Err... hello!

I'm a meddling bufoon with many RL ideas and little programming knowledge. I am the mortal enemy of cheese, but a great fan of Mindcrafting (go figure). I started off playing Moria on the Amiga all those years ago, and graduated to Pernangband when I was on the net and wondered what happened to that old game I used to play...

I throw out a lot of ideas, and please feel free to knock them from pillar to post as I'm not precious about them. Go on, give 'em a shake! A bit of brownian motion is what turns ideas into workable plans!

If you're desperate for company, email me on ravenred(at)auswww.com...

Cheers!

Here are all those whacky ideas I was talking about... eventually, I'll even update it.

Here are some working documents for my module, which I intend to start working on seriuosly when 3.0.0 comes out...

Idea Scratch Pad

A couple of IdeaArchive bits and bobs which I'll update as soon as work and other demands allow.

Chatter

MayLith: What's a screed? :)

RavenRed: 

screed    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (skrd) 
n. 
 1. A long monotonous speech or piece of writing. 
 2. A strip of wood, plaster, or metal placed on a wall or pavement as a guide for the even application of plaster or concrete. 
 3. A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface such as a floor. 
 4. A smooth final surface of a substance, such as concrete, applied to a floor.

Guess which usage I was aiming for... :)

MayLith: Now I'm confused. You said you approved of Catch-22 being a screed... yet you feel it is monotonous? Granted, it does have a sense of deja-vu about it, but that is part of the whole point of the novel...

RavenRed: It is monotonous, and that is rather the point. Yossarian's deja vu as the mission number gets raised again, and another friend dies is the core of the novel. It sort of makes up for the fact that the book's got no appreciable plot. Some of the comic set-pieces are absolutely magnificent, though...

MayLith: Yes, they are great, aren't they?

IMHO C-22's plot is more of a standing wave (if you want to talk in a physics dialect) than the more standard, progressive sort of thing you get from a typical novel. I always thought of it as sort of a view (maybe a hologram?) sort of building itself clearer and clearer as the book progressed, in an attempt to give you a feel for what it was like for those men to go through what they did, at least in an allegorical sense. But then...what do I know. *shrug*

I really need to go back and read it again for the Nth time. My copy is literally falling apart -- a fair number of individual pages are all loose -- but I haven't read it in quite a while. I've found that as I've gotten older, some books read quite differently to me. (Including the LotR...) And one of these days, I AM going to get past a few pages of Kant in one day, but that's a different story. ;-)

NeilStevens: Thanks for the move.

Monster

Just a bit of silliness. If I were a monster, what would I be?

Based on an amalgam b/w my current ToME Haftedmaster Character and my current wiki Persona... :)

Firstly, the monster entry. 

[1] =
        {
                name = "Ravenred"
                desc =
                {
                        "His open face and smile almost make you like his bumbling ways,",
                        "but then you realise he wants to make TOME a living hell for you!",
                        "He opens his mouth and you prepare for homicidal inanity!",
                }
                color = color.ORANGE
                level = 50 rarity = 1
                speed = 10 life = {30,30} ac = 40
                aaf = 20 sleep = 10
                weight = 2000
                blows =
                {
                        {"HIT","CRUSH",{5,40}},
                        {"HIT","CRUSH",{5,40}},
                        {"HIT","CRUSH",{5,40}},
                }
                spells = 
                frequency = 3 
                {
                        ["Shriek"] = { level=50 chance=90 } 
                        ["Confuse"] = { level=50 chance=99 }
                {
                flags =
                {
                        RESIST=getter.resist{FIRE=66 CRUSH=15 SLASH=10 PIERCE=10 CONFUSE=55 SLEEP=100}
                        MALE=1 DROP_CORPSE=1 TAKE_ITEM=1 
                        OPEN_DOOR=1 JOKE=1 BASH_DOOR=1 HAS_LITE=1 STUPID=true
                        EVIL=1 DROP_THEME=getter.flags{THEME_COMBAT=50 THEME_MAGIC=50}}
                        MANA_CURR=60 MANA_MAX=60 MANA_REGENERATE=300
                        AI=ai.SPELL_AND_MOVE AI_STATES=getter.flags{
                        CASTING_AI=ai.SMART_CAST
                        MOVE_AI=ai.RANDOM_MOVE
                        MOVE_RATE=25
                        FEAR_LEVEL=90)
                }
        }

And now some quotes...:) 

p:1:Ravenred
6
scoffs at "cheese".
says 'Now I'm not quite sure how to code this, but...'.
types "Just a quick idea..."'
talks loudly, carrying a small stick.
mutters something about players having it too easy.
asks if you've got anything to add.
1
screams 'Pipedream HAS TO come out sometime!'.

TheFalcon: Already in ToME3.0 format I see. ;)

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RavenRed (last edited 2007-06-22 01:40:34 by RavenRed)