Ms. Mesmer

I could finish that BNY mission in about 10 minutes. I did the thing a couple hundred times this year and he only got hung up about a half-dozen times. I also did it mainly on level 14ish characters, who really don't have 25x50-75kx4 for all of the items from that mission to throw around, and certainly can't reasonably make that much in the hour it took to get the missions done.

In the end, though, "Because I don't like doing it" is not a valid reason to remove anything, especially if they give you an alternative method to get those rewards. It ends up sounding like you imposing your will on everyone else.

It's just flowery language describing the mission that Scratch gives to villains. See the lower part of Scratch's page on ParagonWiki.

Try and make sure the lower one is no higher than 12 (13 is ok if set to -1) for the Hordelings, so you get them as Minions, and before they start getting replaced by Spectrals. I believe 30-35 is the overlap spot where both Hellfrosts and Succubi will spawn.

My fault. I misunderstood that line in the rules. I thought it just meant having the words marked on the puzzle. Should have realized that everyone was putting in the lists for a reason. Congratulations, Culex.

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Bah, gave me a thumbnail. Is that ok?

Edit: Full size now?

The only time that I'll refuse an invitation to a firefighting team is when there are people fighting the fires while I clear out the Hellions, which keeps them from restarting already-extinguished fires, that won't even bother trying to invite me until I start on the fires themselves. If you weren't willing to share credit while I was protecting you from getting a massive explosion to the face, then you won't get any easy credit for the fires that I put out on my own.

I was a doubter before HeroCon, but at least one of the attendees reported that it was confirmed there, so I have moved to cautious believer.

Seems more than a bit like the original Squadron Supreme storyline. I suppose that's not such a bad thing. If you're going to be influenced by something in mainstream superhero comics, you could do a lot worse than Gruenwald's epic. It beats yet another Watchmen or Kingdom Come homage.

All of my characters on Infinity know each other at least in passing, within their respective factions, and most of them are aware of the ones in the opposite faction, though they are far from arch-nemeses.

My original main, Manacle, happened to be one of the first heroes that my second character, who is my true main and forum handle namesake, Ms. Mesmer, encountered upon arriving in Paragon. He set her up with an invitation to the SG that he was in, a favor that she would return when that SG fell apart and she joined the one that she is currently in.

Similarly, Ms. Mesmer would later meet a another new hero, Tiarna Finn, and do the same for him for both groups. She would be the main reason for all but one of my heroes on Infinity becoming members of the Tychian SGs there, as well.

Most of the relationships are like this on hero side, respected allies and friendly, professional acquaintances, except for two. My Warshade, Cyan Shadow, is Ms. Mesmer's older brother, and Opel Miraje is actually her counterpart from another dimension, though Opel is the only one who is certain of this, and dodges the issue when it's brought up.

The villains know each other the same way. They've met, and each vouched for the next as prospective member for the Fortune Hunters VG. Tiarna Patrick has a deeper connection to Tiarna Finn, as both are Masters of an ancient order of warrior-monks, but their time training at the order was in different decades

My heroes on Champion know each other, mostly in closer friendships than the ones on Infinity, since they're almost all teenagers who go to the same school and fight crime after school. A few are older family members or mentors. They also know of the heroes on Infinity, at least in some really vague connection.

Tremolo was inspired by a speech that Ms. Mesmer gave, denouncing the Council's genocidal practices against Kheldians, to join her pro-Kheldian alliance of heroes. Laochra Sean was a student at the same order as Tiarna Finn, and came here to complete his training under Finn when the order's last teacher passed away.

Aside from them, my heroes on Virtue are all part of an extended family, four pairs of siblings that are all of the great-grandchildren of a Golden Age hero.

If those count as story arcs, so do newspaper and scanner missions. They are the same sort of Mad Libs-style infinite mission generators.

Edit: I take that back. Newspaper and scanner missions come in several different types, with multiple possible enemy types for most of those types. Shard contacts have exactly one door mission type, and are either solely against Rularuu, solely against Nemesis, or some combination of both, depending on the contact.

Edit 2: Looking at Red Tomax, they actually list the mission types for the Shard contacts, and have a little more diversity than I recalled. I had forgotten the CoT doors from one of them, for instance. They're still less diverse than newspapers and scanners, and you really only get any story from the missions where one of them sends you off to meet the next in the series.

I don't believe the visual changed, but the sound did. Somewhere around Issue 7 or 8, I believe, the old sound, which was closer to the sound of Siphon Power, with a loud "Fwaap!" sound, was replaced with the jingly effect that we have now. That may have been a performance issue, as I recall stories of hangups when it was cast on a large group.

It looks to me like the contact bars were designed as a measure of their total possible missions. As such, if a contact has 5 missions, like the ones in Kings Row, it gets full much quicker than if the contact has 20 or so missions, like the ones in Peregrine Island. It also seems to not be in equal amounts, hunt missions only tend to fill the bar half as much as door missions. Of course, there are a few that are a bit broken, even with this measure. The low-level hero contacts in Steel Canyon and Skyway City that don't have story arcs, for example, will not fill completely unless you make sure to get the Security Chief missions and the introduction missions that were added after the fact, like Hero Corps and PvP Zone reps, from them.

Yeah, it's one of those old links that never got fixed when we moved to the new forums. Here you go.

It's a standalone mission. Something about gathering samples of their tattooing inks. Level 15-20.