TerroirNoir2

Because you make a difference. Everyone who steps up in some way and makes the world for the rest of us fun, and frankly BETTER, is important.

I'd happily slot @Darmian's Praetorian AEs straight into the existing game.

Thanks for the inclusion but I just play 🙂 You and all the others provide my fun!!

Agreed. I'm going to enlarge that list and include @cranebump, @Ankylosaur, @Darmian, @Zhym, @ZamuelNow, @twozerofoxtrot, @Jiro Ito, and those are just the tip of the iceberg!

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.