Mr_Mud

I just got around to publishing my first, slightly overly-ambitious arc that took an absolute crapload of tweaking. I'd love for anybody interested in playing it through to let me know what they think.

A Case for Mr. Mystery
by @Mr. Mud

Arc ID: 18273
Morality: Villainous
Level Range: 40-50
Length: Five missions, one Defeat All.
Synopsis: A villain shrouded in mystery has what should be a very simple task for you and some schmoes from the Isles. Should just be some quick cash for very little work... Right?

Difficulty: Moderate. I soloed the entire arc on the third difficulty setting with my Stone Brute. Higher difficulty settings would yield AVs in missions two and five.
Time Sink: Probably 45 mins to an hour, quicker if you duo it or grab a team.

I was under the impression I was removed from this month's poll as I was featured in the fiction and meta content categories last month. Foxy informed me that I'd be in next month's poll rather than this one. Essentially, I figured this was a rule to stop people from hogging the lime light.

Names I have sitting around on Infinity:

Slime
Lancehead
Steelwork
Junkbox

Looking for good names on Virtue in return. I may just give them away if I don't get anybody interested in trading; I'll post here when and if they are to be released.

Huh, two of my articles got featured. I didn't even know one of them had been nominated!

Thanks very much for the nomination and subsequent featuring of the Sadistic Seven and Halfway Crooks pages. I appreciate it.

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Oh, Shush! You'll get on the front page when you get on the front page!

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Haha, I was more just wondering when the polls themselves go up because I'm interested to find out who has been nominated so I can read their pages. I tried to find a list of all the people who're currently nominated for featured article status but there doesn't seem to be a page anywhere for that.

When do the polls for new featured articles go up? I heard September 1st floating around, but no change on the main page.

Thanks to The Havoks for nominating Mr. Mud's origin story and thanks to whoever it was that nominated his main page, too. I didn't recognize the username.

I appreciate it greatly.

Haha, nice work Spino.

Any excuse to dig these out...

Charon the Lego and Charon the Action Figure.

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correct, and the current admins were once simple users, and (even the eponymous 'admin') are also human, and fallible.

but justifying one's own actions 'because someone else is doing it' is a rather hollow argument. I stopped getting away with that one in grade school, personally.

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That analogy would hold water if the person who was 'also doing it' was your grade school teacher.

The point is, if you're going to set the rules, don't break them.

It's just something that I feel should have been tackled from the outset if that was at all possible. As evidenced by the fact that even the admins have broken the rules on this one, it was inevitable that people were going to ignore the warning and upload anyway.

Nevertheless, I'll see what gets deleted and may or may not resize and repost it.

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But like you said, people being who they are are going to ignore that and do as they what they want. That being said there is a message that is displayed when you upload something bigger than 150k. That right there should raise the flag in the back of your mind, you know, the one that says what your uploading might be on the chopping block when push comes to shove.

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The same one TheImperial and Soul Train saw before they uploaded their images in excess of 300kb?

Yeah, I saw that.

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Users should heed the warning regarding uploading images larger then 150k.

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This is ridiculous. Going back, deleting, resizing and reuploading every image over 300k is a huge time sink, not only for me but for a great deal of people on that list. If you didn't want us to upload images over 300k you should have made that impossible, not just frowned upon. People have a way of ignoring recommendations for convenience. It's human nature. So due to the fact that you chose not to enforce this rule from the outset you are causing a massive inconvenience to everybody on that list, and a great deal of them are very talented contributors to the Wiki.

On a final note, I just have to drop in that your warning in bold there doesn't really hold all that much water, considering two site admins are on the list you posted. If a site admin doesn't heed the file size recommendation then why should I?

Added my Super Strength/Energy Aura Brute, Uppercut.

Liking the latest image, and have to agree that he looks a great deal more unique with a belly than muscles.

Phantom, you can find Poison and many of us other pre-beta players (Charon here, by the way...) at www.cohguru.com/forum.

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Wow ! You're too kind.

Thank you sir !

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No problem. I genuinely really like the costume and idea... And besides, way to break the Arachnos mold!

One of the greatest homages I've seen. Hats off to you, sir.

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Well, I DID consider doing a Lost reference.

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Heh, funnily enough when I logged into Monster Island yesterday I immediately started thinking that you guys should do a 'Lost' inspired zone.

Haha, while the movie may not have been the greatest thing on earth, I'm a sucker for pop culture references. Nice addition.