LadyCrimson

lol, Silver....y'know I love Atton...even if he does have a skinny butt. :D Atton & Mical...my yin and yang...hot lurid nights with one, pleasant and intellectually stimulating/romantic evenings with the other... ...er....moving along...

No intelligent lifeforms detected here, Captain. They must all be on Rigley's Pleasure Planet. *runs away giggling like a schoolgirl

Silver - I just read your sequel Atton-story and enjoyed it a lot. (I liked the 1st one too, read that a while ago) Although personally, I wish Mical was going to get to beat up Atton's whiney, skinny little ass, but that's just me. :D Mmm....a love that makes a staid & infuriatingly calm man go wild & lose control. I like it. heheh

I'm not sure I'd call it a romance overall...but yeah, the two leads do the romance dance. hehe I really liked the characters of Lebbick and The Tor. Donaldson's Gap Conflict series (more sci-fi than fantasy) is also pretty good - different than his fantasy style, but I liked it quite a bit. And his short story collection Reave the Just & Other Tales is worth a read - one of the better vampire related short stories I've read, Penance, is in there. Donaldson does seem....obsessed...with certain themes.

Yup, that's him.

Star Wars. That's the first one. None of that 'New Hope' stuff for me. Granted, I know it's partly because it's the first one I saw, and I was a kid to boot, so I have the 'wow space effects have never been like this before!!' memories to keep me fond of it forever. I liked the Empire Strikes Back better than ROTJ, but I've never quite understood why so many people like ESB better than Star Wars. I guess I don't like little green puppets that much - most of the training Luke stuff bores me. I did like the ending a lot, tho - Vader/Luke and all that. I even sniffled when Han Solo said "I know." :D

I just finished re-reading Stephan R. Donaldson's Mordant's Need, a 2-book fantasy. Re-reading favorite old books is about all I ever do anymore. I burnt out on trying to find new books often enough to keep pace with how fast I can read, and got tired of the endless-sequel fantasy-syndrome. So mostly I read Consumer Reports, reference texts, and websites these days. Fantasy/sci-fi is what I usually go for tho...with historical fiction/non-fiction tossed in as well. I'm rabid about certain history periods, particuarly centering around (non-modern) military tactics and war strategies. Oh and - to the person who mentioned Tigana - that's one of my fave books...unfortunately I don't think his others match it. The Fionavar Tapestry series is interesting because the 'heroes' are brought to a fantasy world from modern present day but I didn't find it as compelling or lyrical. Not that it's horrible...it's a good read.

There's what I consider to be a better Ravager bridge screen up on the site now, under wallpaper/general. Let me know if you want something different than that.

The power of save game editors...

These aren't the best, I'm still working on positioning etc. but they show you about how close I can get to the Man In Black. The problem (IMO) is that he's in a black robe against a black background so he just kind of shows up as a tiny shadow. http://crimsonkeep.com/images/kotor2/kb-kotor2-221a.jpg http://crimsonkeep.com/images/kotor2/kb-kotor2-222a.jpg Edit -- I'm not sure if you wanted the front-side or backside of the characters....you said 'from the back'...but...

That picture is the 'avatar' picture of Di darkside - not his in-game appearance. Which is even scarier. Atton's no beauty in-game DS either. :D

E's most likely to beat me to everything else too...heh

I have a save game right before entering Nihil's area...I'll try to get something from there (w/some editor chr. skin help heh) and maybe Dxun, if E-Motion doesn't beat me to it time-wise. If I remember right tho you can't really get too close to Nihil before the trigger - he won't be very 'big' in the image.

"You think you're Hot Stuff don't you?" - Atton to Exile

Di's DS face is freaky when he does his beaver-smile. Like a zombified version of the Joker or Bozo the Clown.

You rebel you. :D

Not entirely true. Lose influence a few times and the same thing happens as gaining positive influence. So be an ass to him (or anyone else) if you're DS. Achieves the same thing. I think they should have been more clear on this issue in the manual or in-game or something.... And Calax, I kinda know the feeling...I never played as a male (I did try...) because I had no interest in Handmaiden or romancing the gals.

I've loved Di pretty much since I started coming here. He did annoy me for about the first 10 hours or so but after that he grew on me in leaps and bounds so....now....*shrug I understand why he's made fun of tho... heh

Atton is clever....Di is intelligent. There's a difference.

Power Attack is prettier. I pretty much used Flurry and Power Attack for myself, although occasionally I'd get Critical Strike for a change up because I get tired of casting Speed all the time. For the NPC's I usually did Power Attack and Critical Strike, since if you have them on melee AI they never seem to cast speed. When I gave them all three, they tended to use Flurry a lot less often than the other 2, which I found intriguing. Critical Strike works great tho, in my experience...except for the fact it makes Mical scream his stupid crit. hit battle cry too often.

It's funny how Atton has a different body shape (a bit thinner/geekier) in his jacket outfit then when you take all his clothes off (his underwear model is a generic one while his clothing model is tailor made or something). By the same token, Mical/Di has these big beefy thighs while clothed that suddenly disappear into thin sticks in his undewear.

I already posted Stubby elsewhere so some of you may have seen him before. http://crimsonkeep.com/images/photos/stubby9.jpg I also have 2 cats who are both in their early teens: Baby is neurotic, a good hind-leg stander, get excited at the sound of running water, and likes to chew on fingers if you let him. http://crimsonkeep.com/images/photos/babybeg4.jpg http://crimsonkeep.com/images/photos/babyfinger2a.jpg Misty once was a beautiful mostly-white kitten who became a fat and slovenly mostly-calico, has a foot/shoe fetish, and can't reach her own ass to clean it. I love her nonetheless. http://crimsonkeep.com/images/photos/misty-fat1a.jpg http://crimsonkeep.com/images/photos/misty-slipper1a.jpg The rest of the many cats I used to own are all deceased, with the true matriarch having died a couple months ago. I need a new kitten.

Atton's hot no doubt, but I had to vote for Disciple because he's the only one with an inquisitive/curious brain. Atton would bore me intellectually in the long run. (edit - hence, I find Di's more subtle/respectful/thought-out verbal responses & interest in history more pleasing - more like me, in other words). I still haven't finished Kotor1 (and probably never will at this point) so can't judge from that side - except to say that I found Carth annoying in the early game.

Thanks for my chuckle of the day.

I'd also like to mention that many of the 800x600ish of my screenies, while not super-hi-res, make passable wallpaers on 1024...although if you're looking for art-like super-sharpness, that isn't there. For that you need the original screenshot, and even then, it's not always there. heh