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Hyraxylos
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| the thing that I just realized that may have a connection is that I have working on a neverwinter night mod on and off slowly for several years now. |
Interesting coincidence. I used to make NWN content as well for a long time, but I scrapped the project that I'd been working on which revolved around the single character I ever made for that game, who also had a great many details that were based on dreams and experience that I had.
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| the thing that sounds the same is the main character is a human who wakes up as a captive prisoner with no memory, in truth the character is a dragon but was hunted down and had his powers stolen from him. the main character escapes before he is executed, and is on a quest to regain his lost power, the thing with my mod to why it is taking so long to finish is the fact that I cant write the ending for it, the majority of the mod is complete but the end battle, been having writers block for that part. |
If you appear on IRC anywhere or use AIM, MSN, or Skype, I'd be interested in helping. 
Long convoluted and eyeroll-inducing story alert.
My character, as it turns out, also had a large number of similarities with myself. In one module campaign that I started to write out but never actually got around to working on, he was a human who lived in some village out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by wilderness, and got spontaneously possessed by the ghost of a malevolent deceased dragon (whose name I never decided on) that wanted to steal someone's body so that he wouldn't have to lose memory to reincarnation. When a roving band of orcs invades the village some years later, Ben (yes, I gave him my name too  ) discovers that he can use some strange powers over the elements to drive off the invaders, but at a cost to his own mind. He destroys a large amount of his village by accident and, out of fear for the lives of the others, runs off into the wild.
In the woods, Ben encounters a young wolf and discovers that he can commune with animals somehow. At this point somehow he starts out on his road to becoming a druid (never got around to figuring out that part :laugh: ) with the wolf Achab as his animal companion, and the two wander out westward to the Silver Marches for some (again undecided) reason, trains there partway under Master Drogan from Shadows of Undrentide, and goes over to Neverwinter when the plague starts up to help out and finish his training. Cue the main NWN1 storyline. At the end of that, I inserted a bit of a retcon from the original story (at the start of the original SoU, your character is supposed to be new and Level 1) in which Ben goes back to the Silver Marches to help his first mentor out with new students, and that's where the other two expansions pick up, along with numerous side stories I downloaded from the Vault and added to my canon, such as the awesome Sands of Fate campaign.
In the last part of my canon, Ben finally learns that some ancient magic buried under his hometown is the key to removing the ghost from his body. Goaded by friends to do so, he reluctantly heads back there and finds what he needs. The good news is that the ritual works and imposes an effect on the dragon spirit that prevents it from hijacking ANYONE's body in the future. The bad news is that it conjures an exact duplicate of Ben's body as the means of removing the dragon, with the only difference being that the dragon uses that body to resurrect and overwrite with his original powers, memories, and personality, which results in the toughest fight I've gone through for any NWN content. This module I did almost complete, but in playtesting I wasn't able to win the final battle without cheating. And unfortunately, it was lost when my hard drive at that time got destroyed in some sort of bluescreen accident. .......Okay I'm done now. 
What's ironic is that I didn't find out until much later after making all this that Hyrax had been influencing development of my character with a combination of his own memories and his creativity. That ended up making it a little harder for me to accept some of my flashbacks when they did genuinely happen, but my opinion now is that it really shouldn't have made that much of a difference to me.
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Blue
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| Posted: Tue 16 Mar 2010 18:37 Post subject: |
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It's funny how our subconscious can influence us, we thought we were working on something original but now at a closer look we see a connection.
I made a topic here so we can talk NWN geek talk
http://www.ncsos.us/sdb/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8200 |
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