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bouteillebleu ([personal profile] bouteillebleu) wrote2004-07-20 11:35 pm
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Posting stuff, a game with too many characters, and a quiz.

I spent this morning hunting for plot holes in last year's Nanowrimo entry, and then some time trying to figure out whether I'd managed to get all the dates right that I'd mentioned in it. I'm surprised it's actually coherent, to be honest, given that I wrote 30,000 words in a month.

I also think that once I get chapter titles for the chapters (which are currently just listed as "scenes" and separated by horizontal lines in my version), I'll start posting it up here. This is mainly so I can have somewhere to point the one reader I have currently if he wants to read new chapters (the reason I have only one reader is probably because I've not put it online), and it'll be less effort to put up new chapters here than to set up my own website for it.

I also admit I was a little disappointed while playing Suikoden III, when I found out that I could only do Chapter 4 with one of my characters (I've completed it with Chris, and now have the choice to do chapter 5 with any of the three). Fair enough, I suppose, given that it's fairly heavy on plot and all of the characters are working together by that point... but it did mean that Hugo and Geddoe got sidelined. I'm going to play Chris's chapter 5 first, of course (I've played her chapters first throughout the game), and I hope I can get the two T.S.S. flames I'm missing. For those of you who've not played the game, the T.S.S. is the Trinity Sight System, which allows you to play through the same period of time (roughly) with different characters and usually different events. It's represented by a screen with six small circles on the floor, which have flames rising from them when you've unlocked the character they represent. You start off with large flames representing the three main characters (Chris, Hugo and Geddoe) available, and through the game you can get three smaller flames representing three more characters. One of these is the person who owns the castle you'll come across part-way through the game (and where you'll be able to persuade people to come along and set up lots of shops), but I haven't unlocked the other two yet. One of them is apparently unlocked by hiring a character, and since I've only got about twenty of the 108 left to get I may as well have a go at this. (Two of the characters I know of, however, are proving annoying - one won't let Chris hire him, insisting she doesn't have the stamina to help him build a bath-house, and the other one's just not turning up where he's supposed to. Grumble.)

Damn, and now my brother's taken the TV back so he can play more Pokemon Colosseum. Ah well, maybe I needed a break anyway.

And now, for the oddness that is the contents of my Livejournal RPG party. [livejournal.com profile] thistle_chaser, in particular, worries me in this one.

Your LJ RPG Team
LJ Username
Sex
Favorite Color
Weapon of Choice
Your Partner the_mysterons
Your Warrior streetwind
The Giggly, Flirtatious Magic User with Big Breasts thistle_chaser
The Talking Animal carakle
Main Archenemy peppygrowlithe
Evil Incarnate evilgrayson
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They got Evil Incarnate spot on, considering the username. I'm not sure why the Mysterons want to partner me in an RPG, though... perhaps this is yet another part of their sinister plan to conquer the earth.

[identity profile] peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com 2004-07-20 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll get you yet, bottle-that-is-blue, if it's the last thing I do!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! *swishes cloak, flies away*

[identity profile] aqouli.livejournal.com 2004-07-20 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Your choice of weapon made me think of Read Or Die instantly. (Even though I've never watched it.) Just to let you know. ;)

And Streetwind makes a killer warrior. I can testify. She's a walking tank in my Disgaea game, twice as much as Laharl. Which reminds me, I need to pick it up again...

[identity profile] bouteillebleu.livejournal.com 2004-07-21 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Your choice of weapon made me think of Read Or Die instantly.

Quite intentionally. I rewatched the TV series last week, and despite some of the odd bits (a member of the British Library is talking to the Prime Minister of the UK, and yet they're both talking Japanese?) it is fantastic. Paper-users rock.

Oh, and how far have you got with Disgaea?

[identity profile] aqouli.livejournal.com 2004-07-21 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Not far. I remember obtaining Gordon and his motley lot not long after I dropped the game. Just not patient enough. =/ But that's how I am with most RPGs.

I should just get a Gameshark and blow my way through the thing with character levels in the thousands. o_O

[identity profile] bouteillebleu.livejournal.com 2004-07-22 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I've just started Gordon's chapter. (Or I had, when I decided to give Suikoden III a go, and promptly lost a whole week to that game. Haven't finished it because if I finish it it'll have ended, and I don't want that.) Wasn't that the one with the only episode preview that's not a complete lie? :)

Oh, and one of the nice things about character levels in the thousands is it'll mean you can take on Prier. She was the main character in La Pucelle (Nippon Ichi's previous game), and she's some kind of demon in Disgaea, about level... 3000, I think.