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#1 Ralis

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Posted 20 January 2019 - 04:58 PM

Hey all! It's been a long time. Way back when, I began work on an Arc Quest that aimed to give an explanation for Glast Heim's downfall. Unfortunately for me, halfway through the implementation of the quests an official Glast Heim history quest was finally added to the game, making mine somewhat obsolete.

 

I wanted to create a quest to the same depth and scale as The Sign, as I was always fascinated not just by the gameplay and music of Ragnarok, but also by its incredibly rich story. As such, my Arc Quest was going to be four parts... Three shorter precursor quests, and a final culmination that would rival The Sign itself.

 

However, it was always written and ready to go... And while I can't post the full script from the final two quests (Rekenber's Weapon & The Tome of the Dark Lord), I recently found first-draft outlines for both quests in a USB drive I was cleaning out and thought I'd share them here in case anyone has ever done the Lost Spirits or Lion's Roar quests and ever found themselves wondering how it was supposed to end. So, without further ado, here they are:

 

Rekenber's Weapon:

 

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Tome of the Dark Lord:

 

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I'll never forget my time here in RO. Hope you all are doing well!


Edited by Ralis, 21 January 2019 - 01:21 PM.

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Posted 20 January 2019 - 05:50 PM

Good lordy, that is one t h i c c questline. 

 

Thanks for sharing it, I cried a solitary tear for what the reward would be and what modern gear has made old gear look like. 


Edited by mildcontempt, 20 January 2019 - 05:51 PM.

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Posted 20 January 2019 - 05:55 PM

I dislike the current lore for GH, wish they put yours in :I


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Posted 20 January 2019 - 06:20 PM

I dislike the current lore for GH, wish they put yours in :I


Himmelmez did feel shoehorned into the Glastheim lore. Wish it was tied to Kirkena instead, she has better potential than Himmelmez.
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Posted 20 January 2019 - 06:24 PM

Himmelmez did feel shoehorned into the Glastheim lore. Wish it was tied to Kirkena instead, she has better potential than Himmelmez.

 

Same, would have been a lot more interesting.


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Posted 20 January 2019 - 06:29 PM

I was trying to find the thread talking about the Kiel Hyre continuation that was cancelled, but it seems to have been deleted. Would've liked to re-read what should've been for that, too.
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Posted 20 January 2019 - 06:34 PM

That would have been in Fungineering.


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Posted 20 January 2019 - 08:08 PM

it is shame that ragnarok mobile has better GH lore


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Posted 20 January 2019 - 08:48 PM

That would have been in Fungineering.


The full story was posted in Creative Contraptions by, I think, Allysia? It wasn't a quest document like what Ralis did here. They said it was the origin of the Drooping Aliot and Drooping Kiehl headgears.
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Posted 20 January 2019 - 10:17 PM

Ralis always makes me think of Ella Enchanted.


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Posted 21 January 2019 - 01:23 PM

Good lordy, that is one t h i c c questline. 

 

Thanks for sharing it, I cried a solitary tear for what the reward would be and what modern gear has made old gear look like. 

 

I think all four quests combined are about 2.5 Sign quests. :D I'm curious as to what current gear looks like... I stopped playing what, four or five years ago now? I bet it's changed a lot.

 

 

Ralis always makes me think of Ella Enchanted.

 

Love that movie! But, uh... In what way? D:


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Posted 21 January 2019 - 01:26 PM

The full story was posted in Creative Contraptions by, I think, Allysia? It wasn't a quest document like what Ralis did here. They said it was the origin of the Drooping Aliot and Drooping Kiehl headgears.

 

I know Hoshi had a quest involving KH, the thread is still under Fungineering's Quest Sub Forum.


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Posted 21 January 2019 - 01:36 PM

I know Hoshi had a quest involving KH, the thread is still under Fungineering's Quest Sub Forum.

 

The one ZeroTigress is referring to was a longer quest written by Alyssia, but was deleted when she quit playing, I believe. Though Hoshi's is good as well!


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Posted 21 January 2019 - 01:40 PM

The one ZeroTigress is referring to was a longer quest written by Alyssia, but was deleted when she quit playing, I believe. Though Hoshi's is good as well!

 

Oh I see, so there were two quests that extended the story lines a little? Pretty cool, a shame neither of them were implemented.


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Posted 21 January 2019 - 01:57 PM

I'd like a continuation of Kiel Hyre which gives me the opportunity to kill Kiehl for good because I just hate the smug bastard that much.

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Posted 21 January 2019 - 05:32 PM

I like GH story IMO.
Before king Schmidt sacrificed himself to be consumed by dark energy created by Himmelmez to corrupt the entire city.
Varmundt tried to do this task but Schmidt denied and said " Even the king like me dead. Someone can replace me. But the wise man like you is irreplaceable."
So Schmidt was corrupted by dark energy and was killed by the players.
But some royal members from other families used this situation lied the story and accused Schmidt to be tyrant and lead Glast Heim to downfall.

Edited by Sigma1, 21 January 2019 - 06:03 PM.

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Posted 21 January 2019 - 05:58 PM

I mostly take issue with Himmelmez being part of Glastheim's story. Plenty of opportunity to introduce another villainous character, but they instead used Himmelmez who already has her story tied with Prontera. Could've used Zenobia, since she's a dark elf with possible ties to Geffenia, which in turn is super close to Glastheim. Undead monsters in Glastheim could be attributed to elf magic or something, maybe a curse to punish Normans who desecrated Geffenia. It just didn't need Himmelmez there.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 07:44 AM

Nice to see you around, Ralis!  :p_hi:


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Posted 22 January 2019 - 08:54 AM

my eyes got tired from reading all that :heh:


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Posted 22 January 2019 - 06:00 PM

Nice to see you around, Ralis!  :p_hi:

 

Good to see you! I was pleasantly surprised to see irowiki still going when I updated the placeholder pages for these quests with the outline as well!


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Posted 23 January 2019 - 09:10 AM

The one ZeroTigress is referring to was a longer quest written by Alyssia, but was deleted when she quit playing, I believe. Though Hoshi's is good as well!

Hoshi = Allysia

She never really quit, more like the EU ban got rid of her ;(

I still have contact with her, looking at the mini-quests she wrote for KH, it's a shame the stuff was never put in, she even did all the NPC art for them too. Will ask her if she wants them to be shared publicly since it may never come to light otherwise, will post them here later if she says yes so everyone can at least see the work she did.

And yeah, looks like the quest about the headgears were removed when she stopped using her older forum account.

There was another long KH sequel too that was removed from her husbands fungineer account.

 

Hoshi's NPC arts from the KH quest- Link


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Posted 23 January 2019 - 11:44 AM

Hoshi = Allysia

She never really quit, more like the EU ban got rid of her ;(

I still have contact with her, looking at the mini-quests she wrote for KH, it's a shame the stuff was never put in, she even did all the NPC art for them too. Will ask her if she wants them to be shared publicly since it may never come to light otherwise, will post them here later if she says yes so everyone can at least see the work she did.

And yeah, looks like the quest about the headgears were removed when she stopped using her older forum account.

There was another long KH sequel too that was removed from her husbands fungineer account.

 

Oh so they are the same, I figured it was the same person because it was Hoshi who loved everything Kiel, even had several of his cards from loads of natural spawn farming.


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