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Post by bittermind on Sept 15, 2010 13:44:22 GMT
So, the Monde du Jeu 2010 has been and gone, and I didn't manage to unearth so many LW-goodies. Many of Joe's revelations of upcoming stories have already been covered in BlackCat's translation - on the Mongoose forum - of the 'The Story So Far' section of Book 29 (The Kai Monastery South is built on the Isle of Lorn, etc.). One freebie I got, small as it is - Book 29 begins with Lone Wolf briefing his 6 Kai Grand Masters, apparently.
For the onstage question-and-answer session (I'm sure vids will be appearing soon), Joe mentioned he didn't really want to talk about the Lone Wolf film or computer game - purely because there was nothing really to talk about. Both projects had 'stagnated', to use his word.
Shame, really. I guess we'll be waiting a while longer for those to show up.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 15, 2010 16:50:19 GMT
Well then, they are not dead, just in a deep coma.
EDIT: WAIT! SIX Grand Masters? They were only 5 in the first 8 books. Does it mean a new recruit has reached this rank 18 years after book 28? That's something new.
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Post by Oiseau on Sept 16, 2010 4:09:51 GMT
Well, come on, 18 years have passed. It's surprising there's only 1 new GM. Unless a bunch of them got killed off and replaced in the meantime… which begs the question, where on Magnamund does there remain enough evil creatures to kill off a bunch of Kai GMs, after LW himself just about purged the world of everything even slightly un-nice ? ^_^
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Post by askhati on Sept 16, 2010 6:45:38 GMT
Granted, LW is Skarn-Ska - that is like being the only guy with a chainsaw at a zombie apocalypse...
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Post by bittermind on Sept 16, 2010 17:20:57 GMT
Ooh, I forgot to mention - in an interview with the online magazine Chimera (French-language), Mr Dever said some nice things about Project Aon...
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 16, 2010 21:16:11 GMT
Well, come on, 18 years have passed. It's surprising there's only 1 new GM. Unless a bunch of them got killed off and replaced in the meantime… which begs the question, where on Magnamund does there remain enough evil creatures to kill off a bunch of Kai GMs, after LW himself just about purged the world of everything even slightly un-nice ? ^_^ Well, with three attacks of 10,000+ Agarashi against several nations in three years, I think there is still a lot of evil in Magnamund. So the fact that there is only 6 GM 18 years after the end of book 28 is, as you mention, surprising. |
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Post by outspaced on Sept 16, 2010 21:32:43 GMT
Ooh, I forgot to mention - in an interview with the online magazine Chimera (French-language), Mr Dever said some nice things about Project Aon... Any chance of a link...? And maybe a translation...?  |
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Post by bittermind on Sept 17, 2010 18:26:13 GMT
I'll keep an eye out for it. Russ Nicholson - illustrator of Fighting Fantasy books and Blood Sword books and Dragon Warriors 6 and Golden Dragon books and pretty much every gamebook series I've ever read - took part in that interview and one or two others as well; I said I'd keep an eye out for them and pass on links to him too. I can do the same here. If I've been neglectful on that score so far, it's just because I've been a little Internet-starved lately. Today, though, I reconnected the phone lines in my apartment all by myself. Hot damn, I'm a technical wizard. Such self-congratulation doesn't really have much of a place on the Project Aon site, I know, but you have to understand how big an achievement for me this is... Actually, Russ was really great at the Monde du Jeu. Just because of what was going on, I ended up spending much more time with Russ than with Joe Dever. His connection to Lone Wolf is a little tenuous - he did a couple of illustrations in Le Grimoire's recent republication of the Lone Wolf RPG. Nonetheless, I heartily recommend Russ's blog: russnicholson.blogspot.com/ . Oh, and the magazine is called 'Chimère', not 'Chimera'; I was translating back into English. Because it's really the best language... |
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Post by bittermind on Sept 18, 2010 6:21:15 GMT
Okay, photo links rather than actual interviews, for the moment. Russ Nicholson has some photos from the Monde du Jeu on his blog (link in previous post). Joe Dever, and some of the staff - and book artwork, if you haven't seen it - is in there. Scifi-universe.com also have some photos of Joe and Russ: www.scifi-universe.com/actualites/9917-le-monde-du-jeu-2010-le-photo-report.htm. I'll edit in interview links when I find them. |
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Post by zorkraan on Sept 23, 2010 16:03:08 GMT
EDIT: WAIT! SIX Grand Masters? They were only 5 in the first 8 books. Does it mean a new recruit has reached this rank 18 years after book 28? That's something new. Well, I shortly discussed that point with Joe before the interview at Le Monde du Jeu, and he told me that the Grand Masters of the New Order were : - the four Masters sent to capture Wolf's Bane in book 19 (Blazer, Steel Hand, Star Lynx and Black Hawk, "one of them being the GM of books 21 to 28"). - Bright Star of book 24 - Firestone of books 19 and 20 ("the most senior of the New Order warriors"). ==> 6 Grand Masters. So no newbie in this group, or perhaps one of the four Masters of book 19 was still not a Grand Master in books 21 to 28... |
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Post by bittermind on Sept 23, 2010 16:54:19 GMT
...plus the player himself. Which would make 7, no?
Hmm. Something here doesn't add up at all.
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Post by zorkraan on Sept 23, 2010 17:22:43 GMT
You haven't read well what I wrote above  : "one of them being the grand Master of books 21 to 28". So the great Master is Blazer, Steel Hand, Star Lynx or Black Hawk, and the GM are 6 in number. |
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Post by pi4t on Sept 23, 2010 18:48:42 GMT
Does he choose a new name then? |
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Post by beowuuf on Sept 23, 2010 19:36:34 GMT
Everyone pretty much decided the NO GM was Black Hawk, didn't they? I forget the logic, but there was an argument for it.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 24, 2010 16:56:56 GMT
Everyone pretty much decided the NO GM was Black Hawk, didn't they? I forget the logic, but there was an argument for it. That was based on the various illustrations that we find in the books, from the one in section 238 in Wolf's Bane to the cover of book 23, etc. We get a physical representation of the future GMs in book 19 and then we are able to identify each one of them in the later books. Black Hawk seems to be the one on the cover of book 23 and is missing from other illustrations of the NO GMs, as if we were seeing things from his POV. I'm surprise that Joe mentions Fire Stone since he never mentions his name in the NO books. Section 1, book 24: "The march begins shortly before noon. Lone Wolf rides at the head of the column, in the company of nine who comprise yourself, your four fellow Grand Masters..." Maybe we should had read "four of your fellow Grand Masters" instead. |
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: "one of them being the grand Master of books 21 to 28". So the great Master is Blazer, Steel Hand, Star Lynx or Black Hawk, and the GM are 6 in number.