Wanderers of Sorceria Dedicated Update Thread - Page 64 (2024)

Fiction update, with Tales from the Wheel.

I've gone back and tried to fix all the formatting errors made when transitioning into plain text. There's still likely some errors floating around because the occasional special characters that get introduced are fairly easy to miss.

The tales this time are The Wedding, Tranquil Snow, and Moonlight Prism 1 through 3. The first two are self-explanatory, while the third, the three Moonlight Prism stories, are a different take on Hana and Riko where they don't go through the Sunshine Melody drama to get to where they are. Some of the things are the same and assumed to be so, while others are different. In particular Hana's character arc she was put through was condensed because she has a much better support system this time (and because Aoi is still a dick), while Riko's character arc is entirely new, dealing with the shadow of expectations put on her to become a J-pop idol. The background tale for Riko here is likely similar in The Second Generation, but this is her first real arc outside of the Sunshine Melody drama. So, in a lot of ways, Sunshine Melody really screwed with Hana and Riko.

The Wedding is obviously about Kanna and Shion, and Ziel and Luna getting married as outlined in the Anthology series. While Kanna and Shion is relatively straightforward, I had a lot of fun imagining Ziel and Luna having THAT kind of a relationship where Luna is just quietly angry with him.

Tranquil Snow, of course, is about Shizuka and Yuki and focuses on them for the most part, along with their supporting cast.

-- Razorclaw X
Creator of Wanderers of Sorceria and Vision of the Future

Fiction update, with Tales from the Wheel.

The new stories include Miranda, White Siren, Haruka Finds a Date, Tranquil Snow, Moonlight Prism, and finally, a story about Mizuki and her daughter, effectively a 'sequel' to the original Mizuki story.

The Miranda story is a sort of remake of the older White Siren story with a different twist. Like the other Miranda story it is still written in her third person perspective which I thought was still funny for her gimmick.

Haruka Finds a Date goes into Haruka's familial obligation to progress her family line at Kanna's insistence, but since this is Haruka and she's a bit of a loser socially she has no idea what she's doing.

Tranquil Snow leans more into Shizuka becoming an actress and what it means to her personally, and leads into the Mizuki story.

Moonlight Prism has Hana and Riko grapple with their own struggles with fame and professional relationships.

With this set of stories I put a little more thought into the 'next generation' now that many of the characters had kids. I don't know how I feel about this right now, but maybe it's because I'm not prepared to let some of them go yet.

-- Razorclaw X
Creator of Wanderers of Sorceria and Vision of the Future

I decided to fire up some random Wanderers of Sorceria campaign maps with the release of Warcraft 3 2.0.

Frankly the graphics/UI updates were the only things they did. All the other problems are still there. I can't even begin to think how one would fix it, much less how they broke in the first place. For instance, the Music triggers still don't function right and I'm not sure they ever would. Second, unit portraits are just randomly some other 'default' portrait and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. And of course, when you toggle the Classic HD/Reforged sliders in the Options menu, you really have no idea what you're getting.

I mean, one of Reforged biggest problems is they changed the names of the files. It broke things. Some of them are still broken. I hear the Siege of Silvermoon in the Undead Campaign suffers because of it.

Mayby I'm old fashioned, but everything worked in 1.26 through 1.29. Technically it worked in 1.31, but there was a glaring trigger bug if you Saved and Loaded a game that made certain triggers just plain not work for some reason.

As an aside, one of the levels I did was where Kurumi was fighting Zava. I ended up doing it without the Sentinel because I forgot that was how I was supposed to beat it. Oh well?

-- Razorclaw X
Creator of Wanderers of Sorceria and Vision of the Future

Wow, didn't expect to see tons of new fictions. It is truly amazing that you are still working on the story.

Regarding the music trigger issue, here is one possible solution in this post: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/im ... st-3592137. Although I think it is unnecessary to do this tedious work that since most campaign players kept the Legacy version.