While thumb-twiddling, I ended up thinking about Dresden's character challenge (if it ever happens). There are some awesome sequences to use in the books but I don't know which one...
We could use the climatic sequences from any of four books, based on awesome rating:
Dead Beat: Features lots of necromancers, zombies, ghouls and so on as enemies, with six specific necromancers as boss fights. Also includes the zombie dinosaur I've mentioned a few times (the image of it graces the The Dresden Files CMOA page).
Small Favour: The team must raid an island in the middle of nowhere and release two prisoners: surprisingly important crime lord Johnny Marcone and the compendium of all human knowledge in human form known as the Archive. Standing in everyone's way are a full 30 fallen angels and a troupe of murderous fairies out to kill Dresden.
Turn Coat: Dresden sets a trap for probably the most powerful entity ever to appear in the series: a native american shapeshifting demon called a Skinwalker. In addition, a dark wizard and an insane succubus turn up with an army of minor demons, sending everything spiralling even further out of control.
Changes: Do NOT pick this one if you ever want to actually read the books. It's probably the biggest pitched battle in the books, against an army of vampires (some of whom are powerful enough to pose as believable gods).
"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.Dead beat? What'd poor Mal-Keshar do? I vote for Small Favour, which is funny, as the Wesnoth campaign that features our lovely Lich has a scenario called, you guessed it, A Small Favour.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.It seems Small Favour gets a majority of the votes.
Also, I want to propose my own idea for a challenge: Myst. Basically, the challengers are dropped in the titular isle and have to get back to their own world, whatever it is. A major problem with it, however, is the super-powers - they can be used to skip some of the puzzles.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Unless they get them in challenge - at my case at least, definitely no. He's from a standard fantasy setting, after all...
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.It seems like Small Favour will be the setting for Dresden's character challenge then.
"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.Yay! What about them Myst idea? Any response?
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.^^I'm not against it, but I don't see the point of creating a Dungeon Bypass challenge.
Unless you feel up to countering every instance of puzzleskipping in new and inventive ways.
I figured if everbody got turned into a teenaged japanese girl, they'd have cellphones by default.
edited 26th Nov '10 1:59:48 PM by Chabal2
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