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Shh- it involves a tanker of maple syrup, three hundred beavers each equipped with large Timmy's Double-Doubles, a Canadian flag, and one piping-hot serving of poutine. I could tell you more, but then you'd turn up facedown in the river covered with beaver-bites.

... in place of what?

Well, I think I managed to wade through the legalese and submit a valid arc... yeesh. Ah, well. Trying for the "Best Enemy Group" with my arc "Small Fears",

(and yes, that was a shameless plug for my arc )

Another option for finding the 'hiding' mobs is find a friend with a damage aura/rapidfire pbaoe. They're actually not that hard to spot- the Coralax make splashes when they spawn, and the Igneous are... well, white blobs on the brown dirt.

Hmm... well, for my two most familiar characters, Energon X and Danny (Target Lad), it's actually fairly easy.

Energon X would simply quietly leave; if his concentration is disrupted too badly, he'll explode, with unpleasant consequences all around.

For Danny... well, let's say that said friend was whistling Allan a'Dale's intro from the Disney Robin Hood movie repeatedly (I won't link to it, as you're unlikely to thank me for getting it stuck in your head for the next sixty years). Easy mistake to make, really, since that song gets jammed into your head so firmly that you'll be hearing it 'til your grave... not unlike the Ducktales themesong, really.

Anyways. Danny's friend is whistling this. After the third or fourth time of asking him to knock it off, our little archer would snap quite nicely. He'd very likely already have been distinctly sarcastic, but, well...

"Right." Danny reached behind him, into his cross-dimensional quiver, and pulled out an arrow with a strange, blunt head. A brief twist, and the Talsorian arrowhead snapped to life with a sharp *CRACK* and a steady hiss, green light lending the scene a washed out hue.

"An' if ye cannae get it into ye're wee tiny brain tha' I'm aboot t'snap an' be fryin' ye faster'n y'can say 'justifiable homicide', p'rhaps a mite o' warnin' will suffice. If'n I'm hearin' e'en one more note o' tha' bloody tune, I'll be performin' brain surgery to get it oot. Nae sure if'n it'll be ye, me, or both, but there'll be brains on th' floor an' I'm nae carin' much whose a' this stage."

Others... Flashpoint Zeo is nearly nine feet tall and built like a brick wall. He'd probably just pick up the offender by the head, dangle them off the ground, and ask them to stop again. If they persisted, he'd probably start squeezing >.>

Tempus Fugitive would probably stick them in a time loop where they have to put up with THEMSELVES doing it over and over and over again. He might let them out later, assuming he remembered, but he doesn't really have a lot of friends. That habit might be why

You know, I'm really not sure how much that phrasing differs on a practical level from the more common 'seek clues' and whatnot. "Towards the back of the building" isn't necessarily viable, since glowie-placement can be badly erratic and only marginally controllable :/

The Superball was actually a belated attempt at avoiding... well, this-

Looks like I should probably go with one or the other, heh... this way seems to just give me a multi-fail rather than covering both bases. Well, that and I really wanted an excuse to use the phrase 'follow the bouncing ball'

That was actually the Oranbegan boss that was forcing the level-switch, if I recall correctly; in all honesty, I had always planned for this arc to be 10-14, not 5-14. Also, if you were facing down the Baron as an EB, well... I did say "difficulty one recommended" before you started. The thought process there was that in my (admittedly limited) experience, most people don't start fiddling with the difficulty level until around the Stamina levels. As Lieutenants, even at that level, tend to be 'hey, that looks interes... nevermind, it's dead already' encounters, I made them EBs so that they would be encountered as Bosses.

See above for the EB dilemma; as to BABs, I'm honestly of two minds on this; if I could scale down his powers somewhat, I would. From a gameplay sense, having him along is a bit foolish, and overshadows the player a bit. The problem is, from a storytelling sense, him not coming along when things are this serious would be equally foolish- pre-i15, BABs didn't come along, and a lot of the earlier reviews I had gotten complained about this; there's all this buildup, and then BABs makes an excuse and runs off someplace else :/

I may see if I can make a workable custom BABs for this, but as I said, I'm really not sure on the whole thing

Known and very persistent glitch- I haven't had any luck squashing it. All the Bosses have their own singular text, but whichever one is last will end up with "Illustrated Woman" as their objective text, no matter what I do.

*sigh* This is one of the more frustrating bits; that really is the only story-appropriate map for that mission, but it's sodding huge and controlling boss placement is impossible. I basically decided to suck it up and just go with that one, because there isn't anything else that fits. I tend to sacrifice gameplay for story, if forced into that choice.

As I said, that's a glitch; it's formatted correctly in the editor (I know this, because I've changed it and changed it and changed it and changed it to try and get rid of that bug without the slightest bit of success >.<)

Yeah. That's actually a bit of a 'known issue' with my writing. I tend to be far too fond of ellipses; when the opportunity presents itself, I'll give the arc a going-over to see if I can't cut down on them a bit. The hyphens, I'm not so sure on- I'll take a look, of course, but, well... (and no, neither punctuation in that last sentence was intended to be ironic, I'm just tired >.<) Oh, and no offense- I'm actually about 2/3 of my way towards getting a novel-length piece into rejection-slip-collecting form, and one of the things that my prelim editor said was 'what's with all the ellipses?'

Going to have to work on that, apparently. In the Blue King comics (the only large-ish source of BABs dialogue that I know of), I noticed that he rarely calls those he's addressing by name, unless it's someone he's known for a fair while. I just settled on newbie as a simple one that's easy to remember- looks like I'm going to have to mix it up a bit.

As an aside, he does call you $name at the very end, when he's thanking you for helping with that case. I had tried to save that until the very last so that it would be more of a standout, this-doesn't-happen-very-often thing, but it doesn't seem to have worked :/

Anyways, thanks again for the review- when I have more free time than I do now (I've barely had time to log in, much less do an extended editing session, over the last couple of months ), I'm going to sit down and give it a thorough going-over.

Point = missed.

'Swinging', to be even remotely useful in any of the non-built-up-city zones, would have to be flying with a different animation.