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Foreword

There are a few things I would like everyone to know before you start reading this

“book”. This was written just to remind us of some of the moments we shared

together. It was not meant to insult or to accuse anyone of being a bad player.

Although most of these episodes happened while we made some mistakes on the

game, they also led to some fun moments. Some of them are not directly connected

to DOTA, some were problems we faced during our calls, so don’t expect that much

information about the game.

I’m not a good storyteller and I have to admit that if you did not take part on some

episodes, you may not find them fun at all. However, almost everyone contributed to

this book and hopefully you will remember some of our adventures.

One last note: I tried to write as much as possible in English but it is not always

possible. Not that I don’t know how to translate them but they would not make sense.

I apologize for that in advance.

So, let us begin!

Have fun!

Nuno a.k.a. Keld

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[Lightning Paragon, the early days]

Introduction: This was written when we were all starting to play DOTA in groups

of 4 or 5. We were really good at this game and so we decided to make a team! Our

dedication exceeded our expectations to the point that we didn’t even play with the

team we made because people left to play League of Legends. This lead Ricardo,

Marco, Saeko, André and Nuno to go on a journey in the world of Dotaland.

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Marco, the Caster

Marco - "O sniper ta com a drow."

Microphone issues nº1: the first remix

Marco - "Eu agora é brutal."

Microphone issues nº2: the remix goes on

Marco - "Eu meto a consola no."

Words of Wisdom: from ignorance sprouts insight

1) Ricardo - "Há os que dizem e os que diguem!"

2) Marco -"Dar perolas a porcos". Porque dar nozes a quem n tem dentes é muito

mainstream

Um mês depois...

Marco - "Ei! Tenho que ir tirar a consola!"

Technical problems: the update

Ricardo: "Não posso fazer update! Não tenho espaço no disco!"

(“I can’t update! I have no space on my hard-drive!”)

Lightning Paragon and Friends:

André - "Tou a falar com o meu próprio amigo."

Lightning Paragon: health care

Ricardo - "Deixa-me ver se consigo beber agua, a bocado não conseguia."

(“Let me see if I can drink water, I couldn’t do it before.”)

Lightning Paragon: Marco being Marco

Marco - "O Ricardo agora é um amazing"

Words of Wisdom: the wisdom sprouts

Ricardo - "Fica a chorar no dedo"

Lighting Paragon: the Pedo strikes

Ricardo - "baba-te que eu gosto"

Lightning Paragon and Friends: All Pick

André - "I'll pick Dendi!"

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[Lightning Paragon, not so early days]

Introduction: Eventually, some people couldn’t keep playing with us as often as we

would like too. Fortunately, we met some new friends! At this point, Casper left the

formal roster of Lightning Paragon, being replaced with Ivo (Teoti). We also met

Xefinho, although we were not playing that much together at the moment. AdmiralG

also joined us from time to time.

We kind of learned some stuff and tried to improve our gameplay. The try-hard mode

was engaged… although it usually would not go as expected…

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Lightning Paragon: Invoker

Marco - "Sae said she likes to play invoker 4.2.4.1 cuz it looks like she is playing

piano."

Ricardo - "I play quas wex invoker!"

Nuno - "ya, QUASE wex …"

Lightning Paragon: Marco being Marco nº2

Marco - "Are you a bobless girl, Rich?"

Rich - "Yeah, I got no Bob!"

Lightning Paragon: ganking plans

Nuno - "Marco, vai ao sniper!"

Marco - "O sniper ta aqui..."

Lightning Paragon: improving communication issues

Saeko - "Marco, dont do that again!"

Marco - "Pois pah esqueci-me de usar os items. Tipo eu queria fazer.."

Nuno - "Ya she got that, totally."

Lightning Paragon: the threat

Marco - "I'm gonna black you all!"

Lightning Paragon: preparations for the game

5 mins before game...

Marco - "STOP IM BLEEDING!"

Nuno - "there goes the first blood..."

