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threadfree

on dead derps

Dec 12, 2011 03:21

Additional blather about my death knight characters. The post that inspired this is here, and my original comment is here.

( Blood worms, runeblades, and zombies, oh my! )

rp is srsbsns, ooc

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sunfavoured December 13 2011, 09:37:03 UTC

I've already gushed at you before, but I figure I should also leave thoughts here ( ... )

threadfree December 13 2011, 14:34:29 UTC

I'll bet Indy thinks Uldum is pretty much the bee's knees, sweltering heat and dryness aside. It's unlikely that he's been directly influenced by their tombs, as they're a fairly recent discovery, but he'd still be very impressed. And, if there's any tombs they've rigged with traps (judging from Halls of Origination? yea), he's likely to take inspiration from that. When he's finally resting, he won't want any raids on his tomb because he won't be able to get up and defend it.

I told you over gtalk where the name for Indy's sword came from, but for anybody that might be staring at all this wordiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouleau -- I used a thesaurus and got "rouleau", which led me to "rouleaux". I think some blood cells that stack up like pennies is an acceptable reference to make with a DK runeblade ( ... )

part ii threadfree December 13 2011, 14:34:48 UTC

"What does being dead mean to them?"

Before seriously getting into WoW RP, I already had ten years of RP and story writing under my belt. I didn't get as much actual RP as I would've liked, but I was definitely dabbling in the concepts of undeath well before death knights. It's led me to this approach, where it's not just a cool zombie because zombies are cool.

There's also, I think, a couple influential things from books and movies I ought to mention. First, I was big on Anne Rice, which is basically where Twilight got all of its ideas on trying to make vampires more human and romantic. They struggled to come to grips with their loss of humanity. Then, of course, when I was growing up, I watched a lot of horror movies. One of those, which I was absolutely struck by, was Frankenstein.

This is the scene which I remember most of all.That, right there, ladies and gentlemen, is stealing like an artist. Have I had one of my undead monstrosities drown a little girl? No. But I have had them go through similarily traumatizing events which ( ... )

Re: part ii sunfavoured December 13 2011, 15:04:15 UTC

First off, gonna copy here what I already said (and essentially copying you again, in that posting this for posterity's sake).

"As much as I hated Anne Rice's later stuff, the first books really struck me (as much as Frankenstein stuff did) as iconic for the "monster not being always black-and-white" kind of monster."

and

"This is what I think of first when I think of Anne Rice and monsters who have onion-layers, instead of solely villain fodder, and thus enrich the relationships and interactions of other characters that much more.Okay! Back to addressing specifics in your posts ( ... )