Well, it's been five (!) years of Metroplexity and I just got back from GenCon, so I figure I can find something to talk about.
If you don't just want to hear me rambling randomly for an hour, feel free to ask some questions :)
Cheers!
Kinak
Been a while since I've managed to get some questions together for a podcast thread. Congrats on five years of Metroplexity!
I've been trolling through old podcast threads to see how some of your cryptic hints panned out.
Is there a day-to-day source of the Breathing Embers effect, or is the Rending Smoke technique only going to be learnable on Metroplex Day?
Halloween is coming up fast, and with it our once-yearly chance to find what the Tattooed Man was hinting at last time around. You said before that we don't have all the painted items yet and that we can get about halfway to what he was talking about before Halloween. Care to give us any nudges? Here are some thing inquiring minds want to know:
For your evil amusement, here are some things I want to do in the Museum but can't figure out how:
Often when I'm working on one of your puzzles, some event reward or legacy unearthly item seems like it'd be (part of) a good solution. But I always figure that making the solution to a puzzle depend on an item that some current players have no way to get other than the Omnimall is a big no-no. How hard is it to resist the pull of working legacy items into a puzzle when they would fit so well?
Is it possible to get any new viral masses? I think I have seen one from a formatted site once, but I can't trust my memory on what I did this morning, much less something from a year or two ago.
What determines whether an effect is removed by Slags antidote? Finding a common link between Fae Blessing, Call of the Gift, Spectral Curse, and Burning Vision that doesn't include various other effects is a little difficult.
Is there a way to complete the Punk Uprising quest without giving the punks explosives?
Is there any hidden content connecting the various encounters in which you get attacked or thrown out by security guards?
Is there anything else we can ask Watson Jr. about?
Why does the mad surgeon's kit First Aid bonus apply to helping other people, in contradiction of the description?
Could we ever get items that function as equipment OR cyberware? Certain equipment like the rolling eyeball (or, if we want to get really crazy, every "heart" offhand) seem potentially "installable".
Now that I've spent 700 creds buying painting guidebooks, is "severe annoyance" sufficient legal defense for murder?
How much of Metroplexity is coded under the influence of PowerCode?
In the beginning, men were mortal.
Happy 5 years! Any reflections on the last 5 and next 5?
So it seems that techniques can be flagged with certain characteristics (for example "gaze techniques"). Is this something that is hard coded specifically for the pocket mirror or should we be on the watch for more categorization of techniques? Anything similar we missed in the past?
How many flags does an average opponent have (say, the painted woman for example.)? Are there any other subtle (or obvious) things that we could be cataloguing?
If you haven't talked about it yet: how's Novos progressing?
Some opponents have slight variations of known techniques:
If we were somehow viciously cut into pieces, what would happen? Could multiple parts survive and regenerate back into full people again? Do the cyberware doctors notice that your hand continues to live after it's been severed? Will we get a chance to find out?
How much Eclipse would we have to give a cyberdoctor before he could install giant bat wings as cyberarms?
Are there any other things that can be trigged by gaining Etheric that we haven't found yet (like Broken Gaze or Distant Claw)?
Oh wow. Another podcast thread so soon! I feel caught with my pants down. Where are my questions? They must be laying around somewhere I know I had a bunch. But, for now, I'll make do with these few I managed to pull out from between the couch cushions:
To start congratulations on reaching the five year mark.
I guess first things first is a little badgering about fishing:
I can't really think of many non-fishing questions but if I do I'll slip them down here:
Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!
