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Mod John A

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Laurazal:

Mod John A -- The Dorgeshuun quest series is among my favorites, with likeable protagonists (Zanik), memorable antagonists (Sigmund, Bandos), and good supporting characters (Oldak, Grubfoot). I could go on about it all day, but I have a few questions. First off, Juna seems to have a very strange interpretation of Guthix's will. Wouldn't Guthix be against Bandos' use of an avatar? After all, he forbid the gods from direct intervention in the world at the end of the God Wars. Isn't the whole 'Bandos amulet' thing Bandos' way of trying to do an end run around the Guthixian edicts? So shouldn't Guthix approve of us opposing Bandos? If you ask me, Bandos was threatening to unbalance things.


Anyway, I loved the whole series, and Chosen Commander was great. You definately saved the best for last.

Question for both of you: Did you both co-write the Wise Old Man's conversation with Zanik?

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I think a lot of people didn't get the thing with Juna and Guthix, so I'm glad to have a chance to explain.

The key here is the principle that the gods 'own' the various races that are associated with them. In Juna's eyes, Guthix owns the world as a whole, but they various other gods own the individual races they brought into the world. By rebelling against Bandos, the cave goblins were in a sense rebelling against all the gods, so this was an instance where Guthix was prepared to let him use the Tears as a conduit for his power (to raise Zanik from the dead), and then turn a blind eye to his bending of the edicts.

RE the Wise Old Man's conversation with Zanik, if I recall correctly I wrote that but made sure Ash was happy with it.

23-Jul-2010 22:38:42

Mod Ash

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F-Med: "In my opinion, Firemaking is a good skill, but boring, because you are just doing the same thing over and over again, are you planning to make Firemaking a better skill; as in new ways to train and new uses for it?"

I think that's what Mod Mark was trying to do when he directed Mod Ingrid to add the Fired Up quest and the beacon network. I don't believe any other work is being planned on firemaking.

23-Jul-2010 22:40:02

Mod Ash

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Neat:
"Q: Will we be seeing more of the Wise Old Man and Zenevivia in up coming quests? Also will we ever get to see what the Thingummywut is? O_o
Oh, and Why does Zenevivia have Dionysius's partyhat on? I guess he gave it to her out of love, am I right? ^_^ "

I've posted a few times about whether we'll see Dissy & Zinny again, and the Thingummywut.

She's got his hat on because he lent it to her out of love, yes. I guess she might have it forever, since neither of them ever logs out.

Zoli Ben: "Will WOM gone attack Priffdinas?"

I'm pretty sure the plans for the elf storyline don't involve him at all. Sorry.

23-Jul-2010 22:42:06

Mod John A

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Robo Hobo:

Hey John, just one question for you:

This might be long, but its been something I've been wanting to know :P

During the quest 'Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf' we find out there is some kind of alliance between
the Red Axe and some gnomes from Arposandra, I was wondering if this 'alliance' goes deeper than we think,
what I mean by that is if it continues down a chain of alliances between some of the main antagonist
groups. Example is, Red axe working with penguins, some of the penguins are under control of the sea slugs.
And how the Red axe is working with the gnomes, and the gnomes could have conections with the dark elves (using
their poison waste as their 'plague') who are working with King lathas, to the sinclairs-- etc.

1) To the point - My question is, eventually will some of the antagonist groups (namely red axe) make a chain
of alliances with all the other evil gropus and a combined effort to either take over the world/elimanate the
human race/or simply focus on eliminating us? because it seems like we're the ones who keep foiling their
individual plans :P

If not, what do you think of the idea of that happening? :O

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This is a very interesting idea, but you probably shouldn't look for these villain alliances to go too deep.

It would be nice to write a huge story in which all the various villain groups were really working together, but that would probably get impractical. The stories are already complicated, and they're being worked on by different developers, and we don't necessarily know how quickly they're going to happen or where they're going to go story-wise.

So in the case of the dwarf quests, I can get a better story by saying that the Red Axe are basically working alone. They're buying in help from the gnomes and possibly other groups, but that doesn't mean that there's a chain of alliances that goes down very far, it's just a case of the Red Axe hiring some gnomes to do a job they can't do themselves.

23-Jul-2010 22:43:13

Mod Ash

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M O V I E:
"'Love Story' I found a nice way quest Indeed, original thought about the story of it!
Q: Is there perhaps a quest that you're considering?
Q: How did you get the idea? :)
Q: Does there maybe a new WOM quest, that u can help rebuild the house of his wife and maybe more? :) "

Thank you.
I do not have any other quest ideas at the moment. Fortunately RuneScape needs lots of things that aren't quests, so I'm certainly keeping myself busy.

The idea was just about wanting to see the player go up against a foe who hated them personally because of their record as an adventurer. Making her be the WOM's love interest came much later, and I'm not sure how!

23-Jul-2010 22:44:29

Mod John A

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Admiral Jacc:

By the end of 2010 can we expect to see the Myreque quest 5 and can we expect a new quest line entirely with a grandmaster started soon?
Edit: also just wondering will there be elemental dragons any time soon ive been looking forward to them similar to frost dragon but they each only use melee and their respected spells and possible ranges and obviously dragon fire

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I can't say anything for certain, but right now it's looking unlikely that Myreque 5 will come out this year, sorry.

The other things...I can't say.

23-Jul-2010 22:44:34

Mod John A

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Zoli Ben:

To John:
Will Dwarf 4 released in Autumn?

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Probably not. It might come out this year but it would probably be right at the end of the year, and it might not be until next year.

23-Jul-2010 22:45:44

Mod John A

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Zayelion:

I was wondering when the Temple Knight's Story line was going to progress...

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The story hasn't been forgotten about, but I can't give any details about when things will happen I'm afraid.

23-Jul-2010 22:46:47

Mod Ash

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Snailboy Eui: "3) Will you be able to lend on the G.E. soon?"

I don't believe so. I had a think about how this could be done, and I really couldn't think of any way to make it possible. Problems include making sure the person whose item got borrowed is able to get it back if it's never accepted.

Maybe if Mod Mike, creator of the GE, put his mind to it, it might get done. But he's working on other things.

23-Jul-2010 22:47:21

Mod John A

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Dr Lew1:

will there be any new goblin quests this year?

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Alas no. The goblin storyline is finished. I suppose there might be quests involving goblins in some way, but there won't be any more quests where goblins are the main feature, at least not for a long while.

23-Jul-2010 22:48:56

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