Wow, my arc's a classic? Thanks for the review, though it's one of the most... interesting short reviews I've read.
A story by another Forum regular: The Echo (1688)
Hmm.. Jack & Janice! Her husband doesn't care she's missing but this bloke does. Never Mind. I'm feeling in a bad mood and really tired of saving this unappreciative world, maybe helping out just a single one feels better.
Hmm.. Again! Found the Dame and some French sounding Freak who claimed he's just 'babysitting' - riiiight. I knock the stuffing outta him (my right eye is itching and I don't even have it anymore, stuff like that makes you cranky).
Hmm.. Third time. Someone beat her up and noone wants to talk with us about nothing. Mace time! Sadly the Crey had nothing to offer but Rude Employees and slow computers, and this Monitor Guy I was looking up, seemed to be a goner already.
Luckily there's more Crey labs to go through for Info, the next in more ordinary use (not that it stops me). And looks like this Monitor line isn't such a dead end after all. So now I'm looking for an insane criminal mastermind? Heck! At this rate I'll end up saving this world anyway.
Yup... Stop evil guy and doomsday weapons. Now this city already owes me LOTS and I got NOTHING, ah well! I soon run into another Loud (VERY loud) mouth Freak. I think those freaks were actually happy to see me, preferring a fight over box-watching duty anyway. So - them and me happy both!
(Almost missed a big ugly wodden box in the middle of a hall-way. I dunno' didn't look enough out of place. Yeah - go ahead and blame the one-eyed guy for missing stuff - IT WAS IN MY BLIND ANGLE)
So... Now he throws the gauntlet at me (literally), thinks I'm afraid of his Doomsdays device and his Freak Army. NO WAY! I don't like this dimension that much anyway and I'm not afraid of no Freak, so I can only say - BRING IT!!!
So Mr. Insano can "Hear the World" - I'll make sure to hit him so hard with my Mace it'll make his ears fall off.
Well by the 5th Freak or so it was clear, he was a nutter for a reason. He had some bad day at hero-work once. But seriously no need to blow up the world. Grow Angry and Bitter - perhaps yes (simple caltrops in the face can do that to you). Hmm... Could you make a mace that could crack the earth? (What's with all these French Freaks anyway??)
In the end there is little choice.. I guess it had to end like this either way
I still wonder about this dimension and its so called qualities and values. Would 'Tyrant' have allowed such things to happen?
The "One PING only": Using stringed bosses to tell a long story in the right order is a smart idea, and Freaks are great for that, noone ever gets tired of beating up Freak-bosses. They can put a comedic edge to even the most tragic of stories - like this one.
PS! For SOME reason it isn't always loading all the inline images... If there ain't 4 Images you aren't seeing them all (I've chosen to go with 4 images per story in general, should be just about right to give people a look-n-feel of the mission at hand)
//AtCbM// www.crystalblue.dk
Victory - Mare,Dagger of Pain,Keep,Hogun and Bloodpetal
The Keep-Arcs: 164260, 188373, 192610, 196090 and funny side-chapter 218575.
Mender-Arc: 266163
Now I've got everyones attention... let's go for something completely random (well, as long as there's no nasty Orange Warning Label)
Occult and supernatural detective "Dagger of Pain" at your service, testing "Ghouls, Goblins and Demons, Oh My!" (24406)
Don't mind my name, that's just for the thing that gave me my powers (the Dagger of Loviatar) and seems to keep mutating me as well, not that I can't live with my current almost Angelic form. This time I'm hired by Queen Tatiana - since she does feel like a kindred spirit to me, I take the job.
The Queen has a pest control problem, and it has spilled out into our world now, and I'm just the Woman to clean out all those pesky otherwordly vermin. I *AM* warned that I'll have to take out the lot of them, and that they are both small and good at hiding, so I put on my invisibility and see if I can't suprise them out in the open.
Despite their many supernatural powers they are no match for me (me freezing everyone in solid ice before they can use any pesky abilities).
Their boss "The Ogre" is a different matter - don't let him hit you! His club hits pretty hard.
