Suppression Christmas Gift
Click here for the unused script And seriously, thanks to everyone who reads Suppression and that has stuck with me through this. It means a lot to me.
Edit:
Unrelated to that, Nintendo just put out a website that links up with your account with them so that you can bookmark Mario Maker stages from the internet to play in the game itself… it’s a weird system but it’s alot easier than typing in codes. So here’s a link to my profile on there for anyone who was interested in playing what I’ve made. I’m most proud of “Kamek Kollege” and “Bowser’s Invasion Force”
A snake?
He seems kinda like an upgraded Kolt, in a sense.
The uhh…Viking guy, Skall, he seems like a nasty thing to deal with, though that might be the whole ‘attrition’ warfare thing. Gotta love Necromancers.
gunelf there seems like he’s quietly awesome, which likely will make him someone that I will enjoy seeing.
…Is it wrong that I wanna call the snake Redbutt, after redcaps?
I’m sure I’ve said in the past that the old wights are themed after Norse mythology. Well, Skallagrim and Jorund are themed after Fenrir and Jormungandr… a wolf and a serpent of apocalyptic proportions that both have a devastating role to play in Ragnarok.
Jorund’s model wasn’t quite complete. He’s supposed to have a snake like tail, but I basically slapped him onto Kolt’s base just to get something ready for the Halloweeen page that showed these guys in shadow. He also had a different model entirely when I made the script… his entire arms used to be made of blood, rather than the floating gauntlets filled with blood that he has now.
But yeah these guys are built for war… human siege weapons that are a lot more dangerous than what we’ve seen out of the Wights so far, minus William.
You’re awesome, we await with ardor not abating as you give your awesome world another awesome story.
Och laddy, is that MY pipe gun? – Tavish Degroot
Sorry.
More seriously, is Jorund’s lower body just MADE of blood?
Jorund is quadriplegic without his magic. His “tail” is made of blood and his gauntlets are filled with blood.
He is capable of doing the same with water, but he prefers blood.
I take it that disabilities from when a person is alive carry over to lichdom? I can’t think that he would willingly be quadriplegic, not when a skilled necromancer is presumably able to repair corpses to close-enough-functionaility.
Of course, I’m also curious as to how Jorund was actually able to make a name for himself. Vikings, and the Wights in particular, never struck me as being willing to let disabled people take up resources. Unless he was disabled after he became a warrior or something.
Yeah, I haven’t written a specific backstory for it but the way I picture it Jorund was probably torn to pieces bit by bit over the course of many battles after becoming a zombie. Rather than stop and get repaired he just kept fighting with limbs made of the blood of his enemies… and it worked well enough that he never looked back.
Magic: Awkwardly shrugging at real world issues since… literally forever.
While…I guess workable from a personality viewpoint…Don’t these guys have dead time when they’re not doing anything?
Like, I can imagine Jorund getting ressed a good bit after dying but into a fresh corpse and going ‘hunh, legs again.’ and just going on and doing his thing, maybe having more fun with the fact he can do something other than slowly drag himself around.
I don’t know how relevant my word is but in a way, if you didn’t know how to walk when you were alive, you probably wouldn’t know how if you were undead either. This is especially since you lose the use of nerves and muscle memory which is used when learning such actions.
In this case, there isn’t any real disadvantage when swapping your limbs out for other things when undead if you have the means to replace them with something else.