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Re: Allow me to introduce, myself. Welcome to my world.
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In lugnet.castle, Erick Jensen writes:
> Greetings to the world. I am about to show my stuff for the first time. I
> have a story prepared close to Ikros in size but I think I'll cut it down a
> bit. I have creations prepared for it. I really need a home for it. I've
> applied for a spot on ozbricks, but I've gotten no reply. Do you think they
> require me to have an exsisting site so they can see what's going to be
> there? No more talky talky. Let's get to the main course. So Let me try
> to sum up the story in a sentence or nine....
Well, looks interesting already. I'm currently working
on a story as well, but it's more of a fantasy/ sci-fi oriented
novella, and won't be finished for quite a while. I
haven't applied for an OzBricks site yet, but I'm sure you'll
probably get an email sometime in the near future, but until
then you always have your free lugnet site (if you're a member
anyway...)
> The country of Valis (subject to name change) is ruled by King Rassellon.
> He is a peaceful King and after a long period of war has finally befriended
> the surrounding nations. His two brave generals are responsible for the
> peace. They return home, to be accused of treason and sentenced to death.
> They escape, and run. They're friends try to find them. All are presumed
> dead. Five years later, villagers are ruthlessly slaughtered. Hilarity
> ensues... and now we que the music... bah bah, WAH WAH, bah bah.... and so >on.
Okay...well, that's, how should I put it? Crazy, yeah...
All you need are some intro movies, a background midi for
each chapter and some dialogue, and you're set to go.
(that's how I would go about it, adds to the suspense...)
My story doesn't sound a bit like that though, except
for the castle part, my hero is more of a lone wolf,
but I'll leave that for you to decide.
> The story starts there. I've written the prologue but I haven't decided if
> I'll finalize it, because that's pretty much the jist of it right there. My
> story is heavly influence by Final Fantasy. Mostly the second (japan #4).
> Also, Willow has been an all time favorite, and recently Record of Lodoss
> -pick up the dvd set if you haven't seen it :) It's been written for
> someone like me to enjoy, so language may be an issue. If you have a
> problem with that, I can put warnings on the specific chapters. The
> following pics are teasers, I don't plan on using these in the story (horrid
> lighting and backgrounds). They also don't really show any events from the
> story. They're just money shots. Here we go...
Yeah, FF is great stuff. You play a lot of RPGS? I can't get
enough of them, but I try not to rely too heavily on them for
inspiration. Tolkein and Ray Bradbury's works are also
influential, but I haven't seen lord of Lodoss (is that an
anime or something? I'm guessing, so don't laugh...:)
Err...I don't think lauguage should be a problem, but then
again, there are more elegant expressions to use in place of
the standard offensive lauguages. There's ways around that,
but I think if anyone gets offended, that's their problem,
not yours, right?
Okay teasers, but you might need some more background to them
when you procure any final copies. Such details as foliage and
camera angle are essential, but then again, you'll probably
get it. Can'twait to see the first chapter. It should be an
interesting read.
> I have decided the pictures need photoshop, so I've been practicing, and
> here are my first results, I'm very happy with them. Every story requires a
> "cid" to be epic, correct? Well here's mine. He's an engineer (I wait for
> the "duh" from the audience) and he has an assistant, Romeny. He's built an
> airship, his daily profession is shipbuilding, so he also built the navy's
> ships. This airship is very controversal in Valis. The King has employed
> an air force, consiting of Dragon Riders or Dragoons, and they are pissed,
> this would be their replacement, big story plot part there. I won't show
> the whole ship here, cuz I want to get it all pretty like on my own site.
> Also I don't think anyone has used oars as airship props, I call copyright!
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/cid_pilots_his_airship.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/romeny_aboard_cids_airship.jpg
> That's all the photoshopping for now.
A cid, eh? Well, I think that just sums up the whole FF thing. I
don't think you really need a CID, since that kind of dims the
originalty, but then again, that's your call. Dragoons, hmm...
another FF bonus (yeah!). Lemme guess, they don't jump ostensibly
long distances and land on their opponents with spears, do they?
You're probably referring to the dragoons who commandeer dragons,
but still, very cool.
> Here the army avances on a castle. The castle is the home of one of the
> dead generals. His family was wealthy so I wanted it to look more like a
> Mansion than a Castle.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/mansion_front.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/overview.jpg
> A small mafia of sorts has taken refuge in the mansion. This is a part of
> the story set near the mid-end, so I won't say much. They are the wolfpack.
> Wolfpack was my absolute favorite, so they get the props and the house.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/onlooking.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/wolfpack_warrior_watches.j>pg
Yeah, wolfpack are pretty great and make for a decent thievery
guild/ syndicate. Would they happen to be mercenaries, or just
conniving thieves (or both)?
> I set up a mini battle of sorts for these pics, here are the guys on the
> wolfpack side. I have many more wolfpack figs, but the interior is full as
> well. I won't show those pics yet either. But it's 3 full floors inside
> not counting the roof.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/warriors_stand_firm.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/warriors_still_standing_firm.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/warriors_standing_in_sony_night_vision.jpg
> The last is a pic with the night vision mode on my camera. It's weird how
> it turned out.
Battle scenes are the best (after overhead village scenes) so
few can really dispute that, but yeah, great scene.
> These are some houses I built. The yellow one is an idea I've had since I
> was about 8. I've always had a yellow house built in everything I do. So
> here's the current 'yellow house'.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/houses.jpg
More tudor styled houses, eh? Hmm...yeah, thinking if you
add a few more, possibly an inn to the side, you'd have
something close to a village intersection, but not bad.
*(makes a note to get more castle walls)
> My world has magic, of course it does, don't they all? But in my world we
> don't have gods, and don't have demons. We have wizards, they train other
> wizards, there is no hogwarts, we also have bad wizards. They can do some
> nasty stuff. Bet you can't guess what color my evil wizard is? Anyways I
> have the standard blue wiz, he's up on the ship. He works for the king,
> each nation has usually one wizard as an advisor somewhere in the
> government. Maison is the blue wizard of water! Big ups to water. He's
> trained Ghini. Ghini is a purple wizard. He's also much younger. Hense no
> beard. He specialized in animal magic. I hope to be able to get my hands
> on a green wiz soon, dumbledore's office! I almost paid 25 bucks for
> basically a green wiz hat. Anyways, the pink wiz will probably show up in
> some other story. The purple is my fav, so he gets the patio. The 3rd
> floor here is very final fantasy 9 inspired. It has a sort of stage patio.
> Like they could perform, "Be My Canary" or whatever. Also, I don't think
> anyone else has used the magic staff I got, I call copyright!
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/eMegatron/Teasers/ghini_casts_spells.jpg
Hmm, yours is opposite mine. Got a lot of gods (old world religion)
aspects in mine, but no Harry Potter! (yeah, it got a bit old quickly)
Anyway, wizards are absolutely essential, and I'm waiting for lego
to release a white wizard's hat sometime soon (need some white
wizards, but to no avail, arrgh...)
Of course, I'll make an effort to describe how magic is
physically possible (HP doesn't), will your story do the
same, or have the sort of mystery sense in which the reader
figures that out for themselves?
Almost paid $25 for a green hat?! Actually, there was a green wiz
hat available in a freestyle set from '97, so I've got one already.
Respectively,
<<_Matt Hein_>>
Fellow lego enthusiast
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/~1112/
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