Sadly it's never that easy. Some managed to escape from the cave the breach between worlds started in, and are on the loose - time to pick up stragglers, and deprive them of any shinies they have taken a fancy to along the way
The "One PING Only": Despite using mobs with electric powers myself in my Arcs, I have to warn every designer not to overdue this. Being Held and bled dry of energy at the same time, so you can't do anything, even when the Hold breaks will gain you quite some hostile feedback. Now me - I can hold everything that moves before being seen, and blast if before it comes around, but it's something to consider still. For those trying this - Kill Order is Goblins first, then Ghouls, and lastly Demons.
//AtCbM// www.crystalblue.dk
Victory - Mare,Dagger of Pain,Keep,Hogun and Bloodpetal
The Keep-Arcs: 164260, 188373, 192610, 196090 and funny side-chapter 218575.
Mender-Arc: 266163
Time to behold "The Power from Outer Space" (64800)
Rescue an Artifact from Oranbega? Doesn't sound promising, but then again those Thornies messed up my favorite eating place. I'll teach them not to mess with my pickles!!
No purpose in trying to be subtle with guys like these.
Anyway seemed to be a false lead, at least the next lead wasn't in a darn cave, but in some Crey lab. Now Crey I can work with. Their Heads - My Mace!
Hmm... So those five people don't need rescuing after all. Seems what I'm looking for is a "Hero Machine" then. Better make sure it isn't in the hands of the Freakshow! And... why does my 'special' approach always end up in battles like these?
Anyway - the situation was about to turn explosive. Those Heroes are getting powerful all right, too powerful. I've gotta stop them before they overload! Stan "The Science Man" Steele, thinks it's Nictus stuff. Would explain those purple glows some of the Freaks were tossing 'bout.
Better hire those Boog.. I mean Seekers to tag along in hunting down this "Tuberman" who started this mess, it's their powers and lives on the lines after all.
In the end we uncovered and stopped the nefarious plan, defeated (in unison) the guy responsible and all without the Boog... Seekers losing too much power, and they made me a Honory Boog.. Seeker too.
Well the Government of this world might be daft, but at least there are honorable heroes around.
Me and the Gang!!
The "One PING Only": I really liked the choice of main villain group (The N-Freaks), recognizable and different at the same time.
//AtCbM// www.crystalblue.dk
Victory - Mare,Dagger of Pain,Keep,Hogun and Bloodpetal
The Keep-Arcs: 164260, 188373, 192610, 196090 and funny side-chapter 218575.
Mender-Arc: 266163
Might as well share my MA experinces in a thread too - sharing the fun (or the horror of it all) - I'm not a great reviewer so I'll stick to one comment (or PING) only for each story, the one that leapt the most into my eye.
First up a classic: CTRL+ALT+RESET (137561)
Okay.. this guy Foreshadow tells me the governement are fools and don't know what's good for them.
The sneaky Wyvern may have put a dampening field on the warehouse, but I should still have enough powers left to avoid most and knock the rest silly.
Since I tend to agree on the fools part, I'm game and agree to recover the dangerous artifact from any fools guarding it.
Things don't work out quite as expected, I find myself somehow back before recovering the stuff, not just once, but twice. But knowing the place so well I've learned to search through it fast - Regeneration Scrapper style (ah yes - right there - that's where it itches - put some more arrows in while I search this crate)
But anyway.. the only way to fix this is OLD Mare Style, so I grab my gear from my 'wild early teens' and go at it, fourth time's the charm.
It doesn't look good for the Wyvern this time, and there's embodied Time Shifter Artifact all over the place, but at least agent Marx doesn't want to fight me this time.
In the end the good ol' "Find Stuff - Break Stuff" saves me once again as it has done so often, mission accomplished.
The "One PING only": I like the chosen look for the mutated Wyvern, nice and gruesome
//AtCbM// www.crystalblue.dk
Victory - Mare,Dagger of Pain,Keep,Hogun and Bloodpetal
The Keep-Arcs: 164260, 188373, 192610, 196090 and funny side-chapter 218575.
Mender-Arc: 266163