The Caretaker

I believe in this case I was hand-typing the changelog while making the changes in the data, so it wasn't a copy-paste from the source, thankfully. Although I will double-check. And I'm not offended, no need to apologize. I was astounded by the Inception-level layering we achieved in here 🙂 EDIT: "Thank you, {HeroName}. You have done me a great service in returning the senators." ...phew.

I never thought I'd see the day we go meta and you proofread the proofreading notes and find typos about typos.

Well, I hope you're happy. CUMULATIVE NOTES Cumulative notes: Typo correction log: BULK EDIT: "Freedom Corp " (Note the space at the end) to "Freedom Corps " " (Note the space at the end) Captain Mako Arc Souvenir: "Broken Freedom Corps Badge" now referred to as a "Medallion" - makes more sense to be a broken medallion than a badge. Within the souvenir a "Broken Freedom Corp " error now refers to a "Broken Freedom Corps Medallion" Crimson, World Wide Red: Clue: Leung Linwei's story: "Loosing" to "Losing" Clue: Damaging dossiers and documents: "Politician's " to "Politicians' " Clue: The missing connection: "Operation to hear" to "Operation to here" "Finrenze" to "Firenze" "Langly" to "Langley" "Cover been exposed" to "Cover been blown" "Firenze's going to be well protected by some of the baddest things that Malta can muster." to "Firenze's going to be well protected by some of the nastiest forces that Malta can muster." "Afford to loose" to "Afford to lose" Harvey Maylor "It is likely that is amount of drugs" to "It is likely that this amount of drugs" Dream Doctor "The cavern is full of the Knives of Vengeance, who made this their home" to "The cavern is full of the Talons of Vengeance, who made this their home" "Future ancestors" to "Future descendants" Theoden "Reverting to magic" to "Resorting to magic" Agent Kwahu "You and him" to "You and he" Praetorian Penny Yin "You and him" to "You and he" SL8_Nemesis "Afford to loose" to "Afford to lose" Maria Jenkins Take Down Nightstar: "Wiht" to "with" "Tinge" to "Tingle" "Apprised" to "Apprised" Basse Croupier Defeat Tsoo Racketeers: "Let's see if you shall" to "Let's see if you are" Glacia "Luring our" to "Luring out" Multiple lines using "important" over and over: "You looked through the remains of Darrin Wade's library to find any sort of important information. You find multiple journals and read them over, looking for anything important. It's odd that Darrin Wade would leave such important items here." to "You looked through the remains of Darrin Wade's library to find any relevant information. You find multiple journals and read them over, looking for anything noteworthy. It's odd that Wade would leave such vital and powerful items behind." Specialist Greer "Circle have are" to "Circle have is" "They are vast" to "It is vast" "but I believe for someone such as yourself" to "but I believe for someone such as you" Wavelength "by riots in the street" to "be riots in the street" Crey's Folly Reconnaissance Officer: "- SWAT entrance: This SWAT entrance was closed down when the Rikti invaded for the second time, but has since been reopened with Rikti Traditionalist relations improving weekly. All activity is still monitored and policed via DPO centers manned by The Vanguard." Flashfire "Inside the envelope are a series of official-looking documents, each of which appears to be quite liberally censored." to "Inside the envelope is a series of official-looking documents, each of which appears to be quite liberally censored." Maxwell Christopher "All that left" to "All that's left" Operative Wellman "who development a method" to "who developed a method" Blind Makwa "let's" to "lets" Master Midnight "It's" to "its" Archmage Hellewise "It's" to "Its" Atmospheric dialog "My lost my family in Galaxy City. I'm so alone." to "I lost my family in Galaxy City. I'm so alone." "Pepeaceably" to "Peaceably" Circle of Thorns SL7 arc "Sewing" to "Sowing" "The believed" to "They believed" Lots of changes of "it's" to "its". Carnival of Shadows SL9 arc "elestial" to "celestial" Psimon Omega "docs" to "docks" Mu'Drakhan "Sewing" to "Sowing" Hardcase "increase demon attacks" to "increased demon attacks" "but in turn" to "but in return" "his soul his released" to "his soul is released" Jezebel Jones "Your back" to "You're back" Heather Townshend Sigil no longer shouts her own name when Kadabra Kill... is killed. Positron