Darmian

Nice idea!

I built effectively a Seer to get through. Mind Control & Empathy. Ok, I don't do a lot of damage, but I also don't die much. You, Ghoul! Attack your friends. Infiltration on, I'll be over here clicking glowies.

Yeah, you can get to First Ward via the Imperial Underground. Look for the Doorkeeper.

Gold is fabulous. This time when you hit 20, try going straight to First Ward instead of taking the Rift mission. More Praetoria!

"We"?

Curious! I'd not tried that before. So, I replicated what you did and for me at least the new mob didn't even appear as a choice either. So, looks like we're out of luck. Or you're going to have to add a Custom to that mob.

It very well could do.

I personally count vanity projects as "Mary Sue" arcs where the thinly disguised player Main is the great hero and you do all the shit work for them while they get lauded.

Ok, that was damn interesting. Firstly it provides definitive proof that the AE is not "just" farms, SFMAs and vanity projects. This is something that frankly would never appear in the actual game. And that's a strength of the AE rather than a weakness. I loved M1. M2 and M3 not as much. And M3 has enough glowies to give @Kyksie apoplexy. That said, it was very atmospheric and oddly fun. I have yet to check whether being able to sight read music would help, because it's not a skill I possess so I can't really comment. I'd recommend people try this to see something totally different, just don't go in with any expectations.

Ok, @Zhym, initial blurb is changed to this: After failing to detonate a neutron device in the Magisterium the Resistance is reeling. PPD died, but so did key Resistance members. Somehow Cole's forces got past Vanessa DeVore's shielding. Odysseus is intent on flushing out a rat. [A Praetorian Crusader SFMA prior to the Praetorian War]

Not much I can do about that! The presence was telegraphed so, LOL.

I'll fix that!

I'll give it a look!

Hmm, in the blurbage? 300 characters and I used 298 😞 I think I did call it Imperial Crusader in the titles.

What would possibly be weirder is you doing this arc, following the above, and the traitor NOT being you. And that was another of the knots!

No, I get that entirely. Sadly a limit on the options as you say. I let the option that this is a Resistance AE guide the choice in the end. I did rewrite that intro a few times, tying myself in knots trying to make both options somehow work. Alas.

I've not played it yet, but if @cranebump and @Zhym think you've got a good thing here then I will get onto it. Always happy to have more AE story writers around! I've avoided spoilering stuff for myself!

No, Shroud City was though, and it got nuked.

Even as a Gold you can do all the iTrials and Cathedral of Pain when you hit 50, provided they're started in Praetoria or Echo Plaza or Pocket D.

I suppose it makes up LOL, kinda sorta, since RI is nowhere near Bermuda.

Yep, tooting my own horn here! If anyone wants canon-esque Gold arcs between Neutropolis and First Ward check my signature for AEs. One trilogy of Loyalist (so far) and one completed trilogy of Resistance. The second Resistance trilogy has two parts up. I was writing a trilogy for each of the 4 options, Power, Warden, Crusader and Responsibility. Almost finished Crusader, still have Responsibility to go.

What now? Nothing to do with me!

Hopefully I'll have Spirals: Part Three done by the time you get around it!