Note 1: This post contains my understanding of the storyline of the 2 Minecraft Custom Maps: Eronev Mansion Adventure & Eronev 2: The Soul Cauldron, both made by the awesome mapmaker, Jigarbov. I don't know if he has the whole plot in writing but if he doesn't, here's my understanding of it.
Obviously, plot endings & spoilers are abound so if you haven't played (or watched any videos of) either & do not wish to be spoiled on a very intriguing storyline, I'd strongly suggest not to read any further. You have been warned: SPOILER ALERT.
Note 2: Do understand that this post does NOT contain storyline of Eronev Chronicles: The Flood as I haven't yet played that map. When I do I'll make another post regarding my updated understanding of the Eronev storyline. So PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL any plotline of that map. Thank you :)
Okay then, let's begin. BTW in case you don't know, the best ending of Eronev 1 (where all 8 villagers are saved & the as-of-yet unnamed demon is defeated) is the canonical one which is what I'll discuss.
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Eronev Mansion Adventure
In Eronev 1, you are a boy (non-canonically named Heronev) who's returning to his home village/town of Eronev after having gone on a long search for his parents who left him many years ago. Heronev finds that people are going missing in town & the remaining people that the old man (Ben) living in the titular Mansion is to blame. Heronev finds an underground gauntlet-like chamber under the pyramid in the playground & finds a little boy trapped inside who claims Ben put him there. Heronev 'rescues' the boy by grabbing his head & putting it in his bag (which, let's all be honest here, is rather freaky-deaky).
Heronev also spots from a window in the gauntlet mechanism control chamber (from where he gathers the redstone dust required) Ben, standing next to a cauldron-looking thing in which fluid that resembles lava is pouring from somewhere. Heronev opens the locked gate of the mansion & makes his way inside & finds Ben, who claims that he's protecting the town from evil forces yet the town people continues to antagonize him.
Heronev hears & rescues 2 more villagers from above a waterfall from one of the mansion towers. Upon returning to the mansion lobby, Ben (appearing to be slightly unhappy) tells Heronev to use the mansion's basement rail system to go to 4 'outposts' & activate some system as said system is apparently reporting a failure & if that occurs the village is 'doomed'.
Here is where I'm confused slightly. If a certain task progression is maintained Ben will act according to the above paragraph. However if another task progression is taken (I haven't been able to figure out how the task wiring is done), Ben will appear to be VERY CROSS. I don't know which one is canonical so I'm including both.
In this second case, Ben will yell saying that those people that Heronev rescued are necessary sacrifices that must be made in order for the others to live. He then threatens Heronev to activate the 4 'outposts' or he'll destroy the town & all the inhabitants.
Heronev travels to the 3 power outposts (in the forest, desert & glacier) & 1 cooling outpost (under the seashore of Eronev) & activates them. He also finds 5 more people, 1 in each outpost & 1 in the other tower, & rescues them all by grabbing their heads in his bag. Upon returning to the mansion, Ben reveals that the village of Eronev is plagued by a demon & the 'outposts' power a forcefield which keeps the demon locked away. However, the 'outposts' was powered down for too long & now the demon will be free soon. However, if Heronev can travel to the 5th 'soul outpost' in time, there may still be a chance to stop the demon.
Arriving at the soul station, Heronev is shocked to find that it resembles a torture chamber. Ben contacts him via the communication stone & tells that because Heronev saved all the villagers, Ben cannot charge the generators. As explosions are heard, Ben says that the demon is here & then heard running away.
Heronev exits in the mansion lobby & finds that it has become corrupted by huge red veins. He also spots a huge demon looming over the village. A villager who managed to run inside the mansion says that the demon is undefeatable from the outside & so Heronev has to destroy it from the inside. Heronev takes the advice & plunges inside the demon's mouth. Inside, the rescued villagers agree to sacrifice themselves to damage the demon. The villagers proceed to destroy the demon's brain, stomach, heart etc. The last of the villagers join forces with Barry, a villager who was already inside the demon, to deliver the final blow as Heronev makes a daring escape.
Heronev arrives at the destroyed village to see the red veins clearing away. The survivors rejoice & welcomes Heronev as their hero. Ben sends a last transmission through a communication stone saying he will return & also that Heronev's parents said 'hi'.
