I did a Film Noir/Hardboiled detective style arc, and an arc that may contain a few anime-esque elements. Check my signature for the arc numbers.
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
# 1567 "The MacGuffin Delivery Service" has a nice take on the contact, it's done in the form of your journal. Then the first mission is you playing through a flashback sequence. I don't want to say more to avoid spoilers. The second mission also shows creative use of MA tools to set the scene.
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
QR - 'Kiss Hello Goodbye' is an awesome noir title. I wish i'd thought of that.
That's really good lol.
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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In my second arc, The Audition (Arc ID 182289, currently at FIVE stars!*), I have a musical mission. Yes, that's right, its a musical. All the narrative is delivered via the mobs singing at you.
...It took me ages 
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I used one of those for an alternate world mission I did for one of my SGs. It took me ages too :P
(Had Family, Warriors and Freakshow. The Family sang Sinatra, the Freakshow, The Clash and The Warriors, Queen)
One of the people I play with has done a really dark fairy tale arc, called The Sisters Grimm (published by @Bashere)
#2409 - The Mystery of the MAGI vaults. Azuria has contacted you to help her stop the thefts from the MAGI vaults.
#68054 - Out of the gutters. Left for dead, you swore that you were through with being a victim (alt villain beginning story)
Thanks!
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
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In my second arc, The Audition (Arc ID 182289, currently at FIVE stars!*), I have a musical mission. Yes, that's right, its a musical. All the narrative is delivered via the mobs singing at you.
...It took me ages .
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I used one of those for an alternate world mission I did for one of my SGs. It took me ages too :P
(Had Family, Warriors and Freakshow. The Family sang Sinatra, the Freakshow, The Clash and The Warriors, Queen)
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Lol cool.
I wrote all the lyrics for mine myself, and it took so long because the MA doesnt make sequential and consistent narrative delivery easy at all. It's a nice mission, I think.
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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Question: Does your arc include a link to a youtube video of you performing all these songs, or do we have to guess at the music?
Just don't see how anyone can make a musical without patrols using the West Side Story snap-walk.
For strange genres how about single gag comic strips. Peculiar in a story telling venue, but heavily used in MA Arcs.
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I did a Film Noir/Hardboiled detective style arc..
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I've got a idea burning for one, but what I want to make it really work is a half a dozen maps in black and white (as I want to make the characters as "greyscale" as possible, too). But I'll definitely give yours a looksee!
Dec out.
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QR - 'Kiss Hello Goodbye' is an awesome noir title.
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Shameless plug: IMHO, the title's not the only awesome thing about it -- the whole arc's full of awesomesauce! Plot, characters, dialog -- they're all great and I thought it stayed very true to the genre! 
PS: when's the next one?!?!
PPS: sheer nosiness, but was there a particular author you were inspired by for that? I guessed Mickey Spillane, but if there even WAS a particular inspiration, there's a bunch to pick from. Again, great job!
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
My "Who is Kidnapping the World's Great Philosophers" (86347) is a moral allegory, something I haven't seen anyone else try. Its cartoony orcs and elves are there to remind you of what happens when you let market gougers have their way. The souvenir is an explanation of why "buy low, sell high" is inconsistent with the Golden Rule.
Still, I've been told that the end boss is the most terrifying yet encountered. 
<《 New Colchis / Guides / Mission Architect 》>
"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
heh, thanks!
Nothing specific really, just kind of generic style from the various parodies and pastiches I've seen here and there. When I was writing it, I kept Bogie's voice in mind, so I guess you could say Dashiel Hammett. But if I had to point at an author as inspiration, it would be Frank Miller.
I will also here plug Mike McQuay, an old college professor of mine, who wrote some SF Noir about a character named "Matt Swain". Thanks, Mike.
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
Qr LOL I still can't get over how good that title is. I've been telling my friends 'hey, film hour title - Kiss Hello Goodbye, isn't that great?' and they're going 'ok, whatever' and I'm like 'what? Am I the only one who sees it's awesome genius?'
