Underground iTrial Suggestion: Changing who Desdemona follows

One of the things that always irked me about the Underground incarnate trial was that Desdemona needs to be escorted and kept safe, but there is no way to control who she follows. This presents a problem, because while a Blaster or Mastermind or other AT who hangs back has no problem, any melee AT is basically out of the fight because Des is a huge Leeroy and will charge into the fight with no way to recall her, usually resulting in her death.

Currently, the only way to change who Des follows is by having people die until someone suitable is picked. Not a very fun way to do so. So I propose this:

The effect that makes Desdemona follow someone is apparently given by a buff. Therefore, simply make the source of that buff an Automatic, Temporary power that can be given the same way as the Pacification Grenade in the Lambda Sector iTrial, that is removed upon mission completion. Alternately, if the buff is just a dummy, award everyone a temp power that if you have the "leading Desdemona" buff, changes who Des follows, does nothing without the buff, and is removed upon mission completion. This way, there is some measure of control over who is leading Desdemona, and no one has to die to change it.


Escort missions are always a pain, so let's make it a little easier.

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Sounds like a good idea. I definitely support it, although for a different reason. The issues with having Desdemona follow a toon are similar to the issues of giving pacification grenades and molecular acids out randomly, and the random power cells during the second reactor in Keyes. The issue is that you could be handing out a very important aspect of the power to a player who is possibly incompetent. They resolved that issue in other trials by making it so you can pass the temp powers, so it would seem to make sense that you could solve the competence issue with Desdemona leading by passing the temp power.

One problem though: how do you suggest we handle the situation where the person that Desdemona is following dies?

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Same way as it always has. If the person with the power dies, it gets removed and reassigned automatically.

If this doesn't work, I suggested a 2nd alternative where everyone is given a temp power to use on other league members that changes the leader to whoever you target, but it does nothing without actually having Des following you.

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