PHoD Things

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

make an unprovoked attack upon the nearest bottle of merlot and, finally, become irrationally convinced that I have turned luminous green in hue for absolutely no reason at all..

 

Ahhh! That only happens to me if I drink Absinthe (never illegal in the UK - go green fairy).

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

I seem to recall, (in the late Triassic when I was young and foolish - unlike now when I'm older and wiser still foolish) encountering a drink called MD 20/20, which had the exact, precise, identical colour and consistency of (not so) Mild Green Fairy Liquid. I think it tasted the same too. Apparently it also comes in a startling range of other unrealistic colours.

I've only ever been flattened more effectively than by this treacherous brew on three occasions; once by a Spotted Hyena who liked to play rough, a White Rhinoceros who didn't like me at all, having mistaken me for a Spleen and (on a fairly regular basis) by Fifi, but she claims it's good for me. I remain sceptical, but sensible enough not to argue with her... Possibly the two or three bottles of Vermouth I'd already gone through may have been a factor in the 20/20 incident.

And here's the Official PHoD Toxic Green Bar where you can go to get hideously destroyed by noxious alcoholic abominations spawned from the darkest pits of Avernys.

I still fail to entirely comprehend this reekingly toxic pub from KotOR 2, the JekJekTar or whatever it was called. It's supposedly got some dire cyanogenic compounds in the air within as certain "alien" species breathe it and prefer it to "normal" air... It just seems slightly curious to me that if you look round the interior in KotOR 2 there seem to be representatives of almost every rubbery alien race in the game in there. So, are we to assume that every creature in the KotOR universe likes breathing gaseous cyanide EXCEPT humans? Slightly odd. You'd think it'd be harmful to some of them... They've probably all been at that appalling 20/20 stuff and failed to notice the less hazardous cyanide.

(PS:- Not only does Kara not commonly frequent nasty toxic bars, but she is also green naturally for camouflage in her forest and has not been at the 20/20... Nor has her dog.)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Ooh, look! Big Dogs!

Having been poked with sharp sticks, I've been making a hasty pile of assorted Placeables I've done for Demoness Tales over the last couple of years. Rather than heap hundreds of exceedingly weird things all over the place, I've tried to just select what may feasibly be of use to more or less sensible Community members and not just to rabid Hyenas. It'll all be stuff suitable for Fantasy adventures (especially ones with Big Dog statues in) - I'll put sci-fi related things up separately some time.

The PHoD Novelty Blob Assortment should be on the Vault in the next couple of days. Watch here for a link...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_KlatchainCoffee]

               

PHoD, I normally limit myself to just quietly drooling over most of your creations, but this one knocked a comment out of me, which is: WOW! You have possibly just created some of the coolest looking statues in NWN. '>

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Ssythilac]

               

I seriously love these dogs.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

<engaging cheek mode i.e. not to be taken too seriously>

 

I don't suppose you've got some large cat statues as well have you? 

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

In my humble capacity as an honest person, I must forthwith admit that the Big Dogs (and yes, there's also a Small Dog version) are models I converted from Raven Software's "Jedi Academy" game and made a few tweaks. And inflated them to enormous size with the handy airpump provided. They were originally sort of Guardian statues outside the Sith tombs on Korriban and I always liked the look of them. A lot. So I thieved them and made NWN versions.

I'm currently compiling a Hak and trying to make sure there aren't any missing textures and things since these assorted Placeables span about six years and seven different VAST Demoness Tales Haks and the lumpy library of stock textures I've amassed. Just want to be sure I don't miss any vital PWKs or anything. Should be ready in a day or two.

PS:- Tarot... Had cat statue but dog statue jumped on it and squashed it...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Will also be including the festering Putrid Dead Git Collection.

It's not my fault. I've been ASKED on more than one occasion, by more than one person, to make these mutilated carcases available. You know who you are, so don't blame me for nasty, putrefacted blobs. Yes, I know it should be "putrefied" not "putrefacted", but I just like saying putrefacted 'cause it's more amusing, see. PUTREFACTED! There, I said it again.

Disgusting, rotten (or putrefacted as we scientists say) bodies come lying on the floor or hanging on strings or just heads on pointed sticks. Guaranteed to reek. Breaks the ice at parties.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

Breaks the ice at parties.