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The Soul Cauldron
In Eronev 2, you (canonically a girl BTW) start the map (canonically) near a pine tree, after flowing down a lava-like fluid from a giant pipe, inside what appears to be a superhuge cauldron. She (unnamed as-of-yet) immediately meets Jarig who appears to know her & mentions that she's lost her memories. She runs to safety from zombies which are rising out of the lava surrounding the area to Jarig's base/home where he has started some farming & etc for survival. Jarig says that they're stuck at this place but they've been building a contraption called CTM (Centurion Transport Machina) which may help them escape. She scrounges some supplies from the nearby area & finds some villagers who've set up shop in the cauldron (how does that even work?).
A point of note is that Jarig resembles Heronev (both have sponges as their body). Also the power-weakening blackish stones (bedrock) in E2 is found to have gravity-defying properties in E1 (although I'm not sure if that sidequest is canonical or not).
From the shopowners, they find location to some dungeons which may contain the things needed to complete the CTM. She & Jarig manages to find a Diary by Ben whom Jarig suspects to reside in the giant eye that is floating in the sky in the middle of the cauldron (yes, weird, I know, I didn't make the story). Ben, in his diary, talks about finding the soul cauldron under a pyramid in the sand near some mansion. One is to put souls in this cauldron. The cauldron has 2 realms, the soul & the orb realm, which contain a lava-like transmission fluid for souls & water, respectively. There are some structures of unknown origin in these realms & apparently, if the right souls are put in, they'll multiply.
The girl & Jarig travel to a water puzzle in the Hellish Ravine & working together, collect the first CTM piece. Then they travel to the Petrified Tree deep below their base & find the second piece while battling some invincible monsters. Also, the girl makes it to the eye & finds Ben who says that he's watching them & she has made a grave mistake coming to the eye & tells her to complete her & Jarig's task & leave him alone. She finds another of Ben's diaries where he talks about being able to grab souls of people without destroying their bodies in a manner that resembles having lava poured over the person. The soul arrives in the cauldron & the body behaves normally 'in the real world' although the bodies lose their sense of self-wellbeing & one of them tells Ben to take their head. Ben surmises that maybe the head is the only part that links to the soul so it won't matter. Ben talks about keeping these people separate. In the soul realm the souls are supposed to multiply but they don't, only one has done so & they don't even know it. In the orb realm, the sould multiply easily but become fractured & unusable. Ben talks about finding more souls.
Jarig finds & activates a portal which leads to the orb realm. In there Jarig sees another version of himself & becomes scared. There is also an eye in the sky similar to the soul realm. The orb realm is filled to the brim with souls (pumpkins) which appears in larger & larger numbers constantly (multiplying). Jarig becomes scared that maybe he & the girls are both dead. Some of the souls are silent, some speak about being in horrible pain, some just ramble nonsense, some scream at them saying they doesn't belong there & they should leave. Jarig also finds an imposter looking sorta like him.
Jarig finds a soul who actually talks coherently & says that after a while being in this realm, you lose the sens of time & eventually the will to live. Jarig figures out that the more the souls separate, more appears (i.e. multiplying). The more they multiply/'split', the angrier/more silent they get. However, Jarig finds it weird that they have no bodies yet he does. Also that he's been seeing glimpses of himself lately & surmises if he's a clone or is he also 'splitting' like the rest. Also that monsters seems to able to pick up & wear the souls like hats which terrifies him.
The girl manages to reach the eye in the sky & finds Ben again who screams at her & tells her to get out. Ben also screams that neither she nor anyone else can never escape this place & whatever she is planning will fail. She finds another of Ben's diaries & find out that split & fractured souls stick together near their original one in the orb realm. Jarig was the soul who split in the soul realm & the girl is one of the original souls Ben captured but finds it odd that she hasn't multiplied yet even though she has traversed between both realms. Ben also finds her amnesia troubling. Ben suspects that the CTM is Jarig's plan to return to a place called Eronev. Ben says that the souls are the only hope & if he can get some more to split/multiply like Jarig did, he'll have enough power to keep *something* (the name is illegible) from coming back for good as 'the generators can only keep him gone for so long'.
Jarig & the girl find another dungeon in an orb & collect another CTM piece. Then they arrive at the Doors of Confusion, a place full of many shops & people & many doors all of which contain a piece of a puzzle which leads the 2 of them to the last CTM piece. Jarig accidentally reveals that the 2 of them are romantically involved in some way (which the girl doesn't remember due to her amnesia).
