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Since it’s almost time for the Stonehenge GPP, I thought I would make a little game that people might be interested in trying. I remember last year on the video stream, the two hosts were in a competition to see who could find the Sword of Kings fastest. I’d like to see if we can do it with the whole community.

Your time starts as soon as you enter Stonehenge Base. Post how long it took for you to get the Sword of Kings and we’ll see who can get it the fastest. We can also discuss what strategies or other challenges (e.g. No Casey Bat) you’re doing alongside it.

Results:
1. rune_devros – 10 minutes (First Starman Super battle)
2. PSI Guy – 10 minutes
3. Greiv – time > 10 minutes
4. questionsleep – 15 minutes
5. PSIpickle – 20 minutes
6. The Pig King – 10 to 20 minutes
7. Hockey Monkey – 30 min < time < 60 min
8. blrasmu – 1 hour, 55 minutes, and 39 seconds
9. npc – 5 hours
10. PK Jovis – “Spent like all of today getting the Sword of Kings” (Ness Level 84)

I believe that we have a winner. Do you have a rough time of how long it took to get to the first Starman Super from the time you entered the Stonehenge Base? I kind of want to make a list of everyone’s time.

Greiv:

This is what happened on my current play-through.

Walk into place with Starman Supers.
First battle.
SWORD OF KINGS.

Too easy.

I was actually running around in circles in disbelief when it happened. STILL CAN’T GET OVER IT.

Heh, that happened to me on a previous playthrough. After that, I still wanted to get some level-ups, and I ended up getting another one. Que me freaking out beyond all possibility XD.

Ness got to level 90 and then I gave up.

Sorry, I actually don’t know, but it was more than 10 minutes for sure. I haven’t played EB in a long time so I explored every corner.

I got it really early on. Like, 10 minutes?

It took me about five hours and around 650 battles containing Starman Supers before I finally got one. Ness was level 92. I owned for the rest of the base!

Got it on my own without trying very much – didn’t even know about this thread. I’d say from beginning trying on the bridge, to acquiring it, it took about 15 minutes. I was just about to give up, as I didn’t care to try very long.

I can’t remember exactly what time I did it in, but I think it was somewhere around ten or twenty minutes. Maybe half an hour.

11:58 – went into the base
12:07 – reached Starman Super hunting grounds
12:29 – dad calls, I figure I should try a few more times and then reset to preserve my low levels.
12:35 – Jeff spies on a super, finds a present!
12:35 1/2 – gleeful dancing
12:36 – “Inside the present, there was a Super Bomb!”
12:36 1/4 – cursing at the terrible man who invented Atomic Power Robots and switching off the console in disgust.

I’ll try again tonight!

^ That’s happened to me before! It is definitely totally 100% lame.

Didn’t happen this time, though. Ten minutes getting in, ten minutes hunting, found it, ten minutes beating SMDX and going back to the lab to save. Total actual hunting time: about forty minutes. That’s slightly better than average to my mind.