Wow.
I'm out for a day and already 5 new pages? This thread is moving insanely fast...
Having keyboard issues - my laptop keyboard has appeared to have finally gone out (I've only had it for 2.5 years
) and I had to come up with a ridiculous jury-rigged set-up which allows me to hook up an old PS2 keyboard (you know, circular plug) because I lack any USB keyboards. It works, but it's annoying.
Mitch, quote seconded - I laughed and it got quite a bit of attention anyway. Congrats for making Post 2, Stormtemplar.
I'm really interested (and concerned) about what you're doing, Mitch... lol If you send the demons up to the surface and they don't manage to kill that necromancer, we're screwed...
Undead demons wouldn't be fun at all. Oh, and demons surviving in general would be pretty bad... lol But it would be awesome to say Spearbreakers invaded HFS, to get back at the demons below for converting Sankis, Nemo and Holistic Detective to their cause. A sort of revenge, in a way...
Stormtemplar, awesome haikus.
I'd come up with some, but I'm not really that funny, I think. lol Plus, I think there's another word for haikus meant to be funny... But I can't remember it.
Niccolo, that was pretty good. You're not as bad as you think, in my opinion. That poem could've gone on quite a bit longer without decreasing in quality, I'm betting. Lol at how you said the fortress was named because Splint sneezed while speaking.
As per Asaheru's request, links to all poetry is in the second post now.
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Terrahex: As to Joseph, I see him as evil. Talvi, in her regressed, childlike state, is a bit too innocent-minded to understand that there are evils in the world, especially an evil from someone she considers a friend - Joseph. The necromancer she fully believed was an ally, simply because he could (as she believed) resurrect dead creatures, which marked him as something of an old, good, wise wizard in her eyes. If you noted, in one of her earlier journal entries she mentioned Joseph wanted access to the fortress's security systems - perhaps to shut them down, perhaps to look them over and see what could be done to bypass them - who knows. But it was included as if he was requesting it with darker intentions in mind.
Then again, it's just as possible he was wanting to look at the security systems with the idea of upgrading them.
As to how she came across Jospeh in the first place... I have no idea. :\ Perhaps she doesn't even know. Or perhaps it came along in something Mr Frog brought - or
perhaps it (the tablet, or hologram, or whatever) arrived quite the same way that he did - from the future of an alternate dimension, through the work of Parasol (I always get the feeling that what they do ought to be illegal, lol). She might have come across it some other way - do what you think is best. lol I always tried to leave a "fill in the blank" air of mystery around the entire affair.
Joseph's identity could be Mr Frog's old archenemy from his dimension (to be technical it's more of an alternate universe, but enh)... Or perhaps someone farther along the line trying to stop Mr Frog from advancing dwarven technology. Perhaps he has good intentions and is trying to keep Spearbreaker's from its untimely end. Or maybe even something else... But I'm pretty sure he's from the future. That much I'm sure of.
However it is, I think Talvi sees Joseph in the same way that one would see an imaginary friend. She believes no one else can see him, but also in her mind he's real enough to justify his existence - to her. I doubt that she believes anyone else could see him, and it would probably come as a pretty big surprise.
Mr Frog - is this anywhere close to as far as you were planning on taking it? lol
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