aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
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Well, you definitely have a large impact on what happens in the Dead Kings. You're just not the hero. There isn't really a specific hero in the story. Even if you're being 'not evil' you're still taking over a country for personal gain. You can use that position to do good things along the lines of ending slavery or improving the lives of commoners (especially women, being born a girl in Muir is a dire fate), but overall Gyllioc just wants power. He's certainly not going to abolish the monarchy and start a democracy.

Although, I suppose, in the long run this is all just affecting the fate of a single country in a large world. I guess the really key difference is that the player's viewpoint is that of an arrogant noble, which I have never seen done before. The arrogant noble who has no qualms with using commoners is ALWAYS an antagonist in any story.

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
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Hey, that's cool too. I was just running off on a 4 a.m. tangent about things I'd like to see one day. I guess my point is that for most people, how much impact can you really have? I guess you also have a power corrupts motif going on as well. The player might start out with ideals of making life better for people when he gets into power but as you say this will be the hard route, and as such compromises might have to be made... Awesome.

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
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It essentially works that the more good things you do the less support you will get from other nobles and their soldiers. But there are many other ways in which your good deeds make the game harder as well.

For example, Shael hunts and kills a benign magical creature and it brings a curse down upon him and his lands. He is told by magical spirits that he can only undo the curse by performing an act of great generosity. That translates to Gyllioc and Shael spending all of their money to help people afflicted by the curse. Obviously that's the good way out. You don't lose any support, but it's very expensive.

Evil methods involve letting everyone suffer the curse, or using a necromantic ritual to obliterate all the benign magical creatures from existence to end the curse.

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

I REDONED GYLLIOC. He is better now. Not all lame and draw-badded.





Here's the sort of thing he says if he's evil:

“Any joy and comfort are an allowance you may seek only from me. Forget the life you knew, it is meaningless before my oppression. Despair, innocent. You. Are. Mine.”

Here's the sort of thing he says if he's much less evil and about to bang his wife:

"This ale does harm to my accuracy, fair maiden. This may be pleasurable or painful by virtue or fault of my aim."

NatureJay
SJA: Commander of Ruthless Abuse


2005 Mar 23 • 1871
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He's no Axl Rose, but those are some pretty big teeth.

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
57,583 ₧

So, basically, if he's good, he's all about the shaggin'? Sounds like a game for me!

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
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Those were just two entertaining lines. He's really not all that into hammering pork up into bitches. Just his wife, and only when appropriate. Elves are significantly less sexual than humans, so being halvsies makes him unlikely to fuck his way up and down the story.

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

I suggest you take some inspiration from this game

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

Dirty injuns aren't worth the penis of a white man. They deserve no more than a rusty spear!

fedex _

2009 Mar 23 • 910
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umm yea or wait ,,,, no aaron no

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

Sorry, sometimes my need to be offensive far outweighs my need to not be racist.

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

Racism is not always a bad thing, look at how nazi germany removed all the jews and were a prospering nation by 1939

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
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Oh, sweet Fia. How I could never cause you any harm. Such a foolish mistake I have made making you so cute. There is no way I can test the evil path, as I would break down and cry if I were to see a hair on your adorable head hurt. If you were to cry I would lash out and kill whoever was responsible, and if you were to look at me with scorn or despair I would be unable to continue living.




Seriously. She's way too cute. I'm not even sure if I can finish drawing what she looks like if you rape her.

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

How about you give the player the option of rape, and if the player chooses yes, they get a bsod, because bsod's are the best counter to internet pervs.

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

ARGH! She's so cute it causes me physical pain! DAMN MY INSCRUTABLE SUDDEN TALENT FOR ART! DAMN IT TO HELL!

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
57,583 ₧

I dunno if this helps or not, but it somewhat reminds me of these lassies that take the self photographs from the slightly upward position, looking down on their face. At least she's smiling, rather than the too-often-seen duckface...

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

And that drawing looks suspiciously like a girl I know in Thailand who may or may not be my niece (because my cousin who is like 20 years older than me is married to this woman who is now separated with him, and some random girl follows the woman around, and I have no idea who she is, except that her name is Fa AND she is cute.

sprinkles


2009 Sep 6 • 2547
10 ₧

You're dating your cousin?

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

WHA-NO?! WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK THAT!! I mean... uh... oh, you're talking to SRAW!

Yeah, a cute girl looking up at a camera is one of the images that influenced this portrait. However, she wasn't smiling... or making the duckface. She just had a really blank look on her face. The sad picture of her is much more like the reference.

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
57,583 ₧

Ok, I think I see it. Looking at it one way her face is essentially blank, but the slight line of her mouth makes it look almost as if she's wearing a slight sardonic smile.

I guess what I'm saying is you've made a Mona Lisa. Was the reference photo actually you?

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

This unintentionally sounds like one hell of a compliment.


I'm... not sure... why you're asking that?

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
57,583 ₧

People have suggested previously that the Mona Lisa was in fact Da Vinci himself but dressed up. Since I had invoked the Mona Lisa because of the smile I decided to make a funny based on that small random piece of trivia. As far as I can tell, that idea is largely believed to be untrue, but it's still kind of interesting. I guess it's not a well-known thing.

And yes, it is a compliment. I'm saying there's quite a lot of depth to your image.

SRAW
Rocket Man

2007 Nov 6 • 2525
601 ₧

Aaronjer didn't go for any depth at all, it's just that you happen to see so-called depth in his image, probably since you seem to be the most intellectual of all us superjerians

Rockbomb
Dog fucker (but in a good way now)

2009 Nov 14 • 2045

no ur rong SRAW i am teh most smartist 1 at teh superjurrr forams

aaronjer
*****'n Admin


2005 Mar 21 • 5042
1,227 ₧

If Edan would come back we could have a cut-throat intellectu-match between DR, Edan and NatureJay. I would enjoy that.



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