Jedi Knight Vlog: Part 5

We'll start out with the inevitable.  I've found Lord Tarnis, and a duel was pretty much inevitable.



Now, two problems.  One, Tarnis uploaded the weapon plans to his father and all those other Sith.  So now, the Empire has them, and will undoubtedly try to use them.  Second, a very power Sith Lord wants me very, very dead.  I did sort of kill his son, after all.

So, the next order of business is to report back to the General and to Master Satele.



They were able to trace where the plans were sent -- to one of Angral's secret spy bases.  That's my next stop, where I'll hopefully be able to pick up his trail, or at least learn something useful.

First thing's first, though.  It's time to get my own starship!



Coming up next:  On the surface of Ord Mantell, and the exploration of the secret spy base.

And now, I would like to share with you a very small excerpt from a book I'm reading.  The book is "The Talisman", by Stephen King and Peter Straub.  It's a bit of a dark adventure tale, about a boy named Jack who is on a quest to find a mysterious object known as The Talisman.  This is near the end, I won't give out any spoilers.  But just read this paragraph.

"He was the powdered henshit in Buddy Parkin's nose; he was the trembling hairs that would soon cause Buddy Parkins to sneeze; he was the sneeze; he was the germs in the sneeze; he was the atoms in the germs; he was the tachyons in the atoms travelling backwards through time toward the big bang at the start of creation.  His heart skipped and a thousand suns flashed up in novas."

...

We just went from chicken shit to the creation of the universe in one go.  WTFuken?!

Serious Sam 3 - Chapter 6 - The Silent Ridder Part 1

Serious Sam 3 - Chapter 5 - Under the Iron Cloud

Jedi Knight Vlog: Part 4

There's an interesting twist in these sets of videos, and the storyline is starting to take shape.  It starts out simple enough -- when last we left our hero, a doctor of the Republic had been kidnapped.  I'm given the task of rescuing him.



I have to convince some troops to join me on this mission.  Y'see, the Justicar are pretty damn well equipped, and these forces have been suffering some considerable losses trying to fight them.  Luckily, I'm pretty good at rousing speeches.



So there we go, busting into the kidnapper's base to save the doctor.  Only to discover...



He's a Sith!  Yeah, that's not exactly good news.  Well, back to the General, then!



So now, I have a Sith Lord to track down.

Bloviate, Harangue, Objurgate, Perorate, Vociferate

I'm fucking tired.

It's my own fault, of course.  I stayed up too late reading.  Time got away from me and it was 3:30 when I realized I should probably turn off the damn Kindle and to go sleep.  The problem was that I was trying to get through a certain part of the book I was reading, because it was pissing me off beyond anything you can imagine and I just wanted to be through and done with it.  So now, instead of just being pissed about what's happening in the book, I'm still pissed about that and additionally pissed that it's going on for THIS MANY PAGES.  Oh the rage.

It actually reminds me of why I enjoy writing -- so that I can control the story.  I can avoid yelling at my Kindle after every paragraph, telling the main character to stop being a damned wuss and start kicking ass.  Though, I guess that if the story is evoking those sort of emotions out of me, then it's a relatively good story.  It's better than being bored with it, I suppose.

So, because I'm tired and naturally woke up irritated at the universe and everything it contains, I suppose I should get all my bitching out of the way now:

• Stop talking about the Witcher 2.  I don't care if my copy is being upgraded to the Enhanced Edition for free.  If you enhance a turd, it's still a turd.
• Governments needs to get the fuck off my Internet.  Seriously.  Stop it and go away.  I realize that copyright holders that have billions more money that I do are paying you to censor it, and if you don't they won't give you those billions of dollars.  But is it worth me STOMPING ON YOUR TAINT WITH A PAIR OF GOLF SHOES?
• Sirius XM Radio:  Stop playing the "Live Studio Version" of the song "Cough Syrup".  I don't want to fucking hear that version.  I want to hear the fucking album version.  I don't care how many people request that stupid studio version.  If they think it's better, they are naturally entitled to their opinion.  WRONG AS IT MAY FUCKING BE.  Play the freakin' real version or I will send you mix tapes of Justin Bieber.  You twats.
• Movie Maker:  Y U TELL ME FILE IS MISSING WHEN I SEE IT RIGHT THERE ON MY HARD DRIVE.  Better yet...Y U WAIT UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN PROCESSING FOR AN HOUR BEFORE DECIDING YOU THINK A FILE IS MISSING.  EVEN THOUGH I SEE IT.  RIGHT THERE.  Best yet...Y U SIT AT 52% FOR 9 HOURS AFTER I TRY YOU AGAIN?!
• Stupid person in car:  Y U DRIVE DOWN WRONG SIDE OF ROAD?  Just because you're in a parking lot doesn't mean you can drive anywhere you want.  Also, just because you look older than Rupert Murdoch's flabby wrinkles doesn't mean I'd hesitate running your ass over.
• To people who quote someone on the forums and only say "This." -- THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

Bad plot twists and lack of sleep make PD cranky.  Of course, one e-mail from John and now there are birds singing outside, I feel like dancing, and I don't feel so tired any more.  Either I'm becoming delusional from lack of sleep, or he's just that good at cheering me up.

(Hint:  It's the latter.)

As an aside, the words in the blog title are all synonyms of RANT.  :3

Serious Sam 3 - Chapter 4

No Jedi Knight vlogs for a bit -- I'm slashing my way through all the non-story based questlines.  I did about a half a dozen of those last night -- fun stuff, but like I said, I'm only recording the story based stuff.

Have a Serious Sam video instead.



Y'know what I'm looking forward to?  Max Payne 3.  

Jedi Consular Vlog 1 - Intro & Master Cin Tykan

With Steve doing his own Star Wars: The Old Republic video blog, I'm going to make my own to show another side of the story; the Jedi Consular. I've only just figured out how to run FRAPS without my computer exploding, so the Vlogs will start a short way into the story. But, here's what you need to know:

- After passing my Jedi Trials on Tython (the Jedi homeworld), my master suddenly fainted during my ceremony to become a Jedi.

- She was taken to Coruscant to be healed, but none of the Jedi Masters or doctors could figure out what was wrong. She kept babbling about the darkness, and became progressively weaker.

- I went around Coruscant in the search of noeticons, special holographic projections that allowed me to commune with long dead Jedi Masters. After gathering all three of them, I discovered that the illness was some sort of plague/mind control, developed by a mysterious Sith Lord.

- Taking the three noeticons to the Jedi Temple, I learned an ancient shielding technique to temporarily protect those afflicted by the plague. The apprentice to the Sith Lord behind all of this followed me, and destroyed the noeticons before I defeated him. I am now the only Jedi in the galaxy with the knowledge to shield against this plague.

- I shield my master, at great cost to myself, and she thanks me; but her illness will return if I dont hunt down the 'plaguemaster' behind the illness. The Jedi Council reveal that there are other masters that have gone quiet around the galaxy, and it is feared that they too have been afflicted by this plague.

So! I go to Taris, where Master Cin Tykan was leading a reconstruction effort. It is revealed that he too has the plague, and I track him down to a massive super-reactor underneath the planet's surface that - if detonated - could blow the planet in half.

Got all of that? Good! ACTION!

This is getting interesting! Who is Lord Vivicar? My master mentioned a different name, "Parkanas". Are more than one Sith Lord in on this? Must.. play... MOAR!