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nd of resigned myself to never seeing the game on pc because well sony would like to keep their exclusives in house and make you buy a ps4 instead i guess sony must have run the numbers and decided there was more money to be made by releasing the game on pc rather than keeping it in house i d like to think that s the case as i can t possibly be the only pc gamer who simply doesn t have an xboxone or ps4 lying around additionally it certainly seems that consoles are driving the video games market so pc ports can be more trouble than they re worth with the xbox and ps architecture you only have to design for far fewer sets of hardware than in the pc market additionally pc gamers are used to much higher framerates and graphical detail than can be found in the console market nevermind that the number of pc gamers who have hardware that can achieve those lofty heights aren t that numerous that the potential is there is the important part officially sony is saying that they want to lure pc people into using the ps4 but i believe that everybody who wants and or owns a ps4 already has a pc so chasing after dollars from people like me who don t have and don t want a ps4 is kind of a head scratcher but hey i m happy to accept this lure by sony sony had better not expect me to drop the full price for the game however as a i don t have that sort of money just lying around and b i m busy with other games first i m not including the nintendo switch here as third parties aren t exactly flocking to putting their latest and greatest on the switch their loss in my opinion posted by redbeard at 8 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels horizon zero dawn news tuesday march 10 2020 on being debriefed now that the story is fully posted i can take a deep breath and relax once i started in on the tale i didn t expect to be flirting with a novella length story but that s what ended up i know it s cliche to say it but the characters themselves insisted on a manuscript this size although i did chop off quite a few words during editing cardwyn in particular shoved me out of the way and took over the keyboard insisting that this was how it happened i originally started this project writing in third person but it just didn t feel right i personally prefer third person because you can get multiple viewpoints from scene to scene but once i converted to first person the story flowed much better there are events behind the story that card was never going to know at least at the time anyway so i had to create a cheat sheet with a timeline to keep everything straight one thing i immediately decided upon however was to expand the size of azeroth as of now in both classic and retail azeroth is just big enough to allow people to travel and keep things interesting going from point to point in much the same vein that turbine standing stone took towards creating lotro if azeroth were as large as it really should be there d just be tons and tons of walking around with absolutely empty countryside think of it this way in lotro you can ride from bree to rivendell within a day of game time whereas in tolkien s middle earth it would have taken close to a week s riding travel to get there an ancillary point is that according to the map of elwynn forest there s a grand total of four farms present in the zone with one of them a vineyard and another a pumpkin patch that s simply not enough farmland to feed all of goldshire let alone stormwind walking not jogging from where guard thomas is stationed at the stream near the logging camp to goldshire is something around 15 30 minutes of game time which makes sense only from a plot game perspective based on all of this i essentially blew up elwynn forest into a super sized version complete with many more farms which also means that goldshire takes on more importance as a regional farming hub than the wow classic version would allow consider the difference between troyes and paris in medieval france while paris was the center of the monarchy troyes was a major trading hub in the medieval period enough to command its own fairs and draw people from throughout the region troyes even has its own cathedral which is a very big deal in medieval europe there were other items however that i did not tinker with i knew in general what evelyn and the others could do and also knew that the four veterans balthan daryn evelyn and mona were considerably more experienced than the defias they were facing that also meant that in game terms they were significantly higher level than the defias so they should have been able to steamroll the defias in a fair fight the leaders of the defias gang undoubtedly knew this and even though they thought they were originally going to fight just daryn and mona they decided to use as many dirty tricks for leverage as they could but once the actual fight began i had to keep in the back of my mind whether things that evelyn in particular did were possible within the context of the game in addition to this being cardwyn s story i wanted to keep any involvement from the main wow npcs to a minimum if there s one thing that bugs me the most about the wow stories that blizz puts out they always focus on the big players within azeroth what makes wow and especially wow classic tick is that it s us the players who have the direct involvement in the story and wow classic in particular doesn t elevate us to the level of the power brokers in azeroth and it doesn t try to either you might be part of the army represented in game by 40 person raids that takes down onyxia but you re not luke skywalker or aragorn at best you re somewhere around fatty bolger s level who had a part to play but was one of many but the wow books spend so much time on the big players that they miss the point of what makes wow interesting us i was determined that cardwyn s story would not involve the big players at all because this is a story about well us no nobles no kings no high priests no faction leaders just people even the npcs aren t exactly high up in anybody s command structure and although at least one mid high level npc is mentioned in the story there s no guarantee that he ll play a part in any subsequent tale additionally there s no guarantee that balthan is as well connected as he thinks he is after all the guy drinks at taverns all over azeroth and i can t imagine a faction leader or their immediate subordinates or even their subordinates doing just that that doesn t mean that along the way card won t run into some people who qualify as big players but the story won t be about them but card herself and i m happy with that because while i can wander over to stormwind castle i don t have quest markers over the big players in the throne room at least at the same rate as you find in some of the later expacs anyway but an astute reader will figure out who card s older sister is and yes that was deliberate i always thought there was a story there with her and i decided to tie that npc in with card s story in as much the same way as the blue recluse barker or ol emma roaming stormwind these are the stories i really want told no more big player only stories in azeroth please there is one last item and it is presently driving me nuts but cardwyn will simply not shut up it was as if i d opened the floodgates as once i finished this story card has been bugging me showing me scenes for