And with that, any chances of this campaign setting returning to its intended corporate espionage roots have been sunk. Poor Kevin, he knew it was going to happen before it even happened.
I do feel for Terry. I don't recall a campaign every changing so radically that I felt the need to quit... but that might be because such shifts preceded the game falling apart or wrapping up not long after.
I also like that this Tony Stark isn't leaving a bunch of employees and (maybe) legitimate customers in the wind by almost immediately going from weapons manufacturer to energy production.
To be fair, Terrence is much less upset about the campaign changing than he is about WHY it's changing, specifically. Next page should help clarify that a bit better, but since it's an "immediate future" update I don't feel guilty saying so in advance. ;)
It's funny you mention the decision to stick with weapons production, because originally there wasn't really much TO that decision. So far for most "chapters" I have the beginning and the ending loosely planned out, I feel like it helps keep things structured and gives me an endpoint to work towards (of course, as I get farther along I may have to amend that strategy depending on if/how much plans change). Initially I just planned to leave it in there as a "haha, little difference from the movies, back to business as usual" line, but as I made more of this chapter I felt like it made progressively more sense for THIS Tony Stark to decide "Yeah, selling weapons wasn't the issue, it was... other people >.>... doing so illegally, system's fixed, no need to change it".
He may start to move away from it as events progress, but for now the only real change in Stark Industries' business practices is adding "Iron Man merchandise" to the list of things they produce.
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