This really got me.
RiderofHell
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As always the story team are on fire with dialogues for monthly quests and this dialogue got to be the funniest I ever seen of all my years playing the game. Lol
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" The battlerealm is going to be taken over/destroyed"
"I got trapped here so I'll run my crime syndicate here"
Storylines, stories are the most entertaining part of the EQ for me
Arcade doesn't really have any abilities, he's actually a really weak villain and it's very apparent in the EQ story actually.
He acts all high and mighty behind protective measures. But by the end it's clear that he's not even the one IN CHARGE LMAO. Mojo is the one actually pulling the strings. As soon as his audience turns on him pitting him against us and Northstar he's scared out of his wits.
So yeah he's more of a host than an actual competitor.
But there is something else tho, after we defeat him it turns out it's just a decoy ( doom bot style) so idk if arcade was the one that did it or if mojo is the one that's using decoys of him to run these games
And I agree about Arcade being ineffectual, like I said, he's actually the worst assassin going because he's never, y'know, killed anyone.
We got thru various levels of this game with different opponents there's some really cool and funny interactions . In one of the rounds ( the one with spot) arcade gives Northstar some portion of his power back. On the last level we find that arcade actually made a decoy of Northstar and the chip that's in his nick is draining his power and giving it to the decoy. We are in an 'unbreakable' room of sorts, where we fight the fake northstar.
After we destroy the decoy the explosion from it forms some cracks in the walls
We escape from it and try to sneak up on arcade but we realise they have cameras on us already and a whole stream of people across the battlerealm are watching us. Northstar cleverly challenges Arcade to a duel for a final death match , which he refuses but the crowd wants to see it so , some shadow figure forces arcade to do the fight.
Arcade says some typical stuff like
"This was not the deal"
And also gives a bit of foreshadowing where he says
" What if I'm just a decoy" or something along those lines. It seems like he's just bluffing but after we defeat him he blows up revealing that it's actually a decoy.
And then we hear an announcement about Mojo's new show hosted by arcade and that this was just the first episode of it , he's going to continue these games at different places and with different champs.
And that's where the story wraps up