I posted this in Fite Yer' Mates, but I deleted it because I'm not sure if it's a good idea. What do ya'll think?
"I have... another IDEA!!!
November 1st is my birthday, and it will fit into the Final Fites week. I thought we should do something unique that day, something that will probably never happen again!
A collaborative fite!
For whoever two guys are fiting, we'll have multiple writers! Each writer will write a post, passing on the their part and anyone who came before them's post to the next guy.
For Example:
Bob writes post one. Sends to Jerry.
Jerry writes post two. Sends post one and two to Kelly.
Kelly writes post three. Sends post one, two, and three to Harriet.
Harriet writes post four. Sends post one, two, three, and four to me!
I write the end KO post, draw Gezora image. Can draw other images if the others can't draw.
The fite we'd write together would be public in its competitors and for voting, but the authors would PM me in secret! I will need the people sworn to secrecy, so the others have no idea how long it is, even those in the collaboration! You PM me if you want in, and I'll assign you you're position in the chain.
I'll tell you who to pass it onto, and when you are done writing it you send it. The others shall pass theirs on and the other posts from earlier in the chain. This sounds complicated because it is! But I think you get the gist.
I need writers willing to write one post for a bigger project. Don't apply if you don't think you can handle it! We'll need to be on around the same time of course on fite night, and I'd like some pictures for your post if possible.
Also, we need fiters for it! Who wants to be in this overly complicated thing?"
Monday, October 24, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
I drew a Zoofights Picture! Doomrider v Jeff too.
Do to the mixed up nature of today's Zoofights, my barely passable art was able to make it into the Zoofight! I was even MENTIONED! Jumpropeman is now Zoofights canon!
The picture was rushed a bit, since I asked to do a picture mid-fight. I think it turned out pretty good for a picture I drew! I just wished it looked as good as my Gadadhara or Cash Cow picture. I'm just happy I actually got to contribute!
Art-wise, I didn't want the armadillo to look too much like his introduction image, so I had him looking up and raising the ghost out of somewhere. It was vague how he did it, so I just had the ghost of Ballz taking form behind him as he seemed to beg the heavens or be in the middle of a ritualistic bow. I considered giving him a JRM ghost tail, but I didn't want the Major to disapprove, so I made the lines forming into a shape picture instead. JRM has gone into the city though and is somewhere unknown, so I really don't have a character right now :D
I'll talk about Race Yer' Mates eventually, don't worry ;D
But what I want to talk about first is Doomrider vs. Hella Jeff. I... am not satisfied with it. I feel like it appears rushed or is too short and jumpy. I shoehorned Sweet 'Bus and Hella Pech in because I couldn't resist, but the other parts... I guess just as the writer I knew what lead to each decision.
Originally, I had printed out pictures of both Hella Jeff and Doomrider and was going to take pictures of their paper dolls in places, but it faced too many issues so I just ended up taking some pics of the interstate and using crappy online free photoshop to put them in those pics.
I also had little to no idea what Doomrider really can and can't do! I decided to keep those aspects vague. He made a sword on the battlefield (because the miniature in the image had one XP) but we never hear how. He just made one. Warhammer wikis and websites seem to touch little on the character of Doomrider, so research was pretty fruitless. Also, every time I have to write about Hella Jeff, there is a new comic on his website! The Subway one went up during IYM and one about the Zoo went up for this one. I considered integrating some of it into this fite, but it didn't fit.
Speaking of Jeff's source material, I try to only casually allude to it. Constant references would just end up being masturbatory, serving no purpose except to indulge in memes that will be run into the ground if I allowed myself to overuse them. So I kept focus on the action, rather than spouting the expected. I like subverting expectations :3
Other news: My birthday is the first, and I got my gift early! I have to pay some of it off myself, but it's a 3DS! My dad isn't video game savvy, but he knew getting a system and no games was pointless. I tried to tell him about Reverse Compatibility, but he was awesome and decided to buy me a game too! 3DS doesn't have many good games out yet, but I saw three I wanted: Starfox 64 3DS, Ocarina of Time 3DS, and Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3DS. I couldn't pick by the time we had the clerk over, so I told my dad to pick from those three.
He got me Ocarina of Time.
My 3DS is Flame Red and I am hoping for lots of Wii Points Cards, because the best games for it right now appear to be the old Gameboy titles I missed out on that are now on its Virtual Console.
I actually took the pictures of the interstate with the 3DS! It's camera is 1000x better than the DSi's!
I also went to Goodwill recently, the BEST store on Earth! I used 14 dollars to get 14 movies, and if I had more, I could have bought more! They were VHS tapes, but I don't care what format my movies are in as long as I can watch them! I'll end this blog with a list of the movies I bought there. I've seen some, but not all. Asterisk will indicate the ones I haven't seen.
Matrix (Never seen the others... yet!)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (JAMES BOND!!!)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye* (Love Indy, wish I could get this whole series)
Kate & Leopold (A wonderful romantic comedy, at least I liked it!)
Above the Law* (Cheesy Steven Seagal goodness!)
From Russia with Love (GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL, JAMES BOND!!)
Tomorrow Never Dies (Bond. Jimmy Bond... okay, you got me, JAMES Bond!)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: (Terrible in the early parts, but it gets watchable later on!)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (KHAAAAAANNNN!!! Still haven't seen it, but who hasn't heard of it!)
The Princess Bride (I dare you to tell me this wasn't a good decision!)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* (Wish I could get it with Mr. Toad's Wild Ride as well, but I take what I can get at Goodwill.)
Star Trek Generations* (Picard is better! But Kirk is good too. Crossover is EVEN BETTER!)
Requiem for a Dream* (Heard a lot of praise for it, so it's about time I see it!)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Lightwing's gone, Harry is on leave, Fumes has a home now...
Looks like there is room for a new character :D
Just don't let my next new character catch you villains in America!
Why a new character so late?
I want a new voice in the bar. JRM is good to RP, but everyone else has other people now, and all my side characters are pretty much gone now! Fumes if probably gone too, him and Midori have a home and a job. He may drop in one day, but not often.
Just don't let my next new character catch you villains in America!
Why a new character so late?
I want a new voice in the bar. JRM is good to RP, but everyone else has other people now, and all my side characters are pretty much gone now! Fumes if probably gone too, him and Midori have a home and a job. He may drop in one day, but not often.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Mech Fite, Suprise Fite, SK's Fite, and Fite Confessionals
Well, getting lazy on blog posts has caused me to come to this point where I have a lot to cover, so here we go!
