Thanks to everyone who's wished that I get well soon.
I should be back up, about, and blogging by next week.
Hopefully, you'll all come back and start reading my posts again ^_^
My thanks to everyone in seaGE, the people on the forums, and the blog readers.
BRB ^^
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
ON HIATUS
[Look, rare use of the ALL CAPS post title!]
So, yeah, unfortunately I've come down with the chicken pox. So no Granado Espada for now, and most certainly no new posts for now. I'll go back to updating the blog once I'm not so contagious any more.
Damn I feel worse now. Looks like the pox is part of the New World too.
So, yeah, unfortunately I've come down with the chicken pox. So no Granado Espada for now, and most certainly no new posts for now. I'll go back to updating the blog once I'm not so contagious any more.
Damn I feel worse now. Looks like the pox is part of the New World too.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
[Fanfic] Granado Espada Third Civilization: A letter from the haunted town
[This fanfic was inspired by the videos of Granado Espada Third Civilization. There are some images and videos in this recent blog post.]
This letter was found in a building overlooking both the plaza of the Abandoned Settlement and the Temple complex just outside the town gates.
There were bloodstains on the floor of the room where the letter was found, and an overturned ink bottle fanned out its dark contents in a corner, as if the bottle had been flung there.
No trace remained of the unknown pioneer who wrote the letter.
***
Dear Mother,
My memories of home have long faded. All I can remember now is your face. I cannot even remember when it was that I first came to this settlement. All I can remember now is that it took us a week to sail from the Base Camp in Ustiur to arrive here.
I vaguely remember finding out the name of this town - but I can no longer remember the name.
The few of us still left all have expressions of great confusion on our faces. Every day it gets harder to remember who we are. Every day it gets harder to remember that we cannot go into the temples. Every day it gets harder to remember that we must fight the monsters that besiege the town from the temples.
Every day the temples call to us, and the song becomes more and more irresistible by the day.
Mother, the lines on the ground are coming to life.
Mother, please remember me, even when I cannot any longer remember you.
***
The pioneer who wrote this letter left no signature or trace except, it is presumed, the blood in the room where this letter was found.
This letter was found in a building overlooking both the plaza of the Abandoned Settlement and the Temple complex just outside the town gates.
There were bloodstains on the floor of the room where the letter was found, and an overturned ink bottle fanned out its dark contents in a corner, as if the bottle had been flung there.
No trace remained of the unknown pioneer who wrote the letter.
***
Dear Mother,
My memories of home have long faded. All I can remember now is your face. I cannot even remember when it was that I first came to this settlement. All I can remember now is that it took us a week to sail from the Base Camp in Ustiur to arrive here.
I vaguely remember finding out the name of this town - but I can no longer remember the name.
The few of us still left all have expressions of great confusion on our faces. Every day it gets harder to remember who we are. Every day it gets harder to remember that we cannot go into the temples. Every day it gets harder to remember that we must fight the monsters that besiege the town from the temples.
Every day the temples call to us, and the song becomes more and more irresistible by the day.
Mother, the lines on the ground are coming to life.
Mother, please remember me, even when I cannot any longer remember you.
***
The pioneer who wrote this letter left no signature or trace except, it is presumed, the blood in the room where this letter was found.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Granado Espada Version 3.0 Madness~! [Media mash-up ahoy!]
With this thread in the forums leading the charge, lots of people are now beginning to talk about Version 3.0 of Granado Espada, tentatively labeled Third Civilization by RCM Hrin [and IMC, duh~ ^^] in this blog post.
[That name for the update reminds me of playing my way through Sid Meier's Civilization IV....]
Without further ado, feast your eyes on these pieces of the Third Civilization. This is what we've got to look forward to....
A documentary-type short film in which Kim Hakkyu and the folks at IMC's Research and Development discuss Third Civilization and what wonders it holds.
[Um, yeah, it's in Korean. Translations are quite welcome!]
An eerie, abandoned town. Mayan or Incan-type temples and architecture. Designs on the terrain and monster designs that look like they might be close kin of the Nazca Lines in Peru, South America. A third currency, called the Feso. Cute pets, also under MCC! Socketing RNPC Clare in action!
DJ3 [Comique Family] posts concept art of the new armors and pets in posts 65 and 69. The pictures are originally from the doratomo.jp GE fan site.
Concept art for new armors for the stock characters.
The male wizard and musketeer are YUMMY, and even the male elementalist actually gets to wear something that SUITS him! The male scout seems to be getting even more daring, and hey, why is the male fighter so very covered up?
As for the ladies, I LOVE the fighter, the musketeer and the wizard's costumes!
EDITED TO ADD: From Fiksdotter's own blog post about Third Civilization comes a short video showing actual renders of some of the hot armor in the art above. Muchas gracias, boss.
Still in Korean, but you'll be too busy looking at the renders ^^
And new in Third Civilization: PETS!
