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Android Blues posted:Kvatch doesn't burn down until you get a little ways through the plot in Oblivion. It's still intact at the start of the game and iirc you can even go there. I think if you go there before the main quest sends you there, it's blocked off and guards say there's some weird poo poo going on so you can't enter. There's a mod where you can participate in rebuilding it after the end of the main quest, though.
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Haledjian posted:I read this at work, actually enjoyed it a lot more than the actual game. The art is great and it's funny as hell. Couple things really bugged me, though, to the point where I didn't really bother to go back and read it past the point I left off: I dunno, I think those clothes off moments were more about comedy than sexuality. And even if he was going for innuendo it's kind of a big leap to go from there to lesbian interspecies sex. Either way I got the feeling that he set those situations up just so that he could go "haha psych she's not at all interested in other girls." I see that as being more anti-alcoholic than misogyny, since she does things that are bad regardless of gender while drunk. Blacking out and having sex with a skeleton isn't really acceptable whether a man or woman. And I don't think that was rape or anything, just more of the aforementioned bad decisions. Still, I'm not really sure if we're supposed to take his voice as her own conscience or what. That's the way I've read it, anyway.
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Huh. Kazerad showing up in the thread wasn't something I anticipated. Well, I guess I'll pull a flip-flop and post a little criticism that I didn't really feel the need to make an MSPA account for: I feel like we're not seeing enough of Katia's personality, specifically what she's like when she's drunk. Right now all we get are her taking a drink, a blackout, then her waking up. This is good for comedy purposes along the lines of "oh, look at this strange situation you've woken up in you little scamp!" But as a result, we basically only see her when she's a quivering neurotic mess trying to make up for mistakes we never saw. So our view of Katia is skewed heavily towards her sober side, in which she's nice and helpful but has a string of bad luck. But for Quill-Weave and other characters, the other half is when she's drunk and trashing a house. So when those characters react accordingly, the audience can't help but feel like Katia always deserves a second chance when maybe she actually doesn't. I think it's important to see her fail in a way that's not adorable and unintentional.
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LtStorm posted:Yeah. I'm fine with never seeing what she does while drunk. I took the black-out-fade-in to show her losing complete control of herself. Could have a bit of it shown from the POV of Quill-Weave, but I'm fine with most of it being done off-screen so the audience can fill in the horrible details in their own mind. Such as what the 'pineapple and yo-yo trick' is. Oh sure, there never needs to be more exposition on the pineapple trick or her deviant sexual escapades, I just think that if she goes into drunk mode again it might be good to have some of that shown. Then again, when I actually imagine it, it pretty much just looks funny. So my idea kind of falls apart.
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I'm curious what about his style is being lifted. I've never gotten around to slogging through MSPA so I pretty much only have all the avatars on SA to go by. It did seem like the sort of jumpy animation Prequel has is similar to the way the avatars move.
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Kazerad posted:It was also partially inspired by Zenzirouj's request to learn more about what Katia is like while she's drunk. idonotlikepeas posted:1) His robes have clearly been torn up by his cats and repaired.
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Aug 15, 2011 05:25
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Is it me or is Landorumil shaped really weirdly overall?
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Aug 19, 2011 19:35
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Fudge Handsome posted:This is a great way to design characters and a lot of actual real professional artists use that design philosophy as well. It was one of the primary goals when Valve was designing TF2, too. They wanted classes to be instantly identifiable on silhouette alone.
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Aug 20, 2011 21:24
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And keep in mind that he's a necromancer. He's farting around with death and relife as a career, so that probably gives him a few more options.
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Aug 24, 2011 22:55
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TheCIASentMe posted:He'd be performing a follow up to make sure his service was satisfactory. He is a professional after all. Plus, how could to story ever be complete without a flex-off between him and Asotil?
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Aug 30, 2011 22:10
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I think the main culprit is, like most things, furries.
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I don't read the other thread; were there actually that many responses involving Dmitri dying? Or more than one mentioning Kvatch? Because I pretty much always assume that, unless the author of a CYOA is only giving multiple choice options, what QueerPope said is what usually happens. I don't really have a problem with that because only using audience input will just turn your comic into porn, eventually.
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Sep 6, 2011 00:43
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SynthOrange posted:The reason is to make a catgirl cry when she decides she's a big adventurer, trots off to the nearest ruins and finds the corpse of her threesome buddy and a nice letter. That was pretty much my assumption too.
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Sep 6, 2011 02:17
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Then again, this could be an elaborate red herring. Maybe Asotil will still be hanging around the next time Gro-Upp and Katia bump into each other. Or they'll never see each other again and just have a bunch of really close encounters.
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clockworkjoe posted:The necromancer story had the most obvious ending possible, which is why it didn't work. It was obvious because bad things happen all the time and Gro-upp always wins. I dunno, things have started turning around for Katia. She was able to go to the fancy dinner without freaking out or causing a scene, she's learned some magic, she's gotten her fire thing under control, and she's made some friends and connections. I was actually starting to wonder where all the tragedy had gone.
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Sep 8, 2011 22:41
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It occurs to me that naming that last update "Elsewhere" works as another joke at Katia's expense.
