Co8 Endslides

What would be appropriate endslides (reflecting suitably weighty events) for the Co8/Verbobonc chapter of the game?

For reference, here is all the vanilla endslide content:

1. // Zuggtmoy killed
   // Zuggtmoy killed - Orb destroyed
   // Zuggtmoy banished - throne defaced
   // Zuggtmoy banished - orb timer expires
   // Zuggtmoy banished - pillars accepted
   // Zuggtmoy submits and joins party
   // Player gives Zuggtmoy quarter
   // Player surrenders to Z as willing servant
   // Player as thrall to Zuggtmoy.
2. // Iuz killed
   // Iuz countered with St. C
   // Iuz weakened by orb destruction
3. // Lareth escapes
   // Lareth killed
4. // Thrommel rescued
   // Thrommel killed
   // Thrommel ignored
5. // player kills off many followers
6. // player marries Bertram
7. // player marries Fruella
8. // TN vignette done
9. // Tillahi rescued
10. // Furnok retires
11. // Pirates disband
12. // Temple dissolves
13. // Senshock escapes
14. // Feldrin escapes
15. // Generic PC death - N
16. // Generic PC death - G
17. // Generic PC death - E
18. // Player marries Laszlo
19. // Player marries Jenelda
20. // Player marries Meleny - ochre jellies dead
    // Player marries Meleny - ochre jellies not dead
21. // Filliken and Mathilde marry
    // Filliken and Mathilde marry - ochre jellies not dead
22. // Hedrack escapes
23. // Belsornig escapes
24. // Romag escapes
25. // Kelno escapes
26. // Alrrem escapes
27. // Falrinth escapes
28. // Burne and Rufus tower build slowly
29. // Hommlet grows
30. // Hommlet unaffected
    // Hommlet destroyed
31. // Nulb more wicked
    // Nulb unaffected
    // Nulb destroyed
32. // Smigmal escapes
33. // Paida rescues
34. // Player joins evil
35. // Y'Dey discovered alive
36. // LN - Temple destroyed
    // CN - Temple destroyed
37. // LE - Fragarach recovered
    // LE - Fragarach not recovered
38. // NE complete
39. // CE complete
40. // Finish with Otis
41. // Finish with Y'Dey
42. // Finish with Thrommel
    // Finish with Thrommel
43. // Finish with Morgan
44. // Finish with Ted, Ed, Ed
45. // Finish with Oohlgrish
46. // Finish with Scorpp
47. // Finish with Zaxis
48. // Killing the vignette character

Obviously the expansion stuff doesn't have a single major event around which the game centers, so no Zuggtmoy this and that multiple slides. These would moreso be who lives and dies, I imagine, and what major events occurred, etc.

 

You have to complete the CG opening vignette quest.

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Well there's already a rep for that. It should be something that expands upon that in the future, like SA did above. Maybe something about the weakened cause of Hextor running and hiding, etc.

 

Bear in mind that by and large these should be slides that players will see (with maybe a few easter-eggy exceptions like the Tillahi thing), so having a slide for not completing Hickory Branch for example would probably go unseen most of the time. Consequently it might be better as something like "the forces of Hickory Branch are destroyed. Verbobonc opens it up as an orcish theme park the following summer."

Not all of them have to be smart-assed, of course, but I think part of the reason behind them is to promote the concept of continuity in a way that the game itself can't. You do x and y, and z happens. Life goes on.

 

After some tinkering, I think we may have images in the Co8 endslides after all. They'll just be stylized portraits of whatever NPC is being mentioned (made to look like they are a drawing on the scroll - tilted and rotated etc. so perspective appears to be correct), but at least they will be something.

btw, I think we will just use the vanilla backgrounds (desk with candle, coins, etc.), as those are what I plotted the above images on. Will be good for continuity.

Below is an example (Wilfrick, I think).



The face kind of dominates the scroll, but it has to be that size becuase it doesn't look right with the portrait's borders intact (straight edges disagree with the crumpled appearance of the scroll).

 

Actually that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. I really have nothing on the table as yet, so as many as you guys can come up with ...

 

Maybe we should go at this systematically. Here's a cut and paste of all the NC/Verbo chapter quests, intermixed with the principals and locales:


RONALD

WELKWOOD BOG


Mathel, Kwerd

• Welkwood Bog | Description: You've been told of a location outside of Hommlet where you might find adventure of a more perilous nature than what the town seems to offer.

ARENA OF HEROES


Master of the Arena

• Hero's Prize | Description: The Master of the Arena has promised you a magnificent reward if you overcome all the challenges that he has in store for you.

VERBOBONC


Wilfrick, Elysia, Jenna, white dragon, Darlia and the SB (ancillary), the slave traders

• Family Turmoil | Description: Elysia has asked if you can convince her father to forgive her for misbehaving and release her from her punishment.

• Frozen Assets | Description: The Lord Viscount of Verbobonc has asked you to investigate why merchants are being frozen in their tracks.

• The Slave Traders | Description: Lord Viscount Wilfrick has asked you to locate and destroy a group of slave traders from Dyvers.

Prince Zook, the Drow, Uncle Orrengaard, castle ghosts, the castle, silver consortium

• Under Attack From Underground | Description: You have been told about drow attackers who threaten to invade Verbobonc.