Grabber Lady - a female bunny-type pet.
Grabber - apparently the male counterpart of Grabber Lady.
Pixy, a scarecrow-type pet.
From the video and these concept art designs, it looks like the Grabber and the Grabber Lady could be looter-type pets, while Pixy looks like it might be capable of either buffing teammates, or de-buffing enemies, or even both.
I can't wait for this!
[That name for the update reminds me of playing my way through Sid Meier's Civilization IV....]
Without further ado, feast your eyes on these pieces of the Third Civilization. This is what we've got to look forward to....
A documentary-type short film in which Kim Hakkyu and the folks at IMC's Research and Development discuss Third Civilization and what wonders it holds.
[Um, yeah, it's in Korean. Translations are quite welcome!]
An eerie, abandoned town. Mayan or Incan-type temples and architecture. Designs on the terrain and monster designs that look like they might be close kin of the Nazca Lines in Peru, South America. A third currency, called the Feso. Cute pets, also under MCC! Socketing RNPC Clare in action!
DJ3 [Comique Family] posts concept art of the new armors and pets in posts 65 and 69. The pictures are originally from the doratomo.jp GE fan site.
Concept art for new armors for the stock characters.
The male wizard and musketeer are YUMMY, and even the male elementalist actually gets to wear something that SUITS him! The male scout seems to be getting even more daring, and hey, why is the male fighter so very covered up?
As for the ladies, I LOVE the fighter, the musketeer and the wizard's costumes!
EDITED TO ADD: From Fiksdotter's own blog post about Third Civilization comes a short video showing actual renders of some of the hot armor in the art above. Muchas gracias, boss.
Still in Korean, but you'll be too busy looking at the renders ^^
And new in Third Civilization: PETS!
Grabber Lady - a female bunny-type pet.
Grabber - apparently the male counterpart of Grabber Lady.
Pixy, a scarecrow-type pet.
From the video and these concept art designs, it looks like the Grabber and the Grabber Lady could be looter-type pets, while Pixy looks like it might be capable of either buffing teammates, or de-buffing enemies, or even both.
I can't wait for this!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
RCM Hrin's photo mosaic - now it can be told ^^
Inspired by RCM Hrin's blog post about Dom1nation II.
***
A story from the week before Dom1nation II.
I'm not ashamed to admit that as soon as I heard a whiff that RCM Hrin would be gracing us with her presence once again during Dom1nation II, I got very, very excited - and so did my friends as soon as they heard the news as well.
So we decided to put together a gift for her, something to take back to her office with her as a token of appreciation from the GE PH bloggers.
We'd initially thought of sending her a boxful of mangoes, and realized, crap, how's that for letting her lug a kilo or two of fruit through customs and all that? We also thought of making her a soundtrack CD with the songs from all versions of Not Another Love Story, except, whoa, Singapore has stringent rules on stuff like that, right?
So we were all running out of ideas and then someone said photo mosaic.
And it was a BRILLIANT idea, and so we moved to put it quickly into action. I volunteered to do all the work of putting it together: collecting all the photos, finding someone to do the mosaic for us, having the mosaic made, buying the frame, wrapping the gift, et cetera.
I'm sure that Hrin was pretty mystified when I suddenly asked her for a nice picture of her, and got this for a reply. This is pretty familiar to you as her forums avatar.
We planned to use our pictures as the mosaic tiles to create this photo mosaic image.
I'd say we succeeded, wouldn't you?
So happy you liked the gift, Hrin ^^ And thank you so much for all the praise you heaped upon us. We're very grateful.
***
A story from the week before Dom1nation II.
I'm not ashamed to admit that as soon as I heard a whiff that RCM Hrin would be gracing us with her presence once again during Dom1nation II, I got very, very excited - and so did my friends as soon as they heard the news as well.
So we decided to put together a gift for her, something to take back to her office with her as a token of appreciation from the GE PH bloggers.
We'd initially thought of sending her a boxful of mangoes, and realized, crap, how's that for letting her lug a kilo or two of fruit through customs and all that? We also thought of making her a soundtrack CD with the songs from all versions of Not Another Love Story, except, whoa, Singapore has stringent rules on stuff like that, right?
So we were all running out of ideas and then someone said photo mosaic.
And it was a BRILLIANT idea, and so we moved to put it quickly into action. I volunteered to do all the work of putting it together: collecting all the photos, finding someone to do the mosaic for us, having the mosaic made, buying the frame, wrapping the gift, et cetera.
I'm sure that Hrin was pretty mystified when I suddenly asked her for a nice picture of her, and got this for a reply. This is pretty familiar to you as her forums avatar.
We planned to use our pictures as the mosaic tiles to create this photo mosaic image.
I'd say we succeeded, wouldn't you?
So happy you liked the gift, Hrin ^^ And thank you so much for all the praise you heaped upon us. We're very grateful.
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