TerroirNoir2

Take care of Engineria for me, I'm proud of her. And maybe Araminta (when I am randomly on) will run into her in one of your future arcs.

This is Araminta.

Ok folks. Some sad news from me. Not RL sad news but Engineria sad news. I literally do not have the time in my schedule anymore to keep doing this. I have tried but I keep falling behind and I'd rather have an end point than something unfinished. So after I finish this little run, which will include @Ankylosaur's All That Glimmers 3.3: Gods in the Planes, @cranebump's Solace@ Part Two and @Darmian's Three Sisters, then Engineria will be retiring from active duty here. If you see me in the city I'll be on Araminta Levine. @cranebump, Engineria will be all yours to add to your team, as promised. You already have her in one of the existing arcs anyway. If you need any of her costumes send me an email here. @Zhym, thanks for your continued support over all of this and for having 70s Man join Engineria in one of her adventures.

Oh dear God what have I done? Err... anyway. I don't have a directory. The nearest thing I have are these: And the continuation: Nicely broken up by our friend @Zhym here: HOWEVER...IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS FOR SOME OF THE ABOVE THEN TRY THIS: Lots of AE writers post a blurb for their work here in the Mission Architect section but (correct me if I'm wrong) so far I've only seen @Darmian do this. And I figure this sort a thing would fit into a directory reasonably well.

Easily fixed. For example the Shining Stars arc used to have you visit the Atlas Park AE, now it directs you to the Vault. Fiddly but not impossible.

Ok, then having them appear in arcs post their individual TFs would be necessary. Much as I like your idea for shuffling the contacts for the current TFs I don't see that happening TBH. The Patron arcs for Redside seem an "easy" analogue and in fact I'm surprised that there aren't equivalent Pool Power arcs for the FP. Perhaps there was meant to be but it never happened? I haven't checked on the AMAs in a while and can't remember. And the Praetorian counterparts don't even have that incentive of a Patron Pool and we still know more about them, even peripherally like Duncan, since they cross through each other's stories and are at odds. BABs as sole trainer in Atlas? I like that idea. (And while AE is not everyone's preferred play style I'd again say have a look at @Darmian's long Dark Deeds/Darker Deeds/Darkest Before Dawn series and see how one of us brings an NPC super group to life much better than the OG Devs did for the FP or the Vindicators.)

LOL. Perhaps! I'll hang out with Madame Maven and her team any day of the week though.

Other than that, I may just start nominating things myself and tagging Devs/GMs in the post!

I wouldn't go that far myself, LOL! But I'm assuming a small team of GMs/Devs to play and assess the nominations is pretty much what is needed. After all, the creation work is already done. I don't know the inner mechanisms.

That kind of reinforces my point that we don't know them.

I'll put one spin on this. We don't really know them. Almost none of the material in game gives us a feel for who they are. We have (and it's probably due to the later writing period) a better understanding of their Praetorian counterparts. When I have the time I play a lot of AE material (though my time is very constrained these days) and through the eyes of some authors I've had my character interact with and more importantly get to know NPCs. @Ankylosaur has done this with Wyvern and a few others. @cranebump has fleshed out an entire Kings Row worth of characters, including Hollow Point as a more rounded yet still nasty individual, and @Darmian's use of the Meteors (those NPCs standing around speaking to the press and public in Atlas Park) is well worth seeing for character development. Every time I run into an FP member in game I have none of this, no matter how often I do. I think others agree with me, I believe @Zhym does. So respect for the FP can happen but we need to see them close up and properly in various arcs.

The original pinned post was unpinned and locked, which is why I'm posting here.

Ok, I really think it's time that the Dev's Choice was reinstated properly.

Arc 20 from our second author on "TerroirNoir's Cable Channel of AE" Reviews is @cranebump's Solace: Part 1. Mission 1: Room for Expansion. Recovering from her recent visit to a changed Nova Praetoria Engineria decides to go through her messages and finds one from Everett Daniels. Daniels is an idealist who opposes many things funded by corporate greed, including the corruption of law enforcement by dark money. Let's see what the man wants. The Solace Injunction. Ah...never heard of it. I know I know, I need to keep up with political events but I'm usually in the midst of things and have to pop my head up sometimes to see what is going on in the city with everyone else. So this injunction got the Longbow Overwatch station, the one that links Bloody Bay to Faultline, suspended. Why? Seems that piece of turf is prime real estate and the city wants it. Well, someone in the city wants it. Abra Krimulo has branded Longbow as "foreign" due to its NATO links, and a "foreign power" on our soil was flimsy enough of a screen to get the injunction. Yeah? They should visit Siren's Call some time! Arachnos is there. I don't see her protesting THAT! Daniels is seeing this is a blatant land grab by corporate forces. Time to investigate. Looks like someone is here before me! Headlong? Who are you, my friend? And Dark Water operatives? Those guys are shady! OOOH! Mental attack! Not good. I can see now how Headlong was captured. A Break Free and Engineria stumbles from its hold to defend herself. Although getting kicked in the throat didn't help either! Whew. Gimme a second or two, Headlong, and I'll be right with you. Just catching my breath here. Daniels has clearly found something going on. (That Hero Corps job is looking more and more attractive already) Right, what do you have to say for yourself? Oh, You're Cyrus Thompson's grandson? Well good for you. Keeping the heroing business in the family I see. Playing along, huh? Sure. Let's go with that. C'mon Junior, we have a building to check out. Heh. I'd heard about this (hell, I may have even posted about it before!) but somewhere there's a TANK, an actual TANK of Tacos! Seriously, look for these dials on a nearby wall when you're investigating one of these warehouses. Ok, on we go, Engineria and Headlong, into the maelstrom of whatever. More company! Let's get them! Hello! Who are you? Bengal? Welcome to the team, Bengal. This is Headlong - no, we just met, so no questions. On we go. Darkwater are everywhere it seems. It's a regular inheritance party here now. Bengal is related to Jake Montoya, yep THAT Jake Montoya. And there's a database to be found yet. Lots of mantle passing going on around here. I've not been working long enough to do that, though maybe Araminta from my SG might step up to the plate in future. She has a thing for robot assistants. Man, these new heroes are EAGER. It's making me feel old right now! Then Ii get the surprise of my life (at least for today) and run into Thunderhead Jim Bartlett! He thought the newbies might be in over their heads but calms a bit when he runs into Engineria. So we examine a few consoles and take what data we can from them before heading back out to see Daniels. Daniels is worried about Darkwater because those folks are EXPENSIVE to hire it seems. Someone has money to burn. As for the heroes, the Night Ravens, he knows the two senior members and perhaps allying with them could really move things along. Dr. Engles will take a peek at the data we harvested in the meantime. [Mission 1 = Ok, after the far flung malarkey of an alternate-now Praetoria we're back to territory Engineria grew up in and it's looking like a mission that sparks some serious social concern in the boro. Great start!] Mission 2: Bridge to Nowhere. Daniels informs Engineria that Darkwater appears to be doing cover up work FOR us. Instead of Daniels scrambling to hide our "interference"/invesstigation, no reports are coming out at all. Most likely Darkwater's doing. So Engles is sorting out the intel we recovered and while they're doing that, the rest of us - I BET that means Engineria - so MC Investments is next on the list to be checked out. Our new allies, the Night Ravens, are also sending in one of their team, so I reckon I'll be seeing them along the way too. Her name is Kestrel. Time to find out why MC Investments is so interested in this civic expansion. On we go!

Or that teaching position in Hero Corps!