What end of the world scenario would you like?

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Dinosaurs.

I rest my case.

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Dinosaurs.

I rest my case.

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With laser beams coming out of their eyes?

And IR goggles, rocket packs, and giant hamster sidekicks...

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Sentient fog flowing out of Dark Astoria and slowly covering the city might be fun - maybe with some sort of travel power suppression, and lurking things in the fog.

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Depends whether you go for John Carpenter or James Herbert's version "The Fog"

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Stephen Kings "The Mist" For the Win in my opinion...

Cake
Pie
A Cake full of Pie
or


a Pie full of cake...

people say there a lie. but an invasion of them would shut them up

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Cake
Pie
A Cake full of Pie
or


a Pie full of cake...

people say there a lie. but an invasion of them would shut them up

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The Invasion is a Pie?

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

best end of the world, let the politicians do what they do.
o wait, they already do, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

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Sentient fog flowing out of Dark Astoria and slowly covering the city might be fun - maybe with some sort of travel power suppression, and lurking things in the fog.

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A sentient acid fog that eats everything.

My favorite scenarios:
A gastroneurologic virus, ie a virus that slides well with any nerve cell. Infection of nerve tissue in large intestine cause severe gastroeneritis, thus making the virus spread by the fecal-oral route. Infection of nerve tissue in the brain cause neurological symptoms, long-term disabilities, insanity and death.

Hypernova:
A star with a mass of more than 15 suns burns out, collapsing into a black hole and explode in a MASSIVE explosion that are orders of magnitude more powerful than a Type-2 supernova. Despite a distance of thousands of lightyears, the afterglow is bright as the sun and the earth is sterilized by gamma rays.

More scenario ideas here: http://exitmundi.nl/

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My favorite scenarios:
A gastroneurologic virus, ie a virus that slides well with any nerve cell. Infection of nerve tissue in large intestine cause severe gastroeneritis, thus making the virus spread by the fecal-oral route. Infection of nerve tissue in the brain cause neurological symptoms, long-term disabilities, insanity and death.

Hypernova:
A star with a mass of more than 15 suns burns out, collapsing into a black hole and explode in a MASSIVE explosion that are orders of magnitude more powerful than a Type-2 supernova. Despite a distance of thousands of lightyears, the afterglow is bright as the sun and the earth is sterilized by gamma rays.

More scenario ideas here: http://exitmundi.nl/

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Damz did actually ask for ingame end-of-world events...

Not sure that I want to be involved in an in-game event to promote/stop the fecal-oral transmission of a gastroneurologic virus.

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best end of the world, let the politicians do what they do.
o wait, they already do, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

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A global spread of communism, national socialism or a similar totalitarian ideology that suppress individualism, deny the free will, enact command economy, brain-wash the masses, put dissidents and those they failed to brain-wash in concentration camps, define random minorities as a cancer of the society and therefor exterminate them etc.

Global causalities as a result of the new totalitarianism might be 10 to 30 percent of the global population. Those who survive have had to give up their free will. No free will = no humanity.

A virus that you get from interacting with trainers, esp. Ms. Liberty since she's trained pretty much every hero in Paragon!

Unless you have a temporary shield power.

It's all a Nemesis plot

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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A virus that you get from interacting with trainers, esp. Ms. Liberty since she's trained pretty much every hero in Paragon!

Unless you have a temporary shield power.

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What the heck are you doing to the traniers? Most people just talk to them, sicko!

How about - the ultimate sacrifice!

A giant entity appears in Paragon making its way slowly towards atlas plaza (or redside equivalent) it spells the ultimate destruction of the city. The entity cannot be damaged only slowed, its hit points are lowered very slightly every time it defeats a hero/villian (hence - ultimate sacrifice)the ammount of damage will be equal to the amount of damage the hero/villian made before their defeat, self destruction will not count. Once it's hit points reach zero the entity splits into 4 powerfull AV's - Conquest, War, Famine, and Death, who can be defeated using the normal methods, defeating these AV's will grant rewards.

Special badges should be awarded for those who make the the ultimate sacrifice.

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My favorite scenarios:
A gastroneurologic virus, ie a virus that slides well with any nerve cell. Infection of nerve tissue in large intestine cause severe gastroeneritis, thus making the virus spread by the fecal-oral route. Infection of nerve tissue in the brain cause neurological symptoms, long-term disabilities, insanity and death.


