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Thursday, August 10, 2006

My guide to fantasy worlds (Part Two)

The story continues

I've been threatened by David that if I dont update my blog, he'll take his anger out on my jack russel... Sexually...

I also promised that I would continue with my little fantasy guide/story, and I will. However, I've been looking at the names I have given out to the people and places in the last entry, and theres no way that I'm going to bother memorising the them, so I'm going to give them better names to make it easier for me:

"Harazenth" (Where it's all set in): "The kingdom"
"Krost" (Horrid bad guy): "Bad ruler"
"Hopelen" (That village we first land in): "Settlement"
"Dagger of Sheron" (Obscure knife I randomly got) : "Flickknife"

Right, now on with the story (By the way, I've decided to place some of my friends in this story for sheer randomness)

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What happens to me (Part two)

Right... Me and my friends have been traveling on our own for about two weeks since excaping the prison. We're not doing amazingly well, and we're running out on food, as well as water. Our friendship shows minor strain, although it isn't that obvious, and we're a good team, so we can't fall out. At some point, we come to the conclusion we are being followed (This is where we relise that the story may be being influenced, although I'll try and stop that). However, just when we are about to ambush the followers, its turns out that its a party of four hot local girls (As I said before, the same age as us), fancy that!. Turns out that they hate Bad Ruler quite a bit, and how he/she has spread hate and misery to The Kingdom and their little settlement (Bless them). Me and my friends play along and say how much we hate this "Bad Ruler" character as well. This draws admiration from the girls, and they fall right into our charismatic trap, and they decide to come with us on our quest.

This is horrible for us. We want to slay Bad Ruler, not hang around with the hottest girls we've ever laid eyes on, and whats worse, they're wearing barly nothing, only some carefully placed rags! I don't want to get distracted, and they'll be all "Look-at-me", and we'll be forced to take a peek . Me and my friends act moody, and we tell them to carry our equipment. They do, and we head up the mountain trail, towards where Bad Ruler resides.

Now, Bad Ruler has consulted a witch to look into the future, you know, to make sure he will still be ruler in a week, and lo-and behold, the witch says that in the future (A week), Bad Ruler is dead! Now, Bad Ruler, relising how deterministic that prophesy was, freaks out and kills the witch in anger. For no reason, he sends 5000 of his finest warriors out to "Kill anyone who looks like they could slay me". And the troops march off into the land.

Meanwhile, we've decided to set up camp in a small forest at the end of the day. We only have two sleeping bags in our rucksack, so we tell them they'll have to sleep on the floor. They suggest they share the sleeping bags with us. I relise how useful this could be, so five minutes later, me and the (naked) girls are in one sleeping bag, and my (naked) friends are in the other.
I close my eyes, to make way for an entirly uneventful night...

I wake up the next morning and continue with my friends and the ladies. I can't help but notice how one of the girls keeps looking at me in the "we could get married" look. I play hard to get, and ask whether we should look for supplies, or if theres any nearby towns we could get some random information from. One of the girls suggests we go to fantasy village two, and get some bread. Just as we're walking to the bakery, we hear horses runing around and arrows being fired. We hide behind a rock, and as we do so, a villager runs out with arrows in his/her back, and drops dead. Sophie (The one who fancies me) tells me that Bad Ruler has seen the prophesy, and will try to kill the "Chosen ones", sent from another universe to rid The Kingdom of evil.

Naturally, I'm confused at that point (In the story anyway), but before I ask what she meant, I run out of ideas, and move to the next part of the guide (Part three will come at some point kids!)...

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Friends to take with me...

I promised last entry to do a brief guide on who would be ideal to take with me on my journey, so here are (a few) candidates:

Max: Good nerd, and because of the stereotypes in these worlds, he'll pick up fast on the plots, as well as learning several potion recipes and spells. Although this would be really cool, I get the idea that he will be easily killed off fairly early in the story. Another problem is that he would make a sedating potion for the girls, and I'm not going to add that in, so...

Stephen: Ah, now Steve is an ideal choice, because as well as being smart and fairly strong, he can be the loyal one who'll probably sacrifice himself for me at the end. On the other hand, a stereotypical rivalry could tear us apart halfway, only for him to join Bad Ruler's forces in revenge.

Will: Will is also a loyal friend, and as well as knowing many martial arts, will probably be the one who keeps me sane. However, theres also going to be a power struggle between me and him, and he'll probably get bitter over Sophie fancying me. Hmm.

David: Ah, at the moment, David is growing some form of beard substence at the moment, and he does look like a credible sidekick, and I'm sure he can produce quite a few witty wisecracks along the way. However, I do not want to risk the idea of him taking my beloved Sophie (You get the idea she'll run off with him). However, if by any chance I decide to turn this story into a "comedy", then I can make it so that in order to stop our universes from collapsing in on each other, he has to make out with the ugliest fucking monster the world has ever seen. He then has to make love to it/him/her all night, while me and my other brothers-in-arms run away to saftey. On the other hand... No.

