Bubbawheat

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I think Eclipse Over Paragon (64609) can qualify. Feel free to try that out.

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Haven't forgotten about you, just been focusing on other things.

For the next round of reviews, I'd like to play: updated arcs! If I've played your arc before and given you some feedback on it, whether an actual review, or just plain ol' feedback, and you've updated it significantly since then let me know. I'm in the mood for the familiar right now.

Just a couple quick notes from a mostly unbiased reviewer that has also played this arc.

The fire map is a Skulls map. There are two on fire warehouse maps, one Hellion which is the smaller one, and this one which is labelled as a Skulls warehouse.

Also, you are not looking for the word Anachronism. That word is typically used for time inappropriate devices found in period movies/lit/etc.

And, the invisible spoiler text only works on the Heroes' board and not those viewing on the villain skin.

Arc Name: Ctrl + Alt + Reset!
Author: @Bubbawheat
ID#: 137561
Morality: Neutral
Level Range: 15-30
Enemy Groups: Wyvern, custom boss, custom standard group
Description: Foreshadow sends you off to retrieve a dangerous temporal artifact. Guess what? It goes off and now you're stuck in a time loop and have to find a way out.
Played at: Various. It's my arc, I have to test changes, and what better character to use?
**Time Loop #3**

My contact today is Foreshadow, and he warns me about a temporal artifact that the Wyvern have confiscated from some random mad scientist which could be much more dangerous than the Wyvern are led to believe. That's where I come in. I have a striking familiarity with what's going on here, so I head straight over to Agent Marx who has the artifact with him. Aaah, I look so small at that age, really takes me back. I remember it well, I had already been activated at the lab and taken the agents here through several loops, and now it's time for a few more.


Agent Marx

I'm back with Foreshadow who doesn't remember me doing his first mission because I've sent myself back in time. Or rather, the small, young, artifact version of me that I took from Marx has sent the current version of me back in time to when I accepted Foreshadow's mission the first time. And Foreshadow blows off my objections and sends me right back to the Wyvern's nest. The computer has information that I bypassed the first time since I was headed straight for Marx. The files on myself and my counterpart are password protected so I head right on over to Marx again to knock the codes out of him. I return with the younger version of myself, I grew up so fast back then, and enter the code into the computer before being reset back to Foreshadow once again.

Heading once more into the breach and I see all of the clutter thrown at me by my younger self to hide the presence of my counterpart and my undoing. I wisely ignore it all and head straight to Marx to get the rest of the information that I need. He quickly tells me about Steve who has the Time Splitter, the second artifact created by the same scientist who made me. I also grab my younger self who I can tell is almost ready to become mobile. And of course, shortly after I come into contact with him, I am once again at Foreshadow's feet ready for my final showdown with myself.

As my younger self has progressed far enough along in its evolution, the Wyvern that had originally confiscated him are either dead, or have mutated into something new. Nobody said time loops were perfect. I find Steve, who is unchanged so far, though he has lost some of his mind. Luckily, he hasn't lost the artifact that he was guarding and I can use it to... wait, why am I wanting to defeat myself again? The journey for time travel has brought me to an interesting quandry. Do I allow my younger self to succeed which would negate my current existence if I am still tied to this current timeline and not on a different temporal plane having traveled through time on a non-linear path? Or do I defeat my younger self, foiling my past plans, but keep events moving on their pre-destined path which leads to where I am right now? I decide to keep on my current path. Even though things didn't work out the way I expected them to, I am appreciative of how things actually turned out. But before I seek out my younger self once again, I pay a visit to Agent Marx once again to see if he fared any better than Steve, or the other former Wyvern here. I pass by a small contingent of untouched Wyvern who have defeated their former colleages in battle on my way to the back of the base where Marx is now accosted by the men who once fought alongside him. He has stronger willpower than Steve and retains his sanity as well as remembering me from previous loops, regards my prescence as a sign of hope and joins me in my mission to end this time loop.



My first battle with myself goes extremely smoothly, as I had been only newly mobile at that time. He sets up a quick loop for himself, but Marx and I soon find him again and defeat him almost as easily. Again, he does a quick loop, and again we find him. It's like looking into a mirror at this point, and even though he is not completely defeated yet as he falls to the ground, this is the form that I am able to salvage and continue on with my newfound career as a superpowered individual. I don't call myself a hero even though that was the checkmark I selected on the superpowered registration form, as I am merely on a search for objects and contacts where I can experience more time travel and grow stronger in my own power. If my contact sends me to save someone, I save someone. If my contact sends me to rob someone, I rob someone. It doesn't matter to me.


