Dark Age Legends Day! (Three years' Anniversary)

[Drannic_Lord01]

(Note: I just did this today because dark age legends will be closed for a while. Might as well type somethin'!)

Can you believe it's already been three years since chapter one!? Congratulations to the greatest Role Play ever known to man, DARK AGE LEGENDS!!! In other words, happy DAL Day! Three years, and over 340 pages long with about 15 - 30 replies a page! Exciting pages of blood, battle, and dark plots! Also, an amazing 5100+ posts, which is about half of last-year-anniversary's amount!

With warm reguards,

Drannic and the Crew.

[Dude Man]

Indeed, happy 3rd Anniversary. It's nice to see a new person so into DAL already. The last few n00bs just made a single post with no capitals or punctuation and then left.

[Drannic_Lord01]

Well, hmm... The reason for all of that would probably be because it was the first post on the topic. You have to make a good first impression, you know?

... Yeah...

Anyways, happy DAL Day! May all of your posts be filled with savory goodness, enthralling stories, and blood-thirsty villans who are ready to conquer the foolish masses... Heh... Isn't that what drives Dark Age?

Another thing I would like to state is that if we made this a game, it would blow away anything anybody's ever heard of story-wise. But think for a minute...

Adult Language, Adult Situations, Blood, Gore, Extreme Fantasy Violence, Extreme Good-old Regular Violence (which drives all players and makers, too. Heh.)

What, is it rated A.O. (Adult Only, 18+)!? OMG! I see why we'd just keep this amongst ourselves. Besides, it would probably take two - five years to program... Ah well. At least we get to type, you know?

So, just to continue the conversation, what's your guys' favorite chapters? Mine would have to be twelve, because that's the one I started in (if you call that an excuse. Heh...)

... I'm bored...

See you guys on the Chapter Thirteen Posts!

[Xorlak]

Well, uh, we don't quite have adult situations in there...  (Heh...)

Probably my favorite chapter would be 10.  Though ridiculously long, this is where a lot of writers really started developing some great plots.

[Drannic_Lord01]

Hmm... now that I recall, I did enjoy the descriptive works of chapter one, though grammarically uninclined... Heh. The best part was how Iduran heard a stampede, though it sounded more organized like a march. Then, how there was a scaping metal noise as the dark wave unsheathed their weapons allmost at the exact same time...

If you didn't know before, I like battles on a more massive scale, rather than jus one-on-one with some other person. Although I did like the battle between the martial artist and Draven... Brings you back a ways, doesn't it?

[Xorlak]

Indeed.

Oh, there's plenty of ridiculously massive battles in there.  I would classify the battle in chapter 1 as a minor scuffle.  (Heh...)

Let see, what was our largest battle?  Possibly in the middle of chapter 5, when Draven just assumed control of the Dark Empire and everyone bum rushed the old capital of the Dark Empire (that never really got a name).  We had everyone flying around blasting each other out of the sky,  demons flying out of portals, giant robots (Eon's weapons were there, right?) and stuff.  It was hilarious.  The entire city was leveled.

THEN everyone moved on to the final-boss-style battle in the arctic region with Alpha Retan, which nearly destroyed the world.  Good times.  (Heh...)

I think we've matured a bit for that level of craziness now, instead preferring more down-to-earth scale battles like in chapter 12, which I think are more exciting and interesting to read.  Still, I think more massive scale battles are inevitable in the future.

[Dude Man]

I actually would love another insane mass-scale-battle. The ole’ one-on-one fights are fun, but other people never let my characters win. I usually need to have two of my characters duel, in order for one of my characters to win (Heh.)

I think Gerard was the only character of somebody else's I killed off.

Oh and Drannic Lord I wasn't aware that you've been reading the past chapters. I had a feeling somebody else other than the (veteran) players read them.

[Drannic_Lord01]

Actually, I kinda just started. I broke it down to around ten pages a day. I'm already on chapter 3! Unfortunately, I have quite a ways to go... Sad

Moving along... MASS-SCALE-BATTLE!?!?!? We need another, especially since I'm now in this! I'll spice things up to a major, more savory read, rather than burn everything down like every other noob eventually does... *Sigh* I'm not saying burning everything down's a bad idea, it's just the fact that EVERYTHIN IS BURNING DOWN! Come on! That's just too plain. Why can't everything be frozen dow, like an ice age or something? Be original!

(Note: That was just for the noobs. Not us... Heh...)

I still like chapter one the best, though, because that was where everything 'kicked off the ground and flew', for want of a better phrase. Ah well, I'll think of something better...

[Dude Man]

Hahahah, yeah you kind of remind me of me, back when I was young and high spirited.

Well, Haraldur usually made mass battled a real hassle, since he had a bad habit of killing entire armies (not to mention summoning insanely huge armies) in one post.

[Xorlak]

Heh...

Modifying the rules every time Haraldur posted was fun.

[Jenia]

Heh...

Modifying the rules every time Haraldur posted was fun.

You mean you actualy did that?
Man, that DOES sound like fun  =D

I wonder how Haraldur took it... heheh...

[Dude Man]

I recall when Xorlak made the "Specializations rule", Haraldur got really pissed, claiming it disallowed a lot of creativity. If you ask me, it just disallowed characters to be cheap and only added some consistency. The specializations was needed from the very start. I was really happy to see it.

[D. Ein]

Haraldur really kind of went crazy with all the powers his characters had, but with all the things they could do, they really weren't that different... I mean, ALL of his characters could do everything that the strongest of his chars could do and the weakest as well. Basically, it's like bots in Unreal Tournament: The only two ways they differed from each other are their name and their appearance. Otherwise, they're all identical to each other.

My favourite chapter was probably chapter 7, which is when I joined. I just remember how much I absolutely loved DAL when I joined it (the first RP I've participated in). This being said, I had absolutely NO idea what was going on, especially since I jumped in media res. Also, I think I've mentioned this before, it includes my best post - the very first one. Really, I don't understand it, but that's how it is. My very first post is the only thing I've ever posted on these forums that I enjoy reading myself.

DM made a few attempts to convince me that my post about the Blue Minotaur temple being destroyed was the best one I've made, but I disagree. It's so... chaotic... everything is in discord.... Oddly, I still can't write a decent post that I can say for sure I will enjoy reading later on.

However, even though my first post involved my (then) flagship character, Ein, my favourite character of my own is probably Kronos. The way that I wrote his posts, from the first person, probably contributed to that.

[Drannic_Lord01]

Well, that's a bit strange... If you can't write a post you'll enjoy reading later, then reflect thoughts from your first post. What made it so good? What could you have done to make it better?

Moving along, who's your favorite character that you made? Mine would probably be Jacobie, because he's my first character that got involved into a battle with other people.

[Dude Man]

I really liked Nex and Valos, they were so twisted and insane. However I had to kill them off for storyline reasons. I was thinking of having Valos stay after Chapter 9 and choose to join Duilin, but would have ruined his character. I also liked Abodahon because he was so strong, but I was worried about making a Haraldur character, so I chose to have him killed (By Haraldur, nonetheless).

Also I really like Marshall, because he's much different from my other characters. He's educated and young at hart, plus other than having summoning magic, he's not much more skilled than an average fighter. Despite the fact he's able to defeat several highly trained Kandarin Warriors, but that's merely because he has a character shield and the Kandarin soldiers are just stormtroopers. Very Happy

I would say my favorite is Duilin, merely because he's my first character and he (somewhat) reflects who I am. I suppose you could say I "favor" him.