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Well, I him banging away at night down there in the Wu Kwon of Doom, so that is probably a clue.
I really wonder why everyone is so obsessed over my pipe?
Well, if you pay enough attention, the “storage” question, such as it is, has already been answered.
Where does Antefalken store his clothes? In particular, when he strews them all over a maiden’s bedroom and then has to flee post-haste without his clothes? Does he have to go get new ones made? Andy why don’t all these maidens have a surplus of outfits laying around?
Shirts, pants, shoes, hat, belt, musical instruments…..
Actually, I do know that Antefalken’s primary musical instruments are different from his clothing. So that’s not a good example, but the belt is…
Same thing with Hilda’s expandable armor that just pops up conveniently.
Hey ho!
Tizzy here!
Who else would I be?
Don’t believe those nasty stories in book IV: lies, seditious lies and statistical provocations!
Anyway, got tired of hovering over T-A-G’s bed this weekend, vainly trying to “encourage him” to write faster and winged my way over to the “living room: to his weird mirror thingy. [Apparently his office is the “dying room” because it’s pretty dead in there, not hearing much from his typewriter]
Using his magic wand, I found this thing called Netflix, it’s sort of like Mirror-On-Demand or something, showing you visions of alternate localverse storylines and such and found this weird set of visions called Ragnarok.
First things first, the pro/an-tagonists listento authentic Doom Metal! Woo Hoo! And in ancient Norse even! Causes them to spontaneously pseudo-rhythmically dance, rip hearts out of dear and eat wounded birds whole. You know, the sorts of things you do when you hear a rockin tune!
It’s a very “interesting take” on a Post-Ragnarok Earth. Apparently this Earth has some sort of climate catastrophe that is threatening the planet and a few humans are getting bothered. Including a one-eyed Norse-Grandpa in a scooter and his cranky shopkeeper wife. (Yeah Yeah, it’s Odin and Frigg. 9 times out of 10 if you see and old, one eyed, mobility impaired Norseman–it’s Odin–just saying the old–dead–fart gets around)
So, of course, Giants are “bad” and Gods are “good” and all that BS, but that being said, not bad. Truth be told, I have always had a warm spot in my heart for Magne. Much nicer chap than his cranky old man, Thor. Fortunately, he bit the snake, or was it the snake bit him, or the damn wolf? I don’t remember anymore, suffice to say he’s gone, or at least in deep space with a walking tree, talking raccoon and a near-do-well son of a god….
So you should check this thing out, if for no other reason the rockin Jotunn-Music.
Tizzy
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Does that mean that people could “make” weapons and tools instead of just clothes with the shape-changing method?[/quote]
[SPOILER]
Yes, in fact, if you notice “size changing weapons” being used by D’Orcs or demons, it’s almost guaranteed that that weapon is part of themselves.Notice how the Rod of Tomas/Wand of Orcus doesn’t change size? That’s because it’s a real object.
Remember the D’Orcs practicing with giant oversized weapons on the Isle of Doom? Those weapons were parts of themselves, no different than giant claws, or even energy weapons.
Remember Tom’s fire blasts in book 1? No reason he couldn’t do those and make them seem to come from a ray gun or something. With enough skill and practice a demon can use any of their natural abilities in alternative ways/deployment methods. The limit being, if you can’t do it, you can’t change form and do it. So if a demon doesn’t have any ranged attacks (energy blasts etc) then they can’t shape change and have a gun. On the other hand, if they can shoot their claws (and grow new ones), or spines, or spikes from their body, they could shape change and have a gun that does that for them.
Also, Hilda’s magical armor and weapons that grew and shrunk with her? Same thing.
This is in spoiler because it’s going to be even more obvious in the future when Arg-nargoloth really gets into battle alongside Raga-nargoloth. But it has happened already, some people probably didn’t realize this.
Also, at the Citadel, you may recall that Beragamos is “incarnated” he had to do that to get through Lenamare’s wards in Freehold. Therefore, he can’t size change or shape himself a magical weapon since he has a real, physical/material body. That being said, I am sure he has summoning rituals and chants that can bring him real weapons, and/or magical spells to create temporary holy weapons. There are clerical spells that can do this, pretty common in fact for Tiernon’s priests to conjure non-real/material magical swords and maces and such that have a mana cost, and which disappear when the spell is up.