I'm going to play it tonight.
Eco
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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I will also here plug Mike McQuay, an old college professor of mine, who wrote some SF Noir about a character named "Matt Swain". Thanks, Mike.
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Wow -- I remember picking up the first one of those in the bookstore and thinking "mixing these two genres is either going to be a disaster, or it'll be great!" Of course, that was a year or so after "Outland" with Sean Connery, a sci-fi western...and I thought both it and the Matthew Swain stories were pretty good!
And again, you did an awesome job with your story, too!
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
SF Western? That'll never work...
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
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SF Western? That'll never work...
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u serious?
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenth ur-
nuk!
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SF Western? That'll never work...
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u serious?
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How about Firefly?
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.
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My "Who is Kidnapping the World's Great Philosophers" (86347) is a moral allegory, something I haven't seen anyone else try.
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Moral allegory is a dicey thing to play with. If you do it too soft, no one 'gets it', and if you do it too hard, they resent you for preaching at them. I think the reason you don't see it a lot is that people are hesitant to push those envelopes because they don't want to turn people off to future stories.
I bet when the AE craze dies down a bit, and people start to look harder at keywords and themes you'll see more of those starting to form, but at the same time, I come to CoH to get away from the stress of real problems, not be preached to about the evils of capitalism.
It's a similar problem to doing too much with all of the environmental issues. It's far too easy to turn a story into a 'industry bad, nature good' kind of thing where we're all pushed into self loathing for enjoying a morning latte on the way to work. That's the kind of thing that turns people off...
Mr. O
I'm not sure what genre it qualifies as, but I'm kicking around an arc to answer the question "What if David Lynch wrote an MA arc?"
I expect it'll get lots of 1-star ratings though because hardly anyone would be able to follow it...
my latest is a norse "epic"
the contact is a tablet with an epic written on it (I have not done it in any sort of verse). There is no intro - you just read this epic, your name is in it, and the missions are part of it.
The text in the missions by the NPC's is not epic yet - I need to research a bit more for that.
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It's a similar problem to doing too much with all of the environmental issues. It's far too easy to turn a story into a 'industry bad, nature good' kind of thing where we're all pushed into self loathing for enjoying a morning latte on the way to work. That's the kind of thing that turns people off...
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The solution, of course, is to write one that embodies your point of view.
It is possible to make more complicated versions of the same fairly interesting. This is one of the reasons that Princess Mononoke stands head and shoulders above, say, Bakshi's Wizards. When I first saw Princess Mononoke, my first thought was, "what a train wreck this would have been if Disney had done it for Americans."
On the other hand, the narrative structure of MA gives you few options other than setting up an enemy and solving the problem they pose by beating them up. This is one of the reasons why I'm still angry over the loss of my best story, Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions. Lesbian Hellions was both funny and complex. It turned out that the "victims" didn't really mind much at all. This will be explored at further length in the forthcoming sequel - but that will not be subtle at all.
<《 New Colchis / Guides / Mission Architect 》>
"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
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This is one of the reasons that Princess Mononoke stands head and shoulders above, say, Bakshi's Wizards.
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BAH! 
You're right, of course, but still...
...BAH!
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
You don't follow David Lynch stories. They drag you behind them, kicking and screaming into the darkness. That's not the same thing.
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
In my second arc, The Audition (Arc ID 182289, currently at FIVE stars!*), I have a musical mission. Yes, that's right, its a musical. All the narrative is delivered via the mobs singing at you.
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, I was wondering if anyone else had thought of using less than immediately obvious genres with the MA.
...It took me ages
Anyway, now that my plug's over with
Sit-Coms, Documentaries, love stories...er, a lecture on the mating habits of wildebeestes, maybe? I know Paula's made an actual tutorial for the MA with the MA (arc 28470), and I played a great little mission that was a delivery system for the poem The Jabberwocky (and also great fun to play to boot, its arc 1573 if you're interested), but are there any other oddities out there I could have a go at in terms of structure, delivery or genre?
Eco.
*and 1 play.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)