VOLRATH'S PROFILE

Cade is totally a BernieBro. Good thing he's not on Facebook, I already have enough of my friends turning that into the Sanders Campaign Headquarters. I mean, I'm probably gonna vote for the guy but jeez....anyway, back on topic.

-Ketsu was keeping an eye on Evrind ever since he arrived there following Dican's death.
-Solik was always one of the most fun characters to write. I kind of want him and Pilc to go on Jeopardy against one another.
-Grinfrak could probably keep his obnoxious behavior in check long enough to board a ship...maybe. And there actually is an underground tunnel that goes from Boreal to the mainland (it was used in Clean Slate).
-Thematically, Dasani is one of the most important characters, although for some people she doesn't seem to do enough to convince them that we're not just hating on religion blindly.
-That Cade and Auburn scene took a LONG time. Glad it holds up.

No worries, that's a LONG part of the game.

-Hmm, not sure if "non-canon" is the best way to describe that content. It's true that a lot of plot points from the original game I made 15 years ago with those characters didn't carry over but it is still believed in some quarters that Perditia's influence was involved with the Volrath/Sandahar plot and that some of her dark power was brought into the world. Still mysterious. Although I believe what Professor Ferrill is referring to there is the widely-held belief that Perditia herself taught the first necromancers, directly acting on her disapproval of the mortality of Solest's creatures. Probably not clear enough in that scene.
-Ketsu's not about to let the complicated truth about Lysander get in the way of the story he wants to tell.
-Enkur never did finish the Torin battler, but I do have an in-progress version on this computer:

-Yeah, that scene was probably written when I wondered if Emma would do anything else significant and the answer to that question turned out to be (mostly) no.

author=ElectricalKat
I have a lot of problems with how several people in social justice circles carry themselves, but to those in this thread using "SJW" and tumblrlol like they're supposed to mean something please go warpspeed into a nebula of piss thanks. Basically every single time I hear those terms mentioned by people in GamerGate, MRAs, and the like, it is nearly always to try and demonize points of view that are anywhere nearly progressive.

This bugs me too. I thought "SJW" referred to a very specific kind of social media/forum user that doesn't actually want to change anyone's mind about any particular issue, they just like to scold. But now it's used for anyone who has progressive views at all. It's no wonder gamergate sees this huge SJW conspiracy, they've thrown that label at like millions of people who would probably be baffled to hear it attached to them.

It happens with a lot of words. "White Knight" used to mean a very specific type of male patronizing nerd. Now anyone who sticks up for anyone for any reason is going to get hit with that.

In American politics, if you stake out any economic position to the left of "screw the poor," you're a socialist. Perhaps that one says more about capitalism than socialism, however...

I think part of the reason threads like this go sour so reliably is that people use these specific labels at the slightest provocation and more often than not, they're not warranted. You're not necessarily an "SJW" if you avoid using slurs. You're probably just being polite.

Alrighty!

-Barry knew very little about the stuff Equipment King was into and was so grateful to still be working that he didn't care.
-While at the fort, Vec kept a close eye on the heroes and advised each of the attackers separately. Gabriella had no clue Sparrow was there and didn't even have Shroud on her radar. As far as she was concerned, her job was to deal with an aggressive skeleton.
-When talking about Sparrow, I figure Morias was filling in the gaps of his knowledge with his own guesses. He's only ever heard of Sparrow's recent activities in regard to EK-related incidents, so it must be because nobody else can afford him, right?
-You can actually save during the flashback at the part where Shroud can wander the campsite and chat with everyone. We would probably do that scene a lot differently and perhaps even make it optional.
-Pilc is Jesus.
-I think ArtBane came up with the initial premise for the story of Shroud and Stoic's first meeting. It was a pretty inspired idea.
-Barry was there to observe and learn more about the management side of EK, kind of a training thing so he would eventually run the store without Kovak's supervision (even though he was already doing that, if not very well). Also, from a story point of view, it helps maintain the possibility of him as a suspect for Sparrow.
-Kovak expected the situation in Pearlton to be like Port Arianna, where the shop owner had fallen on hard times and needed EK's help. Obviously didn't work out that way. They might have built their own store, but we learn in that same scene that Vec is concerned about the tax burden of operating in Port Arianna.
-It's very common in America for people to use the phrase "class warfare" anytime someone makes even the slightest criticism of the rich and powerful. It conjures up images of peasants raiding Wall Street with pitchforks and is meant to shut people up by making them feel like extremists. Oddly enough, nobody describes things like predatory bank loans, lobbying against minimum wage and better work conditions and other behaviors that affect the poor as "class warfare." I guess it's only warfare if we fight back.

Both of those bugs are a result of trying to export all the Rm2k RTP assets used in the game and missing a few. I'll have a new build uploaded sometime today and I might make a few other tiny adjustments too.