Single Player RPG: Melody of Spirit

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- - - Team - - -
Zazzadar - Triggers, Terrain, Story, Cinematics, blah
Fredalf - Skins, Geomerges [MISSING PRESUMED DEAD]
Dark Musician - Geomerges, Cinematics, Forum [MISSING PRESUMED DEAD]
Metal Sonic 64 - Terrain
Lour)HEAD - Ability Ideas [MISSING PRESUMED DEAD]
Mogmiester - Ability Creation
-----Melody of Spirit-----

In past i have attempted the creation of an RPG Summoner of Khemaria, reason for non-completion: Wasn't skilled enough, had on team. I attempted a war craft campaign War craft: Hidden War, although I still work on it slightly i know that really i prefer RPG's than campaigns. So i have now turned my hand back to the RPG genre, my talents have greatly improved (even if arguably they are not the best, i still regard them as MCUH better) since Summoners of Khemaria.

This RPG story is one i have worked on only recently, where my inspiration came from i do not know ^_^

Melody of the Fallen is not a huge rpg...well it is quite big. But anyways im hoping that it wont bee tooooo big.

The story follows the adventure of a young female bard Amaya. She is camped inside a forest not far from the town of Tielhiem wit her friend Farah an elven twin blade. Farah asks Amaya to go and catch some food for the night's dinner, so Amaya goes into the forest to find a wild animal to eat. After finding and killing a wild boar Amaya is about to head back to the camp when she hears Farah scream. There is a huge explosion and the forest is on fire. A man in red plate armour appears in front of Amaya.

"Please come with me" He says
"No my friend, she is in trouble!"
"Amaya! Listen there is not much time. The...things that are taking your friend are not of this world. Come with me!"
"Who are you? How do you know my name!"
"I'll explain later please just come with me"
"..."
"Thank you. Ever ridden a dragon before?"
"Huh?"

With that a small (in dragon terms) dragon appears and picks Amaya and the man up. While flying the man introduces himself as Sebastian. He is a dragon knight from the kingdom of Destaria, and his dragon's name is Rubis. He explains that they must ride to the capital city of Haven and seek council with the king. Amaya asks who took Farah and what they want. Sebastian says that they want Amaya. Amaya looks shocked and wonders what the creatures want with her...she is only a bard...poor Farah.

Upon arriving at Haven, Sebastian goes to check out at a tavern and Amaya is free to look around the gargantuan city. Sebastian says to meet up in an hour's time at the grand castle, which dominates the centre of town. Amaya finds a small inn of lonely people wallowing in thier ale. She asks the bar owner if he would like her to sing something to cheer up his customers. He offers her some gold but Amaya refuses. Amaya takes to the stage and begins to sing a song. We now see the dark face of a creature turn and focus and begin to run. As the screen switches constantly we see Amaya singing and the creature running. When the song comes to a close there is a commotion outside. The creature is in the town and Sebastian is fighting it. The town is way too crowded for Rubis to help. Amaya steps outside and the creature runs towards her. A mage appears and seals the creature in a charm causing it to disappear. He explains that the charm sends weak nether creatures back to the shadow plane, and that his name is Foltan. As the crowd of people stare at the commotion the screen fades away...

I don't want to put the whole thing here on one post cus it takes up lots of space. I am not completely finished anyway. But when i am ill post the full story here as a downloadable thingy.

As for the rest of the story here is VERY brief summary

Foltan is a demon hunter
The king tells Amaya she could be the sealer of darkness
The princess Yai, who is also a priestess of the holy light, joins the team for her own reasons.
Rubis cannot hold everyone so the team takes journey on foot.
The team must travel to the lost temple of Garrantor'thak to see if Amaya is the "Sealer".
Whist travelling it seems that whenever Amaya sings a song the nether creatures are attracted. Her songs are useful in combat but the introduction of the "Song Gauge" is displayed. The higher the song gauge gets the more dangerous it is when Amaya sings a song.
00-30% - No Danger
31-55% - Danger of a small nether creature appearing
56-75% - Danger of a medium nether creature appearing
76-85% - Danger of a large nether creature appearing
86-99% - Danger of a devastating creature appearing
100% - GAME OVER
The song gauge does go down naturally over time but goes up whenever Amaya uses a song, the better the song the more it fills up.
Arriving at Garrantor'thak they meet Chronoss, a lizardman who is keeper of the temple. At first he wishes to fight the team. But after his defeat Chronoss realizes Amaya is the Sealer of Darkness.
The team travels into the temple to the "Nexus" which confirms Chronoss' judgement.
A whole host of nether creatures arrive and the nexus teleports the party.
They arrive on an island in the middle of nowhere; which Chronoss says is the Isle of the Forgotten. The last place between the shadow realm and the real world.
It seems that Amaya must travel into the shadow realm not only to seal the darkness but also to save Farah.
They travel into the Shadow Realm after braving the island and eventually find Farah. Then queen demon Trantaja appears and tells the group they are in vain and shows that but opening the door the shadow realm the nether creatures have spilled out over the world. The team manage to defeat Trantaja goons as she disappears.
Now the team are flung back into the real world.
They must now recover the lost Melody of Spirit in order to restore the world and to seal away the nether demons forever.

That is a VERY BASIC story it does not include all the details, plot-twists ect.

-------------------------- :god_help_us: ----------------

So instead of limiting myself i have decided to make this rule for application to the project...

