Scythus
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Quote:What.Originally Posted by Venture
False. Tyrant was prepared to allow Arachnos to destroy one of Antimatter's reactors because it suited his agenda. Scott was not willing to allow renegade Crusaders to destroy a hospital even though it would have furthered his agenda.
Scott was totally gung-ho for blowing up the hospital. He only lets you stop the bombing because he needs to keep you undercover. This has been repeated over and over in this thread. -
Circle of Thorns.
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Y'know, I like the idea of Dark Astoria going through cycles of darkness. It makes the zone's foreboding seem that much more sinister. Even if the heroes were able to heal it, how long before its plummeted into darkness again?
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Quote:I could totally see him doing that.Originally Posted by Jophiel
No, but it's only a matter of time before Calvin Scott decides that the best way to show how evil Cole is would be to blow up the sonic barrier and leave a trail of kidnapped infants leading up to City Hall for Hamidon to follow.
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Calvin Scott is Maximilien Robespierre. There's no doubt in my mind that he'd have his own Reign of Terror after deposing Emperor Cole. What Praetoria really needs is a George Washington.
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Quote:Dragonheart?Originally Posted by Radmind
I wonder now if both Hamidon and Cole's life forces are now tied together? Maybe the only way to defeat both of them is to defeat them at the same time?
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Quote:Not that I'm aware of, but their lore implies that she tried to get them under her thumb once though. It didn't pan out because of some protestors.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Am I totally getting confused again, or isn't Hero Corps a subsidiary of Crey Industries?
Quote:Their initial headquarters was in the area now known as Faultline. It was destroyed by unknown attackers in power armor. Countess Crey stood up to back them and their new headquarters in May 1999, but public protests by both citizens and heroes, including the famous Hero 1, prevented them from starting construction on a new headquarters in Baumton. They abandoned the plans in October of 1999, retreating into relative obscurity for a time. -
Quote:I said Hero Corps, not Paragon Protectors.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Another reason to bring the Countess back!
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Quote:I was more disturbed by Longbow's omnipresence. I mean, here there's the PPD, the Legacy Chain, and Wyvern and how often do they show up? Only a few arcs here and there if you're lucky to run into them. And why the hell do we never see Hero Corps?Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Because the Well has inexplicably gone from being an inert conduit to being The Overgod. And it's insane. Now this wouldn't be quite so bad if our Incarnate powers, and as the Origin of Power implies ALL our powers, didn't come from it. But they do. So it's bad. The multiverse is at the mercy of an insane god that, by its very nature, cannot be defeated. And you thought the Arachnos omnipresence in CoV was bad. (Well ok, maybe you didn't, but a lot of people did.)
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Quote:What about an alternate Stephan Richter?Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
He isn't from this reality, and he is definitely alien. Of course, if they add Incarnate content with Rularuu he'll probably turn out to be another alternate Marcus Cole or something equally stupid.... No wait. I can't think of a stupider lazier cop-out than that.
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Quote:Fix'd.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Even better, what if they had switched minds like in some sort of whacky 80s Saturday morning cartoon?
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Interesting the succubi don't leak over as well.
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Quote:Um? How so? I run into the Spectral Daemon Lord a lot pre-20 villainside.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I'm thinking specifically in the low levels. The spectral Lt. is very common in CoH content pre-20, but much less so until later levels in CoV.
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Quote:I have a love-hate relationship with that arc. I love the story it tells, but hate that there's three EBs throughout it, one (Metalshift) that you have to fight twice.Originally Posted by Rikis
A few weeks ago I decided to take one of my characters through Diviner Maros' arc in Sharkhead after a few years of not doing so. I remembered why I avoided him after the third EB (two within the same mission).
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Quote:There's EBs sprinkled liberally everywhere villainside pre-40 too.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
No, but redside does have an AV/EB in just about every arc post-40, and most of them are tougher than the Praetorians. You also get crap like Biff and Crimson. Blueside you can avoid most of the EBs by avoiding Maria Jenkins.
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Quote:The Well has a cannon? Oh shiOriginally Posted by Radionuclide
By the way, the Well has been hijacking everything since 2005; when http://www.amazon.com/Web-Arachnos-C...0448564&sr=1-2 was published and became cannon.
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Quote:And yet they're still capable of developing the most advanced technologies the world has ever known despite being "dumb."Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
If it happens once it's arrogance. If it happens twice I'm even able to buy that it's arrogance.
If it happens five times we're straying into the land of arrogance defeating intelligence when you should contract out. When arrogance overcomes success time and time again we're straying into the land of dumb.
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If your goal is success over all else. Which it frequently seems to be. -
It's actually more of a character flaw.
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One of my characters is supposed to be a host body for Erishkigal.
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Quote:So ... arrogance means dumb? I'm pretty sure arrogance is more of a pride issue actually.Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
Smart people are smart enough to know when to get another smart person to do what they can't.
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Quote:That's more of a tactical issue rather than intelligence, isn't it? Most scientists aren't going to be a miliatary strategist, for example.Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
To be fair the really smart villains almost always make really really dumb decisions.
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Yeah, let's see you build a time machine or a giant forcefield that engulfs the city and then we'll talk about "smart."
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Quote:Lex Luthor. Dr. Doom. Brainiac. Dr. Octopus. Dr. Sivana. Need I go on?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Since when have supervillains ever been super smart?
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Quote:Well it's kind of difficult to when you're effectively a brain in a jar. Seriously, the dude probably lost his bits ages ago.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Nemesis seems to show very little interest in women.
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Quote:Yeah, Longbow's probably the most villainous organization we fight.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But villains fight other villains all the time in CoV