Dev Chat Highlights, September 21: Bacon Never Says No, SSA talk with Dr. Aeon

Zwill played through a First Ward arc with a few players, including author Mercedes Lackey.

Talk of Seed of Hamidon invasions. Last night on Freedom Abyss 2 cleared out their Hamidon so quickly Zwill went "What? ALREADY?!" on the impromptu livestream.

Dr. Aeon arrives in a a non-painted flipped Flipped Trilby.

The doodles from the Ustream marathon are still on the whiteboard.



TANGENT: Bacon never says no.

Yesterday they introduced the first Signature Story Arc: Who Will Die? Part I.

I played through the villainside edition last night and rather enjoyed it.

TANGENT: Arbiter Whiteboard's thing.



They are not for sale and for Paragon Studios' ultimate Frisbee games. They were made by Disc Craft.

TANGENT: Aeon and Zwill arguing about passing.

Positron offers to talk about SSA's in chat because these two won't.

Chat has not pegged Dr. Aeon as the athletic type, which he protests.

Chris Gregory did the lava for the SSA maps, which is completely new.

Androsh (SP?) did the obelisk.

Zwill: "I almost died a few times. I had to grab one of my paragon reward inspirations and the flying spaghetti monster random number generator in the sky granted me the right one."

The SSA contact is a Task Force contact, so you need to enable 'Other Contact.'

TheNet says he's actual a trainer contact.

Black Scorpion is working on a way to make the whole process more efficient.

Chat is making puns based on Theoden, the name of the heroside SSA contact in Skyway.

The duo commends Michelle/Samuraiko on her attempt to be sneaky and find the identity of the mystery person by using Demorecord.

TANGENT: Dr. House

TANGENT: Netflix

TANGENT: Mints, Aeon hates Cinnamon and is un-American.

The guy who looks like Penn Gilette is apparently a secret. Zwill knows his name.

Redside apparently has a hint as to who we fight in the next arc.

Vigilantes and Rogues can play both of them, so you can get the Threads or the Reward Merits twice.

Zwill loves it when a mission door opens and someone falls out dead.

"If you were a Premium member without access to Merits/Reward Merits/etc, what sort of reward will the SSA give?"

TANGENT: Dr. Aeon's many nicknames.

Black Scorpion has set it up so you get SO's.

"Is power siphoning going to be a theme throughout the SSA?"

Aeon: "Possibly."

Aeon uses his clown laugh to frighten Positron.

Future SSA's will go up in level as we go along.

Zwill has to remind the chat not to ask questions about powers and release dates on new sets.

Aeon says if there were voice overs it would be him, and he says "This is Synapse" in a Dudley Do-Right style voice.



Each arc while have a comic cover style intro picture.

Dr. Aeon says we will get Manticore's Mansion in AE eventually.

Zwill: "I can imagine the RP sessions that will go on in there."

Aeon: "I don't WANT to imagine the RP sessions that will go on in there. *goofy voice* Go in the secret door!"

Once the arcs are released, they are released forever. They are repeatable just like a task force. You will always get at least 2 reward merits for running each.

TANGENT: Spanish telenovellas.

Chat wants a rave map in the AE, Aeon says there are two that he knows of.

Posi says that Paragon Dance Party is not useable as a mission map as there are no spawns set up for it.

Zwill thinks the suggestion of when the SSA is done being able to run all seven in a row from one contact as a long task force.

" Is the First Ward "done", or will there be future content involving First Ward? Arcs/TFs/Trials/etc."

Aeon: "That's a Protean question."

Zeon cannot reveal if there is a badge for the signature story arcs.

The once per week SSA reward is per character, not account.

Positron arrives to tell of SSA rewards.



"The way the rewards work, the first time you play any of the SSA's you get the reward table independent of anything. Then after that it is once per week regardless of whichever arc you run. So it's one per week from the whole SSA. You can get the 1, 2, 3, and 4 reward the first time you run each of them. After the first time run whichever one you like best, because it will only be once per week."

Aeon says that as the levels go up the SSA's will be longer.

Zwill and Aeon giggle at the possibility of making the final map of SSA an arena map with the lava.

The SSA arcs will be Who Will Die for the next 6-7 months. They will not be starting another one while this one goes on.

TANGENT: Star Wars

Aeon cannot comment on if there will be missions taking place during the fall of Galaxy City.

The pair uses the Comic Book Nerd voice.

Aeon does not work on the copyright filter problems with AE, that's the publication team who have been busy with I21.

If you join with the CoT on the redside arc you get a boss-level ally in the last mission, if you work against them they attack you during the last mission.

TANGENT: Zwill sings Rocketman, much to Aeon's horror.

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Also a note I will be debuting tonight in about 2.5 hours on www.KJSR.net with my very first show as a streaming DJ: the War Room! So tune in if you like gothic/epic/symphonic/industrial/non-growly, snarly, gravelly metal.

My hands just about fell off when I saw mention of the 12 hour downtime tomorrow. Though thankfully the cast will take place about 6 hours through the maintainance period.

Still...

Ow.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

As always, thanks.

I'm sure it would have been a marvellous broadcast. However, ustream proved to be even more obnoxious than usual. 2-20 second bursts of video, followed by minutes of blackscreen. Tracerouting proved this was nothing to do with our connections to ustreams akamia media servers.

Seriously, Zwil, we love you guys. But something needs to be done about ustream.

Gotta agree with Zwill. Numina is looking quite bewitching in that picture.

Heehee, Aeon and Zeon. Great typo!

@SpaceNut - My 50s, AE arcs and current projects at ParagonWiki

I'm still not sure why Numina has tinted her hair when she's meant to be blonde

Thank you for the notes!

Please try not to hurt yourself keeping up with the marathon tomorrow..

I'm sorry that I referred to Zwillinger as a hyperactive squirrel on a sugar rush. As for the diabetes, I would suggest that his blood sugar levels were a bit off during the UStream this morning.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

What the heck is an SSA?

I suck at jargon, lingo, acronyms, and all that.

Lewis

Signature Story Arc

I just want to say that of the "regular" guests for the UStream Chats, my favorites are Tunnel Rat, Dr Aeon and Synapse. Best part about Dr Aeon though is the way he always has that "deer in the headlights" look when trying to live down the inevitable trend of Zwillinger towards trigonometric functions of no worth to the topic at hand. Dr Aeon always has this vibe of "I am totally living in a Dilbert cartoon RIGHT NOW!" when trying to deal with Zwillinger, which makes for some really great on screen chemistry.

So thanks, Dr Aeon, for appearing on this week's chat!

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

Thanks again

The model has a name and Sam saw it, she posted it and then edited the name out.