First, the confessions. I am an avid writer and poet outside of Zoofights, winning 3rd place in some big sci-fi short story contest I entered, and writing poetry that infected my old High School literary magazines like a plague. I may post some of the old stuff here one day, but for now this is all fite business. Anyway, I was an avid writer, writing things for silly fun (I have a deviantart full of ridiculous movie scripts) or for serious story telling, but one thing I was always skeptical about was fighting in writing. I could write pretty good stories, but I always thought that writing an interesting fight was just something I couldn't do. I used to marvel at how J.R.R. Tolkein could do it (But not J.K. Rowling. I have a beef with her miles long, and I actually liked the Harry Potter series a lot! But that's a rant for another day...) So, even though I was antsy and very involved in getting the FYM topic started, I didn't even know if my writing would turn out ok! I was going in pretty much blind. I think I adapted pretty well to that though :D
Another confession: Snappers were introduced solely for the Pre-Fite show of the Big Bar Brawl and later adopted to be JRM's always watching eyes. It allowed me to not have to have him float in and be the umpteenth person to ask "Why is this person that? Or who is this person? Why is this like so?" Cleans up the bar a bit if every character doesn't have to ask about a new development the user slept through. Also, it does allow me to have any event on standby if it needs to be seen again and so JRM can actually mediate people well if he feels like it. He is detached from the bar but still cares about them enough not to want them to die outside of his arena. He also is big on hating hypocrisy and is all about the ad hominem argument, but those two ideals often clash :P
Last confession is not related to fites. I recently tried to do a King of Beasts ABC thing with character commentaries on each letter's person, but I ended up doing a train-of-thought style of typing, and I realized that I came off as a huge dick that way! I ranted about things like informed cuteness, so now I just have that blog sealed in a vault for a day when I feel like being seen as a massive jerk. I might just post the ABCs independent of the commentary one day.
Now then: Mech Fite!
Mech Fite was originally going to be one long post in an attempt to subvert the two post format that I seem to have made standard lately. I thought a concise fite would be a nice change of pace, but then things got delayed and I wanted to get some of it out quickly for the readers and it ended up being split. Then, I decided to do something I don't like doing much and doing a straight up "winner is already decided" cliffhanger. Deleter did it in Drown Yer' Mates but usually I avoid doing any between post breaks so... teasing I guess is what I'm thinking of. If it was the Big Bar Brawl people might have been into the cliffhanger, but this was a regular fite, so I don't think I did anything more than prolong the conclusion a bit.
On other matters, I wanted to point out the fact that Bug was sentient and WML wasn't, giving him a unique advantage. That's where Rebecca pulling Celestia out of her mech came from. I had no intent of hurting either opponent, although Rebecca was eventually hurt. It happened more because as I wrote it Rebecca just couldn't stay on Bug, and the picture I drew was supposed to be of her fallen off and looking up at Bug as he is destroyed. I feel bad Bug had to die that way, partly because I had a bit planned in Race Yer' Mates where the others face an obstacle that he'd just walk over like a boss, but now he is a bike like the rest of many of them, so that got scrapped. I probably need to start writing RYM today if I want M Sheep to comment on it >_> I keep stalling!
Oh, another confession. I used to write fites almost exactly around the time the fite was supposed to start. I'd write the post and post it and get started on the next. That's how the tag-team battle went, so the pacing wasn't deliberate, it was me trying to write as fast as I can! I also sometimes delay posting a bit to prevent typos or discontinuities. Remember the two ROBs in the Rafflesia fite? That WAS an error at first, but when I read it I was like, "I NEED TO CORRECT THAT!!! Wait... I haven't talked about the Sheep in a while... MWA HA HA HA!!!" So the Sheep became a shapeshifter too.
Mech Fite, I think, was subject to a voting falacy a lot of fites face these days: Development Error. It's what I call it when even though the characters should be evenly matched or one fiter is superior, the voting goes towards the person who is the character we want to see die less, rather than who we think would win. It's not a problem usually, but I think Rebecca's smaller presence dissuaded people from voting from possible "Sarah crying about mommy losing" events. I think we also face some other fallacies: If Jonesy enters a fite, Erebus pretty much is forced to vote for her because his character is married to her. If Sarah enters a fite, Alex would have to vote for her. At least multiple characters can allow people to support things differently. These are tiny things, not gamebreaking fallacies, so I'm cool with the way things are now.
But yeah, Rebecca seemed like the one more likely to resort to practical tactics (removing Celestia from the mech) and Celestia seemed like she'd be more focused on avoiding unnecessary violence. So that is a thing that influenced fite events.
Now let's move on to the guest write, Lightwing vs Kirby. I was a little sad to see the Gezora pic as the only image, but since it was a friendship victory, I didn't rage about no KO shot. So in other words: The fact that SK chose to include a Friendship victory (which no one voted for, but he probably included a random element in the tractor like I always do for WTF endings) and avoided my disgruntled glare of "Why no KO pic?" I think it was excellently written though, and even though JRM did his usual grumpy commenting, I actually enjoyed the fite. I like reading my characters in fites, and I would like to toss JRM himself into a fite again one day.
I think I need to retire Lightwing though. ROB brought up a good point: It's hard to follow events, so having a character appear from seemingly nowhere for a fite can dissuade voting. Deleter talked of writing out Optimus, so she'll go with him. For now though, I like having her there to be nice to Kirby and act as a person who is always in the bar to talk if its needed. Harry is gone because his boyfriend died, JRM is sometimes doing things, and Fumes is a homeless man (until now! I'll write about the homeless people's new homes soon in the bar topic). I'm not sure about the Attorcroppe colony and what to do with them. I like them, but they don't do much. I thought we needed waiters and assistant janitors so we don't use up five posts complaining about ineffective janitors, so they may just become background characters if people accept them.
A confession, but related to Kirby vs Lightwing: Lightwing's heartwarming talk with Kirby was my way of manipulating people into voting for her! Okay, not so much manipulation, but I knew Kirby had the cute factor on his side, and Draco paid for fiting a cute person. People don't like seeing cute things die, no matter how outmatched a person might be (not saying that was the case in either of these instances, but the Pet Fite hell yeah it was, and we all know it! Silver is a badass now at least out of it. Nago... is disturbing. Just consider you moving from your body after death into a doll shaped like you... That's probably just me though, I bet everyone else is fine with it!). So yeah... I was talking about Lightwing! She had to seem like she wouldn't ruthlessly murder Kirby because she wouldn't! Her personality is a lot like a Warrior version of Sarah, but Lightwing has some demons. She constantly regrets killing Q while possessed and can't ignore that her possession was a big part of her life. I try not to be overbearing with the sadness over killing Q because it could devolve into annoying angst.
Friendship was a good conclusion, but I think SK will be the last Guest Write for the year, since we'll probably only be here for two or three more weeks. Call me crazy, but I have the odd feeling the final to Zoofights may be delayed!!! Heck, the smaller fights were, what is going to stop the grand finale from doing so too?
