New Arc about the Clockwork King?

[ThatGuyCDude]

Given that Kallisti Wharf is bringing the 'street level' threats back up to relevance, it might be fun to revisit the Clockwork King.  Perhaps Brandt's psychic powers got boosted by the last cry of his Praetorian counterpart Metronome, and it inadvertently granted him control of the Longbow Menders because they're the alternate-reality counterpart to his own psychic technology?  Maybe he even upgrades his own chassis to a Praetorian Clockwork case (with his brain jar in the belly), to increase his combat prowess and make his visage 'less frightening to Penny'.

Being that he's a giant nerd (albeit a dangerously unstable one), he doesn't intend any deliberate harm, but Longbow's loss of control of their mender units would have them understandably pissed off.

[Rudra]

I am unaware of Metronome having a "last cry". He escaped to Anti-Matter's space station. (And if you're going to give the Clockwork King control over Menders, then why aren't you also giving him control over Arachnos' War Works? They're the same design, using the same technology, just different armaments and purpose.)

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Rudra
Edited to correct "have" to "having".

[ThatGuyCDude]

Sure, he could control the War Works BCUs and what-have-yous too.  I figured Longbow would be more appropriate because Kallisti's part of Paragon City and not the Isles and the whole Blackwing arrangement would cause significant bureaucratic whiplash if another enforcement agency like Longbow suddenly had its resources deployed where they're restricted from enforcing (even though they're not actually controlling them).

As for a Last Cry, that's a bit of creative license on my part because of the whole psychic storm thing with the Awakened and Penelope Mayhem.  As the last psychic not a member of that puddle of rage, I'd imagine Praetorian Brandt would himself be driven mad (or further mad) before giving into despair and submitting himself to the madness... or maybe he projected his consciousness through a portal connection to join with his other self upon seeing the power of such a merger.  There's very little reason for anybody but Hamidon to stay in Praetoria at this point of the narrative, after all: even Last Bastion is mostly a lost cause.

[Major_Decoy]

If we were furthering development on the Clockwork King, I'd like to see him replace Blue Steel in King's Row.

[Rudra]

26 minutes ago, ThatGuyCDude said:

As for a Last Cry, that's a bit of creative license on my part because of the whole psychic storm thing with the Awakened and Penelope Mayhem.  As the last psychic not a member of that puddle of rage, I'd imagine Praetorian Brandt would himself be driven mad (or further mad) before giving into despair and submitting himself to the madness... or maybe he projected his consciousness through a portal connection to join with his other self upon seeing the power of such a merger.  There's very little reason for anybody but Hamidon to stay in Praetoria at this point of the narrative, after all: even Last Bastion is mostly a lost cause.

Metronome did not leave Praetoria (the dimension). Penelope Mayhem was made on Primal Earth with the Awakened that had made it to Primal Earth. So while I don't have an issue with creative license, I don't see how the goings on for Primal Earth would have affected Metronome. (And Last Bastion was likely our launching point for the fight against Praetorian Hamidon Incarnate content we never got, so I have to disagree with the lost cause assertion.)

 

Just my two cents.

[ThatGuyCDude]

3 hours ago, Rudra said:

Metronome did not leave Praetoria (the dimension). Penelope Mayhem was made on Primal Earth with the Awakened that had made it to Primal Earth. So while I don't have an issue with creative license, I don't see how the goings on for Primal Earth would have affected Metronome. (And Last Bastion was likely our launching point for the fight against Praetorian Hamidon Incarnate content we never got, so I have to disagree with the lost cause assertion.)

 

Just my two cents.

I mean, it's just applied phlebotinum to justify Primal Brandt suddenly gaining control over the Praetorian Clockwork tech.  As justifications go, Metronome isn't even necessary for that: Brandt's the most powerful psychic in the game and that technology was designed by someone with his exact same mind.  Yes, it was a version of him who had access to more resources, but both of them still *think* in the same way.  It also doesn't have to be a sudden gain of power, since by that point we haven't seen him in thirty levels (could even swap the fight with him in Lady Grey's Task Force to match the 'new and improved' Clockwork King) Scratch that, the timeline doesn't line up there.  Argh, CoH, why don't levels = time passed across the board?!.

So if the Metronome part of the suggestion doesn't work, consider it severable.  It was a dart at a board justification anyway and not the core point of the topic.

Edited 17 hours ago by ThatGuyCDude
Timeline stanank

[UltraAlt]

5 hours ago, ThatGuyCDude said:

Maybe he even upgrades his own chassis to a Praetorian Clockwork case (with his brain jar in the belly), to increase his combat prowess and make his visage 'less frightening to Penny'.

 

Oh, no!

I really hate the Praetorian Clockwork!

The original Clockwork look so much better to me.

 

Less frightening to Penny? 

Just put his brain back into a human body (you know the old Ultra Humanite trick!)

 

 

Well, not in a woman's body or a giant white apes body, but I think you get the point.