Inky's Quest - The Cuttlefish Campaign

[Telchin]

Random thought of the week: What about adding some unit with fire damage? You fight ghosts (namely Eternal Slave) at multiple points in the campaign and all your units do half damage against them. Fire damage would help against ghosts and wouldn't be as overpowered against skeletons as arcane. However, what kind of sea monster breathes fire? Maybe some creature adapted to eat Drakes? Would a fire-breathing octopus be too absurd even by standarts of this campaign? I'd like to get some opinions or ideas for better new unit before I start coding new scenarios to introduce it. (It would also need a custom art, as I don't want Nth recolor of Tentacle from the Deep or Cuttlefish, but I might try to do a custom sprite myself.)

[Evander]

give fire to magic tentacles as an upgrade variant?

[Telchin]

Making it an alternative upgrade of Magic Tentacle has some problems: 1) I think the campaign has enough recolored tentacles already, any new might be confusing to tell apart (then again, the various upgrades of the young cuttlefish line are also recolors) 2)Magic Tentacles are explained as Master Sea Head researching the mermaids you defeated earlier. Mermaids use impact magic and healing, but not fire. Also in the Haunted Ford, there aren't so many of ghosts (and they're fighting your enemies too), so fire might not be necessary at this point (I was more thinking about the scenarios where you fight the Spectre) 3) If it was an alternative branch and was disabled in the Haunted Ford only to be enabled later, then it would punish the player for upgrading the tentacles early.
Note that I'm not really decided yet to add a unit with a fire attack. If someone has a better idea for a new unit I'm willing to use it (However,I'd like to decide myself which idea is "better". Custom sprites are welcome.). I have some ideas for new scenarios, where a new unit line would be addded, but I could probably acomodate them to fit whatever new unit I actually add (I haven't started coding yet).
Also note on Magic Tentacles - I'm still looking for better names for upgraded variants. Using names of jobs ("shamanistic tentacle") wouldn't make much sense as they are apendages, not whole people. Also they are both healers and ranged damage dealers, so a name like "healing tentacle" or "destructive tentacle" would emphasise only one part of their purpose.

[Evander]

to be honest, in my game eternal slave was killed by someone else.

I actually never noticed the problem with lack of fire

[The_Other]

I just finished playing this, and I have to say I enjoyed it more than any other campaign I can think of (well, maybe part 1 of IftU) - it's a nice, refreshing change from the usual, sober and serious stuff. It's strange, in a more serious campaign (without cuttlefish!), I think the plot would have seemed a bit worn-out and cliched, but you get away with it here because of the humour that goes with it. I particularly enjoyed the idiot 'lichen-lord'!

Sprites could obviously use some work, but again I found it to be less of an issue than it would in a traditional campaign - after all, cuttlefish are (usually) animals, so they don't have uniforms or equipment, and nobody expects them to. In the real world, colour is often the only obvious difference between different breeds of the same general family (compare red and grey squirrels, snakes or many fish). Obviously it would be nice to have custom sprites for each unit, but it's less of a priority than it would be with more conventional units. It also helps that the cuttlefish sprite is a large area of a single colour, and the tentacles are extremely bright - so even with the same base graphic being used, it's still really easy to tell them apart at a glance.

I have to agree with Evander, I didn't miss fire attacks at all - you have enough impact and arcane (I must have been thinking of something else...) that it really isn't a problem, and it's hard to justify a fire-based unit here without inventing something completely ridiculous. Also, I'm working on a faction of sea monsters at the moment (originally based on Lovecraft's fiction, but now including all manner of aquatic nastiness!) - I may 'borrow' your cuttlefish advancement tree, if that's alright with you. Obviously, help yourself to anything I make, if you need more bad guys (nothing posted yet as I want it all planned-out first - I'll link you to the thread when I make one!)

Thanks for the most fun campaign I've played in a long time!

[Telchin]

I have to agree with Evander, I didn't miss fire attacks at all - you have enough impact and arcane that it really isn't a problem, and it's hard to justify a fire-based unit here without inventing something completely ridiculous.