Mirror Match?

Back to the point, I find my younger self for the final time, although I could almost call it my older self, just depending on how you want to look at it. As I eventually became immobile and surrounded by mobile projections. Destroying him this time ends up being the last time and I return to Foreshadow successful, though a little disappointed. Anyway, onto the next adventure!


Does this suit make me look fat?

Though I may be self-involved enough to write an in-character review of my own story arc, I'm not self-involved enough to give it a rating and let everyone know whether I think my own arc is the greatest thing since sliced bread, or a piece of crap that still needs tons of work.

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Description:
Hidden deep within the anals of time is a legend of an ultra powerful being. His name was Catalyst, and where he walked, Chaos reigned. His goal was complete domination of the world. This ancient eveil has awakened from a long slumber, and threatens our world!


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It's annals of time. I just glanced at this thread and caught that, and thought "I don't think this guy wants people to find his arc by searching for 'anal'"

Now that I've said something, I'll give your arc a try later and let you know what I think.

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you also misspelled evil as eveil. If your description is indicitive of the rest of your arc, typo hunters have their work cut out for them. Good luck with it though.

Well, I said about a week, which would be Tuesday. I'll post the new thread then with random pairings and a random theme for each pairing.

Arc Name: Relativity Be Damned * Dev's Choice arc
Author: @Tragic Eight Ball
ID#: 177370
Morality: Heroic
Level Range: 5-54
Enemy Groups: CoT, Arachnos
Description: The father of modern physics is in danger - can you save him in a surprise battle across reality?
Played at: Level 16-17

My contact today is Dr. King, she's a little overzealous when it comes to physics and she has apparently found a way to cross the multiverse. That is to cross over into other realities where different choices have created very different realities. The one she wants to send me to is one where time has moved more slowly and they are at the equivilent of our year 1904. This is relevent because they also have their own version of Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics. Dr. King would like you to travel there, observe with the help of a device called a QuEST which will record all of the data that you observe.



Now, she tells me that while I'm there I will not be able to interact with anything, only observe. But of course, things go wrong immediately. First off, it seems a lot more modern than it should for 1904. Second, the people here seem to be able to see me. And third, those people are Arachnos and they are after Einstein for themselves. I'm still mindful of my first duty, to find some of Einstein's notes on his theory of relativity. But it seems that Arachnos have also found Einstein for themselves.



When I return, she seems confused and excited at the same time. She figures out that Arachnos are from our universe and now I need to go to their base and do a few things: Destroy their means of travelling the multiverse, Find out what data they have from the alternate universe, and some random destruction for good measure. Seems unusual for a supposedly heroic mission to destroy things just because. I guess it's good to destroy crates of random power armor parts. Sounds awfully brutish to me, but who am I to argue. From the arachnos computer, I find that they have a digital backup copy of Einstein's brain. But as I am able to determine that it is a backup copy and not the original copy, or maybe first copy, Dr. King tells me that I need to find that first copy and destroy it, but before I do, I need some help in the form of a mysterious contact from another reality. Unfortunately, this contact needs better directions because he ended up in a large cemetery brimming with Circle of Thorns. After 27 minutes and 36 seconds of scouring every tombstone and cross, looking under every Archer and through every Spectral Demon, I finally find Super Einstein, essentially. He is ready and willing to help me on this map to go... oh wait, there's nothing for him to help me with on this map, nevermind.



Finally, it's time to raid Arachnos's big base and take out their original mainframe full of data from their multiverse trip. Einstein goes on ahead of me, and we meet up there. Several floors full of Arachnos and not much else and I finally find this mainframe and destroy it, subtlety is obviously not Dr. King's best trait. I also wonder at my nav computer who tells me that by destroying some data, I'm apparently going to "Save the Day". But I dutifully destroy their computer and overhear that they have already completed their "Project E" which is Einstein downloaded into a suit of power armor. I guess I destroyed all of those crates full of power armor parts for no good reason after all. Their Einstein promises to bring on a bit of "E=MC PAIN!" but instead, my energy takes his mass down at the speed of 3.0x10^10 feet per second, square in the face.