Jarig & the girl complete the CTM which transports them to a room with an altar. Jarig goes ahead of her & as she reaches the room, she sees Ben standing on one side as souls merge & coalesce above Jarig who feels extreme pain. Ben tells them to run for it & the girl does, collecting Jarig's diary as it fell near him. But one the way back, she chooses to turn back & help Jarig but when she gets back, she sees Jarig has grown to a HUGE size & has become maddened with power of the souls & he attacks both the girl & Ben with arrows, spells, fireballs, monsters, everything. The girl uses Ben's idea to fire streams of energy into Jarigs giant eyes, hurting him. Ben then completes what he calls the ultimate weapon, a way to conjure dark magic energy into fireballs which can be used to hurt Jarig's weak points which were exposed in the previous attack. The girl succeeds which results in destroying the huge body of Jarig & reduces him to his original self. Jarig apologizes profusely begs for forgiveness & the girl, having finally gotten time to read his diary, realizes that Jarig is her husband & he had to keep quiet about that lest the emotion caused her to forget everything again.
Ben conjures a vision of the village of Eronev in his observation room. The girl finds the image familiar. Ben reveals that Eronev is her hometown & she can see a boy on a bridge which Ben reveals as her child who's about to enter Ben's mansion as the villagers told him Ben is a bad guy (let's be honest here, isn't he?). Ben says if the boy messes up, he can use Jarig to defeat 'any evil'. Ben says he'll tell the boy that his parents said 'hi'.
Ben's final diary page reveals that the CTM is a machine of extreme power & that Jarig is possibly the only soul that ever needed to multiply (Ben misread some scriptures that he mentions) & he alone & strong & smart enough to defeat *something*. When the CTM activated all the souls from both the realms combined with Jarig. Now Jarig is back to normal but the power remains & Ben just needs a few more souls to pour in & when *something* returns, 'it will be Jarig who fights him'. Ben says against his hopes that the boy will take a while longer to return, he already has & Heronev may cause trouble.
Jarig, having recovered, plans on how to save their son with the girl & also how they may escape this place as he fears 'Ben has some twisted plan for us'.
I don't at all understand the line 'but I'd rather us do our own thing. Let's sleep on it.' HOW does that make any sense if in the previous line Jarig talks about Ben's twisted plans for them? JUST HOW is that line logically following that?
The girl then falls asleep while thinking of the many unanswered questions.
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So that is my understanding of the plot of Eronev 1 & 2. As you can clearly see there are HUGE GAPING plot holes that bug me in all the wrong places. I only hope that these plot holes may be addressed in The Flood.
Thank you for reading (or scrolling down to the end) of this wall of text. I find the storyline very intriguing but personally, I think, Jig is taking this Ben's-secret-plan-deal wayyy too far. In order to keep a mysterious atmosphere just to make sequels, he's made Ben behave like a bad guy & there is no justification for that as of yet. If Jig doesn't provide one in The Flood, I refuse to accept Ben being a good guy. Ben's behaviour is appearing more & more like an asspull by the author IMBHO.
In any case, till next time crickets.
P.S. If you're interested in seeing my LP of these 2 maps, here are the playlists.
Eronev Mansion Adventure
Eronev 1 Replay with Feylina
Eronev 2: The Soul Cauldron
Enjoy :)
Obviously, plot endings & spoilers are abound so if you haven't played (or watched any videos of) either & do not wish to be spoiled on a very intriguing storyline, I'd strongly suggest not to read any further. You have been warned: SPOILER ALERT.
Note 2: Do understand that this post does NOT contain storyline of Eronev Chronicles: The Flood as I haven't yet played that map. When I do I'll make another post regarding my updated understanding of the Eronev storyline. So PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL any plotline of that map. Thank you :)
Okay then, let's begin. BTW in case you don't know, the best ending of Eronev 1 (where all 8 villagers are saved & the as-of-yet unnamed demon is defeated) is the canonical one which is what I'll discuss.
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Eronev Mansion Adventure
In Eronev 1, you are a boy (non-canonically named Heronev) who's returning to his home village/town of Eronev after having gone on a long search for his parents who left him many years ago. Heronev finds that people are going missing in town & the remaining people that the old man (Ben) living in the titular Mansion is to blame. Heronev finds an underground gauntlet-like chamber under the pyramid in the playground & finds a little boy trapped inside who claims Ben put him there. Heronev 'rescues' the boy by grabbing his head & putting it in his bag (which, let's all be honest here, is rather freaky-deaky).
Heronev also spots from a window in the gauntlet mechanism control chamber (from where he gathers the redstone dust required) Ben, standing next to a cauldron-looking thing in which fluid that resembles lava is pouring from somewhere. Heronev opens the locked gate of the mansion & makes his way inside & finds Ben, who claims that he's protecting the town from evil forces yet the town people continues to antagonize him.
