: Here are some of the clever bits: "One of the most
: interesting aspects of Myth is that almost every
: character that you control in the game (except for
: some of the mindless cannon fodder) will have some
: kind of history."
: ...
: "Unlike the unarmed Berserks..."
: "...[Berseks] wield giant claymores..."
: Whoops!
: "Berserks (Baer Serce)"
: Baer Serce? Hmm...
: "Avatara (Warlocks)"
: And for his next trick, Alric will hurl a fireball at the
: enemy and cast confusion...
: "Journeymen (Herons) - Fighters of the Eastern
: desert, Ferocious but few."
: Many words come to mind when thinking of Journeymen, but
: ferocious probably isn't one of them.
: "Ghols - Sworn enemies of the dwarves, the Ghols
: carry giant cleavers into battle and lope and gibber
: around the battlefield collecting the heads and hands
: of their enemies."
: Hands!?
: "Soulless (Hollow men) - Once human minions of the
: dark. Carry bundles of barbed spears anointed with
: venom."
: The flavor texts seem to agree with this.
: "...souls stolen by sorcery, these once-human
: minions of The Dark exist only to torture and spill
: the blood of the living... leaving pestilence and
: corruption in their wake."
: But wait! If they're already minions of the dark, why do
: their souls need to be stolen? Wouldn't they be
: willing to give them up?
I always took the flavor to be describing them as presently "minions of the dark", and that the "once-human" bit is essentially an adjective (essentially saying that they were once normal humans [not that they were minions of the Dark while alive] and that only after their souls are stolen do they start serving the Dark). And I'm right, too, because of that dash. Unless they made a grammatical mistake, because the insertion of a dash makes the phrase an adjective. (man-eating chicken vs. man eating chicken; three year-old children vs. three-year-old children vs. three year old children) You get the picture.
: "Trow - Giant ancestors of the common troll , the
: Trow are incredibly strong and turn to stone at the
: moment of death, a state from which they will
: eventually recover. "
: Troll regeneration? ;)
: "Network Play
: Myth, The Fallen Lords will support any kind of
: networking the player wants: LAN, direct-modem, direct
: Internet connection, Internet via gaming services or
: Internet via Bungie's own in-house server. The server
: will hook people up into games, sorted by skill or
: latency or any other criterion, and will host areas
: for modified game files, demos , chatting, etc. A
: variety of net-games will include games of Assassin ,
: Capture the Flag and the split-second action of Steal
: the Bacon."
: Pick-Ups
: There are numerous pick-ups throughout the missions that
: give the finder specific power: * Fever Stone - A ward
: against sickness
: * Speed Token
: * Aconite - A poison for arrow tips
: * Deep Fen boots - Allows walking over water or marsh.
: * Gleaming wand - Forces the Mahir (Shadow Warriors) to
: become corporeal.
: * Heaven Stones - Protect from malign influences and
: wicked spirits.
: * Mandrake - Narcotic with healing effect.
: * Nepenthe - Effects death and hence drives away care and
: thoughts of trouble.
: * Tarnkappe - A cape that renders the wearer almost
: invisible.
: * Tathlam - These are the severed heads of enemies, made
: by the Ents. Explode violently when thrown.
: * Wards- Various talismans fashioned by fir'Bolg wise men
: as protection against physical blows.
: put eidos discussion here plz kthxbye
'k then.
Doom.