Lastly, I'll discuss the Surprise Fite. I will probably write a post later about all my characters that encompasses the recent epic finale that had them all crawl out of the woodwork for action, but Yahoo Bot's action there is worth mentioning. I had already planned for Adbot Fite #2 to take place almost three months after the last, the pictures were drawn and everything, but then the epicness happened and I saw room for Yahoo Bot to get in, which started the waterfall of character inclusion. Yahoo Bot is becoming a bit of a badass now himself. Maybe ROB and Yahoo Bot need to fite? That might be a great Fite Finale for the year!! Besides, according to the Rocky analogy we've applied, it is time for ROB to fite his "Rocky Balboa" fite. I may have to talk to Godbot about this >:3
Anyway, Bing Bot was a bit hard to find a good model for. I went to google and typed Bing Robot! XD I think I did at least, Bing Bot was sitting in "the future!" folder for a looooong time. I finally found a reason to use him this week: The inevitable delay of Race Yer' Mates. I had also worked on the image of all the images being shot out of the search engines a while back, typing "fight" into Yahoo and Bing and seeing what images they gave me. I think I also might have looked up words like tussle or brawl for variation, but I think I got a pretty good mess of images. I also got to make snarky comment about Kathy Griffin! She can be funny, but usually she is just very annoying... The OMG! video I found was the epitome of that, and it fit with what I wanted Yahoo Bot to do in that situation so well! I also wanted to bring in aspects of both search engines, which explains the MSN butterfly. Sadly, I brought him in as a spur of the moment thing, so I had to kill the butterfly without a death image. Google+ died that way too I believe. I also wanted to include Hotmail, and some unexplored facets of Yahoo Bot, so the chest buttons were used more to its advantage this time, and unfortunately, I couldn't find much Yahoo has besides OMG! that I implemented. I briefly had the MSN butterfly die by getting caught in a Yahoo Game from its game section, but it was too odd to implement.
Image time!
Recognize this pic? I drew it for Cornwind's big thing. In the crowd I drew (from left to write) Front Row: A pile of Tribbles, Alex the Janitor, Rain, Father Squid, Nago, Midori and Fumes. Back Row: Optimus Prime, Celestia, Gamera.
I wanted to do a crowd shot, maybe of Shuma ramming through the bar itself, but this just worked better. I can't wait for the crowd shot of next year's Big Bar Brawl. It will be so well occupied!
Ok, I'm done for now. See ya later ya'll!
First, the confessions. I am an avid writer and poet outside of Zoofights, winning 3rd place in some big sci-fi short story contest I entered, and writing poetry that infected my old High School literary magazines like a plague. I may post some of the old stuff here one day, but for now this is all fite business. Anyway, I was an avid writer, writing things for silly fun (I have a deviantart full of ridiculous movie scripts) or for serious story telling, but one thing I was always skeptical about was fighting in writing. I could write pretty good stories, but I always thought that writing an interesting fight was just something I couldn't do. I used to marvel at how J.R.R. Tolkein could do it (But not J.K. Rowling. I have a beef with her miles long, and I actually liked the Harry Potter series a lot! But that's a rant for another day...) So, even though I was antsy and very involved in getting the FYM topic started, I didn't even know if my writing would turn out ok! I was going in pretty much blind. I think I adapted pretty well to that though :D
Another confession: Snappers were introduced solely for the Pre-Fite show of the Big Bar Brawl and later adopted to be JRM's always watching eyes. It allowed me to not have to have him float in and be the umpteenth person to ask "Why is this person that? Or who is this person? Why is this like so?" Cleans up the bar a bit if every character doesn't have to ask about a new development the user slept through. Also, it does allow me to have any event on standby if it needs to be seen again and so JRM can actually mediate people well if he feels like it. He is detached from the bar but still cares about them enough not to want them to die outside of his arena. He also is big on hating hypocrisy and is all about the ad hominem argument, but those two ideals often clash :P
Last confession is not related to fites. I recently tried to do a King of Beasts ABC thing with character commentaries on each letter's person, but I ended up doing a train-of-thought style of typing, and I realized that I came off as a huge dick that way! I ranted about things like informed cuteness, so now I just have that blog sealed in a vault for a day when I feel like being seen as a massive jerk. I might just post the ABCs independent of the commentary one day.
Now then: Mech Fite!
Mech Fite was originally going to be one long post in an attempt to subvert the two post format that I seem to have made standard lately. I thought a concise fite would be a nice change of pace, but then things got delayed and I wanted to get some of it out quickly for the readers and it ended up being split. Then, I decided to do something I don't like doing much and doing a straight up "winner is already decided" cliffhanger. Deleter did it in Drown Yer' Mates but usually I avoid doing any between post breaks so... teasing I guess is what I'm thinking of. If it was the Big Bar Brawl people might have been into the cliffhanger, but this was a regular fite, so I don't think I did anything more than prolong the conclusion a bit.
On other matters, I wanted to point out the fact that Bug was sentient and WML wasn't, giving him a unique advantage. That's where Rebecca pulling Celestia out of her mech came from. I had no intent of hurting either opponent, although Rebecca was eventually hurt. It happened more because as I wrote it Rebecca just couldn't stay on Bug, and the picture I drew was supposed to be of her fallen off and looking up at Bug as he is destroyed. I feel bad Bug had to die that way, partly because I had a bit planned in Race Yer' Mates where the others face an obstacle that he'd just walk over like a boss, but now he is a bike like the rest of many of them, so that got scrapped. I probably need to start writing RYM today if I want M Sheep to comment on it >_> I keep stalling!
Oh, another confession. I used to write fites almost exactly around the time the fite was supposed to start. I'd write the post and post it and get started on the next. That's how the tag-team battle went, so the pacing wasn't deliberate, it was me trying to write as fast as I can! I also sometimes delay posting a bit to prevent typos or discontinuities. Remember the two ROBs in the Rafflesia fite? That WAS an error at first, but when I read it I was like, "I NEED TO CORRECT THAT!!! Wait... I haven't talked about the Sheep in a while... MWA HA HA HA!!!" So the Sheep became a shapeshifter too.
Mech Fite, I think, was subject to a voting falacy a lot of fites face these days: Development Error. It's what I call it when even though the characters should be evenly matched or one fiter is superior, the voting goes towards the person who is the character we want to see die less, rather than who we think would win. It's not a problem usually, but I think Rebecca's smaller presence dissuaded people from voting from possible "Sarah crying about mommy losing" events. I think we also face some other fallacies: If Jonesy enters a fite, Erebus pretty much is forced to vote for her because his character is married to her. If Sarah enters a fite, Alex would have to vote for her. At least multiple characters can allow people to support things differently. These are tiny things, not gamebreaking fallacies, so I'm cool with the way things are now.
But yeah, Rebecca seemed like the one more likely to resort to practical tactics (removing Celestia from the mech) and Celestia seemed like she'd be more focused on avoiding unnecessary violence. So that is a thing that influenced fite events.
