Story Forum Community Lounge (Part 2)

I am hoping it is some German phrase that is lost in translation.

Sort of like :

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He is ok, I talk to him through discord. He is getting help by his own admission already and will sit out WoW at least until Mindnight.

Got a few friends who only play Horde said they cancel their sub until Midnight at least if they are not playing something else by thenā€¦ even though we getting undermine which is Horde content, even if Gallywix is not a Horde Leader, that and the Novela lead them to understand, or form the opinion on how the narrative will continue forward and has lost all interest in it.

Hopefully I see them back in Midnightā€¦ they always come back even if sometimes when they do I am the one taking the break! :sweat_smile:

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Ah, glad heā€™s okay. :heart:

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Kingdom Hearts.

Nomura is saying that Kingdom Hearts 4 will explain why Sora in the Opening says ā€œIā€™ve been having these weird thoughts lately. Like, is any of this for real or not?ā€ and states that Quadratumā€™s Reality will be based on Realism.

Right now I figured out the true name of the Realm of Metaphor: the Astral Plane of Thoughts mentioned in the Missing Link Trailer.

I also suspect that Young Xehanortā€™s Guardian who raised him must be Ansem! Fitting that the Player of Kingdom Hearts Chi would reincarnate into a guy whose name is an anagram of ā€œNamesā€!

In otherwords he didnā€™t die in that Cutscene where he fell down and disappeared but instead was subject to the rule seen at the end of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance: You canā€™t exist in 2 places at once!

Ansemā€™s Future Self arriving at the destination caused Ansem to return to Scala ad Caelum after which he went to Quadratum and Ansemā€™s future self metaphorically represented it by having Xehanort go to a the Scala ad Caelum and meet Eraqus(whose name is an anagram of Square which in Latin is Quadratum).

Ansem met his Child Test Subjects and thanks to their arguments(represented in the Astral Plane as Master Odin) as well as the fear of Maleficent the test subject who had his Darkness cultivated Baldr ended shoving his Sister Hodir(who had her Darkness removed turning her to Pure Light) and the rest of the Test Subjects into the Ark seen in Kingdom Hearts Chi to join Young Xehanort in the Astral Planeā€™s Scala ad Caelum.

The Test Subjectsā€™ bodies were reduced to the Clothing which eventually animated and started stuffing people into the Ark to create more walking clothing that Ansem gave the name of Heartless(with the ones he specially made being given the Nobody Symbol) which led to the Heartless made of Darkness to be renamed Unversed in the Prime Material Plane(the animated clothing in the Astral Plane were renamed Nobodies when Ansem decided to use the Ark himself to possess Terra-Xehanort).

Ansem later met Maleficent who told him to look at the Hearts of his Test Subjects which led to Ansem recreating the event that led to the creation of the Heartless of the Prime Material Plane and got Baldr possessed by Darkness so that he can banish his Classmates and be banished by Xehanort back to the Prime Material Plane.

Ansem quickly learned that Hodir herself started spawning Unversed of Light just as Baldr started spawning Unversed of Darkness.

His research was to end(though he found to his horror that Master Xehanort continued it) and he had decided to bring Order to the Astral Plane and his Test Subjects and he went back to Maleficent and asked her name and upon discovering it represented it in the Astral Plane by having Xehanort discovered by the mysterious Master of Masters who would represent Maleficent.

Little did Ansem know that the Master of Masters was Maleficentā€™s Heartless resulting from her using the Ark with Maleficentā€™s Heart arriving in Quadratum. Said Heartless uses the Ark to get back to the Prime Material Plane reducing ā€œhisā€ cloak to an inanimate cloak which is eventually used by Maleficent to create the Maleficent of KH2 through the Memories of the Fairies.

Nobodies are Bodies and Hearts thrown into the Astral Plane while Heartless are Souls left inside clothing. Replicas are Metaphors created by the Astral Plane.

