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

 

[Luminara]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

See the wiki article on Kurse.

 

"There are evidences that suggest"

 

"Evidence" isn't properly used that way.  It can be pluralized, but it really shouldn't, because, as an uncountable noun, it inherently expresses plurality.  "There is evidence implying" would be much more appropriate.

 

"that this being could be once the man"

 

And that's just grammatically horrific.

 

Someone fix that shit before I blow a gasket.

[Octogoat]

19 minutes ago, Luminara said:

 

"There are evidences that suggest"

 

"Evidence" isn't properly used that way.  It can be pluralized, but it really shouldn't, because, as an uncountable noun, it inherently expresses plurality.  "There is evidence implying" would be much more appropriate.

 

"that this being could be once the man"

 

And that's just grammatically horrific.

 

Someone fix that shit before I blow a gasket.

It was written by a skwerl

[Glacier Peak]

Psicurse's lore arc is interesting, and spoilers (I'm on a mobile device so I can't use that feature when posting).

 

 

 

 

So the Dr. Aeon SF takes the player to an alternate dimension where they meet a time jumping and weakened Psicurse, who asks for help securing the Psychronometron which in that dimension was upgraded with a stolen Ouroboros crystal from a dead Ouroboros acolyte. Psicurse wants to use that machine that is locked behind that dimension's Vanguard secured storage in Portal Corps Headquarters in conjunction with the Portal Corps Dimensional Codex, which, when used with enough energy (like Hero 1 Incarnate strength), would allow Psicurse to not only jump through time at will, but jump through dimensions at will also. This would give him the ability to fix the past and stop anyone else from preventing him from doing so at the very least. And an interesting quote comes after the player chooses to defeat him instead of helping him:

 

"I may be an old, washed-up, overly ambitious has-been - but that won't stop me from going out fighting! This is for Overbrook, for the Gagarin Space Station, for those knobs at Vanguard that wouldn't listen to me!
Nobody may be around to witness this, but in the end, PsiCurse will not die a failure!"

 

If the player chooses to help Psicurse and defeats the Vanguard, he will then absorb Hero 1's power and return the player back to their respective time and dimension (back to the Golden Roller fight). This gives the player the impression he's going to be a pretty powerful future enemy. Perhaps even one we'll get to fight on... the moon!

 

So when does he go from Psicurse to time-controlling, dimension hoping super god to a lowly Lost Archvillain?

Edited February 13 by Glacier Peak

[Jacke]

10 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

So when does he go from Psicurse to time-controlling, dimension hoping super god to a lowly Lost Archvillain?

 

I sure don't know.  I also don't know how TF Darrin Wade took out you-know-who.  Where do these has-beens get it from?

 

 

[BazookaTwo]

11 hours ago, Luminara said:

 

"There are evidences that suggest"

 

"Evidence" isn't properly used that way.  It can be pluralized, but it really shouldn't, because, as an uncountable noun, it inherently expresses plurality.  "There is evidence implying" would be much more appropriate.

 

"that this being could be once the man"

 

And that's just grammatically horrific.

 

Someone fix that shit before I blow a gasket.

 

English teacher here. Appreciate you! 😊 

[Luminara]

14 minutes ago, Jacke said:

I sure don't know.  I also don't know how TF Darrin Wade took out you-know-who.  Where do these has-beens get it from?

 

Florida.

[DoctorDitko]

16 hours ago, Luminara said:

Someone fix that shit before I blow a gasket.

Kudos and bless you on the line editing, but the wiki is a wiki for a reason. Step up, hero!

[Luminara]

6 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:

Kudos and bless you on the line editing, but the wiki is a wiki for a reason. Step up, hero!

 

Vigilante.  If the wiki needs to be beaten into a coma, call me.

[Troo]

On 2/13/2025 at 6:04 AM, Luminara said:

Someone fix that shit before I blow a another gasket.

 

fixed.