Heronev hears & rescues 2 more villagers from above a waterfall from one of the mansion towers. Upon returning to the mansion lobby, Ben (appearing to be slightly unhappy) tells Heronev to use the mansion's basement rail system to go to 4 'outposts' & activate some system as said system is apparently reporting a failure & if that occurs the village is 'doomed'.
Here is where I'm confused slightly. If a certain task progression is maintained Ben will act according to the above paragraph. However if another task progression is taken (I haven't been able to figure out how the task wiring is done), Ben will appear to be VERY CROSS. I don't know which one is canonical so I'm including both.
In this second case, Ben will yell saying that those people that Heronev rescued are necessary sacrifices that must be made in order for the others to live. He then threatens Heronev to activate the 4 'outposts' or he'll destroy the town & all the inhabitants.
Heronev travels to the 3 power outposts (in the forest, desert & glacier) & 1 cooling outpost (under the seashore of Eronev) & activates them. He also finds 5 more people, 1 in each outpost & 1 in the other tower, & rescues them all by grabbing their heads in his bag. Upon returning to the mansion, Ben reveals that the village of Eronev is plagued by a demon & the 'outposts' power a forcefield which keeps the demon locked away. However, the 'outposts' was powered down for too long & now the demon will be free soon. However, if Heronev can travel to the 5th 'soul outpost' in time, there may still be a chance to stop the demon.
Arriving at the soul station, Heronev is shocked to find that it resembles a torture chamber. Ben contacts him via the communication stone & tells that because Heronev saved all the villagers, Ben cannot charge the generators. As explosions are heard, Ben says that the demon is here & then heard running away.
Heronev exits in the mansion lobby & finds that it has become corrupted by huge red veins. He also spots a huge demon looming over the village. A villager who managed to run inside the mansion says that the demon is undefeatable from the outside & so Heronev has to destroy it from the inside. Heronev takes the advice & plunges inside the demon's mouth. Inside, the rescued villagers agree to sacrifice themselves to damage the demon. The villagers proceed to destroy the demon's brain, stomach, heart etc. The last of the villagers join forces with Barry, a villager who was already inside the demon, to deliver the final blow as Heronev makes a daring escape.
Heronev arrives at the destroyed village to see the red veins clearing away. The survivors rejoice & welcomes Heronev as their hero. Ben sends a last transmission through a communication stone saying he will return & also that Heronev's parents said 'hi'.
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The Soul Cauldron
In Eronev 2, you (canonically a girl BTW) start the map (canonically) near a pine tree, after flowing down a lava-like fluid from a giant pipe, inside what appears to be a superhuge cauldron. She (unnamed as-of-yet) immediately meets Jarig who appears to know her & mentions that she's lost her memories. She runs to safety from zombies which are rising out of the lava surrounding the area to Jarig's base/home where he has started some farming & etc for survival. Jarig says that they're stuck at this place but they've been building a contraption called CTM (Centurion Transport Machina) which may help them escape. She scrounges some supplies from the nearby area & finds some villagers who've set up shop in the cauldron (how does that even work?).
A point of note is that Jarig resembles Heronev (both have sponges as their body). Also the power-weakening blackish stones (bedrock) in E2 is found to have gravity-defying properties in E1 (although I'm not sure if that sidequest is canonical or not).
From the shopowners, they find location to some dungeons which may contain the things needed to complete the CTM. She & Jarig manages to find a Diary by Ben whom Jarig suspects to reside in the giant eye that is floating in the sky in the middle of the cauldron (yes, weird, I know, I didn't make the story). Ben, in his diary, talks about finding the soul cauldron under a pyramid in the sand near some mansion. One is to put souls in this cauldron. The cauldron has 2 realms, the soul & the orb realm, which contain a lava-like transmission fluid for souls & water, respectively. There are some structures of unknown origin in these realms & apparently, if the right souls are put in, they'll multiply.