Lightning Paragon: Pokemon

Saeko: Rich is retarted at pokemon, he can't even find the first gym.

Nuno:Sae, i gotta say that, this time, you are wrong.

Ricardo: wat

Nuno: rich is retarded. There's no "at" or anything else... thats just it.

Lightning Paragon and friends: The plan

Saeko: BKB ready!

AdmiralG: GO GO GO!

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Lightning Paragon: The Voice

*A wild background voice appears*

Marco: what was that?

André: it was my lil sister.

Ricardo: ooooh lil sister?

André: saeko, get him!

Words of wisdom: Preparing for an exam

"Tudo vale a pena quando a cábula não é pequena"

Lightning Paragon: Marco and the VHS

«Marco (redhellc) Santos: well I used to watch some cassettes from time to time

Marco (redhellc) Santos: now yesterday I wanted to see my pokemon tapes and I

couldn't

Marco (redhellc) Santos: damnit

Marco (redhellc) Santos: I have the first 3 movies, half of the first series and some

episodes of the johto league

Nuno Martins Fernandes: youtube.com

Marco (redhellc) Santos: nah seen oldschool is where its at

Marco (redhellc) Santos: its my childwood man XD

Nuno Martins Fernandes: childwood?

Lightning Paragon: setting the background music, nº1

"Marco: let me change to AC/DC, thats melhor!"

Lightning Paragon: setting the background music, nº2

"Ricardo: Marco? Have you got a CD of Evils Presley?"

Lightning Paragon: New friends!

"bluegreen: mandei-te um peido de amizade pah."

("bluegreen: I sent you a fart of friendship man.")

Lightning Paragon and friends: More mircrophone issues

André: "oawhfakwghawg"

Marco: "O que? O teu pai tinha a régua torta?"

5 mins later...

André: "oawhgwaoigjlwagj"

Marco: "O teu pai tinha o cagatório?"

Lightning Paragon and Friends: foreign languages

Marco: we all got used to brittain english!

Lightning Paragon: Marco's Set up

Sae: MARCO GET ON THE GROUP

Marco: "oh sorry, i didn't see. WAIT, WAIT, I'M NOT READY."

Sae: "Marco was jerkin."

Marco: "I was working, I had the whole thing set up!"

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[Diabolic Synergy – You thought me gone, did you not?]

Introduction: Here I was thinking about giving up on the book. Due to some

computer issues I thought the book was gone but, eventually, a backup file was found

and I got back to work. There were some major changes at this point: Saeko had to

take a break from Dota (BTW, I hope you are doing fine!) and Lightning Paragon

was not the same. Phil started playing on her account and Ricardo found some new

friends and founded the Diabolic Synergy team. This lead to the introduction of

Bluegreen, Smith, Scott and Geinu. Although we were playing mostly with the first

two. Later on, the roster changed with Phil and Nuno joining the team.

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Lightning Paragon: The Comeback is real

Marco: Nuno, estás a reescrever o livro?

Nuno: sim mas é complicado porque perdi 5 páginas.

Marco: deixa lá, no fim deste jogo já recuperas 2.

RV7 on other games:

Ricardo playing skyrim: it resembles Starwards!

Keld and RVZ: cya tomorrow!

Keld: gn

Keld: harosh

RV7: siga

RV7: gn

RV7: take

RV7: care

RV7: and

RV7: fok

RV7: there we go

Keld: honda civic

RV7: cya

RV7: xD

RV7: friend race

RV7: wat

RV7: loool

Keld: LOL

RV7: wtf xDD.

RV7: Supports

RV: os supports ja nao compram runes pah!

(“Supports don’t buy runes anymore!”)

RV7: When I grow up, I shall be one!

RV: Plo player!

RV7: I guess it happens.

RV: Can’t will!

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Diabolic Synergy: New items

Smith: Usa as faceboots!

(“Use the faceboots!”)

Diabolic Synergy: Smith pause

Our team decides to contest roshan. The gank ends with a team wipe and

suddently:

Smith paused the game.

Team: What’s wrong?

