Keyes Island on test?

That can only mean that they're rushing the Trial out, and it'll totally ruin the whole game forever.

Sounds like my kind of buddy...I'll have to go drinking with him sometime.

I recall walking through a portal in Pocket D to get there.

Drinking can be difficult when you're not used to bending your elbow much.

Isnt that what those hats are made for?

Straws work wonders too!

True. Instead, you teleport directly into secure military installations.

Well, you're not being forced to run the Trial - it's heroic content that you can choose to help with if you like, or you can go run an SF or something else that lets you twirl your moustache

I think the word "secure" shouldn't really be used there

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It's got nothing to do with being a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. The whole of the Responsibility tract is about doing horrible things in the name of 'the greater good' of Praetoria and preserving the Empire.

Motivations for doing so vary from person to person as the various arcs demonstrate.


I don't deny he's motivated by ego, but consider that if the other reactors didn't survive the blast, all of Praetoria would be dead, either from the explosion or from the Sonic Barrier going down.

He's also thinking in terms of 'acceptable losses'. 50% of Praetoria in the scenario that your character fails is better than 100%.

Also consider that in Keyes own mind, his 'greatness' is being kept from helping Praetoria as much as it could be. Him not being a Praetor and being kept busy with a lot of side projects while Berry runs wild is damaging to the Empire.

He's in a Catch 22. Would he hurt the Empire to help it more? Maybe. But he won't take a hit to his own ego. The whole point of his arc finale was that he defied orders given to let Arachnos to destroy his creation. I still don't think he'd risk his baby by letting Berry fail publicly if he thought there was any possibility that the Primals could succeed.

Protecting Praetoria is his ticket back to Praetorship. The question is, has he lost sight of that goal in redoubling his efforts to discredit Berry? That would be his shift to the Power tract.


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I don't think anything should be labeled as 'secure' with Portal Technology at play . Unless/until portal interdiction starts to show up anyway .

But he's such an arrogant jerk he mightn't think it'd be possible for us to succeed and foil his plans.

Since when do superheroes care about collateral damage to other dimensions?

Since we didn't teleport a few hundred nukes into Praetoria City after the first time they kidnapped Statesman

It's May 27th that the surge ends - the Test is scheduled for May 31st

Well of course, that wouldn't be sporting.

Besides, we still had to rescue Statesman. Never mind that's he's a complete moron for falling for the same ruse, AGAIN, and getting kidnapped the second time, but I diverge...

On the other hand, their dependance on the sonic fences is their own doing, and that's not our responsibility. This is war after all.

Or as Batman would put it, we won't kill them, but we don't have to save them.

And then teleport the nukes in once we get him out

We're there to set the Praetorians - our war is with Tyrant, not with the people he's enslaved - that's why the Incarnate Trials have us attacking the various instruments of repression and conquest used by the dictatorship, and not randomly attacking everything and everyone in Praetoria City.

Which is no excuse to carry out war crimes.

I think you've been listening to too much Golden Girl. The only arc that's like that is Mother Mayhem's.