Seriously, The Cut Scenes

Since they're not actually Shalice Tilman's giant boobies, I motion to make the term more suited to the character. Mother Mammaries would be an appropriate choice.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

I wouldn't call it worlds of difference. Mounds of difference maybe.


This is the cut scene with Odysseus (not the scene in the office, but the actual cut scene later):

Odysseus: A most admirable display of martial cunning, Banebritch. I salute you.
Odysseus: But did you really think that I would take your story at face value? That I wouldn't check your accusations out with spies of my own?
Odysseus: Mr. Wade was most helpful in uncovering the truth of your scheme. While my Warriors and the Midnighters hacked each other to pieces you were going to betray me!
Odysseus: I don't take lightly to betrayal, Banebritch. But I do have a sense of honor... or was it sport? If you can defeat me and my Warriors, then the insult against me is dropped. Fail... and I'll introduce you to a little piece of history known as a Brazen Bull.
Odysseus: WARRIORS!
Crusher: HUA!
Warrior Chopper: HUA!
Warrior Slicer: HUA!
Hewer Elite: HUA!
Slasher: HUA!
Warrior Slammer: HUA!
Warrior Slammer: HUA!
Warrior Bruiser: HUA!
Odysseus: ATTAAAAAAAACK!

And its not like I haven't had some fun with this one myself:




Later with Positron:

Positron: <Player>! Return Numina to me and I will let you go.
[Caption] Are you kidding me? The Flames of Prometheus are mine, Positron. I can take as much as I want! Why would I ever give you anything?
Positron: Yours? The Flames do not belong to any one person. If you will not relinquish your hold on Numina...
[Caption] ...then you shall face the consequences!
[Caption] Have you forgotten that I was chosen by Prometheus to be the Keeper of the Flames?
Positron: I've had years to harness the power of the Flames. You've had that power for less than a minute. Now. Let. Numina. GO!

It was Shalice that bought them though.

Isn't Numina, you know, dead? Eh, there are stranger relationships in this game.

Thank you for that Arcanaville. I have never yet once seen the first three lines of dialogue in this cutscene. NOT ONCE. At best, I get to see the -vermin- line scrolling off. At worst, Nightstar and Siege are are just standing there yakking.



FEEDBACK FOR DEVS:

If you're going to remake this cutscene in any way, let me be the first to say that it would be a lot more ... interesting ... to have it done as intercutting between Praetorian Mother Mayhem (and *ahem* ... Friends) and a mission briefing to the League done in the Briefing Theater in the Primal Vanguard Base (room opposite from the Target Dummies). This would then give you the *conflicting* perspectives on what is actually happening here.

Mayhem (and ... Friends) would need to have their dialogue lines cut back quite a bit, since some of the exposition would be transferred to the Primal Mission Briefing in Vanguard counterpart scene (complete with picture shots of BAF up on the big screens). Something like this, perhaps ...

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Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)
NPCs: Sister Psyche
PCs: Dopplegangers of everyone in the League (emote) sitting in the seats

Sister Psyche (telepathically): Thank you everyone for volunteering for this mission against the Behavioral Adjustment Facility in Praetoria.
Sister Psyche (telepathically, but emoting disgust): As you already know ... Mother Mayhem ... has been conducting ... human experimentation ... there, in an effort to compromise the Resistance against Emperor Cole.



Location: Praetorian BAF (interior)
NPCs: Mother Mayhem, Nightstar and Siege

Mother Mayhem (telepathically): I am just -so- pleased with the success of this project, my dears. Our little runaways have had -so- much to tell me, so many -interesting- things.
Mother Mayhem (telepathically): They have even told me where to find the other children who've run away, so they can be returned to their Mother's -loving- embrace.



Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)

Sister Psyche (telepathically): We have learned that by tomorrow the subjects of Mother Mayhem's mindwashing technique will be released, and upon rejoining the Resistance will become sleeper agents unbeknownst to anyone, including themselves.
Sister Psyche (telepathically, emoting emphasis): This MUST be prevented.



Location: Praetorian BAF (Interior)

Siege (speaking): We anticipate that the B.A.F. will soon suffer an 'attack' by either the Resistance or Primal forces. During this attack, our security systems will be temporarily disabled, allowing our test subjects to escape in the chaos and confusion.
Nightstar (speaking): Our attackers will, naturally, be blamed for releasing dangerous Resistance terrorists into the city. We will, of course, try to prevent this so as to protect the populace from this threat to our loyal citizens.



Location: Primal Vanguard Base Briefing Room (Interior)

Sister Psyche (telepathically, emoting determination): It is imperative that we strike, now, before their plans reach fruition.



Location: Praetorian BAF (Interior)

Mother Mayhem (telepathically): Wonderful. Our formerly lost children will soon see just how much -love- their Mother has for them.
Mother Mayhem (telepathically): I will leave the next phase in your capable hands. I know that your love for Mother means that -you- -will- -not- -fail- -me-!

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Note that that the original cutscene comprises 14 lines of dialogue, and my alternative here is composed of only 10 lines ... making for a (slightly) shorter cutscene. Also note that the Vanguard Interior could easily be done as a second (completely inaccessible) underground location, just like the BAF Interior, and would only need a "copy" of as much of the Vanguard Base Interior as is visible within the camera angles chosen for the cutscene. The dopplegangers of the players could have "assigned seating" based on their League Team #, and could each be given a (somewhat) randomized Sit emote so they all look like "free willed individuals" rather than a choreographed collection of mind controlled people.

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

I see what you did there.

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.

I can try to make one on my next few BAFs: I have several demorecords of BAF, but none include the opening scene because of the logistical issues involved.

I do have screencaps of most of the dialog; seems I'm missing a couple of lines when I go back and look. I've assembled them into a slideshow that I think is in the right order here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3421074...75968961/show/

Thank you, that will do nicely.

That is not a robotic camel toe. It is a robotic bubble butt seen from the front and below.

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.

On the other hand, Praetor Tilman's preferences for waist ornamentation dangerously conflicts with the sensibilities of her plastic surgeon.

In fact, I could probably end the menace posed by Mother Mayhem upon the world by simply dropping a quarter in front of her.

I was thinking that same thing. If she sneezes too hard, then it's game over for Tilman.

So what you're saying is she should be wearing a weightlifter's belt?

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.

And as they're fake, a puncture would probably send her shooting around the room like a balloon with a hole in it.

Those "funbags" are the pinnacle of Anti-Matter engineering. He took the time to get them right, which is why she was less spectacularly endowed prior to issue 20.

Actually, he originally made them for Dominatrix, but Neuron stole them and gave them to Mother Mayhem instead.

Science marches on.