Hello people's. Today I'm talking about a game. Here it goes.
The very first portable videogame I had as a kid was a Nintendo Gameboy Advance. Shortly after I got it my mom got a game called Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. I saw her playing it once and being a lover of fantasy, I begged her to let me play it but she wouldn't until she had finally FINALLY beaten it. Then it was my turn. I LOVED that game. The story is that darkness washed over the land of Magvel but five heroes beat it back with five sacred stones. The heroes established five countries that would guard their respective stone. The kingdom of Renais and Grado have long since been allied but all of a sudden the much larger Grado empire attacked and invaded Renais, it's the royal twins Ephraim and Eirika's job to stop Grado.
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones was the 8th game in the Fire Emblem series so it's shortened to FE8. FE8 is a fantasy strategy game where you control a small band of characters that can move around a grid game board and fight enemies on the board. In a way it's like a more complicated game of chess. The characters are different from each other from their classes and a if a character levels up enough or gets a specific item they can change their class into a more powerful one. For instance Franz is a cavalier, a weak mounted unit capable of using spears and swords and he can be promote into a paladin, a much more powerful mounted unit. Gilliam is a slow, armored knight who can use spears and he can promote into a powerful general that uses spears or a great knight that can use spears, swords, or axes. Even two characters that are the same class and level would still have slightly different stats.
In FE8 you keep these characters through out the entire campaign so if a character's health is reduced to 0 they permanently die and if you want to save them you have to restart the level. If a main character dies you HAVE to restart the level. On your turn you can use all of your units before the enemies move. A unit can move and then attack or do an action or attack or do in option, you can't move afterwards. In combat lances are good against swords, swords are good against axes, axes are good against lances and bows are neutral and can only attack from a square away. In magic combat dark is strong against anima (thunder, fire, wind), anima is strong against light, and light is strong against dark.
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is an amazing fantasy strategy game and I recommend it for anybody a fan of fantasy or strategy games. Bye.
- By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Alto's Adventure
Hello people's. Today I'm talking about another iOS game. Here it goes.
The game is called Alto's Adventure. It's an infinite runner game where you are a boy named Alto living in a village on a mountain covered in snow. All of a sudden the llamas escape from their pen and you hop on your snowboard to catch them. On your way down the mountain you'll encounter rocks or campfires that you have to jump over, if you run into them you'll be knocked off your snowboard and you'll have to restart. You can however land on top of them and it will bounce you into the air. While you are in the air you can hold the screen to backflip but you want to do this only on the larger jumps because of you land without completely flipping you'll have to restart. Every so often you'll also come across bunting lines that you can grind on, to grind on them all you have to do is land on one and it's automatic. You can also grind on a few roofs scattered throughout the village. There are also ice patches on the ground that pose no danger they will just speed you up. There's also the forest, rain, and snow you can ride through but they don't change anything. When you see a warning sign you should prepare yourself and try to gain speed of you can because up next is a chasm that you have to jump over or you'll die. Some chasms will have wooden ramps or bunting lines to help you get across them. You can automatically stop a running llama just by running into it and your score will increase for every llama. You can also get gold coins scattered across the mountain and larger super coins that are worth 10. There are two power-ups; the magnet which will collect all gold coins on tech screen for however long it's activated and the hover feather which will make Alto hover slightly above the ground so that rocks and campfires won't hurt him. In the store you can buy upgrades to the power-ups that will make them last longer with the coins you get in-game. You can also buy "the wing suit" for 7,500 coins. You get a speed boost for tricks like backflips, grinding, jumping over chasms, sliding on ice patches, bouncing on rocks etc, and combining these tricks will give you a better score and a longer speed boost. Every time you get a speed boost your scarf will get a little bit longer and once it reaches a certain length it and you will turn and it will activate the wingsuit. Once it's activated you can tap a symbol on the screen to glide. It will run out after a while but you can keep it going longer by getting good combos.
There are also many goals and achievements in Altos adventure, more characters to unlock, and even mountain elders you have to outrun. It's a great game. Bye.
