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Saturday, August 21, 2004


Complete with Swashbuckling Action!
Lawrence is round tonight, and he's brought the Pirates of the Carribean PC game with him, heh. It wouldn't run on his computer, and is now incredibly jealous that it run on mine ^_^; He wants a new graphics card, and my 128 MB one is faring quite well... even if the CPU slows every now and then >.>

It's quite a cool game, hehe. There's a lot going on, including bits of strategy, pirate sim and third-person fighting. The various bits of it are actually rather basic, and putting all the elements together amount pretty much to an open-ended RPG in which your captain character gains levels and gets better ships, conquers more pirates/armies etc.

I don't think I know anyone who doesn't like pirate scenarios, either in films or games or whatever. They are incredibly cool. My older sister's got into Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series, and I must admit that from hearing everything she says about them they do sound very good, and I liked the film, too.

I want to try and encoroprate piratey goodness into my Nazreal fics. There's one ship that's integral to the plot, although it's not the focus of the series. I haven't decided on a name yet- either the Solaris or Coriolis or something else that's similarly interesting. Its captain is Osiris Tallon, a gold griffon in white and gold armour and a long red cloak [For those who don't know yet, Nazreal stars entirely anthropomorphic- e.g. Starfox -characters]. It's no ordinary ship, as is clear from the speed at which it cuts through the waters and the power of the guns. But what else is special is that it flies.

When I was about five or six there was this clay animation made called The Fool and the Flying Ship, in which a boy made (or found, I can't remember) a ship made out of ice, and it flew. he gathered a crew of people he met along his travels and ended up having to do something for this Tsar (I believe it was a Russian animation), who betrayed them for whatever reason. They ended up beseiging his castle with incredibly scary stick soldiers that two of the travellers could create with their enchanted bundles of wood. I seem to remember it was well-written, and fantastically imaginative.

Nazreal's plot is entirely different, but it would be lovely to integrate some sort of ethereal magical qualities to it, aside from the regular magical abilities that a lot of characters seem to innately possess. There's technology in it too, but only to a point. The best comparison I can think of is something like Escaflowne or Arc the Lad, where the world is sort of late 16-17th Century, but there's magic and swooshy capes and bits of lost technology and all sorts. Once I actually get past the conceptualisation, I hope it'll make for a good read. I've read a few online story series that follow similar lines and they seem to be fairly popular, but I wouldn't really know where to start advertising it. I guess joining a Webring would be a good place to start... Ideally I'd like it published properly, but I don't know whether the way I develop the story would be right for an actual book-book, or just a web book thing.

Either way I'm determined to write and finish it, heh.

Urgh, I have an itchy lower back. It's persisted for a few days... I think I'll put something on it. Along with the disgusting fungal infection I'm trying to get rid of, too >.> Bastard things.

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