Hey there

A friend of mine has gotten into Knightmare the last couple of weeks and recently made a Livejournal theme based on it that can be found here:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/mood_mania/126610.html

Might be of interest to any LJers out there!

I remember that amusing scene! As I remember, Mildread found it very funny, right until the point where Treguard said that if she ever tried to restrain him or steal his Shape again, he would arrange for her to have a "meeting" with Merlin. Judging by Mildread's reaction, she seems to have been terrified at that prospect...

Folly. Why? Because he is, so there!

Hello. I've been around on and off for a little while, occasionally being pedantic and acting like an evil Wraith-like man. I also remember Ask Andrew, and you didn't answer my question mainly because I didn't send it. Or something. Hehehe...

Elita: "I will cut down on insulting faceaches I haven't met before."

Lissard: "I will do something about my fishy breath problem."

Fear: "If he doesn't, I will!"

Seasons Greetings to Yule all! Hehehe...

Hmmm...problem is how to define the Dungeon. For example, is the Rift of Angar (Lv 2 in S7) in the Dungeon? If not, then how can it be the setting for Lv 2? And if so, why doesn't Wolfenden count?

The way I always thought of it is that as the Dungeon grew, it absorbed other small dimensions into itself. So perhaps Elvandis is now permanently joined with the Dungeon? Similar thing goes for places like the Great Mire, the Forest of Dun, and so on?

And of course, there's the confusion of how the Levels relate to each other. Treguard once said that Levels and really places, they're more like caterogisations of how dangerous a place was.

What might be an idea is to count all places as being part of one Dimension like the Dungeon, and then work from there.

Pickle: Sod this, I'm going home!

Lissard: Yes, I miss Atlantisness...

Fear: Well, I could win if I wanted to...but I'm evil, I don't have to eat grubs for your amusement!

Merlin: Wait a sec...leave a few people to be voted out!

Sarah (Series 5 Team 3): Actually take less than half an hour to make a decision!

I think a fair amount of the creatures in KM were there more for the atmosphere than as a real puzzle. Yeah, Kaa or the lizards may not have actually posed a real threat, but they instilled a sense of danger and urgency in the teams that may have been aimed to make them nervous and quick to act and make mistakes.

I always liked that idea, that the Skull ghosts were dead Life Force sprites left stranded when their Dungeoneer was killed, condemned to drain the sprites attatched to other Dungeoneers...

"One does so despise those shades of violent death..." (Hordriss, as if you couldn't guess! )

How many times were the remains of a previous Dungeoneer seen? I can remember one definate, one false and one possible. One was in Series 3 in the chamber Drassil mentioned, where Treguard refers to it as "one of your predecessors". The maybe was in Series 6 where, I think in the first quest, we saw a Dungeoneer's skeleton chained to the wall in a Dwarf tunnel (also mentioned by Drassil!) - Pickle says he doesn't like the look of the skeleton, and Treguard says it's a warning from the Opposition. And in series 7 in Goth, we see a skeleton wearing the horned Helmet in some stocks - but Treguard says it's NOT a previous Dungeoneer, but a cruel joke of Lord Fear's. I wonder why he was so sure of that..?

I think the Boatman's rates were extortionate compared to Charon's. Charon needed a coin, Boatman needed an ingot of silver or gold, or sometimes both! No wonder Charon PLC got such a big share of the Ethereal Ferrying market!

Myself and Morghanna. Or Greystagg. Or Mellisandre. Or Stiletta...

How about Brother Silence and Bostro? Imagine the conversations they'd have!

Well, while Treguard said he was the only one to conquer the Dungeon and Mogdred said "hundreds before you", they didn't have to mean Earth Dungeoneers. Maybe other dimensions other than our own interact with the Dungeon - children from many worlds may take part in the Greater Game. Who knows...?

My personal biggest mystery - Season 4, Malice says she knows the Dungeoneer's details because she got them from Merlin, with whom she was "tolerably well acquainted". I found that rather interesting. Merlin, the representation of all that is good in the Dungeon, is on good terms with a Dark Sorceress? What was going on there..?

Oh, and just what would the BUT spell have done???

I remember aaaaages ago I was jobless and passing time by attempting to write a kind of thesis on the Knightmare universe's nature (which sadly got lost when my computer died). I noted that in early series, the Dungeon was described as constantly growing and shifting - a dynamic universe compared to our static one. I came up with the theory that the first few seasons saw the Dungeon as a very small infant universe that grew somewhat each phaseshift. It also collided with and absorbed into itself other realms, such as the Elven realm that it merged with during season 3. I ended up theorising that in its early phaseshifts it went through a kind of adolescent growth spurt, which resulted in violent changes as it destroyed and rebuilt itself - characters went through this too, sometimes completely changing (eg. Folly into Motley, Gretel into Mellisandre), sometimes staying the same and sometimes fading away. Later, the Dungeon dimension became larger and more stable, an adult dimension if you like.

I also came up with one alternate theory - Lord Fear's technomantic interference with the fabric of the universe may have changed the very nature of Knightmare, causing the phaseshifts to cease. This stopped the violent cycle of destruction and rebirth, but as Treguard noted may have disasterous yet-to-be-seen consequences.

Right, that turned into a bit of a ramble. I'll shut up now!

I'd go with...

PTB:

Hordriss

Sidriss

Folly

Mellisandre

Marta

Smirkenorff

TO:

Lissard

Morghanna

Snapper Jack

The Automatum

Sylvester Hands

A bunch of Cavern Wights

The Catacomb Bite

Neutral:

Greystagg

Elita

Grimaldine

The Brollachan

The Oracle of Confusion

Like it so far. Especially because that Wraith (aka Wwwrrrraaaaattthhhhaaaaaa!!!) is in it. Ego-boost!

I still have my blunderbuss if Anna wants to go on another rampage.

Hey, I remember you! We were on the same team in the RPG game a few years ago! Ah, memories... Hehehe!

I dunno, 4 or 5 months away from my computer and a new Knightmare episode suddenly comes out! Well, sort of.

My take on it:

Music in the Dwarf Tunnels been mentioned, a lot, so I'll skip that. I quite liked the music used in some of the chambers (especially Despair's Chamber), it reminded me of music used in the good old days of video games!

I liked the exchange between Fear and Lissard. My only (rather minor) gripe was that there wasn't much in the way of movement in the characters (anyone remember Mark Knight's frantic expressions when Lissard made yet another mistake? ).

Time for really nasty, too-much-time-on-my-hands nitpicking - I think it should be the Advisor who acts as Spellcaster rather than the Dungeoneer. Personal preference. dodges annoyed looks

Out of interest, who are the voice actors in the video? Hugo Myatt's been mentioned, but how about the others? Fear sounded like Mark Knight, but Lissard didn't sound exactly like like Cliff Barry's version of him from S7 and 8. And Elly sounded like Joanne Heywood to me.