Kill Skuls
Overview
On January 8, 2005, user FirePlug posted the following to the CoH forums under the topic, <sigh> Some people don't WANT to play this game:
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FirePlug (From the Official Forums, January 28, 2005) One of my secondaries (or tertiaries, or quarternaries, or whatever) reached level 9 yesterday. He's an Illusion controller, and I gave him the AE blind power.I REALLY wanted to try this in a group, but nobody from my SG was on, so I took the chance of clicking the "seek team" button. I was invited by someone, and immediately saw the group msg "Kill Skuls". I took off across the zone to find the team leader, when I saw someone else enter the team, and the leader again said "Kill Skuls". He was all the way across the zone, so it took me a minute to get to him. I found him in a secluded lot, pressed up against the wall, just standing there. I stood behind him for about three minutes. While I waited, I checked the missions, he had two "skul" missions, and seemed to be just standing there watching the numbers drop on them. |
Later in the same thread, forum user Spoogey reported encountering a similar situation:
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Spoogey (From the Official Forums, January 28, 2005) Heh, a similar thing happened to me in PP with a Controller alt that I had. I accepted an invite from a defender after a long wait with my seek team on.I open up with my typical "Hello". After a long pause I get a "Go. Hunt." hmm, I think. I'm a controller. Wiping out groups in PP sub-level 15 isn't exactly my forte. But, I figure he'll be firing away as a would-be blaster so I pick a group and start locking them down. After returning from my full on sprint to the Gate Guard bots I ask, "Do you plan on helping?" To which I get a "Yes". Then another "Go. Hunt." We picked up another hero along the way and I sent him a tell warning that we might have a leecher. "Ok...." is the response. As the new teammate and I spend way too long trying to take down a green group I ask again, "[defender] do you plan on helping?" After another long pause, "yes. they're too low". This continued for 2-3 more groups before I "had to log". |
This thread and these incidents became a running joke within the CoH player community, though the lines "Go. Hunt." and "Kill Skuls" mutated into a single entity. The "Kill Skuls" joke was made somewhat mainstream by Statesman himself in this post, where he utters, "Two Words: Kill Skuls." in a thread about costumes that had degraded into bickering. The joke was further enshrined into the game with the addition of a badge, then with wall graffiti.