Discussion: Paragon Journals

Some of you may have seen our last Paragon Journals entry, an exciting new portion of our website dedicated to revealing in character perspectives on some of the changes sweeping through 'Paragon City™' & 'The Rogue Isles™.' Paragon Journals showcases features through the eyes of some of the signature characters of City of Heroes®!

In our first Paragon Journals entry, Dr. Raymond Keyes details his experience with dual build modifications on the Positron suit in an effort to pursue and vanquish Requiem. Read his journal entry.

With our newest entry we find information from the personal journals of Dr. Thaddeus Aeon about his work relating to Architect. See how these changes affect the lives of those living in the City of Heroes® Universe here.

Check it out today and join our Community in discussion on our Official Message Boards.

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Architect pictures and tidbits HOORAY!!!!!!!!!

Edit: ... And what indeed is Requiem up to? Will we be finding out in April?

Edit 2: I am totally in favor of using Paragon Journals to drop hints about future storylines and/or features while in-character.

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

:O

OH MY GOD AWESOME.

Edit: Tidbits make me giddy. The screenshots made me squeak like an overexcited fangirl.

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Main heroes:
Dark/Psy/Psy Defender
Grav/Storm/Power Controller
Ice/Storm/Ice Controller
Plant/Rad/Psi Controller
Earth/Rad/Earth Controller
Main Villains:
Ice/Cold/Sharks Corruptor
Elec/Shield Brute
Fortunata/Soul Widow

Nice! :]

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Mako's Creek?!

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Not bad. I liked the tone of the Positron one quite a bit, the Aeon one was a little too jokey for me.

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Couple random thoughts as I was reading:

Thaddeus?

"Mako's Creek" (hee hee)

Ooh, shiney.

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James Van Der Beek's little rowboat gets upended during the opening credits ... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The creek turns red, while Paula Cole continues to sing.

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

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James Van Der Beek's little rowboat gets upended during the opening credits ... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The creek turns red, while Paula Cole continues to sing.

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Sounds awesome.

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Of course now the rest of the Freedom Phalanx will be complaining that Positron is soloing his missions for merits rather than being a good team player

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Just my $.02, I'm happy to get a little teaser, but I don't like how they attempt to write in things like the MA as part of the CoH storyline. Probably just me, it just doesn't make any sense IMO and should just be kept as an out of game lore content creator. I feel the same way about writing proliferation into the story line. Do we really need to explain in game why villains can carry a mace now?

Don't mean to be negative, it's just a little thing that bugs me. Overall it looks great and I'm glad to see some pics!

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Neat!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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James Van Der Beek's little rowboat gets upended during the opening credits ... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The creek turns red, while Paula Cole continues to sing.

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Sounds awesome.

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I'd watch.

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Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

I still wish this had a stronger tie to the mainstream lore than just a overgrown mini-game. Out do Television? Really?

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"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."

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I still wish this had a stronger tie to the mainstream lore than just a overgrown mini-game. Out do Television? Really?

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What do you expect from Dr. Aeon? Seriousness? Really?

But yeah, I get your point.

Then again how would you explain in the lore, every super powered being on both sides of Paragon being suddenly able to reconstruct reality and create their own pocket universe, without bordering on silliness? I mean, really, even for a comic book universe. LOL

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Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

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I still wish this had a stronger tie to the mainstream lore than just a overgrown mini-game. Out do Television? Really?

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What do you expect from Dr. Aeon? Seriousness? Really?

But yeah, I get your point.

Then again how would you explain in the lore, every super powered being on both sides of Paragon being suddenly able to reconstruct reality and create their own pocket universe, without bordering on silliness? I mean, really, even for a comic book universe. LOL

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Maybe that's kinda the point of the "Devs' Choice" thing ... Dr Aeon, by toying with forces he doesn't completely understand, has created a device which can not only produce solid, interactive, 3-dimensional representations of life, but can sometimes actually rewrite reality itself.

Eh?

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

We've been making the suggestion for months now that they could have used Portal Corp as a way to explore alternate realities that are custom to the observer (ie. You).

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"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."

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We've been making the suggestion for months now that they could have used Portal Corp as a way to explore alternate realities that are custom to the observer (ie. You).

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Personally with the epic problems Portal Corp has caused it would REALLY surprise me if they let LOW SECURITY LEVEL heros use it to do that.

Villside though it wouldn't.

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Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

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I still wish this had a stronger tie to the mainstream lore than just a overgrown mini-game. Out do Television? Really?

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What do you expect from Dr. Aeon? Seriousness? Really?

But yeah, I get your point.

Then again how would you explain in the lore, every super powered being on both sides of Paragon being suddenly able to reconstruct reality and create their own pocket universe, without bordering on silliness? I mean, really, even for a comic book universe. LOL

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That's why I don't think it should be part of the lore at all. Our characters aren't making these missions...we the subscribers are. The missions that get selected to the hall of fame/Dev's Choice could simply be explained as alternate timelines/reality accessible thru Ouroboros. THAT would be somewhat believable.

The rest of the silly and "unworthy" missions don't really need to be explained thru in game lure IMO. If they absolutely have to be explained, at least explain it as a virtual reality device and not an actual machine that creates alternate realities for entertainment....that's just silly IMO.

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Come on! This just beggs for a "What If-Worlds" theme.

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"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."

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I still wish this had a stronger tie to the mainstream lore than just a overgrown mini-game. Out do Television? Really?

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What do you expect from Dr. Aeon? Seriousness? Really?

But yeah, I get your point.

Then again how would you explain in the lore, every super powered being on both sides of Paragon being suddenly able to reconstruct reality and create their own pocket universe, without bordering on silliness? I mean, really, even for a comic book universe. LOL

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That's why I don't think it should be part of the lore at all. Our characters aren't making these missions...we the subscribers are. The missions that get selected to the hall of fame/Dev's Choice could simply be explained as alternate timelines/reality accessible thru Ouroboros. THAT would be somewhat believable.

The rest of the silly and "unworthy" missions don't really need to be explained thru in game lure IMO. If they absolutely have to be explained, at least explain it as a virtual reality device and not an actual machine that creates alternate realities for entertainment....that's just silly IMO.

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I partially agree. Ouroboros would make more sense.

I don't think however, that dev's choice should even be part of the lore either.

With that said I don't mind what they did that much.

What I do mind is that the roleplay aspect of it seems waaaay too much like co-op. If I were Positron and a known villan supervillan scientist had made a device that could warp reality, I would not be testing it to say "its safe to use for fun fellow heroes", I'd be finding someway to take it and HIM down. Especially with what most heroes know about his accomplice, Countess Crey. And especially with what Recluse's Victory represents.

Just saying.

With that said I think I just wrote myself an opening summary for a future MA storyline.

*rubs hands together*

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Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

All I'm saying is that there must be a better way to incorporate this into making us better heroes. Crafting, although a diversion from actual hero work, is necessary to improve our powers. This goes in the opposite direction as we can flitter away our time fighting made up villains instead of the real thing.

...Hmmm, perhaps that is the point?

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"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."

Architect can't come fast enough!

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My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you <3

So... wait a minute... Positron can change his build on the fly, while fighting??? Oooh!!!!! I want THAT powaaaaaaaaaaah!

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So... wait a minute... Positron can change his build on the fly, while fighting??? Oooh!!!!! I want THAT powaaaaaaaaaaah!

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I want the part when I can spec my defender into Dual Blades.....on the fly......

Positron is hacking again, me thinks...

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