DarkRider's Dimension

Hail and Fair Tidings, RST Fans!

Time to update the log and the rest of the site it seems! I know I promised you all an update on Sunday, but my poor old gran passed away yesterday morning so I spent the day with my family. No one is comfortable with death, but it is just another road, one that we all must take to quote a famous wizard. Life for the rest of us goes on and for me that means RST among other things.

Over the weekend I managed to get the RST Guards whipped into shape as planned; adding AI to 40 guards is no short bit of work! The village is now well guarded by several point guards and a couple patrolling. With the village being vastly comprised of Blades disorder is not very common, but troublemakers will spend some time in the brig. The brig is a bit different than standard jail, you don't lose skill points, but you will have consequences.

I also managed to smooth out the rough edges of the chapter two quest givers and the journal entries have a much smoother progression now. I have been able to play halfway through the ranking without issue and it's rather exciting to see it all going so smoothly for a change. There were so many issues kicking off the main quest, but it's really working out as planned now.

Here are the rank images I promised! I was going to include them in the opening post of the latest thread on BGS but I had to lose a couple links or the post wouldn't take on the forum; too long!

The latest thread makes number five! I remember back when I first got started on RST I had my first thread for months and it only had about twenty or so posts. I would see other projects with Thread IV and Thread VII and I always wondered how some projects got that kind of action! Now I know! It's good to see so many fans for RST, she's a great project and going to be among the biggest to release for Oblivion. It's been hard to watch some other big WIPz waver so close to failing; it makes me feel very humble and also, very grateful to all the fans who have supported RST for so long and all those modders who lent advice or the occasional hand to help me along the way. I can see this project really breaks the odds when it comes to release.

Today I start in on Chapter 3 and push to finish it this week even though it's a long one. There is quite a bit of story delivered in this chapter as we begin apprenticeship under a blademaster and strike out into the world. Working with Companion AI can be unpredictable, but we'll see how it goes.

I will update again next weekend at some point and let you all know how it goes!

Cheers, and Happy Modding!

DarkRider