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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) I suppose a lot depends on your perception of wolves. I think of them as neutral - they do what they have to do. I see them vaguely allied with the Dark Forest - kind of a Druidic thing. Dragon Masters probably don't fit neatly into "good" or (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, Forestmen/Dark Forest and Wolfpack I kind of see as just organized gangs of thieves... but of course the forestmen have the 'Robin Hood' connection, which is probably why I see them as leaning towards good. As for Wolfpack, I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan Moquin
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| | | | | | Here's my take on things; Lions (New and Old): good Forestmen: good (allied with the Lions since they are horrible archers) Falcons: good Wolfpack: Neutral (Religious Sect inhabiting the desert regions) Blue Dragons: Very Bad Green Dragons: Also Bad (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Naji Norder
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| | | | | | (...) I don't know about the Fright Knights as good. After all, in their main castle, the Bat Lord keeps a Lions soldier prisoner... So at least TLG considers them bad. (...) ..until their huge battle, when the Ninja wizard unleashes powerful magic (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan Moquin
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| | | | | | (...) In my world I don't use the witchs and since I really like the torso designs of the other minifigs in that line I made them good guys. A second reason was that my bad side (Blue and Green Dragons) was outnumbering my good side. (...) Remember, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | (...) Hm...this is interesting to me. I don't really have as much 'good' and 'evil' as might be expected...instead, my Castle-time LEGOs seem to have set up a rather complex political situation. A long time ago, the land was united under one ruler, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan McNeally
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| | | | | | | (...) sniped (...) I usually do that too. All my Wolfpack and Forestmen are that way. (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | (...) I tend to have two stories-- one for TLG's sets, and one for my own land. The TLG story is more focused around one kingdom, in nearly constant dispute (save 1979?-1983 when it was only the yellow castle... no teams... calm... peace), where (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | | (...) ~gads! i'm glad i'm not the only one who has woven a complex web of soap opera intrigue around the castle characters! if the parts weren't meant to be rearranged, why do they come apart? to me, this is an element of the creativity. i prefer (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan McNeally
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| | | | | (...) In my personal kingdom. Royal Knights - Good Forestmen/Dark Forest - Mostly Good Crusaders/Lionheart - I consider them part of the Royal Knights Wolfpack - Good Black Falcons - Good Black Falcons - Evil Black Knights - Evil Fright Knights - (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan Moquin
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| | | | | | | (...) Oh No - Double agents (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan McNeally
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| | | | | | | | (...) Sorry. Black Falcons - Good (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Mike Kane
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| | | | | | (...) Which brings me to an interesting question: who is good and who is bad in the Ninja realm, or is there no definite good and bad? Here's the way I see it: there is one good team and two bad teams, not necessarily allied with each other. Good (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | (...) You clearly haven't seen Kage No Gundan: the Black ninja are good, Gray are bad. "My body is iron, my soul is air, I destroy evil!" Bruce (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Jason Catena
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| | | | | | (...) I have the following as my MOC (I just came out of my Dark Ages in December, so I've loaded up on recent sets), and a guess to the theme's intent: Grey Ninja are used (not terribly effectively) by my good, blue-flag (ninja and Knight's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Ed Jones
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| | | | | (...) Well, historically, LEGO has made very few "evil" minifigs. On that basis, I would assume that all the male castle minifigs are good and all the female minifigs are evil. :') (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan Moquin
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| | | | | | | (...) Funny how Lego imitates life!! (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Ed Jones
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| | | | | | (...) Well, now that I think about, a more interesting question is: Are most castle minifigs gay? In all of castle there is the Forest Wench, the Guarded Inn Princess, the queen in the old "Jousting "? set, and the witch. So, with no women around, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Dan Moquin
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| | | | | | | (...) I know where mine go -- One morning I caught a bunch of drunken mercenaries over at my wifes' Paradisa setup. From that day on it has been known as "Cin's shack of sin". (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Better there than in the stables! (sorry, I just had to... forgive me :P ) DaveE (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) Which brings up a question: What happens to your Lego when you aren't looking? I know that no lego MOC is safe in our basement - there's about 4 or 5 people who have MOC's in our basement at any given time, and all of them are ripe targets for (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Till
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| | | | | | | | Reminds me of the time I left a variety of aquanauts, pirate, and town sets laying round my student halls of residence. Over the course of a couple weeks, the pirates monkey managed to abscond up a (real) bonsai tree with the treasure, and a good (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | | | On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Ed Jones (<FIqCG4.Eon@lugnet.com>) wrote at 17:55:16 (...) Vigil. Praying and lashing themselves with chains. They're all very devout. :-) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | | | (...) Make that lashing eah other with chains and it's more like it. Not to mention all those whips lego supplies us with. Dungeon fun! Kevin (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | | | (...) well, my castle scenarios have lots of women & babes (about four guys to every girl) but about half of these chicks are lesbians, so the men are still pretty restless at night.(could be fun <snicker>) visitors to my site know what kind of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | | | (...) You know...this is somehow becoming even more bizarre than discussing the sex lives of cartoon characters. And that takes doing... I'm sorry, I just can't picture those lil' yellow guys doing the nasty. It's just plain wrong. (...) Craig, you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Ed Jones
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| | | | | | | | (...) Not to mention the fact that none of the minifigs have any equipment anyway. (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | | | | (...) what do you mean no equipment? there's swords, and lances, and sheilds, and-- oh. OHHH! THAT kind of equipment! ~ silly goose craig (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | (...) Don't forget the Dark Forest girl with the bangs, the princess from the Mountain Fortress, the maiden from the Maiden's Cart - and do you *really* know what gender a classic smiley is? Maybe there's long, flowing hair bound up under the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, David Eaton (<FIq5ry.11L@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:31:10 (...) Hmmm. A bit simplistic. I run a full feudal system, where each knight owes allegiance to the King. Each knight has a household, all of whom owe allegiance to their (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Awww... no gigantic clashes of good and evil.... <:( Yeah, that's much more realistic... It's just fun to imagine the castle world in black & white... much more fairy-tale-ish or mythic, depending on your view... DaveE (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | | On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, David Eaton (<FIqGx7.1vA@lugnet.com>) wrote at 19:31:55 (...) Yeah, I know. I really need to work on this imagination thing :-) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —John Newton
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| | | | | (...) WELL, I HOPE PLAINE AND SIMPLE THAT THE YEAR 2OO WILL ACTUALLY BRING NEW CASSTLE(AND PIRATE) SETS. I KNOW IVE ASKED BEFOR, BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFO ON THE NEW CASTLE SETS SUPPOSEDLY COMING OUT THIS 2000 YEAR THEN E MAIL ME (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Turn off the CAPS LOCK key. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Ben Roller
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| | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) Back in the year 200, or I guess 199 where this guy is from, they only had capital letters. :) Ben Roller (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, 'little letters' didn't arrive until sometime in the middle ages, in France, I think... This guy must just be new! After all, he's using that 'new' letter 'U' instead of always using 'V'... so he's learning! DaveE (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Good vs. Evil —Michael Zander
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| | | | | I know this post is old, but I can't help but reply. :) I have no real "Good" and "evil", rather, two factions. Faction 1: Black Knights (Everyone has the down as "evil". They never seemed evil to me) Royal Knights Crusaders Black Falcons Those new (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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