Styrm Update

For those who didn't make it last night, here's the key point: because the Kronos went down too fast and too easily, it could not have been Styrm at the wheel. After all, as E said IC, the thing came straight in, shot at E, and was wasted in a few minutes. There's no way Styrm was driving it.

The final confrontation with Styrm will be in the timed mission against the AV version of the Kronos. Anyone who wishes to attend, even just to watch, is invited. We will shuttle people inside and then "unteam" them if necessary.

I hope this will be tonight, but it's hard to say for sure after what happened yesterday. It might end up waiting 'til tomorrow.

EDIT (6/26/07 9:00 AM) - Due to angst beyond my control, Styrm/the Kronos Titan was not seen last night. Stay tuned, true believers. I do hope to wrap this up this week.

Showdown with Styrm

After my posts yesterday, part of my mind finally went to work on how exactly we're going to fight Styrm. See, I've been wracking my brain, trying to come up with a CoH mission or TF (or zone or whatever) that we could use. We "re-write" the plot or whatever the game gives us, claim one of the baddies as Styrm, and have a satisfying showdown with E's arch-enemy.

I hate to give the audience a badguy and then not let the heroes beat the daylights out of him. :)

Now, I have an AR/Dev blaster named David Nightstorm (Night-Styrm) that I created to let me do a bit of RP with the badguy. I had E harp on the "any idiot can get a Hero ID" point for weeks before actually dusting him off and showing him to people. But I've only gotten him to level 6. I'm not going to PL him to a "respectable" level, and it'd just be rude to ask others to Ex down for an Arena Battle. Not to mention 1 AR/Dev versus everyone who wants a piece of Styrm now? Not even remotely a fight (sorry, Bloodshot, but you and I both know it's true). Besides, if I play the badguy, then E has to be out of the fight for some reason.

So I'd been thinking about various Malta missions... pointing at one of the named-boss Gunslingers and yelling "that's Styrm!" Or maybe going into a Council mission and hoping for a nice beefy Council boss to foot the bill. Or heck, even a Praetorian AV. Reading lists, checking websites, looking at CoH spoilers...

But last night, in the middle of Fyre & Masonry's argument dujour, goaded by Bloodshot's comments and ideas, the part of my brain that's been working on the problem stood up and shouted "EUREKA!"

I mentioned in a post yesterday that whenever Styrm took the field, he was always in some enormous battlesuit. A battlemech or "mecha", if you will. Ladies and gentlemen...

We need the Kronos Titan.