Upon Mars.

-Upon Mars. : Same but Two Pan for me and an olive more thank you... and do can I have any fried brotula beeblebroxi with it? I heard they had such nice tasty heads...

He was a sound of thunder. You know he was a very kind man, he loved people: when he was 19 he was very shy with girls not kissing them good night as he'd take them home, one day as he grew old, he met one of the girls he had once loved and once she had taken him for a lift to his house he kissed her, and when the girl asked why, he replied : "this is what I've should have done thirty years ago, " and they had been good friends ever since. He also said "I want wake people up and make them care of being alive in the universe." A Conversation with Ray Bradbury: http://www.francetudiant.com/videos/?v=UU51N2s3B78

The summary on Geneforge one in Wikipedia is better, I propose to to copy paste and ameliorate what was done from there!

Originally Posted By: Andkat I've heard that one of the factions provides some fire shaping training as a perk for joining and moreover you start with 1 more point of Fire Shaping than Magic shaping. *Spoilers bellow* It's the Obeyers of pentil. Originally Posted By: Andkat If you happen to affiliate with the relevant faction, would the difference in point cost per level still make magic shaping a better overall choice in terms of efficiency? Well knowning that the strongest creation in the whole are the drayk series (especially the cryodrayks) you can invest points in fire shaping in the late game. You might also just invest early on in magic shaping for the artila and vlish creations which are quite good by the way.

WOOPS! Sorry!

Originally Posted By: Triumph I don't really remember when / where you might want your speech upgraded. Sorry. You mean leadership? I KNOW: Click to reveal.. ("Where to get leadership") Look for a small servile sage in Drayk's Vale but beware, you will have to bypass a mean cryodrayk with lots of money or dispose of his cryodrayks servants. In any case you'll have to beat the [censored] out of him to get the gloves of the hammer which are quite nice mind you. Either way you'll have to pay the servile: At each teaching session he gives you +1 leadership for 2000 gold pieces. But don't worry there are some really well protected emeralds around the vale provided that you butchered both the neutral (for the moment) ghosts and the hostile cryodrayks. For the skill and canister locations check out this site with MINOR spoilers: http://www.anthonygoreham.net/geneforge.php

Thanks! By the way the Road has been again modified and has been completed: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/15563630-the-road A new fragment is being created; The sealed labs can be found here: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/15743061-the-sealed-lab And this chapter starts with a reference to one of the songs of the band known as Korn .

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Upon Mars, when you are making multiple updates/releases close together (as in, less than several hours apart), please put them all in one post instead of making multiple posts in a row. That's standard netiquette for these forums. Thanks. I shall. Posts will be added a week apart or after a comment. Thank you for the information Dikiyoba. Was it indicated in the general forum rules? Originally Posted By: !TrEnToN ThE StAlLiOn *snorts* I am jealous. This is getting you so many posts. I mean, your actually posting after yourself everytime, and no one tells you off xD If I could do this, that would be gold. Well you can always read the story and make constructive comments and suggest this or that modification or submit a basic idea for an other fragment. It would make me very happy if someone gave some advice, and at least I'd get some feedback... and it would prevent me from double posting as often as I do. Also I don't consider posting as a way to establish competition despite the forum having a top Poster section. Originally Posted By: Rehctawthgin Well yeah, of course, stories are seriously hard to make. Like thinking everytime what to add and predict the next part with the relation to the current part. Well that's the main difficulty with these fragments; they are linked by an overall coherence (chapters) but they are quite "quantic" in my approach to this fanfiction: We've got a fragmentary chronology going towards the inevitable (yes quantic fields also have a sense of non permanence), with events and characters set a field of possibilities (Andras having used or not the Geneforge, Heustess may have left for the mainland or may have been killed by Andras.), an outline that is tragic, with the return and restitution to the same order which allowed the horrors of the Geneforge to happen "tel quel" hence why the narrator sounds so pessimistic and absolutely no values above absolute certainties (which is a dangerous logic).

Impracticable for Jeff but it'd be nice anyway.

Originally Posted By: Silterethene @Alorael In preparation, I perused the entire forum, and the reverence you guys have for the game, particularly N/O, did not escape me. By posting, I hope that the game and it's well deserved respect will be appreciated and understood by a few others. Well I am sure you've convinced me and a lot of people all right!

Originally Posted By: Nightwatcher To me, despite the graphics, no one would beat the awe inspiring, phenomenal storyline on The Geneforge saga. There's also A1&2 and Nethergate you're quite forgetting now... Originally Posted By: Rehctawthgin GF saga: It was a very nice and serious game. Or I didn't just see anything funny -Lol, Rehctawthgin The servant minds were, Lietz, some serviles, some of the items descriptions, the ornks of sentinels, Astrov and certain Sholai did show some humour...

And the home page has been updated: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/

Two drafts have been released: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/15563630-the-road http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/14798012-the-great-labs Good reading!

Well these games are quite rich actually, so being slow and thorough is no flaw here! It's not Angband...

@Aethir don't you read? Since when in G1 was a servile, sorcerer and livecrafter classes ever existed? I'd be a nice idea to change the stat point chart of course, with anatomy being reintroduced, being both an offensive and a healing craft factor.