Wait, where did you get arcane? Anyway, I'm aware that the campaign is playable as is, it was playable even before giant clams were added. It's just people keep demanding more and I'm brainstorming ideas. Yes, I understand that fire-breathing squid would be silly even by standarts of this campaign. If I get a better idea what to add I will post it. It should serve some purpose for the "faction". (e.g. Magic Tentacles provide ranged attack and healing)

[Swiss_Army_Cheese]

Your campaign has ink breathing cuttlefish, I think it shouldn't be too hard to justify the fire-breathing kind.
How about the cuttlefish ignite the ink on impact? Too implausible?

[Telchin]

Your campaign has ink breathing cuttlefish, I think it shouldn't be too hard to justify the fire-breathing kind.
How about the cuttlefish ignite the ink on impact? Too implausible?

I've read Wikipedia's article on sea monsters, but most of them are variations on giant squid, sea serpent or mermaids and all such units are already in the game, so I didn't get any better idea for a new unit. Therefore I may add some fire unit anyways. I'm just thinking of what the best idea would be. Fire-breathing squid feels silly, but I don't know any alternative. Fire Guardian are already in the game, but they would't make sense in the cave-flooding scenario. Maybe fire-breathing sea serpent? (the Leviathan in the bible breathes fire, doesn't it?) Or fire-breathing giant clam ? The problem is that a new unit would need some art, so it should be something doable by frankensteining mainline sprites, or someone should direct me to an era or campaign that has good sea monster graphics. Unless that happen, new scenarios may be not done (as I've said earlier, I have an outline for new scenarios, but I'd like to introduce a new unit and I need to know what will be introduced, so I can balance the campaign accordingly)

[Wesbane]

Fire-breathing squid feels silly, but I don't know any alternative. Fire Guardian are already in the game, but they would't make sense in the cave-flooding scenario. Maybe fire-breathing sea serpent? (the Leviathan in the bible breathes fire, doesn't it?) Or fire-breathing giant clam? The problem is that a new unit would need some art, so it should be something doable by frankensteining mainline sprites, or someone should direct me to an era or campaign that has good sea monster graphics.

Yes, it sounds like really useful ability in water environment. But globsters already have one: plague. As much as some special ability is desired feeding would be much better choice since attack without swarm limitation is decent enough at least to me. However this is a fantasy world so there is nothing that could not be justified.
Anyway regarding plague if you added ability like this it is good to make special event handling if needed in case of triggering an event by unit created by this talent. That is events playing dialogues.

As for art for new unit there is a kraken sprite in Dead Water but it is probably known fact. Its not well made but still an option.

In UMC there is really lack of sea monsters although there ate two eras aimed on water factions.

• Era of Water have a collection of sprites from various sources and probably few franks featuring naga octopus that hardly fits wesnoth setting but who knows?
  Water Era have several interesting naga units if you would like to have larger enemy variety. Few shark sprites, some probably made from a photo so of quite poor quality. There are even included some units from Inky's Quest!
  In Ageless Era (compilation of best and most popular eras at least this is what author claims) there is a seal sprite.
  So no if it comes to sea life choice isn't to large. However if you are willing to extend your search criteria Era of Magic might be interesting. Units in this era have probably nicest sprites from any other custom one, but some animations could be missing. Graphics from it are used in both mentioned sea eras. Although there are no typical water monsters there are a lot of sprites of critters suitable for modifications. There is a wide representation of elementals including water one. And Tharos faction has a unit named hydra that you could turn into water being. Its snake like.

You can also search topics in art workshop for base frames for monsters. Zerovirus draw a lot of good beast sprites but nothing of it would inhabit sea depths.

[tr0ll]

if you want fire-like or arcane-like attacks, how about phosphorus loaded ink blobs that burn like greenish white fire on contact

[Telchin]

Breaking news! Version 1.2 released and brings heavy changes!

• 3 new scenarios (2 in the middle and 1 final battle battle)
• New recruitable unit - Fire Squids. Yes, I didn't come with anything better, but given that this campaiog already had Magic Tentacles, I think they will blend nicely
• High Risk, Low Tide now doesn't have any undead. Instead you will fight a blind man to steal his staff. It makes sense in the context.
• The Divining pool is now somehow harder, because it now comes later in the campaign than in previous versions
• Giant Clam's fire resistance increased to 10% (20% with steadfast) and its cold resistance decreased to 50%
• The campaign now uses some story art from UMC Story Images by Crendrim. If there is a problem with it I may remove it.