Smith: pausa para bater palmas pah. *clap, clap, clap*

Diabolic Synergy and friends: Foreign languages #2

Random guy: Crepate!

Lightning Paragon, Diabolic Synergy and Friends: Greetings

André: gl hv!

Enemy team: hv?

RV: good luck have vodka!

Marco: The vodka is real!

RV7 and Keld: game analysis

RV7: akele fail rp

Keld: o manguns

Keld: que pro

Keld: magnus*

RV7: xD

Keld: MAN GUNS BRO

Keld: WE GOT THE MAN GUNS

RV7: loool

Smith: in-game depth

Smith: o kunkka é muito forte, o problema é que é fraco.

(“Kunkka is very strong, the problema is that he is weak.”)

Creepy the Creep: I’m done with this

http://prntscr.com/4yq5pe

RV7: map awareness

RV7: Cuidado! O missing ta mid!

(“Careful! Missing is mid!”)

Diabolic Synergy: Bilingual players

DS.bluegreen: no one wants area de projecto crl, tens q praticar o cpt pah

Keld: u should also praticate as tuas misturas de english with Portuguese

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[Diabolic Synergy – JDL Tournament]

Introduction: For some reason, we participated on a tournament. Yea. I don’t know

why. Don’t ask me. I guess we just did it. But seriously, we faced teams that were

either really good or really bad. The first ones we faced ended up on the top positions

of our group so we were a bit frustrated. It’s never fun to be on a losing streak on a

tournament. Fortunately, things changed a bit and we had some fun moments.

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Diabolic Synergy: The First Victory JDL Match

Smith has been disconnected from the game.

RV7: Sorry guys, tech issues.

Enemy team: it’s ok.

5 mins later: Smith has reconnected. The game goes on…

5 mins after the 5 mins:

Smith’s mother: “já tás melhor da barriga?”

Lightning Paragon and friends: miscomunication

RV7: Mátósinhos!

Infamy: No escroto?

Smith and Marco: it’s on bro!

Marco: Vou mudar o nome para Super RedhellC!

Smith: Andas com a foto do vegeta é? Então pera lá que já mudo o nome.

Smith has changed his name to Song Goku

RV7: Misclick

RV7: leran how tow alwowr

RV7: learn how to lasthit

RV7: tactics

RV7: Yo Lina, Frostbite!

O clássico

RV7: a MelanieMac tem uns óculos gaymer!

Diabolic Synergy: Pre-game analysis

Nuno: I guess Spectre is a good pick. With it, Richard can counter and prevent

some initiations.

Phil: Im just worried about his Spectre decisions. Because usually his carries are

well..."MY TEAM IS FIGHTING? I WANNA FIGHT TOO! *goes 'murica mode*

TIME TO SPREAD SOME DOTO-DEMOCRACY!"

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Lightning Paragon: Plot Twist

Marco: não fizeram counter à broodmother?

Nuno: não. Até é de estranhar não é?

Marco: Eu é que tive que fazer counter à broodmother na casa de banho!

Lightning Paragon: Pride and Time

RV7: Marco, go have dinner.

Marco: No, its about pride. I’m proud of my dinner!

Phil: You shouldn’t delay your meal 40+ mins.

RV7: I’ve been delaying it for 1 year.

Keld: It’s been 84 years….

Diabolic Synergy: Game changing

BlueGreen: 45 min mek, now that’s a changing game item!

Diabolic Synergy: Upper hand

Phil: omg this lone druid has no beer!

Diabolic Synergy: Microphones

Keld: Who is making that noise breathing?

Smith: eu não sei, eu não tava a respirar.

Diabolic Synergy: Hacks

Smith: Nuno, ve se estou online na steam e quando é que foi a ultima vez que

entrei.

Nuno: ok mas que se passa?

Smith: entraram na minha conta e mudaram o meu nome para “Ferreiro”!

5 minutos antes:

Google Chrome: Esta página encontra-se em Inglês, deseja traduzi-la? Y/N

Smith: yes.