and btw when you want to solo the cfo try not to tell me cause then ill run my big mouth again! Congrats again! I hope it was great for you wish i could have been there cheering you on but i was there in spirit!

Off Topic: Sitting on the edge of my seat thats a Queen song!

[~Scarlet~]

Originally Posted by venommon

WOO HOO!!! YAY GAIL!!!

I love it go while im at school!!! Im so happy for you. That is so exciting im sitting on the edge of my seat reading your thread!! Sorry about earlier i was in such a rush! WOW you solod? YOU ROCK!!!!!! I just cant believe it. Oh and btw when you want to solo the cfo try not to tell me cause then ill run my big mouth again! Congrats again! I hope it was great for you wish i could have been there cheering you on but i was there in spirit!

Off Topic: Sitting on the edge of my seat thats a Queen song!

You WERE there in spirit and it was that spirit that got me through Thanks for the inspiration and for giving me the courage to do it!