labyrinth How to run a Labyrinth of Fog

[Laucianna]

On 8/2/2024 at 1:53 AM, Glacier Peak said:

I like that you're adding the lore aspect - that's something that the Labyrinth rewards players with well if they pay attention. I'd love to see @Cobalt Arachne give their Developer Diary entry for this (like they did with the Dr. Aeon Strike Force many years ago!) that might provide some light confirmations or hints for where this fits in with the greater City of Heroes universe.

 

I'd say that's close, but there is some lore hidden in the power descriptions for some of the Labyrinth enemies that touch on this. For example, the Malevolent Fog have a power called "Fog of Catastrophe," and by digging in to the wonderful resource of City of Data, it has the following power description:

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=event.labyrinth_aether.health

 

"The Malevolent Fog is but an aspect of the Fog of Catastrophe and will swell in response to the subconscious fear of those surrounding it."

 

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=temporary_powers.temporary_powers.labyrinth_aether

 

"Unrefined Fog: The Labyrinth of Fog is the source of a thick mythical fog with metaphysical properties that enables the maze to be the spatial anamoly that it is.

The Core's natural fog is too polluted by divine malevolence for mortal use without alchemical refinement. Steeping oneself in its pure essence will very quickly overwhelm an individual's soul and cause insanity."

 

Daedalus has his own powers with Fog-related descriptions (albeit, some descriptions are direct copy and paste from Positron - like Enervating Field of Fog's description).

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https://cod.uberguy.net/html/powerset.html?pset=event.labyrinth_daedalus

 

Probably the best source is the Minotaur entry - 

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https://cod.uberguy.net/html/powerset.html?pset=event.labyrinth_minotaur

 

Particularly, the power "Fog Given Form"

 

"If threatened, The Minotaur In The Fog can condense the fog around those foreign to it and call the maze's Gladiators In The Fog to combat.

This will spawn Gladiators In The Fog near all players within 250ft of the Minotaur. When cornered, the Minotaur will attempt to sow chaos on the battlefield by beckoning forth the souls of those who lost their minds to the Fog of Catastrophe, using an ancient lust for battle as a smokescreen."

 

I think you meant "content" here.

 

Gave the fog it's name and updated the Minos typo 😄 Also included the teleportation powers of the Fog ❤️ 

[KaizenSoze]

The latest menu attached to the OP has a typo. It's missing, Menu "Labyrinth" at the top, so it doesn't work.

 

Broken version:

// POPMENU file for Labyrinth
// /macro Lab popmenu Labyrinth

{
            Title "Labyrinth"
            Menu "Bovine-Bloodbath"

 

 

Fixed version:

// POPMENU file for Labyrinth
// /macro Lab popmenu Labyrinth
Menu "Labyrinth"
{
            Title "Labyrinth"
            Menu "Bovine-Bloodbath"

 

[Laucianna]

6 hours ago, KaizenSoze said:

The latest menu attached to the OP has a typo. It's missing, Menu "Labyrinth" at the top, so it doesn't work.

 

Broken version:

// POPMENU file for Labyrinth
// /macro Lab popmenu Labyrinth

{
            Title "Labyrinth"
            Menu "Bovine-Bloodbath"

 

 

Fixed version:

// POPMENU file for Labyrinth
// /macro Lab popmenu Labyrinth
Menu "Labyrinth"
{
            Title "Labyrinth"
            Menu "Bovine-Bloodbath"

 

Thank you for that! Updated it now ❤️

[Ridiculous Girl]

a couple of details that could be added...

new powers: core attunement- tp to core after the minotaur defeat.

that kills in the labyrinth cound towards kill badges, so very good for difficult to find or difficult/rare kill badges. i got the vanguard kill badge on my main without realizing i needed it. 🙂

someone mentioned earlier, and if i missed it already in your guide, a list for the different minotaurs (DB, TW, staff, etc.) needed for the mini-taur pet. (it is that, right? i am blanking 🙂)

 

that's all i can think of for the moment. 😄

[Laucianna]

10 hours ago, Ridiculous Girl said:

a couple of details that could be added...

new powers: core attunement- tp to core after the minotaur defeat.

that kills in the labyrinth cound towards kill badges, so very good for difficult to find or difficult/rare kill badges. i got the vanguard kill badge on my main without realizing i needed it. 🙂

someone mentioned earlier, and if i missed it already in your guide, a list for the different minotaurs (DB, TW, staff, etc.) needed for the mini-taur pet. (it is that, right? i am blanking 🙂)

 

that's all i can think of for the moment. 😄

Added a mention about the kills counting towards badges ❤️ The Core attunement TP and different Minos are already included 😄

[string5]

Great post!

