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New Dev Choice - Astoria in D Minor - 41565 - The Cheshire Cat

airhead

By airhead,
Posted on: 2009-11-04 10:59 in Mission Architect

 

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Astoria in D Minor - By The Cheshire Cat

A mother with a lost daughter. An alien investigating fascists. A disturbed hero trying to save people any way he can. Dark Astoria makes you question what you're willing to do to survive.


Dark Astoria has always fascinated me. An entire part of Paragon City just simply...wiped away. We certainly don't have that problem over here in the Rogue Isles, that's for sure. Chesire Cat's "Astoria in D Minor" explores the only side that exists of Astoria - the dark side. This is a haunting tale of your character adventuring within the depths of this cursed city to face whatever horrors lie within it. Players looking to find a resolution or an attempt to explain the horror of Astoria will not find that here - instead, you will find an eerie tale of what happens when one ventures too far for too long within this lost city. Just when you think you know what's happening in the story, the twists will come and make you wonder what exactly is happening, even until the very end with the final conflict.

If you're looking for a story that will leave you wondering at the end, look no further! You may even be tempted to go back to play the arc again to try to see how everything connects.

Congratulations to Cheshire Cat for today's Dev Choice award! You earned it!

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Gratz! And well deserved.

 

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Yay Cat! Congrats!


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Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story

 

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all right, Cat!

High five!

very, very much deserved.

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Congratulations, Cheshire! I've heard good things about the arc; hopefully I'll have time to try it sometime soon.

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This arc is by far the creepiest dang arc in the entire AE. A very well deserved gratz to you!

 

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Congratulations are in order. This is a Developer Choice I can approve of.

 

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An excellent choice, and by far the best arc I've ever played in the MA, storywise.

 

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Congratulations to Cheshire Cat. This is well deserved! I've played the arc and it is disturbing. It really captures the feel of Dark Astoria.

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Conga Ratz, Chesire Cat! You really deserved this.

I played this arc myself and felt that it deserves to be Dev Choice, really well done

 

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Awesome arc , Ches has about two others that take place in Astoria that are definitely worth checking out .

Gratzi Ches

 

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Excellent choice. Congratulations, Cat!

And I second the suggestion to check out Cat's other Astoria arcs. The Beating Heart of Astoria: A Play In Five Acts really impressed me for trying something very different, and succeeding. It's genuinely surreal, and even more opaque than D Minor, yet it still hints at enough of the goings-on that the player can put some of the pieces together.

Anyway, congratulations again!

 

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Quote:
Dark Astoria has always fascinated me. An entire part of Paragon City just simply...wiped away. We certainly don't have that problem over here in the Rogue Isles, that's for sure.
At least so long as you can keep the PTS under control, right? :P

Man, I wasn't expecting this when I got home. I log on with like 6 global tells in-game and went "huh?" I don't really know what to say, I guess all those constant finicky edits and adjustments finally paid off!

Also, Dr. Aeon is apparently the only person who's ever run this arc that was able to find the Coralax on that map :P

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Congrats, man. This arc is very good and this is well deserved.

 

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Congrats Cheshire!!

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Congratulations Cheshire Cat! That ought to put some body back into your grin.


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Huzzah!