Let there be light!
In the very depths of places that remain dark and layered with dust, there hangs brackets, some empty and some full. Left by those who built such places, torch brackets offer the explorer a way to illuminate rooms and passages that may otherwise remain dark and full of shadow.
Hanging torch brackets is one of the interactive systems created for Fate of the Auren. This system expands on the crafting of torches introduced in Almraiven and the use of them in Shadewood. In Fate of the Auren, delving into places deep beneath a projection, may very well require a few hand crafted torches if one has failed to prepare a Weave of Light.
Even so, weapons of choice that offer burning flame, can easily be used to ignite an already existing torch or a placed one, within the torch bracket itself, if one has not brought any along.
Rooms shrouded in darkness may reveal a few secrets when the burning flame of a hanging torch crackles and dances in its place.
Find a torch already burning? One may take it for themselves, holding it alight in their hand to illuminate one's passage or douse the flame and blend into the shadows that will return.
| The Firestarter | 01.28.12 |
| Bits and Bites | 01.18.12 |
Like moving through mud. . .
Another year has come and gone, bringing only 5 entries for Fate of the Auren. Spending half of the year traveling will do that and without the ability to flesh things out on the road, the third and final stage of the Auren Trilogy has sputtered along.
Time does seem to go faster the older I get!
Now and again, I think of all the free time I had when building Almraiven, even Shadewood to some degree, but a lot has changed over the course of those modules and Fate of the Auren has not been blessed with the large number of hours I once used to spend building in the toolset.
Still, I continue to work away when I can.
In the next few entries, I'm going to discuss a few systems that are new to the series, as well as some of the older systems brought over from Almraiven and Shadewood.