Namine is a Replica of Roxas also known as Asazora(means Daytime Sky just as Sora means Sky). Asazora should be Vexen the Nobody of E-Ven I.E. Sora. Sora threw his body and Soul into the Astral Plane to save Kairiā€™s Heart which returned to her body while the parts of Kairiā€™s Heart that blended with Soraā€™s became Asazora while the Heart of Sora revived Sora from his clothing due to Kairiā€™s memories of him only for Sora to get put in the Ark by Asazora and have his Heart returned to his discarded Body.

Asazora created Zion as a replica of herself and shoved her into the Ark and pulled her
Body back from the Astral Plane renaming her Xion while the Heart which constructed a new Body instantly remained Zion.

Xemnas is Ansemā€™s body after trying to use the Ark.

Since Ansem was trying to possess Terra-Xehanort his Body wasnā€™t sent to the Astral Plane only his Heart thus he became Xemnas and yet he suddenly got the bright idea to create the Organization and use Terra-Xehanortā€™s discarded Body Xemnas as a Scapegoat and had Young Xehanort recruit him with the promise to put him back where he started while Prime Material Xemnas swooped in(using the Ark to transfer himself to the destination) and created the Astral Planeā€™s Organization 13 to get new Members for the Prime Material Planeā€™s Organization 13.

Xaldinā€™s(Di-Lan X) attribute is Wind while Xigbarā€™s(Braig-X I.E Brag-X) Attribute is Space therefore they are mutually Ventusā€™s Body after he sent his Heart to the Keyblade Graveyard.

Ansem wanted Terra-Ansem(sent to the Prime Material Plane through the Ark so that Ansem could meet Young Xehanort in the Past then possess Riku) as a Member but then he was reminded by the presence of Vanitas that Traitors are to be eliminated according to Ventusā€™s Orders and since Terra-Ansem was the biggest traitor of them all he was eliminated

Since all the Foretellers are Traitors all are eliminated therefore someone who is not a Foreteller must be used and who better than the Kairi created by the Darkside spawned by Ventusā€™s Heart? She is tied to the Ancient Keyblade Legacy due to having traveled to the Keyblade Graveyard therefore she is the perfect candidate as the last No i.

Z is letter number 26 while I is letter number 9 therefore No i Z means Number 9-to-6.

The Organization Members are thus Ansem at Rank 1, Riku at Rank 2(Ansem sent him to the Prime Material Plane while creating a Replica Riku in the Realm of Darkness), Ventus-Vanitas at Rank 3, Asazora at Rank 4, Zion at Rank 5, Xion(pronounced Zion) at Rank 6, Soraā€™s ā€œMemoryā€ of Namine(was sent to Quadratum right after Namine entered the room though not before taking the form of Kairi) at Rank 7 and No i at Rank 8 with the Kairi Replica created by the Darkside spawned from the Darkness inside Ventus at Rank 9.

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Well if we are going into other franchises, 30 Rock is one of the best shows

One of my favorite episodes is the leap day episode- itā€™s creepy.

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Well, it was fun to play a Drac hunter for a while. But all is well now. I am back to playing my worgen again. Missed my fur boy :dracthyr_heart:

Edit: The good bois are just too much fun to not play.

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I always end up looping back to my favourite races as well! :sweat_smile:

Itā€™s fun for a brief change but I always gotta return to the waggle! (or Worgen for my Druid)

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Just something about the Draenei and worgen that I always loop back to them sooner rather than later. My drae Iā€™ll probably remake as a lock :heart:

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Rule number one of explaining Kingdom Hearts lore, be prepared to write pages for anything and everything, and Yvenathilm did a pretty job.

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So what youā€™re saying isā€¦

We werenā€™t prepared!

