Piecemeal

I just wouldn't be me if I didn't give you feelings of joy and terror simultaneously. I call it Terrilation.

Look at this guy, bringing home the bacon.

*tears in their eyes* Dominators... welcome home...!

I don't believe my eyes!

I can appreciate the sentiment. When the Next Big Thing comes to open testing, it is designed to specifically address these kinds of issues and add more versatility to all ATs. It's not a widespread systems change but an experiment in re-establishing benefits to AT diversity. If the experiment goes well, it will inform our design decisions going forward.

I'm talking about the lore bible, and how in the development process the alpha DE may have been turned into the Hydra.

Watkins' arc is talking about advanced social media functions and video sharing out in the open world. It's either government wifi or we got 5G, baby!

I am deeply offended that you don't count the Primal Devouring Earth as a global threat! In fact, in my interpretation of lore bible readings, the Hydra may have actually sprang out of first-round attempts to make the Devouring Earth, making them likely as old as the Rikti and Freakshow. The Hydra head eerily mirrors the descriptions of early Hamidon in his crucible, discovering the Devouring process for the first time.

If the enemies were not being actively affected by it (Insofar as I mean actually being rooted or damaged) then this may be a client-side issue. I've personally never seen this happen but I think it's possible the client might be making for some visual voodoo.

This sounds like a gear pile, honestly, because Gears would need the "spawn gear" power assigned to them, which they do not. (And they can't accidentally get it via crossed wire, dark magic, Loki antics, etc.) 😄 Could you imagine, though? Like clockwork Tribbles!

After Bile is free, Cortex is looking at Dr. V - and only the team leader can talk to Dr. V. This is how the conversation chain runs. Dr. V bugs out about the situation and demands Cortex kill you to redeem himself.

Duly noted. The next set of projected content will continue the story in a more manageable set of stories, culminating in (hopefully) a trial.

Destiny, however, might be blowing out the curve a bit.

From everywhere and nowhere, a voice rasps out of the darkness throughout the sewers. "Be careful... what you wish for..." A hydra tentacle rises up from the depths and attempts to slap Newt with a partially digested corpse.

Please, then, go and pore over the Dark Astoria content. Mot may have (unclear) permamently consumed Tielleku. Also, what I consider to be a non-negotiable plot point going forward is how badly Mot's gambit destroyed the ranks of the Circle of Thorns. You'll also get your answer as to how the idol got where it's going, and for what it's worth, I thought the entire arc was phenomenal in that regard. There are some plot points I didn't like, but nothing I couldn't live with.

I wasn't going to post amazing ciphers. Most web-based ones **seem** to end with the = so 6 hours isn't bad before someone looked. Next time, I'll pass it through an encryption key and flanglebort post random words in my posts that, at times, may or may not be the key to the cipher. As for BP, I ultimately achieved a level of plot burnout with Night Ward on live, and when the game came back I simply forgot I hadn't paid any attention to it. *throws their hands up in the air expecting retribution* I hear that some other BP gods show up in there? TBH the Wards content was... an endurance test. Will have to go back soon.

Factions that may or may not get touched upon with a metaplot advancement in my roadmap are:

RPN. We meet again. Anyone who wants to understand comedy gold should have been a fly on the wall when @Faultline taught me. Then retaught me. Then taught me again months later.

You're being told parts of the story without being told how you fit into it yet 😄

When you're an animal like Dreck, all dongles are a threat to your dongleocracy!

One leader 'leading' anarchists that are violence fetishists is questionable - as good as Dreck is, having three Dreck-level leaders helped maintain the hierarchy and keep the ambitious ones in their places. Now the body-mod-and-information-freedom enthusiasts are moving on to the Freaklok, those following Clamor are in a fugue state right now without their bannerwoman, leaving Dreck with disjoined Clamorites, his violence fetishists... and those who used to be loyal to Upstart all those years ago but have been indoctrinated into current Freakshow ideology. The Freakshow are being siphoned off by young offshoots that are showing them up by applying order to their chaos. That is unforgivable. There's only one leader left that can act. And he has to, or will appear weak. The Freaklok's existence is seriously jimjamming their vibe, bruh. They're going to have to display a show of force to maintain their street cred. You've been teased 🙂

I have a planned arc for Clamor building off Buzzsaw's arc. Let's just say that her "delicate disposition" for rational thought was totally thrown out the window when she was incarcerated, broke out, incarcerated again, turned into a chicken-legged half-monster by Pandora's Box, then used as a sleeper-bomb when she had her legs replaced during surgery. Not to mention she's actively being hunted. In short, for the near future anyway, Clamor is feral and the Freakshow have a real problem. Dreck has no other leaders left - Bile's gone to the Freaklok, after all.

1%, and windows sets the app to 60% of THAT.

1000,000db: The first time anyone loads the game and discovers what 100% volume is like.