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Thunder_God

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  1. For my brother it was Bert, from Sesamy Street. He liked it so much, that when it was too torn and had to be thrown away, we had to ask someone who was going to the USA to get him another one...

    Mine were an elephant, at my grandparents', and at my own house, a teddy-bear wearing overalls and a dalmatian from 101 Dalmatians.

    I'll try to take photos, but unlikely before Sunday.

  2. I think a lot of people are proving why they weren't selected to be play-testers...... inability to read and follow simple instructions :)

    The competition is closed folks.

    Or a more charitable explanation, they did not read the whole thread before hitting reply and their votes. After all, it's a poll, not a discussion thread :P

  3. The Gremlins were either spawned by Zoraida, or were cursed to become Goblins by Zoraida, or well, they're part of the ur-Natives.

    I feel that those who lived in Malifaux before were more or less humans, and they changed, through the Tyrants' actions, through their own advanced science, and through the opening of the gateway to the other dimension they opened to kick out the Tyrants.

    You know what I thought of when I read about the prehistory of Malifaux? The pre-history of The Wheel of Time series, about the technology based society they had before they opened the Bore. Also, Gene Wolfe, etc.

  4. I think the pace of the stories and their scope is too... stunted. I actually wish we had more Chronicles downloads, to both have room for the characters, and the stories, breathe.

    I mean, both books together don't describe nearly enough characters, certainly not in a manner that allows to paint their personalities in more than the broadest strokes (2 paragraphs, honestly, and very "broad").

    The books, on the same token, describe what, a period of roughly 1 month, 5 weeks, together? It feels a bit weird, as after I finished reading the first book's fluff I felt we were just beginning - and not the journey in the world, but the first chapter of the book. The events are too compressed, with not enough happening. Compare Zelazny to any of the modern "opus writers" (Jordan, Martin, etc.), he had a lot more plot in a lot less pages.

    Also, the "Gorgon" makes me very curious, and I'm a bit peeved at how little was actually discussed as per the above, but it feels the leit-motifs may be a bit too strong.

    Both appearances are tied to jewels, both have snake relations (the serpent, and the snake-hair manifestation), and both are tied to Resurrectionist women.

    I won't be surprised if this is not coincidental, but it still feels a bit heavy-handed, considering the amount of room it does and does not receive.

    I like the world, and I like the stand-alone stories that let it and the characters breathe a bit more, more.

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