Now let's move on to the guest write, Lightwing vs Kirby. I was a little sad to see the Gezora pic as the only image, but since it was a friendship victory, I didn't rage about no KO shot. So in other words: The fact that SK chose to include a Friendship victory (which no one voted for, but he probably included a random element in the tractor like I always do for WTF endings) and avoided my disgruntled glare of "Why no KO pic?" I think it was excellently written though, and even though JRM did his usual grumpy commenting, I actually enjoyed the fite. I like reading my characters in fites, and I would like to toss JRM himself into a fite again one day.
I think I need to retire Lightwing though. ROB brought up a good point: It's hard to follow events, so having a character appear from seemingly nowhere for a fite can dissuade voting. Deleter talked of writing out Optimus, so she'll go with him. For now though, I like having her there to be nice to Kirby and act as a person who is always in the bar to talk if its needed. Harry is gone because his boyfriend died, JRM is sometimes doing things, and Fumes is a homeless man (until now! I'll write about the homeless people's new homes soon in the bar topic). I'm not sure about the Attorcroppe colony and what to do with them. I like them, but they don't do much. I thought we needed waiters and assistant janitors so we don't use up five posts complaining about ineffective janitors, so they may just become background characters if people accept them.
A confession, but related to Kirby vs Lightwing: Lightwing's heartwarming talk with Kirby was my way of manipulating people into voting for her! Okay, not so much manipulation, but I knew Kirby had the cute factor on his side, and Draco paid for fiting a cute person. People don't like seeing cute things die, no matter how outmatched a person might be (not saying that was the case in either of these instances, but the Pet Fite hell yeah it was, and we all know it! Silver is a badass now at least out of it. Nago... is disturbing. Just consider you moving from your body after death into a doll shaped like you... That's probably just me though, I bet everyone else is fine with it!). So yeah... I was talking about Lightwing! She had to seem like she wouldn't ruthlessly murder Kirby because she wouldn't! Her personality is a lot like a Warrior version of Sarah, but Lightwing has some demons. She constantly regrets killing Q while possessed and can't ignore that her possession was a big part of her life. I try not to be overbearing with the sadness over killing Q because it could devolve into annoying angst.
Friendship was a good conclusion, but I think SK will be the last Guest Write for the year, since we'll probably only be here for two or three more weeks. Call me crazy, but I have the odd feeling the final to Zoofights may be delayed!!! Heck, the smaller fights were, what is going to stop the grand finale from doing so too?
Lastly, I'll discuss the Surprise Fite. I will probably write a post later about all my characters that encompasses the recent epic finale that had them all crawl out of the woodwork for action, but Yahoo Bot's action there is worth mentioning. I had already planned for Adbot Fite #2 to take place almost three months after the last, the pictures were drawn and everything, but then the epicness happened and I saw room for Yahoo Bot to get in, which started the waterfall of character inclusion. Yahoo Bot is becoming a bit of a badass now himself. Maybe ROB and Yahoo Bot need to fite? That might be a great Fite Finale for the year!! Besides, according to the Rocky analogy we've applied, it is time for ROB to fite his "Rocky Balboa" fite. I may have to talk to Godbot about this >:3
Anyway, Bing Bot was a bit hard to find a good model for. I went to google and typed Bing Robot! XD I think I did at least, Bing Bot was sitting in "the future!" folder for a looooong time. I finally found a reason to use him this week: The inevitable delay of Race Yer' Mates. I had also worked on the image of all the images being shot out of the search engines a while back, typing "fight" into Yahoo and Bing and seeing what images they gave me. I think I also might have looked up words like tussle or brawl for variation, but I think I got a pretty good mess of images. I also got to make snarky comment about Kathy Griffin! She can be funny, but usually she is just very annoying... The OMG! video I found was the epitome of that, and it fit with what I wanted Yahoo Bot to do in that situation so well! I also wanted to bring in aspects of both search engines, which explains the MSN butterfly. Sadly, I brought him in as a spur of the moment thing, so I had to kill the butterfly without a death image. Google+ died that way too I believe. I also wanted to include Hotmail, and some unexplored facets of Yahoo Bot, so the chest buttons were used more to its advantage this time, and unfortunately, I couldn't find much Yahoo has besides OMG! that I implemented. I briefly had the MSN butterfly die by getting caught in a Yahoo Game from its game section, but it was too odd to implement.
Image time!
I wanted to do a crowd shot, maybe of Shuma ramming through the bar itself, but this just worked better. I can't wait for the crowd shot of next year's Big Bar Brawl. It will be so well occupied!
Ok, I'm done for now. See ya later ya'll!
Friday, October 7, 2011
The pets lost. The Tribbles prevailed.
So yeah, last night I wrote the cats and ponies getting killed by Tribbles, and for the most part everyone understood that I just wrote it with no real malice towards the pets. However, we had to put up with Sine's rage again. Sine, the person who will flip out for me allowing people to fite in my arena and blaming me for what they do. Sine, who values a cat's life over some other people who are permanently dead.
Reminds me of the Lord, who wanted to pretty much enslave the world and strip it of free will, but DON'T HURT CATS!!! For some reason this big ol' villain refused to hurt cats for no good reason then... they are cute? It is probably something more convoluted, like "A cat saved me from drowning in a river when I was younger" or something ridiculous like that. I think we should have sent Nago and Ingo to fite the Lord! He would have just surrendered to them!
So enough about a villain's weaksauce weakness.
Time for writing notes!
Originally, the image of the Tribble Colony appearing and Nago being consumed were supposed to be quickly one after the other, Nago having no chance to defend himself. I didn't like that though when I started writing it, and since Nago was no longer under the spell of the cooing Tribbles, he had no reason to lay down and take it without a fight.
Nago is also the only animal I allowed myself to really kill. I rolled a tractor for which animal would actually die, and the fat cat got it. Silver is some living metal, so the KO against him was hard to imagine. I, at first, tried to draw a horse all dented up with its legs tied together, and I was going to say the Tribbles dented him up so bad he could no longer move, but the Shelby stomp made more sense. He couldn't think with a flat head!
Hey Silver, why the flat face? :P
Ingo was pretty much guaranteed to fall even if the pets won. Its owner didn't give the poor cat a weapon, and I was not going to let that oversight go unpunished. Of course, I didn't want to kill Ingo, so when the tractor favored his survival, I figured a Tribble pile was a simple way to take the cat out. Just heal his back and he'll be mewing happily in no time!
Shelby had all the advantages she needed to win, but luckily a trip to the Star Trek wiki informed me the Animated Series had things called Tribble Colonies, which looked like a giant Tribble (a Tribble that appears to be much larger than typical size, if you will) but is actually a bunch of regular Tribbles living in symbiosis somehow. That made things seem less easy for Shelby just to trample her foes to death.
Shelby's KO picture is rather gruesome, especially if you don't realize the Tribbles are going in the throat. My brother saw it and called it "A hornless unicorn vomiting up balls". I think I turned him off to the idea of Fite Yer' Mates with that pic XP Not like he'd join Zoofights though. He's too engrossed in Final Fantasy XI to do anything else with his life.