The girl & Jarig travel to a water puzzle in the Hellish Ravine & working together, collect the first CTM piece. Then they travel to the Petrified Tree deep below their base & find the second piece while battling some invincible monsters. Also, the girl makes it to the eye & finds Ben who says that he's watching them & she has made a grave mistake coming to the eye & tells her to complete her & Jarig's task & leave him alone. She finds another of Ben's diaries where he talks about being able to grab souls of people without destroying their bodies in a manner that resembles having lava poured over the person. The soul arrives in the cauldron & the body behaves normally 'in the real world' although the bodies lose their sense of self-wellbeing & one of them tells Ben to take their head. Ben surmises that maybe the head is the only part that links to the soul so it won't matter. Ben talks about keeping these people separate. In the soul realm the souls are supposed to multiply but they don't, only one has done so & they don't even know it. In the orb realm, the sould multiply easily but become fractured & unusable. Ben talks about finding more souls.
Jarig finds & activates a portal which leads to the orb realm. In there Jarig sees another version of himself & becomes scared. There is also an eye in the sky similar to the soul realm. The orb realm is filled to the brim with souls (pumpkins) which appears in larger & larger numbers constantly (multiplying). Jarig becomes scared that maybe he & the girls are both dead. Some of the souls are silent, some speak about being in horrible pain, some just ramble nonsense, some scream at them saying they doesn't belong there & they should leave. Jarig also finds an imposter looking sorta like him.
Jarig finds a soul who actually talks coherently & says that after a while being in this realm, you lose the sens of time & eventually the will to live. Jarig figures out that the more the souls separate, more appears (i.e. multiplying). The more they multiply/'split', the angrier/more silent they get. However, Jarig finds it weird that they have no bodies yet he does. Also that he's been seeing glimpses of himself lately & surmises if he's a clone or is he also 'splitting' like the rest. Also that monsters seems to able to pick up & wear the souls like hats which terrifies him.
The girl manages to reach the eye in the sky & finds Ben again who screams at her & tells her to get out. Ben also screams that neither she nor anyone else can never escape this place & whatever she is planning will fail. She finds another of Ben's diaries & find out that split & fractured souls stick together near their original one in the orb realm. Jarig was the soul who split in the soul realm & the girl is one of the original souls Ben captured but finds it odd that she hasn't multiplied yet even though she has traversed between both realms. Ben also finds her amnesia troubling. Ben suspects that the CTM is Jarig's plan to return to a place called Eronev. Ben says that the souls are the only hope & if he can get some more to split/multiply like Jarig did, he'll have enough power to keep *something* (the name is illegible) from coming back for good as 'the generators can only keep him gone for so long'.
Jarig & the girl find another dungeon in an orb & collect another CTM piece. Then they arrive at the Doors of Confusion, a place full of many shops & people & many doors all of which contain a piece of a puzzle which leads the 2 of them to the last CTM piece. Jarig accidentally reveals that the 2 of them are romantically involved in some way (which the girl doesn't remember due to her amnesia).
Jarig & the girl complete the CTM which transports them to a room with an altar. Jarig goes ahead of her & as she reaches the room, she sees Ben standing on one side as souls merge & coalesce above Jarig who feels extreme pain. Ben tells them to run for it & the girl does, collecting Jarig's diary as it fell near him. But one the way back, she chooses to turn back & help Jarig but when she gets back, she sees Jarig has grown to a HUGE size & has become maddened with power of the souls & he attacks both the girl & Ben with arrows, spells, fireballs, monsters, everything. The girl uses Ben's idea to fire streams of energy into Jarigs giant eyes, hurting him. Ben then completes what he calls the ultimate weapon, a way to conjure dark magic energy into fireballs which can be used to hurt Jarig's weak points which were exposed in the previous attack. The girl succeeds which results in destroying the huge body of Jarig & reduces him to his original self. Jarig apologizes profusely begs for forgiveness & the girl, having finally gotten time to read his diary, realizes that Jarig is her husband & he had to keep quiet about that lest the emotion caused her to forget everything again.
Ben conjures a vision of the village of Eronev in his observation room. The girl finds the image familiar. Ben reveals that Eronev is her hometown & she can see a boy on a bridge which Ben reveals as her child who's about to enter Ben's mansion as the villagers told him Ben is a bad guy (let's be honest here, isn't he?). Ben says if the boy messes up, he can use Jarig to defeat 'any evil'. Ben says he'll tell the boy that his parents said 'hi'.
Ben's final diary page reveals that the CTM is a machine of extreme power & that Jarig is possibly the only soul that ever needed to multiply (Ben misread some scriptures that he mentions) & he alone & strong & smart enough to defeat *something*. When the CTM activated all the souls from both the realms combined with Jarig. Now Jarig is back to normal but the power remains & Ben just needs a few more souls to pour in & when *something* returns, 'it will be Jarig who fights him'. Ben says against his hopes that the boy will take a while longer to return, he already has & Heronev may cause trouble.