- By Ashton
The game is called Alto's Adventure. It's an infinite runner game where you are a boy named Alto living in a village on a mountain covered in snow. All of a sudden the llamas escape from their pen and you hop on your snowboard to catch them. On your way down the mountain you'll encounter rocks or campfires that you have to jump over, if you run into them you'll be knocked off your snowboard and you'll have to restart. You can however land on top of them and it will bounce you into the air. While you are in the air you can hold the screen to backflip but you want to do this only on the larger jumps because of you land without completely flipping you'll have to restart. Every so often you'll also come across bunting lines that you can grind on, to grind on them all you have to do is land on one and it's automatic. You can also grind on a few roofs scattered throughout the village. There are also ice patches on the ground that pose no danger they will just speed you up. There's also the forest, rain, and snow you can ride through but they don't change anything. When you see a warning sign you should prepare yourself and try to gain speed of you can because up next is a chasm that you have to jump over or you'll die. Some chasms will have wooden ramps or bunting lines to help you get across them. You can automatically stop a running llama just by running into it and your score will increase for every llama. You can also get gold coins scattered across the mountain and larger super coins that are worth 10. There are two power-ups; the magnet which will collect all gold coins on tech screen for however long it's activated and the hover feather which will make Alto hover slightly above the ground so that rocks and campfires won't hurt him. In the store you can buy upgrades to the power-ups that will make them last longer with the coins you get in-game. You can also buy "the wing suit" for 7,500 coins. You get a speed boost for tricks like backflips, grinding, jumping over chasms, sliding on ice patches, bouncing on rocks etc, and combining these tricks will give you a better score and a longer speed boost. Every time you get a speed boost your scarf will get a little bit longer and once it reaches a certain length it and you will turn and it will activate the wingsuit. Once it's activated you can tap a symbol on the screen to glide. It will run out after a while but you can keep it going longer by getting good combos.
There are also many goals and achievements in Altos adventure, more characters to unlock, and even mountain elders you have to outrun. It's a great game. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Drivers Permit
Hello people's. Today I'm talking about my experience with trying to get a drivers permit. Here it goes.
So I turned fifteen in October which is how old you have to be to get a drivers permit in WV. My friend Derek got his drivers permit sometime after Christmas and he gave me a book that the DMV had given him to study out of. I started studying and after 3-4 weeks of studying I was ready to take the test. Unfortunately there are certain things you have to bring with you before you take the test like your birth certificate and your social security card. Mom had these things but I had forgotten to ask my school for proof of enrollment which you also need.
At school during lunch I went down to the office and filled out a form that let them make one for me and a few days later I went back to the office and mine was ready. Yesterday I was going to take the test in the morning. Mom drove me to the DMV with all the forms I needed and I brought my book for any last minute studying.
The line was really long so we were there for quite some time before we got to the information desk. When we did they made sure my paperwork was in order and they gave me a letter and a few numbers and then I had to wait again in a chair and listen for my code. When they finally did call it I came to another desk and they told me to go in the test room and take the test on my left. I went in and it's a room filled with monitors on the walls and on the left one is my name and the test. So I took the test on the monitor and it was very stressful because you can only get 7/25 questions wrong before you fail and I got like 5 wrong in the first 10 questions. Luckily I finished with six questions wrong I PASSED BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH. I paid them
five dollars and they took my aside and took my picture on put it on my permit.
I haven't drove yet but I'm looking forward to it. Bye.
- By Ashton
So I turned fifteen in October which is how old you have to be to get a drivers permit in WV. My friend Derek got his drivers permit sometime after Christmas and he gave me a book that the DMV had given him to study out of. I started studying and after 3-4 weeks of studying I was ready to take the test. Unfortunately there are certain things you have to bring with you before you take the test like your birth certificate and your social security card. Mom had these things but I had forgotten to ask my school for proof of enrollment which you also need.
At school during lunch I went down to the office and filled out a form that let them make one for me and a few days later I went back to the office and mine was ready. Yesterday I was going to take the test in the morning. Mom drove me to the DMV with all the forms I needed and I brought my book for any last minute studying.
The line was really long so we were there for quite some time before we got to the information desk. When we did they made sure my paperwork was in order and they gave me a letter and a few numbers and then I had to wait again in a chair and listen for my code. When they finally did call it I came to another desk and they told me to go in the test room and take the test on my left. I went in and it's a room filled with monitors on the walls and on the left one is my name and the test. So I took the test on the monitor and it was very stressful because you can only get 7/25 questions wrong before you fail and I got like 5 wrong in the first 10 questions. Luckily I finished with six questions wrong I PASSED BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH. I paid them
five dollars and they took my aside and took my picture on put it on my permit.
I haven't drove yet but I'm looking forward to it. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Eddings universe continent
Hello peoples. Today I'm going to be writing about some more fantasy ideas. Here it goes.