If you liked the previous version, I urge you to try the new one. I'd like some feedback on the changes, as I feel some of the new scenarios may be too hard (don't forget that my campaigmn is supposed to be easy). There shouldn't be bugs, but if you find some tell me. As always, have fun.

[Enmerkar]

Hello,

I just finished a kind of Sea-campaign trilogy playing (Dead Waters, Inky, and Return of the monster)

I have to confess Inky's Quest, which I thought could be very reluctant, was definitely amongst my 5 favorite campaign ever. (I play Wesnoth for 3 years or maybe more)

So I registred here to thank you and also to offer you the translation of the campaign in French (which is my mother tong) Why? Because it would be a shame that a so pleasant campaign has to suffer a poor translation. (coz some campaigns do are, unfortunately!)

Here is now my humble feedback, feel free to read it and ask questions if you wish.
I played, as usual, at the normal level.

* A water struggle: just fine. Ok, MSH's design is indeed bad, but it doesn't really matter.
* A mussel in distress: totally fine. Ok, Shark's design sucks

Spoiler:

you know, what I like in campaigns is, when you beat an opponent, the narrator gives you a choice: finish they or let they go. Especially when you have to abandon something. So what about giving some gold to let the elder sharks feed the young ones, in exchange of what, the player get a loyal shark? With a nice progression tree, of course! And this character could be funny in many ways, maybe always wanting to fight... Or with a Samurai behavior? (with a lot of honor, long sentences, has to meditate. So good fighter, but borring...

* Inky goes Fishing: stressfull but great!!!
* The haunted ford: perfect.

Spoiler:

I was prepared for a long and difficult campaign without any healer, I was so pleased to discover Magic Tentacles! Ok, Actually they are weird and some shell (bernicles or anything on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_%28folklore%29?) would may be more natural but it's awsome to make them appear after a while.

* Clash of drakes: Another great moment.

Spoiler:

Actually it could be more balanced as I finished by ruling all the map. Maybe Undead could be more numerous?

* Blinded by the mists: Ok, you have to know I'm not very good at this game, so I had to reload many times, until I decided to attack mainly the right guy. So I spent all my gold to have an arm... a fleet strong enough to size Sprazs' donjeon, but not regret, it was very fun!
* The divining pool: Maybe my favorite one! This one is easy. Suggestion:

Spoiler:

To make it harder, maybe remove the Undead and claiming they are coming with a huge army: vdery stressfull, so the player would have to beat the guardians quickly. And when Undead finally arrive, Guardians could get some renforcments until MHS reaches the goal. At this point, the guardians understand their mistake and cover Inky's retreat. And of course, be able to recruit one of the guardians race could be very pleasant. (How to justify this? I don't know, maybe a Seaking/god could appear, be very sorry and would say that he would need 3 races to protect the pool and allow one to go with Inky? Because maybe the moste exciting part of a campaign is to recruit new kind of fighter and see them evolve, get some extra beasts would be awsome. Lampreys & Eels are my favorite. What about a L3 "Silver Eel" which could teleports itself like a silver mage?

* Old Lich and sea : Ok, this one was a nightmare. Not so difficult,

Spoiler:

but as I didn't have too much time to play, I wanted to go fast. And the almost non-stop flow of undeads pissed me off. Maybe with more different units could be different, but I have to confess I cheated on this one!

A funny idea: what about a Reef unit that could counter the rising-ground effect of the mushroom?
* Drowned Dwarves'day: ok too.
*High risk, low tide: bery good, no comment. btw, I like your titles!
* Burial at sea: this one was pleasant, as usual in a massive assault scenario.

Spoiler:

despite that, I was desappointed as it was too easy. What about nagas renforcements, an attack from behind, infinite ennemies that come from halls (so the player have to use they best fighters to contains them in narrow tunnels) etc

other Suggestions :
- could it possible do give MSH an extra level, which would be very of course very hard to reach? You know, smth like "Old One of the Sea", "Legend of the Oceans", "Water Patriarch" or anything like that? It could get more slow but with extra-life and some funny power.

Spoiler:

You know what? I believed all the campaign that he would have to be sacrified at any time!

