SPOILER #2!! Constantine's collection.... - by jtr7
jtr7 on 22/8/2007 at 03:33
Okay, looked it up for once:
"NewHope: The third planet of Alpha Centauri. Nearly as large as Earth, with a similar environment. Players can expect to see rolling hills, small mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers and ponds, trees, forests and farmsteads. A few missions take place in rain or storms."
From the Wikipedia entry:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_N...Force_Centauri)
And some other silly stuff:
"Karros: The moon of NewHope. Airless and lifeless. Dark, with less changes in elevation than the planets."
Karras or Karo S[yrup]?
From Ultima Underworld 1: The Stygian Abyss:
There is a character named Carasso.
There is a character named Tyball; TDP/Gold has a prisoner named Tybal, a whorekeep.
And of course, there are many fantasy RPG elements shared.
From Ultima Underworld 2: The Labyrinth of Worlds:
There is a character named Felix.
There's a character named Bishop; TDS has a guard named Bishop.
I see where Gathering at the Bar gets its names of characters and objects, now!
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http://imageshack.us)
Inline Image:
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4574/credits0001jl7.pngThe Trickster alien from NewHope abducting Hammerites. Hee hee.
jtr7 on 19/2/2008 at 03:32
Sorry, for the necromancy, but I'd like to include the following in this thread:
This is old, but in DromEd, in the Object Hierarchy for The Maw of Chaos, there are an ApeCocoon, and an ApeBeastFetal. There are, of course, similar counterparts for the other beasts in the mission. I believe this is enough to confirm that the drawing on the Maw Map, and the object on the mantle, are indeed interrelated with the chaos beasts coming through the elemental portal before they are deposited later on the ledge. In case there was anybody, other than I, who may have been wondering.:p
The Magpie on 19/2/2008 at 19:36
Very interesting. So... huh. What do you think is the process, really? Does the Maw "give birth", as it were? Is there some sort of metamorphosis? Before or after the entry of the being into the world?
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Larris
jtr7 on 19/2/2008 at 20:07
I wonder if the beasts would have no physical form as we understand it, but are given a new physical body compatible with Garrett's plane of existence. The fact that The Eye is needed to project the other reality into Garrett's tells me that other plane is not made of the same stuff, thus the need for all the Elements. It might be kind of like putting a soul into a body, but I think it's even more complicated.
The Magpie on 19/2/2008 at 20:20
Right... But what's up with both a cocoon and a fetus for the same species?
Maybe ape beast bodies go through some kind of larvae stadium... No, I don't understand how this can be if the beings don't inhabit the form in this plane all along. Unless there is an accelerated maturation into the adult form. Which I wouldn't put above the abilities of the Trickster, naturally.
But why is the fetus outside of a womb in the first place?
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L.
jtr7 on 19/2/2008 at 20:37
Maybe the Maw is the womb of the earth?
I'm thinking the beasts have a form the equivalent of what we see, but it needs to be translated to our elemental plane. By the time we see them on our side of the portal, they are already grown and just about matured in their cocoon (transformed, like a caterpiller to a butterfly).
To answer your question, the cocoon object is the translucent "bubble" the beastie fetus object is folded up in.
The Magpie on 21/2/2008 at 12:40
Ah. More like Saruman's Uruk-Hai in the Peter Jackson version. Got it.
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L.
jtr7 on 21/2/2008 at 12:45
:thumb:
