Nalrok_AthZim

I forgot to mention the Praetorian Loyalist arc.

"Thanks for all that kind-hearted-yet-difficult crap you did for us, $character. Your Emperor thanks you. Now that you know about my invasion, get out. I don't care if you want to be on my side."

Also, because they popped into my head, here are potentially nifty chapter names concerning ERA/The Challengers:

Cry Havok
Knocking a Screwloose
No Place to Hideout
Readying the Armaments
Going to Coldcrash
Place of Impact
The Glare of the Flashbulb
Aglow with Serenity
Dodging Uppercut
All that is Gold Rush Cannot Stay
Not a Cloud in the Sky (Nimbus)

Black Scorpion's patron arc.

"BLARGH, KILL THE GUY WHO HAS SOME ARMOR LIKE ME! BLARGH, BLOW UP GHOST WIDOW'S CRAP! BLARGH, KIDNAP DOCTOR AEON (BECAUSE THAT WON'T CAUSE ANY MAJOR PROBLEMS WITHIN ARACHNOS FOR SOME RESON)! USE THIS GHOST RIFLE!

.... Sorry Arbiter Daos! Won't happen again!"

In fact, it'd be really nice if, for all the patron arcs, it was Recluse slapping his minions around rather than Arbiter Daos babysitting them.

Looking like Broad Sword or Dark Melee might be your buddy.

I want some stuff.

The President is an elusive man. Anyone seen him on as of late? I want to be earning ERA some prestige! :P

Welcome back! I don't know you but it's always great to see a returning vet.

Pants-on-head retarded.

I invited a friend back, and their first comment upon loading the client was "Why is Statesman fighting War Machine?"

I wonder what a viscious snarl sounds like. I'm assuming the writer was going for 'vicious,' but now I'm imagining an arbiter making an angry face into a bowl of jell-o.

Also I ******* hated this arc. The only character I considered to be an actual villain was Crosscut, because he reminded me of a really frightening cross between Hannibal Lecter and a not-campy Freddy Krueger.

Other than that:

Dollface is stupid. She's just flat out stupid. She wipes your mind of recent (see: before level 7 and after level 6 because you didn't forget how to USE YOUR POWERS) memory with no effort whatsoever, and then when you confront her and use the parent-talking-to-a-naughty-child interrogation method ("The bad men will come after you if you take the cookies, you little brat") she breaks like a dry spaghetti noodle and acts like a toddler who's had her toy taken away. Lame, boring, disappointing.

Zephyr is a total loser. "I'm THE Zephyr wind, brah! I like totally dump boats over, tcheah!" It's like someone combined a frat boy with a cloud of dust and put the Ascension Belt on it (which is BS, by the way). The guy does NOTHING but yammer on about how funny it is to sink boats. Yes. We get it. You like to make wind that crashes boats. Stop talking. Seriously, stop talking. Why am I still clicking?

Finally, Omnicore is probably the worst NPC I've ever interacted with. I'd much rather listen to Infernia's 5 minute rant in the LGTF or Becky the Tarantula Mistress than spend six seconds reading her dialogue. She's a forum whiner! That's all she is! She insults you for merely showing up, she uses the term 'indisputable facts' and gets her robotic panties in a wad when she gets moderated and ragequits the conversation. All she does is whine and talk herself up and insult you. Whoop-de-doo, while she's busy yammering like a beta forum poster who just found something they consider a nerf, I'm busy fighting and actually being a villain.

Masks with Hair and Standard were combined. This is happening to every one of my characters, and IIRC it was mentioned in Beta as an unfortunate side effect of the merge.

((I got the sniffles.))

All hail girl abs.