Guild Wars 2

There’s this regiment called the 14th Lionguard Security Force. According to GW2’s Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2), they’ve been busy:

“You smell Lion’s Arch before you see what’s happened to it. There’s a sickly-sweet odor of rotting corpses mixed with a stinging snap of gunpowder. It’s a change from the choking, lethal veil of Scarlet’s miasma, now drifted out to sea.

By noon, the first shots rang out. The 14th Lionguard Security Force engaged Aetherblade squads for control over Trader’s Forum. Lieutenant Honeclaw led the charge, pushing Aetherblades back with bursts from her flamethrower.

The fighting lasted most of the day. The 14th holds the forum, but Honeclaw has been quick to stop her troops from calling this a victory. Now the 14th is waiting…waiting for reinforcements, for the enemy’s next move. They know Scarlet will not give up an inch of Lion’s Arch without a fight.

In the distance there is the sound of combat and an acrid blue-steel cloud of smoke.

Scholar Ela Makkay, embedded with the 14th Lionguard Security Force/“Marriner’s Might” ~DO"

Nice bit of context and story flavor, aint’ it? Me—I just found out about it on reddit. Because I don’t use Facebook. Yeah. At least the old stories (which I thoroughly enjoyed) were on the main website.

Hey, at least give a head’s up on the main site if that’s the new plan?

Edited: to reduce QQ tone, cause hey, who likes QQ? Now it’s more like PSA with opinion.

Thanks for the heads-up. Btw who turned off the miasma so the Lion Guard could enter the city 24/7?

Barabbas.8715:

Thanks for the heads-up. Btw who turned off the miasma so the Lion Guard could enter the city 24/7?

The wind blew it out to sea…

Says it in game somewhere.

Meglobob.8620:

Barabbas.8715:

Thanks for the heads-up. Btw who turned off the miasma so the Lion Guard could enter the city 24/7?

The wind blew it out to sea…

Says it in game somewhere.

Gotta love when a villian has access to weapons that can kill everything in an entire zone and instead choose to use a poison gas that is subject to wind…

Insanity makes no sense Distaste.

great, thank you. i don’t use or have facebook.. nor do i care for it, so thank you for little story.

Meglobob.8620:

Barabbas.8715:

Thanks for the heads-up. Btw who turned off the miasma so the Lion Guard could enter the city 24/7?

The wind blew it out to sea…

Says it in game somewhere.

there are whole tubes the size of a norn of that gas, are they smoking it or something?

They’ve done, 3 (maybe 4) pictures on twitter about it.

Wooden Potatoes agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4d5itzuOXY&list=UUYUY9_i44IDNOs_Ja815mlA Namely, out-of-game story has been removed from the main website and dispersed to make it even more difficult to follow the (out-of-game) lore.

“If there aren’t stories like this implemented in-game, it can make a lot of the Living World seem narrow… But if you add a little bit of stuff like this, it does tap into your imagination…” —WP (Quoted because WP warrants enough attention from ArenaNet to be told about the awakening of Mordremoth before the general players.)

Again, to reiterate, I don’t really want some sort of social media scavenger hunt for lore. If it’s not in-game, please, pretty please, just put it on the main site.

ExAstris.8527:

Again, to reiterate, I don’t really want some sort of social media scavenger hunt for lore. If it’s not in-game, please, pretty please, just put it on the main site.

This. Sometimes it seems like ArenaNet is on a mission to make it as hard as possible to follow the plot of this game.

Stormy Dragon.9210:

ExAstris.8527:

Again, to reiterate, I don’t really want some sort of social media scavenger hunt for lore. If it’s not in-game, please, pretty please, just put it on the main site.

This. Sometimes it seems like ArenaNet is on a mission to make it as hard as possible to follow the plot of this game.

there is a plot…are you sure?

It’s characters that are important to a game, not plot.