Jarig, having recovered, plans on how to save their son with the girl & also how they may escape this place as he fears 'Ben has some twisted plan for us'.
I don't at all understand the line 'but I'd rather us do our own thing. Let's sleep on it.' HOW does that make any sense if in the previous line Jarig talks about Ben's twisted plans for them? JUST HOW is that line logically following that?
The girl then falls asleep while thinking of the many unanswered questions.
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So that is my understanding of the plot of Eronev 1 & 2. As you can clearly see there are HUGE GAPING plot holes that bug me in all the wrong places. I only hope that these plot holes may be addressed in The Flood.
Thank you for reading (or scrolling down to the end) of this wall of text. I find the storyline very intriguing but personally, I think, Jig is taking this Ben's-secret-plan-deal wayyy too far. In order to keep a mysterious atmosphere just to make sequels, he's made Ben behave like a bad guy & there is no justification for that as of yet. If Jig doesn't provide one in The Flood, I refuse to accept Ben being a good guy. Ben's behaviour is appearing more & more like an asspull by the author IMBHO.
In any case, till next time crickets.
P.S. If you're interested in seeing my LP of these 2 maps, here are the playlists.
Eronev Mansion Adventure
Eronev 1 Replay with Feylina
Eronev 2: The Soul Cauldron
Enjoy :)
Incidentally, regarding the whole Ben's secret plan thing, so far I haven't ever thought about the sequel before it's actually made. I just like characters who aren't what they appear. Once it's finished though I do intend to tie them up. It got a bit out of control in the second which is why I want to do a few smaller maps to explain some things before I do/if I do a third.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your first purple section about how angry Ben is, it depends on how many people you saved. If you didn't save anyone in the garden he will just tell you to fix the generators nicely. If you did save some people then he is very cross at you, but the generators still need fixing so he just says some stuff to make sure you do it.
The 'but I'd rather us just do our own thing. Let's sleep on it" is to end the map. Ben obviously has some twisted plans for them, but they're tired. They just fought each other. They need to sleep, be together, and think about the next course of action.
Regarding the last line, to quote rsmalec, I get why the line is there. It just doesn't make as much sense as your paragraph explaining it, which shouldn't be the case. The line should be self-sufficient. Instead it was just plain non-sequitur :/
DeleteIt actually used to end at "twisted plans for us" but it felt too non ending so I added it to explain what you're going to do next. But you're free to not like it if you want.
DeleteI just think it'll be a better line if Jarig said something like "...Ben has some twisted plans for us. But we've both had a long day & we're both super tired. Let's have some rest & we'll worry about Ben later." or something.
DeleteThanks for your feedback :)
DeleteOh I would also like to point out that the story in the second was longer and more convoluted than the first, even as you wrote it, so ner ner mr: "I don't see any story here this is just a CTM and not adventure at all"
ReplyDeleteSTILL a CTM. Just because there's a more convoluted story doesn't mean it's not. Besides, the story comes from a few books which are found only in a few secluded places. If that's your definition of an adventure map then I am seriously disappointed. That's the same as Blight Castle.
DeleteThere's no reason for the existence for most of the places in the storyline. At which point did I mention the Creeperhead dungeon? At which point did I mention the uberpowerful Pigmen dungeon? At which point did I mention any of the shop-villagers by name? At which point did I mention DDD? & there's my reason.
& why is there a stupid looking face for the DDD complete map?
Exactly, you didn't mention those things and the story was still longer than the first! If your definition of story is only what is written on signs/books then I'm seriously disappointed in YOU. The story is about you and Jarig and your challenges together. My definition of adventure is a map that tells a story, which E2 has loads of, more than most, it's just different in its way of telling it. The DDD eyes are the same as the eyes at the bottom of the DDD dungeon, which are also the eyes in another side quest which you didn't complete, which are also the eyes elsewhere.
DeleteWhat 'eyes' at the bottom of the DDD dungeon? There were no 'eyes' at the bottom of the DDD dungeon. Or was it obscured by the huge amount of void fog that you seem to not playtest.
DeleteAlso, I don't recall not completing any particular sidequest. If I didn't, I never found it.
No I don't playtest my maps I just put them out in the open and hope for the best tbh. You're so kind sometimes :) The sidequest that you didn't complete, that you found, was the ender portal traders quest.
DeleteOnly reason I said that because you yourself mentioned to not encounter void fog because you were in creative. Didn't sound like a proper playtesting to me :X
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