Hm, probably my last pitch for now: provoking Doctor Apocalypse is dangerous. Now, we've seen this kind of option twice before in previous quests. The Final Scion had the opportunity to go EFB on the Forge of the Nameless One, massively empowering his Artifacts at the cost of restricting him to a dozen lest he be Doomed; Seram was offered the Archsmith's Hammer, a diminished form of Skyveil's power. In both cases we were warned about potential conflicts with the 'good' Doctor:
However, there's one small problem here: Hunger has the Apocryphal Curse. We can't just dismiss the chance of provoking a formidable foe, not when it could be classed as an 'interesting' outcome. An Apocalypse and Apocryphal teamup even has alliterative appeal! The Voyaging Realm's a nexus of worlds, there are plenty of pretexts the Curse could use to drop him on us. And with the tech level of the Human Sphere, he would have no end of resources. I don't even want to think about what he could do with an Armament.
*Literally become Skyveil
*Dr. Apocalypse will hate you with the fury of a trillion burning suns
Myself and other voters treated this as a meme, a remote possibility at best, included to foster a sense of interconnectedness and continuity between quests. I like those references, but short of dangling the Diagram or the Praxis before characters compatible with those systems, they're not going to override other considerations.*If Dr. Apocalypse is ever met, he will hate and relentlessly attempt to kill the character. Nothing can stop this.
*This is not a joke. If ever the character is transported to Dr. Apocalypse's world, the character will have to contend with an indestructibly hostile Dr. Apocalypse. For reference, Dr. Apocalypse with prep is capable of going toe-to-toe with the likes of Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom (also with prep).
However, there's one small problem here: Hunger has the Apocryphal Curse. We can't just dismiss the chance of provoking a formidable foe, not when it could be classed as an 'interesting' outcome. An Apocalypse and Apocryphal teamup even has alliterative appeal! The Voyaging Realm's a nexus of worlds, there are plenty of pretexts the Curse could use to drop him on us. And with the tech level of the Human Sphere, he would have no end of resources. I don't even want to think about what he could do with an Armament.