I finally hit level 40. It doesn't seem real. I haven't done/changed much in the last decade, still wear the same clothes, still have the same hobbies, etc. Still waiting for life to start so I can do all of the things I wanted to do 'when I was a grown up'. So don't feel as though I've earned the right to be 40 yet. It's very surreal!

Started in this forum when I was all but 16 back in 2003. I'll be 40 next year and it's been such a fun ride in the Knightmare community. From college projects, to starting a family, Knightmare will always be a special part of my life

KMDF: There is no way that exactly twenty years on Fidjit would ever come back to the forum!

Yes, you read that correctly - "A Romance Novel", Fidjit is writing such a book. You may very well be wondering why I would be posting this in a Knightmare Discussion Forum? Well, I'll explain...

As some of you may well be aware, I not only do digital art as a sort of hobby but I also do a little writing on the side. I've most certainly improved my vocabulary skills since I was but sixteen years of age when I first joined up here, and now I am nearly thirty-four! Good lord! In any case, I decided back in the summer of last year that I was going to write a book, I wasn't quite sure what that book would be about but a book I would indeed write.

It is a romance novel which I have entitled "Sweethearts", the prologue itself starts off in the year 1980 and the actual story begins in the year 1992, twelve years later. The tale involves two main characters, Lily Taylor; a vixen, and Sviatoslav Vulpula; a "vulpire" (a family of once-cursed vampire foxes who have since been freed and now live as a completely new and unique species. Whilst they are completely harmless, are in complete control of their sense and reasoning, no longer shun the light of day, nor consume blood they still retain their physical vampire attributes and some magical properties given their ties to the dark power) I've taken the liberty of including a link to my novels proposed book cover so I don't give away too much: https://twitter.com/TheRealZeroGee/status/1348370512498618370?s=20

But in any case, I plan to include some Knightmare references in somehow, discreetly of course If this does well and a sequel is on the cards, I plan to have a scene where Sviatoslav finds a little spell left by his late-father whilst searching through his artifacts which is essentially the ANVIL spell. In a scene where he is locked up by his paws in a dungeon-style cell a pair of goons come by to cause him all kinds of misery, but a smiling Sviatoslav tells them to look up and an anvil clonks them both over the head enabling him to escape. It is a crazy idea but I would like to incorporate some little elements into this book wherever I can

Something Knightmare and creative for you in that case

https://twitter.com/TheRealZeroGee/status/1348241360646774786?s=19

Gargoyle from Season 3: "Peril is the reward of ignorance. Which is why I wished I'd died after ignorantly nutting this wall and getting my head stuck here..."

Dungeoneer: (standing by the Sewers of Goth "Did somebody fart in here?"

Greystagg: It's my time of the month and you bring me Witch Amber?! Where is the chocolate ice cream and my Twilight box set you ignorant fool!

Did anyone else notice that the Oracle only appeared in the Chalice quests?

Dungeoneer: Where am I?

Advisor: We can't see anything it's too dark!

Treguard: Alexa! Turn on the lights in Level One!

Alexa: Okay.

Such rudeness. Then again several years later Bhal-Shebah would say the word "smart-arse" bold as brass with no shame or remorse

I really rather enjoyed listening to it. FFR was a well written and carefully crafted audio book, the pacing is good and the characters are well portrayed. I loved it back then and I still love it even now

Advisor: Take the chicken...

Dungeoneer: I'm not touching THAT, I'm a vegan!

Indeed sir. I do like trying to piece together the remnants of the quests that failed on level two. Interestingly, I've just compiled a list of rooms and tunnels in level two from the three longest quests of this series and discovered a correlation. The Cavern Range, I technically count as one room even though there are three and the number of rooms counts the Spindizzy too

Leo:

Rooms: 9

Tunnel: 4

Ross:

Rooms: 9

Tunnel: 2

Martin:

Rooms: 9

Tunnel: 5

Simon:

Rooms: 3

Tunnel: 1

So we can only assume that the following room after the Cavern Range would have to yield the third step clue. Considering they had two already 'cat' and 'dog', it would only seem fitting that the raven would give them the third clue, presumably 'bird' before going onto Merlins' chamber, which by the time they leave there would be four rooms remaining which includes the mining cart tunnel. The Corridor of the Catacombes is typically met in level two also along with the Twist Room (though this room never appeared in Leo's quest), so that could potentially leave one or two remaining.

It could be conceivable that this team were destined to claim the SWORD spell to use on Hordriss, but maybe the production team decided to implement it into Leo's quest after Simon failed. I couldn't imagine what other magic they could use on Hordriss without humiliating him in the process. Perhaps a FREEZE spell? Who knows

I must admit I do often wonder what rooms would follow beyond had teams have not died where they did. I'm probably going to assume in this case that Simon would have retrieved the third step from the raven had he have cleared the Cavern Range.

With that in mind, he would've met Merlin quite late in this level, there wouldn't be many rooms left to explore before hitting the transition to level three

Oh absolutely. I think the bit that surprised me most of all about the original one was the fact it was made out of a soft material, I honestly thought it was going to fall apart in my hands. I don't know about you but at the time, holding them made me feel rather biblical. It was such a wonderful part of my college days, but equally a weird one too.

Hello there chaps,

Some of you may or may not remember, but seventeen odd years ago I did a project which revolved around "how-the-blue-screen-worked" in college. Since Knightmare, as we all know used such technology I decided to see how it was done and had fun doing it. As the years passed, I initially thought I had lost all the tapes and footage that I had made but just recently I dug them up after sifting through some of my personal artifacts in the loft. I couldn't believe my luck!

I had a professional convert them for me and I've uploaded a video of me giving a review of both the helmets in all their glory on YouTube. Here is the link if anyone is interested in anyway: https://youtu.be/6uO4tcX0oYc

You know, I went looking for that literally a week ago. I thoroughly enjoyed Famous For Retreating and I wanted to listen to it again. Very good of you to upload it to another server HStorm, it's been a long time

I was having a doodle and came up with this Hope you find it amusing if somewhat squishy and cute

https://www.deviantart.com/thebiggeewhizz/art/foxnbuns-Bunngeoneer-836244963

It's a very fair point. It's a shame there aren't a whole lot of other options out there.

Forums like these are now rather "old hat" as Lord Fear would put it. Nothing really wrong with them in the usual sense, but social media has progressed since this site and forum came to be in 2002 and have evolved exponentially so.

Fair dos

Heya dudes, first of all; long time no see. Hard to believe I joined this place when I was 16 and now I'm nearly 33. Fright(knight)ening!

But here I am again to see how much things have changed since my last visit. Which doesn't seem long ago, but I needed to say hello

Nevertheless, I am a part of a couple of Discord servers and I wondered if knightmare.com would ever follow suit and do the same. It'd be kind of cool to keep up to date and chat with the gang again.

As before, it's great to be back here again and hopefully for more Knightmare

Looking good there mate

Guess who's back?!