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Badger54

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Once upon a time I was a regular player and in-game roleplayer within the online game The Secret World.  At that time we had a large number of refugees from City of Heroes (sometimes figuratively, sometimes quite literally).  I'd never had the chance to experience the game, but all of them spoke so warmly about it I wondered what I had missed.  The setting we 'secret worlders' called home was a relatively good fit for the transplants—modern setting, powers, other dimensions...but all with a cosmic, eldritch horror feel.

 

Now the shoe is on the other foot.  My 'home' is more or less gone, and my friends have told me that Paragon City is back!  Why not come over and try it?  So just as they fit their heroes to the Secret World, I now take my occult war-fighter out of his grim setting and put him instead in Paragon City, home to superheroes, supervillains, lots of capes...and a very different set of rules.

 

This is Frank Calhoun's story: on how he adjusts, the new friends he makes, and the new dangers he faces.  I'm very much a novice in Paragon City, but here goes with his 'introduction arc,' and some collaborative stuff I'm doing with friends already here will follow.

 

( #1 “Was it something we said?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eXaC_nS1y4FBy7MWHOxZFTEtgJ3t0pjJUuPZUQ4OIPc/edit

 

( #2 “This can't possibly go wrong.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeSPiZY733paVuLSAfzbWdT33XS3G6ehYq1DyC6tmoI/edit

 

( #3 “But why did you punch me?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YfvXg5CikPOp0cAgZ0Kd38BIKqX2PUS_iazoecfIDg/edit

 

( #4 “Patience.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsbyERxyUe20YUPl_aLcXs5sPZ6SVLTHmal6nkmZaB8/edit

 

( #5 “Do they still have sandwiches where you're from?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FwYRc10CJwxUHrD_eQajZ0ign7hR81VceUcFaYdWt64/edit

 

( #6 “My canon is more valid than your canon!”)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1idmqoUWf2-bsOLyRk1ZBvhD8h6SkQ7DBj3_ef5ig6pI/edit

 

( #7, “A familiar face.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jnIQ1msyHr5i4IMiPwQ3CNdbyRyhUKiz67emUtFM5I/edit

 

 

 

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I quite enjoyed both Secret World and Secret World Legends but I drifted away for various reasons, always meant to go back for the Africa content they added, but stuff kept coming up, including getting dragged to other MMOS. To be honest I'm surprised that you speak of it like it's dead, since I could have sworn they just sent me an notification for their 2nd year celebration for "Legends" or something like that, so I was under the impression it was still going decently well.

 

That said after the success of "Exiles" I did hear that the devs were planning on re-focusing on single/multiple player "Conan" games so it's not surprising it's been dying out, especially if they haven't been adding any new content since that last expansion, a major shame because TSW(L) had the best storyline and quests I've ever seen in an MMORPG, not to mention having a unique setting nobody else even tried to knock off. It did get a second chance, but I always suspected their incredibly slow rate of adding content not to mention the way they increasingly catering to elitists was going to kill it. Last time I popped in people were demanding absurdly high item levels (can't remember the term) for content I had already done quite successfully, so just going back to see it again was going to be a pain given the way my cabal had disbanded during my hiatus.

 

Well, at any rate, welcome to CoX, I just installed the game yesterday so I am giving a swing soon. I do some RP, but not a ton of it, and as you can see I'm a rather terrible writer.

 

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Badger54

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Before reading #15, 'Anything that can go wrong,' based on RP with fellow player Breakaway, check out Breakaway's intro--'Worst Case Ontario!'

 

Worst Case Ontario:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LOhUVEakTXLKokJvtsoldU1Pr4WUex_CRjFjM8qA4uw/edit

 

#15, 'Anything that can go wrong.'  Features both our writing in a back and forth fashion.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fswhgZrREwDFX7W-2V6P9hT2B0-RG3QWTvF0uHQgIVo/edit?usp=sharing

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