The Tribbles were introduced to the bar as a little action stimulator one day and so that Sailor would have something to do now that people wouldn't allow him to be dead. I originally intended for the Tribbles just to be a gag later on, popping out of cupboards when Gezora went to get drinks or playing around in some meal people ordered. They quickly earned Sarah's murderous rage though. You wouldn't think someone so nice would get angry because someone ate her food! I mean, damn! It was funny though XD
I guess now I may still have a few Tribbles pop up every now and then, but they probably will not be seen as a gag like I intended. I think now, animal-wise, I'll just try to focus on Gizmo, who I introduced and haven't done much with because of other engagements.
Tonight is the mech fite though. Hopefully I won't be late in posting it, because I will be busy from about 1 o'clock until whenever the hell it is done. I'm sure it won't be a problem.
I am a bit disappointed though. Kirby and Lightwing's fite only has two votes, and so far Steel Komodo will be writing Kirby winning, because no one has voted besides two people who picked Kirby. I'm sure someone else will vote... for Kirby, and then Steel Komodo will write and raw a foregone conclusion. I mean sheesh, you give people extra points for Race Yer' Mates and they STILL don't vote!
I'm probably worrying for nothing. I bet voting will pick up after the mech fite is over.
Damn, I write LOOOOONG posts!
Reminds me of the Lord, who wanted to pretty much enslave the world and strip it of free will, but DON'T HURT CATS!!! For some reason this big ol' villain refused to hurt cats for no good reason then... they are cute? It is probably something more convoluted, like "A cat saved me from drowning in a river when I was younger" or something ridiculous like that. I think we should have sent Nago and Ingo to fite the Lord! He would have just surrendered to them!
So enough about a villain's weaksauce weakness.
Time for writing notes!
Originally, the image of the Tribble Colony appearing and Nago being consumed were supposed to be quickly one after the other, Nago having no chance to defend himself. I didn't like that though when I started writing it, and since Nago was no longer under the spell of the cooing Tribbles, he had no reason to lay down and take it without a fight.
Nago is also the only animal I allowed myself to really kill. I rolled a tractor for which animal would actually die, and the fat cat got it. Silver is some living metal, so the KO against him was hard to imagine. I, at first, tried to draw a horse all dented up with its legs tied together, and I was going to say the Tribbles dented him up so bad he could no longer move, but the Shelby stomp made more sense. He couldn't think with a flat head!
Hey Silver, why the flat face? :P
Ingo was pretty much guaranteed to fall even if the pets won. Its owner didn't give the poor cat a weapon, and I was not going to let that oversight go unpunished. Of course, I didn't want to kill Ingo, so when the tractor favored his survival, I figured a Tribble pile was a simple way to take the cat out. Just heal his back and he'll be mewing happily in no time!
Shelby had all the advantages she needed to win, but luckily a trip to the Star Trek wiki informed me the Animated Series had things called Tribble Colonies, which looked like a giant Tribble (a Tribble that appears to be much larger than typical size, if you will) but is actually a bunch of regular Tribbles living in symbiosis somehow. That made things seem less easy for Shelby just to trample her foes to death.
Shelby's KO picture is rather gruesome, especially if you don't realize the Tribbles are going in the throat. My brother saw it and called it "A hornless unicorn vomiting up balls". I think I turned him off to the idea of Fite Yer' Mates with that pic XP Not like he'd join Zoofights though. He's too engrossed in Final Fantasy XI to do anything else with his life.
The Tribbles were introduced to the bar as a little action stimulator one day and so that Sailor would have something to do now that people wouldn't allow him to be dead. I originally intended for the Tribbles just to be a gag later on, popping out of cupboards when Gezora went to get drinks or playing around in some meal people ordered. They quickly earned Sarah's murderous rage though. You wouldn't think someone so nice would get angry because someone ate her food! I mean, damn! It was funny though XD
I guess now I may still have a few Tribbles pop up every now and then, but they probably will not be seen as a gag like I intended. I think now, animal-wise, I'll just try to focus on Gizmo, who I introduced and haven't done much with because of other engagements.
Tonight is the mech fite though. Hopefully I won't be late in posting it, because I will be busy from about 1 o'clock until whenever the hell it is done. I'm sure it won't be a problem.
I am a bit disappointed though. Kirby and Lightwing's fite only has two votes, and so far Steel Komodo will be writing Kirby winning, because no one has voted besides two people who picked Kirby. I'm sure someone else will vote... for Kirby, and then Steel Komodo will write and raw a foregone conclusion. I mean sheesh, you give people extra points for Race Yer' Mates and they STILL don't vote!
I'm probably worrying for nothing. I bet voting will pick up after the mech fite is over.
Damn, I write LOOOOONG posts!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Oh yes... I sort of left out the thirteenth Tapogre :shobon:
Yeah, there was a thirteenth Tapogre in the fite, more a gag then the rest of them. I wanted a "sexy lady" tapogre to represent all of our porn tapogres, but having so many things to draw last weekend, I kind of forgot to draw the pic, so I ended up making it in MSPaint, then had fun in Photoshop with it. I made a little gif of it exploding and all too, which was moderately fun! I had Mr. Twister (the pornogre) melting at first, but I didn't like how that gif turned out, so I just used the bloat tool and made it really fat!
I also wanted to reference the bit in the actual Tapogre Zoofight where they tell us they brought in a seventh Tapogre. There will probably never be another Tapogre Fite, so even though I had to do an admittedly subpar image for Mr. Twister, I'm glad I got that joke in.
Now I will just continue stalling on writing the pet fite.
I also wanted to reference the bit in the actual Tapogre Zoofight where they tell us they brought in a seventh Tapogre. There will probably never be another Tapogre Fite, so even though I had to do an admittedly subpar image for Mr. Twister, I'm glad I got that joke in.
Now I will just continue stalling on writing the pet fite.
Tapogre Fite
Well, that fite is over now. Time to talk about it a bit.
Our fiters:
Foreman Tramadol:
He probably has the most interesting background. Back when I first started planning the Tapogre Fite, Foreman Tramadol didn't exist as a character. Tramadol was just a spambot, and as such I didn't have to incorporate anything besides the pill he is based on. Back then, he was literally going to be a giant pill of Tramadol with a Tapogre trunk, but when the ideas became more serious for the Tapogres, he became a tapogre with skin made of the drug. This carried over to the Foreman, but was never used for anything more than his appearance. None of the Tapogres except Yquem could really have exploited the dissolving aspect of the pill, and Yquem is too nice. Saberwulf decided to go and establish Tramadol as a character, which definitely got him a lot of support. Too bad he had to die... I made sure his death was sad though! I will miss the character definitely... May he rest in peace knowing he has changed the way some of us view Tapogres.
