Fossil: The Great Journey (6 SCENARIOS ONLINE)

[Hulavuta]

UPDATE: 3/28/10: This post is pretty much useless now, I'll leave it up just in case, but it's not really relevant. The story has gone under many changes and I'm not going to release the final storyline, but rest assured, it is "good"

UPDATE: 6/5/10: Please visit these threads to contribute to artwork, or unit balance:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=30250
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29564
Thanks a bunch.

Okay, my third try to make a campaign, and this time, I have a great (In my opinion) story, mixing both my old 2 campaigns storylines. Playing parts of Rise of Wesnoth and Son of the Black Eye will help you understand the story.

For my plan to not be lazy and actually complete this, I will be recruiting people to help out. Jobs I need done are:

People who can make unit data. (I have images) FOUND (Playing The Forgotten Legacy will help you, as most of the new units are from there, and if you played Marsh Era, that would help too.)
People who can help me with the filing-ness of the campaigns. FOUND
People who can help make portraits transparent DID IT MYSELF

More Jobs will be put up as I realize I need them, so subscribe if you are interested.

For people who are interested in the story:

Spoiler:

The Campaign starts out with you playing as Inarix, a saurian that has joined the Saurian army. (The Saurian Leader From Son of the Black Eye) A Saurian Soothsayer, Skaltrax helps teach you about playing as Saurian. Anyway, the story takes off when you are attacked by humans, and after driving them away, Inarix finds out that the Great Fire Dragon, Shek'kahan (SP?) has been slain in battle by Prince Haldric. (Which is a level in Rise of Wesnoth, where you have to kill the Dragon who is the Saurian leader.) After the Saurian population goes into chaos from the loss of their leader, and the 4 other Saurian leaders were killed in that level too, they battle each other for supremacy. One of the leaders of the Saurians, (probably going to be Irix) gives Inarix command of his tribe, although not all of them follow him, Inarix makes a tactical move and leaves the Saurian country, after breaking through the Elvish barricade, they get into the wild. (Rise of Wesnoth storyline ends here.) (Son of the Black Eye begins here) Many years later, the main character, Krex, is born, and then he becomes the leader (The one you use to recruit) from there forward. After a skirmish with some nomads, they decide they need to find supplies, since they had run out. On the way, they run into one of Lanbech's commanders, and also Plonk.(Plonk is the leader of the Orcs at Prestim) They join forces to defeat Lanbech, and they decide to team up, so Inarix puts Krex in charge temporarily while he goes to help the Orcs in exchange for the Orcs helping them to fight the Saurians back at the Saurian country, so they can take over and bring peace. After a few more missions, Flar'Tar (an Orc commander on Kapou'e's side in Son of the Black Eye) comes and informs Krex that Inarix was killed in battle against Lanbech's army. The Saurians under Krex's command rebel because they find out Inarix is dead, so Kapou'e orders FlarTar to help Krex. Skaltrax informs Krex that he has a brother, Naxis, who is the leader of the Skalds, (in addition to Saurian Armors and Saurian Headhunters, which I need unit data for.) so they decide to go ask him to help. Upon reaching the swamp, they encounter resistance, but eventually convince Naxis to help them. After gaining help from the Skalds, they put down the rebellion by the Saurians, and the Orcs leave. Krex, Skaltrax and Naxis return to the Saurian Country, where they defeat the warring tribes and reunite the Saurians. Possibly Naxis or Skaltrax become king.

Anyway, tell me if you are interested! If I get a few people for units, then I will put up the sprites for units.

[Limabean]

I don't know if you're aware o this, but tRoW and SotBE are hundreds of years apart. I don't see how Inarix, who as you say is from SotBE, could have been around when Haldric killed Shek'kahan.

[Hulavuta]

I was aware of that, and that was one of my problems, but hopefully I'll find a way around it. Maybe that Saurians have different lifespans than humans?

[Anonymissimus]

You could introduce some sort of magic that increases life expectancy like it is done with Kalenz (who is born at about 0 YW and still around at about 500 YW).

[Captain_Wrathbow]

People who can make unit data. (I have images)

I'll help with this if you can give me the images.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this will turn out. It looks promising.

[Hulavuta]

You could introduce some sort of magic that increases life expectancy like it is done with Kalenz (who is born at about 0 YW and still around at about 500 YW).

