He's not in the Outlander's mind. He's visiting/knocking on the door. The only time someone mentions he's there, is when V is actively talking to you. At every other point multiple npcs are telling you that they sense nothing else (including brainscans by droids). Lana and Heskel both only "see" a glimpse of V, and in both cases, only during that exact moment V's whispering away with his seductive power offerings. At a guess, he's incorporeal and bounding about the galaxy. That whole "son of a gun, that twerp blindsided me" laugh when you shanked him is pretty much the whole "well, the game's afoot!" phase of being... bored. So, he's up to challenging himself, kinda like doing a leveling grind without gear for us. This is a stage of "well, nothing better to do, so, let's see..." kind of stage. Ziost changed something, removed some sort of challenge V didn't think he would be able to get around. He was also in the end-game building up Zakuul for an attack on the rest of the galaxy... only for one of the kids to snag it. So, he's playing a game with "well, I could just smash away, but let's see how this plays out." In other words, far too overpowered. He's going to be something nasty at some level... I figure something like Sephiroth's One Winged Angel form is at play in a raid in the near future. Not certain that would tie off the story, but... he's just playing at being a smoke monster at the moment.

Eh, one of my Agents keeps wanting to whistle "Into the Danger Zone" with her. Why, yes, I did snag "Duchess" for a toon's name.

Came here to post this, so... "this" and "bears repeating."

I know it is late to consider this, but have you all considered making the current Tactical level "all storymode" and the Master level "all Tacticals?" Even with the 0/2 ones, that is much more achievable via Group Finder, than waiting around for four hours for the HM GFs to pop.

More in the spirit of the OP and the original thread... "Please, Bioware, get rid of the false binary options. Variety is a spice that should be enjoyed in life."

Can not be so. Valkorion IS Kephess the Undieing! And Undyeing. Dude needs some work on his color palette.

I watched with glee While your kings and queens Fought for ten decades For the gods they made

Season Two HK-55 is revealed to be a spy... sent by the Shroud to mess with Scorpio. Scorpio turns out to love cooking, and station maintenance. Her inability to taste foods leads her on a crusade to become a literal Iron Chef. Fess turns out to be the judge of the new Reality Show wherein people try to survive competing with Scorpio in their culinary skills. Vaylin is one heck of a fry chef. Arcann realizes he misses his momy, and spends some time as a child-king. Think Morgan Le Fay and Mordred type of relationship. HK-51 learns the term "meatbag" is fun, and can be liberally applied. He also welds a goatee on his face, to be more distinguishable from HK55. This leads to hi-jinks and misunderstandings, as everyone understands HK51 to be the evil counterpart to HK55, especially after HK55's alliance is uncovered. Lana is revealed to be the kidnapper of Nadia, Kira, Jaesa, and Ashara. She's had them on a Zakuul "Wives of the Outlanders" holovid this entire time. The good news is that the proceeds from the show actually provided the baseline funding for the Alliance to get started. However, Risha, Akaavi. Raina, and Elara have their own show, "Gangster Wives," as an alternative show that has been getting their own modest numbers on a holovid music channel. These two shows are destined to collide. Scorpio, of course, is competing for the catering of the showdown show. Skadge is running an insect eradication service, and has become a fan of an obscure holovid movie featuring one Vincent D'Onofrio acting as an alien acting as a human.

I would not. If the flagged state goes away after the event, then there is no difference between the DvL toons and all previous toons (so, a future event akin to this one would have the same problems "spotting" new gains in alignment/etc). If the flagged state stays, that says there is a possible followup. Being conservative, one would be wise to consider the second path, and keep one of each side active. Pump and dump the other six toons.

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