He stood at the counter, staring down at the box of chocolates, the fluorescent lights casting harsh shadows over his face. After a long moment, he lifted a hand and touched the edge of the box.His tail slashed sideways—and he shoved the chocolates off the counter. They crashed to the floor, the small delicacies scattering over the linoleum.
I would love to read this scene from Zylas' POV!!
And this scene too!!
Zylas was scrutinizing me, his eyebrows low over critical red eyes.“Um.” I blinked. “Zylas?”He turned to the demon mage. “Nailēranis et nā. Eshaillā kir?” “Probably.” Jaw tightening, Zylas returned his stare to me, his expression intent as though he were rearranging his understanding of my incomprehensible human brain.
Was he comprehending why Robin is in danger of the other mages and what it meant when they said "you have the look"? Or was he wondering about her panicked reaction to his strength when he chose to "make her squirm"?
And since Kit is such a movie buff and can make signs in front of people’s faces I’m surprised he doesn’t start whole monologue notes of this thoughts on interrogation pan up in front of people in Star Wars-esque manner.
Or just even sometime write out small notes on notepads going “hey shut up about that” or whatever he needs to say
Meet Robin Page: outcast sorceress, mythic history buff, unapologetic bookworm, and the last person you'd expect to command the rarest demon in the long history of summoning. Though she holds his leash, this demon can't be controlled . . . but can he be tamed?
I do love the various series of the Guild Codex, but I'm definitely hungry for just one powerhouse protagonist. Saber took some pretty great steps toward that near the end of Unveiled, and Kit's had a few flashes of realization of his powers, but we don't really get to bask in viewpoint character having their shit together for very long.
Let me see Tori doing Bartender Batman stuff, or Robin doing some more demon arcana, dammit.
I have no idea about making comics but I loved this scene from the book sm I had to draw it.
Fanart of a scene from Book 3 of the series the guild codex: demonized!
Aaron: Ha, this guy's name is Bernard. That's one of the worst my-parents-are-rich names I've ever heard.
Kai: Your parents named you Aaron, you don't get to judge.
Aaron: What's wrong with Aaron?
Kai: What's not wrong with Aaron?
*Kai looks at camera*
Kai: I have no opinion whatsoever on his name, I just wanted to give him a complex. He was getting too comfortable.
Girl: OH NO!! I have to dry you off from this water but to do that I must touch you in...well I shant say😱
Boy: OH NO! Whatever will we do? I guess you will just have to....dry me off and try not to think about how hot I am....😱😱😱
Me, the guy they were supposed to capture:
He straightened, pushing away from the table with the air of someone planning to change the subject. “Drādah, I want to know.”
“Yes?” I asked cautiously.
“What”—he canted his head—“is abs?”
Aaron: Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's all this noise? I thought we all agreed that The Bounty Hunters was going to be a light-hearted throwback to 90s alternative rock, not this mess of screaming into distortion.
Kai: Look, Aaron. Kit and I were talking, and Ezra agrees. Your attitude: just isn't working for us.
Kit: We've been a lot more productive without you.
Ezra: We already wrote an angsty song about the time you made us feel bad for not being handsome.
Aaron: You're kicking me out of the band?! Wait, who's playing drums?
Kit: Izzah said she would do it.
Izzah: I'm down for whatever. *twirls a drum stick in her hand*
It’s her regular switch blades but they have either a shock/pyro/repulse/burst magic rune on it so she stabs a guy and does the spell and it blasts the spell while INSIDE the person.
Back during Guild Wars 2′s Beta Weekend Events in 2012, there was a system that would unfortunately get removed. One that players have since asked for time and time again. It was actually nicely implemented too, however, it had some major flaws.
The Creature Codex.
These were books bought from various NPCs throughout the game that talked about various factions and world bosses. In the betas, we only got to see those found in Queensdale, Wayfarer, and Plains of Ashford.
When used, you’d open up a brief cinematic that would cycle through three paragraphs and show off a model of the faction (or the world boss) in question, giving players a blurb text about the subject.
It wasn’t super fancy, but from what text was able to be recovered by players, it did add some stuff that is unique - for example, did you know that there are male harpies? I didn’t. For a few years, I had theorized that they mated with other races to reproduce as an all-female race, similar to asari from Mass Effect, since we see multiple events of harpies “flirting” with grawl, asura, and others.
One of the major failing factors was that each book of the creature codex, when used for the first time, would give the character a skill point (predecessor of the current hero point, which were given every time you leveled up or completed a skill challenge - now hero challenge). This made getting skill points obscenely easy, because codex books could also be put into the bank’s storage section (just like miniatures back in the day). This meant that you could find all the codexes on one character, open them, bank them, swap characters, and pull them from banks to get all those free easy skill points.
If memory serves me right, these skill points also served as skill challenges, meaning that it was instant progress on map completion as well.
I’m sure that’s not the only (or main) reason they were cut down. ArenaNet is very big on making features look pretty and function uniquely and well, so it’s possible these were cut because of how basic the cinematics look - a simple background, a model, and text that you can’t control isn’t very much to look at.
Still, here’s hoping that one day ArenaNet will make a proper codex function for all the Points of Interest, factions, species, and major characters out there.
Your body could build my grave, with leather and lace. You take all my breath away, with that face. Cause she's drop dead gorgeous, I think she knows it. I think she knows it... But if she ever left, I would just drop dead.
I animated Ashoakmaple's art of Tori and Ezra from Annette Marie's The Guild Codex! Song: Drop Dead Gorgeous by Voilà, perfectly recommended by this podcast!
Since I'm taking a drive down nostalgia lane here, (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar is 14 years old as of yesterday (The Guild, Season 3, August 17th 2009).