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Dark Wizard 04

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Previous --- Index --- Next Scarn 1st - Evening My lord has told me to go get some rest. When I asked if he'll rest too, he told me that the day has only just begun for him. He's surely very excited about our Holy Army's progress, but I hope he doesn't overexert himself. A report says our troops will encounter the enemy any minute now, but I'm too exhausted to stay up. I have another busy day of handling recruitment tomorrow. Cue End of Turn. First encounters! A chimera comes and attacks Link. (Click the image if you missed the animation; it's a .gif) When you are attacked, you will counter, provided you have the same type of attack you are attacked with. The chimera used a physical attack, and Link has a physical attack, so Link was able to counter. This L Harpy, on the other hand, used a special attack, Freeze. Buklauu does not have a special attack to counter with, so Buklauu does not counter. Every character gets one counter each

Dark Wizard 03

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Previous --- Index --- Next Scarn 1st - Noon My liege has summoned up a lesser harpy named Invye. Contrary to their rumored nature, she seemed quite amiable, even when the strategist informed her of his plans. She will fly alone, straight across the mountains. I wish her well. Previous --- Index --- Next

Dark Wizard 02 (Quentin)

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Previous --- Index --- Next Scarn 1st - Morning The king desired a more local map to prepare for the coming battle. I hired a cartographer, and he produced this. 5 minutes in MSPaint... I may have to fire him, but it will do for now. A demon Warlord has taken over Norma. We will focus on taking that castle back, liberating the villages on the way. We may also take Tourla, since it is not far out of our way. Surprisingly, our call to arms has come to fruition. We have ... A fighter named Link. A priest named Rogutaan. A mage named Yumekai. These are the default people that the game starts me off with. They already start at class 2. Each of them cost 20g/turn to upkeep and Amon only earns 108g/turn. And he only starts with 650g. We also have some raw recruits. They've each been given a weapon from our reserves. We have no armor to give them; they must use the clothes on their backs. It may sound cruel, but the treasurer informs me that we hav

Dark Wizard 01

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Previous --- Index --- Next Out-of-character comments will be put in italics. I am setting up the story here. Ord 29th - Morning I haven't been getting much sleep lately. Who can sleep? The darkness on the horizon is closer every day. Soon it will be here. Every other stronghold has already been taken. When Quentin falls, the demon army will have won. It has happened so fast, there was no time to prepare against them. And we have no experienced warriors here to save the day, no powerful mages, no trained archers. There's no hope. King Armer certainly hasn't had any rest. He looks worse every day. At his age, I'm surprised he's able to stand so firm against surrendering. But the pressure is wearing him down. Who knows, if we surrender, maybe Velonese will let us live. Messages have come from conquered lands, telling us that anyone who doesn't resist the demon army is spared. But as one of the king's most trusted advisers, I d

Dark Wizard Archive

This is an archive for Dark Wizard posts. Introduction 01 02 (Quentin Start) 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 (Insenior Start) 14 15 16 16 (Victory Notes) 17 18 (Barth) 19 (Silka) 20 21 22 23 24 24 (Victory Notes) 25 (Cheshire) 26 27 28 28 (Victory Notes) 29 30 (Tourla) 31 32 32 (Victory Notes) 33 (Jhelyle) 34 34 (Victory Notes) 35 (Algain) 36 37 38 38 (Victory Notes) 39 40 (Asai) 41 41 (Victory Notes) 42 43 (Eureska) 44 45 45 (Victory Notes) 46 (Balkandi) 47 47 (Victory Notes) 48 (Sage) 49 (Gracildo) 50 50 (Victory Notes) 51 (Nautia) 51 (Victory Notes and equipment update) 52 (S. Baltrik) 52 (Victory Notes) 53 (Baltrik) 54 (Lomsaire) 54 (Victory Notes) 55 56 (Flayrona) 57 (North Baltrik) 58 (North Baltrik revisited) 59 (last-minute questing) 59 (Victory Notes + Equipment Update) 60 (Velonese 1) 61 (Velonese 2 & 3) 62 (Arliman) Closing comments

Let's Play Dark Wizard!

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Index --- Next Dark Wizard is a hex-map turn-based RPG. There is no contemporary game like this at all. Period. Brigandine is close, but not quite. It was released on the Sega CD, near the end of its life, and so it's rare to find someone's who's heard of it, let alone played it. The English Cover It's a great game and deserves a look. The graphics may be dated, but it's the gameplay that draws in the hardcore strategy fan. The basic plot : The God of darkness, Arliman, and the Goddess of light, Sabrina, created the world. But Arliman was jealous of Sabrina, and thus started a war. Arliman lost and was imprisoned in a jewel. The grand wizard Gilliam caught his apprentice, Velonese, using forbidden dark arts, and, as punishment, gave him eternal life and sent him to an island to guard the jewel of darkness for all eternity. But the jewel called to Velonese... and through its power he summoned four elemental demon lords whom he used to take ove

Las Vegas 2009 (part 5)

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Previous We went to the largest electronics store I've ever been to. Bigger than BestBuy. Pic from here . Fry's Electronics. They don't exist where I live. We always have to go just to browse their monstrous movie sections. Their anime section is rather large too. But damn anime is way too expensive. I almost bought Howl's Moving Castle, though. My dad bought some porn there. TMI, Dad, TMI. And I bought Avalon Code on the DS. I've posted about this game . It had so much potential, but it's made of so much fail. My brother bought the Ghostbusters game and Unreal Tournament III. And my mom got the Monty Python's Flying Circus boxset lol. That night we walked on the strip. We passed through the Luxor and Excalibur; we don't really care to gamble here. We avoided New York, New York completely. It's very noisy and dark in there. We went into the MGM Grand just to look at the lions. Lazy as always~ There were actually pe

Mabinogi Post Archive

These are all the posts I've made about the online game, Mabinogi . As of April 2010 I only play on the North American (NA) Ruairi server . So don't expect any updates about the Korean (KR) server anymore :< Mabinogi NA 2008/07/15 - First Thoughts 2009/07/09 - Back to NA... 2010/05/22 - Mabinogi Update 1 2010/05/24 - Mabinogi Update 2 2011/10/03 - Shoot the Sun Event 2011/10/06 - Newest Pet 2011/10/14 - True False Quiz Event 2011/10/18 - Flame Horse 2011/10/22 - Fiodh Int. and Shadow Cast City 2011/10/30 - C-C-C-C-Crash! 2011/11/07 - Commerce System 2011/11/19 - An elf's hell 2011/12/20 - Ineffectual raging at Nexon NA 2012/01/06 - Hacks and stuff, oh my 2012/01/14 - RIP NPCs 2012/01/20 - Shoot the Sun Event is back Mabinogi KR Test 2008/07/18 - Glitching in Mabi KR Test 2008/07/27 - My char got stuck on KR Test ... 2008/07/29 - New Town, Taltan! (Taillteann) 2008/07/31 - Alby Hard Mode 2009/06/19 - G11 When Cherries Attack 2009/07/15 -