• The Rabbit Hole | Description: Prince Zook IV has asked you to find a valuable gem somewhere in The Castle of the Lords.

• Building Credit | Description: You have agreed to pay off your mortgage with the Silver Consortium for the Castle of the Lords in 21 days.
• Fear Of Ghosts | Description: Three ghosts in and around your castle in Verbobonc are looking for the things they've lost, and they will plague you until their possessions are returned.

Captain Abiram, Panathaes, missing kids, the stewards, tunnels

• What Lies Beneath | Description: Captain Abiram of the Verbobonc Watch has asked you to investigate the disappearance of two missing children.

Captain Achan, the fugitives

• Wanted: Gunter Gladstone | Description: You've been enlisted by Captain Achan of the Verbobonc Watch to bring in the fugitive Guntur Gladstone.

• Wanted: Kendrew Commonworth | Description: You've been enlisted by Captain Achan of the Verbobonc Watch to bring in the fugitive Kendrew Commonworth.

• Wanted: Quintus Corpus | Description: You've been enlisted by Captain Achan of the Verbobonc Watch to bring in the fugitive Quintus Corpus.

Darlia, Scarlet Brotherhood, Nulb jeweler, Wilfrick and the triplets (ancillary), surviving SB revenge

• Under Surveillance | Description: You've noticed men clad in scarlet watching you in and around Verbobonc.
• Robbery At The Hostel | Description: You have been enlisted to rob and eliminate a wealthy jeweler at the Waterside Hostel in Nulb.
• Framework Of A Murder | Description: You've been hired to murder a member of the Verbobonc Patrol and frame a patrol captain in order to create dissention amongst the ranks of the Constabulary.
• Removing Wilfrick | Description: The Scarlet Brotherhood have entrusted you with the task of assassinating the Viscount.

• Snitching On The Scarlet Brotherhood | Description: You have reported the Scarlet Brotherhood's robbery plans to the Verbobonc authorities, allowing them to arrest Darlia on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.
• Narcing On The Scarlet Brotherhood | Description: You have reported the Scarlet Brotherhood's murder plans to the Verbobonc authorities, allowing them to arrest Darlia on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
• Catching The 'Cousin' | Description: You've told Wilfrick of the plot to assassinate him, and agreed to arrest the assassin for the charge of treason.

Canon Ramses, Canon Thaddeus, the Verbo Hextorites, The Gremlich

• Monster Mash | Description: The Church of Pelor in Verbobonc has hired you to carry out a strategic strike against a Hextor cell operating in the Temple of Elemental Evil.
• Contract On Canon Thaddeus | Description: Hextor's actuaries in Verbobonc have hired you to assassinate a noted priest of Pelor from the city of Narwell.

• Ratting Out The Hextorites | Description: You have reported the Hextorites' assassination plans to Canon Ramses, allowing him to send a warning to Canon Thaddeus and prevent his possible demise.

• The Gremlich | Description: You've been informed that the Hextorites have sent the mythical Gremlich after you, and that a mystic might be able to help. The mystic may want you to destroy it.

Lady Asherah, Iuz and Cuthbert and Alzoll

• Lords And Ladies | Description: Lady Asherah of Verbobonc has offered to entertain you for an evening as reward for your defense of Hommlet.
• Demons and Demigods | Description: You must destroy the avatars of Iuz or St. Cuthbert, or the balor Alzoll and its cohorts in order to save your life and the life of Lady Asherah.

MOATHOUSE RESPAWN


The sister witches, Captain Asaph (ancillary), Moathouse

• Season of the Witch | Description: You've detected something amiss at the Moathouse once again. Captain Asaph would want you to investigate and root out any undesireables.

HICKORY BRANCH


Lieutenant Bethany, Corporal Holly (ancillary), Captain Asaph (ancillary), Hungous and Co., Hickory Branch

• Hickory Branch | Description: The ranger Bethany has appraised you of a group of three mysterious figures amassing an army of highly trained orcs and other creatures at a location near the Kron Hills called Hickory Branch.

WAR OF THE GOLDEN SKULL


Ariakas, Wakefield and the Hextorites, defend or destroy?, fate of Hommlet, Fireforge, Battlehammer and the quarry dwarves, the quarry, Robinhood and Co.

• War of the Golden Skull: Defender | Description: You've been enlisted to assist Hommlet in dealing with the threat of a hostile invasion from forces loyal to Hextor. These forces are said to seek the Orb of Golden Death.

• War of the Golden Skull: Attacker | Description: You've been enlisted to assist Hommlet in dealing with the threat of a hostile invasion from forces loyal to Hextor, but you've switched sides and joined the Hextorites.

• Tools of the Trade | Description: You've been asked to acquire mithril tools for the dwarven blacksmith Fireforge.
• Of Castles and Quarries | Description: A group of dwarves is refusing access to the quarry from which Hommlet has been mining stone for the construction of its new castle.

 

Okay, added all six above, with some modifications. I don't think it would be fair for us to kill the player after the game , so I altered your last one significantly, gazra.

Thanks guys. :thumbsup:

btw, there are 48 different themes in the vanilla slides. I figure we could do with ... maybe 36 themes? ... in the Co8 ones. As of now we have 8.