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The Loquacious Lord Grimm

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A little over ten years ago, I stumbled across a game on a shareware disc. That game was different than the rest: there were people to talk to, a world to discover, a war to fight on a person-to-person basis. Instead of playing a preformed character, I took control of a team, forced to be dynamic to be successful, and forced through circumstances beyond their control, to become the saviors of their world.

That game was Exile II.

 

I'd never played an RPG before, and as a freshman in high school and aspiring writer, I took to this fantastic world like I have never taken to anything else, before or since. It was not long before i began my first work of fanfiction based on the plot of the game and some basic characterization exercises, and work on creating a working soundtrack through what I had learned sitting through a music theory class followed shortly afterwards.

Yeah, nerdy high school nonsense, mostly, though I did learn a fair amount about orchestration through the music, and people responded well to the fanfic when I posted it online in college (though it was stopped, unfortunately, by a bout of writers' block followed quickly by a load of classwork that took me nearly a year from which to fully recover. Depression is a [censored].).

 

Several years have passed since then, and I have since left college, gotten married, started my own business, and am in the (eternal) process of developing an original-story webcomic. I don't play games as much as I used to, and my tastes have shifted more to first-person or strategy affairs, but I have almost always kept a splash screen from the Avernum series as my desktop background, and I have always regarded the story of the Exiles as my favorite franchise. Not the best, just my favorite.

With Jeff's remastering of Avernum, and some issues in my own life, it seems time to finish what I started: to go back through the portal, join the war against the Empire, and remember that the wrong people in the right place and time can change everything.

I hope that you enjoy this journey as much as I will.

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