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Now that I see the questions you want answered, here are my answers to them:


Things I feel like I could use feedback on

* Is the final encounter too difficult? Too easy? In testing, my main character, a level 50 blaster with purple IOs, exemped to 10 smashes it flat with ease. On the other hand, my level 5 rad/storm corruptor with bad powerset synergy and no enhancements just barely won. Could use more input.

* Are the two "main" NPCs given enough personality to make the player care about what happens to them?

Yes.

* Is the player given enough stuff to do that she feels like a part of the story?

Yes.

* The first couple missions have the player mostly doing what the contact asks, but the last two missions have the player basically defying what the NPCs want, in order to do the "right" thing. Does this "work"? Or is this "powerposing"?

As I mentioned in my other post the last mission seems to just hang out there. Something along the lines of "Are you really going to let him go off alone?" or "You realize he has no chance of pulling this mission off without his powers."

* Is there too much profanity? I was a little worried about this, but I picture most of the characters encountered during this story as being fairly salty, street gang types. A dozen times while writing this, I had to paraphrase or work around the profanity filter.

I felt there was no issue with profanity.

* Is the Big Bad's nickname too stupid? I just didn't picture the gang members being able to pronounce the proper name correctly, and thought a shorter nickname would be true to the genre.

The name was fine, though I admit for a minute after I read her origin I thought she might be your contact (the girlfriend thing).

* Do the various minor characters encountered make the arc more fun, or do they distract from the story?

I would consider trimming the last mission's number of non- required or at the very least spreading them out (they were all in the last room making it packed to the gills.

* I just couldn't think of good titles and captions for the individual mission briefings. But I know a lot of people like them because it makes the briefing look more "polished". The adventure is a very small-scale one, though, so maybe it doesn't need them? Or if anyone has any suggestions, happy to take them.

I did not miss them being there, but you can always use them to inject more emotion or humor.

* Is there too much text and exposition in clues? Or not enough?

Some of the clues are packed, but the information in them are good so I would leave them as is.


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I was the first person to play this arc and this info is intended for PW therefore loaded with spoilers!


Contact Name - Shouldn’t the contact have the name Nadya and explain that she is a Skull girlfriend?

M1 Briefing - 1 – Interesting hook.

M1 – Toothbreaker – Nice attack dialog.

B2 – Like the idea of the briefing a lot, but my motivation to help Nadya is a little thin.

M2 – I am guessing the mission is set to ramp up. On the map you used it worked out screwy.

M3 – Briefing – Maybe change accept text to something reassuring or comforting since the contact is crying.

M3 Busy test – Felt the $origin was wedged in.

M3 - “as Ms Chesterfield” Looses the “d’ in the target window. Maybe a shorter name?

M3 – Ah got the captive’s reference. I still don’t know the reason for the as “Ms Chesterfield”.

M4 – Briefing – Maybe add something implying you are not going to let him go off no matter what he says. As it stands now it seems nebulous.

M4 – Nadya was the last person I found so her warning was wasted on me. That was OK, but the fact that she just ran off while I had Ray there with me seemed out of character. Maybe give her a pipe wrench or something she could just find in the building and make her an ally to avoid this from happening?

Ending- Touching and ties it all up nicely.


Overall - Great arc challenge or not. I really loved the way you incorporated the parameters Dr. A. set for the challenge. It clearly fits the criteria. This arc sets the bar high.


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I forgot, but this weekend I will be away. Fred has offered to run the team if I am not there. Anyone else able to cover?


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Light showing tonight. We ran:


Save the Villain by @Gyro the Assembler Arc ID: 364597

The Warburg Connection by @FredrikSvanberg Arc ID: 364832


I highly recommend The Warburg Connection. Another great arc in that series.


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If you are looking for Humor arcs anything in my sig is good except Paragon Society.


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This Week's schedule:

Tuesday 6:00pm EST - High roller picks arc

Saturday Noon EST - Key Word Random Roulette

Sunday Noon EST - Open Teaming


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Happy B-Day!


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Happy birthday guys!


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Any of the ones in my sig should work fine. None have AVs, a few have allies, but I am careful to balance them. They range from 1 mission to 5 so whatever time you have you should be able to fit them in. As for rating them in game, that would be fine.