Yet another round of time and space manipulations gone awry yet saved by my powerful heroics.

Three Stars: Good.

Pity, I expected better from something hand-picked by the developers. Instead I got a decently good story, with a few spelling mistakes and missing bios, basic objectives on very large maps with fairly little to do other than smash arachnos over and over, especially in the third and fourth missions. Until next time then.

Bubbawheat => James Grasso?

Heroes:
Wyndine => Ryzha
Burnt Matchstick => Ashen Flame
Cerulean Archer => The Arrow Shard
Snowe Cloudburst => Blizzard Vapor

Villains:
Burnt Matchstick => Bik Phoenix
Scarlet Sentinal => Violet Vigilante

Wow, I'm really liking some of these names. That was fun.

I don't really have a signature character. I'm too much of an alt-a-holic. That and I think of Bubbawheat as my online self, and not any super-version of myself.

And my stable of alts rotate too much for me to pick just one. Heck, even the closest thing to my most-used character: Burnt Matchstick, is actually several characters, crossing gender and morality lines.

In simple terms, I guess both.

Original thread is in the open beta forums

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The Scientist 2 jacket (or just Scientist on females) is a really neat piece, but currently, the 2nd color merely recolors the buttons. Now some people may find that interesting, but myself, I would much rather see an option that let me recolor the center piece a separate color from the sides- examples shown here:

Science!

Science for Girls

I believe this would really open the jacket up to many more possibilities. Many Anime characters have a similar uniform jacket, like Shadow Hearts' Alice, or Echo from Pandora Hearts.


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and a reply from Sexy JLove:
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I'll do it but iIl need at least 15 yeas over how ever many nos.

If you can get the populous to be swayed I’ll change it before it goes live.


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Continue voting here! I'll add my "yea" and a hope for both options.

It seems to me that objectives not spawning happen across the board, but are very infrequent. Most of the times whenever I find an arc that has a missing spawn and mention it in feedback, I often get the reply "That's the first I've heard of a missing spawn" And I believe I've even had it happen in one of my arcs once. It's frustrating when it happens, and it's almost more frustrating because it happens so rarely that it's probably something very difficult to fix on the Dev's end.

Head to the "My Creations" tab.
Head to the "My Published Creations" subtab.
Select your arc, and "Edit" it.

Once your done, click the checkmark: Republish.
Click "Search" to refresh your arcs.

The last step is probably why you didn't see the changes. I thought It seemed like they added an auto-refresh when you republish, but it might not be working every time. Otherwise, the arcs sitting on the screen are the old ones stored on your computer from before you finished editing.

If I'm catching this the right way, it means you could use some more low-level friendly arcs. Might I submit:

Ctrl + Alt + Reset!
ID#: 137561
Level Range: 15-30
Mobs: Wyvern, mixed custom standard group, custom boss
Description: Foreshadow sends you off to retrieve a temporal artifact before it causes any mayhem. Guess what? It's too late, and now you're stuck in a time loop and have to find your way out.

Yeah, I was looking through my completed arcs yesterday and saw Sibling Rivalry in there. I need to play that one again, it was fun.

I greatly enjoy LBx on Liberty and Pinnbadges on Pinnacle. There are some speed run TF talk, but mixed in with a lot of friendly chatter as well. I got Task Force commander through Pinnbadges with nary a bad/annoying team, almost always just a lot of fun.

I had a thought (I know, a first), I was thinking that along with random pair-ups, we will have random themes. If you think this is a good idea, chime in with suggestions. We don't need a different theme for every pair-up, but several would be nice. I already mentioned parody and futuristic, and Bayani had planned Golden Age. Any other suggestions will be considered.

Ctrl + Alt + Reset! Is updated for I15 with a nice set of custom standard enemies in the final mission, and one recolored Wyvern boss. I think I put a request for a review somewhere back in there, but I can't remember if it was this one or my other one.

Arc Name: Ctrl + Alt + Reset!
Arc ID#: 137561
Level Range: 15-30
Missions: 4
Description: Foreshadow sends you to retrieve a temporal artifact before it wreaks havoc. Too late! And now you're stuck in a time loop and have to find your way out of it.