So for the map I made that connected all four of David Eddings' universes there was a lot of empty spaces where the size of some of the areas weren't large enough. I took advantage of this, plus also adding another sheet to the map to create my own fantasy continent. The continent was very large with two primary sections, the north and the south split by the equator. This fictional continent lay between the west coast of The Land of Shaan and The Land of the Malavi (The Dreamers universe), and the east coast of Plakand and the island of Dhweria (The Redemption of Althalus universe.) The southern side is an extremely large, powerful, and corrupt empire devoted to expansion and the accumulation of wealth and power. They have complex machines of war and conquest like enormous galley ships and even small machines and wyvern riders capable of taking to the skies. Hunks of metal and weaponry roamed across the ground like armored insects. Their cities were extravagant and vain and many of the citizens had no jobs other than "being rich". The government was very corrupt but powerful with many conflicting factions within it. With their machines of war the empire has conquered almost a tenth of the fertile ribbon on the planet, the only part that humans lived in.
In the north is a wild area that for the most part is covered in forest filled with strange animals and sources of magic from Father Earth. The natives of this land are supreme hunters with the bow and a blade on the end of a staff, similar to a spear. These weapons are derived straight from the earth, wood from the trees, stone and some iron, and animal bone. Father earth grants a select few of these weapons made every so often with great power, and every so often even the people that wield them. This factor along with other forces of nature is all that has given these people any freedom at all. Most of them are still slaves and laborers to their southern neighbors. The north would be connected to the south by land but the empire dug a miles long canal, linking the ocean east of Plakand to the inland sea west of The Land of the Malavi. Since both the north and south are connected by land to the attic regions this canal is the only viable sea route.
The main protagonist would probably be a native from the north ever since his birth he was blessed with the strength, speed, and pure ferocity of ten men. This immense strength lets him pull a very long bow made of Zira wood. The raw force this bow offers lets him shoot arrows with very large heads, one shot to the leg would probably amputate it completely. Another protagonist this time actually from the south would be a mounted knight. At this point I think I'm going to make his mount something other than a horse, maybe something like a large buck but either way as a mounted knight he and the other knights would have long lances for the knight's charge. Now almost always the lance is broken on the first charge so a squire would keep four or five extra lances readily available but this man's would always pierce through its target and break off and splinter close to the handle then he would take what was left in his hand and put it through a loop on his back, when he pulls it back out the lance is completely restored.
So there are some of my ideas for my own main fantasy continent in my Eddings universe. Bye.
- By Ashton
So for the map I made that connected all four of David Eddings' universes there was a lot of empty spaces where the size of some of the areas weren't large enough. I took advantage of this, plus also adding another sheet to the map to create my own fantasy continent. The continent was very large with two primary sections, the north and the south split by the equator. This fictional continent lay between the west coast of The Land of Shaan and The Land of the Malavi (The Dreamers universe), and the east coast of Plakand and the island of Dhweria (The Redemption of Althalus universe.) The southern side is an extremely large, powerful, and corrupt empire devoted to expansion and the accumulation of wealth and power. They have complex machines of war and conquest like enormous galley ships and even small machines and wyvern riders capable of taking to the skies. Hunks of metal and weaponry roamed across the ground like armored insects. Their cities were extravagant and vain and many of the citizens had no jobs other than "being rich". The government was very corrupt but powerful with many conflicting factions within it. With their machines of war the empire has conquered almost a tenth of the fertile ribbon on the planet, the only part that humans lived in.
In the north is a wild area that for the most part is covered in forest filled with strange animals and sources of magic from Father Earth. The natives of this land are supreme hunters with the bow and a blade on the end of a staff, similar to a spear. These weapons are derived straight from the earth, wood from the trees, stone and some iron, and animal bone. Father earth grants a select few of these weapons made every so often with great power, and every so often even the people that wield them. This factor along with other forces of nature is all that has given these people any freedom at all. Most of them are still slaves and laborers to their southern neighbors. The north would be connected to the south by land but the empire dug a miles long canal, linking the ocean east of Plakand to the inland sea west of The Land of the Malavi. Since both the north and south are connected by land to the attic regions this canal is the only viable sea route.
The main protagonist would probably be a native from the north ever since his birth he was blessed with the strength, speed, and pure ferocity of ten men. This immense strength lets him pull a very long bow made of Zira wood. The raw force this bow offers lets him shoot arrows with very large heads, one shot to the leg would probably amputate it completely. Another protagonist this time actually from the south would be a mounted knight. At this point I think I'm going to make his mount something other than a horse, maybe something like a large buck but either way as a mounted knight he and the other knights would have long lances for the knight's charge. Now almost always the lance is broken on the first charge so a squire would keep four or five extra lances readily available but this man's would always pierce through its target and break off and splinter close to the handle then he would take what was left in his hand and put it through a loop on his back, when he pulls it back out the lance is completely restored.
So there are some of my ideas for my own main fantasy continent in my Eddings universe. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Jupiter Ascending
Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a movie. Here it goes.
