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Quote:Yep! This is the final extension though. I'm glad votes are finally starting to come in, and I'm sure there will be enough votes by the 3rd. Keep 'em coming!Originally Posted by Coulomb2
Oh hey! The voting's been extended to January 3rd. Excellent; that means I'll probably have time to play through and vote on all of the categories! -
On the tenth day of Cole-mas my true love gave to me
Ten Top Dogs
Nine interesting conversations with Mr. G, very interesting conversations indeed.
Eight attempts to understand Ricochet
Seven Cleaning Clockwork
Six Praetor Statues
Five cases of Enriche'
Four Ghouls a'lurking
Three flowers for Cleopatra
Two rival factions
And a dictator in a gold city -
With apologies to Venture and Mirror Man (thanks for the feedback, I do appreciate it), I picked my next subject because I'm excited to do it, and that's what's important. Here's a hint:
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Best Original Group
1st Against the Wickerwork Khan
2nd Dhahabu Kingdom and the Unfathomable Nightmare of Sand -
Quote:What makes you think someone's in charge anymore? Early bird gets the worm... wait that's not how it worked out... early worm gets the bird?Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Pssst... hey! Whoever's in charge here! We have two for Nine...
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
On the eleventh day of Villain-mas, my true love gave to me,
Eleven villain zones
Ten PPD SWAT Vans destroyed
Nine vaults exploded
Eight brutes a'raging
Seven stalkers slinking
Six Snakes a'hissing
Five LOTR's
Four patron arcs
Three Longbow agents
Two free server transfers
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Boy, I've got lots of different stuff in there. And had to cheat a little bit since some of the months I wanted to choose more than one, and other months I had nothing, though I did choose artwork that was on the cusp of another month. And I still ended up with a three month stretch of nothing.
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If we're being realistic here...
On the tenth day of TF-mas my true love gave to me,
Ten more defeat-all missions
Nine bombs to defuse.
Eight spawned Babbages
Seven Phalanx contacts
Six falling swords
Five courier missions
Four silly cutscenes
Three defeat-all missions
Two Positron adventures
And a tower buffed Lord Recluse -
On the seventh day of TF-mas my true love gave to me,
Seven Phalanx contacts
Six falling swords
Five courier missions
Four silly cutscenes
Three defeat-all missions
Two Positron adventures
And a tower buffed Lord Recluse -
On the fifth day of TF-mas my true love gave to me,
Five courier missions
Four silly cutscenes
Three defeat-all missions
Two Positron adventures
And a tower buffed Lord Recluse -
We're up to week #8 and I'm going to start allowing re-submissions, or alternate arc submissions on three conditions:
#1 - Your arc has to have been arc of the week more than 8 weeks ago. So next week, Necrotech Master would be eligible to put another arc in the pool, the next week, Lazarus would, etc.
#2 - You have to have played an arc and posted comments within the past 3 weeks, and be a silver level member or higher.
#3 - You will have one fewer chance at the random roll. So silver level members would get 1 spot for their second arc, and gold level members would get 2 spots.
And now for this week's arc:
Name: A Very Special Episode
Arc ID: 457506
Creator Global Name: @Wrong Number
Difficulty Level: Medium
Synopsis: It all begins with you finding a strange abandoned TV in a deserted alleyway and the disappearance
of a popular kids show host named Blappy. Lies are told, secrets revealed, hearts broken, and more during this
very special episode.
Number of EB/AVS 1 EB
Level Range 30-54
Story Type - Dramedy
Villain Groups - Nemesis, Custom and others.
Mission Count: 4
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Quote:I'd like to avoid the whole writing for the player vs. writing for the character argument, but I thought it would be an interesting exercise to write this with any character thoughts/feelings removed from it:Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Impromptu writing question, then, what with all the arguing about character metaknowledge and all that...
How would YOU rewrite the following descriptive text to make it 'acceptable'? There is no right or wrong answer here, FYI.
"You cautiously enter the warehouse by an alleyside door, away from potential prying eyes. The acrid scent of Superadine taints the air, marking this warehouse as being the right one."
"Pushing open the rusted gate, you enter the cemetery and glance around. The sound of the wind in the trees almost seems like whispering voices, but you are unable to make out the words."
"A cry echoes from an office floor above you, before it's abruptly choked off. Somewhere in here is a child that needs your help... you square your shoulders and stalk toward the stairs, intent on bringing the kidnappers to justice."
Go.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
"The alleyside door to the warehouse was steeped in shadow and unguarded, the perfect entrance. Signs of Superadine in the air marked this as the right place."
"Pushing open the rusted gate, you enter the cemetery and glance around. The sound of the wind in the trees almost seems like whispering voices, but they don't seem to form themselves into words."