Victory, you say? We should team up sometime.

Arc Name: Ctrl + Alt + Reset! (formerly Time Loop)
ID#: 137561
Length: 4 missions
Level Range: 15-30
Enemy Group: Wyvern
Description: Foreshadow sends you to investigate a temporal artifact and you end up getting stuck in a time loop!

Change Log: Made Wyvern boss Agent Marx a little more unique with the color changes. Changed final mission to be mostly empty except for boss spawns and a couple battles for flavor, and changed the custom standard group's color/naming/bios to fit the arc better. Also changed flavor of last mission.

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dear galactic_hobo,

your opinion is duly noted
now please ride your railroad car into a black hole

love,
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Talk about disappearing into a black hole. By either design or accident, not only do you leave your signature blank but your made up forum name invisible, too.

You have actually managed to cover up a FICTIONAL name. Why would anyone do that? (This has to be a glitch in my computer.)

Anyway, thanks for the great laugh.


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I always think of that forum-goer as "underscore underscore underscore underscore underscore underscore"

The first round was so much fun, I decided to take the reigns and start up a second round.

If you forgot how it works, you sign up in this thread, and after a week or so I will start a new thread pairing you up with a random person from the signups. You swap character screenshots and/or bios through PMs, then you redesign their character and post your version of their character.

I'm thinking about adding some sort of general direction to steer the redesigns into, like parody or futuristic. Let me know what you think about that.

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I've honestly been wondering about this myself. I have a thread of my own reviews: Shifting Through Time! In-character Reviews which was a way for me to get arcs involving time travel to play from level 1 to 50. Unfortunately, I didn't get many arc submissions, and many I did get were either too high level, or not actually about time travel. So, I just go through and search for "time travel" or "temporal" or something similar, pick an arc close to my level range, and give it a review unasked.

I'm of two minds about this. Some arcs are bad and the author just made them for one reason or another, or possibly even the author is a younger kid and just doesn't know much about the system. I have written one review that was unrequested and I gave two stars to, among the lowest I've ever publicly rated that was about finding the Legion Ring fron a random custom group along with destroying a random statue for no reason at all.

But, on the other hand: The Architect server is public, and when someone publishes an arc, they are offering it to the public. It's like a movie. When you release it publicly, Movie critics have fair game and many will give a bad review.

As long as this thread sticks to making complete and total fun of the *arc* and not the *architect*, I say fair game.

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Since I play anonymously and incognito, I'm not going to list any of my characters.

--NT

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*wonders if he has characters named "Anonymously" and "Incognito"*

Remembered another one that I thought was a fun little pun/reference:

Nucular Homer

A Simpson's homage (cross between Homer and the Hulk, and is a rad/rad or rad/therm corruptor depending on which server) whose bio reads "It's pronounced Nu-cu-lar" and LFT flag says "Mmm... radioactive donuts."

Arc Name: Time and Time again. Act 1.
Author: @Ethan Black
Arc #:25314
Morality: Heroic
Level Range: 1-54, custom (good customs with no major problems @lvl 15)
Description: You are being called to investigate the strange temporal activity being registered all over the planet.
Played at: level 15

Today, I'm being contacted by random Crey Dr. who tells me about an assault on Atlas Park where a portal opened up and an organized group of military types came through an open portal and took over the city zone in short order, overwhelming any low level heroes who were there at the time. They must have picked a low farm zone, or all the high level heroes were too busy hanging out at the Architect Entertainment building to notice an assault on City Hall.



Anyway, I enter the Atlas Park warzone and have 30 minutes to destroy the ten temporal machines that they are using. Once again, let me shift into dictionary mode:

tem·po·ral (tem'per-el, tem'prel)

1. Of, relating to, or limited by time.
2. Of or relating to the material world; worldly.

This does not equate to temporal meaning: coming from or relating to another dimension. And the destruction of the first machine brings about the attention of a Guardian Longsword, although there are many Guardian Longswords about here and there, and they are only minor annoyances. I don't understand what makes this longsword so important. Scouring across the area, I find and destroy all of the machines and the errant Guardian Longsword with 3.45 minutes remaining. I return to the generic Dr. and lavish in his short praises and warning of other things that may soon come to pass.



Three Stars: Good.