The Fracturing of Time
May
20
Story Description: A mysterious entity has sought you out to help save a doomed world. When all goes awry, it is your task to repair the fractures forming in Time — but to do that, you must first confront yourself.
Story Arc ID: 171031
Author’s Global Chat Handle: @Tahlana
Length: Very Long (5 missions)
Alignment: Heroic
Designer Notes: This is an old-school style, surreal science fiction arc with heavy story elements. It is best played solo or in a group with the leader reading or cut-&-pasting mission complete text. I appreciate all feedback, comments and questions!
[SFMA/SLMA/SCMA]
CoH Forums Link: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13497654&an=0&page=0#Post13497654
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Filed under: Featured Missions, Reviews, Custom Critters, Heroic, Length: Very Long
Joe
Says:
Now’s heres a great story arc - mobs, maps, and dialogue very appropriate and congruent! This deep thinking themed story arc was fun to do - I recommend it!
Posted on July 19th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
PW
Says:
I found this story arc very moody and nihilistic. It evoked a strong sense of doom and despair and it was seriously creepy to be destroying parts of my own identity in order to empty my psyche enough to be translated into the horrible black Void. I liked the eventual reveal of the contact’s identity and her final redemption.
I didn’t like that the whole problem seems to be of my own making, to some extent, because my traveling to Kyrdos and activating the Transcendance device is very nearly the root cause of the universe being destroyed. For this reason I feel bad that we never actually get to save the Kyrdosi, but I don’t think the story really allows it. The arc does try to assure me that it isn’t really my fault, which is nice; you might consider adding some more foreshadowing to the Kyrdosi Scientist’s dialog and/or clue, to the effect that the Transcendance device is still experimental and it’s not certain what will happen.
I kind of wonder why the contact has me try to rescue the Kyrdosi in the first place? Based on who the contact turns out to be, it seems like she would have foreknowledge of what happens after the Transcendance device is activated and could avoid the whole situation by simply allowing the Kyrdosi to be genocided.
That complaint aside, I found this arc to be very strong in establishing a sense of atmosphere. I don’t think everyone would actually enjoy this story (due to the sense of nihilism and despair), but the story really grabbed me, the dialog was excellent, the writing in the briefings/debriefings very good, and the gameplay all worked pretty well.
Posted on August 16th, 2010 at 3:36 pm