Yeah, I was thinking about that, since there is going to be a mage character, I can use that. Plus, I heard somewhere that Kalenz took out most of the Saurians after Haldric killed the Dragon.

As I have just recently downloaded Marsh Era AND BEEM era, I now have a few more of the unit lines I needed. What I need now is data for the Saurian Armor lines.

They should have 2 attacks, a Ram Attack, which does a lot of damage, but a small amount of attacks, and a normal attack, knives, which is melee and is a reasonable attack. No ranged attack.

Now, I need another unit. You'll probably have the images already, this is called the Saurian Brute, and the images will be the Saurian Skirmisher default images on Wesnoth 1.2 and up. I'm currently running 1.7

It should have 2 attacks, it will fight kind of like the reverse of a Dwarf Thunderer, it will have a super strong melee attack, and an okay ranged attack.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Ok, I'll start working on those. I suppose this means there's no animation for the Armors?

[Hulavuta]

Yep, no animation.

In addition, they should have high hitpoints, but not very good defense. 50% at the most.

Does the WML code from 1.4 work for 1.7?

I originally had the portraits up here to transparentify, but I did it myself.

I've also decided that there is NO possible way that Inarix could have lived that long, because it's over 800 years apart. (Insert DragonBallZJoke here) Possibly, that part about the Dragon leaving and junk will be just in the intro, instead of actual levels.

If anyone is wondering, I plan to use the Augur portrait for Naxis, since he is an insane skald, and I plan to use the tribalist portrait for Skaltrax.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Does the WML code from 1.4 work for 1.7?

No, some syntax changes have happened since then.

[Hulavuta]

Such as what?

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Let's see, I know there's a thread somewhere that lists all of them but off the top of my head I can think of:

[unit] --> [unit_type] (when defining a unit type)
description= --> id= (inside a unit creation tag)
user_description --> name= (inside a unit creation tag)

I know there are a few more and I'm not even sure if I got these ones right. Someone add more or correct mine if I messed up.

[Hulavuta]

Oh, I thought it was something really major.

Okay, I've decided that the part about the Dragon and such will be in the intro only, and the first few levels of the campaign will be Inarix breaking from the Saurian Country. Therefore, it will not seem as if Inarix is over 800 years old.

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Working on your units finally. (got a little tangled up in real life) I ought to have them done by Monday night, unless I'm just being lazy.

Oh, and a question- is the brute supposed to have advancements or just be a single level one unit? I assume there should be advancements so I'll plan on that unless you say otherwise.

[Hulavuta]

Yeah, advancements, probably going to go Brute-Gladiator-Champion

They're going to use the Ambusher Flanker sprites, of course.

And, instead of using the image in the image files of wesnoth, I'd appreciate if you put the images in the campaign's unit images file and used that instead.

Um, I need 1 portrait done, should I just post it here or make a topic in Art requesting it?

And, I've made a few adjustments to the story:

Spoiler:

The part about the Dragon will be in the intro only, and the first level will be over 800 years later, and you will be playing as Inarix trying to escape the Saurian Country. He'll be the player character for 2-3 levels and then he'll just become a hero unit, instead of the player character/leader. (I hope that makes sense to you reading this.) I will also be adding a few subplots, to pass time until it has been a reasonable time for Inarix to have died in battle. One of them will be helping out an old Witch Doctor, finding herbs and stuff, and his/her house is destroyed, and he/she joins you. I'm also going to add a battle with the Saurian Margrave in the swamp, and a Saurian Necromancer who can spawn undead Saurian and Spectre Lizards. I also haven't decided this next part yet, but I'm going to be adding some stuff about the main character's father.

In case you didn't want to read the spoiler, one question that I asked in there is that is it possible to make the enemy able to recruit walking corpses that are the Saurian variant?

[Captain_Wrathbow]

Um, I need 1 portrait done, should I just post it here or make a topic in Art requesting it?

Make a topic in art. I doubt many artists looking for work would come here to find it.

In case you didn't want to read the spoiler, one question that I asked in there is that is it possible to make the enemy able to recruit walking corpses that are the Saurian variant?

I'm sure there's some much more efficient way, but with my limited knowledge, I would probably just make a unit using the images you want, give it a different id, but name it walking corpse and give it WC stats.