| rdfs:comment | - A Story Arc is a construction decided upon by the writer, simply having episodes in a sequence is NOT a story arc. Also, a story arc doesn't have to be sequential to achieve its effect of telling a story. However, each piece of the story arc can be removed out of episodic sequence and placed simply in sequence with each other and the story can be told with very little loss of information. These two different types are called Sequential Story Arcs and Non-sequential Story Arcs.
- A story arc (also referred to as Mission Chain) is a series of missions, usually ending in an instance where the main boss of the arc is faced. The arc may include different types of missions: killing X amount of mobs, gathering Y amount of items, completing one or several instances. An arc may have optional side missions. Usually an arc has one or several associated briefings, investigations, feats and headlines. An example of a story arc is Survival of the Fittest: Episode 1
- A story arc is a storyline of a lengthy, continued nature within a work of episodic fiction. As with many comics, Sonic the Comic had numerous story arcs that helped shape the world within which it was set.
- A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a Television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story arc is much more common in Dramas than in comedies, especially in Soap operas. Webcomics are more likely to use story arcs than newspaper comics, as most web comics have readable archives online that a newcomer to the strip can read in order to understand what is going on. Although story arcs have existed for decades, the term "story arc" was coined in 1988 in relation to the television series Wiseguy, and was quickly adapted for other uses.
- Story Arcs are special setups in the game that reveal a piece of the story content over a series of missions from a Contact. The number of missions can be small or large, but will all function as miniature stories themselves. Upon completion, a Souvenir is rewarded which allows you to read the storyline at a later time. This summary is saved in a user's clues menu. Completing a Story Arc will net the player a significant XP bonus and, for most arcs, the choice of one of many types of Enhancements.
* Hero Story Arcs
* Villain Story Arcs
- Throughout the novels published by Virgin Publishing and BBC Books, each of the main ranges featuring the Seventh Doctor and Eighth Doctor (respectively) had ongoing story arcs. During the Virgin New Adventures' first four novels, a common thread of a being known as the Timewyrm flowed throughout the first four novels. This story arc was also created as a marketing vehicle to lure new readers into the series. The second series of novels, which purported to also be a story arc, was only very tenuously linked by its title, Cat's Cradle and the presence of a silver cat. This was far more a marketing ploy than a defined story arc.
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| abstract | - Story Arcs are special setups in the game that reveal a piece of the story content over a series of missions from a Contact. The number of missions can be small or large, but will all function as miniature stories themselves. Upon completion, a Souvenir is rewarded which allows you to read the storyline at a later time. This summary is saved in a user's clues menu. Completing a Story Arc will net the player a significant XP bonus and, for most arcs, the choice of one of many types of Enhancements. There are actually two types of Story Arc. Main arcs are signified by a yellow-covered book icon in the arc contact's window. Shorter, minor arcs are signified by a red-covered book. Each character may have a maximum of two active Main Arcs. Contacts will not give missions that start a main arc if you are at the limit. While there may be a limit to minor arcs, there is no functional limit as there are reports of characters with as many as 23 minor arcs open at once (source). Note that for Heroes, the zone-specific arcs from contacts in The Hollows, Faultline, Striga Isle, and Croatoa are all minor arcs and for both Heroes and Villains the missions in Rikti War Zone are also minor arcs.
* Hero Story Arcs
* Villain Story Arcs
- Throughout the novels published by Virgin Publishing and BBC Books, each of the main ranges featuring the Seventh Doctor and Eighth Doctor (respectively) had ongoing story arcs. During the Virgin New Adventures' first four novels, a common thread of a being known as the Timewyrm flowed throughout the first four novels. This story arc was also created as a marketing vehicle to lure new readers into the series. The second series of novels, which purported to also be a story arc, was only very tenuously linked by its title, Cat's Cradle and the presence of a silver cat. This was far more a marketing ploy than a defined story arc. Throughout the Virgin New Adventures there were several story arcs that grouped several novels around ideas that flowed through sets of novels. The novels Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future had a common idea and a central character revealed only in the final novel of the story arc as the individual responsible for events throughout the arc. When Doctor Who was revived for television by BBC Wales, Russell T Davies, the show's executive producer and head writer, introduced the first story arc for the new series of Doctor Who, known now as the Bad Wolf arc. It was the defined story arc which appeared throughout the first series of BBC Wales' Doctor Who. The story arc has become a common feature of the new televised Doctor Who, with each series revealing its own unique story arc carried throughout each series.
- A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a Television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story arc is much more common in Dramas than in comedies, especially in Soap operas. Webcomics are more likely to use story arcs than newspaper comics, as most web comics have readable archives online that a newcomer to the strip can read in order to understand what is going on. Although story arcs have existed for decades, the term "story arc" was coined in 1988 in relation to the television series Wiseguy, and was quickly adapted for other uses. Many American comic book series are now written in four or six-issue arcs, within a continuing series. Short story arcs are easier to package as trade paperbacks for resale, and more accessible to the casual reader than the never-ending continuity that once characterised comics.
- A Story Arc is a construction decided upon by the writer, simply having episodes in a sequence is NOT a story arc. Also, a story arc doesn't have to be sequential to achieve its effect of telling a story. However, each piece of the story arc can be removed out of episodic sequence and placed simply in sequence with each other and the story can be told with very little loss of information. These two different types are called Sequential Story Arcs and Non-sequential Story Arcs.
- A story arc (also referred to as Mission Chain) is a series of missions, usually ending in an instance where the main boss of the arc is faced. The arc may include different types of missions: killing X amount of mobs, gathering Y amount of items, completing one or several instances. An arc may have optional side missions. Usually an arc has one or several associated briefings, investigations, feats and headlines. An example of a story arc is Survival of the Fittest: Episode 1
- A story arc is a storyline of a lengthy, continued nature within a work of episodic fiction. As with many comics, Sonic the Comic had numerous story arcs that helped shape the world within which it was set.
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