spent about 10 - 15 mins with the "logging in" animation on the character select screen, only to find the EU servers seem to be locked now.
I bought the NS-11A with SC then got disconnected shortly after. Now I've lost the gun and did not get my SC back.
They're apparently having some kind of database issues. http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...ing-on-load-98-character-create.112042/page-9