The movie I'm talking about is called Jupiter Ascending. Jupiter Ascending is an action sci fi movie about a girl born on earth who learns that her genes are the exact genetic duplicate to a ridiculously wealthy human from the real birthplace of humans, Orin. These industrialist human overlords own entire solar systems and plant the human race onto planets and let them grow in population until it becomes too much for the planet. Once that is done they "harvest" the planet, that is to say kill everybody on it and use their organic material to prolong their own lives. Jupiter Jones was born with the exact same genes in the exact same order as one of these humans that had lived previously and this genetic "copy" had been included in her will as the heir to a massive inheritance including Earth.
The movie was very good. I'm not gonna spoil any more of the plot but it's very in depth and the universes is actually very complex. I would definitely watch a sequel.
Bye.
- By Ashton
The movie I'm talking about is called Jupiter Ascending. Jupiter Ascending is an action sci fi movie about a girl born on earth who learns that her genes are the exact genetic duplicate to a ridiculously wealthy human from the real birthplace of humans, Orin. These industrialist human overlords own entire solar systems and plant the human race onto planets and let them grow in population until it becomes too much for the planet. Once that is done they "harvest" the planet, that is to say kill everybody on it and use their organic material to prolong their own lives. Jupiter Jones was born with the exact same genes in the exact same order as one of these humans that had lived previously and this genetic "copy" had been included in her will as the heir to a massive inheritance including Earth.
The movie was very good. I'm not gonna spoil any more of the plot but it's very in depth and the universes is actually very complex. I would definitely watch a sequel.
Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Eddings theories
Hello peoples. Today I'm talking more about the series I was going to write. Here it goes.
So this series is going to bring together the fantasy worlds that David Eddings wrote about. Last time I wrote about my theory on how the separate continents in his universes could possibly be together on a single planet. After I wrote that I got out all of his books and made a very long map with all of the continents on them, some of them are my own creation because not every series included places both north and south of the equator or were wide enough. When it was done I taped them together and curled it around to make somewhat of a globe. This was when I realized that with the world being so wide it would either have to be donut shaped with flat wide poles or regularly shaped with ice covering around half of the entire globe. I decided to have it globe shaped and when you went a few miles into the southern ice continent or a few miles into the northern ice you encounter very strange, cold, barren landscapes. These landscapes are the physical repercussions on this world for all the earth shattering events that took place like Klæl being banished from this world, Nahgharash being forced into nothing and nowhere, Cyradis making her choice, etc. The enormous forces battling for control over all of reality on this world had the power to take these repercussions and move them to the unpopulated poles.
Now for snore complex theory. Now I've already decided that the two final opposing forces are going to be Nothing and Substance. Contrary to the beliefs of almost every religion on this fictional planet the very first thing that existed was Nothing. And then all of a sudden Substance was born and took the shape of the first planet and made it it's heart. So while the forces of Nothing and Substance pulled and strained against one other 2 "races" of entities were born on the first planet. The first race were the destinies the largest and most powerful destinies had futures for the entire universe and smaller ones contained the smallest of events like a man sneezing on a certain day. And all of these destinies conflicted each other and they warred constantly over the fate of the universe and fought too with the substance and the nothing for control. The second race were the creators. Everything alive has the ability to create, humans are at the bottom because they can create the least, above them are gods that have enormous power to create based on how many believe in them, among other factors, and above them are spirits that created and destroyed entire solar systems and fought amongst themselves. Most of these forces eventually realized that the Nothing was the most evil force and joined together to put the Nothing into a sleep. But now through the vast amounts of power being released on this world, and forcing Nahgharash into the Nothing, it is waking on this world.
- By Ashton
So this series is going to bring together the fantasy worlds that David Eddings wrote about. Last time I wrote about my theory on how the separate continents in his universes could possibly be together on a single planet. After I wrote that I got out all of his books and made a very long map with all of the continents on them, some of them are my own creation because not every series included places both north and south of the equator or were wide enough. When it was done I taped them together and curled it around to make somewhat of a globe. This was when I realized that with the world being so wide it would either have to be donut shaped with flat wide poles or regularly shaped with ice covering around half of the entire globe. I decided to have it globe shaped and when you went a few miles into the southern ice continent or a few miles into the northern ice you encounter very strange, cold, barren landscapes. These landscapes are the physical repercussions on this world for all the earth shattering events that took place like Klæl being banished from this world, Nahgharash being forced into nothing and nowhere, Cyradis making her choice, etc. The enormous forces battling for control over all of reality on this world had the power to take these repercussions and move them to the unpopulated poles.
