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I am aware of this. Thanks.

I'm still not seeing any suspicious mysteries here. If the Well is under anyone's control other than our own for the time being, it's just his boss. There's no telling if the 'greater' is even a literal person or not; the 'agreement' that the Well made could just be between other beings like himself.

And I'm still not getting why anyone in this thread thinks that the Well was ever human. Prometheus does say that the Well was around before humanity.

Dark Astoria mission badges.

Fixed.

Well, if you read the briefing from Infernia, Malta is still in the process of fitting the tanks with sapper technology.

I think the developers would have to create a new animation rig to make a 'fightable' tank or helicopter or any other kind of vehicle capable of lateral movement while still pointing the dangerous parts at a target. I mean, unless you want them to be totally stationary like those turret trailers in RWZ, or capable of having a hilarious, immersion-breaking and arbitrarily quick zero degree turning radius like the Avatar of Hamidon does. I know they can turn like that IRL, but I don't know if there's a way to slow turning down ingame. In fact, I don't know if the critter AI used by the game engine is even capable of 'strafing' during aggro.

It's a technical issue. Not a mental block.

Looked. It's not there. :P

Source?

I don't think all of the magic users are sent overseas just because they use magic. Transmuter was a part of Powers Division until Reese got all Reesey on him. We don't really know what's up with the other magic-using mirrors of the signature characters over in Praetoria yet except for Diabolique. All we do know is that Cole must have a tight grip on the use of magic in the city; anyone else who doesn't play along gets sent to play with the Hamidon instead.

It's not destroyed if it goes back to the Well.

I think its been established that the power of the Well that we're trying to release comes from the same Well that's empowering Tyrant.

Well, Prometheus doesn't seem concerned about whether or not someone can ascend so much as whether they should. Right now, since the Battalion is bearing down on Primal Earth, he doesn't think anyone should be playing around with the idea of taking that much power for themselves at all. We don't really know how long it takes to restore what we would consider a 'normal' amount of potential to the people.

It is? What'd I miss, or is there some missing information here?

Not enough skyscrapers or darkity-dark to be Gotham. I'd recommend more of a detective noir theme. If there's anything that should be darkity-dark (but not Dark Astoria-dark) it should be Brickstown. That has the Sumerian Underworld theme or somesuch, right? And the whole place was on fire once.

Okay, so it really isn't just me.

Those are actually renamed Praetorian Hamidon tentacles.

Interestingly, note that Ramiel calls the Time Echoes in his first mission 'illusions.' Next, note that the Dream Doctor can summon illusions as you fight alongside him. Third, note that the Doctor states that the very next time he comes to Ouroboros, it'll be to knock it into the sea.

Even if the Dream Doctor is trying to stop Battalion and/or Rularuu, which he may see as the Coming Storm, he may actually end up becoming part of the Coming Storm in at least one possible future.

Wade planted the Power Intensifier that the Rulu-Shin stole at the beginning of WWD2 at the ritual site. That, in addition to the empowerment ritual, created a multiplier effect that completely overloaded Sister Psyche's powers.

Is it because you never noticed, or because they actually call us MHIs? (Metahuman Incursions)


Sorry. Had to fix.

I stay away from that site as much as possible. It makes me crabby and critical of everything.

The obelisk was nowhere in sight when Statesman died, either. Its direct presence doesn't appear to be necessary, contrary to the first obelisk's appearance in WWD1.

I don't think anyone's ignoring Statesman's death. Long-term fallout requires...you know, time. The most immediate consequences of his death, an escalating crime wave, is just beginning. Your street cred could be soaring, or at least your infamy could be, considering that Vanguard is probably going to ask for your help to defeat Wade in WWD7 via Infernia even though you did have something to do with Statesman's death.

Wade's Xanatos gambit made the heroes put Psyche into his trap. You're tracking down the heroes to make sure that the trap doesn't blow up Aurora-Psyche before Psyche dies. And really, that's all that WWD6 is about redside.

He's cinching his attempt to become Rulaaru.

Both arcs aren't supposed to occur; only one happens, depending on the alignment of your character.

Greer informs you that Wade should have Psyche's powers now as a result of her death.

Well, appearances aside, we don't want to seal off access to Praetoria because this time we have to defeat the opponent. According to Prometheus, that is.

Well, what we were fighting in RWZ was a dripping faucet compared to what we stopped Hro'Dtohz from bringing in by the end of Dark Watcher's arc, which is what Earth's heroes stopped at the end of the First Rikti War. Not only that, but the Battalion fought the Rikti when the Rikti had the home team advantage, which I would imagine be the entire lake, metaphorically speaking. I'm not really sure what 'defeated' means when the fight is referenced in the RWZ arcs: if there's another, seperate Battalion in the universe the Rikti are from and it was completely wiped out, or if the Rikti fought off the same Battalion we're fighting now, and it came to this universe to try another angle.

This is a likely future scenario.

I think that the transdimensional presence of a Well is confirmed by Prometheus. It just really depends on how much Rikti culture still associates itself with the concept of 'humanity'. It'd be pretty difficult not to these days, what with bringing the Lost into the ranks and such...

...well, you remember all the stuff that both sides learned by the end of the RWZ content...

I'm not ingame right now, but I believe there are points where Prometheus says that a Well entity is something that 'agrees' to guide its associated species through the achievement of Incarnate power when that species becomes aware of its connection to 'something greater' -- which is his justification for wanting us to control it, instead of the other way around, since it agreed to help us in the first place -- and there are points where Prometheus says that its the repository for a species ideas and creativity, etc., and changes as that species' culture changes. If both of these points are true, then we're missing a bit of information on what a Well really is and where it comes from, whether its a physical manifestation of the sum human personality or something from another place. I mean, from what I remember hearing of Prometheus' I22 stuff, it sounds like the writers are heading in the direction of the latter case, but again, we may just be missing pertinent information.

Time travel obviously isn't beyond the Battalion's means. They gobbled up most of Dillo's race; what limitations on their states of matter have been removed as a result? What if at some point, the Battalion altered itself in such a way so that death isn't the end for them, and is just a setback? Prometheus says that there's almost nothing the Battalion hasn't prepared for, so what could give him cause to say something like that and mean it? We haven't been given much in the way of an epic yarn to pump up the Battalion by explaining in what way they devoured so-and-so species or how they turned the planet into strange matter or what their arm cannon Got Equipped With as a result of their victory.

(Then again, the Battalion is probably more like a force composed of several different species with the 'Dark Father's' forces calling all the shots among them. Still, there's nothing saying that those species haven't been significantly altered in some way, moving traits from one to others to create different kinds of soldiers, sort of like the Combine forces in the HL2 canon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Battalion turned out to be quite like the Combine, but altered with a comic book flair.)

I am taking Prometheus' statement with a grain of salt -- the Rikti beat the Battalion, after all -- but the only way for the Battalion to appear as a credible threat in the near future is to have them get very cheaty on Day One of their arrival, which they should because they know that we already know they're coming and because they know there are Incarnates on Earth. The challenge the writers have is that to make the Battalion a credible threat, there must be the impression that our characters, and Earth, really could lose this time, no matter how much the players expect to win.

That sounds more like a personal opinion rather than intelligent speculation on the nature of such beings in the CoH universe. The truth is that two origins for godlike beings have been given so far in the canon and we don't know which, if not somehow both, remains true.

I don't see much difference between what you read before and what we may be getting in the future, so I don't know why you're disappointed. All of the essential components are still there.

Y'know, you didn't give any mention as to what they were the last time I saw you mention those documents, so I have to wonder why you're saying this again, but not saying much again.

I think the Drowning in Blood trial gives correct clues.