However I am still confused on when and where to find the orange and white motes.  Can you spell it out a little more please?

 

Thanks!

[lemming]

27 minutes ago, string5 said:

Great post!

However I am still confused on when and where to find the orange and white motes.  Can you spell it out a little more please?

 

Thanks!

To get to the White Mote of Apathy, you need to hit randomizers until you drop into the Hidden Collonnade.  Then work your way to the end of the maze and get the Mote and the Lab Rat Badge. [7145.8 -802.5 66.4]

 

Orange Mote is on the Council Floor at [-3555.0 -330.5 2037.5]

To get to the Orange floors, you have to qualify by having the Accolade, go thru the Cow door on the Yellow Lambda level which requires a Mino costume.

 

Or in both cases, follow thru the fog to someone already there.  (Which is the easiest)

[KaizenSoze]

My sense of order (OCD) requires me to point that these items are not in alphabetical order. Thank you as always.

 

[lemming]

3 hours ago, KaizenSoze said:

My sense of order (OCD) requires me to point that these items are not in alphabetical order. Thank you as always.

 

There's a good chance that's my fault, am I'm usually CDO about stuff like that.   Those were added as found usually and as you can tell, not very well labeled.   I'm hoping to get a data pack out with it a bit better organized fairly soon.

Though, it's in the order of Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Violet, Orange, White (Core, Lobby, etc...)  which is the order presented in patches, sorta difficulty.   I mean it's not even color order, or for that matter difficulty colors in the game.

[KaizenSoze]

6 minutes ago, lemming said:

There's a good chance that's my fault, am I'm usually CDO about stuff like that.   Those were added as found usually and as you can tell, not very well labeled.   I'm hoping to get a data pack out with it a bit better organized fairly soon.

Though, it's in the order of Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Violet, Orange, White (Core, Lobby, etc...)  which is the order presented in patches, sorta difficulty.   I mean it's not even color order, or for that matter difficulty colors in the game.

CDO I got that reference. 😉

 

Stuff like this can be cleaned up, when everything else is solid. Which is not the case right now.

 

All good.

[Ejlertson]

Something new happened to me today.

I clicked a Gladiator and it became a pet with a Health of 5416

Dialogue:

[NPC] Gladiator In The Fog: If I ever get out of here, I need to tell the others that 'SU' stands for single use. Never use an SU teleport relic.
[NPC] Gladiator In The Fog: Spare a teleportation spell?

Tried teleporting to the Lobby with escape through fog (He followed me there) 
Then tried leaving to LAbyrinthers club (He didnt follow me there)
Returned to Labyrinth and he was there still waiting for me.

Edited August 12 by Ejlertson

[Ejlertson]

And just now i regret being stupid. I didnt think to teleport to Core with him. Might have yilded a differnet result.

Found anew one. Took him to Core. Nothing special happened.

Edited August 12 by Ejlertson

[Ejlertson]

[Ejlertson]

Helped me fight another Gladiator

[Ejlertson]

Finaly something new. Led him to Core and moved towards Motes secret area where he disapeared with:
NPC] Gladiator In The Fog: I owe you my gratitude.

[Glacier Peak]

4 hours ago, Ejlertson said:

Finaly something new. Led him to Core and moved towards Motes secret area where he disapeared with:
NPC] Gladiator In The Fog: I owe you my gratitude.

Wait 15 minutes (and don't let it die) and they will reward you with a Draught of the Fog inspiration.

[lemming]

8 hours ago, Ejlertson said:

I clicked a Gladiator and it became a pet with a Health of 5416

Yep.  And they follow MM directives to make them more controllable (up to as point)

 

I had one of mine run off for some reason, but he did come back eventually.  (This was on beta, so not as big a deal)

 

 

[Ejlertson]

A bit miffed.
I´v spend far to much time looking for the Orange secret room only to be told today that its not possible to acces atm. Wish I knew that ahead of time. 

