http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Shadow_Shard
Edit -> Also:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Rularuu_the_Ravager
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The Shadow Shard wiki entry is mainly concerned with what's in it and how to get about it. The Rularuu entry has a bit more, but only fragments (in more ways than one). I'd like something a bit more detailed than that.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
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As I said above, that entry has absolutely nothing in it about the Shadow Shard's history. Which is why I asked about it here.
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Originally Posted by Flower
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Rularuu the Ravager menaced Paragon City back in the roaring '60s. Luckily, before his interdimensional plundering could properly commence, Rularuu was defeated by a group of superheroes. In an ironic coup de grace, the Midnight Squad trapped Rularuu in an otherworldly prison called the Shadow Shard, where hes been stewing ever since. There is some rumor that the Dream Doctor and Rularuu are connected somehow.
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I remember getting the impression that then Shard IS. Rularuu - or a piece of him - being used to imprision himself.
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That's not a history, that's a fragment. It doesn't tell where the Shard came from, where the "People of Paragon" who live there came from, or what the whole story encapsulated in those Shard TF poems means.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Rularuu the Ravager menaced Paragon City back in the roaring '60s. Luckily, before his interdimensional plundering could properly commence, Rularuu was defeated by a group of superheroes. In an ironic coup de grace, the Midnight Squad trapped Rularuu in an otherworldly prison called the Shadow Shard, where hes been stewing ever since. There is some rumor that the Dream Doctor and Rularuu are connected somehow.
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In-game, there's just not that much information available. Out-of-game, it goes something like:|
Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I'd like something a bit more detailed than that.
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Once upon a time, there was a deeply puzzling Special Event in which giant eyeballs roamed the streets of Paragon annihilating unsuspecting low-level heroes who were just trying to get their jobs done. Eventually this led up to the unveiling of a whole new zone called the Shadow Shard. For a while the Shadow Shard was being promoted as the Next Big Thing, and then, I dunno. Maybe the person primarily responsible for it left the company. That's always been my suspicion as to why pretty much the same thing happened to the Rogue Isles. SO at least they didn't charge us actual U.S. currency for the Shadow Shard.
(Well, that and, like the Shard, it turned out not many people were interested in playing in the Isles because it was visually dull and hard to get around, and the task forces were irritating. Oh snap.)
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That's because the whole story isn't there. You have to piece what there is together from that and the bits in the Midnighter club. |
Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
That's not a history, that's a fragment. It doesn't tell where the Shard came from, where the "People of Paragon" who live there came from, or what the whole story encapsulated in those Shard TF poems means.
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You'll find that... not infrequently.
Has the history of the Shadow Shard ever been laid out coherently? All you really get from doing the Task Forces is a lot of poetry that is kind of open to interpretation and doesn't really say a whole lot.
Did the Shadow Shard used to be another counterpart of earth, like Praetoria, and then something blew it to pieces? How did humanity survive it getting blown to pieces? Why are there all those suns and stuff?
I'd love to read a complete explanation.