Arc 278255 - The Greater Evil


Lazarus

 

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"When the Nemesis Army begins conducting a strange series of seemingly random raids, few suspect just how deep things really go. But when you get to the bottom of it all, will you have what it takes to do the right thing?"

This is my second arc ever, and it's built for heroes levels 45-50 (technically, 45-54). I really don't want to give a lot of the plot away because I slaved over that damn thing for a week But I am going to say that, as a 45-50 content, it may not be TOO easy, though I certainly kept away from any attempts at "challenge" where I could.

This is a story-focused arc that involves a lot of plot and a lot of text, so it's good to know that going in. It's finished, but it has had very little testing, so errors, mistakes, typos and things of that nature are bound to have slipped in. If you see them, let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.

Narratively, I tried to escape from the mould of the game's "go there and do that" contact system, though given what that system is, that's only so in writing. I still think I went at least part-way I've tried to keep true to the Nemesis, which I must admit is one of the hardest canon characters to write for both because of how he is written and how much he has been ridiculed here on the forums. I tried to keep a balance of these things and still retain an interesting storyline. Text length limits gave me a run for my money, but I've found somewhat creative solutions to those, as well

Any feedback you have is very welcome, as I really want to polish this as much as I can. I may test-ride it some more in the days to come, but right now I'm just too sick of working on it to want to do it all over again


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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Well that was one of the better Nemesis plots I have seen. The contact was hard to put up with and I was ready to quit by mission 2. I'm level 45, not level 20, so show some damn respect!


 

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Yeah, I was worried he would come off as too much of a jerk, but I hoped that would balance out with him being pretty much consistently wrong and often in real trouble, and by his final speech. Notice how he never actually does anything useful apart from translating one set of orders?


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.