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Full to near full team through out today. We played:

Jennie Bryans vs. the Board of Education by Golden Gadfly Arc ID: 333337


and from our request thread we ran:

The Descender by @Mr Squid Arc ID: 339222


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Near full team today. We finished up the new guest author arcs and then had some time to run another random arc. They were:


Mystery on the Boardwalk by Mercedes Lackey Arc ID: 369275

A Little Night Music by Tro Hickman Arc ID: 369271

Trouble in Amazonia by @jdubrich Arc ID: 344818


BTW, with free transfers extended for another month why not move a character over to Triumph and join the team? You can also always just start a new one since we have no level limits or requirments.


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This was really, really hard and all the people nominated had worthy arcs.

Best New Arc

1st - @FredrikSvanberg Fear And Loathing On Striga #350522

2nd - @Jail.Bird The New Paragon Society Reborn #355351


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I really don't feel there is an exact formula, it's more a feeling. Also, experiences will vary depending on player experience and randomness (like where things spawn). Once I have a mission in an arc where I feel it should be I will play it through at least ten times. If more than one time through I feel I am wasting time doing any task I rework it and try again.


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Small update

- Added info promoting @Jail.bird's arcs about the new Paragon Society to the Souvenir for this arc. The arcs feature Sherman and are about him putting the new group together.


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A short run with a small turn out this evening, but we still ran one of the new guest author arcs.

Return of the Crime Cabal by Austin Grossman Arc ID: 369272


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Arcs by genre. This thread differs to the CoHmatoes thread as it links to authors' information (sometimes posters!) instead of reviews. A

Note: I cleaned up some of the formatting and deleted any obviously broken URL tags for the sake of readability. I could not figure out how to fix the bullet color-coding.

Bullets colored for heroic/neutral/villainous. Non-existent arcs removed. Lists alphabetized. Arc IDs updated.

AE System

• 15+ Min TUTORIAL = Knowledge is Power: Architect Entertainment & YOU! (I15) #28470
  
• 5th Anniversary Flashback Smackdown #126896
  
• 'Captain Dynamic, the Great, Faces the Great Face' - Tryouts #190069
  
• Death for Dollars #1050
  
• Signal to Noise #67277
  
• Welcome to Architect Entertainment #1004

Character/Supergroup Origins

• A Hero is made, Not Born #20863
  
• A Mother's Nightmare #6955
  
• A Rose's Thorns #113224
  
• Birth of a Fossil #18632
  
• Jumping in Feet First #1345
  
• Midnight Bells Toll #?
  