Doghouse:
Another classic Tapogre, he also was just going to be an object with a Tapogre trunk place on it, but of course that evolved. Had he lasted longer the tapdogre within the house would have probably been more intimidating. Had he got last place, he might have even ended up a puppy! He was given an early death though, so at least he got a kill in before he was killed. Shame the two classic spammers died, one so early on.
Luling:
Luling actually surprised me a bit. I was going home from University one weekend to visit the family and saw a sign that said the next exit was for a town called Luling! I wonder if the spammer took his name from there specifically. One good thing about the spammer itself was that it posted multiple topics to draw upon for the Tapogre's appearance. A lot of the accessories were laid out in the spam threads, and the weapon was easy to pick because of it hocking Runescape gold. Runescape ain't 80s, but I tried to keep the Tapogres connected with their spamming counterparts.
Spatagots:
A porn tapogre, one pushing russian preteens no less! Luckily, I just shifted that into a Russian preteen with a briefcase that probably contained porn, but just ended up holding nitroglycerin. Yeah, it was an asspull, but I wanted to see Mr. Twister explode! Spatagots got a lot of support though because of her weapon choice, which made me pretty happy. I don't like it much when people vote who they don't want to see die rather than who they know will win. Fites between undeveloped characters lend themselves to more honest voting. If Tramadol hadn't been developed, he might not have received any votes! Anyways, since Spatagots was russian, I gave her an AK-47, mainly because otherwise she was a non-contender. Didn't realize how much a simple gun would change her chances of winning! Too bad she lost anyway!
Xrumer:
Our winner, ladies and gentlemen! RedSpy's little bit really helped me write his victory. I knew he'd phish most of the battle, and I originally intended for the sock puppets he wore on his hands to act as his mouth, with his real self never talking, but he only talked once and it was too badass to waste time explaining. Xrumer was created by reading the wikipedia page and integrating the actual spammer's methods into a physical form, while also making him pretty mysterious. That's why he has a cool hat!
Imarliage:
RedSpy was instrumental here again. Back in the topic the spammer made, Spy wrote a whole spiel about Wholesale Goldcoins being the best Zoofighter ever. Calling the Tapogre Wholesale Goldcoins just felt wrong though, and Imarliage just seemed a lot better name anyway. Sound neat and interesting! Makes me think of mage or sage. So the gun, arms, and golden armor came from Spy, but the rapper aspect came from how he was banned. Gravitas posted some rapper dancing as the ban image, so I incorporated that. I did that for a lot of the other Tapogres coming up too. I wanted to write more Tapogre raps for this guy, but I ended up distracted during the writing, so I only got one good rap out. I actually feel like singing the rap and recording it myself...
Taiple:
He had to be a russian stereotype. We had so many russian tapogres that we needed a representative of them, so he got the job. He was originally just going to be a Tapogre made of jumbled code, but that proved too hard to draw, so I mixed his Russian and code aspects, making a Tapogre who blended two types of Tapogre into one competitor: The Russian spammer and the Gibberish Spammer.
Seo:
The topic was banned faster than I could take notes, but I got two things: Google and Seo. Looking up Seo on Google (ha ha ha) I came up with some Asian man named Seo Taiji who seemed to be quite the fashionable fellow. So I used him as the main focus, and then added parts salvaged from Googlebot to make him more interesting. Since the ban image involved an asteroid hitting earth that was a frogface, he turned into a tapogre essence who used Seo and googlebot to survive.
The Trojan:
Since the mod stuffed this guy in a wooden horse, I decided to give him a little wooden steed. I also took the fact he was talking about the Trojan virus and went and turned it into a nerd LARPing as a Trojan. He was just one big joke, but it was kind of fun drawing him the first time. Not much too say about him, some Tapogres just had to die.
Yquem:
Pronounced "ii-quee-em" I imagine. The ban image was of a chubby kid, so I made him a kid. The guy also only posted a simple agreement for his spam, so I made him pretty pacifistic. That was too boring though by itself, so I looked up his name in google and it seized on Yqeum, which is apparently a wine company in France. So I decided to make him a sad mix of wining objects and an agreeable kid who couldn't say no to it. He was doomed to die too, but he was a helpful puppet for Xrumer and a perfect candidate for the Tapogre Power image.
Accountant Frog:
The ban image was of a man with a frog face with an afro and suit, and the spammer talked about accounting, so that became this odd thing. Accountant frog was originally going to draw up business with Imarliage as his accountant, but Spatagots would kill him because Imarliage was busy, but I just rearranged that a bit and hopefully it didn't come off to odd. I liked the idea of the job DELUSION so I wrote around it.
Anna:
Anna is a weird case. It posted a topic promising porn of Anna Nicole Smith, but it just has a little thing of it saying hi and being nice. I turned its misunderstanding of how to properly spam into how it made it body a weird unholy thing. People in the spammer's topic talked about Batman, and I was going to give Anna a fear of Batman, but it wasn't very applicable in the fite's setting. Maybe if we had someone RPing as Batman Anna could have seen him in the crowd and flipped out on a murderous rampage or something, but nope!
So that is the Tapogre Fite. Tonight will be the pet fite, where people are bound to complain no matter how gentle I am with the pets. Unless the Tribble just pet the cats and ponies and they all pick flowers I doubt I will get positive feedback :(
Oh well, I'm supposed to be impartial! I need to think of how the Major would handle this!
Okay... Maybe a toned down version of how he would have animals fite a bunch of furballs...
Our fiters:
Foreman Tramadol:
He probably has the most interesting background. Back when I first started planning the Tapogre Fite, Foreman Tramadol didn't exist as a character. Tramadol was just a spambot, and as such I didn't have to incorporate anything besides the pill he is based on. Back then, he was literally going to be a giant pill of Tramadol with a Tapogre trunk, but when the ideas became more serious for the Tapogres, he became a tapogre with skin made of the drug. This carried over to the Foreman, but was never used for anything more than his appearance. None of the Tapogres except Yquem could really have exploited the dissolving aspect of the pill, and Yquem is too nice. Saberwulf decided to go and establish Tramadol as a character, which definitely got him a lot of support. Too bad he had to die... I made sure his death was sad though! I will miss the character definitely... May he rest in peace knowing he has changed the way some of us view Tapogres.
Doghouse:
Another classic Tapogre, he also was just going to be an object with a Tapogre trunk place on it, but of course that evolved. Had he lasted longer the tapdogre within the house would have probably been more intimidating. Had he got last place, he might have even ended up a puppy! He was given an early death though, so at least he got a kill in before he was killed. Shame the two classic spammers died, one so early on.
Luling:
Luling actually surprised me a bit. I was going home from University one weekend to visit the family and saw a sign that said the next exit was for a town called Luling! I wonder if the spammer took his name from there specifically. One good thing about the spammer itself was that it posted multiple topics to draw upon for the Tapogre's appearance. A lot of the accessories were laid out in the spam threads, and the weapon was easy to pick because of it hocking Runescape gold. Runescape ain't 80s, but I tried to keep the Tapogres connected with their spamming counterparts.
