(Dr Infamy Unionverse plotline) An Experiment


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Hi, all. I'm slowly progressing my Dr Infamy plotline, and I'm sure people have noticed that there are a couple of loose ends currently flapping in the wind.

Well, hopefully I'm going to move one of those ends along a bit!

Or someone will move it along a bit for me.

Here's the deal: I have written and tested an as-yet unpublished, short, MA mission. I am going to publish this mission (well, to be more accurate, I'm going to have it published for me), and I will reveal the arc ID (once it's published) to the first person to tell me they want to run it IC.

A few things to note: I don't care if the person who runs it wants to do it solo, or teamed. This is not a serious arc, nor is it particularly deep in terms of storytelling, and this single mission is explicitly designed to raise more questions than it answers, so I would appreciate it if the person who "gets" the mission is able to make at least a small amount of RP commitment towards the plotline and the direction the mission takes them and the plot. Also, I rather explicitly want to avoid taking Richard along, so if you're interested in doing this mission, it will probably work best outside "normal" RP meet times - but I leave that ultimately up to your discretion.

The mission text includes details of how the mission is introduced, so if IC recruiting is on the cards, I'd suggest that the mission owner checks out the intro text first.

Oh, and if this works, then there'll be more missions like this.


The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise. ; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*

 

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Approximately where in the city does this mission take place? The Infamy plot seems like it's vaguely suited to Gunwitch (so far), but she's somewhat limited in her area of operation.


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I'm very much open to leaving that to the player who decides to do it. The only requirement (which I have no great problem revealing, since it got mentioned in the last IC story I wrote) is a necessity caused by the fact that the mission takes place on a (*yawn*) warehouse map in a city zone - not overly suited to Founder's Falls or Dark Astoria, for example. Anywhere else is up for grabs, though.

Oh, and I would ask for a little forebearance from anyone who takes part in the Dr Infamy plotline - while I'm trying very hard to play them straight, the NPC's are all cliche'd up to the eyeballs. This is not a serious, angst-driven or drama-ridden plotline - it's here for fun and laughs from the players, no matter how seriously the characters involved might take it.


The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise. ; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*

 

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Cool. If no one has grabbed it by Sunday night, I'll be in touch. Louise should be back on Earth by then.


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Now I am back in game, would be happy to run this too.


 

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I appear to be having some technical difficulties with getting this arc published (and I'm utterly baffled as to why - if I had any arc slots open, I could publish it from my own account, but the person who's the current planned publisher gets an error message and it's not about unlockable or custom content), and the launch of I19 has thrown a further spanner in the works of my original plan (so my publisher and I haven't been able to sort the error messages out because we were both too busy playing the game).

So, time for backup plan A.

(Yes, I really do have backup plans. Three of them. Maybe I'm over-thinking this.)

This will be published before the weekend and I will be informing Birdy of the arc ID, to ensure he gets first refusal. Once it has been run IC by someone, and RP off the back of it has had an opportunity to occur, I will make the arc ID publicly known.

... and I'd better finish off the follow-up mission, too. Damn. I've got a lot to do tonight.

And the in-laws are visiting...


The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise. ; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*

 

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Well, the arc went up (and what a pain in the proverbial that turned out to be!), and Birdy has run through it IC.

Arc 472174

Birdy's version of things overrides my intentions for the events of the mission (and there are some significant differences!), so I'm in the middle of readjusting my expectations.

Expect more fiction including Timmy, Doctor Infamy and his lovely (if decidedly deranged) assistant (she does have a name, but I'm keeping it quiet for now) in the near future!

Oh, and I consider this experiment to have been a success.


The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise. ; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*

 

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I also thought it worked rather well and the introduction and play through worked nicely with current events. I even got to see mobs I've never seen before, like a Scorpid.

Despite having my settings currently at -1/x1 there were tight moments so don't assume it'll be easy, especially on a relative squishy.


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