• New Flame Rising #161066
  
• Noah Reborn #2370
  
• Of Futures Past #254599
  
• Polar Emergence Neutral Government User Interface Network (PENGUIN) #29205
  
• Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V #42221
  
• The Amazing Rat Race #1144

Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain

• A Crusher Crimewave #1 : Crisis at The Citadel #179354
  
• A Crusher Crimewave #2 : Escape from The Zig! #83458
  
• A Crusher Crimewave #3 : The Fall of Mocker #123613
  
• A Show to Die For! #30645
  
• Check... and Mate #15095
  
• Daybreak Patrol Needs Help # 321834
  
• In The Shadow of Statesman #1160
  
• Marketing Opportunity #83747
  
• Paradox Paradox #69221
  
• Sidekicks Can Be A Pain In The Cape #28430
  
• Teen Phalanx Forever! #67335
  
• The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society #344596
  
• This Life Immortal #5756
  
• 'Tis Nobler in the Mind #257226
  
• To Save A Single World #83744

Comedy

• A Show of Hands #296884
  
• A Translator is the Wind or the Thunder in Turns #2936
  
• Celebrity Kidnapping #1388
  
• City of Norms #132944
  
• Daytime Divas #94504
  
• Death to Disco! #84420
  
• Doctor Nadir and the Hellion Heist #49661
  
• Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! #3662
  
• Gnomish Madness #30204
  
• Hail to the King #34640
  
• In Poor Taste #259920
  
• Invasion on Earth BX1132! 98943
  
• Jerk Hackers! #162482
  
• Laugh? I Thought I'd DIE! #68429
  
• MacGuffin Delivery Service 1567
  
• Martian Chimpanzees and the Cyborg Cheerleaders of DOOM! #69947
  
• Mean People. #16690
  
• None More Black, Dude! #86312
  
• Papers and Paychecks #298290
  
• ParaCon #1684
  
• Rise of the Drakule #51357
  
• Return of the Revenge of the Son of Drakule Part 2: First Blood #84543
  
• Shirley You Jest #25474
  
• Shortbow #143566
  
• Teen Phalanx Forever! #67335
  
• The Extadine Lab #2595
  
• The Fire Bunnies #10377
  
• The foul-mouthed Handyman! #1076
  
• The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! #61013
  
• The Minimech Cometh #119664
  
• The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force #7901
  
• The P.U.G. Strike force #35585
  
• The string thief. #15726
  
• Too Many Bunnygirls! #101165
  
• Trademark Infringement #2220
  
• Walk On the Wild Side #3580
  
• You Say It's Your Birthday! 3630

Comedy/Drama

• Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481
  
• Death by Snoo-Snoo! #247372
  
• Fashion Apocalypse #14840
  
• Females for Hire #110723
  
• Fishing for Fame with Red Herring #66861
  
• Freaks, Geeks and Men in Black #161629
  
• Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! #2019
  
• How to Survive a Robot Uprising #12669
  
• It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding #9059[
  
• Kidnapping an Idol #136188
  
• Papers and Paychecks #298290
  
• Putting Out Fires: A Corporate Satire #20100
  
• Rum Runners of Bloody Bay #3691
  
• Teen Phalanx Forever! #67335
  
• The Cat's in the Cradle #8776
  
• The Running of the Bulls #29973
  
• TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I #1013
  
• The Toypcalypse! #49280

Crime/Gangs

• A Little RnR #17523
  
• Battlin' Tom's Murder Extravaganza! #99803
  
• Bricked Electronics #2180
  
• Celebrity Kidnapping #1388
  
• Fatale Attraction - Part 1 of 3 #181264
  
• Fatale Deception - Part 2 of 3 #227466
  
• Fatale Corruption - Part 3 of 3 #232783
  
• Females for Hire #110723
  
• Mechanical Mayhem #76721
  
• Meet the Demon Spawn #151099
  
• Slash DeMento and the Stolen Weapons #100045
  
• Plastic Pistol Peril #1135
  
• Talos Vice #338380
  
• The Bravuran Jobs #16809
  
• The Internet is for Crime #53385
  
• The Superadine Revolution #262739
  
• Whitehawks #113811
  
• [ZQ] Power Play #187269

Drama

• 7662 - The Fan Club #5898
  
• A Flame the Burns Bright #112548
  
• A Warrior's Journey: The Flower Knight Task Force #260284
  
• Clonus, Parts 1 & 2 #21499 & # 21290
  
• Digital Love #3571
  
• Matchstick Women #3369
  
• Of Mentors and Legacy #1589
  
• Talos Vice #338380
  
• The Conciliators: Simone #4010

Global Domination / Destruction

• Axis and Allies #1379
  
• The Twilight of this Blue Orb #98529

Heist

• Celebrity Kidnapping #1388
  
• Easy Money #31490
  
• The Great Diamond Heist #96169

Historical (Realistic)

• A Wrinkle in Time #266880
  
• Destroyer of Worlds #352820

Historical (CoH Lore)

• The Consequences of War #227331 and 241496
  
• The War on Superadine #151088
  
• [ZQ] The Once and Future King #71601

Holiday

• Battle of 15 April #72140
  
• City of Ho Ho Ho, or A Claus in Paragon #18775
  
• Hectic Holidays #36999
  
• Santa's Missing List #34961
  
• Santa's Workshop of Misfit Toys #134140

Horror

• All Consuming #261148
  
• Astoria in D Minor #41565
  
• Creepy Crawlers #82553
  
• Dark Dreams #3615
  
• Die Count Daddy Macula Die! #10619
  
• Don't Play With The Dead #260107
  
• Duality #84105
  
• Hunting the Hunters #93362
  
• I Will Dance On Your Grave #92630
  
• Lights, Camera, Scream! #177826
  
• Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit #3586
  
• Small Fears #12285
  
• Something Comes to Yarmouth #58812
  
• The Amulet of J'gara #1709
  
• The Children of Astoria 217499
  
• The Zombie Apocalypse Task Force: Something wicked this way comes #91456

Kaiju

• Attack of the 50 Foot Villain #363366

Large-Scale Crisis

• Akhdar Blood #247198
  
• Alpha and Omega #60015
  
• Bleed the Freak #6919
  
• Breaking The Barrier (And Putting It Back Together) #347029
  
• Flight of the Valkyries - Precursor #20272
  
• Is it Live or is it Memory-X #70210
  
• The All-Seeing Eye #57352
  
• The Clockwork War #18672
  
• This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral 1356
  
• War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 1 #15006
  
• War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 2, The Terran Revolt #46711
  