But that’s different from reshaping yourself into a weapon. There is no real mana cost for that, other than the mana used to change/hold your shape and or needed for an energy blast.
[/SPOILER]T-A-G had been hoping to hit year end and a Q1 release.
However, he got slammed in late Q3 with his day job(s) and was putting in 80 hour weeks and so got no writing done in Q4.
That should be easing up this month and he hopes to get back to writing by mid month, so we are maybe a quarter behind, shooting for OOA release late Q2.
Well T-A-G finally started writing and then got surrounded by invisible lizards and is now trying to figure out how to deal with them. He had forgotten that they could turn invisible when needed, then he realized it was needed, and now, that sort of put a wrench in the plot since now the protagonists can’t see them.
And I mean that writively speaking. While that gave him pause, his evil day job came back with a vengeance and pulled him away again.
I am going to try to get him back to writing in this weekend.
Which trip to China? Been there several times. I’ve got a buddy that hangs out there, a lot, he likes to take long journeys, usually to the west. Last I saw him he was looking for some scrolls written by some bald fat guy that sat around all day making humming noises.
Humans are so weird.
Pods–psuedo, or –air?
Are air-pods powerful enough to make you wiggle?
For TV, I assume you just engulf a surround sound system with subwoofer.
That would be a lot of fun!
Ah, but the real problem would come with trying to limit the size of Denubian Choco-Coffee(TM) then you run up against signed agreements dictating the serving “suggestion” (ahem) of the beverage etc.
That’s a lawsuit even the Oorstemothians would respect. You recall how much the enjoyed negotiating with Hasselforthalus.
That’s basically the discussion in OOA. Supernatural beings look at more than just physical appearance, they look at auras and animus/mana levels etc.
There is a lot more to recognizing “a god” than physical appearance. So imitating someone else is difficult to do when the other people know the individual well. Obviously, not that hard to fool mortals.
More’s the pity.
We could really do with more me’s. There are times I am so busy that I wished I could clone myself, like Gelatinous Cube does. That would be such a nice feature to just split in two and then regrow the rest of yourself.
Well, you know the saying, “A watched author never gets boiled in his bubble bath!”
And how are they expected to write if you don’t boil them?
He’s been hideously horrible with this “so called” work thing, he spends like 12+ hours a day 7 days a week obsessing over it, rather than doing what he is supposed to do, which is what I tell him do! Which is write!
It’s really boiling my cauldron! [cursing]
I personally love those ideas because they would greatly increase the pressure on him and the overwhelming guilt and frustration he feels at disappointing people.
As you know, [i]Guilt[/i] is the preferred form of motivation for all the best life coaches everywhere (a.k.a. moms)
Now, I’m not a mom, but I can still be a yenta–I think–I’m male, so that may disqualify me, could I be a yento maybe?
This has been discussed, but T-A-G doesn’t currently have the resources to do rewards, so it’s basically a glorified gofundme.
Even, assuming the resources, he’s not sure what fair/reasonable rewards would be for different levels.
Perhaps he could get Jacob (the cover artist) to do portraits of characters, and then T-A-G could reward patreons with “autographed” portraits of the characters for various contributions? Collect them like trading cards? Or maybe actually making trading cards out of them?
Of course, that involves paying Jacob, but that’s one time per character….
Then of course, if he makes trading cards, he’s going to get distracted and try to write the rules for a DoA Trading Card game….
“Demon: The Summoning” or something like that.
Do you have a permit to discuss Oorstemothian law? If not….
I suspect people on your Earth would like the place, for one reason, if you like that sort of thing, I point out that they do have some democracy, the mayors of all cities are elected by popular vote. (Assuming you are properly registered to vote and haven’t been purged–and I am not talking about voter rolls)
The capital city’s mayor is Lord Mayor Miguel Blum D’Berg and he has been elected for 8 consecutive terms. He has been very popular for regulating the size of beverages and for S&I, his zero tolerance policy for suspected criminals: Stop & Imprison.
Of course there is some quiet dissent to his rule, some of the more ‘leftist’ citizens whisper that he’s actually an archdemon posing as a human, but that’s clearly political slander, since everyone knows that’s impossible.