If you wish to help then say so everyone will be considered and everyone's talents would be useful. I would like very much and modeller and animator (especially for amaya) but if i cant get one im not gonna shut the project down lmao

I myself will take upon story and some triggering but by all means if that what you want to do then say and you can help. If you just want to contribute ideas that's fine you wont be part of the team as such but you will be in credits.

---Want more details? Ask and you will receive, just be nice ^_^-----

Thank you for reading

i can´t belive no one has replied xD

anyways.. i really like that story you got there zazz ;)

and i would be glad to join, if you want.

Ah thanks dude :) Yah it was kinda sinking away lol.

Well yah sure your on, dont need proof work saw it on hidden war lol. But atm i dont need any skins Mainly cus i havnt worked out most of the characters yet, and especially Amaya the Bard needs a model with animations (although if worst come to worst ill jsut have to have an non singing bard) rather than a skin.

Although, i do need a Demon Hunter / Mage - Foltan. So any ideas? A medivh skin perhaps or mabey furion?

dunno.. i´ll think about it. but just so you know, i geo-merge too, so that opens up some more possibilities for units;)

Oh really......hmmm how good are you at geo-merging Fredalf?

Sebastian the Dragon Knight is donned in crimson red(and a bit of black) plate armour, and alot of it. I think it would be cool if he had long (brown or blonde? oooh black would be nice) hair with his face showing (no helmet so you can see his face) So if you can chop and cut bits of models and give him nice dragon knight armour then skin him that'd be great. One more thing i woudl liek him to use a two handed sword if possible so mabey arthas would be a good BASE model or something.

btw. i can give a more detailed description i just need to know if you can re-skin a geomerge or not?

that´s not something i wouldn´t be able to do.. in fact, i think it could be done using the arthas model only! but frostmourne sucks, so maybe.. blademasters sword? or, proudmoores?

but sure, give a more detailed description and i´ll see what i can put together :god_help_us:

Use the blademaster sword, im gonan see if i can get a cutom sword made but for now that'll do :) As for description (i hope it can be done)

Base Model: Arthas

Change 1 - See if you can change his pauldrons (shoulder pads) to that of the spellbreakers/thief whatever they are called to make them even and i liek the shape.

Change 2 - I'd like a broader/wider cape perhaps the bloodmages would work or mabey even the priest's actually o_O .

Change 3 - The naga myrmidon has fin-like things sticking from his arms, add these to sebastians arms to be skinned later as red armour fins.

Change 4 - Not sure if it possible to do this geo...swap. But I dunno if Arthas's body/torso/body amour will fit. Try the spellbreaker or the footman/captains.

EDIT: Change 5 - Hmm to make his hair more interesting add the hypogryphs tail if you can as a ponytail and see what it looks like

See how it looks and post it so i can see. dont skin it yet cus i dont want you to waster ur time if i dont like the actual model :P I realise some/most of this might not work....but its worth a shot. One more things when achaning the model check that animations stil work and dont look crappy, or give me model and i'll check.

Thanks dude. Sebastian is gonna look great. Its gonna be mroe hmmmmm i thnik that hidden war cus i want these characters to look jsut right :)

Okies continuation form cinematic posts..............

Dont do it yet Fredalf (cus amaya and sebastian arent even made yet)

But when you make it can you have sebastian sitting in front and amaya on back. With thier legs bend over the dragon (red dragon) to make it look liek they are riding say a horse..which is a dragon lol

ok..

do you have msn zazz? if you do, add me: [email protected]
it would make things alot easier ;)

Well i have msn but it doenst work im afraid :( Everytime i send a message it crashes (never got to use it *sob*) hopefully though the new microsoft patch im donwloading shoud get it working...il try to uninstall and reinstall again too.

ok.. cause about the geo-merge, i don´t have wc installed, and therefore don´t have any models.. so i would need you to send them to me xD

ok, I like this project, I can, Geomerge, Cinematics, and do you a forum, I rarely have good ideas (usualy bad -.-) but when I have good ones, beleive me their good.... but that rarely happens....
I have
Msn: [email protected]
AIM: dark musician22
Yahoo: dark musician22

Oooh ^_^

Okies well in correlations to your skill i likes :P

Geomerge - Well fredalf is doing gemerges but is also doing skins so i guess you two coudl work together on the geomerges (currently i have no ideas other than that of sebastian who's descriptino was posted above) If you have any ideas for the other characters feel free to post em here.
Amaya - Female human bard (really does require custom animatinos tho...)
Sebastain - Male human dragon knight (description above)
Farah - Female Elven Twinblade
Foltan - Male Human or Elven Demonhunter / Mage
Yai - Female Human Preistess/Princess
Cronoss - Male Lizardman Lancer

Cinematics - Well i have been making those but everytime i post a map feel free to make sugggestinos on cinemematics (or add enchancements of your own, run them past me first tho lol)

Forum - ooh now that woudl make us look proffesional. Have you got any links to ones you've already made. And what things will you require to get started.

Ps. just to clarify welcome to the team, if you dont mind what ive suggested here. im pretty lax, i wont get angry (unless your rude which you dont seem to be lmao :P)

EDOT: oops sorry missed your post fredalf.....YOU WHAT?!?!? Lol why ain't the game installed lol dont worry i can send em, but it'll have to wait till tommorow i have to go to bed soon :)

This project sounds really cool. The story is solid and the heroes are good. If i may join, I can do some basic triggering if you need it, I think i have some good ideas, I'm alright at skinning, I can make custom abilities/buffs/spells.

You should get hosted.

Lour)HEAD, if you are referring to being hosted here on wc3c, then, forget it; that won't happen any day soon.