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Re: close enough
Posted By: SiliconDream =PN=Date: 1/25/02 8:21 a.m.

In Response To: Re: close enough (Hamish Sinclair)

: I don't believe this is Durandal's ship. Durandal crashed on Lh'owon's second
: moon. Craig's chapter screen seems to be set on Lh'owon and the derelict
: ship in the distance looks more badly damaged than Durandal's ship in the
: game. Indeed it looks like some ancient wreck.

: Others may wish to argue this.

One might argue that the big moon/planet in the sky is apparently larger than any of L'howon's moons as viewed from the surface, so it must be L'howon as seen from Y'loa. (Of course, that requires another Jjaro miracle in the form of several planet-sized objects whirling around each other at arms' length without their orbits destabilizing after millions of years...) And since Boomer was grounded for the duration of several levels, the Pfhor would have time to start systematically dismantling it from the outside in. Though we're not told of any time when the Marine had the luxury of actually running away from the wreck to get a nice view of it at a distance. :-)

I still think this was probably intended to show Durandal's death. We've seen elsewhere that Craig wasn't given a whole lot of detailed, finalized story info to construct his pictures from; hence discrepancies in, for instance, S'pht blood color and the form(s) of the ancient S'pht. Here, I suspect, someone just told him, "Durandal's ship is going to crash and he's going to be "dead" for a while." So Craig did a shot of the Marine watching over his grave.

However, I think using "vengeful dreams" to refer to a non-dream Infinity level is just not playing fair. ;-)

--SiliconDream

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MARATHON RIDDLEAlfred Mordeir 1/19/02 1:15 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLESiliconDream =PN= 1/19/02 10:19 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLERincewind MoG 1/20/02 1:25 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLEZvel-Haj 1/20/02 8:08 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLESteve Levinson 1/21/02 6:25 a.m.
     One More TrySteve Levinson 1/22/02 6:40 a.m.
     Hint's get your Hints!Alfred Mordeir 1/22/02 1:29 p.m.
           Re: Hint's get your Hints!Rincewind MoG 1/22/02 2:40 p.m.
           Re: Hint's get your Hints!Tru7h 1/22/02 5:24 p.m.
           Re: Hint's get your Hints!Sisgmund 1/22/02 9:31 p.m.
     Final Hint.Alfred Mordeir 1/23/02 10:47 a.m.
           Re: Final Hint.Steve Levinson 1/23/02 10:56 a.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLETru7h 1/23/02 11:57 a.m.
           Re: MARATHON RIDDLETru7h 1/24/02 5:35 p.m.
     Re: MARATHON RIDDLEVid Boi 1/24/02 1:45 p.m.
           If not the knife, then *what*?Steve Levinson 1/24/02 3:53 p.m.
                 Re: If not the knife, then *what*?Andrew Nagy 1/24/02 4:10 p.m.
                 Re: If not the knife, then *what*?Tru7h 1/24/02 5:27 p.m.
                       The Wave Motion Cannon? =) *NM*Vid Boi 1/25/02 12:27 a.m.
                       close enoughAlfred Mordeir 1/25/02 5:03 a.m.
                             Re: close enoughHamish Sinclair 1/25/02 5:22 a.m.
                                   Re: close enoughSiliconDream =PN= 1/25/02 8:21 a.m.
                                         Re: close enoughHamish Sinclair 1/25/02 9:44 a.m.
                             Re: close enoughTru7h 1/26/02 4:23 a.m.
                                   ignore this 1 read the next 1 *NM*Tru7h 1/26/02 4:26 a.m.
                             Re: close enoughTru7h 1/26/02 4:24 a.m.



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