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Post by Xaa on Sept 20, 2006 15:17:24 GMT -5
Heh, yep. I can't resist a good cipher. You spelled it wrong, its cypher Actually, both spellings are correct. "Cipher" is the US spelling, while "cypher" is the British/Commonwealth spelling. Generally speaking, I use US spellings in everything I write. This isn't because US spellings are better or easier (though they often are the latter, the former is debatable), it's simply because I'm an American.
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Post by Kilarin on Sept 20, 2006 15:45:01 GMT -5
Yep. Its a hobby of mine, so I assault anyone I think might be interested, and a LOT of people who aren't. I didn't realize that! cool!
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Post by Kilarin on Oct 7, 2006 23:14:41 GMT -5
Well, if anyone was struggling with the decryption, that last page should have eliminated any difficulties.
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Post by Xaa on Oct 7, 2006 23:17:59 GMT -5
If it didn't, though, please don't sweat it. Decrypting the Elf's dialogue is a minor entertainment, not critical to the story. And she still swears like a sailor. ;-)
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Post by Kilarin on Oct 8, 2006 9:03:24 GMT -5
Sailors would blush at her language.
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Post by Xaa on Oct 8, 2006 12:59:59 GMT -5
Sailors would blush at her language. Naaaaah, it's not THAT bad.
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Post by Kilarin on Oct 8, 2006 13:32:17 GMT -5
ha! Perhaps I just haven't known enough sailors.
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Post by Xaa on Oct 8, 2006 18:23:06 GMT -5
I will say that it's actually quite cathartic to write dialog for that character. Many times when I am writing dialog, I can see that if I were in the character's situation (fate of the world riding on what I'm doing, survival at stake, yadda yadda), I would not EVEN be as calm as they are. Not even close. Yet, when you're writing dialog in literature, you can't simply have the character panic and start screaming like Hicks in Alien - "Game over, man! GAME OVER!" It doesn't work out in the long run, the readers get bored of reading what the character is saying because he never says anything new. And really, in an actual crisis, real people often don't say anything of literary merit. A lot of "Oh sh*t! Oh sh*t! Oh sh*t!" goes on, and a lot of random screaming. So, I'm sitting there, writing the first page of this comic, and I'm thinking "man, if I was that character and the prince said that to me and I knew I was dead no matter what I said or did, I'd just look at him and say "Oh, f*** you, a******! Eat sh*t and die!" So, I typed that out. Then I said "Awww... Man, that makes the comic look crappy, who needs a character that constantly offends the sensibilities of the reader?" And it dawned on me that I could just change the font, and preserve what the character was saying, yet preserve the reader's sensibilities at the same time. Et viola! Daggerfell as we know it.
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Post by Kilarin on Oct 8, 2006 18:31:39 GMT -5
Yes, once you get a full grasp of the situation from the Elf's conversation, you realize that they certainly have good reasons to be upset.
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Post by Xaa on Oct 8, 2006 18:34:10 GMT -5
Yes, once you get a full grasp of the situation from the Elf's conversation, you realize that they certainly have good reasons to be upset. Big time. Lots of cool shiznit coming up in future episodes, you'll love it, though.
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Post by Kilarin on Nov 27, 2006 8:06:16 GMT -5
<sigh> and we were just starting to get interesting answers. But I understand your reasoning. Oh, and sorry to hear about the windstorm! That's terrible! I'm guessing that you lost people with the Elf language. It was a very interesting tactic, and one that might have worked better in a completed graphic novel. But perhaps at one page a week, folks were feeling too left behind. It's too bad interest in cryptography is too small a niche to have gotten more people working on the code.
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Post by Xaa on Nov 27, 2006 13:17:13 GMT -5
Yep. The rest of the story apparently wasn't compelling enough to carry it off. Ah, well.
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Post by Liantedan on Nov 27, 2006 14:36:52 GMT -5
That's the whole reason why I told myself not to try to figure out what she's saying. I though it'd be more fun to read the story without knowing what the Elf says, and after it's finished, read the story again, including what the Elf says. Should be twice as fun, I thought. So far, I have been reading the story, and I have been curious as to what's going on and what will happen next, but, well, you're telling a story, and I don't feel like interrupting you on every sentence with a question that will be answered in your next breath already. If you get my drift. So I've been a bit less audible about my intrests, yes, but that doesn't mean I'm not intrested. I'm reading the story as it goes along, and enjoying it. Then again, I'm just one person... I understand why you drop it, though. If only a few people are intrested, it's more productive to do something that has a bigger audience. And those few that were intrested, will most likely be intrested in whatever you do next too. I'm sorry to hear about the windstorm. Good luck with the repairs.
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Post by Xaa on Nov 27, 2006 14:45:16 GMT -5
So far as I can tell, you two were the only people reading it. Still, you two ARE fans, and I don't wanna pull a "Stephen King" here. I'll sit down some time when I don't have so many other headaches and crank out the rest of the chapters, then just post them all at once. For now, however, I think I should concentrate on projects which will engender more general interest.
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Post by Kilarin on Nov 27, 2006 16:47:35 GMT -5
Thanks! That's kind of you! But we understand if that doesn't happen for a while. You have to work on the projects that have the best chance of bringing in some cash.
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