[Glacier Peak]

6 hours ago, Ejlertson said:

A bit miffed.
I´v spend far to much time looking for the Orange secret room only to be told today that its not possible to acces atm. Wish I knew that ahead of time. 

Been there! But it's part of the fun IMO - I think I enjoyed searching for the secret rooms more than actually finding and seeing what they are.

 

Edit: "Been there!" meaning I can relate to what was written. 

Edited August 14 by Glacier Peak

[Glacier Peak]

For anyone interested in using the awesome images related to the Labyrinth for future macro_image use:

 

Red Mote of Violence: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteRed
Yellow Mote of Cowardice:  Temporary_LabyrinthMoteYellow
Blue Mote of Despair: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteBlue
Green Mote of Greed: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteGreen
Violet Mote of Jealousy: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteViolet
Orange Mote of Fury: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteOrange
White Mote of Apathy: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteWhite

 

Conqueror of the Labyrinth: badge_i28_accolade_labyrinth
Greek Philosopher: badge_i28_history_labyrinth
Malevolent Intoxication: badge_i28_defeat_labyrinthaether
Slayer of the Minotaur: badge_i28_defeat_labyrinthminotaur
Hidden in the Fog: badge_i28_tourism_labyrinth
Phantom Gladiator: badge_i28_defeats_fog_gladiators
Lab Rat: badge_i28_tourism_labyrinth
Draught of the Fog: Inspiration_Labyrinth

 

And the numbered Level Shift images:
Labyrinth_Shift_01
Labyrinth_Shift_02
Labyrinth_Shift_03
Labyrinth_Shift_04
Labyrinth_Shift_05
Labyrinth_Shift_06
Labyrinth_Shift_07
Labyrinth_Shift_08
Labyrinth_Shift_09
Labyrinth_Shift_10 

[Laucianna]

19 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

For anyone interested in using the awesome images related to the Labyrinth for future macro_image use:

 

Red Mote of Violence: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteRed
Yellow Mote of Cowardice:  Temporary_LabyrinthMoteYellow
Blue Mote of Despair: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteBlue
Green Mote of Greed: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteGreen
Violet Mote of Jealousy: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteViolet
Orange Mote of Fury: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteOrange
White Mote of Apathy: Temporary_LabyrinthMoteWhite

 

Conqueror of the Labyrinth: badge_i28_accolade_labyrinth
Greek Philosopher: badge_i28_history_labyrinth
Malevolent Intoxication: badge_i28_defeat_labyrinthaether
Slayer of the Minotaur: badge_i28_defeat_labyrinthminotaur
Hidden in the Fog: badge_i28_tourism_labyrinth
Phantom Gladiator: badge_i28_defeats_fog_gladiators
Lab Rat: badge_i28_tourism_labyrinth
Draught of the Fog: Inspiration_Labyrinth

 

And the numbered Level Shift images:
Labyrinth_Shift_01
Labyrinth_Shift_02
Labyrinth_Shift_03
Labyrinth_Shift_04
Labyrinth_Shift_05
Labyrinth_Shift_06
Labyrinth_Shift_07
Labyrinth_Shift_08
Labyrinth_Shift_09
Labyrinth_Shift_10 

Are you okay if I include this in the main post with credit to you hun? ❤️ As they are top tier to use!

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, Laucianna said:

Are you okay if I include this in the main post with credit to you hun? ❤️ As they are top tier to use!

Go for it - I was sharing both for anyone's use and for the popmenu if desired to have accompanying images. 

[Laucianna]

7 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

Go for it - I was sharing both for anyone's use and for the popmenu if desired to have accompanying images. 

Added them to the guide ❤️ Thank you again hun!

[Ejlertson]

11 hours ago, Laucianna said:

Added them to the guide ❤️ Thank you again hun!

Maybe add under Gladiators that they can become a pet and will give a Draught if you keep them alive for 15 minutes. 

[Laucianna]

7 hours ago, Ejlertson said:

Maybe add under Gladiators that they can become a pet and will give a Draught if you keep them alive for 15 minutes. 

Added that to the possible outcomes of a Gladiator ❤️