Xanatos

I played both Xanatos and Baron Blitzman. There was no feasable way for me to be on both characters at Siren's Call. I made an AE mission with Xanatos/Johnny Turbo/Azure Tracer in it to explain why they weren't there in the final battle. (Hint: Because the villains beat them up.) There was also no reason for Xanatos not to show up at the first ambush. "Because Shogun of Sorrow wants to hurt you later" is not a good enough reason.

And look, I get your point. No-one likes to be just another face in the crowd. But when you have a event with 100+ people showing up, it just doesn't become feasible to allow each and every one of them to alter the plot direction in the MAJOR way you wanted to. We had four mission arcs already written and designed for the heroes by the time you decided to be a "double crossing villain" and tell the heroes not to bother with them. Should we have rewritten/redesigned all four of them JUST FOR YOU? Are you honestly suggesting that we should have made 400 AE missions on the off chance that each and every participant in the event wanted us to change the story direction?

I'm sorry. That's just not possible. And while you might not realise it, it's an immensely selfish way of thinking.

Honestly? I think the issue here is the old "double crossing villain" plot scheme. All it ever does is cause headaches, and in my experience it is little more than an author attempt to make the double crossing character more important to a story they don't have much involvement in. Why try and change the story direction? Does the story suck? Why not simply engage with the story and enjoy it for what it is? Why try and become the ONE IMPORTANT PERSON WHO CHANGES THE OUTCOME? What puts you above everyone else who would no doubt love to do the same?

What you essentially wanted to do was something called godmodding. Which is where you have decided what makes the most sense for a story being run by someone else, and you seek to forcibly change it in a significant way. Stop and think for a moment. There are many reasons that the event should have carried on the way it did. Maybe the heroes didn't trust Shogun of Sorrow as a source of information? Maybe they DID trust him, but had to check out the psychics anyway, for fear of not being negligent?

Do you see what I mean? You are overselling the importance of your ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL character in something that was a GROUP event designed for a lot of people to participate. For events of this size you are ultimately a participant in a linear plot progression designed by someone else. Obviously, because it's a big event, we wanted to make it a story that focused on the server as a whole, rather than The Challengers. (Which is why half of our roster got taken out in the AE...to allow us to play our villains, but also to allow other hero groups to take centre stage.)

I genuinely don't understand why you said the purpose of this event was to show "how awesome we are". I think you're projecting your own insecurities onto me here because YOU weren't able to show how awesome YOU were in a public event that was specifically catered for open participation. I'm sorry to hear you didn't have fun, but I think that was more to do with how you approached the event, than the event itself.

Are you complaining that we didn't reconstruct the ENTIRE event just because of your character's imput?

This is what happens when you put non-writers in these roles. You get hit with a solid dose of unfunny nerd humour that is completely out of character.

Did Zwillinger actually do this?

Anytime is fine. If I or Red-Havok can't make it I'm sure someone else would be able to.

I'll definitely be available on the weekend of the 25th of May. Just let me know when is best for you guys

6pm EST

Not Vex.

Just you wait.