erwtie/rain chain manga

I think that in order to be a Bill, there has to be a Ted. A Wayne needs his Garth, and for every Beavis, there is a Butthead.

Two trolls, or at least that's my vote. I really think having the Witch Doctor be the mother of the two trolls is a little weak. I mean, I'd rather have some frantic and absurd circumstance that forces a group of trained warriors to take in a pair of idiots, rather than say "We're sticking with Mom."

Anyway, something you might want to think about is: Are we going to split the group up? Maybe the Elder Blade Master will say "Apprentice, you, the two trolls and <someone else>, take the north road, get this thing, and meet us here. Meanwhile, Grunt, Witch Doctor and I will go into this Dungeon, get the other thing and catch up with you guys."

Since I mentioned dungeon, I suddenly thought that maybe they need to go into a high level dungeon and only the Elder Blade Master, the Witch Doctor and the Grunt are strong enough to survive in there. It's just an idea though.

No I was more thinking of two deadly morons, who only listens to the Witch doc.

We'll figure it out...

As for the splitting, it's really up to you. My pages will only consist of the basic story and characters and hinting future events.

O_O..... your blademaster is damn cool, and very similar to this one i just made. But there's one difference, mine is pretty more "Warchief" than "Blademaster". So I changed his name to "Warmaster". ;)

Actually I had a COOL idea for the BM.
Ok here it is.

He will have two personalities. Check the drawing I attached, one half of his body is more shamanistic, natural. The another is armored, evil. The two personalities are:
Right half: This one is about the "good" part of an orc. It's not that it's completely good, i mean, he kills people, but he does it only if it's necessary. He likes shamanism, and knows more of the spiritual abilities than bashing techniques. He bears the sword.
Left Half: This one is about the "evil" part of an orc. He LIKES to kill people, actually he feels pleasured to do so. And he does it very well. He is a veteran at killing techniques. Although, there's a little problem. His good "twin" is keeping the blade. Everytime the evil "twin" wants to take it to kill people and spill some blood, but his "brother" never lets him to do so, since whenever he gets the blade he gets bloodlusted and cannot control himself anymore.
That's his eternal dilema.

^^^^ That could turn fun on a comic. That's why I said yours looked so similar to mine, Rain.

Anyway, here's his drawing:

First, regarding The_Lord's take on the Blade Master, I have to say I am skeptical about characters split straight down the center. At least, costume-wise. It's hard to get the costume to look cool (but it can be done). I don't like the over-all matching of the outfit. It looks too thrown together.

But... I LOVE the idea of the split personalities (hell, we could give him a "gollum" complex). I also like the idea of the internal struggle between good and evil. It makes for a really interesting back story.

An example might go like this: This Blade Master is very old, and was one, like Grom Hellscream, who drank the blood of Mannoroth. But he, unlike Grom, was never fully released from the hold of the demon's blood. It stays within him, and tortures him, as a foul voice in his mind that can control him if he is not strong.

Think of it like the One Ring (sorry for all the Tolkien references). It calls to him, and dares him to use it, and only with great strength can he resist it.

I think this is a great concept for the Blade Master. I'd like to see some alternative designs for his costume and armor however. But, still, I like this idea.

Oh... and we should probably name him.

I did. Look at my drawing.

Can I make a prologue comic about the blamemaster? I got lots of ideas about him.

Here's my try at Rain's Grunt. I changed some stuff, but I liked the first design well enough. He should be real fun to draw once he get into battle though.

Holy crap, that looks good!
Little changes make no difference IMO. As long as you can recognize them as the same character, modification is more than acceptable.

allright first err,... i'm confused... since when did the_lord become part of the team?
dont abuse ur power of being a mod....

the trolls should stay together, two trolls, but, why dont we make the trolls ranged? that woudl be the best solution in my opinion.. plus in rains PM she discribed a fight in wich the trolls are ranged, and i more then loved it, the party is big enough for now, plz dont add a ranged orc yet...

the idea of a gollum split personality... WHY ffs? the blademaster is supposed to be the leader, the strong one that keeps the group toghether... ur just makin him a hopeless character... if u feel u need to have someking of gullum split person adda a character later in your bit.

well, im gonna start drafting my alliance characters that will be included. rain mentioned having the orc party meet up w/ a party of human warriors sent by jana to assist the orc effort. there will only be two or three, due to an ambush.

also, just an idea, maybe we should have the team fight progressively stronger and stronger opponents, representing that they go up in lvl and become more powerful. the demon fight at the beginning could be a humbling (and very painful) experience and they go on fighting gnoll tribes, then centaurs, working their way up to infernals and dragons etc. etc. it would just seem absurd that a fresh band of orcs walks up to the lich king and sticks their foot up his *** w/o a dramatic incline up to it. we could add deaths in the party and what not to increase the tension up until the climax. another idea, this is for the artist who finishes his or her part, we should leave off on a climactic hanger, so that that a:the next person has something to go off of immediately, and b: keeps our readers enthralled and waiting for the next part.;)

good idea, cliffhangers!! :D and errm... they are all already pretty experienced people, an elite group send by thrall, so i dunt think they oughtaa be off killing murlocks and such :P

and i think that maybe we are thinking 2 far ahead... just await rains first one, and the we'll see how it goes from there.

oh and rain, i like the fatass grunt better without heavy armor. makes him look more barbaric. wich is very wanted in a grunt like this

You know, we can always kill off a character. If the size of the group gets too big or just seem right for the story, killing off a character is not too uncommon in chain comics...(although the person who designed it might cry) I think the grunt might be a good killing off character.

But yeah, my initial thought was that we need range attackers. Perhaps we could change one of the twin into a Troll hunter(with a pet) and one into a Troll Rogue...

Anyway, anyone has any thoughts on the group meeting up with the human group? I just need more detail on it...



I will start working on the draft tomorrow or something... Need to watch Return of the King today. But yeah, we are a bit too far, but I think it is necessary.
The setting is so that there would be some consistancy in the two parts. DA and Laz are awesome humans/elf artists, and thought we need some alliance group.(Thought they might want to work on them too) It is an initial setting that is a bit necessary to make it bit more consistant. So what I suggested was that I was going to just mention the fact that they will meet up with couple of alliance...

As for the grunt, I just wanted to make him look more distinct compared to other grunts... But oh well...

what about an ogre i have one realy realy good 1 the feet are non existent but besides that hes bad ***

can i work temporarly during christmas vacation on a few non-important characters?? like people they meet and stuff!!!

I WNTA FAT DRUNKEN SWEARING PANDAREN!!! ^^b but ill be serious when i can or shud.

PLZPLZPLZPLZPLZ?

im already working on alliance humans, drafted an idea in my previous post. ill post my concepts this week.

another idea...(i know, im chock full of em) all artists should choose one character in the story, yours or otherwise. and make them kind of our personal effigies in our comic. the characters are not allowed to be killed off so we have at least a base party of 5 (or was it 6?) we could do so much more collaboration this way, if the character hasnt been introduced yet, then we could do a more in depth character development. but, thats just me, im kooky that way.

curses anyone got a setup for a scanner i always get my pictures supper light when i enter them into the computer but there like dark realy realy dark anyone HELP ME