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What about Mako vs Barracuda at the end? Cos Barracuda is Mako's girlfriend...
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I thought he was just her mentor? Or am I thinking of Scirocco and Ice Mistral?
If she is his girlfriend - even better. A woman scorned!
Life is one big practical joke that we as the human race have yet to see the punchline to. Once you work that out the rest is easy.
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...teaming with Mako himself to get her back (which will be extremely novel for a hero but not unheard of - after all they get to team with Arbiter Sands).
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I heard Mako doesn't play well with others 
But yes I too hope the MA will be fun, intuitive and, more importantly, capable of translating our ideas into missions.
Besides the 'novel' ideas with 'new' hero/villain groups, i can't wait to have a crack at creating some missions to do with either characters that are my own or other peoples' (consent permitting). I have had a thought about an historical set of missions based around the characters of Shadowe, Zortel, Jason Caine, Miss Ellie and Grav Mistress.
I shall be, needless to say, contacting the players if/when we find out what the MA is capable of 
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I've already ran out of available mission arcs... 
I hope I get some dev choices.
Somehow I got the idea of RACHNAPUNZEL. A lovely Tarantula Mistress formerly known as Fortunata Millia. A bit crazed out but somehow just within tolerable parameters to be not incinerated immediately.
Mission 1.
Damsel in the tower. A lovely damsel, a princes perhaps? is looking for a kind heroic villain to free her from the place the wicked witch has locked her in. Of course she got some juicy paydata for reward. Just follow the silken thread.
Mission 2.
The princes wants to meet her true and only love and asks the heroic villain to bring her to this man. A trap needs to be set though to lure the man in. The first part consisting of breaking and entering a storage where illegal consumables are stored. The crate reads schoolbooks what could this mean?
Mission 3.
Having liberated the books, a few prisoners needs to be sprung from the tower. Some dangerous individuals who prove to be a schoolmarm and a Freak tank.
Mission 4.
The trap has been set and her true love will come to the lovenest to clean up the mess before its gotten more messy. All the villains need do is to defeat the troops that try to arrest the individuals and destroy the books of learnings before they can corrupt civilian minds. Non other then Westin Phipps has been given the task to clean this part up.
And see what a lovely thing happens next when the tarantula Mistress climbs back on the long silken rope towards her tower with her screaming, kicking and utterly terrified mate?
Ah Poetic Justice right?
Wrong.......
Explain to that nice arbiter over there why you felt the need to intervene? Nobody said she had forgotten or forgiven him who had helped her beloved to betray her in the first place.
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Somehow I got the idea of RACHNAPUNZEL. A lovely Tarantula Mistress formerly known as Fortunata Millia. A bit crazed out but somehow just within tolerable parameters to be not incinerated immediately.
Mission 1.
Damsel in the tower. A lovely damsel, a princes perhaps? is looking for a kind heroic villain to free her from the place the wicked witch has locked her in. Of course she got some juicy paydata for reward. Just follow the silken thread.
Mission 2.
The princes wants to meet her true and only love and asks the heroic villain to bring her to this man. A trap needs to be set though to lure the man in. The first part consisting of breaking and entering a storage where illegal consumables are stored. The crate reads schoolbooks what could this mean?
Mission 3.
Having liberated the books, a few prisoners needs to be sprung from the tower. Some dangerous individuals who prove to be a schoolmarm and a Freak tank.
Mission 4.
The trap has been set and her true love will come to the lovenest to clean up the mess before its gotten more messy. All the villains need do is to defeat the troops that try to arrest the individuals and destroy the books of learnings before they can corrupt civilian minds. Non other then Westin Phipps has been given the task to clean this part up.
And see what a lovely thing happens next when the tarantula Mistress climbs back on the long silken rope towards her tower with her screaming, kicking and utterly terrified mate?
Ah Poetic Justice right?
Wrong.......
Explain to that nice arbiter over there why you felt the need to intervene? Nobody said she had forgotten or forgiven him who had helped her beloved to betray her in the first place.
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Hmm,
Contact - Comp. Terminal or something similar - Fortuna Millia
Initial Contact - Lonely, so lonely, even after all these years we feel the minds of our pretties, what is this, assistance, communication, freedom.
Mission 1 - Defeat all - Council
One wishes to assist, one wishes to know the dark secrets and treasures of Fortuna Millia, but Fortuna Millia cannot trust just anyone, she has been alone so long, only the witch visits her now, maybe a test to see if you can assist.
Acceptance - Find my tower, trapped within the steel forests of Arachnos, besieged by the Council on all sides, find my tower and protect me from the machinations of the Council child, and I shall reward you greatly.
Terms - Defeat all
NPC Groups - Council
Arachnos
Notable NPCs - Operative Tricho (Tarantula)
Operative Phagia (Tarantula)
Success - You succeeded, my children told me of your great success and I watched from my windows, I have other requests of someone like yourself.
Mission 2 - Get the Crate
My eyes see far, and I see a young man who's soul is a reflection of my own, I wish to lure him here where he will sit and talk with myself for a time, about things we will do to torment the population of these islands.