Spatagots:
A porn tapogre, one pushing russian preteens no less! Luckily, I just shifted that into a Russian preteen with a briefcase that probably contained porn, but just ended up holding nitroglycerin. Yeah, it was an asspull, but I wanted to see Mr. Twister explode! Spatagots got a lot of support though because of her weapon choice, which made me pretty happy. I don't like it much when people vote who they don't want to see die rather than who they know will win. Fites between undeveloped characters lend themselves to more honest voting. If Tramadol hadn't been developed, he might not have received any votes! Anyways, since Spatagots was russian, I gave her an AK-47, mainly because otherwise she was a non-contender. Didn't realize how much a simple gun would change her chances of winning! Too bad she lost anyway!
Xrumer:
Our winner, ladies and gentlemen! RedSpy's little bit really helped me write his victory. I knew he'd phish most of the battle, and I originally intended for the sock puppets he wore on his hands to act as his mouth, with his real self never talking, but he only talked once and it was too badass to waste time explaining. Xrumer was created by reading the wikipedia page and integrating the actual spammer's methods into a physical form, while also making him pretty mysterious. That's why he has a cool hat!
Imarliage:
RedSpy was instrumental here again. Back in the topic the spammer made, Spy wrote a whole spiel about Wholesale Goldcoins being the best Zoofighter ever. Calling the Tapogre Wholesale Goldcoins just felt wrong though, and Imarliage just seemed a lot better name anyway. Sound neat and interesting! Makes me think of mage or sage. So the gun, arms, and golden armor came from Spy, but the rapper aspect came from how he was banned. Gravitas posted some rapper dancing as the ban image, so I incorporated that. I did that for a lot of the other Tapogres coming up too. I wanted to write more Tapogre raps for this guy, but I ended up distracted during the writing, so I only got one good rap out. I actually feel like singing the rap and recording it myself...
Taiple:
He had to be a russian stereotype. We had so many russian tapogres that we needed a representative of them, so he got the job. He was originally just going to be a Tapogre made of jumbled code, but that proved too hard to draw, so I mixed his Russian and code aspects, making a Tapogre who blended two types of Tapogre into one competitor: The Russian spammer and the Gibberish Spammer.
Seo:
The topic was banned faster than I could take notes, but I got two things: Google and Seo. Looking up Seo on Google (ha ha ha) I came up with some Asian man named Seo Taiji who seemed to be quite the fashionable fellow. So I used him as the main focus, and then added parts salvaged from Googlebot to make him more interesting. Since the ban image involved an asteroid hitting earth that was a frogface, he turned into a tapogre essence who used Seo and googlebot to survive.
The Trojan:
Since the mod stuffed this guy in a wooden horse, I decided to give him a little wooden steed. I also took the fact he was talking about the Trojan virus and went and turned it into a nerd LARPing as a Trojan. He was just one big joke, but it was kind of fun drawing him the first time. Not much too say about him, some Tapogres just had to die.
Yquem:
Pronounced "ii-quee-em" I imagine. The ban image was of a chubby kid, so I made him a kid. The guy also only posted a simple agreement for his spam, so I made him pretty pacifistic. That was too boring though by itself, so I looked up his name in google and it seized on Yqeum, which is apparently a wine company in France. So I decided to make him a sad mix of wining objects and an agreeable kid who couldn't say no to it. He was doomed to die too, but he was a helpful puppet for Xrumer and a perfect candidate for the Tapogre Power image.
Accountant Frog:
The ban image was of a man with a frog face with an afro and suit, and the spammer talked about accounting, so that became this odd thing. Accountant frog was originally going to draw up business with Imarliage as his accountant, but Spatagots would kill him because Imarliage was busy, but I just rearranged that a bit and hopefully it didn't come off to odd. I liked the idea of the job DELUSION so I wrote around it.
Anna:
Anna is a weird case. It posted a topic promising porn of Anna Nicole Smith, but it just has a little thing of it saying hi and being nice. I turned its misunderstanding of how to properly spam into how it made it body a weird unholy thing. People in the spammer's topic talked about Batman, and I was going to give Anna a fear of Batman, but it wasn't very applicable in the fite's setting. Maybe if we had someone RPing as Batman Anna could have seen him in the crowd and flipped out on a murderous rampage or something, but nope!
So that is the Tapogre Fite. Tonight will be the pet fite, where people are bound to complain no matter how gentle I am with the pets. Unless the Tribble just pet the cats and ponies and they all pick flowers I doubt I will get positive feedback :(
Oh well, I'm supposed to be impartial! I need to think of how the Major would handle this!
Okay... Maybe a toned down version of how he would have animals fite a bunch of furballs...
Monday, October 3, 2011
Yeah... I made one :( Also, THE HUNT!!!
Ok, I went and made the stinking blog! I began thinking of how it could offer some behinds the scenes stuff for the fites and realized how useful it could really be. I will probably post stuff besides fite backgrounds too, maybe do a character profile thing like the others are doing and maybe make some posts to complain about my ridiculous Statistics professor.
So, right now in the SRDL, a bunch of men are hunting a group of creatures from the 80s on Gilligan's Planet. Here I'll explain some stuff I left out and how/why I chose these creatures.
Planet: Gilligan's Planet
I chose this place as our locale for the hunt partly as a joke, because the tv show was a joke itself. Rather than going to some spooky vague planet, we are going to a place that changed with each episode. It was also the most 80s locale I could find while still having all the necessities of a good hunting range. I considered saying it was a pet project of JRM, or that Gilligan and them have left already, but I'll leave that for the others to choose if the crew of the Minnow is still there in space for some reason.
Hocus Chimaera
The small game is mostly just video game monsters since they have the most weak mobs that could be picked off in a traditional hunting way. Dragon Warrior is an 80s game and I realized we needed some birds, so I picked the ones with magic spells!
Sharkticon
Because Optimus suggested it. Still don't know too much about them, but they seem like good things to kill. Wish they were aquatic though, so we could have more than a giant shark in the ocean.
Awful Green Things from Outer Space
Because we never mention straight up 80s board games around here! They are simple and easy to kill, so they are perfect small game material, much like...
Uggs
Weird Q*Bert enemies who I threw in for the weaker guys who can't handle giant monsters.
Lynel
This is supposed to be the closest to a straight up duel or swordfight we can get on this hunt. Plus, it's like the most badass Zelda 1 enemy that wouldn't fall under big game.
Spirit Naga
Looking through Final Fantasy 1's bestiary makes you think what the big FF RPers might do in the future. Goops and Alex are all about Final Fantasy RPing, so I didn't want to take their monsters from them. Spirit Naga seemed like a safe bet. Before I read their bio on a wiki, I was hoping to make them turn immaterial if alerted to the presence of hunters. Sadly, Spirit Naga ain't that cool :(
Warlock
Since it was a good guy in Blackstar and the protagonist's steed, I didn't want to force us to kill it. I thought Erebus, as the bachelor, should have a unique experience on the hunt. I thought of giving him the Grue, but the possibility of an awesome dragon steed is much cooler I think. Erebus riding into a battle on it would be muoy epic.
