So I just published my first story arc yesterday and I'd really love to know what people think about it.
Arc details are the following: Arc name: Angel Antidote Author: @Tri'Angel Arc ID: 453230 Keywords: Challenging, Custom Characters, Mystery Length: Very long Description: This story is loosely based on the scarce literary information available on the Crusnik - also known as Black Angels. Taken with a good amount of salt, mixed with the underworld, sprayed with CoH coating and combined with many other wide-spread myths this is what became of it.
To me it's more about the story than anything else.
You may however get the feeling here and there with certain details I could've elaborated a bit more on that. Sadly, I most probably did. When I started playing with the concept I got a wealth of ideas and figured out a range of possible missions and story developments... in my head. Unfortunately at that point I hadn't realized I could only have a maximum of 5 missions yet.
Back to the drawing board it was and I had a difficult time there. I've tried taking the most important parts of the story I wanted to tell and working them into those 5 missions to the best of my ability. This proved to be an endless struggle with character limits on text fields. Going back and editing text I typed out before was a horror since after adding colors and other text decoration I exceeded the limits nearly everywhere (the most extreme case being a clue that uses 2091 of the allowed 1000 characters).
I've put in a lot of effort trying to get everything across in a pleasant way and all in all I'm still fairly happy with the result. I just hope others are as well.
One other thing I'd like to point out though is that everything was intended purely as a fictional story. When the contact tells you stuff don't start thinking there's an underlying meaning because there's not - the contact is telling you stuff, that's it.
Therefore don't come to me saying "Hey, what this dude in the missions says suggests that blablah" followed by "But I don't think that's true, it's blablah" or "You shouldn't be stating it as a fact cause it could also be blablah". The character is telling you something. If you think it's 'factually incorrect' complain to the character, not to me. And since the character doesn't read these forums, these forums are not the right place for it.
Bottom line of this entire paragraph: The story does not in any way whatsoever reflect the ideas / opinions / beliefs of the author.
The reason I'm explicitly saying this is because the nature of the subject amongst some people might fairly easily trigger discussion. But let's be sane about this: I used the subject plain simply because I thought it was a basis for a potentially interesting story and nice twists, that's all there's to it.
Hopefully with all this being said no one else needs to waste words on that anymore, because it would be rather pointless.
Concretely the aim was to give everyone some nice and lively missions to do with a simply pleasant feel to it - as in fun to do rather than "Meh, need to get through this so I can see if the next is better." - and to give those who like to spend the time to read the accompanying story (including clues, don't forget the clues!) an interesting plot to follow as well.
Whether or not THAT succeeded is what I'd love to know from you all.
P.S. Sorry about length, I suck at typing short posts.
P.P.S. Also, I might only be able to include 5 missions, but then I'll sure as hell make sure I use it! "File size: 99.98%" - lol.
Edit: I forgot to mention this arc is not considered soloable and the last mission will require and potentially even challenge a very decent team! So don't storm in like a headless chicken because you will die horribly.
So I just published my first story arc yesterday and I'd really love to know what people think about it.
Arc details are the following:
Arc name: Angel Antidote
Author: @Tri'Angel
Arc ID: 453230
Keywords: Challenging, Custom Characters, Mystery
Length: Very long
Description: This story is loosely based on the scarce literary information available on the Crusnik - also known as Black Angels. Taken with a good amount of salt, mixed with the underworld, sprayed with CoH coating and combined with many other wide-spread myths this is what became of it.
To me it's more about the story than anything else.
You may however get the feeling here and there with certain details I could've elaborated a bit more on that. Sadly, I most probably did. When I started playing with the concept I got a wealth of ideas and figured out a range of possible missions and story developments... in my head. Unfortunately at that point I hadn't realized I could only have a maximum of 5 missions yet.
Back to the drawing board it was and I had a difficult time there. I've tried taking the most important parts of the story I wanted to tell and working them into those 5 missions to the best of my ability. This proved to be an endless struggle with character limits on text fields. Going back and editing text I typed out before was a horror since after adding colors and other text decoration I exceeded the limits nearly everywhere (the most extreme case being a clue that uses 2091 of the allowed 1000 characters).
I've put in a lot of effort trying to get everything across in a pleasant way and all in all I'm still fairly happy with the result. I just hope others are as well.
One other thing I'd like to point out though is that everything was intended purely as a fictional story. When the contact tells you stuff don't start thinking there's an underlying meaning because there's not - the contact is telling you stuff, that's it.
Therefore don't come to me saying "Hey, what this dude in the missions says suggests that blablah" followed by "But I don't think that's true, it's blablah" or "You shouldn't be stating it as a fact cause it could also be blablah". The character is telling you something. If you think it's 'factually incorrect' complain to the character, not to me. And since the character doesn't read these forums, these forums are not the right place for it.
Bottom line of this entire paragraph: The story does not in any way whatsoever reflect the ideas / opinions / beliefs of the author.
The reason I'm explicitly saying this is because the nature of the subject amongst some people might fairly easily trigger discussion. But let's be sane about this: I used the subject plain simply because I thought it was a basis for a potentially interesting story and nice twists, that's all there's to it.
Hopefully with all this being said no one else needs to waste words on that anymore, because it would be rather pointless.
Concretely the aim was to give everyone some nice and lively missions to do with a simply pleasant feel to it - as in fun to do rather than "Meh, need to get through this so I can see if the next is better." - and to give those who like to spend the time to read the accompanying story (including clues, don't forget the clues!) an interesting plot to follow as well.
Whether or not THAT succeeded is what I'd love to know from you all.
P.S. Sorry about length, I suck at typing short posts.
P.P.S. Also, I might only be able to include 5 missions, but then I'll sure as hell make sure I use it! "File size: 99.98%" - lol.
Edit: I forgot to mention this arc is not considered soloable and the last mission will require and potentially even challenge a very decent team! So don't storm in like a headless chicken because you will die horribly.