Someone talked previously about the biblic Leviathan. What about an extra scenario with it as the ennemy? The player has to beat it to gain an advandage, to force it to contain Mermen, get another artefact or just because it is the one that provides corpes to undead?
Other units Ideas:
-meeting Nessie. (A funny scenario with scottish like fighters, haunted donjeons and the unfamous nessie
- a "cavalry unit" : based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Horse (NB: The French page contains different information!)
- a flying unit: Sirens, harpyes, or simply albatross/seagul? Cuttlefish could basically dislike them, as they could eat from dead bodies, but in certain circumstances, it becomes an advantage....

Units I didn't like: Fire Squids. I don't have any ideas for the moment, but if you wish so, I could think about and suggest some alternatives?
Globsters: this one was not so usefull actually and kind of weird, but afterall, I think it's not a bad idea. Maybe it just need an extra attack, an abyssal sonar or something? Maybe a drain power? It's weak, but i used it to turn bats into indead to have a flying stike! (quite usefull, also^^)

Ok, I think you have enough to read for this time

[Telchin]

I have to confess Inky's Quest, which I thought could be very reluctant, was definitely amongst my 5 favorite campaign ever. (I play Wesnoth for 3 years or maybe more)
So I registred here to thank you and also to offer you the translation of the campaign in French (which is my mother tong) Why? Because it would be a shame that a so pleasant campaign has to suffer a poor translation. (coz some campaigns do are, unfortunately!)

Wow, I like people posting feedback, but somebody joining the forums, just to praise my work is more than I hoped for
On the subject of translations - I keep adding new stuff every now and then (the version you played has whole 3 new scenarios), so I didn't mark the campaign as ready for translations. However, if you want to provide translation I'll be happy to accept your offer.
I don't speak French and have no experience with translating campaigns, so I might have problems checking your work, but I'd like to provide you with some notes to clear any problems you might encounter during the translation. I'll probably post it in this thread when I'll have time to write it.

Ok, MSH's design is indeed bad, but it doesn't really matter.

Yeah, I'm bad at drawing and lack the patience to improve.

Inky goes Fishing: stressfull but great!!!

Originally this was the second scenario, but then I added Mussel in Distress to make it easier. I don't want to add more scenarios to the begining, because I don't want to postpone Ravyan's appearance too much.

I was so pleased to discover Magic Tentacles! Ok, Actually they are weird and some shell (bernicles or anything on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_%28folklore%29?) would may be more natural but it's awsome to make them appear after a while.

I agree that Magic Tentacles are weird, but due to my above mentioned lack of graphic skills recoloring the Tentacle from Deep seemed like the best I could come up with. I don't think that Kappas would fit in, as I belive they live more in ponds than in sea and being Japanese monsters they might clash with otherwise European setting of Wesnoth (then again, Nagas are from India and nobody complains about them)

Actually it could be more balanced as I finished by ruling all the map. Maybe Undead could be more numerous?

The battle is four armies free-for-all, so the difficulty might depend on which enemy gets luckier in killing those others. That said, it's possible that it needs more balancing, as it's one of the newer scenarios and I'm a rather bad player.

Blinded by the mists: Ok, you have to know I'm not very good at this game, so I had to reload many times, until I decided to attack mainly the right guy. So I spent all my gold to have an arm... a fleet strong enough to size Sprazs' donjeon, but not regret, it was very fun!

My strategy was to recruit all fire squids in the first turn, send them with help of 1-2 loyal units around the island to assasinate the mudcrawler and before the got there I recalled rest of my army and decimatec the (non-invulnerable) lizards. Howver, I agree that this cenario is harder than it should as I overvalued strenght of fire damage against mudcrawlers and lizards. Maybe I should change the map, so the mudcrawler starts closer to the player, thus enabling you to eliminate the enemies in the correct order.

To make it harder, maybe remove the Undead and claiming they are coming with a huge army: vdery stressfull, so the player would have to beat the guardians quickly. And when Undead finally arrive, Guardians could get some renforcments until MHS reaches the goal.

The main reason the Undead are there is because Clash of Drakes and Blinded by the Mists are new scenarios. The Diving Pool was created to introduce Ravyan and his enslaved spectre. This is also why it might be easy a addition of two scenarios gives more space for leveling up your units. As I was adding whole three new scenarios, I didn't want to change those already existing much, but some changes in the future are not impossible. I don't have the time for them right now.

