Comments on: Lyndor http://eathanu.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/lyndor/ My Life, My World, and Other Catastrophes Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Eathanu http://eathanu.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/lyndor/#comment-54 Eathanu Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:04:45 +0000 http://eathanu.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-54 Commentary: I don't feel like writing all that much else, so let's get this over with. The concept of swordfights as a sport is nothing new, but I kind of based my idea of them off of the Plunge from the Way series (an RPG Maker 2000 series by <a href="http://www.crestfallen.us/" rel="nofollow">Crestfallen Studios</a>). Also, Traziun was a character known to be particularly good at the Plunge, kicking a lot of ass in the story's six chapters. The whole "mark" part of Lyndor fort names is partially borrowed from the Elder Scrolls series, specifically the Imperial forts in Morrowind (Frostmoth, Ashmoth, Moonmoth, etc.) and Connor is such an obscure reference I wouldn't believe it if I didn't know it. Get this: Deus Cards, another RM2k game, is an action-card-battle game (and one of my all-time favourite RM games). In it, you can play as one of ten players, one of whom is named Conrad McLeod, coincidentally one of my least favourite people to play as (bad skills for my tastes). Now, during the tutorial you play as Gus, an up-and-comer who's playing in a small newbie tourney for a really sweet prize. In your last match you automatically lose (well, you have a shot, but he fucks you up pretty bad, so it'd be really hard to win) to a player named Connor O'something. Still with me? It turns out Connor is really Conrad, and that he went through his first three matches in a total of five minutes. He's disqualified, blah blah blah. Aren't you glad you read all of that? Oh, and the Gibbs part was a random English last name I found on Wikipedia because I didn't want to use the Scottish name. The picture is fan art from Crestfallen, of Traziun (red) and Strata (really spiky) from The Way, submitted by Sinova like a million years ago. Another odd thing: I always feel a twinge of guilt when I write about one of my beloved characters dying. I guess because in the real Emarion universe (the one that runs parallel to ours and a little to the side) the actual person dies AND IT'S ONLY BECAUSE I WROTE HE DID. Even weirder is that Ark and Silvikk, my <em>most</em> beloved characters are from a race that doesn't necessarily die, yet I killed them (both of natural causes, but meh) and I feel no guilt for that at all. I must have all kinds of issues. Commentary: I don’t feel like writing all that much else, so let’s get this over with. The concept of swordfights as a sport is nothing new, but I kind of based my idea of them off of the Plunge from the Way series (an RPG Maker 2000 series by Crestfallen Studios). Also, Traziun was a character known to be particularly good at the Plunge, kicking a lot of ass in the story’s six chapters. The whole “mark” part of Lyndor fort names is partially borrowed from the Elder Scrolls series, specifically the Imperial forts in Morrowind (Frostmoth, Ashmoth, Moonmoth, etc.) and Connor is such an obscure reference I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t know it.

Get this: Deus Cards, another RM2k game, is an action-card-battle game (and one of my all-time favourite RM games). In it, you can play as one of ten players, one of whom is named Conrad McLeod, coincidentally one of my least favourite people to play as (bad skills for my tastes). Now, during the tutorial you play as Gus, an up-and-comer who’s playing in a small newbie tourney for a really sweet prize. In your last match you automatically lose (well, you have a shot, but he fucks you up pretty bad, so it’d be really hard to win) to a player named Connor O’something. Still with me? It turns out Connor is really Conrad, and that he went through his first three matches in a total of five minutes. He’s disqualified, blah blah blah. Aren’t you glad you read all of that? Oh, and the Gibbs part was a random English last name I found on Wikipedia because I didn’t want to use the Scottish name.

The picture is fan art from Crestfallen, of Traziun (red) and Strata (really spiky) from The Way, submitted by Sinova like a million years ago.

Another odd thing: I always feel a twinge of guilt when I write about one of my beloved characters dying. I guess because in the real Emarion universe (the one that runs parallel to ours and a little to the side) the actual person dies AND IT’S ONLY BECAUSE I WROTE HE DID. Even weirder is that Ark and Silvikk, my most beloved characters are from a race that doesn’t necessarily die, yet I killed them (both of natural causes, but meh) and I feel no guilt for that at all. I must have all kinds of issues.

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