The fact that it is GPL does not mean I can not sell GPLed software for lots and lots of money. Common misconception about the GPL. I could easily take the source and the binaries, stick it on a CD and sell it online at 10$ a pop or something. As long as I provide the source and a copy of the licen...

I can't stand FF7, heh. Anyway, the concept of Mana comes from Peloponnesian mythology. It's a creative magic that is bestowed when someone does an act of creation. The magic is drawn from the caster and the earth, and imbues the creation with power. What I was trying to say, however, is that using ...

Doesn't Mana cost energy to use? Does a person feel weary after using Mana? I ask, because if Mana makes people feel tired after using it, then it would make sense to have science involved then. For example, we can all walk, can we not? Then why do we drive cars? If we can just walk from A to B, why...

I like that idea- like ruins of technology. Something they can't use, but set as background in some of the cities. Maybe some rumors that some of the Veshin are persuing of a war machine that still works. The problem "The peaceful rolling hills with sheep on it ". The correction meant here...

Um...you entirely missed the point of what I said, there. I'm not saying it doesn't fit with the style. I'm saying that the experience of reworking things to achieve the best possible end result is the same. Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. Allthough I do disagree with this statement, I...

It's like me learning the eccentricities of a new style of graphics, which I had to do after creating my first character sprites, then realizing that they didn't fit with the style. Again, we are in heavy planning stages, so things need to be open to shifting. That is what was meant by "qualit...

I'll agree to wait and see before I make a comment on it. But, if she is unwilling (or does not have the time) to participate here, would she also be unwilling to make changes that we suggest? But, I'll back off from the topic for now. On the Sonnet: I like it a bit as well. But it's still rough aro...

You are right. I'll go back and edit out some of the nasty things I had said. But you are correct. A new plot will have changes to be made. This is a comitee based project, and not a dictatorship. As such, it needs to be worked like that.

It's pretty good, mandrake. It does seem a bit too prose-ish to be a bardic sonnet, perhaps we should write it more as a story that is being told by an elder to children, than as a song... Actually, that intro (i sing to you...) is a direct line from how the Greeks would begin their sonnets. I was ...

Ok, I wrote a bit. I still need to finish it, but I'll do that tomorrow. It's also just a first draft, a lot of this will probably be rewritten. I sing to you of the time before the world, I sing to you before the fall of the gods When the gods had existed in the endless void of space itself And the...

Anyway. My friend's storyline should be ready fairly soon. Be forewarned; it's likely going to be very, very different from any we've been looking at here. Then why shold it be used? She unwilling to meet with us, unwilling to read what had been do so far, and unwilling to try and fit everything to...

1. Gods exist before time. 2. Out of boredom, the gods get together and decide to make a world to play with. 3. They experiment a few times, but each world is barren and empty. 4. One god, the god that was the oldest discovers that in order to create life in a world, you need to imbue it with a prop...

It seems like we are starting to refine it down to something we might all agree upon. I like this outline approach because we can quibble and change and adapt ideas without needing to rewrite the background each time. I'm going to combine some of Rotenen's ideas and Talarocs ideas and create another...

here is a point by point rewrite of the plot: 1. Gods exist before time. 2. Gods create a world to play with in order to resolve disputes. 3. This world is imbued with Mana, which allows the gods to indirectly control the world. 4. Some of the gods began to quibble over every detail, destroying citi...