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Diary of Zoltan, day 2- 31/2

From the Diary of Lady Sylia, days 2-3

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We awoke the following morning feeling refreshed and happy, our souls completely rejuvenated from the momentary unpleasantness of the previous day.


Feeling so refreshed, we decided to start out our second day by tossing some coins into the local wishing well. And wow! No sooner did we toss our coins than the wishing fairy came out and personally blessed us with good luck! All of us were delighted, except for Zoltan who was acting all grumpy for reasons he never explained.



And soon our luck manifested in good fortune! While exploring near the bridge leading to a nearby temple, we stumbled upon a small crate. I instructed the others to leave it alone, because it's not nice to touch others people's belongings. But sadly, Zoltan could not contain himself, and he greedily opened it anyway.

It contained a few odds and ends, amongst them a small flute with an engraving indicating that it belonged to one of the local peasants. Naturally, we returned the box to him with everything in it. How lucky we were to be given such an opportunity to perform a good deed!

After returning the crate, another of the peasants recognized me and showered me with praise.


Realizing that the peasants were far too enamored with me to answer questions, we tried inquiring with the local craftsmen and weapons masters if they knew of any quests that needed doing. But even they were too awestruck, either by my beauty or my reputation, I'm still not quite sure.


By that time though, we had been on our feet most of the day, so we retired for the night at the local inn. That night, Zoltan pretended to "accidentally" get into the wrong bed, with me. In a way, I'm flattered, but such immodesty is clearly unacceptable to a lady of my standing, so I immediately shooed him away to his own bed. Still, a man must retain his dignity, so rather than admonish him in front of the others I gracefully allowed him to pretend it was indeed simply a mistake. Because I'm just that awesome.

Perhaps tomorrow we will find some great quests to embark upon.

Where do you get those pictures from? Photoshop?

[Karnewarrior]

Diary of Zoltan, day 2- 31/2

From the Diary of Lady Sylia, days 2-3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We awoke the following morning feeling refreshed and happy, our souls completely rejuvenated from the momentary unpleasantness of the previous day.


Feeling so refreshed, we decided to start out our second day by tossing some coins into the local wishing well. And wow! No sooner did we toss our coins than the wishing fairy came out and personally blessed us with good luck! All of us were delighted, except for Zoltan who was acting all grumpy for reasons he never explained.



And soon our luck manifested in good fortune! While exploring near the bridge leading to a nearby temple, we stumbled upon a small crate. I instructed the others to leave it alone, because it's not nice to touch others people's belongings. But sadly, Zoltan could not contain himself, and he greedily opened it anyway.

It contained a few odds and ends, amongst them a small flute with an engraving indicating that it belonged to one of the local peasants. Naturally, we returned the box to him with everything in it. How lucky we were to be given such an opportunity to perform a good deed!

After returning the crate, another of the peasants recognized me and showered me with praise.


Realizing that the peasants were far too enamored with me to answer questions, we tried inquiring with the local craftsmen and weapons masters if they knew of any quests that needed doing. But even they were too awestruck, either by my beauty or my reputation, I'm still not quite sure.


By that time though, we had been on our feet most of the day, so we retired for the night at the local inn. That night, Zoltan pretended to "accidentally" get into the wrong bed, with me. In a way, I'm flattered, but such immodesty is clearly unacceptable to a lady of my standing, so I immediately shooed him away to his own bed. Still, a man must retain his dignity, so rather than admonish him in front of the others I gracefully allowed him to pretend it was indeed simply a mistake. Because I'm just that awesome.

Perhaps tomorrow we will find some great quests to embark upon.

Where do you get those pictures from? Photoshop?

Exactly what I was wondering. They aren't in game, though, I've played it all the way through many times and never seen those lines. I could, of course, just been unlucky, but signs point to a masterful use of photoshop.

I approve.

[LordBucket]

Where do you get those pictures from? Photoshop?

The radar map and border I copied from Karnewarrior's images. If you look, you'll see that the party position is the same on my images and his. The party portraits came from several places, but all in game. Some are copied from Karnewarrio's images. For example, notice Zoltan's seedy-looking leftward glance while looking in the chest is the same portrait as in my looking at the well image. The various "currently selected character" highlights were copy and pasted as needed. I generally wanted Sylia to be the active character instead of Zoltan. For my well scene, the "happy" images were from drinking tier 3 white potions. The "sad" Zoltan image was from being awake too long. I don't remember where I got the "smiling" Sylia image while talking to Charles the peasant. Probably opening a chest, or being buffed or something. The in-game backgrounds I simply used the "yell" command in game to move an npc to similar locations in game as Karnewarrios's scenes. If you compare the "Wonderful Lady Sylia" scene to Karnewarriosr's "Oh, you people!" scene you'll notice that they're not identical images. That was necessary because the vertical sizing of the textboxes in his images were bigger than in mine, and while it would have been easy to cover "extra" game-window image with background marble, it wasn't practical to selectively add in game-window image because the relevant section didn't exist in his pictures: they were covered by larger text windows. So I just recreated the scenes. The "few odds and ends" chest with 250,000 gold was the obelisk chest with some extra stuff added in. And the peasant portrait and dialogue choices were cut and pasted together. It was easier to use Karnewarrior's images than to track down the same npc's myself, but if you look you'll notice the dialogue options are different for mine, because since I was "talking" to them in my version of the story, they needed to be different dialogue options than the "beg, threaten, bribe" options in Karnewarriors's image.

If you look, there are a few discrepancies. For example, when Karnewarrior spoke to Jordan the weapons master, the party had 7 food and 200 gold, whereas when I did they had the same 5 and 1560 as all the other images. I used the same right-side background both times. And if you look at my version of the well scene, you'll notice that no party members have an "active character" highlight. A couple things like that.

I think the results are pleasing for the time I put in.

[LordBucket]

never seen those lines

The dialogue? They were all from the game. I tried to write my own, but reproducing the font proved to be more time and effort than I was willing to invest. The "Wonderful Lady" and "Praise the light" lines were from peasants at the base of the mountain near castle ironfist, spoken to a party at max fame and alignment levels. For "Wonderful Lady Sylia" I used a memory editor to change the name of a character from an old savefile so the npc would use the correct name. The "praise the light" line, actually, is bugged in-game, and says "sweet and honorable Lady lady" instead of using a character name, so I just copied background over the extra "lady" and let it go. I considered copy and pasting the other instance of "Sylia" and smoothing the background, but figured it was close enough. If I were to do it again I'd probably at least add in punctuation. It looks wrong just trailing off like that, but ironically it looks better with nothing than the extra "lady" incorrectly added in. I figured if I just left it like the game shows it would look too obviously photoshopped.

signs point to a masterful use of photoshop.

Windows paintbrush, actually. Still...for all the effort I put into the images, I was rather hoping people would appreciate the humor more than the graphical edits.

[Karnewarrior]

Oh, the humor was great too, but that's all we've come to expect from you, Lord Bucket!

[sinister]Do not let us down.[/sinister]