Black widow Shark
I was going to have just one Thundercats monster, but I couldn't pick between the spider and this shark. I thought they were both unique enough for inclusion, and the shark has arms! Arms, people! It will grab you! I wish Widow Maker could have come. An awesome submarine fight would have ensued. Too bad it is a BACHELOR Party... Maybe if people like it enough I'll organize a hunt near the end of the year. Giligan's Planet: The Bar's Hunting Range!
Grue
I wasn't even thinking of having this one. It was supposed to be a threat to make trekking through caves scarier and with more tension, but the robot bros. are kind of owning it. I was going to explain it was brought in a crate no one had opened until they were in the cave, but that didn't make much sense, so it became a native creature. I also considered having multiple Grues waiting around to kill people, but it never got across so whatevs.
Spidera
A big ol' Spider, what else can I say? Classic spiderweb action! Another Thundercats villain because Thundercats knew how to make cool monsters. The new show looks good too. There was this rabbit/scarecrow-like guy on it that just made me scream "I WISH I COULD RP HIM!!!" but I RP too many characters already! Might need to send some off to "the farm" some day, or just have a happy ending for them.
Asteroid Bird Alien
I don't even understand this thing, but Optimus mentioned it, so I made it so! Plus, a robot like animal always means a more resilient prey. Go get 'em Optimus!
Dragonflyer
The last one added, mainly because there aren't many good images of Sectaur things and I wanted some decent images of the prey. I like that it is a dragon bug though. We avoided hunting dragons for a certain someone's sake (RIP Draco) and the only one at risk is supposed to be tamed.
Sslither
Because Inhumanoids lend themselves to being killed by the bargoers. Plus, I wanted to see Pech take down a giant snake :3
Rancor
The FIRST one to come to mind when I came up with this. Killing a Rancor might as well be a BARmitzvah for any good bargoer into being a rugged man. Yes, I just made that pun! The Rancor is classic "big killer monster" and in Force Unleashed you can really wail on them with a freaking LIGHTSABER!!
So yeah, there is my long and unnecessary explanation for all of that. Hope it was at least a bit interesting. I'll probably give a post on the background for our tapogres in the Tapogre Fite coming up, and make some general RP comments soon. So there. It's done. I BLOGGED!!! I feel so dirty...
So, right now in the SRDL, a bunch of men are hunting a group of creatures from the 80s on Gilligan's Planet. Here I'll explain some stuff I left out and how/why I chose these creatures.
Planet: Gilligan's Planet
I chose this place as our locale for the hunt partly as a joke, because the tv show was a joke itself. Rather than going to some spooky vague planet, we are going to a place that changed with each episode. It was also the most 80s locale I could find while still having all the necessities of a good hunting range. I considered saying it was a pet project of JRM, or that Gilligan and them have left already, but I'll leave that for the others to choose if the crew of the Minnow is still there in space for some reason.
Hocus Chimaera
The small game is mostly just video game monsters since they have the most weak mobs that could be picked off in a traditional hunting way. Dragon Warrior is an 80s game and I realized we needed some birds, so I picked the ones with magic spells!
Sharkticon
Because Optimus suggested it. Still don't know too much about them, but they seem like good things to kill. Wish they were aquatic though, so we could have more than a giant shark in the ocean.
Awful Green Things from Outer Space
Because we never mention straight up 80s board games around here! They are simple and easy to kill, so they are perfect small game material, much like...
Uggs
Weird Q*Bert enemies who I threw in for the weaker guys who can't handle giant monsters.
Lynel
This is supposed to be the closest to a straight up duel or swordfight we can get on this hunt. Plus, it's like the most badass Zelda 1 enemy that wouldn't fall under big game.
Spirit Naga
Looking through Final Fantasy 1's bestiary makes you think what the big FF RPers might do in the future. Goops and Alex are all about Final Fantasy RPing, so I didn't want to take their monsters from them. Spirit Naga seemed like a safe bet. Before I read their bio on a wiki, I was hoping to make them turn immaterial if alerted to the presence of hunters. Sadly, Spirit Naga ain't that cool :(
Warlock
Since it was a good guy in Blackstar and the protagonist's steed, I didn't want to force us to kill it. I thought Erebus, as the bachelor, should have a unique experience on the hunt. I thought of giving him the Grue, but the possibility of an awesome dragon steed is much cooler I think. Erebus riding into a battle on it would be muoy epic.
Black widow Shark
I was going to have just one Thundercats monster, but I couldn't pick between the spider and this shark. I thought they were both unique enough for inclusion, and the shark has arms! Arms, people! It will grab you! I wish Widow Maker could have come. An awesome submarine fight would have ensued. Too bad it is a BACHELOR Party... Maybe if people like it enough I'll organize a hunt near the end of the year. Giligan's Planet: The Bar's Hunting Range!
Grue
I wasn't even thinking of having this one. It was supposed to be a threat to make trekking through caves scarier and with more tension, but the robot bros. are kind of owning it. I was going to explain it was brought in a crate no one had opened until they were in the cave, but that didn't make much sense, so it became a native creature. I also considered having multiple Grues waiting around to kill people, but it never got across so whatevs.
Spidera
A big ol' Spider, what else can I say? Classic spiderweb action! Another Thundercats villain because Thundercats knew how to make cool monsters. The new show looks good too. There was this rabbit/scarecrow-like guy on it that just made me scream "I WISH I COULD RP HIM!!!" but I RP too many characters already! Might need to send some off to "the farm" some day, or just have a happy ending for them.
Asteroid Bird Alien
I don't even understand this thing, but Optimus mentioned it, so I made it so! Plus, a robot like animal always means a more resilient prey. Go get 'em Optimus!
Dragonflyer
The last one added, mainly because there aren't many good images of Sectaur things and I wanted some decent images of the prey. I like that it is a dragon bug though. We avoided hunting dragons for a certain someone's sake (RIP Draco) and the only one at risk is supposed to be tamed.
Sslither
Because Inhumanoids lend themselves to being killed by the bargoers. Plus, I wanted to see Pech take down a giant snake :3
Rancor
The FIRST one to come to mind when I came up with this. Killing a Rancor might as well be a BARmitzvah for any good bargoer into being a rugged man. Yes, I just made that pun! The Rancor is classic "big killer monster" and in Force Unleashed you can really wail on them with a freaking LIGHTSABER!!
So yeah, there is my long and unnecessary explanation for all of that. Hope it was at least a bit interesting. I'll probably give a post on the background for our tapogres in the Tapogre Fite coming up, and make some general RP comments soon. So there. It's done. I BLOGGED!!! I feel so dirty...
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