At what act will we awake in oriath to realize Wraeclast was an illusionary prison ?

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ghamadvar wrote:

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

Well, what the title reads. At what act do you think we will awake from this dream to realize that it was just a perverted illusion/dream that we have been forced into?

What are your thoughts ?

Never, i hope. "You wake up" is one of the worst narrative "tricks" to use. It kills whole pen&paper sessions, it kills everything. Especially when you are talking about a game like PoE that needs so god damn much effort. Why do you think that this would be the case? Are there some hints from GGG that this could be a thing? I really hope not ;)

Fuck it, it's not like this game is going to last long-term anyways. I say jump the shit out of that shark.

That's one way to view it :))

@criystalwitch: looks like a pretty cool storyline. Back to the future meets cataclysm and terminator ;) I am looking forward to what is going to happen. But the old acts ... again? Don't know if i would like to do that. Hate the three times through same shit thing already.

We realize it we our Act is to stop playing the game because Lab is shit but GGG gave OP loots at the end to create the illusion of Fun

Lab is in Act 3 so is Dominus

After beating the lab we "ascend", to get to Dominus we have to get to the top of the Tower of God... we ascend!

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ghamadvar wrote:

That's one way to view it :))

@criystalwitch: looks like a pretty cool storyline. Back to the future meets cataclysm and terminator ;) I am looking forward to what is going to happen. But the old acts ... again? Don't know if i would like to do that. Hate the three times through same shit thing already.

Oh, it wouldn't be the same Acts, just select areas.
Just y'know, higher level corrupted versions of those tilesets with new enemies and different quests.
Think how the Abandoned Cavern map has a different feel to Merveil's Caverns just by having all of those mining doodads or the Quarry feels completely different from the Mines because it's in daylight and more open.

I was thinking either portals from a new npc or just a new .

Because, y'know, the Beast's corruption has really screwed things up.

So you'd go to the corrupted Docks or Marketplace or wherever, and you'd have to find a ship still in one piece.

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databeaver wrote:

After the 9th act you realize that Path of Exile was just a computer game all along and there's a whole world outside your house.

Word.

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

Well, what the title reads. At what act do you think we will awake from this dream to realize that it was just a perverted illusion/dream that we have been forced into?

What are your thoughts ?

Act V - More background on the beast (who will be a powerful Beyond entity) with lots of ventures into trapped/puzzled dungeons to find the clues we need to try and rid Wraeclast world of the Beast permanently (in Act VI), so it can't be used for another cataclysm in the future.

Act VI - We realize that now the Beasts's secrets are out, that we must find and eliminate quite a few powerful new (and a couple older legendary) figures that want to take the reins of the beast.

Act VII - We begin thinking we will be killing the Beast, but realize that the Beast is not the enemy. Wraeclast has been wiped clean of all life, and the Beasts's memory/dreams are all that is keeping it alive.

Other evil Beyond demons are twisting the Beasts's dreams so that life has been corrupted. Zana has completed her survey, and has now re-configured the map device so that we can travel to the Beyond realm (which is unlike ours at all) and fight the Beyond demons on their own turf.

Instead of areas like "Western Forest, Crypt", etc will be be venturing into the realms of Bending Stones to kill Na'Em(Totems, Golems and all of Kuduku's Kind), Unrelenting Frost to kill Haast Shifting Darkness to kill Bameth (items that add light radius and help see through Shrouding Mists will be highly sought), then on to Crackling Sky and so on. After we have defeated Abaxoth, the End of All That Is, we learn that WE ARE THE BEAST.



Act VIII - We, the Beast, are dying and there is no cure. This act will be kind of questy. We must seek out knowledge, parts and then build our own Transmution Device. Then we will return to the glorious past civilizations to root out the previous attempts to destroy civilization. We must find a suitable host in each realm, so when we go to the Glorious Empire at it's peak to help Victario and Siosa, we can only take a small portion of our powers/items with us and must start again as level one characters. How do we distill our items and skill combos into powers that we can actually use in this time/place travel? The same way it has always been done - by turning them into skill gems, of course.

Act IX - we must now go back to the Vaal at their prime (think Dwemer).

Act X - not sure yet, but after we finish it, We, the Beast, can kick back in our recliner, enjoy a nice cold flask and watch our favorite sports team on the telly- Scions, Marauders, Rangers, depending on your character.

Some of you have awesome ideas! Thanks for all those ideas.
Keep more coming. :)

POE is just the story of an Autistic child with a Brain cancer that goes to the hospital and everything afraid it.

- First your ambulance arrives at the hospital (twilight strand)
- then you cross the hospital guard at the door (Hillork)
- while you wait you see all those sick people (monsters)
- you get into a room and the chief doctor(Piety) tells you that her apprentice(Brutus) will take a look at you
- then another Doc come at you, a beautiful lady (Merveil first phase) then when she talks to your parents, she is cold and not pleasant ( Fish wife)

- then the 3 scan technicians(bandits) get you prepared, they pull the syringe(Maligaro's spike) and inject you a product so you can pass in the scanner

- The scanner(Vaal oversoul) is scary, its a weird construct that does move but it does rotate a lot

- Verdict, you have to be operated in hurry but it cant be done in that hospital, we send you at a bigger one

- Before you get transported, the chief doctor(piety crematorium) looks at you

- While they transport you to the other hospital you get from the parking(slum sewers) to the highway which has a tunnel(warehouse sewers) and then to the other underground parking(market sewer) of the bigger hospital

- This hospital is huge, its a big tower (tower of God)

- they bring you at the higher levels of it to meet the anesthetist(Dominus) which put you to sleep, " you will sleep for a moment, you might dream" he says(this world is an illusion exile)

I've always been intrigued by what Dominus utters when we kill him "this world is an illusion". Then I realized that GGG are the mad overlords controlling this illusion. What our exiles think is real is just implanted input put there by our Talosian captors for their own amusement and the exile is just sitting in a cage the whole time.

We won't know that the world of Wraeclast is really just a simulation until Act 10 when we are old and decrepit.