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Don't you mean Beelzebub?PainRack wrote:Is Belial scarificing his harpies in an attempt to get his army to close quarters?
It seems as if he's using the harpies as skirmishers, locating and pinning down enemy troops until his main line can crush them.
Egads! Someone else who plays Nethack? And here I thought I was the only one. Let's sacrifice a unicorn on the hellgate and see what happensCrayz9000 wrote:
Don't you mean Beelzebub?
(Speaking of which, I seem to recall the best way to take him being to double-wield a +6 Grayswandir and a +6 silver sabre as a dwarven Valkyrie with gray dragon scale mail, a cloak of invisibility, an amulet of reflection, speed boots, and gauntlets of power... oh wait, that's Nethack, not Armageddon...)
Who is he. What is he.Adrian Laguna wrote:I love that subtle flirting with the fourth wall.“People call us many things. Targeteers, Contractors, The Business, The Wizards of Armageddon. The last was intended as an insult but we rather like it. And, of course, it has turned out to be a much more accurate description than its author realized.”
Already explained, but he's from the TBO 'verse.LadyTevar wrote: Who is he. What is he.
He killed flowers just by walking into the room.
Not Human? One of the 'others' that Abigor mentioned?
I think he's Stuart's doppleganger.LadyTevar wrote:Who is he. What is he.Adrian Laguna wrote:I love that subtle flirting with the fourth wall.“People call us many things. Targeteers, Contractors, The Business, The Wizards of Armageddon. The last was intended as an insult but we rather like it. And, of course, it has turned out to be a much more accurate description than its author realized.”
So the air pressure must be equal, despite the lower gravity of Hell.Stuart wrote:There is actually some level of tranferrance going on but its limited (the portal doesn't have any physical effect like suction, its simple a hole that separates two spaces. So small amounts of hell-atmosphere are seeping into human space and vice versa but the amounts are so small they're stratistically inconsequential.CaptainChewbacca wrote:Wind, dust, and just the odor of hell for one. The fact that the choking clouds of hell aren't seeping through into Iraq makes me think there's some mechanism to prevent just that thing. It could be as simple as air molecules don't have enough mass for all I know.
He seems dangerous enough that you'd want to kill him the instant you got a chance, although it was never made clear whether his power to cause instant death could be nullified by the simple expedient of wearing tinfoil hats.And I have no intention of parading Uriel in a cage.
He's mentioned a few times hes keeping a book formatted version of this for publication.Mongoose wrote:This has probably already been asked before, but is there any chance that this story might eventually be published as a book?
Given the fact that Stuart has published 3 other books, with a 4th that I'm currently editing in the chute, I would say there's a good chance.Mongoose wrote:This has probably already been asked before, but is there any chance that this story might eventually be published as a book?
It'll probably come out as a trilogy.Mongoose wrote:This has probably already been asked before, but is there any chance that this story might eventually be published as a book?
Hey hey now, don't you go taking away one of my favorite things to do. To be fair, I didn't edit the first one. Also, alot of peoples' objections to 'editing' are stylistic decisions Stuart made to maintain the flavor of the setting.fnord wrote:Hmm.. editing and proofing in return for more sweet electronic crack - hardly even a choice. Where and when do you want me to start?
Looking through those amazon links, it does seem that, from the comments left, the editing of those three volumes was not quite what it could have been.
Isn't Cthulhu public domain by now? I'm not sure about copyright laws, but I know anything pre-1923 is considered public domain by US law.KlavoHunter wrote:Cthulu ain't gonna happen. It would be infringing of Mr. Lovecraft's intellectual property to use his Cthulu stuff in Stuart's story, which is an irksome niggle, seeing as Stuart intends on publishing.
Steamboat williePeptuck wrote:Isn't Cthulhu public domain by now? I'm not sure about copyright laws, but I know anything pre-1923 is considered public domain by US law.KlavoHunter wrote:Cthulu ain't gonna happen. It would be infringing of Mr. Lovecraft's intellectual property to use his Cthulu stuff in Stuart's story, which is an irksome niggle, seeing as Stuart intends on publishing.
I think I really noticed that one in TBO (yeah, you didn't edit it, but still) - I thought it really could have used some better editing, but then I realized TBO was not about showing compassion to Nazis, and grammar nazis were not about to be let off the hook either.CaptainChewbacca wrote:Hey hey now, don't you go taking away one of my favorite things to do. To be fair, I didn't edit the first one. Also, alot of peoples' objections to 'editing' are stylistic decisions Stuart made to maintain the flavor of the setting.
Lord knows there's plenty of edits I suggest that he ignores
Scottish Ninja wrote:ut then I realized TBO was not about showing compassion to Nazis, and grammar nazis were not about to be let off the hook either.
I don't think you quite understand what a grammar nazi is. Quite often I'll catch mistakes that professional editors don't in the books I read, but all the same I don't let those mistakes spoil the book for me or go ranting on Amazon about how shitty the editing job was.Darth Wong wrote:It's a sad statement on the preponderance of sloppy thinking and semi-illiteracy in this country when people with shitty grammar and spelling think that anyone who tries to correct them is a "Nazi".
It's still a dilution on the horror that the nazis were to this world. Even today, they're a sore spot to many.Fyrwulf wrote:I don't think you quite understand what a grammar nazi is. Quite often I'll catch mistakes that professional editors don't in the books I read, but all the same I don't let those mistakes spoil the book for me or go ranting on Amazon about how shitty the editing job was.
I would be more hopeful that there would be some collective acknowledgment for the forum, since the idea for the story came from here. Or more specifically, from here:JN1 wrote:Stu, I presume that those of us who contributed would ge a mention in the foreword? I only ask because it would do my ego no end of good.
Stu always gives an acknowledgement to both the board, in the past the guys at H, P & CA. He does also generally thank specific people.Darth Wong wrote:I would be more hopeful that there would be some collective acknowledgment for the forum, since the idea for the story came from here. Or more specifically, from here:JN1 wrote:Stu, I presume that those of us who contributed would ge a mention in the foreword? I only ask because it would do my ego no end of good.
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=117613
If you read through the whole thread and skip past some of the arguing about the direction the thread takes, you can see where the inspiration for the story comes from (Stuart actually declares his intentions about halfway through the thread), and some elements of the story are even foreshadowed.
