Dr_Darkspeed

If the Apocalypse happens in the 80s, then there is ALWAYS room for fashion!

I like this, it worked well when you did it with the Halloween Bundle (so not new, but... Ok, its got an offical name now, so its a 'new' marketing feature). I think it adds more freedom to make stuff that without the contrainst of cramming it into a complete costume. generally, we don't use whole costume sets anyhow, we grab the bits that work for our characters. I can certainly see things like an 'Alien Pack' with some of those shoulder/head blobs left out of the sci-fi pack, some random alien faces, body parts, auras etc... Or a 'Golden Age' pack, instead of just building a full costume, with a whole bunch of randomly golden-age inspired parts.

Or maybe even something a 'Masks', 'Faces' or even 'Hats' packs!

Oh, and the pack looks pretty cool, Mad Max meets Casey Jones.

No Giant Cockroach pet though?

It only needs to not select a champion until its too late (or at least after the time of Cole). Or decide on some other plan that doesn't involve putting all its eggs in one basket.

Deliberately no. But the Well can apparently know what the Fast Incarnates are told (otherwise who would it have taken control of States and Recluse at just the right moment when we are talking to them). So, he or his menders could well have inadvertently warned it in their various time meddling excursions.

Again, they are from the far future during/after The Storm. Their knowledge only becomes an issue if The Well has it when it has chance to choose Tyrant as a Champion. If it chooses late or chooses someone else or doesn't get chance to choose or just decides to do something else then the public knowledge of the Well need not come out.

Because he doesn't know the coming storm is coming, and the well doesn't either so it doesn't choose a champion, then he doesn't know he needs to do anything right now.

But again, that only happens if Prometheus has sufficient forewarning for such a plan to be viable. If the Storm catches him unawares, then 'starting a bunch of people on a slow path to becoming powerful enough to stop it' would be a plan doomed to failure. So, he'd probably do something else. Whatever it was, it didn't seem to work. Maybe he died.

Given that we know Dr. Acula and crew have caused meddling in the past, at least as far back as Cimerora then the length of time anyone seems to have known anything is immaterial, surely?

The whole lot is predicated on knowledge of The Coming Storm existing far enough before the Storm Comes for the current plans to make sense to The Well/Prometheus/etc... If there is no warning (and if we assume Ouro is the only source of the warning), there is no champion, Prometheus doesn't need to stop there being a champion and doesn't know Battalion are coming, there is no general knowledge of the Well.

That is where Silos comes from.

Or says he does, since he has been introduced as an entirely unreliable character.

I wasn't saying that, I wasn't even refering to any particularly bad stories. Many of the various twist/turns/retcons/continuity glitches around the death of batman's parents happened in good/decent stories over the years (waaaaay before OMD). I was just questioning the idea somehow it was expected that Superhero stories come with solid historys, when experience shows that that has never really been the case. The very format of the continuing serial comic book, written by different people over the years, seems to more or less preclude that.

No saying the devs shouldn't try to improve things or that there aren't big plot holes/ bad story elements. Personally I hate the whole story around the trials, for a whole bunch of reasons (mainly that the stories given to them make no sense for the format they were created in).

Thinking about it, why would you say superhero stories are supposed to have solid historys. Comic books have always been notorious for their retcons and continuity changes. Take for example, the key moment in the backstory of one of the most famous superheroes ever: The Death of Bruce Wane's parents. No-one knows/agrees what year it happened, what age Bruce was, who did it, why they did it or whether batman eventually caught them. The story changing at the whim of writers with 'good ideas' should be entirely what one expects from a superhero story, shouldn't it?

Again, the only thing that has to not happen the first time is for the well to be mad enough to choose a champion. If it doesn't, then Tyrant is just a regular Incarnate, theres no Incarnate arms race etc...

At the simplest level (ignoring the possibility of the well being controlled/coruppted by something else) it could just be:

If we take it that the Well wants a champion to defend against the Coming Storm, then in Silos's original time there would be no foreknowldge of the Storm, so The Well would not have known it needed a champion to protect it. Thus Tyrant is just standard Incarnate, no incarnate arms race, no prometheus involvement, no widespread knowledge/belief of the well. (basically, a continuation of the world as it was pre-Issue 11)

Silos comes back, brining forwarning of The Storm, thus the well wants a champion leading to some sort of Incarnate arms race, but its too slow to stop The Storm. (we don't see this but thats what Ramiel said happened)

Ramiel comes back to speed up the process. And thats where we are.

I'm not sure I see the inconsitency with this. If Silos is Nemesis from a timeline where the well didn't become sentient/go mad/become controlled (whatever happened to it), then he, like most people would never have known about it. He would have experieneced incarnate power by fighting Statesman and Recluse.
Cut to 45000 (or whatever) years in the future, after the Coming Storm does its thing. He comes back to meddle in time in various ways, which has the side effect of causing the mad well thingy, which leads to the whole incarnate arms race, which brings Prometheus into things, which makes The Well common knowledge. Then Ramiel, from the future where the well is known about, comes back to tell Silos.

Did the tweet that said 'not eligable' start with @Positron_CoH? If so, its not for you. Positron tried to claim one of the codes and they were replying to him.

Enough for everyone?

Why have you chosen to make an actual costume piece so limited in this way?

According to the Coffee talk, its for a new 'Dark Matter' Aura.

Its one thing to use this method for the costume replace powers, but for an actual costume piece? I don't particularly like it. Please ensure that this aura be available by alternate means as well.

You don't need to buy it, just trade in some of your free points for it.

Roughly, would strictly be 'Secret from the machine', but in modern context arcane stuff relates to magic, so would be 'magical secret from the machine'.

It has the same 'us' end as deus, and arcanus seems to be the masculine nomative form, which i think is the right one? (no idea, really, just an educated guess form online dictionaries)