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"INCORRECT! TO THE ENTRANCE WITH THEE!"

Arglefargle *incoherent cursing*

Dick move, game. Dick move.

... though amusing. Now I just have to figure out if it's less trouble to actually count the damn statues or just run through the place (at most) three more times. After I go do something else for a little bit.

E: Stella... Stella's maids bounce. Welp, there went my absurdity switch, time to go eat breakfast and take another break.

It's written fine and it tells a story. That's pretty standard, as books go.

I have seen some atrocities of literature that fit that heuristic.

Fanfiction, man, fanfiction. "Written fine" and "tells a story" leaves a lot of wiggle room to violate your soul with a writhing orgy of splintered broomsticks.

Because they largely aren't, we just have a better memory when it comes to crappy things. We remember bad times easier than good times.

As for the reason they keep reappearing, well, because it's easier to get folks that have been trained like that to do shit you want them to. So folks wanting to get people to do things not in their best interest keeping utilizing the same methods.

Welp, signup's closed on Eador, so... going ahead and doing the random-thingy.


So there you go. Fairly sure I need an email Sirus, so PM one my way and I should have the game comin' to yeh within a day or so. Probably some time tomorrow, since th'online purchasing method I actually have on me isn't liked by GOG and it'll take a lil'finagling better done during daylight to get it through.

Hunt down used book stores, find your local thrift shops. When you include shipping, it's really hard for online purchased books to beat local deals.

I've found places that'd give out paperbacks for a quarter, which were just... I had to restrain myself, y'know? Sometimes. Other times I just bought the place out of books I'd read in one go. I've came away from book hunts with twenty, thirty books before... and spent less than twenty bucks in the process. It's wunnerful *teary eyes*

Though yeah, finding something you'd actually be willing to read in the mess those places tend to be can be difficult. But the hunt is half the fun!

Go to sleep, holding out on buying a game in hopes in gets hit with a flash sale or somethin'. First day of keeping an eye on the things.

Wake up, latest flash sale is precisely the game I was holding out for. WTF Steam, did you read my goddamn mind!? I mean, shit. I am not complaining about getting Fortune Summoners for a quarter the normal price, but that is some bloody serendipitous happenings right there.

More along the lines that clerics in DFO are more frontline brawlers than healbots and teamcomp seemed (considerably) less important than individual player skill. You might need four bad enough dude(ette)s, but you either didn't need a set team composition or any class could shift itself enough to fit into whatever grouping of skillsets you did need.

More accurately than that, I don't even remember which of the critters in DFO was something even approaching a healbot/support monkey. That kind of stand-offish archtype dunnit really fit in with DFO's aesthetics.

And... yeah. DFO's clerics are one of the best "holy" class implementations I've seen, insofar as style goes. They got hella' moxy. Pick up dat crucifix and beat the shit out of things with it, priest-o man. Or just walk up and deck that giant monster thing bare handed, whatever. Dude gives no cares.

Whatever its faults, DFO's player classes definitely have a pretty solid sense of style and flash lacking in a lot of other games.

E: Speaking of that, why would I be playing this dragon nest thing when I could be playing DFO instead? Both Nexon games with the problems that entails, but what makes this nest thing sexier than DFO?