Acceptance - I knew one such as yourself would be so kind, once you have the crate my children will take it from you to where it needs to be, be swift child.
Mission Terms - Click the glowie
NPC Groups - Longbow
Notable NPCs - None
Success - You got them, so good my child, I am pleased to count you amongst my children.
Mission 3 - Kidnap 33CH@H'Z P3T and Francine Primm
Our bait will be completed through the kidnapping of two people, these have been a thorn in the side of this man before, and combined with the contents of the crate it will bring him to me perfectly.
Acceptance - Of course I knew I could rely on you, your first target is a young Freakshow by the name of 33CH@H'Z P3T, unfortunately Arachnos have disabled his weapons making him all but useless in fight, still, you'll get him out of there won't you.
Following that, I need you to go and get me Miss Francine Primm, once 33CH@H'Z P3T is freed then they will begin to move her, in the hope of stopping our plan. I have a contingency in that case, but I would prefer not to use it.
Part 1 - Kidnap 33CH@H'Z P3T
NPC Groups - Arachnos
Freakshow
Notable NPCs - 33CH@H'Z P3T
Part 2 - Kidnap Francine Primm (90 Minutes)
NPC Groups - Arachnos
Notable NPCs - Francine Primm
Success - Both are here, both are mine, and soon he will too.
Fail - My other children brought me Primm, but do not worry, even through the failure, you are greatest of all.
Part 4 - Rescue Phipps
My plan is done, the web is set most precious of my children, all is ready for my man to enter the stage. You have done well and have earned a glorious place by my side when I descend from the tower.
All is in place, but I must convey a message, sent by the gods, that Arbiter Daos wishes to speak with you child.
Go quickly and return to my side for the glorious celebration.
Arbiter Daos
Millia has woken, don't deny it, I'm not even sure how you managed to pull of so poorly planned escapes for Primm and the freak.
What you believe to be a Fortuna is in fact a Tarantula Queen, possibly the most powerful that we've created. So powerful she took an entire lab out when she recovered from the process. We couldn't kill her, so we stuck her in that tower, until the council destroyed the control systems that kept her there.
Her target is Phipps, no doubt you know him, one of the most vile men on this Island, and that's saying something. No matter how two faced he is, we cannot allow him to perish, she's going to use him to sustain herself kid, both for necessity and vengeance, he was the one who did this to her.
I have troops on standby, enough to level that tower of hers, but I want to send you in first, a second chance you may say, or at least one to clean up your mess.
Bring Phipps out alive and I'll say nothing more about this, the less time he spends off the streets the better, and whilst you're at it, bring back Primm and the Freak.
Mission Terms - Rescue Primm,33CH@H'Z P3T and Phipps
NPC Groups - Arachnos (All Tarantula types)
Freakshow
Notable NPCs - Francine Primm
33CH@H'Z P3T (Freakshow)
Westin Phipps
Queen Millia (Arachnos Tarantula Queen)
Success - Betrayal, you greatest of all my children, now I sleep my eternal sleep whilst the ghost witch watches, watches always, waiting for the day I shall obey. Goodbye, greatest of my children.
I bow for the better storyteller.
To bad Phipps will escape his right fate in this way. If someone deserved to be spider fodder it would be him. And who wouldn't begrudge Millia to wreak her revenge? But this is CoV's where the bad guys DO win.Even one so deserving to fail as Phipps.
Only problem i have is with using the council. They are hardly in the position to challenge LR so why do an assault on his territory?
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Only problem i have is with using the council. They are hardly in the position to challenge LR so why do an assault on his territory?
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Hmm, good point, maybe Longbow.
TBH, I tend to use the Council as a throwaway group if I can't think of a more suitable one due to the fact they are found throughout the entire lvl range.
Yes, because Longbow missions are so few and far between red side... *vomits*
Why not Nemesis? Or Tsoo? Would be awesome to see Tub Ci kick some behind! In a pinch the *ugh* Malta... just no more Longbow, they suck!
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Yes, because Longbow missions are so few and far between red side... *vomits*
Why not Nemesis? Or Tsoo? Would be awesome to see Tub Ci kick some behind! In a pinch the *ugh* Malta... just no more Longbow, they suck!
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*Ducks*
Gah, don't kill me, I don't care who it is in that first mission providing that they are in the correct level range. As I explained, I only use the Council as they appear at all level ranges like Arachnos and Lonbow.
Well we could use CoT. Everybody loves CoT right and they are everywhere everywhere!!
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I really hope I14 fulfills its true potential and allows us to make these ideas. I think they're great. For my part I was thinking of a Love Story based on Beauty and the Beast where a young heroin has been kidnapped by Captain Mako and (shock horror) actually falls in love with him! Queue several missions of rescues, EB fights and even teaming with Mako himself to get her back (which will be extremely novel for a hero but not unheard of - after all they get to team with Arbiter Sands).
Dont know whether she will die at the end - most tragic love stories do but fairy stories they live happily ever after.... oh the possibilities!
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What about Mako vs Barracuda at the end? Cos Barracuda is Mako's girlfriend...