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Post by Doomy on Apr 25, 2008 21:02:57 GMT
Hi Omega M! Where have you been the last four years? To answer your question, I guess we'll have to see what happens when Mongoose release books 29-32.
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 26, 2008 0:59:51 GMT
Doomy is right: where have you been these last 4 years? Your last post was in the thread about LW favorite meal! Anyways, since you've quote a very old post of mine, I can now say that it is not good anymore: in case you didn't know it already, Mongoose Publishing is currently republishing the LW series and they will also publish for the first time in history the last 4 books of the series. Old book 28 was ending very abruptly, with something like: "The bad guy is dead, everyone is happy, you live a long life after that". With a little bit of luck, we would had also seen: "I have other stories planned but no publisher to publish them". Now that book 29 is going to be printed (not titled yet, but we know it's located in Telchos and will be the first of a two-parts story that will end in book 30), the ending of book 28 will surely be changed for something like: "The bad guy is dead, everyone is happy, but a new challenge awaits you in the next book".
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Post by blaise on Apr 30, 2008 13:56:33 GMT
***WARNING SPOILERS FROM BOOK 20 AHEAD!!*****
I always thought Lone Wolf should get some clean up plan together, now that the Darklords are dead and that Naar can't send any new champion in Magnamund. We have 500 kai, including 5 Grand Masters and more to come. Why wait for evil to strike and then only send 1 kai to solve the problem and do nothing else? Let's make a plan to finish off Naar guys.
As soon as book 23, when the moonstone issue is solved, Lone Wolf should get off his ass and go to Bhanar kill Sejanoz. Then send a GM kill Sesketera, then send a group of Kai Masters in Kaag and the other Darklords fortresses to destroy those Giak tanks (Rimoah will provide the explosives). Send 100 kai to Lencia and help them throw the drakkarims out of Nyras and why not siege Kagorst and kill the Nadziranim that are left. Have a group of Kai and why not a group of magicians from the Crystal Star Guild camp around the ruins of Naaros to look for any more Agarash artefacts so that we can hide or destroy these before some evil Naar worshipper find it.
There are also those Cener druids that are still out there and deserve to be dealt with.
I know that sounds more like material for a video game rather than for books 29-32 but anyway, I'm just thinking out loud.
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Post by Omega M. on May 2, 2008 14:58:27 GMT
Doomy and Black Cat, I just ran out of things to say for a while and then forgot about the forum. If I knew I had a fan club, maybe I'd have come back sooner. Anyway, what reminded me of Lone Wolf was Lone Wolf section at gamebooks.org. It has interesting reviews of the first twelve books, as well as of the Grey Star books and a few other Lone Wolf items.
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Post by jardek on May 20, 2008 5:50:11 GMT
Eh, groups of 100 kai would face unsustainable rates of attrition. The whole point of the Kai is that they are commanders, leaders among men, and excellent infiltration units. If you put together an army of men who make up such a small proportion of an entire population, you're going to be losing a hell of a lot of potential.
Definitely agree about sending the GMs out to do some dirty work all across the world. Maybe leave one in charge of the monastery though, someone has to send people out to chop wood after all.
And yes, Qinifer sucks. I didn't like her not so much because she was powerful, but because she was portrayed as a more talented Kai than LW.
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Post by Wolfus on May 20, 2008 7:05:59 GMT
I liked Q in books 2+3, but since I read Dagger in the Spine/Claws of Helgedad... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!
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Post by beowuuf on May 20, 2008 7:25:58 GMT
Again, I don't think qinefer was ever stated as being a better kai as LW. Infact Qinefer is even shown to be nowhere near his level when the kai senses are attacked in the maakengorge temple.
BOTH characters were ridiculously overpowered (count the bodies hinted that LW kills in the first few books. Let's ignore the gourgaz stuff but it'sd in keeping with the whole 'yeah, these warriors can just hack through tons and tons and tons of enemies' thing.).
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Post by jardek on May 26, 2008 5:55:56 GMT
It's been many, many years since I read the novels, but isn't it true that while LW was enslaved by Gnaag and his buddies, Q surpassed him in Kai power and he came back to be essentially second fiddled?
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Post by beowuuf on May 26, 2008 7:33:23 GMT
No! In the pretty mundane and awful 'the claws of helgedad' Lone Wolf is captured and taken to helgedad for two years to be the pawn of haakon and dslutar's power struggle for archlord ship. Qinefer keeps the monastery building going, but that's it. Claws is before the sacrifice of ruanon, and in sacrrifice it clearly, explicitly states that when people with kai senses are attacked, viveka getas twinged hence showing somewhere she has kai potential, qinefer is attacked beddcause she is on the path, meanwhile she realises and it is shown that lone wolf must get the attack to a significantly crippling greater degree because he is a full dedveloped kai. Qinefer then visits the birthplace, goes off her head due to its effects, and leaves lone wolf and the story never to return.
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Post by beowuuf on May 26, 2008 7:41:16 GMT
Also, at no point I remember from reading in the last few months does Qinefer ever actually use a fully developed Kai talent.
She is shown to kill everythng under the sun, but then so does lone wolf! He carves up a forest like it was nothing in the beginning novels too. No one seems to blink at that.
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Post by Fan of Opeth on Jun 16, 2008 10:46:07 GMT
Good question. We won't know til Joe writes it though.
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Post by gohjohan on Aug 10, 2010 6:11:19 GMT
The series halted at Book 28 ( The Hunger of Sejanoz), but Joe Dever has hinted that the other four books will be written after he retires. When you say "he retires", you mean LW or JD? Either way, it's going to be a long wait.
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Aug 16, 2010 17:23:41 GMT
The series halted at Book 28 ( The Hunger of Sejanoz), but Joe Dever has hinted that the other four books will be written after he retires. When you say "he retires", you mean LW or JD? Either way, it's going to be a long wait. He meant JD. Well, the wait won't be that long, since he found a new publisher and he's now in the process of writing the four last books!
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Post by altwren on Aug 16, 2010 20:26:35 GMT
ETA - 32 years! 3 years to write them, 2 years of Mongoose trying to publish them but making game breaking errors like missing sections and no equipment rules, 25 years for the rights to revert to Joe Dever, then 2 years for you guys to get your hands on them and publish them correctly! ... (this was meant as a joke. Please do not take offense.)
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Post by askhati on Aug 16, 2010 20:42:23 GMT
I lol'ed...
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