jtr7 on 14/3/2006 at 21:25
Will o'the wisps are supposed to be burning swamp gas, or spontaneously-combusting methane. But the mythology about them is more interesting than the science (even though it's cool that gas can burn slowly, gently, and appear as a floating ball of light). Elemental?
Yametha on 14/3/2006 at 22:58
Those things the mages summon (not shoot) are actually AIs. They work like frogbeasts, heading for you and then blowing up.
dlw6 on 14/3/2006 at 23:14
Since the Air Mages' balls of air are AIs in the game engine, I'd have to classify them as summoned elementals in terms of the game world.
I don't have TG (just TDP), but I remember in a fan mission (Chasm of the Lost 2, part of the TTGM series) where I was on a rope or some other inaccessible place, and one of those balls of air was floating around below me. It didn't have a fist to shake nor did it say "You're making me so mad!", but it definitely was frustrated at being unable to get me.
There was a fan mission that had some weird AIs that may have been water elementals -- they were green floating balls of liquid that fired something (acid?) at me, and dripped when I inflicted damage on them. I don't remember now if it is was HOC1 or Forgotten Forest 1, but someone will come along who remembers which.
Don
Edit: clarified something
Taffer36 on 14/3/2006 at 23:25
The water elementals you are talking about are in DEDX. There were air, fire, water, and earth elementals in there. I vaguely recall some weird eyeball elementals too.
Emerald Wolf on 15/3/2006 at 04:57
Also the water tower in the Mages level is closed due to a failed experiment with water elementals IIRC, so they exist story-wise as well.
Jarkko Ranta on 15/3/2006 at 06:53
Is the fire mages' summoning ability same that the SummonElemental (or like) in Dromed's CritterShots. The balls of fire (nice effect althou) didn't seem much AI to me...
