This took me WAY too long to realize...

[Demobot]

Issue 8 was released toward the end of 2006, and introduced the revamped Faultline zone with its own story. The story introduced is one of my favorites, and I've played through it many times, both on the live servers and on Homecoming. 

 

But until just this week I hadn't realized something that in hindsight was blindingly obvious. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spoilers for an 18 year old story arc ahead!] 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The event that destroyed Overbrook was caused by the villain PsiCurse altering time with the PsychoChronoMetron to turn Faultline from a hero into a villain. PsiCurse didn't know that Faultline was a mutant and assumed he used earthquake machines. As a result, this creates a feedback loop that results in the death of Faultline and the destruction of Overbrook. 

 

I just assumed that PsiCurse died too. 

 

But he didn't! You even fight him alongside Arbiter Sands! It's Kurse! His name didn't even change that much! 

 

Please, please, please, someone out there tell me I'm not the only one who didn't realize this. Feel free to point and laugh otherwise. 

[Techwright]

26 minutes ago, Demobot said:

Please, please, please, someone out there tell me I'm not the only one who didn't realize this. Feel free to point and laugh otherwise. 

 

Okay.  "I'm not the only one who didn't realize this."

 

See the wiki article on Kurse.

[lemming]

And of course we meet PsiCurse in Dr Aeon's SF

[Scarlet Shocker]

you are not alone