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Easily countered by the power of "now wash your hands".

As is Hype-flu

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Edited cos I found the video!

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Easily countered by the power of "now wash your hands".

As is Hype-flu

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It would definitely help to slow or even stop the spread, especially in combination with quarantine measures and early discovery and surveillance. For the sake of realism, an event of this scenario should have NPC officials advising people to wash their hands in addition to other precautions.

But I wouldn't rule out the possibility for a large or even global outbreak. Some viruses that spread by the fecal-oral route are so infectious that less than a nanogram of vomit or feces (I hence use "poison" as a collaborate term for those substances) is enough to cause infection. Anyone who where unlucky to get sick in the winter vomiting disease in a public place know that it isn't trivial to secure the random massive violent poison outbursts.

Imagine a disease that cause severe to fatal illness, is very difficult to treat as most neurological conditions. And what if the brain disease component is a long-term and life-threatening, like anorexia nervosa or dementia. Other brain diseases like borderline personality disorder can seriously disrupt the society, even if something like five to ten percent get it.

I agree with you that the new H1N1/A flu is over-hyped and I'm not scared about it at all. But a gastroneurologic virus that has anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder as the neurological component is something completely different.

I looked around on the exit mundi site and I see that a majority of the most probable apocalypse scenarios wouldn't fit well in the game, because it's not possible to "fight" them, as they are either caused by entities larger than a hamidon or smaller than a clockwork. Zombies and alien invasion already exists in the game for very good reasons, they are of fightable size and can be fought regardless of powers. Genetically altered killer crops/animals is perhaps a good idea.

Well, if we cannot fight the direct cause of doom, supernovae and asteroids impacts are good. A depleted ozone layer from a supernova might mess up the biosphere and cause massive social chaos. Heroes might help restore social order, and villains might exploit the situation to create havoc.

A giant creature only known as Soon™ attacks the city meaning potential DOOOOOOOOOM! for all players.

Failure to defeat it will mean that 80% of the playerbase will move onto another similiar mmo, resulting in a sever merge meaning players will have to take new names like Girl Golden, all powers will be nerfed and all existing badges will be deleted by accident


Yeah I'm bored at work

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How about - the ultimate sacrifice!

A giant entity appears in Paragon making its way slowly towards atlas plaza (or redside equivalent) it spells the ultimate destruction of the city. The entity cannot be damaged only slowed, its hit points are lowered very slightly every time it defeats a hero/villian (hence - ultimate sacrifice)the ammount of damage will be equal to the amount of damage the hero/villian made before their defeat, self destruction will not count. Once it's hit points reach zero the entity splits into 4 powerfull AV's - Conquest, War, Famine, and Death, who can be defeated using the normal methods, defeating these AV's will grant rewards.

Special badges should be awarded for those who make the the ultimate sacrifice.

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I like this but as the ultimate sacrifice how about a construct must be made by amassing lots of components (task/strike force lvl 45+ ) and then placing them ina repository in a neutral location. then, X number of heroes/villains that took part in the task force enter the construct and have their energy used to power the weapon, essentially disintegrating them (character is wiped from the players account)

If enough sacrifice themselves then the world is saved and a monument (a wall or cylinder with names of the fallen) is erected in their honour - the names are considered canon and cannot be selected by new players or toons in the future.

then its up to the remainders to take on the 4 GM/AVs...

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A giant creature only known as Soon™ attacks the city meaning potential DOOOOOOOOOM! for all players.

Failure to defeat it will mean that 80% of the playerbase will move onto another similiar mmo, resulting in a sever merge meaning players will have to take new names like Girl Golden, all powers will be nerfed and all existing badges will be deleted by accident


Yeah I'm bored at work

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They already did that - it was called i13 :P

And I want a proper Black and White style god hand and icon to come down and rampage only to be severely slapped for disloyalty, kick the globe off of Atlas's shoulders and then after eating a rancid series of rads to expell itself ontop of City Hall. Not to mention hand to monster catch with BAB having a paddy pants cos he's become a tennis ball.

See thats how you do bored at work!

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Good luck finding volunteers for that!

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Good luck finding volunteers for that!

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I suspect that there wouldn't be too many shortages of volunteers

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

for a chance to have your character's name go down in game canon ?

I'd sign my lvl 50 up for it