It's time for Sebastius to fall!
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:07 am
Here is something for us to muse on and mull over.
Sorry this is a bit lengthy, but I have hopes the storyline of FT can be nudged along.
Let me begin by saying having heard from the veterans of this game on this forum FT
has ever been a work in progress. It has evolved and grown. The story line though has
lagged behind, I don't think players expected to reach 1000 (which i am around) or 2000,
or 3000, or 5000 and still not have finished the main story line! The game has grown
but the end game is still very much out there and elusive. This thread is an appeal
to wrap up the main story line. This is all that is lacking. We have Weisstein, the artifact,
Bal Muen, but Sebastius the clever mage still slips through our fingers. I realize many players
enjoy the playing and the friendship here in FT whether or not there seems to be an ultimate
goal achievable to complete. I value those too but I am also of the opinion a game ought to
have a "win" point where you have done what needs doing.
So here is my appeal to our FT game creator "please provide us a conclusion" not because
we want a tidy end but because you yourself made the story from early on to be that the
termination of Sebastius is the key to making the greatest impact on the FT world.
We are given an identity to relate to as the time traveler Ketram...a faithful ally in Ascanius...
and a noble goal to save the land. Let us do it!! Isn't it time now years later the story is
completed?
Ok so the question arises then...won't people quit then and look for another game to play?
Answer one, not if the action and friend interaction is what most players enjoy about it.
And answer two, a perfect opportunity to make a sequel either as a continuation of the present game and map
or a new one with same map, monsters, mechanics but with a new goal or nemesis.
Here are a couple of suggestions....
1. After gaining the silver sword and after seeing the defeat of his evil student Sebastius, Ascanius
is tired of being on the run, of being a recluse, an unknown figure and decides it his time to be a figure of importance in the land.
Little does he know this new ambition was the kind of ambition that made Sebastius turn to the darker side of things.
Ascanius does turn and the teacher outdoes the student as he gives himself over to the same evil and more.
Ketrams dilemma is what to do about his beloved friend and the story can go one of two ways. Either reluctantly Ascanius must die
or be turned by Ketram back to his former self. Perhaps another trip through time where Ascanius can see ahead to the end of his ways
and repents in the present so those evil days never come. The worst part of his vision could be the death of Ketram by his own hand.
2. A bit simpler scenario that Ketram has a twin sister he did not know of. She too is of royal blood but her path led her
to be a kind of student to Sebastius. So acute and effective was her learning she abandons her original name adopting instead the name Sebastina!
She is twice the mage and twice as evil as her teacher and like youth often do try to exceed their elders in what they do.
Ketram faces two problems the loss of trust with Ascanius who knew of her existence and the sorrow how one of his own flesh and blood
can be so fully given to evil. He must of course fight her but what will he do if they meet? Can he kill his sister or is their something
binding her that makes her the way she is? Could it be the spirits of past evil mages reside in the amulet she has worn all of
her time of training and rise to power? Can Ketram cast out the evil, destroy the amulet, or will death only sever it's power?
Anyway like I said something to muse and comment upon.
Sorry this is a bit lengthy, but I have hopes the storyline of FT can be nudged along.
Let me begin by saying having heard from the veterans of this game on this forum FT
has ever been a work in progress. It has evolved and grown. The story line though has
lagged behind, I don't think players expected to reach 1000 (which i am around) or 2000,
or 3000, or 5000 and still not have finished the main story line! The game has grown
but the end game is still very much out there and elusive. This thread is an appeal
to wrap up the main story line. This is all that is lacking. We have Weisstein, the artifact,
Bal Muen, but Sebastius the clever mage still slips through our fingers. I realize many players
enjoy the playing and the friendship here in FT whether or not there seems to be an ultimate
goal achievable to complete. I value those too but I am also of the opinion a game ought to
have a "win" point where you have done what needs doing.
So here is my appeal to our FT game creator "please provide us a conclusion" not because
we want a tidy end but because you yourself made the story from early on to be that the
termination of Sebastius is the key to making the greatest impact on the FT world.
We are given an identity to relate to as the time traveler Ketram...a faithful ally in Ascanius...
and a noble goal to save the land. Let us do it!! Isn't it time now years later the story is
completed?
Ok so the question arises then...won't people quit then and look for another game to play?
Answer one, not if the action and friend interaction is what most players enjoy about it.
And answer two, a perfect opportunity to make a sequel either as a continuation of the present game and map
or a new one with same map, monsters, mechanics but with a new goal or nemesis.
Here are a couple of suggestions....
1. After gaining the silver sword and after seeing the defeat of his evil student Sebastius, Ascanius
is tired of being on the run, of being a recluse, an unknown figure and decides it his time to be a figure of importance in the land.
Little does he know this new ambition was the kind of ambition that made Sebastius turn to the darker side of things.
Ascanius does turn and the teacher outdoes the student as he gives himself over to the same evil and more.
Ketrams dilemma is what to do about his beloved friend and the story can go one of two ways. Either reluctantly Ascanius must die
or be turned by Ketram back to his former self. Perhaps another trip through time where Ascanius can see ahead to the end of his ways
and repents in the present so those evil days never come. The worst part of his vision could be the death of Ketram by his own hand.
2. A bit simpler scenario that Ketram has a twin sister he did not know of. She too is of royal blood but her path led her
to be a kind of student to Sebastius. So acute and effective was her learning she abandons her original name adopting instead the name Sebastina!
She is twice the mage and twice as evil as her teacher and like youth often do try to exceed their elders in what they do.
Ketram faces two problems the loss of trust with Ascanius who knew of her existence and the sorrow how one of his own flesh and blood
can be so fully given to evil. He must of course fight her but what will he do if they meet? Can he kill his sister or is their something
binding her that makes her the way she is? Could it be the spirits of past evil mages reside in the amulet she has worn all of
her time of training and rise to power? Can Ketram cast out the evil, destroy the amulet, or will death only sever it's power?
Anyway like I said something to muse and comment upon.