Clave_Dark_5

I've just had an idea for a new stalker...

You win for the day.

I'll wear that badge with pride, TY. I saw David Lynch's movie Mulholland Drive when it came out. After it was over, a guy near the front stood up, turned to face the theater and asked "Can anyone tell me what I just watched?" I loved it of course - felt the same way, but loved it. These days I can read it like headlines on a newspaper.

Looking over that link, it places my arc in august company!

I wanted to try my hand at, for lack of a better term (I'm sure at least seven exist in literary criticism, if not more) an elliptical form of writing. Rather than hopping out and stating straight up "This story is about cats... with cheeseburgers!" I wanted to write around the topic, circling it without ever casting it in concrete by labeling it. And I did that by coming up with a number of metaphors and such about said topic(s). Think of that cheeseburger-owning cat being only shown under shear fabric, or in cling-wrap, or submerged in murky water, etc. And yes,I wanted to try and do so in a super-hero story. Without drugs.

Whether or not I was successful or if the idea was worth doing in the first place ends up in rather subjective territory.

I was hoping too that the atmosphere might help more literal-minded folks past the murky-feline&foodstuff nature of the arc, but as long as you found things to like, it's all good. "Four stars" is still pretty decent.

I'm not sure how symbolism can be "all over the map", except if there's lots of it going after the same feline&foodstuff from a number of different angles. Which I did - same topic, fifty-million angles ("pattering paws, twitch of whiskers, shining eyes in the dark, a gentle purr in the sun, curled up in sleep. With beef and Swiss on a bun.") . Everything the first three missions are about what's happened to Emily Yikes, presented foryou in a number of ways (and then, FYI, the last arc's pretty much just a peek into her past as she sees it).

You're a smart guy, I'm guessing you probably "got" the cat and the cheeseburger. Also,I've enjoyed hearing from others what they thought it was about, what that strange sandwhichy-looking thing was, etc.

Thnaks again!

Yes,that too can be set in the object's widow. I forget what the menu is called, but when you open it you'll see an option something like"Object disappears after collection". I've used it myself.

That wasn't the point. You said AE was becoming a waste of time as if it wasn't good for any possible use.

I might also point out that telling stories was what the AE was created for, say "stop telling me how to play the game!" and then point out that farmers and the subsequent nerfs they down on all of our heads* are the responsible parties for having distorted the purpose of AE in most player's minds. Of course,that last one is just over-generalizing, but to a degree it does conform to your idea that it seems no one wants to play AE mish unless it propels to 50 at taboo speeds.

*The one AE mess that can't be laid at their feet is the banned word bug which has broken so many arcs recently. Thanks devs.

For farming, sure. I can't see how these newest changes are going to stop people from telling a story.

My GF wanted me to ask about people here would feel clown dentists. Maybe I should put that in a larger font to emphasize the frightening nature of such a thing...

CLOWN DENTISTS!!!!

She's told me if she ever went to the dentist's and he came in dressed as a clown, she'd probably end up hurting him out of sheer terror. Clowns really do make her jump when she sees one unexpectedly, as I discovered when I gave her a copy of the film made from Stephen King's IT last year.

So very signed. It's funny, because the fact they keep dropping nerfs is a form of telling us what they do and don't find acceptable, and yet they can't seem to get themselves to actually put it into words... we need a burning bush, a list of commandments written in stone to make it all clear. It would at least be polite of them.

I have a level 10 mind/psi Dom called "Stratos Fear" sitting around that already had something like this going on, so I logged in and gave her an empty one.

My other one so far is the apparently very common robot look, called "UnZone Soldier", who I'm thinking is a soldier from another dimension who wasn't able to completely cross over int ours and needs the suit to be as corporeal as possible (or something, I haven't worked out all the details yet :P).

The only other idea I have for one is something like a bug hulking monster of a mutant, claws brute maybe with bio-luminescence costume elements... after that, I think we've about exhausted all possible looks. Still, it's an amazing costume piece to have!

I second the puppy.

I recently played an AE that took place on an outdoor Galaxy City map wit this very feature and it was something, alright. The bosses tended to drop pets for us to fight and then fly off after taking maybe 25% damage, requiring at least one of the team to be able to fly and to do reasonable ranged damage.

That said, it was a bit of a change over what I normally do with my stalker (!), and mixing things up isn't always a bad thing. If you set things up going in so that there's no way the player can claim ignorance of what the arc is for ("air fightin'!") then I'd say go for it.

"Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it. "

I took Beastly Aura eyes (iirc) for my Think Tank toon. The glow "blinks" and swivels about inside the head as if look from side to side, but don't seem to leave the tank that I caught. 'S great.

Set the eye aura you want on a normal head, then switch to Think Tank. As long as you don't reclick the Aura tab, you're good to go.