The Efficiency Council (arc id 67008)

[Police Woman]

Because I play CoH instead of going to therapy, I present for your consideration, ripped from the headlines:

 

 

Content warnings: real life has made me want to beat up fascists in CoH, so this arc has a strong political slant. I marked it "Ideal for Teams" since I'm trying to make a story arc that would be interesting to do on a team - there's a couple AVs, there's lots of Council to stomp, and I'm experimenting with the "no clues" style suggested on this forum, to see if that helps the flow.  However, there are NPC allies to help against AVs, and a decent soloer can certainly do this arc.

 

 

I'd be interested in any feedback to make this story arc better, more fun, or more topical.  Thanks in advance!

 

Edited March 21 by Police Woman

[Clave Dark 5]

 Ripped from today's headlines!   That was fun, but I'm glad I ran it on a tough toon with difficulty levels set low, I'm no power gamer. 

 

I thought it went just fine without clues; you know I'm sort of ag'in 'em in general and this provides another example why: it's a straightforward story that doesn't need more embellishing and there's no shame to that.  One thing writing for the MA has taught me is that brevity counts for a lot, and I don't feel this sort of story really needs any long-form recap of what I just did, or all that much extra description:

• "You defeated the Blue Meanies trying to make everyone listen to Laurence Welk by blowing up the factory they were manufacturing their square haircuts in!"  ("Yes, I know")
• "Statesman's Ghost sighs heavily after trying to explain it to the Rikti Monkey again and getting nowhere beyond frustrated."

This isn't a hard and fast rule for me though; try and set a "this never works" rule on any creative act, and some smarmy dude will come along and prove it can and should have been done, and I've done lots of clues in the past myself, especially on weirder stuff where I let my verbose nature run riot - and be warned: I will again - but for more direct stories like this, I feel it helped the story zip right by smoothly.

[JKCarrier]

VERY well-done arc, PW. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Extremely clever how you came up with in-game analogues for the various real-world institutions under attack. I was also very amused that even

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Efficiency Expert Pither

was calling B.S. on this phony enterprise. 😉 
I was a little under-levelled for this one (25), and had some trouble with the Elite Bosses. But nothing a few trays full of Super Inspirations couldn't cure. 😄 
Thanks for a fun, cathartic, fascist-smashin' good time!