Sorry. Iā€™ll see myself out now :dracthyr_heart:

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I am trying to not get too hyped for player housing but I canā€™t help myself. Blizz also said itā€™s going to be evergreen content which is great! As an RPer, I hope we get to have different houses for different character and be able to pick racial architecture to match. Thatā€™s one thing I was annoyed about with garrisons but as least blizz said garrisons were tied to player power, which Iā€™ve been saying. I just want a place I can show off different trophies and have a place for my characters to call home instead of fighting for the few empty houses that are in the game with all other players.

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Agree.

Every time mmo add housing its a hit or miss for meā€¦ I usually play dark theme characters, undead or non-human charactersā€¦ so unless I can have a crypt, warlock or something theme not only on my race choice but also my classā€¦ I have no use for such. Itā€™s just dead content that I will never touch beside unlocking it, for me. However if they go all out and give me choices to RP an in-them concept with my character I dedicate so much time and money into itā€¦ like I did in ESO. (Spend far to much, but itā€™s my guilty pleasure because when I go there it feels perfect)

You wouldnā€™t caught me dead playing any normie class or raceā€¦ these ARE selling point for me:

  • Character Creation with a vast or enough option to play my dark theme or non-human fantasy
  • Have dark theme or unique classes that fit those races
  • If- Housing it needs to fit those theme or else I will ignore itā€¦ and only use it out of convenience if they add stuff I will be using to interact with the game and story.
  • Optional its an super extra: If the game react to those choices and even lets you act on them like not necessarily evil but just being harsh, act to my non-human culture and unique race or in-theme with the characterā€™s choices, that be even better!

Iā€™m all about the visuals and a gameplay that can keep up with thatā€¦ if not rarely do I even bother with such content or even the game.

So yeah, I am optimistically cautiousā€¦ Like you, donā€™t want to gets my hopes up to much.
Also I am concerned if this will be an expansion feature and abandoned after the World Saga like in the past with other complicated or cool features.

We will have to see I guess.

:crossed_fingers: :grimacing:

I want an undead fort tbh.
Though if youā€™ve played oblivion, thereā€™s this player home in anvil that has a secret chamber.
Secret chambers can be cool.

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AH I remember that! Soooo cool when I first saw it.

I consider myself pretty basic and I have made my peace with that.

I remember I wanted to try out other games, and I am a Tolkien fan, so I tried out LotR Online.

I was amazed with their housing system. It seemed basic and intricate enough for me to have a ball. I just didnā€™t expect it.

Sadly, that was probably the best part of the game. The music was beautiful, and there was some charm ā€œlivingā€ in that world and doing the questsā€¦ butā€¦ the gameplay wasnā€™t great.

The part I loved about the housing was the neighborhoods. They were not single instanced houses - which seems to be the biggest fear people have. You could buy houses in groups and have neighborhoods.

Or even as a loner, like myself, you could scope out neighborhoods, and find a nice lot.

You could even decorate your yards, not just the house.

I always wondered why a game as low quality as LotRO could have a serviceable housing system, and WoW couldnā€™t.

I think ESO had a good model for Blizz to steal from. There were a lot of player houses ranging from small rooms in inns given for free to full on fortresses that were typically used for guild halls.

That way you had a bunch of models to go off you could decorate your own way. You could have standard stuff in Elwyn / Durotar. Then maybe an outdoorsy hunterā€™s house in Grizzly Hills. And a more haunted, mausoleum styler place in the Western Plague.

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NO
Do not ever suggest ESO to Blizzard. ESO houses cost sometimes TWICE an entire game.

also they donā€™t have a lock to grid feature, and that sucks.

Obviously I wouldnā€™t recommend the salacious amounts of monetization the game has. But itā€™s rough system is pretty good to lift.

You canā€™t sell actual real estate unless you want an inevitable housing crisis and does anyone want that from their fantasy game? It should be instanced property that multiple players could feasibly have all of like mounts.

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I decided to buy the 20th anniversary Hunter set. The HD version is actually really nice. Now I just need to decide if I want to grind out 40 tokens for the warlock set.

I think we got until January 1st. So itā€™s definitely doable

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