Topic awaiting preservation: ****June 2005 Sig Contest - Mythical Creatures ~ Discussion****

Post the sig your working on and discuss the topic in this thread.

F1: you are right. i somehow dont get it. its a black stripe for me ?

Your on the right track, it's black or dark.
I'll probably give it away with this, but think Infocom.

I'm just being silly with it, so don't waste all your time on it.

and I'm not supposed to say it's name more than twice, right?

Something like that, yes.

But you'll only encounter it if your batteries are dead (I think, if I remember right, I could be wrong, it's been a long time), so the name thing doesn't always matter.

(Edited by F1_error on 06-10-2005 14:44)

"Don't say it's name more than twice"? erm, Fight club? Nah you don't say that even once.
Great Gorgon sig Amerasu, it is a pity sometimes when we work on an image for a sig in a large format and then shrink it down. as it usually shrinks down all the goodness too.
Xcessive Force, I really like the dragon too.
I hope I'll have time for one this month too, I really want to get one in.
Tao

Well, the name thing doesn't really matter. So don't think too much along those lines. Just don't get caught in the dark.

Jung, that's the Jabberwocky right? I loved that film!

Well, no... it's the dreaded beast of aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh... from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Ense...the gore... oh yes.

damn, my bad I remember now...

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reisio said:

Ense...the gore... oh yes.

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I couldn't think of an actual creature to do, so I made it a shadowy creature of the night

can't say the name twice...Lord Voldemort? No, he doesn't pop up during the night. Boogieman? What is it?

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It's maybe the Ensellitis-has-no-Mountain-Dew-or-cigarettes monster? =)

::wanders in, hearing of the dew::
Ensellitis - try Faygo Moon Mist instead of Mt. Dew if you can find it in your area
::wanders out as aimlessly as he walked in::



Life is too short, so love the one you got (Bradley Nowell)

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can't say the name twice...Lord Voldemort? No, he doesn't pop up during the night. Boogieman? What is it?

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Think older than Harry Potter. Hang on, let me get the date. At least 1980, although it'll go a little further back to a dungeon from MIT. I've now given it mostly away without actually saying the name.
Night has nothing to do with it really, so it's not a Boogieman. It comes when it's pitch black or dark, so don't be caught wandering when your lantern batteries die.

Again, not much time to devote to my precious PS this month so I thought I'd better lash this one up now. Still got a couple of more ideas like perhaps animating the text in this one?

Slightly clunky animation and resized.
Hmmmmm.

I'm with Ensellitis on this one... just making up something.

other BG

F1_error: I didn't get it at first, but the Infocom hint gave it away for me.

There was an entry once in one of the IF contests where you had to extinguish all light sources in order to make the mythical creature in question appear. I can't exactly remember why (I think it might have been because the creature would then free you from the room you were in or something like that), but it was a neat zero sum game and a nice twist on the old saw about being caught in the dark. Man, I haven't played a text adventure in ages...

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It sounds like you've got it spot on Suho.
I keep text adventures and nethack on most of the computers I own, it's a great way to spend some time.

F1_error is it "The Encounter"?

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