[Quest Pack] [14 Quests] - Rise of the Chaos God

[bastianbux]

Still waiting on someone to translate the Japanese for the final quests. :/ Maybe some day I'll be able to complete this project.

[AerynB]

Well, I...uh... I sorta did it here. http://www.yeoldeinn.com/hqforum/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=1709
I thought I'd labeled it correctly so people could find it easily.

[bastianbux]

Awesome! I didn't see that. I will get to work on the remaining quests tomorrow I think.

[Sjeng]

Are there any remaining quests still? I thought they were all done now

[bastianbux]

Are there any remaining quests still? I thought they were all done now

I'm not sure what you mean. AerynB used Google Translate to get a basic gist of what the Japanese might mean, but as far as I know no one has "localized" those remaining quests in the same format as I've done with the previous quests. So that's what I meant: I will localize the Google Translation and assemble it with the previous quests I'd already done.

EDIT:
Well, here's Quest 9. I decided to refer to the Google Translated version and then localize it myself from there. You'll notice that I took a few poetic liberties.

[updated on page 9]

EDIT 2:
And here's Quest 10:

[updated on page 9]

[bastianbux]

I'm working on the final quest right now... and it is WEIRD. The Heroes discover that the central room's door is locked. They eventually find the Chaos God in an ordinary room. If they search for secret doors in that room, they will find an empty chamber. If that search that one for treasure, they find a key. If they use that key to unlock the central room, they find that it has a throne inside but is otherwise empty... and then the Chaos God's disembodied voice tells the Heroes that they might have won, but that as long as there is darkness in the hearts of men he will return. Or something.

Anyway, half of the quest is post defeating the big main baddie... just to find a room to be told that they won?

I am REALLY tempted to give the Chaos God the Escape spell and have him reappear in that central room for a final battle. I worry that that might be taking too much of a poetic licence, however?

EDIT:
I decided to go ahead with that change. Also, I discovered an issue: Grimdead is not the name of the wizard who resurrected the Chaos God, but the name OF the Chaos God. It looks like the person who translated the earlier quests got a bit confused, so I revised the earlier localizations to reflect that. Also, I changed the wizard's name from Barr to "Borough" because even if the Japanese didn't intend for these two wizards to be the same (and, frankly, I'm not so sure they didn't) it makes much more sense to have them be the same wizard. If they aren't the same wizard, then where the heck is Barr? He resurrects Grimdead and then we never hear from him again? Unlikely. Much more likely that Japanese-to-English translation is as it is... Barr ad Borough are probably one in the same.

[bastianbux]

Quest 11:
[updated on page 9]

Quest 12:
[updated on page 9]

Quest 13:
[updated on page 9]

Quest 14:
[updated on page 9]

[Sjeng]

Superb work!!! Now to figure out Grimdead's BP and MP, and get this thing PDF-ready ^^

Oh and we still need a cover!

[bastianbux]

I've still got to write the intro and conclusions from Mentor. I should have those done within the week.

EDIT:
Also, before that, I went ahead and changed nearly all of the gold coin amounts back to the original Japanese. I don't know what got into my head about increasing them so dramatically, it's not like there's much to use them on anyway. So that's fixed. And in the process I changed a few formatting things to keep them all in line with each other. I'll re-upload those quests probably today or tomorrow.

[bastianbux]

Help me choose a title! I keep going back and forth along some of the same themes:

The Chaos God Awakens
Awakening of the Chaos God
Awakening the Chaos God
In the Eastern Empire
Chaos in the East
Chaos in the Eastern Empire

etc.

Also, I've revised every single quest to make them identical in style and colors (you might not have noticed, but there were some style changes I made as I progressed) and also wrote a "Message from Mentor" and a "Conclusion" and a title page... except now I need the actual title. Help!