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Burnsaber · #1 July 23rd, 2009, 03:52 PM

This IrC discussion will explain everything:

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[22:21]	Burnsaber	I've toying with the idea of a "Metal Nation"
[22:21]	Gregstrom	Heh.
[22:21] Burnsaber	Like half seroisuly
[22:22]	Burnsaber	The recruitable troops are roudies and fans
[22:22]	Burnsaber	While the commanders are singers
[22:23]	Burnsaber	Folk Metal singers have nature magic, "regular" metal earth. death metal well death, gore metal with blood magic and hero metal with fire magic
[22:23]	Gregstrom	Nice
[22:23]	Gregstrom	Ooh, so much fun.
[22:24]	Gregstrom	It's a new direction for modding, and I have to say I like it.
[22:24]	Burnsaber	All of them would have custom "song attacks". Trash metal makes physical damage, death metal causes fear and so forth
[22:24]	Gregstrom	Nature summon: War Pigs
[22:24]	Burnsaber	National heroes would be based on famous metal bads, like man'o'war
[22:26]	Gregstrom	And a Led Zeppelin?
[22:27]	Burnsaber	And the fans would be different based on the metal they digg. Gore metal fans are freaky bunch, Hero metal fans have great morale, folk metal fans have survival skills and so worth
[22:27]	Burnsaber	Oh, right, progressive metal is astral
[22:27]	Burnsaber	The pinnacle troops would be "die-hard-fan" with metallic skin
[22:28]	Gregstrom	I'd heard of prog rock... prog metal?? Whoa...
[22:28]	Burnsaber	Yeah. Try Dream Theather, that gives the general idea
[22:29]	Burnsaber	And yeah, there'd definately be a troop called "Trooper"
[22:29]	Burnsaber	It just has to be
[22:30]	Burnsaber	And the Idea was that litter all sorts of obscure metal references all over the description, or just using song lyric for descriptions
[22:31]	Gregstrom	Hmm... a battle spell that does damage and chains a charm effect - Pain of Salvation?
[22:31]	Gregstrom	Ooh, I like this idea.
[22:31]	Burnsaber	Someone, anyone reading, please slap some sense inot us before we actually do this
[22:32]	Burnsaber	I'm being actaully tempted
[22:32]	Burnsaber	I mean, it'd just be so... awesome
[22:33]	* Gregstrom	resists the temptation to say "this rocks"
[22:34]	Burnsaber	MA guitarroon, the men of metal
[22:35]	Burnsaber	Name needs work, but epiteth in set in stone
[22:36]	Burnsaber	"Men of Metal"
[22:36]	Gregstrom	:D
[22:36]	Burnsaber	Heh. the PD could be mechanical milita :D
[22:37]	Burnsaber	And a super-cheap national Harvester of Sorrows
[22:37]	Gregstrom	I love it.
[22:38]	Gregstrom	Golem Cult effect would be appropriate.
[22:38]	Burnsaber	Aaah. That's awesome!
[22:39]		You can have my rawk yhetee if you do.
[22:40]	Burnsaber	I think the people reading this are either crying or laughing
[22:40]	Burnsaber	What's a "yhetee"
[22:40]	Gregstrom	Quite possibly both.
[22:41]	Gregstrom	Yeti can't spell, and no-one wants to argue with them.
[22:41]	Burnsaber	I'd need help with "old" rock/early metal. Never really got into 80´s metal
[22:42]	Burnsaber	Havne't heard a lot of zeppelin either
[22:42]	Burnsaber	But I know my Hero and folk metal
[22:42]	Burnsaber	Death too
[22:43]	Gregstrom	I know more about earlier metal than the later stuff. Maiden, Metallica, Zep and so on. I don't know much about them, but...
[22:44]	Burnsaber	Proababöy still enough to make cheasy references in every opportunity
[22:44]	Gregstrom	compared with the yawning depth of my ignorance of metal after the mid-90's.
[22:44]	Gregstrom	Oh yes. Cheesy references are my meat and drink.
[22:44]	Gregstrom	I know my level.
[22:45]	Gregstrom	(and sink to it at every available opportunity)
[22:45]	Burnsaber	Hey Greg, you mind if I post this conversation in a thread? I might really do this (after Breton and mod updated, of course) Gives me good excuse to catch up on my metal
[22:46]	Burnsaber     *my other mods updated
[22:46]	Gregstrom	It's absolutely fine by me.
[22:47]	Gregstrom	Ooh, another summon: Rock Dinosaur.
[22:48]	Gregstrom	And a flying Pretender with a forge bonus, the Aero Smith.
[22:49]	Gregstrom	The laws of karma are due to give me a really unpleasant day tomorrow, I think.
[22:53]	Burnsaber	Me too
[22:53]	Burnsaber	but it has been done
[22:53]	Burnsaber	http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?p=702789#post702789
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[22:55]	Burnsaber	May god help us all
[22:55]	Burnsaber	I really need practice my impulse control, you know?
[22:56]	Gregstrom	Oh, I think that'll be just fine. It should certainly spark off a few cheesy metal references.
[22:57]	Burnsaber	And considering the wide sprectrum of metal (folk metal and gore metal are even farther apart that Fusion Jazz and Pop), everyone should affiniate to some part of the nation
[22:59]	Gregstrom	With any luck, yes.
[23:00]	Burnsaber	Dom3 players also vary a lot in age too
[23:00]	Gregstrom	Ooh, Wikipedia has been useful for something.
[23:00]	Burnsaber	?
[23:00]	Gregstrom	It has lists of metal bands of each genre.
[23:00]	Gregstrom	Including the instant national summon, Tarantula Hawk.
[23:01]	Burnsaber	Never heard of them, what genre?
[23:01]	Gregstrom	Prog Metal, it says.
[23:01]	Gregstrom	"Tarantula Hawk is a psychedelic progressive metal band from San Diego, California."
[23:01]	Burnsaber	Oh, I never listen at any prog metal not recommened by a firend. Too much of chance to get ear-[censored Dirty verb]
[23:02]	Burnsaber	Same with hero metal
[23:02]	Gregstrom	Ahh, the downside of Wikipedia - everything can be updated by fans, leading to obscure bands getting the same amount of space as ones you'd actually want to hear.
[23:03]	Burnsaber	It's kinda strange. Bad Hero Metal is just the worst metal there is (after Gore, of course) but good hero metal is just something magical
[23:03]	Burnsaber	Like anyone that has been in Man'o'War concert knows
[23:04]	Burnsaber	It's just burst of testicle-exploding pure man energy of awesome
[23:04]	Burnsaber	Can't explain it better
[23:05]	Gregstrom	I think that's going to be part of the nation description

So ehh. People intrested? Not that I care, I know that I'll have absolute blast while making this, but I'm just intrested on the fact if you're intrested. Besides, my metal-fu isn't perfect, I need some suggestion for cheesy references for those "famous" bands I don't really know.