"A cry echoes from an office floor above you, before it's abruptly choked off. Somewhere in here is a child that needs help... The kidnappers better prepare themselves for justice."
Some only needed minor changes to remove the character from the description. Though I don't know how much I changed the mood of each one.
Also, for those who avoid AE because of the quality of the arcs, what do you think of the new Lady Winter mission? To me it smell of farm all over it. Giant map? Check. Filled to the brim with all of the same enemy group and no dialog? Check. Chained objective? (not farm related, but annoying on a giant map) Check. Overpowered AV to fight? (not farm related, and also not overpowered to some ATs) Check. No real story to it whatsoever, just an excuse to fight snowmen and an AV? Check. -
On the twelfth day of Rikti-mas my true love gave to me,
Twelve U'kon Grai's
Elven Ritki Magus
Ten zone invasions
Nine 'porting gunmen
Eight 'ploding pylons.
Seven UXBs
Received: Quantum Laser. Quantity: Six.
The Honnnorrrreeeeee
Four Riders
Three Downed Dropships
Two Rikti portals
And a half-dead Rikti monkey -
Quote:Same here, working on getting in.Originally Posted by Jinken
I'm trying to login right now, but the Virtue server is giving a "No response from this server" message. Anyone else having this problem?
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Quote:The way I've been doing them, it's mostly total number of objectives. I try to highlight each significant boss fight, hostage, the occasional glowie if I can make it interesting, and if I also need to throw in a custom group in there. Though unless I get some more takers to pick through, I'll take what I can get.Originally Posted by Venture
"The Christmas We Get" (#356477) is technically five acts, but two of those are very short. "Why We Fight" (#253990) is four, but the first one can be stealthed or cherry-picked from the air.
My others are five acts and fairly involved, except for "Psychophage", which is four acts and meant to kill you and/or irritate you enough to quit. -
On Your M-Arc #2: City of Ho Ho Ho, or A Claus in Paragon is now live! Check it out, leave a comment to tell me what you think, and submit your own arc to use for the next episode!
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On the Sixth day of Rikti-mas my true love gave to me,
Received: Quantum Laser. Quantity: Six.
The Honnnorrrreeeeee
Four Riders
Three Downed Dropships
Two Rikti portals
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And here you go! I haven't recorded the audio review for it yet, but here's the playthrough of the arc. Hope to have the On Your M-Arc review of it up within the next couple days hopefully.
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Did someone say Rikti round?
On the second day of CoX-mas my true love gave to me,
Two Rikti portals
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Well, I managed to grab a low level PuG from Atlas on Virtue and tried to run it as much RP as possible. I picked The Blue Devils because I really liked the arc. I only was able to grab three other people to run it with, but they all seemed to really like it as well. I had a pretty good time trying out RP, giving the basic information of the arc to everyone and getting a team decision on the vigilante options. We ended up only doing one of them.
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On the ninth day of CoX-mas my true love gave to me,
Nine Thousand Tickets
Eight Statesman Masks
Seven Alignment Merits
Six Incarnate Shards
Five Hami Gooooooooooooooo's ♪ ♫
4,000,000,000 inf
Three Candy Cane Salvage
Two Armageddons
and a shiny new Hecatomb set[/QUOTE] -
On the seventh day of CoX-mas my true love gave to me,
Seven Alignment Merits
Six Incarnate Shards
Five Hami Gooooooooooooooo's ♪ ♫
4,000,000,000 inf
Three Candy Cane Salvage
Two Armageddons
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On the second day of CoX-mas my true love gave to me,
Two Armageddons
and a shiny new Hecatomb set -
Since you asked for more: Ghoulish, my Necro/Storm Mastermind. Aren't zombies perfect for that good holiday shopper feeling?
I also have Wyndine, my MA/SR scrapper. One of my first characters.
And just a bit of fun with Afrogator! "It's hard work for a cold blooded creature to look this hot."
Just throwing out some more options since it sounded like you were starting to run dry. Enjoy! -
On the tenth day of PuG-mas, my true love gave to me,
Eleven Trick Arrows kicked (no healz)
Ten Trolls a Raving
Nine perma-brb door sitters
Eight large green inspirations
Seven Petless Masterminds
Six Defenders rocking the aura
Five ♪ ♪ Ragnaroks ♫......
Four Shapeshifitng Kheldians
Three frenzied (and End-starved) Scrappers
Two faceplanted Blasters,
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5 Ragnaroks?! What PuGs are you playing with?
On the fifth day of PuG-mas, my true love gave to me:
Six Defenders rocking the aura
Five ♪ ♪ Ragnaroks ♫......
Four Shapeshifitng Kheldians
Three frenzied (and End-starved) Scrappers
Two faceplanted Blasters,
and A tank who didn't take [Taunt]