Working really hard and managed to build a little surprise for everyone; you know how spiderweb games have sorely needed some publicity over the years? Well it's not much but I hope you'll like it: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/ http://polandpact.deviantart.com/gallery/26258413#/d2wlkbb

Originally Posted By: Phlogistonic Cloudbuster Word of mouth has transformed Trajkov the Sholai from G1 into "Trakov" the opponent of shaping. The person the sect is named for isn't really Trajkov anymore. It's a manufactured fictional person from oral history who has the traits and personality that match with the sect's goals and intentions. The problem is with Sholai warriors and Mages like Masha present on Terrestia, Sholai present during the events of G1, how comes it then that Trajkov is still seen as an opponent to shaping? Even if it's not really Trajkov anymore, so Why specifically Trajkov? Have we any details on how the Trajkovites perceive Trajkov as a revolutionary figure? Originally Posted By: Phlogistonic Cloudbuster —Alorael, who doesn't necessarily think the Shapers were always a corrupt, self-serving regime. Likely their early years involved serious leadership and the kind of cooperation that builds immense empires. But look at the current leadership, and wonder what kind of healthy empire puts Rawal on the council. And for as for the Shapers being an always corrupt and self serving regime... has anyone evil claimed he was doing evil things just for evil? No, they do it out of good intentions. No matter the intentions or spiritual inner truths you have it's what you do who defines who you are (this is why violence in videogames is so abhorred by society in general, because it shows the truth of today's common man, a barbaric sadist unconcerned by the Geneva conventions, perhaps extremely cooperative and greatly "influencable" in the sense you experience the full might of the cadre of semi liberty which is so repressive in our society; social studies have shown that people are "sheepish" when given the illusion of choice, making the path they take their own and only their own, while usually one openly rebels when coerced. This is also why Bioshock 1's "would you kindly" plot is so shocking, because the whole game's ideology corner stone is choice, choice placed in a very coercive environment; for example, the player thinks he is free to do as he pleases choosing his weapons when in fact every thing is scripted, from the wall to the water and that you are coerced by Atlas and Rayan to play cards in Rapture betting up big daddies and molesting little sisters.) The shapers have always claimed to work for the security of everyone, and this is how they gave themselves the power to abuse everyone around them and to delve into everybody' else's affairs. It's not that they are already corrupt, it's just that their ideology leads to nullify their ideals of security and welfare for everyone.

I started working on Masha and here's the beginning of it: "Every second is a make believe myth that there is an ultimate answer to one's libido." -Fabrice Luchini http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/12891748-masha

Originally Posted By: Playing p to your @ —Alorael, who isn't entirely clear on the descent of the Trakovites from the Takers. And he doesn't think they're linked to Trajkov so much as too a mythical version of him. In any case, they're no longer working for anyone else's agenda. How do you explain the mythical version of him then?

Oh you're the guy from Youtube! Welcome! I have a question though, I know you didn't do any walkthrough of the greater temple, sentinels region and my question is will you do it one day or any other?

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba "Dikiyoba likes the Awakened and Astoria, and sometimes even the Trakovites. But they are only powerful enough to make a difference for very short periods in the Geneforge saga." Well... Knowing that the Awakened where a bunch of "the ends justify the means" serviles in the first Geneforge and that the Trajkovites are a "Communist" sect descending from the Takers and manipulated by either rebel or Shaper spies as were eco-groups and anti A-bombs groups were in the 1950s, 60, 70s and 80s by Moscow, I think it's safe to say that most of Geneforge's fractions are in a sense a "dirty dozen". Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Originally Posted By: Nioca I did state that their society has degraded. Yes, you said they degraded by Geneforge Five. My example is from the ending of Geneforge Three, when the war was just beginning. Well even before the events of Geneforge 1 the Shaper council is seen as old fashioned, slow moving, senile and not desiring to take out any decisive political action against any enemy especially the ultraconservative shapers like Goettsch, begging to strengthen a probably already well worked out lebensraum from outsider invaders like the Sholai. I agree with certain Marxist thinkers (like S.Zizek) and the historian George Moss (who wrote the intellectual roots of the III reich) that racism is a means to hinder any real political change, hence why perhaps the shapers are portrayed or at least hinted to be racist: "their strange features disgusts you." -southbridge G1 Also was not hiding the Geneforge as they did whithout any planning for proper evacuation and leaving it alone without any form of proper protection so as to revert back to crude shaper methods instead of splicing genes, the end of the shaper empire hey days and a sign of decay?

The world of the shapers, the Spirited city and Goettsch have been edited; http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14797305-the-world-of-the-shapers http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/13105051-the-spirited-city http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/14768212-goettsch and the eagle part 1 and 2 are being completed and updated bit by bit... http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14593003-the-eagle-part-1 http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14771751-the-eagle-part-2

Chapter 2 is updated: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/14772571-brennt

Texts have been updated, such as Chapter 3: Brennt, Chapter 4: the eagle part one, The Hill of Jars, Kazg part one and the sentinels: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14772571-brennt http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14593003-the-eagle-part-1 http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/12871946-the-hills-of-jars http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/12872013-kazg-part-i http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/13105071-the-sentinels I have also started working on Goettsch: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/show/14768212-goettsch

No problem. I'm happy you were inspired. Here's a treat for the eye and a work in progress: http://geneforgeremaker.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/14593003-the-eagle Goettsch is going to follow soon after that.