Der Nachzehrer Kommt! (Heroic, 30-45)

[Maris]

Arc ID 55600

 

E.L.I.T.E's Investigator Kate Shelley, responsible for monitoring smuggling and other suspicious activity in Independence Port's docks, directs you toward a recently drydocked cargo ship, over which a battle between the 5th Column and Council is brewing.

 

What seems like a fight over mere contraband leads into a pursuit of one of Nosferatu's oldest and most powerful creations, and the twisted madness and hunger for power of those that would use such a monstrosity towards their own ends!

(Warning, difficult AVs in the last 2 missions! Team strongly recommended!)

[Maris]

Bumping this to show that since the Hero Corps Information Exchange RP AE run in June, I have gotten very good ratings and impressions of my arc! 

[Maris]

Sorry to necro this, but I'm bumping it for folks who haven't experienced it, it's currently sitting at an average of 5 stars out of 20 ratings, so I figure it might still be worth some folks' time. 

Fair warning, the end AV/EB fight is pretty damn difficult. 

Edited July 30 by Maris

[Police Woman]

I had fun beating up tons of Nazis!

 

I thought the middle of the arc dragged a little bit pacing-wise, missions 2 and 3 both seemed to be "find the thingy... Nope, we lied, it's in the NEXT mission!" You might consider cutting one of those missions to make the story tighter, or else rewriting one of them to be different than "find the sarcophagus ... oops, sorry, it's not here!" to avoid being repetitive.

 

You may also want to change the default "Accept" message to custom text, something that supports the story, like "I cleared the outside of the ship, I'm going in!" 

 

I had fun fighting all the custom bosses, but found the final encounter with the Nachzehrer to be pretty hard.  It IS the final boss so maybe that's OK.  However, the third time it spawns, it used both Unstoppable and Siphon Life, so it healed a LOT and dragged out the fight to be very long and annoying.  I was able to solo it on a heavily IO'd level 50 brute, not sure how squishies will fare.  Sounds like you know it's hard and intend it that way though!

 

Overall I had fun.

 

And now, screenshots of ... Action Girl versus the 5th Column!  (Spoilers for the arc)

Spoiler

Sure, Jan.

 

 

Lindmann's vampire outfit is terrific.

 

Did ... did he just heal 2065hp??  This could be a problem....

 

I kind of expected these guys to be named Nachzehrer Zwei and Nachzehrer Drei!

 

Some minor typos:

Spoiler

Should be "Archon Sykel demands we secure the area!"

 

I think this should be "Dead Ubermensch" (no e at the end), but I don't know German so I could be wrong.

 

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 06:35 AM by Police Woman

[Maris]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll correct the typos, make some balance changes, and see if I can't adjust the pacing a little.

Edited Thursday at 06:32 AM by Maris