The Broken Hourglass: A Brief , Unnofficial Look at the NPCs (Part Two)

And the second of the three-part overview of the joinable-NPC's in The Broken Hourglass, this time at Makarios, Nekos, and Redethe.. Again, a quick search over at  the the Planewalker Games main site will turn up more for some. All NPC portraits are by Jelina Jovovic.

And so, on to part two:

Makarios is fey. Brought up on the rougher side of the city, he's enjoyed life as a low-level troublemaker, not planning for tomorrow--there is little point, after all, if you're fey. The Mal Nassrin troubles make him realize that there may be more to life than hassling the authorities, and for once, he's willing to work at something other than annoying the authorities (Though Carind is still a fair target).

Nekos has been fighting in the Arena since his early teens. His tenure has seen the rise of the star system. When the PC meets him, he is staging extra fights at the Arena, encouraging people to stay calm and avoid rioting. As far as he's concerned, that is the best way he can serve the city.

Nekos is warm and outgoing, always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. Whether he always chooses wisely is another matter entirely.

Redethe Hektor came to the city to investigate possible economic contributions to the Empire as a whole. As she is only too happy to tell her audience, she's reached her position due solely to her own talent, coming from an unknown family and impressing her superiors enough that, ultimately, the Empress created the post of Imperial Economist for her.

In the course of this rise, she's done a bit of everything: She started as a soldier, managed a mine, took over the oversight of the Eastern Fleet, battled pirates, and balanced ledgers. It's anyone's guess whether or not she would be working to save the city if she were not trapped there too, but she was, and she is.

The Broken Hourglass: PC/NPC Dialog

Still at The Broken Hourglass writing.

Jason and I have talked our way through a good chunk of what I'd roughed out earlier; now I'm settling down to get more talks added.

Starting to feel more comfortable with my two 'troublesome' characters, though the one is going to need a bit more work on my part before I really feel comfortable with him. Got some more background from Jason, which should help--some of it will never appear in the game, one or two tidbits might make their way in via dialog.

Also added another conversation for Carind and Makarios. I'd like to see a bit more between them than exists as yet.

The Broken Hourglass: Characters

Hmm. Looking for official character bios on the official Planewalker Games website, and I can't find everyone. Redethe, Sanelon, and Nekos all have brief introductions on the characters page, here. Halima is off by herself, over here. Makarios has snippet of theme music (and I still love the game's music; am listening to it now, in fact). That seems to be all. There may be stuff in the interviews elsewhere--I won't hunt for that because I need to get back to what I should be doing (writing). Hard work today--more the pulling teeth than "pulling fire out of the sky" variety. C'est la vie.

The Broken Hourglass: Makarios Ringtone

I find it vaguely amusing that there is a Makarios Ringtone out there. It's strictly unofficial, but since it comes off of the music posted on Planewalker Games main site, I guess it's ok.

And, yeah, I should actually be writing quests, not doing google searches on the game, or even working to figure out what Carind's last name will be (whatever it turns out to be, I bet it won't be on the list I just posted on the dev forum. That's ok, though, as long as it is pretty soon).

Still don't know Ioanna's last name, either, come to that. Diversions? Yup. It's the old "blank page" syndrome. Not that the page is blank, exactly, but I haven't been working on it yet, so it's all daunting and new and scary.

It's also all planned out and I know exactly what I'm going to be doing.

It's just that starting is always, inevitably, hard, no matter what I'm writing.

Enough! I will go write, I will go write, I will go write....