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Earwig

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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #45 on: February 21, 2012, 09:01:06 pm »

Any idea what the actual size of the land mass is, like close to a pocket world? I'm thinking a pocket world with civs turned way down, everything evil jacked way up and a short history would kind of create a monster island.

Only issue there is I think there wouldn't be enough monsters. The island makes Pocket size look MASSIVE, honestly. There are almost 900 NAMED/Legends monsters (so; not even close to the fraction of monsters on the island overall) in a molecule of a Pocket island.

Pocket Island I made just for comparison, with world map to the right:


The Island of Trotting (this shows a little over half of the island) with world map:
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #46 on: February 21, 2012, 09:40:29 pm »

That was fucking cool.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #47 on: February 21, 2012, 10:31:48 pm »

Why even fast-travel at all with a world that small? Just run across the terrible wasteland and don't worry about lame ambushes.

It should be your goal to kill and eat one of every creature that can be eaten, or just kill everything that can't.


Edit: Fantastic artwork, by the way. Do you do it for a living?
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #48 on: February 21, 2012, 10:58:13 pm »

This thread is wonderful! Keep updating us!
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #49 on: February 21, 2012, 11:18:45 pm »

Why even fast-travel at all with a world that small? Just run across the terrible wasteland and don't worry about lame ambushes.

I dunno, a mixture of habit and being really impatient. But I'll see how long it takes me to just hoof it from one end to the other. If it's manageable I could do it that way (though things like the 60 troll ambush won't happen anymore, which is sad).

It should be your goal to kill and eat one of every creature that can be eaten, or just kill everything that can't.

I think this is an acceptable goal that Vanod would strive for.

Edit: Fantastic artwork, by the way. Do you do it for a living?

Mostly a hobby, but I do enjoy doing it for moola as well where applicable.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #50 on: February 21, 2012, 11:29:28 pm »

I think that sleeping in lairs is safe... I might be wrong though.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #51 on: February 22, 2012, 12:37:36 am »

I think that sleeping in lairs is safe... I might be wrong though.

It is. I did it all the time in 2010.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #52 on: February 22, 2012, 01:08:33 am »

Wow. This is the best world I've seen to date.

I'm going to be following this tale of Vanod and monster island.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #53 on: February 22, 2012, 02:02:10 am »

Posting to watch.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #54 on: February 22, 2012, 02:37:40 am »

Vanod. The new Cacame. Better tasting, less filling.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #55 on: February 22, 2012, 05:28:57 am »

This definitely has the potential to rank up there with the legends of Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #56 on: February 22, 2012, 06:05:58 am »

Taking advice from Teldin, I forewent the 'T'ravel and instead walked across the landscape, heading north.



Right past a lair. The red sand gives way into the embankment and I immediately leap in. This should be perfectly safe!

I head in deeper and immediately see two cyclopes, and with another step I see two more.



Then another step and I hear even more. I'm... I'm sure this is still a good idea!

I walk up closer and another, named Ener, pops up from the shadows, turning his hideous green eye upon me. I take a step back from Ener, but it's too late, I've been spotted. Ener slams into me, but I scramble to my feet...



...and plunge my spear deep into his chest, tearing his right lung open.

The next few rounds are frenzied, as more and more cyclopes lunge and grab me. I keep dodging away and trying to stab them in the head(s), but I only succeed in severing tendons... which is far less effective than it sounds. Time for chest wounds. Even if I have to bleed them out over several rounds, it'll be better than being dragged down and pulled apart by a bunch of slightly crippled cyclopes.

I manage to slowly and awkwardly roll outside, stabbing where possible.


They keep swinging gnarled fists at Vanod, bruising his limbs and grabbing with dirty hands on his face (one even grabs him by his teeth but loses their grasp in the next round). Frustration builds.

A giant cyclops woman stomps forward now. Cele Redtakers, the Quest of Forever, large and angry. She swings again at Vanod and his jaw sets.

Vanod doesn't get nervous when he's surrounded. No. It's a growing roar of blood in his ears, a pounding redness right behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest that builds into a powerful roar that shakes his throat.


The fight is dizzyingly quick. Vanod lays blow after blow, sticking them full of so many holes that they might as well be atomized.


What's wrong guys


Really? This is ... this is what we're doing?

The top cyclops is Cele Redtakers the Quest of Forever, and she's running the fuck away. This makes ME angry, nevermind Vanod. He starts beating the everliving shit out of these cyclopes. They become mangled and curl up in fetal positions as he stabs and stabs and stabs.



But they won't die! It's frustrating. Finally I aim for the throats. Pro tip: When the heads don't want to cave in, the throat is the next surest way to bleed them out immediately.



No challenge for Vanod.



Going very well indeed.



Honestly I almost feel bad. These stupid monsters are just dropping like--




...








When Vanod kills you, you STAY DEAD. >:I
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #57 on: February 22, 2012, 06:09:53 am »

This is really fantastic. Great job Earwig!
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #58 on: February 22, 2012, 06:49:10 am »

I head down into the lair to finish off the cowards who dared to hide from Vanod's naked onslaught.



The first one died in only a few turns, and the second one plowed into me until I stabbed him in the lung, and then he ran away. Like seriously, just bolted. (It was not very hard to find him, though.) I stab him in the guts and throat, he barfs on himself and then dies.



Cyclopes infestation: demolished.

I notice after I'm done killing everything that I finally have a title. I pray to Armok it's a good one. If I'm Vanod Openedfires the Umber Pouchesquenches or something, I am gonna be pissed.



...I am okay with this.

I head north from the cave, skirting around the zombies that are now shambling around the mouth of the cave. I find the undead kind of annoying and very easy to collapse, but I really don't know whether they're actually defeatable or not. Worst case scenario, I can come back here later and finish them all off.

Only a few paces north of the cyclops cave, I find a new one, The Abated Depths. Should I go in? I kind of seesaw for a bit, but... Well, why not. I'm still pretty fresh and ready for deathventuring.

The cavern is very similar to the last one, a leftward curving tunnel under the earth, that terminates in a small room in the back. I wonder what monster is in this one? Maybe a scary one? MAYBE THE SCARIEST ONE??!



...   <:1



<8(

Well, maybe it'll be a tough f


Oh come on.

I can't watch this anymore

This is the stupidest monster.
Look how close these caves are. This isn't edited, this is just a screenshot.

I bet he got kicked out of the cyclops apartment because he was so stupid but he still thought they were friends so he moved in next door and would be all awkward and come over like

And it's just so outside of the cyclopes' comfort zone they just kind of let it happen because it's too weird to tell him no and it's not until they're picking his dirty underwear off of the cavern floor a month later and they find a bowl of curdled cereal under a rock that they finally break and kick him out again



This was for the best. Get out of here Etha, no one likes you

With Etha taken down, that's two lairs cleared. The current map now:



Hope you've been enjoying so far!
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Re: Adventures on Monster Island
« Reply #59 on: February 22, 2012, 07:00:10 am »

This is funny. I laughed.
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