• Win the Past, Own the Future #1429
  

Magic

• A Deal with Destiny #61748
  
• A Dream of Awakenings #132616
  
• Chains of Blood #4829
  
• Croatoa's Great War: The Parfait Family Reunion #71880
  
• Deal with The Devil's Pawn #207266
  
• I Will Dance On Your Grave #92630
  
• Rex is Missing! #51702
  
• The Magical Miss Fitz #5079
  
• The Shadow Rune of the Warlocks - A Moth Cemetery Tale #124319
  
• The Tannhäuser Gate 96322

Military

• Axis and Allies #1379
  
• Red Typhoon #4912
  
• Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago #1297
  
• Redoubt Operations #2: Wrath of the Imperium #269283
  
• Whitehawks #113811

Misc. Adventure

• Impossible Kung Fu Mission #111367
  
• A Glitch in the Wyre #73197
  
• The Council Cargo #36951
  
• Hero Therapy! (TM) #119228
  
• The Second Coming of the Mega Mech #122274

Mutant

• The Legion of Mutants vs. the Iron Agents #200364

Mystery

• Blowback #4643
  
• Dream Paper #1874
  
• Females for Hire #110723
  
• Hunter of Beasts: It begins with a riot... #110465
  
• The Fireside Poet #189439
  
• What Rough Beast #255143

Mythology

• Atlantis Attacks! #30898
  
• A Warrior's Journey: The Flower Knight Task Force #260284
  
• Madness And The Minotaur #90124
  
• Rites of the Maenads #61159
  
• Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur #12647
  
• The Aegis Affair #16376
  
• The Four Treasures of the Tuatha De Danaan #164100
  
• The Parable of the Fruit Salad #65369
  
• The Seeds of Yggdrasil #48907
  
• 7662: The Seelie War #2462
  
• 7662: The Unseelie War #2453
  
• Ecloga Prima (Haec excursio in lingua Latina) #309162

Nemesis Plots

• Brass Reaver: Part 1 #244755
  
• Rise and Fall of the Iron General #142200
  
• The Handbag Plot #36414

Player-Chosen Outcome

• Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic #2922
  
• Papers and Paychecks #298290
  
• Playing Gods #51106
  
• Time's Maelstrom #182874

Public Domain Characters/Literature

• The Praetorian Invasion of the Land of Oz #168841

Puzzles/Riddles

• Grim Riddles #1396

Samurai

• A Warrior's Journey: The Flower Knight Task Force #260284

Sci-Fi

• Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington #159769
  
• Adventures of the Space Marines #2133
  
• Adventures of the Space Marines 2 #2171
  
• Assault on Aru Prime #174856
  
• City of the Apes #171184
  
• Spaced Invaders #77971
  
• That Mysterious Buzzing Sound #12774
  
• The Adventures of the United Earth Rangers #29549
  
• The Balance of Power #26931
  
• The Continuing Adventures of the United Earth Rangers #70237
  
• The Fracturing of Time #171031
  
• The Knights of Rularuu #75386
  
• The Nemesis Theory - #171203
  
• The Portal Bandits #3326
  
• Welcome to Donut World! #1233

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This Week's schedule:

Tuesday 6:00pm EST - Open Teaming

Saturday Noon EST - TBD

Sunday Noon EST - Open Teaming


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Hey there Television! I am a definite fan and wanted to thank you for taking the time out of your broadcast day to be the contact in my Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids!
arc. Remember to watch more TV everyone!


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I proposed a few months back that the MA Super Team do an arc with each person who wanted to writing a mission. My thought was that it would be written in order. First person does mission then sends files to next person, etc.. I was thinking it would be free form and I am not sure this method would work with an arc with a preset storyline.


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