Aradune memorial

[Coridan]

He is already immortalized on the walls of Qeynos Catacombs

[DMN]

Like I mentioned when he first died, I think it would be cool if they did some custom content and brad/aradune is in the game himself. Why have a dead memorial of him when you can have a living memory. He can either be a super powerful god like being who players have to try to keep alive or there is no way they will beat super bad evil god army is some kind of server wide event, or he cold be a normal powered character for his level and be a simply escort (maybe even he escorts you instead of the usual you escort NPC)

I don't think we should have t on green since it's a fossil and should remain as such, but on blue for custom content I wouldn't do a copy and paste of darkpaw did.

[gherron]

isn't there a pub in halas called McQuaids? it's like he bought a pub after retiring!

[loramin]

Personally instead of a big giant flaming sword memorial, I think a much better custom content way to include Brad would be to make Aradune OR some similar analog, in a relevant place (eg. an NPC named Daraune or Rabd in McQuaid's in Halas ... classic EQ was all about word play names!)

That NPC shouldn't just be some stationary reminder: he should have (at least one) quest. It'd be extra fun if he was a rare spawn, or had interesting pathing, or had an interesting spawn trigger, or whatever, or if the quest was actually worth doing (even if only to level 3s on Green). But the really important bit, to me, is that he should be an "active part" (as active as NPCs get) of the world.

If you look at Classic EQ as "Brad's Vision", static memorials were never in that vision. NPCs with quests (even pointless ones) and wordplay names absolutely were.

P.S. But I also still like the idea of adding him to "dev island" in Plane of Sky. And I like the idea of bringing "dev island" back in the first place (I heard they removed it?)

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally instead of a big giant flaming sword memorial, I think a much better custom content way to include Brad would be to make Aradune OR some similar analog, in a relevant place (eg. an NPC named Daraune or Rabd in McQuaid's in Halas ... classic EQ was all about word play names!)

That NPC shouldn't just be some stationary reminder: he should have (at least one) quest. It'd be extra fun if he was a rare spawn, or had interesting pathing, or had an interesting spawn trigger, or whatever, or if the quest was actually worth doing (even if only to level 3s on Green). But the really important bit, to me, is that he should be an "active part" (as active as NPCs get) of the world.

If you look at Classic EQ as "Brad's Vision", static memorials were never in that vision. NPCs with quests (even pointless ones) and wordplay names absolutely were.

P.S. But I also still like the idea of adding him to "dev island" in Plane of Sky. And I like the idea of bringing "dev island" back in the first place (I heard they removed it?)

They have his character model already worked out. I think it would be appropriate to place him somewhere in game, from time to time, either as part of a memorial custom quest or just to be visible for a few days each year around the b-day of EQ.

EQ does have a tradition of placing memorials to the RL guides/GMs that worked on EQ, but they were not in player areas.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ does have a tradition of placing memorials to the RL guides/GMs that worked on EQ, but they were not in player areas.

In classic? I didn't know we had any of those: can you point me to them?

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In classic? I didn't know we had any of those: can you point me to them?

they are in sunset home. i've never been there on p99, but i assume they have the same memorials as on live.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...tml?zstrat=467

[loramin]

Right, but I think my point still stands: in classic EQ (and specifically in-game, as is being proposed in this thread ... not in some secret GM area no one can see) we never had static memorials (like a statue of a flaming sword).

But we did have "memorials" to all sorts of things: McQuaid's as mentioned is one, but there's "memorials" to Game of Thrones in Qeynos (in the form of NPCs named Joffrey and Sansa), and tons of stuff like that also. Again, I think it'd be more "classic EQ" to make any Brad memorial a "living" part of the world ... not a dead/static one.

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Right, but I think my point still stands: in classic EQ (and specifically in-game, as is being proposed in this thread ... not in some secret GM area no one can see) we never had static memorials (like a statue of a flaming sword).

But we did have "memorials" to all sorts of things: McQuaid's as mentioned is one, but there's "memorials" to Game of Thrones in Qeynos (in the form of NPCs named Joffrey and Sansa), and tons of stuff like that also. Again, I think it'd be more "classic EQ" to make any Brad memorial a "living" part of the world ... not a dead/static one.

I'm not so sure about that. I'm almost positive that there are hidden memorials in game that the original devs put there without telling people...inside jokes, etc.

Many of the NPC names were homage easter eggs (or even just inside knowledge) to other RPGs or their own characters in other RPGs...one or two of them probably posthumously.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally instead of a big giant flaming sword memorial, I think a much better custom content way to include Brad would be to make Aradune OR some similar analog, in a relevant place (eg. an NPC named Daraune or Rabd in McQuaid's in Halas ... classic EQ was all about word play names!)

I would literally be insulted if all they did was that poop geometry from post velious expansions in the center of my eastern karanas as a memorial if I were him. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]