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http://prequeladventure.com/2011/09/916/ Way to ride that corpse wave
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I guess the biggest thing to make sure you're doing is resisting the urge to draw things out for longer than necessary. Possibly my biggest peeve with all types of story-telling (or all forms of writing, really) is when an idea, conversation, plotline, or whatever takes longer than is necessary to be expressed. You're probably at lesser risk of this since you're still on the "starting out" phase and don't have as much of a reason to have the story drag on and on instead of ending it and risking losing readers. On this point, even thought this is a CYOA, do you at least have a general outline for important events in the story and an idea for an ending? I'm not asking what they are, just curious if you have them. As for whether this part of the story is dragging, I'd say yes, a little. That's probably influenced by the delays, but I guess it would have been possible to condense what's happened in the past four updates. Just with a quick skim, it looks like these are the important parts and/or gags: Saint Jiub, big bag o' drugs, stabbin' and shroomin', Kvatch/Sigrid, and ghost-ride the corpse. That's not bad, mostly because this is a comedy webcomic and I primarily come for silly drawings of a cat lady, not plot. I think you're still fine. Also there's a new update in case anybody missed it: http://prequeladventure.com/2011/09/katia-loot/
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Speaking of class mobility, Elder Scrolls games are pretty the ultimate Libertarian wetdream. You start off penniless and are possibly an ex-con but you become a lightning-spitting kill machine able to buy and sell entire communities just by working your way up and bootstraps. Good thing the Imperial government doesn't stifle the economy by overregulating the guilds.
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The fire stuff is probably a red herring, meant to get people who've played the game all wonder-y. It'll probably be something innocuous. Or maybe some other large scale problem besides the Oblivion one. Or maybe he KNOWS we'd be suspicious of such an obvious call-back to the game (or maybe it's a call-forward to future events) and it actually IS happening now. Layers within layers, man.
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Dolash posted:Oblivion plot stuff I think there are at least a few people who haven't played the game and are following this, so it might be nice to spoiler that. And goddamn, Kaz. This explains the delay in updates  . I liked the couple of 4-leaf clovers behind a rock, forever out of reach. Taunting you.
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Oct 25, 2011 20:25
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Also, the orphans were adorable little cretins. I think Kaz is trying to make us fall in love with Kvatch.
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Kazerad posted:I mean, while in one update children are deciding the fate of universes Is that really the point that his comic has reached? I haven't read any of it and doubt I'll ever get the motivation to slog through the backlog, but maybe it's time to wrap things up when your characters have evidently attained godhood.
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Gnome de plume posted:Be sure to talk to [every NPC]. Repeatedly. Seriously, the dialogue is pretty fantastic. I kind of wonder whether Kaz has the wrong hobby and should be making games or something. Too bad he could never make money off of this particular project.
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Silentman0 posted:There's absolutely nothing sexual about the lockpick gag and I will defend this to my death The easy answer to that requires only two points to be made: 1) in Oblivion, when you get arrested, all your stuff gets confiscated except for one lockpick and 2)female characters don't get two. That pretty much leaves one option.
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Maple Leaf posted:His isn't really a fair example. Prequel's fate was sealed the moment it was about a catgirl. Launching it from the MSPA forums probably did him no favors either.
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Silentman0 posted:Geez, don't tell your customer that you don't know what you're doing! That's like first day shopkeepery. That was probably written in the book, so...
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Raserys posted:What if, like, this is actually a prequel to Morrowind, man, and like, Katia is the Nerevarine  plus whatever other details only huge nerds would notice
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Sindow posted:Anyone else see this? P cool. Hey, not bad. Wonder what that'll do for Kaz's hits. Maybe his webcomic machinations are starting to pay off? Not that there's any sort of money-making opportunity on the site.
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That's probably one of the funniest TES-related images I've ever seen.
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So then clearly the only option is to develop officially licensed Bethesda swag and take a cut.
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http://www.prequeladventure.com/2012/01/katia-keep-trying/ Well heck, looks like Katia is on her way to making a new frie...oh.
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MikeJF posted:Oh, wow. It also looks like it has a scroll? (it's probably not a khajit)
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This panel really highlights the whole 4-fingers thing and kinda freaks me out. What made you decide to go that way with it, Kaz?
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Android Blues posted:Five fingers is traditionally considered one too many in cartooning. They just clutter the design unnecessarily. Try drawing a cartoon character with five fingers and you'll probably realise the problem. Yeah, it's what everybody does, but I kind of assumed that people drawing something in a cartoony-style (which is a pretty lovely descriptor, but good enough for my purposes) made the decision because they had some reason for it other than not wanting to draw extra fingers. Is it really just because everybody else does it that way? It seems like I've seen similarly styled stuff with 5 fingers. Kinda like the Limbaugh in the avatar above me.
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Guess Kaz is making up for lost time. A couple of sequence problems with the flash, though: If you try opening the door right at the beginning or if you go to the storage room first, there are several references to Sigrid even though you haven't met her yet. Also, "little" was misspelled in the second conversation with her.
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MikeJF posted:Is this one of those times where I'm missing out not having played the original Oblivion? What other Oblivion is there? If you're saying you've only played Skyrim, then sort of. There are a lot of references. If by missing out you mean "will get no enjoyment from it", then probably not; this isn't like a comic version of the game's events.
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Kazerad posted:Though I guess this gives me an interesting estimate of how many people immediately tried to leave the building as soon as they entered. It's me I'm the one who does that in every game edit: Oh, also, I really liked the music in this one. Zenzirouj fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 5, 2012 |
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ChickenHeart posted:It might be the fact that I'm already burnt-out on Homestuck and its style of storytelling, the Elder Scrolls background, or my completely-unfounded contempt towards animal people in any fantasy setting That is everything that the comic is so I'm not sure why you're confused about not liking it? Different people like different things??
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