Still in low priority thanks to my net connection, played a bot game.
Team consisted of Luna (random), Doom, Shadow Fiend (random), Sniper, and me... Storm Spirit (also random).
I'll just say straight out that I suck with SS. It also doesn't help having a touchpad when you need to make lightning fast precision clicks. I held up relatively well in lane, but that trailed off as no one had bought a courier so I couldn't bottlecrow or get any new items. Plus, y'know... Banebot.
Then I decided it was time to gank. I went down to bot to sniff out Tiny and Drow Ranger. I zap in, throw the overload, rope Tiny, throw...
And then I was wondering why it was taking so long for the rest of my commands to go through. Then I saw that Tiny was just sitting in midair, and I was walking in place. Yup, I had DCed again. Of all the ridiculous times...
Thankfully the net came back not too long after, so I managed to come back in without it counting as yet another abandon. And, apparently, I'd actually managed to get the kill while disconnected. That was pretty much my one shining moment that game, as Tiny spent the rest of the match utterly stomping my face while Doom afk-jungled for his radiance. Seriously, I walked PAST the guy while I had Tiny in tow, it could've been the easiest gank ever. But, nope... He was busy. So I died. A lot.
Then Shadow Fiend went AFK long enough for the game to count as an abandon, we lost our mid rax, but eventually Luna (who was Russian) won the game for us by being actually competent. Sniper didn't understand the concept of "Low health". Particularly not in regards to "The enemy team has Zeus. Be careful".
EDIT: Oh, yeah, and I'm also being hounded by a clingy Bosnian every time we're online at the same time.
EDIT2: Some more random facts 'n' such... If Nyx has Last Word cast on him, activating Spiked Carapace will take effect after the damage and silence, so it will not reflect that damage. Furthermore, certain orb attacks such as Silencer's glaives deal two separate instances of damage (one his normal physical attack, the other the pure damage from the orb). This means that while they are inflicted at principally the same time, Spiked Carapace will only reflect one of the two instances.