At this point, the guardians understand their mistake and cover Inky's retreat. And of course, be able to recruit one of the guardians race could be very pleasant. (How to justify this? I don't know, maybe a Seaking/god could appear, be very sorry and would say that he would need 3 races to protect the pool and allow one to go with Inky? Because maybe the moste exciting part of a campaign is to recruit new kind of fighter and see them evolve, get some extra beasts would be awsome. Lampreys & Eels are my favorite. What about a L3 "Silver Eel" which could teleports itself like a silver mage?

I have considered that between the Divining Pool and Old Lich and Sea there could be a scenario where Sosarix tries to reach the Divining Pool (as you have destroyed its security system) and you must stop him. I didn't add it because I was already in the process of adding three new scenarios. I'm not sure I like the idea of the guardian fish joining you (I don't like the idea of some fish king/god), but if I add the "Pool-defending scenario" in the future, this might be good idea for it.

Old Lich and sea : Ok, this one was a nightmare. Not so difficult,but as I didn't have too much time to play, I wanted to go fast. And the almost non-stop flow of undeads pissed me off. Maybe with more different units could be different, but I have to confess I cheated on this one!

Now imagine that this used to be the fourth scenario (!) (Mussel in Distress and The Divining Pool were added later). The endless stream of Undead is meant to be the main feature of the scenario, as you can outswim Ravyan's ground forces. If by cheating you mean abuse of save/load, I can tell you that I use that in all campaigns (including this one).

Burial at sea: this one was pleasant, as usual in a massive assault scenario. despite that, I was desappointed as it was too easy.

I guess I'm bad at making challenging final scenarios. Originally, Ravyan was fought in High Risk, Low Tide and was very weak. This was anticlimatic, so I moved Ravyan's defeat to separate scenario and added new scenarios to introduce a new villain (Sosarix) that would replace Ravyan in High Risk, Low Tide. When I actually got to making the final battle, I was probably too exhausted and impatient to make it hard.

could it possible do give MSH an extra level, which would be very of course very hard to reach? You know, smth like "Old One of the Sea", "Legend of the Oceans", "Water Patriarch" or anything like that? It could get more slow but with extra-life and some funny power.

Master Sea Head was meant to be aquatic version of Delfador from HttT - starts powerful, gives lectures to the main character, but cannot level up. He is also needed for the various "terramorphing" scenarios, as the rest of your units can move on the dry land (albeit slowly). As for getting more power, he gets some ssmagic in the final scenario, but it might not be enough. However, I don't want him to be extra powerful, as you have him from the beginning of the campaign and I don't want him to overshadow Inky too much (that's why Inky is the only one able to reach level 4.)

Units I didn't like: Fire Squids. I don't have any ideas for the moment, but if you wish so, I could think about and suggest some alternatives?

Yeah, this is a silly unit, but I choose it for two reasons: 1) easy to make with my lack of artistic talent 2) the fire damage enables the use of Mudcrawlers in Blinded by the Mists (as they are highly resistant to impact attacks of tentacles, but also highly vulnerable to fire).

Globsters: this one was not so usefull actually and kind of weird, but afterall, I think it's not a bad idea.

This unit exists mostly because I wanted to add more variety to the cuttlefish line. I agree that I mostly go for the Kraken.

Ok, I think you have enough to read for this time

I gladly read positive feedback. I was more disturbed that nobody replied since version 1.2 was released.

[Enmerkar]

Mmmh... Your answers make sense, so I won't say anything on the topics I agree.

* Designs vs new units (or "I do what I can") Have you tried the Naga campaign "Return of the Monster"? I played it just after finishing IQ and, whether you find yourself interested in some designs/creatures, maybe the author would let you use them?

* Regarding the translation: I never translated a campaign, but I'm a freelance writer & translator so don't worry about the quality. So I guess I should wait for a more "ultimate" version? No problem, you let me know!

*Blinded by the Mists: I don't think the map needs to be made easier, this scenario is challenging, but beatable. Actually, I was kind of proud of myself when I managed to solve my problem which was 1) I have to reach the Mudcrawler with my most powerful units 2) to go there, the narrowed passage needs to be clear and troopers are coming from east and west. So I blocked men from east and I sized the donjeon of the nephew! No more recruiting then!

