Loregasm

Thank you

Thank you very much for this. I would have really looked forward to the Crey content, I always thought that they were under-used. But ...

Seriously? Four whole issues of Battalion, and what was going to follow them was yet another, even more powerful, invasion of Earth? You guys really were stuck in the Lensman rut, weren't you?

(For those of you who haven't read the series, Doc Smith solved every plot by making the lead characters more powerful, then set up the sequel by making the villains of each book pawns of an even more powerful villain group for the next book, for which the heroes became more powerful, until, I kid you not, four hero kids fight the god-level bad guys by using a catapult that throws whole star systems. It gets really, really ridiculous fast after the first couple of books.)

(If you want another example, Superman has always had this same problem: writers write themselves into a corner with a villain that can nullify all of Superman's existing powers, which they then solve by giving him yet another power. Eventually the list of powers gets so long and ridiculous they have to reboot the whole series.)

Here's a tip for your next project, something to think about: there comes a point where the characters are already so powerful that the players can't identify with them. Instead of writing more and more abstract god-levels for them to fight on, write stories where superpowers are helpful, but not enough. Detective stories. Political intrigues. Interpersonal dramas. Public relations wars. Stories where at various points, the bad guys send waves of goons at you or spring traps on you, out of desperation, because they were hoping that someone less powerful than you would be who they had to face, yes, just to have an element of combat in there -- but have the actual threat be something you can't just punch in the face. That eliminates the whole power escalation treadmill.

Count me in as another person whose two favorite villains were Scirocco and Ghost Widow. That would be an amazing SSA to play! Also hoping Dr. Aeon and Protean will release the full story of Dream Doctor, soon.

I can't help but think I really missed something, regarding lore as I was completely unfamiliar with Battalion as an enemy. Looks like I'll have to go run around in Ouroboros and pay closer attention to the Rikti missions.

Also loved the different time-travel methods. I was trying to figure out how Epoch from Chrono Trigger would figure in but realize it would probably count as a steampunk machine.

And thank you for posting this, it made a lot of CoH'ers happy

Pshaw... I'd take 5 years of nothing but Fusionette doppleganger/clones.
Just gimme the years!

FUNNY you should mention that EK. Go to AE; look for Crisis of Infinite Fusionettes by @Ran-San Many of them were still played (though with decreasing frequency) by the Players who made them, all friends of Ran.

Thanks so much for doing this. It's a little sad to find things out this way rather than in the game, but it made for a fun read. I'd especially have loved to see the Scirocco series, I've been really looking forward to seeing him redeemed.

Though annoyingly I only just managed to ask the question that I'd been forgetting about the possibility of if we'd ever see The Grimm Fairy! It would have been great if we found her when going through the Battalion storyline and working with the Rikti. I really can't picture what she'd look like and would like to see her in game...

So considering there were plans for issues up to 32, incarnate clots beyond --core?-- hadnt been thought out yet? Or not enough to even say, we were toying with this idea but most likely not? I woulda settled for that rather than not saying anything...

:/


Good read tho! Thanks Posi!

Did... did Positron just say that the only democracy to every work for a significant period of time was the United States? o.O

They dodged answering what would the new incarnate powers would have been (sans genesis)

I know my post was very... conflicted, but that's how I feel. I want the story, but I don't want _THIS_ to end.

I don't have any questions, because I want to know everything. I wouln't know where to begin. I also want to see everything happen as it's supposed to, organically, even though the possiblity of it is much more dim to me than it was yesterday.

Thanks for answering all of the questions. I hope you give us a chance to do this again. I've thought up a few more.

Thank you guys so, so much for going to the effort of answering these questions for us.

I am kicking myself so hard for not getting my questions put into the googledoc in time, though. A few of them were answered in other questions, but I really wanted to know the others...if y'all decide to do this again, it would be deeply appreciated. And if not, then thank you again for clarifying the lore, and giving us an inside look at how things are done. Getting that peek behind the scenes was really interesting.

And holy crap, I would have loved to play in that Champions game!