Part 1 Final Madness Mage guarding Azuria is, in fact, Rollister - and is named so. Shadow Simulacrum #8 has their DisplayInfo. Angelo Vendetti "Kidnap a Council base leader" mission refers to Archon Winters and Winter, normalized to Winters throughout. SL7 Crey arc "won't hold up in court on it's own" to "won't hold up in court on its own" "Be on your guard" -> Capitalized the B Removed a duplicate "body" from a clue Sunstorm "Appology" to "Apology" "Nightmare" decapitalized in rescue text Rogue Morality Mission (SL4-5) Fixed misplaced dialog entries confusing Skyraiders and Council RandomFameString: Issue: A wide swath of missions grant 'RandomFameString "P3958075051"' to NPCs to say after mission completion. This translates to 'string'. To amend this, I created 'RandomFameString "P39580750518675309"' to replace the offending entries with "Whoa, I know you..." Reconnaissance Officer, Sewers: "Conglomerate" to "Congregate" SL7 Fifth Column/Council Arc "Agustulus" to "Augustus" "You have learned to much" to "You have learned too much" "Arakahn" to "Arakhn" St Martial Bartender "What'll be be?" to "What'll it be?" Long Jack Archon in mission was calling a pstring for {BOSS_NAME} and somehow returning oddities like "Archon Archon Foss". Created a new PString for "Archon Foss" and left it at that. SL4 Common Tasks (Lost hunt in TV) "ago, And" to "ago, and" (Sky Raiders hunt in TV) "drop Sky Raider" to "drop in Sky Raider" "You have defeated 25 Family Thugs" ... "25" to "20" Master Thao Ku is "a truly enlightened person", not "an truly" "Save the Surgeons from the Vahzilok" Sort of brilliant -> Short of Brilliant Hopsitals -> Hospitals SL5 Lost Arc "Superidyne" to "Superadine" Mr Bocor "It's" to "its" Tina Macintyre "Tiny" to "Tinny" Praetorian Arc (Old and New arc) fixed bad punctuation in clue "Anti-Matter's Warning" Midnighter Introduction "Met and discuss" to "Met to discuss" Contact conclusions "would like to met" to "would like to meet" Icedrone's bio Removed an extra quotation mark Radio Missions "the Witness" to "the witness" Mender Ramiel Captain Holtz has been degendered to "They/Them/Their". Text says male, model may only be female, but the lazy solution is to simply ambiguate the pronouns. Phillipa Meraux In the Rescue Ken and Kimberly mission, Kim has her own rescue text, and why it isn't working I'm not sure. Operative Vargas "Koralax" to "Coralax" "Villainousness" to "Villainess" Fortunata Gossamer "Not apart of" to "Not a part of" Devouring Earth Missing DisplayNames field for Mushroom_Beast_01_Summon caused Will of the Earth to spawn critters with "Mushroom_Beast_01" as their names. Fixed. Pandora's Box, Part 4 Dr. Harvan should not yell 'P856364347;P856364347' any longer. Maybe. Max "Discrete location" is now "discreet" Multiple arcs "Another thing coming" changed to "Another think coming" Freakshow dialog "Thowing" to "Throwing" Alexandra Sideris "returning these women" to "returning the senators" Vigilante Tip "A jar of Shattered Flesh" Fortunata and Tarantula have their lines swapped so they appear delivered in the correct order. Number Six Reese: "Keeping Praetoria" to "Giving Praetoria" Neil Kendrick "Technomagic" to "Technomagic" Trilogy pool missions "well read of" to "well read or" Doc Buzzsaw Slag Golems say "We're Slag Golems, and we're attacking" no longer. Now they say "We attack now!" Bless their dumb hearts. "Well, think about, won't you?" to "Well, think about it, won't you?" Ghost Widow Dr. Crow is now Dr. Crowe throughout. Do not worry, he still moonlights lampooning bad movies late at night with friends. Roy Cooling "Bassins" to "Basinns" "Taken the reigns" to "Taken the reins" Newsies No longer question Ouroboros and are now excited. Awakened Oppressor bio "has manifestation of corrupted flesh" "has manifested as corrupted flesh" Atmospheric dialog "in tact" to "intact" Dr. Stribbling References to M1dway taking you to Cap au Diable corrected to Port Oakes. Bobby Curtin "If go after" to "If you go after" Dr. Arvin "Lost conscious" to "lost consciousness" "Show Flambeaux How It's Done!" "Need to need to" to "Need to" Yin in "Raid Yin Corp" knows Tilman's proper pronoun. Seer Marino "The Legacy Chain's" to "The Legacy Chain" Marshal Brass Vines: "You" to "you" (decapitalized) Fixed 4 places where "Hey there" was "Hey, there," Diviner Maros "Chose you, now" to "Choose you, now" Unlucky Pete should now be Unlucky Pete at all times.