I guess I'm bad at making challenging final scenarios. Originally, Ravyan was fought in High Risk, Low Tide and was very weak. This was anticlimatic, so I moved Ravyan's defeat to separate scenario and added new scenarios to introduce a new villain (Sosarix) that would replace Ravyan in High Risk, Low Tide. When I actually got to making the final battle, I was probably too exhausted and impatient to make it hard.

Ok, so basically we just wait for the great idea!!

Thanks again for this funny campaign!

[Telchin]

Designs vs new units (or "I do what I can") Have you tried the Naga campaign "Return of the Monster"? I played it just after finishing IQ and, whether you find yourself interested in some designs/creatures, maybe the author would let you use them?

I haven't played that campaign. To be honest I didn't have much time for Wesnoth lately because of school. Therefore don't expect some changes to the campaign in close future.

I never translated a campaign, but I'm a freelance writer & translator so don't worry about the quality. So I guess I should wait for a more "ultimate" version? No problem, you let me know!

I wasn't concerned about your translation's quality, but more about that I don't know how exactly make the translation work. There are instructions on the wiki, but I'm afraid that they're more focused on translating mainline Wesnoth than UMC campaigns. It may also require some special software (or maybe I'm just reading it wrong).
As for the campagn not being "ultimate version". Well, I intended it to have six scenarios (+epilogue) as it was my first (and so far only) atempt at making a campaign. This was the first version released (under BfW 1.8.4) and it already had a "finished" storyline. Later two more scenarios were added based on player's feedback. The latest version added three (!) more (and heavy rewrite of High Risk, Low Tide as it was moved from last to penultimate position). Therefore I can't say that I won't add something in the future (I've even mentioned some ideas in my previous post), so it's possible that if you translate it now, some things may be moved, changed or removed later. On the other hand, I don't know if and when such changes happen (I've mentioned my current lack of time) and the campaign's storyline has a begining and an end (and something between). So if you want to translate it (despite the abovementioned risks), go for it! I'll be happy that somebody wants to colaborate with this project
Here are the translation notes I've promised in my last post:

Spoiler:

Characterisation:
English is not my first language, so it's possible that the characters speak less eloquently than I intended. This is what I ws going for:

• Inky - He is rather brave and smart for a young cuttlefish. "for a young cuttlefish" is the keyword here - note that he refers to the red mage in "Inky Goes Fishing" as "the hairy one with a shiny stick". He shouldn't appear smarter than say Konrad from HttT.
• Master Sea Head - MSH is meant to be sort of aquatic version of Delfador from HttT. He is older, smarter and wiser than other characters (well, ravyan might be older, but he is dumber) an always knows where the party should go, to the point where you wonder who is the main character (that's why there is a scenario where he is absent).
• Gaaa - She speaks only by repeating her name, yet MSH seems to undertsand her. I guess you have figured it by playing the campaign.
• Mermen, Humans and Dwarves - They speak like your average campaign protagonists. They are unaware that th cuttlefish are sentient and think that they are the heroes, fighting vile sea monsters. It's just that this time you are playing as the monsters...
• Nagas and Sprazs - They ssspeak with sssnake hisssing, like ssseen in sssome other camapignsss. Sssssssss.
• Trolls - Da Trollz speak with da bad grammarz. This may depend on your language's grammar (the more rules = more rules to break). Look how similiar broken sentences are translated in your language's translation of mainline campaigns.
• Ravyan - He is very arrogant, utterly crazy, pointlessly evil and as dumb as a brick. He is meant to be both the main villain and also a comic relief as he constantly boasts about his power, but his plans are always foiled. He is also one of few antagonist that speaks with the molluscs directly (this was partialy intended as a sign of insanity).
• Eternal Slave - He is a servant (and target for verbal abuse) of Ravyan for so long time that he doesn't remember his original name. He is fully aware how stupid his boss is, but the best he can is to grumble, as he can't disobey Ravyan and when he gets killed, Ravyan revives him.
• Drakes - They tend to speak with hissing in other campaigns, but not here, as I already had hissing Nagas and Saurians and the scenario where Drakes appear has a dialogue between two Drakes and it might be hard to read. Also, I wanted the Drakes to be honorable warriors fighting a duel for leadership and I thought that hissing might make it too silly. Use what works in your language.
• Sosarix - The second villain in the campaign that can speak with the molluscs as he is about equally crazy as Ravyan (expect due to brain damage rather than lichdom). He is less powerful, but also more serious and bitter than Rayvan. Note that he speaks about his relatives as "expendable". Unlike Sprazs he doesn't hiss. This is both to make him more serious (see my comment on drakes) and to show that he is different from normal Saurians.