 

Probably at twenty paces...

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               

Nice, PHoD. Or should I say "nasty". Which makes it nice for making disturbing areas and encounters. Which could be nasty for players. 

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

It's not ALL going to be nasty... See, here are some nice plants.

Ignore the freakishly weird Mutant Thistle thing. The Baobabs and Palms are nice and there's nice shrubby stuff. No, really, just ignore the strange Monster Thistles.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Demoness Tales takes place across a number of worlds, many of them decidedly strange. Here you see part of Authuk, a clockwork realm that fell apart years ago due to exceedingly shabby maintenance (and  the small matter of a Planar War). The whole place has gone a bit overgrown now and is replete to the point of bursting with Spleens. Which is why Luce goes there, to trample them underhoof...

It's a bit weird, all these immense, corroded chains and broken cogs and stuff. Don't know if such Placeables would be of any use to anyone else?

I'm still working on the clockwork world; there are still bits that function and they're a darn sight more difficult to build... I look at a lot of the old CC I did that was on the IGN Vault and a lot of it's rubbish. I was probably a slow learner when it came to making CC for NWN. Having been hitting this game with big bricks for nearly a decade now (frightening, isn't it), I only feel I've actually, really got the hang of it in the last two, two and a half years.

It's a shame so many of the Community as was have gone 'cause there's never been a better time to do stuff with NWN before, with so much new stuff available...

Having supposedly "got the hang of it" now, I'm rebuilding Demoness Tales from the ground up (all 115 Modules and counting) and doing it the way it always SHOULD have been, with stuff that actually looks like the stuff I've been drawing and writing for twenty-five years...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_3RavensMore]

               

Don't know if such Placeables would be of any use to anyone else?

 

I can safely say that any of the placeables I've seen from you over the last few years would be useful.   The clockwork placeables would be perfect for my world, as would the trees.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

You know how it is...

FIRST they start finding Cattle have been mysteriously slaughtered and half eaten in the night...

They blame Bears or Lions or whatever... but no, THEN they find the Bears and Lions eaten into little pieces too and clearly, whatever did it is a lot bigger and more deadly than any normal beast...

NEXT they find the demented old coot farmer who whispered of strange things he'd seen at night - and, you guessed it, he's been bitten in half! Then ALL the villagers get eaten into horrible pieces... Yes, this can mean only one thing... A PHoD Killer Mutant Ultimate Death Spleen is on the rampage!

SEE! There it is there! SEE how nasty and mutated and vicious and horrible it is! SEE how it's eaten everyone into little pieces! SEE... something else! SEE how pathetically unrealistic the alleged, supposed, so-called entrails are!

Obviously the gore should be darker. Actually the texture is darker than it looks, but as the idea of these screenshots is to actually show stuff, there's little point in using proper, dark, atmospheric lighting. No, you just crank all the lights up to "outrageous" which makes the giblets look like heaps of red satin.

Anyway, unrealistic giblets aside, just to prove myself wrong about not being nasty, I've included all these half eaten people and animals... I did a Horse eaten into little pieces too but I can't find the damned, noxious, putrefacted equine thing. Must've fallen down the back of an armchair or something. It'll have to go in an update.

I'm compiling this lot - just adding some buildings - for the Vault... say about 24 hours.

(You'll note I said "putrefacted" again... twice, no less).

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Just to prove that - shocking to relate - PHoD can do rubbish prosaic stuff as well as Big Weird Things, I shall include some more or less everyday and not at all weird items... Such as... BOOKSHELVES! Admittedly bookshelves with somewhat strange crystal bottles of suspicious contents which give them just a slightly weird aura...

And only slightly weird Evilist Monk Statues... (which are emitter free, so you can put any little flames or weirdo FX or whatever in their grotty pudding bowls and crystals... damn, this is getting weird again already...)

So here's the perennially empty 1.69 Cart Placeable - WITH STUFF IN IT! Not a trace of weirdness there. Just boxes and hayrolls... Chances are, in Demoness Tales the boxes will be full of cursed ancient relics of nameless horror and the hayroll will be found to be infested with Killer Bugs, but there's no PROOF of weirdness here.

Right... I'm heading for the Vault now to pile whopping, dirty great heaps of Placeables on it.