Albert: Albert can be quircky, and if we need comedy relief, I'm sure he can do some good old fashioned wisecracken' for our amusement. None-the-less, there is the problem him hogging all the girls (That seems to be the number one flaw for quite a few friends at the moment). He is a lyal friend though, so I'm sure I can spare half a girl (The right hand side).

Owen: Unfortunatly, Owen decided that he wasn't satisfield with being a student, so hes headed off to Somalia to become a hard-ass mercenary. Shame really, but on the other hand, he would of stolen the girls ...

After much thinking, the three friends that I have decided to take with me are (Roll of drums)... Albert... Steve... And Will! I have chosen these guys not because of me taking into account the advantages/disadvantages but because they're the main people in our Lans! Huzzar!

Stay tuned for next episode!

Monday, August 07, 2006

My guide to fantasy worlds (Part One)

I've always had a particular hatred towards the types of backgrounds and characters you would find in a fantasy film. The hatreds always been there with me, but I've only started getting creeped out by it ever since I watched "Dark Crystal". If you've never seen this film, the good for you. Jim Henson played a pretty major role in this film, which takes away a lot of kudos. Everything is done with puppets, which sounds (slightly) interesting, but is actually gloomy, depressing, and will scare the jeebies out of me.

And so I've been creeped out by a lot of different fantasy films, probably because of the fact of how different the characters look. "Dark Crystal", "Labyrinth", "Neverending Story" and "Legend" screw me up in particular. Just thinking about those creatures (Skeksis, Gmork and Tim Curry) makes my blood curl, and I would probably break down in a world like that. Unfortunatly, I found out that often in these types of movies, the main character is a person from our world who will accidentally get sucked into theirs, often through some artefact. This scares me, and I've constructed mini ways of coping, if I was to have this sort of thing happen to me.

What happens to me (Part one)

Most fantasy films/worlds seem to operate around a PG rated culture. This means that although I will be in a horrible situation, with many hideous creatures, it means that I have a less than likely chance of dying. Even better, it also means that theres a good chance that there should be a small human settlement around the place in which I "appear". The humans will most likely be under rule from some comically terrifying creature which represents evil, or is an agent for the main evil force. The creature should look like nothing we could identify with, perhaps one which picks off villages once in a while.

After helping to defend the settlement, maybe scaring off or even killing the creatures, I will have (Obviously) bought a lot of attention to myself. The people will look at my "Funny clothes", and make cautious comments about how I dress. At this point, one of my electronic devices will go off. The villagers/elders/llocals will refere to this as "Witchcraft", and through me in a prison.

At this point, in order for me to not lose my sanity, I will relise that I wasnt the only person to travel to this world. I'll probably have a friend(s) which is already locked in the prison. We'll exchange our stories (How we got here, what happened to us etc). It turns out, we are in the Kingdom of Harazenth, under the wicked rule of Krost, leader of the Chorpens. We relise what we have to do: The only way we can get back to our world is by defeating Krost, therefore restoring light to Hazazenth. The human settlement, which I shall call "Hopelen", turns out to be fairly far away from Krost's castle, so its going to be a fairly far, and epic journey. At night, we break out of the prison, get a map, equip ourselves with the "Dagger of Sheron", and head out on a mythical journey which will be a test of courage, hope, faith and friendship (At least one of us will be axed off though).
Just as we're heading of, two of the girls from Hopelen (Conveniently around our age) will see us excaping, and without alerting the elders, will follow us.

Thats the end of the first part, but I'll expand on what will happen to me in my next blog post.
However, I need to expand on other things...

Songs I will need to keep my sanity in a fantasy world

One of the best ways of not developing mild schizophrenia and paranoia on my journeys is to carry around a device which can play you music. I have managed to highlight the songs that would keep me going (Highlighted in green), songs that would get me upset or homesick (Highlighted in orange), and songs that would make me snap (Highlighted in red). Here they are:

"Leper Messiah" by Metallia
"Welcome Home" by Metallica
"And Justice For All" by Metallica
"Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
"Gold Digger" by Kayne West
"Spitfire" by The Prodigy
"Orion" by Metallica
"Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie
"Dream On" by Aerosmith
"Breath" by The Prodigy
"Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb

Just because a song is marked red or orange, doesn't mean I hate it. It just means It'd make me a little more homesick, and a little more awful. "Little Fluffy Clouds" however, is one depressing tune.

I would also like to point out that some of my friends would be useful in these fantasy worlds, and others would snap easily in the situation. In "My guide to fantasy worlds (Part Two)", I shall expand on this, as well as what will happen to me and my friend, but for now, I'm going to bed.

Toodles...