Individual words

• Inky, Beaky and Squiddy - These names are taken from scenario "The Rise of Wesnoth" from the campaign of same name. They are different characters as Inky's Quest takes place after TRoW, but I liked the names. Use what your translation of TRoW uses.
• Master Sea Head - "Master" is not meant in the meaning "lord", but rather "maestro", "expert" (e.g. Dwarvish Runemaster is a dwarf who has mastered usage of runes). MSH is Inky's mentor, not a boss (though he may act ike that).
• Marscuttlefish - As you probably figured, this is a cuttlefish with marksman ability. Use your languiages translation of marksmanship or anything that will make it clear that this is a cuttlefish focused on ranged attacks.
• Globster - This word is used for beached corpses of unknown sea monsters. I liked the sound of this word and wanted an alternative promotion for the cuttlefish, so I used it for a mutant plague-bearing cuttlefish. You might leave it in English or use whatever word makes more sense in your language.
• Trench Tentacle, Trench Hunter, Trench Kraken - This refers to sea trenches (like Mariana Trench in Pacific), deepest part of the ocean. You might replace it with deep sea or whatever makes sense in your language.
• A Mussel in Distress - This is a pun on "damsel in distress", a literary cliche of a girl in a pity situation that must be saved by male hero (e.g. Perseus saving Andromeda from a sea monster). Except instead of a girl we have a giant clam (she is refered as female in the campaign, but IIRC real giant clams are hermaphrodites).
• Lich-Lord Ravyan - This name is reference to Lich-Lord Jevyan from TRoW. Ravyan is a disciple and fanboy of Jevyan, so he presumably changed whatever his original name was to one more resembling that of his master (just like servants of Mal-Ravanal in Easter Invasion are all named Mal-something)
• Clash of Drakes - This is another punny title. It includes two drakes fighting (i.e. clashing), there is a drake unit named clasher, and ther is also a movie "Clash of Titans" that includes a sea monster (I've seen the old movie, not the remake).
• Flamy - This name is supposed to be similiar to that of Inky, Beaky and Squiddy, except referencing that he is capable of breathing fire.
• Old Lich and Sea - This name si meant to be a reference to "Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (it looks like a missed a "the" along way). Try to keep the refenrence, but it's not important to the scenario's content.
• lichen-lord - This is an insult used by Inky about Ravyan, because of the lich's command over fungus. Replace "lichen" with whatever mushroom that has similiar name to lich in your language.
• Drowned Dwarves' Day - This scenario's title has aliteration in English. This probably doesn't work in other languages, so just translate it literarily.
• Bling - The Troll Shaman's name is a pun on english expression "bling bling" refering to expensive jewelery, as troll shamans have more ornate clothing than the rest of their kin. You can leave the name as it is, as it's not that diferent from normal trollish names.
• High Risk, Low Tide - The name of this scenario should retain the opposition between "High something" and "Low something". Your languge might have word for "Low Tide" that includes different adjective or no adjective at all. In that case try something like "Lot of Danger, Little of Water" or whatever combination of words makes sense in your language.
• dwarfoid - This is meant to be synonym for "humanoid", except the speaker is a dwarf, so I assume that they would compare other bipeds to themselves rather than to humans.
• Fangy the Serpent - The serpents name reference similiary named serpents in TRoW. Look up what your translation uses and make something up.
• Cave Eyestalk - Eyestalk is a monster from the scenario "Into the Depths" from the campaign The South Guard. I liked the monster's appearance, but changed its stats, so I just call it Cave Eyestalk. Look up how your language translate the original in TSG.
• Be thrice seven times cursed! - Yes, this is cursing for total of 21 times. It's meant to be over-the-top as it matches Ravyan's personality. I just slapped two "magical" numbers together.