Another set of missions to unlock Entrusted With The Secret

I was running through Mercedes Sheldon's arcs t'other day and 'The Magic Man' is a nice way of unlocking the Orobouros Portal.

Similarly redside, Marshall Brass seems to be the best (and only?) way of unlocking OB.

So I just have a simple suggestion that two arcs are written to give players another choice of unlocking the OB portal.

Now I know that the 'Ubelmann The Unknown' arc heroside also unlocks OB, but it's quite a long arc and the contact doesn't suddenly pop up in your contacts window when you hit level 20 and also unlock the Midnighter Club. In fact it's quite possible to bypass the contacts altogether, what with Striga, Faultline and Croatoa offering more attractive ways of gaining levels in the 20s-30s (i.e. not having to travel from Indy, to Perez, to The Hollows, to Atlas, to Steel, to Indy.... etc etc). Let alone TFs, cape missions, and safeguards.

I am also aware that Marshall Brass does not auto unlock so I would suggest the following:

Heroes get a new arc that involved time travel
Villains get a new arc that involves time travel - and the contact unlocks at level 20

I wouldn't object, but I don't really see it as all that necessary either. Easiest way to get "Entrusted With The Secret" is to hit 25 and ask someone politely to open a portal for you, and get the Ouroborous Exploration badge.

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Really? That bites. Well, like I said, I wouldn't object...

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There's also the option of getting a badge in Recluse's Victory to unlock Ouroboros, but that is a whee bit late in your toon's career.

Oh, and I think doing the Science Shop mission in Brickstown also unlocks Ouroboros.

That said, it's still very easy to miss the one and only arc that entrusts you with the secret red-side, and while it's not a huge deal, having more options isn't bad.

If writing entirely new contacts and arcs is out of question, maybe rewriting Darren Wade's arc would be a good option. He's a pop-up contact in the 20-25 range, so his level range is ideal and he's hard to miss. Maybe just have Doctor Echo appear in the second mission show up twice as a hostage because of time-travel shenanigans?

Either way, that's my 2 cents.

Blueside the Science Store contact in Bricks also gives it to you. Anyone can do the mission and it's just a single one. Think it can be done at 30.

I have a question - is it possible to open a portal with one of your characters, log out, log in with another one and hop into it? It shouldn't take more than two minutes, but does the portal last that long, and through a log-out?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville 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.

As soon as the character logged out, all 'pets' would despawn.

This includes the O-portal

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Entruste...e_Secret_Badge

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*Edit* Didn't the minimum level requirements get knocked off PvP zones..?

Imagine the poor newbie who starts the game rolling a science hero with Atlas Park as the starter zone and just wonders "hey, where does this go?" upon seeing the door behind his starter contact.

That said, I think it is completely, err, counter-intuitive to put access to the highest-level PvP zone in a starter zone. Hell, Peregrine Island has five perfectly good portals to use, just dedicate one of them to Recluse's Victory and you still have four more for normal missions.

It's my guess that it was deliberate to give 50s a "reason" to even go back to Atlas. The devs like you to "get around".

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