other stories and other people and insisting that these stories be told as well that s great and all but i don t think it s going to happen just yet and besides i don t want to turn this blog into a fan fiction blog i am also aware of my own limitations i m not that great at description and while i don t aspire to be a robert jordan with his walls of descriptive text it would be nice to figure out how to describe things a bit better than the spartan level i presently can attain and although i m grateful that ancient allowed me to use kitwynn i don t want to create the kit and az show i do admit that it could be hilarious in its own way but i don t want to take creative control over kit she belongs to ancient and i really like it that way so there it is my big debriefing about one final lesson and i m glad i wrote it it s something so unlike the rest of pc s output that i understand that people may not be that interested in it but the concept behind the story was something that had been bugging me for quite a while while i ll freely admit that when i hear fan fiction i immediately have rule 34 pop in my head i knew that if i was going to make this story work i wasn t going to come within 10 miles of anything like that type of fan fiction thanks for being patient with me for putting the story out in several posts according to sfwa guidelines for the nebula awards a novelette is 7500 17500 words and a novella is 17500 40000 words one last lesson clocks in at roughly 18975 words give or take some 10 words as i d made some last minute tweaks that i need to add back to the original word doc the original draft finished at over 20000 words i guess i tend to be a bit wordy i should point out that unless you ve invented the middle earth express horses can t be expected to be pushed to their limits everyday without collapsing the same thing goes for people walking from bree to rivendell i can see 10 miles per day on a normal pace and remember a normal pace also includes stopping time for food rest camp setup before dark and maybe twice that on a forced march but keeping a forced march up for weeks will not leave the army with enough energy at the end to fight in melee and in the end it was yes it could be done if she was a frost mage and blew all her cds the only item added for dramatic effect was the time it took for the frozen defias mage to thaw typically it takes much less time in game than what it was in the story but as card said she kind of overdid it if there s one thing that drives me nuts about the lotr movies it s that a couple of smaller but memorable characters such as fatty bolger had to get cut don t get me wrong i love the movies and i m not really complaining about tom bombadil either but i felt fatty got the short shrift based on how peter jackson put the four hobbits together as opposed to the books it also made pippin more of comic relief rather than simply naive if you strip away their responsibility i could see a few of them doing so particularly magni bronzebeard but the thing is that they can t their situation does not allow them that luxury at all and to be honest once they get far enough removed from the common people they lose all sorts of perspective think of prince hal in henry iv parts 1 and 2 he goes out drinking and has a grand old time but once he becomes king he has to put those aside for the serious business of ruling what he effectively tells falstaff and his drinking buddies is i don t know you once he becomes king posted by redbeard at 8 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings one final lesson monday march 9 2020 one final lesson part 6 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 one final lesson part 2 one final lesson part 3 one final lesson part 4 one final lesson part 5 when i woke the next morning i felt immeasurably better mom was up and moving if slower than her usual self but she told me she ll feel better the longer she follows her daily routines evelyn and the first kaldorei cleaned up my blood in the hallway last night when i asked the kaldorei how she knew to do that she said you don t want to know after breakfast i sat down with mom dad and mistress evelyn you re certain you want to go through with this dad asked i nodded yes very well the three of us talked and evelyn believes you have the making of a good mage she also believes that you need more practice and that reporting to deputy willem at northshire abbey would provide you with a good start she also believes there is a mage assigned to the detachment there at the abbey and that mage can provide you with some basic instruction before you go to stormwind what about the message we agreed that you can deliver the message mom replied but only when the northshire mage determines it safe for you to reach stormwind where am i supposed to go and what is si 7 anyway read more posted by redbeard at 9 12 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic sunday march 8 2020 one final lesson part 5 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 one final lesson part 2 one final lesson part 3 one final lesson part 4 everything happened at once i cast the frostbolt well not so much as cast but it escaped straight at the defias mage no longer a puffball it was densely packed iceball that shot straight ahead leaving a long vapor trail behind it the mage jerked her arms upward as it smacked right into her chest a pair of shadows appeared right behind the two defias holding carys and karyn each plunging daggers into an arm and then the neck i could see carys and karyn drop just as i heard the clang of daggers on cobblestone the defias mage hadn t moved bluish white ice spread from where my frostbolt had hit her encasing her in place as much as i wanted to jump up and down and cheer i knew i only had moments come on kit i grunted as i burst out from the bushes the throbbing in my head intensified as bile in my stomach lurched up toward my throat evelyn raised her arms and the arcane burst forth in a blast of icy hell freezing the defias surrounding her she then blinked out of view and i felt another burst of the arcane kill them all the lead defias shouted just before he was bowled over by dad balthan slammed into the defias on the right and they collapsed on the ground get your weapons i heard evelyn shout from somewhere to the left i reached the spot where carys lay still screaming i flipped her over and breathed a sigh of relief when i saw there wasn t a nick on her at all the kaldorei was as good as her word come on sprout i said as i picked her up car wyn carys shouted mama it s car wyn i turned back to karyn just as a defias closed on her dagger out i tried to lunge for karyn but i was too slow my head felt like it had split open and while i managed to keep holding carys i vomited all over the cobblestones a huge dark blur flew through the air and swatted the defias away the gigantic cat that nearly knocked me over in stormwind let out a fierce roar and her jaws clamped down on defias neck i heard a sickening crunch and then another deafening roar from kit my body was shaking uncontrollably as i wiped my mouth with my free hand something dark and red was dripping onto the ground next to me car wyn you re hurt carys cried i nodded unable to speak karyn reached me and grabbed carys then offered an arm to me i grabbed on and tugged in the general direction of the 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