Now for snore complex theory. Now I've already decided that the two final opposing forces are going to be Nothing and Substance. Contrary to the beliefs of almost every religion on this fictional planet the very first thing that existed was Nothing. And then all of a sudden Substance was born and took the shape of the first planet and made it it's heart. So while the forces of Nothing and Substance pulled and strained against one other 2 "races" of entities were born on the first planet. The first race were the destinies the largest and most powerful destinies had futures for the entire universe and smaller ones contained the smallest of events like a man sneezing on a certain day. And all of these destinies conflicted each other and they warred constantly over the fate of the universe and fought too with the substance and the nothing for control. The second race were the creators. Everything alive has the ability to create, humans are at the bottom because they can create the least, above them are gods that have enormous power to create based on how many believe in them, among other factors, and above them are spirits that created and destroyed entire solar systems and fought amongst themselves. Most of these forces eventually realized that the Nothing was the most evil force and joined together to put the Nothing into a sleep. But now through the vast amounts of power being released on this world, and forcing Nahgharash into the Nothing, it is waking on this world.
- By Ashton
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Horror story ideas
Hello peoples. Today I'm just talking about some ideas that I have had for horror stories. Here it goes.
1. Lesson one. There is no devil and that is a horrible thing. There is no Devil or worst part of Hell concept, what scares us most is the concept of unknown and infinity, hell is infinite in size and possibilities and there is no "most powerful entity" only ones we may possibly find to be worse and worse.
3. It's broken mind. A man driven to complete and utter insanity in a hospital bed due to a horrible accident which has completely mangled his body to the point where he must venture into his own mind to bring himself back to sanity and kill himself in order to not release his insanity upon the earth. The end. Also the number 11. End the book with this "my (crossed out and replaced with our broken mind.)"
Have some kind of entity and a concept because that's what scares.
4. THE MASTER OF SLEEP. A man who's learn to do incredible and supernatural things through the power of sleep and dreams.
6. Shades of insanity, every single human sees everything through their own shade like an unlimited amount of unlimited amount of combinations of different glass shades an weaves their thoughts with different threads of different material of different color on different spools. When you go insane it gives you more of these of often darker and worse shades of the ones you have making it possible to force yourself in an out of insanity and potentially creating entirely new ones based off yours or the others you posses.
7. In the future where it is discovered that hell literally lies under the surface and a police force has to defend earth from what lays under it. Many scary cave scenes.
8. Son or daughter with unusual past and unusual parents possible mental disturbance is involved in something that elevates him or her to an Übermensch state, conflict with their parents leading to supposed climax and breaking of parts of the persons mind, they escape a high level security due to new and supernatural powers like feeling no pain and your brain doesn't let you hold back, for instance him squeezing his jaw shut so hard in order to break his teeth to make them sharper, limb stuck pulls away with no reaction, ect.
9. A man biologically and supernaturally turning into something slowly "a werewolf story"
So there were some of my ideas for horror. Bye.
- By Ashton
1. Lesson one. There is no devil and that is a horrible thing. There is no Devil or worst part of Hell concept, what scares us most is the concept of unknown and infinity, hell is infinite in size and possibilities and there is no "most powerful entity" only ones we may possibly find to be worse and worse.
3. It's broken mind. A man driven to complete and utter insanity in a hospital bed due to a horrible accident which has completely mangled his body to the point where he must venture into his own mind to bring himself back to sanity and kill himself in order to not release his insanity upon the earth. The end. Also the number 11. End the book with this "my (crossed out and replaced with our broken mind.)"
Have some kind of entity and a concept because that's what scares.
4. THE MASTER OF SLEEP. A man who's learn to do incredible and supernatural things through the power of sleep and dreams.
6. Shades of insanity, every single human sees everything through their own shade like an unlimited amount of unlimited amount of combinations of different glass shades an weaves their thoughts with different threads of different material of different color on different spools. When you go insane it gives you more of these of often darker and worse shades of the ones you have making it possible to force yourself in an out of insanity and potentially creating entirely new ones based off yours or the others you posses.
7. In the future where it is discovered that hell literally lies under the surface and a police force has to defend earth from what lays under it. Many scary cave scenes.
8. Son or daughter with unusual past and unusual parents possible mental disturbance is involved in something that elevates him or her to an Übermensch state, conflict with their parents leading to supposed climax and breaking of parts of the persons mind, they escape a high level security due to new and supernatural powers like feeling no pain and your brain doesn't let you hold back, for instance him squeezing his jaw shut so hard in order to break his teeth to make them sharper, limb stuck pulls away with no reaction, ect.
9. A man biologically and supernaturally turning into something slowly "a werewolf story"
So there were some of my ideas for horror. Bye.
- By Ashton
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