Slowly working my way from about seven pages back. Stop being so good at noticing things! LMAO.

I want to teeeease, but I miiiiight get in trouble.

He is also not going to give the task depending on origin - the same task is given from another contact that aligns with your origin. Edit: Sorry this took a month to respond to, life's been lifein'

I am firmly of the belief that some intern chose the Kheldian powers/FX and nobody vetted it, or cared to address it. While it seems likely - given the closely shared but divergent history of Primal and Praetoria- that the Nictus went into hiding ages before any timeline schism, the Nictus' absence in the Praetorian timeline can be written as another victim of variant circumstance. It's possible they died out without fanfare, just like Nemesis did, because of an inconsequential fluctuation in geothermal circumstances that rendered their ability to create shadow crystals impossible on Praetorian Earth, and cautiously exchanging hosts for as long as they had to, eventually got picked off by sheer probability. And then the Hamidon rolled through like a tentacled steamroller and shredded whatever endured anyway. TL;DR: No, there are not dimensionally native Kheldians/Nictus in Praetoria, in any timeline a player has witnessed.

Hehe. No comment.

When she reappears, I plan to make it count.

You know, for all the plot holes I've tried to fill, this is the one that just needs to exist, or your efforts would just be too effective. You'd have whole gangs dismantled from the inside out by level 20... which was exactly how the original writing was done, levels equalling time, and gangs replacing other gangs as the low ones disappeared, you having done them in effectively. Then Clockwork came back at level 41+ for Tina Macintyre, which was fine as an alternate dimension... but then CWK came back in full force at 35+ for the LGTF and that mantra was given the handwave of a lifetime after that. I have a handful of ideas for making releases from the Zig a little less like a meme, but it's not ideal to involve Chris Jenkins in every story.

I had this issue a long time ago where Ambient Occlusion settings being max'ed were the problem on my 1070.

This was a conscious decision made because in the Marchand arcs in brickstown there's a breakout at the zig and the Petrovich brothers are busted out as a diversion. Because of that, it was decided to put them right back in when it was over.

Occams developer

Flinch reply: "Inscription In March of 1986, with the mystical aid of the Midnight Squad, the Back Alley Brawler managed to track local Superadine distribution to a secret lab beneath this building. Little is known about the lab's contents. It is simply known that the Back Alley Brawler and the Statesman swore their comrades to secrecy after the battle." I would want to explore this unresolved lore as the reason for the attack - Deadlock being an agent of the Family.

At this time, that's an order of magnitude beyond our scope.

Oh, yes. Herr Adelard Ziegler goes on a deep dive in Kallisti.

If you look closely, some HC things are already in motion with Manticore. His reputation is beginning to... tarnish you could say.

I want to, and even did some prelim work, but need more plots to strengthen the push into that revamp.

Recluse knew what he was doing. That "show of force" was an orchestrated feint. The gambit was that Arachnos was in fact robbing Praetoria blind while engaging Tyrant head on as a distraction. I can't say more because seeeekrits. Also: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mission:Inside_Information_-_Praetoria's_Hidden_Treasure

No, but I have a long-standing request to make the Library of Souls: Inspired somewhat by something like this.

Arachnos has a pretty clear line drawn on Nictus, if you ask me. One of the very few times you encounter one in the Rogue Isles is when you discover the Warshade named Romulus. (Which, by the way, factored in to Valeria and the future roadmap.) Arachnos might have noticed the report, but it was so beneath them as to not matter at all. Outside of that, however, we have the animosity between Arachnos and the Council, where the Nictus currently reside. Two competing fascist ideologies gunning for similar endgames doesn't ever end well. As such, I don't see Arachnos "gaining" much Nictus power unless the Council were to spectacularly implode and leave their inner workings completely laid bare for others to plunder. Instead, I see an inevitable conflict when these two powers finally come to blows over a resource or event, and even then it'd be hard to measure who'd win. I'd lean towards Arachnos because they 1) Are operating openly with their own nation-state and 2) have their hands in more tech than Council. Council's advantage is their cockroach-like tenacity, with layers and layers of redundancy to keep themselves from ever being truly wiped out. --- Regarding the Zig: Pandora's box was not the end-all-be-all of security, but rather a fantastic extra layer of power siphoning. Even when the Zig's Supermax was broken into, the jail cells for the sixteen had tech and protocols to keep people like Veles, Clockwork King, Vandal and Rollister (etc) in the pokey. So the Zig has (had) more going for it than just the Box. --- SSA3? Oh yeah. It's coming.

I'm looking into the status of his planned replacement.

In Kallisti Wharf, for sure.

I'll probably go back and take a look some time at Valeria. That was my first writing assignment. The synopsis: It closes the temporal loop opened by Requiem being in the past with Shadow Cysts. The Shadow Cysts by their very definition were world-ending threats and Requiem brought at least ten of them back in time. If even one was missed, it would flood the Earth with Nictus at a time when humanity had no chance to fight back. Instead what I tried to do was close the loop by having the player delete every last one of those possible cysts by spiking the newfound 'network' with a sort of vorpal bomb. The only change to the timeline once this was complete is that everything happens exactly as it did before, but the Nictus have been stewing in the knowledge that Cysts are possible (without appropriate resources to make one) until the Council recruits Arakhn. It also attempts to shed light on the question of "What imbued Romulus with Nictus power?" by explaining that the first cyst is a coalescence of the three Nictus Essences from the ITF finale. Where THEY came from is still to be disclosed to the player.

This wall is not sealing away a specific entity. Okay, that's a lie. There's someone in there but you'd be disappointed to know they aren't special. The wall is warding entry to a greater complex beyond it.